LIGION Y LAS SAGRADAS ESCRITURAS!

LA SALVACION NO ES SE GANA POR OBRAS, DE MANERA QUE NINGUNO SE GLORIE!

NUESTRA VICTORIA ESTE EN TI!

LA VERDAD NO SE LIGA CON MAS, LA VERDAD ES UNICA Y SUFICIENTE!

DESECHAD LO MALO, RETENED LO BUENO, UTILIZALO PARA QUE CREZCAS EN EL!

LAS NOTICIAS SECULARES SON UNA PORQUERIA DESDE SU FORMACION!

LAS NOTICIAS SECULARES NO SOLO CIEGAN A LAS MASAS SINO QUE PRETENDEN CEGAR A LOS QUE ESTAN EN GOBIERNO INTENTANDO HACER BIEN!

NO ES MI VOLUNTAD, ES LA VOLUNTAD DE EL ETERNO!

LOS REALIDAD NO SE MIRA ATRAVES DE LA RELIGION SINO ATRAVES DE LA VERDAD!

AMAR A MI ESPOSA COMO CRISTO AMA A SU IGLESIA!

CELEBRAR POR CONOCIMIENTO ES NECEDAD, CELEBRAR POR SU GRAN MISERICORDIA PARA LOS QUE EN EL PERMANECEN ES SALVACION!

EL ANTICRISTO ES ADORADO POR LOS HINDUS, EXALTADO POR MUSULMANES Y CORONADO POR LOS QUE SE LLAMAN JUDIOS!

PARA ALGUNOS ESTUDIOSOS SECULARES, EL GRIEGO MICENICO Y LA LENGUA HITITA FUERON ANTES DE EL SANSCRITO!

DE QUIEN ES LA GLORIA?! DE QUIEN PROVIENE TODA MISERICORDIA!!! DE QUIEN NOS AMA AUN NOSOTROS SIN MERECERLE!

QUE MI ACCIONES ADOREN A LA VIDA!

DALE OTRO SIGNIFICADO A LAS COSAS ES EL PLAN DE LOS PAYASOS DE SATANAS!

LO QUE VIVIMOS ES EL RESULTADO DEL ENGAÑO Y DE LA GRAN RAMERA NACIDA EN ROMA!

HABIA UNA COSTUMBRE EN LOS PRIMEROS SIGLOS DESPUES DE CRISTO DE REMOVER ALGUNOS POCOS VERSICULOS!

SATANAS, EL PADRE DE MENTIRA, EL HACEDOR DE MALDAD, OCULTA SU MALDAD, CON PRETESTOS, CON MENTIRAS, PRETENDIENDO HACERLA LUCIR BUENA Y UTIL!

LA INTERPRETACION DE LAS ESCRITURAS EN GENERAL DE CUALQUIERA DE LOS PUEBLOS EN LA TIERRA ESTA BASADA EN COMO ESTA NUESTRO CORAZON!

ABRE TUS OJOS Y SE CUIDADOSO CON LAS MENTIRAS PORQUE ELLAS SE BASAN EN LA REALIDAD Y CUANTO MAS BASADA ESTE EN ELLA MAS FACIL SERA PARA LOS INCONSTANTES Y FALTOS DE SABIDURIA CAER!

TODA CRITICA DE SATANAS Y DE SUS PROFETAS ES PARA HACERTE RETROCEDER Y HACER QUE LO SIRVAS!
SOY CRISTIANO PORQUE SOY SEGUIDOR DE CRISTO JESUS! JUDIO PORQUE RECONOZCO QUE TODO LO QUE TENGO, TODAS LAS BENDICIONES RECIBIDAS Y ESTA VIDA PROVIENEN DE EL AMOR Y MISERICORDIA DE DIOS HACIA MI! Y SOY CATOLICO PORQUE HAGO PARTE DE TODO EL CUERPO DE CRISTO!

CADA UNO DE LOS CONCILIOS Y  DE GUERRAS UTILIZO LA VERDAD (EL EVANGELIO Y SUS PREDICADORES) PARA ESCONDER EL SATANISMO QUE AMAN! PINTANDO SU PAGANISMO DE CRISTIANISMO PARA LA AMPLIA ACEPTACION DE LAS MASAS (FELIGRESES), UTILIZANDO PARA ELLOS LA IGLESIA CATOLICA COMO NIDO DE SU PROPOSITO!

LAS PERSONAS NO RECIBEN EL UNICO EVANGELIO POR VARIAS RAZONES ENTRE LAS CUALES ESTAN LAS SIGUIENTES: AMOR AL PECADO, AÑOS DE HABER ESCUCHADO UN EVANGELIO CORRUPTO EN LA BOCA DE FALSOS PROFETAS, PENSAMIENTO ENTENEBRECIDO A CAUSA DE MENTIRAS QUE AÑO TRAS AÑOS HAN LABADO LA MENTALIDAD DE MUCHOS INCLUYENDOLOS!

SI DECIDES MENTIR O NO QUITARLE EL CIGARRILLO (DROGA) A TUS HIJOS A TEMPRANA EDAD O EN EL MOMENTO OPORTUNO, LES ESTARAS HACIENDO DAÑO. Y SI HACES SU VOLUNTAD POR NO HACERLOS LLORAR, ESTARAS ENTONCES HACIENDOLES UN DAÑO PEOR!

DEBEMOS DE SER ENEMIGOS DE LA MALDAD! Y SER CRUDOS CUANDO LA REALIDAD ES CRUDA, DE MANERA QUE DIGAMOS LA VERDAD A LAS PERSONAS AUNQUE LES DUELA, PUES EL DOLOR HACE CAMBIAR EL CORAZON PARA BIEN, CUANDO TE DAS CUENTA DE LA REALIDAD!

LOS NUEVOS BUDISTAS, ZOROASTRISTAS, HINDUISTAS Y EN GENERAL TODOS LOS PRACTICANTES Y AMANTES DE LA NUEVA ERA, MAL REPRESENTAN SUS DOGAMAS, LA DISFRAZAN CON ASPECTOS DEL NACIMIENTO, PREDICACION, MUERTE Y RESURRECION DE CRISTO (DADO QUE SUS DOGMAS CARECEN DE LOGICA Y SENTIDO COMUN) PARA LOGRAR PERSUADIR A LAS PERSONAS ACERCA DEL ESPERADO MAJDI, KALKI, BUDDHA (ATRAPANDO A LAS PERSONAS). TORCIENDO LA REALIDAD A CONVENIENCIA DE LOS ANGELES CAIDOS, APOYANDOLA EN SUS DELEITES!

A TRAVES DE LA NUEVA ERA, SE LE QUIERE HACER PENSAR A EL HOMBRE DE QUE PUEDE SER DIOS Y QUE VA INNEVITABLEMENTE HACIA ESE CAMINO!

LA REALIDAD SE OCULTA, TORCIENDOLA, DANDOLE PODER A LOS HOMBRES Y A LOS ANGELES CAIDOS PARA NEGAR/SACAR A DIOS (OTORGANDOSE PODER ELLOS MISMOS), HACIENDOSE PASAR COMO AUTORES DE LA VERDAD, DUEÑOS DE LA MISMA, DISFRAZANDO LA MENTIRA CON VERDAD!

CAPAS DE MENTIRA SOBRE CAPAS DE MENTIRA! CADA UNA SOBRE UN SUCESO Y MOMENTO EN LA HISTORIA! CUANTAS CAPAS SE ENCUENTRA SOBRE LA VERDAD? DEPENDE DE TU SITUACION!

EL HOMBRE POR NATURALEZA SE AGRUPA, BUSCA A QUIENES PIENSAN DE IGUAL MANERA! ES DECISION DE CADA UNO, NO?!

UN DESORDEN MUY ORGANIZADO!

RESPETARSE NO ES EXIGIR RESPETO SINO VALORARSE! VALORARSE NO ES GENERAR ORGULLO SINO PERMANECER EN DIOS HACIENDO SU VOLUNTAD! 

SCIENCE WITHOUT DEBATE IS PROPAGANDA!

HIDING EVIDENCE AND MISSREPRESENTING REALITY ARE TWO WAYS TO MISSLEAD PEOPLE!

DIOS NO CAMBIA! A MAYOR DISTANCIA DE DIOS, DE SU INMUTABILIDAD, MAS SUFRIMOS, MAS CONFUNDIDOS, MAS INCONSTANTES LLEGAMOS A ESTAR!

QUOTES

(This info needs to be checked and analyzed)

The Didache is mentioned by Eusebius (c. 324) as the Teachings of the Apostles following the books recognized ascanonical:^[11]

“Let there be placed among the spurious works the Acts of Paul, the so-called Shepherd and the Apocalypse of Peter, and besides these the Epistle of Barnabas, and what are called the Teachings of the Apostles, and also the Apocalypse of John, if this be thought proper; for as I wrote before, some reject it, and others place it in the canon.”

JEWISH GOSPELS

1) The Gospel of the Ebionites (“GE”) – 7 quotations by Epiphanius.

2) The Gospel of the Hebrews (“GH”) – 1 quotation ascribed to Cyril of Jerusalem, plus GH 2–7 quotations by Clement, Origen, and Jerome.

