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ANNO LUCIUS
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LUCIUS 85 - 31 - 4 - LUCIU
ANNO LUCIUS = 129 -12 -3 = ANNO LUCIUS
BOOK OF CREATION
Anno Lucis (“in the Year of Light”) is a dating system used in Masonic ceremonial or commemorative proceedings, which is equivalent to the Gregorian year plus 4000. It is similar to Anno Mundi.
Description
For example, a date Anno Domini (AD) 2025 becomes Anno Lucis (AL) 6025.[1] This calendar era, which would designate 4001 BC as 'year zero', was adopted in the 18th century as a simplification of the Anno Mundi era dating system used in the Hebrew calendar and borrowing from other ideas of that time regarding the year of creation.
After the Masoretic text was published, dating creation around 4000 BC became common, and it was received with wide support.[2] Proposed calculations of the date of creation, using the Masoretic from the 10th century to the 18th century, were numerous and fluctuated by many decades.[3] Notably, Isaac Newton's calculation pointed at the year 4000 BC.[3]
Among the Masoretic creation estimates or calculations for the date of creation, Archbishop Ussher's specific chronology dating the creation to 4004 BC became the most accepted and popular in Protestant Christendom, mainly because this specific date was attached to the King James Bible.[4] The Hebrew Calendar has traditionally, since the 4th century AD by Hillel II, dated the creation to 3761 BC,[5][6] in accordance with the Seder Olam Rabbah compiled by Jose ben Halafta in AD 160, and in agreement with The Remaining Signs of Past Centuries, in which the Muslim chronologist al-Biruni identifies anno mundi as 3448 years before the Seleucid era, but not with Seder Olam Zutta, which dates it to 4339 BC and was compiled in AD 804.[7]
Anno Lucis (“in the Year of Light”) is a dating system used in Masonic ce
"IN THE YEAR OF LIGHT
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
History of calendars
The history of calendars covers practices with ancient roots as people created and used various methods to keep track of days and larger divisions of time. Calendars commonly serve both cultural and practical purposes and are often connected to astronomy and agriculture.
Archeologists have reconstructed methods of timekeeping that go back to prehistoric times at least as old as the Neolithic. The natural units for timekeeping used by most historical societies are the day, the solar year and the lunation. Calendars are explicit schemes used for timekeeping. The first historically attested and formulized calendars date to the Bronze Age, dependent on the development of writing in the ancient Near East. In Victoria, Australia, a Wurdi Youang stone arrangement undergoing research could date back more than 11,000 years.[1] In 2013, archaeologists unearthed ancient evidence of a 10,000-year-old calendar system in Warren Field, Aberdeenshire.[2] This calendar is the next earliest, or "the first Scottish calendar". The Sumerian calendar was the next earliest, followed by the Egyptian, Assyrian and Elamite calendars.
The Vikram Samvat has been used by Hindus and Sikhs. One of several regional Hindu calendars in use on the Indian subcontinent, it is based on twelve synodic lunar months and 365 solar days. The lunar year begins with the new moon of the month of Chaitra. This day, known as Chaitra Sukhladi, is a restricted (optional) holiday in India. A number of ancient and medieval inscriptions used the Vikram Samvat. Although it was purportedly named after the legendary king Vikramaditya Samvatsara (‘Samvat’ in short), ‘Samvat’ is a Sanskrit term for ‘year’. Emperor Vikramaditya of Ujjain started Vikram Samvat in 57 BC and it is believed that this calendar follows his victory over the Saka in 56 B.C.
A larger number of calendar systems of the ancient East appear in the Iron Age archaeological record, based on the Assyrian and Babylonian calendars. This includes the calendar of the Persian Empire, which in turn gave rise to the Zoroastrian calendar as well as the Hebrew calendar.
Calendars in antiquity were usually lunisolar, depending on the introduction of intercalary months to align the solar and the lunar years. This was mostly based on observation, but there may have been early attempts to model the pattern of intercalation algorithmically, as evidenced in the fragmentary 2nd-century Coligny calendar. Nevertheless, the Roman calendar contained very ancient remnants of a pre-Etruscan 10-month solar year.[3]
The Roman calendar was reformed by Julius Caesar in 45 BC. The Julian calendar was no longer dependent on the observation of the new moon but simply followed an algorithm of introducing a leap day every four years. This created a dissociation of the calendar month from the lunation.
