t this God vomited an egg, from which was produced
another God named Phtha or Vulcan, (igneous principle or the
sun) and they add, that this egg is the world. Euseb.
Proep. Evang. p. 115.

They represent, says the same author in another place, the
God Kneph, or efficient cause, under the form of a man in
deep blue (the color of the sky) having in his hand a
sceptre, a belt round his body, and a small bonnet royal of
light feathers on his head, to denote how very subtile and
fugacious the idea of that being is. Upon which I shall
observe that Kneph in Hebrew signifies a wing, a feather,
and that this color of sky-blue is to be found in the
majority of the Indian Gods, and is, under the name of
Narayan, one of their most distinguishing epithets.

Then, pursuing the history of Fot, the Lama continued:

"He was born from the right flank of a virgin of royal blood, who did
not cease to be a virgin for having become a mother; that the king of
the country, uneasy at his birth, wished to destroy him, and for this
purpose ordered a massacre of all the males born at that period, that
being saved by shepherds, Beddou lived in the desert till the age of
thirty years, at which time he began his mission to enlighten men and
cast out devils; that he performed a multitude of the most astonishing
miracles; that he spent his life in fasting and severe penitence, and at
his death, bequeathed to his disciples a book containing his doctrines."

And the Lama began to read:

"He that leaveth his father and mother to follow me," says Fot, "becomes
a perfect Samanean (a heavenly man).

"He that practices my precepts to the fourth degree of perfection,
acquires the faculty of flying in the air, of moving heaven and earth,
of prolonging or shortening his life (rising from the dead).

"The Samanean despises riches, and uses only what is strictly necessary;
he mortifies his body, silences his passions, desires nothing, forms no
attachments, meditates my doctrines without ceasing, endures injuries
with patience, and bears no malice to his neighbor.

"Heaven and earth shall perish," says Fot: "despise therefore your
bodies, which are composed of the four perishable elements, and think
only of your immortal soul.

"Listen not to the flesh: fear and sorrow spring from the passions:
stifle the passions and you destroy fear and sorrow.

"Whoever dies without having embraced my