John the Baptist = Lao-zi
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Lao Tzu "23 ... Appearing as the Master on the River" (GD, p. 173). |
Yo^h.anan appeared at the river, in order to baptize. |
Lao Tzu had, before he departed at Wu-Wei, 2 disciples: |
Yo^h.anan the Baptist had 2 disciples: |
one competent (Yin Xi) who accepted that his master had come to redeem the lost sheep (black sheep), and |
one good (who taught others to worship Yo^h.anan the Baptist, who declared his disciple to be "the Lamb of God"), and |
one incompetent (Xu Jia): |
one bad (who taught others to worship not Yo^h.anan the Baptist, but himself -- this is the Yes^uwa< Mas^iyah. worshipped by the Christians): |
the incompetent disciple died & was resurrected (GD, p. 262). |
Yes^uwa< Mas^iyah. died & was resurrected. |
The incompetent disciple received, as "ritual implements, a buffalo horn and a bell" (GD, p. 263): these are the implements of the "red-head" clergy. |
Catholic churches have a bell-tower; catholic cardinals wear a red hat. |
The "red-head" clergy perform caerimonies only on behalf of the living, not of the dead. |
Yes^uwa< Mas^iyah. declareth himself to serve only the living, not the dead (Mark 12:27). |
The 3rd disciple, made of the gate-keeper at Wu-Wei, was the one who delivered the scripture to mankind. |
The most principal good character, however, is Manda< d-H.ayya "Word of Life" = the "Living Word which hath come down from Heaven" (which was, apparently, imitation, i.e., plagiarism, of a Manda< Gospel). |
A gate-keeper is to stand sentinel, and otherwise "not do" (wu wei) anything. |
This "Word of Life" = "the free gift of God is aeternal life" (= Dosi-theos, praedecessor of S^imon Magos, each known as "the Standing"). |
[According Z^uan Z^ou, humans are re-incarnated as wheels.] |
Genuine followers of Yo^h.anan the Baptist deny (Acts of the Apostles 19:2-3) (= "blaspheme against") the Holy Ghost [who is mentioned in the Wisdom of Jesus 7:22; 9:17, and in the Thlym 51:13 -- hence they must deny the authority of the Thlym (tahlah "bluster, fatuity"), replacing it, perhaps, with the Odes of S^lomoh]. [The Odes of S^lomoh 23:10-14 describe the career of a divine wheel.] |
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Lao-zi with "His hair and temples were white" already at his birth (GD, p. 268). |
The Ancient of Days hath his head and his hair white like wool, white as snow (Dani>el 7:9). |
Lord Lao -- "From his belt hang the talisman of the divine tiger" (GD, p. 126) [?which might repraesent one of his disciples]. |
This is the "Lion of the tribe of Yhudah", who praevailed to open the seals (Revelation of St. John 5:5) [the "talisman" being perhaps a seal-remover]. |
After the apocalypse, "One sowing will yield nine crops, and people will live up to 3,000 years." (GD, p. 119) |
Similarly large crop-yields, according to Papias. |
So "to establish a new universe peopled only with the chosen or "seed people" (zhongmin) of the Dao." (loc. cit.) |
From the great yield of such sowing, educational "seminaries" (seed-places) are named. |
GD = Livia Kohn: God of the Dao. Center for Chinese Studies, U. of MI, Ann Arbor, 1998.
There is apparently a relation with the Kemetian categories:--
Daoist |
Kemetian [& Hellenic] |
<ibri^ |
Bharatiya [et al.] |
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The rn ("name") may be repraesented in a cartouche, viz. a roped-in region. |
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The Tantrik three-dimensional man.d.ala (model of heaven) is enclosed by string-fence. |
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The k3 is depicted as a pair of arms opened to form right-angles (square). |
City built four-square (Revelation of St. John 21:16) = house inhabited by spirits (Matthew 12:44-45). |
The body is metaphorically described (in the Bhagavata Purana) as a city inhabited by deities. |
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The sh^m is depicted as a rod. |
City was measured with rod (Revelation of St. John 11:1); rod shall rule (Revelation of St. John 19:15). |
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Daoist saints were typically resurrected, as was Xu Jia from "white bones". |
The B3 is depicted as a human-headed hawk [= +Seirenes (in Odyssey) surrounded with bones of human victims]. |
The patriarchs are described as yet living (Matthew 22:32), implying that they were resurrected. |
[Akan BLA "soul"; Kayan (of Borneo) BLuA> "soul".] |
The gate-keeper at Wu Wei saw Lao-zi as a luminous spirit. |
The luminous spirit (depicted as a bird) H^W = <arabi^ H^aWa> "hungry". |
The Holy Spirit is described as a griffon-vulture in Dbrym 32:11. |
The preta is the "hungry ghost" of Astika & Bauddha religion. |
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The "shade" (depicted as a parasol) H^3yBy-t = <arabi^ H^iLB "talon", H^aLaBa "to bewitch, enchant" [-- cf. Hellenic +Kirke "falcon", who (in Odyssey) enchanted mariners]. |
YhWh is a "shade" (Thlym 121:5) = parasol & paralune (ibid., 121:6). |
The talon of Garutman, shot off by Kr.s`anu, became a soma-plant [cf. the molu-plant which quelled the enchantments by +Kirke]. |
[Daoist sigils] |
Eye of H.r the falcon [-- cf. Argos Pan-optes, the unsleeping brother of the unsleeping +Pheme]. |
The s^o^mer ("keeper") shall neither slumber nor sleep (Thlym 121:4): this S^o^mer (lord-keeper of the great seal) is brother (Dbry h-Ymym 1st 7:32) to H.o^tam ("signet") & +S^u<a> "shout" [=+Pheme "rumor"]. |
Buddha ("awake") never slept. |