[31:1] "Everything of importance was calculated by, and fitted into, this number (SEVEN) by the Aryan philosophers,--ideas as well as localities." (Isis Unveiled, vol. ii. p. 407). [31:2] Each one being consecrated to a _planet_. First, to Saturn; second, to Jupiter; third, to Mars; fourth, to the Sun; fifth, to Venus; sixth, to Mercury; seventh, to the Moon. (The Pentateuch Examined, vol. iv. p. 269. See also The Angel Messiah, p. 106.) [31:3] Each of which had the name of a _planet_. [31:4] On each of which the name of a _planet_ was engraved. [31:5] "There was to be seen in Laconia, _seven_ columns erected in honor of the _seven planets_." (Dupuis: Origin of Religious Belief, p. 34.) [31:6] "The Jews believed that the Throne of Jehovah was surrounded by his _seven_ high chiefs: Gabriel, Michael, Raphael, Uriel, &c." (Bible for Learners, vol. iii. p. 46.) [32:1] Each one being consecrated to a planet, and the Sun and Moon. Sunday, "_Dies Solis_," sacred to the SUN. Monday, "Dies Lunae," sacred to the MOON. Tuesday, sacred to Tuiso or MARS. Wednesday, sacred to Odin or Woden, and to MERCURY. Thursday, sacred to Thor and others. Friday, sacred to Freia and VENUS. Saturday, sacred to SATURN. "The (ancient) Egyptians assigned a day of the week to the SUN, MOON, and five planets, and the number SEVEN was held there in great reverence." (Kenrick: Egypt, i. 238.) [32:2] "The Egyptian priests chanted the _seven_ vowels as a hymn addressed to _Serapis_." (The Rosicrucians, p. 143.) [32:3] _Sura_: the Sun-god of the Hindoos. CHAPTER III. THE TOWER OF BABEL. We are informed that, at one time, "the whole earth was of one language, and of one speech. And it came to pass, as they (the inhabitants of the earth) journeyed from the East, that they found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there. "And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. "And they said, Go to, let us build us a city, and a tower, _whose top may reach unto heaven_, and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth. _And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower_, which the children of men builded. And the Lord said, Behold, the people is one, and they have all one language; and this they begin to do: and now nothing will be restrained from them, which they have imagined to do. Go to, _let us go down_, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence upon the face of all the earth: and they left off to build the city. Therefore is the name of it called _Babel_, because the Lord did there confound the language of all the earth; and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth."[33:1]