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Kircher’s Indo-Japanese divinities: Dainichi/Brahma (left) and Amida (right)

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Kircher collected information about Asian religions from diverse sources, but the input of his fellow Jesuit Heinrich Roth, a native of Augsburg and longtime resident of India, was crucial. Roth was one of the European missionaries who studied Sanskrit long before the British colonialists, and Kircher claimed that Roth “took the doctrines mainly from their arcane books. Some of these doctrines rather familiar to those who had read about Fo’s esoteric doctrine.

They say the universal is the nature of that supreme being itself. The particular in nature divided by particles into the variety of things. From this they conclude that there can be no generic or specific distinction of created things, but that everything is one and the same being. The natural universe is distinguished by particles, some of which may take the figue of a man, others a rock, and yet others a tree, and so on. They say that the matter worn by these particles is only deception. ~ Page 154

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