3) The Gospel of the Nazarenes (“GN”) – GN 1 to GN 23 are mainly from Jerome; GN 24 to GN 36 are from medieval sources.

Ebionites, or Ebionaioi (Greek: Ἐβιωναῖοι; derived from Hebrew אביונים ebyonim, ebionim, meaning “the poor” or “poor ones”), is a patristic term referring to aJewish Christian movement that existed during the middle of the second century.^[1] They regarded Jesus of Nazareth as the Messiah while rejecting his divinity^[2] and insisted on the necessity of following Jewish law and rites.

Marcion of Sinope (Greek: Μαρκίων^[1] Σινώπης), (c. 85 – c. 160)

Religare
To fasten, tie behind is the English equivalent of the infinitive ‘religare’. The verb also may be translated loosely as ‘to connect with’. One Latin language derivative word is the noun ‘religatio’, which means ‘a tying up’.     Another Latin language derivative is the noun ‘religio’, which the ancient Romans defined as a quality of mortals or of the gods. In terms of mortals, the feminine gender noun refers to ‘conscientious exactness, scrupulousness’ in respecting or observing religious ceremonials and moral scruples. In terms of the gods, it refers to ‘sanctity’ or more loosely to ‘an object, place or thing of worship, of holiness’.  To fasten, tie behind is the English equivalent of ‘religare’. The Latin infinitive is part of a regular verb conjugation whose endings therefore can be predicted accurately for all of the tenses and moods. It differs in meaning from the somewhat similar looking ‘relegare’, which means ‘to send away’ and from which the English language verb ‘relegate’ derives.

The word “religion” comes from the Latin word “religio” which has a meaning influenced by the verb “religare” to bind, in the sense of “place an obligation on” (World Book Dictionary). 

The World Book Dictionary defines “obligation” as “duty” which, in turn, is defined as “a thing which a person ought to do; a thing which is right to do.” 

Some quotes of Robertson linking the study of the Greek New Testament to preaching:

“The greatest proof that the Bible is inspired is that it has withstood so much bad preaching!”
“God pity the poor preacher who has to hunt for something to preach — and the people who have to listen!”
“Preaching… is the most dangerous thing in the world.”

Peter Gumpel repite lo dicho por la colaboradora de Pío XII, Sor Pascalina Lehnert acerca de lo que ella escuchó decir al cardenal Pacelli sobre Hitler:

Este hombre está completamente exaltado; todo lo que dice y escribe lleva la marca de su egocentrismo; este hombre es capaz de pisotear cadáveres y eliminar todo lo que le sea un obstáculo. No llegó a comprender cómo hay tantas personas en Alemania que no lo entienden y no saben sacar conclusiones de lo que dice o escribe. ¿Quién de éstos al menos se ha leído su espeluznanteMein Kampf?.⁵¹

Einstein dijo:⁴⁸

Siendo un amante de la libertad, cuando llegó la revolución a Alemania miré con confianza a las universidades sabiendo que siempre se habían vanagloriado de su devoción por la causa de la verdad. Pero las universidades fueron acalladas. Entonces miré a los grandes editores de periódicos que en ardientes editoriales proclamaban su amor por la libertad. Pero también ellos, como las universidades, fueron reducidos al silencio, ahogados a la vuelta de pocas semanas. Sólo la Iglesia permaneció de pie y firme para hacer frente a las campañas de Hitler para suprimir la verdad. Antes no había sentido ningún interés personal en la Iglesia, pero ahora siento por ella un gran afecto y admiración, porque sólo la Iglesia ha tenido la valentía y la obstinación de sostener la verdad intelectual y la libertad moral. Debo confesar que lo que antes despreciaba ahora lo alabo incondicionalmente.

Time Magazine, 23 de diciembre de 1940

Anti-Semitism was also an integral part of the Rexist programme.^[4] 

TO STUDY

Johann Jakob Herzog (12 September 1805, Basel – 30 September 1882, Erlangen), German Protestant theologian, was born at Basel.

Valentinus_(Gnostic)

Dositheos_(Samaritan) Gnostic?

Saint Augustine: Treatises on Marriage and other Subjects By Charles T. Wilcox, St. Augustine, Roy J. Deferrari 

PA (pericope adulterae)

Jerome reports that the pericope adulterae was to be found in its usual place in “many Greek and Latin manuscripts” in Rome and the Latin West in the late 4th Century. This is confirmed by some Latin Fathers of the 4th and 5th Centuries CE; including Ambrose, and Augustine. The latter claimed that the passage may have been improperly excluded from some manuscripts in order to avoid the impression that Christ had sanctioned adultery:

“Certain persons of little faith, or rather enemies of the true faith, fearing, I suppose, lest their wives should be given impunity in sinning, removed from their manuscripts the Lord’s act of forgiveness toward the adulteress, as if he who had said, Sin no more, had granted permission to sin.”^[14]

The pericope is not found in any place in any of the earliest surviving Greek Gospel manuscripts; neither in the two 3rd century papyrus witnesses to John – P⁶⁶ and P⁷⁵; nor in the 4th century Codex Sinaiticus and Vaticanus, although all four of these manuscripts may acknowledge the existence of the passage via diacritical marks at the spot.

in 1941 a large collection of the writings of Didymus the Blind (ca. 313- 398) was discovered in Egypt, including a reference to the pericope adulterae as being found in “several copies”; and it is now considered established that this passage was present in its usual place in some Greek manuscripts known in Alexandria and elsewhere from the 4th Century onwards. In support of this it is noted that the 4th century Codex Vaticanus, which was written in Egypt, marks the end of John chapter 7 with an “umlaut”, indicating that an alternative reading was known at this point.

2 corinthians 5: 16 → ἀπὸ τοῦ νῦν

Gospel according to the hebrews This info needs to be checked)

The theology of the Gospel is strongly influenced by Jewish–Christian Wisdom teaching. The Holy Spirit is represented as a manifestation of Divine Wisdom who is called “Mother”.^{[n 12]} The feminine aspect of the Spirit is an indication of Semitic influence on the language of the gospel. The Spirit takes Jesus to Mount Tabor by a single hair, echoing Old Testament themes in the stories of Ezekiel (Ezk. 8.3) andHabbakuk (Dan. 14.36 LXX).^{[n 13]} The Gospel emphasizes the fulfillment of the prophecy of Isaiah 11.2 in Jesus’ baptism, but also adopts elements of Jewish Wisdom theology.^{[n 14]} The Spirit has been gathered in one place at the moment of Jesus’ baptism, so that he has become the only Son of the Spirit in which he has found eternal “rest” and reigns forever.^[23] The “seek–find” and “rule–rest” language also comes from Jewish Wisdom tradition as stages on the way to salvation during which the believer is encouraged to emulate divine Wisdom.^{[n 15]}

Early Church Fathers (This info needs to be checked)

Clement of Rome His epistle, 1 Clement (c.96),^[5] was copied and widely read in the Early Church.^[6] Clement calls on the Christians of Corinth to maintain harmony and order.^[5] It is the earliest Christian epistle outside theNew Testament.

Ignatius of Antioch (Ancient Greek: Ἰγνάτιος Ἀντιοχείας, also known as Theophorus from Greek Θεοφόρος “God-bearer”) ((c. 35 or 50) – (from 98 to 117))^[1]was among the Apostolic Fathers, was the third Bishop of Antioch, and was a student of John the Apostle.^[2][3] En route to Rome, where according to Christian tradition he met his martyrdom by being fed to wild beasts, he wrote a series of letters which have been preserved as an example of very early Christian theology. Important topics addressed in these letters include ecclesiology, the sacraments, Biblical Sabbath and the role of bishops. He is the second after Clement to mention Paul’s epistles.^[5]

Polycarp of Smyrna (c.69–c.155) was a Christian bishop of Smyrna (now İzmir in Turkey). It is recorded that he had been a disciple of John. Polycarp (Greek: Πολύκαρπος Polýkarpos; AD 69–155) was a 2nd-century Christian bishop of Smyrna.^[1] According to the Martyrdom of Polycarp he died amartyr, bound and burned at the stake, then stabbed when the fire failed to touch him.^[2] Polycarp is regarded as a saint in the Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches.

It is recorded by Irenaeus, who heard him speak in his youth, and by Tertullian,^[3] that he had been a disciple of John the Apostle.^[4][5] Saint Jerome wrote that Polycarp was a disciple of John and that John had ordained him bishop of Smyrna.

With Clement of Rome and Ignatius of Antioch, Polycarp is regarded as one of three chief Apostolic Fathers.

Cyril of Jerusalem (Greek Κύριλλος Α΄ Ἱεροσολύμων) was a distinguished theologian of the early Church (ca. 313^[1] – 386 [Jerusalem, Syria Palaestina]) 

St. Cyril was ordained a deacon by Bishop St. Macarius of Jerusalem in about 335 and a priest some eight years later by Bishop St. Maximus. About the end of 350 he succeeded St. Maximus in the See of Jerusalem 

Epiphanius of Salamis (between 310–320 – 403) was bishop of Salamis, Cyprus at the end of the 4th century.

Eusebius (/juːˈsiːbiəs/; c.AD 260/265 – 339/340) (also called Eusebius of Caesarea and Eusebius Pamphili) was a Roman historian, exegete and Christian.

