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rate and mystified sectary fed on apocryphal gospels could have conveyed to him such notions of the gospel. Of the great and enlightening history of Israel as a history, he knows nothing, and has merely caught up some childish tales from the Talmud and some garbled legends of the Hebrew Patriarchs and great men."
A writer who does not understand even the sense of the word which became the name of the founder of his own creed must be excused if he falls into error. The word 'Jesus' is derived from the root 'IS' which, in Hebrew, becomes ‘jes,' and means 'esse,' i.e., 'to be,' in different words, that which is, or Life, that is, Atman. “ The name of Jesus," say the authors of The Perfect Way' (p. 111), "at which every knee must bow, is the ancient and ever Divine Name of all the Sons of God-- Iesous or Yesha, who shall save, and Issa the Illuminated, or Initiate of Isis. For this name Isis, originally Ish Ish, was Egyptian for Light-Light, that is, light doubled, and the known and the knowing made one, and reflecting each other."
The author of the "Lost Language of Symbolism” also observes :--
“ The name Isis was understood by Plutarch as meaning knowledge. In Lapland the goddess corresponding to Isis was worshipped under the name Isa, and this word must be related to Isia, a Greek variant of Isis, signifying, according to Plato, Holy One,' Intelligence,' and 'Perception. The ambiguous Issi, Yessi, Isse, or Issa is related to Esse, the Latin verb to be', and from esse is derived the word Essence, a philosophic and poetic synonymn for the soul or Light within.' It would thus appear probable that the Odyssey is to some extent an allegory of the Soul, and that Odysseus, the wanderer, is truly Noman, no historic personage, but like Cindrella, a personification of the soul, the spark, the God Within,' or 'Dweller in the Innermost.' The word-play upon Issi, the Light, and Issi, * himself,' is comparable to Cindrella's amazed awakening to the fact that the glory of her dazzling radiance is herself,'" ,
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