He proclaimed, as a truth, the equality of greatness, and upset all ideas.

This is why three hundred and sixty-five sects, lending each other a mutual support, formed a long chain, and wove, so to speak, a net of law.

Some put the creature in the place of the Eternal, others denied the existence of beings, and destroyed the two principles.

Others instituted prayers and sacrifices to obtain good fortune; others proclaimed their own sanctity to deceive mankind.

The minds of men labored, and were filled with anxiety; aspirations after the supreme good were trampled down; thus perpetually floating about they attained to nothing, and all went from bad to worse.