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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WAS JESUS A MYTH?

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8,

.GUN ELEVATION.

AUSTRALIAN STRIKE.

SETTLEMENT OF THE WATERSIDE DISPUTE

SECOND LECTURE BY HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

TO BE CONSULTED. MR. R. A. D. FORREST.

Melbourne, Dec. 7. Washington, Dec. 7. The following is the text of the

It is announced in the arbitration The House of Representatives second paper given by Mr. R.A.D. Forrest on "The Historicity of Appropriations Committee has de-court that the Watersiders Federation meeting of the Hong- cided to ask the House to decide on have advised their branches that the Jesus," at kong Rationalist Association held the advisability or otherwise of embargo an overtime has been lifted, at Lane Crawford's Restaurant authorising the elevation of big and they havo instructed the branches guns on American battleships.to carry out the Court's award. The watersidors will offer themselves for last evening.

Reuter'a American Service.

work to-morrow morning but there is attitude some doubt in regard to the

I endeavoured in my last paper to show as fully as the time at my" disposal would allow, that

of the owners. It is believed that none of the commonly held views early theosophy came even before they are far from satisfied with Mr. of the Jesus of the Gospels was the Christian era to borrow cer-Beoby's action and are awaiting in- satisfactory. I now proceed to tain Jewish ideas, and, as we see structions from, London, but an early give what appears to me to be from the example of Philo, one resumption of work seams certain. the true explanation of the facts, of the first to use the word Logos which is, in brief, that the Gospel in a theological sense, and of the Jesus is a myth, no more or less original pre-Christian part of the real than Thor or Dionysus, and Teaching of the Twelve Apost that belief in his actual existence les," gnosticism was not without originated in a gradual misunder its influence on Judaism in its standing as the religion of Jesus turn. was carried over from the mystic' and gnostic East to the matter. of-fact peoples of the West un- accustomed to think in terms of myths.

The owners are dissatisfied with Mr. for Rooby's decision that the question of pickingup (engaging dockors work) should be taken out of the hands of Board of Reference and that vestigated. by the Arbitration Court. conditions at each port should be in- Mr. Beeby announced a three months interim award that laying down and pickingup places shall be those obtain The gnostic systems are none ing on January 10 last and refused to of them completely known to us, discuss the point raised by the owners award made under such circum- but of the gnostic method we in regard to the legality of an interim know sufficient to say that every-stances.--Reuter. thing was spoken in parables, and

The Gnostic Method,

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of our ideas, find that we have phal book of "Wisdom" contains of Judaism which survived the at- to suppress, was one in which been gailty of what we may call the following passage, where the tempts of the official priesthood the hypostatisation of abstracts, speaker is Wisdom personified:

"Come unto me all ye that be peculiar reverence was paid to the taking for granted that be

desirous of me and fill yourJoshua Le, Jesus. Influenced by their cause a name exists, therefore a

to identify thing exists corresponding to the selves with my fruits. For gnostic ideas, the worshippers of name. Hence we are asked such

the remembrance of me is Joshua came sweeter than honey, and mine secondary god with the Logos or empty questions as: What is life? To this, of course, the only an-; inheritance than the honey-Divine Reason, and under ortho- swer is that, grammatically, life comb, They that eat me shall dox Jewish influence, with the have the more hunger, and Messiah, whose coming was re- is a verbal noun, and that logical-i

they that drink me shall thirst garded, however, in gnostic man- ner, as a cosmic event, dutside the more." (Manila, Sandakan, Thurs.ly the word is applied to the ab

time. These space, and In this will be recognised 8 Island, Townsville, B'bane, stract quality which, we recognise as common to all the things class- Sydney and Melbourne.

little curious anticipation of well- Christian worshippers of Jesus ed together as living. A reflexion will suggest many other known New Testament verses, were accustomed to meet for

became members of the god whom examples of this fallacy. What it Philo uses of the Logos-originally sacramental meal whereby they

abstract word meaning can do in the domain of religion an is seen by the example of the "speech" or "reason" and applied they ate in symbol. The final Falashas or Black Jews of north-particularly in relixion to the stage was reached when what was "word" of God, to its earliest adherents an al- east Africa, among whom the "reason" or

terms which we are accustomed legorical statement of their theo- Sabbath is now worshipped as a goddess.a terrible warning to all to think of in connexion with sophy spread among peoples ac- true sabbatarians.

Jesus. The Logos is the comfort-customed to the local and material Having said so much, I shall er, the pleader for sinaner before definiteness of classical mytho- now turn to the particular condi-igd, the great high priest. Philo,logy, and to the clearcut cate- gories of Greek philosophy. These tions among which Christianity be it noted, was accustomed

later demanded details of the took its rise.

Interpret the ymbolically, and we may presumeife of him whoin they worshipped, that he did not forget that he and in such cases leaving de- The well-known difference of was dealing in metaphors, but liberate aside, the demand never the Pharisees and Sadducees, or what is more natural than that exceeds the supply.

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a diligent reading of the Old his phrases, or even the passage Fam conscious of many weak- Induce nesses in this paper, due in part Testament, should put us on our from. "Wisdom should

I have too guard against the common readers to imagine an actual per- to the urgency of time.

been compelled to state dogmati- idea that Judaism was at any son to whom they are applied? ancient time a homogeneous re- Brief reference must now be cally much for which I should ligion. Rather we see an official made to the last of the influences have liked to have given chapter Titaroem

I spoke. Almost and verse, and to leave unquali- Tikembang Batavia cult centred in the Temple of of which Jerusalem jealously guarding its throughout the world, but more fed much that requires qualifica- privileges and, struggling to re-especially in western Asia, we find tion or illustration. In particular Tisondari | S'hai, K'lung | 12th Dec

21st Dec Amoy, N. China Tjisalak or absorb into itself local traces of a custom known among I should have liked to have spoken popular religious practices. anthropologists as that of Eating of Robertson's special contribu-

22nd Dec 24th Dec | S'hai & Keelung Now, there is evidence

Tjimanock Batavia to show the God. In its fully developed on to the problem, his finding Tibodas N.China, Amoy | 19th Dec 22nd Dec Batavia that among these local rites was form, for which with its many of the core of the Gospels in a

4th Jan Amoy & Saigon. | Tjវរw០៩ the worship of Joshua, whose name variants I would refer you to kind of mystery play in which the Tkembang Shai, Klung | 26th Dac | 29th Dec | M'keur & Java

5th Jan Batavia Titidini is the Hebrew equivalent of Jesus. Frazer's "Golden Bough," the cus-anrly Christians showed forth the

7th Jan | Amoy, Shanghai To this day he is spoken of in the tom consists in sacrificial canni death of their god.

& Kualang Jewish New Year ritual in terms balism, the victim being identified

In conclusion, I must add that that befit an angel rather than awith the god, clad in royal ralment, mere mortal, and he appears to worshipped, and finally slain and it would only mislead if I left be identical with the angel of eaten by the worshippers, who you with the impression that the Exodua ch. xxiii. This reduction thus become one with the god theory here outlined is held even of gode who have been worsted whom the

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by some other foodstuff. Many, is maintained by British. Ameri- The second great influence in if not most, religions have had an, German, Danish and French the formation of the new creed their sacramental meals. was that of gnosticism. Arising apparently outside the Jewish fold,

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