Claudiu: (…) Interesting thoughts, that Divinity being incarnated upon the planet in the form of Christ (i.e. a fully Enlightened being) was responsible for ending the hallucinations and imaginations and illusions of the oracles (to be replaced with different ones of course). (link)
Hi Claudiu,
An interesting find.
As to your parenthesised words in the last paragraph, Richard did not even consider Christ having been fully enlightened. I could only find one written source for this, based on Christ’s supposed last words, even though I was familiar with Richard’s evaluation long before Richard wrote the extensive examen on “The Rise Of Buddhism” –
Richard: … it is not even remotely fanciable as Mr. Gotama the Sakyan, the fully enlightened/ fully awakened “sammāsambuddha”, was a “fuller light” [sic] than Mr. Yeshua the Nazarene, whose famous last words – “Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?”; (KJV; ‘My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?’) – speak for themselves …
Source: An Examen of ‘The Rise of Buddhism’ from “The Church Quarterly Review” (1882). (link, 4th paragraph).
Considering Christ’s last words I fully agree with Richard’s assessment.
Given that the Christian vibes and psychic currents steeped in their morals, ethics and principles emanate from every pulpit as well as every loyal believer – just as similar vibes and psychic currents flow from followers of any other belief-system, it is a perfect time to replace them with felicitous and innocuous vibes.
Cheers Vineeto