The seven gods of the third order, emanations from those of the second, as these were emanations from those of the first, were:-- 1. Set, Nubi, or Typhon, celebrated for his struggle with Horus, the son of Osiris, in the infernal regions. (See what is said of Krishna, p. 70.) 2. Hesiri, Osiris (also the solar year), HSR. 3. Hes or Isis, HS, the Nile, the moon (the lunar year). 4. Nebt-hi or Nephthys, the sister of Isis; sister and wife of Typhon. 5. Her-Her (Aroëris, Arueris). 6. Her (Horus, the child of Osiris and Isis, Harpokrates), who, with Isis and Osiris, formed the great, incomprehensible, mystic trinity of the Egyptians, of which we have the following record:-- OSIRIS was the father, husband, brother, and son of ISIS. ISIS was the mother, wife, sister, and daughter of OSIRIS. HORUS was the brother and son of Osiris and Isis, and was OSIRIS himself. 7. Anubis (Anupo) the dog-star. Who does not understand at once that, out of these half-astronomical, half-cosmogonical conceptions, a religion and art full of mysticism, blending into one _Fetishism_, _Astrology_, and _Anthropomorphism_, must have grown? Only through a careful study of Egyptian mythology are we enabled to comprehend that gigantic power which urged the people to construct those temples and palaces, those labyrinths and catacombs, as mystic in themselves, as the hidden powers of nature. The masses in Egypt were kept in a degraded state of passive obedience; they were overawed by metaphysical subtleties, and by huge stone monsters, which filled them with horror, and made them subservient to the dictates of a gloomy priesthood. Religion and art, both supported by a vast store of natural science, were the exclusive property of the priests, of whom the Pharaoh was the merely _tolerated_ head, a kind of stone idol in the flesh. Egyptian art was an echo of priestly caprices, which, wrapt in symbolism, had a powerful hold on the untutored minds of the people. Careful investigations have proved that these priests were of a different race to the aborigines; their mythological analogies point to immigrated Brahmans, who brought some religious notions with them from the Ganges, and transferred them to the Nile.