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And Arthur Murphy tells us that:

”The superst.i.tion and religious ceremonies of the _Egyptians_ were diffused over Asia, Greece, _and the rest of Europe_.

Brotier says, that inscriptions of Isis and Serapis (Horus?) have been frequently found in _Germany_. . . . The missionaries who went in the eighth and ninth centuries to propagate the Christian religion in those parts, _saw many images and statues of these G.o.ds_.”[338:5]

These ”many images and statues of these G.o.ds” were evidently baptized anew, given other names, and allowed to remain where they were.

In many parts of Italy are to be seen pictures of the Virgin with her infant in her arms, inscribed with the words: ”Deo Soli.” This betrays their Pagan origin.

FOOTNOTES:

[326:1] See Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. 115, and Monumental Christianity, pp. 206 and 226.

[326:2] Inman: Ancient Faiths, vol. i. p. 159.

[326:3] See Williams' Hinduism.

[326:4] See Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 540.

[326:5] See Taylor's Diegesis, p. 185.

[326:6] _St. Jerome_ says: ”It is handed down as a tradition among the Gymnosophists of India, that _Buddha_, the founder of their system was brought forth by a virgin from her side.” (_Contra Jovian_, bk. i.

Quoted in Rhys Davids' Buddhism, p. 183.)

[327:1] Plate 59.

[327:2] Monumental Christianity, p. 218.

Of the Virgin _Mary_ we read: ”Her face was s.h.i.+ning as snow, and its brightness could hardly be borne. Her conversation was with the angels, &c.” (Nativity of Mary, _Apoc._)

[327:3] See Ancient Faiths, i. 401.

[327:4] Davis' China, vol. ii. p. 95.

[327:5] The Heathen Relig., p. 60.

[327:6] Barrows: Travels in China, p. 467.

[327:7] Gutzlaff's Voyages, p. 154.

[328:1] Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. 141.

[328:2] See The Lily of Israel, p. 14.

[328:3] Kenrick's Egypt, vol. i. p. 425.

[328:4] See Draper's Science and Religion, pp. 47, 48, and Higgins'

Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 804.

[328:5] Pagan and Christian Symbolism, p. 50.