Mr. Moore, an English traveler and writer, in a large collection of
drawings taken from Hindoo sculptures and monuments, which he has
arranged together in a work entitled "The Hindoo Pantheon," has one
representing, suspended on the cross, the Hindoo crucified God and Son
of God, "our Lord and Savior" Chrishna, with holes pierced in his
feet, evidently intended to represent the nail-holes made by the act of
crucifixion. Mr. Higgins, who examined this work, which he found in the
British Museum, makes a report of a number of the transcript drawings
intended to represent the crucifixion of this oriental and mediatorial
God, which we will here condense. In plate ninety-eight this Savior is
represented with a hole in the top of one foot, just above the toes,
where the nail was inserted in the act of crucifixion.
In another drawing he is represented exactly in the form of a Romish
Christian crucifix, but not fixed or fastened to a tree, though the legs
and feet are arranged in the usual way, with nail-holes in the latter.
There is a halo of glory over it, emanating from the heavens above,
just as we have seen Jesus Christ represented in a work by a Christian
writer, entitled "Quarles' Emblems," also in other Christian books. In
several of the icons (drawings) there are marks of holes in both feet,
and in others of holes in the hands only. In the first drawing which
he consulted the marks are very faint, so as to be scarcely visible.
In figures four and five of plate eleven the figures have nail-holes in
both feet, while the hands are not represented. Figure six has on it the
representation of a round hole in the side. To his collar or shirt hangs
an emblem of a heart, represented in the same manner as those attached
to the imaginary likenesses of Jesus Christ, which may now be found in
some Christian countries Figure ninety-one has a hole in one foot and a
nail through the other, and a round nail or pin mark in one hand only,
while the other is ornamented with a dove and a serpent (both emblems of
deity in the Christian's bible).
Now, we raise the query here, and drive it into the innermost temple
of the Christian's conscience, with the overwhelming force of the
unconquerable logic of history--_What does all this mean?_
And if they will only let conviction have its perfect work while
answering this question unhampered by the inherited prejudices of
a thousand years, they can henceforth rejoice in the discovery of a
glorious historical truth, calculated to disenthrall their minds from
the soul-cramping superstitions of crosses, crucifixions and bloody
atonements on which they have been accustomed to hang the salvation of
the world.
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