[732] A. Wilder: “Neo-platonism and Alchemy.”

[733] Iamblichus was the founder of the Neo-platonic theurgy.

[734] See the “Sketch of the Eclectic Philosophy of the Alexandrian School.”

[735] See “Medium and Daybreak,” July 7, 1876, p. 428.

[736] In Volume II., we will distinctly prove that the Old Testament mentions the worship of more than one god by the Israelites. The El-Shadi of Abraham and Jacob was not the Jehovah of Moses, or the Lord God worshipped by them for forty years in the wilderness. And the God of Hosts of Amos is not, if we are to believe his own words, the Mosaic God, the Sinaïtic deity, for this is what we read: “I hate, I despise your feast-days ... your meat-offerings, I will not accept them.... Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?... No, but ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun (Saturn), your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.... Therefore, will I cause you to go into captivity ... saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts” (Amos v. 21-27).

[737] Chapter xviii.

[738] This word “up” from the spirit of a prophet whose abode ought certainly to be in heaven and who therefore ought to have said “to bring me down,” is very suggestive in itself to a Christian, who locates paradise and hell at two opposite points.

[739] Ezekiel iii. 12-14.

[740] William Howitt: “History of the Supernatural,” vol. ii., ch. i.

[741] Lib. i., Sat. 8.

[742] Porphyry: “Of Sacrifices.”

[743] Genesis xviii. i.

[744] Daniel x. 8.

[745] 1 Samuel, x. 6.

[746] Gospel according to John vii. 20.

[747] Our informant, who was an eye-witness, is Mr. N—— ff of St. Petersburg, who was attached to the flag-ship Almaz, if we are not mistaken.

[748] “What forces were in operation to cause this oscillation of the newspaper?” asks J. W. Phelps, who quotes the case—“These were the rapid upward motion of heated air, the downward motion of cold air, the translatory motion of the surface breeze, and the circular motion of the whirlwind. But how could these combine so as to produce the oscillation?” (Lecture on “Force Electrically Explained.”)

[749] “Revue des Deux Mondes,” p. 414, 1858.

[750] “Conservation of Energy,” p. 140.

[751] Eugenius Philalethes.

[752] “Book of Ser Marco Polo,” vol. i., p. 215.

[753] See “Sage’s Dictionnaire des Tissus,” vol. ii., pp. 1-12.

[754] “Book of Ser Marco Polo,” vol. i., p. 230.

[755] “Alchemy, or the Hermetic Philosophy,” p. 25.

[756] See Plutarch: “Symposiacs,” viii. 2. “Diogenianas began and said: ‘Let us admit Plato to the conference and inquire upon what account he says—supposing it to be his sentence—that God always plays the geometer.‘ I said: ‘This sentence was not plainly set down in any of his books; yet there are good arguments that it is his, and it is very much like his expression.’ Tyndares presently subjoined: ‘He praises geometry as a science that takes off men from sensible objects, and makes them apply themselves to the intelligible and Eternal Nature—the contemplation of which is the end of philosophy, as a view of the mysteries of initiation into holy rites.’”

[757] Prof. Ed. L. Youmans: “Descriptive Chemistry.”

[758] In ancient nations the Deity was a trine supplemented by a goddess—the arba-Ih, or fourfold God.

[759] Josiah Cooke: “The New Chemistry.”

[760] Prof. Sterry Hunt’s theory of metalliferous deposits contradicts this; but is it right?

[761] Peisse: “La Médecine et les Médecins,” vol. i., pp. 59, 283.

[762] “The Conservation of Energy.”

[763] Ibid., p. 136.

[764] Extracts from Robertus di Fluctibus in “The Rosicrucians.”

[765] “Philopseud.”

[766] Diog. Laert. in “Demokrit. Vitæ.”

[767] “Satyric. Vitrus D. Architect,” lib. ix., cap. iii.

[768] Pliny: “Hist. Nat.”

[769] “Conflict between Religion and Science.”

[770] “Book of Ser Marco Polo,” vol. i., pp. 133-135.

[771] “Dionysius of Halicarnassus.”

[772] See vol. ii., chap. 8.

[773] J. M. Peebles: “Around the World.“

[774] John Fiske: ” The North American Review,” art. The Laws of History, July 1869.

[775] J. M. Peebles: “Around the World.”

[776] Savary: “Letters on Egypt,” vol. ii., p. 67. London, 1786.

[777] John Fiske: “North American Review,” art. The Laws of History, July, 1869.