Sub-Saharan African calendars can vary in days and weeks depending on the kingdom or tribe that created it.
In the 11th century in Persia, a calendar reform led by Khayyam was announced in 1079, when the length of the year was measured as 365.24219858156 days.[4] Given that the length of the year is changing in the sixth decimal place over a person's lifetime, this is outstandingly accurate. For comparison the length of the year at the end of the 19th century was 365.242196 days, while at the end of the 20th century it was 365.242190 days.[4][5]
The Gregorian calendar was introduced as a refinement of the Julian calendar in 1582, and is today in worldwide use as the "de facto" calendar for secular purposes.
Etymology
The term calendars itself is taken from the calends, the term for the first day of the month in the Roman calendar, related to the verb calare "to call out", referring to the calling or the announcement that the new moon was just seen. Latin calendarium meant "account book, register", as accounts were settled and debts were collected on the calends of each month.
The Latin term was adopted in Old French as calendier and from there into Middle English as calender by the 13th century. The spelling calendar is from Early Modern English.
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I THAT AM THAT TIME EMIT
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Gregorian calendar is the calendar used in most parts of the world.[1][a] It went into effect in October 1582 following the papal bull Inter gravissimas issued by Pope Gregory XIII, which introduced it as a modification of, and replacement for, the Julian calendar. The principal change was to space leap years differently so as to make the average calendar year 365.2425 days long, more closely approximating the 365.2422-day "tropical" or "solar" year that is determined by the Earth's revolution around the Sun.
The rule for leap years is:
Every year that is exactly divisible by four is a leap year, except for years that are exactly divisible by 100, but these centurial years are leap years if they are exactly divisible by 400. For example, the years 1700, 1800, and 1900 are not leap years, but the year 2000 is.
CORONAVIRUS (COVID-19)
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IN SEARCH OF THE MIRACULOUS
Fragments of an Unknown Teaching
P.D.Oupensky 1878-1947
Page 217
'A man may be born, but in order to be born he must first die, and in order to die he must first awake.'
" 'When a man awakes he can die; when he dies he can be born' "
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WHY THE WHITE RABBIT
DESERVES A BLUE PLAQUE
Daily Mail, Thursday, April, 2000.
Page 32
"Wing Commander Forest Yeo Thomas GC MC was a World War II legend known to his fellow spies his codename the White Rabbit..."
WHITE RABBIT = 117 = 54 = 9 = WHITE RABBIT
HISTORY OF GOD
Karen Armstrong 1993
The God of the Mystics
THE
BOOK OF CREATION
Page 250
"THERE IS NO ATTEMPT MADE TO DESCRIBE THE CREATIVE PROCESS REALISTICALLY
THE ACCOUNT IS UNASHAMEDLY SYMBOLIC AND SHOWS GOD CREATING THE WORLD BY MEANS
OF LANGUAGE AS THOUGH HE WERE WRITING A BOOK BUT LANGUAGE HAS BEEN ENTIRELY
TRANSFORMED AND THE MESSAGE OF CREATION IS NO LONGER CLEAR EACH LETTER OF THE
HEBREW ALPHABET IS GIVEN A NUMERICAL VALUE BY COMBINING THE LETTERS WITH THE
SACRED NUMBERS REARRANGING THEM IN ENDLESS CONFIGURATIONS THE MYSTIC WEANED
THE MIND AWAY ROM THE NORMAL CONNOTATIONS OF WORDS"
THE CURSE OF THE PHARAOHS
A STUNNING INVESTIGATION INTO THE 4000-YEAR-OLD SECRETS OF THE ANCIENT EGYPTIANS
Phillip Vanderburg 1975 Translated by Thomas Weyr
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"The divine pharaohs did n,ot enjoy any special legal rights. Aside from religion, the common man could do as the pharaoh. This was also true of marriage.
There was always only one woman who was the legal wife, "the mistress of the house". But if the pharaoh had concubines and a harem, so could the ordinary citizen also - provided he
could afford them.
Despite this, the social position of women in ancient Egypt was not as inferior as in many other civilizations. For, example,
even the oldest Egyptian pictures show men and women the same size; it is only children and servants who are depicted as smaller.
