throne were in reality composite man-gods, that is to say, each figure
was a statue, life size, of the resultant of the statues of all the
important developers of each invention and was thus obtained:

As soon as any prominent inventor or developer of an invention died,
the government secured a plaster cast of his body, if such had not
been made prior to death, and this was preserved for years in a
special museum. When twenty or more casts of various developers of any
one invention had been accumulated these were placed on a horizontal
wheel, which revolved in front of a photographic camera, and thus the
composite outline of the future god was obtained. As many outlines
were procured as there were eighths of inches in the circumference of
the largest cast, and from the collective pictures the ideal cast was
made by the sculptor. The cast once perfected, and afterward draped,
was reproduced in solid gold and placed with appropriate ceremonies on
a pedestal on the throne itself. In like manner the gods of the arts,
poetry, painting, etc., were created, as also the priests of Harikar,
the Holy Soul.

The reliefs, or symbols of mechanical art, were originally cast on the
throne itself. These included the electric engine and locomotive,
electric healer, telephone, telegraph, the electric ship, elevator,
printing press, cotton gin, weaving loom, typesetting machine,
well-boring apparatus, telescope, flying machines (individual and
collective), bockhockid, sewing machine, photographic camera, reaping
machine, paper-making and wall-paper printing machine, phonograph,
etc., etc.

This department of the throne being the largest, was significant of
the material supremacy of the mechanical arts in the nation. Science
itself was a god named Triporus, fashioned like a winged snake, so
called because it was said he could worm his way through the pores of
matter so as to discover the secrets therein. This god seemed a
compound of our ancient Sphinx, or science, and Daedalus, or mechanical
skill, but with an entirely new meaning added to both.

[Illustration: THE THRONE OF THE GODS WAS INDEED THE GOLDEN HEART OF
ATVATABAR, THE TRIUNE SYMBOL OF BODY, MIND AND SPIRIT.]

The second or intermediate section of the throne was devoted to the
gods of art and their attributes. It was sixty feet in its largest
diameter, and twenty-four feet in height. It possessed also two
sections, the upper containing the statues of Aidblis, or Poetry;
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