. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations . of his shame to as many eyes. 650 Sacti] When the reader has still farther examined manyof the symbols which we have copied from Baby-lonian and other gems, he will see very strongreasons for inquiring whether there was any com-munication between the ancient people of Hindo-stan and those of Western Asia, or whether thereexisted among both, independently, a reverence for themundane emblems of creation, each nation creatingfor itself the symbols which see
. Ancient faiths embodied in ancient names; or, An attempt to trace the religious belief, sacred rites, and holy emblems of certain nations . of his shame to as many eyes. 650 Sacti] When the reader has still farther examined manyof the symbols which we have copied from Baby-lonian and other gems, he will see very strongreasons for inquiring whether there was any com-munication between the ancient people of Hindo-stan and those of Western Asia, or whether thereexisted among both, independently, a reverence for themundane emblems of creation, each nation creatingfor itself the symbols which seemed to be the mostappropriate for their purpose. But what concernsus, as civilised Christians, is to inquire how itcomes to pass that devices which tell solely of theadoration of the sexual organs of the male andfemale are still represented in our churches as if theywere holy emblems. We can understand why thePapal Church adopts in her sacred dress the ovalshape (Fig. 65) for the chasuble, the sistrum form () for the pallimn, and the union of the ancient Xwith the circle (Fig. 66) iov b, corporal; thus (Fig. 67). Fig.
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