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FROM CHRISHNA TO CHRIST
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source: Our Hollow Earth
By Raymond Bernard, Ph. D. (Contains Many Photographs from the rare book, Monumental Christianity By Lundy.)
This unique volume gives the true history of the Original Gospel of the Lord of Love and Master of Compassion, from
which the Four Christian Gospels were Derived - A New Light on the Origin of Christianity.
It is the purpose of this book to show that the origin of the Christian religion consists in the teachings of Chrishna, savior
of Ancient India, which he enunciated to his Hindu followers on the banks of the Ganges 5,000 years ago, and that these
doctrines were introduced to the West during the first half of the first century by Apollonius of Tyana, who received them
from his Himalayan teacher, Iarchus, during his studies in the Far East.
Apollonius introduced these doctrines among the Essenes; and those who accepted and followed the teachings of
Chrishna which he brought from India became known as Chrishnaists or Christians.
The doctrines of Chrishna, which were the foundation of Brahmanism, which religion Chrishna originated, were
expressed in the sacred book of the Hindus, the "Bhagavad Gita" or the Song Celestial. They included belief in an
immanent deity who dwells within all living creatures, plant, animal and human, and who suffers when they suffer and
has joy when they are joyful. This pantheistic conception of God led to the doctrine of reverence for all life or universal
compassion, which led to the practice of harmlessness and non-violence to any living creature, which meant
vegetarianism and pacifism.
This philosophical and humane conception of God and the humanitarian practices that follow from this conception stands
in sharp contrast with the later anthropopmorphic personal gods of the Jews and Christians, who were conceived as
having a human form and, in the form of Jehovah, to have human passions, including baser ones of revengefulness,
jealousy, etc. Also, being conceived as a being apart from his creations - animals and human beings - whom he
fashioned from the "dust of the earth," he is not the indwelling deity of Brahmanism. The man-god of Judaism and
Christianity gave man mastery over the lower animals and not only did not forbid him to kill and eat them, but encouraged
and insisted on such killing in sacrifice to him in the form of burnt offerings. And, in the Old Testament, he also
encouraged warfare and murder of those who refused to accept him and who worshipped other gods.
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It is therefore clear that the later Western conceptions of deity are quite barbarous in comparison with the pure and
humane doctrine taught by Chrishna.
In his work, "Buddhism and Christianity," Arthur Lillie claims that the Essenes, who were the first Christians, derived their
doctrines and practices from Buddhist missionaries who came westward during the third century B. C. during the reign of
King Asoka, finding converts among them; and this explains the similarity of the life of the Essenes with that of Buddhist
monks. Lillie's conclusion, based on long and careful research, is that the earliest and only authentic original gospel, or
Diegesis, came from the Essenes and that all that is anti-Essene in the four best known gospels is accretion.
As we have mentioned, the influence of Buddhist philosophy also reached the Essenes through Pythagoras and
Apollonius of Tyana, both of whom studied in the Himalayas and Tibet under Buddhist sages. The Essenes, or the first
Christians, were therefore converts to Buddhism and Chrishnaism (Buddhism being a reformed revival of the original
doctrines of Chrishna which had since degenerated at the hands of the orthodox Brahmanical priesthood); and the
Essene founder of Christianity, Apollonius of Tyana, was a disciple of a Buddhist teacher (Iarchus), who combined
Buddhism with western Pythagorean doctrines.
In his book, Lillie shows that Essenism, or Original Christianity, represented an occidental version of Buddhism, and that
this was the origin of Christianity, the Christian gospels having been originally Hindu gospels devoted to the life and
teachings of Chrishna and Buddha, the name Chrishna being changed to Cristos or Christ, with the name Jesus added, it
is claimed, that two centuries before the present era, Buddhist missionaries introduced these teachings into Palestine
and appeared in Egypt within two generations of the time of Alexander the Great. This led to a mystic movement among
the Jews, who took up these teachings as they were brought to them by the martyred Jehoshua Ben Pandira, historical
founder of the Essene sect among the Jews, who studied in Egypt, where he derived his doctrines which were opposed
and persecuted by the orthodox rabbis.
In Egypt, those who accepted these Buddhist doctrines were known as Therapeuts; in Palestine, Nazarites or
Nazarenes. They were also called Essenes. The Pythagorean Greeks affiliated themselves with this movement, as also
did the Levitical Hebrews; and all followed Pythagoras as their leader. Thus, when Apollonius of Tyana appeared among
them, fresh from his studies in the Himalayas under his Buddhist master, teaching doctrines that were a synthesis of
Buddhist and Pythagorean teachings, he was enthusiastically received by the Essenes and hailed as the long-awaited
Teacher of Righteousness and their leader.
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