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sun was in the Bull; the Bull was, therefore, in their figurative way of speaking, the father of harvest, not only because he ploughed the ground, but because the sun was there when they got in their harvest: thus the Bull was doubly distinguished as their benefactor; he was now, more than ever, become the _Bull of life_, i. e. he was not only called _Abir_, the Bull, but _Abir-am_ or Ab'-r-am, the _Bull of life_,--the father of harvest. And as their harvest was originally under the direction of Iseth, or Isis, whatever belonged to harvest was _Isiac_; but the Bull, _Abiram_, was now become the _father of Isiac_! and to give this the appearance of a human descent, they added to Abir, the masculine affix _ah_; then it became AB'-RH-AM who was the father of Isiac. And we actually find _this equivoque_ in the hebrew history of _Abram_ whom the Lord afterwards called _Abraham_, who was the _father of Isaac_, whose seed was to be countless as the sand on the sea-shore for multitude; even this is truly applied to _Isiac_ the offspring of Ab'-rh-am; for countless indeed are the offspring of the _scythe and sickle_! but if we allow _Isiac_ to be a _real son of Ab-rah-am_ we must enquire after his _mother_. During the time that the equator [perhaps he means the sun] is passing through the constellation of the Bull in the spring, the Bull would _rise in the east_ every morning in the harvest time, in Egypt,--but in the _poetical language of the ancients_, it would be said that, when ABIR-AM _consorts_ with _Aurora_ he will produce _Isiac_. But _Aurora_ is well known to be the _golden splendour of the east_, and the brightness of the east is called _Zara_, and the morning star is _Serah_, in the eastern languages, and we find a similar change of sound in the name of Isaac's mother, whom the Lord would no longer call _Sarai_ but Sarah. _These_ ARE remarkable coincidences!"--_Companion to the Mythological Astronomy_, Norwich, 1824, 12mo. pp. 177-179. M. In answer to the inquiry respecting this singular man, I beg to say that I remember him between the years 1826 and 1830, as a shoemaker in Norwich. He was in a low rank of trade, and in poor circumstances, which he endeavoured to improve by exhibiting at private houses an orrery of his own making. He was recognised as a "genius;" but, as may be seen by his writings, had
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