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sive suns -
Dawn, Maya Mary, mother of Sun-gods - Dayanand - Dayanand making sign of Om Day divided into 12 Casbu, Baby- lon - - -
Day divided into 12 Casbu, ghinese -
Day names are God names - Day names - 105-109
Day Names, Arabic - 108
Day Names, Armenian - - 107
Day Names, Belgian - - 106
Day Names, Chinese - - 109
Day Names, Chinese of 12 hours - 120 Day Names, Dano-Norwegian - 106 Day Names, Dutch - - - 106
Day Names, English - - 106
Day Names, French - 106
Day Names, German - - 106
Day Names, Greek - 107
Day Names, Hindustani - - 109
Day Names, Hungarian - - 106
Day Names, Indian - - 109
Day Names, Italian - - 106
Day Names, Japanese - - 109
Page Day Names, Latin - - - IO6 Day Names, Magyar - - 106 Day Names, Persian . - 108 Day Names, Polish - - 108 Day Names, Portuguese - 106 Day Names, Roumanian - - 106 Day Names, Russian - - 108 Day Names, Saxon - - 105 Day Names, Sanskrit - - 109 Day Names, Spanish - - 106 Day Names, Turkish . - 108 Days Named after Sun, Moon, and Planets - - 104
Day Names of Holy Day - - 105
Day of Good Luck, Venus Day, Friday, turned into day of bad luck, death and sadness, to obliterate Queen of Heaven from Religion - 292
Day, Week, Month, Year, have no relation, hence muddle of Cal- endar .... 124
Death did not come of eating
fruit. Man always mortal - 181 Death is the end, Horace - - 143
Death necessary to prevent accu- mulation of beings - - 182
Death of “ King of the Jews " - 273 Death of Saviour held on Thursday in Holy Week, as well as on Friday - 333
Death of Sun, 40 hours. Solstice - 196 Death of Sun, Winter punishment
for sins - - - - 15
Debasement of Women, 165,
169, 176, 19*. 234, 318
Debasement of woman, Friday Venus (Fish) day turned into death day of Jesus (Fishes) - 292 Debasing woman, debases hu- manity, Negation of Altruism 326 Decalogue written in Cuneiform - 141 Defining God is putting an end to
the endless - - - 335
Statement of God destroys him 335 Degradation of Knowledge, Paul - 202 Dei Vini - - - -no
Deification after death - - 296
Deification of Heavenly bodies - 131 Deification of Natural desire
(Oman) - - - ^ 35
Delphys, Womb - - - no
Delphic Phallic Columns - - 60
Deluge - - - - 195
Demetrius, Librarian of Bruchium 148 Deportation of Jews 70 a.d. - 273 Deportation of Jews left no Nabis to scold . so our information of practices ceases with Old Testament - - - - 316
Derivation of Bible God names - 241 Derketos, Mother of Sun - 247, 296 Descended into Hell (Solstice or sun at night) - - - 311
Despair, cause of worship - - % 368
INDEX
Page
Despisal of woman by Hebrews
165. 109, 176, 191, 234, 318 Destruction of Bible by Soldiers, Tibet - - - - 147
Destruction of Temple - * 273
Destruction of Temple and Bible
Old Testament * - - 146
Detestation of women by Hebrews, no Goddess - - 165-167
Deva Devaki - - - - 32
Devaki on Tortoise, double sex - 18
Devil chasers - 300
Devil more clever than God - 176 Diana - - - - - 48
Diana, or Moon Chaste, cold beams. If seen naked brings good luck. Must not be seen through glass (veiled) - - 87
Didron - 167-169
Didron, Dove on Waters, Holy
Ghost - 322
Different narratives in Old Testa- ment skilfully interwoven
157-8
D'lune 27, 169
Dione ----- 163 Dionysius - - - - no
Dionysius the Little formed the
“ Christian Era ** 525 a.d. 329-330 Dionysius as a Christian Saint Dionyius the Little altered birth of Jesus from Autumn Equinox (Jewish New Year) to Winter Solstice (Pagan New Year) - n, 115. 329
Dis - - - - no
Discrepancies in Bible - 12-13
Disease amongst Phallic devotees 230
Disease caused by " Grove **
worship - - - - 231
Disease in Private Organs - - 232
Disease in Secret Parts - 232-234
Disease sexual in pagan writings
233-234
Disgusting state of Phalli, through anointing with Melted butter, oil, wine, etc. - - - 90
D'June - - 169
Diversity of objects worshipped - 1
Dividing the Watef s - - - 171
Doctors, Medical, on Eugenic ques- tions - ‘355-3$6
Dogma.......................................7
Dolphin - - y - - no
Dolphin (womb) as a Christian Saint - 330
Dolphin on Greek Coins - - 247
Dolphin, Delphys, womb - no-247 Dolphins* Skins (to form a womb) 247 Donaldson, Dr., Eden Phallic - 239 Donaldson, Dr. Messianic promise too gross - 239
Door of life, Symbols of - 26-27
Dorset Phallic Column - 56,93
Double sex in Hindu Creation - 203
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Double sex means Fertility, self creation and eternal life 23-24 Double sexJPales, God of Flocks - 217 Double sex required for .creation - 203 Double sexed Gods required for Creation - - 48, 173, 257
Dove - - - - - 27
Doves are "Holy Spirits** Queens of Heaven - - - - 163
Dove can be replaced by Cup, Ship, Box, or Ark—Female Symbol - 324
Dove Creating and Uniting Father and Son in Hundreds of Books, Altar pictures, etc.
- 166, 322
Dove for Queen of Heaven in Catholic Church - 322
Dove as vessel holiding Lingam
256, 323
Dove is secretly Woman in Heaven 167 Dove is Queen of Heaven, Mother
of God - 164-167
Dove is Queen of Heaven, Mary,
Juno, Holy Ghost - - 321
Dove links Father and Son - - 166
Dove, Mother of Gods, worshipped with profound veneration - 169 Dove on Silver Tower, Queen of Heaven, in highest Heaven
323-324
Dove, see Columba Columbine, ^ lone
Dove worship—Worship of Queen of Heaven as Juno, Venus, Mellytta, etc. - - - 255
Dove Worship in Scotland - - 324
Dragon in Creation - 190-193
Draper, Buckle and White - - 203
Dravidians' Phallism*- - "33
Drews’ arguments - - 335-336
Drews, Prof. Arthur, Christ Myth- 335 Drews* quotation - - "337
Drews says Christianity is essence
of Pagan Myths - - - 336
Drews “ Virgin shall conceive ** - 276 Druids* sex worship - "93
Druids slaughtered by Romans - 317 Dual mind of man 1
Dr. Duff, " Paul's Faith ‘* - - 202
Dunghill Temples, Moriah Gerizim 255
Durga..............................42
Dutt C., India'" past and present Phallic - - "37
Dwelling place of God, Queen of Heaven - 162
Dyaus - - - - - 110
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Early Christian Religion, Phallic- 88 Early Christian Sects - - 298
Eearly Religions, Phallic - - 23
Early Gods, Masculine - - 318
Early Hebrew Books or writings - 242 INDEX
369
Early history of mankind, Tyior - 6
Early Races, Col. Forbes Leslie - 43 Earliest beginnings of Religion un- known - - - - 15
Earliest Phallic Symbol - - 29
Earliest Religious Symbols, Phallic 15 Earth-Bride, Sun-Bridegroom 54-5 5 Earth was void, vacuum, unthink- able .... 161
Easter Tables, to find, same as
Chinese .... 134 Eating fruit, sense of shame - 178 Ebiomtes, poor men - 298
41 Ecclesiates '' denies soul - - 8
Ecclesiastics do not recognise Sun- day. Ail say 44 Lord's Day " 106 Eden Ezekiel - - - - 175
Eden abandoned to prevent man's gaining immortality - 181-183
Man did not lose eternal life in Eden. He was made mortal and Gods determined to keep him so. He was expelled to prevent immortality, not for gaining knowledge, expressly stated ... 181-183 Eden in Ezekiel and Revelations - 194 Eden originally in Heaven - - 194
Eden serpent the Phallus - 177-239 Eden, Solar Myth - - - 178
Eden story composed of three
myths - - - - 181
(1) Golden Age
(2) Youth is Paradise ended by marriage
(3) Attempt to gain immorta- lity - - - - 181
Eden was human body—Donald- son ----- 239 Eduth and Osiris, Testimony and
Phallus - 246
Eduth—Heduth or Geduth Geh-
duth - - - - 251
Eduth—An idol, the Phallus - 251 Eduth takes place of serpent or Phallic stone - - - 251
Eduth and Yahweh the same - 251 Eduth, Centre of Hebrew Faith - 251 Eduth, Ark built for - - 251
Eduth, A Palladium - - 252
Eduth very ancient, before
" lawr* - - - - 252
Eduth, Hebrews erected Phallic Stones - - - - 252
Eduth Stones always worshipped
even by Christians - - 252
Eduth and Jhvh the same - - 252
Eduth, a Beth~el Phallus-God - 252 Eduth, a Testimony (Testes) - 252 Eduth and Ark Bisexual idol - 254 Eduth, a Lingam Stone - 246, 256 Eduth, Shekina, Tsur and Yahweh the same - 254
Eduth, Shekina, Tsur and Yahweh derived from Egypt - - 246
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Eduth inside Circle or Church is the ring and dagger bisexual symbol, - 254
Eduth is a word used takeover up
sexual terms - - - 255
Egg and dart Phallic - - -77
Egypt Sun Worship - 117, 126, 133 Eggastri Muthoi - - - 12
Egypt's hidden God, Amen
no, 125. 287
Egyptian Climate, Preserved Re- cords - - - - 72
Egyptian Crown, Phallic, Bisexual derived from India - 30, 31
Egyptians' Museums, Libraries, Astronomy, Physics Geome- try. Birth of Science at Alex- andria - - - 149, 346
Egyptian Phallic emblems 72-78 Egyptian Sun Worship - - 117
Egyptian Women tearing their
hair - 297
Eichhorn, J. S. - - - - 152
Eight divine Mothers of the Tan-
tras, are counterparts of Mary 48
El. God............................153
Electricity at Alexandria - - 119
Elephanta, Caves of, Phallic Sculp- tures .........................32
Eli, Eli, Lama Sabacthani, Jesus’ cry destroyed Jews' hope of earthly Kingdom - - 154
Eliot, George, Oh May I join the
Choir invisible - - -357
Eliot, George, Joyous Gods- - 271
Eliot George, Hymn - - - 357
Elisha a Nabi - 263
Elijah, a Nabi - 263
Elohim dishonest translation 158-159 Elohim or Ale-im (plural, Gods)
153, 158-160
Elohistic and Javistic writers
contradict - - - - 157
El Shadai - 153-154, *57> 333
Elusis, The Sun called Saviour - 128 Emasculation in religious frenzy - 185 Emerson, R. W. - 344
Emerods, Golden, like cures like - 231 Emerods, Haemorrhoids - - 230
Emerods in their Secret parts; so it
could not be Haemorrhoids - 232 Emerods, Ophelim, Omphale - 231 Emerods, Ophelim, woman-man
disease - - - 231
Empedocles - - - 268
Encyc. Brit. 24, 41, 169, 205, 219
Encyc. Biblica - - 219, 244
Endeavour, Good, Loss of—Ruskin 341 England, Church of, mystery - 2
English Bible, God and Lord,
Mistranslations - - 158*160
English Spelling - - - 27
English Saints same as Egyptian Gods - - - 131-132
English Bible Scholarship a byword 160
AA 370
INDEX
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English translators made Ale-im singular or plural dishonestly: singular when applied to Hebrews, plural when to others ... 158-160 English translators put Capital 14 G ” when Hebrew and small 44 g ” when other God when translating the same word Ale-im - - 158, 160
Enoch is the year (365) - - 260
Epistle of Jeremy, Virginity,
sacrifice - - - - 227
Equinox 15, 248, 265, 284, 304
Equinoxes, precession of - - 125
Equivalence of letters - - 52
Erection of the Tat in Egypt, Queen carried male organs in gold - - - - 81
Erectheum Fire and Serpent wor- ship - - - - 85
Erekthonius - - - - 8 5
Ermann - - - -81
Eros - - - - - 84
Eryx, Sacred Prostitutes - - 88
Esh, love, or woman - - 69
Essential parts of Religion 4 -5, 14 Esther (Sun Myth) - - - 196
Eucharistic feasts were Phallic Clean linen for women as 44 Holy Kiss " was admin- istered , agapae, or promis- cuous intercourse, sanctified lust ----- 316 Eucharist in Axom - - - 316
Eucharistic wafer placed in Dove
Jesus returning to Mother - 324 Eunuchs for Kingdom of Heaven's
sake ----- 185 Euphem-isms for Phallus—Head, foot, thigh, heel, hand, etc.
4U 239
Euphrates Valley, religious effect
on Jewish practices - -83
Europe, Phallism in - - - 93
Eusebius, Egyptian Dynasties - 149 Eusebius, Ebionites (Jesus mere
man) - 278, 298
Eusebius gives Babylonian Crea- tion - - - - 191
Eva, Eve and Virgin Mary - - 163
Evans, Dr., on the Great Mother 169
Eve............................48
Eve, Mother of all living, not yet 178 Every green tree, under, asherim
140, 186, 242
Every street corner, at, asherim
140, 186, 242 Every symbol worshipped - 6
Evil, cause of - - - 184-186
Evil Eye ... - 7
Evil Spirits, Bell scares off 14, 248 Evolution of Conventional Tat or Phallus « - - - 73
Evolution of Crux ansata - 75, 76
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Evolution, Theory of - • 11
Ewe or Yew Tree, at Church - 290
Exaltation of feelings causes wor- ship ..........................1
Excalibur, Phallic - - * 93
Excommunication, Maspero, Egypt 276 Exodus of insanitary Jews • - 208
Exodus 17th - 141
Exodus, Colenso, on - 206, 207
Exogamy -
Expulsion from Eden, Astronomic Expulsion to prevent immortality
179.
Expulsion from Eden, not for eating fruit of knowledge, but to prevent eating Tree of
Life
Expulsion of insanitary Jews from Egypt
Extreme Unction, Pagan - 258, Ezekiel describes Eden - 175,
Ezra had Babylonian Cosmogony Ezra's 44 law " new to people Ezra re-wrote the Old Testament
145.
Ezra sent to establish Jewish religion
Ezraitic account of writing of Bible, a paraphrase on Mosaic account - - - - 150
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180
181
208
332
194
145
202
146
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Faith against knowledge - - 114
Faith can 44 prove " any thing - 202 Faith doctrine, what it leads to - 329 Faith doctrine led to dissolute lives of Clergy Priests had Concubines Prelates had harems and hosts of illegitimate children 337-338 Faith, evidence of unseen - 2
Faith, evidence of nothing- *34* Faith, pride of, Ruskin - - 341
Faith unknown to law or Justice - 2
Faith is not evidence. Law and
justice based on contrary - 2
Faith, Justice based on direct opposite 2
Faith is Negation of reason - 338
Fall..............................173
Fall, the - - - - 179-186
Fall, Hindu Account - 178, 184 Fall of man - - - - 17
Fall in Eden means Autumn 178, 179 Fall, Solar myth - - - 178
False proof of divinity of Bible - 10
False translation of Bible, Sir
Geo. Birdwood - - - 160
Faraday placed faith above science 114 Fate - .... 1
Father, Son and Dove mean
Father, Son and Mother 166-169 Fear - I3“I4
Fear, driving force of Religion - 4 INDEX
371
Page
Fear, Man's first God - - 4
Fear in modern life - - 13-14
Fear, most potent engine of Priest 13 Fear must be eliminated from the
life of man ... 354 Fear still rules the Religious - 14 Feast of Lights on 25 th December
sun returning - - - hi
Feast of Tabernacles - - 225
Feast of Mirophily (Faith alone) - 202 Feast, Phallic, Greek and Roman 92 Feast of Tabernacle, like Bac- chanalia ... 220, 248 Feast of Tabernacles, Merry - 248 Feelings which give rise to religious
belief in supernatural - 2
Female can produce life alone 24, 187 Female emblem, box, ark, or altar
15, 26, 48, 161, 162, 246. 254 Female garments on priests,
24, 218, 257, 258 Female is cause of God's action - 25 Female God supieme; male a mere satelite 102, 163, 169
Female Member of Trinity
“Holy Ghost" - - 321, 325
Female organ exposed at Irish
Churches - - - *97
Female organ, Kteis-Yoni - - 24
Female Organ, Symbol of - - 27
Female represents Unity - - 24
Female Spirit stirs God to action
48, 187
Female turned into Male by Heb- brews - - 192, 193, 325
Female, without her no creation is
possible, Hindu - - 48, 187
Ferguson's Tree and Serpent wor- ship - - 49, 84. 89
Fertile abyss - - - - 22
Festal energy at Solstices and
Equinoxes - - - 128
Festal energy, curve of intensity- 128 Festivals, all Pagan, solar and
Astronomic - 115, 128, 328
Festivals to generative powers, JPhallic ... 90-92
Fictitious Martyrs - - - 330
Fictitious Saints - - 329-332
Final act of Jesus* passion and suffering, entirely borrowed from Pagan myths - - 336
Final destruction of Jewish Scrip- tures ... 146-149
Fires, Beltane - - -121-122
Fire worship is Sun worship * 18
Fire stolen from Heaven - - 19
Fire Worship.. Sun worship - 19
Fire worship at Rome - - 332
Fire worship in Persia - - 19
Firmament - - - - 171
Firmicus, Julius . r . 168 Firmicus, Julius, Assyrians and Africans held Air to be sup- reme, Air is Holy Ghost,
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Ruach Mother of the Gods
3*x-2
First Hebrew Book - - 141-142
First visible movement of Sun,
25 December - - - xsi
Fishes, Piscess, in Life of Jesus
126, 280-283, 290-292 Fish on Fridays, Queen of Heaven 293 Fish on Fridays, Venus and Jesus 292 Fish on Monuments - - 293
Fish, Monogram of Christ - - 293
Flame........................18
Flesh, God made Flesh - - 155
Flesh of his nakedness often re- peated. Love of phallic phrases ... 242, 249 Flesh, The - - - - 135
Fleur de Lys Phallic - 24, 259
Fleurs de Lys and Broad Arrow
155. *59
Flood .... 195*196
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Caduceus of Mecury, Origin of - 84
Casear, Julius, fixed New year
falsely at nearest new moon 124 Cain and Abel - - - 126
Calendar, Julius Caesar reforms - 124
Calmet..........................
Campbell, Rev. R. J., abandons Virgin Birth ...
Calf, Golden - * 224, 236,
Candles are Pagan relics of Sun Worship -
Candlestick of Hebrews, Phallic and Solar -
Candles Phallic ... Canonising Pagan Gods by Roman ^Catholic Church - - 329
Capella Martianus Sun Worship - Carbon used over and over again - Carpenter, Bishop, “ Not the King- dom of God but that of man will be great theme and care of the race *'
Carpenter and Harford Carpenter, J. Estlin Carpenter quoted Cartouche, Phalli in Case Law -
Castration to avoid evil, Jesus ap- proves (Myllitta's devotees) - Castration in Russia Castor and Pollux ... Catalogue of Creation “ ealch after his kind ” ...
Catalogue of Creation
214
276
239
258
332
258
"33i
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340
341
- 157
-267 et seq. 10, 11, 269
- 79
142
184
185 126
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Catholic Church re-named Sun's
day as Lord's day - - 105
Catholic Church denies reason, in-
fallible ... 9-10
Catholic Church Rigid, only real
church - - - - 10
Catholics deify the parents of the
Virgin Mary - - - 137
Catholic Dictionary, Addis and
Arnold's .... 284 Causes of Change of Outlook Crucifixion - Death of " King of the Jews " Destruction of the Temple Deportation of Hebrews - 273 Caves of Elcphanta, Phallic Sculp-
tures - - - - - 32
Cedar, Phallic - - 17, 154
Ceres............................48
Change of signs causes change of
God's Symbols - - - 126
Change of outlook in New Testa- ment, cause of - - - 273
Change of words to hide Phallism 41 Chaos of Worship and symbol - 6
Character of Hebrew God - - 210
Chatta Fergusson's Tree and
Serpent worship - - 49
Chemarim Worship - 261
Cheyne, Dr. - 157, 159, 210, 219
Children shall not suffer for their father's sin, afterwards re- versed .... 142
Child Sacrifice, modern - - 300
China, Phallism in - - - 99
Children of Jews stronger than
those of Gentiles - - 186
China, Religion Astronomic 129, 351 Chinese Account of Creation, Void or Vacuum Same as Genesis, chap. I. - - - - 134
Chinese, dating Lunar - - 134
Chinese Emperor - - - 352
Chinese Zodiac - - - 118
Chrishna - - - - - no
Chrishna, Christna and Christ com- pared - 280-283
Chrism, anointing oil - - 284
Christ, a word of wide application - 284 Christ “ anointed one " 252,284,310
Christ as Fish, Ichthus or Piscis - 293 Christ as a title long before Jesus— Inman - - - 302
Christ's and Christna's incidents indentical; therefore Christ a Sun myth ... 284
Christ-in-hand. Phallic Pillar 56, 252 Christ Myth, The - - - 335
Christs .... 252,304 Christ Myth - - - - 333
Christians adopted all pagan festivals— Justin Martyr, Tertullian, Augustine - 135, 328
Christian agapic feasts scandalised
Romans .... 203 364
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Christians cannot read Bible cri- tically - - - - 12
Christian Churches, opposing - 9
Christian Creed founded on error - 181 “Christian Era'* founded 525
a.d. by Dionysius the Little- 329 Christian Festivals Astronomical
and Solar - - - 114, 128
Christian God Omphallic, China - 100 Christian is most Phallic Bible - 140 Christian religion Phallic - -88
Christian Saints are Pagan minor
Gods - - - - - 158
Christian scriptures from Mesopo- tamia - - - - 11
Christian Sects, Early - - 278
Christians shocked at Phallic basis of religion - - - 24
Christian symbols Phallic and
solar ... 256-259
Christianity and paganism identi- cal - - - 135. 327. 33i
Christianity more Phallic than any
other religion (Wake) - - 257
Christianity most Phallic religion 24 Christianity polytheistic - - 158
Christianity rests on Hebrew Bible 8 Christianity. The son is his own father and is suckled by his wife - - - - - 136
Christna, Astronomical explana- tion of Myth of Christna's Life incidents, admittedly a Sun Myth - - - 284
Churches (two opposing) - 8-9
Church customs the same in all
lands .... 327 Church's short cut to knowledge - 20 Church, female. Nave, Navel,
Navis, ship - 162, 238, 259
Churches have developed and fos- tered Music, Painting, Sculp- ture, and Architecture - - 341
Church is Columbus Domus, House
of the Dove (Tertullian) - 323 Church and Kirk derived from
Circle - - - 131, 336
Church is Bishop's bride wedded
with a ring - 162
Church of England—Mystery - 2
Church of Scotland Creed - 341, 342 Church, Opponent of knowledge - 181 Church personal, clothed in women's frocks to become Bixeual - 258
Church's Phallic Sculpture, Ire- land - - - - - 96
Church should express the “ good in man " but the twisty paths of sacerdotalism lead other- wise .... 339* 344 Church told all there was to be
known - 339
Church Vestments, Symbols, Altars, Bells and Towers are Phallic 257-8
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Churning the Ocean - * 109
Cicero - - - 4
Circle, Kirkle, Kirk, Church 131, 336 Circumcision - - - - 217
Circumcision of Moses' son - 218 Circumcision, Sanitary - - 218
Circumcision, Aprodasiac - - 218
Circumcision, probably a modified rite - 218, 219
Circumcision, symbolic or emas- culation - 218
Circumcision in Polynesia * - 220
Propitiatory - 220
Cleopatra - - - - - 137
Clergy engaged in desiring what they cannot obtain, Lam- enting what they cannot avoid, Reflecting on what they can- not understand—Ruskin - 341 Clergy, sensuality of - - - 338
Clericus, Johannes - - - 169
Clericus (Mother of Gods) - - 323
Cnossus, Great Mother - - 169
Cobra's deadly bite - - - 230
Cobra, deadly phallic symbol on
account of disease - - 230
Cobras forming Aesculapius' sign
or Caduceus of Mercury - 84 Cobras in Congress - - - 84
Cock on Spires - 59, 66, 256
Cock worship of Babylonians - 66 Coienso 9, 160
Colenso on Crosses - 305
Coienso's Criticism of Pentateuch
206, 210, 211, 214 Coienso, Life of 260
Coienso pulverised Exodus - - 205
Coienso on Crosses, every kind known from dawn of pagan- ism ...................305
Cold in Eden, Approach of Winter 179 Coliseum built by Jews in Rome 273 Collins, Rev. Mr. - 139
Collossi at Thebes, orientation - 133 Columba ----- 324 Columbine - - - 324
Columns, Phallic - 56, 57, 58
Comedy, phallic derivation of - 41 Commandment, Be fruitful and
multiply - - - 173
Commandments written in Cunei- form - - - - 141
Commentary of S.P.C.K. on sac- rifice of Virginity - - 227
Communistic policy not religion - 8
Comparative method - - 11
Complete Phallic Symbolism Baby- lonian - - - - 71
Conch shell, symbol of Yoni, Vishnu - - - - 35
Concha Veneris—Yoni, Venus
Shell.....................60
Concha Veneris indicates woman - 60 Concubines of Priests - - 338
Cone and Bag Lingam-Yoni - 68 INDEX
365
Confessor shaved head and Pal- lium forms Lingam-Yoni combination - - - 256
Confessional, Pagan - - *327
Confessional immoral questionary 327 Confidence Trick, Anderson - 272 Confucius - - 10, 99, 268
Confucius - - - 347,354
Confucius, Agnostic like Huxley - 348 Confucius, Bright, clear, vigorous
intellect - 348
Confucius condemned Monks, as
shirking life's duties - - 350
Confucius* contempt for all make-
believe, or mirophily - 353-354
Confucius highly honoured, but not made into a God. A brave and humble agnostic to the
last - - - 352-353
Confucius, death of. He uttered no prayer, betrayed no apprehen- sions, and taught men to do good for its own sake - - 353
Confucius, five Cardinal virtues— Humanity, J ustice, Confor- mity, Rectitude, Sincerity. - 348 Confucius gave religion a National
character - - - - 353
Confucius—Happy the country which listened to such a sane and healthy teacher without the mirodoxical dressing - 353 Confucius, tomb real, like his
teaching - - - - 353
Confucius taught a religion of manliness, justice/mercy, edu- cation and knowledge - *354
Confucius on charm of virtue 21, 350 Confucius protested against fan- tasies being accepted as fact, when they could not be sub- stantiated - 348
Confucius taught golden rule both
negatively and positively -350 Confucius taught nothing he could not substantiate, especially ex mundane souls, spirits.
