The next dogma we shall notice is that of Savior, or Mediator. This is evidently derived from the Christna of the Hindu trinity, who, as the _Redeemer_ of the human race, was the most important of the three. This personification of the sun seems to have been adopted by the Persian lawgiver, Zoroaster, under the name of Mithra (which still meant Mediator), when he founded the religion of the Mithriacs, or worshippers of the sun. According to Plutarch, Zoroaster taught that there existed two principles, one good, and the other evil; the first was called Oromazes, "_the ancient of days_," being the principle of good or light; the other, Ahrimanes, was the principle of evil, or cold and darkness. Between these personified principles, he placed his Mithra, who, as the source of genial heat and life, annually redeems the human race from the power of evil or cold and darkness.* From this beautiful allegory of the sun, is derived the Christian dogma of Savior, of which proof maybe found even amongst the fathers. (See Tertullian, Adv. Qentes.) Celsus asserts that the early Christians were merely a sect of adorers of the sun, and such a sect were the Manicheans. The principles of what man calls _good_ and _evil_, have also been personified** in the Osiris and Typhon of the Egyptians, the Jupiter and Pandora of the Greeks, the Jehovah and Satan of the Jews, and the present God and devil of the Christians. * This Indian and Persian Trinity was symbolical of the three-fold, power of the Sun, or God Mithra: in spring and summer, he is the Producer; in autumn, the Preserver; and by his absence in winter, the Destroyer. ** The fraud of personifying principles, and the physical powers of Nature has always been easy and indispensable with priests in all ages. During the French revolution, Gobet, Bishop of Paris, acknowledged that up to that time, himself and his clergy had taught the people nothing but a mass of falsehood, for which he apologised; disowned the god he had taught the people to worship, and promised to devote himself to the worship of reason, morality, liberty and virtue. But the stupid and credulous mob soon personified these qualities, and worshipped, them as deities and real entities. At Rome, in like manner, the compliments of the new year, Perpetua Felicitas, were turned into two goddesses, and receive divine honors to this day.