nd Mythologie_, Bd. II., s. 47

[184-1] This is the first line of Yacna, 42, of the _Khordah-Avesta_.
The Parsees believe that it is the salutation which meets the soul of
the good on entering the next world.

[186-1] "Sight is the light sense. Through it we become acquainted with
universal relations, this being _reason_. Without the eye there would be
no reason." Lorenz Oken, _Elements of Physio-Philosophy_, p. 475.

[187-1] _History of Philosophy_, Vol. II. p. 638 (4th ed.)

[187-2] "The intolerance of almost all religions which have maintained
the unity of God, is as remarkable as the contrary principle in
polytheism." Hume, _Nat. Hist. of Religion_, Sec. ix.

[187-3] "The Lamas emphatically maintain monotheism to be the real
character of Buddhism." Emil Schlagintweit, _Buddhism in Tibet_, p. 108.

[188-1] No one has seen the error here pointed out, and its injurious
results on thought, more clearly than Comte himself. He is emphatic in
condemning "le tendance involontaire a constituer l'unite speculative
par l'ascendant universel des plus grossieres contemplations numerique,
geometrique ou mecaniques." _Systeme de Politique Positive_; Tome I., p.
51. But he was too biassed to apply this warning to Christian thought.
The conception of the Universe in the logic of Professor De Morgan and
Boole is an example of speculative unity.

[189-1] _Bhagavad Gita_, ch. iv.

[190-1] See the introduction by Mr. J. W. Etheridge to _The Targums of
Onkelos and Jonathan Ben Uzziel_ (London, 1862). St. Augustine believed
the trinity is referred to in the opening verses of Genesis.
_Confessiones_, Lib. xiii. cap. 5. The early Christian writer,
Theophilus of Antioch (circa 225), in his _Apologia_, recognizes the
Jewish trinity only. It was a century later that the dogma was defined
in its Athanasian form. See further, Isaac Preston Cory, _Ancient
Fragments, with an Inquiry into the Trinity of the Gentiles_ (London,
1832).

[191-1] _The Unseen Universe_, p. 194.

[194-1] "A good will is the only altogether good thing in the
world."--_Kant._ "What man conceives in himself is always superior to
that reality which it precedes and prepares."--_Comte._

THE CULT, ITS SYMBOLS AND RITES.

SUMMARY.

The Symbol represents the unknown; the Rite is the ceremony of
worship.

A symbol stands for the supernatural, an emblem for something
known. The elucidation of symbolism is in the laws of the
associa