Heavens or Hells - - 349
Confucius taught reverse of Tol- stoi—Never neglect to redress a wrong - - - 350
Confucius* teaching wise, but cold; it is marvellous he was lis- tened to - - - 349
Confucius—Though the Gods be
hidden not so our brethren - 351 Confucius, Greatest teacher of all
time for a practical world - 351 Confucius,Canonised after death- 351 Confucius took no lying short-cut
to the Unknown - - 349
Confusion of Tongues, Babel, Hin- dus, Armenians, Australians, Mexicans, and others had same story - 205
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Congress of Cobras - - - 84
Conspiracy of silence in Britain
about Phallism in the Bible - 25
Consecrated prostitution a revered
practice, Loisy - - - 225
Constant adjustments in creeds
11. 21, 341
Constantine - 147
Contentment - - - - 188
Continuous succession of life, im- mortality - - - 15
Conversation of Confessional Box,
obscene - - - - 327
Cords symbolical of Virginity - 227 Corinth, Sacred prostitutes - - 88
Cornucopia, Woman with - - 64
Cosimo, Saint - - - *94
Cosmogony 7
Cosmogonies have garden, seduc- tion, serpent, etc. - - 22
Cosmogony of Bible, Babylonian- 145 Council of Trent - - - 338
Council of Trent, Concubinage
tolerated - 338
Council of Trent, Eating and drink- ing actual body and blood of Jesus - 316
Covenant - - 139-140, 228
Cow, Thebes, Cow in India - -126
Cox, Sir George - 17, 24 211, 260
Craving for myths - - 5, 7
Creation - - - - 22
Creation, Androgynous - - 203
Creation, 6 different accounts in
Bible - - - - 12
Creation, Genesis, Psalms, Job,
Isaiah - - - - 12
Creation, composite nature of
Bible - - - - 12
Ceration, essential part of religion 13 Creation story, six accounts - 161 Creation, first story, Genesis 1.2
161, 168-170
Creation, second story, Genesis 1.
161, 171
Creation, third story. Genesis 2.
161, 173
Creation, fourth story, Genesis 5.
161, 189
Creation, fifth story, Psalms, Isaiah Job - 161, 190
Creation, sixth story, Job 153-154, 161 Creation Stories, Habitat - - 174
Creation, Third Account of
Parched land no water till Spring 174 Rain makes verdure spring up - 174 No rain, no rivers, lakes, or seas .... 174
Hence no fish created this time 174 People lived far from sea - 174 Garden of Eden in Babylonia - 175 Land very rich there, irrigated 175 Ezekiel says trees of Eden en- vied Assyrian - - - 175
Analysis of story - - - 17$ 366
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Adam made to dress and keep garden. Hence condemned to labour from the first - - 175
They were told to be fruitful and multiply, so child-birth and death existed always 173-178 No prohibition of eating Tree of Life - 175-6
Yahweh was wrong, and the ser- pent right. Man did not die on the day he ate the fruit -176 Companion for Adam - - 177
Tries beasts—no good. The gold of that land was good (Jewish touch) - - - - 176
Analysis of story, contd. - 177 Yahweh makes a higher animal for Adam out of a rib - - 177
Even the Rib is Babylonian, the word meaning Mother of the Universe. Jews changed it to rib to debase woman - - 177
Adam to leave father and mother (marriage). He had none, and such relationship was unknown - - - 177
Eating the fruit, shame, cover- ing, nudity, then hiding, shows fall was sexual - - 178
Cursing serpent useless, as ser- pents always went on belly and have never eaten dust - 177 Bruise his head, phallic - 177-8
Curses man with labour- - 178 Woman with child-birth - 178 Man already created to “ till the ground '* - - - 178
Woman was created to be “ fruit- ful and multiply” - - 178
All this because man had got
knowledge - - - 178
Eve, Mother of all living, im- possible as birth was yet un- known - - - - 178
The Gods forgot Tree of life 178-180 In terror lest man eat of it and live for ever - - 179-180
Never prohibited - - - 180
To prevent eating, expel man from Eden - 180
Sexual intercourse, the Fall - 184
Attys and Agdistis, genitals cause of all evil - - 184
Creation, Fourth Account - - 189
No rib story, Cain and Abel un- known, Eve not mentioned,
Eden unknown - - 189 -190
Creation, Fifth Account (Rahab
Tehom) - 190
Creation, Hindu, Androgynous 203 •' Creation cannot be accomplished
without her M—Uma - - 48
Creation of life in Egypt - - 73
Creation, Priests' ideas - 171-173
Creative Gods, Bisexual - - 24
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Creative Gods, originally of in- determinate sex - - 325
Creative God requires a female
member - 24-25
Creator lonely, gave him wife and son
Creeds, constant alteration Creeds
Creeds, evanescent - Creed by vote of majority - Crescent moon, good luck, horse shoe - - - 87,
Crescent and Cross - Crime in youth is daring courage misapplied -
Criminals treated as mentally de- ficient, punishment must dis- appear - Critics of Holy writ - Cross and Crescent - Cross and Phallus Cross as Phallic signature - Crosses—Christian, Handled or Tau, all Phallic
Cross—Christian, on Chinese and Japanese Goddess Cross, derivation of - -
Crosses of every kind are Pagan
303-306
Cross of Fire at St. Peter's, Pagan
worship - 333
Crosses repudiated by Christians *2^ as Pagan - 3°4“305
Crosses, Colenso on - - 305
Cross with Lock of Horus - 306 Cross with man crucified, pagan ; not adopted by Christians till 600 a.d. -
Cross-over, Passover, Crossifica- cation, Crucifixion
- 275 *1. 34i
- 21
- 21 34*
123 259
- 355
-'4
M
- 355
- 8
- 259 88, 259
- 103
H
67
102 77
304
*•4
15. hi, 265, 313 Crown, triple, of Pope, Babylonian 332 Crozier derived from Babylon - 332 Crucifix, Minucius Felix - - 304
Crucifixion not believed in till 9th V { Century, a.d. - 304
Crucifixion on no earthly Cross,
but on Cross of the Heavens - 112 Crux Ansata, evolution of - 75-76
Crystallization of Judaism - - 267
A broken and a contrite heart Awful power of Yahweh Hebrews' influence on Western nations •
Other nations had higher ideals Egyptians, Greeks, Romans - Confucius, Gotama Gotama's teaching Zend Avesta - 267
Cults, customs and superstition of
India - 36, 46
Cults, two great, Solar and Phallic
15-16
Cuneiform tablets, astronomical - 198 Cuneiform Tablets of Creation - 19 * INDEX
367
Page
Cuneiform writing alone used in Palestine - 141
Cuneiform Writing, universal - 196 Cupid and Psyche killed by Church 326 Cursing Adam and Eve, Serpent- 178 Curve of Intensity of Festal energy 128 Cushites* Sun worship - - 118
Cuzco, Peru, Sun worship - - 117
Cybel6, Kubel& - - 48, 163
Cybel6 required emasculated
priests ... 185, 220 Cynthia - - - - 48
Cynthus, Kunthos, Kunti—Yoni- 43 Cyrus - - - - - no
Czar from Zur, Rock (or Phallus)) 241
Phallic
62
no
235
73
Dagoba Phallic, Forlong Dagon
Dahomey Phalli Dad, tat or tet Daian-Nissi, Dionysius, signs -
Dalhousie's Act against obscenity 41-2 Damian, Saint - - - 94
Dancing and playing - 237-239
Daniel (Sun Myth) - - 196, 266
Dark Ages -
Darkness causes religious fear Darkness is evil - Darwin Development School David a common man, of low origin -
David dancing before the Ark David threatening to be more vile 236 David's wife, Saul's daughter, Aristocrat - Davids, Dr. Rhys - Dawn of Astronomy Dawn maidens, mothers of succes-
- 65
119
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INDEX
Page
Abimelech and Abraham’s jWife
Sarah - - - ^ 198
Abimelech and Isaac’s Wife
Rebekah - 239
Abominable things - 17, 140, 221
Abraham’s Oath on his thigh - 139 Abraham prostituted two wives - 199 Acorns are Phalli - - 66
Adam to till the ground - - 17$
Adam’s curse of work before
** fall ” - - - -175
Adam’s Father and Mother - - 177
Adam given work for hundreds of
men in Eden - - - 175
Adam, Red one, Tills the Soil - 54
Adapa - 193
Adon of Babylon all over World - 122 Adonis - - - - - no
Adonis, Women weeping for 162, 297 Adultery and Murder not displeas- ing to God if one has faith— Result of Paul’s “ Faith Evi- dence ” Sophistry - - 329
Advent, second - - 279, 283
Aesculapius - - - - 116
Aesculapius, Twin Serpents - 84 Aesculapius, Rod formed by two
Cobras - - - - 84
African us, Julius - - - 148
Agamemnon - - - - 85
Agapic feasts scandalised Romans 203
Agdistis..........................184
Ahriman - - - - - 126
Ahura Mazda - - - - 126
Ahura Mazda’s three words para- phrased—Good sustenance, Good Education, Good Em- ployment, watchwords of pre- sent day - 354
Ahola and Aholibah - - 212, 229
Ailan - - - - - 154
Ail Ram Tree Stem - - 154
Air, spirit, breath. Soul - - 169
Air, spirit, soul, Holy Ghost, Dove,
Dove moving on Waters - 322 Air is soul, spirit, breath (Pneuma) 325 Akbar combining Religions - 9
Akhnaton on Ku-en-Aten 117, 127
Ail...............................154
A1 as God 272 Times i:a Old Testa- ment - - - - 153
Al, Ate Allah, All Phallic - - 153
A16 99 times as God - - 154
Ate-im or Elohim - - - 154
359
Page
Ate-im hundreds of times in Old
Testament as God or Gods 154 Ate-im dishonest translations
158-160
Allah is Eli, on whom Jesus called
154. 239
Aiue (Name of God) - - 154
Alun (Name of God) - - 154
Alue God in O. T. - - -154
Al Shadai Phallic powers, or El
Shadai - - - - 153
Al Zedik - - - - -157
Allegories in Sun Worship - 19
Allegory used to express Phallism 87 Alexandrians - - - - 119
Alexandria - - - 119, 148
Alma (Uma) - - 23, 47
Almond, female symbol - 215, 332 Alphabet, equivalence of letters - 27
Altars, flooding with water - -51
Altar feminine - - 15, 131
Altar placed for Sun to^shine on
it at Equinox or Solstice 15, 131 Altars, anointing of, disgusting - 243 Alteration of texts to avoid
Phallism, Bible much^nodified 103 Altruism ----- 3
Ama or 14 Uma ” or Alma - 47 Amen in Bible as God - - 125
Amen of Egypt - - - no
Amen, Egyptian Hidden God,
used in Christian Prayers - 125 Amen Sun Worship - 287
American Sun Worship - 130
Amritsar Solo-phallic Worship - 116 Ancestors, ideas in religion - 21 Androgynous or double sexed—
Two sexes required for Crea- tion - - 23, 24, 48
Annual journey of Sun—same as daily, Ptah Totumen creates Gods every day - - - 112
Animals dancing to Tree of Life - 71 Annual Suns, Sons of Jove 115. 136
Ancient of Days gradually re- tires ......................134
Ancient Calendars and Con- stellations - - - - 130
Anderson Sir R. (Silence of God) - 272 „ Confidence Trick - 272 Androgynous Creation - - 203
Analysis of Old Testament List of Editorial Processes - - 158
Analysis of Old Testament - 152-214 360
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Page
Ankh,Egyptian Cross, Crux Ansata
75-76
Annual re-birth of the Sun caused Romans to have many Sons of Jove - - - 134-13$
Anointing Altars—disgusting con- dition - 243
Anointing Phalli 50, 51, 89, 221 Anthony and Cleopatra - - 149
Anthropomorphism, Budge - 22 Anu, a lovable God - - 194
Apis...........................126
Aphrodite - - - - 48
Aphrodite in Greece - - 83
Aphrodite means Paradise of Gar- den - - - - -54
Apollo - - - - - no
Aquilas or Onkilos - 200
Ararat is Allalat, Allah’s lat or Phallus, Ark (woman) rested on it and brought forth life - - - 26, 239
Archimedes - - - - 119
Ard ha-nari-I s war a Bisexual God 47 Argonian Juno - - - - 89
Argiva - - - - - 89
Aries, Lamb opposite Sun in Au- tumn ; Aries slain or oblit- erated by Sun in Spring - 248 Aries, Worship of - - - 316
Aristaeus - - - - 148
Ark on Ararat, allah’s lat—
Brought forth life - - 239
Ark, Arch, Arc, Box, Boat, Womb
162, 259
Ark, death for looking into - - 219
Ark, feminine - - - - 15
Ark and Mast—Yoni-lingam 237-238 Ark is Womb which brings forth
life - 167
Ark omitted in Temple, as the Temple itself is the female— Eduth and Temple bisexual - 254 Arkle, Hercules - - - 163
Arke-lin Harlequin - - - 324
Arnobius - 222, 252
Arran Islanders still worship Phallic Stone - 103
Arrow head signs, masonic and phallic .... 155 Arrow, Broad, and fleur de Lys - 155
Artemis.........................48
Arthur, a Saviour, will return - 93 Arthur, Story Phallic - - 93
Attis..........................184
Atys ..... no Arya Samaj - - - - 35
Asian Steppes, Races influenced Religion - - - - no
Ascension of Sun or Saviour - ixx Asher, Aaron ben, Old Testa- ment ... 144
Ashr, Ashir$, Asherah 39 times in Old Testament as 44 Groves ” Phallic .... 223
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Ashr, Ashl same, like ram and
lamb........................223
Asher, Erect one - - - 69
Asher and Ashera true meaning - 69
Ashera—Shameful thing Phallus - 69 Asher, God of Love, Esh, Love,
and Ar God - - - 69
Asherim ..... 140 Ass’s head on Phallic Altar 85-86 Assyrians, Veneration of Sun - 115 Assyria, Phallism in - - - 65
Assyrian Priests teach Hebrews
about their gods - - 228
Assurbanipal .... 191 Assyrians and Egyptians on Soul 168
Astarte...........................48
Astarte, Diana - 223
Aster is the Phallus ... 223 Asteret Female Phallus or Yoni
T is feminine determinant - 223 Astrologers and Star Gazers (ignor- ance of Hebrews) - 120, 198 Astronomy began in Accad - - 119
Astronomy in Babylon, Sayce - 198 Astronomical Cult too deep for
people - - - 15, 19
Astronomy of Hindus, Chinese,
Arabs - - - 122
Astronomers Royal at Accad, Ur,
Assur, Nineveh, and Arbella - 119 As true - - - - - 152
Atkinson’s Himalayan Tribes (Phal- lic) ........................37
Attic Comedy, Vilification - - 41
Attis, Genitals, Cause of evil - 184 Attractive short cut to knowledge 20 Augustine, Christianity identical
with paganism - - 33°. 337
Augustine, Holy Kiss - - 316
Augustine, Horrible teaching 328-329 Authority of Miracle required for
Religion - - - - 4
Autokrator Self created - - 286
Awful dwelling place - - 162
Baal-Berith, Tho two organs - 255 Baal Bisexual ... 222
Baal is Bosheth ... 222 Baal, changes to Beth - - 224
Baal is Eli to whom Jesus cried on the Cross - 222
Baal, Incense burnt to 261
Baal-Peor .... 222 Baal-peor is double sexed - - 255
Baal, erection, peer open - 253-254
Baal, Prophets of (Shame) - 222 Baal, Sun Worship - 118
Babies—We must insure healthy babies, starting before birth 355 Babies—We misuse them before birth, and abuse them after- wards ... 356 INDEX
361
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Balbal to confound (tongues)—Phi- lological myth - 205
Babel and Balbal ... 205
Babel, Tower of, Colenso’s Criti- cism ..... 205 Babylonian Altars " Grove," etc. 66 Babylonian Astronomy, results
120, 198
Babylonian Astronomy celebrated by Greek and Roman Authors
197, 260
Bab-Ilu (Babylon of Greeks) - 153 Babylonian Bag and Cone - 68 Babylonian Creation - - 192, 193
Babylon, Cradle of Astronomy, Sayce .... 198 Babylonian Cuneiform Universal - 196 Babylonia—Egyptian Ankh used 66 Babyl—Gate of God - - 205
Bab Ilu, The Gate of the God - 205 Babylon, a Garden ... 346 Babylonian God given to the Heb-
brews .... 136 Babylon was intellectual Mistress
of the World - 345
Babylonian Creation Watery - 174 Babylonian and Hebrew Creation
compared - - 192, 193
Babylons—Two-—Hislop - 6
Babylon and Israel close connec- tion .... 228
Babylonians Monotheistic - 159 Babylonian Phallic gem - - 71
Babylonia, Phallism in - - 65
Babylonian Priests teach Hebrews
about their Gods - - 145
Babylonian Religion in Europe - 121 Babylonian Mythology in Scotland
121-249
Babylonian Priests write the Bible 145 Babylonian Science - - - 119
Babylonian Sun Worship - - 117
Babylonian Symbolism - 65-71
Babylonian tablets preserved,
buried in ruins - - - 197
Babylonian Temples, Construction 109 Babylon Waters of Baptism - 163 Babylonian Worship of Host of
Heaven .... 109 Babylonian YA-AVA Yahweh or
Jehovah - - - - 156
us - - - - 85-110
Bacchanalia - - • - 92
Bacchus, death and re- birth as
Sun.......................
Bacchus, Ivy Leaf Phallic - Bacchus on Medals as Babe Bacchus as a Christian Saint - Bag and Cone, Lingam-Yonic sym- bol ..... Bagha Vati, Lady of the bag Balance - Baldur ...
Ball of Power - Bali, Rev. J. C. Jah
247
24
247
329
68
69
79-140 - - no
8*. *55. 33* - 156
- 216
- 84
1-
. 94
253
50
328
33*
5*
2
- 37 63-64
- 226 (great
- 173» 243
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Baluchistan Palakistan—Land of Palakis Temple women Balfour, Br. C. R., on Twin ser- pents
Banks, Sir Joseph, letter on Phal- lism ..... Banner of Solomon’s song is Plial-
• lus..........................
Banyan Tree with Phalli-Church - Baptism is pagan ... Banaam and Josophat Basilica, Church, from Basilaeus serpent -
Basis of Religion is the Miraculous Batterchargee, Dr. J. N., Hindoo castes (Phallic)
Baton, man with Beauty evenings in Berlin Be fruitful and multiply commandment) - Beginning, Priests, tales of
2-20, 166
Behemoth of Job, Phallic - 153-154 Belief without evidencc.a merit - 119 Bells as Gods and eternal life
248-249
Bel as Nimrod - 249
Bells used in all religions - 248
Bell scares off evil spirits - 14, 248
Bell and Tongue or Clapper,
Yoni and Lingam Belief without proof, great merit - Belphegor -
Beltane Fires - Belly-voiced -
Benoh, procreation, marriage, modern feast -
Beony, Father -
Benjamin of Tudela Benzingcr, Dr. -
Berlin Sakti Worship Bergson - Berossus -
Bible, from Byblos, from Papyrus (means Book or Paper)
Bible evidence reliable when un- conscious - Bible, Old Testament Bible, First Hebrew writing Bible, Second Hebrew writing Bible, Third, Book of Jashar Bibles of India, China, etc., occupied with other world or Heaven, Hebrew occupied en- tirely with this world Bible, composed by Babylonian Priests .... Bible, Cosmogony Babylonian—
Often destroyed - - 14 5-149
Bible, written on Shreds of Lea- ther .... 147-148
Bible, written on Ox hides - 146-148
Bible, Phallic, but kept secret— Silence breaking down— Birdwood
248
2
232
122
12
429
327
118
244
226
20
191
141
141 000
142 142 142
- *43
145
- 221 362
INDEX
Page
Bible, Old Testament and New Tes- tament absolutely unlike. Old Testament virile; New Testa- ment, nebulous - - 315-316
Bible mistranslated—No relation to Hebrew original in im- portant phrases - - is
Texts mutilated - - - 12
Composite Character - - 13
The Bible - 138
The Bible, History of - 141
Bible, unconscious evidence in 141 Bible, English translation toned down 12 Bible is not read by Christians— They cannot read it - 183
Bible, proof of divinity, false - 11
Bible, meaningless words used to
disguise Phallism - - 12
Bible in China, Phallic Character
of God - - - - 99
Bible in the Nineteenth Century - 10
Bible Manufactured Article - 12
Bible composed of diverse frag- ments, State of chaos, Broken verses - - - - 12
Bible is Phallic 25, 140, 221, 257
Bible too gross for honest trans- lation - - - - 12
Bible is only authority of Chris- tianity - - - - 10
Bible is Word of God - - 138
Bible-making epoch 500 b.c. to
200 a.d. - - - - 138
Bible, reliable evidence - - 141
Bibles reproduced when destroyed 183 Bibliotheca Divini, Jerome - 138 Biographies of Jesus in plain lan- guage - - - - 274
Biot - - - - - 132
Bird wood, Sir G., on Phallism in
Bible - - - - 221
Bird wood, Sir G., on Elohim and
Ale-im as Gods (plural) - 160 Birthday of Sun 25 Dec., because first visible motion of return to summer - - - -hi
Birth of Jesus made to coincide with that of Sun; Natalis In- victa Solis Birthday of the Invincible Sun - - 111, 329
Birthday of Unconquered Sun Natalis Invicta Solis - - 111
Bisexual combination 15, 24, 30, 218 Bisexual Worship - - - 36
Bishop's Mitre derived from Dagon
(vestments all pagan) - 328 Bishop weds Church with a ring
162, 289, 290 Bishop knows nothing of soul 8, 338 Blasphemy against Holy Ghost
unforgivable - -- -325
Bodies to rise again. Impossible- No carbon to form them - 339 Same carbon used over and over again - - - - 339
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Boat and Mast, Bisexual symbol
237-238
Blood of Jesus - 219
Blood and Fire - - - 14
Bombay Caves of Elephanta Phal- lic .........................32
Book of the Covenant (1st Heb- rew Book) - - - 142
Borgia Boderigo Phallically exam- ined as Pope - - 217-218
Bosheth........................220
Bosheth, Shameful thing, Phallus
Bosheth Altars - - 220
Bosheth, having thy bosheth
naked - - - - 221
“ Botch of Egypt ” shows tra- ditions of the cause of their expulsion was still extant - 231 Both sexes required for Creation - 24 Boundary connot be placed to
anything - 160-161
Bowls, Phallic - - 63, 332
Box, Boat, Ark, Arch, Arc are the
Womb - - - 162
Box, or Chest, is feminine - - 15
Bone Cave, Venice, early Phallic
symbol - - - - 29
Bowl or Globe indicates Womb
62, 101, 198, 330 Bowls on Hebrew Candlestick - 332 Bradlaugh - - - - 331
Brahmins, Theists and Muslims of
India - - - - 36
Brahmin Priests wear a Lingam - 256 Brahm - - - - - no
Breath and life, Juno imparts - 169 Breeches instead of frock on He- brew Priests, Male for female - 242 Breeches on Flesh of his nakedness this phallic phrase often re- peated - 242
Breddu-gre - - - - no
Bridegroom, Spring Sun, in Pro- cessions - 38, 46, 54, 114
Brilliant period of Greeks, Hermes
becomes Logos - 346
Britain Pagan, owing to Mirophily
of Religion - 344
British subjects 250,000,000, phal- lic worshippers - - - 28
British Museum—Stupas in - 32
British Museum—Phallic statues and Carvings - - - 81
British Phallic Pillars, List - - 56
Britain, Phallism in - 56
Broken and a contrite heart - 267 Broad Arrow and Fleur de Lys
155. 259
Brooding - 168
Brooding on Waters - - - 22
Brothel - 234
Brothels in Rome for Priests - 337
Bruchium Library contained four hundred and ninety thousand volumes - 148 INDEX
363
Bruise his heel, phallic - 177-178
Bruno - 119,276
Bruchium Library burnt with
Egyptian Fleet - 148
Budge, Wallis—Man makes Gods
22, 76, 77, 161, 275 Budge on uncertainty of transla*
tion .... 276
Bull period, end of, Mithras slays
bull........................126
Bud is the phallus - 18, 55, 332
Buckle or Tie in Egypt 77-78
Budd..........................1 jo
Buddha,s tooth (re-created) - 183 Buckle is Lingam-yoni combina- tion - - - - 78
Buddha: - - - - - 110
Buddha as a Christian Saint - 331 Bull, phallic, accompanies Siva - 35
Bull at mouth of Altar - - 52
Buns, Babylon and Scotland - 121 Bunsen, Angel, Messiah - - 280
Burmese Pagoda poles - - 59
Burning hearts on Phallic Altar 85-86 Burton, Sir R., on Phalli in
Dahomey - - - - 235
"C"
Cabalistic symbols from Lingam-
Yoni - - - - 48
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ignorant. What must his force and personality have been, when he succeeded in a task in which no other man, prophet, or son of God, has ever succeeded. Instead of hatred, fear, mystery, and cowardly stooping down to appease monstrous gods, he taught a religion of manliness, justice, mercy, education, and knowledge, to which the bright spirits of the Western world are only now aspiring.
