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he slew a giant who was drowning the
earth in an abyss and saved II on ms
tusks; how, becoming incarnated IN a
black shepherd and under the name OF
Chrisen, he delivered the world OF
venomous serpent and then crushed his
head after having been wounded by
him in the heel. Next we find that the
Eternal, to manifest His glory, created
various orders of angels in order to
sing His praises and to direct the uni
verse; how a part of these angels re-
VOTED under the guidance of an am
bilious chief. who strove to usurp the
power of Cod how God plunged them
into a world of darkness, there to UNI
dergo a punishment for their crimes.
At last He released them, received
them into favor and created fifteen re-
gions of planets and ordered these
fallen angels to undergo in these varl-
Gus planets eighty-seven transmlgra-
tions.
In the religion of Buddah we find
a Supreme Being resolving to manifest
His PROJECTIONS out Of Himself, and
for that purpose creating another deity
known to US as Buddah. Their religion
teaches that Buddah was born from
the right flank of virgin Of royal
blood, who did not cease to be
virgin for having been mother; that
the King of the country, alarmed at
the birth of Buddah, wished to destroy
him, and for this purpose ordered
massacre of all the males born at that
period; that Buddah, being saved by
shepherds, lived in the desert till the
age of thirty, when he began his mis-
sion TO enlighten the world and cast
al hot ho
formed a multitude of the most as
founding miracles; that he spent his
life in fasting and severe penltence,
and at his death he bequeathed to his
disciples a book which contains his
doctrines.
The religion of Mahomet, written in
the pages of the Koran, tells us that
God, after having sent to the world,
lost in idolatry, twenty-fOur thousand
prophets, finally sent the last, the per-
lection of all, Mahomet. The Koran,
according to its testimony, was sent
leaf by leaf to the world in twenty
four thousand nightly appearances of
the Angel Gabriel. He appeared one
night on the animal BRAGG, half horse
and half a woman; he walked on the
sunshine without a shadow, turned dry
leaves to green, filled wells and clsterns
with water and split in two the body
Of the moon. Mahomet propagated,
sword in hand, this beautifully simple
religion. since il consisted only of
profession of the unity of God. the ac-
acknowledgement of Mahomet as His only
prophet, praying five times a day,
tasting one month in the year, going
to Mecca once in a lifetime, to pay a
tenth of all we possess, to drink no
wine, to eat no pork and to make war
upon the infidels. Every Mussulman
observing these rules becomes an apos-
tie and martyr. He is received after
his death into region of delight,
watered with rivers of milk and honey,
and embalmed in the perfumes of India
and Arabia, where the celestial hours,
virgins always chaste. are eternally
crowning with favOrs the elect of God,
who preserve an eternal youth. The
Christian religion is very closely con-
nected with each of the three referred
to.
The religion of Zoroaster teaches
that the world was created in six days.
1t tells of the formation of the first
man and the first woman in a divine
place in a reign of good; the intro
duction of evil into the world by a
great snake; the revolt and battles of
evil against God: the division of the
angels into white and black, their
various orders -cherubim. seraphim.
thrones and dominions, etc; the end
Of the world at the close of six thou
sand years; the coming of the Lamb.
the Regeneration of nature; the new
world; the future life and the regions
&C happiness and misery; the baptism
Of newborn children the JUNCTION of
the dead; the confession Of sins, and
almost everything else which would
seem TO be commentary Of the Koran
and Apocalypse. In a word, all the
theological dogma on the origin Of the
world. the nature of God, the revela-
ton of His laws, the manifestation Of
His person, are known TO be only the
recital of astronomical facts, only fig
urative and emblematical accounts of
the motion of the heavenly bodies. The
very idea Of God, an idea at present
so obscure, is in its first origin nothing
but that Of the physical powers of the
universe, so that the being called God
has sometimes been the wind, the fire.
the water, all the elements; sometimes
the sun, the stars, the planets and
their influence; sometimes the matter
Of the visible world: sometimes the
metaphysical in quality; but every
where we see this conclusion that the
idea of God has not been a miraculous
revelation of invisible things, but a
natural operation of the mind, whose
progress il has followed and whose
revolutions it has undergone in MI the
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