RAMANAM
In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen.
ORBIS NON SUFFICIT
SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT
Memorandum I is here.
To: Whom It May Concern
From: The Rev. David R. Graham
Date: October 4. 1994
Feasts of Sts. Francis of Assisi and Glenn Gould
Subject: Jesus In India
Within five years, awareness of this matter is going to overwhelm the church and reduce it to a laughingstock, more than already it is. The church will be defenseless against a charge of massive fraud.
The leadership even won’t take the charge seriously. They will seek to regenerate what they regard as their successful track record stone-walling the work of Reimarus in the Eighteenth Century and Schweitzer in this — never mind the inexorable, steady decline of income and respect that stone-walling engendered.
As the fraud is revealed, the perpetrator will be abandoned.
Whereas the work of Reimarus and Schweitzer decoupled the church from culture — they demonstrated that a commitment to facts was not the guiding principle for the collection and emendation of literature that became known as The New Testament. — the present work — to locate Jesus in India — will decouple religion from the church.
In addition, within 25 years, this work will decouple the church from secular, parochial clergy. Clergy will have to earn a living at a regular occupation (Pauline model) and they will have to be spiritually-oriented — oppositely of their present “orientation.”
This development will profoundly impact existing lines of communication into the laity’s purse.
Note that one of the sources of this awakening is Celtic Christianity, represented by Lindisfarne, Sirius Community, Findhorn, Barbara Thiering and Margaret Starbird.
Another effect of this work will be a church without kerygma (preaching). Or, more exactly, a church in process of re-collating and even re-creating its kerygma. This means a church without a Mass as we know it. The generations coming along are now and will continue not supporting the church built by this generation and its forebears.
Christianity is repetition of the Name of Jesus, which is a Name of God. This insight is the truth for which the Knights Templar were calumniated. Jesus is for all mankind as they are, not for Christians. The religion he taught and exemplified is universal, non-denominational and utterly self-evident to whom God chooses to reveal it, and when.
Bibliography
Olsson, Suzanne, Jesus in Kashmir, The Lost Tomb
Hassnain, Fida, A Search For The Historical Jesus
Deardorff, James W., 1928- , Jesus in India, San Francisco, International Scholars Publications, 1994. ISBN: 1883255376
An investigation of reincarnation in New Testament scholarship and Hindi tradition.
Ahmad, Mirza Ghulam, 1839?-1908. Jesus in India, Rabwah, West Pakistan, Ahmadiyya Muslim Foreign Missions Dept.
An account of Jesus’ escape from death on the cross and his journey to India, by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian.
Ahmad, Ghulam, 1839?-1908, Christ, the Pupil of Buddha, New York, 1890
A Comparative Study.
Kersten, Holger, Jesus Lived in India, Shaftesbury, Dorset ; Rockport, Mass. Element, 1994. ISBN: 3784424406 German ISBN: 1852305509 English
His unknown life before and after the crucifixion.
Matlock, Gene D, Jesus and Moses are Buried in India, Adelanto, CA, Geo-Mind Publications, c1991. ISBN: 0962773905
Staffner, Hans, 1909- , Jesus Christ and the Hindu Community, Anand, India, Gujarat Sahitya Prakash, 1988.
A synthesis of Hinduism and Christianity possible?
Ramchandra, Gosha, Jesus in the Vedas, New York ; London : Funk & Wagnalls, 1892. LCCN: 86-188655
The testimony of Hindu Scriptures in corroboration of the rudiments of Christian Doctrine, by a native Indian missionary.
Sam, Agnes, Jesus Is Indian, London, Women’s Press, Johannesburg. ISBN: 0704350459
And other stories.
Davie, Ian, Jesus Purusha, West Stockbridge, MA : Lindisfarne Press ; Hudson and New York, NY : Distributed to the book trade by Inner Traditions International, c1985. 158 p. ; 22 cm. TEL: 518- 851-9155 ISBN: 0892810696
A Vedanta-based doctrine of Jesus
Pappas, Paul Constantine, Jesus’ Tomb in India, Berkeley, Calif., Asian Humanities Press, c1991.
The debate on his death and Resurrection
Vivekananda, Swami, 1863-1902, Christ, the Messenger, 2d ed., Calcutta, Udbodhan Office, 1943.
This bibliography is given for study purposes only. It is neither complete nor comprehensive and I do not endorse fully all of the views expressed by these authors. I do endorse their sense that they are researching something important and I endorse some of their indications and conclusions, regarding which I do not intend to make an itemization since that is best left to the scrutinizer thereof.
AUM NAMAH SHIVAYA
