And as tradition reported that similar events were witnessed six hundred
years before the conviction was fixed in the popular mind, this was the
established period intervening between these great epochs. And thus
the six hundred year Cycular tradition became established in India, and
finally spread through all the Eastern countries. We find traces of it
in Egypt, Syria, Persia, Chaldea, China, Italy, and Judea. And the proof
that the deification of great men in some countries grew out of this
Cycular tradition is found in the fact that many of them were born at
the commencement of Cycles. The Hindoos are able to recount the names
of ten sin-atoning Saviors who made their appearance on earth at these
regular intervals of six hundred years. The name of the first Avatar
Mediator and Savior who forsook the throne of heaven to come down and
die for the people was Matsa. Tradition and the sacred books fix his
birth at about six thousand years B. C. The names and advent of the
other sin-atoning Saviors occur in the following order: 2. Vurahay, 3.
Kurma, 4. Nursu, 5. Waman, 6. Pursuram, 7. Kama, 8. Chrishna, 9. Sakia,
10. Salavahana. The last named Savior was cotemporary with Jesus Christ.
The God and Savior Sakia was born six hundred years B. C. "Our Lord
and Savior" and "Son of God," Chrisna, was immaculately conceived and
miraculously born, according to Higgins, 1200 B. C.
A circumstance strongly confirming the conclusion that Cycular periods
had much to do with the promotion of men to the dignity of Gods is, that
most of the deified personages reported in history were, according to
the best authorities, born near the commencement of Cycles. Recurring
back to the eighth Cycle, we observe the advent of that period of
Chrishna, Zoroaster 2d, Bali, Thammuz, Atys, Osiris, and several others.
At the commencement of the ninth Cycle appeared Sakia, Quexalcote,
Zoroaster 2d, Xion, Qairious, Prometheus, Mithra and many others.
The tenth Cycle brought in Jesus Christ, Salavhana, Apollonious, and
others that might be named. Mahomet succeeded Jesus Christ just six
hundred years (he was born in the year 600 A. D.), which inaugurated
another Cycle. Many facts are recorded in history proving the prevalence
and sacredness of the Cycle idea in different countries. The story
in Egypt of the bird called the Phoenix, being hatched, according to
tradition, just 600 years B. C., and living to be just six hundred years
old, and having the power to renew itself every six hundred years, shows
the prevalence of the Cycular tradition in that country.
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