Arjouan, his disciple, addresses him thus: "Thou art the Supreme Being, incorruptible, worthy to be known; thou art prime supporter of the universal orb; thou art the never-failing and eternal guardian of religion; _thou art from all beginning_, and I esteem thee."[250:10] Thou art "the Divine Being, before all other gods."[250:11] Again he says: "Reverence! Reverence be unto thee, before and behind! Reverence be unto thee on all sides, O thou who art all in all! Infinite in thy power and thy glory! Thou includest all things, wherefore thou art all things."[250:12] In another Holy Book of the Hindoos, called the "Vishnu Purana," we also read that Vishnu--in the form of Crishna--"who descended into the womb of the (virgin) Devaki, and was born as her son" was "_without beginning, middle or end_."[250:13] _Buddha_ is also Alpha and Omega, without beginning or end, "The Lord," "the Possessor of All," "He who is Omnipotent and Everlastingly to be Contemplated," "the Supreme Being, the Eternal One."[250:14] _Lao-kiun_, the Chinese virgin-born God, who came upon earth about six hundred years before Jesus, was without beginning. It was said that he had existed from all eternity.[250:15] The legends of the Taou-tsze sect in China declare their founder to have existed antecedent to the birth of the elements, in the Great Absolute; that he is the "pure essence of the _tëen_;" that he is the original ancestor of the prime breath of life; that he gave form to the heavens and the earth, and caused creations and annihilations to succeed each other, in an endless series, during innumerable periods of the world. He himself is made to say: "I was in existence prior to the manifestation of any corporeal shape; I appeared anterior to the supreme being, or first motion of creation."[251:1] According to the _Zend Avesta_, Ormuzd, the first-born of the Eternal One, is he "who is, always has been, and who will be forever."[251:2] _Zeus_ was Alpha and Omega. An Orphic line runs thus: "Zeus is the beginning, Zeus is the middle, out of Zeus all things have been made."[251:3] _Bacchus_ was without beginning or end. An inscription on an ancient medal, referring to him, reads thus: "It is I who leads you; it is I who protects you, and who saves you, I am Alpha and Omega." Beneath this inscription is a serpent, with his tail in his mouth, thus forming a _circle_, which was an emblem of _eternity_ among the ancients.[251:4]