CHAPTER VII.Of Jesus Christ.Jesus Christ, who was not unacquainted with the maxims and science of the Egyptians, among whom he dwelt several years, availed himself of this knowledge, deeming it proper for the design which he meditated. Considering that Moses was renowned because he commanded an ignorant people, he undertook to build on a similar foundation, and his followers were only some idiots whom he persuaded that the Holy Spirit was his Father, and his Mother a Virgin.1These good people being accustomed to be satisfied with dreams and fancies, adopted this fable, believed all that he wished, and even more willingly that a birth out of the natural order was not so marvelous a circumstance for them to believe. To be born of aVirginby the operation of theHoly Spirit2was, in their estimation, as wonderful as what the Romans said of their founder,Romulus, who owed his birth to aVestaland aGod.This happened at a time when the Jews were tired of their God, as they had been of their Judges,3and wished to have a visible God like other nations. As the number of fools is infinite, he found followers everywhere, but his extreme poverty was an invincible obstacle to his elevation. ThePharisees, delighted with the boldness of a man of their sect,4while startled at his audacity, elevated or depressed him according to the fickle humor of the populace, so that when it became noised about concerning hisDivinity, it was impossible—he being possessed of no power—that his design could succeed. No matter how many sick hecured, nor how many dead he raised, having no money and no army, he could not fail to perish, and with that outlook it appears that he had less chance of success thanMoses,Mahomet, and all those who were ambitious to elevate themselves above others. If he was more unfortunate, he was no less adroit, and several places in his history give evidence that the greatest fault in his policy was not to have sufficiently provided for his own safety. So it may be seen that he did not manage his affairs any better than those two other legislators, of whose memory exists but the remains of the belief that they established among the different nations.Sphinx facing right.1Celsussays, inOrigen, that Jesus Christ was a native of a little hamlet in Judea, and that his mother was a poor villager who only existed by her labor. Having been convicted of adultery with a soldier namedPandira, she was induced to flee by her betrothed, who was a carpenter by trade, who condoned their offence, and they wandered miserably from place to place. She was secretly delivered of Jesus, and finding themselves in want, they were constrained to flee to Egypt. After several years, his services being of no value to the Egyptians, he returned to his own country, where, quite proud of the miracles he knew how to perform, he proclaimed himselfGod.Human nature was at those times not fundamentally different from what it is now, and we need, therefore, not be surprised to hear that one of the stalwart Roman warriors, whose name was Pandira, fell in love with one of the dark-eyed daughters of Nazareth, and that the fruit of their “illegitimate” union was a son whom they called Jehoshua, and who inherited from his father the manly pride of the Roman, and from his Jewish mother his almost feminine beauty and modesty.Of Jehoshua’s mother, little is to be said. * * * * * Ignorant, innocent, and of modest manners, uneducated but kind, sympathetic and beautiful,Stada, like many others of her sex, was guided more by the decision of her heart than by the calculations of her intellect. Her heart yearned for love and she hoped to find inPandirathe realization of her ideal.—Life of Jehoshua, The Prophet of Nazareth, an Occult Study and a Key to the Bible. Franz Hartmann, M. D., Boston, 1889.↑2A beautiful dove overshadowed a virgin; there is nothing surprising in that. It happened frequently in Lydia, and the swan of Leda is the counterpart of the dove of Mary.Qu’un beau Pigeon a tire d’aileVienne abombrer une Pucelle,Rien n’est suprenant en cela;L’on en vit autant en Lydie.Et le beau Cygne de LedaVaut bien le Pigeon de Marie.When a pretty dove under her wingHappens to conceal a Virgin,There is nothing surprising in that.The same thing is known in Lydia,For the beautiful swan of LedaIs just as good as Mary’s pigeon.↑3In the book ofSamuel, chap. vii, it is related that the Israelites being discontented with the sons of Samuel who judged them, demanded a King, the same as other nations, with whom they wished to conform.↑4Jesus Christ was of the sect of the Pharisees, or the poor, who were opposed to the Sadducees, who formed the sect of the rich.↑
CHAPTER VII.Of Jesus Christ.Jesus Christ, who was not unacquainted with the maxims and science of the Egyptians, among whom he dwelt several years, availed himself of this knowledge, deeming it proper for the design which he meditated. Considering that Moses was renowned because he commanded an ignorant people, he undertook to build on a similar foundation, and his followers were only some idiots whom he persuaded that the Holy Spirit was his Father, and his Mother a Virgin.1These good people being accustomed to be satisfied with dreams and fancies, adopted this fable, believed all that he wished, and even more willingly that a birth out of the natural order was not so marvelous a circumstance for them to believe. To be born of aVirginby the operation of theHoly Spirit2was, in their estimation, as wonderful as what the Romans said of their founder,Romulus, who owed his birth to aVestaland aGod.This happened at a time when the Jews were tired of their God, as they had been of their Judges,3and wished to have a visible God like other nations. As the number of fools is infinite, he