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of you think that the cross came first into exis. tence as a symbol.in connection with the Christian religion; but as a matter of fact it existed before Christianity was, before Moses was born, before the Vedas were given out, before there was any human rècord of human things. The cross may be found to have been in existence among the Aztecs and the Phoeniciens : every one seems ta have had the cross. Again the symbol of the crucified Saviour, of a man crucified upon a cross appears to have been known to almost every nation. The circle has been a great symbol throughout the world. Then there is the most universal of all symbols, the Swastika. At one time it was thought that the Buddhists carried it all over the world with them, but it has been found out that ages before Buddhism it was used among nations. In old Babylon and in Egypt it was to be found. What does this show? All these symbols could not have been purely conventional: There must be some reason for them, some natural association between them and the human
