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by the same channel through which they interpolated the life of 

 their favourite Creeshna, have, in addition, borrowed a part of the 

 decorative symbols of this Avatar from the Apocalypse, of which, 

 as we learn from Fabricius, there was also a spurious copy early dis- 

 persed throughout the East. In that sacred record we read as follows : 

 And I saw, and behold A WHITE HORSE; and he that sate on him 

 had a bow, (i. e. was armed,) and a CROWN was given unto him, and 

 he went forth conquering and to conquer*. Another mighty angel is, 

 in a subsequent chapter, represented as descending from heaven; an 

 Avatar, however, much more magnificently arrayed than any of 

 those of India, for, he was clothed with a cloud, with a rainbow upon 

 his head, his face like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire ; this 

 same angel, standing with his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot 

 upon the earth, lifted up his hand to heaven, and swart by Him that 

 livethfor ever and ever, that there should be TIME no longer^. 



There existed an ancient sect of Arabian philosophers, according 

 to Dr. Pocock, who conceived that the period of the existence of the 

 present mundane system consisted of 36,425 years, when every thing 

 living was doomed to perish, but afterwards to be renovated ; and 

 thus successively for ever. This renovation of nature and of man 

 they termed their resurrection from the dead, and, he adds, they be- 

 lieved in no other. " Statuunt post spatium annorum 36,425 de- 

 cursum omnes animantium species interire, ac deinde renovari, na- 

 tura universi in singulis terrae climatibus bina uniuscuj usque speciei 

 paria de novo producente : atque ita seculum seculo continuo suc- 

 cedere, nee aliam dari resurrcctionem'\." 



Mr. Volney, ever forward to aid the cause of infidelity, like those 

 Arabian philosophers, denies also the resurrection, and, as he had 

 before insisted, that by the awful event of the death of Christ, was 



* Rev. vi. 2. t Rev. x. C. J See Pocock's Specimen Hist. Arab. p. 145. 



