"* And if he was "the inventor of letters,"
and is "placed anterior to both Homer and Hesiod," then what follows?
That Indra taught writing to the Thracian Pelasgians under the guise of
Orpheus,** but left his own spokesmen and vehicles, the Brahmans,
illiterate until "the dawn of Christianity?" Or, that the gentlemen of
the West are better at intuitional chronology than conspicuous for
impartial research?
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* "Chamber's Encyclopedia," vii. 127.
** According to Herodotus the Mysteries were actually brought from India
by Orpheus.
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Orpheus was--in Greece--the son of Apollo or Helios, the sun-god,
according to corrected mythology, and from him received the phorminx or
lyre of seven strings, i.e.--according to occult phraseology--the
sevenfold mystery of the Initiation. Now Indra is the ruler of the
bright firmament, the disperser of clouds, "the restorer of the sun to
the sky." He is identified with Arjuna in the Samhita Satapatha
Brahmana (although Prof. Weber denies the existence of any such person
as Arjuna, yet there was indeed one), and Arjuna was the Chief of the
Pandavas;* and though Pandu the white passes for his father, he is yet
considered the son of Indra.
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