Our present concern, however, is not with the system or method of the
church, but with those historic facts which bear upon the question of the
Illumination of Jesus, classifying Him, not as an incarnate son of God, in
the accepted theological interpretation, but in the light of cosmic
consciousness.
Jesus the Christ was born, according to the most reliable authorities,
about six hundred years after Gautama, the Buddha.
Whether or not the Nazarene was familiar with the Buddhist doctrines or
whether He spent the years of His life which are shrouded in mystery, in
the inner temples of either Thibet, India, Persia, China, or other oriental
country, will doubtless always be a disputed point among controversialists.
The fact does not matter, either way.
There is an encouraging similarity in the fundamentals of all religious
precepts, arguing that when a teacher is really inspired, the truth makes
friends with him or her.
Some writers on the subject of Illumination give exact dates when the flash
of cosmic consciousness came to the various teachers of the world, but
these dates are problematical, and they are also inconsequential.
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