1847.] 



Neilgherry Hills^ ^c. 



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" The mind of the eternal father said into three, governing all 

 " things by mind." 



*' The father mingled every spirit from this Triad." 



*' All things are governed in the bosoms of this Triad.'' 



*' From these flows the body of the Triad, being pre-existent, not 

 *' the first, but that by which things are measured." 



" For in the whole world shineth a Triad, over which a IMonad 



rules." 



*' Abundantly animating light, fire, ether, worlds." 



But these are only a few of the many instances existing of faiths 

 wherein we find a foreshadowing of that Great Religion which is des- 

 tined to supplant them alL 



I recently alluded to the existence of single upright stones ter- 

 minating in a point, on the Neilgherries. The most remarkable 

 I have yet met with crowns the summit of a hill between Macoor- 

 chee and Ootacamund. In England these upright stones occasion- 

 ally are found in the shape of pillars, amongst the most remark- 

 able of which is one described by Mr. Pegge in the Archaeologia 

 as occurring in the Church-yard of the village of Rudstone or Red- 

 stone. I think I saw one in the Church-yard of Wolverhampton 

 in Staffordshire. 



In many of our ancient Churches we find vestiges of the Pa^ran 

 religion of our forefathers ; indeed in the S'pire of the European 

 Churches the antiquary discovers the ObeUsk or spiral stone of the 

 religions of former times; however, this instead of being a subject of 

 concern to him if he be a Christian, should rather be one of gratula- 

 tion, as indicating the triumph of the religion of the cross over the 

 gross systems which preceded it. In the aisles, nave and chancel of 

 our modern Churches we are reminded of the double rows of stones 

 enclosing the centre of the Druidical temples and conducting to the 

 adytum ; as well as of the temples of the Roman and Greek religion ; 

 and of the pagodas or temples of the Hindoos and Egyptians. In 

 the propylon and pronaos of the latter with its lofty tower over the 

 entrance, we discover the turretted entrance of our own Churches ; 

 and in the peristyled courts of those edifices and of the Greek tem- 

 ples we again see our nave and the ranges of columns which separate 

 it from the aisles. In every case the cella or sanctuary corresponds 

 with the chancel. As the thoughtful and devout mind contemplates 

 this resemblance and connects it with the fact that the Christian reli- 



