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'''Gautama Buddha''', the “Compassionate One,” holds the office of [[Lord of the World]] (referred to as “God of the Earth” in [[Book of Revelation|Revelation]] 11:4), hierarch of the [[etheric retreat]] at [[Shamballa]] (over the Gobi desert), where he sustains the [[threefold flame]] of life for the evolutions of Earth. Gautama (who was embodied as Siddhartha Gautama c. 563 <small>B</small>.<small>C</small>.), is the great teacher of enlightenment through the soul’s mastery of the Ten Perfections, the [[Four Noble Truths]], and the [[Eightfold Path]], and sponsor of [[Summit University]] and of the mission of the [[Mother of the Flame]] to carry the torch of illumination for the age.

First he encountered a very old man, gray and decrepit, leaning on a staff; second, a pitiful one racked with disease, lying in the road; third, a corpse; and fourth, a yellow-robed monk with shaved head and a begging bowl. Much moved with compassion by the first three sights, he realized that life was subject to old age, disease, and death. The fourth sight signified to him the possibility of overcoming these conditions and inspired him to leave the world he knew in order to find a solution for suffering.  

== Asceticism ==

== The Bo tree ==

One day Sujata, a villager’s daughter, fed him a rich rice milk—a “meal so wondrous ... that our Lord felt strength and life return as though the nights of watching and the days of fast had passed in dream.”<ref>Edwin Arnold, ''The Light of Asia'' (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., 1930), p. 96.</ref> And then he set out alone for the Bo tree (abbreviation for bodhi, or enlightenment) at a place now called Buddh Gaya, or Bodh Gaya, where he vowed to remain until fully illumined. Hence, it has become known as the Immovable Spot.  

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