He became the Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine about the year 314CE. Together with Pamphilus, he was a scholar of the Biblical canon and is regarded as an extremely well learned Christian of his time.^[1] He wrote Demonstrations of the Gospel, Preparations for the Gospel, and On Discrepancies between the Gospels, studies of the Biblical text. As “Father of Church History” he produced the Ecclesiastical History, On the Life of Pamphilus, the Chronicleand On the Martyrs.

Philo of Alexandria (Greek: Φίλων, Philōn; c. 20 BCE – c. 50 CE), also called Philo Judaeus.

Ragnarök (abstract from wikipedia)

Parece contar el diluvio universal y el juicio final. Cuenta como los “dioses” peleaban entre ellos y morían en agua, para que luego la tierra se renovada y que dos personas la llenen de nuevo. Cuenta como al final la tierra será quemada y el cielo no dará nuevamente su resplandor, pero todo esto orientado a los “dioses” y que ellos son los que provocan todo esto, no dando reconocimiento a DIOS ni siguiéndole sino dando honra a las criaturas. Las interpretaciones, las fuentes y de misma manera este escrito deben de ser revisados para una interpretación y descripción legitima.

In Norse mythology, Ragnarök (UK /ˈrɑːɡnəˌrɒk/,^[2] US /ˈræɡnəˌrɒk/,^[3]) is a series of future events, including a great battle foretold to ultimately result in the death of a number of major figures (including the gods Odin, Thor, Týr, Freyr, Heimdallr, and Loki), the occurrence of various natural disasters, and the subsequent submersion of the world in water. Afterward, the world will resurface anew and fertile, the surviving and returning gods will meet, and the world will be repopulated by two human survivors. 

Surtr covers the earth in fire, causing the entire world to burn. 

Los dioses nórdicos eran mortales, y solo a través de las manzanas de Iðunn podían esperar vivir hasta el Ragnarök. 

TODAS LOS FALSOS DOGMAS ESTAN BASADOS EN UNA DISTORCION DE LA REALIDAD Y DE LA VERDAD, QUERIENDO EL HOMBRE SER DIOS ADORANDO A SATANAS, CON ANGUSTIA QUERIENDO LLEGAR A ESE LUGAR DE DONDE SALIO, POR SUS PROPIOS METODOS A ESE ESTADO DE DONDE CALLO!

Colosenses 2:8 (LBLA) | In Context | Whole Chapter

Jesucristo: Dios, salvador y vencedor

⁸ Mirad que nadie os haga cautivos por medio de su filosofía y vanas sutilezas, según la tradición de los hombres, conforme a los principios elementales del mundo y no según Cristo.

Eurasiatic Languages – branches

The branches of Eurasiatic vary between proposals, but typically include Altaic, Chukchi-Kamchatkan, Eskimo–Aleut, Indo-European, and usually Uralic (althoughJoseph Greenberg uses the controversial Uralic-Yukaghir instead). Other branches sometimes included are the Kartvelian and Dravidian families, the language isolates Nivkh and Etruscan, and Greenberg’s “Korean-Japanese-Ainu.”

BUDDHA BIRTH

Referring to the prophetic dream Queen Maya had prior to conception, the life story of the Buddha according to the Pali Cannon say that his mother did not engage in sexual activity or entertain any thoughts of other men during her pregnancy. It does not say that Siddhartha was conceived without sexual activity between his parents. ^[6] However, some parallels have been drawn with the birth story of Jesus.^[7]

Saint Nicholas (Greek: Ἅγιος Νικόλαος, Hagios Nikólaos, Latin: Sanctus Nicolaus); (15 March 270 – 6 December 343),^[3][4] also called Nikolaos of Myra, was a historic 4th-century Christian saint and Greek^[5] Bishop of Myra (Demre, part of modern-day Turkey) in Lycia.

Church Fathers 

Clement of Alexandria referred to Buddhists and wrote:^[2]

“Among the Indians are those philosophers also who follow the precepts of Boutta, whom they honour as a god on account of his extraordinary sanctity.”

— Clement of Alexandria, Stromata (Miscellanies), Book I, Chapter XV

In the 3rd century Indians were viewed by Christian as heretics, with Hippolytus, writing around 235:

There is … among the Indians a heresy of those who philosophize among the Brahmins, who live a self-sufficient life, abstaining from (eating) living creatures and all cooked food . . . They say that God is light, not like the light one sees, nor like the sun nor fire, but to them God is discourse, not that which finds expression in articulate sounds, but that of knowledge (gnosis) through which the secret mysteries of nature are perceived by the wise.

Early 3rd–4th century Christian writers such as Hippolytus and Epiphanius write of one Scythianus who visited India around 50 CE, whence he brought the “doctrine of the Two Principles”. Scythianus’ pupil Terebinthus supposedly presented himself as a “Buddha” (“he called himself Buddas” Cyril of Jerusalem) and became well known inJudaea and was said to have conversed with the apostles and to have brought books back from his trade with India. The same author says his books and knowledge were taken over by Mani, and became the foundation of the Manichean doctrine.^[a]

“Terebinthus, his disciple in this wicked error, inherited his money and books and heresy, and came to Palestine, and becoming known and condemned in Judaea he resolved to pass into Persia: but lest he should be recognised there also by his name he changed it and called himself Buddas.”

—Cyril of Jerusalem, Sixth Catechetical Lecture Chapter 22-24^[27]

Saint Jerome (4th century CE) mentions that the Buddhist belief of Buddha’s birth from a virgin as their “opinion […] authoritatively handed down that Budda, the founder of their religion, had his birth through the side of a virgin.”^[28] (the Buddha was, according to Buddhist tradition, born from the hip of his mother).^[29]

apud gymnosophistas indiae, quasi per manus, hujus opinionis auctoritas traditur, quod buddam, principem dogmatis eorum, e latere suo virgo generarit.

nec hoc mirum  de barbaris, cum minervam quoque de capite jovis, et liberum patrem de femore ejus procreatos doctissima finxerit graecia.

Some knowledge of Buddhism existed quite early in the West. In the 2nd century CE, Clement of Alexandria, the father of Christian dogmatism, wrote about the Buddha:^[2]

εἰσὶ δὲ τῶν Ἰνδῶν οἱ τοῖς Βούττα πειθόμενοι παραγγέλμασιν. ὃν δι’ ὑπερβολὴν σεμνότητος ὡς θεὸν τετιμήκασι. [Among the Indians are those philosophers also who follow the precepts of Boutta, whom they honour as a god on account of his extraordinary sanctity.]

— Clement of Alexandria, Stromata (Miscellanies), Book I, Chapter XV

He also recognized Bactrian Buddhists (Sramanas) and Indian Gymnosophists for their influence on Greek thought:^[3]

“Thus philosophy, a thing of the highest utility, flourished in antiquity among the barbarians, shedding its light over the nations. And afterwards it came to Greece. First in its ranks were the prophets of the Egyptians; and the Chaldeans among the Assyrians; and the Druids among theGauls; and the Sramanas among the Bactrians (“Σαρμαναίοι Βάκτρων”); and the philosophers of the Celts; and the Magi of the Persians, who foretold the Saviour’s birth, and came into the land of Judaea guided by a star. The Indian gymnosophists are also in the number, and the other barbarian philosophers. And of these there are two classes, some of them called Sramanas (“Σαρμάναι”), and others Brahmins (“Βραφμαναι”).”

— Clement of Alexandria, Stromata (Miscellanies)

Ganapati Atharvashirsa 

Ghurye notes its emergence in the early 19th century, corresponding to the rise of the Ganapati worship in Maharashtra among Brahmins centered in Pune,^[3] but the text is probably somewhat older, dating to the 17th or 18th century;^[4] it is not part of the Muktikā canon of 108 Upanishads compiled in the mid 17th century.

Chinmayananda Saraswati (8 May 1916 – 3 August 1993)

Dharma Data: Buddhacarita

It was not until the 2nd century AD that the first complete biographies of the Buddha were written. At this time two works both titled Buddhacarita, meaning the life of the Buddha, were composed by monk poets at the court of the great Buddhist emperor Kaniska. The first of these was written by Sangharaksa and was a combination of verse and prose, and although the original Sanskrit has been lost, a Chinese translation of it still exists. The second of these works was written by the celebrated poet Asvaghosa.

In 28 chapters Asvaghosa uses striking imagery and polished language to tell the Buddha’s life from his birth to events immediately after his death. 

The Jataka

Jataka means “the story of a birth,” and the Jatakas are stories, in a mixture of prose and verse, of the 550 lives through which Gautama Buddha is said to have passed before his birth as Prince Siddhartha of the Sakya clan in northern India (563 B.C.)

In his earlier births Gautama is said to have been a Pali Bodhisatta (a being destined to acheive enlightenment), who in each life, born as an animal, person, or god, moves a step closer to perfect wisdom. The perfect wisdom being the attainment of Buddha (an “Enlightened Being”).

The arrangement of the Jataka as we have it today may have been made as late as the fourth century A.D. based on the text preserved by Sri Lankan (place) Buddhist monks.

