India in Greece; Containing the Sources of the Hellenic Race, the Colonisation of Egypt and Palestine, the Wars of the Grand Lama, and the Bud'histic

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1856. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... 288 THEBES. Bud'histic annals, written centuries after the course of action described; written too by a poet, whose vivid conception and living faith in the magnificent heroes which graced the gloomy grandeur of the age of Thebes, fully realised the Brahmino-Bud'histic creed of the historian, whose narrative, orally or in a written form, descended to the days of DEGREESEschylus,1 an author pre-eminently oriental in his imagery, and gigantic in his conceptions. 1 'ais-cul-es (Vais-cul-es), Chief Of The Vaisya Or Mercantile Tribe (jeschylus). (See Appendix, Rule viL) XIX. APOLLO.--THE BUD'HISM OF LADAC AND THE LADACAI-MEN (LACALLE-MON). Stand Up I I Myself Also Am A Man.--Acta xv. 26. When the pious centurion of the Italian band influenced by the lingering relics of Roman Bud'hism, fell down prostrate in the presence of St. Peter and worshipped him as a deity, that great apostle, with the humility of a Christian, reprobated any such homage; at the same time virtually remarking, that his sacred functions did not make him a vicarious god, nor rank him with a distinct and unapproachable caste. He was still a man--a man with the noblest yet the basest feelings;' one not to be adored, for he was still a fallible and a weak being, as evinced by his cowardice in the Praetorian Hall. Cornelius thus firmly reproved, thenceforward considered him not as Christ's vicar upon earth. An envoy so faithful to his Master, perhaps never addressed the Lama-gods of the east and west. Hence both these divinities of earth still sway the impulses of myriads of their fellow-creatures. Alas! human ambition is of a nature so vitreous as to be easily seen through, though screened by the exotics of spiritual pride. Such mighty godships existed for centuries in Greece. Much silver and much ...