which fills the deep as the sea, and ascends up on high as clouds, Third, the Earth, whose seed was first brought forth by Albordj. Fourth, trees and plants. Fifth, animals; and Sixth, Man, after which the Creator rested. "We must remember, says Von Bohlen, that Zoroaster had taken the old Magian system as the foundation of his reform, and had modified it to suit his purposes,-that. consequently, his coimegony is the old Chal- dean which very probably spread from the times of the Assyrians into Western Asia. But the Bible narrative, apart from this common basis, far surpass the description of the Zen davesta in simple dignity, and possesses a high intrinsic value in itself. On the other hand, the thought 'Let there be Light, and there was Light, which Longinus considered sublime, must not, remembering the limited conceptions of the writer, be rated too highly; and we may admit, without lowering the value of the cosmo- gony, that the Creation of the Hindeos, though a mere act of thinking and willing, was also very sublime, when it is said in the Vedas, He thought, I will create worlds, and they were there "
The Etruscan tradition is to the effect that the In the world was created in six thousand years. first thousand God created the heaven and the earth; in the second, the firmament; in the third, the sea and the other waters of the earth in the fourth, the sun, moon and stars; in the fifth, the animals belonging to air, water, and land; in the sixth, max:
The Brahmin tradition is to the following cffect: The universe existed in darkness imper- ceptible, undefinable, undiscoverable and undis covered, as if immersed in sleep. Then the self- existing power undiscovered himself, but making the world discernible with the five elements and other 1 rinciples appeared in undiminished glory dispelling the gloom. He whom the mind alone can perceive, whose essence eludes the external organs, who has no visible parts, who exists from eternity, even he, the soul of things, shows forth in person. He having villed to produce various beings from his own divine substance, first created the waters with a thought, and placed in them a productive seed. The seed became an egg, bright as gold, blazing like the luminary with a thousand beams, and in that egg he was born himself in the form of Brahma, the great forefather of all spirits. The waters are called Nama, because they were the production of Nara or the spirit of God, and hence they were his first agana, ar place of motion; he hence is named Naragana, or moving of the waters. In that egg the great power sat fractive a whole year of the Creation, at the end of which by his thought alone he caused the egg to divine itself. And from its two divisions be framed the heavens above, and the earth beneath; in the midst be placed the subtle ether, the eight regions, and the permanent receptacle of the waters. From the supreme soul he drew forth mind, existing substantially though unperceived by sense, immaterial, and before mind, or reasoning power, he produced consciousness, the internal monitor, the ruler. And before them both he produced the great principle of the soul, or first expansion of the divine idea; and all vital forms endured with the three qualities of goodness, passion, and darkness; and the five perceptions of sense, and five organs of sensation. That having at once pervaded, with emanations from the supreme spirit, the minutest portions of fixed principles immensely operative, consciousness and the five perceptions, he farmed all creatures. Thence proceed the great elements endued with peculiar powers, and mind with operations infinitely subtile, the imperishable cause of all This universe therefore is apparent forms. compacted from the minute portions of those seven divine and active principles; the great soul, or first emanations, consciousness, and the fire perceptions; a mutable universe from immutable "ideas of created things. The most excellent are those who are animated; of the animated, these which subsist by intelligence; of the intelligent, mankind; and of men, the sacerdotal class, of priests, those eminent in leaming; of the learned, those who know their duty; of those who know it, such as virtuously perform it; and of the virtuous, those who seck beatitude from a perfect acquaintance with scriptural doctrine.
