Cradle-land of arts and creeds, or, Nothing new under the sun / by Charles J. Stone.

  • Charles John Stone
Date:
1880
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Cradle-land of arts and creeds, or, Nothing new under the sun / by Charles J. Stone. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    CHAPTEE LT. Turanian aspect of ancient statues of Buddha may indicate the existence of Buddhism in pre-Vedic times—Human thought may have conceived a man approaching the Divine before apprehending the Divine in man, and before Brahminism arose—Religion of Buddha extensively adopted by Turanian people—Sakya muni the seventh Buddha—Christ’s admission of divine revelations before Him in the Prophets—Civilisa- tion arising amongst Aryans of northern India and Dravidians of south, on account of tillage of the soil necessary and comparatively easy, etc.—Man spreading in the world after learning to light fire— Return to primeval bliss in idleness in the West Indian Islands. Pages 326-329 CHAPTEE LII. Civilisation originating in India and China, but principally in the former, as demonstrated from the spirit of Brahminism, showing itself in aristocracies, guilds, etc., and in Buddhism, or the spirit of Liberalism, competing with it, both being undoubtedly of Indian origin—The plains of the Euphrates and Nile enjoying a pre-eminence in history of the world not deserved—Chinese more self-contained and less enterprising in expansion than the Aryans of India—Roman and British Empires emerging from India—A spiritual conception of the Almighty arising in the Madhyama—Hindustan and the United Kingdom compared geographically—Changefulness of the history of England—Christian doctrines and practice undoubtedly inculcated in ancient India ...... . 330-333 CHAPTEE LIII. Christ’s doctrine not really disconsonant with the Hindu tenet and practice that all religions teach men to be good—Indian doctrine of the purifi- cation of a soul for divine life, through successive births, more in. agreement with Christ’s teaching than purgatory, or hopeless punish- ment in hell—Renewed arguments as to aionion (eternal) punishment —That we are regaining the original Scriptures of our Aryan race— Arguments as to Christ preaching the ancient Aryan doctrine of transmigration, as shown in the New Testament—Considerations as to St. Paul’s doctrine in respect to Scripture—As to whether St. Paul would have condemned the Hindu Scriptures—Krishna as the proto- type of Christ—Considerations as to St. John’s Gospel . 334-341 b