128 ESSAY OIsT 



tioned in the Old Testament, the mount of the con- 

 gregation, where the mighty King sits in the sides 

 of the nortli, according to Isaiah, and there is the 

 city of our God."'* The Aferu of the Hindus has 

 the name of Sab/id, or the congregation, and the 

 godS' are seated upon it in the sides of the north. 

 Tliere is tlie holy city of Briihmd-puri, where resides 

 Brahma' with his court, in the most pure and holy 

 land of Ildvratta. 



Thus Mcni is the w^orldly temple of the supreme 

 being, in an embodied state, and of theTRi-Mu'iiTTi, 

 or sacred Triad, which resides on its summit, either 

 in a single, or three-fold temple, or rather in both : 

 for it is all one, as they are one and three. They 

 are three, only with regard to men involved in the 

 gloom of worldly illusion ; but to men Avho have 

 emerged out of it, they are but one; and their three- 

 fold temple, and mountain with its three peaks, be- 

 come one equally. jMythologists in the west called 

 the world, or J\leru, with its appendages, the temple 

 of God, according to jMacrobius. 



Hence this most sacred temple of the supreme 

 being, is generally typified by a cone or pyramid, 

 with either a single chapel on its summit, or with 

 three; either with, or without steps. 



This worldly temple is also considered, ])y 

 the followers of Budd'ha, as the tomb of the 

 son of the spirit of heaven, whom I con- 

 ceive to be the first man, re-emerging in every 

 Ccdpa, or the fust lawgiver, often confounded 

 with the. first man. His bones, or limbs were scat- 



* IsAiAH, c 14. V. 15. Psalm 48, «Scc. 



