Identifier: opencourt_15537caru (find matches)
Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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icism was forced to takesides with reference to it, it was the phrase the son of man, usedof himself by Christ, that determined the conception of him formedby these Gnostics: Adam (2^N) means man, and the son whowas called to found a new and pure humanity, is Seth. ThusChrist, the son of man, and Seth, the son of man, are united, andin case the latter had still preserved one idea of his Egyptian char-acter a god was sure to result to whom belonged equally the sym-bols of the ass-head and the cross. Now this was actually the case, and a fortunate chance haspreserved for us an eloquent evidence of this commingling of ideas;an evidence that proves definitively that the preceding reflexionsare not mere conjectures, but that the course of thought which wehave suggested actually was once pursued. I refer to the famousSpottcrucifix from the Palatine. In the year 1856 there was found in the so-called Piidagogiumon the southwest slope of the Palatine the famous graffitto now 94 THE OPEN COURT.
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c*-^ h n K <* 1 f*m KcroApon. kiJ^pd^KXor Lead Tablet No. 17. ANUl.lS, S) ANb CIIKIST, 95 in the Museo Kircheriano. We see, says Reisch, fastened toa cross a man dressed in the colobium (the short tunic of slavesand manumitted slaves) and thigh-bands and having an asss head;at the left stands a man similarly dressed and shaven, lifting his

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