LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 
 
 
 Sheli>_.Gs c 
 
 <d 
 
 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 
 
Betted WLoxfo 
 
 in tit* 
 
 fsuhvtw mbu. 
 
 m 
 
 W j-~ 
 
 
THE 
 
 DOTTED WORDS 
 
 IN THE 
 
 HEBREW BIBLE 
 
 Iftew lorfc 
 
 CHARLES T. DILLINGHAM & CO. 
 1892 
 
 (■ 
 
Gr<5 
 
 Copyright, iSgz. 
 
 BY 
 
 EMILY O. GIBBES. 
 
In the Old Documents and the New Bible, by 
 J. Paterson Smyth, L.L.B., B.D. 
 
 I read the following : 
 
 " In the account of Esau's meeting with Jacob, 
 we are told (Gen. 33.4) that he fell on his neck 
 and kissed him — and the words ' and kissed him ' 
 are marked thus by these mysterious dots, which 
 remain to this day in our Hebrew Bible." 
 
 I cannot read Hebrew, but I think the dots 
 mean more than they are supposed to do. May it 
 not mean, Judas kissed the Christ and so betrayed 
 him. We are to search the Scriptures, as they 
 testify of Christ. . I wish I had all other words so 
 marked in the Hebrew Bibles, to see if they do 
 not also testify to the signs of knowing Christ. 
 
 The author of the above book in telling of how 
 an ancient and valuable copy of the Scriptures was 
 effaced by a piece of pumice-stone, and the parch- 
 ment used for St. Ephriam's discourses, says, "en- 
 thusiastic admirers are generally ladies," so if a 
 woman effaced the Scriptures years ago, a woman 
 
THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 now will do her best to make the Scriptures 
 plain, and clear words to the praise of Christ. 
 
 Mr. Smyth also says in Chapter on " Ancient 
 Criticism " : " They attempted, too, a crude sort of 
 Biblical criticism, such as marking in a certain way 
 words about which there was something peculiar. 
 The reader, perhaps, will wonder how this can be 
 known when no one even of our most ancient 
 writers has ever seen one of these vanished 
 copies. He will find, however, in the following 
 period of the history, that the copyists there make 
 notes about certain dots and marks which had been 
 transferred into their manuscripts, from earlier 
 times, and which were so ancient that their mean- 
 ing had even then become completely lost. 
 
 " Some of their guesses at the meaning are rather 
 amusing. For instance, in the account of Esau's 
 meeting Jacob, we are told (Gen. 33.4) that he 
 fell on his neck and kissed him, and the words 
 ' and kissed him ' are marked thus by these 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 
 
 mysterious dots. Some of the old commentators 
 were greatly exercised in mind about the explana- 
 tion of this. One thought they denoted that the 
 kiss was sincere, another that it was not sincere, 
 another that the dots represented Esau's teeth." 
 
 I agree, therefore, with the scribe who thought 
 the kiss was not sincere — since I think it to point 
 out Judas' kiss given to Christ as a sign; when he 
 betrayed Jesus unto death. And if the ancient 
 Jewish authority attributes the marks to Ezra, 
 and that Ezra when asked about the dots, said, 
 "When Elijah comes, if he asks why I wrote down 
 that word, I will answer, ' I have already dotted 
 it,' " I think he must have answered, that he was 
 inspired to dot the words — so dotted them as we 
 now have them dotted in our Hebrew Bibles to 
 this our day. Though I do not believe every word 
 in our Bible is inspired, I believe the spirit of the 
 Bible, the essence, as it were, of the Bible, is in- 
 spired, and these dotted words, if they mean what 
 
THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 I have tried to show them to mean, if it is so, 
 then they certainly were inspired, so many years 
 before Christ lived on this earth, if they were 
 written so long ago, then they who wrote the 
 words and dotted them were inspired — and in- 
 spired by the Spirit of God. 
 
 I may have made mistakes, as I do not know 
 one word of the Hebrew, but I have tried to do 
 this much, in hopes that some learned Hebrew 
 scholar will take up the work and perfect it — for 
 there are many more dotted words in the Hebrew 
 Bible — dotted with one dot, so far as I can make 
 out. 
 
 This is only an attempt by a woman, who knows 
 her Bible, but who does not know one word of 
 Hebrew. With the help of an old Hebrew Bible 
 and her English Bible, she has tried to replace in 
 this world what a woman effaced " with a piece 
 of pumice-stone " years ago. 
 