Zoroaster's cosmogony is characterised by the following important points -The maker, self- operating, framed the world and there was another mass of fire. All these things he pro- duced, self-operating, that the body of the world might be conglobed, that the world might be manifest and not appear membranous. For he assimilates himself, professing to cast around him the form of the images. For it is an imita- tion of mind, but that which is fabricated, has something of body. But projecting into the world, through the rapid menace of the Father, the venerable name goes axeedily along with a sleepless revolution. The others of the clements therefore are three. The oracles assert that the Impression of characters and of the other divine visions, appear in the ether. In this the things without figure are figured, the ineffable and effable impressions of the world. And the light-hating world, and the winding currenta under which many are drawn down. He makes the whole world of fire, and water, and earth, and all nourishing ether; placing earth in the middle, puning water in the cavities of the earth and air above these. He fired a great multitude of incrratic stars--not by laborious and evil Tension, but with a stability void of wandering, forcing fire to the fire. For the Father congregated the seven firmaments of the world, circumscribing the heaven with a convex figure. He constituted a seplenary of errative animals, suspending their disorder in well disposed zones. Unweaned -nature rules over the worlds; and works.
Although most of the other traditions extant have no points of similarity with the Genesis record of Creation, still the fact cannot be doubted that the most ancient records, the Persian and the Etruscan, bear in exact resemblance to the Hebrew. Dliach, an upholder of the historical truth of the Scripture narrative, says in "Genesis," 1. 80. Whence comes the surprising agres ment of the Etruscans and Persian legends with this section? How comes it that the Babylonian cosmogony in Berosus, and the Phoenician in Sanchoniathon, in spite of their fantastical oddity, come in contact with it in remarkable detalls? There was a time so begins the Babylonian cosmogony, In which all was dark ness and water! According to the Phoenician, the first human pair was produced by the Kolpia, the Diving Breath, and his wife Boow, is the matter of Night. These are only instances of that which they have in common. From such sn accordance outside of Israel, we must, how-- ever, conclude that the author of Gen, I. has no vision before him, but a tradition. It might be replied, that the three cosmogonies just mentioned are only echoes of the first and second sections of the Hebrew Law, which had become known to the Babylonians, Phoenicians, and Persians The points of contact are strange enough to lead to such a conjecture; and whereas an influence of Jehovah worship upon the religion of Babylon is altogether improbable, and an influence of it
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among the Americantribes as yet unchristianised, and in Africa with the Ashantees and Gallas, Among the Egyptians, the civil use of the seven days week has certainly, not yet been demon. .strated; as far back as the oldest times of the great Pyramids, we find the ten-days' week, which also is found among the Indians' dardha, Uecade, Still the seven-days' week was as well-known to the Egyptians, that Dion Cassius, XXXVII, 17. 18, 19, notes the naming of the, days of the week after the seven planets as originally, an Egyptian custom, which spread from Egypt also into the Roman Empire. This consecra- tion of the seven-days' we k and of the number seven generally, as may be conjectured, and as Gen. i. establishes, points back to a deeper, positive ground than that to which Ideler, Lepsius, Ewald, trace it, viz., the division of the Synodic month into four parts, of which each contains 7 or, without a fraction, 7 days. Its ground is the cosmogonic legend. This is the primary legend that has travelled from place to place. For, as Tuch justly observes, the same fundamental tones are heard echoing under the most different harmonies, from the Ganges to the Nile."
The final question to be decided in connection with this subject is whether the Hebrew Scrip- tures are older than the Persian and Indian sacred writings. If the Pentateuch can claim precedence over the profane Scriptures, the con- clusion may, safely be drawn that there have more or less been affected by the Genesic record, But facts are not wanting, to disprove such
Draper says in an inference.
Conflict "To the between Religion and Science :" critical eye they (the books of the Old Testament) ali present peculiarities which demonstrate that they, were written 'ba the banks of the Euphrates and not in the desert of Arabia. They contain many Chaldaisms." "From such Assyrian sources the legends of the creation of the earth and heavens, the Garden of Eden, the making of man from clay and the woman from his ribs, the temptation of the serpent, etc
... were obtained by Ezra." Di. Westbrook in "The Bible-whence and what," says: "No intelligent man will deny the general likeness of the Hebrew Scriptures to the scriptures of Egypt and of other and older countries, Moses was really an Egyptian, rather than a common Jew; and when we speak of Egyptian religion, we do not refer to its comparatively modern corruptions, and as held and taught exoterically to the common people, and scholars, and as it was doubtless well under- but as held and understood by the philosophers stood by Moses the prince, the reputed" son of Pharaoh's daughter."