found followers everywhere, but his extreme poverty was an invincible obstacle to his elevation. ThePharisees, delighted with the boldness of a man of their sect,4while startled at his audacity, elevated or depressed him according to the fickle humor of the populace, so that when it became noised about concerning hisDivinity, it was impossible—he being possessed of no power—that his design could succeed. No matter how many sick hecured, nor how many dead he raised, having no money and no army, he could not fail to perish, and with that outlook it appears that he had less chance of success thanMoses,Mahomet, and all those who were ambitious to elevate themselves above others. If he was more unfortunate, he was no less adroit, and several places in his history give evidence that the greatest fault in his policy was not to have sufficiently provided for his own safety. So it may be seen that he did not manage his affairs any better than those two other legislators, of whose memory exists but the remains of the belief that they established among the different nations.Sphinx facing right.1Celsussays, inOrigen, that Jesus Christ was a native of a little hamlet in Judea, and that his mother was a poor villager who only existed by her labor. Having been convicted of adultery with a soldier namedPandira, she was induced to flee by her betrothed, who was a carpenter by trade, who condoned their offence, and they wandered miserably from place to place. She was secretly delivered of Jesus, and finding themselves in want, they were constrained to flee to Egypt. After several years, his services being of no value to the Egyptians, he returned to his own country, where, quite proud of the miracles he knew how to perform, he proclaimed himselfGod.Human nature was at those times not fundamentally different from what it is now, and we need, therefore, not be surprised to hear that one of the stalwart Roman warriors, whose name was Pandira, fell in love with one of the dark-eyed daughters of Nazareth, and that the fruit of their “illegitimate” union was a son whom they called Jehoshua, and who inherited from his father the manly pride of the Roman, and from his Jewish mother his almost feminine beauty and modesty.Of Jehoshua’s mother, little is to be said. * * * * * Ignorant, innocent, and of modest manners, uneducated but kind, sympathetic and beautiful,Stada, like many others of her sex, was guided more by the decision of her heart than by the calculations of her intellect. Her heart yearned for love and she hoped to find inPandirathe realization of her ideal.—Life of Jehoshua, The Prophet of Nazareth, an Occult Study and a Key to the Bible. Franz Hartmann, M. D., Boston, 1889.↑2A beautiful dove overshadowed a virgin; there is nothing surprising in that. It happened frequently in Lydia, and the swan of Leda is the counterpart of the dove of Mary.Qu’un beau Pigeon a tire d’aileVienne abombrer une Pucelle,Rien n’est suprenant en cela;L’on en vit autant en Lydie.Et le beau Cygne de LedaVaut bien le Pigeon de Marie.When a pretty dove under her wingHappens to conceal a Virgin,There is nothing surprising in that.The same thing is known in Lydia,For the beautiful swan of LedaIs just as good as Mary’s pigeon.↑3In the book ofSamuel, chap. vii, it is related that the Israelites being discontented with the sons of Samuel who judged them, demanded a King, the same as other nations, with whom they wished to conform.↑4Jesus Christ was of the sect of the Pharisees, or the poor, who were opposed to the Sadducees, who formed the sect of the rich.↑
CHAPTER VII.Of Jesus Christ.
Jesus Christ, who was not unacquainted with the maxims and science of the Egyptians, among whom he dwelt several years, availed himself of this knowledge, deeming it proper for the design which he meditated. Considering that Moses was renowned because he commanded an ignorant people, he undertook to build on a similar foundation, and his followers were only some idiots whom he persuaded that the Holy Spirit was his Father, and his Mother a Virgin.1These good people being accustomed to be satisfied with dreams and fancies, adopted this fable, believed all that he wished, and even more willingly that a birth out of the natural order was not so marvelous a circumstance for them to believe. To be born of aVirginby the operation of theHoly Spirit2was, in their estimation, as wonderful as what the Romans said of their founder,Romulus, who owed his birth to aVestaland aGod.This happened at a time when the Jews were tired of their God, as they had been of their Judges,3and wished to have a visible God like other nations. As the number of fools is infinite, he found followers everywhere, but his extreme poverty was an invincible obstacle to his elevation. ThePharisees, delighted with the boldness of a man of their sect,4while startled at his audacity, elevated or depressed him according to the fickle humor of the populace, so that when it became noised about concerning hisDivinity, it was impossible—he being possessed of no power—that his design could succeed. No matter how many sick hecured, nor how many dead he raised, having no money and no army, he could not fail to perish, and with that outlook it appears that he had less chance of success thanMoses,Mahomet, and all those who were ambitious to elevate themselves above others. If he was more unfortunate, he was no less adroit, and several places in his history give evidence that the greatest fault in his policy was not to have sufficiently provided for his own safety. So it may be seen that he did not manage his affairs any better than those two other legislators, of whose memory exists but the remains of the belief that they established among the different nations.Sphinx facing right.
