In the East there is an ancient legend
which has an application today and which holds the clue to the relation of the
Christ and of the Buddha; it concerns a service which, the legend says, the
Buddha will render Christ. In symbolic form, the legend runs that when the
Buddha reached enlightenment, and experience on Earth could teach Him no more,
He looked ahead to the time when His Brother, the Christ, would be active in
the Great Service—as it is called. In order, therefore, to aid the Christ, He
left behind Him (for His use) what are mysteriously called "His
vestures." He bequeathed and left [Page 101]
in some safe place the sum total of His emotional-intuitive nature, called by
some the astral body and the sum total of His knowledge and His thought, called
His mind or mental body. These, the legend says, will be assumed by the Coming
One and prove of service, supplementing Christ's Own emotional and mental
equipment and providing Him with what He needs as the Teacher of the East as
well as of the West. He can then with strength and success contemplate His
future work and choose His workers. There is something of this same idea latent
in the injunction given in The New Testament, "Let this mind be in you
which was also in Christ." (Phil. II:5.)
(Alice
Bailey, The Reappearance of the Christ)
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