[215:1] See Matthew, xxviii. Mark, xvi. Luke, xxiv. and John, xx. [215:2] Mark, xvi. 19. [215:3] Luke, xxiv. 51. [215:4] Acts, i. 9. [215:5] See Dupuis: Origin of Religious Belief, p. 240. Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. ii. pp. 142 and 145. [215:6] See Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 131. Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. 168. Asiatic Researches, vol. i. pp. 259 and 261. [215:7] See Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 72. Hist. Hindostan, ii. pp. 466 and 473. "In Hindu pictures, Vishnu, who is identified with Crishna, is often seen mounted on the Eagle Garuda." (Moore: Hindu Panth. p. 214.) And M. Sonnerat noticed "two basso-relievos placed at the entrance of the choir of Bordeaux Cathedral, one of which represents the ascension of our Saviour to heaven on an Eagle." (Higgins: Anac., vol. i. p. 273.) [216:1] Oriental Religions, pp. 494, 495. [216:2] Asiatic Res., vol. x. p. 129. Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 103. [216:3] Bunsen: The Angel-Messiah, p. 49. [216:4] Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 86. See also, Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 159. [216:5] Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. p. 214. [216:6] Ibid. p. 258. [217:1] Ovid's Metamorphoses, as rendered by Addison. Quoted in Taylor's Diegesis, p. 148. [217:2] Quoted by Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 114. See also, Taylor's Diegesis, pp. 163, 164. [217:3] Taylor's Diegesis, p. 164. [217:4] Prichard's Egyptian Mythology, pp. 66, 67. [218:1] Dupuis: Origin of Religious Belief, p. 161. See also, Dunlap's Mysteries of Adoni, p. 23, and Spirit Hist. of Man, p. 216. [218:2] Calmet's Fragments, vol. ii. p. 21. [218:3] Murray: Manual of Mythology, p. 86. [218:4] See Dupuis: Origin of Religious Beliefs, p. 261. [219:1] See Dupuis: Origin of Religious Beliefs, p. 247, and Taylor's Diegesis, p. 164. [219:2] See Taylor's Diegesis, p. 164. We shall speak of _Christian_ forgeries anon. [219:3] See Bell's Pantheon, vol. i. p. 2. [220:1] Quoted in Dunlap's Son of the Man, p. vii. See also, Knight: Ancient Art and Mythology, p. xxvii. "From the days of the prophet Daniel, down to the time when the red cross knights gave no quarter (fighting for _the Christ_) in the streets of Jerusalem, the Anointed was worshiped in Babylon, Basan, Galilee and Palestine." (Son of the Man, p. 38.) [220:2] Ezekiel, viii. 14. [220:3] Quoted in Taylor's Diegesis, p. 162, and Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 114. [221:1] See Justin: Cum. Typho, and Tertullian: De Bap. [221:2] See Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 16, and vol. i. p. 519. Also, Prichard's Egyptian Mythology, p. 66, and Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. 163. [221:3] See Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. 166, and Dunlap's Mysteries of Adoni, pp. 124, 125. [221:4] Prolegomena to Ancient History. [221:5] See Higgins: Anacalypsis, vol. ii. p. 102. [221:6] Murray: Manual of Mythology, pp. 347, 348. [222:1] Dupuis: Origin of Religious Belief, p. 256. [222:2] Bonwick's Egyptian Belief, p. vi. [222:3] Ibid. pp. 150-155, 178.