The following arguments tend to show the greater antiquity of the Indian and other sacred books, as compared with the Bible:
f) It has been ascertained that Sanskrit is a language far older than Hebrew; it is, in fact, considered to be the parent stock As of all ancient and modern languages. the Indian sacred books were written in
this language, it follows that they were prior to the Hebrew Scriptures,
(8) The Hindoos used to transmit most of their traditions to posterity by engraving them
on monuments,
In the cave temples of old India are found engravings and sculptures allusive to many biblical legends, such as the serpent's head under the heel of the woman, the slaughter of the innocents, the mitre, crosier, be supposed that these pople derived these ideas from Moses and the Christians, for the simple reason that they flourished thousands of years before Moses and Christ, and their sculp fures are quite as old. It is preposterous io suppose that a highly civilised nation such as the Indians were ben, should have borrowed from a little mob of hall-civilised, or rather barbarous nomade just liberated from the most object serfdom.
cross and other Christian emblems. It cannot
(c) The Brahmins and Buddhists were a pre eminently a proud class of people, who would never have appealed to a smaller nation for any religions system or creed,
ascetic regimen. Chastity and virginity were accounted sacred, and it contained the doctrines of the fall, the incarnation, the atonement, and the resurrection." The same religion prevailed in Egypt when the sun god Osiris was wOT- shipped.
Amusements.
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Renouf states that there is not a Hebrew manuscript in existence one thousand years old while some Egyptian papyri are extant in good state of preservation at least 4,001 years old. According to the most moderate calculation, this author adds, the Egyptian monarchy must have been in existence fifteen hundred years, but more probably two thousand years before the book of Exodus was written. The exodus of the Israelites cannot with any proba- hilly be brought down lower than", 1310 years B.C., and it was about 2.050 years before this (3360) that I would place the Egyptian historical monarchy. More than 5,000 years ago, in the valley of the Nile, hymns were sung to the unity of God and the immortality of the soul. The most accurate scholars point to India civilisation." as the origin of Egyptian Max Müller days in "Chips." I p. 11 "After carefully examining every possible objection that can be made against the date of the Vedic hymns, their claim to that high antiquity which is ascribed to them has not, s far as I can judge, been shaken." And in "Science of Religion". p. 24:-"The opinion that the pagan religions were mere carruptions of the religion of the Old Testament, once supported by men of high authority and great learning, is now as completely surrendered as the attempt at explaining Greek and Latin as corruptions of Hebrew, ""
(To be continued)
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(2) The Jews as a people, says Westbrook,modation. never came into general notice until the times of Alexander the Great and their, subjection by the Romans. They seem to have been unknown to Herodotus and other Greek writers, Even Josephus quotes Apollonius as saying that the Jews were the most trifling of all the barbarians, and that they were the only people who had never found anything useful. While the ancient Chaldeans, Arabiana, Egyptians, Grecians and Romans had their men of science and literature, whose fame only brightens with the increase of civilisation, the Jews have no history except what was written by themselves; abourd, impossible and con and that is tradictory that nobody can believe it,"
The story of the fall of man, which is the pivot on which turns the scheme of redemption, was propounded by Zoroaster, ages before Moses, According to the leader of the Babylonians, God created man and placed him in a beautiful garden called Eren, located in Iran, or Persia. The Zoroastrian theory of the introduction of sin is that there were two great and opposite principles or persons, Ormuid the good God, and Arth man, the evil one; they représented light and darkness respectively. The serpent is employed by the evil principle to seduce man from his obedience to the good god.
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THE HONGKONG AND KOWLOON WHARF AND GODOWN COMPANY, LIMITED.
