[114:1] Hist. Hindostan, vol. ii. p. 327. [114:2] Ibid. p. 329. [114:3] Vishnu Purana, p. 502. [114:4] Ibid. p. 440. [114:5] "Now to him that is of power to establish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the _mystery_, which was kept secret since the world began." (Romans, xvi. 15.) "And without controversy, great is the _mystery_ of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory." (1 Timothy, iii. 16.) [114:6] Vishnu Purana, p. 492, _note_ 3. [114:7] Geeta, ch. iv. [115:1] Bhagavat Geeta, Lecture iv. p. 52. [115:2] Ibid., Lecture iv. p. 79. [115:3] It is said that there have been several Buddhas (see ch. xxix). We speak of _Gautama_. Buddha is variously pronounced and expressed Boudh, Bod, Bot, But, Bud, Budd, Buddou, Bouttu, Bota, Budso, Pot, Pout, Pota, Poti, and Pouti. The Siamese make the final _t_ or _d_ quiescent, and sound the word Po; whence the Chinese still further vary it to Pho or Fo. BUDDHA--which means _awakened_ or _enlightened_ (see Müller: Sci. of Relig., p. 308)--is the proper way in which to spell the name. We have adopted this throughout this work, regardless of the manner in which the writer from which we quote spells it. [115:4] Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 86. [115:5] FO-PEN-HING is the life of Gautama Buddha, translated from the Chinese Sanskrit by Prof. Samuel Beal. [115:6] Beal: Hist. Buddha, p. 25. [115:7] Hardy: Manual of Buddhism, p. 141. [115:8] A Christian sect called Collyridians believed that Mary was born of a virgin, as Christ is related to have been born of her (See _note_ to the "Gospel of the Birth of Mary" [Apocryphal]; also King: The Gnostics and their Remains, p. 91, and Gibbon's Hist. of Rome, vol. v. p. 108, _note_). This idea has been recently adopted by the Roman Catholic Church. They now claim that Mary was born as immaculate as her son. (See Inman's Ancient Faiths, vol. i. p. 75, and The Lily of Israel, pp. 6-15; also fig. 17, ch. xxxii.) "The gradual _deification_ of Mary, though slower in its progress, follows, in the Romish Church, a course analogous to that which the Church of the first centuries followed, in elaborating the deity of Jesus. With almost all the Catholic writers of our day, Mary is the universal mediatrix; _all power has been given to her in heaven and upon earth_. Indeed, more than one serious attempt has been already made in the Ultramontane camp to unite Mary in some way to the _Trinity_; and if Mariolatry lasts much longer, this will probably be accomplished in the end." (Albert Réville.) [116:1] Huc's Travels, vol. i. pp. 326, 327. [116:2] Ibid. p. 327. [116:3] Oriental Religions, p. 604. [116:4] See Bunsen's Angel-Messiah. [116:5] Asiatic Researches, vol. ii. p. 309, and King's Gnostics, p. 167. [116:6] See Bunsen's Angel-Messiah, pp. 10, 25 and 44.