Madame Blavatsky Connects the Periodic Incarnations of Mankind's Great Saviours: Krishna, Gautama, and Jesus

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Buddhas and Initiates Series · 17 pages

Seventeen pages arguing that the three founders are one phenomenon appearing three times. The principle is taken from the Bhagavad-Gita and quoted at the head: whenever there is a decline of virtue and an uprising of vice and injustice, a Great Soul incarnates for the establishment of righteousness, the destruction of the wicked and the preservation of the just. The sequence is then stated in order of dependence rather than of date.

The Hindu redeemer preceded the Christian by some thousands of years; between them Gautama reflected Krishna and projected forward his own luminous shadow, out of whose collected rays the outlines of the mythical Jesus were shaped, and from whose teaching those of the historical Christos were drawn. Each, on this account, appeared as a true god in his own epoch and left a religion built on the rock of ages — and the three, cleansed of priestly dogma, would be found identical, resting on one Archaic Wisdom Religion. A long central section sets the legends of the three side by side so the parallels can be checked, and a supporting passage names Kapila, Orpheus, Pythagoras, Plato, Basilides, Ammonius and Plotinus as founders of the same lineage in a lesser degree.

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