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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING of THE MEMBERS OF De Hongkong General Chamber of Commerce will be held on WEDNESDAY, the 6th Match, at 3 30 F.M., at the ROOMS OF THE CHAMBER, City Hall, for the purpose of receiving the Report of the Committee. and passing the Secretary's accounts for the year ending 31st December, 1888,
("India, Persia, Egypt, Syria, Greece, says Puteam in Keys of the Creed" and many other countries of the ancient world place them- selves at our disposal the moment we seek to explore the mysteries of the Solar culte. I will.commence with Persia, under the influence of whose philosophy the Jews, in their captivity, Snally abandoned their passion for the grosser idolatries of Syria, and after their release collated their legends and re-wrote what they are pleased to call their history. Therute was to per sonify the sun under the form of a benefactor to mankind, and to narrate his annual career as a moral and philosophic tale. The Persian Magians accounted to the populace for the introduction of evil into the world by a fable of a serpent tempt ing the first woman to pluck a forbidden apple This sct, as the apple ripens late in autumn, was of course followed by the prevalence of winter, with darkness and cold-the kingdom of the evil principle and necessitated the adoption of clothing. The mischief thus brought about could only be remedied by the agency of the sun, which they identified with the principle of good. Hence they supposed the incarnation of the sun in the person of Mithra. This Mithra was ST. JOHN sent forth as bom of a virgia in a cave at the winter solstice, and as accompanied by a retinue of twelve persons who represented the twelve months. Having vanquished the prince of darkness, who under the guise of
By Order,
F. HENDERSON, Secretary. Hongkong, 23rd February, 1889.
LO D.GE
OF HONGKONG, No. 618, S.C.
serpent bad seduced the woman, and having AN EMERGENCY MEETING of the above lost bis life in the contest, Mithra descended named Lodge will be held in FREEMA. into hell or the underside of the earthSONS HALL, Zetland Street, on WEDNESDAY, and then in the spring equinox rose again, and the 27th instant, at 5 for 5.30 P.M. precisely..
icended into heaven, opening to man the gates Visiting Brethren are cordially invited.
of light, and redeeming him from the oppres sion of the evil one. Mithra was represented
upon that of the Phoenicians rather improbable, s born, of a virgin because the constellation
Virgo was on the horizon at the time of the sun's birth and because the sun was then in the sign
vernal equinox, which governs the year, Mithra was called the Lamb of God' and the Zamb
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yet, on the other hand, an influence of it, apon the Zend religion is very probable. If, however, here and there, the assumption of such an of Aries-then known as the Lambat the influence is allowable, yet it remalus still certain that the author of Gen. 1 has expressed in has takes away the evils of the world. The R. G. E. NOBLE has been appolated Add that are from within alle. Gen. L. serpent that causes all the mischief by bringing M CHIEF. MASAURS, of the Bank Brom the words as old tradition already existing. completes the Creation, how can that be anything in the winter is Scorpio, the constellation of the 1st January, 1884 VIDA LAMA
By Order of the Court of Directors, visionary since the seven-days' week is a later autumn. The religion founded in hopuar Gammon ancient heritage of, the Asiatic and of Mithra was provided with the sacraments of African peoples, and probably, first of all, of the baptism, penance, the encharist, consecration, and Fabylonians may, it le found actually existing i dihem. lis novices were subjected to a severely
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HONGKONG AND WHAMPOA DOCK COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE TO SHAREHOLDERS.
YEARLY MEETING
THE ORDINACLDERS Will be held in the
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The TRANSFER. BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 11th to the 25th instant, both days inclusive,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
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10.—Į MILE FLAT RACE, (Open to N. C. O's and Men of Her Majesty's Imperial Services, including Police
DIVIDEND of 6 on all claims
ORIENTAL BANK CORPORATION, which have been approved by the Court of Chancery will be paid at the Offices of the NEW ORIENTAL BANK CORFORATION, LIMITED, on and after MONDAY, the 17th March next.
