*** Jesus became God thus:--In the year 325, Constantine having declared himself protector of the Church, convoked the grand oecumenic council of Nice; and of all the Fathers who composed that council, three hundred were of a contrary opinion to that of Arius; _and these it was who determined to acknowledge the_ "Divinity of Jesus." They added to the tenets and symbols the words _consubstantial with the Father_; and concluded by anathematising the Arians. Christ, or Christos, is not a proper name, but like the word paraclete, is an epithet, and signifies a principle or quality that is good and useful to man, and has been applied to the sun, as savior, and to human reason.* This nearly agrees with the hypothesis of the famous Dr. Strauss--that "the history of Christ, as related in the Gospels, is mythic--a kind of imaginative amplification of certain _vague and slender traditions_, formed with the design of developing an ideal character of Jesus, and to harmonise with the Jewish notions of a Messiah." That some obscure person of the name of Jesus may have lived, and been put to death by the Jewish mob for ridiculing their superstition is very probable; but that the hero of the New Testament was born, and lived, and died under all the circumstances, and attended by such violations of Nature's laws as are represented in that book, without the emphatic record of any historian, either Greek, Jewish, or Roman, seems quite impossible. * Christ, the anointed, is physically significative of the Sun, as being the sole source of all that man can rationally call good; and in the moral sense it is expressive of reason and knowledge. The etymology of the names of the ruling gods in different ages and countries, such as Brahma, Osiris, Chrishna, Budha, Foe, Oromazedes, Jupiter, Bacchus, Jehovah and Jesus Christ, etc., will show that they were merely allegorical personifications of the Sun. Dr. Lamb, of Cambridge, has found the etymon even of the word sabbath to signify "Daughter of the Sun" Our O, as used in admiration, was symbolical of the orbicular figure of the Sun, as in the exclamation, "O Dens Sol invicte Mithra!" Celsus declares that such Mithriacs were the first Christians.