 1892. E. O. G 
 
Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 GENESIS. 
 
 Chap. 6, Verse 9: 
 
 Noah was a just man, The Virgin Mary de- 
 perfect in his genera- scended from Noah, and 
 tion. And Noah walked she was the human 
 with God. Mother of Christ. 
 
 Chap. 12, Verse i: 
 
 The Lord had said The Lord said to 
 
 unto Abram, Get thee Joseph, Arise and take 
 
 out of thy country, and the young child and his 
 
 from thy father's house, mother, and flee into 
 
 unto a land that I will Egypt. 
 show thee. 
 
s 
 
 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 GENESIS— Continued. 
 
 Chap. 12, Verse 10: 
 
 Abram went down And Joseph was there 
 into Egypt to sojourn with the child until the 
 
 there. 
 
 Verse 20: 
 
 And Pharaoh sent 
 him away. 
 
 death of Herod, as it 
 was spoken by the 
 prophet: " Out of Egypt 
 have I called my son." 
 
 Chap. 18: 
 
 The Lord appeared Three, the Father, the 
 
 unto Abraham in the Son, the Holy Ghost, 
 
 form of three angels, as Jesus has told us that 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 genesis—Continued. 
 
 three men. They told nothing is impossible to 
 
 him that nothing was God. 
 
 impossible to God — that Elizabeth, mother of 
 
 Sarah in her old age John the Baptist, had a 
 
 should have a son. son in her old age. 
 
 Chap. 23: 
 
 Abraham's purchase Joseph of Arimathsea 
 
 of a cave for a sepul- took the body of Jesus 
 
 chre. and laid it in a sepulchre 
 
 that was hewn in stone. 
 
 Chap. 26, Verse 19: 
 
 And Isaac's servants Jesus said to the 
 
 digged in the valley, woman of Samaria, 
 
io THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrezv. in the New Testame?it. 
 
 GENESIS— Continued. 
 
 and found there a well " Whosoever drinketh 
 
 of springing water. of the water that I shall 
 
 give him shall never 
 
 thirst, but the water 
 
 that I shall give him 
 
 shall be in him a w r ell of 
 
 water springing up into 
 
 everlasting life." This 
 
 woman said: "I know 
 
 that Messias cometh, 
 
 which is called Christ. 
 
 When He is come He 
 
 will tell us all things." 
 * 
 
 Jesus said unto her, " I 
 
 that speak unto thee 
 
 am Her 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. n 
 
 Words with the mysteri- W hat I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 GENESIS— Continued. 
 
 Chap. 28, Verse ii: 
 
 And he lighted upon Jacob's dream — he 
 
 a certain place, and tar- saw with his spirit what 
 
 ried there all night, be- he could not see in the 
 
 cause the sun was set; flesh, that the soul can 
 
 and he took of the stones communicate with God 
 
 of that place and put The ladder by which 
 
 them for his pillows, the soul reaches heaven 
 
 and lay down in that is Christ. 
 
 place to sleep. Sleep means the 
 
 death of the body, not 
 
 of the soul. 
 Verse 12: 
 
 Jacob in his dream Jesus said, " Here- 
 saw a ladder set up on after ye shall see heav- 
 the earth, and the top en open, and the angels 
 
12 
 
 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 GENESIS- 
 of it reached to heaven; 
 and behold the angels 
 of God ascending and 
 descending on it. 
 
 Chap. 33, Verse 4: 
 
 Esau ran to meet Ja- 
 cob, and kissed him. 
 
 Chap. 37, Verse 9. 
 
 Joseph's dream. " I 
 have dreamed a dream 
 more, and behold, the 
 stm and the moon and 
 the eleven stars made 
 obeisance to me/' 
 
 ■Continued. 
 of God ascending and 
 descending upon the 
 Son of Man. 
 
 Judas betrayed Jesus 
 Christ with a kiss. 
 
 All will be put under 
 the feet of Christ — the 
 sun and the moon and 
 the stars. 
 
 The eleven tribes will 
 make obeisance to the 
 tribe in which Jesus 
 was born. 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 13 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 GENESIS— Continued. 
 
