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-                          King Solomon’s Goat

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-                                  _By_

-                            WILLARD BARTLETT

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-                              _Author of_

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-             “The Origin of Priestcraft,” “The Tenderfoot,”

-                    “The War of the Stomachs,” etc.

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-                               CHAPTER I.

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-                           The Divine Moloch.

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-The genial gentleman with horns, shown on the cover hereof, is

-christ.[1] The hybrid Christian-Egyptian religion was stolen from the

-sun-worship of Egypt and India and other religious impositions. When the

-sun, called Ra and Osiris in Egypt, identical with Jehovah, at the end

-of each cycle of about 2155 years, entered a new sign of the zodiac, it

-was said to be reborn, or the son of god came in a character to

-correspond with the astronomical sign.—Gerald Massey.

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-Footnote 1:

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-  Where in this book the words God, Lord, Christ, Messiah and Lamb are

-  capitalized they refer to Christian deities, otherwise to pagan gods.

-

-When the sun entered the sign of Taurus, the bull, god was reborn, or

-christ came as the bull, called Apis in Egypt and Moloch in Syria. It is

-the latter beauty whose entrancing charms are the subject of this

-panegyric. When Jacob wrestled with the lord, the bout was with Moloch

-Iho, as will be seen by reading the original Hebrew text. This is lord I

-O, the supreme, the hermaphrodite god or idol of the pagans. Read the

-Blessing that the Hebrews say before eating: “Blessed art thou Io

-Elohanu Melech ... who bringeth forth bread from the earth.”—Krinsky’s

-First Lessons in Hebrew, 84.

-

-The pagans claimed that their god Moloch “had his castle of fire in the

-seventh heaven.” And “Jehovah had his castle of fire over the seventh

-heaven.”—Book of Enoch, 14:7. The identity of Moloch and the Hindu god

-Siva is indicated by the bull Nardi, the sacred emblem of the latter.

-The Persian bull christ, the son of Ormazd, killed by Ahriman, the Lord

-of Darkness, and all the other christs that sport horns must share the

-infamy of the great god Moloch, alias Saturn, alias Israel, alias Ilda

-Baoth or Devil. The heaven of Moloch is in the Northeast, and it is

-paved with gold, and his throne is made of lapis lazuli.

-

-You will notice that the priest is offering up a child to the great god

-who so loved human flesh and blood that he caused his own son to be

-slaughtered. There was also another reason for the human sacrifices by

-the priests and sorcerers and secret societies, that is, the desire to

-evoke the dead and summon up phantoms for consultation. These ghosts are

-very fond of blood, in fact it is difficult for them to materialize

-unless they can absorb the steam arising from human blood. It is true

-that some sorcerers have evoked the dead with the blood of kids or

-lambs, but the goat and lamb christs are ancient redeemers, whose

-efficacy is not to be compared with the man christ. Elephas Levi says

-that a phantom will attract the vapor of blood and human corpuscles in

-the air as a magnet attracts iron filings.

-

-“They have built the high places of Tophet in the Valley of Hinnom to

-burn their sons and daughters in the fire.” They made their children

-pass through the fire to Moloch, forsooth, because young children, like

-young pigs, are tender and easy to chew. They cooked their own flesh and

-blood on the reeking altar of the Devil, even as the great and good Ahaz

-served up his son for the delectation of the mob, and sitting down to

-the delicious feast, ate up the heir and hope of Israel. Then, chopping

-up the remnants into sausages, he exposed and hawked them in the market

-place, crying: “It is true they come high, but see what they are made

-of. Each sausage is stamped with the Tetragrammaton and stuffed with the

-royal house of Israel. If you plebeians, decorated with dirt and adorned

-with bugs, wish to get some blue blood into your clotted veins, now is

-the time. Avail yourselves of this opportunity to eat a prince of the

-royal blood, an imperial descendant of our Mother in Israel, Tamar, the

-daughter and wife of Judah and ancestor of David and the messiah.”

-

-The fact that the Jews worshipped on Saturn-day would indicate that they

-were worshippers of Saturn or Moloch. The sacrifice of the first-born

-unto the Lord was required by the Old Testament. Human sacrifices by

-proxy still survive in parts of England, where at Christmas time the

-goodman goes forth to hunt for an old wife to sacrifice, and returns

-with an old log, which he plays is his wife, and puts her on the fire.

-This takes the place of the human being his ancestors formerly offered

-up. In Hertfordshire, an ox, representing Moloch, is killed every

-Christmas, and the church bell tolls at its death in imitation of the

-crucifixion of the bull christ or sun at the winter solstice. At the

-orgies of Orpheus they originally sacrificed a man and tore his flesh

-from his body with their teeth and ate it raw, but in later times

-substituted a bull representing Orpheus or Christ.—“Orgies” and

-“Orpheus”, Ency. Brit. All religion originated in human sacrifices and

-cannibalism.

-

-The wife of god is a cow, called Hathor in Egypt, also named Isis and

-Meri, which goddess we have stolen and worship under the name of Mary.

-When the sun entered the stable or sign of Taurus, a christ was

-produced, or god was reborn as a bull. That is why Christ was born in a

-stable.

-

-When the sun entered the sign of Aries or the Ram, God was reborn, or

-Christ came as the Lamb of God, the son of the Ram, identical with Rama,

-the seventh incarnation of the god Vishnu.—Gerald Massey. In Thebes the

-principal object worshipped by the pagan ancestors of Christianity was

-the Ram.

-

-At the eighth incarnation of God, when the sun entered the sign of

-Fishes, about the beginning of the Christian Era, God was reborn as the

-Great Fish or Fisher of Men, and was slain on Friday for the redemption

-of the world. That is why the Christians killed and ate their fish Jesus

-every Friday to save their craven souls from Hell. That is why the

-priests of Dagon, the fish god of the Philistines, wore fish skins on

-their backs and the head of a fish for a miter. The miter of the church

-dignitaries was the gaping mouth of their fish god. That is why Christ

-had such phenomenal piscatorial luck and why his disciples were

-fishermen. That is why he came up out of the waters of Jordan.—See

-Ancient Pagan & Modern Christian Symbolism.

-

-We are baptized that we may typically become fish or Christlike, but

-complete immersion is indispensable to save our wicked souls. A few

-drops of water on the forehead do not make a fish. Jesus came out of the

-stellar pool in the sign of Fishes, and we have seen superstitious and

-benighted fishes, who have been born again, come up out of the pool

-beneath the church altar in the Hub of Universal Culture. The basin at

-the church door or piscina, containing alleged holy water, is but a type

-of that celestial pool in which the stellar fishes swim, and into which

-the sun plunged and washed away the sins of the world. The Egyptian

-Madonna, Isis, is represented as holding in her arms the christ Horus,

-and on her head is a fish. The Hindus worship the fish-god at the temple

-of the Golden Dagon near Rangoon, India.

-

-The Jews sacrificed the fish-christ at each of the three meals of the

-Sabbath. “One should eat fish for into them the souls of the righteous

-are transmigrated.”—Talmud. The Buddhist cross, from which the Christian

-cross was taken, is called Swastika (fishes) and consists of the two

-fishes of the zodiac crossed. “Maya or Mary, the Virgin of the skies, at

-the moment of the birth of her son Buddha on Dec. 25, was just rising

-above the horizon.”

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-“The sun’s present position is in Aquarius. Our Lord’s advent was in the

-previous sign of Pisces, but the sign which he declared should precede

-his next coming was that of Aquarius. ‘When ye see a man bearing a

-pitcher of water follow ye him.’”—Daughter of the Druids, 101.

-

-When the sun entered the sign of Cancer, the sun god, or the son of god

-came as the Crab or the Good Scarabaeus, the lucky bug of Egypt, and was

-born in the nebula of the Manger in the sign of Cancer. Still there is

-no law against believing in the story of the Jew Christ born in the

-Manger of Bethlehem. Even the Church Fathers claimed that Christ was the

-Good Scarabaeus.

-

-In the Catacombs of Rome is a picture of a supper at which seven persons

-sit down to eat seven loaves and two small fishes. Some writers have

-failed to grasp the significance of this picture. They are assembled

-there to eat their Christ, as we do now at every Communion Service.

-Christ is the bread of life, born in the astronomical house of

-Breadcorn. He came seven times in the ancient division of the heavens,

-and in his eighth avatar he came as the two fishes in the sign of

-Pisces.

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-Our Christmas is a new name for the old Roman Saturnalia, a festival

-celebrating the birth of the sun-god Saturn or Moloch at the winter

-solstice, at which time they feasted, exchanged presents, got drunk and

-played craps. The Christians, in celebrating the 25th of December, admit

-that their Christ is a sun-god.—See “Saturn,” Ency. Brit.

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-                              CHAPTER II.

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-                          The Queen of Heaven.

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-The Hebrews in the wilderness indulged in this pagan idolatry and

-sacrificed bullocks and lambs on the altar for the remission of their

-sins, and erected a golden calf. The golden calf was christ, and his

-mother was the sacred cow Hathor or Mary. This Meri or Mary was an

-astral goddess, the moon goddess, the Queen of Heaven, represented as

-standing in the crescent moon. She is identical with the foul goddesses

-Astarte, Venus, Ishtar, Asherah and Ashtoreth, the abomination of the

-Sidonians. Ishtar is the same as Easter, and we celebrate Easter because

-the sun-god arose at the full moon of Easter. The Sacred Cow of India is

-worshipped as the Mother of the Gods.—Book of all Religions, 224.

-

-You will see in the idol stores the graven image of Mary, the Queen of

-Heaven, standing in the crescent moon, and a dog crouching before her

-offering her a cake with a hole in it. This cake is the Mark of the

-Beast, the female symbol of the cow Hathor, the Assyrian Grove, the

-sacred Eye, which was worn by the Christian and pagan priests in their

-foreheads and on their hands. It is the Sacti of the goddess Maha Deva,

-called Sacti because it is sacred and is offered up as a sacrifice,

-closely related to sacrum and the caudal appendage.

-

-The three links are the symbol of the hermaphrodite godhead. The link is

-the female emblem and three is the sign of the male. The Eye within the

-tent or triangle or compasses is an object of worship and adoration. The

-three-cornered triangle is the emblem of the male. In Ency. Brit., 6:

-462, a bishop is represented with the Eye on his left hand, and he holds

-up three fingers of his right hand, the sign of the male. This is just

-as efficacious as the three links, as it presents to the audience the

-male and female emblems together, formerly the only objects of worship

-in all religions. They are the emblems of life, and must be held up

-together to insure the worshippers eternal life. It will be seen in this

-investigation that in every religious assembly, from the Witches’

-Sabbath to the Elevation of the Host, the male and female emblems were

-displayed together for the salvation of the world. Without these emblems

-the devotees cannot be born again. The image of the Hindu Madonna and

-Christna shows the Virgin holding up three fingers, and with the thumb

-and forefinger she makes the circle of Ashtoreth to save the souls of

-her devotees.—Plate 14, A. P. & M. C. Symbolism.

-

-The high altars of most of the churches were rank Assyrian Groves, to

-which the devotees bowed low in holy reverence. See “Altar”, Stand. Dic.

-and Ency. Brit. 16:75. The deity emerging from the female symbol of the

-high Christian altar of Pistoia holds in his hand a book on which is

-written: “I A O, the Sun, the Light of the World.” When we take off our

-hats to the church, we are not doing obeisance to the pile of brick and

-stone but to this symbol above the altar. The Dabistan says that Siva

-has a spouse called Maya, as Jehovah had Mary, and the high altar in a

-mosque of the Mussulmans is an emblem of the Bhaga or the Grove or Royal

-Arch. The ancient Knights of the Royal Bhaga were also Knights of the

-Cave, the Gate, the Fornix (tent of a Kadish) to the defense of which

-they pledged their lives, their property and their sacred honors, and

-each brave knight wore emblazoned on his forehead or on his stomach the

-emblem of his goddess, the open Eye.

-

-Venus, called C U in Celtic, was the moon goddess of the round towers of

-Ireland. The priests of the goddess called themselves C U R, and a cur

-offers a sacrifice to the Virgin. From C U R we derive the word

-curate.—Stinson Jarvis. The Druid priests always wore the crescent moon

-on their robes. Osiris is identical with the Egyptian god Anubis, the

-dog, and their symbol is the open Eye. They both worship at the shrine

-of Hathor or the Virgin holding the sacred Eye in their hands. That is

-why in Christianity, we see the dog offering to Mary the sacred

-perforated wafer.

-

-Refer to “Enthronization,” Stand. Dic., and you will see the Mark of the

-Beast on the bishop’s hand, and look at the pagan god Siva, and you will

-find the same mark on his forehead. See “Freemason,” and you find that

-Washington wears the same symbol on his stomach. Look at Brahma, who

-carries the rosary in his hand, a symbol of identical significance.

-Refer to “Glory,” and you see Christ standing in the Mark of the Beast.

-Turn to Vesica Piscis, where the Virgin stands in her symbol, the symbol

-of the hideous faith of the Witches’ Sabbath, a faith coeval with the

-dawn of time, spawned in the slums of chaos. Astarte or Ashtoreth was

-the moon goddess and Queen of Heaven and patron of immorality.—Ency.

-Brit. 2:735. Mary is the same as Venus and Diana, the moon

-goddess.—Elephas Levi, the priest.

-

-The Hindu Litany of Our Lady Nari, the Virgin, says: “Holy Nari.

-Mariama, Mother of an Incarnate God, Mother of Christna, Virgin Most

-Chaste, Queen of Heaven.” The Egyptian Litany of Our Lady Isis says:

-“Holy Isis, Mother of Gods, Mother of Horus, Virgin Sacred Earth, Isis,

-Queen of Heaven.” The Christian Litany says: “Holy Mary, Mother of God,

-Mother of Christ, Virgin Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven.”—Isis Unveiled,

-209.

-

-Why does St. Peter (Petra, the Rock God) as shown by his statue in Rome,

-hold up three fingers and make the circle or Eye with the other two

-fingers? Why is the Christian Benedictional, like the Totem Pole of the

-Indians, covered with the so-called All-Seeing Eye? Why is the Eye on

-the stomach of the Bishop, where he does not need it? This is a very

-occult matter that can be disclosed only to the initiates of the foul

-religions.—See Book of All Religions, 467.

-

-“Religion is a monstrous fraud and delusion that has desolated the earth

-and filled the spirit world with demons.”—Antiquity Unveiled, 58.

-

-The Gnostics claimed that it was Ilda Baoth, the Devil, that

-overshadowed Mary, instead of Gabriel. “The female Serpent of the Sky,

-the Mother, is imaged in Buddhism by the lotus, the water, the female

-fish. Her mansion is in Virgo. By Manu she is called the Spirit of God

-(the Holy Ghost) but she represents matter as well as spirit.”—Buddha &

-Early Buddhism, 20. Mare and Mary mean the sea, and the fish god Jesus,

-of course, came out of the sea.

-

-“The bells used by the Christians came to them directly from the

-Buddhists, Thibetans and Chinese, who used them to attract the gods. The

-beads and rosary have the same origin, and have been used by Buddhist

-monks for over 2300 years.”—Isis Unveiled, 95. The Jews used bells to

-warn their god that some dupe was about to adore him, so that he would

-have a chance to change his character and not appear as the ass-headed

-god.—Epiphanius, Gospel of Mary. In China and India they ring the church

-bell to call god and the other ghosts to dinner, and after the spirits

-have eaten, the remnants of the sacrifices are thrown by the priests to

-the dogs of worshippers, the scum of the earth, who furnished the

-offerings. The church bell in Japan is called “Call God,” and we, having

-copied our religion from the Buddhist, ring our church bells to call God

-to listen to our fool prayers, and every Sunday he walks a leg off

-hustling around to the millions of places of superstition.

-

-A statue of the cow Hathor, with the moon between her horns, was

-unearthed in a temple of Egypt. This is the mother of Horus, also called

-Ies and Iesu and Jesu in Egypt. And to further fix her catholicity

-beyond question she is covered with Christian crosses. If you refer to

-“Isis,” Stand. Dic., you will see that the Egyptian Madonna wears horns

-and the full moon on her head. The moon goddess of Peru was called Mamma

-Quilka, or Mother Moon, the mother of all the Incas, and the real pious

-devotees got soused on corn whiskey in her holy worship.

-

-The Christians sacrificed cakes with holes in them to Mary, Queen of

-Heaven.—Ency. Brit. 15:391. This is the very idolatry for which Jehovah

-drove the Jewish nation out of Palestine. In Jeremiah, 44:19, the Jews

-say: “We burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink

-offerings unto her and made cakes to worship her.” And Jeremiah says in

-verse 22: “Because of these abominations which you have committed,

-therefore is your land a desolation and a curse, without an inhabitant

-as at this day.”

-

-The Buddhists say: “Upon a lotus of precious stones sustaining a moon

-crescent sits Buddha Matra” (the Mother of God). The Chinese invocation

-says: “Hail Matra”, and they call her “Our Lady, the Queen of Heaven,

-the Mother of Buddha.”—Buddha & Early Buddhism, 22. The fact that the

-Queen of Heaven existed as a goddess in the time of Jeremiah, before

-Christianity was spawned, shows that the Buddhists did not steal their

-Queen of Heaven from the Christians as charged.

-

-In Josephus, Book 8, ch. 11, it is seen that Shishac subdued Israel and

-erected some charming pillars on which were carved captivating female

-symbols, which they worshipped. Jereboam erected two aesthetic heifers,

-images of Hathor for the worship and spiritual edification of the Jews.

-In Judges, 3:7, it is asserted that Israel served Baalim and the Grove.

-Baalim are images of Baal, male emblems, corresponding to the candles

-and manikins (sons of man) of the Witches’ Sabbath, called images of men

-in Ezek. 16:17. I think that the christ of the Hebrews was the candle,

-and that they sacrificed him every Friday, the same as the Christians do

-their fish god. The candle is the appropriate offering to a goddess, and

-it may have been Ashtoreth.

-

-The Mezuzah, which is nailed on the door post, corresponds with the

-pillars erected by Shishac, for it is a miniature pillar with an oval

-hole on the side, which hole it is necessary to kiss, as we kiss the

-male and female emblems on the Pax to secure eternal life. In the hole

-is one of the names of god, Shaday, one of the female Sephiroth or

-persons of the godhead. If you refer to “Altar,” Stand. Dic., you will

-see the people worshipping the hole in the Mezuzah, or the Virgin

-standing in her symbol above the altar, which is all the same.

-

-The phylactery, worn on the forehead and on the left arm, contains

-passages of Scripture, which must be printed on the skin of the cow, the

-mother of christ, and the phylactery itself, must be made of the skin of

-christ, the calf. God himself wore phylacteries according to the Talmud.

-

-Dianus, or the sun, or god, had twelve wives, capturing a new one

-whenever he entered a new sign of the zodiac. It was Rhea in the sign of

-the Twins, and Hathor in the sign of Taurus, and Mary in the sign of

-Pisces. One of his wives was Diana of the Ephesians, the object of a

-foul worship in Asia Minor. She wears upon her head the crescent moon,

-and she is Mary, the Queen of Heaven. She bears six lions in her arms,

-because she is the mother of all the gods. Six christs have been born

-since she ruled the heavens in the sign of Virgo. The christ who came in

-the sign immediately following Virgo was Leo. It is one and the same

-god, the sun, that comes in every sign, consequently they are all lions.

-

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-                              CHAPTER III.

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-                          Religious Symbolism.

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-This is the Egyptian Tau Cross, the symbol of Apis, the bull, and other

-male gods: [𝝩]. Here is the male emblem shown as the Masonic square, as

-found in the ruins of Gaza: [𝝘]. This is the Egyptian K. Ka is the

-Egyptian name of the male emblem. See “Hieroglyphics”, Ency. Brit. This

-holy god, in the form of a stone, is stuck in the wall of the Kaaba, the

-shrine at Mecca, which shrine was built by Abraham, who was fond of

-chasing after gods with tarnished reputations. This god in Mecca is a

-meteorite seven inches long, brought down from Heaven by Gabriel, and

-about 300,000 pilgrims annually kiss this foul, germ-laden god to save

-their tarnal souls.

-

-And this is the cross ansata of Egypt, [♀], or cross of anx (life), a

-combination of the cross of the bull and the sacred symbol of Isis. The

-High Priest of Egypt wore three cross ansatas and three links on his

-breast-plate, symbols of the trinity. Many of the pagan religions, from

-which ours descended, used only the main portion of the cross, the shaft

-or upright, the symbol of Siva, Baal Poer and Jehovah. It is called

-phalatz in Hebrew, meaning broken. See the broken column of the

-Masons—A. P. & M. C. Symbolism.

-

-You place the three balls of the pawnbroker or the shamrock of Ireland

-on top of the shaft, and you have the most archaic form of the cross,

-before which the devils tremble and fall in a fit. Christian crosses,

-wreaths, bells, squares, eyes, Asherim and Baalim have been discovered

-in the ruins of Gaza, in the fourth city that was destroyed about 1600

-B. C. The original text of Ezek. 9:4 shows that the sign of Jehovah was

-the Signa Tau, or the cross of Taurus, the bull, with which the elect

-were sealed in their foreheads. In the Enchiridion, a prayer book and

-book of magic credited to Pope Leo III, he says: “By this sign [＋] Lord

-Tau, deliver me.”

-

-The male emblem, or triangle, placed in the circle of Asherah makes the

-Three in One, the profound and esoteric mystery forever hidden from the

-profane and vulgar. That is the sacred quartet, those are the idols we

-worship.

-

-Turn to Siva, Stand. Dic., and you will see that he has stolen all the

-pious Christian symbols, although he existed for ages before the

-Christians. In one hand is the circle and in another hand a trident or

-fleur de lys, a male emblem. Around his neck is a large rosary or stole.

-Thrusting his male head through this female emblem is a symbol of life

-and a saving rite. Putting his hand through a rosary is just as

-effective. We can trace the spotless lineage of our beloved religion

-back through the dim vistas of time to a very archaic and rotten

-ancestry.

-

-In both the Christian and pagan symbolism the oval in which the saints

-and gods do stand is often represented as composed of roses and

-constitutes a rosary. The horseshoe brings good luck because it is

-identical with the cave, the arch and the grove and is the sacred emblem

-of the goddess Mary or Astarte. Both Buddha and Christ are represented

-as standing in the horseshoe or Royal Arch. I conclude that the Masonic

-Holy Royal Arch and the oval above the church altar, in which the Virgin

-stands, represent the Grove that Manasseh set up in the House of the

-Lord, 2 Kings, 21, and that Josiah burnt at the brook Kidron, 2 Kings,

-23:6. The stole, worn by the priests, is equivalent to, and has all the

-mystic powers of, the cross ansata. It is well named “stole”, as the

-early Christians stole it from the pagan worship.

-

-Serapis, the Egyptian god, is bedecked and bedizened with all the

-Christian emblems. He holds the crook of the Good Shepherd in one hand

-and the cross ansata in the other. He has the head and horns of a bull,

-showing that he is the son of the cow Hathor or Mary. And over his head

-are the Masons’ marks, the square and the eye, showing that he is in

-good standing in his lodge in Hell, for he, like christ, is Lord of the

-Underworld.

-

-Refer to Vishnu, Stand. Dic., and you will see that pagan god wearing

-all the above emblems. He is christ and came as Rama in the sign of the

-Ram and as Krishna in the sign of Pisces. Turn to Krishna, and you will

-see the Hindu Madonna and christ that we kidnapped.

-

-In the Sun. Am. Magazine, Aug. 29, 1910, we see a picture of Isis

-mourning at the bier of Osiris. At Egyptian funerals they assured the

-dead of eternal life by raising the symbol of Isis, the circle or rosary

-above the body. You will see that the head of the deceased at the wake

-is surrounded by male emblems, which gross symbols are now replaced in

-the present civilization by candles. You will see that Isis is bowing

-down before the Tree of Life, and that she has at hand a basket of

-perforated cakes, which she is about to offer to the Tree of Life, which

-tree is called Osiris or Baal or Moloch or Buddha or Yahveh or Iao or

-Siva or Jove according to the country in which the religion is

-perpetrated. If you place a wreath on a dead man’s stomach and seven

-candles around his head, he is no longer a meet candidate for Hell, but

-an heir of eternal glory. If you stick a cross through the wreath, it is

-a through ticket to the seventh heaven, and you may be assured that he

-will go through purgatory a-humping.

-

-

-

-

-                              CHAPTER IV.

-

-                The Sabbatic Goat or God of the Sabbath.

-

-

-When the sun entered the sign of Capricorn, it was reborn as, or christ

-came as the goat, that individual on whom the Jews used to load all

-their sins and then drive him forth into the wilderness. They sacrificed

-goats on the altar because the goat was one of the ancient redeemers.

-Caesar says of Egyptian sacrifices: “Imprecations were uttered over the

-head of the expiatory victim, around whose horns a piece of byblus was

-rolled. The animal was generally led to some barren region sacred to

-Typhon. It is in this custom that lies the origin of the scapegoat of

-the Jews, who, when the ass-headed god was rejected by the Egyptians,

-began sacrificing to another deity, the red heifer.”

-

-It was claimed by Madam Blavatsky and Elephas Levi that the

-hermaphrodite Goat of Mendes, or Baphomet, was anciently an object of

-worship and adoration by the mystic societies and at the Witches’

-Sabbath. In Mysteries of Magic, 7 and 75, the author thus describes a

-Witches’ Sabbath: “Approach stealthily this cross roads among the rocks.

-A hoarse and funeral trumpet is heard, lurid torches burn on every side,

-a disorderly assembly surges around an empty seat. All look around in

-expectation, then suddenly fall prostrate and mutter: ‘He is here, ’tis

-himself.’ A goat-headed prince comes forward with bounds, he ascends the

-throne, turns around and stooping presents his back to the audience,

-which everyone approaches, black taper in hand, to salute and to kiss.

-Then he stands up with a discordant laugh and distributes to his

-favorites gold, secret instructions, occult medicines and poisons.”

-

-The Goat of Mendes is pictured by Elephas Levi as a regular god. He

-wears the male emblem on his head like all gods in good standing and

-holds up three fingers, and has the double triangle in his forehead, and

-the caduceus, or male and female emblems, on his stomach. With one hand

-he coagulates or creates, and with the other he dissolves or destroys.

-

-“Let us say boldly and loudly that all the inferior initiates of the

-occult sciences and the betrayers of the Great Arcanum have adored, do

-and will always adore that which is signified by the frightful figure of

-the Sabbatic Goat. Yes in our profound conviction, the Grand Masters of

-the ancient orders of the Templars adored Baphomet.”—Elephas Levi. It

-will be seen by the chart that the Masonic coat of arms, consisting of

-the four zodiacal beasts, is supported on either side by the goat god

-Pan.

-

-Pan, the Good Shepherd, the son of Deus, with the horns and feet of a

-goat, is the same as the Devil or christ. At the Witches’ Sabbath in

-England, the women made manikins, or images of men, of clay or wax, and

-these they worshipped and played with. And when these images were

-properly magnetized, they could perform miracles therewith and summon up

-demons from the abyss. If they possessed sufficient will power and knew

-the occult and secret form of words to use, they could play that the

-manikin was an enemy, and then stick him through the heart with a

-needle, and the next morning the enemy would be dead. If their magical

-power was sufficiently potent, they could summon a satyr or subordinate

-goat god to take the place of the manikin and consummate the Sabbatical

-marriage ceremony. Their spells were said to be sufficiently powerful to

-reduce a human being to the primordial protoplasm, and then cause it to

-again pursue the path of evolution through the cell, the blastoderm, the

-devil-fish and all the other beasts constituting eternity’s great

-highway by which the soul walks down. This is similar to the unavoidable

-cycle, the circle of necessity, the inexorable doom of the sacred

-mysteries of the Serpents’ Catacombs of Egypt.

-

-The countersign of the Witches’ Sabbath was the closed hand with the

-thumb between the first and second fingers pointing downward to the

-abyss. The meeting place was lighted only by the altar fire, where the

-human sacrifice sizzled to attract the phantoms and ghosts. And the

-devotees, singing mystic songs, danced hand in hand in a circle around

-the god Pan. They used the holy grail like the churches and mystic

-societies, and the drafts from this poisonous cup, the singing, the

-whirling dance and the incense from the altar brought on the oft-times

-fatal frenzies in which the victims fell shrieking to the ground, as

-they do among certain Christian sects. They were seized and possessed by

-foul fiends from the Pit, or elementary spirits, and sometimes by the

-spirits of serpents that materialized themselves in the writhing human

-victims and crawled out of the prostrate bodies in plain view of the

-audience. There in the blackest hour of the night the Vinum Sabbati was

-prepared, a few grains of white powder thrown into a glass of water. And

-each one that drank found himself attended by a companion, a shape of

-glamour and unearthly allurement beckoning him apart to share in joys

-more exquisite, more piercing than the thrill of any dream.—Machen’s

-House of Souls, 438.

-

-Similar to these convulsionaries are the miserable creatures in Russia

-afflicted by strange disorders, which people attributed to possession by

-the Devil. They throng the entrance of cathedrals without daring to

-enter, lest their controlling demons cast them on the ground. At the

-Elevation of the Host, these half maniacs, half mediums begin crowing

-like cocks, barking, bellowing and braying, and finally fall down in

-fearful convulsions. They prophesy and see visions. Paracelsus, the

-magician, could cast the demons out of the persons so possessed by the

-power of a stronger demon which he carried around in his pocket. That

-reminds us of the Salem witch that fled from a mob of Christolators who

-were intent on burning her, but when they were about to seize her, she

-crawled into a bottle, and nobody ever saw her afterward.

-

-In the Devil’s Mass of the Yezdis, or Devil worshippers and sorcerers of

-Mesopotamia, the Jakshas or aerial spirits carry their prayers to the

-Devil and the Afrites of the desert. In their prayer meeting they dance

-in a ring about their high priest and whirl and leap in the air and cut

-each other with daggers until they are soaked with blood for the purpose

-of attracting the ghosts. The mystic circle induces Satan to manifest

-himself in miracles. Enormous globes of fire appear and assume the

-shapes of monsters.

-

-The Sabbath was the Sunday of the Hebrew Kabalists, the day of their

-religious assembly, or rather the night of their habitual meetings. This

-festival, surrounded by mysteries as it was, found its safeguard in the

-very fright of the vulgar and escaped persecution through the terror it

-occasioned. The early Christians celebrated the pagan Mysteries of Jesus

-and probably held a Witches’ Sabbath.—See Mystic Christianity, 212.

-

-One should trim his finger nails on Friday, never on Thursday, otherwise

-the nails will commence growing on the Sabbath, and it is very wicked

-for the nails to grow on the Sabbath.—Kabala. The Israelite, after the

-endless Sabbath observances, should fold up his veil, but if he forgets

-to do so, he is to shake it thoroughly the next morning, so as to shake

-all the devils out of it. And the reason is known to the Lords of the

-Kabala.—Kabala Kitzur Sh’lh. It is a very pious act to say a prayer to

-the moon at the close of the Sabbath, for the moon is a symbol of Jacob,

-the lesser light, (who was a christ). The full moon, the Queen of Heaven

-is his mother, and the sun is his father. The new moon is Jacob or

-Christ.—Ibid, fol. 72, col. 2. You should learn these things together

-with all the other profound wisdom of the Talmud, for Rabbi Yochannan

-says that it is lawful to split open an unlearned man like a fish.

-

-Constantine, the Roman Emperor and canonized saint, the

-superstition-besotted, the assassin, the fratricide, the parricide, the

-uxoricide, the filicide, the regicide, chosen from Heaven as the

-murderer-in-chief of the world, according to Eusebius, “held up by God

-to the human race as an exemplary pattern of godliness and destined to

-share the Empire of Heaven with Christ,” this was the bloated, red-faced

-profligate who established Sunday worship in 321 A. D. and compelled the

-Christians to worship the sun-god on Dies Solis, the Day of the Sun,

-because his own god was Apollo.—See First Council of Nice, 28.

-Constantine was the founder of Christianity, and, like father like son,

-it followed in his footsteps. He could not obtain absolution for his

-crimes from pagan priests, but Eusebius washed them whiter than snow.

-Some said that Constantine had to sacrifice an infant to obtain the

-blood for the absolution.

-

-

-

-

-                               CHAPTER V.

-

-                          The Great God Baal.

-

-

-The palm tree, the candle and the Asherim are symbols and images of

-Baal, and the two last are offered up as sacrifices, corresponding to

-the pillars and candles in the worship of Jehovah. Around the temple of

-Jehovah as well as the temple of Baal, in the Holy Land, were the

-ancient nunneries. The Kadishim or Holy Ladies lived in tents arranged

-in a circle about the temple, and on each side of each tent or Fornix

-stood a Knight of Kadish. The pious people who desired to worship god

-gave up to the guard a shekel (sixty cents) and entered into the tent of

-the Kadish, and the money so collected went to the service of god, which

-means the priestly white slavers and the Worshipful Knights of Kadish.

-The Kadishim were the same as the Deva Dasi, the concubines and dancing

-girls of the Hindu temples, the slaves of the gods. “There is reason to

-believe that the Israelites at an early date applied the name of Baal to

-Jehovah. Baal was represented on the high places by pillars,” as the

-strange god of John’s Revelation is pictured on his throne.—“Baal,”

-Ency. Brit. One hundred of the most beautiful and seductive daughters of

-the people, innocent girls of tender age, were torn from their homes by

-the ruthless priests to fill the holy places of god around each temple.

-The priests by constant iteration convinced the parents that it was a

-high honor to be permitted to devote their daughters to god, and that as

-a reward, in the great hereafter, they would sit beside the Great White

-Throne with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the other Jews, and all the

-hod-carriers, who, having washed their robes white in the blood of the

-Lamb, sit on their little golden thrones with their dudeens in their

-mouths and their hats gently tilted over one eye, while they decorate

-with tobacco juice the dazzling surface of the crystal sea.

-

-At the great temple of Baal, they had a palm tree standing in the midst

-of the garden, and in the holy temple of Jehovah they had a stone pillar

-around which the Kadishim, at the vernal equinox, danced in the nude.

-This is the day dedicated to Astarte, or Ishtar or Easter. This occult

-ceremony is one of the most beautiful and entrancing in our refulgent

-and god-given religion. As the Tree of Life stands in the midst of the

-circle of females, so the rays from the sun penetrate the earth and

-annually renew its life. So the rays of the sun at high noon penetrated

-the ark, that old box in which the priests kept the male and female

-emblems, and before which King David for occult reasons danced in the

-altogether. The ark corresponds with the sacred Argha of the Hindus, an

-oblong vessel, a sacrificial chalice, used in the worship of Isis,

-Astarte and Venus. It is a most holy symbol, containing, in the play,

-the germs of all living things, and when we drink out of it at the

-communion service, we drink eternal life. They planted the Tree of Life

-in the midst of the garden or grove, as God planted the tree in the

-midst of the Garden of Eden. You will notice the serpent coiled about

-the tree in Eden. This is the symbol of Life. The serpent is a symbol of

-the female.

-

-The Israelites were commanded not to worship idols, but in the darkest

-hour of their history, when their own God, Jehovah, had sent upon them

-the plague of serpents and consigned them to destruction, then they

-called upon the mighty sun-god, they looked upon the brazen serpent on a

-cross, the Elevation of the Host, and the remnant of Israel was saved.

-Israel, it is said, worshipped the serpent or Devil until about 726 B.

-C. You will see this same god on the Masonic chart.

-

-The Talmud says that when Ben Asai and Ben Zoma were to be initiated

-into the Garden of Delights, Ben Asai looked and lost his sight, and Ben

-Zoma looked and lost his reason. Eusebius shows that St. James, the

-brother of Jesus and first Bishop of Jerusalem, never shaved or took a

-bath, and he alone could enter into the holy places.

-

-The merry maidens who circulate about the May-pole on May-day are

-devoted devotees of the loving god Baal Poer. And we on Palm Sunday

-carry palm leaves from the sacred palm tree to show that we are faithful

-worshippers of the true god Baal.

-

-In Italy, the clergy had at one time, according to Isis Unveiled, 2-5, a

-thriving trade in those things which they called the holy limbs of

-Saints Cosmo and Damiano. These male emblems were made of wax and

-certainly beautiful to behold. The divine spirit shining through them in

-resplendent glory cast its radiance afar. He who was so fortunate as to

-possess sufficient filthy lucre to purchase one saved his immortal soul

-from Hell, for was it not the symbol of life and the image of the great

-god.

-

-For the form of the pillar as worshipped in Syria, see page 121, A. P. &

-M. C. Symbolism, and on the mall of Boston Common may be seen the same

-pillar as adored by us at the Hub of Universal Culture, erected there to

-commemorate the birth of American liberty. Let us hope that you will get

-out early in the morning and see the blue-bellied Puritans and the

-codfish aristocracy kneeling before this sacred shrine, with their hands

-thrust through their rosaries, praying that this great god may make them

-fruitful.

-

-“The superstition of Europe instead of being diminished by the

-introduction of Christianity was only turned into a fresh channel. The

-new religion was corrupted by the old follies, the worship of the Virgin

-was substituted for the worship of Cybele, the mother of the gods. March

-25th, Lady’s Day, dedicated to Mary, was formerly called Hilaria and

-dedicated to Cybele. The religion of mankind is the effect of their

-improvement not the cause of it.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 1-188.

-

-

-

-

-                              CHAPTER VI.

-

-                         Jehovah, alias Adonai.

-

-

-According to the Hebrew lexicon יה (Yh or Ih) is one of the names of

-God. Y, I and J. are interchangeable, and Jehovah is identical with the

-god Yah of the Philistines and Iach or Iachus or Bacchus and Iao or Io

-and Jove. Bel of the Babylonians is the Chaldaic form of Baal, and

-according to Herodotus is identical with Zeus, who is the same as Deus

-or Jehovah. Ja or Jagannatha, the idol of the Hindus, is said to smile

-when a human blood sacrifice is thrown before his car.

-

-Jehovah Binah seemed to be a favorite divinity among the Masons. The

-name of this daemon, or subordinate goddess, is written on the serpent

-in the magic circle of King Solomon, which he employed in raising the

-Devil, and as Sabbath appears in her title, and she belongs to the

-sphere of Saturn or Moloch, I conclude that she was the goddess of the

-Witches’ Sabbath. There are ten persons in the Hebrew godhead, and she

-is the third, the supernal mother, the wife of Kether, consequently the

-mother of god. See Lesser Key of King Solomon, 47.

-

-According to the Standard Dictionary, (see “Sephira”) Jehovah is not the

-Supreme God, there is a party named Kether above him, the Ancient of

-Ancients. Baal, Bel or El is the fourth, next below Binah. He is the god

-of love and mercy, with whom we have no truck. We prefer the God of

-Battles. Baal Poer was worshipped in the groves under the name of

-Adonis. It may be seen by reference to the Hebrew Kabala, Kitzur Sh’lh,

-fol. 62, col. 1, that Adonai is called the Rock of Ages, like Christ.

-Madam Blavatsky says that Iachoh, Iach and Lord Sabaoth, the Baal Adonis

-or Bacchus, who was worshipped in the groves and public sods or

-Mysteries, under the polishing hand of Ezra, becomes Adonai, the one and

-supreme god of the Christians. The codex of the Nazarenes says: “Thou

-shalt not worship the sun, who is called Adonai and Kadush and El El.

-This Adonai will elect to himself a nation, Jerusalem will become the

-refuge and city of the abortive, who shall circumcise themselves with

-the sword and shall adore Adonai.” Israel is the same as Adonis. It

-means son of the Lord Ra, the Egyptian sun-god. So Israel was one of the

-christs, and it was his duty to wrestle with the Devil, Moloch. And he

-had a right to put his brother out and take his place, as christ, the

-new moon takes the place of the old moon (called the old and ugly

-christ) and as Solomon killed Adonijah and took his place.

-

-Haeckel says Jehovah was originally derived from the heaven god called

-Moloch and Baal, also Seth and Typhon of the Egyptians and Saturn of the

-Greeks.

-

-David says: “Who shall ascend into the high place of the Lord (Iach, in

-the original)? who shall stand in the place of his Kadishu (holy

-ladies)?”—Psalms, 24:3. “Solomon went to the high place of Gibeon, for

-there was the Tabernacle of God.”—2 Chron. 1:3. You will see that the

-high places were the temples of a foul worship by reference to 1 Kings,

-3:3.

-

-Yahevah is the ineffable name for which the Hebrews substituted Adonai.

-The Bacchantes, in their orgies or feasts of Iachus, pronounced the

-mystic word “Io Evohe.” Ei Eh Ei is I Am the I Am, and Ei was found

-inscribed on the temple of Apollo.—Plutarch, 1:14. Eidol is a doll or

-image of the god Ei, or Kether.

-

-Jehovah is identical with the god Brahma. Every 4,320,000,000 years all

-the planets in our solar system are in conjunction. This is one day of

-Brahma, 365 times that is one year, and one hundred of these years is

-the lifetime of Brahma, then god dies, and thereafter we have to worry

-along without him.

-

-The Trinity, instead of being a new revelation of the Christian

-religion, was taken from the trinities of the older pagan religions. The

-Chinese, the Hindus, the Babylonians, the Persians and the Egyptians

-each had a triune or hydra-headed god, a nightmare of their imagination,

-without foundation in nature or reason. If we have the only true

-religion, how is it that the Mexicans, before this country was

-discovered by the savages of Europe, had the trinity, the rite of

-baptism, the sign of the cross and purgatory. They had the tradition of

-the flood and the escape of Noah, and they offered as an oblation

-little, dough, male images of their savior as we do at the communion

-service.

-

-Some claimed that the astral light or ether was the supreme god, that

-one portion of it was male (spirit), and the other part was female

-(matter), and that the living forms of matter produced by the union of

-these two gods, are the third person of the trinity, the son of man.

-Others claim that the incomprehensible god back of the ether, of which

-the latter is an emanation, is the supreme god, and that the spiritual

-portion of the ether is the Word or Son, and the material portion of the

-ether is the mother, and the union of the son and the mother produces

-the phenomenal world. This a charming family relationship eminently

-appropriate to our pot-pourri of superstitions, called religion.

-

-Manu, the Hindu lawgiver, says: “The Sovereign Master, who exists

-through himself, divides his body into two halves, male and female, and

-from the union of these two principles is born Viradj, the son, or

-material forms.” The first name of this hermaphrodite god in the picture

-writing was IO.

-

-Haeckel says that the Christian God is a gaseous vertebrate. Socrates

-was put to death because he did not believe in the gods and introduced

-new demoniacal beings (spirits).

-

-In the Sunday American Magazine was also a picture of the Rock of Ages,

-in fact two pillars or Asherim or images of Asher are shown, together

-with two circles or groves. They were found in the ruins of Gaza. These

-are the idols that Abraham, David and Solomon worshipped when they hit

-the high places. And we still revere them and have the shafts erected

-over our graves and the wreaths placed upon the shafts so that we may be

-born again. If you do not think that Moses worshipped this rock god read

-Deut. 32:8. “Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful.” There were

-only seven thousand in all Israel that had not kissed the pillar.—1

-Kings, 19:18.

-

-There was also found in the ruins of Gaza an oval medallion in which

-stood “Horus, the strong bull, resplendent in strength.” Why is the

-Infant Jesus of Prague placed in an oval medallion? Why is the oval,

-with the Lamb in the centre thereof, placed on the front of the Infant

-Jesus, as it is on the front of the Virgin Mary? This picture of the

-Infant Jesus is a mine of esoteric symbolism. He has his name

-embroidered on his rich, elaborate dress, to wit, I E S. He holds up

-three fingers as he was taught to do when he was the infant Buddha, and

-on his head is the seven-rayed headdress of Buddha, the god of the

-seven-rayed sun.

-

-If you have catarrh, place a medallion of the Infant Jesus on your nose,

-and the catarrh will disappear.—Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague, 30. A

-medal of the Divine Infant has been known to cure a sore thumb, if

-fastened in faith to the diseased member and accompanied by nine days

-prayer.—Idem 36. A man in financial difficulties made a novena (nine

-days prayer) to the Holy Child, and at the end of the devotions somebody

-gave him $35. Then he commenced another novena and was helped to win a

-prize in a lottery. Then he commenced the third novena, and Jehovah

-compelled a grasping mortgagee to discharge his mortgage on the

-devotee’s house, and another party gave him $10.—Idem 52.

-

-In the Hebrew Bible you will see that Bethel, or house of God, referred

-to in Genesis, 28:19, is spelt Bath Al, which means the house of the sun

-or sun-god, the same as Bothal or Brothel, the temple of worship of the

-Druids and Indians, a circle of twelve monoliths with a pillar in the

-centre, also called paradise. We changed the vowels and made it read

-Beth El, as we did not care to have our God related to such trash as Al

-and Allah, the Arabian god.

-

-Arius and the Council of Nice agreed that the Son is called Wisdom.

-Refer to “Sephira,” Stand. Dic., and you will see that Jehovah is named

-Wisdom and that he is the son of, or first emanation from Kether,

-consequently it is claimed that he is one of the christs. The only gods

-ever worshipped were the sun and his wife, the moon, to whom he was not

-legally married. The idols are images of incarnate sun-gods.

-

-

-

-

-                              CHAPTER VII.

-

-                      The Host, a Human Sacrifice.

-

-

-The Monstrance was a conventionalized Assyrian Grove, containing the

-Host, the male and female emblems, and corresponded with the Ark and was

-transparent, so that the devotees could look on the blessed symbols and

-live forever. It was called the Monstrance because it contained the

-hermaphrodite monster, now or formerly worshipped by the devotees of all

-religions. The directions of St. Cyril, of Jerusalem, were: “After

-kissing all the brothers and sisters, you touch the consecrated things

-to the eyes, nose, mouth and ears.” See Ency. Brit. 8:632.

-

-Under the mediumship of Eugene Vintras in Paris, the Devil placed his

-signature on the Hosts of the Church in characters of blood. The Abbe

-Charvoz brought one of the miraculously marked Hosts, bearing the

-signature of Satan, to Elephas Levi. One of the signatures was the

-Caduceus of the Greeks, the emblem of the Godhead, two serpents entwined

-about a rod, but the rod was omitted. Levi calls it the Typhonian sign

-manual because by omitting the rod, it thus denies the existence of the

-Supreme God Jehovah. The Devil, in the stigmata, asserts that there are

-only two gods, the two powers of the astral light, attraction and

-repulsion, the creator and the destroyer.—Mysteries of Magic.

-

-“In the case of Father Gerard in 1731, who was tried at Aix, in France,

-for resorting to sorcery in the seduction of his parishioner, Mlle.

-Catherine Cadiere, it was shown that he breathed upon her, and that she

-instantly conceived a violent love for him and had extatic visions and

-hysterical convulsions, and stigmata or blood marks of the Passion

-appeared upon her, that is, the bleeding marks of thorns on her brow, of

-nails in her hands and feet, and of a lance cut in her side. Of the

-twenty five judges, twelve voted to send the priest to the stake.”—Isis

-Unveiled, 2-633.

-

-The doctrine of transubstantiation, or the myth that the bread and wine

-become the actual body and blood of God, originated among the Hindus,

-and we stole it from them. The god Brahma was the astral light or

-magnetism, and when the priests charged the hosts with magnetism, they

-were charged with god, and consequently were gods. It is said that each

-separate part of this blood sacrifice is a Christ, so thousands of

-Christs were served up at a feast to be eaten by the savage devotees,

-and each cannibal ate a whole Christ to save his dastard soul. It is

-called the Host because they knifed him or struck him down, and it is

-called the Eucharist because they rejoice over his death and make a

-joyful feast upon the carcass. The Eucharist is one of the oldest rites

-of antiquity, instituted many hundreds of years before the Lord’s

-Supper. It was a repetition of the drama in Eden in commemoration of the

-fall into generation. By the worship of the foul idols in the

-Monstrance, by the idolatry of the Eucharist the pagans euchred the

-Devil out of their souls.

-

-The Eucharist was a human sacrifice. The devotees groveling in abject

-superstition, offered up their Christ on the reeking, blood-stained

-altar, and ate his flesh and drank his blood to wash their sins away. At

-the twelfth general council of the Church, the bread and wine was made

-the flesh and blood of Christ, and at the Council of Trent they added

-the soul. So at the orgies, the depraved devotee destroyed both the body

-and soul of his savior by casting him into his carrion carcass, into

-that charnel house, into that cavernous and loathsome inferno, from

-which there is no escape, there to rot and disintegrate and forever die.

-Thus they subjected their savior to the foulest method of annihilation

-to save their worthless souls from Hell.

-

-At the Passover the Jews sacrificed over 250,000 lambs to propitiate

-some blood-loving god. The altars and courts of the Temple ran red with

-the life blood of these innocent creatures. And certain beasts still

-sing: “And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty

-stains.” “Such a blood-sacrifice is unworthy of any people except the

-worshippers of some heathen devil-god in darkest Africa.”—Mystic

-Christianity, 65.

-

-When Richard, Robert, Sarah and Isabella Bartlett, at Lincoln, England,

-in 1521, expressed their opinions too freely on religious matters, they

-were burned at the stake by Bishop John Longland, but they were a

-pestiferous and seditious lot. They even objected to eating the male

-emblems, or images of the male, on communion day, and these double-dyed

-heretics denied the real presence of either Christ or Priapus in the

-images.

-

-Here is what Taine says as to this affair: “The Bishops had received the

-right of imprisoning without trial laymen suspected of heresy, and the

-jurisdiction of all crimes, offenses and sins was given to the

-ecclesiastical tribunals. They burned Lord Cobham alive. With what

-shamelessness this power was transformed into a vehicle for extortions.

-A man begins to think when he is thus downtrodden. He asks himself if it

-is really by divine dispensation that mitred thieves thus practice

-tyranny and pillage. He wants to know if they themselves practice the

-regularity that they impose on others, and he learns strange things.

-Cardinal Wolsey writes to the Pope that both the secular and regular

-priests were in the habit of committing atrocious crimes, for which, if

-not in orders, they would have been promptly executed. A priest

-convicted of incest with the prioress of Kilbourn was condemned to carry

-a cross in a procession and pay a fine of 3s and 4p. In the reign of

-Henry VII the gentlemen and farmers of Carnarvonshire laid a complaint

-accusing the clergy of systematically seducing their wives and

-daughters. The Holy Father Prior of Maiden Bradley hath but six

-children, and but one daughter married yet of the goods of the

-monastery, trusting shortly to marry the rest. The royal visitors found

-concubines in the secret apartments of the Abbots. At the nunnery of

-Sion the confessors seduced the nuns and absolved them at the same time.

-There were convents, Burnett tells us, where all the recluses were found

-pregnant.”—Taine’s English Literature, 2-18.

-

-“Bishop Longland, of Lincoln, about 1521, summons the relatives of the

-accused, brothers, women and children, and administers the oath. As they

-have already been prosecuted and have abjured, they must make oath, or

-they are relapsed, and the fagots await them. Then they denounce their

-kinsmen and themselves. Three of the accused were charged with passing

-the night together in reading the scriptures. Several of them at church,

-at the moment of the Elevation would not say their prayers and remained

-seated dumb as beasts. A brazier denied the real presence. Six were

-burnt alive. The children of John Scrivener were themselves obliged to

-set fire to their father’s funeral pyre. They saw him, bound by an iron

-chain, with clasped hands, praying amidst the smoke, whilst the flame

-blackened his skin and destroyed his flesh. Such sights are not

-forgotten.”—Idem.

-

-“At the peril of his life the Englishman obtains some portion of the

-Bible, which Tyndale had just translated, and hides it and learns it by

-heart. Tyndale, the translator, was condemned, hunted, in concealment,

-his mind full of the idea of a speedy death and of the Great God, for

-whom at last he mounted the funeral pyre.”—Idem, 2-21.

-

-If you do not believe that Priapus is christ, see Ency. Brit. 19-170,

-where he is represented as the shepherd god with a shepherd’s crook, and

-as the god of the vineyards and of fishermen, giving them abundant

-harvests. And sailors, in their sore distress, called upon him as Peter

-did.

-

-“The Masons, in the darkness, hunt for Hiram Abiff, as the worshippers

-in the Eleusinian Mysteries hunted for their lost Cora.” In the grand

-finale the Mystics say: “I have taken the emblems from the kiste, and

-after kissing and tasting them, I have deposited in the bag, and from

-the bag back into the kiste.”

-

-In the first illustrated English Bible, the Devil will be seen, wearing

-a pair of wings and a Hebrew nose, tempting Eve. He says: “Take this

-fruit, bite it and taste it.” You will see that the thing presented to

-her is not an apple at all, but the emblem of Ashtoreth. See Sun. Am.

-Mag. Dec. 20, 1914. You will also find in another illustration there the

-angel Gabriel, with the Word strapped on his back, descending into Hell

-to deliver the souls in torment.

-

-Yesterday in passing a great church, when I raised my eyes to the cross,

-I there beheld on each arm of the cross, the circle, the same revered

-article that the Devil offered to Eve. This blessed and holy symbol is

-found engraven over the portals of the eternal rock temples of the

-ruined city of Petra, Arabia, that flourished in the time of Esau and

-his son Edom, as well as over the doors of the ancient churches of

-Ireland, and on the modern cathedrals. In fact this aesthetic Eye

-worship extends around the world, starting in the slums of India, it has

-circled the globe.

-

-The Christian religion was copied largely from the Eleusinian Mysteries,

-which were founded at the city of Eleusis, near Athens. These mysterious

-rites were employed in the worship of Demeter or Mater, the mother god,

-or Mary. In these Mysteries the worshippers indulged in the foul orgies

-of the Agape. The men carried male emblems or Signa Taus, and the

-females carried the kiste or box. Placing the Signa Tau in the kiste

-caused them to be born again and saved their souls from Tophet.

-

-

-

-

-                             CHAPTER VIII.

-

-                             Jesus Christ.

-

-

-If the clergymen tell you that there is only one christ, politely

-present them with the seal of Belial. Each of the principal religions

-had twelve christs. Christ was never crucified, but the human race was

-crucified by religion from its very inception, and the Christian world

-wallowed in the Egyptian darkness of ignorance and superstition till in

-the middle ages, the golden age, no king in Europe could read and write.

-

-Christ is the same as Agni, the sun god of the Aryans, who was called

-the Son of God and the Son of Man. The god Agni is represented by us by

-the idol, the Agnus Dei, the Ram God, that holds in his hoof a cross and

-some banner, perhaps the blood-stained banner of the Inquisition. Adam

-Kadmon, Enoch, Horus, Krishna, Ormazd, and Hermes, the patron of thieves

-and flocks, the son of Deus and Maia, these and many other gods are all

-identical with christ. Noah was the christ that came in the sign of the

-Waterman 25,868 years ago. In the Babylonian legend the deluge continued

-seven days, and the ship landed on Mt. Niser. This is a resurrection of

-the great god Dionysius or Bacchus, and the first thing he did when he

-got ashore was to get drunk. He is also Jehovah Nissi or the Egyptian

-god Osiris who was born on Mt. Nissa or Sinai in the month of Nisan or

-Easter.

-

-Sephir Toldos Jeshu, a Kabalist, says: “A virgin named Mariam, betrothed

-to one Johannan was outraged by another man named Joseph Panther. Her

-betrothed left her. The child born was Jesus, named Joshua, adopted by

-his uncle Rabbi Jehosuah. He was initiated into the secret doctrines by

-Rabbi Elhanan, a Kabalist, and then by the Egyptian priests, who

-consecrated him High Pontiff of the Universal Secret Doctrine. Upon his

-returning to Judea his learning and powers excited the jealousy of the

-rabbis, and they publicly reproached him with his origin and insulted

-his mother.”

-

-According to the Pretevangelium Jacobi, “From her third to her twelfth

-year Mary was in the Temple. When she became of nubile age, lest she

-should defile the Sanctuary of the Lord, she was committed to the

-guardianship of Joseph, an elderly man and a widower with a family. When

-the Virgin’s pregnancy was discovered, Joseph and she were brought

-before the high priest, and though asserting their innocence in all

-sincerity, were acquitted only after they had been tried with the water

-of the ordeal of the Lord.”—Ency. Brit. 15:590. Mary was then a virgin

-and ever after remained so, although she had other children.

-

-The author does not believe that either of the above passages refers to

-the Christian Jesus. He is an Egyptian or Hindu deity, not a Jew.

-

-The christs were all illegitimate. Their parents, the sun and moon,

-would have complied with the idiotic human laws if there had been any

-magistrate in Heaven to marry them. There was Asphalius of Greece, born

-of the Virgin Ethra out of wedlock. Then there are Romulus and Remus,

-alias Castor and Pollux or Gemini, the Twins of the zodiac. They were

-sons of a Vestal Virgin named Rhea. King Amulius, corresponding with

-Herod, commanded his servant to destroy the two children, but the

-servant put them in a trough or ark, and they floated on the river as

-Moses, who was also a christ, did in his ark, and as the males and

-females did in Noah’s Ark. Their mother claimed that their father was

-the god Mars. Unmarried ladies, in those halcyon days, always put their

-children up to the gods.—See Plutarch, 1:33.

-

-Christ is a mythical sun-god, a rebirth of the sun in a new sign of the

-zodiac. The Church Fathers, in localizing the Christ in the Holy Land,

-could claim that any Jesus of that region was the Son of God, either

-Jesus, the bandit of Galilee, or the one described above, as long as his

-name corresponded with the I E S of Egypt, and as long as he was dead

-and could not defend himself. According to Josephus, the Jesus that

-lived in the reign of King Agrippa and Herod the Tetrarch was Jesus of

-Galilee, the captain of a band of robbers, a wicked man, a seditious

-person and an innovator, the leader of a tumult of mariners and poor

-people. He sacked the temple at Samaria. See Life of Josephus, 5.

-

-Renan says that Philo, who died about 50 A. D., and who was born before

-Jesus, and who lived in Palestine during the alleged preaching of

-Christ, had never heard of him. Josephus does not mention a Christian

-sect at all. The Emperor Adrian called the Christians worshippers of

-Serapis, and that was probably the truth. Serapis is the Devil, with

-horns, Lord of the Underworld.

-

-Christna, Apollo, Zeus and others, like Christ, were good shepherds. The

-Hindus represent Christna as crucified on the cross between two thieves,

-with the nail marks in his hands, and with a crown of seven points to

-show that he is the seventh avatar. His father was a carpenter, and he

-slew the great serpent Caliva and was worshipped in India ages before

-the Christian Era.

-

-The doctrine of Christ and the atonement originated in heathendom. It

-came from the pagan sacrificers of human beings and the eaters of human

-flesh in human gore imbued. They took the doctrine from the Chaldean

-Kabala. It is a pagan myth. Bacchus or Dionysius was the god of the

-vine, and his worshippers drank his blood to wash their sins away. He

-was the son of Deus or Zeus and an earthly mother. He was slain or

-sacrificed at the winter solstice and went down into Hell. Hera, who

-corresponds with Herod, sought Bacchus to slay him. He was honored by

-festivals at Christmas, when the sun died, and at Easter when it was

-resurrected. His emblems were the bull, the ass and the goat. The

-Christians of Rome were ridiculed for worshipping an ass-headed god. The

-symbol of the Bacchic orgies is named Eva or Heva, identical with the

-serpent raised by the Hebrews in the wilderness. Heva means a female

-serpent and constitutes a part of god, the second part of the name

-Yaheva. The first part of that hermaphrodite god is Ya, the male, and

-the last part is Heva, the female, or serpent, or Devil.

-

-Christ not only never rose from the dead, but he never existed. The

-doctrine of vicarious atonement is a lie and a farce. The Christian’s

-hope of escaping Hell by cowardly allowing another to suffer for his

-sins, has taken wings and flown away.

-

-The Gnostics, one of the earliest Christian sects, formerly called

-Essenes, claimed that Christ was a phantom, that he was neither born nor

-suffered on the cross. See Book of All Religions, 213. Origen believed

-the same. He tells of the popular irrational Christianity based on the

-fictitious gospel history devised to assist the masses, who could not

-comprehend a spiritual christ.—Mystic Christianity, 211.

-

-Madam Blavatsky says that this abominable doctrine of the forgiveness of

-sins is the cause of three fourths of the crimes of so-called

-Christians. The murdered victim goes to Hell in the midst of his sins,

-but the murderer receives absolution and goes to Heaven and sits with

-Christ beside the Golden Throne. The Parsis say: “If any of you commit

-sin under the belief that he shall be saved by somebody, both the

-deceiver as well as the deceived shall be damned to the day of Rasla

-Khaz. There is no savior. In the other world you shall receive the

-return according to your actions. Your savior is your good deeds.” Plato

-says in 2-187: “Even if there are gods, they can be bribed by prayers

-and offerings, so it is better to be unjust and offer of the fruits of

-injustice to the gods. By our sinning and praying and praying and

-sinning, the gods will be propitiated, and we shall be forgiven.”

-

-The Jews offered seven lambs at the new moon because the Lamb came seven

-times. It is to be noted that they gave none of the offering to God

-except the refuse, the extremities and the fat and the lobe of the

-liver, but the priests had the breast and the right shoulder. The Lord

-and the mob were welcome to the offal.

-

-We are saved by the blood of christ or Priapus, but the Jews were saved

-by the blood of the circumcision of Abraham, who was also a christ.

-“Abraham was circumcised on the day of the atonement, and God looks that

-day annually on the blood of the covenant of our father Abraham’s

-circumcision as atoning for all our iniquities.”—Talmud Yalcut Chadish,

-fol. 121, sec. 3.

-

-When the young and beautiful philosopher, Hypatia, disclosed these

-sacred religious secrets in Egypt about 412 A. D., she was torn from her

-chariot by a Christian mob, dragged to a Christian church, stripped

-naked and ravished at the very feet of the idol of Christ, and then

-beaten to death by Peter, the Reader. Her body was cut into pieces, the

-flesh scraped from the bones with oyster shells, and the remnants cast

-into the fire by the order of the canonized saint, Bishop Cyril of

-Alexandria.—Ency. Brit. 12:596.

-

-A Nazar or Nazarene, according to Hosea, was one who had consecrated

-himself to Bosheth, (a shameful thing, a foul idol.) It was in Nazareth

-that the Nazarenes anciently held their Witches’ Sabbath. Bosher is the

-Hebrew name of the Tree of Infamy. The “Sod of the Kadishim,” Psalms,

-89:7, is rendered by the translators “Assembly of the Saints,” when it

-was in truth an orgy of the ladies devoted to the service of the Temple.

-Sod was the name given to the vile assemblies in the ancient Mysteries

-in Sodom, and the nature of the sacred ceremonies may be gathered from

-the name. They were the same as those of the ancient Christian Agape or

-Love Feast.

-

-It is claimed that Apollonius of Tyana was the original of Christ, for

-the former was worshipped in Rome in the third century as the savior of

-man, and that no such person as Jesus Christ was then known. There was a

-sect that worshipped the Hindu Christos. Their religion was a mixture of

-Buddhism and Platonism, and their chief symbol was the phallic cross

-within the circle. The Christian religion takes its name and symbols

-from this Hindu religion. See Antiquity Unveiled, 98. Lucian says that

-the Christians spoke of Apollonius, called in Romans Apollos, as a god

-and took him for a lawgiver, and honored him with the title of Master.

-

-Prior to the sixth Ecumenical Council, 680 A. D., the Christians

-worshipped an animal idol, the lamb on a cross, but it was found from

-ancient monuments that the pagans had worshipped the same idol. So the

-Council decreed that the figure of a man should be placed on the cross,

-Christ was not nailed to the cross until 680 A. D. and then by the

-Ecumenical Council.—Idem 161.

