other virgin-born gods were conceived by the Holy Ghost, and that the
name MARY is the same as Maia, Maya, Myrra, &c.

[384:4] See Chap. XX., for Crucified Saviours.

[385:1] See Chap. XXII.

[385:2] See Chaps. XXII. and XXXIX., for Resurrected Saviours.

[385:3] See Ibid.

[385:4] See Chap. XXIV., and Chap. XXV.

[385:5] See Chap. XII., and Chap. XXXV.

[385:6] That is, the holy _true_ Church. All peoples who have had a
religion believe that _theirs_ was the _Catholic_ faith.

[385:7] There was no nation of antiquity who did not believe in "the
forgiveness of sins," especially if some innocent creature _redeemed_
them by the shedding of his blood (see Chap. IV., and Chap. XX.), and as
far as _confession_ of sins is concerned, and thereby being forgiven,
this too is almost as old as humanity. Father Acosta found it even among
the Mexicans, and said that "the father of lies (the Devil)
counterfeited the sacrament of confession, so that he might be honored
with ceremonies very like the Christians." (See Acosta, vol. ii. p.
360.)

[385:8] "No doctrine except that of a supreme and subtly-pervading
deity, is so extended, and has retained its primitive form so
distinctly, _as a belief in immortality_, and a future state of rewards
and punishments. Among the most savage races, the idea of a future
existence in a place of delight is found." (Kenneth R. H. Mackenzie.)

"Go back far as we may in the history of the Indo-European race, of
which the Greeks and Italians are branches, and we do not find that this
race has ever thought that after this short life all was finished for
man. The most ancient generations, long before there were philosophers,
believed in a second existence after the present. They looked upon death
not as a dissolution of our being, but simply as a change of life." (M.
De Coulanges: The Ancient City, p. 15.)

[385:9] For full information on this subject see Archbishop Wake's
Apostolic Fathers, p. 108, Justice Bailey's Common Prayer, Taylor's
Diegesis, p. 10, and Chambers's Encyclo., art. "Creeds."

[386:1] Rev. xi. 7-9.

[386:2] S. Baring-Gould: Legends of Patriarchs, p. 25.

[386:3] II. Peter, ii. 4.

[386:4] Jude, 6.

[386:5] S. Baring-Gould: Legends of Patriarchs, p. 16.

[387:1] S. Baring-Gould: Legends of Patriarchs, p. 17.

[387:2] Indian Wisdom, p. 39.

[387:3] See Renouf's Hibbert Lectures, p. 165. Dupuis: Origin of Relig.
Beliefs, p. 73, and Baring-Gould's Legends of the Pro