 Chap. 41, Verse 10: 
 
 Pharaoh's chief butler The disciples of 
 
 remembers Joseph, still Christ remembered af- 
 
 in prison, and tells how ter His death all that 
 
 he explained dreams, He had told them; what 
 
 and that the interpreta- He had explained to 
 
 tion came true. them; and that all had 
 
 come true. 
 
 Chap. 45, Verses ii, 17 
 and 18: 
 
 Joseph sends for his Christ leaves heaven 
 
 father and brethren to to come to this earth to 
 
 come to Egypt, to save save those who are His 
 
 them from poverty. from poverty of spirit. 
 
14 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to ?nean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 GENESIS— Continued. 
 
 Chap. 44, Verse 19: 
 
 Judah offers himself Jesus Christ offers 
 to suffer and die, so as Himself to suffer and 
 to save his brethren. die, so as to save those 
 
 who are His brethren. 
 
 EXODUS. 
 
 Chap. 6, Verses i and 14: 
 
 God speaks to Moses Jesus leads us to God. 
 
 He will lead them from He goes before us — to 
 
 Egypt to the promised the promised rest, 
 
 land — He tells Moses Christ said, "Verily 
 
 that He appeared to verily, I say unto you, 
 
 Abraham, Isaac, Jacob. before Abraham was, 
 
 I am." 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 
 
 i5 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 EXODUS— Continued. 
 
 Chap. 10: 
 
 And the Lord said The signs of Jesus 
 
 unto Moses, Show were shown before 
 
 these my signs before Jerusalem, and the 
 
 Pharaoh. Jews. 
 
 Chap. 14, Verse 16: 
 
 The Children of Israel 
 go through the Red Sea. 
 
 The baptism of Jesus. 
 
 Chap. 18: 
 
 J e thro, the priest, givest Jesus, our Priest, gives 
 
 counsel to Moses. counsel to His disciples. 
 
 Chap. 20: 
 
 The Ten Command- Jesus also said we 
 
 ments. must keep them. 
 
i6 
 
 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 EXODUS— Continued. 
 
 Chap. 25, Verses i, 2, 19: 
 
 Of giving willingly. Jesus gave Himself 
 
 An off ering of the heart, willingly, and is above 
 
 The mercy seat. the mercy seat. 
 
 Chap. 26: 
 
 The veil of the taber- When Jesus died, the 
 
 nacle. veil of the temple was 
 
 rent in two. God was 
 no longer hid from 
 those who saw Him in 
 Christ. 
 
 Chap. 30, Verses 10, 11: 
 
 Aaron shall make an Christ's atonement is 
 atonement most holy most holy unto God. 
 unto God. 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 17 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 EXODUS— Continued. 
 
 Chap. 34, Verses 22, 35: 
 
 The firstlings re- Christ is the first 
 
 deemed with a lamb. fruit, first risen from 
 
 And Moses put a veil the dead ; He is the 
 
 on his face. lamb which redeemed 
 
 us. 
 
 God's face is veiled 
 from us, except in 
 Christ. 
 
 Chap. 37, Verse 43: 
 
 Seven lamps. Seven churches of 
 
 Christ. 
 
18 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testame?it. 
 
 LEVITICUS. 
 
 Chap. 6, Verses i, 25: 
 
 If a soul sin — There is to be no 
 
 In the place where more burnt offerings, 
 
 the burnt offering is Christ has died as a 
 
 killed, shall the sin sin offering, 
 
 offering be killed be- His death before the 
 
 fore the Lord. It is Lord is most holy, 
 most holy. 
 
 Chap. 9: 
 
 Sin offerings. Christ died to save us 
 
 from sin. 
 
 Chap, ii and 12, Verse 
 
 27: 
 
 What goes on all A child of flesh is 
 fours is unclean. Bring therefore unclean. 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 19 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 LEVITICUS— Continued. 
 
 a lamb or two turtles, Mary, the Mother of 
 
 two young pigeons, for the human body of 
 an atonement. Christ, kept this law. 
 
 Christ took upon Him 
 our human flesh. He 
 tells us that His soul 
 was sanctified by the 
 Father, and sent into 
 this- world of sin. 
 
 By taking our flesh 
 from a pure virgin, He 
 was able to die in the 
 flesh for our atonement. 
 
20 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 Words with the mysteri- W hat I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 LEVITICUS— Continued. 
 