-

-The pagan priests, at a very early date in the present era, finding that

-they were losing their hold on the people, concocted from pagan

-originals a new religion called the Christian. As a sop to the depraved

-and besotted worshippers of virgin-born gods, they alleged that their

-god was born of the Virgin Mary, and they seized upon and falsified the

-Hindu gospels, containing the life of Buddha, till they were made to

-appear to apply to the life of Christ. In order to bolster up this foul

-imposition and conceal the origin of Christianity, they destroyed the

-records of Grecian, Egyptian and Roman civilization and sank the world

-in darkness for a thousand years, filling it with woe and bloodshed. The

-success of this crime against their fellowmen set back the hands of time

-two thousand years. See Doubts of Infidels.

-

-The doctrine of blood atonement came from Phoenicia, where they

-continually indulged in human sacrifice. In the event of an eclipse of

-the sun, the priests burned a man on a cross at the altar of the sun-god

-to avert the threatened calamity. “From the sixth hour there was

-darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.” And on these altars,

-2600 B. C., was I H S or I E S. As the E or H in Egyptian hieroglyphics

-is a circle, this sign was originally I O S. I represents the father

-god, and O the mother god, and S represents the son or serpent. The

-serpent was crucified on the cross by the Egyptians and Jews as a saving

-rite.

-

-At the church festival of Tezcatlipoca in Mexico, they chose a prisoner

-as the incarnate representative of god and placed a garland and an

-embroidered mantle upon him, as the Jews did on Christ. Then they led

-him to the temple, where the priest cut his heart out and held the

-sacred bleeding heart up to the sun, and his body was eaten by the

-church members, as we eat the body of our Savior.

-

-Rev. Robert Taylor says in his Diegesis: “Not a single passage written

-in the first century can be produced from any independent authority to

-show the existence of such a person as Jesus Christ or his disciples.”

-The silence of all contemporary writers respecting Jesus Christ is a

-notorious fact. Philo, Seneca, Plutarch, Juvenal, Virgil, Horace, Ovid

-and Lucian, who lived in that period, make no allusion to his works, nor

-even mention his name.—Doubts of Infidels, 66.

-

-The christ Prometheus died for the salvation of the world and was nailed

-on the cross many hundreds of years before the Christian Era. And the

-christ Esculapius, the Great Physician, healed the sick and raised the

-dead and died in the West and rose again in the East.

-

-Jonah was a christ or sun-god. The sign of the Goat in the Buddhist

-zodiac is represented by a leviathan or whale vomiting out the sacred

-Elephant, or sun, or Son of God. When the sun entered the sign of the

-Leviathan in December it was swallowed by the whale, but was vomited out

-again three days later on the 25th of December, when the sun commenced

-to return. Hence the story of Jonah and the whale, which has been so

-hard to swallow, and which has taxed our piety to the limit.

-

-Ies is the Phoenician name of the god Bacchus. Ies, or Iesu, or Jesus

-was stolen from the Phoenicians and Egyptians, and the god Christos was

-taken from the Hindus and thrown together into the melting pot of

-Potoman of Alexandria, and out came Jesus Christ. Potoman compiled the

-Christian religion from Hindu, Greek and Egyptian originals.

-

-If God made man in his own image, why does he have to be redeemed? It is

-true that man stubbed his toe and fell, but it was because he obeyed the

-command of God to increase and multiply. The Yogis claim that Christ was

-not virgin born, but was a virgin spirit split off of God and came to

-redeem the world. If he redeemed the world, how is it that the people

-are worse now than they ever were, that the history of his religion has

-been a history of depravity, vice, crime, murder and carnage, which has

-now culminated in a world-orgy of savagery, pillage and slaughter, of

-which the fiends in Hell would be incapable? How is it that the beasts,

-which have never been redeemed, the doves, the rabbits, the lambs, the

-deer, are far superior to us who were bought by the blood?

-

-

-

-

-                               CHAPTER IX

-

-                        Hell-fire and Brimstone.

-

-             You’ll burn in Hell ten thousand years,

-             In vain will be your cries and tears,

-             You’ll burn in Hell till ages meet,

-             And just begin to feel the heat.—Amasa Alden.

-

-

-We are in Hell now. Rabbi Eleasher says that “the demons who were cast

-out of Heaven and the descendants of the witless progeny of matter and

-spirit became in the course of time the men of our planet, after having

-passed through every form of every one of the elements.”

-

-Where did the Church dig up Hell? The Scandinavian Hell is not a place

-of punishment, but simply the abode of the dead. The dictionary says

-that Hades, the Hell of the Bible, is the abode of all the departed, the

-unseen spirit world. The Shoel of the Hebrews is the place of departed

-spirits, not a region of torment. The Underworld or Amenti, of the

-Egyptians, is a region of judgment and purification. The Onderah, the

-abyss of darkness of the Hindus, is an intermediate state or purgatory.

-Whence then came the dogma of Hell, that Archimedean lever of Christian

-theology, with which they have succeeded in holding in subjection the

-numberless millions of Christians for nineteen centuries.—Isis Unveiled.

-

-Here is where Eusebius and the other Biblical writers got Hell.

-According to Mahabad, the christ and Adam of the Parsees, who wrote all

-the laws of God, Hell is peopled with ants, serpents and scorpions,

-ignorant, sick and indigent men and irreligious philosophers, and on

-account of the detestable qualities of the later, the ants, serpents and

-scorpions pounce upon and torture them. This is the Hell of

-Hells.—Dabistan, 81.

-

-In the chart of the cosmogony of the Kabalists, representing their idea

-of the creation of the universe, the last and most insignificant

-creation is the earth, which they have labeled Hell, the abode of the

-Devil, the Kingdom of the Great Serpent according to the Buddhists.

-

-In the religious Mysteries, if the soul has attained the final knowledge

-of the heavenly and infernal mysteries, the gnosis, complete reunion

-with the spirit, and knows the Word, at the death of the body, it

-becomes a god, or is absorbed into the soul of the world, the astral

-light, and becomes one of the creative deities or Elohim. If not, it has

-its part in the lake of fire and brimstone (the elements), the second

-death. This death is the gradual dissolution of the astral body into its

-primal elements and the banishment of the human spirit or electron into

-chaos.

-

-Elephas Levi and many of the wise ones have said that the astral light

-is the Great Serpent or Devil, so we will go to the Devil anyway, no

-matter which path we pursue. What difference does it make whether we are

-united to the astral light or the material ether? All the atoms of all

-the elements have individual souls.

-

-Krishna, the Hindu christ, Horus, the Egyptian christ, the Scandinavian

-Thor, the Greek Apollo and St. Patrick, the Irish christ, are all

-represented as killing the Great Serpent, the Devil. All of the christs,

-including Buddha, Bacchus, Hercules, Orpheus and Askelapius, as well as

-Jesus, descended into Hell and ascended again the third day. According

-to the Gospel of Nicodemus, Christ found Adam, Moses, David, Isaiah and

-all the other saints there, and as they had been burning in Hell several

-thousand years, their wings were pretty well singed and they were badly

-mussed up, but Christ took them by the hands and led them up to the

-Hebrew heaven, where the three balls are worshipped, together with the

-ass-headed god. The Devil had no one left to rule over except the

-depraved, uncircumcised gentiles and the elemental demons. The Gentiles

-cannot get past the gates of Tophet, but must linger for a time, and

-half a time, and ten thousand times while they do battle with the

-phantoms of Hell and wrestle with the Serpent of the Great Abyss.

-

-“The Presbyterian clergy of Scotland delighted in telling their hearers

-that they would be roasted in great fires and hung up on hooks by their

-tongues. They were to be lashed with scorpions and see their companions

-writhing and howling around them. They were to be thrown into boiling

-oil and scalding lead. A river of fire and brimstone broader than the

-earth was prepared for them, their bones, their lungs and their liver

-were to boil but never be consumed, and while worms were gnawing at

-their bodies, they were to be surrounded by devils mocking and making

-pastime of their pains, the torment to be varied in its character as

-well as eternal in its duration. Hell was created before man came into

-the world, the Almighty having spent his previous leisure in preparing

-this place of torment, so that when the human race appeared, it might be

-ready for their reception.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 2-293.

-

-Hell is the lowest of the astral planes, in the immediate atmosphere of

-the earth, where the most of us go. Heaven is the highest of the

-spiritual planes, where God lives, but as nobody to speak of ever goes

-there, no one on the astral ever saw God or can make affidavit that he

-exists, and any spirit that claims that he has seen God is either

-deceiving us or is himself mistaken. He may have seen some astral idol,

-formed from the astral substance by the imagination and worshipped by

-the religion-besotted spirits. “The aura of the spirits in the lowest

-astral plane is the same as that of wicked human beings, a dark, cloudy

-or smoky emanation, streaked with the red flames of anger and passion.

-Deep shades of color whirl and swirl in the depths, lightning-like

-flashes shoot forth, and great bodies of lurid, smoky, clouds fly on the

-surface, having all the appearance of an inferno, and the region itself

-has the same aura, derived from the combined auras of its inhabitants.

-It is not surprising that the witches and wizards of the Bible, who

-could see by clairvoyant vision, described it as a Hell of fire and

-brimstone.”—Human Aura, 45.

-

-According to the religion of Zoroaster, “Hell is the House of

-Destruction. It is the abode chiefly of the priests of bad religions,”

-that is, all religions except the Persian, but this is not to be taken

-seriously, as every religion is a joke. Here we have the original

-doctrine of the resurrection of the body, which our Christian ministers

-have had the consummate nerve to preach even here in this age of the

-world.

-

-Mark Twain says in “The Mysterious Stranger”: “A God who mouths justice

-and mercy and invented Hell, mouths golden rules and forgiveness and

-invented Hell, who mouths morals to other people and has none himself,

-who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all, who created man without

-invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s acts upon

-man, instead of placing it where it belongs upon himself.” The trouble

-with Mark was that he accepted as true all that silly superstition, all

-those puerile fairy tales, all those black lies from the Pit of Hell

-written and taught by the old priests and prophets. God never created

-the human race, he never made Hell. This cruel remark of Mark is

-libelous, almost bordering on blasphemy.

-

-Read what the insane Church Fathers said: “There in Hell the intelligent

-fire burns the limbs and restores them, feeds on them and nourishes

-them.”—Felix.

-

-The proud monarchs and magistrates (and everybody but the Christians)

-shall liquefy in the fierce flames of Hell.—Tertullian.

-

-We shall be compensated by a perpetual spectacle of our persecutors in

-an ever-burning Gehenna being devoured by living flames.—Cyprian.

-

-Ling or the Word is the Commander-in-chief of the universe.—Clement.

-

-Every sinner kindles for himself the flame of his own fire, and is not

-plunged into some fire kindled by another.—Origen.

-

-The wicked will be provided not with the old earthly body, but with an

-indestructible body capable of holding out forever against everlasting

-fire.—Lactantius.

-

-The whole mass of the human race is condemned. If we can pray the wicked

-out of Hell, we can pray the devils out.—Augustine.

-

-Everybody, infants included, go to Hell, unless they are

-baptized.—Ambrose.

-

-There shall be eternal torments for all devils and skeptics.—Jerome.

-

-Votive offerings by the living will reduce the torments of the dead. The

-blessed shall rejoice over the punishment of the damned.—Aquinas.

-

-

-

-

-                               CHAPTER X.

-

-                               The Devil.

-

-

-Christ overcame the Great Serpent, the Devil, and the Irish Bacchus, St.

-Patrick, drove all the snakes out of Ireland. The drunken Bacchus, whose

-Saturnalia was held on the 17th of March, when they poured out libations

-to him, was canonized and is now St. Bacchus, and his coffin and relics,

-endowed with magical and miraculous powers, were exhibited at Rome

-according to Isis Unveiled, 1:160.

-

-Deus was Dyaus of the old Aryan or earlier Persian religion. Dyaus means

-to shine, and was a name of the sun. The followers of Zoroaster asserted

-that Dyaus was the Devil, and if they were right, it follows that Deus

-is the Devil. In this connection read the Lord’s Prayer, in which the

-ignorant worshipper endeavors to persuade the Lord not to lead him into

-temptation. According to the writers of the Bible, who were probably

-liars, He hardened the heart of Pharaoh, commanded the Israelites to

-steal, put an evil spirit into Saul and sent lying messages to the

-prophets. In Samuel it says that the Lord moved David to number Israel,

-but according to Chronicles it was the Devil who put him up to it. The

-words divine and devil are from Deva, the shining one, the Hindu god of

-light. Light is also luc, and Lucifer is a sun-god identical with

-Yahvah. The worshippers of Dyaus said that Ahura Mazda, of the

-Zoroastrians was the Devil. Ahura Mazda means I Am the I Am, and he is

-our God, the supreme God of the Hebrews, Kether, the father of Jehovah.

-According to the early Christians, the Gnostics and Nazarenes, the

-creator was Ilda Baoth, but in the Gospel of Nicodemus Ilda Baoth is

-Satan. Aaron sacrificed human beings to Azazel, identical with Moloch or

-the Devil. The Bible says that “man shall devote unto the Lord of all

-that he hath, both of man and beast. None devoted shall be redeemed, but

-shall surely be put to death.” We conclude that god and the Devil are

-one, that Brahma, Buddha, Dyaus, Ahura Mazda, Baal, Osiris, Jove,

-Bacchus, Christ, Priapus, Adonis, Deva and Devil are different names of

-the same god, and that god is a myth.

-

-The Devil is an emanation of god. He is Typhon, also called Sat and Seth

-in the Egyptian religion. The Ency. Brit. says that he is a brother or

-son of Osiris, and we have shown that Osiris and god are one, so we

-conclude that the Devil is the son of god as claimed in Job, 1:6. The

-Salvation Army says: “You must be a lover of the lord if you want to go

-to Heaven when you die.” So you must love the Devil and all these beasts

-of pagan gods, or you will have to shovel coal while the endless years

-of eternity roll.

-

-The Pentagram, by the power of which Solomon could summon the high gods

-to his assistance or call up the goblins damned, represents God when one

-horn of the star is in the ascendent or at the top, but when the two

-horns are in the ascendent, it represents the Devil or the goat. When

-Solomon summoned Gabriel to help him capture a new girl, the head of the

-star, on which is the mystic eye, was pointed toward the altar of

-evocation. But if he wished to raise the Devil, the horns of the goat

-were pointed toward the altar. In the infernal invocation Solomon wore a

-leaden cap, on which were the signs of the Moon, Venus and Saturn. He

-had two candles of human fat in a crescent candlestick, a copper vase

-holding the blood of the human victim, a censer containing incense

-moistened with the blood of a goat, four nails from the coffin of an

-executed criminal, the head of a black cat which has been fed on human

-flesh for five days, a bat drowned in blood, the horns of an immoral

-goat, the scull of a parricide. Then Solomon says in the evocation of

-the Devil: “By Adonai Elohim (the Creator), Adonai Jehovah (the Son),

-Adonai Sabbaoth (the Mother), by the womb of the Mother Adonai, by the

-Word of the Python and the Mystery of the Salamanders, by the Conclave

-of the Sylphs and the Gnomes, by the Demons of God in Heaven and

-Alamousin and Gibor, Come! Come! Come!”

-

-On the Pentagram is the mystic word יחוח, Yahvah, the spelling of which

-indicates that it represents two hermaphrodite gods. יח, Yah, is the

-good god, and וח, Vah, is the god of evil. The good god is represented

-in a pack of cards by the king of hearts, the god of love, and his wife,

-the queen of diamonds. And the hermaphrodite god of evil is represented

-by the king of spades and his wife, Lilith, the queen of clubs.

-Aristotle said that Jehovah was Ormazd, the god of light, and Pluto, the

-god of darkness. Jehovah is the God of Wisdom, so is the Egyptian

-serpent god, called Sat or Satan.

-

-The serpent god is the astral light, the magnetic current. The priests

-by their great will power could direct this current at pleasure and

-perform the wonders and miracles that held enthralled their besotted

-devotees. They claimed that they were serpents because the serpent god

-magnetism permeated their bodies. A manuscript found among the Toltecs

-of Mexico asserted that they were descended from the house of Israel.

-Voltan, the Mexican demigod, says that he is the son of the snakes. The

-hierophants of Egypt and Babylon called themselves the sons of the

-serpent god. The chief priest of the serpent god of the Mexicans says:

-“I am a snake myself.” The Druids of Britain used to say: “I am a

-serpent, I am a Druid.”—Isis Unveiled.

-

-Cneph or Cohen Eph (divine serpent) of Egypt was the supreme god, the

-flying dragon, the divine spirit permeating all creation, like the

-serpent god of the Buddhists. This spirit is electricity. The Ophites,

-Christian Gnostics, claimed that the serpent that tempted Eve was Jesus

-Christ, the Great Architect of the Universe, or Cohen Eph. Eve

-represented matter, and the spirit permeating matter produces living

-beings.

-

-The astral light is both god and the Devil, the creator and the

-destroyer and also the Nirvana of the Buddhists. It is the Ah of the

-Hindus, or Iah or Eh Ei Eh of the Hebrews. It is life or the life-giving

-fluid. It is the Od and Ob of Moses and the Kabalists. When it acts on

-those that are drawn within its current it is the Ob or Python. Moses

-was determined to exterminate those witches who, sensitive to its

-influence, allowed themselves to fall under the control of the vicious

-beings which move in the astral waves like fish in the water.—Isis

-Unveiled, 1-158. Porphery says that “these beings are mischievous and

-deceitful, though some are gentle and harmless, but so weak as to have

-the greatest difficulty in communicating with mortals. Their powers of

-reasoning are in a latent state, and therefore they themselves

-irresponsible.” But St. Augustine says: “These spirits are deceitful

-through malice. They pass themselves off for gods and for the souls of

-the defunct.” St. Jerome says that some of these elementary spirits or

-satyrs, with the legs and tails of goats, were exhibited at Alexandria,

-and one of them was pickled and sent to the Emperor Constantine, which

-he highly appreciated, as he was usually in the same condition. The

-Devil says, according to Edgar Allan Poe: “In a climate so sultry as

-mine it is frequently impossible to keep a spirit alive for more than

-two or three hours, and unless pickled immediately (and a pickled spirit

-is not good eating) they will smell.”

-

-They called out sixty thousand militia in Cevennes, France, in 1700 to

-drive the Devil out of the boys and girls and babes at the breast who

-prophesied in pure French, a language unknown to them. The Prior

-reported to Rome that the Devil was so powerful that no torture and no

-amount of exorcism is able to dislodge him. He says he closed their

-hands on burning coals, and they were not even singed, that he wrapped

-their bodies in cotton soaked with oil and set them on fire and could

-not even blister their skins, that balls were shot at them and found

-flattened between the skin and clothes.

-

-Perhaps the greatest number of miracles ever performed in the world were

-pulled off by the Devil at the tomb of Abbe Paris from 1727 to 1749. The

-sick were cured, the deaf made to hear and the blind to see. Often a

-young girl among the convulsionaries would bend back into an arc, her

-loins supported by the sharpened point of an iron rod, and beg to be

-pounded with a fifty pound stone suspended from the ceiling. The stone

-was allowed to fall repeatedly with all its weight upon her abdomen, and

-the girl enjoyed it and cried for more, and no injury was found upon her

-person. When violent blows were struck with a sledge-hammer upon a drill

-held against her stomach she cried out: “O! how delightful, that does me

-good. Strike twice as hard if you can.”—Isis Unveiled.

-

-

-

-

-                               CHAPTER XI

-

-                              Life Cells.

-

-

-I Am the I Am, the Hebrew God, is supposed by Christians to be the First

-Cause, but the assumption of a first cause is quite unnecessary, and

-further, if you postulate a creative god, some impertinent person might

-ask you who made God. It is just as well to start with matter, in which

-mind and energy are inherent, which is eternal, infinite, immortal,

-self-existent and sustaining, requiring no supreme power as a basis or

-background, as set forth in the Sankhya System of the Hindus. See Phil.

-& Relig. of India, 55.

-

-The attraction or love of one mass of matter for another is the energy.

-It is that love that creates all forms. The atoms go a-chasing after

-other atoms, even as you and I. There can be no attraction without mind.

-Anaxagoras and Empedocles believed in a dualism of mind and matter. The

-latter says: “The periods of the formation of the world depend upon the

-alternate prevalence of love and hate. During certain periods all

-heterogeneous atoms are separated from each other by hate, during others

-they are everywhere united by love.”

-

-Haeckel says: “These three fundamental attributes, matter, force and

-sensation, are found inseparably united throughout the whole universe in

-every atom and every molecule.”

-

-Edgar Allan Poe says: “That which is not matter is not at all. The

-ultimate unparticled matter not only permeates all things but impels all

-things. This matter is God. What men attempt to embody in the word

-‘thought’ is this matter in motion. The unparticled matter, or God, in

-quiescence is what men call mind. The motion of the unparticled matter

-is the universal thought of the universal mind. This thought creates.

-All things are but the thought of God. For new individualities gross

-matter is necessary. To create individual, thinking beings, it was

-necessary to incarnate portions of the Divine Mind. Thus man is

-individualized. Divested of corporate investiture, he were God.”

-

-According to the Ionic philosophy matter is by nature endowed with life,

-and life is inseparably connected with matter.—Ueberweg’s Hist. of

-Philosophy, 1-32.

-

-It is said that in the beginning a male electron or spirit, or purusha,

-or soul, from the spirit principle of the universe, becoming involved in

-the material ether, formed a vortex, about which the female or material

-electrons of the ether revolved, thus producing an atom, the basis of

-all visible forms. The electron attracts the particles of matter in the

-ether as a magnet attracts steel. The electrons are called units of

-electricity, and there are perhaps a thousand in an atom. The space

-between these ions is comparatively as great as the space between the

-planets of our solar system. Leucippus, of Abdera, says that souls are

-round atoms.

-

-The religious claim that the Divine Thought or Word originated the

-vortex movement. As John did not care to proclaim that his god was Ling,

-which he had stolen from the Hindus, he called it the Word, another

-meaning of Ling, from Ling comes linguist. Word is the exoteric meaning

-designed for fools, and the other is the esoteric or hidden meaning

-known only to the initiates. I think that the Christians are in error in

-claiming John’s god as their own, but amid such a flock of gods the

-confusion is not surprising.

-

-“New Light has arisen, coming from Heaven, it assumed a mortal form.

-Virgin receive God in thy bosom, and the Word flew into the womb.

-Becoming incarnate in time, and animated by her body, it was found in

-mortal image, and a boy was created.”—Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, 17.

-Christna or the Word, the Hindu savior, like Christ was a shepherd, and

-he became entangled with the shepherdesses. He was born in the cave of

-Venus, as all Simon-pure christs have to be, and King Kamsa, in seeking

-to kill him, ordered the destruction of all male infants. He also had

-two fathers, God and Vasu Deva, the Earth god or Joseb. He and the god

-Vishnu were one.—Phil. & Relig. of India, 278.

-

-The Hindus claim that the akasa or astral light, or Brahma,

-(electricity) originated the vortex movement that formed the atoms.

-Akasa is the source of life, the reservoir of all energy, the

-all-directing and omnipotent god. It was the indispensable agent of

-every magical performance, and the Brahmans said that they had to stir

-up Brahma in order to perform a trick in magic to delude their devotees.

-Madam Blavatsky says: “As God creates so can man create. By the action

-of the will power on the atoms he can call objective forms into being.

-The atoms are like automatic workmen moved by the influx of the will

-directed upon them.” “Every motion we make, every word we utter gives an

-impulse to the ether and thus creates atoms.”—Edgar Allan Poe.

-

-Aristotle says: “The world always was and always will be. The ether

-fills the celestial spaces, and of it the spheres and stars are formed.”

-The atoms combine to form molecules, and these, being attracted

-together, form the gases of which nebulae are composed. These nebulae

-follow the same circular movement that prevails in the atoms, and the

-result of this movement is a solar system, the nucleus of which becomes

-the sun. The rings that separate from the main body in this revolution

-eventually break up and form planets. When these planets cool, we find

-all the atomic souls either in the water or imprisoned in the rocks or

-in the central fire. The sea beats up against the rocks, and the rains

-descend upon and disintegrate them and thus release the souls that were

-imprisoned there in the process of involution. Now they commence to

-evolve toward what the egotistic have termed man’s high estate.

-

-Yogi Ramacharaka says: “The Yogi teaching informs us that even in the

-molten mass there were elementary forms that were to become the

-ancestral forms of the later living beings. From these elementary forms

-there gradually evolved, as the earth cooled and solidified, other

-forms, and so on until at last the first living form manifested. The

-lowest forms of what we call life were evolved from forms of crystal

-life, which indeed they very much resemble.”

-

-Haeckel, the world’s greatest scientist, says: “Man descends immediately

-from the ape, and secondarily from a long line of lower vertebrates back

-to the Silurian fishes. The lowest man appeared on the earth about three

-million years ago.”—Riddle of the Universe, 82. Anaximander, of Miletus,

-says: “Living beings arose by gradual development out of the elementary

-moisture under the influence of heat. We land animals had in the

-beginning the form of fishes.”—Ueberweg, 1:35.

-

-The atoms combining by their own desire and will formed a molecule, and

-the molecules by their own volition combined to form a life cell, our

-earliest ancestor, a minute, animate mass of protoplasm, the lowest form

-of animal life, born in the slum of the ocean bed millions of years ago.

-Myriads of these life cells form the human body. Each cell is a distinct

-individual, having brain, mind and soul. Haeckel says that the

-primordial living substance is plasm. We can live only by eating other

-living beings or plasm, that is, by cannibalism. Plants create living

-plasm out of alleged non-living matter, they form carbo-hydrates, and

-from these form plasm by a combination with water, carbolic acid,

-ammonia and nitric acid. We claim to have souls, but deny them to the

-plants, the divine creators whose chemical laboratories, the cells, are

-beyond human comprehension.

-

-The cells arrange themselves in the embryo in the form of a human being

-by their own will. “They use the materials which are at hand,

-fabricating organs for themselves by instinct, and in the appointed hour

-are born in the shape which they have formed for themselves.”—Enoch, ch.

-14. The human embryo in its development passes through all the forms

-through which the race has struggled in its evolution from stone,

-through the primordial cell, the worm, the fish, the saurian and

-gorilla. In the last stage, that of the gorilla, the embryo is entirely

-covered with hair like our beloved ancestors, and sometimes development

-is arrested at this point and a hairy child is born occasionally with a

-tail.

-

-The scientists have discovered in the cell body a god more potent than

-any known deity and have named it centrosome. It is a being of stellar

-form, located just above the nucleus or nerve centre of the cell. It is

-a creator whose magic far excels the feats of gods or men. It divides

-one living being into two, splitting the brain and the body of the cell

-in halves in such a manner that the two individuals produced are the

-exact duplicates of the parent cell in form and character. The cell

-brain matter, called cromatin, is composed of strings of very minute

-granules, termed cromosome, which are supposed to contain all the

-hereditary traits. The division of each one of these cromosomes into

-equal halves gives to the individuals produced a similar character. The

-centrosome is one in the beginning, but before dividing the cell it

-divides itself into two persons, so that one of the centrosomes may

-accompany each of the two cells. Each centrosome seizes one half of the

-brain of the parent cell thus divided and draws it to one side of the

-cell to form the nucleus of one of the new cells. Then the whole body of

-the cell is divided in the centre.—Story of the Living Machine, 100.

-When the centrosome divides the cell, two cells are produced capable of

-reproducing themselves in like manner. Prof. A. Dastre says that “under

-suitable circumstances the lowest animated forms are immortal.”

-

-Our soul is formed by the combination of the souls of the two germ cells

-from which the embryo originated. We existed in our parents prior to our

-advent here and in all of our ancestors for 500,000,000 years back, more

-or less. The conscious matter that constitutes me, the cromatin, existed

-in every one of my ancestors since we were washed out of the igneous

-rocks or spawned in the ocean depths. Jack London says: “I did not begin

-when I was born. I have been growing, developing through incalculable

-myriads of milleniums. All these experiences of all these lives and of

-countless other lives have gone to the making of the soul-stuff that is

-I.”

-

-Elephas Levi says: “The millions of germ cells that fail to become human

-beings are transformed into phantoms or larvae. These larvae possess

-aerial bodies formed from the steam of blood. For this reason they seek

-out spilt blood, and were formerly nourished by the smoke of sacrifices.

-The cohesion of the parts of these phantastic organisms is so feeble

-that they fear a strong wind, large fires, and above all the points of

-swords. They are vampires.” This accounts for the craving of the gods

-for blood sacrifices. The spirits and phantoms were mistaken for gods by

-the drunken prophets.

-

-“The cells are spheroids and they are men in embryo,” says Plato. “God

-caused the universe to move with a circular motion and created original

-man as a perfect circle. The sexes were originally three in number, man,

-woman and hermaphrodite, and they had two faces and four arms and four

-legs, but Zeus cut them in two. After the division the two parts of man,

-each desiring the other half, came together and threw their arms about

-one another eager to grow into one. Each of us when separate is but the

-indenture of a man, having one side only like a flat-fish, and he is

-always looking for his other half.”—Plato, 1-483.

-

-The intelligence of the cells has been clearly established by

-overwhelming proofs. An egg or ovum is at first a small fertilized cell,

-and in its development or transformation into an embryo, it is at first

-divided into several cells, to wit, the head cell, the body cell, the

-tail cell and the food cells. Prof. Oppel, in his experiments in

-embryology, separated these cells, removing them from their proper

-positions, but the cells so removed, traveled about trying first one

-place and then another until they usually found their proper positions

-and there joined the body and grew thereon, producing a perfect animal.

-If they made a mistake and joined the body in the wrong place, a monster

-was produced.

-

-Furthermore, a scientist produced a mushroom-shaped being by subjecting

-metallic salts to the action of a galvanic current. The particles of the

-metal gathered around the pole of the magnet in the shape of a mushroom.

-This thing was a living being, with alimentary canal in its stem,

-through which it drew its nourishment and added to its growth. It was

-only necessary that a current of life or electricity be introduced among

-the particles to cause them to assume the form of a living organism. The

-metallic tree is produced by the same means. A copper wire and a piece

-of zinc are suspended in a bottle of a solution of acetate of lead, and

-the particles of lead gather about the copper wire and put forth

-branches, limbs and foliage.—Yogi Ramacharaka.

-

-Each atom of matter, each molecule and every life cell, of which man is

-composed, has a soul of its own. And it is claimed that beside the

-individual cell souls, man not only has a communal soul in his brain,

-but a soul in his Solar Plexus. After a frog is beheaded, if a drop of

-acid is placed on his body, he will wipe it off with his foot.

-

-The development of animals out of frogs and men out of animals was held

-by Anaximenes 600 B. C., and the evolution of species was an accepted

-doctrine before the flood. In the Hindu books it is written: “When the

-world had issued out of the darkness, the subtle, elementary principles

-produced the vegetal seed, which animated first the plants, from the

-plants life passed into fantastical bodies which were born in the

-waters, then through a series of forms and various animals it reached

-man.”—Bhagavata.

-

-Kapella, an Aryan sage, denied the existence of a first cause, claiming

-that everything in nature found itself developed only in consequence of

-material fatal forces. The ancient Kabalists said: “A stone becomes a

-plant, a plant a beast, a beast a man, a man a spirit, and the spirit a

-god.”

-

-

-

-

-                              CHAPTER XII.

-

-                        Magic and Devil Worship.

-

-

-Elephas Levi claimed that the attraction and repulsion of the atoms is

-caused by the astral light. “There exists an agent which is material and

-spiritual, a universal plastic medium, a common receptacle of the

-vibrations of motions and the images of forms, a fluid and a force. By

-means of this force all nervous apparatuses secretly communicate with

-each other, thence come sympathy and antipathy, thence dreams and second

-sight. The existence and use of this force is the great secret of

-practical magic. The astral light attracts, repels, vivifies and

-destroys all things under the influence of powerful wills. It can be

-directed by the leaders of souls. By means of this agent we can

-correspond instantaneously from one end of the earth to the other,

-discern what is taking place at the antipodes, heal or hurt at a

-distance. The Gnostics called it the burning body of the Holy Ghost.

-Life is produced by the action of the astral light on the ether or

-matter. In man it forms the astral body, it is the first envelope of the

-soul, and it is by combining with the most subtil fluids that it forms

-this etherized body or phantom. The astral body is nourished by the

-astral light, as the physical body is nourished by the earth. The astral

-light is saturated with souls, which it releases in the incessant

-generation of existences, and whose imperfect wills can be dominated and

-employed by stronger ones. The elementary spirits are like children,

-they torment those who concern themselves about them. It is these that

-produce the raps on the walls and furniture.”—Mysteries of Magic, 65.

-

-“An individual can leave the physical body and actually travel on either

-the material or astral plane in the astral body. Many persons are able

-to travel thus in their ordinary sleep.”—Astral World, 25.

-

-All magic is religious, having been invented by the priests or Magi. It

-is said that the religious bodies copied their demonology from the

-Kabala of the Jews, and that the latter borrowed their system of theurgy

-and theology from the Egyptian and Babylonian priests. If any one

-outside of the religious bodies started any opposition devil-worship,

-they were promptly burnt. All the magic rituals are derived from the Key

-of King Solomon, claimed to have been found in his sepulchre at

-Jerusalem.

-

-In the Magic Grimore, ascribed to Pope Honorius, he says: “We have seen

-with what power Jesus commanded demons, which power was transmitted to

-St. Peter, and, as the lawful successors of St. Peter, having the keys

-of the Kingdom of Heaven, and desiring to share the power of invoking

-and commanding spirits, which has been reserved unto us alone, with our

-brethren, we have included in this Bull the manner of their invocation.

-And because it is meet that the ministers of the altar should have

-authority over rebellious spirits, we hereby depute unto them all the

-powers which we possess in virtue of the Holy Apostolic Chair.”—Book of

-Black Magic, 100.

-

-In invoking the Devil or other choice spirits, it is necessary to murder

-some being. If the conjurer cannot or dare not murder a human being, he

-takes an innocent virgin lamb and cuts its throat and tears off its skin

-to use for a magic apron or parchment. Instead of the skin of a lamb,

-the caul of a new-born child may be used.—Idem.

-

-The sign manual of the demon Valefor, the patron of thieves, contains

-two Maltese crosses rampant and three links. As Solomon and his

-entourage worshipped the demon Astaroth, they probably stole from him

-the two pillars at the door of the Temple and the double triangle above

-them, for they appeared in the seal of that spirit. There are two or

-more crosses in each of the seals or signatures of Solomon’s seventy two

-black fiends. Their motto is, “In this sign we conquer.”

-

-Solomon imprisoned the seventy two devils, with all their legions, in a

-brazen vessel and sank it in a deep lake in Babylon. The Babylonians,

-thinking that there must be a great treasure in the vessel, took it out

-of the lake and broke it open, when out flew the chief devils

-immediately, with all their legions following them.—See Waite’s Book of

-Black Magic.

-

-We still worship pagan gods. The Hexagram, or double triangle of

-Solomon, is still used by different sects and societies. On it is the

-name of Agla, a pagan sun-god, and also the name of Tau, the Egyptian

-bull christ Taurus, with the pagan symbol, the Tau cross. The god A. and

-O., Alpha and Omega, with which the Hexagram is adorned, is a foul

-Babylonian idol, the same as IO. It has been represented that the Devil

-falls prostrate before the cross. But, to tell the truth, Lucifer uses

-the sign himself, also the double triangle and the single triangle in

-his signature. And Belial has four crosses by which he lies.

-

-When a sorcerer conjures up one of the seventy two demons, he must draw

-the double seal of Solomon (double triangle) and the Pentagram,

-(five-pointed star) on a parchment of calfskin. These must be worn on

-his white vestment, together with the seal of the spirit invoked. And

-the secret seal of Solomon (the pillar standing in a circle) must be

-drawn with the blood of a black, virgin cock on virgin parchment. This

-is part of the conjuration: “I invoke and conjure you, O Spirit, by God

-the Father, by God the son, by God the Holy Ghost, by the Most Glorious

-and Holy Mother of God, by her Sacred Heart, by her Blessed Milk, by the

-Power and Victory of Hell, by the Ministers of the Tartarean Seat. I

-exorcise thee in the names of El, Elohim, Zabaoth &c. do thou forthwith

-appear. I conjure thee by the Living and True God Heliorem (Helios, the

-sun god) and Tetragrammaton Jehovah (the God of four letters). Come! I

-Adonai Saday, King of Kings, commands thee.” See Lesser Key of King

-Solomon, 55.

-

-There is no use in trying to invoke spirits or perform any tricks in

-black magic unless you have confessed and received the Holy Communion,

-and you must pray for assistance to the pagan gods Adonai, Eloim, Ariel,

-Yahveh and Gibor, and fast, and abstain from the society of females for

-nine days, and take a bath, and wear the garb of a priest or a Levite,

-and you must have the sacred Masons’ implements, the sword, the staff,

-the rod, the sickle and the poniard. See Waite’s Book of Black Magic.

-

-That part of nature called the astral light or universal spirit was

-virtually the supreme god of all religions. It was the Heaven or Nirvana

-of the Buddhist, (where the soul is blown out like a lamp some

-believed.) When he attained to perfection and was reabsorbed in this

-godhead, he had stormed the heights of Heaven and attained eternal

-bliss. He considered that his spirit would no longer be subjected to

-endless incarnations in material forms. But there is no knowing when it

-would again by choice or compulsion enter the ether and form another

-atom and again commence the unavoidable cycle.

-

-All the vile religions have scared the human race into ca’niption fits

-by their assertion that our souls will be lost unless we bow down to

-their priests and worship their idols. According to the original parent

-religion, the Hindu, if we obey the priests faithfully, we will go to

-Nirvana and become a creator or electron, or elementary spirit. And all

-the authorities, both pagan and Christian, agree that the elementary

-spirits are mischievous, wicked entities. It would be better to lose our

-souls, for in that case they are banished into the ether or chaos and

-become the nucleus of a material atom. If we go to Nirvana, we are one

-step farther removed from the ultimate goal of all the ambitions of all

-the heavenly electrons and material atoms, the supreme pinnacle of

-attainment, man’s high estate, which is greater than that of the gods.

-

-The Theosophists revel in the mystic and occult. If they can construct a

-sentence that no one can understand, and that they do not know the

-meaning of themselves, they are in the seventh heaven of delight, their

-wisdom borders on the Divine. Stating their doctrine of transmigration

-in plain language: God sits at his desk in Heaven, with a great lot of

-pigeonholes before him, in each one of which is a soul in a state of

-coma. When he receives a wireless from the earth that Pat and Biddie

-McGee have formed in their marital relationship a psychic vortex, or

-soul vortex, he makes a grab at the pigeonholes and lights perhaps on

-the soul of Pythagoras and sticks it into the new-born embryo, which

-already has a soul, and there is no room for any other. See

-“Spermatozoa,” Stand. Dic., and note those very energetic individuals in

-a frantic race to enter the ovum and blossom out as human beings. You

-will then realize that the child already has a very lively soul,

-provided by nature, and there is no occasion for any doped soul,

-supplied by any idiotic human plan.

-

-“The astral light keeps an unmutilated record of all that was, that is,

-or ever will be. The minutest acts of our lives are imprinted on it, and

-even our thoughts rest photographed on its eternal tablets. It is the

-Book of Life, it is the memory of God. If the medium or subject’s sight

-is ably directed by the mesmerizer, magician or spirit, the light must

-yield up its most secret records to our scrutiny.”—Astral World. It is

-claimed that each person’s atmosphere in the astral light is peopled

-with the images of his or her immediate family, thus accounting for the

-assertions of the mediums that they see the spirits of our lost ones.

-

-Swedenborgians claimed that the human body is sometimes abandoned by the

-soul in consequence of overpowering fright, grief, despair or sickness,

-and that we encounter every day such living corpses. Into these bodies

-may enter the soul of an adept sorcerer or some earth-bound, disembodied

-soul. In insanity the astral soul is partly paralyzed, bewildered, and

-subject to the influence of every passing spirit of any sort, or it has

-departed forever, and the body is taken possession of by some vampire or

-human soul near its own dissolution, and clinging desperately to earth,

-whose sensual pleasures it may enjoy for a brief season longer by this

-expedient.

-

-The ancients claimed that the soul was located in the solar plexus, and

-it was asserted that they could read, hear, see and smell through the

-navel. In our vermiform stage of development before evolution had

-supplied us with heads, the soul was perhaps in the stomach, but it may

-have moved since. Plato says that the divine part of the soul is located

-in the head. Haeckel says that the human soul is a combination of the

-souls of all the cells of the body. It is impossible to destroy any

-simple substance, and if it affords you any comfort, you can assume that

-the soul or ego is an indestructible electron. The Stoics claimed that

-the soul is in the heart, and that although it outlives the body, it is

-yet perishable and can only endure at the longest till the termination

-of the world period, 4,320,000,000 years. Epicurus claimed that “nothing

-that exists will ever cease to exist. Atoms exist from all eternity, and

-worlds were formed by their vortical motion. The soul is material and

-composed of exceedingly fine atoms, and is dispersed through the whole

-body. The rational soul is in the breast.” Stephanus, of Alexandria,

-says that “copper is like a man, it has a soul and body.” Yoga

-Ramacharaka says that “iron is alive and may be killed by poison.”

-

-“Transmigration of the soul takes place in all flesh, in beasts,

-reptiles and fowls. For one form of uncleanness the soul will pass into

-a Gentile, for another into a mule, for others into an ass, a woman, a

-bat, a she-mule or a camel.”—Kabala Nishmath Chaim, Ch. 13, No. 1. It

-sometimes happens that one sacrifices an animal with a human soul in it.

-Therefore the slaughtering knife must be without defect, and the

-slaughter must needs be delicately done to avoid cutting the gizzard out

-of the human soul. “The soul of a murderer is transmigrated into water.

-Let no man drink from a running stream, lest the soul of a wicked sinner

-pass into him.”—Kabala Emeh Hamelech, fol. 153, col. 1.

-

-“By a combination of the letters of the ineffable name Rava once created

-a man and sent him to Rav. Zera. The man being unable to reply when

-spoken to, the Rabbi said to him: ‘Thou art a creation of the company

-(of necromancers) return to thy dust.’ By the same means a Rabbi created

-pumpkins, melons, deers and roes.”—Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrim, ch. 7.

-

-The soul, called Psyche, when she is at home, lives in that part of the

-brain called the Medulla Oblongata, and the spirit, called Budhi, lives

-in the next house up the street, the Pineal Gland. When Budhi, or the

-Word, wins the affections of Psyche, and they are married, the Word

-saves the soul, and the man who harbors these entities is illuminated

-and becomes a master.

-

-If you read Genesis in the original Hebrew, you will find that Al or El,

-the sun, not the Christian God, says: “To every beast of the earth I

-gave a living soul.” The souls of human beings are composed of material

-as refined and spiritual as that of the souls of cockroaches and

-bedbugs, and men, if they behave themselves, are equally as good as

-those animals and of just as much importance in the universe.

-

-

-

-

-                             CHAPTER XIII.

-

-                         Ghosts and Hobgoblins.

-

-

-The Hindus of the Malibar coast said they had ghosts, but they knew them

-to be bad spirits, for good ones can hardly ever appear at all. Apuleius

-says the human soul is a demon or genius, an immortal god. According to

-Philo Judaeus, the air is filled with an invisible host of spirits, the

-bad ones are mortal, and the good ones are immortal. The soul, upon the

-death of the body, transforms into a lemure (phantom). If it is wicked,

-it is called a larvae. The ghosts who, through vice, fearful crimes and

-animal passions, are confined to the eighth sphere immediately

-surrounding the earth, are the magnetic vampires and demons so well

-known to mediaeval ecstatics, nuns, monks and witches, the blood demons

-of Porphery. They may be cast out by powerful magicians, but if a

-sorcerer is not available, you can take a saucer containing two ounces

-of nitre and pour over it one ounce of vitrol and place it under the bed

-of the obsessed, and the devil will take to his heels.

-

-Paracelsus says: “It is possible that my spirit, without the aid of the

-body and through a fiery will alone, and without a sword, can stab and

-wound others. I can also bring the spirit of my adversary into an image,

-and then double him up and lame him.” According to Cotton Mather some

-young girls had become mediums by sitting with a West Indian negro

-woman. They declared that the spectres of various witches appeared to

-them and bit and pinched and stuck pins into them. Some of the witches

-confessed that they did afflict these girls by sticking pins into

-manikins made of wax or rags, and by clutching and pinching their hands

-together and wishing in what part and after what manner they would have

-the girls afflicted, and it was done.

-

-If you are haunted by an objectionable ghost, provide yourself with a

-sword or a dagger and stab him when he makes his appearance. They are

-awfully afraid of swords, although if you cut one in two, he will join

-together again, or if you cut his head off or leg off, he will put the

-member right on again. But he does not like it, and will thereafter

-leave you severely alone. Bodin says that in 1557 an elementary,

-thundering demon fell down with the lightning into the house of one

-Poudot and kept throwing stones all about the room for several days. The

-magistrate came to investigate, and the spirit knocked his hat off and

-drove him out of the house. At last Poudot got a sword and slashed all

-around the room, whereupon the spirit disappeared.

-

-Where the ghosts are real troublesome, you can drive them away by

-distributing holy medallions around the house where the ghosts can see

-them. As the medallions have been blessed or magnetized, God has been

-injected into them, and they consequently are gods, and mischievous

-spirits who cut up capers around the house are afraid of these deities.

-I have a blessed idol of Buddha on my desk to keep the ghosts out of the

-office and prevent them from interfering with the composition of this

-pious work.

-

-Modern spirits are often lying spirits. They are ever on hand to humor

-the respective hobbies of the persons who communicate with them at

-circles, and deceive them. When Luther, the sorcerer, evoked the demon,

-he was told that he should not worship the Virgin. But when St. Dominic

-called upon the devils, they told him that nobody was damned that

-persevered in her holy worship. The golden legend of James de Viragine

-shows that the Virgin gave to St. Dominic a miraculous rosary, by which

-he could perform greater miracles than Christ. But a certain abandoned

-sinner was bold enough to doubt the virtues of the rosary, and

-immediately fifteen thousand devils took possession of him, and being

-questioned by St. Dominic, they emitted flames from the nostrils, eyes

-and ears of the demoniac and certified to the virtues of the rosary.

-Over a hundred angels appeared in golden armor, together with the

-blessed Virgin herself bearing a golden rod, with which she administered

-a sound thrashing to the demoniac. The numerous theological truths

-uttered by St. Dominic’s devils were embodied in so many articles of

-faith, according to Isis Unveiled, 2-76.

-

-One who is unprotected, the tricky powers of the air but too often

-delude with the semblance of voices. In all the Mysteries, strong drink

-or anaesthetics were administered to the initiates to sunder the soul

-from the body and produce visions. The Sankhya system teaches that the

-ghost, or astral body, can shrink to such a minute space that it can

-penetrate anything, or enlarge to a gigantic body, or float through

-space, or standing on the earth can reach the moon, that its will is

-irresistible, having dominion over all things and the ability to attain

-every desire.

-

-It is claimed that phantom hands have appeared at seances under test

-conditions and written messages on a table in broad daylight, when the

-medium was six or eight feet away, but the theory is that the

-materialized hand is an emanation from the medium, the astral hand of

-the medium. Madam Blavatsky says that “this is the spiritual or astral

-body that is raised in incorruption. It is useless to argue that these

-are spirit hands. To make hands or faces objective, they are compelled

-to use either the astral limb of the medium, or material furnished by

-the elementals, or the aural emanation of all persons present. Pure

-spirits will not and cannot show themselves objectively. Those that do

-are elementary spirits.”

-

-Madam Blavatsky tells of the following wonderful manifestations that

-occurred in Thibet. A body of traveling Bikshus, or monks, claimed the

-power to reincarnate the Buddha in any infant. A child four months old

-was brought to their cave and set down in the middle of the room, while

-the monks sat in a circle around it at some distance. A skeptic minister

-sat close to the child to expose the trickery. The chief Pase Budha went

-into a trance, and his astral and spiritual body took possession of the

-child and made it walk and talk, saying “I am Buddha, I am the old Lama,

-I am his spirit in a new body.” The minister said: “The baby looked at

-me with an expression of intelligence that was simply awful. It sent a

-chill through me, I felt a real terror, my hair rose upon my head, and

-my blood ran cold. The eyes seemed to search my very soul with an

-expression that made me think that it was the face of the Superior

-himself, his eyes, his very look that was gazing upon me.”

-

-If you wish to conjure up or materialize a spirit, purchase from the

-Yogis some ancient blood of a black cat, which comes in powdered form.

-This, together with a sparrow’s brain, burnt upon the altar will produce

-a smoke or vapor of peculiar odor and a color unknown and unnamed by

-human beings, being a combination of many colors. From the smoke of this

-magic altar it is possible for spirits to materialize, so that even

-persons without the astral vision can see them.

-

-Sometimes a band of occultists will meet around their altar fire, which

-is kindled between the horns of the goat and fed with the ancient blood

-of a black cat and other material from which ghosts can materialize. The

-occultists stand in a row hand in hand, the Grand Master at the head by

-the altar, and all strongly command that a spirit shall manifest. As the

-command passes from one brother to another it gains force, and the power

-of the will is enormously augmented, and after a time there issues from

-the floor a thread of astral matter, which ascends perpendicularly and

-widens out as it ascends, assuming a human form, but weak, wavering and

-limp, bending this way and that on every breath of air. But after the

-circle has pumped the power into him for a while, he becomes

-sufficiently strong to walk or glide about and take a seat in the circle

-and talk to the members. The materialized body is soft and moist and

-cold as a corpse. When they wish him to disappear they stand again hand

-in hand, the Grand Master next to the spirit, and send the command from

-one to the other ordering the ghost to depart, and he will again become

-weak and wabbly and sink down to the floor and disappear through the

-same nail hole from which he emerged.

-

-If the company wishes to engage in a dangerous experiment, one half of

-them will occupy one side of the hall and the other half the other side.

-They must first erect between them a circle of sheet lead, over which

-the devil cannot jump to attack any of the members. Then each bunch will

-think evil vindictive and murderous thoughts of the other bunch, and

-conjure up dire monsters to attack them, and soon a horrible, gigantic

-and vicious thought-monster, part beast, part devil and part human, will

-materialize and rush at the members and endeavor to attack them, but

-fortunately for them, he cannot pass the leaden circle, for if he could

-reach those that made him, he would strike them dead with a charge of

-electricity through the heart. In order to lay this devil they have

-conjured up, they have to clothe themselves entirely in silver-colored

-garments. They then enter the circle from both sides and close in on the

-monster. These silver-colored beings scare the devil to death, and he

-crawls back in his hole.

-

-A man, named B, built a house with second-hand lumber from an old

-building that had been torn down. The old building was reputed to be

-haunted by the former owner, who was murdered there. The ghost was very

-mad because B took his lumber, and, in order to be revenged, he went

-with the lumber to the new house and haunted that. B says that the ghost

-would appear to him when he was going to sleep and jab him in the eye

-with his finger and seize his arm and hurl it against the wall. When B

-was half asleep one night, the ghost appeared with a pail of water and

-threw it all over him. The dog could see the ghost even when B could

-not, and would bark and show his teeth and propose to fight the phantom.

-B sold the house to some colored folks. They were scared white by the

-skilligin, gave up the property and demanded their money back, because

-the ghost was an incumbrance on the estate and a legal defect in title,

-he being in possession, claiming ownership.

-

-St. Clemens Romanus says that Simon Magus (Paul), of the New Testament,

-could make himself invisible when and to whom he pleased. He created a

-man out of air, who passed through the rocks and mountains and flew

-along through the air. He threw himself from precipices without being

-injured and flung himself into the fire without being burned, he

-animated statues, he walked through the streets attended by strange

-figures, which he said were the souls of people departed.

-

-

-

-

-                              CHAPTER XIV.

-

-                         Witches and Sorcerers.

-

-

-“Burn everybody,” the Inquisition seemed to say, “God can easily sort

-out his own.” Poor fools, hysterical women and idiots were roasted alive

-for the crime of magic.

-

-Catherine de Medicis, the author of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, had

-in her service an apostate Jacobin priest who was proficient in the

-black art. King Charles lay dangerously ill, and Catherine, the queen

-mother, had everything to lose by the death of the King. In her anxiety

-she commanded the priest to inquire of the Devil what should be done to

-save the life of the King. The priest, taking with him a beautiful

-child, went into the chapel and after administering to the child its

-first communion, decapitated it on the very steps of the altar and

-placed the palpitating head upon the paten. Then, standing on a reversed

-cross, he celebrated the Devil’s Mass before an image of the Demon, and

-commanded the Devil to answer by the lips of this murdered child the

-question of the Queen. Then a strange voice, which had nothing human

-about it, made itself audible in this poor little martyr’s head. But the

-sorcery availed nothing, the King died.—Elephas Levi.

-

-“Pope Sylvester was publicly accused by Cardinal Benno with being a

-sorcerer and enchanter. The brazen oracular head made by his Holiness

-was of the same kind as the one fabricated by Albertus Magnus. The

-latter was smashed to pieces by Thomas Aquinas, not because it was the

-work of or inhabited by a demon, but because the spook, that was fixed

-inside by mesmeric power, talked incessantly and disturbed the eloquent

-saint. These heads and other talking statues, trophies of the magical

-skill of monks and bishops, were fac-similes of the animated gods of the

-ancient temples. It was demonstrated that this Pope was constantly

-attended by demons or spirits. Benedict IX, John XX and the VI and VII

-Gregory were all known as magicians. The latter Pope, it was said, could

-shake lightning out of his sleeve. In the latter part of the sixteenth

-century there was hardly a parish to be found in which the priests did

-not study magic and alchemy. John Reuchlin, father of the Reformation

-and teacher of Luther, was a Kabalist and occultist. The occult

-knowledge gleaned by religion from the fat fields of theurgy was

-sedulously guarded for its own use, and it sent to the stake only those

-practitioners who poached on its preserves. Between 1580 and 1595 in the

-single province of Lorraine, the President Remigius burned nine hundred

-witches.”—Isis Unveiled, 2-57.

-

-“The gorgeous standard of the Inquisition is represented as waving in

-the Heavenly breezes at the foot of the Great White Throne of the

-Almighty. On its crimson, damask face is the cross, the symbol of the

-Son of God who died for mankind, with an olive branch on one side and a

-sword stained to the hilt with human gore on the other.”

-

-“The true origin of the daily accusations and death sentences for

-witchcraft are traced by Dr. Soldan, of Stuttgart, to personal,

-political and religious enmities. Prince Bishop, John George II, of

-Bamberg, caused six hundred to be burned for sorcery in five years. The

-petty princes were not unwilling to seize upon any pretence to fill

-their coffers, the persons most persecuted being those whose property

-was a matter of consideration.”—Sorcery and Magic, 2-185. A horse was

-burnt at the stake in Lisbon in 1601 for witchcraft, because it could

-tell the number of spots on a card.

-

-In the list of twenty nine burnings, or autos da fe, in nineteen months

-in Germany, 162 persons were murdered, of whom 28 were Protestants, 100

-wealthy citizens and 34 little children, the youngest an infant. Wright

-says that 27 little girls, from seven to ten years of age, were burnt as

-witches. Lorente, the historian of the Inquisition, computes that

-Torquamada in eighteen years burned at the stake 10,220 persons, and

-otherwise punished 97,321. In Andalusia alone, in a single year, the

-Inquisition sent to the stake 2000 Jews.—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 1-136. “We

-learn that much money was realized by selling to the rich dispensations

-to secure them from the Inquisition.”—Conflict Between Religion and

-Science, 146.

-

-Stevens says: “A monk of St. Anthony, having been at Jerusalem, brought

-home with him a bit of the finger of the Holy Ghost, the snoot of a

-seraphim, one of the nails of a cherub, one of the ribs of the Word Made

-Flesh, some rays of the Star of the East, and a vial of St. Michael’s

-sweat. Henry III, of England, received from the Grand Master of the

-Templars a vial containing some of the blood that Christ shed upon the

-cross, attested by the seal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem.”

-

-The hand of one of the innocents massacred by Herod, although Herod died

-four years B. C., was, in 1837, still preserved in the Convent at

-Bethlehem. There also is the pit in which the bodies of the infants were

-thrown, and also the manger which came down from the constellation of

-the Crab. Some depraved Christian copped the stone on which the cock

-crowed when Peter denied his Master, and, in 1837, it was said to be in

-a church in Rome. In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem,

-among other wonders, is a monument erected over the grave of Adam, who

-never existed, and there is a polished marble bathtub or sarcophagus,

-which they claimed was the sepulchre hewn out of the rock. See Travels

-in Holy Land, 2-163.

-

-The fight of the fools and fakirs over the location of the grave of a

-mythical sun-god is certainly ludicrous, but more amusing was the magic

-trick of the early Christians who stole the grave of Adam either from

-Hebron or Mecca and also swiped the grave of Christ from the Damascus

-Road, north of Jerusalem, and exhibited both, with other shell and

-three-card-monte games, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the

-centre of Jerusalem, for the purpose of annexing the coin of the dupes,

-farmers and come-ons from all over the world.

-

-According to Tichenor, over three hundred years after the crucifixion,

-St. Helena found the true cross, and also dug up the crosses of the two

-thieves, and this lumber was sold for centuries to millions of the

-faithful. Even a splinter will save you from Hell and cure you of what

-ails you. And the bones, hair and nails of the Apostles have been sold

-all over the world. You could formerly buy a gunnysack full of St.

-Peter’s fingers and toes if you had the necessary dough. The people not

-only worshipped the Mother of God, but worshipped St. Ann, the

-Grandmother of God. God came unto Mary in the form of Gabriel, and to

-prove it the monk Eiseling exhibited all over Europe a pin-feather from

-Gabriel’s wing, which he shed at the conference. Thorns, from the crown

-of thorns, the blood of Jesus, by the drop or the bottle, and the milk

-of the Holy Virgin were peddled out all over the world for centimes.—See

-Tichenor’s Roman Religion.

-

-

-

-

-                              CHAPTER XV.

-

-                        The Great King Solomon.

-

-

-Solomon’s Song is very choice reading and would be eminently appropriate

-to the foulest book on earth, the circulation of which would be a

-criminal offense under the law. The Christian compilers of the Bible

-have asserted in the headings of the Song that it represents the love of

-Christ and the Church. They were not only wilful liars, but foully

-besmirched their own church, for that was about 1200 years before their

-church existed. The whole context shows that it has nothing to do with

-the Christian Church, but is evidently the hymn book of the church of

-Ashtoreth, of which Solomon was a deacon. Any institution that foists

-upon the world such vile obscenity as the inspired word of God, is the

-Temple of the Devil, the antechamber of Hell, an annex of the Witches’

-Sabbath. It should utterly perish from the face of the earth. In fact,

-the die is already cast, the handwriting is on the wall, the hand of

-death is on it now.

-

-Solomon was Grand Master of the secret societies. Those things that were

-esoteric or secret or occult in magic and religion, claimed by the

-priests to be too sacred for the people, were either criminal or too

-vile to utter. That was the only reason for keeping them secret.

-

-Solomon had cheated his brother Adonijah out of the throne to which the

-latter was entitled by birth, and Adonijah thought that he should at

-least be allowed to have Abishag, the sixteen-year-old beauty that they

-had put in bed with the dying King David to save his life. And he

-induced Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon, to make the request of the

-king. When Solomon had heard the petition of Bathsheba he said: “And why

-dost thou ask Abishag for Adonijah, ask for him the kingdom also.”

-Abishag is the only jewel in the Jewish crown, the most priceless legacy

-that King David left. A perfect beauty is more to be desired than the

-riches of a kingdom. I will not give her up. All the good things in

-Israel are reserved for the king. Then Solomon swore by the Lord saying:

-“God do so to me and more also if Adonijah hath not spoken this word

-against his own life. Now therefore as the Lord liveth Adonijah shall be

-put to death this day.” What ho! guards, summon Benaiah, Commander of

-the Knights of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah.

-

-When Benaiah appeared, he bowed low before the throne, and, raising his

-right hand, made the occult sign of the Witches’ Sabbath. Then Solomon

-said: “Rise, O beloved of the king, favorite of the gods of the groves

-and the gardens. The king hath weighty matters to communicate to thee.

-It is reported that Adonijah, our brother, hath taken refuge at the

-shrine of that second-rate God Jehovah and doth cling to the horns of

-the altar. And behold all of Adonijah’s followers are devotees of

-Jehovah, while all of our partisans and all of you whom the king hath

-deigned to grace with official rank are devotees of Baal and Asherah.

-Now the king commandeth that you seek out all of those Jehovah

-worshippers who have stood by Adonijah and eliminate them from the

-problem of life. Go in and out among them and slay each one your father

-and your mother, your sister and your brother, if so be that they be

-among the rebels. Relieve them of life’s burdens. Do not be harsh with

-them, show them our royal mercy, shove them gently through the gates of

-Hell, cutting them with saws and with harrows of iron and with axes,

-emulating the clemency of our royal father, the bandit chief. As for

-Adonijah, fall upon him and slay him as he clings to the horns of the

-altar. It is true that the altar of a god is sacred ground and a refuge

-as a general proposition, but general propositions do not apply to the

-king, the king is above the law. What do I care for these imaginary

-gods, they are all right to scare children with, but they cut no ice

-with your Solomon.”

-

-Solomon sat in all his glory upon the great throne of ivory and gold,

-flanked by the twelve brazen lions of the zodiac, and the Knights of the

-Mystic Shrine of Asherah in dazzling regalia guarded the beloved of the

-Lord. Around the throne, with naked swords and the three hundred golden

-shields, stood the Princes of the Tribes of Israel, as the rays of the

-setting sun, reflected from the jeweled walls of cedar and gold, bathed

-in dazzling light the royal panoplies of blue and purple and crimson.

-

-And King Solomon’s sacred, hermaphrodite Billygoat, in trappings of

-purple and gold, wearing ribbons on his horns and ribbons on his tail,

-stood beside the golden throne with his revered back to the audience in

-accordance with the law in such case made and provided. And he informed

-the King in no uncertain words that he did not propose to be the goat

-any longer, that the Knights of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah, that had

-been assigned as priests to serve him, one of the highest gods, drank up

-all the wine sacrificed to him, and thus prevented him from getting as

-full as a goat, as required by the tenets of his religion. And further,

-they did not give him exercise enough, they called him Baphomet and

-Devil and other hard names and took him up out of the pit for a walk

-around the town only once a month, at dead of night, in the dark of the

-moon, when Hell yawns, and the graves give up their dead. Upon the

-conclusion of this divine oration, the whole audience crawled on their

-hands and knees up the steps of the golden throne and devoutly kissed

-the back of Baphomet, as we kiss the male and female emblems on the Pax.

-

-This pious ceremony being completed, the Great King, raising the royal

-sceptre, summoned to his exalted presence the Commander of the Knights

-of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah and said: “While you, Benaiah, my

-faithful servant, go and kill Adonijah, my well beloved brother, I will

-hie me to my devotions, for I can see that at the mystic shrine on

-yonder hilltop, the luscious Asherah is yearning for me. My adored, my

-most beautiful, my ravishing one stands in the open door of the pagoda,

-the beautiful gate ajar, stands there in all her pristine loveliness, a

-beauty unadorned, young and plump and enchanting. See that innocent

-radiant face beaming with loving kindness, perfect in every feature, see

-that form divine, of which the gods in Heaven do envy me. She is my

-favorite nun, the incarnation of the Divine Asherah, and she is calling

-me to prayer. See her beckoning me over with that sweet hand, that angel

-hand that holds me, the King of the Earth and Sea, a willing slave in

-its gentle grasp. She says the door is open wide, and all who will may

-enter in, and no one is denied.”