Rome 

According to Livy’s (Titus Livius Patavinus (59 BC – AD 17)—known as Livy in English—was a Roman historian who wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people.) account of the legend she was the daughter of Numitor, king of Alba Longa, and descended from Aeneas. Numitor’s younger brother Amulius seized the throne and killed Numitor’s son, then forced Rhea Silvia to become a Vestal Virgin, a priestess of the goddess Vesta. As Vestal Virgins were sworn to celibacy for a period of thirty years, this would ensure the line of Numitor had no heirs.

Sutras of JESUS (SECULAR)

In 1907, explorers discovered a vast treasure trove of ancient scrolls, silk paintings, and artifacts dating from the 5th to 11th centuries A.D.  in a long-sealed cave in a remote region of China.  Among them, written in Chinese, were scrolls that recounted a history of Jesus’ life and teachings in beautiful Taoist concepts and imagery that were unknown in the West. These writings told a story of Christianity that was by turns unique and disturbing, hopeful and uplifting. The best way to describe them is collectively, with a term they themselves use: The Jesus Sutras.

The origins of Christianity seem rooted in Western civilization, but amazingly, an ancient, largely unknown branch of Christian belief evolved in the East. Eminent theologian and Chinese scholar Martin Palmer provides the first popular history and translation of the sect’s long-lost scriptures–all of them more than a thousand years old and comparable in significance to the Dead Sea Scrolls. Gathered, deciphered, and interpreted by a team of expert linguists and scholars, these sacred texts present an inspiring use of Jesus’ teachings and life within Eastern practices and meditations–and provide an extraordinary window into an intriguing, profoundly gentler, more spiritual Christianity than existed in Europe or Asia at the time, or, indeed, even today.

Palmer has devoted more than a decade to seeking the extant writings and other evidence of this lost religion.  His search was triggered by an encounter with an immense, mysterious carved (stele) stone from the 8th century that resides in a Chinese museum collection called the Forest of Stones. The Chinese text on this stone commemorates the founding of a “religion of light” in China by a great Western teacher and features a unique cross that merges Taoist symbolism with the Christian cross. The scrolls, the stone, and a strange map of the area around a hallowed temple (where Lao Tzu wrote the Tao Te Ching before disappearing forever) gave Palmer enough information to rediscover one of the earliest Christian monasteries.  At the site was an  8th century pagoda still intact, and within it, in 1998, Palmer and his team found more evidence, including statues, underground passageways, and artifacts, that helped them uncover and recreate the era and rituals of the Taoist Christians.  

The Taoist Christians, who wrote the Jesus Sutras recognized equality of the sexes, preached against slavery, and practiced nonviolence toward all forms of life. In particular, this tradition offered its followers a more hopeful vision of life on earth and after death than the dominant Eastern religions, teaching that Jesus had broken the wheel of karma and its consequent punishing, endless reincarnations.

Vividly re-creating the turbulence of a distant age that is remarkably evocative of our own times, Palmer reveals an extraordinary evolution of spiritual thought that spans centuries. A thrilling modern quest that is also an ancient religious odyssey, The Jesus Sutras shares a revolutionary discovery with profound historical implications–imparting timeless messages and lessons for men and women of all backgrounds and faiths.

Rāhula (born c. 534 BC) son of Siddhartha Gautama (Pāli Siddhattha Gotama), later known as the Buddha, and his wife Princess Yasodharā. Accounts of his life differ in certain points.

La única diferencia aparte entre el nuevo-hinduismo y el nuevo-budismo es la NO aceptación de DIOS, la NO aceptación de la VERDAD, tratando escapar de EL.

There is a detach from re-incarnation in new-hinduism called mokṣa

In Theravada Buddhism, the Jatakas are a textual division of the Pali Canon, included in the Khuddaka Nikaya of theSutta Pitaka. The term Jataka may also refer to a traditional commentary on this book.

A buddha is called “The World Honored (high respected; esteemed; adherence to what is right or to a conventional standard of conduct) Enlightened One” (Skt. Buddha-Lokanatha) or “The Blessed Enlightened One” (Skt. Buddha-Bhagavan).^[6]

Bhagavan (blessed), also written Bhagwan or Bhagawan, from the Sanskrit nt-stem bhaga-vant- (nominative भगवान् Bhagavān) literally means “possessing fortune, prosperous” (from the noun bhaga, meaning “fortune, wealth”.

Buddha means awake.

Shakya (Sanskrit: Śākya, Devanagari: शाक्य, Pāli: Sākya) is a Suryavanshi ^[1] Kshatriya ^[2] clan of the ancient Vedic period(1500-500 BC). The name is derived from the Sanskrit word śakya which means capable, able.

Lance Selwyn Cousins is a scholar in the field of Buddhist Studies

In a review of this most recent translation (Majjhima Nikaya), L. S. Cousins (before getting down to details) makes various general criticisms:

• the translation does not make clear what Pali text it is translating
• being largely the work of Nanamoli, who died in 1960, it does not take much account of recent scholarship
• in order to fit in one volume it cuts a lot of repetitions, thus altering the emphases of the text
• it tends to follow traditional commentarial interpretations too uncritically
• Bodhi has undone improvements Nanamoli was trying to make before he died, to restore “standard” translations of terminology. Cousins says that these translations (or some) are “quite unacceptable” and “promulgate widespread misunderstandings”, and that Nanamoli understood this. Cousins says that “what is needed is much more creativity and variety” in translation to try better to convey early Buddhist concepts

Issariya = Leadership?

Colonel Henry Steel Olcott (Sinhala: කර්නල් ශ්‍රිමත් හෙන්රි ස්ටීල් ඔල්කට්;2 August 1832 – 17 February 1907) was an American military officer, journalist, lawyer and the co-founder and first President of the Theosophical Society (known for Revival of Buddhism).

Olcott was the first well-known American of European ancestry to make a formal conversion to Buddhism. His subsequent actions as president of the Theosophical Society helped create a renaissance in the study of Buddhism. Olcott is considered a Buddhist modernist for his efforts in interpreting Buddhismthrough a Westernized lens.

Olcott’s “Buddhist Catechism”, composed in 1881, is one of his most enduring contributions to the revival of Buddhism in Sri Lanka, and remains in use there today. The text outlines what Olcott saw to be the basic doctrines of Buddhism, including the life of the Buddha, the message of the Dharma, the role of the Sangha.

It is presented in the same format of question and answer used in some Christian catechisms (making it look Christian, changing its roots and dogmas). Here are a few examples from that text:

Q. Would you call a person a Buddhist who has merely been born of Buddhist parents?

A. Certainly not. A Buddhist is one who not only professes belief in the Buddha as the noblest of Teachers, in the Doctrine preached by Him, and in the brotherhood of Arhats, but practices his Precepts in daily life.^[10]

Q. What is Karma?

A. A causation operating on the moral, as well as physical and other planes. Buddhists say there is no miracle in human affairs: what a man sows that he must still reap.

Q. What other good words have been used to express the essence of Buddhism?
A. Self-culture and universal love.^[11]

Concerning the Four sights and how they impacted the Buddha:
26. Q: Why should these sights, so familiar to everybody, have caused him to go into the jungle?
A. We often see such signs. He had not; and they made a deep impression on his mind.
27. Q: Why had he not also seen them?
A: The astrologers had foretold at his birth that he would one day resign his kingdom and become a Buddha. The King, his father, not wishing to lose his son, had carefully prevented his seeing any sights that might suggest to him human misery and death. No one was allowed even to speak of such things to the Prince. He was almost like a prisoner in his lovely palaces and flower gardens. They were surrounded with high walls; and inside everything was made as beautiful as possible, so that he might not want to go and see the sorrow and distress that are in the world.
28. Q: Was he so kind-hearted that his father feared he might really want to sacrifice himself for the world’s sake?
A: Yes; he seems to have felt for all being so strong a pity and love as that.^[12]

55. Q. Why does ignorance cause suffering?
A. Because it makes us prize what is not worth prizing, grieve for that we should not grieve for, consider real what is not real but only illusory, and pass our lives in the pursuit of worthless objects, neglecting what is in reality most valuable.
56. Q. And what is that which is most valuable?
A. To know the whole secret of man’s existence and destiny, so that we may estimate at no more than their actual value and this life and its relations; so that we may live in a way to insure the greatest happiness and the least suffering for our fellow-men and ourselves ^[13]

Olcott’s catechism reflects a new, post-Enlightenment interpretation of traditional Buddhist tenets.

Buddhism modernism focuses on ideological and imaginative encounters between Buddhism and modernity, for example in the realms of science, mythology, literature, art, psychology, and religious pluralism. Certain themes cut across cultural and geographical contexts, and this form of Buddhism has been created by multiple agents in a variety of times and places. Buddhist modernism is a construction of numerous parties with varying interests.

[Olcott] allied Buddhism with scientific rationalism in implicit criticism of orthodox Christianity.

bhanakas (“reciters”) 

Olcott and Dharmapala after him, tried to retranslate Sinhala-Buddhist values into westerns terms. 

Buddhism is a non-sacramental religion.

The Buddhist Catechism was Olcott’s attempt to elucidate the basic doctrines of Buddhism in an ecumenical way.

Buddhism (a word invented by British scholars and Christian missionaries at the beginning of the nineteenth century).

Following his successful but bloody conquest of the Kalinga country on the east coast, Ashoka renounced armed conquest and adopted a policy that he called “conquest bydharma” (i.e., by principles of right life).

