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64. Dupuis, p. 357. Josephus: Jewish Antiquities, book xviii. ch. 13. Dunlap: Son of the Man, p. 94; and Beal: Hist. Buddha. [43:6] Chambers, art. "Transmigration." [44:1] See The Religion of Israel, p. 18. [44:2] Malachi iv. 5. [44:3] Matthew xvii. 12, 13. [44:4] See Bonwick: Egyptian Belief, p. 78. [44:5] Faber: Orig. Pagan Idol, vol. iii. p. 612; in Anacalypsis, vol. i. p. 210. [45:1] Indian Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 202. [45:2] Contra Celsus, lib. vi. c. xxii. [45:3] Tylor: Primitive Culture, vol. i. p. 324. [45:4] Ibid. [45:5] Indian Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 262. [45:6] Dupuis: Origin of Religious Beliefs, p. 344. [45:7] Volney's Ruins, p. 147, _note_. [45:8] See Child's Prog. Relig. Ideas, vol. i. pp. 160, 162. [46:1] Genesis xxviii. 12, 13. [46:2] Genesis xxviii. 18, 19. [46:3] "Phallic," from "Phallus," a representation of the male generative organs. For further information on this subject, see the works of R. Payne Knight, and Dr. Thomas Inman. [46:4] Bible for Learners, vol. i. pp. 175, 276. See, also, Knight: Ancient Art and Mythology; and Inman: Ancient Faiths, vol. i. and ii. [46:5] See Myths of the British Druids, p. 300; and Higgins: Celtic Druids. [46:6] Quoted by R. Payne Knight: Ancient Art and Mythology, p. 114, _note_. [46:7] See Illustrations in Dr. Inman's Pagan and Christian Symbolism. [46:8] See Inman: Ancient Faiths, vol. i. pp. 543, 544. [47:1] Bible for Learners, vol. i. pp. 177, 178, 317, 321, 322. [47:2] Indian Antiquities, vol. ii. p. 356. [47:3] Ibid. [47:4] We read in Bell's "Pantheon of the Gods and Demi-Gods of Antiquity," under the head of BAELYLION, BAELYLIA or BAETYLOS, that they are "_Anointed Stones_, worshiped among the Greeks, Phrygians, and other nations of the East;" that "these Baetylia were greatly venerated by the ancient Heathen, many of their idols being no other;" and that, "in reality no sort of idol was more common in the East, than that of oblong stones _erected_, and hence termed by the Greeks _pillars_." The Rev. Geo. W. Cox, in his Aryan Mythology (vol. ii. p. 113), says: "The erection of these stone columns or pillars, the forms of which in most cases tell their own story, are common throughout the East, some of the most elaborate being found near Ghizni." And Mr. Wake (Phallism in Ancient Religions, p. 60), says: "Kiyun, or Kivan, the name of the deity said by Amos (v. 26), to have been worshiped in the
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