Subject: The Missing Years Of Issa. June 4, 2006.
This talks about what a certain person was doing during some
missing years.
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Subject: The Lost Years of Je--s:
The Life of Saint Issa
Jes-- approaching Ladakh as a youth Oil painting by J.
Michael Spooner.
The Best of the Sons of Men
Ancient scrolls reveal that J--us spent seventeen years in
India and Tibet. From age thirteen to age twenty-nine, he was
both a student and teacher of Buddhist and Hindu ho-y men.
The story of his journey from Jerusalem to Benares was
recorded by Brahman historians.
Today they still know him and love him as St. Issa. Their
'bud-ha'.
In 1894 Nicolas Notovitch published a book called The
Unknown Life of Ch-ist. He was a Russian doctor who
journeyed extensively throughout Afghanistan, India, and
Tibet.
Notovitch journeyed through the lovely p***** of Bolan,
over the Punjab, down into the arid rocky land of Ladak,
and into the majestic Vale of Kashmir of the Himalayas.
During one of his jouneys he was visiting Leh, the capital
of Ladak, near where the buddhist convent Himis is. He
had an accident that resulted in his leg being broken.
This gave him the unscheduled op****tunity to stay awhile
at the Himis convent.
Notovitch learned, while he was there, that there
existed ancient records of the life of Je--s C-rist. In
the course of his visit at the great convent, he located
a Tibetan translation of the legend and carefully noted in
his carnet de voyage over two hundred verses from the
curious do***ent known as "The Life of St. Issa."
He was shown two large yellowed volumes containing the
biography of St. Issa. Notovitch enlisted a member of his
party to translate the Tibetan volumes while he carefully
noted each verse in the back pages of his journal.
When he returned to the western world there was much
controversy as to the authenticity of the do***ent. He
was accused of creating a hoax and was ridiculed as an
imposter. In his defense he encouraged a scientific
expedition to prove the original tibetan do***ents
existed.
One of his ske-tics was Swami Abhedananda. Abhedananda
journeyed into the arctic region of the Himalayas,
determined to find a copy of the Himis manuscript or to
expose the fraud. His book of travels, entitled Kashmir
Tibetti, tells of a visit to the Himis gonpa and includes
a Bengali translation of two hundred twenty-four verses
essentially the same as the Notovitch text. Abhedananda
was thereby convinced of the authenticity of the Issa
legend.
Map of Jesus's eastern travels Source: Summit University
Press.
In 1925, another Russian named Nicholas Roerich arrived
at Himis. Roerich, was a philosopher and a distinguished
scientist. He apparently saw the same do***ents as
Notovitch and Abhedananda. And he recorded in his own
travel diary the same legend of St. Issa.
Speaking of Issa, Roerich quotes legends which have the
estimated antiquity of many centuries.
... He passed his time in several ancient cities of India
such as Ben ares. All loved him because Issa dwelt in peace
with Vaishas and Shudras whom he instructed and helped. But
the Brahmins and Kshatriyas told him that Brahma forbade
those to approach who were created out of his womb and feet.
The Vaishas were allowed to listen to the Vedas only on
holidays and the Shudras were forbidden not only to be
present at the reading of the Vedas, but could not even
look at them.
Issa said that man had filled the temples with his
abominations. In order to pay homage to metals and stones, man
sacrificed his fellows in whom dwells a spark of the Supreme
Spi-it. Man demeans those who labor by the sweat of their brows,
in order to gain the good will of the sluggard who sits at the
lavishly set board. But they who deprive their brothers of the
common blessing shall be themselves stripped of it.
Vaishas and Shudras were struck with astonishment and asked
what they could perform. Issa bade them "Wor****p not the idols.
Do not consider yourself first. Do not humiliate your neighbor.
Help the poor. Sustain the feeble. Do e-il to no one. Do not
covet that which you do not possess and which is possessed
by others."
Many, learning of such words, decided to k-ll Issa. But Issa,
forewarned, departed from this place by night. Afterward,
Issa went into Nepal and into the Himalayan mountains ....
More- http://www.ancientmanuscripts.com/frameset.htm
John Winston. johnf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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