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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

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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

« Em

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

6

178

180

181

208

332

194

145

202

146

- 145

a

F "

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

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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

947

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

no

340

341

-   157

-267 et seq.
10, 11, 269

-   79

142

184

185
126

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22

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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

INDEX

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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
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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$
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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 *
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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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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

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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
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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
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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

Page

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
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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
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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

949


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.
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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
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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:**

This is die first step towards rendering the mother and child
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357

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,

And with their mild persistence urge man’s search
To vaster issues.
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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.

—George Eliot.

THE END.

950

“ 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

349

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."
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CHRISTIANITY: THE SOURCES

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.
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351

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
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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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lao.

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
 
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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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951

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. <•

Cease the supply of oxidisable material, whether coal, oil, or
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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
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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.
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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.

With the passing away of this incubus, men must have felt that
the strain was passing, and they could take a new view of life.
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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.
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347

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.

These ideas, given out as telling all about the other world (like
Thomson and Tail’s " Unseen Universe,” a book now forgotten)
were eagerly accepted.
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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.

952

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
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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.

The attempt to define the Trinity is one of the finest examples
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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
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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—

M Declaring the same to be the confession of his faith, and
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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
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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.
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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.

The newest school, led by Prof. Arthur Drews, also takes us
back to Pagan times, and shows that a redeemer was looked for by
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.]

BISHOP WITH MITRE.
 
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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.
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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.
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955

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
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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
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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
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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

Fig. 124

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,
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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.

There was a piece of altar furniture, now discarded, in a tower
of silver or gold, representing heaven, and on the top of it was
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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
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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.

956

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-
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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.

No mention is made of the Trinity in the New Testament, as
this was a highly Phallic conception, as shown at p. 24. But our
”confession of faith” writers, who were intimately acquainted
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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).

The Council of Trent (p. 336), the same Council which shows us
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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
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317

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
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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.

957

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

Jt

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,
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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
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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

Apollo
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309

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

Quetzalcoatl
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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

Antiochua (Soler)
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311

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,
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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.

Take, for instance, the hero of the Barberini Obelisk, raised by
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313

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.

CHANGE FROM SOLSTICE TO EQUINOX.

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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).

The strange Hebrew belief that to bring happiness to the
powerful and the wicked some gentle, innocent creature had to
be slain—an idea euphemistically disguised by religious people as
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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.
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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.

It is very curious to see the same ideas and names occurring in
the ancient literature, as showing the intimate connexion between
die ideas of nations widely separated in their culture. For instance,
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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.
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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).

Fig. 119

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
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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)
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305

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

it •   It

or sign.

Colenso writes : " From the dawn of organised Paganism in the
Eastern world to the final establishment of Christianity in the
Western, the cross was undoubtedly one of the commonest and most
sacred of symbolical monuments. It appears to have been the
aboriginal possession of every people of antiquity.

“ Delineated on temples, palaces, natural rocks, sepulchral
galleries, on the heaviest monoliths and the rudest statuary; on
coins, medals, and verses of every description, and preserved in

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959

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.
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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.
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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.)

The men like Jesus, who form the Nuclei on which these earth-
born gods were built, were no doubt men of high purpose and good
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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.

Mary, and Lazarus also, tell, in a dim way, the Story of the
death and resurrection of the sun.
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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.
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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.
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960
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.

1CHTHYS WORSHIP.

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).

The sun had been worshipped, very probably, for one great
round of the precessional movement, before men began to express
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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.

Rome had Romulus and Remus; Egypt had Typhon and
Osiris; Syrih had Tammuz and Nergal; Persia had Ahura Mazda,
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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
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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
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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.)
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