[59] A Godhra is the counterpane of shreds the Fakirs use to lie down upon, and throw over their shoulders.
[60] Comp. the mediæval conception “Lady World.”
[61] Khizer, the “Green Old Man” is the guardian of “the fountain of life” and the type of the self sustaining power of Deity.
[62] Quran II. 216, Elias discovered the water of life.
[63] Saturn is lord of the seventh heaven.
[64] No more individual existence.
[65] The following is told, and attributed to Attar; A thirsty traveller dips his hand into a spring of water to drink from. Another comes likewise to drink and leaves his earthen bowl behind him. The first traveller takes it up for another draught and is surprised to find the same water bitter when drank from the earthen cup. But a voice from heaven tells him the clay from which the bowl is made was once Man; and into whatever shape renewed, can never lose the bitter flavour of mortality.
[66] See Introduction to The Divine Pymander p. VI-et. seq. edition 1650.
[67] Ibid.
[68] In the ancient Aztec civilization in Mexico, the Sacerdotal order was very numerous. At the head of the whole establishment were two high priests, elected from the order, solely for their qualifications, as shown by their previous conduct in a subordinate station. They were equal in dignity and inferior only to the sovereign, who rarely acted without their advice in weighty matters of private concern. (Sahagun Hist. de Nueva España, lib. 2; lib. 3 cap. 9—Torq. Mon. Ind. lib. 8 cap. 20; lib. 9, cap. 3, 56; cited by Prescott in vol. 1, Conq. Mex. p. 66).—[Ed.]