A papyrus preserved today in Leiden, Holland, gives real insight into married life in old Egypt. It is the letter of an army general from Memphis whose wife died while he was away. The man became very ill after her death and believed
that the ka.- the spirit who watched over his wife and, indeed, protected all Egyptian dead on their journey into the underworld - had sent the sickness. Therefore he put this letter to his wife into the grave of another dead person:
What evil thing have you done to me so that -I find myself in this I miserable situation?
What have I done to you, that you vex me so
where I have done you no harm? What have I done when I was your
husband, and even to this day, that I would need to hide? Through the
words of my mouth I will go to trial before the nine gods who sit in
the West. Then they will have to decide between you and me. What
have I done to you?
You became my wife when I was young. Later I assumed several
offices. I never left you nor gave you any cause for sorrow. But you / Page100
won't let me be happy. I will call you to account, for right shall be
separated from wrong.
Remember how when I trained the pharoah's officers and chariot-
eers, I made them come and throw themselves down before you.
They brought presents and put them at your feet. I hid nothing from
you as long as I lived. Not once did I go as an adulterer into another
house. I let no man tell me what to do with you. When I was moved
to my present post, it was impossible to come home as I had done
before, so I sent you my oil and my bread and my clothes, and they
were brought to you.
You don't know how much good I have done you. I always asked
how you were. When you were ill I had the head doctor come and he
prepared the medicines and did everything you asked. When I travel-
led south with the pharoah, my thoughts Were always with you. I
spent the eight months without eating and drinking like a real man
When I returned to Memphis I asked the pharaoh to excuse me
and came to you and grieved over you with my men when I learned of
your death. I gave clothes and linen for your wrapping. I had clothes
made for you and left nothing good undone.
Now I have been alone for three years and I have not visited
another house. This is not seemly for a man like me. But you cannot
distinguish between good and evil. Someone will have to decide
between us. And as for your sisters - I have not gone to any of them!
BUDDHIST BIBLE
Edited by Dwight Goddard
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Master Paramartha about 717 A.D. The English translation was made by Bhikshu Wai-tao and Dwight Goddard, during the years 1935-1937. The part presented here is only about one-third of the original text, the balance being omitted for various reasons. For instance, Chapter Three is omitted because it is obviously an "extension" by some lesser scribe. Chapters Five and Six are omitted because, while evidently being by the same author, the theme and treatment are quite different and independent.
The most important of these omissions, however, is that of the Great Dharani itself. At the time at which the Sutra was written and for many years afterwards it was probably its most important feature, and it is still chanted with great emotion in all Tibetan, Chinese and Japanese Monasteries. In omitting" it from this English version the reader is entitled to a few words 0.£ explanation.
In the first place let us have a clear idea of what a dharani is. It is a more or less mean:ngless chain of words or names that is supposed to have a magical power in helping the one who is repeating it at some time of extremity. It may be very short, like the Sanskrit word ({aum," which the Tibetans repeat ad infinitum, or it may be very long, like this one we are now considering, or the one in the Lankavatara Sutra. Generally, however, they are quite short like the one in the Prajna-Paramita-Hridaya Sutra:-"Gate, gate, paragate, parasamgateJ bodhi svaha." A Dharani is supposed to embody the quintessence of the spiritual power emanating from some great teacher or spiritual benefactor. It is a kind of carrier for spiritual "radio-activity," an appeal for "absent treatment." A great Master or Bodhisattva gives his instruction under quiet conditions with a sincere purpose of enlightening and benefit
ing his disciples, but in times of extremity when his Master is absent ant'! the disciple feels his strength failing, he is en
couraged by repeating the name and words of his Master. Doubtless there is a measure of superstition in its practice, but there is also a great deal of practical usefulness and provable value in it.
All religions have had their Dharani. The Pure Land Buddhists repeat:-({Namo Omito Fu" more or less constantly. The Nichiren Buddhists repeat:-({Nemo myoho renge kyoJ" in which case its repetition holds the mind to the superlative spir/ Page 663 /
itual power inherent in The Lotus of the Wonderful Dharma Scripture. The Mohammedans repeat in the same fashion the words:-"Allah is one God and Mohammed is his Prophet." Christians, whether they are conscious of it or not, in repeating the Lord's Prayer, are repeating a Dharani in which they have implicit faith. They are not thinking so much of the meaning of the words as they are voicing their faith in the supernal power of the Heavenly Father. Catholics have a number of these Dharani, "the Pater Noster)" HOra Pro NoblS/~ and HAve Maria," for instance. Even the benediction, "In the Name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. Amen," and the various creeds, the Nicean, and the Alexandrian, are used as Dharani, as is seen by the fact of the general dislike of altering or amending them.
