According to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, in the judgment in Amenti, or the Lower World, the deceased or candidate for Heaven is given the name of Osiris, and he is tried before the supreme god Osiris and forty other deities or beasts. An altar stands before the supreme god on which is placed the bribes offered by the soul to god. The forty-two deities are the judges of the forty-two sins. One is called the Devourer of Shades, another the Cracker of Bones, and another the Eater of Hearts. If the soul denies that he has committed the forty-two sins, the judges must acquit him, but if he is convicted of being a land-grabber, he cannot get by, as the priests propose to attend to all that business themselves. In the Christian Judgment, the judges will be the confessors, monks and virgins.—The Elucidarium.
“The Buddhist novice, like the Freemasons, is forced to bare his shoulder and breast and give up his money and bare his feet, in fact to simulate the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience of the Buddhist.”—Buddha & Early Buddhism, 136.
In Lalita Vistara, Buddha is called the Great Physician, and at his appearance the sick are healed, the deaf are cured, the blind see. He cures by the laying on of hands or mesmerism. Akasa, the mesmeric fluid or the astral light, and the Spirit of God are one in the East. Buddha was born of a virgin, presented in the Temple, disputed with the doctors, was tempted in the wilderness, passed his life in preaching and working miracles, and descended into Hell and ascended into Heaven.—Idem, 80.
Heaven was also calmly purloined from Buddhism. The Buddhist heaven is the city four square of John, with the gates of gold and silver, adorned with precious stones. The great throne of God stands in the centre thereof by the gem lake or crystal sea, by which stands the Tree of Life or Tree of Infamy. The Buddhist religion is wholly phallic. See Book of All Religions, 86.
If you read the life of Buddha in the Ency. Brit. you will find that it is almost identical with the life of Christ. In any Chinese store you can buy an idol of Buddha, who, like Christ, is the god of life, bringing us life and life yet more abundantly. He wears a fish skin for a miter, showing that he is the fish god, and on his divine and radiant forehead is the Eye, and on his stomach, between his clasped hands, is the sacred Tree of Life. These divine secrets should not be disclosed to the uninitiated, but, to tell the truth, I am convinced that this is the origin of the hermaphrodite abdominal Eye, worn and revered by all the great and good men from the time our religion found its birth in the foul sties of India down to the immortal Washington.
CHAPTER XVII.
Revelations.
If you do not believe that all the beasts of the zodiac bear rule in Heaven, read Revelations with your eyes open. The Ram is the Grand Vizier. The Bull is also there, with eyes before and behind, and the Lion and the Man, the Waterman, in fact the four beasts of the four cardinal points of the zodiac.
Ch. 1, v 7, says: “Behold he cometh with clouds.” It is evident from Revelations that Christ is one of the seven Buddhas who came at the end of each cycle, and the seven were one, and that one was the sun in the heavens. Budhi means the Word, one of our beloved idols. “I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last,” that is, he is the same God that came at first as Adam and last as the Lamb of God. It is claimed that the Revelations were stolen and the original was written before the Fish God came. In verse 12, John saw seven golden candle-sticks, typifying the seven christs or lights of the world, “and one of the seven was like unto the Son of Man.” The Persian fire god Agni is called the Son of Man, and it is claimed that John got the Revelations from the Persians. In the Clementines St. Clement says: “Christ, it is said, has changed his forms and names from the beginning of the world.”—Clement, cap. 51.
Verse 18 says: “I am he that liveth and was dead,” that is, the sun that was crucified annually at the winter solstice, when it stood still for three days, or remained in the tomb three days, and was reborn on the 25th of December. “And have the keys of death and Hell.” The christ that was crucified in the west, according to the Egyptian religion, was Judge of the Underworld and carried the keys and descended into Hell when the sun went down. They were the keys of Hell, not Heaven, that were transmitted to St. Peter.