* The priests of ancient Egypt baptised with air as well as with water and fire. This was done by one "whose fan is in his hand, and he will thoroughly purge his floor." The use of the fan was an artificial way of creating the Holy Wind, or Ghost. ** Yet, upon a system which is thus admitted to be fabulous, or false, Are founded doctrines which are said to be true. But in the present day, amongst an ignorant and interested clergy, although their superstition is directly derived from, and is only a varied version of the solar adoration of Paganism, the "principles of things" are lost and unknown, or if known to a very few of the learned, the little lamp of truth is extinguished by the roguery of self-interest, which will ever be sufficient to secure its suppression. Thus, from ignorance or interest, or both together, the allegories and metaphors of speech which we find in the Bible, are monstrously inculcated and palmed upon simplicity as matters of fact and history. Whilst committing these outrages upon the highest branches of science, the theologians have absurdly attempted to blend the eternal religion of Nature* with the evanescent revelations which man has, in successive ages, invented to be the greatest curse of his brother. * The "Religion of Nature" may be defined thus:--The admiration, the love, and the veneration which we feel for that incomprehensible power which produces the beauties and bounties of the world. Beyond, this, all pretended revelation is foul imposture. Having, in this and the foregoing lectures, noticed most of the leading dogmas of Christianity, and the Pagan astro-fables, from which they are derived, that exposure alone renders it unnecessary to enter upon the endless task of commenting on the unsightly mass of heterogeneous doctrines, to which the ignorant abuse of these fables has given rise. Where the foundation is fallacious, the superstructure cannot stand.