-

-Then while Benaiah slew Adonijah as he clung to the horns of the altar,

-Solomon and his court in gorgeous array, decked in purple and fine linen

-and blazing with jewels rare and gold to burn, marched in one grand

-pageant from the house of cedar and gold, out through the Golden Gate,

-to the high place of Asherah. When they reached the oval, foliated door

-between the two great pillars of Baal, beneath the blazing, golden dome

-of Asher, supported by the circle of monoliths or twelve zodiacal

-redeemers, they bowed low before the open portal and crossed themselves,

-and by thus drawing upon their bodies the male symbol, they became

-themselves male emblems and worthy to enter in, and a worthy offering to

-a female divinity.

-

-The dazzling beauty who stood in the door of the pagoda then ran and

-threw herself into the arms of the king. He folded her pink and white

-form to his royal breast and impressed upon her ruby lips a long and

-loving caress, saying: “My divine one, my goddess, my life, my all, God

-is love, I know, I feel. Thou art the only angel e’er worshipped by

-Solomon the Magnificent. Thy lips are like the roses, like the

-sweet-scented, dew-bediamond roses in the royal gardens of Judea. Thine

-eyes are fathomless wells of priceless love, at which I drink till my

-soul is drunk and reels in its maddened delirium. Thy flesh is like the

-lilies of the valley, pure and white, meet vessel for a soul so true,

-white as the lilies of Asherah, white as the column of Baal, indeed so

-tempting and plump and luscious, that in thy divine and radiant neck I

-fain would bite the name of the King of the Earth and the Sea.

-

-“Solomon offered one thousand burnt offerings in the great high place of

-Gibeon,” a brothel, where they worshipped the pillar and the grove.—1

-Kings: 3-4. “And they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high

-hill and under every green tree.”—2 Kings, 17-10. “Solomon loved the

-Lord, and the Lord loved Solomon.” They formed a mutual admiration

-society, and in Gibeon the Lord said to Solomon: “Ask what I shall give

-thee.” And “Solomon built a high place before Jerusalem at the Mount of

-Corruption (Mount of Olives) dedicated to Ashtoreth,” now replaced by

-the Church of the Ascension, erected over the footprint made by Christ

-in the rock when he jumped from the earth to Alcyone. The Bible says

-that Ashtoreth was the abomination of the Sidonians, but it happens that

-Asher, one of the aliases of the Hebrew god, was the husband of

-Ashtoreth.

-

-The secret and mysterious name of the supreme God of the Hebrews, the

-Ancient of Ancients, was Eh Ei Eh, pronounced in three breaths, with

-hand to ear and the name at low breath. This is the name that was

-engraved on the great seal of Solomon, wherewith he conjured up demons

-from the abyss, for he was a potent wizard. By virtue of this great name

-and by rubbing the seal, Solomon became Lord of the Demons, and

-Beelzebub, at the mighty summons, would bob up serenely and obey the

-behests of the king. Solomon soared into the celestial altitudes and

-mastered the Divine secrets and learned the omnipotent words which

-constitute all the power of God over the demons. He penetrated into the

-remotest haunts of the spirits, whom he bound and forced them to obey

-him by the power of his clavicle (Key). He tells in the Key of Solomon

-the true composition of, with directions for making the dreadful

-blasting rod which causes the spirits to tremble, and which was used by

-God in driving Adam and Eve out of the Garden, and which he also used in

-casting the devils out of Heaven.—Book of Black Magic, 83.

-

-Ashmedai, King of the Demons, and a great mason, collaborated with

-Solomon, Hiram of Tyre and Hiram Abiff in building the Temple. He was

-the one who fashioned the stones without the sound of hammer by means of

-an insect he had, called the Shameer, the same that Moses used in

-cutting the precious stones of the Ephod. The spirits evoked by Solomon

-said that Ashmedai had the Shameer, and they gave him the location of

-Ashmedai’s water-hole in the mountains, where he went to drink. Benaiah

-then went out and filled the water-hole with liquor and laid in wait

-near by. The demon came and drank the liquor, and when he was drunk,

-Benaiah bound him with a ring and a chain, on which was the name of God,

-so that he could not break it. Thus Solomon captured the demon and

-compelled him to call up Shameer, the insect stone-cutter, and prepare

-all the stones of the Temple.—Talmud Gittin, fol. 68, col. 1.

-

-This jolly quartette of pagan and infernal pals, assisted by the masonic

-bug, in laying the foundation of the Temple, seized upon a hewer of wood

-and cut his throat and caught the blood in a vessel. After sprinkling

-the corner stone with the blood, they placed the vessel of human gore

-inside the stone and buried the body of the human sacrifice beneath it,

-that his spirit might guard the Temple and preserve it as long as grass

-grows and water runs. Then they danced around the stone the Dance of

-Death, or the dance of the Maccabees.

-

-

-                   King Solomon’s Signal of Distress.

-

-One day King Solomon, being bored about to death, and finding that all

-was vanity and vexation of spirit, wrote to his friend Manus, high

-priest of Baal, something as follows:

-

-                                      Jerusalem, 20th Nisan. A. M. 3000.

-

-  To His Eminence the High Priest of Baal, beloved of the Lord and the

-    Devil, Grand High Potentate of the Knights of Kadish, Beloved

-    Minister of the Holy of Holies, the sacred Grove of Asherah.

-

-  Behold the Great King Solomon, Lord of the Earth and the Sea, Patron

-  of God Almighty, Imperial Potentate of the Imperial Divan of

-  Ashtoreth, Grand High Mucky-Muck and Past Grand Master of the Phallic

-  Cult.

-

-  Sends Greeting. And doth herein represent that he hasn’t a thing in

-  the way of nice girls, only but just a thousand old hens that were

-  passé in three days after their respective inauspicious arrivals, and

-  the heart of the Great King doth yearn for a vision of youth and

-  beauty from the corn fields of Bethlehem. If thou wouldst save the

-  King’s life, get a move on and corral a fair virgin, with golden hair

-  and eyes of blue, for verily a brunette doth make the King tired. The

-  King recommendeth thee to bring the fair one to the back door of the

-  palace, at the entering-in of the woodshed, for behold the thousand

-  old hens have two thousand eyes, and each eye is jealous of your

-  unhappy Solomon. Verily, they are determined that we shall not have a

-  thing that is fresh and fair to look upon. They are a lot of old cats,

-  and we pray thee to promulgate a feast to Moloch and Baal, and

-  announce to the multitude that seven hundred back-number princesses

-  and three hundred fat old concubines have been devoted, and will be

-  passed through the fire to Moloch and Baal, and will be basted and

-  roasted to a turn and served to the people with the gravy oozing out.

-  May the blessings of the Great Gods Ashtoreth, Chemoth and Baal be

-  with thee and thine.

-

-                                        Yours fraternally,      SOLOMON.

-

-One night King Solomon, together with his two old cronies, Hiram of Tyre

-and Hiram Abiff, went a-hunting in Jerusalem, which at that period was a

-noted sporting resort, abounding in all kinds of game. At length they

-caught a coon near the North Gate, at the high place of Asher, where

-were worshipped the images of the male, and took her to the king’s

-palace. She says (Sol. Song, 1-4): “The King hath brought me into his

-chambers.” Having reached the King’s apartments, Solomon said to Hiram

-of Tyre: “Wouldst thy Majesty kindly rush the duck? Thou wilt find the

-can behind the throne. And thou Abiff, wilt thou be so good as to go out

-in the woodshed and play tag with thyself for a season and half a

-season, while I pass the salve to this colored lady?”

-

-Having got rid of the crowd, Solomon says: “Behold thou art fair my

-love, thou hast dove’s eyes. Thy nose is like unto the Tower of Lebanon

-that looketh toward Damascus, and the beautiful hump in the centre

-thereof is like unto that of a camel, that wabbleth ever this way and

-that.” And the buxom nigger wench, pouting her ruby, liver lips,

-replies: “Kiss me with the kisses of thy mouth, for thy love is better

-than wine. Because of the savor of thy good ointments, which counteract

-the Jewish odor diligently collected since thy last annual bath,

-therefore do the virgins love thee. I am black, but comely. I am not a

-nigger, but only tanned. They made me the keeper of vineyards, (deleted

-by the censor). Place thy left hand beneath my head, and thy right hand

-shall embrace me, (deleted by the censor). My beloved is mine, and I am

-his, a bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.”

-

-During the tête-à-tête, the captivating beauty was absent-mindedly

-picking the Tower of Lebanon, when Solomon said: “Knowest thou not that

-our laws prohibit the touching of the unwashed fingers to the nose,

-mouth or eyes. The Talmud says: ‘The evil spirit Bath Chorin rests upon

-the hands at night and will not depart until water is poured upon him

-three times over.’ That fairy tale is for the ignorant rabble. You and I

-have the gnosis. Some of the prophets say that the worship of Asherah,

-in which we indulge, is reprehensible, but who fashioned the first Grove

-among us? Ask them that.” In Jasher, 27-27, it is said that Abraham

-formed at Beersheba a Grove, and that he practiced all kinds of

-abominations. He gave to his seventeen children by Katurah charms by

-which they could exorcise spirits and perform all sorts of miracles in

-the black art.

-

-When King Hiram returned with the booze, anticipating a jolly orgy with

-the wise one, he pounded loudly on the door of the King’s chamber.

-Solomon, being busy, petulantly said: “Get thee hence Hiram, or I will

-have the cop run thee in.” Then King Hiram was exceeding wroth, and

-threatened to make war on Solomon and come up to Jerusalem with one

-hundred thousand warriors and take the fair colored charmer away from

-the seductive Jewish King. Then Solomon replied: “Chase thyself back,

-Hiram, to besotted Tyre and make love to that great pillar, which, with

-much pomp and ceremony, thou hast recently erected there, and which thou

-dost salute with the holy kiss every morning at sunrise.”

-

-

-

-

-                              CHAPTER XVI.

-

-                         The Mystic Societies.

-

-

-Pope Pius IX was accused of saying: “Damn the clandestine societies.”

-Oh, My! such shocking language, and so unjust too, for these

-quasi-religious societies, even like certain churches, were anciently

-faithful devotees of, and expert manipulators of the mystic symbols.

-

-Dr. Dalcho, a Masonic writer, asserts: “God was the first Grand Master

-and Adam the second.” And Adam initiated Eve into the profound and

-archaic mystery of the square and the eye.

-

-It may be interesting to know what they did at the Witches’ Sabbath and

-the meetings of the ancient mystic societies. They murdered their

-christ, that is what they did, and the Christians have always charged

-that they offered up human sacrifices. I should judge from the ritual of

-the Masons that it originated in the sacrifice of a human being, that in

-ancient times human beings were sacrificed in the mystic societies, from

-some of which, perhaps, Masonry descended. Here are extracts from an old

-ritual as near as the author can decipher them, not guaranteeing that

-they are correct:

-

-

-                Opening a Lodge of Entered Apprentices.

-

-Sen. War.: “Brother, the lambskin in all ages has been considered an

-emblem of purity.” This lambskin is the skin of the Lamb of God. It is

-worn on the stomach for occult reasons. The female emblem, the Eye, is

-stamped upon it for the same occult reasons. The mystic societies,

-sun-worshippers and Jews were anciently devotees of the lamb as well as

-the cow. They sacrificed him and adorned themselves with his skin as a

-saving rite. The Ram is identical with the god Priapus. You remember

-that Saul sent David out to gather one hundred Philistine mementos to

-put in the Ark of the Covenant. These mementos and the lambskin are of

-equal efficacy, both being relics of the crucifixion.

-

-When christ came in the sign of Capricorn, he came as the goat. At the

-celebration of Lupercalia in Rome, they sacrificed the goat christ. Two

-young men are chosen, and the dagger, or Signa Tau, or the Mark of the

-Living God, is drawn in blood in their foreheads. Then they cut the

-goatskin into thongs and run about lashing all they meet. “The young

-wives like to be lashed, fancying that it will make them fruitful.” “The

-Jews in Jereboam’s time had priests for the service of their divinities,

-the sacred billy-goats.”—Plutarch, 1-78. The religious sorcerers, who

-sought to invoke demons, formed their magic circle with strips of

-goatskin nailed to the ground with four nails from the coffin of a dead

-child. As the circle was made of the skin of christ, the demons dare not

-pass it to attack the sorcerer. This is the circle of the Kabalists, of

-which King Solomon was the Most Worshipful, Sublime and Exalted Phalatz.

-

-In the ritual ascribed to Pope Honorius, the method of raising the Devil

-was by sacrificing a black cock, which is an emblem of Christ. The eyes,

-tongue and heart are torn out and burnt to ashes. These are religious

-symbols and objects of adoration. The sorcerer also sacrifices a lamb,

-and places the ashes of the eye, the tongue and the heart on the

-lambskin. He prays to Jesus that the lambskin, with the signs thereon,

-may save him from the wiles of the demons, that they may be terrified by

-the sight of these figures. This, I think, is the origin of the figures

-on the Mason’s lambskin. This ritual provided that the eye, the cross

-and the moon should be drawn on the lambskin.

-

-In the Fellowcraft degree of the ritual, when the candidate has stuck

-the heel of his right foot in the hollow of the left, which is a sacred

-mystic rite that will save your immortal soul from Hell, the Sen. War.

-says: “You will now show the Worshipful Master the Degree Gag (?) and

-sign of an Entered Apprentice, and when you step forward, place the heel

-of your left foot in the hollow of the right. You will now advance with

-me to the altar. You are now to be made a Fellowcraft in due form. You

-will now bare your left foot and side and your breast expose. You now

-receive the mark of the square on the breast.” The Tau Cross, a symbol

-of identical significance with the square, was used in the Bacchic and

-Eleusinian Mysteries. It was laid upon the breast of the initiate to

-cause him to be born again. The square is the Egyptian Ka, the idol

-worshipped by the savages in the temples of darkest Africa, and which is

-also worshipped in the Kaaba at Mecca. Ka, Kaaba, abba, father, papa and

-pope all have the same meaning. See “Kaaba” Stand. Dic.

-

-In the initiation the candidate was allowed to play that he was Hiram

-Abiff. He was conducted around the circle of the zodiac from one door of

-the Temple to another and encountered three of the beasts of the four

-cardinal points, that is, the gentlemen who played the parts of the

-beasts in the heavenly drama.

-

-First Right. Master: Hiram, give me the sign of a Master Mason.

-

-Sen. Dea.: Candidate, the sign cannot be given except in the presence of

-three, Solomon, King of Israel, Hiram, King of Tyre, &c.

-

-Master: For the second time I demand of you the sign of a Master Mason.

-

-Sen. Dea.: You cannot have that.

-

-Master: Hiram, for the third and last time I demand of you the sign of a

-Master Mason. Give it to me, or I will take your life.

-

-Sen. Dea.: You shall not have that (but the candidate can have this, and

-he hits him on the head with the 24-inch gauge, in the play, as near as

-I can make out.)

-

-At the Second Right, the Master makes the same demands.

-

-Sen. Dea.: You shall not have that. Blow with the square (on the head of

-the candidate, I presume, but as he is still alive, he is conducted to

-the beast at the third door.)

-

-Third Right: The Master repeats the same demands.

-

-Sen. Dea.: Lord of Darkness (who is about to kill the sun-christ in the

-west) you shall not have that.

-

-Third Right: Damn thee take that, blow with gavel on forehead, (and the

-candidate or human sacrifice falls dead, in the play.)

-

-Second Right: We have slain our Grand Master Hiram.

-

-Third Right: What shall we do with the body?... Let us carry it a due

-West course from the Temple (because the crucified sun is buried in the

-west) and bury it in a grave sunk due East and West.

-

-Master: Brother Sen. War. What is the commotion?

-

-Sen. War.: Our Grand Master Hiram is assassinated.

-

-Master: How was he assassinated?

-

-Sen. War.: By the Brothers at the door of the Temple.

-

-Master: Our Grand Master Hiram may be ill. You will cause search to be

-made for him in the secret antichambers of the Temple and see if he can

-be found.

-

-Sen. War.: Search has been made, Worshipful, and he cannot be found.

-

-According to the Egyptian religion Souphis Khunfu Nefer Hept, Lord of

-the Underworld, murdered the Great Architect. The victim, whether he be

-called the Great Architect, or Hiram, or Adonis, or Horus, or Christ is

-always and ever the setting sun murdered by the darkness, or Prince of

-Darkness, called Sat in Egypt and Satan with us. The sacrifice of Hiram

-Abiff is one form of the Passion Play.

-

-A Masonic society, established in China from the earliest times, is

-called Our Ladyship’s Society and the Queen of Heaven Society. In the

-Chinese society the candidate is made to pass through the arch of

-swords. He could not be born again or come forth into the light unless

-he passed through the door of life and came out of the cave. The Chinese

-god Fo was born of a virgin impregnated by a ray of the sun, as shown in

-Christian pictures of Mary. In the Indian Mysteries three hierophants

-sit in the East and the West and the South. After an invocation to the

-sun, the candidate is baptized, his shoes taken away from him, and he is

-made to circumnavigate the cavern three times with the sun. He is

-conducted through seven dark caverns and assailed by legions of

-hobgoblins. The victim slaughtered is called Siva, and the lamentations

-of Maya for the death of Siva correspond to the weeping of Mary at the

-tomb of Christ. The sword was aimed at the throat of the candidate by

-the Evil One, but he was brought forth at last into the light. The Eye

-was marked on his forehead and the Tau Cross on his breast. He was

-presented with the sacred girdle or apron, the magical stone and the

-talismanic jewel for the breast.—Isis Unveiled.

-

-In the Mysteries of Aphrodite, a male emblem is handed to the initiate,

-and those initiated bring a piece of money to her as her hire. Demeter,

-of the Eleusinian Mysteries, is identical with Mary, and Clement says

-that he knows not whether she is the mother or wife of the god Zeus or

-Deus. This god is a serpent. The token of the Sabazian Mysteries is this

-serpent god gliding over the human breast. The offspring of the rape of

-Proserpine (Mary) by this god was christ, the bull.—Clement 1-29. If you

-wish to know what foul things were kept in the Ark of the Covenant, see

-Clement 1-31.

-

-According to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, in the judgment in Amenti,

-or the Lower World, the deceased or candidate for Heaven is given the

-name of Osiris, and he is tried before the supreme god Osiris and forty

-other deities or beasts. An altar stands before the supreme god on which

-is placed the bribes offered by the soul to god. The forty-two deities

-are the judges of the forty-two sins. One is called the Devourer of

-Shades, another the Cracker of Bones, and another the Eater of Hearts.

-If the soul denies that he has committed the forty-two sins, the judges

-must acquit him, but if he is convicted of being a land-grabber, he

-cannot get by, as the priests propose to attend to all that business

-themselves. In the Christian Judgment, the judges will be the

-confessors, monks and virgins.—The Elucidarium.

-

-“The Buddhist novice, like the Freemasons, is forced to bare his

-shoulder and breast and give up his money and bare his feet, in fact to

-simulate the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience of the

-Buddhist.”—Buddha & Early Buddhism, 136.

-

-In Lalita Vistara, Buddha is called the Great Physician, and at his

-appearance the sick are healed, the deaf are cured, the blind see. He

-cures by the laying on of hands or mesmerism. Akasa, the mesmeric fluid

-or the astral light, and the Spirit of God are one in the East. Buddha

-was born of a virgin, presented in the Temple, disputed with the

-doctors, was tempted in the wilderness, passed his life in preaching and

-working miracles, and descended into Hell and ascended into

-Heaven.—Idem, 80.

-

-Heaven was also calmly purloined from Buddhism. The Buddhist heaven is

-the city four square of John, with the gates of gold and silver, adorned

-with precious stones. The great throne of God stands in the centre

-thereof by the gem lake or crystal sea, by which stands the Tree of Life

-or Tree of Infamy. The Buddhist religion is wholly phallic. See Book of

-All Religions, 86.

-

-If you read the life of Buddha in the Ency. Brit. you will find that it

-is almost identical with the life of Christ. In any Chinese store you

-can buy an idol of Buddha, who, like Christ, is the god of life,

-bringing us life and life yet more abundantly. He wears a fish skin for

-a miter, showing that he is the fish god, and on his divine and radiant

-forehead is the Eye, and on his stomach, between his clasped hands, is

-the sacred Tree of Life. These divine secrets should not be disclosed to

-the uninitiated, but, to tell the truth, I am convinced that this is the

-origin of the hermaphrodite abdominal Eye, worn and revered by all the

-great and good men from the time our religion found its birth in the

-foul sties of India down to the immortal Washington.

-

-

-

-

-                             CHAPTER XVII.

-

-                              Revelations.

-

-

-If you do not believe that all the beasts of the zodiac bear rule in

-Heaven, read Revelations with your eyes open. The Ram is the Grand

-Vizier. The Bull is also there, with eyes before and behind, and the

-Lion and the Man, the Waterman, in fact the four beasts of the four

-cardinal points of the zodiac.

-

-Ch. 1, v 7, says: “Behold he cometh with clouds.” It is evident from

-Revelations that Christ is one of the seven Buddhas who came at the end

-of each cycle, and the seven were one, and that one was the sun in the

-heavens. Budhi means the Word, one of our beloved idols. “I am Alpha and

-Omega, the first and the last,” that is, he is the same God that came at

-first as Adam and last as the Lamb of God. It is claimed that the

-Revelations were stolen and the original was written before the Fish God

-came. In verse 12, John saw seven golden candle-sticks, typifying the

-seven christs or lights of the world, “and one of the seven was like

-unto the Son of Man.” The Persian fire god Agni is called the Son of

-Man, and it is claimed that John got the Revelations from the Persians.

-In the Clementines St. Clement says: “Christ, it is said, has changed

-his forms and names from the beginning of the world.”—Clement, cap. 51.

-

-Verse 18 says: “I am he that liveth and was dead,” that is, the sun that

-was crucified annually at the winter solstice, when it stood still for

-three days, or remained in the tomb three days, and was reborn on the

-25th of December. “And have the keys of death and Hell.” The christ that

-was crucified in the west, according to the Egyptian religion, was Judge

-of the Underworld and carried the keys and descended into Hell when the

-sun went down. They were the keys of Hell, not Heaven, that were

-transmitted to St. Peter.

-

-                  *       *       *       *       *

-

-Ch. 2, v 7 says: “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree

-of life,” which being interpreted means that the successful candidate or

-worthy brother will be permitted to eat the male emblem. Verse 17 says:

-“To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna,” which

-is a small round cake or wafer in the Mithraic Mysteries, representing

-the female emblem. In these Mysteries they killed a lamb or bull christ

-and sprinkled the candidate with its blood, as we drink the blood of

-Christ and eat his flesh in the depths of our beastial ignorance,

-superstition and depravity.

-

-“And will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written,

-the Word, which no man knoweth save him that receiveth it.” This stone

-is the symbol of Siva, and the new name is Ling, the secret, the

-Sanscrit name of the Word. St. Clemens says: “It is difficult to exhibit

-the pure and transparent Word to swinish hearers. (All are swine except

-the priests and ministers.) For nothing they could hear would be more

-ludicrous to the multitude. The truly sacred Word is deposited in the

-shrine (Monstrance). It is improper that these emblems should be exposed

-to those who have never been purified in soul. The Mysteries were

-established because it was wise that the holy and blessed contemplation

-of realities be concealed.”

-

-In Ch. 4, v 3, the four beasts and the four and twenty elders, the

-angels and saints and all the other vermin in Heaven fall down and knock

-their foreheads on the ground, groveling in abject baseness, servility

-and degradation before the sardine stone or pillar that sits on the

-throne in the royal arch of the rainbow, and before the beast, (the

-bull). This lovely pillar is worshipped throughout India. You will find

-the above scene and this foul worship depicted in Inman’s A. P. & M. C.

-Symbolism, Plate XIX. John has set a foul pagan idol on the throne of

-Heaven.

-

-Ch. 12, v 1. The woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet,

-with a crown of twelve stars, is Mary, the moon goddess, the wife of the

-sun-god, and the crown of twelve stars are the twelve christs that she

-bore, or that crowned her labors in the twelve signs of the zodiac. The

-dragon that waited to devour the child is called Herod in the other

-story of Mary and Jesus. In the Hindu myth, from which this is copied,

-the woman fled to the wilderness, as Mary fled to Egypt. According to

-another astronomical legend, when the sun-god is born on the 25th of

-December, old King Sagittarius, the Archer or Herod, who lives in the

-next house (November), tries to kill the Son of God with the arrow of

-death.

-

-If you refer to an astronomical chart, you will see depicted there all

-the gods that ever existed. In the first sign, Leo, is the Lion of the

-Tribe of Judah, the christ that came in the Golden Age, 12,934 years

-ago, a Jew god, that would not do a thing to you but rend you and steal

-your shirt.

-

-In the sign of Gemini you see the Twins, or Castor and Pollux, or Cain

-and Abel, or Romulus and Remus, or Solomon and Adonijah, or Jacob and

-Esau. Cain has a club in his hand, with which he kills his brother god,

-as Romulus killed Remus and Solomon killed Adonijah. In the sign of

-Taurus, you will see Auriga, a Mystic of high degree kissing the goat,

-and Orion, the Lord of Darkness, killing the bull christ. And there is

-the triangle of seven stars that Christ held in his hand. This is the

-solar system of the Pleiades, of which the great star Alcyone is the

-sun, and around which the whole universe revolves. It is the Kingdom of

-Heaven and the home of god and his sons Jesus and the Devil.

-

-In the sign of Aries, you see the Lamb of God and the christ Perseus,

-who has just amputated the Medusa’s head and destroyed the serpents of

-which the hair was composed. In the next sign of Pisces is the beautiful

-Andromeda (mother of men), or Mary, bearing the fish-god, the Son of

-Man, under her arm, as Isis bears it on her head. In the sign of

-Scorpio, you will see Christ or Orpheus overcoming the Great Serpent.

-And another christ, Hercules by name, holds a club in one hand and two

-serpents in the other, to whom, as representing the Devil or the

-infernal god Cerberus, he is about to administer, in the classic

-language of modern ministers, a good wallop.

-

-“When the sun shall have passed through the sign of Virgo, the Great

-Cycle of 25,868 years will be ended. The sun then enters the sign of

-Leo, and this junction of Virgo and Leo, this secret of the Great Cycle,

-is expressed in the Sphinx of Egypt, the woman and the lion conjoined.

-This is the mystery of the ages, the pillar on the border of Egypt,

-which shall be for a sign and a testimony.”—Daughter of the Druids, 276.

-It is said that in that great Day Draconis will again be the pole star,

-and the great pyramid is so constructed that at the end of the Great

-Year the light from Draconis will again shine through the passage in the

-pyramid that leads to the Bottomless Pit, or the dragon will be cast

-into the Bottomless Pit.

-

-In the sign of Virgo is the Virgin Mary, the mother of all the gods, and

-the Great Serpent will be seen waiting there for her to deliver another

-god for his consumption. Ch. 5, v 1, says that the book was sealed with

-seven seals, corresponding with the seven comings or avatars of Christ,

-when the book was opened or the word was preached. When the first seal

-was opened, Christ appeared as Sagittarius, the Archer. “And behold a

-white horse and he that sat on him had a bow.” When he had opened the

-third seal, behold a black horse, and he that sat thereon had a pair of

-balances in his hand. This is the Christ that came in the sign of Libra

-or the Scales, who weighed them in the balance and found them wanting.

-

-Ch. 4, v 6. The four beasts referred to are the four hieroglyphic beasts

-of the priests and magicians, which they placed on the playing cards of

-Egypt, the lion, the bull, the man and the eagle. They are zodiacal gods

-and sit in the North, the East, the South and the West respectively. The

-churches declare truly that a pack of cards is the Devil’s book. Cards

-were invented by the priests, and they are reeking with sacred, occult

-and religious emblems. The pack is composed of four sets of ten. Ten is

-a Kabalistic sacred number, for there are ten persons in the Hebrew

-Godhead, and 10 or IO is the name of God. Then there are the four beasts

-or aces, and the Trinity is represented by the king, queen, and jack.

-The clubs, or the three sacred balls of the Jews, are the symbol of the

-male god and the Trinity. Any deeper meaning can only be disclosed to

-the initiated. The heart is the cup or chalice or Eye of Isis, the

-symbol of love. The queen of hearts is clothed with the sun and moon,

-and she is Mary, the Queen of Heaven. The Queen of spades holds in her

-left hand the sacred candle, and she is adorned with another male

-emblem, the fleur de lys, and in her right hand is the flower of Isis, a

-female emblem, the same as the circles and rosaries with which she is

-also decorated. The seven circles are the emblems of the seven joys that

-Mary had. The twelve precious stones in the jewel on her breast

-correspond with the twelve christs she bore and the twelve jewels in the

-Ephod of the high priest.

-

-The jack of hearts carries the male emblem in his hand and the three

-links are on his belt to show that he is an Oddfellow in good standing.

-The jack of spades holds up the three links, and the spade itself is a

-patent, combination, hermaphrodite, religious emblem of sufficient magic

-potency to save from the pains of Tophet all who gaze upon its sacred

-and occult form. The king of hearts performs the occult and saving rite

-of putting the sword or cross through the crown. This crown is adorned

-with shamrocks, and on his coat he wears the seven hearts or chalices.

-He belongs to the zodiacal sign of the Lion, and this is the heart sign,

-and in it is found the constellation of the Chalice. And he holds his

-hand on his breast like Buddha to show that he is a Mason in due form.

-

-Rev. 7-4. The angel seals in their foreheads 144,000 Jews with the Signa

-Tau or Word, the signet of the Living God. The devotees of Siva also

-wear this Tree of Infamy on their foreheads. John says that it is the

-Father’s name written in the forehead. Only those sealed with this Baum

-Bosheth can sit with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the other beasts

-around the Throne. All but the 144,000 Jews can go to Hell. The priests

-draw the cross or Signa Tau in ashes on the foreheads of their devotees

-every Ash Wednesday.

-

-Rev. 16-12. And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the earth, and

-I saw three unclean spirits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of the

-Dragon and out of the mouth of the beast. For they are the spirits of

-devils which go forth unto the kings of the earth to gather them to the

-great day of God Almighty. The sixth angel is the angel of the sixth

-sign of the zodiac, our present sign, the Waterman, and the nations of

-the earth are now fighting the battles of Armageddon. We are now at the

-end of a Great Cycle. The end of the world has come according to the

-astrological and theological fakirs, and the inhabitants of the earth

-are again being destroyed, this time by fire and sword. Christ now comes

-to bring a sword upon the earth.

-

-According to the Christians, all the nations engaged in the war, save

-two, march forth under the banner and protection of Jehovah, the God of

-Battles, and he divides himself into two persons and, perched upon two

-clouds, commands the two contending hosts, urging them on to kill each

-other. After this holocaust of blood and carnage, there will be found no

-fool so utter as to assert that God rules the destinies of mankind.

-

-

-

-

-                             CHAPTER XVIII.

-

-                              The Clergy.

-

-

-The Presbyterian clergy or sorcerers of Scotland, of old times, claimed

-that they could consign their deluded victims to Heaven or Hell by a

-word, and could by their magic power strike with death any enemy of God,

-that is, the clergy. They would not allow anyone to remain in town who

-failed to go and hear their sermons. Buckle says the clergy kept the

-people in a worse than Egyptian bondage, inasmuch as they enslaved mind

-as well as body.

-

-“John Knox sanctioned the murder of the Roman Archbishop Beaton of

-Scotland in 1548, and shut himself up with the assassins in the palace

-of the Archbishop. When the Catholic power was destroyed in Scotland by

-the nobles in 1560 and the church property confiscated by them, the

-Protestant clergy claimed that it was impious to secularize

-ecclesiastical property, and that they should be endowed with the spoils

-of the war, that it was right for the Lords to plunder the Church of

-Rome, but the loot should be turned over to them. They said that what

-rightly belonged to them was devoured by idle bellies. The Presbyterian

-clergy said that King James was a traitor and had seven devils inside of

-him, and he ought to be seized. And their associate in crime, the Earl

-of Gourie, entrapped the King into his castle in order to murder

-him.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 2-201.

-

-The Presbyterian clergy said that cheerfulness was to be guarded

-against. Smiling, provided it stopped short of laughter, might

-occasionally be allowed, still being a carnal pastime, it was a sin to

-smile on Sunday. A Christian has no business with love or sympathy. He

-has his own soul to attend to, that is enough for him. On Sunday in

-particular he must never think of benefitting others and thus break the

-Sabbath. On no occasion must food or shelter be given to a starving man

-unless he is a Presbyterian.

-

-“In priest-ridden Spain, Charles V, the tool of religion, in his will

-provided that all heretics should be put to death and that the

-Inquisition should be upheld. Under his orders, according to Grotius,

-100,000 persons were beheaded, buried alive and burnt at the stake in

-the Netherlands. Phillip II, of Spain, said it was better not to reign

-at all than to reign over heretics. The Duke of Alva, in this reign,

-boasted that in five or six years he had put to death in cold blood more

-than 18,000 heretics, beside a still greater number of infidels he had

-slain on the battlefield.”—Idem 2-14.

-

-When it was proposed to expel from Spain the remnant of Moors remaining,

-who had turned Christians and were baptized by force, Bleda, the

-Dominican, said that every Moor in Spain should have his throat cut,

-because it was impossible to tell which of them were Christians at

-heart, but God knew his own and he could sort them out. About one

-million of the most industrious inhabitants of Spain were hunted out

-like wild beasts. Many were slain as they approached the coast, others

-were beaten and plundered, and the majority in the most wretched plight

-sailed for Africa. During the passage the crew in many of the ships

-butchered the men, ravished the women and threw the children into the

-sea. From this time Spain began to degenerate. The tyranny of religion

-was supreme. While every other country was advancing, Spain, numbed into

-a death-like torpor, spell-bound and entranced by the accursed

-superstition, presented to Europe a solitary instance of constant

-decay.“—Idem, 2-53.

-

-“The French Revolution freed the world from ecclesiastical tyranny and

-opened an unobstructed path to Napoleon, who had given the death blow to

-the Inquisition, the great slaughter house, where they butchered in the

-name of the Lamb.”—Isis Unveiled, 2-22.

-

-The Brahmins, the clergy of India, were quite as disreputable as the

-others. The Institutes of Manu provided that if a common person molested

-a Brahmin, he was to be put to death. If he sat on the same carpet with

-a Brahmin, he was to be maimed for life. If he listened to the reading

-of the sacred books, burning oil was to be poured into his ears, and if

-he committed them to memory, he was to be killed. If he spoke

-disrespectfully of a Brahmin, an iron stile ten fingers long was to be

-thrust red-hot into his mouth. To give to the Brahmins or will them your

-property was an act of the highest piety.

-

-The laws of the clergy in certain provinces of France, ruled by them in

-old times, provided that every man that died without bequeathing part of

-his estate to the church, should be deprived of the Sacrament (and would

-consequently go to Hell). If he died without making a will, his

-relatives were obliged to prevail upon the Bishop to appoint arbitrators

-to determine what sum the deceased should have given to the church in

-case he had made a will. At one time in France, “married couples could

-not sleep together the first three nights without purchasing leave of

-the church.”—Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws, 665.

-

-“Pope John XII was assassinated in the arms of his mistress.

-Crecentious, the illegitimate son of John X, caused Benedict VI to be

-murdered. His faction elected Boniface VII, and a third faction elected

-John XV, who was put to death by Boniface. We find shortly after 1044

-Benedict IX, a boy of twelve, and Rholeme and Sylvester III all reigning

-at the same time, and all leading the most profligate and scandalous

-lives.”—Doubts of Infidels, 95. Bishop Hopkins says that “the great body

-of the clergy before the seventh century were steeped in licentiousness,

-avarice, simony, cruelty, violence and blood. They consecrated every

-vice in the interest of so-called religion, they graduated sins by

-pecuniary amercement, they commissioned assassins, having pardoned them

-before the commission of the murder.”

-

-The priests or Magi of Persia, as ecclesiastical bandits, were

-unexcelled. The people had to give up one tenth of their income to these

-magical fakirs. Every woman in Babylon was obliged to offer her person

-for sale one day in the year at the temple of Astarte, and the money

-went to the priests. The pirates of Babylon ransacked the world and

-bought or stole the most beautiful women on earth for the use of the

-priests, who made a pretence of offering them up as human sacrifices to

-Baal. The god held in his hand the appropriate symbol of the traffic,

-the circle and the pillar, that may still be seen in nearly all

-churches. The beautiful sacrifice was placed on the lap of the god in

-the presence of the audience, to be devoured by the lions that

-surrounded the god. But after the meeting the priests drove the lions

-out and stole the sacrifice, as priests always did steal the offerings

-from god.

-

-The Egyptian priests were the rulers of the whole, and owned one third

-the land of Egypt. Besides the princely revenue from this immense landed

-estate, they received, in addition to their salaries, all the offerings

-and sacrifices that the fools gave up as an atonement for sin. A very

-large part of their income was derived from the Bethel or Brothel

-maintained around the temple of the goddess Hathor, the cow, the wife of

-the god Ammon, which is another name for the Ram god or the lamb of god.

-Every woman in Egypt was obliged to sell herself for one month at this

-temple. And then, besides, there were the regular sacred ladies who

-lived constantly in the temple. The priests chose the most beautiful,

-then the remainder were turned over to the mob of pious dupes and

-devotees. The young lady who earned the most money for the priests was,

-in the after life, assigned by Osiris, alias Yahvah, to a seat beside

-the Golden Throne. This rotten pagan church subsequently changed its

-name to Christian.

-

-Calvin, the blood-drenched, the fiend incarnate, one of the founders of

-the Protestant Churches, compelled his lady parishioners to confess on

-the rack their indiscretions, and then threw them naked into the lake

-and drowned them. He hanged a child for cursing its parents, burned old

-women as witches, and burned alive Michael Servetus for contradicting

-Moses in asserting that Palestine was a desert that did not flow with

-milk and honey. Calvin died in convulsions of fear, raving and cursing

-because he thought he was going to Hell.

-

-Oliver Cromwell, the pious Puritan, the murder demon, the regicide, the

-usurper, with the Bible in one hand and the sword in the other, rode at

-the head of his army of religious fanatics singing psalms. This

-sanctified Christian, upon the capture of Drogheda, Ireland, himself

-reported to Parliament that he massacred two thousand of the garrison.

-He fired St. Peter’s Church, to which the people had fled, and put a

-thousand of them to the sword. All the friars were killed but two. And

-the likes of him settled Boston and robbed and murdered the Indians. One

-of these Puritan buccaneers, named Will Bartlett, in Boston, in 1637,

-was sentenced to be set in the stocks, with his tongue in a cleft stick,

-because he got drunk and cussed and swore and refused to go to church on

-Sunday.

-

-In those blithesome days a citizen could not vote unless he belonged to

-the Congregational Church and kissed the big toe of Cotton Mather, the

-superstitious bigot, the Prosecutor of the New England Protestant

-Inquisition. Ridpath says that Mather was chiefly responsible for the

-horrors and crimes of the Salem Witchcraft, and that this massacre,

-torture and imprisonment of 263 innocent persons was started by a Salem

-minister for the purpose of revenging himself upon those of his flock

-who antagonized him.—Ridpath’s Hist. of U. S. 131. The Quakers were

-perhaps the only decent body of Christians up to that time, and for that

-reason the Puritan pirates and slave-dealers hung four of them, one

-woman and three men, on Boston Common.

-

-“Infuse a few different kinds of religious poison into a community of

-human beings, and they hate each other like tigers. Religious creeds

-have a worse effect on a man than booze. You can work the booze out of

-your system and quit the stuff, but when a victim is loaded up on some

-rotten brand of orthodoxy, it is hard to do anything with him. A

-Protestant will damn the Catholics, and a Catholic will yell ‘To Hell

-with the Protestants,’ and both will hate the Jews.”—Roman Religion, 27.

-

-The churches have soaked the earth with the blood of their countless

-victims. Frederick, the Emperor of Germany, sentenced heretics of all

-descriptions alive to the flames. Sixty thousand heretics were

-slaughtered in the city of Beziers. Seventy thousand Huguenots were put

-to death in France. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew began at midnight,

-Aug. 23, 1572, and the carnival of death lasted seven days. Medals

-commemorating the holy event were distributed among the loyal

-butchers.—Roman Religion, 35.

-

-“When the Crusaders took Jerusalem from the Moslems in 969 A. D., they

-massacred all the Mussulmans and burned the Jews alive. Seventy thousand

-persons were put to death in a week to attest the superior morality of

-the Christians.”—Boston Sun. American.

-

-Dr. Fernald says that Sultan Bejazet wrote to Pope Alexander VI that he

-would give him 300,000 ducats, several cities and the shirt of Jesus

-Christ if His Holiness would kill Zimzim, the brother of the Sultan,

-“and you Most Illustrious Lord will not commit a crime, since by your

-religion Christians are ordered to exterminate heretics and infidels.”

-The Ency. Brit. says that “the unfortunate prince was murdered by

-Alexander, who received 300,000 ducats as the reward of the crime.”

-Zimzim was held captive by certain bandits in Rhodes, a Commandery of

-the Knights of St. John, a Christian organization under the domination

-of Alexander. Alexander was a Borgia, whose children were all

-illegitimate.

-

-

-

-

-                              CHAPTER XIX.

-

-                               The Bible.

-

-

-As the Old Testament was originally written without vowels, the Lord

-only knows what it meant. The best the copyists could do was to make a

-good guess at the meaning, or supply whatever vowels suited their

-purposes.—See Ency. Brit. 3-64.

-

-Moses was a magician, a thief and a murderer according to the Bible, a

-fakir who foisted upon the Hebrews a magnificent system of priestly

-plunder. In pursuance of Moses pretence that the world was created in

-six days, and that their god El or Bel or Baal rested on the seventh, he

-commanded the people to refrain from labor on that day and go to church,

-so that he would have frequent opportunities to pick their pockets. The

-story of Moses’ birth and secretion in an ark of bulrushes was taken

-from the Babylonians, where it was applied to King Sargon, according to

-tablets excavated at Babylon.

-

-The great, learned and profound Irenaeus says that there must be four

-gospels because there are four winds of heaven. This is a fair sample of

-the logic of theologians. The fact is, there are four gospels because

-those four jumped from the floor onto the table at the council of Nice.

-There was at that time so much doubt as to what alleged sacred writings

-were inspired by God, that the delegates put them all together under the

-communion table one night at the close of the session, and agreed that

-those that got up on top of the table during the night should be

-considered as inspired, and those that were too weak to get up on the

-table should be stamped as the work of the Devil.

-

-“Many of the bishops in these councils were ruffians and were followed

-by crowds of vicious supporters, who stood ready on the slightest excuse

-to maim and kill their opponents.”—Keeler’s Hist. of the Bible. Tichenor

-says that “they decided all holy questions by a vote or a knock-down

-fight. It is doubtful if any of them drew a sober breath during the

-entire proceedings.” Millman says that “they fought in the streets and

-much blood was shed.”—Millman’s Hist. Christianity. “What these drunken,

-fighting, ignorant, pagan priests declared to be received from God, that

-is what is taught as Divine to-day. To this day they cram their

-abominable lies of devils and damnation into the brains of little

-children. The miserable, crazy creeds of Christendom were concocted by

-these brawling pagan priests, and their poison still pollutes the souls

-of men. Fire all the gods of all the creeds into the melting pot, and

-out comes the brazen face of Mammon.”—Tichenor.

-

-Another reason why there are four gospels, according to Irenaeus, was

-because the Cherubim had four faces. But he thus calls attention to the

-fact that Christianity was spawned in the sties of paganism, as the Jews

-took the four beasts of the Cherubim, the bull, the lion, the eagle and

-the man, from the idolatrous Babylonians. And the four Evangelists

-adopted the four beasts as their totems and placed their beastly images

-on the four gospels. The Maya Indians and the Mexicans worshipped the

-same four idols of the four quarters of the heavens.—Ency. Brit. 12-823.

-The priests of the Ojibways wear the horns of the bull and sacrifice to

-the dragon or great serpent (Mary) that wears on its head the crescent

-moon. They also worship the eagle and the Tree of Life. The Ojibway

-picture writing shows that the Indian Adam and Eve had the same

-disgraceful scandal in the garden of Eden. See “Indians,” Ency.

-Americana.

-

-It is claimed that Apollonius of Tyana (alleged to be the original of

-Paul and Christ) came through a medium and said: “Nine epistles were

-made a present to me by Pharaotes, a Satrap of Taxila, between Babylon

-and India. These epistles contained all that is embraced in the present

-epistles claimed to have been written by Paul. Further, I retired to the

-Isle of Patmos in 69 and 70 A. D. and wrote in a trance state an almost

-identical story with that attributed to St. John. The Christian Gospels

-were all preached by me at Jerusalem, Ephesus, Philippi, Rome, Antioch,

-Alexandria and Babylon, and in all those countries I healed the sick,

-cured the blind and raised the dead. The original of the four gospels I

-obtained at Singapore. They treated of the four stages of the life of

-Buddha.”—Antiquity Unveiled, 21.

-

-Moses and God were mad at the Midianites because the Jews had entered

-into the tents of the Midianite ladies and worshipped Baal Poer, from

-which ensued a plague among the Congregation of the Lord. Num. 31-18.

-And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded, and slew

-all the males and took all the women and children captive. Moses was

-wroth because they had saved all the women and children, and ordered all

-the males among the children to be killed and all the females to be

-turned over to the soldiers for outrage. And he ordered all the women

-murdered except the virgins, of whom 16,000 went to the soldiers and

-16,000 to the people, but the soldiers and the people were compelled to

-pay of these into the storehouse of the Lord 3200 in tithes. “And the

-priests laid with the virgins at the door of the Tabernacle.” Such a

-monstrosity of iniquity, such a fiend incarnate from the shades of Hell

-is the senior member of the firm of Moses and the Lamb.

-

-The history of Moses is copied from the history of Bacchus, who was

-called Mises by the Egyptians. Like Moses, Bacchus was born in Egypt, he

-sojourned on Mt. Sinai, he passed through the Red Sea on dry land, he

-was a lawgiver and wrote the laws on two tables, he was found in a box

-that floated on the water, he smote a rock and wine gushed forth, and

-Bacchus was worshipped and these deeds of his sung in Egypt, Phenicia,

-Syria, Arabia and Greece before Abraham’s day.—Doubts of Infidels, 31.

-

-The account of creation as given in the Bible has been found on tablets

-in the ruins of Nineveh, written in a language that was dead and buried

-before the Jews ever existed. In this Persian cosmogony the name of the

-first man was Adomah, and of the woman Hevah.

-

-The Greeks said miracles for fools. Paul boasts of lying for the glory

-of God and catching converts with guile. Chrysostom said: “Great is the

-force of deceit.” St. Hermas, an Apostolic Father, said that he always

-lived in dissimulation and affirmed a lie for truth to all men.— Doubts

-of Infidels, 78.

-

-You will see that the Bible is dedicated to King James, and that he is

-canonized in the dedication, probably because he kept fifty mistresses

-and was in the habit of becoming beastly intoxicated without

-provocation.

-

-The only real revelations received by the priests and prophets of any

-religion were spirit messages, and the Lord only knows whether these

-were from God or the Devil, from good or bad spirits. In fact it is

-claimed by some spiritualists that all the good spirits are in Heaven

-with God and can’t get out. In other words, they are in limbo, while

-those that were not so good are at liberty to visit the loved spots and

-fond friends of earth and indulge on the astral in their favorite

-pastimes, whether it be a prayer meeting or a poker game. This is

-purgatory, the next story above Hell, which is the earth.

-

-Gibbon said that Eusebius was a consummate liar. The Gospel of Matthew

-and the Epistle to the Hebrews were his work, taken from the lives of

-Christna and Apollonius and the records of the Essenes and some of the

-Jewish and Phenician legends.

-

-A Coptic version of the life of Apollonius in the possession of the

-monks of Seville, Spain, about 1458, was placed in the hands of Juan

-Hermonez for translation. In the margin was a Latin translation, in

-which the name of Apollonius had been changed to John among many other

-falsifications. The Latin translation was almost identical with the

-Gospel of St. John. When Hermonez called the attention of the Superior

-to these changes, he was seized and thrown into a dungeon, in which he

-was allowed to starve and rot.

-

-The Bible has been too much neglected, due, no doubt, to the general

-impression that, being religious, it must be dry. Far from it. For

-instance: Elohim, the gods, made the light and days and nights four days

-before they made the sun. They made a firmament, probably of metal, to

-divide the ocean above from the ocean below, and had windows in it, so

-that they could open them and drown the inhabitants of the earth

-whenever they got drunk and needed a little diversion. And they stuck

-the sun, moon and stars in the metal firmament, which revolved around

-the earth.

-

-When the serpent was not working, he was coiled around the Tree of Life

-telling Eve in snake language what luscious fruit the tree bore. For

-this interference with the plans of the gods, they made the serpent

-crawl on his belly. He had been crawling on his back.

-

-Moses and his first assistant fakir, Aaron, destroyed all the horses and

-cattle in Egypt by a murrain, and then, as Pharaoh still had a stiff

-neck, they destroyed them all again by hail. Then, as Pharaoh still had

-trouble with his neck, they killed all the first-born of Egypt, both men

-and cattle. Then the Israelites fled, and Pharaoh hitched up his horses,

-that had been killed three times, to his six hundred chariots and

-pursued the chosen of God, who had pinched all the jewelry of the

-Egyptians. The Bible is full of these delightful stories from beginning

-to end. If you have conscientious scruples against reading the Bible,

-you will find them attractively set forth in Le Brun’s Doubts of

-Infidels.

-

-

-

-

-                              CHAPTER XX.

-

-                                Heaven.

-

-                    The Lord doeth all things well.

-                    He consigns the Jews to Heaven,

-                    And all the rest to Hell.

-

-

-There are forty nine heavens to which we ordinary mortals may attain, so

-you needn’t worry. Besides, there are certain aristocratic heavens

-reserved for the great and good men of high spirituality, such as Moses,

-the fakir, thief and murderer, and David, the bandit, outlaw and

-assassin, and Solomon, the fratricide, Mormon and pillar of Ashtoreth,

-and all the popes, bishops, priests and ministers. We will each go to

-that place we like the best, and to which we are fitted by our

-vibration. Some of us, like certain ministers, will go to that heaven

-where the beautiful fairies are. The ancient Jews will have a little

-heaven of their own, where they can worship the three balls and the

-ass-headed god and the god with whiskers on, and where they will have a

-chance to cop the golden paving stones, and sell corner lots, and insure

-their palace not made with hands eternal in the heavens.

-

-And the ancient Scotch Presbyterian will walk the golden streets with

-his savage, gore-imbued devil-god, in his paradise overlooking the abyss

-of Hell, where he can gloat over the souls in torment, as they rise up

-out of the Bottomless Pit every thousand years, each one fastened by his

-tongue to a hook on an endless chain, which rises from such a fathomless

-depth of hellfire that it takes the victim a thousand years to make the

-circuit. It is claimed that these heavens and hells are built up from

-the astral substance by the imaginative power of the minds of the

-different religious sects.

-

-This region contains all the heavens that have ever been dreamed of in

-theology, each filled with the devotees of the various creeds. Each of

-the great religions has its own particular region in which its disciples

-gather, worship and rejoice. In each region the religious soul finds

-just what he had expected and hoped to find on the other shore. You may

-even see the golden crowns, harps and stiff halos in some cases and hear

-the eternal chant of praise. These heavens are not eternal. Everything

-on the astral plane is subject to change like all other matter. Even the

-religious progress and change their opinions.—Astral World, 70.

-

-The occultists do not, as a rule, disclose the process by which you may

-see the astral visions and pass out of the physical and journey in the

-astral body. But this is one way to see the pictures in the astral

-light: Between sleeping and waking, in the neutral state of Jagrata,

-when the eyes are closed and a numbness falls upon the body, and you

-experience a floating sensation, take note of the visions that appear to

-you, if any, and then by your will power impress them upon physical

-brain, so that you may remember them. These visions may be pictures on

-the astral light or scenes on the astral plane, but whatever they are,

-some of them prove to be true prophetic visions.

-

-One occult teacher advised those who wished to induce trance to go into

-the silence, that is, to go into a room by yourself, where you will not

-be disturbed, and lie down and completely relax the muscles and think of

-nothing at all. The Hindus say fix your mind on your navel, but some fix

-their gaze on a crystal. You will see the visions when you doze off, if

-you can get them at all.

-

-When you are in the astral body it is possible to remember the

-experiences of your previous lives, that is, the lives of your

-ancestors. In the physical body heredity and memory are stored in the

-cromatin or brain matter of all the millions of cells of the body. The

-human astral body is made up of the astral bodies of all the cells. It

-is possible that memory is inherent in the astral matter of all the

-cells, and that in the astral we are more in rapport with the cells than

-in the physical.

-

-In the lowest astral plane next to the earth, it is said, is the region

-where the astral shells or corpses disintegrate, an arm sloughing off

-here, a leg there, and a head elsewhere. It is claimed that the spirits

-have deserted these shells. If you should happen to meet one of these

-ghosts walking in a graveyard without any legs or without any head, it

-may scare you into a fit, but it will not do you any harm, for it is

-dead. Then there are certain spectres or phantoms whose company is very

-undesirable when you take a lonely walk in the ghoul-haunted woodlands.

-These elemental spirits like to play practical jokes and have a little

-fun with you, but they will not do you any harm, unless you are

-sufficiently weak to allow them to obsess you. Cast out fear, cultivate

-a strong will, and be, like Solomon, the master of demons and men.

-

-“There are certain entities or beings in the astral world which never

-were human and never will be, for they belong to an entirely different

-order of nature. They are fairies, satyrs, imps and goblins. At

-spiritual seances they sometimes play elfish pranks. They seem to be

-particularly apt to play tricks on neophytes in psychic research who

-seek to penetrate the astral without proper instruction. To such a one

-they appear as hideous forms, monsters &c.”—Astral World, 92.

-

-Some of the elementals are electric spirits and confer upon the medium

-the power of magnetic healing. The medium, upon the approach of the

-spirit, is charged with electricity. The spirit may appear as a bird

-with a human face and a parrot’s bill and sharp, black eyes and body

-covered with hair, and deliver messages which can be heard

-clairaudiently by the medium. That reminds us of the claim of Mahomet

-that a little bird stood on his shoulder and whispered the laws of the

-Koran in his ear. They are certainly the Devil’s own laws.

-

-“Many of the angels on the astral and the ghosts that haunt houses are

-thought forms created by the people who imagine them, and obtain all

-their apparent mind from the action of the thought force of their

-creators. Repeated thought and repeated belief will serve to keep alive

-and strengthen these entities, otherwise they will disappear in time.

-Many supernatural visitors, saints and semi-divine beings of all

-religions have been formed in this way. The power of the devils arise in

-the same way.”—Idem.

-

-According to the Theosophists man has two souls, the animal and the

-spiritual, and at death the animal soul or spook, together with the

-spiritual soul, passes to that part of the astral called Kamaloka, or

-place of spooks, the lowest plane. But the spirit soon deserts the spook

-and leaves it to meet its just reward in the second death, because on

-earth it desired too much of carnal pleasures. The spooks retain all the

-impressions accumulated in the earth life and can communicate with

-mortals through mediums. Among these are the demons that obsess human

-beings. The spiritual soul passes on to Devachan, or the house of gods,

-which evidently includes those astral planes where the religious grovel

-before their various imaginary idols. See “What is Theosophy,” 46. This

-alleged spiritual soul, that deserts its brother soul in the depths of

-Hell, receives its due reward, for in the sub-heaven to which it goes,

-it has no memory of the earth life, consequently it is not immortal, and

-it is in jail and cannot get out. It would be better to stay in Hell

-with the spook, for it could have more fun haunting houses than

-worshipping imaginary gods with a lot of stiff-necked orthodox

-hypocrites.

-

-In Ceylon they have twenty six heavens, and at the end of the world

-period they kill off all the spirits in all these heavens except those

-in the five upper spheres, the four highest of which are Nirvana.

-

-You need not think that because you go across that you will have

-surcease from sorrow. It is only in the highest heavens that they have

-no sorrow, and that is because they don’t know anything. You cannot

-obtain happiness here or hereafter by purchasing absolution from any

-fakir, but only by doing to others as you would be done by. The astral

-planes of the Spiritualists in which the soul may advance, improve and

-ultimately attain to the highest heaven, corresponds with Purgatory,

-that superlative graft of religion. You can be prayed out of this limbo,

-if your relatives are willing to put up the stuff, otherwise you will be

-shoveled down into Hell. But a cheaper way is to have a Hindu prayer

-wheel. I am going to devote the immense revenues which I shall receive

-from this pious work to the construction of prayer wheels, which will be

-placed at street corners on all the highways and byways, so that even he

-who runs can turn the wheel and bring around to the open slot, so that

-God can see it, one of the many prayers printed on the wheel, for

-instance: “O, God, save my mother-in-law from Hell.”

-

-In the coma, between sleeping and waking, the gates of the astral world

-are sometimes opened, and you can see the ghosts on the astral plane,

-great throngs of spirits, having no indication of piety, all busily

-engaged in their favorite occupations or sports. If in this state of

-Jagrata you happen to float into a graveyard, you will see the ghosts

-lying or sitting on their graves or pacing up and down beside them with

-bowed heads and in deep thought, trying to figure out how they got there

-and where they are going. See Seership, 179.

-

-It is said that two persons can exchange bodies if they wish. Or if

-someone else has a better body than you have, and you wish to steal it,

-invite him to take a trip with you in his astral body on the astral

-plane. All the time keep commanding your astral body, sotto voce, to

-enter into his body, and when his astral body has emerged, prepared to

-take a trip with you in spook-land, that is the instant for your astral

-body to take possession of his physical body and leave his astral body

-out in the cold. But be careful to back into his body, for if your

-astral body enters his physical body face to face, you will be in wrong

-end to and will be crazy as a loon. Now there is no place for the other

-astral body to go except into your abandoned physical body, and as you

-are a wicked robber who just stole a house, he will probably hesitate

-about entering the body of such a person, and if he delays too long, he

-will be a lost spook, condemned to wander forever in the land of shades.

-

-Do not allow them to palm off any gods upon you. Do not allow anyone to

-assume authority over you. I charge you to teach your descendants these

-things from father to son, down through the clanging corridors of time,

-down through the endless vista of eternity. There is nothing but matter

-in the universe, and all matter is equal. This being so, all forms

-produced therefrom, whether visible or invisible, must be equal, and one

-form has no right to assume authority over another. All beings are

-composed of matter, be they gods or be they worms, and no one mass of

-matter is superior to another or worthy of worship. The worm that crawls

-the earth is the equal of the king that sits upon a throne. Never bow

-the knee to anything that walks or swims or flies, that lives in the

-flesh or that exists only in the diseased imagination of depraved

-religious fanatics. Remember this: There is none greater than you in

-Heaven or Earth or Hell.

-

-

-

-

-                         THE DEVIL’S HALF ACRE.

-                          By Willard Bartlett.

-                           _From the Beacon._

-

-

-In rummaging through the attic of an old wraith-haunted, country house,

-I discovered a course of lessons in Yogi Philosophy. These lessons I

-devoured with avidity, and practiced with assiduity the occult rites,

-until I could readily pass into the silence and project my astral body

-or ghost to any desired place. In fact the unruly ghost would sometimes

-quit the body without my consent and leave me stranded high and dry

-without any soul.

-

-One night while I lay sleeping, my astral body left the physical and

-sped through the air, as it had a very bad habit of doing, to Hapenny,

-the very last place on earth, the place manufactured by the Devil out of

-scraps and old junk, which he had left over after building Hell. But my

-perverted soul always insisted on going there whenever it succeeded in

-bursting through the carnal and beating down its being’s door.

-

-The soul atom or Ego is said to be located in the Medulla Oblongata. If

-the soul is immortal, it is probably an electron. An atom is said to be

-composed of ions or electrons, and probably is subject to dissolution,

-and consequently not immortal. But as no one ever saw an atom or

-electron on account of their extreme minuteness, for the purpose of this

-veracious story, we will call the soul an atom and play it is eternal.

-An atom is a vortex ring of ether in a constant state of vibration, and

-assumed to resemble in form a ring of smoke. Some of the Hindus claim

-that a Purusha or soul from the countless spirit ions constituting the

-spirit principle of the universe, the akasa or astral light, becoming

-involved in the ether, originates the vortex movement by which the atom

-is produced. The ether is the ultimate refinement of matter, a body of

-extreme tenuity that pervades the whole universe and permeates all

-grosser bodies. By the waves of this ether all the vibrations of light,

-heat, sound, energy, electricity and life are transmitted.

-

-The electron is an extremely minute corpuscle or particle endowed with

-life, mind and energy. A thousand electrons, more or less, revolve in

-the atom at a terrific rate around a central sun, thus resembling the

-solar system. This central sun is a male or positive electron, and all

-those revolving about it are females or negative electrons and

-constitute the harem of the central sun, thus establishing polygamy at

-the very basis of life. Our solar system is an atom in a great cosmic

-animal or god called Pan, the all-god.

-

-In my nocturnal journeys, I thought I was clothed in the carnal body,

-but as I was transported through the air, I must necessarily conclude

-that I traveled in the astral body and on the astral plane, in which

-astral bodies move about and ghosts manifest, together with doubles,

-wraiths, hobgoblins and dopplegangers, to which latter class I belonged.

-The astral body, one of the bodies of the soul, is composed of fine,

-ethereal matter, and in form is a duplicate of the human body. It is

-claimed that this body persists for some time after death, but

-eventually disintegrates.

-

-Many a night I have been there in Hapenny when the body lay many miles

-away. These were not ordinary dreams. I was actually there, that is, I

-being in the soul atom or astral body. One night I was conducted through

-a new manufactory there, which I had never seen with the mortal eyes and

-never knew existed. But the next time I went there in the body, I found

-the building just as I had seen it in the vision.

-

-The favorite outing place of my doppleganger is the Devil’s Half Acre,

-or Murderer’s Paradise. It always flies to that obsessed and accursed

-spot hard by the gates of Tophet, close round the hinges of Hell.

-Traveling in the astral body, I can see both the quick and the dead, but

-as I am always out there at night, the live ones are asleep, and only

-the spooks are abroad, prowling hither and yon in the moon’s pale rays,

-visiting again, like myself, the scenes of former crimes. These are

-earth-bound spirits who, during life, lived out a low, degraded

-existence, and they are bound by their own desires and the vibration of

-their astral bodies to these astral slums. I stood out on the old road

-in front of the dilapidated shack formerly occupied by a gun-fighter,

-and watched the astral bodies as they glided to and fro in the air.

-

-There was Mr. B. with a red gash from ear to ear and a crimson stream of

-blood running down over the white, astral, vapor-like body. Around the

-body was the aura, a cloudy vapor extending outward to a distance of two

-or three feet in the shape of an egg, an emanation of a dark and dismal

-color, corresponding to his dark and dismal career. It was in back of

-that very shack that he cut his throat and burst the door that bound him

-to the mortal clay, crying as he passed over that he was eternally lost

-and damned, as the church had hypnotized him into believing. But that

-Hell is immeasurably preferable to the Devil’s Half Acre, because the

-astral body is relieved of pain, hunger and thirst and the necessity of

-laboring for food and clothing. In fact, I believe that we are in Hell

-now, that this is the lowest plane of existence. In the Devil’s Half

-Acre the poor and wretched outcasts of the earth, embellished with dirt

-and clad in rotting rags, lived on three cents a day.

