504 THE MOUNTAIN. 



"External resemblance" would only have to be new-christened 

 " internal. " " But it is remarkable that his physiognomical 

 remedies are often, in fact, really homeopathic, where ex- 

 ternal resemblance actually accompanies an internal one." 

 Thus mutters a homeopathic oracle. Thus it is that the 

 new is ever old; the old ever new. Hence everybody un- 

 derstands the matter, and is struck by its simplicity and 

 probability ; and hence everybody is a philosopher and doc- 

 tor, and knows as much, or more than everybody else, whe- 

 ther philosopher or doctor. Progress, thou insane crab of 

 a world 1 (head or tail foremost) where men with entrails 

 (slimy tubes thirty or forty feet long) and solid viscera, 

 (livers three and a half pounds normal, to twenty abnormal,) 

 with bodies hundreds of weight avoirdupois, do nothing, 

 think of nothing, believe in nothing, trust in nothing, get 

 sick on nothing, and, "similia similibus curantur," take no- 

 thing, and get well on nothing. 



In the Chaldean oracles of Zoroaster we find the follow- 

 ing sublime saws. The unlettered may find obscurity and 

 smoke in these flashes of the primitive soul, but to the 

 initiated they are as the splendor of the noonday sun. 



ORACLE 75. 



" Irrational demons derive their subsistence from the aerial rulers ; 

 wherefore, the oracle says, being the charioteer of the aerial, ter- 

 restrial, and aquatic dogs." 



ORACLE 76. 



"The aquatic, when applied to the divine natures, signifies a 

 government inseparable from water, and hence the oracle calls the 

 aquatic gods water- walkers." 



ORACLE 80. 

 "The paternal mind has sowed symbols in the souls." 



ORACLE 93. 

 " Moisture is a symbol of life, hence Plato and the gods before 



