The fact is, that it is sufficient to examine certain Egyptian _cartouches_, pointed out by Rossellini (_Egypte_, Vol. I., p. 289), to find Mercury (the double of Sirius in our solar system) as Sothis, preceded by the words “_sole_” and “_solis custode, sostegnon dei dominanti, e forte grande dei vigilanti_,” “watchman of the sun, sustainer of dominions, and the strongest of all the vigilants.” All these titles and attributes are now those of the Archangel Michael, who has inherited them from the _demons_ of paganism. Moreover, travellers in Rome may testify to the wonderful presence in the statue of Mitra, at the Vatican, of the best known Christian symbols. Mystics boast of it. They find “in his lion’s head, and the eagle’s wings, those of the courageous Seraph, the master of space (Michael); in his caduceus, the spear, in the two serpents coiled round the body, the struggle of the good and bad principles, and especially in the two keys which the said Mitra holds, like St. Peter, the keys with which this Seraph-patron of the latter opens and shuts the gates of Heaven, _astra cludit et recludit_.” (_Mem_: p. 162.) To sum up, the aforesaid shows that the theological romance of Lucifer was built upon the various myths and allegories of the pagan world, and that it is no _revealed_ dogma, but simply one invented to uphold superstition. Mercury being one of the Sun’s _assessors_, or the _cynocephali_ of the Egyptians and _the watch-dogs of the Sun_, literally, the other was _Eosphoros_, the most brilliant of the planets, “_qui mane oriebaris_,” the early rising, or the Greek ὀρθρινὸς. It was identical with the _Amoon-ra_, the light-bearer of Egypt, and called by all nations “the _second born_ of light” (the first being Mercury), the beginning of his (the Sun’s) ways of wisdom, the Archangel Michael being also referred to as the _principium viarum Domini_.