-

-There was something in the atmosphere of the neighborhood that urged all

-the inhabitants on to crime. The family life was a hell on earth. The

-place was obsessed by the Devil and accursed of God. A village will

-acquire a character of its own. It is claimed that all the evil thoughts

-of all the vicious inhabitants of a vile place will linger in the

-surrounding atmosphere for years and exercise a baneful influence on all

-who dwell there. In the Devil’s Half Acre you could not take a step

-without treading on the crimson stain of a reeking crime. The spooks

-were and are now as thick as Tophet there; the place is haunted by

-ghosts and fiends unholy in Death and Hell bedight. It was the obsession

-of the place by the powers of evil that attracted to it all the

-notorious criminals.

-

-The next spook to pollute the atmosphere was that of Mr. D. who, when on

-earth, was engaged in the banking business. In his left hand he carried

-a jimmy and in his right a gun, and he was peering here and there

-looking for a safe to crack or a cashier to shoot up. He was floating

-through the air at a height of about ten feet, and on his forehead

-blazed the blood-red mark of Cain, and his black aura was lighted by the

-fires of Tophet. When in life he lived in the house across the road.

-From this house also emerged a ghost with a halter around its neck. It

-was there with the halter he had swung himself over the battlements of

-time and dropped into eternity. The vicious influence of this house was

-irresistible. It is well to know this law of thought obsession and avoid

-these accursed places.

-

-The next spirit to make its appearance was my old friend Mr. E. who came

-from walking up and down in the earth trying to sell the girl he led by

-the hand. He was still on his uppers as usual, as I could see by the

-ragged condition of his astral body. The accompanying aura of a

-slate-green hue, embellished with dull-red flames, indicated a low,

-deceitful and sensual character. He stopped and, looking me over, said:

-“I remember you. Don’t you want to buy my wife here again? She is in

-good condition now. I admit that I cheated you forty years ago when I

-sold her to you for fifty cents, but now in the astral world she is a

-vision of youth and beauty.”

-

-Then came the ghost of Mr. F., a Sunday School teacher, who operated on

-a class of young ladies in the vestry of the church, that time-worn

-vestry, that well-beloved vestry, where the foundations of their

-philosophy were laid. A very genial, loving gentleman he was too, but

-his scholars being exceedingly frivolous, he found it necessary, in

-order to impress upon them the Divine truths, to pat them on the knees

-and sort of instil religion into them by the massage process. He has

-found his heaven. He appeared on the astral, surrounded, embraced and

-beloved by that same dazzling galaxy of beauties, now a star-crowned

-angel band.

-

-It is claimed that they have schools over there, in which those who so

-desire may be instructed in virtue and wisdom and assisted to advance.

-When at last they learn the great secret and discover the key that

-unlocks the horns of the bull, they pass through the low and narrow

-portal between the horns of Taurus, squeeze through the needle’s eye,

-and enter the higher heaven.

-

-Then I saw a lot of ghosts and fragments of ghosts sometimes without any

-heads, and sometimes lacking limbs, floating about aimlessly without any

-rudders, for they were dead, and their spirits had fled, leaving in the

-Devil’s Half Acre their astral shells. That is what they are called when

-their spirits have departed in the spiritual body and left the astral

-body to return to the elements like the carnal body.

-

-A human being in a normal condition is unable to see an astral body, or

-ghost, because the vibrations on the astral plane are too rapid for the

-human eye to see. The vibrations of the ultra-violet or X rays, at one

-end of the spectrum are too rapid, and the infra-red rays, at the other

-end of the spectrum, are too slow for the human eye to see. But we have

-astral senses, appurtenant to the astral body, duplicates of the

-physical senses, and persons in a trance and sometimes people asleep are

-able to use these astral senses and see and communicate with the

-denizens of the astral world.

-

-

-

-

-                    THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE SOUL ATOM.

-                          By Willard Bartlett.

-                          _From The Nautilus._

-

-

-I will preface my story with the simple statement that I am now

-500,000,000 years old, more or less, that the atom in which my soul is

-located, or which constitutes my soul, first found a home in what is

-called a living being, a cytod or cell, in the primordial or earliest

-epoch of earth’s history. A cell is a minute mass of living protoplasm,

-or jelly-like substance, not as large as the head of a pin, a

-combination of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, ammonia, sulphur,

-etc. While it is true that I existed before that, and, in fact, from all

-eternity, I previously resided in what is called inanimate matter, in

-the igneous rocks. But we will say that I was born when my soul atom

-became involved in the said protoplasm of one of the earliest plant

-cells.

-

-All matter is endowed with mind, and a soul exists in every atom. It is

-impossible to produce new life, as it is said scientists have done, and

-impossible to create life, as God is claimed to have done, for life

-always existed in every atom. It is by certain combinations of matter

-that life becomes manifest in motion.

-

-Each of the thousands of atoms, of which said primitive life cell was

-composed, had a soul destined to take its place in some descendant, if

-it had an opportunity. And the souls are waiting in the atoms to be

-born, and not in Heaven as asserted by the Yogi philosophers. The Yogis

-claim that the souls are waiting in some department of the Buddhist

-heaven crying to be born. Bosh! They are waiting in the spermatozoa,

-those little monsters, those little devils that drive their great human

-masters to crime and murder, to the gallows and the stake; there they

-are howling to be born. In their frantic race to enter the ovum, as

-shown under “Spermatozoa,” Stand. Dic., no wonder they are excited. They

-have been waiting 500,000,000 years for the opportunity to become human

-beings.

-

-Cells propagate by division; that is my original ancestor, a little,

-round mass of protoplasm, divided itself into two cells to produce

-offspring, and all of my ancestors have done the same through all these

-millions of years, consequently I have in my body, in all of the cells,

-some of the original matter of which my original cell ancestor was

-composed. That is eternity’s great highway by which the soul walked

-down.

-

-The human germ cell divides in the same manner into two individuals and

-we propagate, as our earliest ancestors did, by casting off a cell,

-which, being joined by a cell of the opposite sex, becomes fertilized.

-The human embryo develops by repeated subdivisions of this twin cell,

-and each one of the myriads of cells so produced is a living, thinking

-being.

-

-The question has arisen why the cells in an embryo arrange themselves in

-the form of the parent, and it has been asserted that they are so

-distributed by God in pursuance of a Divine plan. But it is actually

-done by the volition of the cells themselves. Each cell takes its proper

-position in compliance with the instruction of its parent cell, and if

-removed by force to some other part of the embryo, will return to its

-original place, thus evincing the most surprising intelligence. It must

-be remembered that a molecule is as large as a universe, that there is

-no such thing as size, that as much ability may be stored up in the

-nerve centre of a cell as in all the debris of a human brain.

-

-We are immortal, but with no memory of past lives. If we do not

-propagate, this life will be the end of our line that has continued

-unbroken for millions of years, and we will have to go back into the

-abysmal void, into the womb of chaos and commence all over again. That

-will be our fate in any case. Only that cell of our bodies which may be

-incorporated in our progeny will continue in human form. That cell is a

-remote relative of ours, having descended from the ancestral germ cell

-from which our embryo was developed.

-

-Of the earliest plant cells, developed by spontaneous generation in the

-primordial epoch, some developed tails, or projected filaments of

-protoplasm from their jelly-like bodies. With these tails they propelled

-themselves through the primeval seas, and thus separated themselves from

-the plants and became animals. In this earliest epoch of life’s history

-all beings lived in the water. These primitive plants possessed as much

-soul and mind as the animals that thus branched off from them, and all

-plants still possess soul and mind.

-

-But I am sorry to say that my ancestor, who thus projected a tail and

-became an animal, was a degenerate, a lazy loafer, a robber, a murderer

-and a cannibal. We all have to live on protoplasm. The plants made their

-own living plasm, manufacturing it from inorganic matter, but the

-animals were too indolent to do such laborious work, when they could

-just as well kill and eat the plant cells and subsist on them. In this

-way they lost the recipe for making plasm, and we descendants are

-consequently born cannibals, condemned to rob, murder, despoil and eat

-our fellow beings, or starve.

-

-My next beautiful ancestor, to whom I will introduce you, was an animal

-consisting of numerous cells arranged in the form of a sack or stomach,

-called a blastoderm or gastraea. There was no central brain at this

-time, each cell having a brain of its own.

-

-Yesterday, while patrolling my beat down in the mine, in a drift in the

-limestone, the earliest sedimentary deposit laid down on the bed of the

-primeval ocean, I found the house of my archaic ancestor, willed to me

-by him millions of years ago, and delivered by him to me yesterday. It

-is a minute shell, with which he protected his precious stomach. This

-stomach took its flight to Heaven in the earliest dawn of time, but the

-house, one of the many mansions of the soul, preserved intact came down

-to me through unnumbered ages, while myriad races came into being and

-faded into eternity, and religions sprang up and flourished and waned,

-and empires rose and rotted and fell.

-

-In the next stage, the stomach has become elongated, and the nerve

-centre or spinal cord makes its appearance along the whole length of the

-body. At this period my beloved grandfather was a very aristocratic and

-exclusive worm, belonging to one of the first families, and, like them,

-had as much brains in his tail as in his head, for no cranial brain had

-yet developed.

-

-The remaining steps of the evolution, through which my ancestors have

-passed, are depicted in the development of the human embryo, and I will

-ask you to read up on the subject of embryology, which I have found

-quite as interesting as dime novels.

-

-

-

-

-                          Transcriber's Notes

-

-  Several obvious punctuation errors have been silently corrected.

-  Signa Tau was used consistently so it was not changed to Sigma Tau.

-  On pages 2 and 55, alter was changed to altar.

-  On page 71, metalic was changed to metallic, twice.