 Chap. 14, Verse 28: 
 
 Cleansing with oil. God's laws for cleans- 
 
 ing the body to make it 
 more fit as a dwelling- 
 place for the soul. 
 
 Chap. 16: 
 
 The high priest must All refers to Christ, 
 
 enter into the holy He is our High Priest, 
 
 place, the sin offering, He has entered the 
 
 the scapegoat, the year- holy place, 
 ly expiations. 
 
 Chap. 19, Verse 30: 
 
 And the Lord spake Christ preached to the 
 
 unto Moses, saying, congregations — multi- 
 
 " Speak unto all the con- t u d e s in many places 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 21 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 LEVITICUS— Continued. 
 
 gregation, and say unto He said, " Make not My 
 
 them, ye shall be holy, Father's house a house 
 
 for the Lord your God o f merchandise. M y 
 
 is holy. Ye shall keep Father's house is a house 
 
 My sabbaths, and rever- of prayer." 
 ence my sanctuary. I 
 am the Lord. 
 
 Chap. 21: 
 
 The priest must be Christ our High Priest 
 
 holy— must not have a had no blemish, 
 blemish. 
 
 Chap. 25: 
 
 Redemption by the Christ is our redemp- 
 
 priests. tion. 
 
22 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 LEVITICUS— Continued. 
 Chap. 26, Verse $y. 
 
 And I will scatter you Christ foretold the 
 
 among the heathen, and destruction of Jerusa- 
 
 will draw out a sword lem. Behold your house 
 
 after you, and your land is left unto you desolate, 
 shall be desolate and 
 your cities waste. 
 
 NUMBERS. 
 
 Chap. 4, Verse 35: 
 
 From thirty years old And Jesus Himself be- 
 
 and upward even unto gan to be about thirty 
 
 fifty, every one that en- years of age. And He 
 
 tereth into the service preached from the pro- 
 
 for the work in the phet Esaias. The Spirit 
 
 tabernacle of the con- of the Lord is upon Me, 
 
 gregation. because He hath an- 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 23 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 NUMBERS— Continued. 
 
 nointed Me to preach 
 the gospel to the poor. 
 He hath sent Me to heal 
 the broken-hearted, to 
 preach deliverance to 
 the captives, and recov- 
 ering of sight to the 
 blind, to set at liberty 
 them that are bruised, 
 to preach the accepta- 
 ble year of the Lord. 
 Then Jesus said to them 
 who heard him, "This 
 day is this scripture ful- 
 filled in your ears. The 
 prophet Esaias spoke 
 this of Christ. ,, 
 
24 
 
 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 NUMBERS— Continued. 
 Chap. 8: 
 
 And the Lord spake Christ's age is given 
 
 unto Moses. when He began to 
 
 The lamps, the age preach, 
 
 and time of the service We should follow this 
 
 of the Priest. rule. 
 
 [This may also mean Christ kept the Pass- 
 
 our Chapter 9.] over. 
 
 The Passover is com- 
 
 manded again. 
 
 Chap. 13: 
 
 And the Lord spake True priest must be 
 unto Moses. called to preach by God. 
 
 The names of the 
 men who were sent to 
 search the land. 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 
 
 25 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew, in the New Testament. 
 
 NUMBERS— Continued. 
 
 Chap. 17: 
 
 Aaron's rod. Christ the son of 
 
 David. 
 Chap. 19: 
 
 The water of separa- The uncleanness of a 
 
 tion made of the ashes of dead body, be the body 
 
 the red heifer. man or beast. 
 
 Chap. 22: 
 
 And the children of 
 Israel set forward. 
 
 The story of Balah 
 and Balaam — read Ba- 
 laam's parable in verse 
 19 to 25 — in our 23d 
 Chapter — u God is not 
 a man that He should 
 lie, neither the son of 
 
26 
 
 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 N UMBERS— Continued. 
 
 Verse 40 : 
 
 And Balah offered 
 oxen and sheep. 
 
 man that He should re- 
 pent ; hath He said, and 
 shall lie not do it." 
 
 This is a strong proof 
 of inspiration. The man 
 could not speak any 
 words but those God 
 gave him to speak con- 
 cerning Israel's people. 
 
