Book V - Snyder Bible

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Chapter XX: Brahmans 8
countries immense multitudes of Brahmans, who also themselves
from the tradition of their ancestors and peaceful customs
and laws, neither commit murder nor adultery, nor
worship idols, nor have the practice of eating animal food, are
never drunk, never do anything maliciously, but always fear
Elohim. And these things indeed they do, though the rest of
the Indians commit both murders and adulteries, and worship
idols, and are drunken, and practice other wickednesses of
this sort. Indeed, in the western parts of India itself there is a
certain country, where strangers, when they enter it, are taken
and slaughtered and eaten; and neither have good stars prevented
these men from such wickednesses and from accursed
food, nor have evil stars compelled the Brahmans to do any
evil. Again, there is a custom among the Persians to marry
mothers, and sisters, and daughters. In all that district the
Persians contract incestuous marriages.
Chapter XXI: Districts of Heaven
their power to use that subterfuge by which they say that
there are certain districts of heaven to which it is granted to
have some things peculiar to themselves, some of that nation
of Persians have gone to foreign countries, who are called Magusaei,
of whom there are some to this day in Media, others in
Parthia, some also in Egypt, and a considerable number in Galatia
and Phrygia, all of whom maintain the form of this incestuous
tradition without variation and hand it down to their
posterity to be observed, even although they have changed
their district of heaven; nor has Venus with the Moon in the
confines and houses of Saturn, with Saturn also and Mars
8 A source that is anonymous for lack of memory states that the Brahmins have their name
from being descendants of Avraham. If so, that would well explain how they came by the
moral qualities expounded here.