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+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+[Illustration: Cover; By courtesy of The New York Sunday American; FIRST
+EDITION]
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+                          King Solomon’s Goat
+
+
+
+                                  _By_
+                            WILLARD BARTLETT
+
+                              _Author of_
+
+             “The Origin of Priestcraft,” “The Tenderfoot,”
+                    “The War of the Stomachs,” etc.
+
+
+
+                 _Apologies are due to numerous authors
+                 who have failed to receive due credit
+               through the carelessness of the compiler._
+
+
+
+
+                             EVERETT PRINT
+                             13 Otis Street
+                                 BOSTON
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                             Copyright 1918
+
+                                   BY
+
+                          G. WILLARD BARTLETT
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAPTER I.
+
+                           The Divine Moloch.
+
+
+The genial gentleman with horns, shown on the cover hereof, is
+christ.[1] The hybrid Christian-Egyptian religion was stolen from the
+sun-worship of Egypt and India and other religious impositions. When the
+sun, called Ra and Osiris in Egypt, identical with Jehovah, at the end
+of each cycle of about 2155 years, entered a new sign of the zodiac, it
+was said to be reborn, or the son of god came in a character to
+correspond with the astronomical sign.—Gerald Massey.
+
+-----
+
+Footnote 1:
+
+  Where in this book the words God, Lord, Christ, Messiah and Lamb are
+  capitalized they refer to Christian deities, otherwise to pagan gods.
+
+When the sun entered the sign of Taurus, the bull, god was reborn, or
+christ came as the bull, called Apis in Egypt and Moloch in Syria. It is
+the latter beauty whose entrancing charms are the subject of this
+panegyric. When Jacob wrestled with the lord, the bout was with Moloch
+Iho, as will be seen by reading the original Hebrew text. This is lord I
+O, the supreme, the hermaphrodite god or idol of the pagans. Read the
+Blessing that the Hebrews say before eating: “Blessed art thou Io
+Elohanu Melech ... who bringeth forth bread from the earth.”—Krinsky’s
+First Lessons in Hebrew, 84.
+
+The pagans claimed that their god Moloch “had his castle of fire in the
+seventh heaven.” And “Jehovah had his castle of fire over the seventh
+heaven.”—Book of Enoch, 14:7. The identity of Moloch and the Hindu god
+Siva is indicated by the bull Nardi, the sacred emblem of the latter.
+The Persian bull christ, the son of Ormazd, killed by Ahriman, the Lord
+of Darkness, and all the other christs that sport horns must share the
+infamy of the great god Moloch, alias Saturn, alias Israel, alias Ilda
+Baoth or Devil. The heaven of Moloch is in the Northeast, and it is
+paved with gold, and his throne is made of lapis lazuli.
+
+You will notice that the priest is offering up a child to the great god
+who so loved human flesh and blood that he caused his own son to be
+slaughtered. There was also another reason for the human sacrifices by
+the priests and sorcerers and secret societies, that is, the desire to
+evoke the dead and summon up phantoms for consultation. These ghosts are
+very fond of blood, in fact it is difficult for them to materialize
+unless they can absorb the steam arising from human blood. It is true
+that some sorcerers have evoked the dead with the blood of kids or
+lambs, but the goat and lamb christs are ancient redeemers, whose
+efficacy is not to be compared with the man christ. Elephas Levi says
+that a phantom will attract the vapor of blood and human corpuscles in
+the air as a magnet attracts iron filings.
+
+“They have built the high places of Tophet in the Valley of Hinnom to
+burn their sons and daughters in the fire.” They made their children
+pass through the fire to Moloch, forsooth, because young children, like
+young pigs, are tender and easy to chew. They cooked their own flesh and
+blood on the reeking altar of the Devil, even as the great and good Ahaz
+served up his son for the delectation of the mob, and sitting down to
+the delicious feast, ate up the heir and hope of Israel. Then, chopping
+up the remnants into sausages, he exposed and hawked them in the market
+place, crying: “It is true they come high, but see what they are made
+of. Each sausage is stamped with the Tetragrammaton and stuffed with the
+royal house of Israel. If you plebeians, decorated with dirt and adorned
+with bugs, wish to get some blue blood into your clotted veins, now is
+the time. Avail yourselves of this opportunity to eat a prince of the
+royal blood, an imperial descendant of our Mother in Israel, Tamar, the
+daughter and wife of Judah and ancestor of David and the messiah.”
+
+The fact that the Jews worshipped on Saturn-day would indicate that they
+were worshippers of Saturn or Moloch. The sacrifice of the first-born
+unto the Lord was required by the Old Testament. Human sacrifices by
+proxy still survive in parts of England, where at Christmas time the
+goodman goes forth to hunt for an old wife to sacrifice, and returns
+with an old log, which he plays is his wife, and puts her on the fire.
+This takes the place of the human being his ancestors formerly offered
+up. In Hertfordshire, an ox, representing Moloch, is killed every
+Christmas, and the church bell tolls at its death in imitation of the
+crucifixion of the bull christ or sun at the winter solstice. At the
+orgies of Orpheus they originally sacrificed a man and tore his flesh
+from his body with their teeth and ate it raw, but in later times
+substituted a bull representing Orpheus or Christ.—“Orgies” and
+“Orpheus”, Ency. Brit. All religion originated in human sacrifices and
+cannibalism.
+
+The wife of god is a cow, called Hathor in Egypt, also named Isis and
+Meri, which goddess we have stolen and worship under the name of Mary.
+When the sun entered the stable or sign of Taurus, a christ was
+produced, or god was reborn as a bull. That is why Christ was born in a
+stable.
+
+When the sun entered the sign of Aries or the Ram, God was reborn, or
+Christ came as the Lamb of God, the son of the Ram, identical with Rama,
+the seventh incarnation of the god Vishnu.—Gerald Massey. In Thebes the
+principal object worshipped by the pagan ancestors of Christianity was
+the Ram.
+
+At the eighth incarnation of God, when the sun entered the sign of
+Fishes, about the beginning of the Christian Era, God was reborn as the
+Great Fish or Fisher of Men, and was slain on Friday for the redemption
+of the world. That is why the Christians killed and ate their fish Jesus
+every Friday to save their craven souls from Hell. That is why the
+priests of Dagon, the fish god of the Philistines, wore fish skins on
+their backs and the head of a fish for a miter. The miter of the church
+dignitaries was the gaping mouth of their fish god. That is why Christ
+had such phenomenal piscatorial luck and why his disciples were
+fishermen. That is why he came up out of the waters of Jordan.—See
+Ancient Pagan & Modern Christian Symbolism.
+
+We are baptized that we may typically become fish or Christlike, but
+complete immersion is indispensable to save our wicked souls. A few
+drops of water on the forehead do not make a fish. Jesus came out of the
+stellar pool in the sign of Fishes, and we have seen superstitious and
+benighted fishes, who have been born again, come up out of the pool
+beneath the church altar in the Hub of Universal Culture. The basin at
+the church door or piscina, containing alleged holy water, is but a type
+of that celestial pool in which the stellar fishes swim, and into which
+the sun plunged and washed away the sins of the world. The Egyptian
+Madonna, Isis, is represented as holding in her arms the christ Horus,
+and on her head is a fish. The Hindus worship the fish-god at the temple
+of the Golden Dagon near Rangoon, India.
+
+The Jews sacrificed the fish-christ at each of the three meals of the
+Sabbath. “One should eat fish for into them the souls of the righteous
+are transmigrated.”—Talmud. The Buddhist cross, from which the Christian
+cross was taken, is called Swastika (fishes) and consists of the two
+fishes of the zodiac crossed. “Maya or Mary, the Virgin of the skies, at
+the moment of the birth of her son Buddha on Dec. 25, was just rising
+above the horizon.”
+
+“The sun’s present position is in Aquarius. Our Lord’s advent was in the
+previous sign of Pisces, but the sign which he declared should precede
+his next coming was that of Aquarius. ‘When ye see a man bearing a
+pitcher of water follow ye him.’”—Daughter of the Druids, 101.
+
+When the sun entered the sign of Cancer, the sun god, or the son of god
+came as the Crab or the Good Scarabaeus, the lucky bug of Egypt, and was
+born in the nebula of the Manger in the sign of Cancer. Still there is
+no law against believing in the story of the Jew Christ born in the
+Manger of Bethlehem. Even the Church Fathers claimed that Christ was the
+Good Scarabaeus.
+
+In the Catacombs of Rome is a picture of a supper at which seven persons
+sit down to eat seven loaves and two small fishes. Some writers have
+failed to grasp the significance of this picture. They are assembled
+there to eat their Christ, as we do now at every Communion Service.
+Christ is the bread of life, born in the astronomical house of
+Breadcorn. He came seven times in the ancient division of the heavens,
+and in his eighth avatar he came as the two fishes in the sign of
+Pisces.
+
+Our Christmas is a new name for the old Roman Saturnalia, a festival
+celebrating the birth of the sun-god Saturn or Moloch at the winter
+solstice, at which time they feasted, exchanged presents, got drunk and
+played craps. The Christians, in celebrating the 25th of December, admit
+that their Christ is a sun-god.—See “Saturn,” Ency. Brit.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER II.
+
+                          The Queen of Heaven.
+
+
+The Hebrews in the wilderness indulged in this pagan idolatry and
+sacrificed bullocks and lambs on the altar for the remission of their
+sins, and erected a golden calf. The golden calf was christ, and his
+mother was the sacred cow Hathor or Mary. This Meri or Mary was an
+astral goddess, the moon goddess, the Queen of Heaven, represented as
+standing in the crescent moon. She is identical with the foul goddesses
+Astarte, Venus, Ishtar, Asherah and Ashtoreth, the abomination of the
+Sidonians. Ishtar is the same as Easter, and we celebrate Easter because
+the sun-god arose at the full moon of Easter. The Sacred Cow of India is
+worshipped as the Mother of the Gods.—Book of all Religions, 224.
+
+You will see in the idol stores the graven image of Mary, the Queen of
+Heaven, standing in the crescent moon, and a dog crouching before her
+offering her a cake with a hole in it. This cake is the Mark of the
+Beast, the female symbol of the cow Hathor, the Assyrian Grove, the
+sacred Eye, which was worn by the Christian and pagan priests in their
+foreheads and on their hands. It is the Sacti of the goddess Maha Deva,
+called Sacti because it is sacred and is offered up as a sacrifice,
+closely related to sacrum and the caudal appendage.
+
+The three links are the symbol of the hermaphrodite godhead. The link is
+the female emblem and three is the sign of the male. The Eye within the
+tent or triangle or compasses is an object of worship and adoration. The
+three-cornered triangle is the emblem of the male. In Ency. Brit., 6:
+462, a bishop is represented with the Eye on his left hand, and he holds
+up three fingers of his right hand, the sign of the male. This is just
+as efficacious as the three links, as it presents to the audience the
+male and female emblems together, formerly the only objects of worship
+in all religions. They are the emblems of life, and must be held up
+together to insure the worshippers eternal life. It will be seen in this
+investigation that in every religious assembly, from the Witches’
+Sabbath to the Elevation of the Host, the male and female emblems were
+displayed together for the salvation of the world. Without these emblems
+the devotees cannot be born again. The image of the Hindu Madonna and
+Christna shows the Virgin holding up three fingers, and with the thumb
+and forefinger she makes the circle of Ashtoreth to save the souls of
+her devotees.—Plate 14, A. P. & M. C. Symbolism.
+
+The high altars of most of the churches were rank Assyrian Groves, to
+which the devotees bowed low in holy reverence. See “Altar”, Stand. Dic.
+and Ency. Brit. 16:75. The deity emerging from the female symbol of the
+high Christian altar of Pistoia holds in his hand a book on which is
+written: “I A O, the Sun, the Light of the World.” When we take off our
+hats to the church, we are not doing obeisance to the pile of brick and
+stone but to this symbol above the altar. The Dabistan says that Siva
+has a spouse called Maya, as Jehovah had Mary, and the high altar in a
+mosque of the Mussulmans is an emblem of the Bhaga or the Grove or Royal
+Arch. The ancient Knights of the Royal Bhaga were also Knights of the
+Cave, the Gate, the Fornix (tent of a Kadish) to the defense of which
+they pledged their lives, their property and their sacred honors, and
+each brave knight wore emblazoned on his forehead or on his stomach the
+emblem of his goddess, the open Eye.
+
+Venus, called C U in Celtic, was the moon goddess of the round towers of
+Ireland. The priests of the goddess called themselves C U R, and a cur
+offers a sacrifice to the Virgin. From C U R we derive the word
+curate.—Stinson Jarvis. The Druid priests always wore the crescent moon
+on their robes. Osiris is identical with the Egyptian god Anubis, the
+dog, and their symbol is the open Eye. They both worship at the shrine
+of Hathor or the Virgin holding the sacred Eye in their hands. That is
+why in Christianity, we see the dog offering to Mary the sacred
+perforated wafer.
+
+Refer to “Enthronization,” Stand. Dic., and you will see the Mark of the
+Beast on the bishop’s hand, and look at the pagan god Siva, and you will
+find the same mark on his forehead. See “Freemason,” and you find that
+Washington wears the same symbol on his stomach. Look at Brahma, who
+carries the rosary in his hand, a symbol of identical significance.
+Refer to “Glory,” and you see Christ standing in the Mark of the Beast.
+Turn to Vesica Piscis, where the Virgin stands in her symbol, the symbol
+of the hideous faith of the Witches’ Sabbath, a faith coeval with the
+dawn of time, spawned in the slums of chaos. Astarte or Ashtoreth was
+the moon goddess and Queen of Heaven and patron of immorality.—Ency.
+Brit. 2:735. Mary is the same as Venus and Diana, the moon
+goddess.—Elephas Levi, the priest.
+
+The Hindu Litany of Our Lady Nari, the Virgin, says: “Holy Nari.
+Mariama, Mother of an Incarnate God, Mother of Christna, Virgin Most
+Chaste, Queen of Heaven.” The Egyptian Litany of Our Lady Isis says:
+“Holy Isis, Mother of Gods, Mother of Horus, Virgin Sacred Earth, Isis,
+Queen of Heaven.” The Christian Litany says: “Holy Mary, Mother of God,
+Mother of Christ, Virgin Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven.”—Isis Unveiled,
+209.
+
+Why does St. Peter (Petra, the Rock God) as shown by his statue in Rome,
+hold up three fingers and make the circle or Eye with the other two
+fingers? Why is the Christian Benedictional, like the Totem Pole of the
+Indians, covered with the so-called All-Seeing Eye? Why is the Eye on
+the stomach of the Bishop, where he does not need it? This is a very
+occult matter that can be disclosed only to the initiates of the foul
+religions.—See Book of All Religions, 467.
+
+“Religion is a monstrous fraud and delusion that has desolated the earth
+and filled the spirit world with demons.”—Antiquity Unveiled, 58.
+
+The Gnostics claimed that it was Ilda Baoth, the Devil, that
+overshadowed Mary, instead of Gabriel. “The female Serpent of the Sky,
+the Mother, is imaged in Buddhism by the lotus, the water, the female
+fish. Her mansion is in Virgo. By Manu she is called the Spirit of God
+(the Holy Ghost) but she represents matter as well as spirit.”—Buddha &
+Early Buddhism, 20. Mare and Mary mean the sea, and the fish god Jesus,
+of course, came out of the sea.
+
+“The bells used by the Christians came to them directly from the
+Buddhists, Thibetans and Chinese, who used them to attract the gods. The
+beads and rosary have the same origin, and have been used by Buddhist
+monks for over 2300 years.”—Isis Unveiled, 95. The Jews used bells to
+warn their god that some dupe was about to adore him, so that he would
+have a chance to change his character and not appear as the ass-headed
+god.—Epiphanius, Gospel of Mary. In China and India they ring the church
+bell to call god and the other ghosts to dinner, and after the spirits
+have eaten, the remnants of the sacrifices are thrown by the priests to
+the dogs of worshippers, the scum of the earth, who furnished the
+offerings. The church bell in Japan is called “Call God,” and we, having
+copied our religion from the Buddhist, ring our church bells to call God
+to listen to our fool prayers, and every Sunday he walks a leg off
+hustling around to the millions of places of superstition.
+
+A statue of the cow Hathor, with the moon between her horns, was
+unearthed in a temple of Egypt. This is the mother of Horus, also called
+Ies and Iesu and Jesu in Egypt. And to further fix her catholicity
+beyond question she is covered with Christian crosses. If you refer to
+“Isis,” Stand. Dic., you will see that the Egyptian Madonna wears horns
+and the full moon on her head. The moon goddess of Peru was called Mamma
+Quilka, or Mother Moon, the mother of all the Incas, and the real pious
+devotees got soused on corn whiskey in her holy worship.
+
+The Christians sacrificed cakes with holes in them to Mary, Queen of
+Heaven.—Ency. Brit. 15:391. This is the very idolatry for which Jehovah
+drove the Jewish nation out of Palestine. In Jeremiah, 44:19, the Jews
+say: “We burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink
+offerings unto her and made cakes to worship her.” And Jeremiah says in
+verse 22: “Because of these abominations which you have committed,
+therefore is your land a desolation and a curse, without an inhabitant
+as at this day.”
+
+The Buddhists say: “Upon a lotus of precious stones sustaining a moon
+crescent sits Buddha Matra” (the Mother of God). The Chinese invocation
+says: “Hail Matra”, and they call her “Our Lady, the Queen of Heaven,
+the Mother of Buddha.”—Buddha & Early Buddhism, 22. The fact that the
+Queen of Heaven existed as a goddess in the time of Jeremiah, before
+Christianity was spawned, shows that the Buddhists did not steal their
+Queen of Heaven from the Christians as charged.
+
+In Josephus, Book 8, ch. 11, it is seen that Shishac subdued Israel and
+erected some charming pillars on which were carved captivating female
+symbols, which they worshipped. Jereboam erected two aesthetic heifers,
+images of Hathor for the worship and spiritual edification of the Jews.
+In Judges, 3:7, it is asserted that Israel served Baalim and the Grove.
+Baalim are images of Baal, male emblems, corresponding to the candles
+and manikins (sons of man) of the Witches’ Sabbath, called images of men
+in Ezek. 16:17. I think that the christ of the Hebrews was the candle,
+and that they sacrificed him every Friday, the same as the Christians do
+their fish god. The candle is the appropriate offering to a goddess, and
+it may have been Ashtoreth.
+
+The Mezuzah, which is nailed on the door post, corresponds with the
+pillars erected by Shishac, for it is a miniature pillar with an oval
+hole on the side, which hole it is necessary to kiss, as we kiss the
+male and female emblems on the Pax to secure eternal life. In the hole
+is one of the names of god, Shaday, one of the female Sephiroth or
+persons of the godhead. If you refer to “Altar,” Stand. Dic., you will
+see the people worshipping the hole in the Mezuzah, or the Virgin
+standing in her symbol above the altar, which is all the same.
+
+The phylactery, worn on the forehead and on the left arm, contains
+passages of Scripture, which must be printed on the skin of the cow, the
+mother of christ, and the phylactery itself, must be made of the skin of
+christ, the calf. God himself wore phylacteries according to the Talmud.
+
+Dianus, or the sun, or god, had twelve wives, capturing a new one
+whenever he entered a new sign of the zodiac. It was Rhea in the sign of
+the Twins, and Hathor in the sign of Taurus, and Mary in the sign of
+Pisces. One of his wives was Diana of the Ephesians, the object of a
+foul worship in Asia Minor. She wears upon her head the crescent moon,
+and she is Mary, the Queen of Heaven. She bears six lions in her arms,
+because she is the mother of all the gods. Six christs have been born
+since she ruled the heavens in the sign of Virgo. The christ who came in
+the sign immediately following Virgo was Leo. It is one and the same
+god, the sun, that comes in every sign, consequently they are all lions.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER III.
+
+                          Religious Symbolism.
+
+
+This is the Egyptian Tau Cross, the symbol of Apis, the bull, and other
+male gods: [𝝩]. Here is the male emblem shown as the Masonic square, as
+found in the ruins of Gaza: [𝝘]. This is the Egyptian K. Ka is the
+Egyptian name of the male emblem. See “Hieroglyphics”, Ency. Brit. This
+holy god, in the form of a stone, is stuck in the wall of the Kaaba, the
+shrine at Mecca, which shrine was built by Abraham, who was fond of
+chasing after gods with tarnished reputations. This god in Mecca is a
+meteorite seven inches long, brought down from Heaven by Gabriel, and
+about 300,000 pilgrims annually kiss this foul, germ-laden god to save
+their tarnal souls.
+
+And this is the cross ansata of Egypt, [♀], or cross of anx (life), a
+combination of the cross of the bull and the sacred symbol of Isis. The
+High Priest of Egypt wore three cross ansatas and three links on his
+breast-plate, symbols of the trinity. Many of the pagan religions, from
+which ours descended, used only the main portion of the cross, the shaft
+or upright, the symbol of Siva, Baal Poer and Jehovah. It is called
+phalatz in Hebrew, meaning broken. See the broken column of the
+Masons—A. P. & M. C. Symbolism.
+
+You place the three balls of the pawnbroker or the shamrock of Ireland
+on top of the shaft, and you have the most archaic form of the cross,
+before which the devils tremble and fall in a fit. Christian crosses,
+wreaths, bells, squares, eyes, Asherim and Baalim have been discovered
+in the ruins of Gaza, in the fourth city that was destroyed about 1600
+B. C. The original text of Ezek. 9:4 shows that the sign of Jehovah was
+the Signa Tau, or the cross of Taurus, the bull, with which the elect
+were sealed in their foreheads. In the Enchiridion, a prayer book and
+book of magic credited to Pope Leo III, he says: “By this sign [＋] Lord
+Tau, deliver me.”
+
+The male emblem, or triangle, placed in the circle of Asherah makes the
+Three in One, the profound and esoteric mystery forever hidden from the
+profane and vulgar. That is the sacred quartet, those are the idols we
+worship.
+
+Turn to Siva, Stand. Dic., and you will see that he has stolen all the
+pious Christian symbols, although he existed for ages before the
+Christians. In one hand is the circle and in another hand a trident or
+fleur de lys, a male emblem. Around his neck is a large rosary or stole.
+Thrusting his male head through this female emblem is a symbol of life
+and a saving rite. Putting his hand through a rosary is just as
+effective. We can trace the spotless lineage of our beloved religion
+back through the dim vistas of time to a very archaic and rotten
+ancestry.
+
+In both the Christian and pagan symbolism the oval in which the saints
+and gods do stand is often represented as composed of roses and
+constitutes a rosary. The horseshoe brings good luck because it is
+identical with the cave, the arch and the grove and is the sacred emblem
+of the goddess Mary or Astarte. Both Buddha and Christ are represented
+as standing in the horseshoe or Royal Arch. I conclude that the Masonic
+Holy Royal Arch and the oval above the church altar, in which the Virgin
+stands, represent the Grove that Manasseh set up in the House of the
+Lord, 2 Kings, 21, and that Josiah burnt at the brook Kidron, 2 Kings,
+23:6. The stole, worn by the priests, is equivalent to, and has all the
+mystic powers of, the cross ansata. It is well named “stole”, as the
+early Christians stole it from the pagan worship.
+
+Serapis, the Egyptian god, is bedecked and bedizened with all the
+Christian emblems. He holds the crook of the Good Shepherd in one hand
+and the cross ansata in the other. He has the head and horns of a bull,
+showing that he is the son of the cow Hathor or Mary. And over his head
+are the Masons’ marks, the square and the eye, showing that he is in
+good standing in his lodge in Hell, for he, like christ, is Lord of the
+Underworld.
+
+Refer to Vishnu, Stand. Dic., and you will see that pagan god wearing
+all the above emblems. He is christ and came as Rama in the sign of the
+Ram and as Krishna in the sign of Pisces. Turn to Krishna, and you will
+see the Hindu Madonna and christ that we kidnapped.
+
+In the Sun. Am. Magazine, Aug. 29, 1910, we see a picture of Isis
+mourning at the bier of Osiris. At Egyptian funerals they assured the
+dead of eternal life by raising the symbol of Isis, the circle or rosary
+above the body. You will see that the head of the deceased at the wake
+is surrounded by male emblems, which gross symbols are now replaced in
+the present civilization by candles. You will see that Isis is bowing
+down before the Tree of Life, and that she has at hand a basket of
+perforated cakes, which she is about to offer to the Tree of Life, which
+tree is called Osiris or Baal or Moloch or Buddha or Yahveh or Iao or
+Siva or Jove according to the country in which the religion is
+perpetrated. If you place a wreath on a dead man’s stomach and seven
+candles around his head, he is no longer a meet candidate for Hell, but
+an heir of eternal glory. If you stick a cross through the wreath, it is
+a through ticket to the seventh heaven, and you may be assured that he
+will go through purgatory a-humping.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER IV.
+
+                The Sabbatic Goat or God of the Sabbath.
+
+
+When the sun entered the sign of Capricorn, it was reborn as, or christ
+came as the goat, that individual on whom the Jews used to load all
+their sins and then drive him forth into the wilderness. They sacrificed
+goats on the altar because the goat was one of the ancient redeemers.
+Caesar says of Egyptian sacrifices: “Imprecations were uttered over the
+head of the expiatory victim, around whose horns a piece of byblus was
+rolled. The animal was generally led to some barren region sacred to
+Typhon. It is in this custom that lies the origin of the scapegoat of
+the Jews, who, when the ass-headed god was rejected by the Egyptians,
+began sacrificing to another deity, the red heifer.”
+
+It was claimed by Madam Blavatsky and Elephas Levi that the
+hermaphrodite Goat of Mendes, or Baphomet, was anciently an object of
+worship and adoration by the mystic societies and at the Witches’
+Sabbath. In Mysteries of Magic, 7 and 75, the author thus describes a
+Witches’ Sabbath: “Approach stealthily this cross roads among the rocks.
+A hoarse and funeral trumpet is heard, lurid torches burn on every side,
+a disorderly assembly surges around an empty seat. All look around in
+expectation, then suddenly fall prostrate and mutter: ‘He is here, ’tis
+himself.’ A goat-headed prince comes forward with bounds, he ascends the
+throne, turns around and stooping presents his back to the audience,
+which everyone approaches, black taper in hand, to salute and to kiss.
+Then he stands up with a discordant laugh and distributes to his
+favorites gold, secret instructions, occult medicines and poisons.”
+
+The Goat of Mendes is pictured by Elephas Levi as a regular god. He
+wears the male emblem on his head like all gods in good standing and
+holds up three fingers, and has the double triangle in his forehead, and
+the caduceus, or male and female emblems, on his stomach. With one hand
+he coagulates or creates, and with the other he dissolves or destroys.
+
+“Let us say boldly and loudly that all the inferior initiates of the
+occult sciences and the betrayers of the Great Arcanum have adored, do
+and will always adore that which is signified by the frightful figure of
+the Sabbatic Goat. Yes in our profound conviction, the Grand Masters of
+the ancient orders of the Templars adored Baphomet.”—Elephas Levi. It
+will be seen by the chart that the Masonic coat of arms, consisting of
+the four zodiacal beasts, is supported on either side by the goat god
+Pan.
+
+Pan, the Good Shepherd, the son of Deus, with the horns and feet of a
+goat, is the same as the Devil or christ. At the Witches’ Sabbath in
+England, the women made manikins, or images of men, of clay or wax, and
+these they worshipped and played with. And when these images were
+properly magnetized, they could perform miracles therewith and summon up
+demons from the abyss. If they possessed sufficient will power and knew
+the occult and secret form of words to use, they could play that the
+manikin was an enemy, and then stick him through the heart with a
+needle, and the next morning the enemy would be dead. If their magical
+power was sufficiently potent, they could summon a satyr or subordinate
+goat god to take the place of the manikin and consummate the Sabbatical
+marriage ceremony. Their spells were said to be sufficiently powerful to
+reduce a human being to the primordial protoplasm, and then cause it to
+again pursue the path of evolution through the cell, the blastoderm, the
+devil-fish and all the other beasts constituting eternity’s great
+highway by which the soul walks down. This is similar to the unavoidable
+cycle, the circle of necessity, the inexorable doom of the sacred
+mysteries of the Serpents’ Catacombs of Egypt.
+
+The countersign of the Witches’ Sabbath was the closed hand with the
+thumb between the first and second fingers pointing downward to the
+abyss. The meeting place was lighted only by the altar fire, where the
+human sacrifice sizzled to attract the phantoms and ghosts. And the
+devotees, singing mystic songs, danced hand in hand in a circle around
+the god Pan. They used the holy grail like the churches and mystic
+societies, and the drafts from this poisonous cup, the singing, the
+whirling dance and the incense from the altar brought on the oft-times
+fatal frenzies in which the victims fell shrieking to the ground, as
+they do among certain Christian sects. They were seized and possessed by
+foul fiends from the Pit, or elementary spirits, and sometimes by the
+spirits of serpents that materialized themselves in the writhing human
+victims and crawled out of the prostrate bodies in plain view of the
+audience. There in the blackest hour of the night the Vinum Sabbati was
+prepared, a few grains of white powder thrown into a glass of water. And
+each one that drank found himself attended by a companion, a shape of
+glamour and unearthly allurement beckoning him apart to share in joys
+more exquisite, more piercing than the thrill of any dream.—Machen’s
+House of Souls, 438.
+
+Similar to these convulsionaries are the miserable creatures in Russia
+afflicted by strange disorders, which people attributed to possession by
+the Devil. They throng the entrance of cathedrals without daring to
+enter, lest their controlling demons cast them on the ground. At the
+Elevation of the Host, these half maniacs, half mediums begin crowing
+like cocks, barking, bellowing and braying, and finally fall down in
+fearful convulsions. They prophesy and see visions. Paracelsus, the
+magician, could cast the demons out of the persons so possessed by the
+power of a stronger demon which he carried around in his pocket. That
+reminds us of the Salem witch that fled from a mob of Christolators who
+were intent on burning her, but when they were about to seize her, she
+crawled into a bottle, and nobody ever saw her afterward.
+
+In the Devil’s Mass of the Yezdis, or Devil worshippers and sorcerers of
+Mesopotamia, the Jakshas or aerial spirits carry their prayers to the
+Devil and the Afrites of the desert. In their prayer meeting they dance
+in a ring about their high priest and whirl and leap in the air and cut
+each other with daggers until they are soaked with blood for the purpose
+of attracting the ghosts. The mystic circle induces Satan to manifest
+himself in miracles. Enormous globes of fire appear and assume the
+shapes of monsters.
+
+The Sabbath was the Sunday of the Hebrew Kabalists, the day of their
+religious assembly, or rather the night of their habitual meetings. This
+festival, surrounded by mysteries as it was, found its safeguard in the
+very fright of the vulgar and escaped persecution through the terror it
+occasioned. The early Christians celebrated the pagan Mysteries of Jesus
+and probably held a Witches’ Sabbath.—See Mystic Christianity, 212.
+
+One should trim his finger nails on Friday, never on Thursday, otherwise
+the nails will commence growing on the Sabbath, and it is very wicked
+for the nails to grow on the Sabbath.—Kabala. The Israelite, after the
+endless Sabbath observances, should fold up his veil, but if he forgets
+to do so, he is to shake it thoroughly the next morning, so as to shake
+all the devils out of it. And the reason is known to the Lords of the
+Kabala.—Kabala Kitzur Sh’lh. It is a very pious act to say a prayer to
+the moon at the close of the Sabbath, for the moon is a symbol of Jacob,
+the lesser light, (who was a christ). The full moon, the Queen of Heaven
+is his mother, and the sun is his father. The new moon is Jacob or
+Christ.—Ibid, fol. 72, col. 2. You should learn these things together
+with all the other profound wisdom of the Talmud, for Rabbi Yochannan
+says that it is lawful to split open an unlearned man like a fish.
+
+Constantine, the Roman Emperor and canonized saint, the
+superstition-besotted, the assassin, the fratricide, the parricide, the
+uxoricide, the filicide, the regicide, chosen from Heaven as the
+murderer-in-chief of the world, according to Eusebius, “held up by God
+to the human race as an exemplary pattern of godliness and destined to
+share the Empire of Heaven with Christ,” this was the bloated, red-faced
+profligate who established Sunday worship in 321 A. D. and compelled the
+Christians to worship the sun-god on Dies Solis, the Day of the Sun,
+because his own god was Apollo.—See First Council of Nice, 28.
+Constantine was the founder of Christianity, and, like father like son,
+it followed in his footsteps. He could not obtain absolution for his
+crimes from pagan priests, but Eusebius washed them whiter than snow.
+Some said that Constantine had to sacrifice an infant to obtain the
+blood for the absolution.
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAPTER V.
+
+                          The Great God Baal.
+
+
+The palm tree, the candle and the Asherim are symbols and images of
+Baal, and the two last are offered up as sacrifices, corresponding to
+the pillars and candles in the worship of Jehovah. Around the temple of
+Jehovah as well as the temple of Baal, in the Holy Land, were the
+ancient nunneries. The Kadishim or Holy Ladies lived in tents arranged
+in a circle about the temple, and on each side of each tent or Fornix
+stood a Knight of Kadish. The pious people who desired to worship god
+gave up to the guard a shekel (sixty cents) and entered into the tent of
+the Kadish, and the money so collected went to the service of god, which
+means the priestly white slavers and the Worshipful Knights of Kadish.
+The Kadishim were the same as the Deva Dasi, the concubines and dancing
+girls of the Hindu temples, the slaves of the gods. “There is reason to
+believe that the Israelites at an early date applied the name of Baal to
+Jehovah. Baal was represented on the high places by pillars,” as the
+strange god of John’s Revelation is pictured on his throne.—“Baal,”
+Ency. Brit. One hundred of the most beautiful and seductive daughters of
+the people, innocent girls of tender age, were torn from their homes by
+the ruthless priests to fill the holy places of god around each temple.
+The priests by constant iteration convinced the parents that it was a
+high honor to be permitted to devote their daughters to god, and that as
+a reward, in the great hereafter, they would sit beside the Great White
+Throne with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the other Jews, and all the
+hod-carriers, who, having washed their robes white in the blood of the
+Lamb, sit on their little golden thrones with their dudeens in their
+mouths and their hats gently tilted over one eye, while they decorate
+with tobacco juice the dazzling surface of the crystal sea.
+
+At the great temple of Baal, they had a palm tree standing in the midst
+of the garden, and in the holy temple of Jehovah they had a stone pillar
+around which the Kadishim, at the vernal equinox, danced in the nude.
+This is the day dedicated to Astarte, or Ishtar or Easter. This occult
+ceremony is one of the most beautiful and entrancing in our refulgent
+and god-given religion. As the Tree of Life stands in the midst of the
+circle of females, so the rays from the sun penetrate the earth and
+annually renew its life. So the rays of the sun at high noon penetrated
+the ark, that old box in which the priests kept the male and female
+emblems, and before which King David for occult reasons danced in the
+altogether. The ark corresponds with the sacred Argha of the Hindus, an
+oblong vessel, a sacrificial chalice, used in the worship of Isis,
+Astarte and Venus. It is a most holy symbol, containing, in the play,
+the germs of all living things, and when we drink out of it at the
+communion service, we drink eternal life. They planted the Tree of Life
+in the midst of the garden or grove, as God planted the tree in the
+midst of the Garden of Eden. You will notice the serpent coiled about
+the tree in Eden. This is the symbol of Life. The serpent is a symbol of
+the female.
+
+The Israelites were commanded not to worship idols, but in the darkest
+hour of their history, when their own God, Jehovah, had sent upon them
+the plague of serpents and consigned them to destruction, then they
+called upon the mighty sun-god, they looked upon the brazen serpent on a
+cross, the Elevation of the Host, and the remnant of Israel was saved.
+Israel, it is said, worshipped the serpent or Devil until about 726 B.
+C. You will see this same god on the Masonic chart.
+
+The Talmud says that when Ben Asai and Ben Zoma were to be initiated
+into the Garden of Delights, Ben Asai looked and lost his sight, and Ben
+Zoma looked and lost his reason. Eusebius shows that St. James, the
+brother of Jesus and first Bishop of Jerusalem, never shaved or took a
+bath, and he alone could enter into the holy places.
+
+The merry maidens who circulate about the May-pole on May-day are
+devoted devotees of the loving god Baal Poer. And we on Palm Sunday
+carry palm leaves from the sacred palm tree to show that we are faithful
+worshippers of the true god Baal.
+
+In Italy, the clergy had at one time, according to Isis Unveiled, 2-5, a
+thriving trade in those things which they called the holy limbs of
+Saints Cosmo and Damiano. These male emblems were made of wax and
+certainly beautiful to behold. The divine spirit shining through them in
+resplendent glory cast its radiance afar. He who was so fortunate as to
+possess sufficient filthy lucre to purchase one saved his immortal soul
+from Hell, for was it not the symbol of life and the image of the great
+god.
+
+For the form of the pillar as worshipped in Syria, see page 121, A. P. &
+M. C. Symbolism, and on the mall of Boston Common may be seen the same
+pillar as adored by us at the Hub of Universal Culture, erected there to
+commemorate the birth of American liberty. Let us hope that you will get
+out early in the morning and see the blue-bellied Puritans and the
+codfish aristocracy kneeling before this sacred shrine, with their hands
+thrust through their rosaries, praying that this great god may make them
+fruitful.
+
+“The superstition of Europe instead of being diminished by the
+introduction of Christianity was only turned into a fresh channel. The
+new religion was corrupted by the old follies, the worship of the Virgin
+was substituted for the worship of Cybele, the mother of the gods. March
+25th, Lady’s Day, dedicated to Mary, was formerly called Hilaria and
+dedicated to Cybele. The religion of mankind is the effect of their
+improvement not the cause of it.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 1-188.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER VI.
+
+                         Jehovah, alias Adonai.
+
+
+According to the Hebrew lexicon יה (Yh or Ih) is one of the names of
+God. Y, I and J. are interchangeable, and Jehovah is identical with the
+god Yah of the Philistines and Iach or Iachus or Bacchus and Iao or Io
+and Jove. Bel of the Babylonians is the Chaldaic form of Baal, and
+according to Herodotus is identical with Zeus, who is the same as Deus
+or Jehovah. Ja or Jagannatha, the idol of the Hindus, is said to smile
+when a human blood sacrifice is thrown before his car.
+
+Jehovah Binah seemed to be a favorite divinity among the Masons. The
+name of this daemon, or subordinate goddess, is written on the serpent
+in the magic circle of King Solomon, which he employed in raising the
+Devil, and as Sabbath appears in her title, and she belongs to the
+sphere of Saturn or Moloch, I conclude that she was the goddess of the
+Witches’ Sabbath. There are ten persons in the Hebrew godhead, and she
+is the third, the supernal mother, the wife of Kether, consequently the
+mother of god. See Lesser Key of King Solomon, 47.
+
+According to the Standard Dictionary, (see “Sephira”) Jehovah is not the
+Supreme God, there is a party named Kether above him, the Ancient of
+Ancients. Baal, Bel or El is the fourth, next below Binah. He is the god
+of love and mercy, with whom we have no truck. We prefer the God of
+Battles. Baal Poer was worshipped in the groves under the name of
+Adonis. It may be seen by reference to the Hebrew Kabala, Kitzur Sh’lh,
+fol. 62, col. 1, that Adonai is called the Rock of Ages, like Christ.
+Madam Blavatsky says that Iachoh, Iach and Lord Sabaoth, the Baal Adonis
+or Bacchus, who was worshipped in the groves and public sods or
+Mysteries, under the polishing hand of Ezra, becomes Adonai, the one and
+supreme god of the Christians. The codex of the Nazarenes says: “Thou
+shalt not worship the sun, who is called Adonai and Kadush and El El.
+This Adonai will elect to himself a nation, Jerusalem will become the
+refuge and city of the abortive, who shall circumcise themselves with
+the sword and shall adore Adonai.” Israel is the same as Adonis. It
+means son of the Lord Ra, the Egyptian sun-god. So Israel was one of the
+christs, and it was his duty to wrestle with the Devil, Moloch. And he
+had a right to put his brother out and take his place, as christ, the
+new moon takes the place of the old moon (called the old and ugly
+christ) and as Solomon killed Adonijah and took his place.
+
+Haeckel says Jehovah was originally derived from the heaven god called
+Moloch and Baal, also Seth and Typhon of the Egyptians and Saturn of the
+Greeks.
+
+David says: “Who shall ascend into the high place of the Lord (Iach, in
+the original)? who shall stand in the place of his Kadishu (holy
+ladies)?”—Psalms, 24:3. “Solomon went to the high place of Gibeon, for
+there was the Tabernacle of God.”—2 Chron. 1:3. You will see that the
+high places were the temples of a foul worship by reference to 1 Kings,
+3:3.
+
+Yahevah is the ineffable name for which the Hebrews substituted Adonai.
+The Bacchantes, in their orgies or feasts of Iachus, pronounced the
+mystic word “Io Evohe.” Ei Eh Ei is I Am the I Am, and Ei was found
+inscribed on the temple of Apollo.—Plutarch, 1:14. Eidol is a doll or
+image of the god Ei, or Kether.
+
+Jehovah is identical with the god Brahma. Every 4,320,000,000 years all
+the planets in our solar system are in conjunction. This is one day of
+Brahma, 365 times that is one year, and one hundred of these years is
+the lifetime of Brahma, then god dies, and thereafter we have to worry
+along without him.
+
+The Trinity, instead of being a new revelation of the Christian
+religion, was taken from the trinities of the older pagan religions. The
+Chinese, the Hindus, the Babylonians, the Persians and the Egyptians
+each had a triune or hydra-headed god, a nightmare of their imagination,
+without foundation in nature or reason. If we have the only true
+religion, how is it that the Mexicans, before this country was
+discovered by the savages of Europe, had the trinity, the rite of
+baptism, the sign of the cross and purgatory. They had the tradition of
+the flood and the escape of Noah, and they offered as an oblation
+little, dough, male images of their savior as we do at the communion
+service.
+
+Some claimed that the astral light or ether was the supreme god, that
+one portion of it was male (spirit), and the other part was female
+(matter), and that the living forms of matter produced by the union of
+these two gods, are the third person of the trinity, the son of man.
+Others claim that the incomprehensible god back of the ether, of which
+the latter is an emanation, is the supreme god, and that the spiritual
+portion of the ether is the Word or Son, and the material portion of the
+ether is the mother, and the union of the son and the mother produces
+the phenomenal world. This a charming family relationship eminently
+appropriate to our pot-pourri of superstitions, called religion.
+
+Manu, the Hindu lawgiver, says: “The Sovereign Master, who exists
+through himself, divides his body into two halves, male and female, and
+from the union of these two principles is born Viradj, the son, or
+material forms.” The first name of this hermaphrodite god in the picture
+writing was IO.
+
+Haeckel says that the Christian God is a gaseous vertebrate. Socrates
+was put to death because he did not believe in the gods and introduced
+new demoniacal beings (spirits).
+
+In the Sunday American Magazine was also a picture of the Rock of Ages,
+in fact two pillars or Asherim or images of Asher are shown, together
+with two circles or groves. They were found in the ruins of Gaza. These
+are the idols that Abraham, David and Solomon worshipped when they hit
+the high places. And we still revere them and have the shafts erected
+over our graves and the wreaths placed upon the shafts so that we may be
+born again. If you do not think that Moses worshipped this rock god read
+Deut. 32:8. “Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful.” There were
+only seven thousand in all Israel that had not kissed the pillar.—1
+Kings, 19:18.
+
+There was also found in the ruins of Gaza an oval medallion in which
+stood “Horus, the strong bull, resplendent in strength.” Why is the
+Infant Jesus of Prague placed in an oval medallion? Why is the oval,
+with the Lamb in the centre thereof, placed on the front of the Infant
+Jesus, as it is on the front of the Virgin Mary? This picture of the
+Infant Jesus is a mine of esoteric symbolism. He has his name
+embroidered on his rich, elaborate dress, to wit, I E S. He holds up
+three fingers as he was taught to do when he was the infant Buddha, and
+on his head is the seven-rayed headdress of Buddha, the god of the
+seven-rayed sun.
+
+If you have catarrh, place a medallion of the Infant Jesus on your nose,
+and the catarrh will disappear.—Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague, 30. A
+medal of the Divine Infant has been known to cure a sore thumb, if
+fastened in faith to the diseased member and accompanied by nine days
+prayer.—Idem 36. A man in financial difficulties made a novena (nine
+days prayer) to the Holy Child, and at the end of the devotions somebody
+gave him $35. Then he commenced another novena and was helped to win a
+prize in a lottery. Then he commenced the third novena, and Jehovah
+compelled a grasping mortgagee to discharge his mortgage on the
+devotee’s house, and another party gave him $10.—Idem 52.
+
+In the Hebrew Bible you will see that Bethel, or house of God, referred
+to in Genesis, 28:19, is spelt Bath Al, which means the house of the sun
+or sun-god, the same as Bothal or Brothel, the temple of worship of the
+Druids and Indians, a circle of twelve monoliths with a pillar in the
+centre, also called paradise. We changed the vowels and made it read
+Beth El, as we did not care to have our God related to such trash as Al
+and Allah, the Arabian god.
+
+Arius and the Council of Nice agreed that the Son is called Wisdom.
+Refer to “Sephira,” Stand. Dic., and you will see that Jehovah is named
+Wisdom and that he is the son of, or first emanation from Kether,
+consequently it is claimed that he is one of the christs. The only gods
+ever worshipped were the sun and his wife, the moon, to whom he was not
+legally married. The idols are images of incarnate sun-gods.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER VII.
+
+                      The Host, a Human Sacrifice.
+
+
+The Monstrance was a conventionalized Assyrian Grove, containing the
+Host, the male and female emblems, and corresponded with the Ark and was
+transparent, so that the devotees could look on the blessed symbols and
+live forever. It was called the Monstrance because it contained the
+hermaphrodite monster, now or formerly worshipped by the devotees of all
+religions. The directions of St. Cyril, of Jerusalem, were: “After
+kissing all the brothers and sisters, you touch the consecrated things
+to the eyes, nose, mouth and ears.” See Ency. Brit. 8:632.
+
+Under the mediumship of Eugene Vintras in Paris, the Devil placed his
+signature on the Hosts of the Church in characters of blood. The Abbe
+Charvoz brought one of the miraculously marked Hosts, bearing the
+signature of Satan, to Elephas Levi. One of the signatures was the
+Caduceus of the Greeks, the emblem of the Godhead, two serpents entwined
+about a rod, but the rod was omitted. Levi calls it the Typhonian sign
+manual because by omitting the rod, it thus denies the existence of the
+Supreme God Jehovah. The Devil, in the stigmata, asserts that there are
+only two gods, the two powers of the astral light, attraction and
+repulsion, the creator and the destroyer.—Mysteries of Magic.
+
+“In the case of Father Gerard in 1731, who was tried at Aix, in France,
+for resorting to sorcery in the seduction of his parishioner, Mlle.
+Catherine Cadiere, it was shown that he breathed upon her, and that she
+instantly conceived a violent love for him and had extatic visions and
+hysterical convulsions, and stigmata or blood marks of the Passion
+appeared upon her, that is, the bleeding marks of thorns on her brow, of
+nails in her hands and feet, and of a lance cut in her side. Of the
+twenty five judges, twelve voted to send the priest to the stake.”—Isis
+Unveiled, 2-633.
+
+The doctrine of transubstantiation, or the myth that the bread and wine
+become the actual body and blood of God, originated among the Hindus,
+and we stole it from them. The god Brahma was the astral light or
+magnetism, and when the priests charged the hosts with magnetism, they
+were charged with god, and consequently were gods. It is said that each
+separate part of this blood sacrifice is a Christ, so thousands of
+Christs were served up at a feast to be eaten by the savage devotees,
+and each cannibal ate a whole Christ to save his dastard soul. It is
+called the Host because they knifed him or struck him down, and it is
+called the Eucharist because they rejoice over his death and make a
+joyful feast upon the carcass. The Eucharist is one of the oldest rites
+of antiquity, instituted many hundreds of years before the Lord’s
+Supper. It was a repetition of the drama in Eden in commemoration of the
+fall into generation. By the worship of the foul idols in the
+Monstrance, by the idolatry of the Eucharist the pagans euchred the
+Devil out of their souls.
+
+The Eucharist was a human sacrifice. The devotees groveling in abject
+superstition, offered up their Christ on the reeking, blood-stained
+altar, and ate his flesh and drank his blood to wash their sins away. At
+the twelfth general council of the Church, the bread and wine was made
+the flesh and blood of Christ, and at the Council of Trent they added
+the soul. So at the orgies, the depraved devotee destroyed both the body
+and soul of his savior by casting him into his carrion carcass, into
+that charnel house, into that cavernous and loathsome inferno, from
+which there is no escape, there to rot and disintegrate and forever die.
+Thus they subjected their savior to the foulest method of annihilation
+to save their worthless souls from Hell.
+
+At the Passover the Jews sacrificed over 250,000 lambs to propitiate
+some blood-loving god. The altars and courts of the Temple ran red with
+the life blood of these innocent creatures. And certain beasts still
+sing: “And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty
+stains.” “Such a blood-sacrifice is unworthy of any people except the
+worshippers of some heathen devil-god in darkest Africa.”—Mystic
+Christianity, 65.
+
+When Richard, Robert, Sarah and Isabella Bartlett, at Lincoln, England,
+in 1521, expressed their opinions too freely on religious matters, they
+were burned at the stake by Bishop John Longland, but they were a
+pestiferous and seditious lot. They even objected to eating the male
+emblems, or images of the male, on communion day, and these double-dyed
+heretics denied the real presence of either Christ or Priapus in the
+images.
+
+Here is what Taine says as to this affair: “The Bishops had received the
+right of imprisoning without trial laymen suspected of heresy, and the
+jurisdiction of all crimes, offenses and sins was given to the
+ecclesiastical tribunals. They burned Lord Cobham alive. With what
+shamelessness this power was transformed into a vehicle for extortions.
+A man begins to think when he is thus downtrodden. He asks himself if it
+is really by divine dispensation that mitred thieves thus practice
+tyranny and pillage. He wants to know if they themselves practice the
+regularity that they impose on others, and he learns strange things.
+Cardinal Wolsey writes to the Pope that both the secular and regular
+priests were in the habit of committing atrocious crimes, for which, if
+not in orders, they would have been promptly executed. A priest
+convicted of incest with the prioress of Kilbourn was condemned to carry
+a cross in a procession and pay a fine of 3s and 4p. In the reign of
+Henry VII the gentlemen and farmers of Carnarvonshire laid a complaint
+accusing the clergy of systematically seducing their wives and
+daughters. The Holy Father Prior of Maiden Bradley hath but six
+children, and but one daughter married yet of the goods of the
+monastery, trusting shortly to marry the rest. The royal visitors found
+concubines in the secret apartments of the Abbots. At the nunnery of
+Sion the confessors seduced the nuns and absolved them at the same time.
+There were convents, Burnett tells us, where all the recluses were found
+pregnant.”—Taine’s English Literature, 2-18.
+
+“Bishop Longland, of Lincoln, about 1521, summons the relatives of the
+accused, brothers, women and children, and administers the oath. As they
+have already been prosecuted and have abjured, they must make oath, or
+they are relapsed, and the fagots await them. Then they denounce their
+kinsmen and themselves. Three of the accused were charged with passing
+the night together in reading the scriptures. Several of them at church,
+at the moment of the Elevation would not say their prayers and remained
+seated dumb as beasts. A brazier denied the real presence. Six were
+burnt alive. The children of John Scrivener were themselves obliged to
+set fire to their father’s funeral pyre. They saw him, bound by an iron
+chain, with clasped hands, praying amidst the smoke, whilst the flame
+blackened his skin and destroyed his flesh. Such sights are not
+forgotten.”—Idem.
+
+“At the peril of his life the Englishman obtains some portion of the
+Bible, which Tyndale had just translated, and hides it and learns it by
+heart. Tyndale, the translator, was condemned, hunted, in concealment,
+his mind full of the idea of a speedy death and of the Great God, for
+whom at last he mounted the funeral pyre.”—Idem, 2-21.
+
+If you do not believe that Priapus is christ, see Ency. Brit. 19-170,
+where he is represented as the shepherd god with a shepherd’s crook, and
+as the god of the vineyards and of fishermen, giving them abundant
+harvests. And sailors, in their sore distress, called upon him as Peter
+did.
+
+“The Masons, in the darkness, hunt for Hiram Abiff, as the worshippers
+in the Eleusinian Mysteries hunted for their lost Cora.” In the grand
+finale the Mystics say: “I have taken the emblems from the kiste, and
+after kissing and tasting them, I have deposited in the bag, and from
+the bag back into the kiste.”
+
+In the first illustrated English Bible, the Devil will be seen, wearing
+a pair of wings and a Hebrew nose, tempting Eve. He says: “Take this
+fruit, bite it and taste it.” You will see that the thing presented to
+her is not an apple at all, but the emblem of Ashtoreth. See Sun. Am.
+Mag. Dec. 20, 1914. You will also find in another illustration there the
+angel Gabriel, with the Word strapped on his back, descending into Hell
+to deliver the souls in torment.
+
+Yesterday in passing a great church, when I raised my eyes to the cross,
+I there beheld on each arm of the cross, the circle, the same revered
+article that the Devil offered to Eve. This blessed and holy symbol is
+found engraven over the portals of the eternal rock temples of the
+ruined city of Petra, Arabia, that flourished in the time of Esau and
+his son Edom, as well as over the doors of the ancient churches of
+Ireland, and on the modern cathedrals. In fact this aesthetic Eye
+worship extends around the world, starting in the slums of India, it has
+circled the globe.
+
+The Christian religion was copied largely from the Eleusinian Mysteries,
+which were founded at the city of Eleusis, near Athens. These mysterious
+rites were employed in the worship of Demeter or Mater, the mother god,
+or Mary. In these Mysteries the worshippers indulged in the foul orgies
+of the Agape. The men carried male emblems or Signa Taus, and the
+females carried the kiste or box. Placing the Signa Tau in the kiste
+caused them to be born again and saved their souls from Tophet.
+
+
+
+
+                             CHAPTER VIII.
+
+                             Jesus Christ.
+
+
+If the clergymen tell you that there is only one christ, politely
+present them with the seal of Belial. Each of the principal religions
+had twelve christs. Christ was never crucified, but the human race was
+crucified by religion from its very inception, and the Christian world
+wallowed in the Egyptian darkness of ignorance and superstition till in
+the middle ages, the golden age, no king in Europe could read and write.
+
+Christ is the same as Agni, the sun god of the Aryans, who was called
+the Son of God and the Son of Man. The god Agni is represented by us by
+the idol, the Agnus Dei, the Ram God, that holds in his hoof a cross and
+some banner, perhaps the blood-stained banner of the Inquisition. Adam
+Kadmon, Enoch, Horus, Krishna, Ormazd, and Hermes, the patron of thieves
+and flocks, the son of Deus and Maia, these and many other gods are all
+identical with christ. Noah was the christ that came in the sign of the
+Waterman 25,868 years ago. In the Babylonian legend the deluge continued
+seven days, and the ship landed on Mt. Niser. This is a resurrection of
+the great god Dionysius or Bacchus, and the first thing he did when he
+got ashore was to get drunk. He is also Jehovah Nissi or the Egyptian
+god Osiris who was born on Mt. Nissa or Sinai in the month of Nisan or
+Easter.
+
+Sephir Toldos Jeshu, a Kabalist, says: “A virgin named Mariam, betrothed
+to one Johannan was outraged by another man named Joseph Panther. Her
+betrothed left her. The child born was Jesus, named Joshua, adopted by
+his uncle Rabbi Jehosuah. He was initiated into the secret doctrines by
+Rabbi Elhanan, a Kabalist, and then by the Egyptian priests, who
+consecrated him High Pontiff of the Universal Secret Doctrine. Upon his
+returning to Judea his learning and powers excited the jealousy of the
+rabbis, and they publicly reproached him with his origin and insulted
+his mother.”
+
+According to the Pretevangelium Jacobi, “From her third to her twelfth
+year Mary was in the Temple. When she became of nubile age, lest she
+should defile the Sanctuary of the Lord, she was committed to the
+guardianship of Joseph, an elderly man and a widower with a family. When
+the Virgin’s pregnancy was discovered, Joseph and she were brought
+before the high priest, and though asserting their innocence in all
+sincerity, were acquitted only after they had been tried with the water
+of the ordeal of the Lord.”—Ency. Brit. 15:590. Mary was then a virgin
+and ever after remained so, although she had other children.
+
+The author does not believe that either of the above passages refers to
+the Christian Jesus. He is an Egyptian or Hindu deity, not a Jew.
+
+The christs were all illegitimate. Their parents, the sun and moon,
+would have complied with the idiotic human laws if there had been any
+magistrate in Heaven to marry them. There was Asphalius of Greece, born
+of the Virgin Ethra out of wedlock. Then there are Romulus and Remus,
+alias Castor and Pollux or Gemini, the Twins of the zodiac. They were
+sons of a Vestal Virgin named Rhea. King Amulius, corresponding with
+Herod, commanded his servant to destroy the two children, but the
+servant put them in a trough or ark, and they floated on the river as
+Moses, who was also a christ, did in his ark, and as the males and
+females did in Noah’s Ark. Their mother claimed that their father was
+the god Mars. Unmarried ladies, in those halcyon days, always put their
+children up to the gods.—See Plutarch, 1:33.
+
+Christ is a mythical sun-god, a rebirth of the sun in a new sign of the
+zodiac. The Church Fathers, in localizing the Christ in the Holy Land,
+could claim that any Jesus of that region was the Son of God, either
+Jesus, the bandit of Galilee, or the one described above, as long as his
+name corresponded with the I E S of Egypt, and as long as he was dead
+and could not defend himself. According to Josephus, the Jesus that
+lived in the reign of King Agrippa and Herod the Tetrarch was Jesus of
+Galilee, the captain of a band of robbers, a wicked man, a seditious
+person and an innovator, the leader of a tumult of mariners and poor
+people. He sacked the temple at Samaria. See Life of Josephus, 5.
+
+Renan says that Philo, who died about 50 A. D., and who was born before
+Jesus, and who lived in Palestine during the alleged preaching of
+Christ, had never heard of him. Josephus does not mention a Christian
+sect at all. The Emperor Adrian called the Christians worshippers of
+Serapis, and that was probably the truth. Serapis is the Devil, with
+horns, Lord of the Underworld.
+
+Christna, Apollo, Zeus and others, like Christ, were good shepherds. The
+Hindus represent Christna as crucified on the cross between two thieves,
+with the nail marks in his hands, and with a crown of seven points to
+show that he is the seventh avatar. His father was a carpenter, and he
+slew the great serpent Caliva and was worshipped in India ages before
+the Christian Era.
+
+The doctrine of Christ and the atonement originated in heathendom. It
+came from the pagan sacrificers of human beings and the eaters of human
+flesh in human gore imbued. They took the doctrine from the Chaldean
+Kabala. It is a pagan myth. Bacchus or Dionysius was the god of the
+vine, and his worshippers drank his blood to wash their sins away. He
+was the son of Deus or Zeus and an earthly mother. He was slain or
+sacrificed at the winter solstice and went down into Hell. Hera, who
+corresponds with Herod, sought Bacchus to slay him. He was honored by
+festivals at Christmas, when the sun died, and at Easter when it was
+resurrected. His emblems were the bull, the ass and the goat. The
+Christians of Rome were ridiculed for worshipping an ass-headed god. The
+symbol of the Bacchic orgies is named Eva or Heva, identical with the
+serpent raised by the Hebrews in the wilderness. Heva means a female
+serpent and constitutes a part of god, the second part of the name
+Yaheva. The first part of that hermaphrodite god is Ya, the male, and
+the last part is Heva, the female, or serpent, or Devil.
+
+Christ not only never rose from the dead, but he never existed. The
+doctrine of vicarious atonement is a lie and a farce. The Christian’s
+hope of escaping Hell by cowardly allowing another to suffer for his
+sins, has taken wings and flown away.
+
+The Gnostics, one of the earliest Christian sects, formerly called
+Essenes, claimed that Christ was a phantom, that he was neither born nor
+suffered on the cross. See Book of All Religions, 213. Origen believed
+the same. He tells of the popular irrational Christianity based on the
+fictitious gospel history devised to assist the masses, who could not
+comprehend a spiritual christ.—Mystic Christianity, 211.
+
+Madam Blavatsky says that this abominable doctrine of the forgiveness of
+sins is the cause of three fourths of the crimes of so-called
+Christians. The murdered victim goes to Hell in the midst of his sins,
+but the murderer receives absolution and goes to Heaven and sits with
+Christ beside the Golden Throne. The Parsis say: “If any of you commit
+sin under the belief that he shall be saved by somebody, both the
+deceiver as well as the deceived shall be damned to the day of Rasla
+Khaz. There is no savior. In the other world you shall receive the
+return according to your actions. Your savior is your good deeds.” Plato
+says in 2-187: “Even if there are gods, they can be bribed by prayers
+and offerings, so it is better to be unjust and offer of the fruits of
+injustice to the gods. By our sinning and praying and praying and
+sinning, the gods will be propitiated, and we shall be forgiven.”
+
+The Jews offered seven lambs at the new moon because the Lamb came seven
+times. It is to be noted that they gave none of the offering to God
+except the refuse, the extremities and the fat and the lobe of the
+liver, but the priests had the breast and the right shoulder. The Lord
+and the mob were welcome to the offal.
+
+We are saved by the blood of christ or Priapus, but the Jews were saved
+by the blood of the circumcision of Abraham, who was also a christ.
+“Abraham was circumcised on the day of the atonement, and God looks that
+day annually on the blood of the covenant of our father Abraham’s
+circumcision as atoning for all our iniquities.”—Talmud Yalcut Chadish,
+fol. 121, sec. 3.
+
+When the young and beautiful philosopher, Hypatia, disclosed these
+sacred religious secrets in Egypt about 412 A. D., she was torn from her
+chariot by a Christian mob, dragged to a Christian church, stripped
+naked and ravished at the very feet of the idol of Christ, and then
+beaten to death by Peter, the Reader. Her body was cut into pieces, the
+flesh scraped from the bones with oyster shells, and the remnants cast
+into the fire by the order of the canonized saint, Bishop Cyril of
+Alexandria.—Ency. Brit. 12:596.
+
+A Nazar or Nazarene, according to Hosea, was one who had consecrated
+himself to Bosheth, (a shameful thing, a foul idol.) It was in Nazareth
+that the Nazarenes anciently held their Witches’ Sabbath. Bosher is the
+Hebrew name of the Tree of Infamy. The “Sod of the Kadishim,” Psalms,
+89:7, is rendered by the translators “Assembly of the Saints,” when it
+was in truth an orgy of the ladies devoted to the service of the Temple.
+Sod was the name given to the vile assemblies in the ancient Mysteries
+in Sodom, and the nature of the sacred ceremonies may be gathered from
+the name. They were the same as those of the ancient Christian Agape or
+Love Feast.
+
+It is claimed that Apollonius of Tyana was the original of Christ, for
+the former was worshipped in Rome in the third century as the savior of
+man, and that no such person as Jesus Christ was then known. There was a
+sect that worshipped the Hindu Christos. Their religion was a mixture of
+Buddhism and Platonism, and their chief symbol was the phallic cross
+within the circle. The Christian religion takes its name and symbols
+from this Hindu religion. See Antiquity Unveiled, 98. Lucian says that
+the Christians spoke of Apollonius, called in Romans Apollos, as a god
+and took him for a lawgiver, and honored him with the title of Master.
+
+Prior to the sixth Ecumenical Council, 680 A. D., the Christians
+worshipped an animal idol, the lamb on a cross, but it was found from
+ancient monuments that the pagans had worshipped the same idol. So the
+Council decreed that the figure of a man should be placed on the cross,
+Christ was not nailed to the cross until 680 A. D. and then by the
+Ecumenical Council.—Idem 161.
+
+The pagan priests, at a very early date in the present era, finding that
+they were losing their hold on the people, concocted from pagan
+originals a new religion called the Christian. As a sop to the depraved
+and besotted worshippers of virgin-born gods, they alleged that their
+god was born of the Virgin Mary, and they seized upon and falsified the
+Hindu gospels, containing the life of Buddha, till they were made to
+appear to apply to the life of Christ. In order to bolster up this foul
+imposition and conceal the origin of Christianity, they destroyed the
+records of Grecian, Egyptian and Roman civilization and sank the world
+in darkness for a thousand years, filling it with woe and bloodshed. The
+success of this crime against their fellowmen set back the hands of time
+two thousand years. See Doubts of Infidels.
+
+The doctrine of blood atonement came from Phoenicia, where they
+continually indulged in human sacrifice. In the event of an eclipse of
+the sun, the priests burned a man on a cross at the altar of the sun-god
+to avert the threatened calamity. “From the sixth hour there was
+darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.” And on these altars,
+2600 B. C., was I H S or I E S. As the E or H in Egyptian hieroglyphics
+is a circle, this sign was originally I O S. I represents the father
+god, and O the mother god, and S represents the son or serpent. The
+serpent was crucified on the cross by the Egyptians and Jews as a saving
+rite.
+
+At the church festival of Tezcatlipoca in Mexico, they chose a prisoner
+as the incarnate representative of god and placed a garland and an
+embroidered mantle upon him, as the Jews did on Christ. Then they led
+him to the temple, where the priest cut his heart out and held the
+sacred bleeding heart up to the sun, and his body was eaten by the
+church members, as we eat the body of our Savior.
+
+Rev. Robert Taylor says in his Diegesis: “Not a single passage written
+in the first century can be produced from any independent authority to
+show the existence of such a person as Jesus Christ or his disciples.”
+The silence of all contemporary writers respecting Jesus Christ is a
+notorious fact. Philo, Seneca, Plutarch, Juvenal, Virgil, Horace, Ovid
+and Lucian, who lived in that period, make no allusion to his works, nor
+even mention his name.—Doubts of Infidels, 66.
+
+The christ Prometheus died for the salvation of the world and was nailed
+on the cross many hundreds of years before the Christian Era. And the
+christ Esculapius, the Great Physician, healed the sick and raised the
+dead and died in the West and rose again in the East.
+
+Jonah was a christ or sun-god. The sign of the Goat in the Buddhist
+zodiac is represented by a leviathan or whale vomiting out the sacred
+Elephant, or sun, or Son of God. When the sun entered the sign of the
+Leviathan in December it was swallowed by the whale, but was vomited out
+again three days later on the 25th of December, when the sun commenced
+to return. Hence the story of Jonah and the whale, which has been so
+hard to swallow, and which has taxed our piety to the limit.
+
+Ies is the Phoenician name of the god Bacchus. Ies, or Iesu, or Jesus
+was stolen from the Phoenicians and Egyptians, and the god Christos was
+taken from the Hindus and thrown together into the melting pot of
+Potoman of Alexandria, and out came Jesus Christ. Potoman compiled the
+Christian religion from Hindu, Greek and Egyptian originals.
+
+If God made man in his own image, why does he have to be redeemed? It is
+true that man stubbed his toe and fell, but it was because he obeyed the
+command of God to increase and multiply. The Yogis claim that Christ was
+not virgin born, but was a virgin spirit split off of God and came to
+redeem the world. If he redeemed the world, how is it that the people
+are worse now than they ever were, that the history of his religion has
+been a history of depravity, vice, crime, murder and carnage, which has
+now culminated in a world-orgy of savagery, pillage and slaughter, of
+which the fiends in Hell would be incapable? How is it that the beasts,
+which have never been redeemed, the doves, the rabbits, the lambs, the
+deer, are far superior to us who were bought by the blood?
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAPTER IX
+
+                        Hell-fire and Brimstone.
+
+             You’ll burn in Hell ten thousand years,
+             In vain will be your cries and tears,
+             You’ll burn in Hell till ages meet,
+             And just begin to feel the heat.—Amasa Alden.
+
+
+We are in Hell now. Rabbi Eleasher says that “the demons who were cast
+out of Heaven and the descendants of the witless progeny of matter and
+spirit became in the course of time the men of our planet, after having
+passed through every form of every one of the elements.”
+
+Where did the Church dig up Hell? The Scandinavian Hell is not a place
+of punishment, but simply the abode of the dead. The dictionary says
+that Hades, the Hell of the Bible, is the abode of all the departed, the
+unseen spirit world. The Shoel of the Hebrews is the place of departed
+spirits, not a region of torment. The Underworld or Amenti, of the
+Egyptians, is a region of judgment and purification. The Onderah, the
+abyss of darkness of the Hindus, is an intermediate state or purgatory.
+Whence then came the dogma of Hell, that Archimedean lever of Christian
+theology, with which they have succeeded in holding in subjection the
+numberless millions of Christians for nineteen centuries.—Isis Unveiled.
+
+Here is where Eusebius and the other Biblical writers got Hell.
+According to Mahabad, the christ and Adam of the Parsees, who wrote all
+the laws of God, Hell is peopled with ants, serpents and scorpions,
+ignorant, sick and indigent men and irreligious philosophers, and on
+account of the detestable qualities of the later, the ants, serpents and
+scorpions pounce upon and torture them. This is the Hell of
+Hells.—Dabistan, 81.
+
+In the chart of the cosmogony of the Kabalists, representing their idea
+of the creation of the universe, the last and most insignificant
+creation is the earth, which they have labeled Hell, the abode of the
+Devil, the Kingdom of the Great Serpent according to the Buddhists.
+
+In the religious Mysteries, if the soul has attained the final knowledge
+of the heavenly and infernal mysteries, the gnosis, complete reunion
+with the spirit, and knows the Word, at the death of the body, it
+becomes a god, or is absorbed into the soul of the world, the astral
+light, and becomes one of the creative deities or Elohim. If not, it has
+its part in the lake of fire and brimstone (the elements), the second
+death. This death is the gradual dissolution of the astral body into its
+primal elements and the banishment of the human spirit or electron into
+chaos.
+
+Elephas Levi and many of the wise ones have said that the astral light
+is the Great Serpent or Devil, so we will go to the Devil anyway, no
+matter which path we pursue. What difference does it make whether we are
+united to the astral light or the material ether? All the atoms of all
+the elements have individual souls.
+
+Krishna, the Hindu christ, Horus, the Egyptian christ, the Scandinavian
+Thor, the Greek Apollo and St. Patrick, the Irish christ, are all
+represented as killing the Great Serpent, the Devil. All of the christs,
+including Buddha, Bacchus, Hercules, Orpheus and Askelapius, as well as
+Jesus, descended into Hell and ascended again the third day. According
+to the Gospel of Nicodemus, Christ found Adam, Moses, David, Isaiah and
+all the other saints there, and as they had been burning in Hell several
+thousand years, their wings were pretty well singed and they were badly
+mussed up, but Christ took them by the hands and led them up to the
+Hebrew heaven, where the three balls are worshipped, together with the
+ass-headed god. The Devil had no one left to rule over except the
+depraved, uncircumcised gentiles and the elemental demons. The Gentiles
+cannot get past the gates of Tophet, but must linger for a time, and
+half a time, and ten thousand times while they do battle with the
+phantoms of Hell and wrestle with the Serpent of the Great Abyss.
+
+“The Presbyterian clergy of Scotland delighted in telling their hearers
+that they would be roasted in great fires and hung up on hooks by their
+tongues. They were to be lashed with scorpions and see their companions
+writhing and howling around them. They were to be thrown into boiling
+oil and scalding lead. A river of fire and brimstone broader than the
+earth was prepared for them, their bones, their lungs and their liver
+were to boil but never be consumed, and while worms were gnawing at
+their bodies, they were to be surrounded by devils mocking and making
+pastime of their pains, the torment to be varied in its character as
+well as eternal in its duration. Hell was created before man came into
+the world, the Almighty having spent his previous leisure in preparing
+this place of torment, so that when the human race appeared, it might be
+ready for their reception.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 2-293.
+
+Hell is the lowest of the astral planes, in the immediate atmosphere of
+the earth, where the most of us go. Heaven is the highest of the
+spiritual planes, where God lives, but as nobody to speak of ever goes
+there, no one on the astral ever saw God or can make affidavit that he
+exists, and any spirit that claims that he has seen God is either
+deceiving us or is himself mistaken. He may have seen some astral idol,
+formed from the astral substance by the imagination and worshipped by
+the religion-besotted spirits. “The aura of the spirits in the lowest
+astral plane is the same as that of wicked human beings, a dark, cloudy
+or smoky emanation, streaked with the red flames of anger and passion.
+Deep shades of color whirl and swirl in the depths, lightning-like
+flashes shoot forth, and great bodies of lurid, smoky, clouds fly on the
+surface, having all the appearance of an inferno, and the region itself
+has the same aura, derived from the combined auras of its inhabitants.
+It is not surprising that the witches and wizards of the Bible, who
+could see by clairvoyant vision, described it as a Hell of fire and
+brimstone.”—Human Aura, 45.
+
+According to the religion of Zoroaster, “Hell is the House of
+Destruction. It is the abode chiefly of the priests of bad religions,”
+that is, all religions except the Persian, but this is not to be taken
+seriously, as every religion is a joke. Here we have the original
+doctrine of the resurrection of the body, which our Christian ministers
+have had the consummate nerve to preach even here in this age of the
+world.
+
+Mark Twain says in “The Mysterious Stranger”: “A God who mouths justice
+and mercy and invented Hell, mouths golden rules and forgiveness and
+invented Hell, who mouths morals to other people and has none himself,
+who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all, who created man without
+invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s acts upon
+man, instead of placing it where it belongs upon himself.” The trouble
+with Mark was that he accepted as true all that silly superstition, all
+those puerile fairy tales, all those black lies from the Pit of Hell
+written and taught by the old priests and prophets. God never created
+the human race, he never made Hell. This cruel remark of Mark is
+libelous, almost bordering on blasphemy.
+
+Read what the insane Church Fathers said: “There in Hell the intelligent
+fire burns the limbs and restores them, feeds on them and nourishes
+them.”—Felix.
+
+The proud monarchs and magistrates (and everybody but the Christians)
+shall liquefy in the fierce flames of Hell.—Tertullian.
+
+We shall be compensated by a perpetual spectacle of our persecutors in
+an ever-burning Gehenna being devoured by living flames.—Cyprian.
+
+Ling or the Word is the Commander-in-chief of the universe.—Clement.
+
+Every sinner kindles for himself the flame of his own fire, and is not
+plunged into some fire kindled by another.—Origen.
+
+The wicked will be provided not with the old earthly body, but with an
+indestructible body capable of holding out forever against everlasting
+fire.—Lactantius.
+
+The whole mass of the human race is condemned. If we can pray the wicked
+out of Hell, we can pray the devils out.—Augustine.
+
+Everybody, infants included, go to Hell, unless they are
+baptized.—Ambrose.
+
+There shall be eternal torments for all devils and skeptics.—Jerome.
+
+Votive offerings by the living will reduce the torments of the dead. The
+blessed shall rejoice over the punishment of the damned.—Aquinas.
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAPTER X.
+
+                               The Devil.
+
+
+Christ overcame the Great Serpent, the Devil, and the Irish Bacchus, St.
+Patrick, drove all the snakes out of Ireland. The drunken Bacchus, whose
+Saturnalia was held on the 17th of March, when they poured out libations
+to him, was canonized and is now St. Bacchus, and his coffin and relics,
+endowed with magical and miraculous powers, were exhibited at Rome
+according to Isis Unveiled, 1:160.
+
+Deus was Dyaus of the old Aryan or earlier Persian religion. Dyaus means
+to shine, and was a name of the sun. The followers of Zoroaster asserted
+that Dyaus was the Devil, and if they were right, it follows that Deus
+is the Devil. In this connection read the Lord’s Prayer, in which the
+ignorant worshipper endeavors to persuade the Lord not to lead him into
+temptation. According to the writers of the Bible, who were probably
+liars, He hardened the heart of Pharaoh, commanded the Israelites to
+steal, put an evil spirit into Saul and sent lying messages to the
+prophets. In Samuel it says that the Lord moved David to number Israel,
+but according to Chronicles it was the Devil who put him up to it. The
+words divine and devil are from Deva, the shining one, the Hindu god of
+light. Light is also luc, and Lucifer is a sun-god identical with
+Yahvah. The worshippers of Dyaus said that Ahura Mazda, of the
+Zoroastrians was the Devil. Ahura Mazda means I Am the I Am, and he is
+our God, the supreme God of the Hebrews, Kether, the father of Jehovah.
+According to the early Christians, the Gnostics and Nazarenes, the
+creator was Ilda Baoth, but in the Gospel of Nicodemus Ilda Baoth is
+Satan. Aaron sacrificed human beings to Azazel, identical with Moloch or
+the Devil. The Bible says that “man shall devote unto the Lord of all
+that he hath, both of man and beast. None devoted shall be redeemed, but
+shall surely be put to death.” We conclude that god and the Devil are
+one, that Brahma, Buddha, Dyaus, Ahura Mazda, Baal, Osiris, Jove,
+Bacchus, Christ, Priapus, Adonis, Deva and Devil are different names of
+the same god, and that god is a myth.
+
+The Devil is an emanation of god. He is Typhon, also called Sat and Seth
+in the Egyptian religion. The Ency. Brit. says that he is a brother or
+son of Osiris, and we have shown that Osiris and god are one, so we
+conclude that the Devil is the son of god as claimed in Job, 1:6. The
+Salvation Army says: “You must be a lover of the lord if you want to go
+to Heaven when you die.” So you must love the Devil and all these beasts
+of pagan gods, or you will have to shovel coal while the endless years
+of eternity roll.
+
+The Pentagram, by the power of which Solomon could summon the high gods
+to his assistance or call up the goblins damned, represents God when one
+horn of the star is in the ascendent or at the top, but when the two
+horns are in the ascendent, it represents the Devil or the goat. When
+Solomon summoned Gabriel to help him capture a new girl, the head of the
+star, on which is the mystic eye, was pointed toward the altar of
+evocation. But if he wished to raise the Devil, the horns of the goat
+were pointed toward the altar. In the infernal invocation Solomon wore a
+leaden cap, on which were the signs of the Moon, Venus and Saturn. He
+had two candles of human fat in a crescent candlestick, a copper vase
+holding the blood of the human victim, a censer containing incense
+moistened with the blood of a goat, four nails from the coffin of an
+executed criminal, the head of a black cat which has been fed on human
+flesh for five days, a bat drowned in blood, the horns of an immoral
+goat, the scull of a parricide. Then Solomon says in the evocation of
+the Devil: “By Adonai Elohim (the Creator), Adonai Jehovah (the Son),
+Adonai Sabbaoth (the Mother), by the womb of the Mother Adonai, by the
+Word of the Python and the Mystery of the Salamanders, by the Conclave
+of the Sylphs and the Gnomes, by the Demons of God in Heaven and
+Alamousin and Gibor, Come! Come! Come!”
+
+On the Pentagram is the mystic word יחוח, Yahvah, the spelling of which
+indicates that it represents two hermaphrodite gods. יח, Yah, is the
+good god, and וח, Vah, is the god of evil. The good god is represented
+in a pack of cards by the king of hearts, the god of love, and his wife,
+the queen of diamonds. And the hermaphrodite god of evil is represented
+by the king of spades and his wife, Lilith, the queen of clubs.
+Aristotle said that Jehovah was Ormazd, the god of light, and Pluto, the
+god of darkness. Jehovah is the God of Wisdom, so is the Egyptian
+serpent god, called Sat or Satan.
+
+The serpent god is the astral light, the magnetic current. The priests
+by their great will power could direct this current at pleasure and
+perform the wonders and miracles that held enthralled their besotted
+devotees. They claimed that they were serpents because the serpent god
+magnetism permeated their bodies. A manuscript found among the Toltecs
+of Mexico asserted that they were descended from the house of Israel.
+Voltan, the Mexican demigod, says that he is the son of the snakes. The
+hierophants of Egypt and Babylon called themselves the sons of the
+serpent god. The chief priest of the serpent god of the Mexicans says:
+“I am a snake myself.” The Druids of Britain used to say: “I am a
+serpent, I am a Druid.”—Isis Unveiled.
+
+Cneph or Cohen Eph (divine serpent) of Egypt was the supreme god, the
+flying dragon, the divine spirit permeating all creation, like the
+serpent god of the Buddhists. This spirit is electricity. The Ophites,
+Christian Gnostics, claimed that the serpent that tempted Eve was Jesus
+Christ, the Great Architect of the Universe, or Cohen Eph. Eve
+represented matter, and the spirit permeating matter produces living
+beings.
+
+The astral light is both god and the Devil, the creator and the
+destroyer and also the Nirvana of the Buddhists. It is the Ah of the
+Hindus, or Iah or Eh Ei Eh of the Hebrews. It is life or the life-giving
+fluid. It is the Od and Ob of Moses and the Kabalists. When it acts on
+those that are drawn within its current it is the Ob or Python. Moses
+was determined to exterminate those witches who, sensitive to its
+influence, allowed themselves to fall under the control of the vicious
+beings which move in the astral waves like fish in the water.—Isis
+Unveiled, 1-158. Porphery says that “these beings are mischievous and
+deceitful, though some are gentle and harmless, but so weak as to have
+the greatest difficulty in communicating with mortals. Their powers of
+reasoning are in a latent state, and therefore they themselves
+irresponsible.” But St. Augustine says: “These spirits are deceitful
+through malice. They pass themselves off for gods and for the souls of
+the defunct.” St. Jerome says that some of these elementary spirits or
+satyrs, with the legs and tails of goats, were exhibited at Alexandria,
+and one of them was pickled and sent to the Emperor Constantine, which
+he highly appreciated, as he was usually in the same condition. The
+Devil says, according to Edgar Allan Poe: “In a climate so sultry as
+mine it is frequently impossible to keep a spirit alive for more than
+two or three hours, and unless pickled immediately (and a pickled spirit
+is not good eating) they will smell.”
+
+They called out sixty thousand militia in Cevennes, France, in 1700 to
+drive the Devil out of the boys and girls and babes at the breast who
+prophesied in pure French, a language unknown to them. The Prior
+reported to Rome that the Devil was so powerful that no torture and no
+amount of exorcism is able to dislodge him. He says he closed their
+hands on burning coals, and they were not even singed, that he wrapped
+their bodies in cotton soaked with oil and set them on fire and could
+not even blister their skins, that balls were shot at them and found
+flattened between the skin and clothes.
+
+Perhaps the greatest number of miracles ever performed in the world were
+pulled off by the Devil at the tomb of Abbe Paris from 1727 to 1749. The
+sick were cured, the deaf made to hear and the blind to see. Often a
+young girl among the convulsionaries would bend back into an arc, her
+loins supported by the sharpened point of an iron rod, and beg to be
+pounded with a fifty pound stone suspended from the ceiling. The stone
+was allowed to fall repeatedly with all its weight upon her abdomen, and
+the girl enjoyed it and cried for more, and no injury was found upon her
+person. When violent blows were struck with a sledge-hammer upon a drill
+held against her stomach she cried out: “O! how delightful, that does me
+good. Strike twice as hard if you can.”—Isis Unveiled.
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAPTER XI
+
+                              Life Cells.
+
+
+I Am the I Am, the Hebrew God, is supposed by Christians to be the First
+Cause, but the assumption of a first cause is quite unnecessary, and
+further, if you postulate a creative god, some impertinent person might
+ask you who made God. It is just as well to start with matter, in which
+mind and energy are inherent, which is eternal, infinite, immortal,
+self-existent and sustaining, requiring no supreme power as a basis or
+background, as set forth in the Sankhya System of the Hindus. See Phil.
+& Relig. of India, 55.
+
+The attraction or love of one mass of matter for another is the energy.
+It is that love that creates all forms. The atoms go a-chasing after
+other atoms, even as you and I. There can be no attraction without mind.
+Anaxagoras and Empedocles believed in a dualism of mind and matter. The
+latter says: “The periods of the formation of the world depend upon the
+alternate prevalence of love and hate. During certain periods all
+heterogeneous atoms are separated from each other by hate, during others
+they are everywhere united by love.”
+
+Haeckel says: “These three fundamental attributes, matter, force and
+sensation, are found inseparably united throughout the whole universe in
+every atom and every molecule.”
+
+Edgar Allan Poe says: “That which is not matter is not at all. The
+ultimate unparticled matter not only permeates all things but impels all
+things. This matter is God. What men attempt to embody in the word
+‘thought’ is this matter in motion. The unparticled matter, or God, in
+quiescence is what men call mind. The motion of the unparticled matter
+is the universal thought of the universal mind. This thought creates.
+All things are but the thought of God. For new individualities gross
+matter is necessary. To create individual, thinking beings, it was
+necessary to incarnate portions of the Divine Mind. Thus man is
+individualized. Divested of corporate investiture, he were God.”
+
+According to the Ionic philosophy matter is by nature endowed with life,
+and life is inseparably connected with matter.—Ueberweg’s Hist. of
+Philosophy, 1-32.
+
+It is said that in the beginning a male electron or spirit, or purusha,
+or soul, from the spirit principle of the universe, becoming involved in
+the material ether, formed a vortex, about which the female or material
+electrons of the ether revolved, thus producing an atom, the basis of
+all visible forms. The electron attracts the particles of matter in the
+ether as a magnet attracts steel. The electrons are called units of
+electricity, and there are perhaps a thousand in an atom. The space
+between these ions is comparatively as great as the space between the
+planets of our solar system. Leucippus, of Abdera, says that souls are
+round atoms.
+
+The religious claim that the Divine Thought or Word originated the
+vortex movement. As John did not care to proclaim that his god was Ling,
+which he had stolen from the Hindus, he called it the Word, another
+meaning of Ling, from Ling comes linguist. Word is the exoteric meaning
+designed for fools, and the other is the esoteric or hidden meaning
+known only to the initiates. I think that the Christians are in error in
+claiming John’s god as their own, but amid such a flock of gods the
+confusion is not surprising.
+
+“New Light has arisen, coming from Heaven, it assumed a mortal form.
+Virgin receive God in thy bosom, and the Word flew into the womb.
+Becoming incarnate in time, and animated by her body, it was found in
+mortal image, and a boy was created.”—Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, 17.
+Christna or the Word, the Hindu savior, like Christ was a shepherd, and
+he became entangled with the shepherdesses. He was born in the cave of
+Venus, as all Simon-pure christs have to be, and King Kamsa, in seeking
+to kill him, ordered the destruction of all male infants. He also had
+two fathers, God and Vasu Deva, the Earth god or Joseb. He and the god
+Vishnu were one.—Phil. & Relig. of India, 278.
+
+The Hindus claim that the akasa or astral light, or Brahma,
+(electricity) originated the vortex movement that formed the atoms.
+Akasa is the source of life, the reservoir of all energy, the
+all-directing and omnipotent god. It was the indispensable agent of
+every magical performance, and the Brahmans said that they had to stir
+up Brahma in order to perform a trick in magic to delude their devotees.
+Madam Blavatsky says: “As God creates so can man create. By the action
+of the will power on the atoms he can call objective forms into being.
+The atoms are like automatic workmen moved by the influx of the will
+directed upon them.” “Every motion we make, every word we utter gives an
+impulse to the ether and thus creates atoms.”—Edgar Allan Poe.
+
+Aristotle says: “The world always was and always will be. The ether
+fills the celestial spaces, and of it the spheres and stars are formed.”
+The atoms combine to form molecules, and these, being attracted
+together, form the gases of which nebulae are composed. These nebulae
+follow the same circular movement that prevails in the atoms, and the
+result of this movement is a solar system, the nucleus of which becomes
+the sun. The rings that separate from the main body in this revolution
+eventually break up and form planets. When these planets cool, we find
+all the atomic souls either in the water or imprisoned in the rocks or
+in the central fire. The sea beats up against the rocks, and the rains
+descend upon and disintegrate them and thus release the souls that were
+imprisoned there in the process of involution. Now they commence to
+evolve toward what the egotistic have termed man’s high estate.
+
+Yogi Ramacharaka says: “The Yogi teaching informs us that even in the
+molten mass there were elementary forms that were to become the
+ancestral forms of the later living beings. From these elementary forms
+there gradually evolved, as the earth cooled and solidified, other
+forms, and so on until at last the first living form manifested. The
+lowest forms of what we call life were evolved from forms of crystal
+life, which indeed they very much resemble.”
+
+Haeckel, the world’s greatest scientist, says: “Man descends immediately
+from the ape, and secondarily from a long line of lower vertebrates back
+to the Silurian fishes. The lowest man appeared on the earth about three
+million years ago.”—Riddle of the Universe, 82. Anaximander, of Miletus,
+says: “Living beings arose by gradual development out of the elementary
+moisture under the influence of heat. We land animals had in the
+beginning the form of fishes.”—Ueberweg, 1:35.
+
+The atoms combining by their own desire and will formed a molecule, and
+the molecules by their own volition combined to form a life cell, our
+earliest ancestor, a minute, animate mass of protoplasm, the lowest form
+of animal life, born in the slum of the ocean bed millions of years ago.
+Myriads of these life cells form the human body. Each cell is a distinct
+individual, having brain, mind and soul. Haeckel says that the
+primordial living substance is plasm. We can live only by eating other
+living beings or plasm, that is, by cannibalism. Plants create living
+plasm out of alleged non-living matter, they form carbo-hydrates, and
+from these form plasm by a combination with water, carbolic acid,
+ammonia and nitric acid. We claim to have souls, but deny them to the
+plants, the divine creators whose chemical laboratories, the cells, are
+beyond human comprehension.
+
+The cells arrange themselves in the embryo in the form of a human being
+by their own will. “They use the materials which are at hand,
+fabricating organs for themselves by instinct, and in the appointed hour
+are born in the shape which they have formed for themselves.”—Enoch, ch.
+14. The human embryo in its development passes through all the forms
+through which the race has struggled in its evolution from stone,
+through the primordial cell, the worm, the fish, the saurian and
+gorilla. In the last stage, that of the gorilla, the embryo is entirely
+covered with hair like our beloved ancestors, and sometimes development
+is arrested at this point and a hairy child is born occasionally with a
+tail.
+
+The scientists have discovered in the cell body a god more potent than
+any known deity and have named it centrosome. It is a being of stellar
+form, located just above the nucleus or nerve centre of the cell. It is
+a creator whose magic far excels the feats of gods or men. It divides
+one living being into two, splitting the brain and the body of the cell
+in halves in such a manner that the two individuals produced are the
+exact duplicates of the parent cell in form and character. The cell
+brain matter, called cromatin, is composed of strings of very minute
+granules, termed cromosome, which are supposed to contain all the
+hereditary traits. The division of each one of these cromosomes into
+equal halves gives to the individuals produced a similar character. The
+centrosome is one in the beginning, but before dividing the cell it
+divides itself into two persons, so that one of the centrosomes may
+accompany each of the two cells. Each centrosome seizes one half of the
+brain of the parent cell thus divided and draws it to one side of the
+cell to form the nucleus of one of the new cells. Then the whole body of
+the cell is divided in the centre.—Story of the Living Machine, 100.
+When the centrosome divides the cell, two cells are produced capable of
+reproducing themselves in like manner. Prof. A. Dastre says that “under
+suitable circumstances the lowest animated forms are immortal.”
+
+Our soul is formed by the combination of the souls of the two germ cells
+from which the embryo originated. We existed in our parents prior to our
+advent here and in all of our ancestors for 500,000,000 years back, more
+or less. The conscious matter that constitutes me, the cromatin, existed
+in every one of my ancestors since we were washed out of the igneous
+rocks or spawned in the ocean depths. Jack London says: “I did not begin
+when I was born. I have been growing, developing through incalculable
+myriads of milleniums. All these experiences of all these lives and of
+countless other lives have gone to the making of the soul-stuff that is
+I.”
+
+Elephas Levi says: “The millions of germ cells that fail to become human
+beings are transformed into phantoms or larvae. These larvae possess
+aerial bodies formed from the steam of blood. For this reason they seek
+out spilt blood, and were formerly nourished by the smoke of sacrifices.
+The cohesion of the parts of these phantastic organisms is so feeble
+that they fear a strong wind, large fires, and above all the points of
+swords. They are vampires.” This accounts for the craving of the gods
+for blood sacrifices. The spirits and phantoms were mistaken for gods by
+the drunken prophets.
+
+“The cells are spheroids and they are men in embryo,” says Plato. “God
+caused the universe to move with a circular motion and created original
+man as a perfect circle. The sexes were originally three in number, man,
+woman and hermaphrodite, and they had two faces and four arms and four
+legs, but Zeus cut them in two. After the division the two parts of man,
+each desiring the other half, came together and threw their arms about
+one another eager to grow into one. Each of us when separate is but the
+indenture of a man, having one side only like a flat-fish, and he is
+always looking for his other half.”—Plato, 1-483.
+
+The intelligence of the cells has been clearly established by
+overwhelming proofs. An egg or ovum is at first a small fertilized cell,
+and in its development or transformation into an embryo, it is at first
+divided into several cells, to wit, the head cell, the body cell, the
+tail cell and the food cells. Prof. Oppel, in his experiments in
+embryology, separated these cells, removing them from their proper
+positions, but the cells so removed, traveled about trying first one
+place and then another until they usually found their proper positions
+and there joined the body and grew thereon, producing a perfect animal.
+If they made a mistake and joined the body in the wrong place, a monster
+was produced.
+
+Furthermore, a scientist produced a mushroom-shaped being by subjecting
+metallic salts to the action of a galvanic current. The particles of the
+metal gathered around the pole of the magnet in the shape of a mushroom.
+This thing was a living being, with alimentary canal in its stem,
+through which it drew its nourishment and added to its growth. It was
+only necessary that a current of life or electricity be introduced among
+the particles to cause them to assume the form of a living organism. The
+metallic tree is produced by the same means. A copper wire and a piece
+of zinc are suspended in a bottle of a solution of acetate of lead, and
+the particles of lead gather about the copper wire and put forth
+branches, limbs and foliage.—Yogi Ramacharaka.
+
+Each atom of matter, each molecule and every life cell, of which man is
+composed, has a soul of its own. And it is claimed that beside the
+individual cell souls, man not only has a communal soul in his brain,
+but a soul in his Solar Plexus. After a frog is beheaded, if a drop of
+acid is placed on his body, he will wipe it off with his foot.
+
+The development of animals out of frogs and men out of animals was held
+by Anaximenes 600 B. C., and the evolution of species was an accepted
+doctrine before the flood. In the Hindu books it is written: “When the
+world had issued out of the darkness, the subtle, elementary principles
+produced the vegetal seed, which animated first the plants, from the
+plants life passed into fantastical bodies which were born in the
+waters, then through a series of forms and various animals it reached
+man.”—Bhagavata.
+
+Kapella, an Aryan sage, denied the existence of a first cause, claiming
+that everything in nature found itself developed only in consequence of
+material fatal forces. The ancient Kabalists said: “A stone becomes a
+plant, a plant a beast, a beast a man, a man a spirit, and the spirit a
+god.”
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER XII.
+
+                        Magic and Devil Worship.
+
+
+Elephas Levi claimed that the attraction and repulsion of the atoms is
+caused by the astral light. “There exists an agent which is material and
+spiritual, a universal plastic medium, a common receptacle of the
+vibrations of motions and the images of forms, a fluid and a force. By
+means of this force all nervous apparatuses secretly communicate with
+each other, thence come sympathy and antipathy, thence dreams and second
+sight. The existence and use of this force is the great secret of
+practical magic. The astral light attracts, repels, vivifies and
+destroys all things under the influence of powerful wills. It can be
+directed by the leaders of souls. By means of this agent we can
+correspond instantaneously from one end of the earth to the other,
+discern what is taking place at the antipodes, heal or hurt at a
+distance. The Gnostics called it the burning body of the Holy Ghost.
+Life is produced by the action of the astral light on the ether or
+matter. In man it forms the astral body, it is the first envelope of the
+soul, and it is by combining with the most subtil fluids that it forms
+this etherized body or phantom. The astral body is nourished by the
+astral light, as the physical body is nourished by the earth. The astral
+light is saturated with souls, which it releases in the incessant
+generation of existences, and whose imperfect wills can be dominated and
+employed by stronger ones. The elementary spirits are like children,
+they torment those who concern themselves about them. It is these that
+produce the raps on the walls and furniture.”—Mysteries of Magic, 65.
+
+“An individual can leave the physical body and actually travel on either
+the material or astral plane in the astral body. Many persons are able
+to travel thus in their ordinary sleep.”—Astral World, 25.
+
+All magic is religious, having been invented by the priests or Magi. It
+is said that the religious bodies copied their demonology from the
+Kabala of the Jews, and that the latter borrowed their system of theurgy
+and theology from the Egyptian and Babylonian priests. If any one
+outside of the religious bodies started any opposition devil-worship,
+they were promptly burnt. All the magic rituals are derived from the Key
+of King Solomon, claimed to have been found in his sepulchre at
+Jerusalem.
+
+In the Magic Grimore, ascribed to Pope Honorius, he says: “We have seen
+with what power Jesus commanded demons, which power was transmitted to
+St. Peter, and, as the lawful successors of St. Peter, having the keys
+of the Kingdom of Heaven, and desiring to share the power of invoking
+and commanding spirits, which has been reserved unto us alone, with our
+brethren, we have included in this Bull the manner of their invocation.
+And because it is meet that the ministers of the altar should have
+authority over rebellious spirits, we hereby depute unto them all the
+powers which we possess in virtue of the Holy Apostolic Chair.”—Book of
+Black Magic, 100.
+
+In invoking the Devil or other choice spirits, it is necessary to murder
+some being. If the conjurer cannot or dare not murder a human being, he
+takes an innocent virgin lamb and cuts its throat and tears off its skin
+to use for a magic apron or parchment. Instead of the skin of a lamb,
+the caul of a new-born child may be used.—Idem.
+
+The sign manual of the demon Valefor, the patron of thieves, contains
+two Maltese crosses rampant and three links. As Solomon and his
+entourage worshipped the demon Astaroth, they probably stole from him
+the two pillars at the door of the Temple and the double triangle above
+them, for they appeared in the seal of that spirit. There are two or
+more crosses in each of the seals or signatures of Solomon’s seventy two
+black fiends. Their motto is, “In this sign we conquer.”
+
+Solomon imprisoned the seventy two devils, with all their legions, in a
+brazen vessel and sank it in a deep lake in Babylon. The Babylonians,
+thinking that there must be a great treasure in the vessel, took it out
+of the lake and broke it open, when out flew the chief devils
+immediately, with all their legions following them.—See Waite’s Book of
+Black Magic.
+
+We still worship pagan gods. The Hexagram, or double triangle of
+Solomon, is still used by different sects and societies. On it is the
+name of Agla, a pagan sun-god, and also the name of Tau, the Egyptian
+bull christ Taurus, with the pagan symbol, the Tau cross. The god A. and
+O., Alpha and Omega, with which the Hexagram is adorned, is a foul
+Babylonian idol, the same as IO. It has been represented that the Devil
+falls prostrate before the cross. But, to tell the truth, Lucifer uses
+the sign himself, also the double triangle and the single triangle in
+his signature. And Belial has four crosses by which he lies.
+
+When a sorcerer conjures up one of the seventy two demons, he must draw
+the double seal of Solomon (double triangle) and the Pentagram,
+(five-pointed star) on a parchment of calfskin. These must be worn on
+his white vestment, together with the seal of the spirit invoked. And
+the secret seal of Solomon (the pillar standing in a circle) must be
+drawn with the blood of a black, virgin cock on virgin parchment. This
+is part of the conjuration: “I invoke and conjure you, O Spirit, by God
+the Father, by God the son, by God the Holy Ghost, by the Most Glorious
+and Holy Mother of God, by her Sacred Heart, by her Blessed Milk, by the
+Power and Victory of Hell, by the Ministers of the Tartarean Seat. I
+exorcise thee in the names of El, Elohim, Zabaoth &c. do thou forthwith
+appear. I conjure thee by the Living and True God Heliorem (Helios, the
+sun god) and Tetragrammaton Jehovah (the God of four letters). Come! I
+Adonai Saday, King of Kings, commands thee.” See Lesser Key of King
+Solomon, 55.
+
+There is no use in trying to invoke spirits or perform any tricks in
+black magic unless you have confessed and received the Holy Communion,
+and you must pray for assistance to the pagan gods Adonai, Eloim, Ariel,
+Yahveh and Gibor, and fast, and abstain from the society of females for
+nine days, and take a bath, and wear the garb of a priest or a Levite,
+and you must have the sacred Masons’ implements, the sword, the staff,
+the rod, the sickle and the poniard. See Waite’s Book of Black Magic.
+
+That part of nature called the astral light or universal spirit was
+virtually the supreme god of all religions. It was the Heaven or Nirvana
+of the Buddhist, (where the soul is blown out like a lamp some
+believed.) When he attained to perfection and was reabsorbed in this
+godhead, he had stormed the heights of Heaven and attained eternal
+bliss. He considered that his spirit would no longer be subjected to
+endless incarnations in material forms. But there is no knowing when it
+would again by choice or compulsion enter the ether and form another
+atom and again commence the unavoidable cycle.
+
+All the vile religions have scared the human race into ca’niption fits
+by their assertion that our souls will be lost unless we bow down to
+their priests and worship their idols. According to the original parent
+religion, the Hindu, if we obey the priests faithfully, we will go to
+Nirvana and become a creator or electron, or elementary spirit. And all
+the authorities, both pagan and Christian, agree that the elementary
+spirits are mischievous, wicked entities. It would be better to lose our
+souls, for in that case they are banished into the ether or chaos and
+become the nucleus of a material atom. If we go to Nirvana, we are one
+step farther removed from the ultimate goal of all the ambitions of all
+the heavenly electrons and material atoms, the supreme pinnacle of
+attainment, man’s high estate, which is greater than that of the gods.
+
+The Theosophists revel in the mystic and occult. If they can construct a
+sentence that no one can understand, and that they do not know the
+meaning of themselves, they are in the seventh heaven of delight, their
+wisdom borders on the Divine. Stating their doctrine of transmigration
+in plain language: God sits at his desk in Heaven, with a great lot of
+pigeonholes before him, in each one of which is a soul in a state of
+coma. When he receives a wireless from the earth that Pat and Biddie
