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Thus, considering merely this analogism, might one have prophetically announced, even in the generations immediately succeeding to Christ, when Christianity bade fair to become a world-power in a new civilization, that here, indeed, was a new planting of Mysteries, which, although infinitely transcending them in fulness and meaning, were yet the counterparts of mysteries which had hitherto swayed the human heart, but that, pure and holy as were these mysteries, they should yet, in their human connections, share the vicissitudes of the old, that, like them, they should march through tribulations on to triumph, that, like them, once having triumphed and become a recognized source of power, they should be linked with hierarchical delusions and the degradations of despotism, that, like them, too, in some future generation, they should, through the protesting intellect, be uplifted from these delusions and degradations.
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