al nature would
live abased, humble, obscure and indigent.

"And this, because the winter sun is abased below the horizon; and that
this first period of his four ages or seasons, is a time of obscurity,
scarcity, fasting, and want.

"That, being put to death by the wicked, he had risen gloriously; that
he had reascended from hell to heaven, where he would reign forever

"This is a sketch of the life of the sun; who, finishing his career at
the winter solstice, when Typhon and the rebel angels gain the dominion,
seems to be put to death by them; but who soon after is born again, and
rises* into the vault of heaven, where he reigns.

* Resurgere, to rise a second time, cannot signify to return
to life, but in a metaphorical sense; but we see continually
mistakes of this kind result from the ambiguous meaning of
the words made use of in ancient tradition.

"Finally, these traditions went so far as to mention even his
astrological and mythological names, and inform us that he was called
sometimes Chris, that is to say, preserver,* and from that, ye Indians,
you have made your god Chrish-en or Chrish-na; and, ye Greek and Western
Christians, your Chris-tos, son of Mary, is the same; sometimes he is
called Yes, by the union of three letters, which by their numerical
value form the number 608, one of the solar periods.** And this,
Europeans, is the name which, with the Latin termination, is become your
Yes-us or Jesus, the ancient and cabalistic name attributed to young
Bacchus, the clandestine son (nocturnal) of the Virgin Minerva, who, in
the history of his whole life, and even of his death, brings to mind the
history of the god of the Christians, that is, of the star of day, of
which they are each of them the emblems."

* The Greeks used to express by X, or Spanish iota, the
aspirated ha of the Orientals, who said haris. In Hebrew
heres signifies the sun, but in Arabic the meaning of the
radical word is, to guard, to preserve, and of haris,
guardian, preserver. It is the proper epithet of Vichenou,
which demonstrates at once the identity of the Indian and
Christian Trinities, and their common origin. It is
manifestly but one system, which divided into two branches,
one extending to the east, and the other to the west,
assumed two different forms: Its principal trunk is the
Pythagorean system of the soul of the world, or Iou-piter.
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