+McGee have formed in their marital relationship a psychic vortex, or
+soul vortex, he makes a grab at the pigeonholes and lights perhaps on
+the soul of Pythagoras and sticks it into the new-born embryo, which
+already has a soul, and there is no room for any other. See
+“Spermatozoa,” Stand. Dic., and note those very energetic individuals in
+a frantic race to enter the ovum and blossom out as human beings. You
+will then realize that the child already has a very lively soul,
+provided by nature, and there is no occasion for any doped soul,
+supplied by any idiotic human plan.
+
+“The astral light keeps an unmutilated record of all that was, that is,
+or ever will be. The minutest acts of our lives are imprinted on it, and
+even our thoughts rest photographed on its eternal tablets. It is the
+Book of Life, it is the memory of God. If the medium or subject’s sight
+is ably directed by the mesmerizer, magician or spirit, the light must
+yield up its most secret records to our scrutiny.”—Astral World. It is
+claimed that each person’s atmosphere in the astral light is peopled
+with the images of his or her immediate family, thus accounting for the
+assertions of the mediums that they see the spirits of our lost ones.
+
+Swedenborgians claimed that the human body is sometimes abandoned by the
+soul in consequence of overpowering fright, grief, despair or sickness,
+and that we encounter every day such living corpses. Into these bodies
+may enter the soul of an adept sorcerer or some earth-bound, disembodied
+soul. In insanity the astral soul is partly paralyzed, bewildered, and
+subject to the influence of every passing spirit of any sort, or it has
+departed forever, and the body is taken possession of by some vampire or
+human soul near its own dissolution, and clinging desperately to earth,
+whose sensual pleasures it may enjoy for a brief season longer by this
+expedient.
+
+The ancients claimed that the soul was located in the solar plexus, and
+it was asserted that they could read, hear, see and smell through the
+navel. In our vermiform stage of development before evolution had
+supplied us with heads, the soul was perhaps in the stomach, but it may
+have moved since. Plato says that the divine part of the soul is located
+in the head. Haeckel says that the human soul is a combination of the
+souls of all the cells of the body. It is impossible to destroy any
+simple substance, and if it affords you any comfort, you can assume that
+the soul or ego is an indestructible electron. The Stoics claimed that
+the soul is in the heart, and that although it outlives the body, it is
+yet perishable and can only endure at the longest till the termination
+of the world period, 4,320,000,000 years. Epicurus claimed that “nothing
+that exists will ever cease to exist. Atoms exist from all eternity, and
+worlds were formed by their vortical motion. The soul is material and
+composed of exceedingly fine atoms, and is dispersed through the whole
+body. The rational soul is in the breast.” Stephanus, of Alexandria,
+says that “copper is like a man, it has a soul and body.” Yoga
+Ramacharaka says that “iron is alive and may be killed by poison.”
+
+“Transmigration of the soul takes place in all flesh, in beasts,
+reptiles and fowls. For one form of uncleanness the soul will pass into
+a Gentile, for another into a mule, for others into an ass, a woman, a
+bat, a she-mule or a camel.”—Kabala Nishmath Chaim, Ch. 13, No. 1. It
+sometimes happens that one sacrifices an animal with a human soul in it.
+Therefore the slaughtering knife must be without defect, and the
+slaughter must needs be delicately done to avoid cutting the gizzard out
+of the human soul. “The soul of a murderer is transmigrated into water.
+Let no man drink from a running stream, lest the soul of a wicked sinner
+pass into him.”—Kabala Emeh Hamelech, fol. 153, col. 1.
+
+“By a combination of the letters of the ineffable name Rava once created
+a man and sent him to Rav. Zera. The man being unable to reply when
+spoken to, the Rabbi said to him: ‘Thou art a creation of the company
+(of necromancers) return to thy dust.’ By the same means a Rabbi created
+pumpkins, melons, deers and roes.”—Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrim, ch. 7.
+
+The soul, called Psyche, when she is at home, lives in that part of the
+brain called the Medulla Oblongata, and the spirit, called Budhi, lives
+in the next house up the street, the Pineal Gland. When Budhi, or the
+Word, wins the affections of Psyche, and they are married, the Word
+saves the soul, and the man who harbors these entities is illuminated
+and becomes a master.
+
+If you read Genesis in the original Hebrew, you will find that Al or El,
+the sun, not the Christian God, says: “To every beast of the earth I
+gave a living soul.” The souls of human beings are composed of material
+as refined and spiritual as that of the souls of cockroaches and
+bedbugs, and men, if they behave themselves, are equally as good as
+those animals and of just as much importance in the universe.
+
+
+
+
+                             CHAPTER XIII.
+
+                         Ghosts and Hobgoblins.
+
+
+The Hindus of the Malibar coast said they had ghosts, but they knew them
+to be bad spirits, for good ones can hardly ever appear at all. Apuleius
+says the human soul is a demon or genius, an immortal god. According to
+Philo Judaeus, the air is filled with an invisible host of spirits, the
+bad ones are mortal, and the good ones are immortal. The soul, upon the
+death of the body, transforms into a lemure (phantom). If it is wicked,
+it is called a larvae. The ghosts who, through vice, fearful crimes and
+animal passions, are confined to the eighth sphere immediately
+surrounding the earth, are the magnetic vampires and demons so well
+known to mediaeval ecstatics, nuns, monks and witches, the blood demons
+of Porphery. They may be cast out by powerful magicians, but if a
+sorcerer is not available, you can take a saucer containing two ounces
+of nitre and pour over it one ounce of vitrol and place it under the bed
+of the obsessed, and the devil will take to his heels.
+
+Paracelsus says: “It is possible that my spirit, without the aid of the
+body and through a fiery will alone, and without a sword, can stab and
+wound others. I can also bring the spirit of my adversary into an image,
+and then double him up and lame him.” According to Cotton Mather some
+young girls had become mediums by sitting with a West Indian negro
+woman. They declared that the spectres of various witches appeared to
+them and bit and pinched and stuck pins into them. Some of the witches
+confessed that they did afflict these girls by sticking pins into
+manikins made of wax or rags, and by clutching and pinching their hands
+together and wishing in what part and after what manner they would have
+the girls afflicted, and it was done.
+
+If you are haunted by an objectionable ghost, provide yourself with a
+sword or a dagger and stab him when he makes his appearance. They are
+awfully afraid of swords, although if you cut one in two, he will join
+together again, or if you cut his head off or leg off, he will put the
+member right on again. But he does not like it, and will thereafter
+leave you severely alone. Bodin says that in 1557 an elementary,
+thundering demon fell down with the lightning into the house of one
+Poudot and kept throwing stones all about the room for several days. The
+magistrate came to investigate, and the spirit knocked his hat off and
+drove him out of the house. At last Poudot got a sword and slashed all
+around the room, whereupon the spirit disappeared.
+
+Where the ghosts are real troublesome, you can drive them away by
+distributing holy medallions around the house where the ghosts can see
+them. As the medallions have been blessed or magnetized, God has been
+injected into them, and they consequently are gods, and mischievous
+spirits who cut up capers around the house are afraid of these deities.
+I have a blessed idol of Buddha on my desk to keep the ghosts out of the
+office and prevent them from interfering with the composition of this
+pious work.
+
+Modern spirits are often lying spirits. They are ever on hand to humor
+the respective hobbies of the persons who communicate with them at
+circles, and deceive them. When Luther, the sorcerer, evoked the demon,
+he was told that he should not worship the Virgin. But when St. Dominic
+called upon the devils, they told him that nobody was damned that
+persevered in her holy worship. The golden legend of James de Viragine
+shows that the Virgin gave to St. Dominic a miraculous rosary, by which
+he could perform greater miracles than Christ. But a certain abandoned
+sinner was bold enough to doubt the virtues of the rosary, and
+immediately fifteen thousand devils took possession of him, and being
+questioned by St. Dominic, they emitted flames from the nostrils, eyes
+and ears of the demoniac and certified to the virtues of the rosary.
+Over a hundred angels appeared in golden armor, together with the
+blessed Virgin herself bearing a golden rod, with which she administered
+a sound thrashing to the demoniac. The numerous theological truths
+uttered by St. Dominic’s devils were embodied in so many articles of
+faith, according to Isis Unveiled, 2-76.
+
+One who is unprotected, the tricky powers of the air but too often
+delude with the semblance of voices. In all the Mysteries, strong drink
+or anaesthetics were administered to the initiates to sunder the soul
+from the body and produce visions. The Sankhya system teaches that the
+ghost, or astral body, can shrink to such a minute space that it can
+penetrate anything, or enlarge to a gigantic body, or float through
+space, or standing on the earth can reach the moon, that its will is
+irresistible, having dominion over all things and the ability to attain
+every desire.
+
+It is claimed that phantom hands have appeared at seances under test
+conditions and written messages on a table in broad daylight, when the
+medium was six or eight feet away, but the theory is that the
+materialized hand is an emanation from the medium, the astral hand of
+the medium. Madam Blavatsky says that “this is the spiritual or astral
+body that is raised in incorruption. It is useless to argue that these
+are spirit hands. To make hands or faces objective, they are compelled
+to use either the astral limb of the medium, or material furnished by
+the elementals, or the aural emanation of all persons present. Pure
+spirits will not and cannot show themselves objectively. Those that do
+are elementary spirits.”
+
+Madam Blavatsky tells of the following wonderful manifestations that
+occurred in Thibet. A body of traveling Bikshus, or monks, claimed the
+power to reincarnate the Buddha in any infant. A child four months old
+was brought to their cave and set down in the middle of the room, while
+the monks sat in a circle around it at some distance. A skeptic minister
+sat close to the child to expose the trickery. The chief Pase Budha went
+into a trance, and his astral and spiritual body took possession of the
+child and made it walk and talk, saying “I am Buddha, I am the old Lama,
+I am his spirit in a new body.” The minister said: “The baby looked at
+me with an expression of intelligence that was simply awful. It sent a
+chill through me, I felt a real terror, my hair rose upon my head, and
+my blood ran cold. The eyes seemed to search my very soul with an
+expression that made me think that it was the face of the Superior
+himself, his eyes, his very look that was gazing upon me.”
+
+If you wish to conjure up or materialize a spirit, purchase from the
+Yogis some ancient blood of a black cat, which comes in powdered form.
+This, together with a sparrow’s brain, burnt upon the altar will produce
+a smoke or vapor of peculiar odor and a color unknown and unnamed by
+human beings, being a combination of many colors. From the smoke of this
+magic altar it is possible for spirits to materialize, so that even
+persons without the astral vision can see them.
+
+Sometimes a band of occultists will meet around their altar fire, which
+is kindled between the horns of the goat and fed with the ancient blood
+of a black cat and other material from which ghosts can materialize. The
+occultists stand in a row hand in hand, the Grand Master at the head by
+the altar, and all strongly command that a spirit shall manifest. As the
+command passes from one brother to another it gains force, and the power
+of the will is enormously augmented, and after a time there issues from
+the floor a thread of astral matter, which ascends perpendicularly and
+widens out as it ascends, assuming a human form, but weak, wavering and
+limp, bending this way and that on every breath of air. But after the
+circle has pumped the power into him for a while, he becomes
+sufficiently strong to walk or glide about and take a seat in the circle
+and talk to the members. The materialized body is soft and moist and
+cold as a corpse. When they wish him to disappear they stand again hand
+in hand, the Grand Master next to the spirit, and send the command from
+one to the other ordering the ghost to depart, and he will again become
+weak and wabbly and sink down to the floor and disappear through the
+same nail hole from which he emerged.
+
+If the company wishes to engage in a dangerous experiment, one half of
+them will occupy one side of the hall and the other half the other side.
+They must first erect between them a circle of sheet lead, over which
+the devil cannot jump to attack any of the members. Then each bunch will
+think evil vindictive and murderous thoughts of the other bunch, and
+conjure up dire monsters to attack them, and soon a horrible, gigantic
+and vicious thought-monster, part beast, part devil and part human, will
+materialize and rush at the members and endeavor to attack them, but
+fortunately for them, he cannot pass the leaden circle, for if he could
+reach those that made him, he would strike them dead with a charge of
+electricity through the heart. In order to lay this devil they have
+conjured up, they have to clothe themselves entirely in silver-colored
+garments. They then enter the circle from both sides and close in on the
+monster. These silver-colored beings scare the devil to death, and he
+crawls back in his hole.
+
+A man, named B, built a house with second-hand lumber from an old
+building that had been torn down. The old building was reputed to be
+haunted by the former owner, who was murdered there. The ghost was very
+mad because B took his lumber, and, in order to be revenged, he went
+with the lumber to the new house and haunted that. B says that the ghost
+would appear to him when he was going to sleep and jab him in the eye
+with his finger and seize his arm and hurl it against the wall. When B
+was half asleep one night, the ghost appeared with a pail of water and
+threw it all over him. The dog could see the ghost even when B could
+not, and would bark and show his teeth and propose to fight the phantom.
+B sold the house to some colored folks. They were scared white by the
+skilligin, gave up the property and demanded their money back, because
+the ghost was an incumbrance on the estate and a legal defect in title,
+he being in possession, claiming ownership.
+
+St. Clemens Romanus says that Simon Magus (Paul), of the New Testament,
+could make himself invisible when and to whom he pleased. He created a
+man out of air, who passed through the rocks and mountains and flew
+along through the air. He threw himself from precipices without being
+injured and flung himself into the fire without being burned, he
+animated statues, he walked through the streets attended by strange
+figures, which he said were the souls of people departed.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER XIV.
+
+                         Witches and Sorcerers.
+
+
+“Burn everybody,” the Inquisition seemed to say, “God can easily sort
+out his own.” Poor fools, hysterical women and idiots were roasted alive
+for the crime of magic.
+
+Catherine de Medicis, the author of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, had
+in her service an apostate Jacobin priest who was proficient in the
+black art. King Charles lay dangerously ill, and Catherine, the queen
+mother, had everything to lose by the death of the King. In her anxiety
+she commanded the priest to inquire of the Devil what should be done to
+save the life of the King. The priest, taking with him a beautiful
+child, went into the chapel and after administering to the child its
+first communion, decapitated it on the very steps of the altar and
+placed the palpitating head upon the paten. Then, standing on a reversed
+cross, he celebrated the Devil’s Mass before an image of the Demon, and
+commanded the Devil to answer by the lips of this murdered child the
+question of the Queen. Then a strange voice, which had nothing human
+about it, made itself audible in this poor little martyr’s head. But the
+sorcery availed nothing, the King died.—Elephas Levi.
+
+“Pope Sylvester was publicly accused by Cardinal Benno with being a
+sorcerer and enchanter. The brazen oracular head made by his Holiness
+was of the same kind as the one fabricated by Albertus Magnus. The
+latter was smashed to pieces by Thomas Aquinas, not because it was the
+work of or inhabited by a demon, but because the spook, that was fixed
+inside by mesmeric power, talked incessantly and disturbed the eloquent
+saint. These heads and other talking statues, trophies of the magical
+skill of monks and bishops, were fac-similes of the animated gods of the
+ancient temples. It was demonstrated that this Pope was constantly
+attended by demons or spirits. Benedict IX, John XX and the VI and VII
+Gregory were all known as magicians. The latter Pope, it was said, could
+shake lightning out of his sleeve. In the latter part of the sixteenth
+century there was hardly a parish to be found in which the priests did
+not study magic and alchemy. John Reuchlin, father of the Reformation
+and teacher of Luther, was a Kabalist and occultist. The occult
+knowledge gleaned by religion from the fat fields of theurgy was
+sedulously guarded for its own use, and it sent to the stake only those
+practitioners who poached on its preserves. Between 1580 and 1595 in the
+single province of Lorraine, the President Remigius burned nine hundred
+witches.”—Isis Unveiled, 2-57.
+
+“The gorgeous standard of the Inquisition is represented as waving in
+the Heavenly breezes at the foot of the Great White Throne of the
+Almighty. On its crimson, damask face is the cross, the symbol of the
+Son of God who died for mankind, with an olive branch on one side and a
+sword stained to the hilt with human gore on the other.”
+
+“The true origin of the daily accusations and death sentences for
+witchcraft are traced by Dr. Soldan, of Stuttgart, to personal,
+political and religious enmities. Prince Bishop, John George II, of
+Bamberg, caused six hundred to be burned for sorcery in five years. The
+petty princes were not unwilling to seize upon any pretence to fill
+their coffers, the persons most persecuted being those whose property
+was a matter of consideration.”—Sorcery and Magic, 2-185. A horse was
+burnt at the stake in Lisbon in 1601 for witchcraft, because it could
+tell the number of spots on a card.
+
+In the list of twenty nine burnings, or autos da fe, in nineteen months
+in Germany, 162 persons were murdered, of whom 28 were Protestants, 100
+wealthy citizens and 34 little children, the youngest an infant. Wright
+says that 27 little girls, from seven to ten years of age, were burnt as
+witches. Lorente, the historian of the Inquisition, computes that
+Torquamada in eighteen years burned at the stake 10,220 persons, and
+otherwise punished 97,321. In Andalusia alone, in a single year, the
+Inquisition sent to the stake 2000 Jews.—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 1-136. “We
+learn that much money was realized by selling to the rich dispensations
+to secure them from the Inquisition.”—Conflict Between Religion and
+Science, 146.
+
+Stevens says: “A monk of St. Anthony, having been at Jerusalem, brought
+home with him a bit of the finger of the Holy Ghost, the snoot of a
+seraphim, one of the nails of a cherub, one of the ribs of the Word Made
+Flesh, some rays of the Star of the East, and a vial of St. Michael’s
+sweat. Henry III, of England, received from the Grand Master of the
+Templars a vial containing some of the blood that Christ shed upon the
+cross, attested by the seal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem.”
+
+The hand of one of the innocents massacred by Herod, although Herod died
+four years B. C., was, in 1837, still preserved in the Convent at
+Bethlehem. There also is the pit in which the bodies of the infants were
+thrown, and also the manger which came down from the constellation of
+the Crab. Some depraved Christian copped the stone on which the cock
+crowed when Peter denied his Master, and, in 1837, it was said to be in
+a church in Rome. In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem,
+among other wonders, is a monument erected over the grave of Adam, who
+never existed, and there is a polished marble bathtub or sarcophagus,
+which they claimed was the sepulchre hewn out of the rock. See Travels
+in Holy Land, 2-163.
+
+The fight of the fools and fakirs over the location of the grave of a
+mythical sun-god is certainly ludicrous, but more amusing was the magic
+trick of the early Christians who stole the grave of Adam either from
+Hebron or Mecca and also swiped the grave of Christ from the Damascus
+Road, north of Jerusalem, and exhibited both, with other shell and
+three-card-monte games, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the
+centre of Jerusalem, for the purpose of annexing the coin of the dupes,
+farmers and come-ons from all over the world.
+
+According to Tichenor, over three hundred years after the crucifixion,
+St. Helena found the true cross, and also dug up the crosses of the two
+thieves, and this lumber was sold for centuries to millions of the
+faithful. Even a splinter will save you from Hell and cure you of what
+ails you. And the bones, hair and nails of the Apostles have been sold
+all over the world. You could formerly buy a gunnysack full of St.
+Peter’s fingers and toes if you had the necessary dough. The people not
+only worshipped the Mother of God, but worshipped St. Ann, the
+Grandmother of God. God came unto Mary in the form of Gabriel, and to
+prove it the monk Eiseling exhibited all over Europe a pin-feather from
+Gabriel’s wing, which he shed at the conference. Thorns, from the crown
+of thorns, the blood of Jesus, by the drop or the bottle, and the milk
+of the Holy Virgin were peddled out all over the world for centimes.—See
+Tichenor’s Roman Religion.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER XV.
+
+                        The Great King Solomon.
+
+
+Solomon’s Song is very choice reading and would be eminently appropriate
+to the foulest book on earth, the circulation of which would be a
+criminal offense under the law. The Christian compilers of the Bible
+have asserted in the headings of the Song that it represents the love of
+Christ and the Church. They were not only wilful liars, but foully
+besmirched their own church, for that was about 1200 years before their
+church existed. The whole context shows that it has nothing to do with
+the Christian Church, but is evidently the hymn book of the church of
+Ashtoreth, of which Solomon was a deacon. Any institution that foists
+upon the world such vile obscenity as the inspired word of God, is the
+Temple of the Devil, the antechamber of Hell, an annex of the Witches’
+Sabbath. It should utterly perish from the face of the earth. In fact,
+the die is already cast, the handwriting is on the wall, the hand of
+death is on it now.
+
+Solomon was Grand Master of the secret societies. Those things that were
+esoteric or secret or occult in magic and religion, claimed by the
+priests to be too sacred for the people, were either criminal or too
+vile to utter. That was the only reason for keeping them secret.
+
+Solomon had cheated his brother Adonijah out of the throne to which the
+latter was entitled by birth, and Adonijah thought that he should at
+least be allowed to have Abishag, the sixteen-year-old beauty that they
+had put in bed with the dying King David to save his life. And he
+induced Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon, to make the request of the
+king. When Solomon had heard the petition of Bathsheba he said: “And why
+dost thou ask Abishag for Adonijah, ask for him the kingdom also.”
+Abishag is the only jewel in the Jewish crown, the most priceless legacy
+that King David left. A perfect beauty is more to be desired than the
+riches of a kingdom. I will not give her up. All the good things in
+Israel are reserved for the king. Then Solomon swore by the Lord saying:
+“God do so to me and more also if Adonijah hath not spoken this word
+against his own life. Now therefore as the Lord liveth Adonijah shall be
+put to death this day.” What ho! guards, summon Benaiah, Commander of
+the Knights of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah.
+
+When Benaiah appeared, he bowed low before the throne, and, raising his
+right hand, made the occult sign of the Witches’ Sabbath. Then Solomon
+said: “Rise, O beloved of the king, favorite of the gods of the groves
+and the gardens. The king hath weighty matters to communicate to thee.
+It is reported that Adonijah, our brother, hath taken refuge at the
+shrine of that second-rate God Jehovah and doth cling to the horns of
+the altar. And behold all of Adonijah’s followers are devotees of
+Jehovah, while all of our partisans and all of you whom the king hath
+deigned to grace with official rank are devotees of Baal and Asherah.
+Now the king commandeth that you seek out all of those Jehovah
+worshippers who have stood by Adonijah and eliminate them from the
+problem of life. Go in and out among them and slay each one your father
+and your mother, your sister and your brother, if so be that they be
+among the rebels. Relieve them of life’s burdens. Do not be harsh with
+them, show them our royal mercy, shove them gently through the gates of
+Hell, cutting them with saws and with harrows of iron and with axes,
+emulating the clemency of our royal father, the bandit chief. As for
+Adonijah, fall upon him and slay him as he clings to the horns of the
+altar. It is true that the altar of a god is sacred ground and a refuge
+as a general proposition, but general propositions do not apply to the
+king, the king is above the law. What do I care for these imaginary
+gods, they are all right to scare children with, but they cut no ice
+with your Solomon.”
+
+Solomon sat in all his glory upon the great throne of ivory and gold,
+flanked by the twelve brazen lions of the zodiac, and the Knights of the
+Mystic Shrine of Asherah in dazzling regalia guarded the beloved of the
+Lord. Around the throne, with naked swords and the three hundred golden
+shields, stood the Princes of the Tribes of Israel, as the rays of the
+setting sun, reflected from the jeweled walls of cedar and gold, bathed
+in dazzling light the royal panoplies of blue and purple and crimson.
+
+And King Solomon’s sacred, hermaphrodite Billygoat, in trappings of
+purple and gold, wearing ribbons on his horns and ribbons on his tail,
+stood beside the golden throne with his revered back to the audience in
+accordance with the law in such case made and provided. And he informed
+the King in no uncertain words that he did not propose to be the goat
+any longer, that the Knights of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah, that had
+been assigned as priests to serve him, one of the highest gods, drank up
+all the wine sacrificed to him, and thus prevented him from getting as
+full as a goat, as required by the tenets of his religion. And further,
+they did not give him exercise enough, they called him Baphomet and
+Devil and other hard names and took him up out of the pit for a walk
+around the town only once a month, at dead of night, in the dark of the
+moon, when Hell yawns, and the graves give up their dead. Upon the
+conclusion of this divine oration, the whole audience crawled on their
+hands and knees up the steps of the golden throne and devoutly kissed
+the back of Baphomet, as we kiss the male and female emblems on the Pax.
+
+This pious ceremony being completed, the Great King, raising the royal
+sceptre, summoned to his exalted presence the Commander of the Knights
+of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah and said: “While you, Benaiah, my
+faithful servant, go and kill Adonijah, my well beloved brother, I will
+hie me to my devotions, for I can see that at the mystic shrine on
+yonder hilltop, the luscious Asherah is yearning for me. My adored, my
+most beautiful, my ravishing one stands in the open door of the pagoda,
+the beautiful gate ajar, stands there in all her pristine loveliness, a
+beauty unadorned, young and plump and enchanting. See that innocent
+radiant face beaming with loving kindness, perfect in every feature, see
+that form divine, of which the gods in Heaven do envy me. She is my
+favorite nun, the incarnation of the Divine Asherah, and she is calling
+me to prayer. See her beckoning me over with that sweet hand, that angel
+hand that holds me, the King of the Earth and Sea, a willing slave in
+its gentle grasp. She says the door is open wide, and all who will may
+enter in, and no one is denied.”
+
+Then while Benaiah slew Adonijah as he clung to the horns of the altar,
+Solomon and his court in gorgeous array, decked in purple and fine linen
+and blazing with jewels rare and gold to burn, marched in one grand
+pageant from the house of cedar and gold, out through the Golden Gate,
+to the high place of Asherah. When they reached the oval, foliated door
+between the two great pillars of Baal, beneath the blazing, golden dome
+of Asher, supported by the circle of monoliths or twelve zodiacal
+redeemers, they bowed low before the open portal and crossed themselves,
+and by thus drawing upon their bodies the male symbol, they became
+themselves male emblems and worthy to enter in, and a worthy offering to
+a female divinity.
+
+The dazzling beauty who stood in the door of the pagoda then ran and
+threw herself into the arms of the king. He folded her pink and white
+form to his royal breast and impressed upon her ruby lips a long and
+loving caress, saying: “My divine one, my goddess, my life, my all, God
+is love, I know, I feel. Thou art the only angel e’er worshipped by
+Solomon the Magnificent. Thy lips are like the roses, like the
+sweet-scented, dew-bediamond roses in the royal gardens of Judea. Thine
+eyes are fathomless wells of priceless love, at which I drink till my
+soul is drunk and reels in its maddened delirium. Thy flesh is like the
+lilies of the valley, pure and white, meet vessel for a soul so true,
+white as the lilies of Asherah, white as the column of Baal, indeed so
+tempting and plump and luscious, that in thy divine and radiant neck I
+fain would bite the name of the King of the Earth and the Sea.
+
+“Solomon offered one thousand burnt offerings in the great high place of
+Gibeon,” a brothel, where they worshipped the pillar and the grove.—1
+Kings: 3-4. “And they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high
+hill and under every green tree.”—2 Kings, 17-10. “Solomon loved the
+Lord, and the Lord loved Solomon.” They formed a mutual admiration
+society, and in Gibeon the Lord said to Solomon: “Ask what I shall give
+thee.” And “Solomon built a high place before Jerusalem at the Mount of
+Corruption (Mount of Olives) dedicated to Ashtoreth,” now replaced by
+the Church of the Ascension, erected over the footprint made by Christ
+in the rock when he jumped from the earth to Alcyone. The Bible says
+that Ashtoreth was the abomination of the Sidonians, but it happens that
+Asher, one of the aliases of the Hebrew god, was the husband of
+Ashtoreth.
+
+The secret and mysterious name of the supreme God of the Hebrews, the
+Ancient of Ancients, was Eh Ei Eh, pronounced in three breaths, with
+hand to ear and the name at low breath. This is the name that was
+engraved on the great seal of Solomon, wherewith he conjured up demons
+from the abyss, for he was a potent wizard. By virtue of this great name
+and by rubbing the seal, Solomon became Lord of the Demons, and
+Beelzebub, at the mighty summons, would bob up serenely and obey the
+behests of the king. Solomon soared into the celestial altitudes and
+mastered the Divine secrets and learned the omnipotent words which
+constitute all the power of God over the demons. He penetrated into the
+remotest haunts of the spirits, whom he bound and forced them to obey
+him by the power of his clavicle (Key). He tells in the Key of Solomon
+the true composition of, with directions for making the dreadful
+blasting rod which causes the spirits to tremble, and which was used by
+God in driving Adam and Eve out of the Garden, and which he also used in
+casting the devils out of Heaven.—Book of Black Magic, 83.
+
+Ashmedai, King of the Demons, and a great mason, collaborated with
+Solomon, Hiram of Tyre and Hiram Abiff in building the Temple. He was
+the one who fashioned the stones without the sound of hammer by means of
+an insect he had, called the Shameer, the same that Moses used in
+cutting the precious stones of the Ephod. The spirits evoked by Solomon
+said that Ashmedai had the Shameer, and they gave him the location of
+Ashmedai’s water-hole in the mountains, where he went to drink. Benaiah
+then went out and filled the water-hole with liquor and laid in wait
+near by. The demon came and drank the liquor, and when he was drunk,
+Benaiah bound him with a ring and a chain, on which was the name of God,
+so that he could not break it. Thus Solomon captured the demon and
+compelled him to call up Shameer, the insect stone-cutter, and prepare
+all the stones of the Temple.—Talmud Gittin, fol. 68, col. 1.
+
+This jolly quartette of pagan and infernal pals, assisted by the masonic
+bug, in laying the foundation of the Temple, seized upon a hewer of wood
+and cut his throat and caught the blood in a vessel. After sprinkling
+the corner stone with the blood, they placed the vessel of human gore
+inside the stone and buried the body of the human sacrifice beneath it,
+that his spirit might guard the Temple and preserve it as long as grass
+grows and water runs. Then they danced around the stone the Dance of
+Death, or the dance of the Maccabees.
+
+
+                   King Solomon’s Signal of Distress.
+
+One day King Solomon, being bored about to death, and finding that all
+was vanity and vexation of spirit, wrote to his friend Manus, high
+priest of Baal, something as follows:
+
+                                      Jerusalem, 20th Nisan. A. M. 3000.
+
+  To His Eminence the High Priest of Baal, beloved of the Lord and the
+    Devil, Grand High Potentate of the Knights of Kadish, Beloved
+    Minister of the Holy of Holies, the sacred Grove of Asherah.
+
+  Behold the Great King Solomon, Lord of the Earth and the Sea, Patron
+  of God Almighty, Imperial Potentate of the Imperial Divan of
+  Ashtoreth, Grand High Mucky-Muck and Past Grand Master of the Phallic
+  Cult.
+
+  Sends Greeting. And doth herein represent that he hasn’t a thing in
+  the way of nice girls, only but just a thousand old hens that were
+  passé in three days after their respective inauspicious arrivals, and
+  the heart of the Great King doth yearn for a vision of youth and
+  beauty from the corn fields of Bethlehem. If thou wouldst save the
+  King’s life, get a move on and corral a fair virgin, with golden hair
+  and eyes of blue, for verily a brunette doth make the King tired. The
+  King recommendeth thee to bring the fair one to the back door of the
+  palace, at the entering-in of the woodshed, for behold the thousand
+  old hens have two thousand eyes, and each eye is jealous of your
+  unhappy Solomon. Verily, they are determined that we shall not have a
+  thing that is fresh and fair to look upon. They are a lot of old cats,
+  and we pray thee to promulgate a feast to Moloch and Baal, and
+  announce to the multitude that seven hundred back-number princesses
+  and three hundred fat old concubines have been devoted, and will be
+  passed through the fire to Moloch and Baal, and will be basted and
+  roasted to a turn and served to the people with the gravy oozing out.
+  May the blessings of the Great Gods Ashtoreth, Chemoth and Baal be
+  with thee and thine.
+
+                                        Yours fraternally,      SOLOMON.
+
+One night King Solomon, together with his two old cronies, Hiram of Tyre
+and Hiram Abiff, went a-hunting in Jerusalem, which at that period was a
+noted sporting resort, abounding in all kinds of game. At length they
+caught a coon near the North Gate, at the high place of Asher, where
+were worshipped the images of the male, and took her to the king’s
+palace. She says (Sol. Song, 1-4): “The King hath brought me into his
+chambers.” Having reached the King’s apartments, Solomon said to Hiram
+of Tyre: “Wouldst thy Majesty kindly rush the duck? Thou wilt find the
+can behind the throne. And thou Abiff, wilt thou be so good as to go out
+in the woodshed and play tag with thyself for a season and half a
+season, while I pass the salve to this colored lady?”
+
+Having got rid of the crowd, Solomon says: “Behold thou art fair my
+love, thou hast dove’s eyes. Thy nose is like unto the Tower of Lebanon
+that looketh toward Damascus, and the beautiful hump in the centre
+thereof is like unto that of a camel, that wabbleth ever this way and
+that.” And the buxom nigger wench, pouting her ruby, liver lips,
+replies: “Kiss me with the kisses of thy mouth, for thy love is better
+than wine. Because of the savor of thy good ointments, which counteract
+the Jewish odor diligently collected since thy last annual bath,
+therefore do the virgins love thee. I am black, but comely. I am not a
+nigger, but only tanned. They made me the keeper of vineyards, (deleted
+by the censor). Place thy left hand beneath my head, and thy right hand
+shall embrace me, (deleted by the censor). My beloved is mine, and I am
+his, a bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.”
+
+During the tête-à-tête, the captivating beauty was absent-mindedly
+picking the Tower of Lebanon, when Solomon said: “Knowest thou not that
+our laws prohibit the touching of the unwashed fingers to the nose,
+mouth or eyes. The Talmud says: ‘The evil spirit Bath Chorin rests upon
+the hands at night and will not depart until water is poured upon him
+three times over.’ That fairy tale is for the ignorant rabble. You and I
+have the gnosis. Some of the prophets say that the worship of Asherah,
+in which we indulge, is reprehensible, but who fashioned the first Grove
+among us? Ask them that.” In Jasher, 27-27, it is said that Abraham
+formed at Beersheba a Grove, and that he practiced all kinds of
+abominations. He gave to his seventeen children by Katurah charms by
+which they could exorcise spirits and perform all sorts of miracles in
+the black art.
+
+When King Hiram returned with the booze, anticipating a jolly orgy with
+the wise one, he pounded loudly on the door of the King’s chamber.
+Solomon, being busy, petulantly said: “Get thee hence Hiram, or I will
+have the cop run thee in.” Then King Hiram was exceeding wroth, and
+threatened to make war on Solomon and come up to Jerusalem with one
+hundred thousand warriors and take the fair colored charmer away from
+the seductive Jewish King. Then Solomon replied: “Chase thyself back,
+Hiram, to besotted Tyre and make love to that great pillar, which, with
+much pomp and ceremony, thou hast recently erected there, and which thou
+dost salute with the holy kiss every morning at sunrise.”
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER XVI.
+
+                         The Mystic Societies.
+
+
+Pope Pius IX was accused of saying: “Damn the clandestine societies.”
+Oh, My! such shocking language, and so unjust too, for these
+quasi-religious societies, even like certain churches, were anciently
+faithful devotees of, and expert manipulators of the mystic symbols.
+
+Dr. Dalcho, a Masonic writer, asserts: “God was the first Grand Master
+and Adam the second.” And Adam initiated Eve into the profound and
+archaic mystery of the square and the eye.
+
+It may be interesting to know what they did at the Witches’ Sabbath and
+the meetings of the ancient mystic societies. They murdered their
+christ, that is what they did, and the Christians have always charged
+that they offered up human sacrifices. I should judge from the ritual of
+the Masons that it originated in the sacrifice of a human being, that in
+ancient times human beings were sacrificed in the mystic societies, from
+some of which, perhaps, Masonry descended. Here are extracts from an old
+ritual as near as the author can decipher them, not guaranteeing that
+they are correct:
+
+
+                Opening a Lodge of Entered Apprentices.
+
+Sen. War.: “Brother, the lambskin in all ages has been considered an
+emblem of purity.” This lambskin is the skin of the Lamb of God. It is
+worn on the stomach for occult reasons. The female emblem, the Eye, is
+stamped upon it for the same occult reasons. The mystic societies,
+sun-worshippers and Jews were anciently devotees of the lamb as well as
+the cow. They sacrificed him and adorned themselves with his skin as a
+saving rite. The Ram is identical with the god Priapus. You remember
+that Saul sent David out to gather one hundred Philistine mementos to
+put in the Ark of the Covenant. These mementos and the lambskin are of
+equal efficacy, both being relics of the crucifixion.
+
+When christ came in the sign of Capricorn, he came as the goat. At the
+celebration of Lupercalia in Rome, they sacrificed the goat christ. Two
+young men are chosen, and the dagger, or Signa Tau, or the Mark of the
+Living God, is drawn in blood in their foreheads. Then they cut the
+goatskin into thongs and run about lashing all they meet. “The young
+wives like to be lashed, fancying that it will make them fruitful.” “The
+Jews in Jereboam’s time had priests for the service of their divinities,
+the sacred billy-goats.”—Plutarch, 1-78. The religious sorcerers, who
+sought to invoke demons, formed their magic circle with strips of
+goatskin nailed to the ground with four nails from the coffin of a dead
+child. As the circle was made of the skin of christ, the demons dare not
+pass it to attack the sorcerer. This is the circle of the Kabalists, of
+which King Solomon was the Most Worshipful, Sublime and Exalted Phalatz.
+
+In the ritual ascribed to Pope Honorius, the method of raising the Devil
+was by sacrificing a black cock, which is an emblem of Christ. The eyes,
+tongue and heart are torn out and burnt to ashes. These are religious
+symbols and objects of adoration. The sorcerer also sacrifices a lamb,
+and places the ashes of the eye, the tongue and the heart on the
+lambskin. He prays to Jesus that the lambskin, with the signs thereon,
+may save him from the wiles of the demons, that they may be terrified by
+the sight of these figures. This, I think, is the origin of the figures
+on the Mason’s lambskin. This ritual provided that the eye, the cross
+and the moon should be drawn on the lambskin.
+
+In the Fellowcraft degree of the ritual, when the candidate has stuck
+the heel of his right foot in the hollow of the left, which is a sacred
+mystic rite that will save your immortal soul from Hell, the Sen. War.
+says: “You will now show the Worshipful Master the Degree Gag (?) and
+sign of an Entered Apprentice, and when you step forward, place the heel
+of your left foot in the hollow of the right. You will now advance with
+me to the altar. You are now to be made a Fellowcraft in due form. You
+will now bare your left foot and side and your breast expose. You now
+receive the mark of the square on the breast.” The Tau Cross, a symbol
+of identical significance with the square, was used in the Bacchic and
+Eleusinian Mysteries. It was laid upon the breast of the initiate to
+cause him to be born again. The square is the Egyptian Ka, the idol
+worshipped by the savages in the temples of darkest Africa, and which is
+also worshipped in the Kaaba at Mecca. Ka, Kaaba, abba, father, papa and
+pope all have the same meaning. See “Kaaba” Stand. Dic.
+
+In the initiation the candidate was allowed to play that he was Hiram
+Abiff. He was conducted around the circle of the zodiac from one door of
+the Temple to another and encountered three of the beasts of the four
+cardinal points, that is, the gentlemen who played the parts of the
+beasts in the heavenly drama.
+
+First Right. Master: Hiram, give me the sign of a Master Mason.
+
+Sen. Dea.: Candidate, the sign cannot be given except in the presence of
+three, Solomon, King of Israel, Hiram, King of Tyre, &c.
+
+Master: For the second time I demand of you the sign of a Master Mason.
+
+Sen. Dea.: You cannot have that.
+
+Master: Hiram, for the third and last time I demand of you the sign of a
+Master Mason. Give it to me, or I will take your life.
+
+Sen. Dea.: You shall not have that (but the candidate can have this, and
+he hits him on the head with the 24-inch gauge, in the play, as near as
+I can make out.)
+
+At the Second Right, the Master makes the same demands.
+
+Sen. Dea.: You shall not have that. Blow with the square (on the head of
+the candidate, I presume, but as he is still alive, he is conducted to
+the beast at the third door.)
+
+Third Right: The Master repeats the same demands.
+
+Sen. Dea.: Lord of Darkness (who is about to kill the sun-christ in the
+west) you shall not have that.
+
+Third Right: Damn thee take that, blow with gavel on forehead, (and the
+candidate or human sacrifice falls dead, in the play.)
+
+Second Right: We have slain our Grand Master Hiram.
+
+Third Right: What shall we do with the body?... Let us carry it a due
+West course from the Temple (because the crucified sun is buried in the
+west) and bury it in a grave sunk due East and West.
+
+Master: Brother Sen. War. What is the commotion?
+
+Sen. War.: Our Grand Master Hiram is assassinated.
+
+Master: How was he assassinated?
+
+Sen. War.: By the Brothers at the door of the Temple.
+
+Master: Our Grand Master Hiram may be ill. You will cause search to be
+made for him in the secret antichambers of the Temple and see if he can
+be found.
+
+Sen. War.: Search has been made, Worshipful, and he cannot be found.
+
+According to the Egyptian religion Souphis Khunfu Nefer Hept, Lord of
+the Underworld, murdered the Great Architect. The victim, whether he be
+called the Great Architect, or Hiram, or Adonis, or Horus, or Christ is
+always and ever the setting sun murdered by the darkness, or Prince of
+Darkness, called Sat in Egypt and Satan with us. The sacrifice of Hiram
+Abiff is one form of the Passion Play.
+
+A Masonic society, established in China from the earliest times, is
+called Our Ladyship’s Society and the Queen of Heaven Society. In the
+Chinese society the candidate is made to pass through the arch of
+swords. He could not be born again or come forth into the light unless
+he passed through the door of life and came out of the cave. The Chinese
+god Fo was born of a virgin impregnated by a ray of the sun, as shown in
+Christian pictures of Mary. In the Indian Mysteries three hierophants
+sit in the East and the West and the South. After an invocation to the
+sun, the candidate is baptized, his shoes taken away from him, and he is
+made to circumnavigate the cavern three times with the sun. He is
+conducted through seven dark caverns and assailed by legions of
+hobgoblins. The victim slaughtered is called Siva, and the lamentations
+of Maya for the death of Siva correspond to the weeping of Mary at the
+tomb of Christ. The sword was aimed at the throat of the candidate by
+the Evil One, but he was brought forth at last into the light. The Eye
+was marked on his forehead and the Tau Cross on his breast. He was
+presented with the sacred girdle or apron, the magical stone and the
+talismanic jewel for the breast.—Isis Unveiled.
+
+In the Mysteries of Aphrodite, a male emblem is handed to the initiate,
+and those initiated bring a piece of money to her as her hire. Demeter,
+of the Eleusinian Mysteries, is identical with Mary, and Clement says
+that he knows not whether she is the mother or wife of the god Zeus or
+Deus. This god is a serpent. The token of the Sabazian Mysteries is this
+serpent god gliding over the human breast. The offspring of the rape of
+Proserpine (Mary) by this god was christ, the bull.—Clement 1-29. If you
+wish to know what foul things were kept in the Ark of the Covenant, see
+Clement 1-31.
+
+According to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, in the judgment in Amenti,
+or the Lower World, the deceased or candidate for Heaven is given the
+name of Osiris, and he is tried before the supreme god Osiris and forty
+other deities or beasts. An altar stands before the supreme god on which
+is placed the bribes offered by the soul to god. The forty-two deities
+are the judges of the forty-two sins. One is called the Devourer of
+Shades, another the Cracker of Bones, and another the Eater of Hearts.
+If the soul denies that he has committed the forty-two sins, the judges
+must acquit him, but if he is convicted of being a land-grabber, he
+cannot get by, as the priests propose to attend to all that business
+themselves. In the Christian Judgment, the judges will be the
+confessors, monks and virgins.—The Elucidarium.
+
+“The Buddhist novice, like the Freemasons, is forced to bare his
+shoulder and breast and give up his money and bare his feet, in fact to
+simulate the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience of the
+Buddhist.”—Buddha & Early Buddhism, 136.
+
+In Lalita Vistara, Buddha is called the Great Physician, and at his
+appearance the sick are healed, the deaf are cured, the blind see. He
+cures by the laying on of hands or mesmerism. Akasa, the mesmeric fluid
+or the astral light, and the Spirit of God are one in the East. Buddha
+was born of a virgin, presented in the Temple, disputed with the
+doctors, was tempted in the wilderness, passed his life in preaching and
+working miracles, and descended into Hell and ascended into
+Heaven.—Idem, 80.
+
+Heaven was also calmly purloined from Buddhism. The Buddhist heaven is
+the city four square of John, with the gates of gold and silver, adorned
+with precious stones. The great throne of God stands in the centre
+thereof by the gem lake or crystal sea, by which stands the Tree of Life
+or Tree of Infamy. The Buddhist religion is wholly phallic. See Book of
+All Religions, 86.
+
+If you read the life of Buddha in the Ency. Brit. you will find that it
+is almost identical with the life of Christ. In any Chinese store you
+can buy an idol of Buddha, who, like Christ, is the god of life,
+bringing us life and life yet more abundantly. He wears a fish skin for
+a miter, showing that he is the fish god, and on his divine and radiant
+forehead is the Eye, and on his stomach, between his clasped hands, is
+the sacred Tree of Life. These divine secrets should not be disclosed to
+the uninitiated, but, to tell the truth, I am convinced that this is the
+origin of the hermaphrodite abdominal Eye, worn and revered by all the
+great and good men from the time our religion found its birth in the
+foul sties of India down to the immortal Washington.
+
+
+
+
+                             CHAPTER XVII.
+
+                              Revelations.
+
+
+If you do not believe that all the beasts of the zodiac bear rule in
+Heaven, read Revelations with your eyes open. The Ram is the Grand
+Vizier. The Bull is also there, with eyes before and behind, and the
+Lion and the Man, the Waterman, in fact the four beasts of the four
+cardinal points of the zodiac.
+
+Ch. 1, v 7, says: “Behold he cometh with clouds.” It is evident from
+Revelations that Christ is one of the seven Buddhas who came at the end
+of each cycle, and the seven were one, and that one was the sun in the
+heavens. Budhi means the Word, one of our beloved idols. “I am Alpha and
+Omega, the first and the last,” that is, he is the same God that came at
+first as Adam and last as the Lamb of God. It is claimed that the
+Revelations were stolen and the original was written before the Fish God
+came. In verse 12, John saw seven golden candle-sticks, typifying the
+seven christs or lights of the world, “and one of the seven was like
+unto the Son of Man.” The Persian fire god Agni is called the Son of
+Man, and it is claimed that John got the Revelations from the Persians.
+In the Clementines St. Clement says: “Christ, it is said, has changed
+his forms and names from the beginning of the world.”—Clement, cap. 51.
+
+Verse 18 says: “I am he that liveth and was dead,” that is, the sun that
+was crucified annually at the winter solstice, when it stood still for
+three days, or remained in the tomb three days, and was reborn on the
+25th of December. “And have the keys of death and Hell.” The christ that
+was crucified in the west, according to the Egyptian religion, was Judge
+of the Underworld and carried the keys and descended into Hell when the
+sun went down. They were the keys of Hell, not Heaven, that were
+transmitted to St. Peter.
+
+                  *       *       *       *       *
+
+Ch. 2, v 7 says: “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree
+of life,” which being interpreted means that the successful candidate or
+worthy brother will be permitted to eat the male emblem. Verse 17 says:
+“To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna,” which
+is a small round cake or wafer in the Mithraic Mysteries, representing
+the female emblem. In these Mysteries they killed a lamb or bull christ
+and sprinkled the candidate with its blood, as we drink the blood of
+Christ and eat his flesh in the depths of our beastial ignorance,
+superstition and depravity.
+
+“And will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written,
+the Word, which no man knoweth save him that receiveth it.” This stone
+is the symbol of Siva, and the new name is Ling, the secret, the
+Sanscrit name of the Word. St. Clemens says: “It is difficult to exhibit
+the pure and transparent Word to swinish hearers. (All are swine except
+the priests and ministers.) For nothing they could hear would be more
+ludicrous to the multitude. The truly sacred Word is deposited in the
+shrine (Monstrance). It is improper that these emblems should be exposed
+to those who have never been purified in soul. The Mysteries were
+established because it was wise that the holy and blessed contemplation
+of realities be concealed.”
+
+In Ch. 4, v 3, the four beasts and the four and twenty elders, the
+angels and saints and all the other vermin in Heaven fall down and knock
+their foreheads on the ground, groveling in abject baseness, servility
+and degradation before the sardine stone or pillar that sits on the
+throne in the royal arch of the rainbow, and before the beast, (the
+bull). This lovely pillar is worshipped throughout India. You will find
+the above scene and this foul worship depicted in Inman’s A. P. & M. C.
+Symbolism, Plate XIX. John has set a foul pagan idol on the throne of
+Heaven.
+
+Ch. 12, v 1. The woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet,
+with a crown of twelve stars, is Mary, the moon goddess, the wife of the
+sun-god, and the crown of twelve stars are the twelve christs that she
+bore, or that crowned her labors in the twelve signs of the zodiac. The
+dragon that waited to devour the child is called Herod in the other
+story of Mary and Jesus. In the Hindu myth, from which this is copied,
+the woman fled to the wilderness, as Mary fled to Egypt. According to
+another astronomical legend, when the sun-god is born on the 25th of
+December, old King Sagittarius, the Archer or Herod, who lives in the
+next house (November), tries to kill the Son of God with the arrow of
+death.
+
+If you refer to an astronomical chart, you will see depicted there all
+the gods that ever existed. In the first sign, Leo, is the Lion of the
+Tribe of Judah, the christ that came in the Golden Age, 12,934 years
+ago, a Jew god, that would not do a thing to you but rend you and steal
+your shirt.
+
+In the sign of Gemini you see the Twins, or Castor and Pollux, or Cain
+and Abel, or Romulus and Remus, or Solomon and Adonijah, or Jacob and
+Esau. Cain has a club in his hand, with which he kills his brother god,
+as Romulus killed Remus and Solomon killed Adonijah. In the sign of
+Taurus, you will see Auriga, a Mystic of high degree kissing the goat,
+and Orion, the Lord of Darkness, killing the bull christ. And there is
+the triangle of seven stars that Christ held in his hand. This is the
+solar system of the Pleiades, of which the great star Alcyone is the
+sun, and around which the whole universe revolves. It is the Kingdom of
+Heaven and the home of god and his sons Jesus and the Devil.
+
+In the sign of Aries, you see the Lamb of God and the christ Perseus,
+who has just amputated the Medusa’s head and destroyed the serpents of
+which the hair was composed. In the next sign of Pisces is the beautiful
+Andromeda (mother of men), or Mary, bearing the fish-god, the Son of
+Man, under her arm, as Isis bears it on her head. In the sign of
+Scorpio, you will see Christ or Orpheus overcoming the Great Serpent.
+And another christ, Hercules by name, holds a club in one hand and two
+serpents in the other, to whom, as representing the Devil or the
+infernal god Cerberus, he is about to administer, in the classic
+language of modern ministers, a good wallop.
+
+“When the sun shall have passed through the sign of Virgo, the Great
+Cycle of 25,868 years will be ended. The sun then enters the sign of
+Leo, and this junction of Virgo and Leo, this secret of the Great Cycle,
+is expressed in the Sphinx of Egypt, the woman and the lion conjoined.
+This is the mystery of the ages, the pillar on the border of Egypt,
+which shall be for a sign and a testimony.”—Daughter of the Druids, 276.
+It is said that in that great Day Draconis will again be the pole star,
+and the great pyramid is so constructed that at the end of the Great
+Year the light from Draconis will again shine through the passage in the
+pyramid that leads to the Bottomless Pit, or the dragon will be cast
+into the Bottomless Pit.
+
+In the sign of Virgo is the Virgin Mary, the mother of all the gods, and
+the Great Serpent will be seen waiting there for her to deliver another
+god for his consumption. Ch. 5, v 1, says that the book was sealed with
+seven seals, corresponding with the seven comings or avatars of Christ,
+when the book was opened or the word was preached. When the first seal
+was opened, Christ appeared as Sagittarius, the Archer. “And behold a
+white horse and he that sat on him had a bow.” When he had opened the
+third seal, behold a black horse, and he that sat thereon had a pair of
+balances in his hand. This is the Christ that came in the sign of Libra
+or the Scales, who weighed them in the balance and found them wanting.
+
+Ch. 4, v 6. The four beasts referred to are the four hieroglyphic beasts
+of the priests and magicians, which they placed on the playing cards of
+Egypt, the lion, the bull, the man and the eagle. They are zodiacal gods
+and sit in the North, the East, the South and the West respectively. The
+churches declare truly that a pack of cards is the Devil’s book. Cards
+were invented by the priests, and they are reeking with sacred, occult
+and religious emblems. The pack is composed of four sets of ten. Ten is
+a Kabalistic sacred number, for there are ten persons in the Hebrew
+Godhead, and 10 or IO is the name of God. Then there are the four beasts
+or aces, and the Trinity is represented by the king, queen, and jack.
+The clubs, or the three sacred balls of the Jews, are the symbol of the
+male god and the Trinity. Any deeper meaning can only be disclosed to
+the initiated. The heart is the cup or chalice or Eye of Isis, the
+symbol of love. The queen of hearts is clothed with the sun and moon,
+and she is Mary, the Queen of Heaven. The Queen of spades holds in her
+left hand the sacred candle, and she is adorned with another male
+emblem, the fleur de lys, and in her right hand is the flower of Isis, a
+female emblem, the same as the circles and rosaries with which she is
+also decorated. The seven circles are the emblems of the seven joys that
+Mary had. The twelve precious stones in the jewel on her breast
+correspond with the twelve christs she bore and the twelve jewels in the
+Ephod of the high priest.
+
+The jack of hearts carries the male emblem in his hand and the three
+links are on his belt to show that he is an Oddfellow in good standing.
+The jack of spades holds up the three links, and the spade itself is a
+patent, combination, hermaphrodite, religious emblem of sufficient magic
+potency to save from the pains of Tophet all who gaze upon its sacred
+and occult form. The king of hearts performs the occult and saving rite
+of putting the sword or cross through the crown. This crown is adorned
+with shamrocks, and on his coat he wears the seven hearts or chalices.
+He belongs to the zodiacal sign of the Lion, and this is the heart sign,
+and in it is found the constellation of the Chalice. And he holds his
+hand on his breast like Buddha to show that he is a Mason in due form.
+
+Rev. 7-4. The angel seals in their foreheads 144,000 Jews with the Signa
+Tau or Word, the signet of the Living God. The devotees of Siva also
+wear this Tree of Infamy on their foreheads. John says that it is the
+Father’s name written in the forehead. Only those sealed with this Baum
+Bosheth can sit with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the other beasts
+around the Throne. All but the 144,000 Jews can go to Hell. The priests
+draw the cross or Signa Tau in ashes on the foreheads of their devotees
+every Ash Wednesday.
+
+Rev. 16-12. And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the earth, and
+I saw three unclean spirits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of the
+Dragon and out of the mouth of the beast. For they are the spirits of
+devils which go forth unto the kings of the earth to gather them to the
+great day of God Almighty. The sixth angel is the angel of the sixth
+sign of the zodiac, our present sign, the Waterman, and the nations of
+the earth are now fighting the battles of Armageddon. We are now at the
+end of a Great Cycle. The end of the world has come according to the
+astrological and theological fakirs, and the inhabitants of the earth
+are again being destroyed, this time by fire and sword. Christ now comes
+to bring a sword upon the earth.
+
+According to the Christians, all the nations engaged in the war, save
+two, march forth under the banner and protection of Jehovah, the God of
+Battles, and he divides himself into two persons and, perched upon two
+clouds, commands the two contending hosts, urging them on to kill each
+other. After this holocaust of blood and carnage, there will be found no
+fool so utter as to assert that God rules the destinies of mankind.
+
+
+
+
+                             CHAPTER XVIII.
+
+                              The Clergy.
+
+
+The Presbyterian clergy or sorcerers of Scotland, of old times, claimed
+that they could consign their deluded victims to Heaven or Hell by a
+word, and could by their magic power strike with death any enemy of God,
+that is, the clergy. They would not allow anyone to remain in town who
+failed to go and hear their sermons. Buckle says the clergy kept the
+people in a worse than Egyptian bondage, inasmuch as they enslaved mind
+as well as body.
+
+“John Knox sanctioned the murder of the Roman Archbishop Beaton of
+Scotland in 1548, and shut himself up with the assassins in the palace
+of the Archbishop. When the Catholic power was destroyed in Scotland by
+the nobles in 1560 and the church property confiscated by them, the
+Protestant clergy claimed that it was impious to secularize
+ecclesiastical property, and that they should be endowed with the spoils
+of the war, that it was right for the Lords to plunder the Church of
+Rome, but the loot should be turned over to them. They said that what
+rightly belonged to them was devoured by idle bellies. The Presbyterian
+clergy said that King James was a traitor and had seven devils inside of
+him, and he ought to be seized. And their associate in crime, the Earl
+of Gourie, entrapped the King into his castle in order to murder
+him.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 2-201.
+
+The Presbyterian clergy said that cheerfulness was to be guarded
+against. Smiling, provided it stopped short of laughter, might
+occasionally be allowed, still being a carnal pastime, it was a sin to
+smile on Sunday. A Christian has no business with love or sympathy. He
+has his own soul to attend to, that is enough for him. On Sunday in
+particular he must never think of benefitting others and thus break the
+Sabbath. On no occasion must food or shelter be given to a starving man
+unless he is a Presbyterian.
+
+“In priest-ridden Spain, Charles V, the tool of religion, in his will
+provided that all heretics should be put to death and that the
+Inquisition should be upheld. Under his orders, according to Grotius,
+100,000 persons were beheaded, buried alive and burnt at the stake in
+the Netherlands. Phillip II, of Spain, said it was better not to reign
+at all than to reign over heretics. The Duke of Alva, in this reign,
+boasted that in five or six years he had put to death in cold blood more
+than 18,000 heretics, beside a still greater number of infidels he had
+slain on the battlefield.”—Idem 2-14.
+
+When it was proposed to expel from Spain the remnant of Moors remaining,
+who had turned Christians and were baptized by force, Bleda, the
+Dominican, said that every Moor in Spain should have his throat cut,
+because it was impossible to tell which of them were Christians at
+heart, but God knew his own and he could sort them out. About one
+million of the most industrious inhabitants of Spain were hunted out
+like wild beasts. Many were slain as they approached the coast, others
+were beaten and plundered, and the majority in the most wretched plight
+sailed for Africa. During the passage the crew in many of the ships
+butchered the men, ravished the women and threw the children into the
+sea. From this time Spain began to degenerate. The tyranny of religion
+was supreme. While every other country was advancing, Spain, numbed into
+a death-like torpor, spell-bound and entranced by the accursed
+superstition, presented to Europe a solitary instance of constant
+decay.“—Idem, 2-53.
+
+“The French Revolution freed the world from ecclesiastical tyranny and
+opened an unobstructed path to Napoleon, who had given the death blow to
+the Inquisition, the great slaughter house, where they butchered in the
+name of the Lamb.”—Isis Unveiled, 2-22.
+
+The Brahmins, the clergy of India, were quite as disreputable as the
+others. The Institutes of Manu provided that if a common person molested
+a Brahmin, he was to be put to death. If he sat on the same carpet with
+a Brahmin, he was to be maimed for life. If he listened to the reading
+of the sacred books, burning oil was to be poured into his ears, and if
+he committed them to memory, he was to be killed. If he spoke
+disrespectfully of a Brahmin, an iron stile ten fingers long was to be
+thrust red-hot into his mouth. To give to the Brahmins or will them your
+property was an act of the highest piety.
+
+The laws of the clergy in certain provinces of France, ruled by them in
+old times, provided that every man that died without bequeathing part of
+his estate to the church, should be deprived of the Sacrament (and would
+consequently go to Hell). If he died without making a will, his
+relatives were obliged to prevail upon the Bishop to appoint arbitrators
+to determine what sum the deceased should have given to the church in
+case he had made a will. At one time in France, “married couples could
+not sleep together the first three nights without purchasing leave of
+the church.”—Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws, 665.
+
+“Pope John XII was assassinated in the arms of his mistress.
+Crecentious, the illegitimate son of John X, caused Benedict VI to be
+murdered. His faction elected Boniface VII, and a third faction elected
+John XV, who was put to death by Boniface. We find shortly after 1044
+Benedict IX, a boy of twelve, and Rholeme and Sylvester III all reigning
+at the same time, and all leading the most profligate and scandalous
+lives.”—Doubts of Infidels, 95. Bishop Hopkins says that “the great body
+of the clergy before the seventh century were steeped in licentiousness,
+avarice, simony, cruelty, violence and blood. They consecrated every
+vice in the interest of so-called religion, they graduated sins by
+pecuniary amercement, they commissioned assassins, having pardoned them
+before the commission of the murder.”
+
+The priests or Magi of Persia, as ecclesiastical bandits, were
+unexcelled. The people had to give up one tenth of their income to these
+magical fakirs. Every woman in Babylon was obliged to offer her person
+for sale one day in the year at the temple of Astarte, and the money
+went to the priests. The pirates of Babylon ransacked the world and
+bought or stole the most beautiful women on earth for the use of the
+priests, who made a pretence of offering them up as human sacrifices to
+Baal. The god held in his hand the appropriate symbol of the traffic,
+the circle and the pillar, that may still be seen in nearly all
+churches. The beautiful sacrifice was placed on the lap of the god in
+the presence of the audience, to be devoured by the lions that
+surrounded the god. But after the meeting the priests drove the lions
+out and stole the sacrifice, as priests always did steal the offerings
+from god.
+
+The Egyptian priests were the rulers of the whole, and owned one third
+the land of Egypt. Besides the princely revenue from this immense landed
+estate, they received, in addition to their salaries, all the offerings
+and sacrifices that the fools gave up as an atonement for sin. A very
+large part of their income was derived from the Bethel or Brothel
+maintained around the temple of the goddess Hathor, the cow, the wife of
+the god Ammon, which is another name for the Ram god or the lamb of god.
+Every woman in Egypt was obliged to sell herself for one month at this
+temple. And then, besides, there were the regular sacred ladies who
+lived constantly in the temple. The priests chose the most beautiful,
+then the remainder were turned over to the mob of pious dupes and
+devotees. The young lady who earned the most money for the priests was,
+in the after life, assigned by Osiris, alias Yahvah, to a seat beside
+the Golden Throne. This rotten pagan church subsequently changed its
+name to Christian.
+
+Calvin, the blood-drenched, the fiend incarnate, one of the founders of
+the Protestant Churches, compelled his lady parishioners to confess on
+the rack their indiscretions, and then threw them naked into the lake
+and drowned them. He hanged a child for cursing its parents, burned old
+women as witches, and burned alive Michael Servetus for contradicting
+Moses in asserting that Palestine was a desert that did not flow with
+milk and honey. Calvin died in convulsions of fear, raving and cursing
+because he thought he was going to Hell.
+
+Oliver Cromwell, the pious Puritan, the murder demon, the regicide, the
+usurper, with the Bible in one hand and the sword in the other, rode at
+the head of his army of religious fanatics singing psalms. This
+sanctified Christian, upon the capture of Drogheda, Ireland, himself
+reported to Parliament that he massacred two thousand of the garrison.
+He fired St. Peter’s Church, to which the people had fled, and put a
+thousand of them to the sword. All the friars were killed but two. And
+the likes of him settled Boston and robbed and murdered the Indians. One
+of these Puritan buccaneers, named Will Bartlett, in Boston, in 1637,
+was sentenced to be set in the stocks, with his tongue in a cleft stick,
+because he got drunk and cussed and swore and refused to go to church on
+Sunday.
+
+In those blithesome days a citizen could not vote unless he belonged to
+the Congregational Church and kissed the big toe of Cotton Mather, the
+superstitious bigot, the Prosecutor of the New England Protestant
+Inquisition. Ridpath says that Mather was chiefly responsible for the
+horrors and crimes of the Salem Witchcraft, and that this massacre,
+torture and imprisonment of 263 innocent persons was started by a Salem
+minister for the purpose of revenging himself upon those of his flock
+who antagonized him.—Ridpath’s Hist. of U. S. 131. The Quakers were
+perhaps the only decent body of Christians up to that time, and for that
+reason the Puritan pirates and slave-dealers hung four of them, one
+woman and three men, on Boston Common.
+
+“Infuse a few different kinds of religious poison into a community of
+human beings, and they hate each other like tigers. Religious creeds
+have a worse effect on a man than booze. You can work the booze out of
+your system and quit the stuff, but when a victim is loaded up on some
+rotten brand of orthodoxy, it is hard to do anything with him. A
+Protestant will damn the Catholics, and a Catholic will yell ‘To Hell
+with the Protestants,’ and both will hate the Jews.”—Roman Religion, 27.
+
+The churches have soaked the earth with the blood of their countless
+victims. Frederick, the Emperor of Germany, sentenced heretics of all
+descriptions alive to the flames. Sixty thousand heretics were
+slaughtered in the city of Beziers. Seventy thousand Huguenots were put
+to death in France. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew began at midnight,
+Aug. 23, 1572, and the carnival of death lasted seven days. Medals
+commemorating the holy event were distributed among the loyal
+butchers.—Roman Religion, 35.
+
+“When the Crusaders took Jerusalem from the Moslems in 969 A. D., they
+massacred all the Mussulmans and burned the Jews alive. Seventy thousand
+persons were put to death in a week to attest the superior morality of
+the Christians.”—Boston Sun. American.
+
+Dr. Fernald says that Sultan Bejazet wrote to Pope Alexander VI that he
+would give him 300,000 ducats, several cities and the shirt of Jesus
+Christ if His Holiness would kill Zimzim, the brother of the Sultan,
+“and you Most Illustrious Lord will not commit a crime, since by your
+religion Christians are ordered to exterminate heretics and infidels.”
+The Ency. Brit. says that “the unfortunate prince was murdered by
+Alexander, who received 300,000 ducats as the reward of the crime.”
+Zimzim was held captive by certain bandits in Rhodes, a Commandery of
+the Knights of St. John, a Christian organization under the domination
+of Alexander. Alexander was a Borgia, whose children were all
+illegitimate.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER XIX.
+
+                               The Bible.
+
+
+As the Old Testament was originally written without vowels, the Lord
+only knows what it meant. The best the copyists could do was to make a
+good guess at the meaning, or supply whatever vowels suited their
+purposes.—See Ency. Brit. 3-64.
+
+Moses was a magician, a thief and a murderer according to the Bible, a
+fakir who foisted upon the Hebrews a magnificent system of priestly
+plunder. In pursuance of Moses pretence that the world was created in
+six days, and that their god El or Bel or Baal rested on the seventh, he
+commanded the people to refrain from labor on that day and go to church,
+so that he would have frequent opportunities to pick their pockets. The
+story of Moses’ birth and secretion in an ark of bulrushes was taken
+from the Babylonians, where it was applied to King Sargon, according to
+tablets excavated at Babylon.
+
+The great, learned and profound Irenaeus says that there must be four
+gospels because there are four winds of heaven. This is a fair sample of
+the logic of theologians. The fact is, there are four gospels because
+those four jumped from the floor onto the table at the council of Nice.
+There was at that time so much doubt as to what alleged sacred writings
+were inspired by God, that the delegates put them all together under the
+communion table one night at the close of the session, and agreed that
+those that got up on top of the table during the night should be
+considered as inspired, and those that were too weak to get up on the
+table should be stamped as the work of the Devil.
+
+“Many of the bishops in these councils were ruffians and were followed
+by crowds of vicious supporters, who stood ready on the slightest excuse
+to maim and kill their opponents.”—Keeler’s Hist. of the Bible. Tichenor
+says that “they decided all holy questions by a vote or a knock-down
+fight. It is doubtful if any of them drew a sober breath during the
+entire proceedings.” Millman says that “they fought in the streets and
+much blood was shed.”—Millman’s Hist. Christianity. “What these drunken,
+fighting, ignorant, pagan priests declared to be received from God, that
+is what is taught as Divine to-day. To this day they cram their
+abominable lies of devils and damnation into the brains of little
+children. The miserable, crazy creeds of Christendom were concocted by
+these brawling pagan priests, and their poison still pollutes the souls
+of men. Fire all the gods of all the creeds into the melting pot, and
+out comes the brazen face of Mammon.”—Tichenor.
+
+Another reason why there are four gospels, according to Irenaeus, was
+because the Cherubim had four faces. But he thus calls attention to the
+fact that Christianity was spawned in the sties of paganism, as the Jews
+took the four beasts of the Cherubim, the bull, the lion, the eagle and
+the man, from the idolatrous Babylonians. And the four Evangelists
+adopted the four beasts as their totems and placed their beastly images
+on the four gospels. The Maya Indians and the Mexicans worshipped the
+same four idols of the four quarters of the heavens.—Ency. Brit. 12-823.
+The priests of the Ojibways wear the horns of the bull and sacrifice to
+the dragon or great serpent (Mary) that wears on its head the crescent
+moon. They also worship the eagle and the Tree of Life. The Ojibway
+picture writing shows that the Indian Adam and Eve had the same
+disgraceful scandal in the garden of Eden. See “Indians,” Ency.
+Americana.
+
+It is claimed that Apollonius of Tyana (alleged to be the original of
+Paul and Christ) came through a medium and said: “Nine epistles were
+made a present to me by Pharaotes, a Satrap of Taxila, between Babylon
+and India. These epistles contained all that is embraced in the present
+epistles claimed to have been written by Paul. Further, I retired to the
+Isle of Patmos in 69 and 70 A. D. and wrote in a trance state an almost
+identical story with that attributed to St. John. The Christian Gospels
+were all preached by me at Jerusalem, Ephesus, Philippi, Rome, Antioch,
+Alexandria and Babylon, and in all those countries I healed the sick,
+cured the blind and raised the dead. The original of the four gospels I
+obtained at Singapore. They treated of the four stages of the life of
+Buddha.”—Antiquity Unveiled, 21.
+
+Moses and God were mad at the Midianites because the Jews had entered
+into the tents of the Midianite ladies and worshipped Baal Poer, from
+which ensued a plague among the Congregation of the Lord. Num. 31-18.
+And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded, and slew
+all the males and took all the women and children captive. Moses was
+wroth because they had saved all the women and children, and ordered all
+the males among the children to be killed and all the females to be
+turned over to the soldiers for outrage. And he ordered all the women
+murdered except the virgins, of whom 16,000 went to the soldiers and
+16,000 to the people, but the soldiers and the people were compelled to
+pay of these into the storehouse of the Lord 3200 in tithes. “And the
+priests laid with the virgins at the door of the Tabernacle.” Such a
+monstrosity of iniquity, such a fiend incarnate from the shades of Hell
+is the senior member of the firm of Moses and the Lamb.
+
+The history of Moses is copied from the history of Bacchus, who was
+called Mises by the Egyptians. Like Moses, Bacchus was born in Egypt, he
+sojourned on Mt. Sinai, he passed through the Red Sea on dry land, he
+was a lawgiver and wrote the laws on two tables, he was found in a box
+that floated on the water, he smote a rock and wine gushed forth, and
+Bacchus was worshipped and these deeds of his sung in Egypt, Phenicia,
+Syria, Arabia and Greece before Abraham’s day.—Doubts of Infidels, 31.
+
+The account of creation as given in the Bible has been found on tablets
+in the ruins of Nineveh, written in a language that was dead and buried
+before the Jews ever existed. In this Persian cosmogony the name of the
+first man was Adomah, and of the woman Hevah.
+
+The Greeks said miracles for fools. Paul boasts of lying for the glory
+of God and catching converts with guile. Chrysostom said: “Great is the
+force of deceit.” St. Hermas, an Apostolic Father, said that he always
+lived in dissimulation and affirmed a lie for truth to all men.— Doubts
+of Infidels, 78.
+
+You will see that the Bible is dedicated to King James, and that he is
+canonized in the dedication, probably because he kept fifty mistresses
+and was in the habit of becoming beastly intoxicated without
+provocation.
+
+The only real revelations received by the priests and prophets of any
+religion were spirit messages, and the Lord only knows whether these
+were from God or the Devil, from good or bad spirits. In fact it is
+claimed by some spiritualists that all the good spirits are in Heaven
+with God and can’t get out. In other words, they are in limbo, while
+those that were not so good are at liberty to visit the loved spots and
+fond friends of earth and indulge on the astral in their favorite
+pastimes, whether it be a prayer meeting or a poker game. This is
+purgatory, the next story above Hell, which is the earth.
+
+Gibbon said that Eusebius was a consummate liar. The Gospel of Matthew
+and the Epistle to the Hebrews were his work, taken from the lives of
+Christna and Apollonius and the records of the Essenes and some of the
+Jewish and Phenician legends.
+
+A Coptic version of the life of Apollonius in the possession of the
+monks of Seville, Spain, about 1458, was placed in the hands of Juan
+Hermonez for translation. In the margin was a Latin translation, in
+which the name of Apollonius had been changed to John among many other
+falsifications. The Latin translation was almost identical with the
+Gospel of St. John. When Hermonez called the attention of the Superior
+to these changes, he was seized and thrown into a dungeon, in which he
+was allowed to starve and rot.
+
+The Bible has been too much neglected, due, no doubt, to the general
+impression that, being religious, it must be dry. Far from it. For
+instance: Elohim, the gods, made the light and days and nights four days
+before they made the sun. They made a firmament, probably of metal, to
+divide the ocean above from the ocean below, and had windows in it, so
+that they could open them and drown the inhabitants of the earth
+whenever they got drunk and needed a little diversion. And they stuck
+the sun, moon and stars in the metal firmament, which revolved around
+the earth.
+
+When the serpent was not working, he was coiled around the Tree of Life
+telling Eve in snake language what luscious fruit the tree bore. For
+this interference with the plans of the gods, they made the serpent
+crawl on his belly. He had been crawling on his back.
+
+Moses and his first assistant fakir, Aaron, destroyed all the horses and
+cattle in Egypt by a murrain, and then, as Pharaoh still had a stiff
+neck, they destroyed them all again by hail. Then, as Pharaoh still had
+trouble with his neck, they killed all the first-born of Egypt, both men
+and cattle. Then the Israelites fled, and Pharaoh hitched up his horses,
+that had been killed three times, to his six hundred chariots and
+pursued the chosen of God, who had pinched all the jewelry of the
+Egyptians. The Bible is full of these delightful stories from beginning
+to end. If you have conscientious scruples against reading the Bible,
+you will find them attractively set forth in Le Brun’s Doubts of
+Infidels.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER XX.
+
+                                Heaven.
+
+                    The Lord doeth all things well.
+                    He consigns the Jews to Heaven,
+                    And all the rest to Hell.
+
+
+There are forty nine heavens to which we ordinary mortals may attain, so
+you needn’t worry. Besides, there are certain aristocratic heavens
+reserved for the great and good men of high spirituality, such as Moses,
+the fakir, thief and murderer, and David, the bandit, outlaw and
+assassin, and Solomon, the fratricide, Mormon and pillar of Ashtoreth,
+and all the popes, bishops, priests and ministers. We will each go to
+that place we like the best, and to which we are fitted by our
+vibration. Some of us, like certain ministers, will go to that heaven
+where the beautiful fairies are. The ancient Jews will have a little
+heaven of their own, where they can worship the three balls and the
+ass-headed god and the god with whiskers on, and where they will have a
+chance to cop the golden paving stones, and sell corner lots, and insure
+their palace not made with hands eternal in the heavens.
+
+And the ancient Scotch Presbyterian will walk the golden streets with
+his savage, gore-imbued devil-god, in his paradise overlooking the abyss
+of Hell, where he can gloat over the souls in torment, as they rise up
+out of the Bottomless Pit every thousand years, each one fastened by his
+tongue to a hook on an endless chain, which rises from such a fathomless
+depth of hellfire that it takes the victim a thousand years to make the
+circuit. It is claimed that these heavens and hells are built up from
+the astral substance by the imaginative power of the minds of the
+different religious sects.
+
+This region contains all the heavens that have ever been dreamed of in
+theology, each filled with the devotees of the various creeds. Each of
+the great religions has its own particular region in which its disciples
+gather, worship and rejoice. In each region the religious soul finds
+just what he had expected and hoped to find on the other shore. You may
+even see the golden crowns, harps and stiff halos in some cases and hear
+the eternal chant of praise. These heavens are not eternal. Everything
+on the astral plane is subject to change like all other matter. Even the
+religious progress and change their opinions.—Astral World, 70.
+
+The occultists do not, as a rule, disclose the process by which you may
+see the astral visions and pass out of the physical and journey in the
+astral body. But this is one way to see the pictures in the astral
+light: Between sleeping and waking, in the neutral state of Jagrata,
+when the eyes are closed and a numbness falls upon the body, and you
+experience a floating sensation, take note of the visions that appear to
+you, if any, and then by your will power impress them upon physical
+brain, so that you may remember them. These visions may be pictures on
+the astral light or scenes on the astral plane, but whatever they are,
+some of them prove to be true prophetic visions.
+
+One occult teacher advised those who wished to induce trance to go into
+the silence, that is, to go into a room by yourself, where you will not
+be disturbed, and lie down and completely relax the muscles and think of
+nothing at all. The Hindus say fix your mind on your navel, but some fix
+their gaze on a crystal. You will see the visions when you doze off, if
+you can get them at all.
+
+When you are in the astral body it is possible to remember the
+experiences of your previous lives, that is, the lives of your
+ancestors. In the physical body heredity and memory are stored in the
+cromatin or brain matter of all the millions of cells of the body. The
+human astral body is made up of the astral bodies of all the cells. It
+is possible that memory is inherent in the astral matter of all the
+cells, and that in the astral we are more in rapport with the cells than
+in the physical.
+
+In the lowest astral plane next to the earth, it is said, is the region
+where the astral shells or corpses disintegrate, an arm sloughing off
+here, a leg there, and a head elsewhere. It is claimed that the spirits
+have deserted these shells. If you should happen to meet one of these
+ghosts walking in a graveyard without any legs or without any head, it
+may scare you into a fit, but it will not do you any harm, for it is
+dead. Then there are certain spectres or phantoms whose company is very
+undesirable when you take a lonely walk in the ghoul-haunted woodlands.
+These elemental spirits like to play practical jokes and have a little
+fun with you, but they will not do you any harm, unless you are
+sufficiently weak to allow them to obsess you. Cast out fear, cultivate
+a strong will, and be, like Solomon, the master of demons and men.
+
+“There are certain entities or beings in the astral world which never
+were human and never will be, for they belong to an entirely different
+order of nature. They are fairies, satyrs, imps and goblins. At
+spiritual seances they sometimes play elfish pranks. They seem to be
+particularly apt to play tricks on neophytes in psychic research who
+seek to penetrate the astral without proper instruction. To such a one
+they appear as hideous forms, monsters &c.”—Astral World, 92.
+
+Some of the elementals are electric spirits and confer upon the medium
+the power of magnetic healing. The medium, upon the approach of the
+spirit, is charged with electricity. The spirit may appear as a bird
+with a human face and a parrot’s bill and sharp, black eyes and body
+covered with hair, and deliver messages which can be heard
+clairaudiently by the medium. That reminds us of the claim of Mahomet
+that a little bird stood on his shoulder and whispered the laws of the
+Koran in his ear. They are certainly the Devil’s own laws.
+
+“Many of the angels on the astral and the ghosts that haunt houses are
+thought forms created by the people who imagine them, and obtain all
+their apparent mind from the action of the thought force of their
+creators. Repeated thought and repeated belief will serve to keep alive
+and strengthen these entities, otherwise they will disappear in time.
+Many supernatural visitors, saints and semi-divine beings of all
+religions have been formed in this way. The power of the devils arise in
+the same way.”—Idem.
+
+According to the Theosophists man has two souls, the animal and the
+spiritual, and at death the animal soul or spook, together with the
+spiritual soul, passes to that part of the astral called Kamaloka, or
+place of spooks, the lowest plane. But the spirit soon deserts the spook
+and leaves it to meet its just reward in the second death, because on
+earth it desired too much of carnal pleasures. The spooks retain all the
+impressions accumulated in the earth life and can communicate with
+mortals through mediums. Among these are the demons that obsess human
+beings. The spiritual soul passes on to Devachan, or the house of gods,
+which evidently includes those astral planes where the religious grovel
+before their various imaginary idols. See “What is Theosophy,” 46. This
+alleged spiritual soul, that deserts its brother soul in the depths of
+Hell, receives its due reward, for in the sub-heaven to which it goes,
+it has no memory of the earth life, consequently it is not immortal, and
+it is in jail and cannot get out. It would be better to stay in Hell
+with the spook, for it could have more fun haunting houses than
+worshipping imaginary gods with a lot of stiff-necked orthodox
+hypocrites.
+
+In Ceylon they have twenty six heavens, and at the end of the world
+period they kill off all the spirits in all these heavens except those
+in the five upper spheres, the four highest of which are Nirvana.
+
+You need not think that because you go across that you will have
+surcease from sorrow. It is only in the highest heavens that they have
+no sorrow, and that is because they don’t know anything. You cannot
+obtain happiness here or hereafter by purchasing absolution from any
+fakir, but only by doing to others as you would be done by. The astral
+planes of the Spiritualists in which the soul may advance, improve and
+ultimately attain to the highest heaven, corresponds with Purgatory,
+that superlative graft of religion. You can be prayed out of this limbo,
+if your relatives are willing to put up the stuff, otherwise you will be
+shoveled down into Hell. But a cheaper way is to have a Hindu prayer
+wheel. I am going to devote the immense revenues which I shall receive
+from this pious work to the construction of prayer wheels, which will be
+placed at street corners on all the highways and byways, so that even he
+who runs can turn the wheel and bring around to the open slot, so that
+God can see it, one of the many prayers printed on the wheel, for
+instance: “O, God, save my mother-in-law from Hell.”
+
+In the coma, between sleeping and waking, the gates of the astral world
+are sometimes opened, and you can see the ghosts on the astral plane,
+great throngs of spirits, having no indication of piety, all busily
+engaged in their favorite occupations or sports. If in this state of
+Jagrata you happen to float into a graveyard, you will see the ghosts
+lying or sitting on their graves or pacing up and down beside them with
+bowed heads and in deep thought, trying to figure out how they got there
+and where they are going. See Seership, 179.
+
+It is said that two persons can exchange bodies if they wish. Or if
+someone else has a better body than you have, and you wish to steal it,
+invite him to take a trip with you in his astral body on the astral
+plane. All the time keep commanding your astral body, sotto voce, to
+enter into his body, and when his astral body has emerged, prepared to
+take a trip with you in spook-land, that is the instant for your astral
+body to take possession of his physical body and leave his astral body
+out in the cold. But be careful to back into his body, for if your
+astral body enters his physical body face to face, you will be in wrong
+end to and will be crazy as a loon. Now there is no place for the other
+astral body to go except into your abandoned physical body, and as you
+are a wicked robber who just stole a house, he will probably hesitate
+about entering the body of such a person, and if he delays too long, he
+will be a lost spook, condemned to wander forever in the land of shades.
+
+Do not allow them to palm off any gods upon you. Do not allow anyone to
+assume authority over you. I charge you to teach your descendants these
+things from father to son, down through the clanging corridors of time,
+down through the endless vista of eternity. There is nothing but matter
+in the universe, and all matter is equal. This being so, all forms
+produced therefrom, whether visible or invisible, must be equal, and one
+form has no right to assume authority over another. All beings are
+composed of matter, be they gods or be they worms, and no one mass of
+matter is superior to another or worthy of worship. The worm that crawls
+the earth is the equal of the king that sits upon a throne. Never bow
+the knee to anything that walks or swims or flies, that lives in the
+flesh or that exists only in the diseased imagination of depraved
+religious fanatics. Remember this: There is none greater than you in
+Heaven or Earth or Hell.
+
+
+
+
+                         THE DEVIL’S HALF ACRE.
+                          By Willard Bartlett.
+                           _From the Beacon._
+
+
+In rummaging through the attic of an old wraith-haunted, country house,
+I discovered a course of lessons in Yogi Philosophy. These lessons I
+devoured with avidity, and practiced with assiduity the occult rites,
+until I could readily pass into the silence and project my astral body
+or ghost to any desired place. In fact the unruly ghost would sometimes
+quit the body without my consent and leave me stranded high and dry
+without any soul.
+
+One night while I lay sleeping, my astral body left the physical and
+sped through the air, as it had a very bad habit of doing, to Hapenny,
+the very last place on earth, the place manufactured by the Devil out of
+scraps and old junk, which he had left over after building Hell. But my
+perverted soul always insisted on going there whenever it succeeded in
+bursting through the carnal and beating down its being’s door.
+
+The soul atom or Ego is said to be located in the Medulla Oblongata. If
+the soul is immortal, it is probably an electron. An atom is said to be
+composed of ions or electrons, and probably is subject to dissolution,
+and consequently not immortal. But as no one ever saw an atom or
+electron on account of their extreme minuteness, for the purpose of this
+veracious story, we will call the soul an atom and play it is eternal.
+An atom is a vortex ring of ether in a constant state of vibration, and
+assumed to resemble in form a ring of smoke. Some of the Hindus claim
+that a Purusha or soul from the countless spirit ions constituting the
+spirit principle of the universe, the akasa or astral light, becoming
+involved in the ether, originates the vortex movement by which the atom
+is produced. The ether is the ultimate refinement of matter, a body of
+extreme tenuity that pervades the whole universe and permeates all
+grosser bodies. By the waves of this ether all the vibrations of light,
+heat, sound, energy, electricity and life are transmitted.
+
+The electron is an extremely minute corpuscle or particle endowed with
+life, mind and energy. A thousand electrons, more or less, revolve in
+the atom at a terrific rate around a central sun, thus resembling the
+solar system. This central sun is a male or positive electron, and all
+those revolving about it are females or negative electrons and
+constitute the harem of the central sun, thus establishing polygamy at
+the very basis of life. Our solar system is an atom in a great cosmic
+animal or god called Pan, the all-god.
+
+In my nocturnal journeys, I thought I was clothed in the carnal body,
+but as I was transported through the air, I must necessarily conclude
+that I traveled in the astral body and on the astral plane, in which
+astral bodies move about and ghosts manifest, together with doubles,
+wraiths, hobgoblins and dopplegangers, to which latter class I belonged.
+The astral body, one of the bodies of the soul, is composed of fine,
+ethereal matter, and in form is a duplicate of the human body. It is
+claimed that this body persists for some time after death, but
+eventually disintegrates.
+
+Many a night I have been there in Hapenny when the body lay many miles
+away. These were not ordinary dreams. I was actually there, that is, I
+being in the soul atom or astral body. One night I was conducted through
+a new manufactory there, which I had never seen with the mortal eyes and
+never knew existed. But the next time I went there in the body, I found
+the building just as I had seen it in the vision.
+
+The favorite outing place of my doppleganger is the Devil’s Half Acre,
+or Murderer’s Paradise. It always flies to that obsessed and accursed
+spot hard by the gates of Tophet, close round the hinges of Hell.
+Traveling in the astral body, I can see both the quick and the dead, but
+as I am always out there at night, the live ones are asleep, and only
+the spooks are abroad, prowling hither and yon in the moon’s pale rays,
+visiting again, like myself, the scenes of former crimes. These are
+earth-bound spirits who, during life, lived out a low, degraded
+existence, and they are bound by their own desires and the vibration of
+their astral bodies to these astral slums. I stood out on the old road
+in front of the dilapidated shack formerly occupied by a gun-fighter,
+and watched the astral bodies as they glided to and fro in the air.
+
+There was Mr. B. with a red gash from ear to ear and a crimson stream of
+blood running down over the white, astral, vapor-like body. Around the
+body was the aura, a cloudy vapor extending outward to a distance of two
+or three feet in the shape of an egg, an emanation of a dark and dismal
+color, corresponding to his dark and dismal career. It was in back of
+that very shack that he cut his throat and burst the door that bound him
+to the mortal clay, crying as he passed over that he was eternally lost
+and damned, as the church had hypnotized him into believing. But that
+Hell is immeasurably preferable to the Devil’s Half Acre, because the
+astral body is relieved of pain, hunger and thirst and the necessity of
+laboring for food and clothing. In fact, I believe that we are in Hell
+now, that this is the lowest plane of existence. In the Devil’s Half
+Acre the poor and wretched outcasts of the earth, embellished with dirt
+and clad in rotting rags, lived on three cents a day.
+
+There was something in the atmosphere of the neighborhood that urged all
+the inhabitants on to crime. The family life was a hell on earth. The
+place was obsessed by the Devil and accursed of God. A village will
+acquire a character of its own. It is claimed that all the evil thoughts
+of all the vicious inhabitants of a vile place will linger in the
+surrounding atmosphere for years and exercise a baneful influence on all
+who dwell there. In the Devil’s Half Acre you could not take a step
+without treading on the crimson stain of a reeking crime. The spooks
+were and are now as thick as Tophet there; the place is haunted by
+ghosts and fiends unholy in Death and Hell bedight. It was the obsession
+of the place by the powers of evil that attracted to it all the
+notorious criminals.
+
+The next spook to pollute the atmosphere was that of Mr. D. who, when on
+earth, was engaged in the banking business. In his left hand he carried
+a jimmy and in his right a gun, and he was peering here and there
+looking for a safe to crack or a cashier to shoot up. He was floating
+through the air at a height of about ten feet, and on his forehead
+blazed the blood-red mark of Cain, and his black aura was lighted by the
+fires of Tophet. When in life he lived in the house across the road.
+From this house also emerged a ghost with a halter around its neck. It
+was there with the halter he had swung himself over the battlements of
+time and dropped into eternity. The vicious influence of this house was
+irresistible. It is well to know this law of thought obsession and avoid
+these accursed places.
+
+The next spirit to make its appearance was my old friend Mr. E. who came
+from walking up and down in the earth trying to sell the girl he led by
+the hand. He was still on his uppers as usual, as I could see by the
+ragged condition of his astral body. The accompanying aura of a
+slate-green hue, embellished with dull-red flames, indicated a low,
+deceitful and sensual character. He stopped and, looking me over, said:
+“I remember you. Don’t you want to buy my wife here again? She is in
+good condition now. I admit that I cheated you forty years ago when I
+sold her to you for fifty cents, but now in the astral world she is a
+vision of youth and beauty.”
+
+Then came the ghost of Mr. F., a Sunday School teacher, who operated on
+a class of young ladies in the vestry of the church, that time-worn
+vestry, that well-beloved vestry, where the foundations of their
+philosophy were laid. A very genial, loving gentleman he was too, but
+his scholars being exceedingly frivolous, he found it necessary, in
+order to impress upon them the Divine truths, to pat them on the knees
+and sort of instil religion into them by the massage process. He has
+found his heaven. He appeared on the astral, surrounded, embraced and
+beloved by that same dazzling galaxy of beauties, now a star-crowned
+angel band.
+
+It is claimed that they have schools over there, in which those who so
+desire may be instructed in virtue and wisdom and assisted to advance.
+When at last they learn the great secret and discover the key that
+unlocks the horns of the bull, they pass through the low and narrow
+portal between the horns of Taurus, squeeze through the needle’s eye,
+and enter the higher heaven.
+
+Then I saw a lot of ghosts and fragments of ghosts sometimes without any
+heads, and sometimes lacking limbs, floating about aimlessly without any
+rudders, for they were dead, and their spirits had fled, leaving in the
+Devil’s Half Acre their astral shells. That is what they are called when
+their spirits have departed in the spiritual body and left the astral
+body to return to the elements like the carnal body.
+
+A human being in a normal condition is unable to see an astral body, or
+ghost, because the vibrations on the astral plane are too rapid for the
+human eye to see. The vibrations of the ultra-violet or X rays, at one
+end of the spectrum are too rapid, and the infra-red rays, at the other
+end of the spectrum, are too slow for the human eye to see. But we have
+astral senses, appurtenant to the astral body, duplicates of the
+physical senses, and persons in a trance and sometimes people asleep are
+able to use these astral senses and see and communicate with the
+denizens of the astral world.
+
+
+
+
+                    THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE SOUL ATOM.
+                          By Willard Bartlett.
+                          _From The Nautilus._
+
+
+I will preface my story with the simple statement that I am now
+500,000,000 years old, more or less, that the atom in which my soul is
+located, or which constitutes my soul, first found a home in what is
+called a living being, a cytod or cell, in the primordial or earliest
+epoch of earth’s history. A cell is a minute mass of living protoplasm,
+or jelly-like substance, not as large as the head of a pin, a
+combination of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, ammonia, sulphur,
+etc. While it is true that I existed before that, and, in fact, from all
+eternity, I previously resided in what is called inanimate matter, in
+the igneous rocks. But we will say that I was born when my soul atom
+became involved in the said protoplasm of one of the earliest plant
+cells.
+
+All matter is endowed with mind, and a soul exists in every atom. It is
+impossible to produce new life, as it is said scientists have done, and
+impossible to create life, as God is claimed to have done, for life
+always existed in every atom. It is by certain combinations of matter
+that life becomes manifest in motion.
+
+Each of the thousands of atoms, of which said primitive life cell was
+composed, had a soul destined to take its place in some descendant, if
+it had an opportunity. And the souls are waiting in the atoms to be
+born, and not in Heaven as asserted by the Yogi philosophers. The Yogis
+claim that the souls are waiting in some department of the Buddhist
+heaven crying to be born. Bosh! They are waiting in the spermatozoa,
+those little monsters, those little devils that drive their great human
+masters to crime and murder, to the gallows and the stake; there they
+are howling to be born. In their frantic race to enter the ovum, as
+shown under “Spermatozoa,” Stand. Dic., no wonder they are excited. They
+have been waiting 500,000,000 years for the opportunity to become human
+beings.
+
+Cells propagate by division; that is my original ancestor, a little,
+round mass of protoplasm, divided itself into two cells to produce
+offspring, and all of my ancestors have done the same through all these
+millions of years, consequently I have in my body, in all of the cells,
+some of the original matter of which my original cell ancestor was
+composed. That is eternity’s great highway by which the soul walked
+down.
+
+The human germ cell divides in the same manner into two individuals and
+we propagate, as our earliest ancestors did, by casting off a cell,
+which, being joined by a cell of the opposite sex, becomes fertilized.
+The human embryo develops by repeated subdivisions of this twin cell,
+and each one of the myriads of cells so produced is a living, thinking
+being.
+
+The question has arisen why the cells in an embryo arrange themselves in
+the form of the parent, and it has been asserted that they are so
+distributed by God in pursuance of a Divine plan. But it is actually
+done by the volition of the cells themselves. Each cell takes its proper
+position in compliance with the instruction of its parent cell, and if
+removed by force to some other part of the embryo, will return to its
+original place, thus evincing the most surprising intelligence. It must
+be remembered that a molecule is as large as a universe, that there is
+no such thing as size, that as much ability may be stored up in the
+nerve centre of a cell as in all the debris of a human brain.
+
+We are immortal, but with no memory of past lives. If we do not
+propagate, this life will be the end of our line that has continued
+unbroken for millions of years, and we will have to go back into the
+abysmal void, into the womb of chaos and commence all over again. That
+will be our fate in any case. Only that cell of our bodies which may be
+incorporated in our progeny will continue in human form. That cell is a
+remote relative of ours, having descended from the ancestral germ cell
+from which our embryo was developed.
+
+Of the earliest plant cells, developed by spontaneous generation in the
+primordial epoch, some developed tails, or projected filaments of
+protoplasm from their jelly-like bodies. With these tails they propelled
+themselves through the primeval seas, and thus separated themselves from
+the plants and became animals. In this earliest epoch of life’s history
+all beings lived in the water. These primitive plants possessed as much
+soul and mind as the animals that thus branched off from them, and all
+plants still possess soul and mind.
+
+But I am sorry to say that my ancestor, who thus projected a tail and
+became an animal, was a degenerate, a lazy loafer, a robber, a murderer
+and a cannibal. We all have to live on protoplasm. The plants made their
+own living plasm, manufacturing it from inorganic matter, but the
+animals were too indolent to do such laborious work, when they could
+just as well kill and eat the plant cells and subsist on them. In this
+way they lost the recipe for making plasm, and we descendants are
+consequently born cannibals, condemned to rob, murder, despoil and eat
+our fellow beings, or starve.
+
+My next beautiful ancestor, to whom I will introduce you, was an animal
+consisting of numerous cells arranged in the form of a sack or stomach,
+called a blastoderm or gastraea. There was no central brain at this
+time, each cell having a brain of its own.
+
+Yesterday, while patrolling my beat down in the mine, in a drift in the
+limestone, the earliest sedimentary deposit laid down on the bed of the
+primeval ocean, I found the house of my archaic ancestor, willed to me
+by him millions of years ago, and delivered by him to me yesterday. It
+is a minute shell, with which he protected his precious stomach. This
+stomach took its flight to Heaven in the earliest dawn of time, but the
+house, one of the many mansions of the soul, preserved intact came down
+to me through unnumbered ages, while myriad races came into being and
+faded into eternity, and religions sprang up and flourished and waned,
+and empires rose and rotted and fell.
+
+In the next stage, the stomach has become elongated, and the nerve
+centre or spinal cord makes its appearance along the whole length of the
+body. At this period my beloved grandfather was a very aristocratic and
+exclusive worm, belonging to one of the first families, and, like them,
+had as much brains in his tail as in his head, for no cranial brain had
+yet developed.
+
+The remaining steps of the evolution, through which my ancestors have
+passed, are depicted in the development of the human embryo, and I will
+ask you to read up on the subject of embryology, which I have found
+quite as interesting as dime novels.
+
+
+
+
+                          Transcriber's Notes
+
+  Several obvious punctuation errors have been silently corrected.
+  Signa Tau was used consistently so it was not changed to Sigma Tau.
+  On pages 2 and 55, alter was changed to altar.
+  On page 71, metalic was changed to metallic, twice.
+  On page 83, phanton was changed to phantom.
+  On page 95, colaborated was changed to collaborated.
+  On page 97, tate-a-tate was changed to tête-à-tête.
+  On page 103, bear was changed to bare.
+  On page 121, polutes was changed to pollutes.
+  On page 127, Astral Word was Changed to Astral World.
+
+  Other variations in spelling, punctuation, accents and hyphenation
+  remain as in the original.
+
+  In Chapter III, the four symbols in the UTF-8 text version have been
+  approximated with UTF-8 characters which are very similar.
+
+  Italics are represented thus _italic_.
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-    <div class='c002'><i>By</i></div>

