festos auspicaturæ Dei Indræ, erigunt ad illius memoriam ubique locorum cruces amictas Abrotono, Earum figuram descriptam habes ad lit. B, Tabula pone sequenti. Nam A effigies est ipsius Indræ crucifixi signa Telech in fronte manibus pedibusque gerentis.”[1]
Again, he says,[2] “Est Krishna (quod ut mihi pridem indicaverat P. Cassianus Maceratensis, sic nunc uberius in Galliis observatum intelligo a vivo litteratissimo De Guignes) nomen ipsum corruptum Christi Servatoris.”
And again, speaking of Buddha, Georgius says,[3] “Nam Xaca et Christus nomina sunt æquæ significationis apud Tibetanos, quemadmodum apud Sinenses, teste et vindice De Guignesio, Christus et Fo: apud Indos vero Christus et Bisnu: Christus et Chrisnu.” Buddha is often seen with a glory, and with a tongue of fire on his head.[4]
Gen. Vallancey says, “The Tartars call the cross Lama from the Scythian Lamh, a hand, synonymous to the Jod of the Chaldeans: and thus it became the name of a cross, and of the high-priest with the Tartars; and, with the Irish, Luam[5] signifies the head of the church, an abbot, &c.
“From this X all nations begin a new reckoning, because it is the number of fingers on both hands, which were the original instruments of numbering: hence יד (id) iod in Hebrew is the hand and the number ten, as is Lamh with the Tartars.”[6]
Though I have noticed this before, I think it right to repeat it here.
This figure X not only stands for ten, but was considered, as it has been already shewn, a perfect number, i. e. the emblem of perfection, and hence stood for 600—the cycle—which, after many attempts, was erroneously thought to be perfect.
From the abuse of the original incarnation or divine inspiration, for if they were not identical they were very nearly allied, arose the Lama of Tibet, now become a mere tool of the Monks, by means of which their order keeps possession of the sovereign sway. If the circumstances of the Lama and the Pope be carefully examined, the similarity will be found to be very striking. In each case the Monks and their Pope have the temporal power in the surrounding territory, and in each case extensive foreign states admit their spiritual authority. And when in former times the priests gave the Pope of Italy the epithet of Deus, and elevated him as they yet do, on the altar of St. Peter’s, and bending the knee to him, offered him, to use their own words, adoration—they in fact very nearly arrived at Tibetian perfection. In each case the head of the empire is called Papa and Holy Father, and in each case the empire is called that of the Lama, the Lamh, or the Cross—for Lamh means Cross. Lamh looks very like Lamb. I know not the etymology of our word Lamb; but each empire is that of the Lamb of God upon earth, which taketh away the sins of the world. I shall hereafter treat on this point.
But the word Ram, ראם ram, in Hebrew means both Bull and Ram.[7] This arose, I suspect, from the Indian incarnation of Rama, who preceded Cristna. In fact he was the incarnation of the Neros when the Sun left Taurus and entered Aries; thus he was incarnate in the signs of both the Bull and the Ram.
“Boodism,” Col. Franklin[8] says, “is known very widely in Asia under the appellation of
- ↑ Alph. Tibet, p. 203.
- ↑ Ibid. pp. 253—263.
- ↑ Ibid. p. 364.
- ↑ See Moore’s Pantheon, Pl. 71, 72.
- ↑ This Luam is evidently a corruption of Lamh or Lamb. The High-priest was an incarnation of the Lamb of the Zodiac.
- ↑ Celtic Druids, App. p. 312.
- ↑ Vide Parkhurst in voce.
- ↑ Treatise on the Tenets of the Jeynes and Buddhists, p. 186.