Instead of a religion of secret confessional, swinging censers, dismal chants, performed in semi-darkness, he taught a manly code, redolent of open air, green fields, honest endeavour, happi- ness, and sunshine, with infinite pity for the weak and suffering.
THE FUTURE.
And what of the future? Our first duty is to eliminate the great god fear from the life of man. Each child born into the world ought, for the mere selfish security of the rest of the community, to be assured of proper upbringing. Freedom of the mother from wage-earning toil while bearing and nursing of children is the first essential. In fact, a woman has quite sufficient work, even of a mechanical kind, to do, in tending a family in her own home, if that family is to be physically and mentally healthy. At present, nearly all children do get some kind of food, clothing, and housing, in a ragged, irregular way, till they grow up.
But there is plenty of good food, good clothing, and good nursing, in the world for all. It only requires proper organization of labour and wages. The new charter of humanity is good food, good clothes, good houses, and suitable work throughout life guaranteed to every child born.
We might paraphase Ahura Mazda's three-word rule of life— ” Good Thoughts, Good Words, Good Deeds ”—by ” Good Susten- ance, Good Education, Good Employment.” By a system of insurance, the whole community will, before long, guarantee to every citizen the chance of a useful and happy life ; and provision of occupation, food, clothing, and housing till he dies. So will the last of the old Gods—Fear, Phobos, or Pavor, pass away.
Our national life must be organised on more scientific lines, and the scientific method is, after all, identical with what we all worship, —kindness. The criminal must be looked upon as a mentally deficient individual, and attempts made to ameliorate his outlook on life or to prevent his birth. The idea of revenge which dominates our law must go. Punishment is a disgrace to civilization. No criminaf was ever deterred from crime by punishment. In fact, the daring of a criminal is often the bravery of a hero, misapplied. OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
355
Many a boy’s first crime has been caused by his companions saying he has not the courage to do the deed. Every citizen must have employment suited to his capabilities.
Every child born must, by the principal of state insurance, have the chance of a healthy and happy life from the cradle to the grave. When the great God, or demon, Fear, has thus been abolished, the incentive to crime will also be abolished.
Some of our theoretical socialists are in too great a hurry. They want to cut down the tree and plant a new one at once. But the old tree is quite capable of bearing the burden of a new state of sociology. We must not forget that an old system is extremely difficult to uproot, and great disturbance is caused in the process. But the old stem has already produced the splendid branches of Friendly Societies, Insurance and Annuities, Co-operation, Work- men’s Compensation, Trades Societies, Free Hospitals, Old Age Pensions, and Child Protection, Free Education, and now State Insurance against unemployment and invalidity ; and lately man has at last wakened to the fact that a hungry child is a crime which lies at the door of every citizen of the nation.
Not only does modern science agree with the best prompting of altruism and of national economy; but it seeks to guide to fruition the religion of kindness sung for us by the poets and voiced so well by Miss Wilcox :
So many Gods, so many creeds,
So many paths to wind and wind,
When just the art of being kind Is all that this sad world needs.
Science would apply the “art of being kind” to the actual conduct of the life of the nation. Altruism has made us ease the last years of worn-out workers, by old age pensions, but even selfishness should make us provide for the babies, as all the future depends on them. Our treatment of the aged can have little effect on the future of the nation, while our method of feeding and educating of the young absolutely determines the future of our race.
There has been much discussion lately as to the prevention of the breeding of criminals; and terrible statistics have been pro- duced, such as those of Dr. Potts, where he shows that in one workhouse (to take, only one little instance) sixteen feeble-minded females had no less than 116 idiot children.
Dr. Rentoul, in a paper before the British Medical Association, proposes to sterilise all the degenerates, both male and female, by 356
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Fallcctomy, in the one case, and Vasectomy in the other; both simple and harmless operations, which neither injure the mental nor physical conditions, nor weaken the sexual sentiment or power ; they merely prevent the actual procreation of children. Thus degenerates and consumptives, who are so by no fault of their own, might enjoy all the pleasure of loving companionship and married life, without being a danger to the community, while their love of offspring might find useful vent in bringing up in a loving atmos- phere the children of those who had joined the majority.
As to the healthy. In the working classes we misuse the babies through their mothers before they are born, and further abuse them afterwards by insufficient or bad food, poor clothing, and insanitary houses.
A vast mass of preventible misery, immorality, and crime is caused entirely by the abuse and mal-nutrition of babies. Arrested development of the physique, and of the intellectual areas of the brain, is one great cause of crime, and these areas of the brain being the last to develop, are most sensitive to bad or insufficient food and insanitary living.
A few years ago all such ideas were taboo, and Dr. Rentoul could find no publisher brave enough to produce his book on the subject of “ Race Culture or Race Suicide.” I am glad to see that on this side we are now ” wakening up.”
Laws to render sterilization compulsory in the case of confirmed criminals, idiots, and imbeciles, have been passed in several of the United States, and the State of Indiana has the honour of being the first to put the law into operation (a step which many thought would never be taken), and the results have been entirely good. No doubt every civilized state will adopt this method of preventing the breeding of the unfit, and so raise the standard of the race.
This negative method should be coupled by positive action tend- ing towards inducing the best individuals towards parenthood, by removing the great handicaps which at present exist against the best human beings having large families.
Motherhood must be considered as the greatest and holiest of all the facts of human life and must be treated and legislated for un- hampered by any of the barbarous ecclesiastical ideas of the past.
The first point is already well begun—that is, care for the child before and after birth, and Dr. Wilson would make an allowance or pension for every infant whose parents required such assistance, for at least two years,—and he calls these grants, “ Young age pensions:**
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economically independent, and recognises woman’s true work in the world. The next step is to wipe out the ecclesiastically imposed brand and degradation of illegitimacy. It is a relic of the bad old system “ of punishment,” visiting the sins of the fathers upon the children.
Rahel Varnhagen,—Goethe’s friend,— well said “ All mothers should be held in honour, and innocent like Mary.”
As to the feeding of children by their mothers, Mr. Purvis picturesquely says:—” I believe that Dr. Wilson would gladly hang any woman who drank stout whilst nursing her child, or during her preparations for her confinement. I feel sure he would draw and quarter any woman who gave gin to her baby instead of milk. The sellers of adulterated goods, and especially of diluted dairy products, used by pregnant women and little children, Dr. Wilson would not fine, but bum at the stake; and 1 shall be happy to assist him in piling the first faggots.” These picturesque words should be sent to every young mother. Dr. Wilson’s two books “Unfinished Man” and “Education, Personality and Crime,” should be studied by all statesmen, educationalists, and prison reformers. Then, when the young are all developed by care into the best state of which their constitutions are capable, their employ- ment must be regulated on healthy lines, mentally and physically. For work is not only necessary to health, but to happiness; and in a healthy state, free from fear, the children cowering no longer under the horrible conceptions of ecclesiastical dogma, we will have for citizens men who will rejoice in their labour, and in the creation of all that ” in work fairly wrought may touch men through hearing or sight as if it were a breeze bringing health to them from places strong for life ’’—one of Plato’s most noble utterances.
Then, instead of ” Other Worldliness,” we would have an Eden here below, and everyone, instead of having his life blackened by Fear, will be able to echo the grandest and sweetest prayer in any language ; the one grand prayer without Mirophily:—
O may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence, live In pulses stirred to generosity,
In deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn For miserable aims that end with self.
In thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars,
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So to live in heaven;
To make undying music in the world.
Breathing as beauteous order that controls With growing sway the growing life of man.
This is life to come,
Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony,
Enkindle generous ardour, feed pure love,
Beget the smiles that have no cruelty— .
Be the sweet presence of a good diffused,
And in diffusion ever more intense.
So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.
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“ Once attain Tao,” said Lao Tsze, 44 there is nothing you cannot accomplish, without it there is nothing you can accomplish/* We hear the same argument to-day, urged by the Indian Yogis without an iota of proof, as man has much the same success or failure in life, all the world over, regardless of his religious opinions or the want of them.
Confucius, with his bright, clear, and vigorous intellect, described Taoism as an absurd polytheistic fantasy, and confined his teaching to the state of things we really know.
When Lao Tsze was old, Confucius listened to his exposition of his transcendental mysticism, and listened, with all the respect due to Lao’s years and position, to his fanciful, unseen world of gods and spirits, his doctrines of the soul’s immortality, transmigration, etc.
It is said that for three days Confucius refused to give any opinion upon the good old sage’s eloquently stated views, and at last he explained that he 44 had simply listened with Kelpless gaze and open-mouthed wonder, amazed that so learned and experienced an old man should thus base the hopes of the race and the conduct of mankind on phantoms and mere speculative ideas.”
The virile mind of Confucius 44 had been a seeker for nearly thirty years, but had not yet found any belief in souls and divine inspiration.” Enough for him to follow the Great Models of human perfection, as Seneca advised, leaving the phantoms of theories and hazy unknowables for the clear principles of morality, the five Cardinal virtues, Humanity, Justice, Conformity, Rectitude, and Sincerity. Looking to the mirophilist tendencies, exhibited in all OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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mankind from African savages to men of great mind, like Newton or Kelvin, it is very wonderful that Confucius was listened to at all, especially when we consider the early era in which he taught.
That such teaching has held its place down to the present day, shows that the Chinese are a race eminently fitted by nature to become leaders in the New Era, when actual knowledge shall rule mankind's actions, and when truth shall no longer be rejected for the fictions of the imagination, however backed by miraculous " revelations," and pandering to the mirophilic sentiment.
Confucius is the one founder of a great religion who took no lying short-cut to the unknown.
He often counselled his disciples that it ill became the learned to add the great weight of their opinion in favour of any views or doctrines concerning matters which, as cultured men, they could not substantiate, especially theories postulating ex-mundane souls, spirits, heavens, or hells.
"When we are not cognisant of the facts and fully assured thereof," he used to urge, " let us be silent and tell the busy multi- tude not to waste their substance, abilities, and time, on what is very doubtful and dark, but to study nature's laws and order which are clear and universal; and live in accordance therewith." (For- long's " Short Studies.")
He had that healthy virile mind which rejected the extreme Christian or Tolstoian doctrine of non-resistance or " turn the other cheek," which was taught by Lao-tsze. He taught that injury should not be recompensed with kindness, as it was only fitting to recompense injury with justice, and that kindness should be the reward of kindness. He condemned turning the cheek to the smiter and giving his cloak to the thief : such doctrines he held as hurtful to society and civilization.
As Forlong says : " Only a brave and very sanguine spirit could hope that this wise, but to the masses, cold, unemotional Agnos- ticism would make a successful stand against the many warm, responsive rites and systems of the poor ignorant Chinese of the 5th and 6th centuries, B.C."
He neither wished nor tried to establish a religion, he wrote no Bible, and, as Prof. Douglas says, " There is no room in his religion for a personal deity," yet he seems to recognise an un- known, perchance unknowable, something at the back of pheno- mena, or, as the Rev. Dr. Matthewson puts it (" Religion of China ” p. 97), " Confucius taught a pure and true morality without theology. He held up the vision of heaven on earth, the prospect of a paradise below. He hoped for the advent of a pure, civil government whose laws would be a universal blessing." 350
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He was intensely practical, and taught exactly the opposite of Tolstoi’s injunction of non-resistance.
“ Never neglect to rectify an evil or redress a wrong because it is small, nor to resist slight acts of injustice, else they will grow, and great wrongs may overwhelm thee and others.”
He taught the golden rule that ” we should do as we would be done by,” and also put it negatively, so that its full meaning should be understood; ” What I do not wish men to do to )me I also wish not to do to them.”
This golden rule he re-states three times (it appears only once in the New Testament), and exhaustingly expands it as ” The prin- ciple with which as with a measuring square to regulate one’s conduct.” This was 500 years before Jesus was born. The Chris- tian Golden Rule was, consequently, Chinese or Indian, not Hebrew.
He aided the Chinese rulers, advised them in justice and good government, and condemned all monks and anchorites as misguided men, shirking life’s duties and living on others.
Forlong gives this story. When, as Minister of Crime with Duke Chau, a father besought him to punish his son for lack of filial piety—one of the most heinous crimes in a Chinaman’s eyes—Kung' fu-Fsze committed both to prison, saying: “Am I to punish for a breach of filial piety one who has never been taught to be filially minded? He who neglects to teach a son his duties is equally guilty with his son who fails in them, and so is the king or law- maker who neglects his duties yet seeks order and obedience I”
This is the idea which is going to reform our penal system in Britain, well enunciated 2500 years ago.
And what manner of man was this Kung-fu-Fsze ?
He had an iron constitution, tall, commanding presence, power- ful frame, dignified bearing, darkish complexion, small, piercing eyes, full sonorous voice, and a grave, and usually mild and benevolent expression.
He urged on kings and princes that crime is not inherent in human nature, and that a good government should not require capital punishment.
If it is strenuous in desire for justice and goodness, the people will be good ; ” Let us educate and be educated, and strive to be honest and manly.”
” Virtue has an irresistible charm, and will not stand alone, but will find neighbours," a magnificent aphorism, which ought to be written up on all our public buildings, Parliament Houses, and Churches. OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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Princes who heard him often begged of him to dwell near them, offering him large revenues to do so; but he would never remain where his advice was not taken, as he felt that ” he thus counten- anced their iniquities.** He invariably left at once for the highways and byway8, content to be but a strolling teacher, and rejected of men.
" Even in his days of distress, Confucius refused all salary for teaching, and this even from Governments and Princes.*’
The Society of Friends have followed the wise idea of Confucius —no one should speak unless he has a message ; and no one should take money for preaching or teaching men to be good.
” Though gods be hidden from us, not so our brethren. Strive to be good citizens of earth and waste not time in seeking after that which lies beyond human right and comprehension.” Such was his beautiful and practical teaching.
He thought that that which is termed religion is unreality, but stretches of imagination. The ideas and pictures may perchance be right and true, but they may not, and none can prove that they are true.
Thus many great thinkers state the Agnostic position of the great Hebrew teacher in Ecc. iii. 19-22, the Greeks, Omar Khayyam, or modern scientists, like Huxley.
I have sketched the man and his teaching somewhat fully, quoting Forlong, in order that I may emphasise the terrible hold mirophily has on humanity. Here was a perfectly sane teacher, rejecting all mirophility as a will of the wisp, and unlike many other teachers revered by his country ; and yet no sooner is he dead than all the miraculous folk-lore of Sun worship is encrusted on his birth, life, and death.
He was said to have been by divine intervention born of a Virgin, and at his birth there was the usual bright light, appearance of a star, and so on.
His follower Mencius gathered his sayings as we now have them, and they became part of national religion.
The State Religion of China is the most grand and solemn worship ever paid on earth to the Divinity of Nature. Two public acts of adoration of Tao (or the ” way of the Universe ”) are paid each year, one at the re-birth of the Sun, at the Winter solstice, and the other when the sun has reached the highest points of his career at the Summer Solstice ; with these acts of adoration are associated the ancestors of the Emperor. The temple has two great terraces. The great sacrifice is at the winter solstice in cele- bration of the return of the sun and the coming of the Paradise 352
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half of the year. The templet are oriented to the south-east, where the young sun rises on the first day of the new year. On the upper terrace is a tablet, with the names of the Emperor’s ancestors and a dedication to Imperial Heaven. The Emperor attends in person, accompanied by all the princes, grandees, officers, attendants and troops, amounting to many hundreds, all in their richest ceremonial dress. The Emperor officiates on the upper Terrace, while the lower is dedicated to the Sun, Moon, Great-Bear, the five planets, 28 principal constellations, host of stars and gods of clouds, rain, and thunder. An offering is made of a bullock on a Pyre. There is another great Jceremony at Summer Solstice, so the official religion is entirely Solar or Cosmic.
Confucius recognised no supernatural, and the Chinese now call him a “ mortal man,” not a son of god, but the honours paid to him are second only to those paid to Tao ” the Way," or the Divinity of Nature. Hence, China has independently adopted the beautiful idea of Seneca, setting up, not a divine impossibility, but a human possibility, as a model for imitation, while expressing adoration and awe at the sublime ” march of the universe ” or
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His name is held in the highest honour in the whole Chinese Empire, from the highest in the land to the lowest peasant. He is one of themselves—a Chinaman. We have had a foreigner, a Jew, imposed on us, as a god, by the Romans, to the exclusion of our own native gods, and he, Jesus, has been accepted by only about one-tenth of our population. The mass of the people in Britain sure Pagans, without any religion..
In every city in China a great temple is erected, at Government expense, to Confucius, containing a tablet on which his titles are inscribed. The building is generally the most conspicuous in the city, its walls being painted red.
The special honours periodically paid to Confucius sure com- plementary to those paid to the Divinity of Nature. As the worship of the "Way,” or Grand Pageant of the Universe, the National Religion, is celebrated at the Solstices, so homage is paid to the memory of Confucius at Equinoxes. Every spring and autumn worship is paid to his memory in his temple by the chief officers of the city, and offerings of the fruits of the earth are set forth before him, and incense burnt. The Emperor himself is required to attend in state at the Imperial College to perform these functions. Twice he kneels, and twice he bows his head three times to the ground, <and then utters the words : " Great art thou, perfect Sage. Thy virtue is full, thy doctrine complete. Among mortal men To face p. 353, Fig. 127. J
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there has not Been thine equal. All Kings honour thee. Thy statutes and laws have come gloriously down. Thou art the pattern in this imperial school. Reverently have the sacrificial vessels been set out. Full of awe we sound our drums and bells.”
In every school in China, homage is paid him by masters and scholars on the first and fifteenth of each month, on the day of his birth, and at the opening and closing of the school each year. In every village school his titles are written on red paper, and affixed to the wall, saying, ” The shrine-tablet of the most accomplished, holy, first and most eminent teacher K’ung.” (Jening’s ” Confucian Analects.”)
Dr. Legge, who, I am sorry to say, thinks he (Confucius) was not a great man, as he gave ” no impulse to religion,” nevertheless does justice to the bravery of his death.
Dr. Legge’s fine comment on his death is rather a sad picture of the end of a great man. " His end was not unimpressive, but it was melancholy. He sank behind a cloud. Disappointed hopes made his soul bitter. The great ones of the empire had not re- ceived his teachings. No wife nor child was by to do the kindly offices of affection for him. Nor were the expectations of another life present with him as he passed through the dark valley. He uttered no prayer, and he betrayed no apprehensions. Deep- treasured in his own heart may have been the thought that he had endeavoured to serve his generation by the Will of God, but he gave no sign.” (Legge’s “ Chinese Classics,” Vol. I., Prolegomena, pp. 87-68.) A brave man, and a humble agnostic, to the last.
A fitting end to a brave, lowly, honest man, who never stooped to the tricks of priesthood, but taught men to do good for its own sake.
His teaching was of virtue, knowledge, humaneness, righteous- ness, propriety, faithfulness, and love, as knowledge is to know men, so humaneness is to love men.” ” Bravery leads to wrong deeds without righteousness.” ” To know what is right and not to do it, is moral cowardice.”
Happy is the country in which such a sane and healthy teacher is listened to without requiring the mirodoxical dressing.
I give here a picture of his grave—real like all his teaching—not mythical like most other prophets* graves.
I give this, as it may some day be die real ” most sacred spot on earth,” as the memorial of one who taught mankind goodness and just laws, impressed on it a beauti- ful concept of man’s duty to his brethren without stooping to make-believe, or trading on the mirophile leanings of the
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Man, however, is advancing, and even an English bishop (Carpenter, Bampton Lecture, 1889) says that the arguments in favour of miracles and inspiration, once so popular, are not now appropriate ; *' These mines are no longer worked because there is no longer the same demand for the produce ” (Pragmatism in- deed 1) Happily, he has a belief in humanity, if not in miracles, as he says : ” In the future not die Kingdom of God, but that of man, will be the great care and theme of the race.” That was twenty-two years ago, but the Church has made no move. Let us hope that day will soon arrive.
In writing of Soul, all seem to forget that the energy or activity of man in thinking or working is due to the energy evolved in the combination of the oxygen of the air with the hydrogen and carbon of his food, just as surely as is the energy or activity of a steam engine. <•
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“food,” and the activity or "soul” ceases, whether of men or machines. Cease the supply of oxygen, and the activity, whether of engine, animal, or man, is at an end.
The course pursued may be infinitely varied, but the result and the ultimate products cure the same. Poets forget all about such ” material ” things, and soar to ideas of a purely abstract man’s “ ged-like ” mind, his “soul,” or “spirit,” and people finally begin to think that all men’s activity arises from Soul, instead of the oxidation of carbon and hydrogen.
“Soul,” spirit, thought, or action are simply part of the chain of actions set up by the oxidation of carbon in the human organisa- tion. All life and motion are caused by the dissipation of the sun’s energy. In its passage from the sun to infinite space, it causes a little flutter of life and motion on the earth during its degradation to a lower phase. As well might a man derive the cause of the motion of a mill from a beautiful carpet produced, as an ultimate product, instead of from the combination of coal and air, which yield the driving power, as derive the driving power of man from Soul or mind, instead of from food and air, or hold the beautiful cinematograph pictures on the screen to be the “ soul ” or cause of the motion of the engines, miles distant, whose electric current (also derived from the oxidation of carbon) is the driving force of the life-like pictures we see. Spirit, soul, or intellectual force, are utterly dependent on food for their existence ; and when a man’s “ fire ” goes out he is as “ dead as a cold steam engine. Soul, spirit and thought are products, not producers. A man can no more help thinking than water can help running down-hill. Thought, soul, spirit, and action are products of the combustion of food by air, the force thus evolved drives the human organism or organic machine.