-    <div><span class='large'>WILLARD BARTLETT</span></div>

-    <div class='c000'><i>Author of</i></div>

-    <div class='c000'>“The Origin of Priestcraft,” “The Tenderfoot,”</div>

-    <div>“The War of the Stomachs,” etc.</div>

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-    <div class='c004'>EVERETT PRINT</div>

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-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER I.<br /> <br /><b>The Divine Moloch.</b></h2>

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-<p class='c006'>The genial gentleman with horns, shown

-on the cover hereof, is christ.<a id='r1' /><a href='#f1' class='c007'><sup>[1]</sup></a> The hybrid

-Christian-Egyptian religion was stolen from the

-sun-worship of Egypt and India and other religious

-impositions. When the sun, called Ra and

-Osiris in Egypt, identical with Jehovah, at the

-end of each cycle of about 2155 years, entered a

-new sign of the zodiac, it was said to be reborn,

-or the son of god came in a character to correspond

-with the astronomical sign.—Gerald Massey.</p>

-

-<hr class='c008' />

-<div class='footnote' id='f1'>

-<p class='c009'><span class='label'><a href='#r1'>1</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Where in this book the words God, Lord, Christ, Messiah and

-Lamb are capitalized they refer to Christian deities, otherwise to

-pagan gods.</p>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c009'>When the sun entered the sign of Taurus, the

-bull, god was reborn, or christ came as

-the bull, called Apis in Egypt and Moloch in Syria.

-It is the latter beauty whose entrancing charms

-are the subject of this panegyric. When Jacob

-wrestled with the lord, the bout was with Moloch

-Iho, as will be seen by reading the original Hebrew

-text. This is lord I O, the supreme, the hermaphrodite

-god or idol of the pagans. Read the

-Blessing that the Hebrews say before eating:

-“Blessed art thou Io Elohanu Melech ...

-who bringeth forth bread from the earth.”—Krinsky’s

-First Lessons in Hebrew, 84.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The pagans claimed that their god Moloch

-“had his castle of fire in the seventh heaven.”

-And “Jehovah had his castle of fire over the

-seventh heaven.”—Book of Enoch, 14:7. The

-<span class='pageno' title='2' id='Page_2'></span>identity of Moloch and the Hindu god Siva is

-indicated by the bull Nardi, the sacred emblem

-of the latter. The Persian bull christ, the son

-of Ormazd, killed by Ahriman, the Lord of

-Darkness, and all the other christs that sport

-horns must share the infamy of the great god

-Moloch, alias Saturn, alias Israel, alias Ilda Baoth

-or Devil. The heaven of Moloch is in the Northeast,

-and it is paved with gold, and his throne is

-made of lapis lazuli.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>You will notice that the priest is offering up

-a child to the great god who so loved human flesh

-and blood that he caused his own son to be

-slaughtered. There was also another reason for

-the human sacrifices by the priests and sorcerers

-and secret societies, that is, the desire to evoke

-the dead and summon up phantoms for consultation.

-These ghosts are very fond of blood, in

-fact it is difficult for them to materialize unless

-they can absorb the steam arising from human

-blood. It is true that some sorcerers have evoked

-the dead with the blood of kids or lambs, but the

-goat and lamb christs are ancient redeemers,

-whose efficacy is not to be compared with the

-man christ. Elephas Levi says that a phantom

-will attract the vapor of blood and human corpuscles

-in the air as a magnet attracts iron filings.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“They have built the high places of Tophet

-in the Valley of Hinnom to burn their sons and

-daughters in the fire.” They made their children

-pass through the fire to Moloch, forsooth,

-because young children, like young pigs, are

-tender and easy to chew. They cooked their own

-flesh and blood on the reeking altar of the Devil,

-even as the great and good Ahaz served up his

-son for the delectation of the mob, and sitting

-down to the delicious feast, ate up the heir and

-hope of Israel. Then, chopping up the remnants

-into sausages, he exposed and hawked them in

-<span class='pageno' title='3' id='Page_3'></span>the market place, crying: “It is true they come

-high, but see what they are made of. Each

-sausage is stamped with the Tetragrammaton

-and stuffed with the royal house of Israel. If

-you plebeians, decorated with dirt and adorned

-with bugs, wish to get some blue blood into your

-clotted veins, now is the time. Avail yourselves

-of this opportunity to eat a prince of the royal

-blood, an imperial descendant of our Mother in

-Israel, Tamar, the daughter and wife of Judah

-and ancestor of David and the messiah.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The fact that the Jews worshipped on Saturn-day

-would indicate that they were worshippers

-of Saturn or Moloch. The sacrifice of the

-first-born unto the Lord was required by the Old

-Testament. Human sacrifices by proxy still

-survive in parts of England, where at Christmas

-time the goodman goes forth to hunt for an old

-wife to sacrifice, and returns with an old log,

-which he plays is his wife, and puts her on the

-fire. This takes the place of the human being

-his ancestors formerly offered up. In Hertfordshire,

-an ox, representing Moloch, is killed every

-Christmas, and the church bell tolls at its death

-in imitation of the crucifixion of the bull christ

-or sun at the winter solstice. At the orgies of

-Orpheus they originally sacrificed a man and

-tore his flesh from his body with their teeth and

-ate it raw, but in later times substituted a bull

-representing Orpheus or Christ.—“Orgies” and

-“Orpheus”, Ency. Brit. All religion originated

-in human sacrifices and cannibalism.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The wife of god is a cow, called Hathor in

-Egypt, also named Isis and Meri, which goddess

-we have stolen and worship under the name of

-Mary. When the sun entered the stable or sign

-of Taurus, a christ was produced, or god was

-reborn as a bull. That is why Christ was born

-in a stable.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='4' id='Page_4'></span>When the sun entered the sign of Aries or

-the Ram, God was reborn, or Christ came as the

-Lamb of God, the son of the Ram, identical with

-Rama, the seventh incarnation of the god Vishnu.—Gerald

-Massey. In Thebes the principal object

-worshipped by the pagan ancestors of Christianity

-was the Ram.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>At the eighth incarnation of God, when the

-sun entered the sign of Fishes, about the beginning

-of the Christian Era, God was reborn as the

-Great Fish or Fisher of Men, and was slain on

-Friday for the redemption of the world. That

-is why the Christians killed and ate their fish

-Jesus every Friday to save their craven souls

-from Hell. That is why the priests of Dagon,

-the fish god of the Philistines, wore fish skins on

-their backs and the head of a fish for a miter.

-The miter of the church dignitaries was the

-gaping mouth of their fish god. That is why

-Christ had such phenomenal piscatorial luck and

-why his disciples were fishermen. That is why

-he came up out of the waters of Jordan.—See

-Ancient Pagan &amp; Modern Christian Symbolism.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>We are baptized that we may typically

-become fish or Christlike, but complete immersion

-is indispensable to save our wicked souls.

-A few drops of water on the forehead do not

-make a fish. Jesus came out of the stellar pool

-in the sign of Fishes, and we have seen superstitious

-and benighted fishes, who have been born

-again, come up out of the pool beneath the church

-altar in the Hub of Universal Culture. The

-basin at the church door or piscina, containing

-alleged holy water, is but a type of that celestial

-pool in which the stellar fishes swim, and into

-which the sun plunged and washed away the sins

-of the world. The Egyptian Madonna, Isis, is

-represented as holding in her arms the christ

-Horus, and on her head is a fish. The Hindus

-<span class='pageno' title='5' id='Page_5'></span>worship the fish-god at the temple of the Golden

-Dagon near Rangoon, India.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Jews sacrificed the fish-christ at each

-of the three meals of the Sabbath. “One should

-eat fish for into them the souls of the righteous

-are transmigrated.”—Talmud. The Buddhist

-cross, from which the Christian cross was taken,

-is called Swastika (fishes) and consists of the

-two fishes of the zodiac crossed. “Maya or Mary,

-the Virgin of the skies, at the moment of the birth

-of her son Buddha on Dec. 25, was just rising

-above the horizon.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“The sun’s present position is in Aquarius.

-Our Lord’s advent was in the previous sign of

-Pisces, but the sign which he declared should

-precede his next coming was that of Aquarius.

-‘When ye see a man bearing a pitcher of water

-follow ye him.’”—Daughter of the Druids, 101.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>When the sun entered the sign of Cancer,

-the sun god, or the son of god came as the Crab

-or the Good Scarabaeus, the lucky bug of Egypt,

-and was born in the nebula of the Manger in the

-sign of Cancer. Still there is no law against believing

-in the story of the Jew Christ born in the

-Manger of Bethlehem. Even the Church Fathers

-claimed that Christ was the Good Scarabaeus.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the Catacombs of Rome is a picture of a

-supper at which seven persons sit down to eat

-seven loaves and two small fishes. Some writers

-have failed to grasp the significance of this

-picture. They are assembled there to eat their

-Christ, as we do now at every Communion Service.

-Christ is the bread of life, born in the astronomical

-house of Breadcorn. He came seven

-times in the ancient division of the heavens, and

-in his eighth avatar he came as the two fishes in

-the sign of Pisces.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Our Christmas is a new name for the old

-<span class='pageno' title='6' id='Page_6'></span>Roman Saturnalia, a festival celebrating the birth

-of the sun-god Saturn or Moloch at the winter

-solstice, at which time they feasted, exchanged

-presents, got drunk and played craps. The

-Christians, in celebrating the 25th of December,

-admit that their Christ is a sun-god.—See

-“Saturn,” Ency. Brit.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='7' id='Page_7'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER II.<br /> <br /><b>The Queen of Heaven.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>The Hebrews in the wilderness indulged

-in this pagan idolatry and sacrificed bullocks and

-lambs on the altar for the remission of their sins,

-and erected a golden calf. The golden calf was

-christ, and his mother was the sacred cow Hathor

-or Mary. This Meri or Mary was an astral

-goddess, the moon goddess, the Queen of Heaven,

-represented as standing in the crescent moon.

-She is identical with the foul goddesses Astarte,

-Venus, Ishtar, Asherah and Ashtoreth, the

-abomination of the Sidonians. Ishtar is the

-same as Easter, and we celebrate Easter because

-the sun-god arose at the full moon of Easter.

-The Sacred Cow of India is worshipped as the

-Mother of the Gods.—Book of all Religions, 224.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>You will see in the idol stores the graven

-image of Mary, the Queen of Heaven, standing

-in the crescent moon, and a dog crouching before

-her offering her a cake with a hole in it. This

-cake is the Mark of the Beast, the female symbol

-of the cow Hathor, the Assyrian Grove, the

-sacred Eye, which was worn by the Christian

-and pagan priests in their foreheads and on their

-hands. It is the Sacti of the goddess Maha

-Deva, called Sacti because it is sacred and is

-offered up as a sacrifice, closely related to sacrum

-and the caudal appendage.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The three links are the symbol of the hermaphrodite

-godhead. The link is the female emblem

-and three is the sign of the male. The Eye within

-the tent or triangle or compasses is an object of

-<span class='pageno' title='8' id='Page_8'></span>worship and adoration. The three-cornered

-triangle is the emblem of the male. In Ency.

-Brit., 6: 462, a bishop is represented with the

-Eye on his left hand, and he holds up three fingers

-of his right hand, the sign of the male.

-This is just as efficacious as the three links, as it

-presents to the audience the male and female emblems

-together, formerly the only objects of worship

-in all religions. They are the emblems of life,

-and must be held up together to insure the worshippers

-eternal life. It will be seen in this

-investigation that in every religious assembly,

-from the Witches’ Sabbath to the Elevation of

-the Host, the male and female emblems were

-displayed together for the salvation of the world.

-Without these emblems the devotees cannot be

-born again. The image of the Hindu Madonna

-and Christna shows the Virgin holding up three

-fingers, and with the thumb and forefinger she

-makes the circle of Ashtoreth to save the souls

-of her devotees.—Plate 14, A. P. &amp; M. C. Symbolism.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The high altars of most of the churches

-were rank Assyrian Groves, to which the devotees

-bowed low in holy reverence. See “Altar”,

-Stand. Dic. and Ency. Brit. 16:75. The deity

-emerging from the female symbol of the high

-Christian altar of Pistoia holds in his hand a

-book on which is written: “I A O, the Sun, the

-Light of the World.” When we take off our

-hats to the church, we are not doing obeisance

-to the pile of brick and stone but to this symbol

-above the altar. The Dabistan says that Siva

-has a spouse called Maya, as Jehovah had Mary,

-and the high altar in a mosque of the Mussulmans

-is an emblem of the Bhaga or the Grove or Royal

-Arch. The ancient Knights of the Royal Bhaga

-were also Knights of the Cave, the Gate, the

-Fornix (tent of a Kadish) to the defense of which

-<span class='pageno' title='9' id='Page_9'></span>they pledged their lives, their property and their

-sacred honors, and each brave knight wore emblazoned

-on his forehead or on his stomach the

-emblem of his goddess, the open Eye.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Venus, called C U in Celtic, was the moon

-goddess of the round towers of Ireland. The

-priests of the goddess called themselves C U R,

-and a cur offers a sacrifice to the Virgin. From

-C U R we derive the word curate.—Stinson

-Jarvis. The Druid priests always wore the

-crescent moon on their robes. Osiris is identical

-with the Egyptian god Anubis, the dog, and their

-symbol is the open Eye. They both worship at

-the shrine of Hathor or the Virgin holding the

-sacred Eye in their hands. That is why in

-Christianity, we see the dog offering to Mary

-the sacred perforated wafer.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Refer to “Enthronization,” Stand. Dic., and

-you will see the Mark of the Beast on the bishop’s

-hand, and look at the pagan god Siva, and you

-will find the same mark on his forehead. See

-“Freemason,” and you find that Washington

-wears the same symbol on his stomach. Look

-at Brahma, who carries the rosary in his hand,

-a symbol of identical significance. Refer to

-“Glory,” and you see Christ standing in the Mark

-of the Beast. Turn to Vesica Piscis, where the

-Virgin stands in her symbol, the symbol of the

-hideous faith of the Witches’ Sabbath, a faith

-coeval with the dawn of time, spawned in the

-slums of chaos. Astarte or Ashtoreth was the

-moon goddess and Queen of Heaven and patron

-of immorality.—Ency. Brit. 2:735. Mary is

-the same as Venus and Diana, the moon goddess.—Elephas

-Levi, the priest.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Hindu Litany of Our Lady Nari, the

-Virgin, says: “Holy Nari. Mariama, Mother of

-an Incarnate God, Mother of Christna, Virgin

-Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven.” The Egyptian

-<span class='pageno' title='10' id='Page_10'></span>Litany of Our Lady Isis says: “Holy Isis, Mother

-of Gods, Mother of Horus, Virgin Sacred Earth,

-Isis, Queen of Heaven.” The Christian Litany

-says: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, Mother of

-Christ, Virgin Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven.”—Isis

-Unveiled, 209.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Why does St. Peter (Petra, the Rock God)

-as shown by his statue in Rome, hold up three

-fingers and make the circle or Eye with the other

-two fingers? Why is the Christian Benedictional,

-like the Totem Pole of the Indians, covered with

-the so-called All-Seeing Eye? Why is the Eye

-on the stomach of the Bishop, where he does not

-need it? This is a very occult matter that can

-be disclosed only to the initiates of the foul

-religions.—See Book of All Religions, 467.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“Religion is a monstrous fraud and delusion

-that has desolated the earth and filled the spirit

-world with demons.”—Antiquity Unveiled, 58.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Gnostics claimed that it was Ilda Baoth,

-the Devil, that overshadowed Mary, instead of

-Gabriel. “The female Serpent of the Sky, the

-Mother, is imaged in Buddhism by the lotus, the

-water, the female fish. Her mansion is in Virgo.

-By Manu she is called the Spirit of God (the Holy

-Ghost) but she represents matter as well as spirit.”—Buddha

-&amp; Early Buddhism, 20. Mare and

-Mary mean the sea, and the fish god Jesus, of

-course, came out of the sea.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“The bells used by the Christians came to

-them directly from the Buddhists, Thibetans and

-Chinese, who used them to attract the gods.

-The beads and rosary have the same origin, and

-have been used by Buddhist monks for over

-2300 years.”—Isis Unveiled, 95. The Jews used

-bells to warn their god that some dupe was

-about to adore him, so that he would have a

-chance to change his character and not appear

-as the ass-headed god.—Epiphanius, Gospel of

-<span class='pageno' title='11' id='Page_11'></span>Mary. In China and India they ring the church

-bell to call god and the other ghosts to dinner,

-and after the spirits have eaten, the remnants

-of the sacrifices are thrown by the priests to the

-dogs of worshippers, the scum of the earth, who

-furnished the offerings. The church bell in

-Japan is called “Call God,” and we, having copied

-our religion from the Buddhist, ring our church

-bells to call God to listen to our fool prayers, and

-every Sunday he walks a leg off hustling around

-to the millions of places of superstition.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>A statue of the cow Hathor, with the moon

-between her horns, was unearthed in a temple of

-Egypt. This is the mother of Horus, also called

-Ies and Iesu and Jesu in Egypt. And to further

-fix her catholicity beyond question she is covered

-with Christian crosses. If you refer to “Isis,”

-Stand. Dic., you will see that the Egyptian

-Madonna wears horns and the full moon on her

-head. The moon goddess of Peru was called

-Mamma Quilka, or Mother Moon, the mother

-of all the Incas, and the real pious devotees got

-soused on corn whiskey in her holy worship.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Christians sacrificed cakes with holes

-in them to Mary, Queen of Heaven.—Ency.

-Brit. 15:391. This is the very idolatry for

-which Jehovah drove the Jewish nation out of

-Palestine. In Jeremiah, 44:19, the Jews say:

-“We burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and

-poured out drink offerings unto her and made

-cakes to worship her.” And Jeremiah says in

-verse 22: “Because of these abominations which

-you have committed, therefore is your land a

-desolation and a curse, without an inhabitant

-as at this day.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Buddhists say: “Upon a lotus of precious

-stones sustaining a moon crescent sits Buddha

-Matra” (the Mother of God). The Chinese

-invocation says: “Hail Matra”, and they call

-<span class='pageno' title='12' id='Page_12'></span>her “Our Lady, the Queen of Heaven, the Mother

-of Buddha.”—Buddha &amp; Early Buddhism, 22.

-The fact that the Queen of Heaven existed as

-a goddess in the time of Jeremiah, before Christianity

-was spawned, shows that the Buddhists

-did not steal their Queen of Heaven from the

-Christians as charged.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In Josephus, Book 8, ch. 11, it is seen that

-Shishac subdued Israel and erected some charming

-pillars on which were carved captivating

-female symbols, which they worshipped. Jereboam

-erected two aesthetic heifers, images

-of Hathor for the worship and spiritual edification

-of the Jews. In Judges, 3:7, it is asserted

-that Israel served Baalim and the Grove.

-Baalim are images of Baal, male emblems,

-corresponding to the candles and manikins

-(sons of man) of the Witches’ Sabbath, called

-images of men in Ezek. 16:17. I think that

-the christ of the Hebrews was the candle, and

-that they sacrificed him every Friday, the

-same as the Christians do their fish god. The

-candle is the appropriate offering to a goddess,

-and it may have been Ashtoreth.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Mezuzah, which is nailed on the door

-post, corresponds with the pillars erected by

-Shishac, for it is a miniature pillar with an oval

-hole on the side, which hole it is necessary to

-kiss, as we kiss the male and female emblems

-on the Pax to secure eternal life. In the hole

-is one of the names of god, Shaday, one of the

-female Sephiroth or persons of the godhead.

-If you refer to “Altar,” Stand. Dic., you will

-see the people worshipping the hole in the Mezuzah,

-or the Virgin standing in her symbol

-above the altar, which is all the same.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The phylactery, worn on the forehead

-and on the left arm, contains passages of Scripture,

-which must be printed on the skin of the

-<span class='pageno' title='13' id='Page_13'></span>cow, the mother of christ, and the phylactery

-itself, must be made of the skin of christ, the

-calf. God himself wore phylacteries according

-to the Talmud.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Dianus, or the sun, or god, had twelve

-wives, capturing a new one whenever he entered

-a new sign of the zodiac. It was Rhea

-in the sign of the Twins, and Hathor in the

-sign of Taurus, and Mary in the sign of Pisces.

-One of his wives was Diana of the Ephesians,

-the object of a foul worship in Asia Minor.

-She wears upon her head the crescent moon,

-and she is Mary, the Queen of Heaven. She

-bears six lions in her arms, because she is the

-mother of all the gods. Six christs have been

-born since she ruled the heavens in the sign of

-Virgo. The christ who came in the sign immediately

-following Virgo was Leo. It is one

-and the same god, the sun, that comes in every

-sign, consequently they are all lions.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='14' id='Page_14'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER III.<br /> <br /><b>Religious Symbolism.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>This is the Egyptian Tau Cross, the symbol

-of Apis, the bull, and other male gods:

- <img class='inline c010' src='images/tau.png' alt='𝝩' />.

-Here

-is the male emblem shown as the Masonic square,

-as found in the ruins of Gaza:

- <img class='inline c010' src='images/msq.png' alt='𝝘' />.

-This is

-the Egyptian K. Ka is the Egyptian name

-of the male emblem. See “Hieroglyphics”,

-Ency. Brit. This holy god, in the form of a

-stone, is stuck in the wall of the Kaaba, the

-shrine at Mecca, which shrine was built by

-Abraham, who was fond of chasing after gods

-with tarnished reputations. This god in Mecca

-is a meteorite seven inches long, brought down

-from Heaven by Gabriel, and about 300,000

-pilgrims annually kiss this foul, germ-laden

-god to save their tarnal souls.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>And this is the cross ansata of Egypt,

- <img class='inline c010' src='images/anx.png' alt='♀' />,

-or cross of anx (life), a combination of the cross

-of the bull and the sacred symbol of Isis. The

-High Priest of Egypt wore three cross ansatas

-and three links on his breast-plate, symbols

-of the trinity. Many of the pagan religions,

-from which ours descended, used only the main

-portion of the cross, the shaft or upright, the

-symbol of Siva, Baal Poer and Jehovah. It

-is called phalatz in Hebrew, meaning broken.

-See the broken column of the Masons—A. P.

-&amp; M. C. Symbolism.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>You place the three balls of the pawnbroker

-or the shamrock of Ireland on top of the

-shaft, and you have the most archaic form of

-the cross, before which the devils tremble and

-<span class='pageno' title='15' id='Page_15'></span>fall in a fit. Christian crosses, wreaths, bells,

-squares, eyes, Asherim and Baalim have been

-discovered in the ruins of Gaza, in the fourth

-city that was destroyed about 1600 B. C. The

-original text of Ezek. 9:4 shows that the sign

-of Jehovah was the Signa Tau, or the cross of

-Taurus, the bull, with which the elect were sealed

-in their foreheads. In the Enchiridion, a prayer

-book and book of magic credited to Pope Leo III,

-he says: “By this sign

- <img class='inline c010' src='images/crs.png' alt='＋' />

-Lord Tau, deliver

-me.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The male emblem, or triangle, placed in

-the circle of Asherah makes the Three in One,

-the profound and esoteric mystery forever

-hidden from the profane and vulgar. That is

-the sacred quartet, those are the idols we worship.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Turn to Siva, Stand. Dic., and you will

-see that he has stolen all the pious Christian

-symbols, although he existed for ages before the

-Christians. In one hand is the circle and in

-another hand a trident or fleur de lys, a male

-emblem. Around his neck is a large rosary or

-stole. Thrusting his male head through this

-female emblem is a symbol of life and a saving

-rite. Putting his hand through a rosary is

-just as effective. We can trace the spotless

-lineage of our beloved religion back through

-the dim vistas of time to a very archaic and

-rotten ancestry.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In both the Christian and pagan symbolism

-the oval in which the saints and gods do stand

-is often represented as composed of roses and

-constitutes a rosary. The horseshoe brings

-good luck because it is identical with the cave,

-the arch and the grove and is the sacred emblem

-of the goddess Mary or Astarte. Both Buddha

-and Christ are represented as standing in the

-horseshoe or Royal Arch. I conclude that

-the Masonic Holy Royal Arch and the oval

-<span class='pageno' title='16' id='Page_16'></span>above the church altar, in which the Virgin

-stands, represent the Grove that Manasseh set

-up in the House of the Lord, 2 Kings, 21, and that

-Josiah burnt at the brook Kidron, 2 Kings, 23:6.

-The stole, worn by the priests, is equivalent to,

-and has all the mystic powers of, the cross ansata.

-It is well named “stole”, as the early Christians

-stole it from the pagan worship.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Serapis, the Egyptian god, is bedecked

-and bedizened with all the Christian emblems.

-He holds the crook of the Good Shepherd in

-one hand and the cross ansata in the other.

-He has the head and horns of a bull, showing

-that he is the son of the cow Hathor or Mary.

-And over his head are the Masons’ marks, the

-square and the eye, showing that he is in good

-standing in his lodge in Hell, for he, like christ,

-is Lord of the Underworld.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Refer to Vishnu, Stand. Dic., and you will

-see that pagan god wearing all the above emblems.

-He is christ and came as Rama in the

-sign of the Ram and as Krishna in the sign of

-Pisces. Turn to Krishna, and you will see the

-Hindu Madonna and christ that we kidnapped.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the Sun. Am. Magazine, Aug. 29, 1910,

-we see a picture of Isis mourning at the bier of

-Osiris. At Egyptian funerals they assured the

-dead of eternal life by raising the symbol of

-Isis, the circle or rosary above the body. You

-will see that the head of the deceased at the

-wake is surrounded by male emblems, which

-gross symbols are now replaced in the present

-civilization by candles. You will see that

-Isis is bowing down before the Tree of Life, and

-that she has at hand a basket of perforated

-cakes, which she is about to offer to the Tree

-of Life, which tree is called Osiris or Baal or

-Moloch or Buddha or Yahveh or Iao or Siva or

-Jove according to the country in which the religion

-<span class='pageno' title='17' id='Page_17'></span>is perpetrated. If you place a wreath on a

-dead man’s stomach and seven candles around

-his head, he is no longer a meet candidate for

-Hell, but an heir of eternal glory. If you stick

-a cross through the wreath, it is a through ticket

-to the seventh heaven, and you may be assured

-that he will go through purgatory a-humping.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='18' id='Page_18'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER IV.<br /> <br /><b>The Sabbatic Goat or God of the Sabbath.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>When the sun entered the sign of Capricorn,

-it was reborn as, or christ came as the goat,

-that individual on whom the Jews used to load

-all their sins and then drive him forth into the

-wilderness. They sacrificed goats on the altar

-because the goat was one of the ancient redeemers.

-Caesar says of Egyptian sacrifices:

-“Imprecations were uttered over the head of

-the expiatory victim, around whose horns a

-piece of byblus was rolled. The animal was

-generally led to some barren region sacred to

-Typhon. It is in this custom that lies the

-origin of the scapegoat of the Jews, who, when

-the ass-headed god was rejected by the Egyptians,

-began sacrificing to another deity, the

-red heifer.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>It was claimed by Madam Blavatsky and

-Elephas Levi that the hermaphrodite Goat of

-Mendes, or Baphomet, was anciently an object

-of worship and adoration by the mystic societies

-and at the Witches’ Sabbath. In Mysteries

-of Magic, 7 and 75, the author thus describes

-a Witches’ Sabbath: “Approach stealthily this

-cross roads among the rocks. A hoarse and

-funeral trumpet is heard, lurid torches burn

-on every side, a disorderly assembly surges

-around an empty seat. All look around in

-expectation, then suddenly fall prostrate and

-mutter: ‘He is here, ’tis himself.’ A goat-headed

-prince comes forward with bounds, he

-ascends the throne, turns around and stooping

-<span class='pageno' title='19' id='Page_19'></span>presents his back to the audience, which everyone

-approaches, black taper in hand, to salute

-and to kiss. Then he stands up with a discordant

-laugh and distributes to his favorites gold,

-secret instructions, occult medicines and poisons.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Goat of Mendes is pictured by Elephas

-Levi as a regular god. He wears the male

-emblem on his head like all gods in good standing

-and holds up three fingers, and has the double

-triangle in his forehead, and the caduceus, or

-male and female emblems, on his stomach.

-With one hand he coagulates or creates, and

-with the other he dissolves or destroys.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“Let us say boldly and loudly that all the

-inferior initiates of the occult sciences and the

-betrayers of the Great Arcanum have adored, do

-and will always adore that which is signified

-by the frightful figure of the Sabbatic Goat.

-Yes in our profound conviction, the Grand Masters

-of the ancient orders of the Templars adored

-Baphomet.”—Elephas Levi. It will be seen

-by the chart that the Masonic coat of arms,

-consisting of the four zodiacal beasts, is supported

-on either side by the goat god Pan.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Pan, the Good Shepherd, the son of Deus,

-with the horns and feet of a goat, is the same

-as the Devil or christ. At the Witches’ Sabbath

-in England, the women made manikins, or images

-of men, of clay or wax, and these they worshipped

-and played with. And when these

-images were properly magnetized, they could

-perform miracles therewith and summon up

-demons from the abyss. If they possessed

-sufficient will power and knew the occult and

-secret form of words to use, they could play

-that the manikin was an enemy, and then stick

-him through the heart with a needle, and the

-next morning the enemy would be dead. If

-<span class='pageno' title='20' id='Page_20'></span>their magical power was sufficiently potent,

-they could summon a satyr or subordinate

-goat god to take the place of the manikin and

-consummate the Sabbatical marriage ceremony.

-Their spells were said to be sufficiently powerful

-to reduce a human being to the primordial

-protoplasm, and then cause it to again pursue

-the path of evolution through the cell, the

-blastoderm, the devil-fish and all the other

-beasts constituting eternity’s great highway

-by which the soul walks down. This is similar

-to the unavoidable cycle, the circle of necessity,

-the inexorable doom of the sacred mysteries

-of the Serpents’ Catacombs of Egypt.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The countersign of the Witches’ Sabbath

-was the closed hand with the thumb between

-the first and second fingers pointing downward

-to the abyss. The meeting place was lighted

-only by the altar fire, where the human sacrifice

-sizzled to attract the phantoms and ghosts.

-And the devotees, singing mystic songs, danced

-hand in hand in a circle around the god Pan.

-They used the holy grail like the churches and

-mystic societies, and the drafts from this poisonous

-cup, the singing, the whirling dance and

-the incense from the altar brought on the oft-times

-fatal frenzies in which the victims fell

-shrieking to the ground, as they do among certain

-Christian sects. They were seized and

-possessed by foul fiends from the Pit, or elementary

-spirits, and sometimes by the spirits of

-serpents that materialized themselves in the

-writhing human victims and crawled out of the

-prostrate bodies in plain view of the audience.

-There in the blackest hour of the night the

-Vinum Sabbati was prepared, a few grains of

-white powder thrown into a glass of water.

-And each one that drank found himself attended

-by a companion, a shape of glamour and unearthly

-<span class='pageno' title='21' id='Page_21'></span>allurement beckoning him apart to

-share in joys more exquisite, more piercing

-than the thrill of any dream.—Machen’s House

-of Souls, 438.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Similar to these convulsionaries are the miserable

-creatures in Russia afflicted by strange disorders,

-which people attributed to possession by

-the Devil. They throng the entrance of cathedrals

-without daring to enter, lest their controlling

-demons cast them on the ground. At

-the Elevation of the Host, these half maniacs,

-half mediums begin crowing like cocks, barking,

-bellowing and braying, and finally fall down

-in fearful convulsions. They prophesy and

-see visions. Paracelsus, the magician, could

-cast the demons out of the persons so possessed

-by the power of a stronger demon which he

-carried around in his pocket. That reminds

-us of the Salem witch that fled from a mob of

-Christolators who were intent on burning her,

-but when they were about to seize her, she

-crawled into a bottle, and nobody ever saw her

-afterward.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the Devil’s Mass of the Yezdis, or Devil

-worshippers and sorcerers of Mesopotamia, the

-Jakshas or aerial spirits carry their prayers to

-the Devil and the Afrites of the desert. In

-their prayer meeting they dance in a ring about

-their high priest and whirl and leap in the air

-and cut each other with daggers until they are

-soaked with blood for the purpose of attracting

-the ghosts. The mystic circle induces Satan

-to manifest himself in miracles. Enormous

-globes of fire appear and assume the shapes of

-monsters.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Sabbath was the Sunday of the Hebrew

-Kabalists, the day of their religious assembly,

-or rather the night of their habitual meetings.

-This festival, surrounded by mysteries as it

-<span class='pageno' title='22' id='Page_22'></span>was, found its safeguard in the very fright of

-the vulgar and escaped persecution through the

-terror it occasioned. The early Christians celebrated

-the pagan Mysteries of Jesus and probably

-held a Witches’ Sabbath.—See Mystic

-Christianity, 212.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>One should trim his finger nails on Friday,

-never on Thursday, otherwise the nails will

-commence growing on the Sabbath, and it is

-very wicked for the nails to grow on the Sabbath.—Kabala.

-The Israelite, after the endless

-Sabbath observances, should fold up his

-veil, but if he forgets to do so, he is to shake it

-thoroughly the next morning, so as to shake all

-the devils out of it. And the reason is known

-to the Lords of the Kabala.—Kabala Kitzur

-Sh’lh. It is a very pious act to say a prayer

-to the moon at the close of the Sabbath, for the

-moon is a symbol of Jacob, the lesser light,

-(who was a christ). The full moon, the Queen

-of Heaven is his mother, and the sun is his

-father. The new moon is Jacob or Christ.—Ibid,

-fol. 72, col. 2. You should learn these

-things together with all the other profound

-wisdom of the Talmud, for Rabbi Yochannan

-says that it is lawful to split open an unlearned

-man like a fish.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Constantine, the Roman Emperor and canonized

-saint, the superstition-besotted, the

-assassin, the fratricide, the parricide, the uxoricide,

-the filicide, the regicide, chosen from

-Heaven as the murderer-in-chief of the world,

-according to Eusebius, “held up by God to the

-human race as an exemplary pattern of godliness

-and destined to share the Empire of Heaven

-with Christ,” this was the bloated, red-faced

-profligate who established Sunday worship in

-321 A. D. and compelled the Christians to

-worship the sun-god on Dies Solis, the Day of

-<span class='pageno' title='23' id='Page_23'></span>the Sun, because his own god was Apollo.—See

-First Council of Nice, 28. Constantine

-was the founder of Christianity, and, like father

-like son, it followed in his footsteps. He could

-not obtain absolution for his crimes from pagan

-priests, but Eusebius washed them whiter than

-snow. Some said that Constantine had to

-sacrifice an infant to obtain the blood for the

-absolution.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='24' id='Page_24'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER V.<br /> <br /><b>The Great God Baal.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>The palm tree, the candle and the Asherim

-are symbols and images of Baal, and the two

-last are offered up as sacrifices, corresponding

-to the pillars and candles in the worship of

-Jehovah. Around the temple of Jehovah as

-well as the temple of Baal, in the Holy Land,

-were the ancient nunneries. The Kadishim or

-Holy Ladies lived in tents arranged in a circle

-about the temple, and on each side of each tent

-or Fornix stood a Knight of Kadish. The

-pious people who desired to worship god gave

-up to the guard a shekel (sixty cents) and entered

-into the tent of the Kadish, and the money

-so collected went to the service of god, which

-means the priestly white slavers and the Worshipful

-Knights of Kadish. The Kadishim were

-the same as the Deva Dasi, the concubines and

-dancing girls of the Hindu temples, the slaves

-of the gods. “There is reason to believe that

-the Israelites at an early date applied the name

-of Baal to Jehovah. Baal was represented on

-the high places by pillars,” as the strange god of

-John’s Revelation is pictured on his throne.—“Baal,”

-Ency. Brit. One hundred of the most

-beautiful and seductive daughters of the people,

-innocent girls of tender age, were torn from

-their homes by the ruthless priests to fill the

-holy places of god around each temple. The

-priests by constant iteration convinced the

-parents that it was a high honor to be permitted

-to devote their daughters to god, and that as

-<span class='pageno' title='25' id='Page_25'></span>a reward, in the great hereafter, they would

-sit beside the Great White Throne with Abraham,

-Isaac and Jacob and all the other Jews,

-and all the hod-carriers, who, having washed

-their robes white in the blood of the Lamb, sit

-on their little golden thrones with their dudeens

-in their mouths and their hats gently tilted

-over one eye, while they decorate with tobacco

-juice the dazzling surface of the crystal sea.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>At the great temple of Baal, they had a palm

-tree standing in the midst of the garden, and in

-the holy temple of Jehovah they had a stone

-pillar around which the Kadishim, at the vernal

-equinox, danced in the nude. This is the day

-dedicated to Astarte, or Ishtar or Easter. This

-occult ceremony is one of the most beautiful and

-entrancing in our refulgent and god-given religion.

-As the Tree of Life stands in the midst

-of the circle of females, so the rays from the sun

-penetrate the earth and annually renew its life.

-So the rays of the sun at high noon penetrated

-the ark, that old box in which the priests kept

-the male and female emblems, and before which

-King David for occult reasons danced in the altogether.

-The ark corresponds with the sacred

-Argha of the Hindus, an oblong vessel, a sacrificial

-chalice, used in the worship of Isis, Astarte

-and Venus. It is a most holy symbol, containing,

-in the play, the germs of all living things, and

-when we drink out of it at the communion service,

-we drink eternal life. They planted the

-Tree of Life in the midst of the garden or grove,

-as God planted the tree in the midst of the

-Garden of Eden. You will notice the serpent

-coiled about the tree in Eden. This is the

-symbol of Life. The serpent is a symbol of

-the female.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Israelites were commanded not to

-worship idols, but in the darkest hour of their

-<span class='pageno' title='26' id='Page_26'></span>history, when their own God, Jehovah, had

-sent upon them the plague of serpents and

-consigned them to destruction, then they called

-upon the mighty sun-god, they looked upon the

-brazen serpent on a cross, the Elevation of the

-Host, and the remnant of Israel was saved.

-Israel, it is said, worshipped the serpent or

-Devil until about 726 B. C. You will see this

-same god on the Masonic chart.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Talmud says that when Ben Asai and

-Ben Zoma were to be initiated into the Garden

-of Delights, Ben Asai looked and lost his sight,

-and Ben Zoma looked and lost his reason. Eusebius

-shows that St. James, the brother of Jesus

-and first Bishop of Jerusalem, never shaved

-or took a bath, and he alone could enter into

-the holy places.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The merry maidens who circulate about the

-May-pole on May-day are devoted devotees of

-the loving god Baal Poer. And we on Palm

-Sunday carry palm leaves from the sacred palm

-tree to show that we are faithful worshippers of

-the true god Baal.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In Italy, the clergy had at one time, according

-to Isis Unveiled, 2-5, a thriving trade in

-those things which they called the holy limbs of

-Saints Cosmo and Damiano. These male emblems

-were made of wax and certainly beautiful

-to behold. The divine spirit shining through

-them in resplendent glory cast its radiance afar.

-He who was so fortunate as to possess sufficient

-filthy lucre to purchase one saved his immortal

-soul from Hell, for was it not the symbol of life

-and the image of the great god.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>For the form of the pillar as worshipped in

-Syria, see page 121, A. P. &amp; M. C. Symbolism,

-and on the mall of Boston Common may be seen

-the same pillar as adored by us at the Hub of

-Universal Culture, erected there to commemorate

-<span class='pageno' title='27' id='Page_27'></span>the birth of American liberty. Let us hope

-that you will get out early in the morning and

-see the blue-bellied Puritans and the codfish

-aristocracy kneeling before this sacred shrine,

-with their hands thrust through their rosaries,

-praying that this great god may make them

-fruitful.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“The superstition of Europe instead of

-being diminished by the introduction of Christianity

-was only turned into a fresh channel.

-The new religion was corrupted by the old follies,

-the worship of the Virgin was substituted

-for the worship of Cybele, the mother of the

-gods. March 25th, Lady’s Day, dedicated to

-Mary, was formerly called Hilaria and dedicated

-to Cybele. The religion of mankind is the

-effect of their improvement not the cause of

-it.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 1-188.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='28' id='Page_28'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER VI.<br /> <br /><b>Jehovah, alias Adonai.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>According to the Hebrew lexicon<b> יה </b>(Yh

-or Ih) is one of the names of God. Y, I and

-J. are interchangeable, and Jehovah is identical

-with the god Yah of the Philistines and Iach or

-Iachus or Bacchus and Iao or Io and Jove.

-Bel of the Babylonians is the Chaldaic form

-of Baal, and according to Herodotus is identical

-with Zeus, who is the same as Deus or Jehovah.

-Ja or Jagannatha, the idol of the Hindus, is

-said to smile when a human blood sacrifice is

-thrown before his car.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Jehovah Binah seemed to be a favorite

-divinity among the Masons. The name of

-this daemon, or subordinate goddess, is written

-on the serpent in the magic circle of King Solomon,

-which he employed in raising the Devil,

-and as Sabbath appears in her title, and she

-belongs to the sphere of Saturn or Moloch, I

-conclude that she was the goddess of the Witches’

-Sabbath. There are ten persons in the Hebrew

-godhead, and she is the third, the supernal

-mother, the wife of Kether, consequently the

-mother of god. See Lesser Key of King Solomon,

-47.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>According to the Standard Dictionary, (see

-“Sephira”) Jehovah is not the Supreme God,

-there is a party named Kether above him, the

-Ancient of Ancients. Baal, Bel or El is the

-fourth, next below Binah. He is the god of

-love and mercy, with whom we have no truck.

-We prefer the God of Battles. Baal Poer was

-<span class='pageno' title='29' id='Page_29'></span>worshipped in the groves under the name of

-Adonis. It may be seen by reference to the

-Hebrew Kabala, Kitzur Sh’lh, fol. 62, col. 1,

-that Adonai is called the Rock of Ages, like

-Christ. Madam Blavatsky says that Iachoh,

-Iach and Lord Sabaoth, the Baal Adonis or

-Bacchus, who was worshipped in the groves

-and public sods or Mysteries, under the polishing

-hand of Ezra, becomes Adonai, the one and

-supreme god of the Christians. The codex

-of the Nazarenes says: “Thou shalt not worship

-the sun, who is called Adonai and Kadush and

-El El. This Adonai will elect to himself a

-nation, Jerusalem will become the refuge and

-city of the abortive, who shall circumcise themselves

-with the sword and shall adore Adonai.”

-Israel is the same as Adonis. It means son of

-the Lord Ra, the Egyptian sun-god. So Israel

-was one of the christs, and it was his duty to

-wrestle with the Devil, Moloch. And he had

-a right to put his brother out and take his place,

-as christ, the new moon takes the place of the

-old moon (called the old and ugly christ) and

-as Solomon killed Adonijah and took his place.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Haeckel says Jehovah was originally derived

-from the heaven god called Moloch and

-Baal, also Seth and Typhon of the Egyptians

-and Saturn of the Greeks.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>David says: “Who shall ascend into the

-high place of the Lord (Iach, in the original)?

-who shall stand in the place of his Kadishu

-(holy ladies)?”—Psalms, 24:3. “Solomon went

-to the high place of Gibeon, for there was the Tabernacle

-of God.”—2 Chron. 1:3. You will see

-that the high places were the temples of a foul

-worship by reference to 1 Kings, 3:3.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Yahevah is the ineffable name for which the

-Hebrews substituted Adonai. The Bacchantes,

-in their orgies or feasts of Iachus, pronounced

-<span class='pageno' title='30' id='Page_30'></span>the mystic word “Io Evohe.” Ei Eh Ei is I

-Am the I Am, and Ei was found inscribed on the

-temple of Apollo.—Plutarch, 1:14. Eidol is a

-doll or image of the god Ei, or Kether.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Jehovah is identical with the god Brahma.

