[148] Spiegel, Vend.  Farg.  XIX. note.

[149] Vendidad, Farg.  XVIII. 110.  Farvardin-Yasht, XVI.

[150] Article in Revue des Deux Mondes, April, 1865.

[151] Article in Revue des Deux Mondes, April, 1865.

[152] Other Egyptologists would not agree to this antiquity.

[153] Revue des Deux Mondes, September 1, 1887.

[154] Revue des Deux Mondes, p. 195.

[155] Yet this very organic religion, “incorporate in blood and frame,” was a preparation for Christianity; and Dr. Brugsch (Aus dem Orient, p. 73) remarks, that “exactly in Egypt did Christianity find most martyrs; and it is no accident, but a part of the Divine plan, that in the very region where the rock-cut temples and tombs are covered with memorials of the ancient gods and kings, there, by their side, other numerous rock-cut inscriptions tell of a yet more profound faith and devotion born of Christianity.”

[156] It is yet marked in the almanacs as Candlemas Day, or the Purification of the Virgin Mary.

[157] De Rouge, Revue Archeologique, 1853.

[158] Ampere, Revue Arch. 1849, quoted by Doellinger.

[159] These designations are the Greek form of the official titles.

[160] I do not know if it has been noticed that the principle of Swedenborg’s. heaven was anticipated by Milton (Paradise Lost, V. 573),—­

                    “What surmounts the reach
    Of human sense I shall delineate so
    By likening spiritual to corporeal forms,
    As may express them best; though what if Earth
    Be but the shadow of Heaven, and things therein. 
    Each to the other like, more than on earth is thought.”

[161] Bunsen, Egypt’s Place, Vol.  V. p. 129, note.

[162] This Museum also contains three large mummies of the sacred bull of Apis, a gold ring of Suphis, a gold necklace with the name of Menes, and many other remarkable antiquities.

[163] Book of Job, Chap. xxix.

[164] Brugsch, as above.

[165] Lenormant, Ancient History of the East, I. 234, in the English translation.

[166] Translated by De Rouge.  See Revue Contemporaine, August, 1856.

[167] Egypt 3300 Years ago.  By Lanoye.

[168] Beside the monuments and the papyri, we have as sources of information the remains of the Egyptian historians Manetho and Eratosthenes; the Greek accounts of Egypt by Herodotus, Plato, Diodorus Siculus, Plutarch, Jamblichus; and the modern researches of Heeren, Champollion, Rossalini, Young, Wilkinson.  The more recent writers to be consulted are as follows:—­

Bunsen’s “AEgypten’s Stelle in der Weltgeschichte.  Hamburg.” (First volume printed in 1845.) This great work was translated by C. C. Cottrel in five 8vo volumes, the last published in 1867, after the death of both author and translator.  The fifth volume of the translation contains a full translation of the “Book of the Dead,” by the learned Samuel Birch of the British Museum.