Events at Alexandria 

Jesus, Gonod, and Ganid left Cesarea and made a pleasant journey by boat to Alexandria in Egypt. At that time, Alexandria was the maritime commercial crossroads of Africa, Asia, and Europe. Alexander had created two harbors by building a peninsula, on which perched the world’s first lighthouse, the Great Lighthouse of Pharos, which was one of the seven wonders of the world. As they viewed this marvelous lifesaving construction, Jesus said to Ganid, “And you, my son, will be like this lighthouse when you return to India, even after your father is laid to rest; you will become like the light of life to those who sit about you in darkness, showing all who so desire the way to reach the harbor of salvation in safety."

Next to Rome, Alexandria was the largest and most magnificent city in the world with one million people, boasting a broad avenue one hundred feet wide and five miles long. This grand city held many attractions, including the university (museum), the library, the royal mausoleum of Alexander, the palace, the Temple of Neptune, a theater, and a gymnasium.

Alexandria was the city of the blended culture of the Occident and, next to Rome, the largest and most magnificent in the world. Here was the largest Jewish synagogue in the world, the seat of government of the Alexandria Sanhedrin, the seventy ruling elders.

While Gonod attended to business, Jesus and Ganid visited the greatest library in the world, which contained nearly a million manuscripts from Greece, Rome, Palestine, Parthia, China, Japan, and the largest collection of Indian literature in existence.

During their daily studies at the Alexandria library, Jesus and Ganid explored the world’s religions. Jesus endeavored to point out the truth in each one, while also adding that the religion of the Hebrews had the clearest idea of God as a Heavenly Father. Ganid began making a collection of the teachings of every religion that recognized one God. He completed a manuscript based on his study of the world's religions near the end of their stay in Rome. This manuscript was preserved in India for hundreds of years after Ganid’s death.

After much discussion, Jesus and Ganid concluded that the Romans worshipped emperors and had no real God. They concluded that Greeks had a philosophy but not a personal God. They abandoned mystery cults because of their confusion and their varied concepts of Deity, which seemed to be borrowed from older religions.

Jesus and Ganid visited the museum, a university of fine art, literature, and science. This was the intellectual center of the world, where learned professors lectured daily, and Jesus interpreted these lectures for Ganid. Although Ganid insisted that Jesus was more knowledgeable than these teachers, Jesus refused to lecture, saying, “The true teacher maintains his intellectual integrity by ever remaining a learner."

Among the many men with whom Gonod transacted business was a certain Jewish banker, Alexander, whose brother, Philo, was a well-known religious philosopher who worked to reconcile Greek philosophy and Jewish theology. Ganid and Jesus hoped to attend some of his lectures, but this famous Hellenistic Jew was ill throughout their stay.