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The Coming Race

CHAPTER XII
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Nax is darkness; Narl, death; Naria, sin or evil.
Nas--an uttermost condition of sin and evil--corruption.

In writing, they deem it irreverent to express the Supreme Being by any special name.

He is symbolized by what may be termed the heiroglyphic of a pyramid, /\.

In prayer they address Him by a name which they deem too sacred to confide to a stranger, and I know it not.

In conversation they generally use a periphrastic epithet, such as the All-Good.


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