Conybeare gives us one brilliant glimpse of the possible origin of human morality, which leaves out all mirophily, in these words : “If all holy thoughts and good counsels proceed from a being called God, whence did he derive them? ”
“ Why should they not be as ultimate and original in us who certainly possess them, ns in this hypothetically constituted author of them.”
The same idea is stated from the medical point of view by Dr. C. H. Saleeby, who, lecturing in London, is reported thus : “Several delusions existed among humanity with regard to the origin and meaning of morality. One delusion in particular which must be combated strenuously was that which tried to make us believe that there was no natural tendency in life towards morality. He 344
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defined morality as that which made for more life, and said that the origin of morality was contained in the First Protozoan.
Morality was older than any religion or creed because it had its institution in the beginning. The self-abnegation entailed in the reproduction of species was an indication of morality, and it would be found that morality would survive all creeds and religions.**
How near we are to the position stated so brilliantly by Tyndall long, long ago at Belfast, in clear logical English, a position much abused, violently written against, but never answered.
The Roman Catholic Church will yet learn, in the triumphant words of Emerson, that ** The Creeds of the Church wither like dried leaves at the door of the observatory.’* They are fighting a losing battle.
Clergymen talk of the immanence of ** God *’ in man, “ God ** standing as a guide to the hypothetical soul, just as Wallace wants an “ intelligent ” guide to every atom.
If they would talk of the immanence of ** good ’* in man, as did Confucius—“virtue has an irresistible charm, and will not stand alone, but will find neighbours **—they might help to humanise the trend of thought, but they well know that, without the big stick of fear, or its equivalent, no one will pay much attention to their teaching. Let us substitute “ good and evil ** for the personal “ God and devil.’’
It is to be hoped that some great genius will arise, who will group all our higher aspirations, and altruism, with music, stained glass, architecture, and poetry, in some concrete form, that one will be able to gain the exaltation of religion without the “ revelation ** pretence. Some plays, and some novels, and poetry, and music, raise finer feelings than any Church service, but the craving of miro- phily, and the desire of frail humanity for an official declaration from some higher power, on the things they wish to know, will, 1 am afraid, give churches, in their present crude form, a life for many generations to come.
It is the mirolatry of religion which prevents the great majority of Britons from ever entering a Church.
This is a healthy Pagan country ; only a mere ten per cent, are Christians. We all love elevating converse, fine music, noble archi- tecture, stained windows, and kindness and gentleness illustrated to us and impressed upon us in beautiful language, and that is what the Church ought to do. The Churches would not be able to hold the people who would attend, if such were their services ; but they are emptied by the preaching of a creed every one feels to be untrue, and against the injustice of which every free and intelligent man rebels. OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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We have seen every religious idea which is ruling the Western nations to-day having its early sources in the Accadian and Baby- lonian myths, some of which came, no doubt, from the great mother of all religions, India. But the immense intellectual force of the Babylonians only comes home to us when we see her teaching her ideas to all the world, her religious practices and god names ruling right over to the extreme Western shores of Europe, in Ireland, and even the far Western Hebrides of Scotland. Not only so ; but we find her god names coupled with the Indian symbols and sacred animals, such as the Elephant, all over the two Americas.
King's ** Gnostics " (p. 320) says that the connection between Indian and Egyptian mythology Ss certain, however difficult to account for, the names of the principal deities in this latter having the appearance of pure Sanscrit.
It was from Babylon that Greece learnt her art, as can be seen even by a study of the Assyrian Room at the British Museum, although the Greeks, having marble, and high artistic genius, carried art to the highest level yet achieved by mankind.
Babylon was then the intellectual mistress of the world.
But their methods of warfare were terrible, and, no doubt, even before the great Skuthian invasion, she had become enfeebled by the deaths of her best sons in the constant wars. Not only so, but she had already created a desert in many fertile lands, where she had put the entire populations, man, woman, and child, to the sword, as was her custom when any people made a stubborn resistance.
Then came the Scythian Hordes, and not only sacked Babylon, but cut the irrigation canals, and put all the inhabitants to the sword.
Hence perished the Eden of the Hebrews, and with her perished the old severe religion, with its terrible gods, whose conduct was but a reflex of the Babylonian method of conquest and government.
Yahweh Yirea, whose character I have sketched, was one of their gods given to the Hebrew Clan, by the Babylonians (see p. 269).
We can scarcely conceive the immense effect which the down- fall of Babylonia had on the thought of Western Asia.
The revulsion from the old Fear Gods must have been a great ameliorating influence. The feelings of kindness inherent in every human being would now be able to have play. Every feeling of this kind had formerly to be repressed, and man kept under the constant fear of death. A vengeful god was the only vision possible to the mental eye of that age.
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It would not, however, be all gain. We saw, in Ezek. xxxi., the great richness of the Assyrian, “ with rivers running round about the plants, and conduits unto all trees of the field/* Therefore his trees were "above all the trees of the field/* and 44 his bough multiplied with long branches owing to the multitude of waters/*
44 All the fowls of heaven made their nests in his boughs, and under his branches did all the beasts of the field bring their young and under his shadow dwelt all great nations/* So rich, beautiful, and umbrageous were the landscape and trees that 44 no tree in the garden of God was like unto them in their beauty, and all the trees of Eden envied them.** All this had passed away, and desolation remained. So that, not pnly was the religion of the surrounding nations softened, but their ideas took a poetic, melancholy turn and gradually gave an absolutely new tone to the culture of Western Asia.
The only hope was to build their great Kingdom by the aid of some non-human leader, some Saviour, who could create Gardens of Eden and Kingdoms of beauty, with all men dwelling in peace without war ; in fact, a Messiah or Son of Iah who would combine all humanity in amity and good feeling by divine power. Thus arose the active Messianic period.
Then arrived the brilliant period of the Greeks, who, when their gods were growing dim, converted their Phallic Hermes into the philosophical 44 Logos/* and who gradually over-ran Palestine, while, at the other end, the Egyptians gathered libraries, and Alex- andria, with its marvellous astronomy, physics, and geometry, was the great centre of advanced knowledge in the whole world. It was into this period that the old Yahwehism disappeared, and in it the ideas were matured out of which Christianity emerged.
Just before the establishment of official Christianity—it was not established for some centuries after Jesus—Plutarch (a.D. 66-106) states that, in the reign of Tiberius Caesar, a great voice was heard from the sky echoing down the Ionian Sea 44 Great Pan is dead/* claimed by Eusebius as god4s means of announcing the death of the Messiah (therefore Pan and Jesus were to him the same), but really meaning that the old Pantheon host was no longer believed in. In truth, as the human imagination created them, it could de-create them ; and so, when belief perished, the gods died also.
The old gods being dead, and that great fount of Western mirolatry, Babylon, having ceased to be a power, swept away by the Scythians, it was now possible to evolve a 44 ghostly ** or spiritual religion, compounded of high messianic hopes, and the saviour idea of the Sun Myths, leaving the gross and material Phallic worship behind with the dead gods. OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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Thus was born, of humble people, the gentle and highly poetic faith which might have brought an earthly socialistic millennium; but the fair work was marred, and turned into the most mighty engine for the degradation and enslavement of man, by the sophistry of Paul and the establishment by Jerome of his iron rule which ushered in the Dark Ages.
Yet, far back in history, there was a teacher, still a power in the world, whose message was accepted without the baleful mirodox, who taught no " salvation by faith ” and who fixed no “ Iron rule ’’ of a god’s word.
There is only one country in the world where the man with no mirodox was listened to.
China had, in early times, two great teachers almost equally eminent. Both existed at the beginning of that great epoch of Bible-making when men wish for some concrete statement of the unknown, and when every mirophilic statement, however wild, secured attention. The first, Lao Tsze, was born about 604 B.C., and the other, Kung Fu Tsze—Confucius, as he was named by the Latin-writing Roman Catholic Missionaries—in 551 B.C., about the same era as Pythagoras, or the Puthu-Guru of the West. It was the time of Ezekiel's " prophecies the period of the doctrine of Babylon the Great.
Lao Tsze gave an account of the great Path, Truth, Light, and First Cause, and set the old vague faiths on a firmer basis, and fie gave a basis to Eschatology, as he thought that such assertions, by putting an end to the uncertainty, would help the masses to guide their conduct in the rough path of life. He taught the old Jaina idea —which Gotama practised—and then abandoned as leading nowhere —that “ existence and non-existence are the same. All things are one, and from this * one ’ or * Tao * all men and things proceed, and to it will return, thereby losing their separate existence as rivers merge their waters in the ocean." He taught, as do the Yogis of India, that all evils come from action.
" A state is at peace till governed. The heaven-born instincts are corrupted by rule and government, under which men strive for peace and quietude."
This is the essence of Tolstoi’s teaching to-day.
We see here the Nirvana of the Indians well stated, and also Tolstoi’s ideas put in clear words, for the Chinese have always been the most rational of people.
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Before his death there arose the great rational, sane, and vigor- ously-minded teacher Confucius, perhaps the greatest teacher the world has seen, with a marvellously-advanced point of view con- sidering the state of man's intelligence at that date.
This true philosopher (lover of wisdom) 44 merely told his disciples that the rationalist and philosopher had no common ground on which to combat the unfounded fantasies of a mystic and spiritist, who chose to accept as matters of fact what could not be substan- tiated.*’
Here we have the Agnostic position of Huxley stated at the dawn of civilization.
It is said that the old age of Lao Tsze was embittered by the teaching of Confucius, whom he blamed for not going far enough back, into the past for an inspiration. Yes, all inspirations, to be accepted, must be founded on the past ignorance of our fore- fathers, when miracles were common belief.
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The only new point in the Gospels, differing from Pagan accounts, is ” the account of Jesus’ trial, the Romans and Jewish procedure worked out in such an ignorant way, to one who knows something about it, betray so significantly the purely fictitious nature of their account.”
The final act, the passion and suffering, the corner-stone of the redemption, is entirely borrowed from Pagan myths. Drews says : “The derision, the flagellation, both the thieves, the crying out on the cross, the sponge with vinegar, the piercing with a lance, the soldiers casting dice for the dead man’s garments, also the women at the place of execution and at the grave, the grave in a rock are OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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found in just the same form in the worship of Adonis, Attis, Mithras, and Osiris,’* while the resurrection and the ascent into heaven as the saviour of men, was the common story of the fifty or sixty sun gods worshipped by Pagans all over the world. Thus Drews exposes the entirely fictitious nature of the whole Jesus myth.
As to Paul’s placing this figure on the screen, as the central figure of his religious drama, Drews says, p. 70: ’’Paul himself never disguised that he had seen Jesus not with mortal eyes, but only with those of the Spirit, as an inner revelation. ’ It has pleased God,* he says (Gal. i. 16), * to reveal his son within me.’ ”
Drews insists on this again and again (three times on one page), saying : “ The fact is therefore settled that Paul knew nothing of an historical Jesus.” Jesus was a lay figure, on which were hung all that was formerly ascribed to the Messiah and to the Saviours of man—the returning sun.
” The Christian religion began long before the Jesus of the Gospels appeared, and was completed independently of the historical Jesus of theology.”
Christianity was (as St. Augustine and Justin asserted, pp. 133, 333) contained in beliefs current for thousands of years before the birth of Jesus, and repeated in the histories of Adonis, Attys, Christna, Gautama, Dionysius, Osiris, and all the others.
The Faith dogma as taught by the clergy of the Early Church gave rise to terrible indolence and licence in the Church, because if you had faith ” Nothing else mattered ” (see p. 329).
The consequence was that priests and prelates alike all led dissolute lives and kept concubines and practised polygamy besides brutally robbing the poor to keep their concubines.
So dissolute were they that villagers refused them admission to their villages unless accompanied by their concubines, as otherwise they seduced the wives and daughters of the inhabitants.
Writing of the clergy about 1400, Green, in his “Short History of the English People ” (p. 294), says :—“ 1 found them [the clergy] (says Poggio, an Italian traveller, twenty years after Chaucer’s death) men given up to sensuality in abundance.”
When Pope Paul V., meditated the suppression of the licensed brothels in the Holy City, the Roman senators petitioned against his carrying his design into effect, on the ground that the existence of such places was the only means of hindering the priests from seducing their wives and daughters. The same charge has been made again and again. In Rome, the centre of the female confes- sional system, the number of births in 1836 was 4,373, of which 3,160, or three-fourths, were illegitimate.
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A writer in the Times Literary Supplement, 21st June, 1912, says of the time of Caesar Borgia about 1590, “ Sexual incontinence was regarded as a very little sin, a natural failing which tarnished no man's reputation ; when courtesans, 44 meretrices, honestae 44 were honoured and protected not only by kings, statesmen, and human- ists, but by the Princes of the Church; when men held in all sincerity that 44 there is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.44
The Germans at the Council of Trent, as late as 1560, com- plained that the tax on concubines was levied even on priests who had none. One abbot had seventeen illegitimate children in one village, and another had 70 concubines, and the Bishop of Liege had over 70 children.
Faith is the negation of reason or Idaia Mater, the denial of the evidences of the senses. Faith is slavery of the mind. No one can really believe in the Trinity as it is quite inconceivable and officially declared to be “incomprehensible,44 and when any educated man says “ I believe in the Trinity 44 he means 441 submit myself to those who declare that the Trinity exists.44 Faith then is nothing but a base and slavish submission. Instead of being enchained, thought should be absolutely free, but mankind has as much need of a “Habeas mentem“ act, as one of “habeas corpus,44 in fact, more so, the slavery of the mind being a crime against the whole of humanity, while the slavery of the body is a crime against the individual, and an enslaved genius like Aesop may do as much for human thought as thousands of free dullards.
But Faith does not really carry even a Bishop very far. Speak- ing of our ignorance of any such entity as soul, the Bishop of Llandaff says: 44 This notion was without doubt the offspring of prejudice and ignorance ; I must own that my knowledge of the nature of the soul is much the same now as it was then (when a child). I have read volumes on the subject, but I have no scruple in saying that 1 know nothing about it.44 CHAPTER II
THE OUTLOOK.
It may be asked, “When you have swept away the delusive phantoms of mirophily, what will you put in their place/*
My answer is, “ When you have swept away a ghost story, what do you put in its place?” ” Nothing.** It is simply removing an obstacle which obscured the truth.
When you disprove false evidence, what do you put in its place ? Nothing. You simply allow the truth to stand alone, unobscured. What happens when an invigorating breeze blows away a blinding fog. We are at least face to face with fact, instead of wandering aimlessly in a circle of changing hopes and fears, and shivering at every new mirophilic voice out of the gloom.
The position of the early Church was, that the Church declared it told all the truth there was to be known about the material world and its creation. To attempt to seek out more was irreligious and wicked, as it was sure to clash with what the Church had taught to be the ultimate and absolute truth.
Science has put an end to that position, so the Church has retired from its declared infallibility in the material world, to in-* fallibility in that fantasy of mirophily they call the Spiritual world.
There may be spirits, souls, angels, archangels, saints, gods, devils, heavens and hells, but the Church cannot prove any such statements, and the merest child knows as much of such dreams as the most learned ” divine ” (see p. 338), and in the present state of our knowledge it is utterly dishonest to enforce such theories by threats of punishment, or praise of ” Faith.*’
And what is the final outcome of nearly two thousand years of conferences, studies, adjustments, and attempts by the acutest minds of Christendom, to construct a creed out of the chaos of myths from which Christianity was built? The Book of Common Prayer, given us by a State Church, teaches pantheism in the ** Canticle.**
The sun, moon, and stars, mountains, trees, fire, frost, whales, fowls of the air, are made into sentient beings or personified and called on to praise God as man is to do. This is pure Greek Pantheism.
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of the inextricable tangle of contradictions into which all mirophilists plunge when they attempt to produce a rational explanation of a Creed founded on irrational and contradictory elements.
“ All men shall rise again with their bodies.’*
This idea of bodily resurrection is quite impossible, owing to the want of material on the earth. The same carbon has been used over and over again to build up bodies.
Just as all the water in the ocean has been volatilised, fallen as rain, and returned to the ocean again and again, so the carbon required to make man’s body has been used over and over again, millions of times, and helped to build up the bodies of prehistoric monsters.
The cycle is this: Man and animals absorb oxygen by their lungs, burn their carbon to carbon dioxide as the source of their energy, and breathe out this carbon dioxide. The trees and plants, by means of Chlorophyl and the energy of the Sun’s rays, are enabled to break up this burnt carbon into its elements and restore the carbon (in combination still) to a form whence it can again produce energy by oxidation, thus reversing the oxidation process of the animals and storing up the sun’s energy. Man and animals again eat this, utilising the stored energy, and so the cycle is complete. All energy and life are derived from the sun’s rays. The same matter, carbon, has figured in millions of men’s and animals* bodies, generation after generation. If that were not so, the world, by the accretion of dead bodies, would be enormously larger than the sun. Sir John Herschel long ago calculated out the result of the piling up of the dead bodies from a single pair, in a hundred generations, as follows :—
“For the benefit of those who discuss the subjects of population, war, pestilence, famine, etc., it may be as well to mention that the number of human beings living at the end of the hundredth generation, commencing from a single pair, doubling at each generation (say in thirty years), and allowing for each man, woman and child an average space of four feet in height and one foot square would form a vertical column, having for its base the whole surface of the earth and sea spread into a plain, and for its height three thousand six hundred and seventy-four times the sun’s distance from the earth! The number of human strata thus piled one on the other would amount to 460,790,000,000,000.” (“Atoms,” in the Fortnightly Review, Vol. I., p. 83.)
The tremendous waste of good endeavour which results from kindly irien trying to follow all this insane twisting and patching of Pagan mirodoxes, is well described by Ruskin in a lovely OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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paragraph on the Pride of Faith, which he says is the most deadly form of pride—” because it invests every evil passion of our nature with the aspect of an angel of light, and enables self-love which might otherwise have been put to wholesome shame, and the cruel carelessness of the ruin of our fellow-men, which might otherwise have been warmed into human love, or at least checked by human intelligence, to congeal into the moral intellectual disease of imagining that myriads of the inhabitants of the world have been left to wander and perish, many of them everlastingly, in order that in the fulness of time, divine truth might be preached suffi- ciently to ourselves: With this further ineffable mischief for direct result, that multitudes of kindly disposed, gentle, and submissive persons who might else by their true patience have alloyed the hardness of the common crowd, are withdrawn from all such true services of man that they may pass the best part of their lives in what they are told is the service of God, namely, desiring what they cannot obtain, lamenting what they cannot avoid, and reflecting on what they cannot understand.” (Ruskin's ” Lectures on Art.”)
The Churches have done much to develop the artistic side of man, and the world owes them a debt for fostering the love of beautiful sounds, colour and form, in music, painting, sculpture, and architecture.
The Church, at its best, is just the attempt to express the altruistic longing for the beautiful and good in man, but the crooked paths of sacerdotalism have led to much more of evil being attained than of good. Let us hope that a new congregation of the 9aints of earth may yet be gathered in a brotherhood of man, foretold by Bishop Carpenter. ° In the future, not the Kingdom of God, but that of man, will be the great theme and care of the race,”—a brotherhood which will not oppose knowledge, nor deny the en- joyment of the fruit of the tree of knowledge (science), to the children, teaching them to scorn all promises of reward or threats of punishment as incentives to truth and gentleness, and to recognise that the amelioration of life on earth can only be accelerated by utilising the good which this world contains. The ” other* worldness ” or mirophily of the dark ages, led not only to the extinction of knowledge but to the extinction of kindness, and the crushing of the people by a religion of fear and brutality taught by the Church.
The Church of Scotland now decides ” God's will ” by a majority of votes, as has long been the custom in electing the Pope. In place of their old declaration—
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that he owns the doctrine therein contained to be the true doctrine, which he will constantly adhere to, as likewise, etc.,*’ which made a man swear to adhere always to a fixed creed, they have substituted the following:—
“ Together with a declaration of his faith in the sum and substance of the doctrine of the Reformed Churches therein contained according to such formula as may from time to time be prescribed by the General Assembly of the said Church, with the consent of the majority of the presbyteries of the Church, and also a declaration,”
allowing the ” faith ” to be modified according to the sway of opinion, or the advance of knowledge, but, of course, " absolute truth ” has disappeared out of their Church as it has out of their Bible—the truth is now the opinion of the majority, in fact, it has the Pragmatic sanction.
When one thinks of the enormous amount of good which might have been done, had the energies of religious men been turned into courses useful to mankind, “ by their true patience have alloyed the hardness of the common crowd,” or helped to illu- minate the darkness of ignorance by service in science, in real exploration of the unknown, or, if they are emotional, poured forth their emotions in painting or sculpture, music or poetry, one is consumed with regret that the energies of this mighty army were not employed in creating a paradise on earth, in which we might now have been living, instead of pretending to lead us to a paradise conceived by man in his early ignorance, but which educated humanity now know to be a mere dream.
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a great obstacle to the teaching of the Ebionites. Hence, he becomes Thomas the “Doubter,” or one who resisted the new teaching—and is always called “Thomas which was Didymus,” or Tammuz of the famous Twin divinity—or the Twin of the Twins, as the word Thomas itself is Hebrew for twin. There was no need to repeat this “ Didymus “ every time Thomas is mentioned, so it had a hidden meaning and lowered the loving Tammuz, the Cupid of the Syrians, to the level of an apostle of Jesus, as “Saint Josophat “ (see below) lowered Gautama Buddha. His image in his mother’s arms, carved on the rocks of Syria, is probably the oldest Madonna and child in the world. I have shown that all the twins in every nation were like Cain and Abel, in that one brother killed the other ; so there was finally only one Twin Thomas.
The Saint Josophat in the Roman Calendar of Martyrs is no other than Gottama Buddha ; the changes have been traced by Reinand (** Memoire sur L’Inde,” 349 o. 91). Bodisat is a title of the future Buddha, constantly repeated in the Buddhist birth stories. In Arabic this is Yudasatf, through a confusion of Y and B. Then Yudasatf becomes Joasaph, and finally Josophat.
The tale contains the details of the life of Buddha as a Christian saint 450 years before Jesus was born ; and yet he was canonised by the Pope Pius IX., in 1873, as also was Barlaam, who is supposed to have converted him. The two together are “the Holy saints Barlaam and Josaphat of India on the borders of Persia, whose wonderful acts St. John of Dumascus has described.” The stories were first told by St. John of Dumascus, and embodied in the lives of the Saints, and a Church is dedicated to Dio Josaphat in Palermo. Here are two martyr saints as witnesses to the truth of tales of the Church. Their story is one of the earliest relief sculptures still in existence in the Baptistry of Parma.
In Saint Espedito we have a spurious saint, whom the church had to remove from the Calendar.
The story told by Father Taunton, in the Fortnightly Review, about the origin and history of a saint called San Espedito, whose memory is still honoured in certain parts of Italy, has been com- pleted by the statement that this particular saint (who never existed) has been decanonised by the Vatican—or at least the canonisation of him has been officially disapproved. The story of the bogus saint is the permanent delight of the anti-clericals in Italy. He was created by a party of French nuns, who received for their convent a box containing the bones of a martyr from the Roman catacombs, one of the Bene Merentis, and on the box were the Italian words, “ e spedito “ followed by a date. The French nuns, not knowing 332
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that “ e spedito’* meant “sent off/* or that the superscription referred only to the postage, immediately invented Espedito as the name of their martyr. The saint*s legend grew and flourished, and to this day, in many Italian churches, you may see altars dedicated to him. There is one, for instance, in the Church of the Apostles in Florence—an altar adorned with a picture of this holy man who never existed, and dedicated, in point of fact, to the post office. So they make saints of adjectives, as well as of luggage labels, and create new Christian martyrs out of old Pagan Sun Gods.
The Crozier, the triple crown, fasting before mass, prayers for the dead, relic worship, processions of images, extreme unction, priests, monks and nuns, were common to all ancient religions.
Even the famous candlestick of the Hebrews was both Phallic and Astronomic. Josephus tells us that the seven branches repre- sented the host of heaven, sun, moon, and the five then-known planets. But according to Ex. xxv. 31-36 and xxxvii. 17, it was extensively decorated with “ knops ** and bowls like almonds, and flowers. Now Knops were buds, especially lotus buds, and are universal symbols of the phallus (pp. 18, 55, Fig. 14), while bowls, especially almond-shaped, were symbols of the Yoni (pp. 63, 216, and Figs. 35, 36, and 39), so that the whole was covered with oft-repeated Lingam-Yoni symbols. Between the “knops** and “almond-shaped bowls,*’ were Flowers, symbols of fruitful- ness. Compare the beautiful Greek statue Fig. 38 (or 39) where the Symbolism is identical. There is the bowl with almond-shaped opening and the fruit and flowers in her hand, but instead of lotus buds she has a young bull (male fertility) in her lap.
