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merely meant the termination of the career of the star of day at the 

 winter solstice ; so, by his resurrection, nothing more was denoted 

 than the same star again rising in the heavens, like Osiris from the 

 tomb in which he had been buried by Typhon, the Genius of Evil 

 and" Leader of the brumal Signs*. Here again the truth of history 

 and the evidence of the cloud of witnesses who attested that mo- 

 mentous fact, and many of whom, among the five hundred attesta- 

 tors in Galilee, sealed their testimony with their blood, are, with the 

 grossest outrage to decency, set aside to establish the nefarious hy- 

 pothesis that would rend from man his birth-right, IMMORTALITY. 

 A philosopher, far more illustrious than any bred in the new school 

 of France, the truly virtuous GILBERT WEST, could have taught 

 this author a very different lesson, and to him I must refer him 

 together with all those of his sceptical stamp. The Indians, of 

 whose extravagant astronomical vagaries he and his confederates are 

 so immoderately fond, could also have informed them otherwise ; 

 for undoubtedly the doctrine, so ancient and generally diffused 

 among them, of the soul's pen-jutf/t^wm?, or transmigration, of its 

 [Aerepo-upotTutris, or migration from body to body, and its iraXiyyevnio-ta, 

 or regeneration, is only a corruption, though a dreadful one, of 

 traditional dogmas concerning its immortality, and that resurrection 

 from the grave, which the pious Job so early and so solemnly an- 

 nounced to the whole Pagan world. 



* Tliis author insists, with equal ignorance and presumption, that the word " resurgere, to 

 rise a second time," can by no means be applied to signify a restoration to life, but can only 

 have an astronomical allusion to the sun and peculiar stars ascending above the circle of the 

 horizon. But in the precipitancy of his attack, he forgets the moral relation which the term 

 bears to man's original production from dust, and his resuscitation, through the merits of his 

 Saviour, from the same cold earthy bed. 



END OF THE CALI-YUG, OR FOURTH INDIAN PERIOD, AND OF 

 THE HISTORY OF THE TEN AVATARS. 