 Chap. 26, Verses 9, 10, 1 1 
 and 41: 
 Those who strove Those who strive 
 against Moses were against God will be de- 
 swallowed by the earth stroyed. Their children 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 27 
 
 Words with the mysteri- W hat I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 NUMBERS— Continued. 
 
 with Korah. The chil- if they obey God will 
 
 dren of Korah died not. not die. 
 
 The sons of Benjamin 
 after their families were 
 45,600. 
 
 Chap. 30 : 
 
 Vows are not to be In the New Testa- 
 broken. Moses told the ment I find vow not at 
 children of Israel all all, but if you make a 
 that the Lord com- vow keep it. 
 manded Moses. 
 
 Chap. 33: 
 
 The journey of the Our life on this earth 
 
 Israelites. is only a journey. 
 
28 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 DEUTERONOMY. 
 
 Chap. 4, Verses 22, 23: 
 
 Moses — " But I must Christ died on this 
 
 die in this land." He earth in the human 
 
 tells them : Take heed body, that we might live 
 
 unto yourselves — make in heaven. 
 
 no graven image which He told those who be- 
 
 God has forbidden thee, lieved Him, to take heed 
 
 unto themselves, that 
 they keep His com- 
 mandments. 
 
 Verse 45 : 
 
 The testimonies, the And when He is come, 
 statutes, the judg- He will reprove the 
 ments. world of sin, and of 
 
 righteousness, and of 
 judgment. Of sin, be- 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 29 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 DEUTERONOMY— Continued. 
 
 cause they believe not 
 on Me. Of righteous- 
 ness, because I go to My 
 Father, and ye see Me 
 no more. Of judgment, 
 because the prince of 
 this world is judged. 
 Chap. 8, Verses ii, 12: 
 
 Beware that thou for- And Jesus looked 
 get not the Lord thy God, round about, and saith 
 in not keeping His com- unto His disciples, how 
 mandments, and judg- hardly shall they that 
 ments, and His statutes, have riches enter into 
 lest when thou prosper the kingdom of God. 
 in everything thou for- 
 get God. 
 
30 
 
 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 Words with the mysteri- W hat I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 DEUTERONOMY— Continued. 
 
 Chap, io, Verse io: 
 
 Moses and I stayed in And Jesus was in the 
 
 the mount forty days desert forty days and 
 
 and forty nights, that forty nights, bearing 
 
 the Lord would not de- the temptations, that 
 
 stroy thee. the Lord would not de- 
 stroy us. 
 
 Either Chap. 12, Verse 
 26, or Chap. 13, 
 Verse 26: 
 
 Holy things in a holy 
 place. 
 
 Directions about 
 money. 
 
 Give not that which 
 is holy unto dogs. 
 
 Cast not your pearls 
 before swine. 
 
 Give money to the 
 temple of God. 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 
 
 3i 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 DEUTERONOMY— Continued. 
 
 Chap. 18, Verses 17, 18: 
 
 And the Lord said Jesus Christ is the 
 unto' me: They have Prophet. He goes be- 
 well spoken. I will raise fore us in spirit, as Mo- 
 them up a Prophet from S es led the people from 
 among their brethren, Egypt. He was of the 
 like unto Moses, and I Hebrew people. He 
 will put My words in was the word of God. 
 his mouth, and he shall He spoke the words of 
 speak unto them all that God. 
 I shall command him. Jesus saith, " My meet 
 
 is to do the will of Him 
 that sent Me and to fin- 
 ish His work. 
 
 "As the Father gave 
 Me commandment, even 
 so I do." 
 
32 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 Woras with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 DEUTERONOMY— Continued. 
 
 Chap. 22, Verses 10, n, 
 and 12: 
 
 About garments — not They parted the gar- 
 
 of woolen and linen ments of Christ when 
 
 together. they crucified Him. 
 
 Chap. 26: 
 
 Offer the first fruits Offer your first thanks 
 
 to God, and remember to God from a pure 
 
 that God had given heart, and remember 
 
 them a land to dwell in, that He made us free 
 
 and be free. by Christ. 
 
 Chap. 29: 
 
 Moses exhorteth them Christ said: The 
 
 to obedience by the works which the Father 
 
 memory of the works hath given Me to finish, 
 
 they have seen. the same works that I 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 33 
 
 Words with the mysteri- What I find them to mean 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 DEUTERONOMY— Continued. 
 
 do, bear witness of Me, 
 
 that the Father hath 
 
 sent Me. 
 Chap. 30, Verses 8, 9: 
 
 God will bless and Those who keep the 
 
 have mercy upon all words of Christ will 
 
 who keep His command- God bless and have 
 
 ments and statutes. mercy upon. 
 
