Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser MysteriesBesant, Annie
Religion
Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries
Besant, Annie
Christianity -- Miscellanea; Mysticism; Theosophy
[35] _Mundakopanishat_, II., ii. 9.
[36] _Ibid_., III., i. 3.
[37] I Sam. xix. 20.
[38] II. Kings ii. 2, 5.
[39] Under "School."
[40] Dr. Wynn Westcott. _Sepher Yetzirah_, p. 9.
[41] S. Mark iv. 10, 11, 33, 34. See also S. Matt. xiii. 11, 34, 36,
and S. Luke viii. 10.
[42] S. John xvi. 12.
[43] Acts i. 3.
[44] _Loc. cit._ Trans. by G. R. S. Mead. I. i. 1.
[45] S. Matt. vii. 6.
[46] As to the Greek woman: "It is not meet to take the children's
bread, and to cast it unto the dogs."--S. Mark vii. 27.
[47] S. Luke xiii. 23, 24.
[48] S. Matt. vii. 13, 14.
[49] _Kathopanishat_ II. iv. 10, 11.
[50] _Brihadâranyakopanishat_. IV. iv. 7.
[51] Rev. vii. 9.
[52] _Bahgavad Gîtâ_, vii. 3.
[53] _Ante_, p. 26.
[54] It must be remembered that the Jews believed that all imperfect
souls returned to live again on earth.
[55] S. Matt. xix. 16-26.
[56] S. John xvii. 3.
[57] Heb. ix. 23.
[58] S. John. iii. 3, 5.
[59] S. Matt. iii. 11.
[60] _Ibid._ xviii. 3.
[61] S. John iii. 10.
[62] S. Matt. v. 48.
[63] _Ante_, p.24
[64] Note how this chimes in with the promise of Jesus in S. John xvi.
12-14: "I have yet many things to say unto you, but ye cannot bear
them now. Howbeit when He, the Spirit of Truth, is come, He will guide
you into all truth.... He will show you things to come.... He shall
receive of mine, and shall show it unto you."
[65] Another technical name in the Mysteries.
[66] Eph. iii. 3, 4, 9.
[67] Col i. 23, 25-28. But S. Clement, in his _Stromata_, translates
"every man," as "the whole man." See Bk. V., ch. x.
[68] Col. iv. 3.
[69] Ante-Nicene Library, Vol. XII. Clement of Alexandria. _Stromata_,
bk. V. ch. x. Some additional sayings of the Apostles will be found in
the quotations from Clement, showing what meaning they bore in the
minds of those who succeeded the apostles, and were living in the same
atmosphere of thought.
[70] I. Tim. iii. 9, 16.
[71] I. Tim. i. 18.
[72] _Ibid._, iv. 14.
[73] _Ibid._, vi. 13.
[74] _Ibid._, 20.
[75] II. Tim. i. 13, 14.
[76] _Ibid._, ii. 2.
[77] Phil. iii. 8, 10-12, 14, 15.
[78] Rev. i. 18. "I am He that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am
alive for evermore. Amen."
[79] II. Cor. v. 16.
[80] Gal. iii. 27.
[81] Gal. iv. 19.
[82] I. Cor. iv. 15.
[83] I. S. Pet. iii. 4.
[84] Eph. iv. 13.
[85] Col. i. 24.
[86] II. Cor. iv. 10.
[87] Gal. ii. 20.
[88] II. Tim. iv. 6, 8.
[89] Rev. iii. 12.
[90] Gal. iv. 22-31.
[91] I Cor. x. 1-4.
[92] Eph. v. 23-32.
[93] Vol. I. _The Martyrdom of Ignatius_, ch. iii. The translations
used are those of Clarke's Ante-Nicene Library, a most useful
compendium of Christian antiquity. The number of the volume which
stands first in the references is the number of the volume in that
Series.
[94] _Ibid. The Epistle of Polycarp_, ch. xii.
[95] _Ibid. The Epistle of Barnabas_, ch. i.
[96] _Ibid._ ch. x.
[97] _Ibid. The Martyrdom of Ignatius,_ ch. i.
[98] _Ibid. Epistle of Ignatius to the Ephesians_, ch. iii.
[99] _Ibid._ ch. xii.
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