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Sir Gavan awaited his son at the water gate, his ruddy countenance streaked with an unwonted pallor and his gray eyes dark with trouble. "Where is your sister?" he asked, abruptly, as Constans ran up. The boy stared. "She did not go out with me, sir. Do you mean that Issa " "Hush! or your mother will overhear. Come this way."
Issa denied the divine inspiration of the Vedas and the Puranas, for, as he taught his followers, "One law has been given to man to guide him in his actions: 13. "Fear the Lord, thy God; bend thy knees only before Him and bring to Him only the offerings which come from thy earnings." Issa denied the Trimurti and the incarnation of Para-Brahma in Vishnu, Siva, and other gods; "for," said he: 15.
"Who, then, art thou, who darest to utter blasphemies against our God and sow doubt in the hearts of believers?" And Issa said to them: "I preach no new God, but our celestial Father, who has existed before the beginning and will exist until after the end.
Many among them had begun to neglect the laws of their God and those of Mossa, in the hope of winning the favor of their brutal conquerors. But Issa, notwithstanding their unhappy condition, exhorted his countrymen not to despair, because the day of their redemption from the yoke of sin was near, and he himself, by his example, confirmed their faith in the God of their fathers.
Throughout Persia are found many traditions of Issa, the young Master who appeared in that land centuries ago, and who taught the Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man.
When Pilate heard his words, he became greatly enraged and ordered that Issa be condemned to death, and that the two robbers should be declared guiltless. The judges, after consulting among themselves, said to Pilate: "We cannot consent to take this great sin upon us, to condemn an innocent man and liberate malefactors. It would be against our laws. "Act thyself, then, as thou seest fit."
When he refused compliance and actually assailed their allies, they made a campaign against Issa, where he was. 1. ¶The Romans were at their prime in equipment for war and enjoyed absolute harmony among themselves.
The Romans had also other grounds of complaint against her and her subjects; for the latter extended their piracies to the allies of Rome, as well as to the Romans themselves, and the former was at that time besieging the island of Issa, in the Adriatic, which was under the protection of the republic.
The far-scheming king laid the foundation of his new colonial power especially in the sea to the east of Italy, the more northern waters of which now became, for the first time, subject to a Greek maritime power. About the year 367, Dionysius occupied and colonized the port of Lissus and island of Issa on the Illyrian coast, and the ports of Ancona, Numana, and Atria, on the coast of Italy.
We possess several parts of the words of Buddha consecrated to the Great and Indivisible Divine Being, and to all that issue from his hands." "Is there not, among those books, some account of the prophet Issa?" "No, sir," answered the monk. "We only possess a few principal treatises relating to the observance of the religious rites.
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