What else is not new? The matras and kundalini fires to be tamed did not exclude consciousness, because it was from it. The dharma , and the karmic involvement also played a part, the humanness, of being a man was also part and parcel, but so what, how mere processes of controlling human feelings exclude sinlessness, just tell me two thousand years ago?
The God in a man like Jesus saw the connect between the pleasure and the death to the soul, and he may have felt he always knew the meaning of Nichiren’s description of Buddha when he maintained that he never died, except he needed followers to believe that he did,
Otherwise how could he claim immortality? You have them to think you die to believe you can resurrect! Especially when belief was strictly seen as a requires without which there was no faith in the matter.
That made IT last through the ages, and think about it, at least it prevented fear, to form projective judgement early on to nihil all progression onward, it had to wait until IT died, for lack of the use of the senses, that memory followed that death by denial.
Denial ironically followed the sense of sight, an expected reverse trespass, otherwise the Jews could never had passed over.
Now memory is reinvented by simulation that familiar sense of absolute faith by who other?
Kierkegaard was the greatest thinker to negative nihilism, by reminding an ontology of simulated reps.
The eternal slavery to the senses (existence) was severed, the doubly edged blade separated that pre-existent being, so that simulation can save man and his fate in God. The second covenant was lifted out and upward toward the fate,