The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-07-23

moon, though she may not be in Capri
corn while the other planets are there
in close conjunction, she will certainly
be there for some hours about that
time. The question, therefore, which
many persons are now asking is, will
second great deluge take place dur
ing December, 1901? To such an inn
portant question scientists or occultists
of International reputation are very
loath Ito reply, but fair estimate of
their views may be gained from the
following statement in Coming Events
London occult journal:
The term flood or deluge" says the
writer, does not necessarily mean the
total extinction by submergence of all
the living creatures of the earth. but
rather the sGbmersion of a continent,
such as happened in the case of the
lost Lemuria and Atlantis, traditions
of which all nations and people seem
to possess. Niece ssarily, such a huge
submersicn would cause fearful tidal
waves in all other lands, and to such
Phenomena the Noachian record proba-
bly, refers. Whether partial satisfac-
ton in December. 1901. of the condi-
tons specified by Berosus will produce
even partially similar results is a mat
ter we may safely leave to the con
sideration Of students"
Many persons will naturally ask, is
Berosus .eiiaole authority on such a
subject? and therefore a few words
about him are necessary. Professor
Sayre, of oxford, the we'll known
Orientalist and author of Ancient
Empires, says: tBerosus was a
priest of the Temple of Bel at Baby
Ion, and is said by Eusebius and Ia
tan to have been contemporary of
Alexander the Great, and to have lived
into the reign of Antiochus Softer. He
had, therefore, special opportunities OF
knowing the history and astronomy OF
his country upon which he wrote in
Greek Reeentf discoveries have album
dainty established the trustworthiness
of this Manetho of Babylon whose
works, unfortunately, are known to us
only through quotations at second and
third hand.
| Since a cylinder of Antiochus. the
son of Seleeus, has been found inscrib-
| ed in Babylonian cuneiform while
DlllnguaI fragments in cuneiform and
curslye Greek of the Seleukid age have
also been discovered, and a contract
{ in Babylonian cuneiform dated In the
fifth year of the Parthian King Pa
koros, the contemporary of Domitian
exists in the museum at Zurich, there
is no reason why Besorus should not
/ have been equally well acquainted with
I the Greek language and the old liter
allure OF his own country. And in spite
OF the fragmentary and corrupt state
in which his fragments have come
down TO us, we know that he was so
His account of the deluge, for instance
agrees even in its details with that OF
I the cuneiform texts
/ Since the time of Ptolemy each OF
the twelve signs of the zodiac has been
supposed to have a decided influence
over certain cities and countries, and
the experience of centuries, it is claim
ed, proves that misfortunes always
come to those cities and countries
whenever malefic planets are in their
signs. II this be true, and there
should be even a partial flood in 1901
India, the Punjaub, Thrace, Bosnia
Bulgaria. Albania. Hesse, Mexico
Lithuania and the city of Oxford
would be most likely to suffer, since
they are the places over which Capri