Charles
Gutzlaff, both of whom have resided in China--call their trinity "the
three pure ones," or "the three precious ones in heaven." (See Davis'
China, vol. ii. p. 110, and Gutzlaff's Voyages, p. 307.)

[372:8] See Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 210.

[372:9] Ibid.

[373:1] Indian Antiquities, vol. i. p. 127.

[373:2] Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 14.

The following answer is stated by Manetho, an Egyptian priest, to have
been given by an Oracle to Sesostris: "On his return through Africa he
entered the sanctuary of the Oracle, saying: 'Tell me, O thou strong in
fire, who before me could subjugate all things? and who shall after me?'
But the Oracle rebuked him, saying, 'First, _God_; then the _Word_; and
with them, the _Spirit_.'" (Nimrod, vol. i. p. 119, in Ibid. vol. i. p.
805.)

Here we have distinctly enumerated God, the Logos, and the Spirit or
Holy Ghost, in a very early period, long previous to the Christian era.

[373:3] I. John, v. 7. John, i. 1.

[373:4] The _Alexandrian_ theology, of which the celebrated _Plato_ was
the chief representative, taught that the _Logos_ was "_the second
God_;" a being of divine essence, but distinguished from the Supreme
God. It is also called "_the first-born Son of God_."

"The _Platonists_ furnished brilliant recruits to the Christian churches
of Asia Minor and Greece, and brought with them their love for system
and their idealism." "It is in the Platonizing or Alexandrian, branch of
Judaism that we must seek for the antecedents of the Christian doctrine
of the _Logos_." (A. Reville: Dogma Deity Jesus, p. 29.)

[373:5] Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 102. _Mithras_, the Mediator,
and Saviour of the Persians, was called the _Logos_. (See Dunlap's Son
of the Man, p. 20. Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, p. 75.) _Hermes_ was called
the _Logos_. (See Dunlap's Son of the Man, p. 39, _marginal note_.)

[373:6] Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. 402.

[374:1] Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. 404.

[374:2] Ibid.

[374:3] Ibid.

[374:4] Ibid. p. 28.

[374:5] Frothingham's Cradle of the Christ, p. 112.

[374:6] See Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 307.

[374:7] Orpheus is said to have been a native of Thracia, the oldest
poet of Greece, and to have written before the time of Homer; but he is
evidently a mythological character.

[375:1] See Indian Antiquities, vol. iv. p. 332, and Taylor's Diegesis,
p. 189.

[375:2] See Chambers's Encyclo., art. "Orpheus."

[375:3] Ibid.,