It is said of the Heavens and the Earth in the second verse of _Genesis_ that they were “Chaos and Confusion”—that is, they were “Tohu‐vah‐bohu;” “and _darkness_ was upon the face of the deep,” _i.e._, “the perfect material out of which construction was to be made lacked organization.” The order of the digits of these words as they stand—_i.e._,(434) the letters rendered by their numerical value—is 6,526,654 and 2,386. By art speech these are key‐working numbers loosely shuffled together, the germs and keys of construction, but to be recognized, one by one, as used and required. They follow symmetrically in the work as immediately following the first sentence of grand enunciation: “In Rash developed itself Gods, the heavens and the earth.” Multiply the numbers of the letters of “Tohu‐vah‐bohu” together continuously from right to left, placing the consecutive single products as we go, and we will have the following series of values, _viz._, (_a_) 30, 60, 360, 2,160, 10,800, 43,200, or as by the characterizing digits; 3, 6, 36, 216, 108, and 432; (_b_) 20, 120, 720, 1,440, 7,200, or 2, 12, 72, 144, 72, 432, the series closing in 432, one of the most famous numbers of antiquity, and which, though obscured, crops out in the chronology up to the Flood.(435)... This shows that the Hebrew usage of play upon the numbers must have come to the Jews from India. As we have seen, the final series yields, besides many another combination, the figures 108 and 1008—the number of the names of Vishnu, whence the 108 grains of the Yogî’s rosary—and close with 432, the truly “famous” number in Indian and Chaldæan antiquity, appearing in the cycle of 4,320,000 years in the former, and in the 432,000 years, the duration of the Chaldæan divine dynasties. SECTION XXVI. THE IDOLS AND THE TERAPHIM. The meaning of the “fairy‐tale” told by the Chaldæan Qû‐tâmy is easily understood. His _modus operandi_ with the “idol of the moon” was that of all the Semites, before Terah, Abraham’s father, made images—the Teraphim, called after him—or the “chosen people” of Israel ceased divining by them. These teraphim were just as much “idols” as is any pagan image or statue.(436) The injunction “Thou shalt not bow to a graven image,” or teraphim, must have either come at a later date, or have been disregarded, since the bowing‐down to and the divining by the teraphim seem to have been so orthodox and general that the “Lord” actually threatens the Israelites, through Hosea, to deprive them of their teraphim. For the children of Israel shall abide many days without a king, ... without a sacrifice, and without an image. Matzebah, or statue, or pillar, is explained in the _Bible_ to mean “without an ephod and without teraphim.”(437)