Theos-Talk Archives (December 1998 Message tt00216)

Dec 18th 1998

Dallas offers:

Dear LHM:

Your thesis and the description of the cycles and their
intersection and relationship with and within the Sidereal (or
Solar) year of 25,868 years is very interesting, and much
appreciated.

However I believe it can be enhanced by actually giving the
source references that you employed to derive your conclusions.
Otherwise your statements are not easily supported by the average
reader with material that he can adduce from the writings of HPB
or WQJ or any other source that can be accessed - astronomical,
chronological, etc...  As they stand, I would say that they need
to be given the kind of support that a student needs if he is to
recheck them.  I think this is important.

One of the aspects of "Christianity" often overlooked is the fact
that Jesus studied under Buddhist monks who had settled on the
banks of the Dead Sea -some being missionaries from the time of
Asoka (Chandragupta Morya of India c. 3rd/4th Cent BC) - and
their later disciples.

Much of the 2nd Volume of ISIS is given to tracing the "Pagan"
and "Buddhist" sources of Christianity.  The actual severance of
early Christianity from Buddhism may be traced to the church
Council of Nicea held in 3125 AD.

If one compares the sayings attributed by the Apostles to Jesus
with the major statements that are derived from the "Old
Testament" books (Penateuch, Torah) of the Jews, the difference
is plain.  Jesus is quite evidently a disciple of Buddhism.
Following this severance the R C Church spent a great deal of
energy erasing its connection with "Pagan" (peasant and
primitive) and "Buddhistic" sources.

I can offer if desired, a "chronology" of Christianity which is
derived from HPB's statements made in ISIS and the SD.

I can also offer an Index of articles and sources in the
"original" Theosophical writings and in magazines THEOSOPHY and
the THEOSOPHICAL MOVEMENT arranged chronologically so as to cover
the archaic and the historical periods right up to the present.

This can be made available as an attachment direct to anyone who
might desire to have a copy over the Internet.

Dallas