[778] Sir G. C. Lewis: “Astronomy of the Ancients.”

[779] J. Fiske: “North American Review,” art. The Laws of History.

[780] We shall attempt to demonstrate in Vol. II., chapter viii., that the ancient Æthiopians were never a Hamitic race.

[781] Servius: “Virgil,” Eclog. vi., v. 42.

[782] Ovid: “Fast.,” lib. iii., v. 285-346.

[783] “Titus Livius,” lib. i., cap. xxxi.

[784] Pliny: “Hist. Nat.,” lib. ii., cap. liii.

[785] Lucius: “Piso;” Pliny: “Hist. Nat.,” lib. xxviii., c. ii.

[786] “Columella,” lib. x., vers. 346, etc.

[787] See “Notice sur les Travaux de l’Academie du Gard,” part i., pp. 304-314, by la Boissière.

[788] “Bell. Jud. adv. Roman,” lib. v., cap. xiv.

[789] “Magasin Scientifique de Goëthingen,” 3me. année, 5me. cahier.

[790] “Ammian. Marcel.,” lib. xxiii., cap. vi.

[791] “Oupnek-hat,” Brahman xi.

[792] “Ktesias, in India ap. Photum.,” Bibl. Cod. lxxii.

[793] Buffon: “Histoire Naturelle des Mineraux,” 6me Mem., art. ii.

[794] “Egypt’s Place in Universal History,” vol. iv., p. 462.

[795] “Archæologia,” vol. xv., p. 320.

[796] Lib. ii., c. 50.

[797] Galen: “De Composit. Medec.,” lib. v.

[798] “Ancient Fragments:” see chapter on the Early Kings of Egypt.

[799] “Pliny,” lib. vii., c. 56.

[800] Jablonski: “Pantheon Ægypti.,” ii., Proleg. 10.

[801] Cicero: “De Divinatione.”

[802] “Telegraphic Journal,” art. Scientific Prophecy.

[803] Professor Albrecht Müller: “The First Traces of Man in Europe.” Says the author: “And this bronze age reaches to and overlaps the beginning of the historic period in some countries, and so includes the great epochs of the Assyrian and Egyptian Empires, B.C. circa 1500, and the earlier eras of the next succeeding age of iron.”

[804] “Conflict between Religion and Science,” chap. i.

[805] Psellus: “Chaldean Oracles,” 4, cxliv.

[806] Psellus: “Zoroast. Oracles,” 4.

[807] Proctor: “Saturn and the Sabbath of the Jews,” p. 309.

[808] Dioscorides: “Περι Ὑλης Ιατρικῆς,” lib. v., cap. clviii.

[809] Pliny: “Histoire Naturelle,” lib. xxxviii., cap. vii.

[810] Le P. Paulin de St. Barthelemi: “Voyage aux Indes Orientales,” vol. i., p. 358.

[811] Max Müller, Professor Wilson, and H. J. Bushby, with several other Sanscrit students, prove that “Oriental scholars, both native and European, have shown that the rite of widow-burning was not only unsanctionable but imperatively forbidden by the earliest and most authoritative Hindu Scriptures” (“Widow-burning,” p. 21). See Max Müller’s “Comparative Mythology.” “Professor Wilson,” says Max Müller, “was the first to point out the falsification of the text and the change of ‘yonim agre’ into ‘yonim agne’ (womb of fire).... According to the hymns of the ‘Rig-Veda,’ and the Vaidic ceremonial contained in the ‘Grihya-Sûtras,’ the wife accompanies the corpse of the husband to the funeral pile, but she is there addressed with a verse taken from the ‘Rig-Veda,’ and ordered to leave her husband, and to return to the world of the living” (“Comparative Mythology,” p. 35).

[812] Hence the story that Moses fabricated there the serpent or seraph of brass which the Israelites worshipped till the reign of Hezekiah.

[813] A. Gell: “Noet. Attic.,” lib. x., cap. xiii.

[814] Such is not our opinion. They were probably built by the Atlantians.

[815] “Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan,” vol. ii., p. 457.

[816] Max Müller: “Chips from a German Workshop,” vol. ii., p. 269.

[817] Max Müller: “Popol-Vuh,” p. 327.

[818] Why not to the sacrifices of men in ancient worship?

[819] “Odyssey,” xii. 71.

[820] “Chips from a German Workshop,” p. 268.

[821] Villemarque, Member of the Institute. Vol. lx.; “Collect et Nouvelle Serie,” 24, p. 570, 1863; “Poesie des Cloitres Celtiques.”

