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World-Healers or the Lotus Gospel and its Bodhisattvas compared with early Christianity

1912

the Holy Spirit of GOD who aided the 318 Fathers at the Council of Nicoea to establish the right Faith ; the " Angel of the Dew " present with the Hebrew children in the Fire—as Christ was set forth in the Catacomb frescoes. [...] So in the Odes of Solomon (xvi) "The worlds were made by the Thought of His heart." She is the " God of Peace " the " God of all Grace " and of " Manifold Wisdom " the " Melodious Voice or WORD of the SUPREME SOU1"—Vich-Ievara. [...] "Kwannon is literally the GRACE of Goo " and Amida is the Father of Glory.' " The Name by which Swan-Yin is known in Heaven is T'sz Hang an SHIP or Junk of MERCY the LIFE BOAT.5 As in the Arabian Gospel of the Holy Infancy (ch. [...] Christ—as that designated both the human and the Divine elements in the GMAN—the maternity of Mary being naturally attached to the human element in the God who appeared in HUMAN FORM.3 Strangely enough some 70 years later images of Kwanyin the heroine of the "Lotus-flower-siltra of Immortal Life" (Hoke) appeared for the first time in Chinese Buddhist temples* as the All-Merciful Mother with [...] Beal " is the inward Manifestation of the Deity which takes place in the Enlightened Heart." The Sanju-Sangen temple of the 83 833 images of the Eleven-faced thousand-banded thousand-eyed Kwannon (which show markedly Hindu and mythological characteristics) was founded in A. D. 1132 at KYOto All these are in strong contrast to the exquisite beauty and simplicity of the earlier forms at HokOji
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Frontmatter
i-ix E.A. Gordon view
Chapter XVIL. “The Unseen Priend”
257-277 E.A. Gordon view
Chapter XVIII. “The Great Physician”
278-296 E.A. Gordon view
Chapter XIX. The Emerald Buddha
297-317 E.A. Gordon view
Chapter XX. The Mount of Purification
318-332 E.A. Gordon view
Chapter XXI. Signs Symbols Numbers
333-359 E.A. Gordon view
Chapter XXII. “The Sign of all The Nyoral”
360-377 E.A. Gordon view
Chapter XXIII. The Mystery of Illumination
378-403 E.A. Gordon view
The Hymn of the Soul
404-408 E.A. Gordon view
Appendix
409-486 E.A. Gordon view
Biblography
487-490 E.A. Gordon view
Index
491-535 E.A. Gordon view
Notes to Index
536-548 E.A. Gordon view
Backmatter
i-ii E.A. Gordon view

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