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The sun was that supernatural power which was accepted as govern- 

 ing man. The circle became the symbol. These were revelations. Man 

 was created ; the sun was created. 



These facts are undeniable. Sun worship is a fact associated with the 

 primal condition of the existence of primitive man. 



Science must accept these facts, however it may deal with them. It is 

 also a fact that various peoples, in the earliest of days, accepted the sun as 

 a supernatural manifestation, and the circle was its symbol. If philosophy 

 is the love of wisdom, or the explanation of the reason of things, yet ii 

 cannot demonstrate why the sun was first worshiped. Therefore, the 

 truest explanation is that this natural object, impressing the mind of the 

 beholder, drew out of the inherent spiritual consciousness the only 

 thought possible, a revelation of a Creator, superhuman, self-existing, 

 with power and majesty. 



With all our philosophic knowledge, it must be admitted that this ex- 

 planation is so natural as to be neither a speculative, nor a mythical 

 theory. 



To give authoritative force to this explanation, the universality of sun 

 worship in the earliest days must be shown. From the best authorities, 

 sun worship may be said " to ]uive been imivcTsnl among nations the most 

 remote jrom each other, from the lorrid to the Frigid Zone. It spread over 

 America, as it did over Europe, Africa and Asia." 



" All ancient religions when analyzed prove to be only forms of solar 

 worship.'" 



" Thus ice find the early nations of all parts of the tcarld claiming a solar 

 origin." 



From the same authorities, it may be said that this is true of the Scan- 

 dinavians, Egyptians, Phoenicians, Assyrians, Indians, Greeks, Romans, 

 Mexicans, Peruvians, Persians, Medians and Arabs. 



Yet it is to be observed : " Thai contests betiseen the spiritual and mate- 

 rial nature of man are found in the earliest antiquity. 



"In Europe and Asiu the people liad a simple faith in the powers of na- 

 ture, the most notable of which was that Great Luminary, the Sun, icTuch 

 throughout all ages, and amongst nations, under one name or another, has 

 been universally the object of adorcttion." 



" We search into emblems with a different intention to that which we in- 

 quire into ordinary language. The last telU us of the relationship of nations 

 upon earth ; the first of the probable connections of man with Heaven. Let- 

 ters and words mark the ordinary current of man's thoughts, tchile religious 

 symbols mark the nature of his religious aspirations." 



How the universality of this worship came to pass cannot be accounted 

 for by the intercommunication of peoples. It therefore, with confidence, 

 is pointed out, that it is a revelation. 



This revelaticm is the outcome of the primal inherent consciousness of 

 man, under the influence of tlie material and nutritive, sensitive and ra- 

 tional elements of his being. 