[822] “Archæol.,” vol. xxv., p. 220. London.

[823] “Archæol.,” vol. xxv., p. 292. London.

[824] Brasseur de Bourbourg: “Cartas,” p. 52.

[825] See Stephens: “Travels in Central America,” etc.

[826] “Cartas,” 53, 7-62.

[827] “Die Phönizier,” 70.

[828] See Sanchoniaton in “Eusebius,” Pr. Ev. 36; Genesis xiv.

[829] “Archæological Society of the Antiquaries of London,” vol. xxv., p. 220.

[830] “Cartas,” 51.

[831] “Hauts Phénomenes de la Magie,” 50.

[832] Genesis xlix.

[833] Dunlap, in his introduction to “Sod, the Mysteries of Adonis,” explains the word “Sod,” as Arcanum; religious mystery on the authority of Shindler’s “Penteglott” (1201). “The SECRET of the Lord is with them that fear Him,” says Psalm xxv. 14. This is a mistranslation of the Christians, for it ought to read “Sod Ihoh (the mysteries of Iohoh) are for those who fear Him” (Dunlap: “Mysteries of Adonis,” xi.). “Al (El) is terrible in the great Sod of the Kedeshim (the priests, the holy, the Initiated), Psalm lxxxix. 7” (Ibid.).

[834] “The members of the priest-colleges were called Sodales,” says Freund’s “Latin Lexicon” (iv. 448). “Sodalities were constituted in the Idæan Mysteries of the Mighty Mother,” writes Cicero (“De Senectute,” 13); Dunlap: “Mysteries of Adonis.”

[835] See Wilkinson: “Ancient Egyptians,” vol. v., p. 65.

[836] Brasseur de Bourbourg: “Mexique,” pp. 135-574.

[837] “Catholic World,” N. Y., January, 1877: Article Nagualism, Voodooism, etc.

[838] In “Hesiod,” Zeus creates his third race of men out of ash-trees. In “Popol-Vuh,” we are told the third race of men is created out of the tree “tzite,” and women are made from the marrow of a reed which was called “sibac.” This also is a strange coincidence.

[839] “Popol-Vuh,” reviewed by Max Müller.

[840] Frank Vincent, Jun.: “The Land of the White Elephant,” p. 209.

[841] The Hanoumā is over three feet tall, and black as a coal. The Ramayana, giving the biography of this sacred monkey, relates that Hanoumā was formerly a powerful chieftain, who being the greatest friend of Rama, helped him to find his wife, Sithâ, who had been carried off to Ceylon by Râvana, the mighty king of the giants. After numerous adventures Hanoumā was caught by the latter, while visiting the city of the giant as Rama’s spy. For this crime Râvana had the poor Hanoumā’s tail oiled and set on fire, and it was in extinguishing it that the monkey-god became so black in the face that neither himself nor his posterity could ever get rid of the color. If we have to believe Hindu legends this same Hanoumā was the progenitor of the Europeans; a tradition which, though strictly Darwinian, hence, scientific, is by no means flattering to us. The legend states that for services rendered, Rama, the hero and demi-god, gave in marriage to the monkey-warriors of his army the daughters of the giants of Ceylon—the Bâkshasas—and granted them, moreover, as a dowry, all western parts of the world. Repairing thence, the monkeys and their giant-wives lived happily and had a number of descendants. The latter are the present Europeans. Dravidian words are found in Western Europe, indicating that there was an original unity of race and language between the populations. May it not be a hint that the traditions are akin, of elfin and kobold races in Europe, and monkeys, actually cognate with them in Hindustan?

[842] “Incidents of Travels in Central America, etc.,” vol. i., p. 105.

[843] They stand no more, for the obelisk alone was removed to Paris.

[844] See “The Land of the White Elephant,” p. 221.

[845] The President of the Royal Geographical Society of Berlin.

[846] “The Land of the White Elephant,” p. 215.

[847] The Phœnician Dido is the feminine of David דוד , דידו . Under the name of Astartè, she led the Phœnician colonies, and her image was on the prow of their ships. But David and Saul are names belonging to Afghanistan also.

[848] (Prof. A. Wilder.) This archæologist says: “I regard the Æthiopian, Cushite and Hamitic races as the building and artistic race who worshipped Baal (Siva), or Bel—made temples, grottos, pyramids, and used a language of peculiar type. Rawlinson derives that language from the Turanians in Hindustan.”

[849] Prof. A. Wilder among others.

