pilgrim
20-04-2008, 09:40 PM
'The Gospel Of The Holy Twelve'
(The Unaltered True New Testament)
Known Also As 'The Gospel Of Perfect Life'
Translated From The Original Aramaic And Edited By
The Rev.Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley 1892
http://members.tripod.com/jbrooks2/
"Translated from the original Aramaic and edited by a disciple of the Master. This is one of the most ancient and complete Christian fragments, preserved in one of the monasteries of the Buddhist Monks in Tibet, where it was hidden by some of the Essene community for safety from the hands of corrupters and now for the first time translated from the Aramaic. The contents clearly show it to be an early Esserian writing. The ancient community of the Jewish church, called Yessenes, Lessenes, Nazarites or Nazirs, strongly resembled the Therapeutae, and the Buddhists, who practiced community of good, daily abulutions, daily worship, and renounced flesh eating, and strong drink and the sacrifice of animals, and the doctrine of "atonement" for the sins of some by the vicarious and involuntary suffering of others, as held by the Pharisees and Saducees."
From The Introduction:
The All-Pitying Love of our Saviour embraces not only embraces mankind, but also the "lower" creatures of God, sharers with us of the One Breath of Life, and with us on the one road of ascent to that which is higher. Never has the Providence with which the All-Merciful watches over the Animals "unendowed with reason," as well as over "reason-endowed" man, been more impressively brought home to us than in the saying of Iesus : '"Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God ? "
How were it possible to think otherwise, than that the Saviour "would have had Pity and Compassion on the creatures who must bear their pain in silence. Would it not seem to us like a blasphemy if we were to hear it said that Jesus or Mary would have beheld, without pity or succour the illtreatment of helpless Animals? Nay, certainly, when our Saviour brought Redemption to a world sunk in selfishness, hard-heartedness and misery, and proclaimed the Gospel of an All-Embracing Love, there was, surely, a share in this Redemption for all suffering creatures, since when man opened his Heart to this Divine Love, there was no room left for pitiless hardness towards the other creatures of God, who have, like man, been called into life with the capacity of enjoyment and of suffering. They bear the marks of the Redeemer, who practises this All-Pitying Love. And how little it is that the minimum of Christian Compassion for helpless creatures demands of us! Only to inflict on them no torture, and to help them when in trouble, or appeal to us for succour, and when, of necessity, we take their life, to let it be a speedy death with the least pain; a gentle sleep. But, alas! how little are we penetrated with these Divine lessons of Mercy and Compassion. How many grievous tortures are inflicted on helpless creatures under the pretence of Science, or to gratify an unnatural appetite, or cruel lusts, or the promptings of vanity.
(The Unaltered True New Testament)
Known Also As 'The Gospel Of Perfect Life'
Translated From The Original Aramaic And Edited By
The Rev.Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley 1892
http://members.tripod.com/jbrooks2/
"Translated from the original Aramaic and edited by a disciple of the Master. This is one of the most ancient and complete Christian fragments, preserved in one of the monasteries of the Buddhist Monks in Tibet, where it was hidden by some of the Essene community for safety from the hands of corrupters and now for the first time translated from the Aramaic. The contents clearly show it to be an early Esserian writing. The ancient community of the Jewish church, called Yessenes, Lessenes, Nazarites or Nazirs, strongly resembled the Therapeutae, and the Buddhists, who practiced community of good, daily abulutions, daily worship, and renounced flesh eating, and strong drink and the sacrifice of animals, and the doctrine of "atonement" for the sins of some by the vicarious and involuntary suffering of others, as held by the Pharisees and Saducees."
From The Introduction:
The All-Pitying Love of our Saviour embraces not only embraces mankind, but also the "lower" creatures of God, sharers with us of the One Breath of Life, and with us on the one road of ascent to that which is higher. Never has the Providence with which the All-Merciful watches over the Animals "unendowed with reason," as well as over "reason-endowed" man, been more impressively brought home to us than in the saying of Iesus : '"Are not five sparrows sold for two farthings, and not one of them is forgotten before God ? "
How were it possible to think otherwise, than that the Saviour "would have had Pity and Compassion on the creatures who must bear their pain in silence. Would it not seem to us like a blasphemy if we were to hear it said that Jesus or Mary would have beheld, without pity or succour the illtreatment of helpless Animals? Nay, certainly, when our Saviour brought Redemption to a world sunk in selfishness, hard-heartedness and misery, and proclaimed the Gospel of an All-Embracing Love, there was, surely, a share in this Redemption for all suffering creatures, since when man opened his Heart to this Divine Love, there was no room left for pitiless hardness towards the other creatures of God, who have, like man, been called into life with the capacity of enjoyment and of suffering. They bear the marks of the Redeemer, who practises this All-Pitying Love. And how little it is that the minimum of Christian Compassion for helpless creatures demands of us! Only to inflict on them no torture, and to help them when in trouble, or appeal to us for succour, and when, of necessity, we take their life, to let it be a speedy death with the least pain; a gentle sleep. But, alas! how little are we penetrated with these Divine lessons of Mercy and Compassion. How many grievous tortures are inflicted on helpless creatures under the pretence of Science, or to gratify an unnatural appetite, or cruel lusts, or the promptings of vanity.