How Did Gautama Desire to Become Buddha?

The story goes that Gautama and his friends sought enlightenment.  What indicated to them that there was enlightenment to be had, and the techniques by which to attain it? The previous Buddha. They all knew about him. J. Garnier (The Worship of the Dead) concludes that the first Buddha was Noah. And Noah is God in us. Buddha is man's awareness that he is/we are God. God has become us, and thus we are him in this ignorance. This in mental application and practical expression is Christianity per Mark, the Indian Buddhist missionary who learned Judaism better than the Jews. Christianity, in my opinion, is rightly - ought to be - reformed Jewish Buddhism. This is why Mark presents Buddha as Jesus, the Jewish YHWH.

It is not that there is no God, but that there is no God other than the one who has become us. Center yourself in awareness of this fact, for this is salvation.