Search -
A Key to the Chronology of the Hindus (v. 2)
A Key to the Chronology of the Hindus - v. 2 Author:Alexander Hamilton Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: t am hath sent me." Again, " I appeared unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob by the name of God Almighty, but by the name Jehovah was I not known to them."f ... more »Again, " I am the Lord, the first and with thekst; lam he."J Again, "lam the first and I am the last, and besides me there is no God."§ I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty."|| The extracts from the Sastra and Bhagavat are literal. How can we find a difference between the Alpha and Omega of St. John, and the first and last of the Brahmans ? Is the great God of all less worthy of adoration, because divine goodness induced his appearance to every nation by the name most congenial to their language? or because divine wisdom thought it expedient to appear to one nation as God Almighty; to another as Jehovah; and to a third as Brahm? lam, or O M, the Hindu believes to be adored in a thousand worlds, and by a myriad of names. Let Europeans benefit therefrom, and be cautious how they enforce a doctrine, which must be considered as profane by every Hindu, and should have been so considered by those Christians, who have of late years, under the plea of investigating Hindu chronology, theo Exod. iii. 14. fExod. vi. 3. t Isai. xli, 4. § Isai. xliv. 6. |j Rev. i. 8. chapter{Section 4logy, and mythology, indulged a vein of irony at the expense of truth: who have represented the deity (Brahm) as Cush, the grandson of Noah; the first-created, named by the Chaldeans and Egyptians Protogenes, and Cannes, as Noah ; the Orphic egg of Proclus as the ark, and divine love, as the waiting-woman of Cleopatra. That the idea of the Oannes and Sisuthrus being the same, and the supposition that they represent Noah, is borrowed from Bishop Stilling-...« less