The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps

204 PHGZNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

stage of the religion there was no idolatry; when One God alone is acknowledged and recognized, the feeling is naturally that expressed in the Egyptian hymn of praise: ‘ He is not graven in marble ; He is not beheld; His abode is not known ; there is no building that can contain Him; unknown is his name in heaven; He doth not manifest his forms; vain are all representations.’ ’’?

It was this pure and lofty Monotheism of the Early Phcenicians, expressed in their so-called ‘‘ Sun-worship ” or “ Bel-worship,” which they are now found to have cherished down the ages in the Mediterranean. From it the early Phcenician merchant princes derived their happy inspiration ; they carried it with them as they ploughed the unknown seas ; they invoked it in their hours of danger, and transplanted it at their various colonies and ports of call; and they carried it to Early Britain and disembarked and planted it along with their virile civilization, upon her soil about 2800 B.c. or earlier.

The early Aryans appear at first to have worshipped the Sun’s orb itself as the visible God. !n thus selecting the Sun, it is characteristic of the scientific mind of these early Aryans that in searching for a symbol for God they fixed upon that same visible and most glorious manifestation of his presence that latter-day scientists credit with having emitted the first vital spark to this planet, and with being the proximate source and supporter of all Life in this world.

But at an early period, some millenniums before the birth of Abraham, the Aryans imagined the idea of the One Universal God, as ‘‘ The Father-God ”’ behind the Sun, and thereby gave us our modern idea of God. This is evident in the early Sumerian hymns, and in the prehistoric Cupmarked prayers in Britain ; and it is also thus expressed in one of the oldest Aryan hymns of the Vedas, in a stanza which is still repeated every morning by every Brahman in India, who chants it as a morning prayer at sunrise:

“ The Sun’s uprising orb floods the air with brightness :

The Sun’s Enlivening Lord? sends forth all men to labour,’”?

1 Records of the Past, 4: 109-173.

* Savitri, ‘““ The Enlivening or Vivifving God.’ Cp. M.V.M., 34. SRV., 1, 124, I.