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“We say again, we desire to give nothing on our sole authority. Therefore we cite Jacolliot, who, however criticized and contradicted on other points, and however loose he may be in the matter of chronology, (though even in this he is nearer right than those scientists who would have all Hindu books written since the [...]

“It is well-known, that the earliest Christian emblems – before it was ever attempted to represent the bodily appearance of Jesus – were the Lamb, the Good Shepherd, and the Fish. The origin of the latter emblem, which has so puzzled the archeologist, thus becomes comprehensible. The whole secret lies in the easily ascertained fact [...]

“The Brahmâtma, the chief of the Hindu initiates, had on his headgear two keys, symbol of the revealed mystery of life and death, placed cross-like; and, in some Buddhist pagodas of Tartary and Mongolia, the entrance of a chamber within the temple, generally containing the staircase which leads to the inner daghôba, and the porticos [...]

“The fears of the Christians were but too well founded, and their pious zeal and prophetic insight was rewarded from the very first. In the demolition of the Serapeum, after the bloody riot between the Christian mob and the Pagan worshippers had ended with the interference of the emperor, a Latin cross, of a perfect [...]