Note 168-1 — Chapter V · THE MYTH AND THE MYTHICAL CYCLES.
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How it troubled the early Christians who dared not adopt the refuge of the Epochs of Nature, may be seen in the Confessions of St. Augustine, Lib. XI, cap. 10, et seq. He quotes the reply of one pushed by the inquiry, what God was doing before creation: “He was making a hell for inquisitive busy-bodies.” Alta spectantibus gehennas parabat.