The Washington times., 1921-09-04

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lOgianS Assert, After a
Lengthy Inquiry.
desire to see His native land and
His parents had been satisfied. and
the boy wished to return to Egypt.
He then met Benan. the priest
physician. the author Of the letters
to straton. In fact, Jesus was
often in Bsnan's company and for
hours conversed with him upon the
one God. described his conception
Of the Deity AZ the beneficial and
perfect Father.
"In Egypt. according to Benan.
Jesus was known a. Jehosohua.
Like his newly found friend Jesus
learned the art Of medicine and
practiced it. He acquired . great
reputation on account of his won
derful cures.
AT the age Of twenty-six. Jeho-
sohua, or Jesus. was visited by His
famous friend and co-beiiever. Philo
Of Alexandria The two held q
conference lasting ten days upon
religious questions. Jesus was al.
ready familiar with the teaching Of
the Jewish sect of Therapeutics.
and His religious conceptions were
greatly influenced by their doctrine.
Jesus remained in Egypt for
many years and during that period
had . romantic courtship with
Asartis. the daughter of q wealthy
grain merchant, by the name Of
senba. Then Pinehas. his Hebrew
master, died.. and I'm compliance
with his death-bed request, Jesus
left Asartis and Egypt and re-
turned to the land of His fathers
to practice medicine and teach His
own people His new religious con-
ceptions.
Three years passed and NJ
Ranebchru.. His early benefactor.
had not heard from Christ, the
arch-priest Of Heliopoiis dispatched
Benan to Palestine to learn and re-
port as to what became of Jesus.
Both Benan and Ranebchru were
filled with forebodings.
SAW" THE CRUCIFIxI0N.
''In haste Benan Journeyed to
Jerusalem, and arrived there. alas!
on the very day Of the crucifixion.
Benan was present at the sepulchre
on the day Of Christ's resurrection;
he witnessed the temperance OF
Jesus and His lament over Jerusa-
iem-and returned to Egypt. Raneb-
chru. the Egyptian high priest. on
learning Of Jesus fate, wept bittrly
and held formal death ceremonies in
honor Of his former pupil.
while the priestly chapter held
death ceremonies in honor Of Jesus,
the Star Of Phoenix appeared In the
Temple Of the Sun in Heliopoiis.
Ranebchru interpreted this phenom-
enon as q testimony to the immor-
tality Of his youthful ward"
Nov let us question, how did
Won der Pianitz come to dis
cover this precious document?
How did he happen to find such
a literary relic of such great i'm
portance which had escaped the
notice of early Christian historians
and their successors for centuries?
Won der Pianitz's account reads
like q novel, more wonderful than
the Benan letters themselves. Ac-
croding TO Planitz the document
was unearthed In 1850 in the Coptic
original text with the marginal tes-
timony that It was based upon a
lost Greek original.
The original discoverer Of the pre-
cious document is, according to Won
der Planitz, the scholar and uni
versal , historian Freiherr Won
Rabenou, who died in Munich in
1879 at the age, Of eishty-two.
Pianitz says that Won Rabenau
chanced upon the roll Of papyrus
containing the original Coptic man.
uscript, among the ruins of the
village Nit Kahaine, south Of
Cairo, and after almost unsur.
mountabie difficulties, with the as
sistance OF his pupil, Won der Plan
itz, pieced together tho badly mu-
tilatsd scroll. Then they deciph-
cred and translated II. Won der
Pianitz further says that Rabenau,
his master. died In Paris while he
himself was making further inves-
legations at the Louvre.
SACRED QUESTION MOCKED.
Then comes the flimsy apology
a "a -