The Religion and Philosophy of the Veda and Upanishads v1.c27.s7.11

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¹ Hirt, *Die Indogermanen*, pp. 514 ff.; Carnoy, *Les Indo-Européens*, pp. 235 ff.; Feist, *Kultur der Indogermanen*, p. 355. Meyer (*Gesch. d. Alt.*³ I. ii. pp. 870, 871, 916, 917) holds that the Indo-Europeans had probably already magicians, but no priesthood proper, which developed itself in Indo-Iranian times. *Inter alia* this theory rests on the false view that a magician is the first priest as held by Frazer, *The Magic Art*, i. 371 ff., 420 ff.; Henry, *La magie dans l'Inde antique*, pp. 34 ff.