Jainism /ˈdʒeɪnɪz(ə)m/, traditionally known as Jaina dharma (BC and Buddhism),^[1] is an Indian religion that prescribes a path of non-violence towards all living beings and emphasizes spiritual independence and equality between all forms of life. Practitioners believe that non-violence and self-control are the means by which they can obtain liberation. 

Jainism considers the devīs and devas to be souls who dwell in heavens owing to meritorious deeds in their past lives. These souls are in heavens for a fixed lifespan and even they have to undergo reincarnation as humans to achieve moksa.

The swastika is a historical sacred symbol (BC) both to evoke ‘Shakti’ in tantric rituals and evoke the gods for blessings in Indian religions.

Ashokan Edicts do not explicitly state that Ashoka was a Buddhist. In his edicts, Ashoka expresses support for all the major religions of his time: Buddhism, Brahmanism, Jainism, and Ajivikaism, and his edicts addressed to the population at large (there are some addressed specifically to Buddhists; this is not the case for the other religions) generally focus on moral themes members of all the religions would accept.

O house-builder, you are seen! You will not build this house again. For your rafters are broken and your ridgepole shattered. My mind has reached the Unconditioned; I have attained the destruction of craving. – Shakyamuni

The historical Buddha, Shakyamuni, on attaining enlightenment, is said to have realized that all beings, just as they are, are Buddhas. – zen tradition

In ancient Indian literature, the Upanishads (6th century BC) mention past-life regression,^[4] but the Yoga Sutras of Patañjali (2nd century BCE) discuss the concept in greater detail. 

In Buddhist sutras, nagas usually are wise and beneficent. 

The Wisdom Sutras were given to the nagas by Buddha the world wasn’t ready for their teachings

Taoism (modernly Daoism) is a philosophical and religious tradition that emphasizes living in harmony with the Tao (modernly romanized as “Dao”). The term Taomeans “way”, “path” or “principle”, and can also be found in Chinese philosophies and religions other than Taoism.

Confucianism and Taoism – Chinese thought has been characterized by an awareness (consciousness) of man’s close relationship with nature and the universe, a cyclical view of time and the universe, veneration or worship of ancestors.

Nirvāṇa (Sanskrit: निर्वाण; Pali: निब्बान nibbāna ; Prakrit: णिव्वाण) is an ancient Sanskrit term used in Indian religions to describe the profound peace of mind that is acquired with moksha (liberation). In shramanic thought, it is the state of being free from suffering. In Hindu philosophy, it is union with the Brahman (Supreme Being).

Brahma is among the common gods found in the Pali Canon. Brahma (in common with all other devas) is subject to change, final decline and death, just as are all other sentient beings in samsara (the plane of continual reincarnation and suffering).

Jainism and Buddhism =  Ecumenism Philosophies (human philosophy).

Buddha = Hindu Philosopher

Gautama Buddha rejected the existence of a creator deity,^[1][2] refused to endorse many views on creation^[3] and stated that questions on the origin of the world are not ultimately useful for ending suffering.^[4][5]

As scholar Surian Yee describes, “the attitude of the Buddha as portrayed in the Nikayas is more anti-speculative than specifically atheistic”, although Gautama did regard the belief in a creator deity to be unhealthy..^[25] However, the Samaññaphala Sutta placed materialism and amoralism together with eternalism as forms of wrong view.^[26]

In fact, the one place where the Buddha was asked point-blank whether or not there was a self, he refused to answer. 

The Buddha remained silent when asked these fourteen questions. He described them as a net and refused to be drawn into such a net of theories, speculations, and dogmas. He said that it was because he was free of bondage to all theories and dogmas that he had attained liberation. Such speculations, he said, are attended by fever, unease, bewilderment, and suffering, and it is by freeing oneself of them that one achieves liberation.

Majjhima Nikaya 63 & 72 in the Pali canon contain a list of ten unanswered questions about certain views (ditthi):

1. The world is eternal.
2. The world is not eternal.
3. The world is (spatially) infinite.
4. The world is not (spatially) infinite.
5. The soul (jiva) is identical with the body.
6. The soul is not identical with the body.
7. The Tathagata (a perfectly enlightened being) exists after death.
8. The Tathagata does not exist after death.
9. The Tathagata both exists and does not exist after death.
10. The Tathagata neither exists nor does not exist after death.

“Contact (between religions) is good. One should listen to and respect the doctrines professed by others. Beloved-of-the-Gods, King Piyadasi, desires that all should be well-learned in the good doctrines of other religions” (Rock Edict Nb12, S. Dhammika).

Although Buddhism and the Buddha are mentioned, the edicts of Asoka tend to focus on social and moral precepts rather than religious practices or the philosophical dimension of Buddhism.

IN preparing this translation (ashoka edicts), we have had in mind the reader who is not familiar with the standard translations of Hultzsch and Bloch, or for whom these texts are not readily available. The translation is therefore not a literal one. Footnotes giving lengthy explanations of variations of meaning have been excluded. The emphasis has been on providing a readable version of the original inscriptions.

Buddhism differences from all other pagan philosophy widly known in that it handles an (care about nothing₁, In Other words: you are not alllow to think. And an atheist, agnostic₂: it does not matter) view and that the end of man is not knowable after reaching nirvana.

The Buddha refused to answer questions concerning whether the individual persisted in nirvana or did not.

Nagarjuna expressed this understanding in the nirvana chapter of his Mulamadhyamakakarika: “It is not assumed that the Blessed One exists after death. Neither is it assumed that he does not exist, or both, or neither. It is not assumed that even a living Blessed One exists. Neither is it assumed that he does not exist, or both, or neither.”

Tathāgata (Devanagari: तथागत, Sanskrit: [t̪əˈtɑɡət̪ə]) is a Pali and Sanskrit word the Buddha of the Pali Canon uses when referring to himself. The term is often thought to mean either “one who has thus gone” (tathā-gata) or “one who has thus come” (tathā-āgata). This is interpreted as signifying that the Tathagata is beyond all coming and going – beyond all transitory phenomena.

‘‘Ayampi hi nāma, sāriputta, sunakkhattassa moghapurisassa mayidhammanvayo na bhavissati – ‘itipi so bhagavā anekavihitaṃ iddhividhaṃpaccanubhoti – ekopi hutvā bahudhā hoti, bahudhāpi hutvā eko hoti; āvibhāvaṃ,tirobhāvaṃ; tirokuṭṭaṃ tiropākāraṃ tiropabbataṃ asajjamāno gacchati, seyyathāpiākāse; pathaviyāpi ummujjanimujjaṃ karoti, seyyathāpi udake; udakepiabhijjamāno gacchati, seyyathāpi pathaviyaṃ; ākāsepi pallaṅkena kamati,seyyathāpi pakkhī sakuṇo; imepi candimasūriye evaṃmahiddhikeevaṃmahānubhāve pāṇinā parimasati parimajjati; yāva brahmalokāpi kāyena vasaṃvattetī’ti.

She (Helena Blavatsky) taught about very abstract and metaphysical principles, but also sought to denounce and correct superstitions that, in her view, had grown in different esoteric religions. Some of these statements are controversial. For example, she quotes Dr. A. Kingsford’s book “Perfect Way” (section “The Secret of Satan”): “It is Satan who is the god of our planet and the only god” and adds “and this without any allusive metaphor to its wickedness and depravity.”^[90] In this reference Blavatsky explains that he whom the Christian dogma calls Lucifer was never the representative of the evil in ancient myths but, on the contrary, the light-bringer (which is the literal meaning of the name Lucifer). According to Blavatsky the church turned him into Satan (which means “the opponent”) to misrepresent pre-Christian beliefs and fit him into the newly framed Christian dogmas. A similar view is also shared by some Christian Gnostics, ancient and modern.

Esoteric = intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest.

Pliny the Younger (Born: 61 AD), the Roman governor of Bithynia-Pontus (now in modern Turkey) wrote a letter to Emperor Trajan around 112 AD and asked for counsel on dealing with Christians.

Pliny then details the practices of Christians (sections 7-10) (X96): he says that they meet on a certain day before light where they gather and sing hymns to Christ as to a god. They all bind themselves by oath, “not to some crimes”, says Pliny, as though that is what he would have expected; rather, they pledge not to commit any crimes such as fraud, theft, or adultery, and subsequently share a meal of “ordinary and innocent food”.

Germanic paganism, Odin, and Christianization (WIKIPEDIA MISSLEADING)

In the 4th century, Christianization of the various Germanic people was partly facilitated by the prestige of the Christian Roman Empire amongst European pagans.

Prior to Christianization, the Germanic peoples openly (including the English; Old English geola or guili) celebrated a midwinter event calledYule.^[15] With the Christianization of Germanic Europe, numerous traditions were absorbed from Yuletide celebrations into modern Christmas.^[16]

The Saint Thomas Christians, also called Syrian Christians or Nasrani, are an ancient ethnoreligious community of Christians from Kerala, India who trace their origins to the evangelistic activity of Thomas the Apostle in the 1st century. The community was historically united in leadership and liturgy, but since the 17th century have been split into several different church denominations and traditions.

