The Light of the East October 1945

Yet such parallels have been found in abundance; we need only mention the rather similar description of the birth of Christ and that of Krishna or the temptation of Christ by the devil and that of the Buddha by Mara or the eulogy of the mother of Christ by a woman and that of the Buddha's mother Qn a similar occasion. [...] According to their ' branch ' they have found a key to the understanding of all the religions of mankind in the religion of the Aryans or of the Egyptians Persians Babylonians or even of the pygmies of Africa or the primitives of other continents. [...] They quote for instance in the later Krishna literature what seems to them a perfect replica of historically authenticated facts of the Gospels 143"such as Christ's birth in a stable his flight into Egypt the massacre of the Innocents the temptation in the desert the transfiguration and many other important incidents in the life of Christ. [...] We are to see in the countenance of the poorest and the most afflicted of men the lineaments of the face of Christ. [...] So relgion and morality the paint on the multcoloured canvas of human life the shining deeds of man's love of God and of his fellow man point like stabbing arrows of light to the common Source of all Light the Author of all holiness the Fountain of all perfection — the Light that enlighteneth every man that cometh into this world.