The Assyrians had Marduk for their Logos;[374:2] one of their sacred
addresses to him reads thus:

"Thou art the powerful one--Thou art the life-giver--Thou also
the prosperer--Merciful one among the gods--Eldest son of Hea,
who made heaven and earth--Lord of heaven and earth, who an
equal has not--Merciful one, who dead to life raises."[374:3]

The Chaldeans had their _Memra_ or "Word of God," corresponding to the
Greek _Logos_, which designated that being who organized and who still
governs the world, and is inferior to God only.[374:4]

The Logos was with Philoa most interesting subject of discourse,
tempting him to wonderful feats of imagination. There is scarcely a
personifying or exalting epithet that he did not bestow on the Divine
Reason. He described it as a distinct being; called it "a Rock," "The
Summit of the Universe," "Before all things," "First-begotten Son of
God," "Eternal Bread from Heaven," "Fountain of Wisdom," "Guide to God,"
"Substitute for God," "Image of God," "Priest," "Creator of the Worlds,"
"Second God," "Interpreter of God," "Ambassador of God," "Power of God,"
"King," "Angel," "Man," "Mediator," "Light," "The Beginning," "The
East," "The Name of God," "The Intercessor."[374:5]

This is exactly the Logos of John. It becomes a man, "is made flesh;"
appears as an _incarnation_; in order that the God whom "no man has seen
at any time," may be manifested.

The worship of God in the form of a Trinity was to be found among the
ancient _Greeks_. When the priests were about to offer up a sacrifice to
the gods, the altar was _three times_ sprinkled by dipping a laurel
branch in holy water, and the people assembled around it were _three
times_ sprinkled also. Frankincense was taken from the censer with
_three fingers_, and strewed upon the altar _three times_. This was done
because an oracle had declared that _all sacred things ought to be in
threes_, therefore, that number was scrupulously observed in most
religious ceremonies.[374:6]

Orpheus[374:7] wrote that:

"All things were made by _One_ godhead in _three_ names, and
that this god is all things."[375:1]

This Trinitarian view of the Deity he is said to have brought from
Egypt, and the Christian Fathers of the third and fourth centuries
claimed that Pythagoras, Heraclitus, and Plato--who taught the doctrine
of the Trinity--had drawn their theological philosophy from the writings
of Orpheus.[375:2]

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