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Why was mention of Jesus' name omitted by all contemporary historians, which could not have been the case if he had secured a really wide following? Why did the Buddha, when speaking of the Messianic teacher Metteya who would come in the far-off future, say: "He shall gather round him a following of brethren that numbers many thousands, just as I have gathered round me a following of brethren that numbers many hundreds"? How relatively disproportionate were such hundreds when compared with the millions of his contemporaries!

-- Notebooks Category 17: The Religious Urge > Chapter 1 : Origin, Purpose of Religions > # 106