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"These ciphers are not fanciful, but founded upon actual astronomical calculations, as has been demonstrated by S. Davis.  Many a scientist, Higgins among others, notwithstanding their researches, has been utterly perplexed as to which of these was the secret cycle.   Bunsen has demonstrated that the Egyptian priests, who made the cyclic notations, kept them [...]

"The Neroses, the Vrihaspati, or the periods called yugas or kalpas, are life problems to solve. The Satya-yug and Buddhistic cycles of chronology would make a mathematician stand aghast at the array of ciphers. The Maha-kalpa embraces an untold number of periods far back in the antediluvian ages. Their system comprises a kalpa or grand [...]

"According to the claims of the Babylonian priests, corroborated by Eupolemus, the city of Babylon, owes its foundation to those who were saved from the catastrophe of the deluge; they were the giants and they built the tower which is noticed in history.   These giants who were great astrologers and had received moreover from [...]

"In order to demonstrate that the notions which the ancients entertained about dividing human history into cycles were not utterly devoid of a philosophical basis, we will close this chapter by introducing to the reader one of the oldest traditions of antiquity as to the evolution of our planet.   At the close of each [...]