Note that the candlestick ornaments are accurately repeated, as in the cases of all the careful creations of scribes (see tabernacle, Abimeleck, Breeches, Melchizedek, etc.). Faint echoes of the Hebrew symbolism crop up in every ceremonial in Europe. The Orb or Ball of power referred to on p. 82 is called in Germany the Apple of Empire (Reichsapfel). We know this was a phallus like the Fleur-de-lys, and that Eve was tempted by the “ Apple “ in the Garden of Eden.
Some of the Pagan worship still exists quite unreformed at St. Peter’s. For instance, the Persian worship of the Cross of Fire is still carried out in Holy Week, when a huge, blazing cross of fire# formed of innumerable lamps, suspended from the dome above the tomb of St. Peter, is solemnly worshipped. The Pope prostrates himself in* silent adoration of this Cross of Fire, and a long train of Cardinals kneel with him. OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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Then the shifting of the Holy Day from Saturday, or Day of Saturn, Father of the Gods, to Sunday, in honour of the Dies Solis, the “ Sun God,” or Mahomet's “ Sole God ** Deus Solis, was facilitated by these titles, the pronunciation of the Latin for One God and Sun God being similar. It also facilitated Mahommet’s promulgation of the “ one God ’’ idea.
On Holy Thursday (not Good or Holy Friday), the Pope, follow- ing a grand procession of the clergy and of cardinals, in superb dresses, bearing long wax (funeral) tapers in their hands, walking under a crimson canopy with his head uncovered, and bearing the host (body of Jesus, or Saturn) in a box from the Sistine to the Paulina Chapel, deposits this symbol of the dead Saturn or Jesus in the Sepulchre prepared to receive it beneath the altar. This custom of depositing the body of Saturn or Jesus in a Sepulchre on Thursday afternoon is practised in many churches in Rome. On Saturday, Saturn's Day (instead of Sunday) he is supposed to rise from the dead, and the host in its box is removed, amidst the blowing of trumpets, firing of guns, and ringing of bells, which have been tied up or muffled silent, in the presence of death, since Thursday.
Here we have the Babylonian Sabbath (Saturday) restored to its place on the seventh day of the week, instead of on the first day of the week, Sunday. (See pp. 105-109.)
The death takes place on the day universally recognised as that of the King of the Gods, or Sky Father, El Shadai or Ancient of Days, Thursday, Thor's or Jupiter's Day, and these Gods replaced Saturn, as is inevitable in all religions ; a ruling God gradually pass- ing into the background, as Job’s El Shadai gradually got debased into the whirling sand devils of the desert. So the Father of the Gods, Saturn, used to die on the Great God’s day, our Thursday, or Jupiter’s Day, as all over Europe, and rise again on his own day, Saturday, as the renewed sun, to rule another year.
Good Friday is also kept, so we have the two versions of the Saviour’s death and resurrection, Pagan and Christian, enacted side by side at the centre of Christendom.
But, as usual, it was not easy to obliterate every trace of the original practice, and here we see the actual Pagan passion play still enacted at the centre of Christendom.
Scotland kept up the Pagan holy days by having their “Fast Day “ on Thursdays (now abolished) for the death of Thor, and holding a “ half-holiday ’’ on Saturdays for his resurrection.
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all. They say that the Jesus myth took its rise hundreds of years before Jesus, and that his history is entirely mythical, a mere frame- work on which to build up the old Sun Redeemer myths.
This school, which is a rapidly growing one, now rejects entirely the existence of Jesus, and, by very careful internal study, coupled with the knowledge of Western Asiatic beliefs, is arriving at the same conclusion as the Bradlaugh type of Iconoclastic myth destroyers, viz. : That Jesus himself was a myth created as a frame on which to build dogma, just as the Jewish Tabernacle which never was, nor could be built, was a myth on which to hang an account of a miracle play about the annual re-birth of the Sun (pp. 244-251). The two schools are, however, as wide apart as the poles in their ultimate view, the one being Idealist and the other Realist.
The Bradlaugh type denied everything which had been miro- philically asserted, and stood boldly and fearlessly on the sane and firm rocks of actual experience and the material universe of matter and force, as far as explored and explained by science. Huxley beautifully expressed it thus :—
“ Elijah’s great question, 4 Will you serve God or Baal? Choose ye,’ is uttered audibly enough in the ears of every one of us as we come to manhood. Let every man who tries to answer it seriously ask himself whether he can be satisfied with the Baal of Authority, and with all the good things his worshippers are promised in this world and the next. If he can, let him, if he be so inclined, amuse himself with such scientific implements as Authority tells him are safe and will not cut his fingers ; but let him not imagine he is, or can be, both a true son of the Church and a loyal soldier of science.
“And on the other hand, if the blind acceptance of authority appears to him in its true colours, as mere private judgment in excelsis, and if he have the courage to stand alone with the abyss of the Eternal and Unknowable, let him be content once for all, not only to renounce the good things promised by Infallibility, to follow reason and fact in singleness and honesty of purpose wherever they may lead, in the sure faith that a hell of honest men will, to him, be more endurable than a paradise full of angelic shams.*’ (“Critiques and Addresses” “Mr. Darwins Critics” P. 273.)
Such was and is the scientific standpoint, and it is an “ open- air " sane, healthy position, like that of Confucius. The internal critics, being professors of divinity etc., have their ideas still coloured by a little of the old “other world “ notions, and they live in an atmosphere surcharged with “ God.9' This God or OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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driving force of the universe is coming dangerously near the Godless “Force** or “Motion** of the physicists. Even good churchmen quoting
“ All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body nature is, and God the soul.’*
Or scientifically stated, matter at absolute Zero would be motionless or dead matter, but if animated by “ heat,” “ force,’* “ motion,” or God it lives, and forms living things, so that “ matter and force,” “ matter and spirit,” “ Matter and God,” are synonymous phrases. Here, again, we see the close approach of the widely separated schools. Even the most extreme have now met in the idea of the entirely mythical character of Jesus.
The “internal” school is voiced by Professor Arthur Drews, Ph.D., of Karlsruhe, in his able volume on “The Christ Myth,” for which, in its English dress, we are indebted to Mr. Fisher Unwin, who is doing such good word in publishing the work of the most advanced schools.
Even in their terminology the two schools are approaching each other. The study of radium has shown the structure of the atoms of the metallic elements, and led to the conception of electrons which constitute electricity and atoms, and has given new force to the old theory that they are motions of the Ether, or Helmholtz’s “ vortex atoms.” This is the materialistic monism, or oneness of matter and force. Drews concludes, at the end of his interesting volume (p. 299), “There must be an idealistic monism in opposi- tion to the naturalistic monism of Haeckel which is prevalent even to-day.”
“This monism,” says Drews, “must not exclude God’s exist- ence.”
The very including of God or naming or defining of God, is draw- ing a line round the infinite, or etymologically setting an “ end ” to the “ endless.”
To attempt to separate out a God from the phenomena we see around us, is, in our present state of knowledge and reasoning power, absolutely futile, and Huxley’s humble “don’t know” position is the only possible one.
Arthur Drews, of Karlsruhe, says, in his ‘’Christ Myth,” that the myth of a “ god ” suffering for man was so universal, in Tam- muz, Adonis, Attys, Dionysius, and all the others, that Paul spoke of a “Jesus and his redemption scheme” as something not his- torical, but super-historical (unquestionable, universally accepted) in the super-sensible world. In fact it had pragmatic sanction. 336
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Here is a mirologue of the redemption of man by God's son, founded, says Drews, on the essence of the floating myths of Asia, every God of which had “ had his day and ceased to be,” mere phantoms of mirophily.
So the “ foundations of belief” become attenuated, indeed, and the Christian dogma is reduced to the mirage of past mirages. (See tabulated matter, pp. 280-284 and 307-310.)
But let us look at Drews* arguments. He declares that the Jesus, who became the Christian Christ, was crystallised by Paul from the floating idea of the Messiah or Saviour common to all Western Asia, and long before Jesus* time widely worshipped secretly in all the countries surrounding Palestine and in Palestine itself ; and he goes into the geographical distribution of the belief. He comes back to the core of the Solar myth. “ It was a Messianic tradition that he (Jesus) began his activity in Galilee, and wandered about as Physician, Saviour, Redeemer, and Prophet, as Mediator in the union of Israel, and as one who brought light to the Gentiles, not as an impetuous oppressor full of inconsiderate strength, but as one who assumed a loving tenderness for the weak and despair- ing. He heals the sick, comforts the afflicted, and proclaims to the poor the gospel of the nearness of the * Kingdom of God.’ That is connected with the wandering of the sun through the twelve signs of the Zodiac (Galilee, i.e., Galil-Circle and Circle—Chirchle or Church), and is based on Isa, xxxv. 5, et seq., xliii. 1-7, xlix.-et seq., as well as in Isa. xli. 1-11 .*\ [These are all passages describ- ing the worldly glories of Israel to be brought about by the Messiah or Mesiah son of Iah or Yahweh.] ” Naturally Jesus, to whom the Pilgrim Saviour (Jason) corresponded, was obliged to reveal his true nature by miraculous healing and could not take a sub- ordinate place in this regard among the cognate heathen God redeemers. Even the Saviour carrying his cross is copied from Hercules bearing the pillars crosswise.”
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It is a curious fact that all creative gods were originally of indeterminate sex; even Jupiter was sometimes considered feminine * although he was the most masculine conception of the Romans, nearly as masculine as Yahweh. “ All things issue from the womb of Jove.”
When monotheistic ideas prevailed, all gods were bi-sexual, and hence we find, in Holwell’s “ Myth. Diet.” (Jupiter) that Jupiter was frequently styled the ” Mother of the Gods,” and sexes change about—Deva Kala becomes Devi Kali. But when the god gets a wife, he is henceforth only masculine.
The lovely Istar, wife of the beautiful Adonis, the pair forming the Cupid and Psyche of Western Asia, was in her home in Babylon of no special sex, like our angels ; and when she migrated west, the Phoenicians and Greeks added the feminine determinant “ T ” to her name, and made her Astarte Astaroth. Even Venus was female in the evening, and male in the morning. Yet each was the fruitful goddess of the earth, teeming with fertility, the feminine development of the life-giving sun, the patroness of love. Their temples were filled with devotees of sexual passion enjoying con- secrated orgies.
In Spain and Italy, to-day, local Virgins have different names, »4 id fierce fights have occurred over the virtues of these Virgins, as Detween our Orangemen and Catholics, in Ireland, over the wor- ship of the Virgin Mary. 326
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It would make a more human religion if Christianity could re-instate its lady, as of old, but their prelates wish to keep woman lowly, as otherwise their great power, the confessional, would lose its potency.
We see how all nations put the mother first in their religions, while Christians, specially Protestants, debase her, and expel her from heaven, owing to the Eden Story. The debasing of woman is the debasing of all humanity, and the negation of Altruism.
This debasing of women creates polygamy which is thus deeply ingrained in man. We shall see it to be the
practice of European Priests, as discussed at the Council of Trent (p. 338), how polygamy and concubinage are expressly taught by every lesson of the Old Testament, and not repudiated by the New. The abolition of polygamy slowly became a moral and finally a legal enactment in Europe, and was, perhaps, the earliest sign of modern civilization and of our ideas of equality.
The ancient Hebrew idea that women had no higher nature, and were simply the property of the men, caused their conception of the sexual relation to be somewhat degraded.
The first commandment to man : " Be fruitful and multiply,*' was repeated more frequently than any other commandment in the Bible, and that seemed to be the preponderant view of the relation between man and woman.
There is not a word in the whole Bible which expresses the modern idea of Love.
The beautiful poetry of Greece, and Rome, and even of the Dark Ages, the poetry of the troubadours, the high ideals of the Knight errant, the poetry of love ; a swelling torrent gathering force down the ages till modern poetry sings of nothing else ; all this sweet anthology of the most beautiful and precious endowment of man, is as absolutely unknown to the Hebrew Scriptures as was the idea of eternal life. The great patriarch Abraham prostitutes both of his wives, rather than run any risk to his own skin.
The joyous old Greek idea of Eros, and the infinitely beautiful conception of Cupid and Psyche, have long been killed by the Churches* public interference in matters which are for the man’s and woman’s inmost thoughts alone.
The degraded idea of love comes from the Hebrew idea of man possessing woman as part of his goods ; but modern ideas are marching in the line of rendering the mother and child economically independent of the man. Woman’s work for the State, in bearing and edbcating young children, is quite worthy of the same pay- ment as man receives for his work, in the production of houses,\ food, clothing, and material comforts. OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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The domination of modern religion by the barbarous echoes of a dead past has been protested against by our best scholars, as witness Carpenter, p. 463, “ Bible in the Nineteenth Century,** the Rev. Canon Hensley Henson, in Contemporary Review, April, 1904, Rev. F. M. Wood, Vol. II., p. 67, ” Hastings Diet, of the Bible,*’ Colenso, and many others.
It is much more easy to formulate a new religion than to establish it with the people, as old customs die hard, so, under a new name, itself of unknown origin, the old faiths and symbolism go on.
The customs of even the modern Christian Church belong ex- clusively to no one Church but are prevalent in all lands under Churches of all kinds.
The Abbe Hue, the first to visit Tibet, saw the cross, the mitre, the dalmatic, the cappa, as in Rome, and services by double choirs, swinging censors, rosaries, benedictory gestures, and chaplets, and they had celibacy, spiritual retreats, monastic vows, saint worship, images, processions, and Holy water, and baptism, all as in Rome.
Father Beony when he first saw China found the Bonzes or Priests, tonsured, using crosses, rosaries, praying kneeling before images, in fact, he sums up There is not a piece of dress, not a sacerdotal function nor a ceremony of the Court of Rome which the devil has not copied in this country.” Almost the identical words were used by the Jesuit priests as to the Church service and teachings of the Mexicans and Peruvians when Spain started the Conquest there, and by Justin Martyr about early pagan rites (pp. 135-136).
They all held the idea that their religion was the only ” true ’* one and infallible—an idea which has received a rude shock in Christendom during the last 50 years. It was only 50 years since Hislop could write of the Second Commandment with its immoral and unjust visiting of the sins of the fathers on the children ; ” These words were spoken by God’s own lips, they were written by God’s own finger on the tables of stone ” (“ The Two Babylons” p. 127). What scholar now believes that the Hebrew edition of Hamurabi’s laws was written by God’s finger ?
The Confessional, the special ” engine ” of the Catholic Church was the practice of the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, and all so-called Pagan countries ; and the immoral ques- tions asked of young girls, which caused such a protest when an attempt was made to poison the English Church by its introduction by the High Churdh party, were so well known and resented by the old Romans, that they were made the subject of the licentious poems of Propertius, Tibullus, and Juvenal (Hislop, p. 10). 328
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A very interesting relic of the origin of the vestments of the Roman Catholic Clergy is found in the Bishop's mitre. In Fig. 125 I give the dress of a priest of Dagon, the Fish God in Babylon, surd, side by side, a photo of Archbishop now Car dined Bourne, with the same head gear as a Bishop’s mitre, at the recent consecra- tion of Westminster Roman Catholic Cathedral. No one can doubt the derivation of that fish's head from Dagon.
Tertullian, about 230 A.D., bitterly laments that Christians adopted all Pagan Festivals, showing great fickleness contrasted with the fidelity of Pagans, who adopted nothing from Christianity.
John and his nativity—midsummer solstice—is the feast of Oannes, Tammuz and all sun-gods.
Baptism was the custom of all old religions, in every part of the world, and was not originated by Christianity. The Egyptian priests baptised the soldiers before going into battle, as did the
Spanish priests baptise the soldiers engaged in the brutal extermina- tion of millions of inoffensive Mexicans, Peruvians, and other in- habitants of South America. The Spanish soldiers crucified them in batches of thirteen, in honour of the thirteen Apostles.
The Roman Catholic Church has adopted from the heathen church the doctrine of the everlasting damnation of the souls of infants who die unbaptised.
Aeneas, when he visited the infernal regions, saw the souls of unbaptised infants. " Before the gates cries of babes unborn, whom fate had from their tender mothers torn, assault his ears " (Dryden s " Aenid "). Christianity founded the most brutal state- ments of the doctrine ever conceived by man. Colenso (Vol. I., 4, p. 157) calls it the horrible doctrine of St. Augustine. Here it is in all the brutafrrankness of this religion, founded on, and steeped in, Phallic ideas. “ Hold thou most firmly, nor do thou in any respect ,doubt, that infants, whether in their mother’s womb, they begin to live and there die, or whether, after their mothers have 7o jace p. 328, Fig. 126.]
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given birth to them, they pass from this life, without the sacrament of Baptism will be punished with the everlasting punishment of eternal fire.**
Compare this “ merciful ’* treatment of innocent, unborn babes with the eternal bliss promised to adulterers and murderers who have 4 4 faith/* A Protestant divine of the 18th century thus explains his idea of the morality of justification by “Faith” :—“Even adultery and murder do not hurt the pleasant children [those who have faith], but rather work for their good. God sees no sin in believers; whatever sin they may commit. My sins might displease God, my person is always acceptable to him. Though I should out-sin Manasses, I should not the less be a pleasant child because God always views me in Christ.**
Verily Paul’s sophistry brought forth fruit “ after his kind.**
This doctrine which was widely held by the clergy, led to deplorable results when applied to the conduct of their own lives (see p. 337-338).
So firmly rooted were the old ideas of minor gods that the Catho- lic Church was obliged to admit them to the calendar as “ Saints.** The Roman Calendar admitted Bacchus as “Saint** Bacchus, and Dionysius (both Sun Gods) as “ Saint ’* Denis or Denys. Even the Paris tradition of St. Denis walking with his decapitated head under his arm, belongs to many religions prior to Christianity, and he was represented in the Persian Zodiac as walking with his head in his hand.
Dionysius was essentially the Sun God ; he was the Keeper of Time, and the Maker of Calendars ; and all the Sun Gods were secondary to him. Even the great Bacchus, the later Sun God of Greece and Rome, had his great mysteries named the Dionysiaca, and this was why the Council, fixing the birth of Jesus at 25th December, and generally clearing up the errors of the calendar, called themselves by edict “Dionysius the Little.’* Their work was a “ little ’* correction of the work of Dionysius the Great—the Calendar God. Dionysius the Little created the “ Christian Era,*’ and fixed the Christ’s birth at 25th December.
The mania of the Catholic Church to canonise all famous Pagan Gods, is well illustrated by this very Dionysius. He had a great, rustic Festival, called Festum Dionysii Eleutherei Rusticum, 44 The Rustic Festival of Dionysius Eleuthereus,** on the 9th of October, to celebrate the end of harvest, just after that of Bacchus for the same purpose on the 7th. Here were two Sun Gods of exactly the same character, trying to occupy the same date. Of course, Dionysius being an imported God and Bacchus a native one, Bacchus got the earlier days of the festival. 330
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Dionysius was, however, the earlier God, and the feasts of Bacchus were called Dionysiaca. The ignorant Roman Catholic priests came across this God, and thinking that the words “ Eleu- thereus and “ rusticum ” were two Gods also, instituted the festival in the calendar, at 9th October, of ' * St. Dionysius and his companions St. Eleuther and St. Rustic, Martyrs.’*
The creation of fictitious martyrs is seen in the case of the Catacomb tombs of Rome, where early Roman burials had B.M. on their tombs for “ Bene merenti ” (to the well deserving), which the Church says was “ Beato Martyro ” or “ to the Blessed Martyr,” and so created armies of Christian martyrs.
That the recognition of the old Pagan gods, adopted as Saints, continued down to a late date, is shown by the facts related in “ Rome and its story,” p. 358, where we are told that in Rome, as late as 1513, Biblical and mythological subjects were acted alter- nately in the churches, and Cybele or Kubele was represented as a Goddess with a globe in her lap, in a triumphal car drawn by lions. [See Fig. 38, p. 83.] This was about the time of the great artistic period of Raphael and Michael Angelo. They revived Pagan times, and Cardinals were called Senators. The Conserva- tors inscribed on a great Cistern on the Capitol an invocation to Jupiter, praying that he should fill it with rain. A bull was sacrificed in the Coliseum, to appease the hostile demons. Thus, after a millennium of supposed Christianity, Rome was still Pagan.
“The same thing which is now called the Christian religion,” says St. Augustine, “existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 4 Christian ’ the true religion which existed before ” (see Justin Martyr, p. 206).
The Roman Catholic Church opened wide its arms, and, to get the Pagans to join its communion, it adopted all the Pagan festivals, and even Pagan Gods, into its system, as we shall see.
We find in its Calendar the universal womb idea, from which all the suns (or Sons of God) were born, the Dolphin is absorbed as Saint Delphin in the French Roman Catholic Calendar, on December 24th at the Solstice, when the Dolphin gave birth to the new sun, and we find another Sun God, as St. Thomas, who was Tammuz, for whom the women wept, in Ezekiel viii. 14.
Tammuz or Thomas, which is Hebrew for “ Twin,” was the Hebrew form of the Acadian Tam-zi, Sun God (or Dum-zi), and was one of the famous twins, who were divinities about 6000 B.C.
Latterly, he was still a twin, but coupled with his sister I star, and they werts the Venus and Adonis of Babylon. His worship was rampant in Palestine about the time of Jesus, and was, no doubt. OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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So the complete Trinity came into existence. No doubt the first abstract gods were imagined by man to account for how this world was “made,” and, as man, not woman, was the doer, artificer, and constructor, and even the active creator of children, woman being passive, so the early gods were all masculine. Tri-form or “ tgnity ” symbols of Ivy-leaf, Fleur-de-lys, and trident represent man’s reproductive organ in its entirety. But a OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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masculine Trinity is an extremely unnatural idea in an an- thropomorphic conception. Three men or male gods, living together in one single body is unthinkable. An Andro- gynous god is a sane idea, when compared with a male Trinity. The old male Trinity idea sometimes had its rise in the three-sided view of any phenomenon ; such as the course of the sun—its birth in the morning, its strength (and even cruelty in tropical lands) at noon, and its old age or death at sunset. Hence we have many Trinities, really three phases of one god, which came by ignorance to be considered three separate gods with three different names. They were merely changing manifestations, and did not all exist at the same moment. But Yahweh was not the sun. He was a mere angry Mumbo Jumbo, a wrathful, blood-thirsty, jealous tribal god, and to work this into a Trinity of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is the most remarkable " volte face ” ever executed in any religion. The old god who used to “ come down ” and walk in the garden in the cool of the evening, and discuss matters with his brother Ale-im, and with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, with Moses, Aaron, and Joshua, is true and beautiful human folk-lore, but he has not the very faintest relation to the ghostly abstraction of Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. I can only conclude that the evolution of this phrase (because it is only a phrase and has no realised counterpart in any human mind) came about as a com- promise between the Babylonian, Egyptian, Greek, Roman, or, in fact, universal trinity of the King of Heaven, Queen of Heaven, and their son, or man, woman, and child, and the Jewish despisal of woman. Woman brought sin into the world and was unclean ; besides, no woman could possibly be associated with their terrible Yahweh Yirea—the conception is masculinity in its most stormy and malignant form; hence no woman could be admitted into a Trinity founded on Judaism. But, as a concession, the third person was expressed by an abstraction of the feminine gender, called Ruach, who first brought forth life, as in Genesis i. 2, under the symbol of the dove,—the most feminine symbol known to the ancients, and representing the fruitful Queen of Heaven, ever Virgin, yet ever having sons.
The Roman Catholic Church has done its best to remedy this, but is still hampered with its Trinity, of which the Virgin Mary is no part. That they (the Catholics) quite naturally hanker after the old, loving Trinity of man, woman, and child, is shown by their hymns, and by the writing of their great prelates, as quoted below. There is nothing more beautiful in this hard world than the vision of a mother with her child, and, except in the Protestant conception 320
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of the teaching of the Old and New Testaments, every religion is based upon this idea. The Phallic faith, which 1 have shown to be so widely spread, was early man’s rude expression of this beautiful idea, and in the countries where it arose, and where men worked naked, there was no sense of shame about the idea. It is only with clothing that a sense of shame arises. H. W. Johnson tells us that, in the Lower Congo, at Stanley Pool, the natives were devout Phallic worshippers, but with clothing their morals are corrupted, the worship of the Phallus as a holy and serious religion dies out, and their morality becomes greatly lowered. These people were as devout in their worship of their symbols, as Catholics are of the Virgin Mary and her sweet babe.
