Our author proceeds to argue that whenever the missionaries try to convert an idolater, they are invariably answered: We had our Crucified before yours. What do you come to show us?(131) Again, what should we gain by denying the mysterious side of this copy, under the plea that according to Weber all the present _Purânas_ are remade from older ones, since here we have in the same order of personages a positive precedence which no one would ever think of contesting.(132) And the author instances Buddha, Krishna, Apollo, etc. Having admitted all this he escapes the difficulty in this wise: The Church Fathers, however, who recognized their own property under all such sheep’s clothing ... knowing by means of the Gospel ... all the ruses of the pretended spirits of light; the Fathers, we say, meditating upon the decisive words, “all that ever came before me are robbers” (_John_, x. 8), did not hesitate in recognizing the Occult agency at work, the general and superhuman direction given beforehand to falsehood, the universal attribute and environment of all these false Gods of the nations; “_omnes dii gentium dæmonia (elilim)_.” (_Psalm_ xcv.)(133) With such a policy everything is made easy. There is not one glaring resemblance, not one fully proven identity, that could not thus be made away with. The above‐quoted cruel, selfish, self‐glorifying words, placed by John in the mouth of Him who was meekness and charity personified, could never have been pronounced by Jesus. The Occultists reject the imputation indignantly, and are prepared to defend the man as against the God, by showing whence come the words plagiarised by the author of the Fourth Gospel. They are taken bodily from the “Prophecies” in the _Book of Enoch_. The evidence on this head of the learned biblical scholar, Archbishop Laurence, and of the author of the _Evolution of Christianity_, who edited the translation, may be brought forward to prove the fact. On the last page of the Introduction to the _Book of Enoch_ is found the following passage: The parable of the sheep rescued by the good Shepherd from hireling guardians and ferocious wolves, is obviously borrowed by the fourth Evangelist from _Enoch_, lxxxix, in which the author depicts the shepherds as killing and destroying the sheep before the advent of their Lord, and thus discloses the true meaning of that hitherto mysterious passage in the Johannine parable—“All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers”—language in which we now detect an obvious reference to the allegorical shepherds of Enoch.