. The Open court. n the ground instead of a number thereof;13. and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons wives with new fragment throws light also upon the deluge reportcurrent in Hierapolis, the center of Istar worship in Syria describedby Lucian in his interesting article On the Syrian Goddess. Therehe speaks of Deucalion, the pious man w^ho on account of his good-ness had been saved from the deluge in a great ark. He hadpacked therein the women and children of his family, and when hewas ready to board, the animals came two by two, pigs and hor
. The Open court. n the ground instead of a number thereof;13. and thou shalt come into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and thy sons wives with new fragment throws light also upon the deluge reportcurrent in Hierapolis, the center of Istar worship in Syria describedby Lucian in his interesting article On the Syrian Goddess. Therehe speaks of Deucalion, the pious man w^ho on account of his good-ness had been saved from the deluge in a great ark. He hadpacked therein the women and children of his family, and when hewas ready to board, the animals came two by two, pigs and horsesand all kinds of wild creatures and creeping things, in a word allthe animals which live upon earth. He took them in. and Jupiter The figiires in front of the Biblical quotation refer to the lines of theNippur version. 312 THE OPEN COURT. endowed them with such peaceful sentiments that they did no harmone to another, but lived in the greatest harmony. We will further mention that there is a coin of a non-Jewish. city, Kibotos, where the story goes that Deucalions ark had landedfor the name of the city means ark in Greek, and here the manwho is saved from the Deluge is called by the Biblical name Noe. A CREDO MOSAIC. BY CHARLES SUMNER LOBINGIER. I BELIEVE in God, the First Cause,^ the Eternal not ourselvesthat makes for righteousness,- whose body is the universe,^whosehabits are the laws of nature* and whose rule is the reign of law.°I believe that through the ages one increasing purpose runs,that Evolution is God in action,^ that the REVELATION of Godis found in the worlds Bibles ^ or literatures, and in Naturesinfinite book of secrecy ® where I may find tongues in trees, booksin the running brooks, sermons in stones and good in everything. ^°I believe in SALVATION through enlightenment and effort, inmoral amelioration within reach of the lowest, in the steady gainof man and the ultimate triumph of right over wrong. And Ibelieve in human brotherhood, in the supremacy of t
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