Jesus Christ, who was not unacquainted with the maxims and science of the Egyptians, among whom he dwelt several years, availed himself of this knowledge, deeming it proper for the design which he meditated. Considering that Moses was renowned because he commanded an ignorant people, he undertook to build on a similar foundation, and his followers were only some idiots whom he persuaded that the Holy Spirit was his Father, and his Mother a Virgin.1These good people being accustomed to be satisfied with dreams and fancies, adopted this fable, believed all that he wished, and even more willingly that a birth out of the natural order was not so marvelous a circumstance for them to believe. To be born of aVirginby the operation of theHoly Spirit2was, in their estimation, as wonderful as what the Romans said of their founder,Romulus, who owed his birth to aVestaland aGod.
This happened at a time when the Jews were tired of their God, as they had been of their Judges,3and wished to have a visible God like other nations. As the number of fools is infinite, he found followers everywhere, but his extreme poverty was an invincible obstacle to his elevation. ThePharisees, delighted with the boldness of a man of their sect,4while startled at his audacity, elevated or depressed him according to the fickle humor of the populace, so that when it became noised about concerning hisDivinity, it was impossible—he being possessed of no power—that his design could succeed. No matter how many sick hecured, nor how many dead he raised, having no money and no army, he could not fail to perish, and with that outlook it appears that he had less chance of success thanMoses,Mahomet, and all those who were ambitious to elevate themselves above others. If he was more unfortunate, he was no less adroit, and several places in his history give evidence that the greatest fault in his policy was not to have sufficiently provided for his own safety. So it may be seen that he did not manage his affairs any better than those two other legislators, of whose memory exists but the remains of the belief that they established among the different nations.
Sphinx facing right.
1Celsussays, inOrigen, that Jesus Christ was a native of a little hamlet in Judea, and that his mother was a poor villager who only existed by her labor. Having been convicted of adultery with a soldier namedPandira, she was induced to flee by her betrothed, who was a carpenter by trade, who condoned their offence, and they wandered miserably from place to place. She was secretly delivered of Jesus, and finding themselves in want, they were constrained to flee to Egypt. After several years, his services being of no value to the Egyptians, he returned to his own country, where, quite proud of the miracles he knew how to perform, he proclaimed himselfGod.Human nature was at those times not fundamentally different from what it is now, and we need, therefore, not be surprised to hear that one of the stalwart Roman warriors, whose name was Pandira, fell in love with one of the dark-eyed daughters of Nazareth, and that the fruit of their “illegitimate” union was a son whom they called Jehoshua, and who inherited from his father the manly pride of the Roman, and from his Jewish mother his almost feminine beauty and modesty.Of Jehoshua’s mother, little is to be said. * * * * * Ignorant, innocent, and of modest manners, uneducated but kind, sympathetic and beautiful,Stada, like many others of her sex, was guided more by the decision of her heart than by the calculations of her intellect. Her heart yearned for love and she hoped to find inPandirathe realization of her ideal.—Life of Jehoshua, The Prophet of Nazareth, an Occult Study and a Key to the Bible. Franz Hartmann, M. D., Boston, 1889.↑2A beautiful dove overshadowed a virgin; there is nothing surprising in that. It happened frequently in Lydia, and the swan of Leda is the counterpart of the dove of Mary.Qu’un beau Pigeon a tire d’aileVienne abombrer une Pucelle,Rien n’est suprenant en cela;L’on en vit autant en Lydie.Et le beau Cygne de LedaVaut bien le Pigeon de Marie.When a pretty dove under her wingHappens to conceal a Virgin,There is nothing surprising in that.The same thing is known in Lydia,For the beautiful swan of LedaIs just as good as Mary’s pigeon.↑3In the book ofSamuel, chap. vii, it is related that the Israelites being discontented with the sons of Samuel who judged them, demanded a King, the same as other nations, with whom they wished to conform.↑4Jesus Christ was of the sect of the Pharisees, or the poor, who were opposed to the Sadducees, who formed the sect of the rich.↑
1Celsussays, inOrigen, that Jesus Christ was a native of a little hamlet in Judea, and that his mother was a poor villager who only existed by her labor. Having been convicted of adultery with a soldier namedPandira, she was induced to flee by her betrothed, who was a carpenter by trade, who condoned their offence, and they wandered miserably from place to place. She was secretly delivered of Jesus, and finding themselves in want, they were constrained to flee to Egypt. After several years, his services being of no value to the Egyptians, he returned to his own country, where, quite proud of the miracles he knew how to perform, he proclaimed himselfGod.