So, as the Roman Catholic prelates see the men, and especially the women, appealing to the soft heart of the pure Virgin, with her little ’* bambino,” they are gradually following the lead, and making a new Christian Trinity, without returning to the old, as shown in the annexed hymns and writings, although they stultify the beauty of the conception by loading it up with unpoetic dogma.
The Roman Catholic Church, which caters for all tastes, has hymns which worship Joseph, and leave out God.
The real Trinity worshipped by the early Christians, called Melchites, was shown, at the Nicene Council, to be “ The Father, Virgin Mary, and the Messiah their Son.” (” Cath. Diet.” Nimrod
III., p. 329.)
One of the Catholic prelates produces this hymn—
Heart of Jesus I adore thee,
Heart of Mary I implore thee,
Heart of Joseph, pure and just,
In these three hearts I put my trust.
“What every Christian must know and do,” by the Rev. J. Furniss, published by James Duffy, Dublin. This was issued signed by Paulus Cullen,6 Archbishop of Dublin (” A Church Manual"), also issued by Richardson and Son, 141 Strand.
Or see this prayer issued by the Roman Catholic Clergy of Sunderland, as ” Paschal Duty,” ” Blessed be Jesus, Mary, and Joseph ; Jesus, Mary, and Joseph 1 give you my heart, my life, my soul; Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, assist me always; and in my last agony, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, receive my last breath. Amen.” (” Paschal Duty,” St. Mary’s Church, Bishopwearmouth, 1859.)
Rewards are freely promised, as thus: ” In the morning when you get up make the sign of the Cross and say, Jesus, Mary, and Joseph, I give you my heart and soul. (Each time you say this OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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prayer you get an indulgence of 100 days which you can give to the souls in Purgatory.)” (P. 30. Furniss* Manual, “What every Christian must know.”
In Hislop’s minute and painstaking examination of the connec- tion between the Roman Catholic Church and the Babylonian and Egyptian religions, there occurs the following passage :—
“At the Council of Nice, says the author of Nimrod, the Melchite section, that is, the representatives of the so-called Christianity of Egypt, held that there were three persons in the Trinity, the Father, the Virgin Mary, and Messiah their Son. In reference to this astounding fact, elicited by the Nicene Council, Father Newman speaks exultantly of these discussions as tending to the glorification of Mary. 4 Thus,* he says, * the controversy opened a question which it did not settle. It discovered a new sphere, if we may so speak, in the realms of light, to which the Church had not yet assigned its inhabitant. Thus, there was a wonder in Heaven ; a throne was seen far above all created powers, mediatorial, intercessory, a title archetypal, a crown bright as the morning star, a glory issuing from the eternal throne, robes pure as the heavens, and a sceptre over all. And who was the predestined heir of that mystery ? Who was that wisdom and what was her name? the mother of fair love, and fear, and holy hope, exalted like a palm tree in Engaddi, and a rose plant in Jericho, created from the beginning before the world, in God’s Counsels, and in Jerusalem was her power. The vision is found in the Apocalypse, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars.’ The votaries of Mary,’ he adds, ’ do not exceed the true faith unless the blasphemers of her Son came up to it. The Church of Rome is not idolatrous, unless Arianism is orthodoxy.’ This,” says Hislop, “ is the very poetry of blasphemy.” (The Two Babylons, p. 82.) *
Now the transformation of the female member of the Trinity into the Holy Ghost was made possible by the symbolical manner of representing her. The Dove, as a symbol of the Queen of Heaven, was so universal that the Latin Queen of Heaven, Juno, was named from the dove, her mother being D’ione, “ the woman of the dove,” and her own being Iune—dove (Indian Yoni, Hebrew and Greek Iona). lone is Yoni the female organ, and as Juno was a dove, the dove is the essence of feminity. So the dove in the Trinity is the essence or Queen of Feminity. Through her symbol, the dove, all the Virgin Venuses were identified with the air.
Julius Firmicus (see p. 168) says: “The Assyrians and part of
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the Africans wish the air to have the supremacy of the elements for they have consecrated the same (element) under the name of Juno or the Virgin Venus.” “ Air ” is the same word as is used for ” breath " or ” spirit ” ; and in Chaldee air signifies " Holy Ghost.” Thus, the Ruach or Rkh (p. 161)—the wife or mother of the gods, who hatched out life (translated the breath or
“ spirit ” of God who ” moved on the face of the waters ”)—is the Queen of Heaven, and is represented, on a painted window of the Cathedral of Auxerre (p. 164, shown here also, Fig. 123), as the Divine dove of Genesis i. with a cruciform nimbus floating between the waters of creation and hatching out life (” Didron,” Vol. 1, p. 500, Fig.), symbolised in every Venus or Queen of
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Heaven ; so every Virgin or Venus is the Holy Ghost. Her symbol is here in the medals from Hislop’s book (Fig. 124) .and I have shown her at pp. 164-166 creating and uniting the Father and Son in hun- dreds of books, altar pictures, miniatures, illuminated MSS., stained glass windows of the Catholic Churches of Europe, as shown by Didron. This mother of the gods, or tabernacle of the gods, Iona, OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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the Divine Dove, this Queen of the Aijr, or 44 spirit through which the God acts,** is then the third person of the Trinity, so that the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost is the hidden, or symbolical, way of speaking of the old Trinity of man, woman, and child. ‘‘The mother of the Gods,** says Clericus, “was worshipped by the Persians, the Syrians, and all the Kings of Europe and Asia with the most profound veneration.** (Joannes Clericus, “Philos. Orient Lib. II. De Persis,** Cap. 9, Vol. II., p. 340.) Tacitus gives evidence that the Babylonian Goddess was worshipped in Germany (Tacitus “Germania** IX., tom II., p. 386), and Caesar, when he invaded Britain, found that the priests of the same goddess, called Druids, had been there before him (“ De Bello Gallico,** lib. VI., Cap. 13, p. 121). Herodotus says that the Queen of Heaven was the most worshipped of all divinities (Herodotus, “Historia,** lib. II., Cap. 66, p. 117, D.), all from Hislop.
We have seen pp. 48, 162-170, and indeed all through this work, that all nations except the Hebrews, or rather, their Nabis, honoured the Mother of the Gods above all the Heavenly Host, and how the female is used to express unity and to symbolise the Church. The Bishop weds the Church (his bride) with a ring.
It is significant to see the modern scientist returning to the same idea, even phrased in the same words, in a wise treatise whose appreciation by the people would have incalculable con- sequences for good in the future of the race. Dr. Saleeby, in “ Parenthood and Race Culture,” p. 93, writes:—“The body of woman is the temple of life to come, and therefore, as we shall some day teach our girls, the Holy of Holies.” The Holy of Holies of the Jewish Tabernacle was the Womb of God, or Ked, out of which came all life (see p. 247, et seq.).
That the dove really stood for the Queen of Heaven in the early Catholic Church is seen from many of the Church practices. The Queen of Heaven, as mother or “ Tabernacle ” of the gods, had her symbol, a box in the form of a dove, employed to inclose or “ house ** the Pyx, the Phallic symbol of all life. Just as at the present day the Brahmin priests in India wear a dove hung by a chain round their necks, and this dove is a box containing an accurately modelled Phallus, thus forming the Lingam-Yoni emblem of eternal life, defined in our Dictionaries under Columba as a dove-shaped receptacle for the sacrament, and derived from the Latin Columba—a dove. Tertullian in the third century writes of the Church as “ Columbus Domus,” the House of the Dove.
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a dove, also in gold and silver gilt, defined in our dictionaries under Columba as a dove-shaped receptacle for the Sacrament and derived from Columba—Dove. This dove represented the
Mother of God ; and when the sacrament was dispensed, and the Eucharistic wafer (representing the sun's disc) was broken into three parts, one for the congregation, and one for the priest, the third part was placed inside the dove representing Jesus returning to his mother, or the sun marrying the earth, or a general bi-sexual symbol. I have explained earlier how any hollow vessel repre- sented the universal mother ; so, later, the dove was replaced by a covered cup, or a ship, or small boxes suspended over the altar— all representing the Universal Womb, or Queen of Heaven.
Some churches still retain the dove.
The Dove worship in connection with Miriam or Mary is illus- trated even in Scotland, where St. Columba (Latin for Dove), came to Iona (Greek for Dove), and brought the message of God to the Morven shore of Scotland, in a boat or Ark. Morven is Gaelic for Mary, Miriam, or the Mediatrix, or dove (p. 111). This fable of a dove in an ark, bringing religion to a shore, is very wide spread, for instance, between Arklow (Arkle or Ark town) in Ireland and Mervyn in Wales and between Egypt and Palestine. The dove was rendered masculine by the Hebrews and appears as Jonah who brings religion to Babylon in an Ark or Ship, and to emphasise the Dove’s masculinity (in their detestation of woman) they mix Jonah up with the Bacchus or Hercules (death and re-birth of the sun) story.
The Harlequin (Arklin) with his miraculous wand, and his elusive Columbine (dove) of our pantomimes, are descended from Heracles and his dove love I ole (or lone, as 1 and n are interchangeable) whom he is always pursuing, and yet to whom he is never mated. Our pantomime Harlequinade is the remnant of a pagan miracle play, as Arlequin or Harlequin is Arkle with the affectionate diminutive “in”,—masculine, while Columbine is the diminutive of Dove but feminine. Thus Ruach, Dove, or Ark (p. 162) and her husband Arkel (p. 164) link up the ideas of 6000 B.C., through Babylon, Greece, and Rome, with our children’s pantomimes of to-day.
Proclus, Lib. VI., Cap. 22, Vol. II., p. 76 (see pp. 168-169), says that “Juno” imports the generation “of Soul*’; that is to say, when a child is born, it is the “ Mother of the Gods,” who gives dt its heavenly breath, or soul, as the earthly mother gives it its earthly breath. ” The series of our sovereign Mistress Juno beginning from on high, pervades the last of things, and her OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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allotment in the sublunary region is air ; for air is a symbol of soul according to which also soul is called a Spirit' ’ (Pneuma), Ibid, p. 197 (see ante p. 168 and 169). Taylor’s Proclus, pp. 183 and 312.
The Catholic Church is pushing forward the identification ; as it now calls the Virgin Mary the “ Tabernacle of the Holy Ghost,” and the ‘’Temple of the Trinity,” Trinity in unity—three in one (see p. 38), so that they recognise the old conception that the Queen of Heaven, being the mother of the gods, must be greater than they, and contain them all. That this female “Holy Ghost,” “Queen of the Air,” Ruach, mother of the gods, was greater and more holy than the Father or the Son, is shown by the threat repeated in three Gospels, that while blasphemy against the Father or the Son would be forgiven, blasphemy against the female of the Trinity, or Holy Ghost, would never be forgiven, but would entail everlasting damnation. It was only the savage barbarism of the old Hebrew idea of a wrathful fighting Lord of Hosts, which prevented woman from openly taking her place as the centre of the family of gods, as, indeed, she does secretly, under the symbolic title of “ Holy Ghost ” or Dove.
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We have seen that after his birth the young sun had a great struggle with winter before he reached the equatorial position and came to the salvation of the Northern nations. We have seen that, on the death and re-birth of the sun, the solstice day, 21st December, was the day in the grave or in Sheol. Jesus descended into Sheol, and he, like all sun gods, rose again **on the third day,” after 40* hours in the tomb. But he did not then actually save mankind ; he was simply born to save mankind. We find that when the Jewish Passover and Pagan Equatorial crossing-over, or Crucifixion, were combined, Jesus still lay in the tomb, from Friday till “ early in the morning ** on Sunday.
Now this is less than 40 hours, and rightly so. The sun takes. 32.8 or 33 hours actually to pass over the theoretical equatorial line, so that from 6 p.m. on Friday till 3 a.m. on Sunday makes up the necessary 33 hours, and we know that when they went to the tomb ** very early in the morning,” he had already departed. John says it was “ early, when it was yet dark **; Matthew says, ” As it began to dawn ’*; and Mark and Luke simply, “ Very early in the morning.” He had then gone away, presumably about 3 a.m.,’ so that the scribes adhered very closely to the astronomical parallel.
To illustrate Doane’s method in a very careful and complete study of these matters I beg to refer the reader to his comparison of Gotama Buddha, and Jesus (pp. 289 to 304, ** Bible Myths ”). The parallels are quite as close as with Chrishna.
Many authors write on “ Paganism ” surviving in Christianity, but no religion could be more “ Pagan *’ than that of the Old Testa- ment. Christianity is the direct heir of the Old Testament theology, but Jesus, or the Christ, absorbed the Yahweh, who is allowed to- 314
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disappear, or only appears dimly, as the Kurios, Theos, Logos, or Sarx (flesh) of the Greek New Testament.
As the emotional part of the Christian religion is Phallic, so the physical part is purely Solar; though derived at second hand, Jesus being founded on the already humanised or deified (they are the same) sun. I give here a rough list of some of their similarities.
JESUS.
SUN.
Born of a chaste Virgin Beauty and purity Real father Great God
Of Royal descent Deity in human form Angels sing Born in a dark Cave Cave filled with light on birth Adored by cowherds, shepherds, agriculturists
Father, Carpenter. Creator,
Maker
Poor and lowly, cradled in a manger
Early chosen King
Son of Father’s old age Attempt to kill babe
Connected with Heavenly signs of Zodiac Lamb, then fishes Miracles, life-giving, sight-giving Twelve Apostles Feeding the Hungry
Meek and good tempered
Alpha and Omega
Passes over, or crosses over, or Crucified to save mankind Saviour of mankind Died and rose from the dead
Sun darkened at death
Ascended into Heaven Creator of all things, " Light of the World ”
Walking on the water
Born of a chaste Virgin Dawn What purer than Dawn All ancient nations had the Sun for their Great God
Son of the old Sun—Son of Jove Son of the Sun, Deity Morning stars sing for joy The dark sky before dawn Sun-rise
The returning Sun is the Farmer’s God of Salvation from Winter The Sun is the Chief of the Sons of Great Creator
Sun poor and weak in January
All know that the Winter Sun will triumph and govern the year Young Sun born from decrepit old sun January's cold and storms destroy any heat from the Sun and attempt to destroy him. The Sun symbolised by Twins, Bull, Lamb, and, in Jesus* time, Fishes Sun the light-giver and healer Twelve months or attendants Sun ripens grain and yields harvest food for man
Sun goes on its course daily, troubling no one
Sun as all in all to man. Without Sun there is no life
Crossing the equator disperses Winter and brings the paradise or garden of the year Saviour of mankind
At Winter Solstice, annually, or every night and morning
Night, Sun can give no light. Dies every night, is re-bom every morning.
Up till 22nd June True of Sun
Sun crosses the seas
We Have a faint echo of the old Phallic cult in the “ word made flesh,” as the **flesh” or sarx of the Greeks is the same old ” Bosheth,” ” flesh of his nakedness,” of the Hebrew Old Testa- ment.
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with the Old Testament Phallism, imposed symbolic Phallism on die modem Church by their *' three in one ” fantasy, which they themselves declared to be “ incomprehensible,” but which is quite comprehensible to any person when the secret key of Phallism is applied to it (pp. 24, 155).
They tell us of Jesus protesting against the practice of the Phallic cult in the Temple or Succoth Benoth, Tents of Venus, by his expulsion of the sellers of doves.
This sale of doves (symbol of Venus worship) in the Temple was universally the proof of the existence of Sakti, or Venus worship, with its nunneries of religious prostitution.
Of this there is not the faintest echo in the New Testament; yet we know from profane history that the cult was supreme in all nations down to a very late date, our own Knight-templars being an example, and the Jews were amongst the most ardent practisers of this cult (p. 147); their country being phallically named by surrounding nations on this account (p. 215).
But, in spite of accidental admissions, the Gospels were written to introduce a new dispensation of the old Mess-jah idea of the Son of Yahweh descending to establish the universal Jewish domination of the world, coupled, in order to capture the scientific hierarchy of solar and astro-priests, with the advent of the sun in Pisces.
The Gospels are not, in any sense, history, like the Old Testa- ment.
They deal with a set of ideas far removed from those of the Old Testament, and quite foreign to Jerusalem.
The Old Testament is a crude history telling what the writers believed had actually occurred, and letting us know in plain language what the people worshipped. It told us much about the intimate life of the people, their courtings, marriages, schemes, ambitions, deceptions, lies, jealousies, thefts, and murders.
The New Testament, on the other hand, has no relation to real life nor to true history; it is, from beginning to end, a skeleton created to form the frame of a dogma, written to establish a re- formed religion, and it creates only such facts as are wanted,— miracles and sayings of Jesus, or Buddha.
We are never told what were the practices of the common people, and all references to Phallism are carefully avoided. Yet we know that it was rampant in all lands, and that the Eucharistic feasts of the Christians were simply the Saturnalia or Liberalia of all nations (p. 316).
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that priests and prelates kept concubines, and that Venus worship was the great cult of the Ecclesiastics, as late as 1560 A.D., anathe- matises anyone as a heretic who denies that the whole substance of the bread and wine of the sacrament are changed into the actual flesh and blood of Christ, and not a mere sign or figure of it. The crass way the Council goes on to emphasise that one is eating the actual flesh and drinking the blood of a man is quite characteristic of the age when the religion of bishops, as practised, consisted of a series of immoralities (see p. 338). As to the first institution of the Eucharist or “ Lord’s Supper idea, there is no trace of a beginning ” to the practice,—it has always existed in all religions.
Sir Henry Scott found a Bilingual stone at Axom, near Adowa, in Abyssinia, containing phrases “ UPER DE EUCHARISTIAS TO EME GENNESANTOS ANIKITO AREOS.” This was a stone erected by Aeizanes, the last native King of Ethiopia, after whose death the Kingdom was taken over by Ptolemy Euergetes about 250 B.C.
By the way, Aeiza called himself, “We, King of Ethiopia ” (and a big list of countries), “King of Kings,” “Son of God,” “In- vincible God of War,” and in acknowledgment of him who begat me, “ I dedicate . . . Golden statues, altars,” etc., claim-
ing the usual god-head or divine descent.
We see from the above that the “Eucharistic” feasts, and worship of the “ Lamb of God,” were the core of their religion, 250 years before Jesus was born. What description of feast it must have been we can gather from St. Augustine when lie com- mands the “ Ladies who attend the feasts of the Eucharist to wear clean linen as the holy kiss was administered.” We well know what that phrase covered. The Hibbert Lecturer of 1888 says that “ debasing licentiousness and sanctified lust” were rampant, and that prostitution was a virtue and a religious duty at the time of St. Augustine. Such practices were continued down to the times of the Knight-templars, and even on to at least 1563, when all priests had concubines. Mary Magdalene was respected in the time of Jesus.
With the final destruction of the Temple, and the deportation of the Jews, all intimate history of Palestine is lost. There were no men left who could write—all were exiled. There were no Nabis* scoldings to be recorded, no prophets* wailings over the Phallic practices of the people, but their more mystically-minded men were busy spinning their mirophilic webs at Alexandria, or in Asia Minor, or as slaves in Rome, where they were deported about 40 years after the death of Jesus, and just before he had time to become completely deified. 1 OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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Thus the Gospels were written by men who had probably never been in Palestine, or had been deported as children, or born in exile, and written in foreign lands where Greek language was spoken, and Greek ideas prevailed. It took another two centuries for the complete deification to be effected, and for Epistles to be written—and converted into Jerome’s Dogma.
The Roman Empire then took up this religion, and imposed it
on Europe.
One reason which made it easy for the Romans to impose Christianity on Europe, was that the Druidical worship, which was universal before Roman times, had for its highest object of worship “ Hesus the Mighty,” the exact name of the Saviour the Romans came to tell them about, H. I and J being the same letters, hence Hesus, or Iesu, or Jesus in various countries to-day.
As the Romans had an advanced literature, and the Druids only archaic tablets, the Romans were immensely better armed for propagating a new religion, or rather a reformed religion ; for there never was a really new religion, as they were all founded on bases going back to dim antiquity. Lucan, I. V., 445, tells us that the Gaulish Druidical god is called Hesus by the Romans.
Of course the Romans used other means of converting the people from Druidism to Christianity; a great ” round-up ” and slaughter of Druids is related by Tacitus, son-in-law of Agricola, who was present at the fight; so the account is probably authentic.
The Druid Priests and Priestesses were gradually chased into the North-West corner of Wales, on the island of Anglesea, then called Mona, as the straits are to-day. The Romans crossed partly on horseback and partly by boat.
The Priests were massed on the shore, hands uplifted, while the women rushed about with torches, like furies, while the priests poured out the curses on the Romans, and prepared to make their last stand. The Romans were at first afraid; no doubt they tried to cross under cover of night, but finally plucked up courage, and slaughtered every man and woman of them. Thus ended the struggle of the Druids against the Romans, and the ground was left free for Christianity.
In a garden, near a vast cemetery of bones on the side of Menai, probably the bones of the Druids, have been found Roman coins— one of Romulus and Remus being suckled by the she-wolf.
It is difficult to Vrive at a real understanding of that inexplicable abstraction called the Christian Trinity. There is no mention of the Trinity in the Bible. Whenever this subject is dealt with, we feel ourselves face to face with “ words without knowledge/' and 318
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that the writers used formulae or phrases which had no meaning, even in their own minds. The distracted artists, called in to give it pictorial reality, had to descend into puerilities of making a three- headed man, or in one case (reductio ad absurdum) three men with each a foot in one boot common to the three.
The old, anthropomorphic Trinities were easily comprehensible, as they simply dealt with man, woman, and child, and every peasant could see his own life reflected in that of the Holy family.
We find this idea made much of by the Christian teachers, and just as Joseph, Mary, and their babe are taken to the people's hearts, so the Ancient of Days, the “ awful ” God, as painted by Rubens, retires further and further from their thoughts (see frontis- piece). The reason is not far to seek. The “ Awful One,** drawn for us by the Hebrews in their Yahweh, is entirely a god of extreme fear, and really a demon,—man’s constant scourge and enemy, and he represents the god created by all savage nations, as a reflex of their own terrible struggle with the forces of nature, and with their tribal enemies. They do not, in that stage, deify their women,—on the contrary, marriage and the begetting of children only intensified their responsibilities and struggles. Although driven to it by the natural desires underlying the inexorable necessity of continuing the human race, they look upon the taking of a wife as resulting in the loss of the happy protection of their parents, by leaving the family circle, and having to depend on themselves, or, as Genesis expresses it, their expulsion from the Garden of Eden, and being plunged into the struggles of the outside world.
Hence the Christian religion teaches that woman is the cause of all evil, and we find that idea strongly expressed by the Ultra- Protestants in their detestation of the Roman Catholic worship of the Virgin (see p. 183). Then, probably, as the struggle grew less intense, the fact that man is irresistibly drawn, by the most powerful passion to which he is subject, into sexual relationship with woman, his keen delight in her, his love of seeing her with her children, his desire to protect her and give her every pleasure, softened his ideas; and, as Budge says, finding this single, creative god lonely, he gave him a wife and child.
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the architectural proportions of subterranean as well as super- terranean structures, of tumuli, and temples.
" Populations of essentially different culture, tastes, and pur- suits,—the highly-civilised, the demi-civilised, the settled and the nomadic, vied with each other in their superstitious adoration of it, and in their efforts to extend the knowledge of its exceptional import and virtue amongst their latest posterities.
“ Of the several varieties of the Cross, St. George, St. Andrew, Maltese, Greek, Latin, etc., etc., there is not one amongst them the existence of which may not be traced to the remotest antiquity ” “ The Pentateuch Examined,” Vol. VI., p. 113.
Even the Mexicans and Peruvians in the new world worshipped a crucified, virgin-born saviour. I will not weary the reader by detailing where the statements of these crucified saviours are to be
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found, for Doane has collected and detailed the greater part of them in his admirable book on ” Bible Myths,” with full references to the original statements, most of which I had consulted before I became aware of his great and useful work. I give a rough list on p. 309.
In order to ingratiate the Christian symbol with the Egyptians, who used the handled cross or crux ansata, the bi-sexual symbol of life (p. 75)> and not the Christian Cross, a very curious move was made. The heir to the Egyptian throne, the Heru (or in Greek Horus), wore a lock of hair braided hanging down the left-hand side of the head, like an interrogation mark (Fig. 121).
The Alexandrian Christians put this braid of hair on their cross, to show tlfat the cross was the symbol of die Son of God, die Horus, OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM 307
M in Fig. 122, which is taken from Martyn Kennard’s “ The Veil
Lifted.’*
It then became conventionalised into *P or even ^ which they called the Ki., Ro., or K-R, the two first letters of Kristos. This was a pure after-thought; its original signification was the cross symbol of the Heru, or the Egyptian Son of God.
