[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.”