The Expediency and Facility of Establishing the Metrological and Monetary ... - Thomas Best Jervis

tively recent fabrication. The idea of a Divine Saviour, derived wholly
from the Scriptures of Truth. The heathen and unenlightened Israelites,
looked only for a temporal human prince. This was the chief cause and
still continues to be the chief cause for the rejection and crucifixion of the
true Messiah with Judaizing Christians, Jews, and Infidels. The second
or spiritual birth, perfectly unknown and incomprehensible, till the doctrine
was first taught to Nicodemus by our blessed Lord. The mystery of the
Trinity however obscurely intimated by Heathen writers neither received
nor understood by the most enlightened as a fundamental principle of any
Heathen creed, till the disputes and heresies of Christianity had so perplex-
ed and darkened the scheme by human reasoning as to pave the way for
its introduction into the new corrupt religious creeds which started forth
into being throughout the whole earth in the beginning of the seventh cen-
tury. Connection traced between the astronomy and mythology of all
Heathen nations. The Hindoo astronomical works have many internal evi-
dences of their modern character: - First, measurement of an arc of the
Meridian, derived from the Arabs. Second, proportion of the diameter
10 the circumference of a circle, derived through the Arabs from Archi-
medes. Third, table of sines, framed on the principles of the latter and
the Greek and Arabian geometricians. Fourth, precession of the Equi-
noxes, from the Jewish or patriarchal astronomy, intermediately through
Hipparchus, Ptolomy, and the Arabs. Fifth, Libration of the Equinoxes
from Ptolomy and the Arabians. Sixth, the cycles of the Planets from
the Europeans, with the elements of the early Greek astronomers. Seventh,
the Julian year and reckoning from the Europeans; subsequently also, the
epoch of the reformation of the Calendar by Pope Gregory. The dis-
covery of the whole is to be found in the Vrihusputee yoog, or cycle of
Jupiter of sixty years. Arrangement and use of this cycle in Northern
and Southern India. Corresponding years of each cycle, and those of the
Christian Vulgar ara, signification of the title of the Eras. - The date of
the fabrication of the Brahminical scheme between A. D. 606 and 638,
fixes the utmost limit of all authentic history in India, prior to that date.-
The Vikrumadityu, or Bengal Era refers to the reformation of the calendar
by Julius Cæsar. The Shalivahan Era to the crucifixion of Christ.
The Era of Yoodhishtir to the building of the city of Rome, 753 years
before Christ. The commencement of the Kulee yoog, to the flood. -
These particulars, discussed at length-from the reputed ancient commence-
ment of the Hindoo year with the winter solstice: - - which is shown to
have been adopted from the Romans, who next to the Egyptians, deviated
from the most encient mode of commencing the year with the vernal equi-
nox and this deviation is the first direct proof of the modern character
of the Chinese and Japanese astronomy, which still adheres to its original
reformed practice of beginning the year at, or near the winter solstice.--
The Hindoos and Chinese began the year with the full moon nearest the
winter solstice at the beginning of the seventh century. The whole of the
systems of the Orientals, as well as the Greeks, Chaldeans, and Egyptians,
deduced from the ancient Jewish or primitive Patriarchal astronomy which
has for its basis the great cycle of 600 Tropical Luni-solar years commencing
with the Creation at the vernal equinox. — Remarkable properties of the
Jewish or primitive patriarchal cycle of 600 years. The precise date to
which the Hindoo fabrication refers, considered. The reformation of the
calendar by Julius Cæsar. The Vulgar Era of Christ, -- The true
Era.. The ministry of our Lord. The crucifixion. The building of
the city of Rome. The grand epoch of the rise of the Antichristian powers
over the whole earth. General comparative view of the Egyptian, Chal-
dean, Grecian, Chinese, Japanese, and American astronomy; The calendar
of the Muysca Indians, the Mexicans, Toltecks, Azteks; striking confor-
mity of the whole, and reference to the great prophetic epoch at the begin-
ning of the seventh century. - A Tabular sketch of the whole. Conclu-
sive inferences and remarks••••••••••
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Concluding observations••••••..............................
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