Switzerland

80:7.11An­other great colony set­tled on the Med­i­ter­ra­nean near the later site of Carthage. And from north Africa large num­bers of And­ites en­tered Spain and later min­gled in Switzer­land with their breth­ren who had ear­lier come to Italy from the Aegean Is­lands.

132:7.3It was on the visit to Switzer­land, up in the moun­tains, that Je­sus had an all-day talk with both fa­ther and son about Bud­dhism. Many times Ga­nid had asked Je­sus di­rect ques­tions about Bud­dha, but he had al­ways re­ceived more or less eva­sive replies. Now, in the pres­ence of the son, the fa­ther asked Je­sus a di­rect ques­tion about Bud­dha, and he re­ceived a di­rect re­ply. Said Gonod: “I would re­ally like to know what you think of Bud­dha.” And Je­sus an­swered:

185:1.6It is sig­nif­i­cant that, while this vac­il­lat­ing Ro­man ruler sac­ri­ficed Je­sus to his fear of the Jews and to safe­guard his per­sonal po­si­tion, he fi­nally was de­posed as a re­sult of the need­less slaugh­ter of Samar­i­tans in con­nec­tion with the pre­ten­sions of a false Mes­siah who led troops to Mount Ger­izim, where he claimed the tem­ple ves­sels were buried; and fierce ri­ots broke out when he failed to re­veal the hid­ing place of the sa­cred ves­sels, as he had prom­ised. As a re­sult of this episode, the lega­tus of Syria or­dered Pi­late to Rome. Tiberius died while Pi­late was on the way to Rome, and he was not reap­pointed as procu­ra­tor of Judea. He never fully re­cov­ered from the re­gret­ful con­dem­na­tion of hav­ing con­sented to the cru­ci­fix­ion of Je­sus. Find­ing no fa­vor in the eyes of the new em­peror, he re­tired to the prov­ince of Lau­sanne, where he sub­se­quently com­mit­ted sui­cide.

85:2.4Ideas about tree spir­its var­ied greatly among dif­fer­ent tribes and races. Some trees were in­dwelt by kindly spir­its; oth­ers har­bored the de­cep­tive and cruel. The Finns be­lieved that most trees were oc­cu­pied by kind spir­its. The Swiss long mis­trusted the trees, be­liev­ing they con­tained tricky spir­its. The in­hab­i­tants of In­dia and east­ern Rus­sia re­gard the tree spir­its as be­ing cruel. The Patag­o­ni­ans still wor­ship trees, as did the early Semites. Long af­ter the He­brews ceased tree wor­ship, they con­tin­ued to ven­er­ate their var­i­ous de­i­ties in the groves. Ex­cept in China, there once ex­isted a uni­ver­sal cult of the tree of life.

80:8.3The tribes that dwelt in houses erected on piles or log piers over the lakes of Italy, Switzer­land, and south­ern Eu­rope were the ex­pand­ing fringes of the African, Aegean, and, more es­pe­cially, the Danu­bian mi­gra­tions.