In omitting this long Dharani, therefore, we are not deprecating the great reality of the Spiritual Power that it symbolizes, nor are we denying its practical usefulness in serving to concentrate the mind's attention; in fact, in thus eXplaining at length why we omit it, we are emphasizing its basic value in holding a disciple's attention to the true source of Power in which by this practice of repeating Dharani he is identifying his spirit. Our Sutra is wholly given up to establishing the fact that this boundless Potentiality of Spiritual Power is resident in the Mind's Pure Essence, to which all appeal, whether in calm or tempest should be made.
The following Preface and Introduction was prepared for the English Version by Bhikshu Wai-tao and Dwight Goddard. It is here given in full.
The author and date of this profound Scripture, that is commonly known by its Sanskrit name, THE SURANGAMA Sutra, and by its Chinese name Ta Fo Ting-shou Leng Yen Ching
(Buddqa's Great Crown Sutra), is unknown, but it was undoubtedly written in Sanskrit about the First Century of the Christian Era. It was highly regarded by the kings of Southern India as being of supreme value for the protection of their country and they issued orders forbidding it to be carried out of their domains with the death penalty for anyone who should attempt it.
When the great Hindu Master ParaInartha felt that the time had arrived for the propagation of this profound teaching in the great and powerful Empire of China, it is said that
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the attainment of Samadhi, which is the subjective aspect, or the intuitive realization of the intrinsic and eternal and perfectly unified nature of Essential and True Mind. The Sutra shows the source of vexations and how to untangle the knots that are made up by the six kinds of conceptions and reinforces the lesson by asking the great Disciples to relate their different experiences in untangling the knots in their own minds during their individual progress in realization and the attainment of Samadhi. It shows the extreme individuation among sentient beings and their worlds of experience and then sets forth the sixty transcendental powers available for the arduous practice of attainment. It points out advantageous ways for attaining the requisite control of mind and finally reveals the Great Dharani, or mystic combination of names and words, that symbolizes the power of his own supreme experience. It shows the six great realms of existence from the highest realm of spontaneity and freedom to the lowest of inconceivable bondage and sufferings. And then he shows the unreality of all these conceptions (naiva-samjnana-samjna-yatana) and the inconceivable unity and purity of Truth itself.
The Third Great Lesson has to do with the attainment of Highest Perfect Wisdom (anuttara-samyak-sambodhi) and the dangers originating in the evil Maras that beset its attainment even in heavenly places. As his parting gift of advice to his disciples and to all future disciples, he gives them ways by which these evil influences lurking in the conceptions arising from the five senses and the six sense-minds may be avoided and the supreme attainment realized by one's own efforts, but when that fails, by faith in the transcendental power of the Great Dharani.
It is Buddha's great gift to us that the teaching of this great Sutra has been preserved to our time. We may no longer listen to the charm of the Buddha's voice, but we may still study and meditate upon his teaching as elucidated in this wonderful Scriptur~. We must preserve it and pass it on even to the last kalpa for the benefit of all future beings. For the more scientifically trained minds of our Western World, its culminating resort to faith in a Great Dharani seems irrational and superstitious and negating the more important lesson of self-responsibility and self-effort. For that reason it is omitted in this Version. But in a deeper sense of embodying within
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its symbolic structure the intrinsic power of the inner working of the Ultimate Spiritual Principle that is drawing all sentient beings into some perfect Unity that is both Highest Perfect Wisdom and All-embracing Compassion, it is most profoundly true and our feeble efforts of self-help must always at last resort be supplemented by an appeal in faith to the Transcendental Power of the Self-nature of Truth itself as embodied and made available in the supreme experience of Shakyamuni Buddha.
If any good and earnest disciple, be he man or woman, with pure faith observes, studies and puts in practice this great Teaching, should he later become entangled in the five defilements of this evil world, but still keep up his practice of concentration of mind, he will surely be delivered and will move forward in the enjoyment of a life of purity, joy and tranquillity, to its goal in Samadhi.