To show the use of all the New Testament ideas, titles, and names, in other countries, long before Jesus was born, I place this information below, in tabular form, so that the facts may be seen at a glance.
UST OF SONS OF GOD, MESSIAHS. SAVIOURS BORN OF A VIRGIN TO SAVE MANKIND.
Country. Messiah. Mother. Father. How Conceived. Authority. India Chrishna Devaki Vishnu God descended into her womb Vishnu Purana India Buddha Maya Holy Spirit Descended as a White Beale, Hist. Budd, Siddartha or Elephant—Power and p. 36 Gautama Holy Ghost ; Wisdom India Salivahana A Virgin Vishnu Immaculately As Res. X. and Hig- Cape Comorin gins Anacalypsis I. 662 China Fo-hi A Virgin Spirit Tasted the Lotus Squire, Serpent Sym- bol, 184 China Lao Klun A Virgin The Great Immaculately Thornton Hist. China, Absolute 1., pp. 134-137 China Han-Ki A Virgin or God Twdf or Toe-print of The Shift-King De- Childless God cade, I!.. Ode I. Egypt Horus Isis Seb Not engendered Champollion, p. 190 Egypt All Pharaohs, The Virgin Ra Holy Ghost or Renouf Relig. Egypt, Ramcses, etc. Queen Sunbeam 161 Persia Zoroaster Virgin Ormazd Ray of Divine Malcolm*s Hist. reason Persia, I., p. 494 Babylonia Marduk Goddess Ea Immaculately Encyc. Brit., Marduk Babylonia Nebuchad- Virgin Bel Engendered by Spencer, Sociology, 1., nezzar Marduk 421 Greece Hercules Alcmene Jupiter Overshadowed Roman Antiq., p. 124 and Rome Bacchus Semele Deus (Jove) If Euripides Bacchae „ Amphion Antiope Jupiter II Bell's Pantheon, 1., 58 Greece Perseus Danae Zeus Shower of Gold 170 and Rome Hermes (same Maia (same Jupiter Immaculately „ #• II.. 67 as Jesus) as Mary) l. 25 Lipari Islands Aeolus Acastra Visited Greek Apollo Latona *• Overshadowed Tacitus Ann., 11I.» 61 Aethlius Protogenia it it Beirs Pantheon. 1.. 31 •• Prometheus Virgin lapetos Visited * Faiths of Man, Hi., 151 Draper, Relig. and Roman Romulus Rhea Sylvia God Overshadowed Science, p. 8 Macedonia Alexander Olympias Jupiter •• Gibbon's Rome, I«« 84-85 308 CHRISTIANITY: THE SOURCES
Country. Messiah. Mother. Father. How Conceived. Authority. Greece Plato Apollo Perictione Overshadowed Draper, Relig. and Science, p. 8 Aesculapius Coronis A God Bell's Pantheon, 1., 27 Scandinavia Baldur Frigga Odin ,, Mallet's Northern An- tiquities Mexico Quetzalcoatl SochiquetzaGod .. Kingsborough, Mexi- can Antiq., VI., 176 Yucatan Zama Virgin Kinchahan Visited Squire, Serpent Sym- Christiana or Hebrews Jesus Mary Holy Ghost Yahweh or „ Kurios bol. 191 New Testament
Besides these, each of whom has a full mythical history, just as Jesus has, there are hundreds of Gods, or Sons of God, who came down to earth to teach and save men, scattered through every part of the Old and New World, in the legends of every religion.
1 give here a list of many parallels in the titles and incidents common to the lives of Jesus and other Sun Gods. The lists might be indefinitely extended.
SUN GOD PARALLELS (STAR IN SKY AT BIRTH).
Christna, Rama Yu (China), Lao Taze (China),
Moses, Quetzalcoatl, Ormuzd, Jesus, Rama, Buddha, Abraham, and many others.
SHEPHERDS ADORINC AND
VOICES AND SONG. GIFTS FROM WISE MEN.
Christna
Buddha
Confucius
Osiris
Apollo
Hercules
Aesculapius
BIRTH PLACE CAVE (SHEEPFOLD). Christna—Cave How Tsah (China) Abraham—Cave Bacchus ,,
Aesculapius. Mountain Cave Adonis—Cave Apollo „
Mithras „
Hermes—Cave
Attys „ Phrygians
Chrishna
Buddha
Memnon
Rama
Confucius
Mithras
Socrates
Aesculapius
Bacchus
Romulus
GREAT LIGHT.
Jesus
Christna
Buddha
Bacchus
Apollo
Aesculapius
Zoroaster
Moses
MOTHER OR FATHER TRAVELLING.
Jesus Chrishna Buddha Lao Tsze
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ROYAL DESCENT. BUT HUMBLE.
Jesus
Christna
Bama
Fo. hi, China
Confucius
Horus
Hercules
Bacchus
Perseus
Aesculapius and many more.
TEMPTATION AND FASTS.
Jesus
Buddha
Zoroaster
Quetzalcoatl {Mexican Saviour) And many others.
Sabians
DIVINE SAVIOUR.
Crucified or died otherwise to save the world.
Christna Buddha Tien (China)
Osiris
Horus
Attys
Tammuz
Adonis
Prometheus
All Sons of Joyj
Bacchus
Hercules
Aesculapius
Apollo
Serapis
Mithras
Zoroaster
Hermes
Cyrus
Mano
Bel-minor
Iao
Adonis
Indra
Ixion
RESURRECTION.
SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS, LIFE IN DANGER.
Jesus Chrishna Buddha Han Ki
Horus (Typhon)
Cyrus
Abraham
Zoroaster
Perseus
Aesculapius
Hercules
Oedipus
Iamos
Chandragupta
Jason
Bacchus
<omulus and Remus, Moses, &c. (All predicted great men in danger, in infancy.)
CROSS.
Universal sign of all Sons of God or Redeemers.
DARKNESS at CRUCIFIXION and CONVULSIONS of NATURE. Jesus Christna Buddha Prometheus Romulus Julius Caesar Aesculapius Hercules Oedipus Quirinius
Alexander the Great Quetzalcoatl
DESCENDED INTO HELL.
Jesus
Christna
Zoroaster
Osiris
Horus
Adonis
Bacchus
Hercules
Mercury
Balder
Quetzalcoatl
All three days and three nights " Descended into Hell and on the third day rose again," really 40 hours.
Jesus Bacchus Christna Hercules Rama Memnon Buddha Baldur Lao Kiun Frey Zoroaster Hesus (Druids) Quetzalcoatl Dagon Aesculapius Adonis Tammuz All Gods were bom or Apollo resurrected on Christ* Osiris mas Day as the ear- Horus liest day on which Aliys Mithras the ancients could de- tect the return motion of the Sun.
MILLENNIUM.
Soon to arrive. Jesus Chrishna Buddha Chinese
Persians (Zoroaster) Bacchus (Second Advent) Kaliwepoeg (Esthonian)
Arthur
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ALPHA AND OMEGA- BEGINNING AND END.
Jesus
Christna Buddha Lao Kiun
Zeus
Bacchus
JUDGE OF DEAD Jesus Buddha Christna Osiris Ormuzd
SON AS CREATOR.
Jesus
Christna
Iao (Chaldean)
Ormuzd
Adonis
Prometheus
REPRESENTED AS CHILD IN MOTHER’S ARMS. NAMES OF MOTHERS.
Dagon
Devi
Maya
Devaki
Shin-Moo (Chinese)
Isis
Neith
Chaldees
Mylitta
Nutria
Ruach Hebrews* Queen of Heaven
Myrrah
Ceres
Mary's
Hertha
Disa
Frigga
Mexican
Pali, Mother of Sommona Cadom Aditi
Judraa
Aithra
Lokaste
Danae
Lets (Darkness)—Apollo Leda, and all Jove’s nymphs.
DOANE, 186, 187, &c.~P. 16.
” CHRISTS.” MESSIAHS.
SAVIOURS.
meaning ” anointed,” Every nation had its long- or derived from promised Son of God or
Christna. Messiah.
Christna
Buddha
Horns
Mano
Bel-Minor
J.A.O.
Adonis
JSti
Saviours were anointed to make them representative of die Creative power, so that in this sense the very
Liberators from Sin, Redeemers, or Mediators.
Christna
Indra
Bal-li
Buddhia
Tien
Osiris
Homs
Attys
Tammuz
Prometheus
All Sons of Jove were
slain Ones, Saviours,
Redeemers.
Jesus
Bacchus
Hercules
Aesculapius
Apollo
Serapis
Mithras
Zoroaster
Hermes
Ptolemy (Soterl
Seleucus (Soteq
Dagon
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SONS OF DAWN VIRGIN.
Flowing Locks. t All Sun Cods.
Representing Sun's Rays.
India
Mithras
Izduban
Buddha Sakya Muni All Greek Solar Heros Helios, “ yellow haired ’*
Perseus
Kephalos
Belerephon
Diorysus
Ixion
Theseus
Born on same day as
Sun God.
All Sun Gods. Birthday of Jesus altered from old Jewish New Year, at 25th September. Autumn Equinox, to 25th December, to agree with all Pagan Sun Gods* birthday.
The Creed says: "He descended into Hell, and on the third day he rose again from the dead." So did every other of the numerous Pagan Saviours or Sun Gods; because it is the solstice or lying dead of the sun at mid-winter. We find that Chrishna, Zoroaster, Osiris, Horus, Adonis, Bacchus, Hercules, Mercury, all descended into Hell for the solstice and returned.
The rising from the dead is the great sheet-anchor of Christianity, as in its occurrence Christians profess to have the proof of the divinity of Jesus; it being considered that no mere man rises from the dead.
But, according to the common mirophilic traditions, rising from the dead was a frequent occurrence. We have Lazarus, Jairus* daughter, and others in the Bible itself, such as Dorcas or Tabitha, Eutichas, raised by the Apostles without the presence of divinity, so that it was an occurrence quite within the experience of these credulous people. Besides, on the day of the crucifixion of Jesus, there was an earthquake, " and the graves were opened and many bodies of the saints which slept arose and came out of the graves [after his resurrection], and went into the Holy City and appeared unto many."
I have placed the phrase " after his resurrection " in brackets, as it is evidently added by some editor, and directly contradicts the sense of the rest of the sentence.
The rocks were rent, and the graves were opened by the earth- quake, immediately after " Jesus cried again with a loud voice the accounts of the resurrection of the " saints which slept " pertain to the same moment, and, following on the interpolation of *" after his ressurection," carrying the narrative over the three days, immediately come back again to the moment of his death; as it goes on to say, Now when the centurion and they that were with him watching Jesus (dying on the cross) saw the earthquake, 312
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and those things which were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.”
The phrase “ those things which were done ” must include the dead coming out of their graves as the graves were opened by the earthquake, and that was the most miraculous and striking miracle which happened at the death of Jesus. All the other miracles of raising the dead are told of some one recently dead, who might only have been in a trance, and we see John labouring the point, to make sure of death, in the case of Lazarus, by making Jesus delay his journey two days, and Martha, the practical sister, saying, ” By this time he stinketh ” ; but, as he did not stink, there is still the chance that he was simply in a cataleptic state or trance. But the statement concerning ” many of the Saints,” whose bodies came from a public grave yard, is another matter; they could not all have been buried recently, and their decomposition must have gone further.
Now if dead bodies, which had lain in the grave, had really arisen and walked into the town, all the world would have chronicled it, and the new religion would have been at once established ; but it was never mentioned in any history, not even by Jewish writers or other contemporaries, nor in the other Gospels. So the resurrection of Jesus might be considered as quite an ordinary event, if events such as Matthew tells us of, made no stir.
The unimportant conversion of the Centurion is mentioned in all the Gospels, but only Matthew tells of the most remarkable miracle in the whole Bible, and one that would have echoed round the world.
The resurrection was only what every religion taught, and all saviours were said to have risen from the dead, when the real circumstances of the deaths had been forgotten. But, while only the chosen few saw Jesus ascend, ” All men ” saw Chrishna ascend, and exclaimed: ” Lo, Chrishna's soul ascends its native skiesj' Rama the incarnation of Vishnu, the chief Hindu God, ascended into heaven, and this formed the original source of the Christian Creed.
” By the blessings of Rama's name, and through previous faith in him, all sins are remitted, and every one who shall at death pronounce his name with sincere worship shall be forgiven.” There is the whole Christian Creed, but no Christian could be saved by calling on Rama's name, nor could a Rama worshipper be saved by calling on Jesus. Each must have his own tribal god.
Roman Governors, even, were Gods, often ascending to heaven.
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Hadrian to Antinous. The Emperor Hadrian raised an obelisk in praise of his favourite Antinous, and celebrated him as a God. The inscription tells us that “ Offerings are made on his altars, he heals the sick,’* and tells how he is a child of the God, and that his mother conceived him by converse with a God descended to earth.”
Irenaeus invented many stories (as have the Roman Catholic monks since) of others being raised from the dead, to strengthen the belief of non-imaginative people in the resurrection of Jesus ; but if they believed the rising from the grave story of Jesus* Cruci- fixion day, they needed no persuading.
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We have seen that the myth of the miraculous birth of a “ Saviour ” was wide-spread thousands of years before the time of Jesus, and that the Christian myth was simply a repetition of what had been current for ages.
But priesthood determined, once for all, to rivet these fables on the mind of Europe ; so the attempt to separate Jesus, the man, from the eternal god, led to a Christian synod promulgating the threat (like Mahomet’s Book or Sword), “ May those who divide Christ be divided with the sword, may they be hewn in pieces, may they be burnt alive” (Gibbon, Vol. IV., p. 516).
Tertullian (a.D. 200), Jerome (a.D. 375), Eusebius and other Fathers, state that Jesus was born in a cave, the very cave near Bethlehem where Adonis was born. Of course he was,—in the cave of dawn,—Tammuz, Adonis, and Jesus were identical sun-myth gods. Farrar, in his ” Life of Christ,” says that the cave where Jesus was born was shown at the time of Justin Martyr (a.D. 150).
Matthew’s tale is probably the true one ; the others being copied from current myths, such as those relating to Chrishna, Abraham, Bacchus, Adonis, Apollo, Mithras, Hermes, Attys, and, as sun gods at dawn, their birth was attended by a brilliant light.
Dates are always muddled in Bible history. For instance, Matthew says that Jesus was born in the days of Herod the King, whereas Luke says he was bom when Cyrenius was Governor of Syria, or later. But Cyrenius was not Governor of Syria till ten years after the time of Herod. This muddle was introduced by the writer of ” Luke ” dragging in the old myth of the tax, or tribute, which is mentioned in the birth stories of previous saviours. He evidently searched, to find out whether such a taxing took place about the time of the miraculous birth, and discovering that it was so he continues, as a proof of the story, ” And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was Governor of Syria.” By the use of the words ” first made ” he indicates that it was at some subsequent taxing, not the first, that his story opens; hence, even later them the time of Cyrenius. The blunder was probably caused by the fact that he was writing at such a late period that this taxing was a matter of ancient history; and so gave an ancient colour to it almost unconsciously, just as, in another place, the phrase, ” From the time of John the Baptist until now ” shows that John’s life and death were ancient history at the time of Jesus (Matthew xi. 12).
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vicarious sacrifice—shows the depths to which the human mind can descend. With the theory of the innocent suffering for the guilty. I find myself utterly unable to sympathise.
The idea has still some hold, and, even in 1910, it is bearing fruit, as we see from the daily papers (Lloyds News).
“DEVIL CHASERS.”
AMERICAN RELIGIOUS FANATICS STRANGLE LITTLE GIRL.
OFFERED AS A “ SACRIFICE.”
An unusually brutal murder has been committed at Nazareth, Pennsylvania, by a fanatical American religious sect who term themselves “Devil Chasers,” the victim being a pretty little six- year-old girl named Irene May Smith, who was offered as a sacrifice.
The parents of the murdered child and her uncle, a man named Robert Bachman, who committed the abominable deed, are in custody, and on Wednesday the jury returned a verdict of “ Murder ” against Bachman.
The father of the little victim, according to the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, is a very rich man, who, to quote his neighbours, "has gone absolutely mad on religion.” Robert Bachman, the biggest fanatic of all, is a young man, and to him is attributed the “ conversion ” of the girl’s father to the religion of the “ Devil Chasers.” Mrs. Smith. Bachman’s sister, though less of a fanatic than the men, saw no harm until recently in attending the meetings of the ” Devil Chasers.” Now she is tortured by the death of her child, and denounces her brother as a foul murderer.
In a statement published on Thursday Mrs. Smith says that her brother, Bob Bachman, ” was constantly talking about blood sacri- fice being necessary to purify converts. My husband Henry laughed at my fears, and said Bob’s utterances were only symbolic. 1 know now what he meant. Our little girl has been the blood sacrifice. If I had only yielded to my first impulse and left her at home with a neighbour she would have been alive to-day, but Henry said there was no harm to attend the meeting.
” It breaks my heart now to think we even denied the little thing the food she cried for on Sunday. None of us cared to eat, for we were so impressed by the services. Even. I, who had gone there unbelieving, found myself as much impressed as the others. They danced, shouted, broke the furniture, and beat the devils out of each other. OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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“only another chicken.”
“ Someone thought they saw devils on me, and my best silk blouse was torn. When I lost my power of reasoning 1 thought I heard Irene scream, and tried to go to her, but one woman grabbed me and said, ' Oh, it’s only another chicken being offered up.* We had already killed several of Bob's chickens, as well as his collie dog, so I thought nothing more about it.
“ Then there came a terrible cry above all others, and I knew then that Irene was suffering, I rushed into the room where Bob had put her when she called for food, and there was Bob holding her head in a funny way. * The devil’s gone,* he yelled to me.
* You’ve killed her,’ I said, and I tried to strike him, but my husband Henry held me back. 4 Don’t interfere with the mandate of the throne,* he said. Then I remember nothing more distinctly until I awoke in gaol.”
The child died of strangulation. Bachman insists that she was possessed of a devil, and that he killed her by command of Heaven. It is quite possible, judging by the indignation created at Nazareth, that the lunatic will be lynched on a tree, and the guard at the gaol, eleven miles away, has consequently been doubled.
On Thursday Bachman gave vent to another form of new belief. He declared that the sin committed by Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, had never been properly atoned for, and that part of his mission was to wipe out that offence.
The poet Ovid well said of this universal creed, “ When thou thyself art guilty why should a victim die for thee? What folly it is to expect salvation from the death of another l ’’
A tale is told by Dr. Oman of a prince gaining such power by penances that the very gods were afraid of him, and Vishnu had to interfere and settle him in a proper station. The idea then is that no great end can be attained, even by gods, without penance, and this is carried over into the Christian religion that only by the hardships and physical suffering of God himself could he attain man’s redemption. Well has India been called the “ Mother of Religions.”
The number of Saviours who died to redeem mankind is very great, as we shall see later. The idea was so common that the term Saviour was commonly adopted by kings claiming godly descent, such as Ptolemy Soter, Selucus Soter, Antiochus Soter, etc.
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in Aeschylus* tragedy of Prometheus—who is a ** Saviour,” and crucified on a rock, because he interceded with Jove for mankind, five hundred years before Jesus—we read of a catastrophe or end to the tragedy, very similar to that of Jesus. His specially pro* fessed friend, Oceanue the Fisherman, as his name Petraeus (Peter) shows (as Petraeus and Oceanus are synonymous), being unable to get him to make his peace with Jove and get free, forsook him and fled. Some of the faithful still urged him to save himself, and, like the Maries in Jesus’ case, remained with him to the end. Here we have the actual Peter denying his master five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, and, no doubt, research might find an earlier one, from which Aeschylus took his type. Truly there is no New Thing in religion.
Dr. Inman says most truly, in his ” Ancient Faiths” (Vol. II., p. 632): ” There are few words which strike more strongly upon the senses of an inquirer into the nature of ancient faiths than Salvation and Saviour.
“ Both were used long before the birth of Christ, and they are still common among those who never heard of Jesus or of that which is known amongst us as Gospels.”
The very names of the Christian Saviour, Jesus and Christ, were common about his time. We read in the Bible: ” The devil has his Christs,” and ” There shall arise false Christs who shall shou> great signs and wonders.” Miracles were common then, being performed by devils, evil spirits, necromancers, holy men, and women, as well as by the selected Apostles.
Long before the time of Jesus the Kings of Israel were all Christs or Anointed Ones, and the Psalmist says, ” Touch not my Christ, do my prophets no harm,” meaning, no doubt, King and Prophets, or even an anointed stone. As Christos represents a Greek word for one who has received the " Chrism ” or holy anoint- ment, like Phallic pillars, the crowned Kings of all countries are also Christs.
The name Jesus or Yezua, Joshua in Hebrew, Jason in Greek, was very common, such as Jesus, son of Sirach, a writer of proverbs ; and Josephus mentions, in various parts of his writings, ten persons of the name of Jesus, priests, preachers, robbers, and pious peasants, who lived during the last century of the Jewish state or satrapy.
The name Jesus was written many ways. In Greek it was Ihcoyc, Ihsous, Esu, Ihsu, Yecoic, Yasas, Yesous. Jesus was a common Messianic name (Loisy). The first, second, and third show the equivalence of various letters. OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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The Ctom was universally employed as a religious sign, from the very earliest times ; and the most archaic rock scratchings have always had crosses amongst the other symbols.
At Knossos, recently excavated, crosses identical with our present Christian cross were found, even in the lowest strata, thousands of years before Jesus.
The Greek cross on the robe of the Scotch Judges is identical with those on the Messiah Bacchus, and with those found by Wilkin- son on the priests* garments in Egypt, fifteen centuries before the Christian Era. These priests were judges also (Fig. 119).
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Belief in the cross as a sacred symbol was universal. It was worn in Babylon and Egypt, suspended from necklaces and collars. Churches, from Japan and India to Mexico, were built in the form of a cross, just as our Christian Churches are, long before Christianity, and are still to be seen at Benares, Mathurea, Palenque, and other places (pp. 305-306).
During the period of the Spring sun, Aries, in which Christianity took its rise, a ram or lamb was associated with the cross, some- times even carrying it, as we see carved on the “ Temple ” build- ings in the Strand, London, to this day. The Jewish Paschal, or Pass-over, Lamb was slain at the same date as Jesus was supposed to be crucified, and in both cases it is specially stated that no bones were broken. Hence, Jesus was simply a Sun-God myth 304
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of the Paschal Lamb, or the Spring Saviour Sun in Aries, in his act of crossing over the equator to save mankind, bringing the paradise or summer half of the year.
The Catholic dictionary tells us that “ Pascha,’* or “ Pass-over,” is a literal translation from Chaldee or Babylonian; so the Pass- over was not derived from Egypt, but from Babylon. The Egyptian death of the first born and pass-over are pure myth .
About the end of the 7th century, 692 A.D., a special Council was held in Constantinople, ” under the dome ” (in Trull'o), and it was decreed that, instead of a lamb standing beside the cross, as in Fig. 120, p. 304, Worship of the Lamb, by Jan Van Eyck (with a plain cross and phallic pillar), the figure of a man should be then substituted. But the figure of a man was to be depicted praying before the Cross, or adoring it, not nailed to it, and it took some
generations before the purely pagan idea of Crucifixion, as ex- pressed by a man nailed on the Cross, was adopted by official Christianity—sometime in the 9th century.
This clearly shows that the actual earthly crucifixion was not originally believed in, but was, as some of the Christian Fathers declared, a symbolical' passing over the equator, which they ex- pressed by saying, ” Jesus was crucified on the Cross of the Heavens, to the salvation of mankind.”
The origin of the Cross with a man on it was due to Pagans, not to Christians, as it was about 600 A.D. before the Crucifix was authorised. Minucius Felix, in his ” Octavius ” (C. xxix., A.D. 211), resists the supposition that the sign of the cross should be considered a distinctively Christian symbol, saying: “ As for the adoration of crosses which you (Pagans) object against us (Christians) OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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I must tell you that we neither adore crosses nor desire them. You it is, ye Pagans,—for what else are your ensigns, flags, and standards but crosses gilt and beautified. Your victorious trophies not only represent a simple cross, but a cross with a man on it/'
So we see that the symbol of the god on which the Christians pour out all their sentiment and pity, “ the cross with a man on it," was not a symbol of their Jesus at all, but a Pagan symbol of one of the other numerous " Crucified Redeemers." In fact, the cross is the most universal symbol of religion, and naturally so, as it is the simplest mark to make, and every religion wanted a mark
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We see it all through Europe, fish carved on monuments, even to Ireland, and St. Augustine said of Jesus, “ He is the great fish that lives in the midst of the waters." Sir John Rhys, in a paper read before the British Academy, tells us that out of five tomb stones found at Cavaillon Vaucluse in 1909 two of the five, inscribed with Celtic characters have on them the fish monogram of Christ (instead of the lamb or cross). (Times, 24th November, 1911.) We see the attempt to follow the Zodiac—fish is the symbol of fertility, and has a Phallic basis (see p. 280). Fish was eaten on Friday,—Freya’s, or Venus’s day,—to induce venery, and Semitic races ordered such repasts on Freya’s day or the night of the Sabbath, our Saturday, but the day for such observances was over, and the cold, clammy fish did not take the place of the beautiful, innocent, playful lamb, as the sacrifice most welcome to the supreme Sun God or Yahweh. Jesus made a miraculous draft of fishes after his resurrection, says " John." We know that the Gospel of John was written entirely as an ecclesiastical text book, and every word is an argument.
