Journaling and Doodling

The adoration of the Wise Men is far more significant than merely another scene of pageantry recognizing the holy birth. It was the defining stamp of God placed on the life of Jesus that would in future characterize his mission and message—a reminder that Jesus was born in the Orient, an Oriental Christ; and that his teachings bore the influence of the Eastern culture and customs . There is a very strong tradition in India, authoritatively known amongst high metaphysicians in tales well told and written in ancient manuscripts, that the wise men of the East who made their way to the infant Jesus in Bethlehem were, in fact , great sages of India. Not only did the Indian masters come to Jesus, but he reciprocated their visit.During the unaccounted - for years of Jesus’ life—the Scripture remains silent about him from approximately ages fourteen to thirty—he journeyed to India, probably travelling the well-established trade route that linked the. Mediterranean with China and India. His own God-realization, reawakened and reinforced in the company ot the masters and the spiritual environs of India, provided a background of the universality of truth from which he could preach a simple, open message comprehensible to the masses of his native country, yet with underlying meanings that would be appreciated in generations to come as the infancy of man’s mind would mature in understanding.