ON EASTERN CROSSROADS: LEGENDS AND PROPHECIES OF ASIA (1st, 1930)

Item Details

New York, Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930, Softcover

1st edition, Very Good+

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1930. Softcover, 8 by 5.25 inches, bound in plain blue wrapers, dust jacket missing xii, 152pages.

Cover with some fading and very light shelf wear to the edges, pages FINE

 

Foreword to the first edition (1930)

In the traditions of all peoples there have been legends of pilgrims who set stones along their path in order to find their way back to the source. “On Eastern Crossroads,” by Josephine Saint-Hilaire, may be regarded in this light, and we feel that each of these superb fragments so carefully gathered by her adds its sparks to the texture of truth, and reveals the steps of the most ancient traditions. In the variety of subjects, in the work, there is no feeling of a personal impress; it is like a wreath of flowers, gathered not with special concern for the specimens, but out of love for the beauty of the entire meadow. One may feel how during many travels each new contribution to the work was added without any negative thought, and thus was gradually filled the collector’s bag of benevolence.

It is valuable to feel that no one is urged to accept these traditions in any one direction. But readers may be enriched in their intuition regarding the constructive aspects of the story of mankind. Thus we see how the minds of the nations collected and preserved for ages the great images as evolving sparks of their genius.

These sparks should be guarded with equal solicitude by ourselves and our posterity. It is chiefly necessary that we should regard with reverence these traditions, nor demean them, but let us apply them to our spiritual necessities in the most constructive and most appreciative way. Thus, let the travelers from the past salute the future!

 

Contents:

A Page from the Sacred History of the Lord Buddha

• The Beginning of the Path

• The Predestined Maitreya

• Departure

• Commands

• The Elected for Achievement

• Buddha’s Favorite Pastime With His Disciples

• The Foundation of the Teaching

• The Renunciation of Possession

• The Condemnation of Fanatics

• Three Arhats

• Shepherd and Sannyasin

• The Trader of Monkeys

• A Parable About the One Who Questioned

• The Wheel of the Law

• The Sense of Necessity

• The Seeker for Buddha

• To the Great Illumined

• The Rescue of Man

• Parable of the King of Maragor

• Precepts to the Ruler of Rajagriha

From the Life of Christ

• The Star

• The Way of Christ

• The Arrival of Christ

• The Signs of Christ

• The Story of Mary Magdalene

• The Scribes

• The Questioner of Cinedrion

• Eyes—Open Wounds

The Mother of the World

• The Mother of the World

• The Effulgence of the Mother of the World

• The Command

• The Play of the Mother of the World

• The Fiery Shield

• The Fiery Veil

Apollonius of Tyana

• The Visit of Apollonius to the North of India

• The Passing of Apollonius

From the Life of St. Sergius of Radonega

• The Proclamation of the Mother Celestial

• Sayings of Sergius

• The Travail of Sergius

• Foresight of Sergius

Akbar the Great

• The Silvery Messenger

• The Help of Heaven

• The Commanders

• Enemies

• Invisibly Visible

Legends and Lore

• A Tale of Cosmogony

• The Messenger of Light

• Seven Servants

• The Citadel of Loyalty

• Reverence to the Teacher

• Milarepa

• The Hermit

• Batur-Baksha

• The White Mountain

• Arrows of Thoughts

• The Thought of the World

• The Source of Patience

• The Keeper of the Seven Gates

• The Flaming One

• The Gift of Darkness

• The Reward

• Two Pitris

Prince of Darkness

• Lucifer

Gold and Darkness

• Gold

• Darkness

Legend of the Stone

• Legend of the Stone

Prophecies of Shambhala and Maitreya

• Prophecies of Shambhala and Maitreya