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177 and the like, at once stamps the Bible of Islam as a work of the same type as the Vedas and the Books of the Old and the New Testaments,
We shall now undertake to solve some of the mythologies ourselves. To begin with the Hindu god Ganesha, who insists on being invited before other gods, he is described as
(i) riding on a rat; (ii) having a body composed of a human trunk
and an elephant's head ; (iii) the youngest of gods ; (iv) yet the most mischievous, if neglected at the
commencement of an undertaking; (v) engaged in eating a laddu (an Indian sweet
meat ball); and (vi) called ek danta, because of bis having only
one tusk instead of two in his trunk. This child-god has hitherto defied unravelment, because the scholars have only searched in the outside world for the object which he represents. The true secret was given in the Key of Knowledge for the first time in this age. Ganesha represents Intellect or Wisdot, as is evident from the following correspondences :(i) the rat, which is chiefly known on account
of cutting up things, is a symbol for analysis ; (ii) Ganesha himself with an elephant's trunk
joined to a human body is the very 'form of synthesis (piecing up or putting together);
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