126. The Gentile and Jew, Vol. I. p. 380.
127. Five Great Monarchies, Vol. III. p. 94.
128. Essays, &c., by Martin Haug, p. 255.
129. Die Religion und Sitte der Perser. Von Dr. Adolf Rapp. (1865.)
130. Bunsen, Egypt, Vol. III. p. 455.
131. Written in the thirteenth century after Christ. An English translation may be found in Dr. J. Wilson's "Pârsî Religion."
132. Chips, Vol. I. p. 88.
133. So Mr. Emerson, in one of those observations which give us a system of philosophy in a sentence, says, "The soul knows no persons." Perhaps he should have said, "The Spirit."
134. Islam is, in this sense, a moral religion, its root consisting in obedience to Allah and his prophet. Sufism, a Mohammedan mysticism, is a heresy.
135. Vendidad, Farg. I. 3. "Therefore Angra-Mainyus, the death-dealing, created a mighty serpent and snow." The serpent entering into the Iranic Eden is one of the curious coincidences of the Iranic and Hebrew traditions.