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his Trinity of Persons. As Brahmism and Buddhism replace 

 the earlier form of Idolatry, and these early fables and parables 

 of primitive religions, so as to assist the rise, formation and 

 rule of Government, are now clothed in robes of superstition, 

 necromancy, fortune telling and sorcery till what little of the 

 truths of revelation these early religions did contain is lost in 

 the idolatrous worship of the Sun, Moon, Stars and human 

 joys, pleasures and griefs, till it is all we can do to trace the 

 faintest outline of the magnitude of the truths they originally 

 contained and taught. 



But from this unshapely mass of ruins, born of the hero 

 worship of the Aryan race, who from worshipping and idoliz- 

 ing their warriors, kings and princes, now move one step 

 further and at last conceive the mighty truth, which formed 

 the coping-stone of the teachings of Buddha when he gave to 

 the early Hindoo the belief of one Almighty God born of a 

 virgin and possessed of a triple personality. But these teach- 

 ings are again to be lost and still more thoroughly obscured by 

 the modern Buddhism in even darker and still more ridiculous 

 idolatry than before, and from out of the decadence of which, 

 with the downfall of the old Indian and Persian Empires, 

 these teachings are to rise again under the star of Bethlehem 

 as a brighter and more glorious religion by far, than any form 

 of worship that had hitherto shed its light into the dim 

 recesses of the dull mind of man. And in years yet to come 

 I am hopeful the hypothesis I am now trying to expound may, 

 with the aid of Science, in time evolve a knowledge of true 

 revelation as much above what is already possessed as the 

 Christian heirloom is majestically above the head and 

 shoulders of Idolatry. 



So we now find one religious belief falls into decay to permit 

 of the evolution of another form of government. Likewise 

 each government in turn dies, to be replaced by a more perfect 

 evolution than the one that has preceded it in the course of 

 religious evolution, as each in turn springs, Phoenix-like, out 

 of the ashes of its predecessor. And now science, if not rais- 

 ing up the inanimate idols of antiquity, has, out of Christian- 

 ity, built up a still more dreadful form of idolatry in its 

 inordinate love of Intemperance, in its bigotry and worship of 

 power and wealth, of selfish ideals, and class hatred than the 

 idolatrous superstitions from which it sprung a bigotry 