So, when Jesus got these fishes caught, and made his Apostles cook and eat them, it was a sort of sacrament, and declared him to be the sun in Pisces. That sacrament is still carried out in Lent, when the sun is in Pisces.
It is called a " fast," owing to the supposed poor nutrient value of fish, but it is really a Feast, Sacrament, or Eucharist. In the same way " Lady day " is in Virgo.
The eating of fish on Fridays has nothing to do with the death of Jesus, and was practised long before the Christian Era. It was a Sacrament to the Goddess of Fecundity, the Queen of Heaven, Milytta, Aphrodite, Venus, or Freia, hence is held (see week days, p. 106) on Venus’s day all over the Continent, and on Freia’s day, die day of the Saxon Venus, in Saxon countries, as Britain and Germany. Eating fish therefore is a custom identical with the adoration of the Horse Shoe. The Christians made an alphabetical rebus of the word for fish, I K Th U S, Jesus Kristos of God the Son and Saviour. In Germany fish is eaten on Christmas Day.
Jesus is made to express in the most implicit way that he is the Sun God. All Sun Gods, such as Dionysius, Bacchus, and young Jove, had the vine as their symbol (the ripening of the grapes being very dependent on the sun). So, when Jesus is made to say, ” I am the true vine," the priest who wrote "John’s Gospel" made a declaration, whiph was well understood at that time to mean that he was the true successor of Dionysius and Bacchus, and the Son of die Sun. 294
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The history of the active life of Jesus is confined to one year, • and is simply the sun myth like Melchizedek or Enoch (pp. 260, 260-284). That this was known and insisted upon in symbolical language is clear from the statement emphasised by seven needless repetitions in Hebrews v., vi., and vii. that Jesus was a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
The orientation of Churches whether Catholic or Protestant is a relic of pagan worship of the sun. Eastern orientation, which is by far the most common, has nothing to do with God or Jesus, it is purely adoration of the sun, at the Spring equinox when the sun is the saviour and brings man out of the “ sin and misery ” of winter into the garden of summer or paradise.
North-Eastern orientation, the Patron being St. John, shows that John was the Midsummer sun of the Pagans adopted into the R.C. Calendar (pp. 131-133).
The other sacred sign I.H.S., now used as Jesus Hominum Salvator, was adopted, like all the Jesus story, from the Sun Gods of the past, as that was the insignia of Dionysius, and of his suc- cessor, Bacchus, both of whom were indicated by I.H.S.
It indicated 600, the great Sothic Cycle of the Sun, when the sun and planets resume their original positions periodically, and was also used for Zoroaster and other divine teachers like the Buddha, who appear every 600 years.
When the Cross was used as a war sign, I.H.S. was used as “ In hoc Signo.” “ In this sign ” (we fight or conquer) was em- broidered over the Cross.
To the Isis worshipper in Rome, it meant Isis, Horus, Seb, the Egyptian Trinity, Father, Mother, and Son.
It also formed the three first letters of Jesus written in Greek IHSOUS. Now the Church of England Sunday school teachers tell the children that these letters mean I have suffered, “which Jesus uttered on the Cross.’* Jesus therefore spoke English.
As to miraculous conception, all the Pharaohs of Egypt were miraculously conceived, and were gods; in fact, so common was the idea that Maurice, in his “ Indian Antiquities,” says that, “ In every age and in almost every region of the Asiatic world there seems uniformly to have flourished an immemorial tradition that one god had from all eternity begotton another.” A list of Virgin- born Gods is given on p. 307.
In Egypt we find that, 4000 years before the birth of Jesus, the God Horus, the Saviour, was born of the Virgin Isis, his father being the Amqn. the great hidden god, whose manifestation is the Sun, and who is still apostrophised in Christian prayers. OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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Amen, Isis and Homs are the Christian Gods (Jah, Kurios or Amen) Mary and Jesus. Amen and Jah belong to heaven, while Mary and Isis, and Jesus and Horus are on earth.
Christianity took its rise at Alexandria, and Hislop (“Two Babylons,” p. 182) says that when Christianity entered into Egypt, the Mother Goddess and Son were worshipped, and the name alone was changed ; but the idolatrous worship was the same.
The statues of Isis suckling the Horus, and nursing him on her knee or bearing him in her arms, were made in thousands, and may be seen in hundreds in the British Museum. Not only were she and her son the prototype of Mary and her babe Jesus, but her actual statues brought from Egypt to Rome, were the first statues to be worshipped as the Virgin and Child (as they really were).
This was the only important part of the Christian religion derived from Egypt—not the idea of Mother and Child, that was universal, but the actual idols worshipped. " There is no trace of the old Egyptian religion in Judaism “ (except the Eduth symbolism), says Loisy (p. 29), and the captivity and Exodus are exaggerated distor- tions, as, in fact, Colenso long ago proved.
The Virgin Mary (as an ecclesiastical idea, not her statue) is absolutely Asian, and she is an exact copy, in name and functions, of the Great Mediatrix, Mellytta.
1 need not go over the long list of Kings of Egypt who were “ Sons of God,” “ Son of the Sun,” ” Beneficent God,” for are they not written in beautiful hieroglyphics over the length and breadth of Egypt ?
The Hebrew debasement of women is difficult to understand, in view of the fact that their near neighbours and conquerors, the Egyptians and Babylonians, placed women on an exact equality with men.
There was no salic law in Egypt. Maspero, in his ” New Light on Ancient Egypt ” (pp. 60-81) gives a spirited account of the birth of a princess who was the heir to the throne of Egypt, which well illustrates how much women were had in honour.
Amen Ra, the supreme god, was the father of the child.
The Babylonian Kings were likewise Virgin-born gods. Nebuchadrezzar caused himself to be described in an inscription, ”1 am Nebu-Kuder-Usur . . . The God Bel himself created
me,' the God Marduck engendered me and deposited himself germ of my life in the womb of my Mother.” (Spencer’s “ Principle of Sociology,” Vol. I.f p. 421.)
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teaching, and seldom lent themselves to any false pretences, as to their being really sons of God, during their lives. It was after they were dead, and their remarkable lives had become noised about, and their generally beneficent teaching had begun to take root and spread, that mirophily got to work and created the myth or miracles. Jesus never in his life claimed to be a god, ** or the son of god,** in the sense we use the term, nor did he consciously strive to form a new religion. It took 300 years to deify Jesus (see p. 149). There is no word of the divinity of Jesus in the first three gospels. The fourth was written, as we know, to establish a Creed. Had he believed himself to be god, he would have had the prayers addressed to himself, instead of to his “ heavenly father,** a term anyone may use without claiming godship. Joseph is given in both Genealogies, Matthew and Luke, as his actual father on all occasions, such as at his presentation at the Temple, in fact, wherever the mention of a father is required.
The original Babylonian sun myth had a real mother of. the sun, or mother of the gods, called Der Ketos, and the sun had a sister-spouse in the earth, as sun and earth were created at the same time, and they were married every Spring and the earth became the fruitful mother ; while without the protecting and energising rays of the sun life could not be sustained; hence the sun as a father. Th?‘ sister-spouse (p. 136) was the Queen of Heaven in all lands—Semiramis, Isis, Aphrodite, Myllitta, Venus, Heva Terra, etc. But, as the Jews could have no woman in heaven, Jesus had to be born of an earthly virgin, and being himself the god—“without him was nothing created**—Roman Catholics have Mary as representing both Venus, the virgin earth, and Der Ketos, the mother of the sun. But the old myth will struggle through. Jesus is surrounded by Maries, a purely symbolical name derived from Maya .the Dawn, who is always a pure virgin and the Mother of the Sun. There is Mary, his Mother, Mary sister of Martha, Mary Magdalene, and ** the other Mary,** Mary the mother of James, Mary wife of Cleophas or Clopas.
But Mary of Magdala was intimately connected with his death and resurrection, and she was the first to bewail him at the tomb. She had ** loved much,** “ quia multum amavit,** and is held to have been irregular in her loves, as were all Queens of Heaven down to Guinevere, but was undoubtedly put in the story to represent Istar or Venus, the Goddess of Love, and beloved of Tammuz; and Jesus and Mary Magdalene are synonyms of Tammuz and Jstar, Cupid and Psyche.
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The three Gospels, Matthew, Mark, and Luke, of which the earliest versions were written, probably, by laymen, who told a simple mirophilic tale, give different accounts of the women who were with him at the end. Matthew xxviii. says, “ Mary Magdalene and the other Mary ” ; Mark xvi. mentions “ Mary Magdalene, Mary mother of James, and Salome ” ; and Luke says, Mary Magdalene, Joanna, and Mary the mother of James.” Now John, who wrote from a purely priestly point of view, and whose story does not read as the natural narrative of a life or part of a life, but has a theological ring about it all through, seems, in order to bring this gospel into line with the mythologies of all the other pagan
sons of god, to go back to the original myth, and has both his mother (Der Ketos) and his wife (the Goddess of Love) present at the tame time,' Mary his mother and Mary Magdalene, besides his mother’s sister, Mary, wife of Cleophas.
All sun gods are wept for by women (see p. 162), and wo remember Arthur (in the original ” Morte d’Arthur ” of Mallory, not Tennyson’s ” Idylls ”) had faithful women attendants at his death. The whole tone of the death of Arthur, in Mallory’s work. Is very like John’s,gospel. The two deal with the same thing, the death of the life-giving sun, and there is the same dreary colouring in both tales. 296
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In Fig. 116 we have the Egyptian rendering of the women tearing their hair for the dead god. The dead and mummified Osiris has the Lotus seed pods sprouting out of him,—symbols of the universal womb or eternal life.
This is the only case I have found of Egyptian women with untidy hair. The ancient Egyptians were as particular in this respect as the Japanese.
“ A prophet is not without honour save in his own country.** Jesus found no faith in himself amongst his own family, and his old playmates said : '* Is not this the son of the carpenter?** ; while his mother Mary, and the other sons, attributed his prophetic out- pourings to insanity. This shows that, during his life, no inkling of the subsequent mirologue was known.
If there were any truth in the miraculous conception story, surely his own mother would have known it, and believed in his mission. She would have supported him in his exalted teaching, and would not have repudiated the supernatural status claimed for him.
A woman who could have come through all the miraculous events related of her angel's message—fertilization by God, the Magi's visits, Herod's slaughter—and then forget all about it, and think her son insane, is an impossibility.
This family episode is one of my reasons for the view that there may have been a real human nucleus for the Jesus myth, as surely the sacerdotal writers would never have created such damning evidence of the earthly origin of Jesus, in order to throw doubt on the very story they were building up. He was, probably, a remark- able man, and those who thought highly of his teaching made little biographies of him, which became the bases of the Gospels, and were widely circulated ; and it was then too late for men like St. Jerome to cut out the “ weak parts " of the story. The gospel of Mark, which is nearest to the original biographies, says not a word about his miraculous birth. The earliest sect of Jewish Christians, the Ebionites, who arose in the land of his teachings, called Jesus the son of Joseph, as did all other sects in the first century A.D., which held Essene doctrines, Docetes, Gnostics, Manicheans, Mar- cionites, Arians, and Cerinthians. These Ebionites were the imme- diate successors of the congregation of Jerusalem, to which Mary and his brothers belonged. Yet these Ebionites (translated 41 poor men **) held that Jesus was a simple and common “man born of Mary and her husband ** (Eusebius* Eccl. Hist. 216, III., Chap. 24). These were succeeded by the " Cerinthians,’* so called from Cerin- thus, who held, like the Ebionites, that Jesus, though excelling all men in virtue, knowledge, and wisdom, was not born of a virgin, |>Ut was the son of Joseph and Mary. OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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There is a disguised Iah in Ananias the liar, thus discrediting the old God, and the old El, Eli, Al, or Ale-im, in Gamali-el the Pharisee or Parsee, a sun worshipper, again represented as an enemy of Christianity.
But the whole New Testament writing shows, by the choice of words, and the entire ignoring of the old Hebrew gods, and the utter ignorance of real Jewish geography and history, that it is no history at all, but, like the first chapter of Genesis, the work of a scribe sitting down calmly to create history, to support a religious dogma which was being formed in centres far removed from Pales- tine or Jerusalem.
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It will be seen from the comparative table (given on pp. 280-283) that the only fundamental difference between Chrishna and Jesus is the intrusion of fishes (plural) in the narrative.
The myth of Jesus is copied, word for word, from the East; but we have the introduction of a new element, that of fishes, all through the narrative. It is not the fish idea of the sea being the source of all life, and the dolphin the universal womb; it is the idea of a pair of linked fishes, the sign of the Zodiac ” pisces.” The sun was always too holy to be addressed in his own name, hence, he was either called the Hidden One, as the Egyptian ” Amen ” we still apostrophise in our prayers, or he is mentioned by the ” house ” in which he astrologically dwells, just as are our monarchs (see p. 125).
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the symbols of their worship in burnt clay, or in sculptured stones which could come down to us. -
This great movement, or precession of the Equinoxes amongst the stars, as we call it, or “ movement of the fixed stars," as the French astronomers say, takes a period of over 25,800 years for its accomplishment, that is an average for each of the twelve signs or Houses of the Sun of 2,150 years; but it must be remembered that the boundaries of the constellations were not clearly fixed among the ancient astronomers, and, as they varied in extent, this may be varied by a few hundred years, more or less, for each con- stellation. It might take 200, or even 300 years, before the old astronomers were quite sure that the sun was fairly " housed ” in the new constellation in the Spring Equinox. In dealing with this motion here, 1, therefore, give only approximate dates, as authorities differ according to the views they take as to the boundaries of the old constellations. I gave theoretical figures at page 126. There were, therefore, two great " years ” of the Zodiacal signs; the common year, when the sun went from constellation from month to month, and the great year of twenty-five thousand years of houses, into which the sun was born or wedded each Spring Equinox, and which changed very slowly ; in fact, so imperceptibly that it is a marvel to modem astronomers how the ancients found it out.
Probably it was their religions, which, being fixed by a “ revela- tion mirologue ” and unchangeable, gradually revealed that the sun was leaving one house of the god and passing into another.
About the year 6700 B.C., the sun had entered into Gemini. This period goes back beyond the time of written or even sculptured history, and we find that, in the dim beginnings of all religions, there occurred a period of the worship of Twins. It was only natural that good and evil should be personified as God and Devil, a good brother and a bad one, but not natural that evil should exist in a young child, so, as children, we find they are represented as beautiful twin babes ; but later we have them as Cain and Abel. These sons were interpolated in the original lives of Adam and Eve, as given in chapter v. of Genesis, the “ Book of the Genera- tions of Adam,” or Toldhoth, and hence, in the authentic history of the myth, there is no Cain and Abel, Seth being Adam's first born (p. 336). The twin myth was too far back for the modern Jews to incorporate it properly in the genealogy of their tribal history. Every nation had its Cain and Abel.
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„or Ormuzd, and Arihman ; Greece had Python and Apollo, and Castor and Pollux; and all the host of Asiatic religions had their twin deities.
Goldziher says that solar heroes are regarded as founders of city life, and a fratricide often precedes the building of a city. Cain was the first builder of a city. Cain and Abel had doubles, Tubal- Cain (artifice builder) and Jabal (agriculturist). Romulus slew Remus, then founded Rome.
Then, about 4500 B.c., the sun passed from Gemini to Taurus, the Bull, and we have the great period of bull and cow worship. The Babylonian held to the masculine cult, and had then great winged bulls, with human head, as we see in the British Museum. And the Egyptians, who at that time adhered to the female cult, worshipped the cow, as at Thebes (Theba—a cow), and they had their Venus, Hathor, represented by a cow.
Later, they seem to have worshipped either male or female, and adopted the Bull of Apis to represent the masculine half of the symbol of life. This was adopted by the Romans, and combined with the Peor, feminine emblem of the “ Baal-peor” of the Hebrews (both countries, Egypt and Palestine, being provinces of the Roman Empire), thus forming the new name of Peor-apis or Priapus, under which name the combined sexual organs were wor- shipped throughout the whole Roman Empire, even in Britain. The ancients sometimes put the feminine before the masculine, as in Om-phale, peor-Apis, but the masculine was generally placed first as in Baal-peor, Hermaphrodite, Yang-yin. No excavation can be made where there are Roman remains, in Britain or in France, without coming across symbolic devices of Priapus in stone, metal, ivory, glass, or porcelain, which cannot be reproduced in a book for public circulation.
Slowly the great motion of the earth’s axis went on, till, in an- other two thousand years, the house of the Bull was vacated for that of the Lamb, which was entered by the Sun about 2400 to 2500 B.C., so that it was in full swing when the mythical history of the Hebrews began, and we find their most sacred sacrifice was a first-born ram lamb.
Aries was either the Lamb or Ram, for the two words are identical, R and L being the same in early languages.
The word includes Rams, Ewes, Ram Lambs, and Ewe Lambs, and, as the Church is the Bride of God, or of his representative, the Bishop, who weds hip “ spouse ” or Church with a ring on his appointment, the Church is always feminine, represented while the sun was in Aries by a ewe ; so the English Church planted yews
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all round the edifice, as a symbol of the “ Lamb of God,'* and, at first, spelt it ewe not yew. Every village in Egypt had its special ram, or lamb, deity, and it became the universal symbol of Solar Deity. But in a settled land, like Egypt, the old temples dedicated to past gods still clung to their observances, and, in consequence, the land was eaten up with priests. The people had to pay for feasts, baptisms, prayers, burial services, and all the priestly consolations, to three and perhaps more churches, so we find Amenhotep IV. trying to effect a simplification of the matter by declaring that they were all Solar worship. He took the priestly symbolical name of Khu-en-Aten, or, as others read it, Aknaton. “ Glory of the Solar disk,” and instituted a simpler worship at Tel El Amarna ; but no sooner was he dead than they pulled down his temples, and no doubt the crowd of starving discontented priests preyed on the miserable fellaheen, as before.
About two hundred years before the birth of Jesus, the sun was passing out of Aries and was entering ” Pisces,” but as the boundaries of the constellation were then somewhat nebulous, it may have been any time, from 150 B.C. down to the time of Jesus, before the priests would declare the fact definitely. It always took a little time for the new nomenclature to be accepted, so those nations which had astronomers would be the first to accept the new ” House of God,” and others who were ignorant of astronomy, like the Hebrews, would be later in hearing the glad tidings of the advent of a new star or house.
So that, a little before the birth of Jesus, other nations were making the change ; but the worship of the Heavenly Host was getting laughed at in Greece, and the Venuses and Vestas, Aphro- dites, Hestias, and Hermes, or Mercuries, degraded to light comedy; so Pisces or Ichthys in Greek never became a real worship.
The sun being now well established in Pisces, an attempt was made to maintain continuity by founding the new or reformed religion on the old solar basis, and we see the reason of tinting all the mirodox of Jesus with fishes and fish ideas. It was to recognise the change of the House of the Sun.
Hundreds of writers, all over the Christian era down to Drews 1910, have shown, by elaborate analysis, that Jesus was clearly die young sun reborn every year. That is why we have only one year of his life, like the 365 years (days) of Melchixedek, and die same with Enoch ip. 260), neither of whom die ; they ” walk with god,” or are taken up direct into heaven. Or Job, whose one year’s life OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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shows his seven beautiful sons (summer months) slain by the blasts of winter; but next year he begins as before, with all his seven sons well and strong.
Goldziher, the great Hebrew scholar, after showing that Cain’s posterity, for instance, Jubal who made the lyre (thus, Apollo, the sun), are all sun myths; in a most learned and elaborate study, which has become a classic, tells us that “ We find Cain's posterity, to be repetitions of their ancestors, mere solar figures of the old myth," like the Sons of Jove (see p. 136).
Into the whole story of the life of Jesus is woven this thread of Pisces, as can be seen by referring to my tabular statement (pp.
280-283).
In the apocryphal gospel of his youth, Jesus makes " fish ponds." A boy who " broke " them, so that the fish would die, is struck dead with a glance of the eye of the boy Jesus.
In calling his Apostles, he calls first of all a pair of fishers, Simon and Andrew. They leave the sea, and join him. Pisces is always a pair. To emphasise this symbol, he calls another pair of fishers, James and John.
There are even a pair of fishing boats in Luke v. 2, and Luke seems to think two pairs of fishers required explanation, so he says that James and John were partners of Peter (Simon).
No other Apostles seem deserving of notice ; the others of the twelve are only once casually mentioned, never appointed. Some other writer, in Matthew x. 2, gives the full list.
In all three synoptic gospels, the two sets of fishers are alone mentioned, so as to emphasise two pairs of fish or Pisces—Matt. iv. 18-22, Marki. 16-20, Luke v. Ml.
In Luke v. 6. Jesus makes a miraculous draft of fishes.
Then he feeds the 4,000 and 3,000 with loaves (like Krishna) and two little fishes (Matt. xiv. 13-21, Mark vi. 37-44, Luke ix. 10-17, John vi. 1-14).
He takes tribute from fish’s mouth (Matt. xvii. 24-27).
He makes miraculous draft of fishes after resurrection (John xxi. 3-6).
Pfcter girds fisher’s coat about him (John xxi. 7).
Fish Sacrament or Eucharist before ascent to heaven (John xxi.
8-13).
The identification, of Jesus with the sun in Pisces caused other changes.
The change of. the Passover, or Crucifixion, from Thursday to 292
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Friday, and the Holy Day from Saturday to Sunday came about between 150 B.C. when the sun went into the house of Pisces (the Fishes), and was finally confirmed by the establishment of Chris- tianity under the Romans. There were two causes. The Jews held to the Babylonian worship to Saturn, as Father of the Gods, whose Holy Day was Saturday or Sabbath, while the Romans were sun worshippers, the sun being the creator of life and Sunday the Holy day. It was natural that Jesus, being the Sun, should be re-born on the Sun’s day, the Dies invicta Solis of the Romans. Giving the forty hours in the tomb, this would throw his crossing over or “ Crucifixion " to commence on Friday. The second reason was that the sun, being now in the “ Fish ” house, must die on ** Fish ” day. Friday had always been a “ Fish ” Fete, as representing the fecundity of Venus, or Freya, the universal fruitful mother. Fish means fecundity, and was eaten in celebration of Venus on her day, Dies Veneris, or Vendredi in French. (See day names, pp. 106-109.) Hence, there already existed a day holy to “ Ich- thys,” as Jesus was called, up till the fifth century, and hence the passover day of the “ Great Fish ’’ as he was called, was doubly fixed for Friday.
Under Venus, Friday was a day of joy and good luck—female is fortunate or lucky (pp. 43, 87, 123), but the Hebrews or early Christians, by stating that Jesus was killed on that day, turned it into a day of gloom, and “ bad luck.” The Jews held the passover as a day of hope and joy, as it should be; but the Christians made it a day of horror by using the term “ Crossover ” instead of “ Passover,” and so introducing the idea of a cross, and placing a man on it, made it a day of death and despair. Finally, about 600 A.D. (see p. 304)* representing him as suffering a cruel death, they turned it into a day of sorrow and gloom. As the beginning of Spring, and the garden or Paradise half of the year, it should be a joyous fete, and it was so with all Pagan nations. By turning ” Woman’s day ” into a day of wrath or death, the Hebrew Christians found another powerful symbol for completing the debasement of woman, as the cause of all evil. They even made Venus’s month, the merry month of May, unlucky.
Jesus was worshipped as Ichthys, or Ikthus, the Fish (Greek was now spoken in Palestine) from 360 A.D. till the time of Justinian, 550, and the doctrine had a deep hold on professing Christians. (Geiseler, Vol. II., second period, ” Public Worship,” p. 145, also “•Codejc Theodosianus,” Lib. XVI., tit. I. leg 2, see also leg. 3.) OF ITS TEACHING AND SYMBOLISM
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