Chapter III: Divisions Amongst the Early Christians

Resemblance between early Christianity and Buddhism 123
Peter never in Rome 124
Meanings of “Nazar” and “Nazarene” 129
Baptism a derived right 134
Is Zoroaster a generic name? 141
Pythagorean teachings of Jesus 147
The Apocalypse kabalistic 147
Jesus considered an adept by some Pagan philosophers
and early Christians 150
Doctrine of permutation 152
The meaning of God-Incarnate 153
Dogmas of the Gnostics 155
Ideas of Marcion, the “heresiarch” 159
Precepts of Manu 163
Jehovah identical with Bacchus 165

CHAPTER IV.

ORIENTAL COSMOGONIES AND BIBLE RECORDS.

Discrepancies in the Pentateuch 167
Indian, Chaldean and Ophite systems compared 170
Who were the first Christians? 178
Christos and Sophia-Achamoth 183
Secret doctrine taught by Jesus 191
Jesus never claimed to be God 193
New Testament narratives and Hindu legends 199
Antiquity of the “Logos” and “Christ” 205
Comparative Virgin-worship 209

CHAPTER V.

MYSTERIES OF THE KABALA.

En-Soph and the Sephiroth 212
The primitive wisdom-religion 216
The book of Genesis a compilation of Old World legends 217
The Trinity of the Kabala 222
Gnostic and Nazarene systems contrasted with Hindu myths 225
Kabalism in the book of Ezekiel 232
Story of the resurrection of Jairus’s daughter found
in the history of Christna 241
Untrustworthy teachings of the early Fathers 248
Their persecuting spirit 249

CHAPTER VI.

ESOTERIC DOCTRINES OF BUDDHISM PARODIED IN CHRISTIANITY.

Decisions of Nicean Council, how arrived at 251
Murder of Hypatia 252
Origin of the fish-symbol of Vishnu 256
Kabalistic doctrine of the Cosmogony 264
Diagrams of Hindu and Chaldeo-Jewish systems 265
Ten mythical Avatars of Vishnu 274
Trinity of man taught by Paul 281
Socrates and Plato on soul and spirit 283
True Buddhism, what it is 288

CHAPTER VII.

EARLY CHRISTIAN HERESIES AND SECRET SOCIETIES.

Nazareans, Ophites, and modern Druzes 291
Etymology of IAO 298
“Hermetic Brothers” of Egypt 307
True meaning of Nirvana 319
The Jaïna sect 321
Christians and Chrestians 323
The Gnostics and their detractors 325
Buddha, Jesus, and Apollonius of Tyana 341

CHAPTER VIII.

JESUITRY AND MASONRY.

The _Sohar_ and Rabbi Simeon 348
The Order of Jesuits and its relation to some of the
Masonic orders 352
Crimes permitted to its members 355
Principles of Jesuitry compared with those of Pagan
moralists 364
Trinity of man in Egyptian _Book of the Dead_ 367
Freemasonry no longer esoteric 372
Persecution of Templars by the Church 381
Secret Masonic ciphers 395
Jehovah not the “Ineffable Name” 398

CHAPTER IX.

THE VEDAS AND THE BIBLE.

Nearly every myth based on some great truth 405
Whence the Christian Sabbath 406
Antiquity of the Vedas 410
Pythagorean doctrine of the potentialities of numbers 417
“Days” of _Genesis_ and “Days” of Brahma 422
Fall of man and the Deluge in the Hindu books 425
Antiquity of the Mahâbhârata 429
Were the ancient Egyptians of the Aryan race? 434
Samuel, David, and Solomon mythical personages 439
Symbolism of Noah’s Ark 447
The Patriarchs identical with zodiacal signs 459
All Bible legends belong to universal history 469

CHAPTER X.

THE DEVIL-MYTH.

The devil officially recognized by the Church 477
Satan the mainstay of sacerdotalism 480
Identity of Satan with the Egyptian Typhon 483
His relation to serpent-worship 489
The Book of Job and the Book of the Dead 493
The Hindu devil a metaphysical abstraction 501
Satan and the Prince of Hell in the Gospel of Nicodemus 515

CHAPTER XI.

COMPARATIVE RESULTS OF BUDDHISM AND CHRISTIANITY.

The age of philosophy produced no atheists 530
The legends of three Saviours 537
Christian doctrine of the Atonement illogical 542
Cause of the failure of missionaries to convert
Buddhists and Brahmanists 553
Neither Buddha nor Jesus left written records 559
The grandest mysteries of religion in the Bagaved-gita 562
The meaning of regeneration explained in the
Satapa-Brâhmana 565
The sacrifice of blood interpreted 566
Demoralization of British India by Christian
missionaries 573
The Bible less authenticated than any other sacred book 577
Knowledge of chemistry and physics displayed by Indian
jugglers 583