156. It is yet marked in the almanacs as Candlemas Day, or the Purification of the Virgin Mary.
157. De Rougé, Revue Archéologique, 1853.
158. Ampère, Revue Arch. 1849, quoted by Döllinger.
159. These designations are the Greek form of the official titles.
160. I do not know if it has been noticed that the principle of Swedenborg's. heaven was anticipated by Milton (Paradise Lost, V. 573),—
"What surmounts the reach
Of human sense I shall delineate so
By likening spiritual to corporeal forms,
As may express them best; though what if Earth
Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein.