A realization of the nothingness of caste and pomp and power.
The firm conviction that he was instructed by angels.
The wonderful magnetism and illumination of his person.
The firm conviction of immortality--released from the "wheel of life" as
he expressed it.
The knowledge of when and where he was to pass out from the life of the
body.
The love of solitude and meditation. The intellectual power maintained even
into old age.
The unselfish desire to help others.
Great and never-failing sympathy with suffering, a divine patience, and
insight into the hearts of all forms of life, earned for this great soul
the name "Buddha--The Compassionate."
CHAPTER IX
JESUS OF NAZARETH
Turning now to the next in order of the world's great masters, or illumined
ones, we come to a consideration of Jesus of Nazareth, in whose name the
great moral system of religion, called "Christianity," is promulgated.
It has been conclusively shown that the essential features of the
present-day _system_ of religion, known as Christianity, were instituted by
Paul rather than by Jesus, and that the system itself, like Buddhism, is
the work of the followers of the great teacher, rather than that of the
Master.
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