The World’s Religions

131:0.1Dur­ing the Alexan­drian so­journ of Je­sus, Gonod, and Ga­nid, the young man spent much of his time and no small sum of his fa­ther’s money mak­ing a col­lec­tion of the teach­ings of the world’s re­li­gions about God and his re­la­tions with mor­tal man. Ga­nid em­ployed more than three­score learned trans­la­tors in the mak­ing of this ab­stract of the re­li­gious doc­trines of the world con­cern­ing the De­i­ties. And it should be made plain in this rec­ord that all these teach­ings por­tray­ing mono­the­ism were largely de­rived, di­rectly or in­di­rectly, from the preach­ments of the mis­sion­ar­ies of Ma­chi­venta Mel­chiz­e­dek, who went forth from their Salem head­quar­ters to spread the doc­trine of one God—the Most High—to the ends of the earth.

131:0.2There is pre­sented here­with an ab­stract of Ga­nid’s man­u­script, which he pre­pared at Alexan­dria and Rome, and which was pre­served in In­dia for hun­dreds of years af­ter his death. He col­lected this ma­te­rial un­der ten heads, as fol­lows: