XIV, 1907, pp. 280 ff.) he has also
indicated how philosophy then led to Christianity.

30. M. Pichon (_Les derniers ecrivains profanes_, Paris, 1906) has recently
shown how the eloquence of the panegyrists unconsciously changed from
paganism to monotheism. See also Maurice, _Comptes Rendus Acad.
Inscriptions_, 1909, p. 165.--The vague deism of Constantine strove to
reconcile the opposition of heliolatry and Christianity (Burckhardt, _Die
Zeit Constantins_, pp. 353 ff.) and the emperor's letters addressed to
Arius and the community of Nicomedia (Migne, _P. G._, LXXXV, col. 1343 ff.)
are, as shown by Loeschke (_Das Syntagma des Gelasius_ [Rhein. Mus., LXI],
1906, p. 44), "ein merkwuerdiges Produkt theologischen Dilettantismus,
aufgebaut auf im wesentlichen pantheistischer Grundlage mit Hilfe weniger
christlicher Termini und fast noch weniger christlicher Gedanken." I shall
cite a passage in which the influence of the astrological religion is
particularly noticeable (col. 1552 D): [Greek: Idou gar ho kosmos morphe
eitoun schema tunchanei hon; kai hoi asteres ge charakteras probeblentai;
kai holos to pneuma tou sphairoeidous toutou kuklou, eidos ton onton
tunchanei hon, kai hosper morphoma; kai homos ho Theos pantachou paresti.]

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INDEX.

Ablutions, Ritualistic, 208.
Absolutism, 38, 141, 161.
Abstinence, 40.
Abydos, 89, 98, 99, 237 n. 78;
Isis in, 99;
Liturgy of, 97;
Mysteries of, 237 n. 77;
Phallophories of, 78.
Achemenides, 127, 135, 143.
Adonis, 110;
and Attis, 69.
AEsculapius and Eshmoun, 21;
Serpent sacred to, 173.
_Aeterna domus_, 240 n. 91.
_Aeternus, Deus_, 130.
Africa, Isis in, 83.
Agatha, St., 237 n. 73.
Agathocles, 79, 80.
Agrippa forbids worship of Isis, 82.
Ahriman, 152, 190, 199;
and Satan, 153, 266 n. 36.
Ahura-Mazda, 127, 145;
and Bel, 146.
Alexander, 135;
of Aphrodisias, 276 n. 54;
Polyhistor, 255 n. 66.
Alexandria, 84;
Greek influence in, 75f.;
Isis in, 90, 232 n. 33.
Alexandrian calendar, 84;
mysteries, 99, 240 n. 91.
Amasis, 86.
Amber road, 216 n. 12.
Ambrosiaster, 204.
Ameretat, 145.
_Amici Augusti_, 137.
Ammianus Marcellinus, 211.
Ammon, 230 n. 9.
Amshaspends, 145, 263 n. 20.
Anahita, 54, 65, 145;
and Ishtar, 146;
Cybele and, 227 n. 32.
Ananke, 182.
Anatolia, 47, 139, 143.
Andros, 76.
Angels, 138, 152,