Human nature was at those times not fundamentally different from what it is now, and we need, therefore, not be surprised to hear that one of the stalwart Roman warriors, whose name was Pandira, fell in love with one of the dark-eyed daughters of Nazareth, and that the fruit of their “illegitimate” union was a son whom they called Jehoshua, and who inherited from his father the manly pride of the Roman, and from his Jewish mother his almost feminine beauty and modesty.
Of Jehoshua’s mother, little is to be said. * * * * * Ignorant, innocent, and of modest manners, uneducated but kind, sympathetic and beautiful,Stada, like many others of her sex, was guided more by the decision of her heart than by the calculations of her intellect. Her heart yearned for love and she hoped to find inPandirathe realization of her ideal.—Life of Jehoshua, The Prophet of Nazareth, an Occult Study and a Key to the Bible. Franz Hartmann, M. D., Boston, 1889.↑
2A beautiful dove overshadowed a virgin; there is nothing surprising in that. It happened frequently in Lydia, and the swan of Leda is the counterpart of the dove of Mary.
Qu’un beau Pigeon a tire d’aileVienne abombrer une Pucelle,Rien n’est suprenant en cela;L’on en vit autant en Lydie.Et le beau Cygne de LedaVaut bien le Pigeon de Marie.When a pretty dove under her wingHappens to conceal a Virgin,There is nothing surprising in that.The same thing is known in Lydia,For the beautiful swan of LedaIs just as good as Mary’s pigeon.
Qu’un beau Pigeon a tire d’aileVienne abombrer une Pucelle,Rien n’est suprenant en cela;L’on en vit autant en Lydie.Et le beau Cygne de LedaVaut bien le Pigeon de Marie.
Qu’un beau Pigeon a tire d’aileVienne abombrer une Pucelle,Rien n’est suprenant en cela;L’on en vit autant en Lydie.Et le beau Cygne de LedaVaut bien le Pigeon de Marie.
Qu’un beau Pigeon a tire d’aileVienne abombrer une Pucelle,Rien n’est suprenant en cela;L’on en vit autant en Lydie.Et le beau Cygne de LedaVaut bien le Pigeon de Marie.
Qu’un beau Pigeon a tire d’aileVienne abombrer une Pucelle,Rien n’est suprenant en cela;L’on en vit autant en Lydie.Et le beau Cygne de LedaVaut bien le Pigeon de Marie.
Qu’un beau Pigeon a tire d’aile
Vienne abombrer une Pucelle,
Rien n’est suprenant en cela;
L’on en vit autant en Lydie.
Et le beau Cygne de Leda
Vaut bien le Pigeon de Marie.
When a pretty dove under her wingHappens to conceal a Virgin,There is nothing surprising in that.The same thing is known in Lydia,For the beautiful swan of LedaIs just as good as Mary’s pigeon.
When a pretty dove under her wingHappens to conceal a Virgin,There is nothing surprising in that.The same thing is known in Lydia,For the beautiful swan of LedaIs just as good as Mary’s pigeon.
When a pretty dove under her wingHappens to conceal a Virgin,There is nothing surprising in that.The same thing is known in Lydia,For the beautiful swan of LedaIs just as good as Mary’s pigeon.
When a pretty dove under her wingHappens to conceal a Virgin,There is nothing surprising in that.The same thing is known in Lydia,For the beautiful swan of LedaIs just as good as Mary’s pigeon.
When a pretty dove under her wing
Happens to conceal a Virgin,
There is nothing surprising in that.
The same thing is known in Lydia,
For the beautiful swan of Leda
Is just as good as Mary’s pigeon.
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3In the book ofSamuel, chap. vii, it is related that the Israelites being discontented with the sons of Samuel who judged them, demanded a King, the same as other nations, with whom they wished to conform.↑
4Jesus Christ was of the sect of the Pharisees, or the poor, who were opposed to the Sadducees, who formed the sect of the rich.↑