He traveled outside the Roman Empire to preach the Gospel, traveling as far as India.^[5][6] Tthe Apostle reached Muziris, India in 52 AD and baptized several people who are today known as Saint Thomas Christians or Nasranis. After his death, the reputed relics of Saint Thomas the Apostle were enshrined as far as Mesopotamia in the 3rd century, and later moved to various places. In 1258 some of the relics were brought to Abruzzo, in Ortona, Italy, where they have been held in the Church of Saint Thomas the Apostle.^[7] He is often regarded as the Patron Saint of India, and the name Thomas remains quite popular among Saint Thomas Christians of India.

The word mogwai is the transliteration of the Cantonese word 魔怪 (Jyutping: mo1 gwaai3; Mandarin Chinese: 魔鬼; pinyin: móguǐ) meaning “monster“, “evil spirit”, “devil” or “demon“. 

According to Chinese tradition, mogwai are certain demons, which often inflict harm on humans. 

Discussion of the subject appears in the philosophical traditions of India (including the Indus Valley) and Greece (including Asia Minor) from about the 6th century BCE.

In the 1st century BC Alexander Cornelius Polyhistor wrote:

The Pythagorean doctrine prevails among the Gauls’ teaching that the souls of men are immortal, and that after a fixed number of years they will enter into another body.

Nirvāṇa means final release from the karmic bondage. When an enlightened human, such as, an Arhat or a Tirthankara extinguishes his remaining aghatiya karmas and thus ends his worldly existence, it is called nirvāṇa. Technically, the death of an Arhat is called nirvāṇa of Arhat, as he has ended his wordly existence and attained liberation. Moksa, that is to say, liberation follows nirvāṇa. However, the terms moksa and nirvana are often used interchangeably in the Jain texts.^[5][6]  

Kalpasutra gives an elaborate account of Mahavira’s nirvāṇa.^[7]

The aghatiya Karma’s of venerable Ascetic Mahavira got exhausted, when in this Avasarpini era the greater part of the Duhshamasushama period had elapsed and only three years and eight and a half months were left. Mahavira had recited the fifty-five lectures which detail the results of Karma, and the thirty-six unasked questions (the Uttaradhyana Sutra). The moon was in conjunction with the asterism Svati, at the time of early morning, in the town of Papa, and in king Hastipala’s office of the writers, (Mahivira) single and alone, sitting in the Samparyahka posture, left his body and attained nirvana, freed from all pains.” (147)

In the fourth month of that rainy season, in the seventh fortnight, in the dark (fortnight) of Karttika, on its fifteenth day, in the last night, in the town of Papa, in king Hastipala’s office of the writers, the Venerable Ascetic Mahavira died, went off, cut asunder the ties of birth, old age, and death; became a Siddha, a Buddha, a Mukta, a maker of the end (to all misery), finally liberated, freed from all pains. (123)

That night in which the Venerable Ascetic Mahavira died, freed from all pains, was lighted up by many descending and ascending gods. (125)

In that night in which the Venerable Ascetic Mahavira, died, freed from all pains, the eighteen confederate kings of Kasi and Kosala, the nine Mallakis and nine Licchavis, on the day of new moon, instituted an illuminations on the Poshadha, which was a fasting day; for they said: ‘Since the light of intelligence is gone, let us make an illumination of material matter!'(128)

The concept of nirvāṇa comes from the Yogic traditions of the Sramanas whose origins go back to at least the earliest centuries of the first millennium BCE.^[12]

The concept of Maitreya was elaborated within Theosophy during the last few decades of the 19th century. However, the Theosophical Maitreya was explained and developed differently from the original Buddhist concept. In Theosophical texts Maitreya has multiple aspects signifying not just the future Buddha, but similar concepts from other religious or spiritual traditions.^[19] info 44

In early 20th century, leading Theosophists became preaching that an appearance of the Maitreya as a so-called World Teacher was imminent.

Maitreya cults have popped up from time to time in Buddhist history among people who misinterpreted the old texts as a prophecy that a Buddha with supernatural powers was about to appear in the world. However, my understanding is that the Pali texts just say that in some distant time when the teachings of the historical Buddha are entirely forgotten, Maitreya will re-discover them.

The historical Buddha did not preach a doctrine of eschatology, or belief in some ultimate destiny for the world. It’s also important to remember that many schools of Buddhism consider linear time to be an illusion. “Future age” is not separate from “present age.” The vital time is now.

By Barbara O’Brien

In Buddhism, an anāgāmi (Sanskrit and Pāli for “non-returning”)^[1] is a partially enlightened person who has cut off the first five chains that bind the ordinary mind. Anagami-ship is the third of the four stages of enlightenment.

Anagamis are not reborn into the human world after death, but into the heaven of the Pure Abodes, where only anagamis live. There they attain full enlightenment (arahantship).

The Bodhisattva Maitreya seems to be often misunderstood by Westerners, and even in Buddhist countries.

The term Buddha is misunderstood by Westerners. The term Buddha is really just a title like the Pope, or the President. The proper term is actually sammā-sambuddho, or fully and self-awakened one. 

The Buddha also taught that this process is cyclical (dharma decline).

Maitreya is simply another fully-awakened being in a long succession of beings who have existed far back into the mists of time, and after Maitreya, other Buddhas will emerge.

Tuṣita (Sanskrit) or Tusita (Pāli) is one of the six deva-worlds of the Kāmadhātu, located between the Yāma heaven and the Nirmāṇarati heaven. Like the other heavens, Tuṣita is said to be reachable through meditation. It is the heaven where the Bodhisattva Śvetaketu (Pāli: Setaketu, “White Banner”) resided before being reborn on Earth as Gautama did; it is, likewise, the heaven where the Bodhisattva Nātha (“Protector”) currently resides, who will later be born as the next Buddha, Maitreya.

The Lord replied, ‘Maitreya, the best of men, will then leave the Tuṣita heavens, and go for his last rebirth. As soon as he is born he will walk seven steps forward, and where he puts down his feet a jewel or a lotus will spring up. He will raise his eyes to the ten directions, and will speak these words: ‘This is my last birth. There will be no rebirth after this one. Never will I come back here, but, all pure, I shall win Nirvana.

—Buddhist Scriptures by Edward Conze

 The name Maitreya is derived from the Sanskrit maitrī (“friendliness”).  

Sucesivos Budas aparecen en periodos humanos distintos de florecimiento y destrucción. 

In early Indian Buddhism the term bodhisattva was primarily used to refer specifically to the Buddha in his former lives.^[3][4]

When Gautama Buddha referred to himself in his pre-Buddha existence, he spoke in terms of “when I was still a Bodhisattva”. The only currently active bodhisattva described in thePali Canon is the future Buddha Maitreya (Pali: : Metteyya). The Theravada tradition, i.e., the Pali Canon, speaks of no other bodhisattvas than these. 

Buddhism is centered upon the life and teachings of Gautama Buddha, whereas Jainism is centered on the life and teachings of Mahavira. Buddhism’s main goal is to gain enlightenment (instead of gods, devas suffering in the samsara. buddhists follow pre-gautama equal thinkers). Jainism’s goals are based on non-violence and liberation the soul (polytheistic but there is not creator god in their way of thinking). 

The earliest known references to the Mahabharata and its core Bharata date to the Ashtadhyayi (sutra 6.2.38) of Pāṇini (fl. 4th century BCE) and in the Ashvalayana Grhyasutra (3.4.4). This may suggest that the core 24,000 verses, known as the Bharata, as well as an early version of the extended Mahabharata, were composed by the 4th century BCE. 

Kalpa is a Sanskrit word (कल्प kalpa) meaning an aeon, or a relatively long period of time (by human calculation) in Hindu and Buddhist cosmology. 

According to the term in popular culture, a Rishi will never contradict another Rishi due to their knowledge being directly revealed from God. 

El diablo que los engañaba, fue atormentado por los siglos de los siglos, siendo arrojado al lago de fuego.

In Hindu cosmology, Siddhaloka is a subtle world (loka) where perfected beings (siddhas) take birth. They are endowed with the eight primary siddhis at birth.

Siddhis^{[note 1]} are spiritual, magical, supranormal, paranormal, or supernatural powers acquired through a sadhana (spiritual practices), such as Meditation and Yoga.^[1] People who have attained this state are formally known as siddhas.^[2]

Etimologia – The earliest appearance in Indian history of the idea that magical powers (Pāli iddhi) are generated by spiritual practices, (Pāli jhāna) is the account that appears in the Buddhist Canon, in the[Sāmaññaphalasutta] of the [Dīghanikāya].^[4]

Siddhi is a Sanskrit noun which can be translated as “perfection”, “accomplishment”, “attainment”, or “success”.^[3]

In the Bhagavata Purana, the five siddhis of Yoga and meditation are:

1. tri-kāla-jñatvam: knowing the past, present and future
2. advandvam: tolerance of heat, cold and other dualities
3. para citta ādi abhijñatā: knowing the minds of others and so on
4. agni arka ambu viṣa ādīnām pratiṣṭambhaḥ: checking the influence of fire, sun, water, poison, and so on
5. aparājayah: remaining unconquered by others^[9]

ALL HINDU RELIGION SEEMS TO BE SICK ON HOW TO REACH DIS-ATTACHEMENT FROM SAMSARA. THEY HAVE DIFFERENT OPINION AND DISCUSS BETWEEN THEM ON HOW TO REACH IT. THEN BUDDHA SEEMS TO NOT ANSWER THIS QUESTION ON HOW CAN U EXISTED AND BE NEVER BORN AGAIN. HE ANSWERS: IT DOESN’T APPLY.

