that had existed in every theogony for thousands of years before the Christian era. Their trinity is but the trio of Sephiroth, the first three kabalistic _lights_ of which Moses Nachmanides says, that “_they have never been seen by any one_; there is not any defect in them, nor any disunion.” The first eternal number is the Father, or the Chaldean primeval, invisible, and incomprehensible _chaos_, out of which proceeded the _Intelligible_ one. The Egyptian Phtah, or “the _Principle of Light_--not the light itself, and the Principle of Life, though himself _no_ life.” The _Wisdom_ by which the Father created the heavens is the _Son_, or the kabalistic androgynous Adam Kadmon. The Son is at once the male _Ra_, or Light of Wisdom, Prudence or _Intelligence_, Sephira, the female part of Himself; while from this dual being proceeds the third emanation, the Binah or Reason, the second Intelligence--the Holy Ghost of the Christians. Therefore, strictly speaking, there is a TETRAKTIS or quaternary, consisting of the Unintelligible First monad, and its triple emanation, which properly constitute our Trinity. How then avoid perceiving at once, that had not the Christians purposely disfigured in their interpretation and translation the Mosaic _Genesis_ to fit their own views, their religion, with its present dogmas, would have been impossible? The word Rasit, once taught in its new sense of the _Principle_ and not the _Beginning_, and the anathematized doctrine of emanations accepted, the position of the second trinitarian personage becomes untenable. For, if the angels are the _first_ divine emanations from the Divine Substance, and were in existence _before_ the Second Principle, then the anthropomorphized _Son_ is at best an emanation like themselves, and cannot be God _hypostatically_ any more than our visible works are ourselves. That these metaphysical subtleties never entered into the head of the honest-minded, sincere Paul, is evident; as it is furthermore evident, that like all learned Jews he was well acquainted with the doctrine of emanations and never thought of corrupting it. How can any one imagine that Paul identified the _Son_ with the _Father_, when he tells us that God made Jesus “a _little lower_ than the angels” (_Hebrews_ ii. 9), and a _little higher_ than Moses! “For this MAN was counted worthy of more glory than Moses” (_Hebrews_ iii. 3). Of whatever, or how many forgeries, interlined later in the _Acts_, the Fathers are guilty we know not; but that Paul never considered Christ more than a man “full of the Spirit of God” is but too evident: “In the _arche_ was the _Logos_, and the Logos was adnate to the Theos.”