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{{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}},—In the number of “Light” following that which contained Dr. Wyld’s last letter on the above subject,—viz., on page 466, October 21st, there is a passage which strikingly exhibits the unsoundness of the position assumed by some of our critics in regard to the historical Jesus and the design of the Gospels. The passage in question consists in a list of parallelisms between the lives ascribed to Buddha, Christna, and Jesus, and might have been enlarged, as is pointed out in the opening pages of “The Perfect Way” by the addition of the names of Osiris, Mithras, Heracles, Bacchus, Zoroaster, and other portraitures of the Man Regenerate. And it needs, surely, but an intelligent and unprejudiced examination of these manifold parallelisms to convince the student that the various expressions implying a Divine nature and mission, on which the conventional theology of the Christian Church bases its estimate of Jesus, are simply the stock formulæ whereby the mystical writers of all times and places have been wont to depict that which they regarded as the supreme object of culture and end of experience, namely, the perfectionment, through suffering, of the typical Man Regenerate; the entire process of the building up of the Christ within the human kingdom. And the very name by which the spiritual and solar hero of the Four Evangels is designated,—Christ Jesus—is in itself an indication that it is a universal name. Not the name of any ''one'' individual, or even of any fleshly personage, but the name by which in the language of Heaven all pure and perfected Spirits are called—the Anointed of God, the everlasting “Yes” or “''Jesous'',” who alone have eternal life. | {{Style S-Small capitals|Sir}},—In the number of “Light” following that which contained Dr. Wyld’s last letter on the above subject,—viz., on page 466, October 21st, there is a passage which strikingly exhibits the unsoundness of the position assumed by some of our critics in regard to the historical Jesus and the design of the Gospels. The passage in question consists in a list of parallelisms between the lives ascribed to Buddha, Christna, and Jesus, and might have been enlarged, as is pointed out in the opening pages of “The Perfect Way” by the addition of the names of Osiris, Mithras, Heracles, Bacchus, Zoroaster, and other portraitures of the Man Regenerate. And it needs, surely, but an intelligent and unprejudiced examination of these manifold parallelisms to convince the student that the various expressions implying a Divine nature and mission, on which the conventional theology of the Christian Church bases its estimate of Jesus, are simply the stock formulæ whereby the mystical writers of all times and places have been wont to depict that which they regarded as the supreme object of culture and end of experience, namely, the perfectionment, through suffering, of the typical Man Regenerate; the entire process of the building up of the Christ within the human kingdom. And the very name by which the spiritual and solar hero of the Four Evangels is designated,—Christ Jesus—is in itself an indication that it is a universal name. Not the name of any ''one'' individual, or even of any fleshly personage, but the name by which in the language of Heaven all pure and perfected Spirits are called—the Anointed of God, the everlasting “Yes” or “''Jesous'',” who alone have eternal life. | ||