Generally, Buddhists believe that there has been a succession of many Buddhas in the distant past and that many more will appear in the future; Dīpankara, then, would be one of numerous previous Buddhas, while Gautama was the most recent, and Maitreya will be the next Buddha in the future.

Sutra – The Platform Sutra of the Sixth Patriarch
“But now I will begin with the last seven Buddhas. In the Past ‘Adorned Eon’ there were Vipashyin Buddha, Shikhin Buddha, and Vishvabhu Buddha. In the present ‘Worthy Eon’ there have been Krakucchanda Buddha, Kanakamuni Buddha, Kashyapa Buddha, and Shakyamuni Buddha.” 

Commentary
In the Adorned Eon (Alamkarakalpa) a thousand Buddhas appeared in the world. The 998th Buddha of that kalpa was Vipashyin Buddha.

There’s actually something of a distinction between the how the Mahayana sects view this and how Theravada views it. The classic, Theravada view was that in reaching Nirvana, you stopped making karma, and hence escaped from the wheel of rebirth. Other than that, very little can be said about nirvana. The Buddha refused to answer questions concerning whether the individual persisted in nirvana or did not. 
In the Mahayana, especially in East Asian traditions, which are heavily influenced by the Lotus Sutra, the enlightened buddhas remain in this world, and only appear to leave it. The Mahayana figure of the Bodhisattva is precisely one who has achieved enlightenment/nirvana, but continues to work in the world for the enlightenment of others. This is called non-abiding nirvana.

Many words in paganism as been drawn or masked with Christian wording, it is like ecumenism is masked with good to spread satanic and materialistic views.

1,000 avatars written of in Buddhist texts who are destined to redeem the world (to help people for reaching nirvava) in successive eras, of which Gautama Buddha was only the fourth.^[1]

ATTACHING ANYONE TO A NAMED RELIGION ONLY BECAUSE HE(SHE) FOLLOWS THE WORDS OF A PERSON IS NOT ADEQUATE!

Adipurana is a 10th-century Kannada text written in Champu style, a mix of prose and verse, dealing with the ten lives of the first tirthankara, Adinatha, also known as Rishabhanatha .

Buddhism as we know today is the based on the Teaching of the 4th Buddha.

Sakyamuni was King Pabbata during the time of the Konagamana Buddha. He was a powerful ruler with a strong army. After meeting him, Konagamana Buddha predicted that King Pabbata would become the Gautama Buddha in this kalpa.

After Maitreya Buddha passes away, His Teaching would continue in this world for 80,000 years. Then it would be time for another kalpa.

Currently, Maitreya Buddha is residing in the Pure Land of Tushita (or Tushita Heaven) where he teaches the Dharma to bodhisattvas (beings aspiring to become Buddhas).

Abhidhamma has been variously described as philosophy, psychology, metaphysics etc. L. S. Cousins says that the Abhidhamma methodology looks at things in terms of occasions or events instead of sequences or processes.

Bhadantācariya Buddhaghoṣa (Sinhala: බුද්ධගෝෂ හිමි, Thai: พระพุทธโฆษาจารย์, Chinese: 覺音) was a 5th-century Indian Theravadin Buddhist commentator and scholar.^[1][2]

The traditional Theravādin (Mahavihārin) interpretation of the Pali Canon is given in a series of commentaries covering nearly the whole Canon, compiled byBuddhaghosa (fl. 4th–5th century CE) and later monks.

Kalupahana notes that the Visuddhimagga contains “some metaphysical speculations, such as those of the Sarvastivadins, the Sautrantikas, and even the Yogacarins”.^[4] Kalupahana comments:

Buddhaghosa was careful in introducing any new ideas into the Mahavihara tradition in a way that was too obvious. There seems to be no doubt that the Visuddhimagga and the commentaries are a testimony to the abilities of a great harmonizer who blended old and new ideas without arousing suspicion in the minds of those who were scrutinizing his work.^[5]

The Theravada Abhidhamma tradition did not tend to elaborate argumentation against the existence of god.

Anagarika Dharmapala (Sinhala: අනගාරික ධර්මපාල; 17 September 1864 – 29 April 1933) was a Sri Lankan Buddhist revivalist and writer. He was also a pioneer in the revival of Buddhism in India after it had been virtually extinct there for several centuries, and he was the first Buddhist in modern times to preach the Dharma in three continents: Asia, North America, andEurope. Along with Henry Steel Olcott and Helena Blavatsky, the creators of the Theosophical Society, he was a major reformer and revivalist of Ceylonese Buddhism and very crucial figure in its Western transmission. Dharmapala is one of the most revered Buddhists in the 20th century.

In the 19th century began a process (modernisation and spread to the west) of mutual influence of both Asian Theravadins and a western audience interested in ancient wisdom. Especially Helena Blavatsky andHenry Steel Olcott, founders of the Theosophical Society had a profound role in this process. In Theravāda countries a lay vipassana practice developed. From the 1970s on western interest gave way to the growth of the so-called Vipassana movement in the west.^[38]

Theravadins were aided by the Theosophists, who were dedicated to the search for wisdom within ancient sources, including Buddhism and the Pali Canon. Anagarika Dharmapala was one of the Theravāda leaders with whom the Theosophists sided. Dharmapala tried to reinstate vipassana, using the Visuddhimagga and the Pali Canon as a foundation. Dharmapala reached out to the middle classes, offering them religious practice and a religious identity, which were used to withstand the British imperialists. As a result of Dharmapapla’s efforts lay practitioners started to practise meditation, which had been reserved for monks.^[45]

The translation and publication of the Pali Canon by the Pali Text Society made the Pali Canon available to a lay audience for the first time in history, not only in the west, but also in the east. Western lay interest in Theravāda Buddhism was promoted by the Theosophical Society, and endured until the beginning of the 20th century. During the 1970s interest rose again, leading to a surge of westerners searching for enlightenment, and the republishing of the Pali Canon, first in print, and later on the internet.

The term Pāli originally referred to a canonical text or passage rather than to a language and its current use is based on a misunderstanding which occurred several centuries ago.

Shramana (Sanskrit: श्रमण Śramaṇa; Pali: समण samaṇa) was an ancient Indian religious movement parallel to but separate from the historical Vedic religion, although the term is mentioned in several later texts such as Brihadaranyaka Upanishad. The shramana tradition gave rise to Yoga,^[1] Jainism, Buddhism,^[2] and some nāstikaschools of Hinduism such as Cārvāka and Ājīvika, and also popular concepts in all major Indian religions such as saṃsāra (the cycle of birth and death) and moksha(liberation from that cycle), according to some scholars.^{[3][note 1]}

C.A.F. Rhys Davids (her husband T. W. Rhys Davids whom she married in 1894) became strongly influenced by Spiritualism, possibly by Theosophy and her own education in psychology under George Croom Robertson at University College London which most influenced her later reinterpretation of Buddhism. She became particularly involved in various forms of psychic communication with the dead, first attempting to reach her dead son (1971) through seances and then through automatic writing. She later claimed to have developed clairaudience, as well as the ability to pass into the next world when dreaming. She kept extensive notebooks of automatic writing, along with notes on the afterlife and diaries detailing her experiences, which are held by the University of London.^[1]

Buddhist Psychology: An Inquiry into the Analysis and Theory of Mind in Pali Literature (1914)

In Buddhist tradition, Kakusandha (Pāli) is the name of the twenty-fifth Buddha, the first of the five Buddhas of the present kalpa, and the fourth of the seven ancient Buddhas. 

ON SPIRIT POSSESSION

Spirit possession is also found in Umbanda, an Afro-Brazilian folk religion. One such possessing spirit is Pomba Gira, who possesses both women and effeminate males. 

Indian “Seizers”, or those that threaten the lives of young children, appear in animal form: cow, lion, fox, monkey, horse, dog, pig, cat, crow, pheasant, owl, and snake. 

Wiccans believe in voluntary possession by the Goddess, connected with the sacred ceremony of Drawing Down the Moon. The high priestess solicits the Goddess to possess her and speak through her.^[37] 

ASCETICISM (GNOSTIC BODY)

Ascetics renounce worldly pleasures that distract from spiritual growth and enlightenment and live a life of abstinence, austerity and extreme self-denial. Asceticism is common in Hinduism, Jainism, Buddhism, Judaism, and Islam.

Taṇhā (Pāli; Sanskrit: tṛṣṇā, also trishna) is a Buddhist term that literally means “thirst,” and is commonly translated as craving or desire.

Dukkha (Pāli; Sanskrit: duḥkha; Tibetan sdug bsngal) is a Buddhist term commonly translated as “suffering“, “anxiety”, “stress”, or “unsatisfactoriness”.^[a]

Kāma (Sanskrit, Pali; Devanagari: काम) is often translated from Sanskrit as sexual desire, sexual pleasure, sensual gratification, sexual fulfillment, or eros, but can more broadly mean desire, wish, passion, longing, pleasure of the senses, the aesthetic enjoyment of life, affection, or love, without sexual connotations.^[1][2] Kama not only means sex (sexual practice) but also the sexual energy itself that flows in a person. It is believed Kama is the primary energy of Brahman bestowed to us for procreation while sanyasis believe controlling it can lead to higher realization although both views are contradictory, both have existed since antiquity.

