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that he has incorporated himself entirely with the object he is meditating upon. (Comp. 

 z/Das Buddha Pantheon", pag. 62). 



Page 132, line 11. — The porcelain Budha in feminine shape ( |fj ^ ijj^ -Sr], 

 We suppose that by this deity is meant the so-called wife of the male Budha. 

 She generally bears the name of ^ BR # # i. e. Budha-eye, Budha-mother, and 

 is identified with Vairotschana, for which name fiVe translations exist, amongst which the name 

 of v Budha-mother." Also Pan sho fit mit (sanscr: Pradschna Budha Matra) is, as appears 

 f'rom this, one of the names of Vairotschana. (See B. H. Hodgson, Illustrations of the Literature 

 and Religion of the Buddhists, pag. 81, where Pradschna in the state of Nirvritti is explained as 

 the summum et solum numen, Diva Natura, and taken as the wife of the male Budha.) (See 

 z/Das Buddha Pantheon/' pag. 54.) 



P. 144, note 1. — Phu-hien-phu-sah is: Samzntaba'cha or Vis'wab'adra Bodhisatwa, the Most- 

 excellent One. 



P. 145, note a. — In the //Quotations of the Spring and Autumn Records" it is said that 

 the cock is the symbol of the accumulated heat of the sun and of the South. The fire is the 

 subtil essence of the sun, which mounts flamingly. On that account the cock crows when the 

 sun rises. 



The cock is, therefore, sacred to the sun with the Chinese, as it was, also, with most an- 

 cient nations. 



Proclus says of this bird that it was sacred to the sun quia gallus quasi qidbusdam hymnis ap- 

 plaudit surgenti soli, et quasi advocat, quando ex antipodum medio coelo ad nos dejïectilur. (De Sacri- 

 ficiis et magia, p. 280 f. ed. Cons. Vol. ui. Apud Chwolsohn, die Ssabier und der Ssabismus, 

 n, 87). 



P. 150, 1. 24. — It is rather remarkable that in the ceremonies of the Hung-league Grape- 

 avixe is made use of, or, as it is said in the last quatrain on page 144, the Original colour , 

 i. e. red-wine. Evidently with this red wine is meant the blood of fraternity; thus Chris t 

 gave the wine-cup to his disciples at his last supper with the words: //This is my blood." 



Now-a-days the Chinese in social life never drink grape-wine, but always wines distilled 

 from grains or sweet fruits. 



P. 181, 1. 12—16. — This stanza justifies the order into which we have arranged the ce- 

 remonies of affiliation. 



The following piece of poetry, called the ,/Poem of the Vanguard," also found in the hand- 

 books of the Society, confirms this order. 