 Chap. 31: 
 
 Moses spake to all Christ foretold how 
 
 Israel. Told them his He must die, and also 
 
 age, and that he had said it was best for 
 
 been told by God that those who loved Him, 
 
 he himself would not for then He would send 
 
 go over Jordan, but that them the Holy Ghost, 
 they would go to the 
 
34 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 Words with the 7nysteri- What I find them to mea?i 
 
 ous dots in the Hebrew. in the New Testament. 
 
 DEUTERONOMY— Continued. 
 
 promised land and pos- 
 sess it. 
 
 Chap. 32: 
 
 Moses is to die in j esus Christ died on 
 
 Mount Nebo. Mount Calvary. 
 
 Chap. 33: 
 
 Moses blessed the Christ, " while He 
 
 children of Israel before blessed them, He was 
 
 his death. parted from them, and 
 
 carried up into heaven.'' 
 And He also said: " Go 
 ye, and teach all nations, 
 baptizing them in the 
 name of the Father and 
 of the Son, and of the 
 Holy Ghost." 
 
THE 
 
 RELIGIONS OF THE EAST 
 
 OF THIS DAY: 
 
 WHAT THEIR ROOT DECLARES 
 THEM TO BE. 
 
 1892 
 
 E. O. G. 
 
BUDDHA. 
 
 If Buddha was born about 620 B.C. and died 
 543 B.C., he must have taught his disciples that 
 Christ was expected to come to this earth, and he 
 must have told them when to look for Him. And 
 these disciples taught others, as they were taught. 
 
 So, this being true, "the wise men from the 
 
 East" came to find Christ at the right time. 
 
 " Where is He that is born King of the Jews, 
 for we have seen His star in the East, and are 
 come to worship Him ?" The star which they saw 
 in the East went before them, until it came and 
 stood over where the young Child was; when they 
 saw the star they rejoiced with exceeding great 
 joy. 
 
 Certainly these wise men expected Christ, they 
 knew of the prophecy of Christ's coming. 
 
 Now the Buddhists say that Buddha was a wise 
 man, pitiful, and honored; and in their ignorance 
 
3S THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 of Christ, they call Buddha the saviour of the 
 
 world. 
 
 They knew a Saviour was promised, and that a 
 star would lead them to find Him. So in their 
 book of legends they speak of a star about the 
 time of the birth of their Buddha, and many other 
 things which were prophesied about Christ, which 
 proves that they knew of the prophecies of Christ. 
 
 How is it that they missed receiving Christ— 
 that is, understanding about prophecies ? 
 
 Their wise men who returned from Jerusalem 
 must have carried home the news of the birth of 
 
 Christ. 
 
 If the Buddhists compare their Buddha to the 
 true Christ, they will find that their Buddha is 
 without the Divine nature of Christ. 
 
 If their religion is so lost that extravagances 
 disfigure the record, should they not strive to look 
 back in their records, and see if it is not Christ 
 whose life and character as a man, whose miracles 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 39 
 
 and death and resurrection as God; whose great 
 mercy and love for mankind as a Saviour they 
 have in their mistake imputed to their Buddha ? 
 
 THE KEY TO THEOSOPHY. 
 By H. P. Blavatsky. 
 
 Having read the above book, I turn to the New 
 Testament to think and study this book. I find 
 this: Christ came to this earth by the Divine 
 Spirit; which strived with mankind, which was 
 dimly seen by men, understood by no people, un- 
 til Christ the Divine took upon Him the nature of 
 man. Because churches and dogmas have lost 
 their way from Christ's teachings and life on this 
 earth, is no reason that His teachings and life were 
 in vain. The self-sacrifice of theosophy does not 
 equal the self-sacrifice which Christ teaches. The 
 theosophy idea of punishment for evil done by 
 each individual corresponds to the purgatory idea. 
 
4 o THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 All true thinkers realize that evil must have a 
 punishment here and in the next world. 
 