AID No long anche 1.-120 YARDS HURDLE RACE, (WI
Creditors are requested to apply to the Bank for their Dividends and to produce the letter they; bold from the Official Liquidator admitting their claims. In order that the payment of the 6th Dividend may be endorsed thereon.
PAYMENT OF FINAL DIVIDEND IN
A YOUNG T
3. 24
ADVANCE UNDER DISCOUNT,
THE Official Liquidator, by arrangement with the Assets Realisation Co., is prepared [238 to pay in advance to Creditors willing to receive such payment, IN FULL DISCHARGE OF THEIR CLAIMS the Dividend of 5 " payable in the year 1890, UNDER A. DISCOUNT OF FIVE TWELFTHS PER CENT,"
MANAGER. J. C. L. ROUCH.. TINE and SPIRITS of the best quality WENGLISH &AMERICAN BILLIARD TABLES, BOWLING ALLEYS, TENNIS
Hongkong, arst January, 188g.. LAWN.
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PUBLIC NOTICE OF EXPIRY OF........ A
OPIUM FARM.
THE Exclusive PRIVILEGE of BOILING
**and PREPARING OPIUM and SELL-' ING and RETAILING OPIUM so Boiled or Prepared will CEASE on the 48th day of Felnuary, 1889. No bolled or prepared Opium purchased from us or our Licensers can be used the content of the Now Holder of such exclusive fafter the 3rd day of March, 1889, at Noon, without
Dated 26th January, 1880
KHOO TEONG POH,
CHEAK TEK SOON,
Oplum Farmers
Creditors who are willing to accept payment of the Final Dividend, less discount as above signed BEFORE THE END OF THE CURRENT requested to communicate with the Under-
ANNE. W. RUTTER;;
MONTHL
Agent for the Official Liquidator, "Oriental Bank Corporation, în Liq. 2, Queen's Road, Hongkong, 6th February, 1889... [176
L'ONGKONG HOTEL COMPANY, LIMITED.
NOTICE
USTOMERS are
to SETTLE all. OUTSTANDING ACCOUNTS on or before the 1st proxima,
By Order of the Board of Directors,
HAMA EMR. LYALE
Secretary
209 Hongkong, 15th February, 1889.
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nera, at previous meetings: penalised yards for one win, 21 yards for each succeeding Win), medikučius 2 '12.—BOYS' RACE,~ 100 YARDS (Open) .....(Competitors, must be under
to years of years of age), 3 13.-VETERANS' RACE, 120 YARDS (Open), (Competitors must be 35 years of age or upwards of 10, years residence in India, China, or the Tropics; 3 14-LONG JUMP, (Winners at previous
meetings penalised 6 inches), 1 15.—THREE-LEGGED RACE (post
entries), singam I 16-SHALL GIRLS: RACE (handicap).
(Competitors must be under 7 years bid)................ 3. 1 *→230 YARDS FLAT RACE (bandicap) 18-1 MILE FLAT RACE (winners at
previous meetings* penalised- 100 yards for first win and so, -yards additional for each suce?
ceeding win 19-CONSOLATION FACE (120 yards),....” 20-TuO OF WAR, (International) ...... 21BICYCLE RACE (1 mile) Start on-
Saddle) (Post entries) : 2 Entries to close on Friday 8th March. 2-Competitors are requested to send in thair'} entries to the Hon. Sec. WELLINGTON BART RACKS, as early as possible,dan tetap be
3.The above order of events may be changed- as the Committee think proper, demand 14-Members and requested to send in their Entries for rates on forms which are obtainabia (01 WEDNESDAY, and after) at the Cricket- PAVILION, Messra” KELLY & WALSH, - and Mesa, LANE, CRAWFORD & Co.
KLAR DEUM A GEO. BRAMWELL
Le and Northamptonshire Rerti
Hon, Sad,
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