ILLUSTRATIONS OF THE SACRED SCRIPTURES. GENESIS. CHAP. I. Verse 20." The moving creature that hath LIFE." THE Hebrew has for life, soul; and the Orientals believe that the vital principle in animals will never die; and when the life or soul has departed from one body, it is said to enter into and to animate some other body. II. 7.-" The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. Those of the Easura faith believe that Sattee produced Siva and his goddess; Vishnoo and Lechimy; also Brahma, and the goddess Sarusuvathe: but that all souls come from Brahma. 8. "The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden." It may be of but little importance to us, at this day, to B |