wo figures which, according to Romanist
Christians, represent the Virgin Mary and St. John. At the bottom of the
outer arch are two couchant beasts, the one an elephant and the other a
bull. The figure on the cross has a Parthian coronet. The appearance of
a crucifix on the towers of Britain and Ireland has in the past led many
writers to ascribe to these singular structures a Christian origin. To
the critical observer, however, the first question which presents
itself is whence comes the elephant--an animal not found within these
countries?--and again why should these beasts have been placed here as
Christian emblems? The facts in the case as revealed by unprejudiced
investigators are, that the towers in Ireland are not Christian
monuments, and that the crucifix found on them is not that of Christ but
of Ballaji, or of some one of the avatars of Crishna.

The fact that the figure of Crishna as a crucified god was found in
the ruins of a temple at Thebes in Egypt, is sufficient to prove his
antiquity; still, as we have seen, he represents the god-idea at a much
later date than did Buddha. Regarding the evidence furnished by the Rev.
Mr. Maurice of the ten avatars of the Indian sun-god, Higgins observes:

"The only fact worthy of notice here is, that Buddha was universally
allowed to be the first of the incarnations; that Crishna was of
later date; that, at the era of the birth of Christ, eight of them had
appeared on the earth, and that the other two were expected to follow
before the end of the Caliyug, or of the present age."

With reference to the fact that the Hindoo God originally represented
Wisdom or the Logos, the same writer says:

"Then here is DIVINE WISDOM incarnate, of whom the Bull of the Zodiac
was the emblem. HERE he is the Protagonos, or first begotten, the God
or Goddess Mhtis of the Greeks, being, perhaps, both male and female.
Buddha, or the wise, if the word were not merely the name of a doctrine,
seems to have been an appellation taken by several persons, or one
person incarnate at several periods, and from this circumstance much
confusion has arisen."(172)

172) Anacalypsis, book v., p. 201.

Concerning the religion of an ancient race the following facts have been
ascertained, namely:

The first of the Buddhas or Incarnations of the Deity was Minerva, and
her mother, who was the sun, was the mother of all the Buddhas. She was
Mhtis, Mubt or Mai, "the universal genius of Nature, who