THE LANKAVATARA SCRIPTURE.
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This Sutra was written in Sanskrit, but nothing is known as to the author or time of its writing. Its original Sanskrit form has been lost, but references to it indicate that it must have been tremendously long. It is generally felt that the present text plust have been compiled early in the First Century, probably a little earlier than the Awakening of Faith Shastra, which doctrinally it greatly resembles. The earliest date we have of it, is the date of its first translation into Chinese by Dharmaraksha about A.D. 420 and which was lost before 7°0. Three other Chinese translations have been made of it: one by Gunabhadra in 443; one by Bodhiruchi in 513; and one by Shikshananda in 7°°.
The only English translation of it is Dr. Suzuki's made in 1929 and published by the Eastern Buddhist Society, Tokyo, and by Routledge, London, 1932. Dr. Suzuki's translation is very scholarly and exact, but owing to the nature of the text is considerably confused and "extended." With the encouragement of Dr. Suzuki, the present Editor undertook a rearrangement of it, omitting the extensions, verse portions, and other parts, in the interests of easier reading. The result of his effort is the present version. It is only about one-third the length of Dr. Suzuki's translation.
THESURANGAMASUTRA
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Then Ananda bowed down to the feet of the Lord Buddha :lnd said:-My Noble Lord! The reason I have not yet attained perfect Emancipation from arbitrary conceptions of phenomena, since becoming thy disciple, is because of my pride in being known as thy favorite cousin and because of my exceptional learning, so when I was brought under the spell of the old woman's magic, in spite of the conscious purpose of my mind, I was unable to free:: myself from it. Fortunately my Lord sent Brother Manjusri to deliver me by means of the spiritual power of my Lord's Great Crown Dharani. Unfortunately I had not mastered it and now pray; My Lord, to kindly repeat it again so that I and all the other practicing disciples in this assembly and, through us, all the disciples of the future who are still in the cycle of deaths and rebirths, shall all become free in both mind and body in the time of danger.
The whole audience having heard Ananda's sincere plea to the Lord, rose from their seats and made obeisance to the Lord and then waited attentively to hear the Lord's sacred Dharani. As they waited in solemn silence there appeared a most wonderful sight. From the crown of the Blessed One's head there streamed forth a glorious splendor in the likeness of a wonder
fullotus blossom, and in the midst of the abundant foliage and
seated in the cup of the blossom was the Lord Tathagata's Nirmanakaya (appearance body). From the crown of the Lord's head there radiated outward uncounted beams of light that shot outward in all the ten directions, and in each of the bright beams of light were figures of transcendently mysterious Vajragods permeating everywhere in the open spaces 0'£ the universes and suggesting the lightning-like potencies of all the transcendental powers. Each of the Vajra-gods was standing upright and alert with his symbol in his hand, ready and waiting but already victorious.
The assembly was transported with awe and fear and admiration. With one spontaneous movement their hearts went forth in an adoring prayer for its blessed, compassionate, and protective Providence to guard them from its awful but Beneficent Power.
As the vision faded away, the great assembly remained in solemn silence waiting to hear the Lord's Transcendental Dharani. The Lord Buddha standing in their midst, Brightness
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and Power radiating from the crown of his head, uttered the Great Crown Dharani.:
""Then follows several pages of the long and mysterious Dharani made up of Sanskrit words, Chinese paraphrases, names of Buddhas, Bodhisattvas, Devagods, etc., more or less of obscure meaning, all of which but the opening and closing lines are omitted. The lines in capital letters is considered the "heart" of the long Dharani and is commonly the part that is remembered and recited by those who cannot remember the whole.
THE GREAT DHARANI
Adoration to all Buddhas and Bodhisattvas;
Obeisance to their perfect Enlightenment and perfect tranquillity. Adoration to all living Arhats; Adoration to the millions of Disciples who make up the
Sangha.
Adoration to those who have "entered the stream"; Adoration to those who have but "one more return"; Adoration to those who "will never more return to this
world" ;
Obeisance to their perfect Righteousness.
Obeisance to the Tri-Ratna,-to Buddha, Dharma, Sangha!
Adoration to the Blessed Ones-exalted, firm, steady,
powerful-the Kings among Tathagatas!
Obeisance to their Perfect Wisdom!