[850] See Martin Haug’s translation: “The Aytareya Brahmanam.“

[851] Judges xvii.-xviii., etc.

[852] The Zendic H is S in India. Thus Hapta is Sapta; Hindu is Sindhaya. (A. Wilder.) ” ... the S continually softens to H from Greece to Calcutta, from the Caucasus to Egypt,” says Dunlap. Therefore the letters K, H, and S are interchangeable.

[853] Guignant: “Op. cit.,” vol. i., p. 167.

[854] “Incidents of Travel in Central America, etc.”

[855] See Paul to the Galatians, iv. 24, and Gospel according to Matthew, xiii. 10-15.

[856] A. Wilder says that “Gan-duniyas,” is a name of Babylonia.

[857] The appropriate definition of the name “Turanian” is, any ethnic family that ethnologists know nothing about.

[858] See Berosus and Sanchoniathon: Cory’s “Ancient Fragments:” Movers and others.

[859] Movers, 86.

[860] Ibid.

[861] Sanchon.: in Cory’s “Fragments,” p. 14.

[862] In an old Brahmanical book called the “Prophecies,” by Ramatsariar, as well as in the Southern MSS. in the legend of Christna, the latter gives nearly word for word the first two chapters of Genesis. He recounts the creation of man—whom he calls Adima, in Sanscrit, the ‘first man’—and the first woman is called Heva, that which completes life. According to Louis Jacolliot (“La Bible dans l’Inde”), Christna existed, and his legend was written, over 3,000 years B. C.

[863] Adah in Hebrew is גן־עדן, and Eden, אלהים. The first is a woman’s name; the second the designation of a country. They are closely related to each other; but hardly to Adam and Akkad—כתנות צור, which are spelled with aleph.

[864] The two words answer to the terms, Macroprosopos, or macrocosm—the absolute and boundless, and the Microprosopos of the “Kabala,” the “short face,” or the microcosm—the finite and conditioned. It is not translated; nor is it likely to be. The Thibetean monks say that it is the real “Sutrâs.” Some Buddhists believe that Buddha was, in a previous existence, Kapila himself. We do not see how several Sanscrit scholars can entertain the idea that Kapila was an atheist, while every legend shows him the most ascetic mystic, the founder of the sect of the Yogis.

[865] The “Brahmanas” were translated by Dr. Haug; see his “Aitareya Brâhmanam.”

[866] The “Stan-gyour” is full of rules of magic, the study of occult powers, and their acquisition, charms, incantations, etc.; and is as little understood by its lay-interpreters as the Jewish “Bible” is by our clergy, or the “Kabala” by the European Rabbis.

[867] “Aitareya Brahmana,” Lecture by Max Müller.

[868] Ibid., “Buddhist Pilgrims.”

[869] “Progress of Religious Ideas through Successive Ages,” vol. i., p. 17.

[870] “La Bible dans l’Inde.”

[871] “La Bible dans l’Inde.”

[872] “Presbyterian Banner,” December 20, 1876.

[873] “La Bible dans l’Inde.”

[874] See Max Müller’s “Lecture on the Vedas.”

[875] See Roth’s “The Burial in India;” Max Müller’s “Comparative Mythology” (Lecture); Wilson’s article, “The Supposed Vaidic Authority for the Burning of Hindu Widows,” etc.

[876] Bunsen gives as the first year of Menes, 3645; Manetho as 3892 B.C. “Eqypt’s Place,” etc., vol. v., 34; Key.

[877] Louis Jacolliot, in “The Bible in India,” affirms the same.

[878] Purana means ancient and sacred history or tradition. See Loiseleur Des-longchamp’s translations of “Manu;” also L. Jacolliot’s “La Genèse dans l’Humanité.”

[879] There are archæologists, who, like Mr. James Fergusson, deny the great antiquity of even one single monument in India. In his work, “Illustrations of the Rock-Cut Temples of India,” the author ventures to express the very extraordinary opinion that “Egypt had ceased to be a nation before the earliest of the cave-temples of India was excavated.” In short, he does not admit the existence of any cave anterior to the reign of Asoka, and seems willing to prove that most of these rock-cut temples were executed from the time of that pious Buddhist king, till the destruction of the Andhra dynasty of Maghada, in the beginning of the fifth century. We believe such a claim perfectly arbitrary. Further discoveries are sure to show how erroneous and unwarranted it was.

[880] It is a strange coincidence that when first discovered, America was found to bear among some native tribes the name of Atlanta.