 As I believe in individual souls or spirits, I think 
 the punishment will be hereafter in the full per- 
 ception of the evil we have done, until circle after 
 circle of evil dies away, like the circles made by 
 the stone dropped into the placid lake— they ex- 
 tend very far, but they at last die away. How- 
 ever, we have been told that the soul that sinnest, 
 
 it shall die. 
 
 Now if it is true that these Eastern religions 
 are obscure as to their commencement, there is 
 but one conclusion about it, which is this: The 
 wise men from the East who journeyed to Jerusa- 
 lem to find Christ, whom they called the King of 
 the Jews, the word king meaning the highest, the 
 head of a nation, the crown of the only one 
 worthy of a crown. These men knew the prophe- 
 cies about Christ, they were learned men, and 
 they knew partly what Christ's mission on this 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 41 
 
 earth was to be at His coming, and unless they had 
 been taught of God, and been spiritual men, be- 
 sides learned, they never would have expected at 
 that time and looked for the Christ. They must 
 have taught when they returned to the East all 
 that they understood what the coming of Christ 
 was to mean. 
 
 Now the East, not having held fast to the true 
 teachings of these wise men, has lost the simple 
 and plain and beautiful rudiments of Christ's 
 teachings. 
 
 It is hard to believe that those wise men after 
 finding Christ whom they had long expected, did 
 not take means to follow and know the life and 
 death of the same Christ whom they had found 
 when He was only a child — try to understand His 
 human and Divine life, human death, and at the 
 last Divine life. The East loosing what the wise 
 men taught them, their religion became obscure. 
 
 The theosophists say that they believe the soul, 
 
42 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 after the death of the body, enters another body 
 here on earth, so as through sufferings to be puri- 
 fied from former sins. As they cannot know that this 
 is so, it makes very little difference. We know that 
 nothing is impossible to God, and all thinking 
 souls know that punishment of some kind is due to 
 sin, that sin cannot enter heaven, and that sin 
 makes its own punishment, and not that God makes 
 the punishment, and that the soul that sinnest 
 (which is so much worse than the sins of the body) 
 it shall die. 
 
 No one but the soul and the spirit from God 
 knows that the soul has sin; between these two is 
 the sin known. This is the inward mind and 
 thought towards God. 
 
 Theosophists say that prayer kills self-reliance. 
 
 We say, on the contrary, prayer, secret and 
 silent, is the only thing to give self-reliance 
 Prayer is almost always " Help me to do — 
 or not to do, a thing," "Help me to understand 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 43 
 
 and judge rightly," " Help me to act and think 
 rightly," "Give me courage, give me faith," 
 " Direct and guide me," " Leave me not alone, 
 support and comfort me." And we say, " accord- 
 ing to our faith it will be unto us." If I have a 
 case in which I must act in haste, I must in soul 
 ask in haste for judgment as to how I must act. I 
 believe I am guided, and I act. The final result 
 of my action I can not see at once, but I will see 
 it sooner or later. 
 
 Those who have not the habit of making a quick 
 and sudden prayer, may say that prayer kills self- 
 reliance, but others know that it does just the re- 
 verse. Theosophy has taken from the New Testa- 
 ment all that it has of good, and does not ac- 
 knowledge that it owes all it knows of good to 
 Christ. 
 
44 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 IN NATIVE LIFE IN SOUTH INDIA. 
 By Henry Rice. 
 
 We find " the Brahmins belong to the Aryan 
 race, and came into South India about the be- 
 ginning of the Christian era. They are fair 
 featured, handsome and well built, courtly and 
 polished in their manners, but haughty and 
 crafty. 
 
 "Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of 
 Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold there 
 came wise men from the East to Jerusalem, saying, 
 ' Where is He that is born King of the Jews ? for 
 we have seen His star in the East, and are come to 
 worship Him/ and when they were come into 
 the house they saw the young Child with 
 Mary, His mother, and fell down and wor- 
 shipped Him, and when they had opened their 
 treasures (what they valued most) they presented 
 unto Him gifts, gold and frankincense and myrrh, 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 45 
 
 and being warned of God in a dream that they 
 should not return to Herod they departed into their 
 own country another way." 
 
 They went to South India, not to the north of 
 India, and the pure faith of the Brahmins at its 
 root, was faith in Christ. 
 
 Now the wise men who went to Jerusalem 
 guided by a star, perhaps were the Brahmins 
 from India, where it is supposed that every one 
 has a guardian star — or that a star appears in the 
 heavens for the first time at the birth of some 
 important person. 
 
