discriminated
all things according to their various kinds of species."

In the earliest ages she comprehended not only matter but the moving
force in the universe. She was the Deity which by a very ancient race
was represented by the mother idea--Perceptive Wisdom. She was the
sun and the first emanation from the sun. She was the Divine Word, the
Logos, the Holy Ghost which in the time of Christ was again by various
sects recognized as female. The allegory of the Greeks concerning
Jupiter taking Mhtis (Wisdom) to wife and from this union with her
producing Minerva from his head, is seen to be closely connected with
the doctrine of Buddha (Wisdom) or of the Rasit of Genesis. According
to Faber, the import of the Greek word Nous and of the Sanscrit Menu is
precisely the same: each denotes mind or intelligence, and to the latter
of them the Latin Mens is nearly allied. "Mens, Menu, and perhaps our
English mind are fundamentally one and the same word." All these terms
in an earlier age meant Buddha, Wisdom, or Minerva.

Later, with the worship of the sun in Aries, appeared a crucified
savior. During the earlier ages of Crishnaism, the ideas typified by
a dying savior were still those pertaining to the processes of Nature.
Matter was still believed to be indestructible and seeming death but
a preparation for renewed life, or for birth into another state of
existence Subsequently this dying sun-god, which disappeared in winter
only to return again to re-animate Nature, became a veritable man--a
man on a cross who must be sacrificed to Mahadeva in order that humanity
might be saved. Here we have the origin of the doctrine of a Vicarious
Atonement. Later, under the system called Christianity, woman, who
had previously become identified with the evil principle, became the
Tempter. She was the cause of sin in the world and wholly responsible
for the evil results arising from desire. Indeed, according to the
doctrines annunciated by the Christian Church, had woman, who was an
after thought of the Almighty, never been created, man would have lived
forever in a state of purity and bliss, free alike from the toils,
pains, and temptations of life, and from the crafts and assaults of the
Devil.

Through the over-stimulation of the animal instincts man had become
wholly unable to overcome the evil in his constitution, hence the
adoption of the doctrine of Original Sin and the necessity for an
Atonement, or for a crucified savior, wh