In the Buddha’s first discourse he identifies craving (tanha) as the cause of suffering (dukkha). He then identifies three objects of craving: the craving for existence; the craving for non-existence and the craving for sense pleasures (kama). Kama is identified as one of five hindrances to the attainment of jhana according to the Buddha’s teaching. Throughout the Sutta Pitaka Buddha often compares sexual pleasure to arrows or darts.

Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म^[1] IPA: [ˈkarmə] ( listen); Pali: kamma) is the concept of “action” or “deed”, understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called saṃsāra). The concept originated in Bharata Khanda, also known as Ancient India, originally used in “Sanātana Dharma“, and later religions such as Jainism, Buddhism, Sikhism,^[2] Taoism,^[3] Shintoism and others.

The Buddhist sacred texts do contain a great deal of instances of loving relationships between unmarried men, which some believe to have homoerotic overtones. No sexual contact is mentioned in these instances, however. [1]

In Jainism, the Kālacakra, the cosmic wheel of time, rotates ceaselessly. The wheel of time is divided into two half-rotations, Utsarpiṇī or ascending time cycle and Avasarpiṇī, the descending time cycle, occurring continuously after each other.^[5]Utsarpiṇī is a period of progressive prosperity and happiness where the time spans and ages are at an increasing scale, while Avsarpiṇī is a period of increasing sorrow and immorality with decline in timespans of the epochs.

LaVeyan Satanism expressly forbids drug use, both on medical grounds and because they are generally viewed as counter-productive. While LaVey accepted there was historical and anthropological evidence that drugs were used for religious and ritual magical purposes, they did not fit in his definition of magic as he saw it.

In The Satanic Witch, LaVey argued:

“Let me state categorically at this point that drugs are antithetical to the practice of magic, as they tend to disassociate the user from reality, even though he often thinks himself closer”.

According to the Lotus Sutra of Nichiren Buddhism, all persons possess the potential to reveal an innate Buddha nature during their own lifetimes, a concept which may appear to contradict the concept of Buddha as savior or messiah.

Although Maitreya is a significant figure in the Lotus Sutra, the explanation of Nichiren is that Maitreya is a metaphor of stewardship and aid for the Bodhisattvas of the Earth, as written in the Lotus Sutra:

Moreover…all the bodhisattvas, Bodhisattva Maitreya….will guard and protect the votaries of the Lotus Sutra, so one may indeed rest assured.^[16]

In much of his writing, Nichiren mentions the traditional Buddhist views on Maitreya but explains that the propagation of the Eternal Dharma of the Lotus Sutra was entrusted by Shakyamuni to the Bodhisattvas of earth:

The Buddha did not entrust these five characters to Maitreya, Medicine King, or the others of their group. Instead he summoned forth the bodhisattvas….from the great earth of Tranquil Light and transferred the five characters to them.^[17]

Thus, each individual can embody the character of the Maitreya because he is a metaphor for compassion:

The name Maitreya means ‘Compassionate One’ and designates the Votaries of the Lotus Sutra.^[18]

In Jainism, a Tīrthaṅkara is a human being who helps in achieving liberation and enlightenment as an arihant.

GAUTAMA EXPLAINED TO HIS LISTENERS HOW HE ACHIEVED ENLIGHTMENT, WHAT HE DID AND HOW HE DID IT BEHAVING TO OTHERS AS AN ARIHANT.

Dr. M. M. Thomas (born as Madathilparampil Mammen Thomas, 1916—1996) was a renowned Indian Christian theologian, social thinker, activist and former Governor of the Indian State, Nagaland (from May 1990 to April 1992). He also served as the Chairperson of the Central Committee of World Council of Churches (1968–1975). He was conferred with the honorary doctorate degree by the University of Uppsalain 1978.

Ralph Thomas Hotchkin Griffith (25 de mayo de 1826¹ –1906) fue un indólogo inglés, hijo del reverendo R. C. Griffith (quien en 1830 había sido capellán del marqués de Bath).

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar ([bʱiːmraːw raːmdʑiː aːmbeːɽkər]; 14 April 1891 – 6 December 1956), popularly also known as Babasaheb, was an Indian jurist, politician, philosopher, anthropologist, historian and economist. A revivalist for Buddhism in India, he inspired the Modern Buddhist movement.

Dayanand Saraswati  pronunciation (help·info) (Hindi: स्वामी दयानन्द सरस्वती, Gujarati: મહષિૅ દયાનંદ સરસ્વતી Svāmī Dayānand Sarasvatī) (12 February 1824 – 30 October 1883)^[1] was an important Hindu religious leader of his time. He is well known as the founder of the Arya Samaj, a Hindu reform movement of the Vedic tradition.

The Theosophical Society and the Arya Samaj were united from 1878 to 1882, becoming the Theosophical Society of the Arya Samaj.^[11]

In China, in the 4th–6th Centuries “Buddhist artisans used the names Shakyamuni and Maitreya interchangeably… indicating both that the distinction between the two had not yet been drawn and that their respective iconographies had not yet been firmly set”^[3] An example is the stone sculpture found in the Qingzhou cache dedicated to Maitreya in 529 CE as recorded in the inscription (currently in the Qingzhou Museum, Shandong). The religious belief of Maitreya apparently developed around the same time as that of Amitābha, as early as the 3rd century CE.^[4]

William Quan Judge (April 13, 1851 – March 21, 1896) was a mystic, esotericist, and occultist, and one of the founders of the original Theosophical Society.

The definition of a kalpa equalling 4.32 billion years is found in the Puranas (specifically Vishnu Purana and Bhagavata Purana).

The Visuddhimagga (Pali; English The Path of Purification), is a treatise on Theravada Buddhist doctrine written by Buddhaghosa approximately in 430 CE in Sri Lanka.

In Sanskrit, “kalpa” means “imagination”.

It is also interesting to note that Sri Yukteshwar was an honorary member of the Theosophical Society in India.

Violet Tweedale, née Chambers (1862 – 19 December 1936), was a Scottish author, poet, and spiritualist.^[1] she became involved in Spiritualism and Theosophy, and was a close associate of Helena Blavatsky.^[3]  Tweedale was also a member of the Order of the Golden Dawn.

CHRISTIAN PERSECUTION

The persecutions culminated with Diocletian and Galerius at the end of the third and beginning of the 4th century. The Great Persecution is considered the largest. Beginning with a series of four edicts banning Christian practices and ordering the imprisonment of Christian clergy, the persecution intensified until all Christians in the empire were commanded to sacrifice to the gods or face immediate execution. Over 20,000 Christians are thought to have died during Diocletian’s reign. However, as Diocletian zealously persecuted Christians in the Eastern part of the empire, his co-emperors in the West did not follow the edicts and so Christians in Gaul, Spain, and Britannia were virtually unmolested.

In 341, the Zoroastrian Shapur II ordered the massacre of all Christians in the Persian Sassanid Empire. During the persecution, about 1,150 Assyrian Christians were martyred under Shapur II in Assuristan (Sassanid ruled Assyria).^[16] In the 4th century, the Terving king Athanaric in ca. 375 ordered apersecution of Christians.^[17]

The Yemeni Jewish Himyar tribe, led by King Dhu Nuwas, massacred 20,000 Christians in 524.^[18]

HITLER RELATIONSHIPS

Eva Braun Double suicide with Hitler (age 56)
Geli Raubal Suicide
Renate Müller Suicide
Maria Reiter Natural causes, unsuccessful suicide attempt in 1927
Unity Mitford Died eight years after attempting suicide from complications related to her suicide attempt ^[36]
According to Heinrich Himmler‘s Chief of Staff, Walter Schellenberg, Erna Hanfstaengl was also involved in a plot to overthrow Hitler and to sue for peace with the Allies.^[16]

ON FALLEN ANGELS LIES AND LUCIFERIANISM (this needs its sources to be added)

In kulalini-yoga certain places on the body are known as chakras or places of “psychic openings.” One of the most important of these places is the space between the eyes just above the eyebrows. This is called the place of the third eye.

MEANINGS

Padre → πατήρ, πατρός, ὁ refers to a begetter, originator, progenitor

Madre → μητέρα חַוָּה Dadora (inicio) de vida (revivir, recuperar, reparar) (fuente de vida, vivir, living one), cuidar, co-, goma (liquido fuerte, glue, pegamento) que mantiene unida las cosas o personas.

Adam → from earth

Eve → living

Man – Adam – Father

Woman – Eve – Mother

Woman נשים → Taken from man (Genesis 2: 23)

Man איש → each/every one

¿El hombre da nombre a las cosas y animales partiendo de su condición, haciendo diferencia partiendo de su estado?

Cada palabra parece ser una agregación de conceptos, uno que contiene todos los conceptos que integran-lo.

Los significados de las palabras varían con el tiempo alejándolo de su real significado, distorsionando su uso, alejando a las personas de LA VERDAD.

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