the third day at the vernal equinox, the Roman searchers after the
evangelion or gospel made out their Jesus. The total destruction
of everything at Jerusalem and in Judea--buildings, records,
everything--prevented them from coming to any absolute certainty
respecting this person who, they were told by tradition, had come to
preach the gospel of peace, to be their savior, in fulfilment of the
prophecy which their sect of Israelites found in their writings, and who
had been put to death by the Jews. From all these circumstances he came
to have applied to him the monogram of I H S.... and to him at last all
the legendary stories related of the god Iao were attributed."(131)

131) Godfrey Higgins, Anacalypsis, book vi., ch. iv., p. 455.

According to Faber, Jesus was not originally called Jesus Christ, but
Jescua Hammassiah--Jescua meaning Joshua, and Jesus, Savior. Ham is
the Om of India, and Messiah, the anointed. Commenting on this Higgins
remarks: "It will then be, The Savior Om the Anointed, precisely as
Isaiah had literally foretold; or reading in the Hebrew made, The
Anointed Om the Savior. This was the name of Jesus of Bethlehem."

We have observed the fact that at the time of the birth of Christ the
entire world was expecting a Savior--a new incarnation of the sun. The
end of a cycle had come and the entire earth was to undergo a process of
renovation.

In a poem by Virgil, who was a Druid, the birth of a wonderful child is
celebrated, and the prophecy of a heathen Sibyl is seen to be identical
with that of Isaiah.

"The last period sung by the Sibylline prophetess is now arrived; and
the grand series of ages. That Series which recurs again and again
in the course of our mundane revolution begins afresh. Now the
Virgin Astrea returns from heaven; and the primeval reign of Saturn
recommences; now a new race descends from the celestial realms of
holiness. Do thou, Lucina, smile propitious on the birth of a boy who
will bring to a close the present age of iron and introduce throughout
the whole world, a new age of gold. Then shall the herds no longer dread
the fury of the lion, nor shall the poison of the serpent any longer
be formidable. Every venomous animal and every deleterious plant shell
perish together. The fields shall be yellow with corn, the grape
shall hang its ruddy clusters from the bramble, and honey shall distil
spontaneously from the rugged oak. The universal globe shall enjoy the
blessi