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The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ sky, the lower half the earth. This done, Brahma descended on earth in the form of a child seating himself on a lotus-flower, and there began to ponder within himself thus: Who will watch over and preserve what I have created? An answer came from his. mouth in the form of a flame “1." And Brahma gave to this word the name Vishnu, which means "he who preserves." Then Brahma divided his being into two parts, the one male, the other femalethe active world and the passive world—the union of which gave birth to Shiva, the destroyer.
The following are the attributes of the Trimurti: Brahma, the creative being; Vishnu, the preserving wisdom; Shiva, the destructive wrath of Justice. Brahma is the substance of which everything is made, Vishnu the space in which all things live, and Shiva the time which annihilates all things. Brahma, the air which invigorates all, Vishnu, the water which sustains the strength of creatures; Shiva, the fire which breaks the bond that unites all things. Brahma is the past, Vishnu the present, and Shiva the future. Each part of the Trimurti possesses also a wife. That of Brahma Saraswati goddess of wisdom; that of Vishnu is Lakshmi, goddess of virtue; and Shiva is wedded to Kali, the goddess of death, the universal destroyer.
From this last union was born the wise god Ganesha, and Indra, chief of the inferior divinities; the number of which including all objects of worship of the Hindus reaches three hundred millions.
Vishnu came down upon earth eight times, incarnating himself first in a fish, to save the sacred books from the deluge, then successively in a tortoise, a dwarf. a wild boar, a lion, then in Rama, who was a king's son, in Krishna and finally in Buddha. He will come for the ninth time in the form of a cavalier mounted upon a white horse to destroy death and sin.
Jesus denied the existence of all these hierarchical absurdities of God, which obscured the great principle of monotheism.
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