With regard to the whole of that miscellaneous and discordant mass of anecdote, narrative, prophecy, allegory, gospel, epistle, revelation, etc., which compose what is called the Bible (to say nothing at present of its immoral tendency), we cannot make anything rational out of the greater portion, unless we seek the true meaning under type or allegory; but when we turn aside that veil, the nonsense of the exoteric disappears, and we perceive that the allusions are exclusively made to physical or moral principles, under typical personifications.** This is particularly the case in all those books or fragments of books which are known not to be Jewish (the book of Job, for instance), but picked up by that people among the Chaldeans and Persians, who concealed from the vulgar all the higher branches of science under the veil of allegory; and when Levi's ignorant but privileged sons adopted these books, in making their compilation, they contented themselves with the literal, knowing nothing of the occult sense. * These five winter months, beginning in October, when the Sun is in the sign Scorpio, are metaphorically alluded to as Scorpions, by St. John in Revelations ix., where it is said they shall have power "to hurt men for five months." The stings in their tails were figurative of the sharpness of the four months that succeed October, which, though they "should not kill," are nevertheless so stingingly cold as to "hurt men."--See Revelations. ** Those parts of this collection in which we perceive that the astronomical Chronology is veiled in the allegorical picture, under the appearance of history, may be called _the word of science_. Most of the psalms are evidently hymns to the Sun, as they apply to nothing else. ***In dedicating one of their tribes for the priesthood alone, the Jews imitated the oriental nations: their tribe of Levi played the same part amongst them, that the Chaldeans played amongst the Assyrians and Babylonians; the Magi amongst the Modes and Persians; the Druids amongst the Celtæ; the Brahmins amongst the Indians; the Lamas amongst the Thibetians; and the Christian priesthoods now in Europe; in all it has been the game of deception.