regarded as the cause of all evil. When Typhon Seth comprehended
the powers of Nature, as the Destroyer and Regenerator she was
the author of all good; but later, after the truths underlying
Nature worship were lost, Typhon, the hot wind of the desert, was
feared rather than worshipped.
In the history of an earlier age of existence, there is not to be
found the slightest trace of human sacrifice to atone for the
sins of the people, or to appease the wrath of an offended God.
On the contrary, throughout the traditions and monumental records
of the most ancient nations, sacrifices to the Deity-- the God of
Nature--consisted simply in the acknowledgment of earth's
benefits by means of a free-will offering of the bounties which
she had brought forth.
That the sacrifice either of human beings or of animals was not
offered in an earlier age of religious faith is confidently
asserted and, I think, proved by various writers. Of this
Higgins says: "I think a time may be perceived when it did not
exist even among the Western nations." This writer states also
that it was not always practiced at Delphi. Mention is made of
the fact that among the Buddhists, to whom belongs the first book
of Genesis, no bloody sacrifices were ever offered.
It was doubtless under the worship of Muth, Neith, or Minerva,
the first emanation from the deity and the original Buddha, that
the first book of Genesis or Wisdom was written. In this book
may be observed the fact that the slaughter of animals is
forbidden. It is thought that with Crishna, Hercules, and the
worshippers of the sun in Aries, the sacrifice of human beings
and animals began. In the second book of Genesis, which is said
to be a Brahmin work, animals are first used for sacrifice, and
in the third book, or the book of Generations or Re-generations
of the race of man or the Adam, which was written after the pure
doctrines connected with the worship of Wisdom had been
corrupted, they are first allowed to be eaten as food.
It is supposed that the practice of sacrificing human beings and
animals took its rise in the western parts of the world after the
sun entered Aries, and that it subsequently extended even to the
followers of the Tauric worship, among whom it was carried to a