Adoration to the Blessed Amitabha Tathagata; Adoration to the Blessed Akshobya Tathagata;
Obeisance to their Perfect Wisdom!
Adoration to the Blessed Master of Healing,
The Glorious Bhairaviya, the kingly Tathagata. Adoration to the Blessed One, Sambhasana, the Sala tree Among trees, the kingly Tathagata.
Adoration to the Blessed One, Shakyamuni Tathagata; Adoration to their highest Perfect Wisdom!
Adoration to the Blessed Princes among Tathagatas,To the Blessed Pundarika Prince;
To the Blessed Vajra Prince;
To the Blessed Muni Prince;
To the Blessed Garbha Prince.
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Adoration to the Heavenly Devas and Rishis-accomplished and disciplined executors of this Dharani
Adoration to their transcendental power, their discipline,
their resources.
Adoration to Brahman, to Indra, to the Blessed Rudra,
and to their consorts, Indrani and Sahai.
Adoration to Narayana, Lord of this world, Lord of the
five great Mudras, and to his consort.
...
...
...
OM! OH, THOU WHO HOLD EST THE SEAL OF POWER, RAISE THY DIAMOND HAND,
BRING TO NAUGHT, DESTROY, EXTERMINATE!
OH, THOU SUSTAINER, SUSTAIN ALL WHO ARE IN EXTREMITY!
OH, THOU PURIFIER, PURIFY ALL WHO ARE IN BONDAGE TO SELF!
OM! MAY THE ENDER OF ALL SUFFERING BE VICTORIOUS! .
OMI OH, THOU PERFECTLY ENLIGHTENED, ENLIGHTEN ALL SENTIENT BEINGSI
OH, THOU WHO ART PERFECT IN WISDOM AND COMPASSION, EMANCIPATE ALL BEINGS,
AND BRING THEM TO BUDDHAHOOD! OM.
Adoration to Tathagata, Sugata, Buddha, of Perfect Wisdom and Compassion, Thou who hast accomplished, is accomplishing, and will accomplish, all these Words of MysteryI SVAHAI So be it!
(Final Words.)
When the Lord finished his recitation of the Great Crown Dharani, he resumed his instruction to Ananda, saying:- This mysterious Agadha Dharani of Siddhartha Pdara which is the quintessence of the Brightness and Power raying out from the Lord Buddha's Crown is One with the Brightness and Power emanating from all the Buddhas in all the ten quarters of all the universes. It is the Sambhogakaya} the Bliss-body of Buddhahood, radiantly Wise and Potential and ceaselessly Compassionate drawing all sentient life into its All-embracing Wholeness and Unity and Peacefulness. It was by means of
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this Transcendental Power, the quintessence of The Lord Buddha's Perfect Samadhi and Boundless Samapatti, that all the Tathagatas, past, present and future, of all the universes had attained Anuttara Samyak SambodhiJ had been able to subdue all the Maras and heretics, were sitting on their thrones in the Glorious Lotus Blossoms and forever giving response to the needs of all sentient life in all the kingdoms of existence, past, present and future.
By means of it all the Tathagatas were ceaselessly turning the Wheel of the Intrinsic Dharma; by means of it all the Tathagatas were in close fellowship with each individual disciple, comforting, encouraging, guiding, strengthening; nQ matter how immature disciples may be, they would be given assurance of their ultimate attainment of Buddhahood. By means of it, all the 'Tathagatas of the ten quarters have been able to give deliverance to those unfortunate disciples whose karma has brought them into suffering, even into the suffering of the lowest hells where are the hungry demons. Much more have been able by means of it to support and comfort the disciples in the midst of their common suffering of blindness, deafness and dumbness, the cruelty of enemies, separation from beloved ones, unfulfilled wishes, and the suffering arising from the ungratified desires of the five sense-ingredients. By means of it all the Tathagatas have been able to protect the disciples from harm by natural calamities, from war and robbery and famine and imprisonment; from violent storms, conflagrations, floods, drought, poverty. Whenever this Great Dharani is recited in faith, every suffering must give way and come to an end.
By means of it all the Tathagatas have supported the great Masters, to give their lectures with spontaneity and correctness, to supply their money necessities, to protect them from harm whether walking sitting or lying down, and to bring them to places of honor among the Bodhisattva-Mahasattvas as Princes of the Lord's Dharma. By means of it all the Tathagatas have been able to encourage beginners among the disciples, and those who have become frightened by the difficulties of the profound teachings of the Dharma.