 These men had heard through the prophets of 
 the promise that Christ should be born in the 
 nation of the Jews, and after finding the young 
 Child they returned to their country another way. 
 
 They did not wait to see and learn by the life of 
 Christ the full meaning of His birth and death, 
 but they carried back this much, that a Son had 
 been born who would save the race of mankind 
 
46 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 from their sins, and through this Son alone man- 
 kind would enter heaven. Hence their idea that 
 a man must have a son, and not a daughter, for 
 the sake of eternal life hereafter. This idea can 
 be found in " High Caste Hindu Women," a book 
 written by a Hindu woman — Rahabai. 
 
 Although the code of Manu contains a single 
 passage in which it is written "A daughter is 
 equal to a son" (See Manu, ix., 130), the context 
 expressly declares that equality to be founded 
 upon the results attainable through her son; the 
 passage, therefore, cannot be regarded as an ex- 
 ception to the statement that the ancient code 
 establishes the superiority of male children. A 
 son is the most coveted of all blessings that a 
 Hindu craves, for it is by a son's birth in the fam- 
 ily that the father is redeemed. 
 
 " Through a son he conquers the worlds, through a son's 
 son he obtains immortality, but through his son's grandson 
 he gains the world of the sun."— Manu, ix., 137- 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 47 
 
 " There is no place for a man (in heaven) who is destitute 
 of male offspring." — Vast's ht ha, xvii., 2. 
 
 If a man is sonless, it is desirable that he should 
 have a daughter, for her son stands in the place of 
 a son to his grandfather, through whom the grand- 
 father may obtain salvation. 
 
 * ' Between a son's son and the son of a daughter there 
 exists in this world no difference; for even the son of a 
 daughter saves him who has no sons, in the next world, 
 like the son's son." — Manu, ix., 139. 
 
 Does not this mean that the Hindu race may 
 remember certain teachings and beliefs, come 
 down to them in their early religion, partly lost 
 and not fully understood ? such as, it is by a son's 
 birth on this earth that mankind will be redeemed; 
 through this son we will conquer the world; we 
 will obtain immortality; we enter heaven through 
 the son, but our son is the Son of God. The 
 Hindus seem to have a dim idea of the great 
 
48 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 truth, in what they have to say about life in the 
 next world. 
 
 Some day the whole truth may break upon their 
 minds, and they will know that the true Son who 
 redeems the world is Jesus Christ, and by Him 
 alone they will conquer themselves and obtain 
 immortality — and also understand that Jesus 
 raised woman to a great height, far above man, 
 when He was born of a woman. 
 
 VISHNU. SHIVA. SURAJA. 
 
 These three essences make the god of the 
 Buddhists. 
 
 This is doubtless a dim idea of the Trinity. 
 
 Then, again, their legend of Buddha giving 
 himself to feed the starving tigress, so as to save 
 the life of the tigress and of her young, is also 
 some dim idea of Christ leaving heaven to give 
 Himself by death to save mankind alive, and a 
 
IN THE HEBREW BIBLE. 49 
 
 mankind which was not much above a tigress and 
 her young. 
 
 Also they say the prince of darkness sought to 
 shake their Buddha's mind. This is doubtless a 
 dim idea of Christ's temptation in the desert. 
 
 Their Nirvana means forgetfulness of this life's 
 evil; they try to explain that their soul as well as 
 their body dies, but that their spirit lives forever. 
 They simpfy mean, what we believe, that the 
 spark from. God which is in us, be it called soul or 
 spirit, can never die, since it is a spark from God. 
 
 In all these Eastern religions, which I have 
 carefully read, I find at the root of them all is the 
 same belief — which is nothing more or less than 
 the religion of Christ — in fact, the best in all is 
 taken from the New Testament, that is, in the 
 books written since the New Testament. In the 
 ,"Key to Theosophy," they quote from the New 
 Testament, use the words found in the New Tes- 
 tament, and then claim that an older religion than 
 
50 THE DOTTED WORDS 
 
 the Christian religion has been quoted by the 
 followers of Christ, forgetting that the Divine 
 nature of Christ was before the world was made. 
 
 E. O. G. 
 
 End. 
 
 j 
 
rfif 
 
i,!SSA RY 0F CONGRESS 
 
 022 208 246 8