Excerpt from Boanerges In publishing the present volume, I must confess that there are results arrived at, and other results adumbrated, which I did not anticipate when I set to work to arrange into something like order the mass of information which I had collected concerning the antiquity and wide diffusion of Twin-cults, and their influence upon religions past and present. The investigation, however, opened up from point to point, in a way that made it impossible for me to limit its scope or obscure its meaning. As often as I repeated to myself the warning to beware of the idea that one had found a master-key in mythology, so often some fresh door or window would open under the stress of the particular key that I was carrying; and it was necessary to go on with what one had begun, when the first stages of enquiry were so rich in results. However much one might elect to rest and be thankful over the elucidations which a knowledge of Twin-cults furnishes to the history of the Ancient Roman State or of the Modern Roman Church, we could not stop the investigation in mid-stream, and say that it should not be carried into the history of the Ancient Jewish State, or the Modern Christian Church. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.