[57] From the Sanskrit text of the Aitareya Brahmanam. Rig-Veda, v., ch. ii., verse 23.
[58] Aitareya Brahmanam, book iii., c. v., 44.
[59] Ait. Brahm., vol. ii., p. 242.
[60] Ait. Brahm., book iv.
[61] Septenary Institutions; “Stone him to Death,” p. 20.
[62] See Gibbon’s “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.”
[63] See Turner; also G. Higgins’s “Anacalypsis.”
[64] Genesis, i., 30.
[65] Sir William Drummond: “Œdipus Judicus,” p. 250.
[66] The absolute necessity for the perpetration of such pious frauds by the early fathers and later theologians becomes apparent, if we consider that if they had allowed the word Al to remain as in the original, it would have become but too evident—except for the initiated—that the Jehovah of Moses and the sun were identical. The multitudes, which ignore that the ancient hierophant considered our visible sun but as an emblem of the central, invisible, and spiritual Sun, would have accused Moses—as many of our modern commentators have already done—of worshipping the planetary bodies; in short, of actual Zabaism.