By means of it all the Tathagatas have been able to attain their own Supreme Enlightenment, each under his own Spiritual Bodhi-tree, and finally to attain their Great Nirvana. And Page 275 THE SURANGAMA SUTRA /
by means of this Great Dharani, after the passing of the Tathagatas, to consign to all disciples the duty and privilege of the practices of the Dharma so that it shall continue permanently in existence and the Precepts strictly observed and the disciples living in purity.
Should any disciple from morning until evening recite this Great Dharani without any omissions or additions, his merit will be unlimited even after innumerable kalpas. Should any of the practicing disciples who have not yet cut off their concern with deaths and. rebirths, seriously attempt to attain Arhatship and to practice dhyana, without first relying on the power of this Great Dharani, it would be hopeless for him to avoid the deceptions and machinations of the Maras.
Ananda, should any sentient beings in any of the kingdoms of existence, copy down this Dharani on birch-bark or palmleaves or paper made of papyrus or of white felt, and keep it safely in some scented wrapping, this man no matter how fainthearted or unable to remember the words for reciting it, but who copies it in his room and keeps it by him, this man in all his life will remain unharmed by any poison of the Maras.
(NOTE. From now on the litemry style changes from the convincing rational character it has had and becomes more or less superstitious, irmtional, unconvincing, and, to us of a more scientific age, is useless for our present purpose of winning by its spiritual power followers for the Lord Buddha. It is an ex
amPle that is frequent in the Buddhist literature of the same apparent age, of "extending" or amPlifying the text by including or interpolating additional matter that some less capable scribe thinks to be worth adding.
At this point we are about two-thirds through the Text, in the midst of the Second Chapter, the balance of which is omitted. Chapter III is also omitted. Chapter IV is very short and is given entirely. It is devoted to the title of the Sutra and might well have been the end. Chapter V is devoted to a mythical description of the Seven Realms of Existence and is omitted. Chapter VI, while being more appropriate, also gives one the impression that it is something added. All but the closing paragraPh is omitted.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN
THOU ART BEING WEIGHED IN THE BALANCES WILT THOU BE FOUND WANTING
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1 |
- |
4 |
SOUL |
67 |
13 |
4 |
S |
= |
1 |
- |
7 |
SO-U-LIVE |
103 |
31 |
4 |
S |
= |
1 |
- |
8 |
SO-U-LEARN |
105 |
33 |
6 |
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1 |
- |
7 |
SO -U-LOVE |
109 |
28 |
1 |
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= |
1 |
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SO -U-LIGHT |
111 |
39 |
3 |
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5 |
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NAME
THOU ART NOW ENTERED INTO DEEP HYPNOTIC TRANCE AND WILL BE GIVEN THESE AUTOSUGGESTIONS THAT WILL BE CARRIED OUT BY THE MIND BY THE BODY BY THE SUBCONSCIOUS MIND BY THE CONSCIOUS MIND BY THE HIGHER MIND ALL CONTAINED WITHIN THE QUINTESSENTIAL MOMENT OF THE NOW OF CREATIVE CONSCIOUSNESS OF MIND ESSENCE THESE THEN ARE THE AUTOSUGGESTIONS THAT DAY BY DAY AND IN EVERY WAY THAT THAT THAT HOLY ISISIS DRAWETH THE KUNDALINI SPIRIT ENERGY FROM OUT THE IN OF HOLY MOTHER WOMB GUIDING HER UPWARDS THROUGH THE ROOT SPINE UNTO THE FIRST SECOND AND THIRD CHAKRA ONTO THE FOURTH FIFTH SIXTH AND SEVENTH CHAKRA INTO THE EIGHTH AND NINTH CHAKRA OF HIGHEST ENLIGHTENMENT OF MIND ESSENCE THE THOUSAND PETAL LOTUS OF BUDDHAHOOD AND THERIN VOW TO CONTINUE LIVING THE DREAM AND NOT TO ENTER FINALLY INTO HIGHEST ENLIGHTENMENT OF MIND ESSENCE AS LONG AS SENTIENT BEINGS DREAM OUT THEIR DESTINY OR THE GREAT MOTHER THAT HOLY ISISIS DREAMETH THAT DREAM AWAY
