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Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna)
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[788] “Bell. Jud. adv. Roman,” lib. v., cap. xiv.
[789] “Magasin Scientifique de Goëthingen,” 3me. année, 5me. cahier.
[790] “Ammian. Marcel.,” lib. xxiii., cap. vi.
[791] “Oupnek-hat,” Brahman xi.
[792] “Ktesias, in India ap. Photum.,” Bibl. Cod. lxxii.
[793] Buffon: “Histoire Naturelle des Mineraux,” 6me Mem., art. ii.
[794] “Egypt’s Place in Universal History,” vol. iv., p. 462.
[795] “Archæologia,” vol. xv., p. 320.
[796] Lib. ii., c. 50.
[797] Galen: “De Composit. Medec.,” lib. v.
[798] “Ancient Fragments:” see chapter on the Early Kings of Egypt.
[799] “Pliny,” lib. vii., c. 56.
[800] Jablonski: “Pantheon Ægypti.,” ii., Proleg. 10.
[801] Cicero: “De Divinatione.”
[802] “Telegraphic Journal,” art. Scientific Prophecy.
[803] Professor Albrecht Müller: “The First Traces of Man in Europe.” Says the author: “And this bronze age reaches to and overlaps the beginning of the historic period in some countries, and so includes the great epochs of the Assyrian and Egyptian Empires, B.C. circa 1500, and the earlier eras of the next succeeding age of iron.”
[804] “Conflict between Religion and Science,” chap. i.
[805] Psellus: “Chaldean Oracles,” 4, cxliv.
[806] Psellus: “Zoroast. Oracles,” 4.
[807] Proctor: “Saturn and the Sabbath of the Jews,” p. 309.
[808] Dioscorides: “Περι Ὑλης Ιατρικῆς,” lib. v., cap. clviii.
[809] Pliny: “Histoire Naturelle,” lib. xxxviii., cap. vii.
[810] Le P. Paulin de St. Barthelemi: “Voyage aux Indes Orientales,” vol. i., p. 358.
[811] Max Müller, Professor Wilson, and H. J. Bushby, with several other Sanscrit students, prove that “Oriental scholars, both native and European, have shown that the rite of widow-burning was not only unsanctionable but imperatively forbidden by the earliest and most authoritative Hindu Scriptures” (“Widow-burning,” p. 21). See Max Müller’s “Comparative Mythology.” “Professor Wilson,” says Max Müller, “was the first to point out the falsification of the text and the change of ‘yonim agre’ into ‘yonim agne’ (womb of fire).... According to the hymns of the ‘Rig-Veda,’ and the Vaidic ceremonial contained in the ‘Grihya-Sûtras,’ the wife accompanies the corpse of the husband to the funeral pile, but she is there addressed with a verse taken from the ‘Rig-Veda,’ and ordered to leave her husband, and to return to the world of the living” (“Comparative Mythology,” p. 35).
[812] Hence the story that Moses fabricated there the serpent or seraph of brass which the Israelites worshipped till the reign of Hezekiah.
[813] A. Gell: “Noet. Attic.,” lib. x., cap. xiii.
[814] Such is not our opinion. They were probably built by the Atlantians.
[815] “Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan,” vol. ii., p. 457.
[816] Max Müller: “Chips from a German Workshop,” vol. ii., p. 269.
[817] Max Müller: “Popol-Vuh,” p. 327.
[818] Why not to the sacrifices of men in ancient worship?
[819] “Odyssey,” xii. 71.
[820] “Chips from a German Workshop,” p. 268.
[821] Villemarque, Member of the Institute. Vol. lx.; “Collect et Nouvelle Serie,” 24, p. 570, 1863; “Poesie des Cloitres Celtiques.”
[822] “Archæol.,” vol. xxv., p. 220. London.
[823] “Archæol.,” vol. xxv., p. 292. London.
[824] Brasseur de Bourbourg: “Cartas,” p. 52.
[825] See Stephens: “Travels in Central America,” etc.
[826] “Cartas,” 53, 7-62.
[827] “Die Phönizier,” 70.