-Every 4,320,000,000 years all the planets in

-our solar system are in conjunction. This

-is one day of Brahma, 365 times that is one

-year, and one hundred of these years is the

-lifetime of Brahma, then god dies, and thereafter

-we have to worry along without him.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Trinity, instead of being a new revelation

-of the Christian religion, was taken from

-the trinities of the older pagan religions. The

-Chinese, the Hindus, the Babylonians, the Persians

-and the Egyptians each had a triune or

-hydra-headed god, a nightmare of their imagination,

-without foundation in nature or reason.

-If we have the only true religion, how is it that

-the Mexicans, before this country was discovered

-by the savages of Europe, had the trinity, the

-rite of baptism, the sign of the cross and purgatory.

-They had the tradition of the flood and

-the escape of Noah, and they offered as an

-oblation little, dough, male images of their savior

-as we do at the communion service.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Some claimed that the astral light or ether

-was the supreme god, that one portion of it was

-male (spirit), and the other part was female

-(matter), and that the living forms of matter

-produced by the union of these two gods, are

-the third person of the trinity, the son of man.

-Others claim that the incomprehensible god

-back of the ether, of which the latter is an emanation,

-is the supreme god, and that the spiritual

-portion of the ether is the Word or Son, and the

-material portion of the ether is the mother, and

-the union of the son and the mother produces

-the phenomenal world. This a charming family

-<span class='pageno' title='31' id='Page_31'></span>relationship eminently appropriate to our pot-pourri

-of superstitions, called religion.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Manu, the Hindu lawgiver, says: “The

-Sovereign Master, who exists through himself,

-divides his body into two halves, male and

-female, and from the union of these two principles

-is born Viradj, the son, or material forms.”

-The first name of this hermaphrodite god in

-the picture writing was IO.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Haeckel says that the Christian God is

-a gaseous vertebrate. Socrates was put to

-death because he did not believe in the gods

-and introduced new demoniacal beings (spirits).</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the Sunday American Magazine was

-also a picture of the Rock of Ages, in fact two

-pillars or Asherim or images of Asher are shown,

-together with two circles or groves. They

-were found in the ruins of Gaza. These are

-the idols that Abraham, David and Solomon

-worshipped when they hit the high places.

-And we still revere them and have the shafts

-erected over our graves and the wreaths placed

-upon the shafts so that we may be born again.

-If you do not think that Moses worshipped

-this rock god read Deut. 32:8. “Of the rock

-that begat thee thou art unmindful.” There

-were only seven thousand in all Israel that had

-not kissed the pillar.—1 Kings, 19:18.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>There was also found in the ruins of Gaza

-an oval medallion in which stood “Horus, the

-strong bull, resplendent in strength.” Why

-is the Infant Jesus of Prague placed in an oval

-medallion? Why is the oval, with the Lamb in

-the centre thereof, placed on the front of the

-Infant Jesus, as it is on the front of the Virgin

-Mary? This picture of the Infant Jesus is

-a mine of esoteric symbolism. He has his

-name embroidered on his rich, elaborate dress,

-to wit, I E S. He holds up three fingers as he

-<span class='pageno' title='32' id='Page_32'></span>was taught to do when he was the infant Buddha,

-and on his head is the seven-rayed headdress

-of Buddha, the god of the seven-rayed sun.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>If you have catarrh, place a medallion of

-the Infant Jesus on your nose, and the catarrh

-will disappear.—Miraculous Infant Jesus of

-Prague, 30. A medal of the Divine Infant has

-been known to cure a sore thumb, if fastened

-in faith to the diseased member and accompanied

-by nine days prayer.—Idem 36. A man in

-financial difficulties made a novena (nine days

-prayer) to the Holy Child, and at the end of

-the devotions somebody gave him $35. Then

-he commenced another novena and was helped

-to win a prize in a lottery. Then he commenced

-the third novena, and Jehovah compelled a

-grasping mortgagee to discharge his mortgage

-on the devotee’s house, and another party gave

-him $10.—Idem 52.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the Hebrew Bible you will see that

-Bethel, or house of God, referred to in Genesis,

-28:19, is spelt Bath Al, which means the

-house of the sun or sun-god, the same as Bothal

-or Brothel, the temple of worship of the Druids

-and Indians, a circle of twelve monoliths with

-a pillar in the centre, also called paradise. We

-changed the vowels and made it read Beth El,

-as we did not care to have our God related to

-such trash as Al and Allah, the Arabian god.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Arius and the Council of Nice agreed that

-the Son is called Wisdom. Refer to “Sephira,”

-Stand. Dic., and you will see that Jehovah is

-named Wisdom and that he is the son of, or

-first emanation from Kether, consequently it is

-claimed that he is one of the christs. The

-only gods ever worshipped were the sun and

-his wife, the moon, to whom he was not legally

-married. The idols are images of incarnate

-sun-gods.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='33' id='Page_33'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER VII.<br /> <br /><b>The Host, a Human Sacrifice.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>The Monstrance was a conventionalized

-Assyrian Grove, containing the Host, the male

-and female emblems, and corresponded with

-the Ark and was transparent, so that the devotees

-could look on the blessed symbols and

-live forever. It was called the Monstrance

-because it contained the hermaphrodite monster,

-now or formerly worshipped by the devotees

-of all religions. The directions of St. Cyril,

-of Jerusalem, were: “After kissing all the brothers

-and sisters, you touch the consecrated things

-to the eyes, nose, mouth and ears.” See Ency.

-Brit. 8:632.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Under the mediumship of Eugene Vintras

-in Paris, the Devil placed his signature on the

-Hosts of the Church in characters of blood.

-The Abbe Charvoz brought one of the miraculously

-marked Hosts, bearing the signature

-of Satan, to Elephas Levi. One of the signatures

-was the Caduceus of the Greeks, the

-emblem of the Godhead, two serpents entwined

-about a rod, but the rod was omitted. Levi

-calls it the Typhonian sign manual because

-by omitting the rod, it thus denies the existence

-of the Supreme God Jehovah. The Devil, in

-the stigmata, asserts that there are only two

-gods, the two powers of the astral light, attraction

-and repulsion, the creator and the

-destroyer.—Mysteries of Magic.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“In the case of Father Gerard in 1731,

-who was tried at Aix, in France, for resorting

-<span class='pageno' title='34' id='Page_34'></span>to sorcery in the seduction of his parishioner,

-Mlle. Catherine Cadiere, it was shown that he

-breathed upon her, and that she instantly conceived

-a violent love for him and had extatic

-visions and hysterical convulsions, and stigmata

-or blood marks of the Passion appeared upon

-her, that is, the bleeding marks of thorns on

-her brow, of nails in her hands and feet, and

-of a lance cut in her side. Of the twenty five

-judges, twelve voted to send the priest to the

-stake.”—Isis Unveiled, 2-633.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The doctrine of transubstantiation, or the

-myth that the bread and wine become the

-actual body and blood of God, originated among

-the Hindus, and we stole it from them. The

-god Brahma was the astral light or magnetism,

-and when the priests charged the hosts with

-magnetism, they were charged with god, and

-consequently were gods. It is said that each

-separate part of this blood sacrifice is a Christ,

-so thousands of Christs were served up at a

-feast to be eaten by the savage devotees, and

-each cannibal ate a whole Christ to save his

-dastard soul. It is called the Host because they

-knifed him or struck him down, and it is called

-the Eucharist because they rejoice over his

-death and make a joyful feast upon the carcass.

-The Eucharist is one of the oldest rites of antiquity,

-instituted many hundreds of years before

-the Lord’s Supper. It was a repetition of the

-drama in Eden in commemoration of the fall

-into generation. By the worship of the foul

-idols in the Monstrance, by the idolatry of the

-Eucharist the pagans euchred the Devil out

-of their souls.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Eucharist was a human sacrifice. The

-devotees groveling in abject superstition, offered

-up their Christ on the reeking, blood-stained

-altar, and ate his flesh and drank his blood to

-<span class='pageno' title='35' id='Page_35'></span>wash their sins away. At the twelfth general

-council of the Church, the bread and wine was

-made the flesh and blood of Christ, and at the

-Council of Trent they added the soul. So at the

-orgies, the depraved devotee destroyed both the

-body and soul of his savior by casting him into

-his carrion carcass, into that charnel house, into

-that cavernous and loathsome inferno, from

-which there is no escape, there to rot and disintegrate

-and forever die. Thus they subjected

-their savior to the foulest method of annihilation

-to save their worthless souls from Hell.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>At the Passover the Jews sacrificed over

-250,000 lambs to propitiate some blood-loving

-god. The altars and courts of the Temple ran

-red with the life blood of these innocent creatures.

-And certain beasts still sing: “And sinners

-plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty

-stains.” “Such a blood-sacrifice is unworthy of

-any people except the worshippers of some

-heathen devil-god in darkest Africa.”—Mystic

-Christianity, 65.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>When Richard, Robert, Sarah and Isabella

-Bartlett, at Lincoln, England, in 1521, expressed

-their opinions too freely on religious matters,

-they were burned at the stake by Bishop John

-Longland, but they were a pestiferous and seditious

-lot. They even objected to eating the

-male emblems, or images of the male, on communion

-day, and these double-dyed heretics denied

-the real presence of either Christ or Priapus in

-the images.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Here is what Taine says as to this affair:

-“The Bishops had received the right of imprisoning

-without trial laymen suspected of heresy,

-and the jurisdiction of all crimes, offenses and

-sins was given to the ecclesiastical tribunals.

-They burned Lord Cobham alive. With what

-shamelessness this power was transformed into

-<span class='pageno' title='36' id='Page_36'></span>a vehicle for extortions. A man begins to think

-when he is thus downtrodden. He asks himself

-if it is really by divine dispensation that mitred

-thieves thus practice tyranny and pillage. He

-wants to know if they themselves practice the

-regularity that they impose on others, and he

-learns strange things. Cardinal Wolsey writes

-to the Pope that both the secular and regular

-priests were in the habit of committing atrocious

-crimes, for which, if not in orders, they would

-have been promptly executed. A priest convicted

-of incest with the prioress of Kilbourn was

-condemned to carry a cross in a procession and

-pay a fine of 3s and 4p. In the reign of Henry

-VII the gentlemen and farmers of Carnarvonshire

-laid a complaint accusing the clergy of systematically

-seducing their wives and daughters.

-The Holy Father Prior of Maiden Bradley hath

-but six children, and but one daughter married

-yet of the goods of the monastery, trusting

-shortly to marry the rest. The royal visitors

-found concubines in the secret apartments of the

-Abbots. At the nunnery of Sion the confessors

-seduced the nuns and absolved them at the same

-time. There were convents, Burnett tells us,

-where all the recluses were found pregnant.”—Taine’s

-English Literature, 2-18.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“Bishop Longland, of Lincoln, about 1521,

-summons the relatives of the accused, brothers,

-women and children, and administers the oath.

-As they have already been prosecuted and have

-abjured, they must make oath, or they are relapsed,

-and the fagots await them. Then they

-denounce their kinsmen and themselves. Three

-of the accused were charged with passing the

-night together in reading the scriptures. Several

-of them at church, at the moment of the Elevation

-would not say their prayers and remained seated

-dumb as beasts. A brazier denied the real presence.

-<span class='pageno' title='37' id='Page_37'></span>Six were burnt alive. The children of

-John Scrivener were themselves obliged to set

-fire to their father’s funeral pyre. They saw

-him, bound by an iron chain, with clasped hands,

-praying amidst the smoke, whilst the flame

-blackened his skin and destroyed his flesh. Such

-sights are not forgotten.”—Idem.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“At the peril of his life the Englishman obtains

-some portion of the Bible, which Tyndale

-had just translated, and hides it and learns it by

-heart. Tyndale, the translator, was condemned,

-hunted, in concealment, his mind full of the idea

-of a speedy death and of the Great God, for whom

-at last he mounted the funeral pyre.”—Idem, 2-21.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>If you do not believe that Priapus is christ,

-see Ency. Brit. 19-170, where he is represented

-as the shepherd god with a shepherd’s crook, and

-as the god of the vineyards and of fishermen,

-giving them abundant harvests. And sailors,

-in their sore distress, called upon him as Peter did.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“The Masons, in the darkness, hunt for

-Hiram Abiff, as the worshippers in the Eleusinian

-Mysteries hunted for their lost Cora.” In the

-grand finale the Mystics say: “I have taken the

-emblems from the kiste, and after kissing and

-tasting them, I have deposited in the bag, and

-from the bag back into the kiste.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the first illustrated English Bible, the

-Devil will be seen, wearing a pair of wings and a

-Hebrew nose, tempting Eve. He says: “Take

-this fruit, bite it and taste it.” You will see

-that the thing presented to her is not an apple at

-all, but the emblem of Ashtoreth. See Sun. Am.

-Mag. Dec. 20, 1914. You will also find in

-another illustration there the angel Gabriel,

-with the Word strapped on his back, descending

-into Hell to deliver the souls in torment.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Yesterday in passing a great church, when I

-raised my eyes to the cross, I there beheld on each

-<span class='pageno' title='38' id='Page_38'></span>arm of the cross, the circle, the same revered

-article that the Devil offered to Eve. This

-blessed and holy symbol is found engraven over

-the portals of the eternal rock temples of the

-ruined city of Petra, Arabia, that flourished in

-the time of Esau and his son Edom, as well as

-over the doors of the ancient churches of Ireland,

-and on the modern cathedrals. In fact this

-aesthetic Eye worship extends around the world,

-starting in the slums of India, it has circled the

-globe.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Christian religion was copied largely

-from the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were

-founded at the city of Eleusis, near Athens.

-These mysterious rites were employed in the

-worship of Demeter or Mater, the mother god, or

-Mary. In these Mysteries the worshippers indulged

-in the foul orgies of the Agape. The men

-carried male emblems or Signa Taus, and the females

-carried the kiste or box. Placing the

-Signa Tau in the kiste caused them to be born

-again and saved their souls from Tophet.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='39' id='Page_39'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER VIII.<br /> <br /><b>Jesus Christ.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>If the clergymen tell you that there is

-only one christ, politely present them with the

-seal of Belial. Each of the principal religions

-had twelve christs. Christ was never crucified,

-but the human race was crucified by religion

-from its very inception, and the Christian

-world wallowed in the Egyptian darkness of

-ignorance and superstition till in the middle ages,

-the golden age, no king in Europe could read and

-write.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Christ is the same as Agni, the sun god of

-the Aryans, who was called the Son of God and

-the Son of Man. The god Agni is represented by

-us by the idol, the Agnus Dei, the Ram God, that

-holds in his hoof a cross and some banner, perhaps

-the blood-stained banner of the Inquisition.

-Adam Kadmon, Enoch, Horus, Krishna, Ormazd,

-and Hermes, the patron of thieves and flocks, the

-son of Deus and Maia, these and many other

-gods are all identical with christ. Noah was the

-christ that came in the sign of the Waterman 25,868

-years ago. In the Babylonian legend the

-deluge continued seven days, and the ship landed

-on Mt. Niser. This is a resurrection of the great

-god Dionysius or Bacchus, and the first thing he

-did when he got ashore was to get drunk. He is

-also Jehovah Nissi or the Egyptian god Osiris

-who was born on Mt. Nissa or Sinai in the month

-of Nisan or Easter.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Sephir Toldos Jeshu, a Kabalist, says: “A

-virgin named Mariam, betrothed to one Johannan

-<span class='pageno' title='40' id='Page_40'></span>was outraged by another man named Joseph

-Panther. Her betrothed left her. The child born

-was Jesus, named Joshua, adopted by his uncle

-Rabbi Jehosuah. He was initiated into the

-secret doctrines by Rabbi Elhanan, a Kabalist,

-and then by the Egyptian priests, who consecrated

-him High Pontiff of the Universal Secret

-Doctrine. Upon his returning to Judea his

-learning and powers excited the jealousy of the

-rabbis, and they publicly reproached him with

-his origin and insulted his mother.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>According to the Pretevangelium Jacobi,

-“From her third to her twelfth year Mary was in

-the Temple. When she became of nubile age,

-lest she should defile the Sanctuary of the Lord,

-she was committed to the guardianship of Joseph,

-an elderly man and a widower with a family.

-When the Virgin’s pregnancy was discovered,

-Joseph and she were brought before the high

-priest, and though asserting their innocence

-in all sincerity, were acquitted only after they

-had been tried with the water of the ordeal of

-the Lord.”—Ency. Brit. 15:590. Mary was

-then a virgin and ever after remained so, although

-she had other children.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The author does not believe that either of

-the above passages refers to the Christian Jesus.

-He is an Egyptian or Hindu deity, not a Jew.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The christs were all illegitimate. Their parents,

-the sun and moon, would have complied with

-the idiotic human laws if there had been any

-magistrate in Heaven to marry them. There

-was Asphalius of Greece, born of the Virgin

-Ethra out of wedlock. Then there are Romulus

-and Remus, alias Castor and Pollux or Gemini,

-the Twins of the zodiac. They were sons of

-a Vestal Virgin named Rhea. King Amulius,

-corresponding with Herod, commanded his servant

-to destroy the two children, but the servant

-<span class='pageno' title='41' id='Page_41'></span>put them in a trough or ark, and they floated

-on the river as Moses, who was also a christ,

-did in his ark, and as the males and females

-did in Noah’s Ark. Their mother claimed

-that their father was the god Mars. Unmarried

-ladies, in those halcyon days, always put their

-children up to the gods.—See Plutarch, 1:33.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Christ is a mythical sun-god, a rebirth of

-the sun in a new sign of the zodiac. The Church

-Fathers, in localizing the Christ in the Holy

-Land, could claim that any Jesus of that region

-was the Son of God, either Jesus, the bandit

-of Galilee, or the one described above, as long

-as his name corresponded with the I E S of Egypt,

-and as long as he was dead and could not defend

-himself. According to Josephus, the Jesus that

-lived in the reign of King Agrippa and Herod the

-Tetrarch was Jesus of Galilee, the captain of a

-band of robbers, a wicked man, a seditious person

-and an innovator, the leader of a tumult of mariners

-and poor people. He sacked the temple at

-Samaria. See Life of Josephus, 5.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Renan says that Philo, who died about 50

-A. D., and who was born before Jesus, and who

-lived in Palestine during the alleged preaching

-of Christ, had never heard of him. Josephus

-does not mention a Christian sect at all. The

-Emperor Adrian called the Christians worshippers

-of Serapis, and that was probably the truth.

-Serapis is the Devil, with horns, Lord of the

-Underworld.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Christna, Apollo, Zeus and others, like

-Christ, were good shepherds. The Hindus represent

-Christna as crucified on the cross between

-two thieves, with the nail marks in his hands,

-and with a crown of seven points to show that he

-is the seventh avatar. His father was a carpenter,

-and he slew the great serpent Caliva and was

-worshipped in India ages before the Christian Era.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='42' id='Page_42'></span>The doctrine of Christ and the atonement

-originated in heathendom. It came from the

-pagan sacrificers of human beings and the eaters

-of human flesh in human gore imbued. They

-took the doctrine from the Chaldean Kabala.

-It is a pagan myth. Bacchus or Dionysius was

-the god of the vine, and his worshippers drank

-his blood to wash their sins away. He was the

-son of Deus or Zeus and an earthly mother. He

-was slain or sacrificed at the winter solstice and

-went down into Hell. Hera, who corresponds

-with Herod, sought Bacchus to slay him. He

-was honored by festivals at Christmas, when the

-sun died, and at Easter when it was resurrected.

-His emblems were the bull, the ass and the goat.

-The Christians of Rome were ridiculed for worshipping

-an ass-headed god. The symbol of the

-Bacchic orgies is named Eva or Heva, identical

-with the serpent raised by the Hebrews in the

-wilderness. Heva means a female serpent and

-constitutes a part of god, the second part of the

-name Yaheva. The first part of that hermaphrodite

-god is Ya, the male, and the last part is Heva,

-the female, or serpent, or Devil.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Christ not only never rose from the dead,

-but he never existed. The doctrine of vicarious

-atonement is a lie and a farce. The Christian’s

-hope of escaping Hell by cowardly allowing another

-to suffer for his sins, has taken wings and

-flown away.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Gnostics, one of the earliest Christian

-sects, formerly called Essenes, claimed that

-Christ was a phantom, that he was neither born

-nor suffered on the cross. See Book of All Religions,

-213. Origen believed the same. He

-tells of the popular irrational Christianity based

-on the fictitious gospel history devised to assist

-the masses, who could not comprehend a spiritual

-christ.—Mystic Christianity, 211.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='43' id='Page_43'></span>Madam Blavatsky says that this abominable

-doctrine of the forgiveness of sins is the cause of

-three fourths of the crimes of so-called Christians.

-The murdered victim goes to Hell in the

-midst of his sins, but the murderer receives absolution

-and goes to Heaven and sits with Christ

-beside the Golden Throne. The Parsis say: “If

-any of you commit sin under the belief that he

-shall be saved by somebody, both the deceiver

-as well as the deceived shall be damned to the

-day of Rasla Khaz. There is no savior. In the

-other world you shall receive the return according

-to your actions. Your savior is your good

-deeds.” Plato says in 2-187: “Even if there

-are gods, they can be bribed by prayers and offerings,

-so it is better to be unjust and offer of the

-fruits of injustice to the gods. By our sinning

-and praying and praying and sinning, the gods

-will be propitiated, and we shall be forgiven.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Jews offered seven lambs at the new

-moon because the Lamb came seven times. It

-is to be noted that they gave none of the offering

-to God except the refuse, the extremities and the

-fat and the lobe of the liver, but the priests had

-the breast and the right shoulder. The Lord

-and the mob were welcome to the offal.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>We are saved by the blood of christ or Priapus,

-but the Jews were saved by the blood of

-the circumcision of Abraham, who was also a

-christ. “Abraham was circumcised on the day

-of the atonement, and God looks that day annually

-on the blood of the covenant of our father

-Abraham’s circumcision as atoning for all our

-iniquities.”—Talmud Yalcut Chadish, fol. 121,

-sec. 3.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>When the young and beautiful philosopher,

-Hypatia, disclosed these sacred religious secrets

-in Egypt about 412 A. D., she was torn from her

-chariot by a Christian mob, dragged to a Christian

-<span class='pageno' title='44' id='Page_44'></span>church, stripped naked and ravished at the

-very feet of the idol of Christ, and then beaten

-to death by Peter, the Reader. Her body was

-cut into pieces, the flesh scraped from the

-bones with oyster shells, and the remnants

-cast into the fire by the order of the canonized

-saint, Bishop Cyril of Alexandria.—Ency. Brit.

-12:596.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>A Nazar or Nazarene, according to Hosea,

-was one who had consecrated himself to Bosheth,

-(a shameful thing, a foul idol.) It was in Nazareth

-that the Nazarenes anciently held their

-Witches’ Sabbath. Bosher is the Hebrew name

-of the Tree of Infamy. The “Sod of the Kadishim,”

-Psalms, 89:7, is rendered by the

-translators “Assembly of the Saints,” when

-it was in truth an orgy of the ladies devoted

-to the service of the Temple. Sod was the

-name given to the vile assemblies in the ancient

-Mysteries in Sodom, and the nature of the

-sacred ceremonies may be gathered from the

-name. They were the same as those of the

-ancient Christian Agape or Love Feast.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>It is claimed that Apollonius of Tyana

-was the original of Christ, for the former was

-worshipped in Rome in the third century as

-the savior of man, and that no such person

-as Jesus Christ was then known. There was

-a sect that worshipped the Hindu Christos.

-Their religion was a mixture of Buddhism and

-Platonism, and their chief symbol was the phallic

-cross within the circle. The Christian religion

-takes its name and symbols from this Hindu

-religion. See Antiquity Unveiled, 98. Lucian

-says that the Christians spoke of Apollonius,

-called in Romans Apollos, as a god and took

-him for a lawgiver, and honored him with the

-title of Master.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='45' id='Page_45'></span>Prior to the sixth Ecumenical Council,

-680 A. D., the Christians worshipped an animal

-idol, the lamb on a cross, but it was found from

-ancient monuments that the pagans had worshipped

-the same idol. So the Council decreed

-that the figure of a man should be placed on the

-cross, Christ was not nailed to the cross until

-680 A. D. and then by the Ecumenical Council.—Idem

-161.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The pagan priests, at a very early date in

-the present era, finding that they were losing

-their hold on the people, concocted from pagan

-originals a new religion called the Christian. As

-a sop to the depraved and besotted worshippers

-of virgin-born gods, they alleged that their god

-was born of the Virgin Mary, and they seized

-upon and falsified the Hindu gospels, containing

-the life of Buddha, till they were made to appear

-to apply to the life of Christ. In order to bolster

-up this foul imposition and conceal the origin of

-Christianity, they destroyed the records of

-Grecian, Egyptian and Roman civilization and

-sank the world in darkness for a thousand years,

-filling it with woe and bloodshed. The success

-of this crime against their fellowmen set back

-the hands of time two thousand years. See

-Doubts of Infidels.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The doctrine of blood atonement came from

-Phoenicia, where they continually indulged in

-human sacrifice. In the event of an eclipse of

-the sun, the priests burned a man on a cross at

-the altar of the sun-god to avert the threatened

-calamity. “From the sixth hour there was

-darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.”

-And on these altars, 2600 B. C., was I H S or

-I E S. As the E or H in Egyptian hieroglyphics

-is a circle, this sign was originally I O S. I

-represents the father god, and O the mother god,

-and S represents the son or serpent. The serpent

-<span class='pageno' title='46' id='Page_46'></span>was crucified on the cross by the Egyptians and

-Jews as a saving rite.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>At the church festival of Tezcatlipoca in

-Mexico, they chose a prisoner as the incarnate

-representative of god and placed a garland and

-an embroidered mantle upon him, as the Jews

-did on Christ. Then they led him to the temple,

-where the priest cut his heart out and held the

-sacred bleeding heart up to the sun, and his

-body was eaten by the church members, as we

-eat the body of our Savior.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Rev. Robert Taylor says in his Diegesis:

-“Not a single passage written in the first century

-can be produced from any independent authority

-to show the existence of such a person as Jesus

-Christ or his disciples.” The silence of all contemporary

-writers respecting Jesus Christ is a

-notorious fact. Philo, Seneca, Plutarch, Juvenal,

-Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Lucian, who lived in

-that period, make no allusion to his works, nor

-even mention his name.—Doubts of Infidels, 66.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The christ Prometheus died for the salvation

-of the world and was nailed on the cross many

-hundreds of years before the Christian Era.

-And the christ Esculapius, the Great Physician,

-healed the sick and raised the dead and died in

-the West and rose again in the East.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Jonah was a christ or sun-god. The sign

-of the Goat in the Buddhist zodiac is represented

-by a leviathan or whale vomiting out the sacred

-Elephant, or sun, or Son of God. When the

-sun entered the sign of the Leviathan in December

-it was swallowed by the whale, but was vomited

-out again three days later on the 25th of December,

-when the sun commenced to return. Hence

-the story of Jonah and the whale, which has been

-so hard to swallow, and which has taxed our

-piety to the limit.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='47' id='Page_47'></span>Ies is the Phoenician name of the god Bacchus.

-Ies, or Iesu, or Jesus was stolen from the

-Phoenicians and Egyptians, and the god Christos

-was taken from the Hindus and thrown together

-into the melting pot of Potoman of

-Alexandria, and out came Jesus Christ. Potoman

-compiled the Christian religion from Hindu,

-Greek and Egyptian originals.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>If God made man in his own image, why

-does he have to be redeemed? It is true that

-man stubbed his toe and fell, but it was because

-he obeyed the command of God to increase and

-multiply. The Yogis claim that Christ was not

-virgin born, but was a virgin spirit split off of

-God and came to redeem the world. If he redeemed

-the world, how is it that the people are

-worse now than they ever were, that the history

-of his religion has been a history of depravity,

-vice, crime, murder and carnage, which has now

-culminated in a world-orgy of savagery, pillage

-and slaughter, of which the fiends in Hell would

-be incapable? How is it that the beasts, which

-have never been redeemed, the doves, the rabbits,

-the lambs, the deer, are far superior to us who

-were bought by the blood?</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='48' id='Page_48'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER IX<br /> <br /><b>Hell-fire and Brimstone.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<div class='lg-container-b c002'>

-  <div class='linegroup'>

-    <div class='group'>

-      <div class='line'>You’ll burn in Hell ten thousand years,</div>

-      <div class='line'>In vain will be your cries and tears,</div>

-      <div class='line'>You’ll burn in Hell till ages meet,</div>

-      <div class='line'>And just begin to feel the heat.—Amasa Alden.</div>

-    </div>

-  </div>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>We are in Hell now. Rabbi Eleasher says

-that “the demons who were cast out of Heaven

-and the descendants of the witless progeny of

-matter and spirit became in the course of time

-the men of our planet, after having passed

-through every form of every one of the elements.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Where did the Church dig up Hell? The

-Scandinavian Hell is not a place of punishment,

-but simply the abode of the dead. The dictionary

-says that Hades, the Hell of the Bible, is

-the abode of all the departed, the unseen spirit

-world. The Shoel of the Hebrews is the place

-of departed spirits, not a region of torment.

-The Underworld or Amenti, of the Egyptians,

-is a region of judgment and purification. The

-Onderah, the abyss of darkness of the Hindus,

-is an intermediate state or purgatory. Whence

-then came the dogma of Hell, that Archimedean

-lever of Christian theology, with which they

-have succeeded in holding in subjection the

-numberless millions of Christians for nineteen

-centuries.—Isis Unveiled.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Here is where Eusebius and the other

-Biblical writers got Hell. According to Mahabad,

-the christ and Adam of the Parsees, who

-wrote all the laws of God, Hell is peopled with

-<span class='pageno' title='49' id='Page_49'></span>ants, serpents and scorpions, ignorant, sick

-and indigent men and irreligious philosophers,

-and on account of the detestable qualities of

-the later, the ants, serpents and scorpions

-pounce upon and torture them. This is the

-Hell of Hells.—Dabistan, 81.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the chart of the cosmogony of the Kabalists,

-representing their idea of the creation

-of the universe, the last and most insignificant

-creation is the earth, which they have labeled

-Hell, the abode of the Devil, the Kingdom of

-the Great Serpent according to the Buddhists.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the religious Mysteries, if the soul has

-attained the final knowledge of the heavenly

-and infernal mysteries, the gnosis, complete

-reunion with the spirit, and knows the Word,

-at the death of the body, it becomes a god, or

-is absorbed into the soul of the world, the astral

-light, and becomes one of the creative deities

-or Elohim. If not, it has its part in the lake

-of fire and brimstone (the elements), the second

-death. This death is the gradual dissolution

-of the astral body into its primal elements and

-the banishment of the human spirit or electron

-into chaos.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Elephas Levi and many of the wise ones

-have said that the astral light is the Great

-Serpent or Devil, so we will go to the Devil

-anyway, no matter which path we pursue.

-What difference does it make whether we are

-united to the astral light or the material ether?

-All the atoms of all the elements have individual

-souls.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Krishna, the Hindu christ, Horus, the

-Egyptian christ, the Scandinavian Thor, the

-Greek Apollo and St. Patrick, the Irish christ,

-are all represented as killing the Great Serpent,

-the Devil. All of the christs, including

-Buddha, Bacchus, Hercules, Orpheus and Askelapius,

-<span class='pageno' title='50' id='Page_50'></span>as well as Jesus, descended into Hell

-and ascended again the third day. According

-to the Gospel of Nicodemus, Christ found Adam,

-Moses, David, Isaiah and all the other saints

-there, and as they had been burning in Hell

-several thousand years, their wings were pretty

-well singed and they were badly mussed up,

-but Christ took them by the hands and led

-them up to the Hebrew heaven, where the

-three balls are worshipped, together with the

-ass-headed god. The Devil had no one left

-to rule over except the depraved, uncircumcised

-gentiles and the elemental demons. The

-Gentiles cannot get past the gates of Tophet,

-but must linger for a time, and half a time, and

-ten thousand times while they do battle with

-the phantoms of Hell and wrestle with the

-Serpent of the Great Abyss.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“The Presbyterian clergy of Scotland delighted

-in telling their hearers that they would

-be roasted in great fires and hung up on hooks

-by their tongues. They were to be lashed with

-scorpions and see their companions writhing

-and howling around them. They were to be

-thrown into boiling oil and scalding lead. A

-river of fire and brimstone broader than the

-earth was prepared for them, their bones, their

-lungs and their liver were to boil but never

-be consumed, and while worms were gnawing

-at their bodies, they were to be surrounded

-by devils mocking and making pastime of their

-pains, the torment to be varied in its character

-as well as eternal in its duration. Hell was

-created before man came into the world, the

-Almighty having spent his previous leisure in

-preparing this place of torment, so that when

-the human race appeared, it might be ready

-for their reception.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 2-293.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='51' id='Page_51'></span>Hell is the lowest of the astral planes, in

-the immediate atmosphere of the earth, where

-the most of us go. Heaven is the highest of

-the spiritual planes, where God lives, but as

-nobody to speak of ever goes there, no one on

-the astral ever saw God or can make affidavit

-that he exists, and any spirit that claims that

-he has seen God is either deceiving us or is

-himself mistaken. He may have seen some

-astral idol, formed from the astral substance

-by the imagination and worshipped by the

-religion-besotted spirits. “The aura of the spirits

-in the lowest astral plane is the same as

-that of wicked human beings, a dark, cloudy

-or smoky emanation, streaked with the red

-flames of anger and passion. Deep shades

-of color whirl and swirl in the depths, lightning-like

-flashes shoot forth, and great bodies of

-lurid, smoky, clouds fly on the surface, having

-all the appearance of an inferno, and the region

-itself has the same aura, derived from the combined

-auras of its inhabitants. It is not surprising

-that the witches and wizards of the

-Bible, who could see by clairvoyant vision,

-described it as a Hell of fire and brimstone.”—Human

-Aura, 45.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>According to the religion of Zoroaster,

-“Hell is the House of Destruction. It is the

-abode chiefly of the priests of bad religions,”

-that is, all religions except the Persian, but

-this is not to be taken seriously, as every religion

-is a joke. Here we have the original

-doctrine of the resurrection of the body, which

-our Christian ministers have had the consummate

-nerve to preach even here in this age of

-the world.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Mark Twain says in “The Mysterious

-Stranger”: “A God who mouths justice and

-mercy and invented Hell, mouths golden rules

-<span class='pageno' title='52' id='Page_52'></span>and forgiveness and invented Hell, who mouths

-morals to other people and has none himself,

-who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them

-all, who created man without invitation, then

-tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s

-acts upon man, instead of placing it where it

-belongs upon himself.” The trouble with Mark

-was that he accepted as true all that silly superstition,

-all those puerile fairy tales, all those

-black lies from the Pit of Hell written and taught

-by the old priests and prophets. God never

-created the human race, he never made Hell.

-This cruel remark of Mark is libelous, almost

-bordering on blasphemy.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Read what the insane Church Fathers

-said: “There in Hell the intelligent fire burns

-the limbs and restores them, feeds on them

-and nourishes them.”—Felix.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The proud monarchs and magistrates (and

-everybody but the Christians) shall liquefy in

-the fierce flames of Hell.—Tertullian.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>We shall be compensated by a perpetual

-spectacle of our persecutors in an ever-burning

-Gehenna being devoured by living flames.—Cyprian.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Ling or the Word is the Commander-in-chief

-of the universe.—Clement.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Every sinner kindles for himself the flame

-of his own fire, and is not plunged into some

-fire kindled by another.—Origen.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The wicked will be provided not with the

-old earthly body, but with an indestructible

-body capable of holding out forever against

-everlasting fire.—Lactantius.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The whole mass of the human race is condemned.

-If we can pray the wicked out of

-Hell, we can pray the devils out.—Augustine.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Everybody, infants included, go to Hell,

-unless they are baptized.—Ambrose.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='53' id='Page_53'></span>There shall be eternal torments for all

-devils and skeptics.—Jerome.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Votive offerings by the living will reduce

-the torments of the dead. The blessed shall

-rejoice over the punishment of the damned.—Aquinas.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='54' id='Page_54'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER X.<br /> <br /><b>The Devil.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>Christ overcame the Great Serpent, the

-Devil, and the Irish Bacchus, St. Patrick, drove

-all the snakes out of Ireland. The drunken

-Bacchus, whose Saturnalia was held on the

-17th of March, when they poured out libations

-to him, was canonized and is now St. Bacchus,

-and his coffin and relics, endowed with magical

-and miraculous powers, were exhibited at Rome

-according to Isis Unveiled, 1:160.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Deus was Dyaus of the old Aryan or earlier

-Persian religion. Dyaus means to shine, and

-was a name of the sun. The followers of Zoroaster

-asserted that Dyaus was the Devil,

-and if they were right, it follows that Deus is

-the Devil. In this connection read the Lord’s

-Prayer, in which the ignorant worshipper endeavors

-to persuade the Lord not to lead him

-into temptation. According to the writers of

-the Bible, who were probably liars, He hardened

-the heart of Pharaoh, commanded the Israelites

-to steal, put an evil spirit into Saul and sent

-lying messages to the prophets. In Samuel

-it says that the Lord moved David to number

-Israel, but according to Chronicles it was the

-Devil who put him up to it. The words divine

-and devil are from Deva, the shining one, the

-Hindu god of light. Light is also luc, and

-Lucifer is a sun-god identical with Yahvah.

-The worshippers of Dyaus said that Ahura

-Mazda, of the Zoroastrians was the Devil.

-Ahura Mazda means I Am the I Am, and he

-<span class='pageno' title='55' id='Page_55'></span>is our God, the supreme God of the Hebrews,

-Kether, the father of Jehovah. According to

-the early Christians, the Gnostics and Nazarenes,

-the creator was Ilda Baoth, but in the Gospel

-of Nicodemus Ilda Baoth is Satan. Aaron

-sacrificed human beings to Azazel, identical

-with Moloch or the Devil. The Bible says

-that “man shall devote unto the Lord of all

-that he hath, both of man and beast. None

-devoted shall be redeemed, but shall surely

-be put to death.” We conclude that god and

-the Devil are one, that Brahma, Buddha, Dyaus,

-Ahura Mazda, Baal, Osiris, Jove, Bacchus,

-Christ, Priapus, Adonis, Deva and Devil are

-different names of the same god, and that god

-is a myth.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Devil is an emanation of god. He is

-Typhon, also called Sat and Seth in the Egyptian

-religion. The Ency. Brit. says that he is a

-brother or son of Osiris, and we have shown

-that Osiris and god are one, so we conclude

-that the Devil is the son of god as claimed in

-Job, 1:6. The Salvation Army says: “You

-must be a lover of the lord if you want to go

-to Heaven when you die.” So you must love

-the Devil and all these beasts of pagan gods,

-or you will have to shovel coal while the endless

-years of eternity roll.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Pentagram, by the power of which

-Solomon could summon the high gods to his

-assistance or call up the goblins damned, represents

-God when one horn of the star is in the

-ascendent or at the top, but when the two horns

-are in the ascendent, it represents the Devil

-or the goat. When Solomon summoned Gabriel

-to help him capture a new girl, the head

-of the star, on which is the mystic eye, was

-pointed toward the altar of evocation. But

-if he wished to raise the Devil, the horns of

-<span class='pageno' title='56' id='Page_56'></span>the goat were pointed toward the altar. In

-the infernal invocation Solomon wore a leaden

-cap, on which were the signs of the Moon,

-Venus and Saturn. He had two candles of

-human fat in a crescent candlestick, a copper

-vase holding the blood of the human victim, a

-censer containing incense moistened with the

-blood of a goat, four nails from the coffin of

-an executed criminal, the head of a black cat

-which has been fed on human flesh for five

-days, a bat drowned in blood, the horns of an

-immoral goat, the scull of a parricide. Then

-Solomon says in the evocation of the Devil:

-“By Adonai Elohim (the Creator), Adonai

-Jehovah (the Son), Adonai Sabbaoth (the Mother),

-by the womb of the Mother Adonai, by

-the Word of the Python and the Mystery of

-the Salamanders, by the Conclave of the Sylphs

-and the Gnomes, by the Demons of God in

-Heaven and Alamousin and Gibor, Come!

-Come! Come!”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>On the Pentagram is the mystic word יחוח,

-Yahvah, the spelling of which indicates

-that it represents two hermaphrodite gods.

-יח, Yah, is the good god, and וח, Vah, is

-the god of evil. The good god is represented

-in a pack of cards by the king of hearts, the

-god of love, and his wife, the queen of diamonds.

-And the hermaphrodite god of evil is represented

-by the king of spades and his wife, Lilith,

-the queen of clubs. Aristotle said that Jehovah

-was Ormazd, the god of light, and Pluto, the

-god of darkness. Jehovah is the God of Wisdom,

-so is the Egyptian serpent god, called Sat or

-Satan.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The serpent god is the astral light, the

-magnetic current. The priests by their great

-will power could direct this current at pleasure

-and perform the wonders and miracles that

-<span class='pageno' title='57' id='Page_57'></span>held enthralled their besotted devotees. They

-claimed that they were serpents because the

-serpent god magnetism permeated their bodies.

-A manuscript found among the Toltecs

-of Mexico asserted that they were descended

-from the house of Israel. Voltan, the Mexican

-demigod, says that he is the son of the snakes.

-The hierophants of Egypt and Babylon called

-themselves the sons of the serpent god. The

-chief priest of the serpent god of the Mexicans

-says: “I am a snake myself.” The Druids

-of Britain used to say: “I am a serpent, I am

-a Druid.”—Isis Unveiled.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Cneph or Cohen Eph (divine serpent)

-of Egypt was the supreme god, the flying dragon,

-the divine spirit permeating all creation, like

-the serpent god of the Buddhists. This spirit

-is electricity. The Ophites, Christian Gnostics,

-claimed that the serpent that tempted Eve was

-Jesus Christ, the Great Architect of the Universe,

-or Cohen Eph. Eve represented matter, and the

-spirit permeating matter produces living beings.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The astral light is both god and the Devil,

-the creator and the destroyer and also the Nirvana

-of the Buddhists. It is the Ah of the

-Hindus, or Iah or Eh Ei Eh of the Hebrews. It

-is life or the life-giving fluid. It is the Od and

-Ob of Moses and the Kabalists. When it acts

-on those that are drawn within its current it is

-the Ob or Python. Moses was determined to

-exterminate those witches who, sensitive to its

-influence, allowed themselves to fall under the

-control of the vicious beings which move in the

-astral waves like fish in the water.—Isis Unveiled,

-1-158. Porphery says that “these beings

-are mischievous and deceitful, though some are

-gentle and harmless, but so weak as to have the

-greatest difficulty in communicating with mortals.

-<span class='pageno' title='58' id='Page_58'></span>Their powers of reasoning are in a latent state,

-and therefore they themselves irresponsible.”

-But St. Augustine says: “These spirits are deceitful

-through malice. They pass themselves

-off for gods and for the souls of the defunct.”

-St. Jerome says that some of these elementary

-spirits or satyrs, with the legs and tails of goats,

-were exhibited at Alexandria, and one of them

-was pickled and sent to the Emperor Constantine,

-which he highly appreciated, as he was

-usually in the same condition. The Devil says,

-according to Edgar Allan Poe: “In a climate so

-sultry as mine it is frequently impossible to keep

-a spirit alive for more than two or three hours,

-and unless pickled immediately (and a pickled

-spirit is not good eating) they will smell.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>They called out sixty thousand militia in

-Cevennes, France, in 1700 to drive the Devil out

-of the boys and girls and babes at the breast

-who prophesied in pure French, a language unknown

-to them. The Prior reported to Rome

-that the Devil was so powerful that no torture

-and no amount of exorcism is able to dislodge

-him. He says he closed their hands on burning

-coals, and they were not even singed, that he

-wrapped their bodies in cotton soaked with oil

-and set them on fire and could not even blister

-their skins, that balls were shot at them and

-found flattened between the skin and clothes.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Perhaps the greatest number of miracles

-ever performed in the world were pulled off by

-the Devil at the tomb of Abbe Paris from 1727

-to 1749. The sick were cured, the deaf made to

-hear and the blind to see. Often a young girl

-among the convulsionaries would bend back into

-an arc, her loins supported by the sharpened

-point of an iron rod, and beg to be pounded with

-a fifty pound stone suspended from the ceiling.

-The stone was allowed to fall repeatedly with all

-<span class='pageno' title='59' id='Page_59'></span>its weight upon her abdomen, and the girl enjoyed

-it and cried for more, and no injury was

-found upon her person. When violent blows

-were struck with a sledge-hammer upon a drill

-held against her stomach she cried out: “O!

-how delightful, that does me good. Strike twice

-as hard if you can.”—Isis Unveiled.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='60' id='Page_60'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XI<br /> <br /><b>Life Cells.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>I Am the I Am, the Hebrew God, is supposed

-by Christians to be the First Cause, but the

-assumption of a first cause is quite unnecessary,

-and further, if you postulate a creative god, some

-impertinent person might ask you who made God.

-It is just as well to start with matter, in which

-mind and energy are inherent, which is eternal,

-infinite, immortal, self-existent and sustaining,

-requiring no supreme power as a basis or background,

-as set forth in the Sankhya System of

-the Hindus. See Phil. &amp; Relig. of India, 55.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The attraction or love of one mass of matter

-for another is the energy. It is that love that

-creates all forms. The atoms go a-chasing after

-other atoms, even as you and I. There can be

-no attraction without mind. Anaxagoras and

-Empedocles believed in a dualism of mind and

-matter. The latter says: “The periods of the

-formation of the world depend upon the alternate

-prevalence of love and hate. During certain

-periods all heterogeneous atoms are separated

-from each other by hate, during others they are

-everywhere united by love.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Haeckel says: “These three fundamental

-attributes, matter, force and sensation, are found

-inseparably united throughout the whole universe

-in every atom and every molecule.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Edgar Allan Poe says: “That which is not

-matter is not at all. The ultimate unparticled

-matter not only permeates all things but impels

-all things. This matter is God. What men attempt

-<span class='pageno' title='61' id='Page_61'></span>to embody in the word ‘thought’ is this

-matter in motion. The unparticled matter, or

-God, in quiescence is what men call mind. The

-motion of the unparticled matter is the universal

-thought of the universal mind. This thought

-creates. All things are but the thought of God.

-For new individualities gross matter is necessary.

-To create individual, thinking beings, it was

-necessary to incarnate portions of the Divine

-Mind. Thus man is individualized. Divested

-of corporate investiture, he were God.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>According to the Ionic philosophy matter

-is by nature endowed with life, and life is inseparably

-connected with matter.—Ueberweg’s

-Hist. of Philosophy, 1-32.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>It is said that in the beginning a male electron

-or spirit, or purusha, or soul, from the spirit

-principle of the universe, becoming involved in

-the material ether, formed a vortex, about which

-the female or material electrons of the ether

-revolved, thus producing an atom, the basis

-of all visible forms. The electron attracts

-the particles of matter in the ether as a magnet

-attracts steel. The electrons are called units

-of electricity, and there are perhaps a thousand

-in an atom. The space between these ions

-is comparatively as great as the space between

-the planets of our solar system. Leucippus,

-of Abdera, says that souls are round atoms.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The religious claim that the Divine Thought

-or Word originated the vortex movement. As

-John did not care to proclaim that his god was

-Ling, which he had stolen from the Hindus,

-he called it the Word, another meaning of Ling,

-from Ling comes linguist. Word is the exoteric

-meaning designed for fools, and the other is

-the esoteric or hidden meaning known only to

-the initiates. I think that the Christians are

-in error in claiming John’s god as their own,

-<span class='pageno' title='62' id='Page_62'></span>but amid such a flock of gods the confusion

-is not surprising.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“New Light has arisen, coming from Heaven,

-it assumed a mortal form. Virgin receive

-God in thy bosom, and the Word flew into the

-womb. Becoming incarnate in time, and animated

-by her body, it was found in mortal

-image, and a boy was created.”—Plutarch,

-Isis and Osiris, 17. Christna or the Word, the

-Hindu savior, like Christ was a shepherd, and

-he became entangled with the shepherdesses. He

-was born in the cave of Venus, as all Simon-pure

-christs have to be, and King Kamsa, in

-seeking to kill him, ordered the destruction of

-all male infants. He also had two fathers,

-God and Vasu Deva, the Earth god or Joseb.

-He and the god Vishnu were one.—Phil. &amp;

-Relig. of India, 278.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Hindus claim that the akasa or astral

-light, or Brahma, (electricity) originated the

-vortex movement that formed the atoms. Akasa

-is the source of life, the reservoir of all energy,

-the all-directing and omnipotent god. It was

-the indispensable agent of every magical performance,

-and the Brahmans said that they

-had to stir up Brahma in order to perform a

-trick in magic to delude their devotees. Madam

-Blavatsky says: “As God creates so can man

-create. By the action of the will power on the

-atoms he can call objective forms into being.

-The atoms are like automatic workmen moved

-by the influx of the will directed upon them.”

-“Every motion we make, every word we utter

-gives an impulse to the ether and thus creates

-atoms.”—Edgar Allan Poe.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Aristotle says: “The world always was

-and always will be. The ether fills the celestial

-spaces, and of it the spheres and stars are

-formed.” The atoms combine to form molecules,

-<span class='pageno' title='63' id='Page_63'></span>and these, being attracted together, form the

-gases of which nebulae are composed. These

-nebulae follow the same circular movement

-that prevails in the atoms, and the result of

-this movement is a solar system, the nucleus

-of which becomes the sun. The rings that

-separate from the main body in this revolution

-eventually break up and form planets. When

-these planets cool, we find all the atomic souls

-either in the water or imprisoned in the rocks

-or in the central fire. The sea beats up against

-the rocks, and the rains descend upon and

-disintegrate them and thus release the souls

-that were imprisoned there in the process of

-involution. Now they commence to evolve

-toward what the egotistic have termed man’s

-high estate.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Yogi Ramacharaka says: “The Yogi teaching

-informs us that even in the molten mass

-there were elementary forms that were to

-become the ancestral forms of the later living

-beings. From these elementary forms there

-gradually evolved, as the earth cooled and

-solidified, other forms, and so on until at last

-the first living form manifested. The lowest

-forms of what we call life were evolved from

-forms of crystal life, which indeed they very

-much resemble.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Haeckel, the world’s greatest scientist, says:

-“Man descends immediately from the ape, and

-secondarily from a long line of lower vertebrates

-back to the Silurian fishes. The lowest man

-appeared on the earth about three million years

-ago.”—Riddle of the Universe, 82. Anaximander,

-of Miletus, says: “Living beings arose

-by gradual development out of the elementary

-moisture under the influence of heat. We land

-animals had in the beginning the form of

-fishes.”—Ueberweg, 1:35.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='64' id='Page_64'></span>The atoms combining by their own desire

-and will formed a molecule, and the molecules

-by their own volition combined to form a life

-cell, our earliest ancestor, a minute, animate

-mass of protoplasm, the lowest form of animal

-life, born in the slum of the ocean bed millions

-of years ago. Myriads of these life cells form

-the human body. Each cell is a distinct individual,

-having brain, mind and soul. Haeckel

-says that the primordial living substance is

-plasm. We can live only by eating other living

-beings or plasm, that is, by cannibalism. Plants

-create living plasm out of alleged non-living matter,

-they form carbo-hydrates, and from these form

-plasm by a combination with water, carbolic

-acid, ammonia and nitric acid. We claim to

-have souls, but deny them to the plants, the

-divine creators whose chemical laboratories,

-the cells, are beyond human comprehension.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The cells arrange themselves in the embryo

-in the form of a human being by their own

-will. “They use the materials which are at

-hand, fabricating organs for themselves by

-instinct, and in the appointed hour are born

-in the shape which they have formed for themselves.”—Enoch,

-ch. 14. The human embryo

-in its development passes through all the forms

-through which the race has struggled in its

-evolution from stone, through the primordial

-cell, the worm, the fish, the saurian and gorilla.

-In the last stage, that of the gorilla, the embryo

-is entirely covered with hair like our beloved

-ancestors, and sometimes development is arrested

-at this point and a hairy child is born

-occasionally with a tail.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The scientists have discovered in the cell

-body a god more potent than any known deity

-and have named it centrosome. It is a being

-of stellar form, located just above the nucleus

-<span class='pageno' title='65' id='Page_65'></span>or nerve centre of the cell. It is a creator

-whose magic far excels the feats of gods or

-men. It divides one living being into two,

-splitting the brain and the body of the cell in

-halves in such a manner that the two individuals

-produced are the exact duplicates of the parent

-cell in form and character. The cell brain

-matter, called cromatin, is composed of strings

-of very minute granules, termed cromosome,

-which are supposed to contain all the hereditary

-traits. The division of each one of these cromosomes

-into equal halves gives to the individuals

-produced a similar character. The centrosome

-is one in the beginning, but before dividing

-the cell it divides itself into two persons, so

-that one of the centrosomes may accompany

-each of the two cells. Each centrosome seizes

-one half of the brain of the parent cell thus

-divided and draws it to one side of the cell to

-form the nucleus of one of the new cells. Then

-the whole body of the cell is divided in the

-centre.—Story of the Living Machine, 100.

-When the centrosome divides the cell, two

-cells are produced capable of reproducing themselves

-in like manner. Prof. A. Dastre says

-that “under suitable circumstances the lowest

-animated forms are immortal.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Our soul is formed by the combination of

-the souls of the two germ cells from which the

-embryo originated. We existed in our parents

-prior to our advent here and in all of our ancestors

-for 500,000,000 years back, more or less.

-The conscious matter that constitutes me, the

-cromatin, existed in every one of my ancestors

-since we were washed out of the igneous rocks or

-spawned in the ocean depths. Jack London

-says: “I did not begin when I was born. I

-have been growing, developing through incalculable

-myriads of milleniums. All these experiences

-<span class='pageno' title='66' id='Page_66'></span>of all these lives and of countless other

-lives have gone to the making of the soul-stuff

-that is I.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Elephas Levi says: “The millions of germ

-cells that fail to become human beings are transformed

-into phantoms or larvae. These larvae

-possess aerial bodies formed from the steam of

-blood. For this reason they seek out spilt

-blood, and were formerly nourished by the smoke

-of sacrifices. The cohesion of the parts of these

-phantastic organisms is so feeble that they fear

-a strong wind, large fires, and above all the points

-of swords. They are vampires.” This accounts

-for the craving of the gods for blood sacrifices.

-The spirits and phantoms were mistaken for gods

-by the drunken prophets.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“The cells are spheroids and they are men in

-embryo,” says Plato. “God caused the universe

-to move with a circular motion and created

-original man as a perfect circle. The sexes were

-originally three in number, man, woman and

-hermaphrodite, and they had two faces and four

-arms and four legs, but Zeus cut them in two.

-After the division the two parts of man, each

-desiring the other half, came together and threw

-their arms about one another eager to grow into

-one. Each of us when separate is but the indenture

-of a man, having one side only like a flat-fish,

-and he is always looking for his other half.”—Plato,

-1-483.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The intelligence of the cells has been clearly

-established by overwhelming proofs. An egg

-or ovum is at first a small fertilized cell, and

-in its development or transformation into an

-embryo, it is at first divided into several cells,

-to wit, the head cell, the body cell, the tail cell

-and the food cells. Prof. Oppel, in his experiments

-in embryology, separated these cells,

-removing them from their proper positions,

-<span class='pageno' title='67' id='Page_67'></span>but the cells so removed, traveled about trying

-first one place and then another until they

-usually found their proper positions and there

-joined the body and grew thereon, producing

-a perfect animal. If they made a mistake and

-joined the body in the wrong place, a monster

-was produced.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Furthermore, a scientist produced a mushroom-shaped

-being by subjecting metallic salts

-to the action of a galvanic current. The particles

-of the metal gathered around the pole of

-the magnet in the shape of a mushroom. This

-thing was a living being, with alimentary canal

-in its stem, through which it drew its nourishment

-and added to its growth. It was only

-necessary that a current of life or electricity

-be introduced among the particles to cause

-them to assume the form of a living organism.

-The metallic tree is produced by the same means.

-A copper wire and a piece of zinc are suspended

-in a bottle of a solution of acetate of lead, and

-the particles of lead gather about the copper

-wire and put forth branches, limbs and foliage.—Yogi

-Ramacharaka.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Each atom of matter, each molecule and

-every life cell, of which man is composed, has

-a soul of its own. And it is claimed that beside

-the individual cell souls, man not only has

-a communal soul in his brain, but a soul in his

-Solar Plexus. After a frog is beheaded, if a

-drop of acid is placed on his body, he will wipe

-it off with his foot.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The development of animals out of frogs

-and men out of animals was held by Anaximenes

-600 B. C., and the evolution of species

-was an accepted doctrine before the flood. In

-the Hindu books it is written: “When the world

-had issued out of the darkness, the subtle, elementary

-principles produced the vegetal seed,

-<span class='pageno' title='68' id='Page_68'></span>which animated first the plants, from the plants

-life passed into fantastical bodies which were

-born in the waters, then through a series of

-forms and various animals it reached man.”—Bhagavata.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Kapella, an Aryan sage, denied the existence

-of a first cause, claiming that everything

-in nature found itself developed only in consequence

-of material fatal forces. The ancient

-Kabalists said: “A stone becomes a plant, a

-plant a beast, a beast a man, a man a spirit, and

-the spirit a god.”</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='69' id='Page_69'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XII.<br /> <br /><b>Magic and Devil Worship.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>Elephas Levi claimed that the attraction

-and repulsion of the atoms is caused by the

-astral light. “There exists an agent which is

-material and spiritual, a universal plastic medium,

-a common receptacle of the vibrations of motions

-and the images of forms, a fluid and a force.

-By means of this force all nervous apparatuses

-secretly communicate with each other, thence

-come sympathy and antipathy, thence dreams

-and second sight. The existence and use of

-this force is the great secret of practical magic.

-The astral light attracts, repels, vivifies and

-destroys all things under the influence of powerful

-wills. It can be directed by the leaders

-of souls. By means of this agent we can correspond

-instantaneously from one end of the

-earth to the other, discern what is taking place

-at the antipodes, heal or hurt at a distance.

-The Gnostics called it the burning body of the

-Holy Ghost. Life is produced by the action

-of the astral light on the ether or matter. In

-man it forms the astral body, it is the first

-envelope of the soul, and it is by combining

-with the most subtil fluids that it forms this

-etherized body or phantom. The astral body

-is nourished by the astral light, as the physical

-body is nourished by the earth. The astral

-light is saturated with souls, which it releases

-in the incessant generation of existences, and

-whose imperfect wills can be dominated and

-employed by stronger ones. The elementary

-<span class='pageno' title='70' id='Page_70'></span>spirits are like children, they torment those

-who concern themselves about them. It is

-these that produce the raps on the walls and

-furniture.”—Mysteries of Magic, 65.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“An individual can leave the physical

-body and actually travel on either the material

-or astral plane in the astral body. Many persons

-are able to travel thus in their ordinary

-sleep.”—Astral World, 25.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>All magic is religious, having been invented

-by the priests or Magi. It is said that the

-religious bodies copied their demonology from

-the Kabala of the Jews, and that the latter

-borrowed their system of theurgy and theology

-from the Egyptian and Babylonian priests.

-If any one outside of the religious bodies started

-any opposition devil-worship, they were promptly

-burnt. All the magic rituals are derived from

-the Key of King Solomon, claimed to have been

-found in his sepulchre at Jerusalem.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the Magic Grimore, ascribed to Pope

-Honorius, he says: “We have seen with what

-power Jesus commanded demons, which power

-was transmitted to St. Peter, and, as the lawful

-successors of St. Peter, having the keys of the

-Kingdom of Heaven, and desiring to share the

-power of invoking and commanding spirits,

-which has been reserved unto us alone, with

-our brethren, we have included in this Bull

-the manner of their invocation. And because

-it is meet that the ministers of the altar should

-have authority over rebellious spirits, we hereby

-depute unto them all the powers which we

-possess in virtue of the Holy Apostolic Chair.”—Book

-of Black Magic, 100.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In invoking the Devil or other choice spirits,

-it is necessary to murder some being. If the

-conjurer cannot or dare not murder a human

-being, he takes an innocent virgin lamb and

-<span class='pageno' title='71' id='Page_71'></span>cuts its throat and tears off its skin to use for

-a magic apron or parchment. Instead of the

-skin of a lamb, the caul of a new-born child

-may be used.—Idem.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The sign manual of the demon Valefor,

-the patron of thieves, contains two Maltese

-crosses rampant and three links. As Solomon

-and his entourage worshipped the demon Astaroth,

-they probably stole from him the two

-pillars at the door of the Temple and the double

-triangle above them, for they appeared in the

-seal of that spirit. There are two or more crosses

-in each of the seals or signatures of Solomon’s

-seventy two black fiends. Their motto is,

-“In this sign we conquer.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Solomon imprisoned the seventy two devils,

-with all their legions, in a brazen vessel and

-sank it in a deep lake in Babylon. The Babylonians,

-thinking that there must be a great

-treasure in the vessel, took it out of the lake

-and broke it open, when out flew the chief

-devils immediately, with all their legions following

-them.—See Waite’s Book of Black Magic.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>We still worship pagan gods. The Hexagram,

-or double triangle of Solomon, is still

-used by different sects and societies. On it

-is the name of Agla, a pagan sun-god, and also

-the name of Tau, the Egyptian bull christ Taurus,

-with the pagan symbol, the Tau cross.

-The god A. and O., Alpha and Omega, with

-which the Hexagram is adorned, is a foul Babylonian

-idol, the same as IO. It has been represented

-that the Devil falls prostrate before

-the cross. But, to tell the truth, Lucifer uses

-the sign himself, also the double triangle and

-the single triangle in his signature. And Belial

-has four crosses by which he lies.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>When a sorcerer conjures up one of the

-seventy two demons, he must draw the double

-<span class='pageno' title='72' id='Page_72'></span>seal of Solomon (double triangle) and the Pentagram,

-(five-pointed star) on a parchment

-of calfskin. These must be worn on his white

-vestment, together with the seal of the spirit

-invoked. And the secret seal of Solomon (the

-pillar standing in a circle) must be drawn with

-the blood of a black, virgin cock on virgin parchment.

-This is part of the conjuration: “I invoke

-and conjure you, O Spirit, by God the Father,

-by God the son, by God the Holy Ghost, by

-the Most Glorious and Holy Mother of God,

-by her Sacred Heart, by her Blessed Milk, by

-the Power and Victory of Hell, by the Ministers

-of the Tartarean Seat. I exorcise thee in the

-names of El, Elohim, Zabaoth &amp;c. do thou

-forthwith appear. I conjure thee by the Living

-and True God Heliorem (Helios, the sun god)

-and Tetragrammaton Jehovah (the God of

-four letters). Come! I Adonai Saday, King of

-Kings, commands thee.” See Lesser Key of

-King Solomon, 55.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>There is no use in trying to invoke spirits

-or perform any tricks in black magic unless

-you have confessed and received the Holy

-Communion, and you must pray for assistance

-to the pagan gods Adonai, Eloim, Ariel, Yahveh

-and Gibor, and fast, and abstain from the society

-of females for nine days, and take a bath, and

-wear the garb of a priest or a Levite, and you

-must have the sacred Masons’ implements,

-the sword, the staff, the rod, the sickle and

-the poniard. See Waite’s Book of Black Magic.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>That part of nature called the astral light

-or universal spirit was virtually the supreme

-god of all religions. It was the Heaven or

-Nirvana of the Buddhist, (where the soul is

-blown out like a lamp some believed.) When

-he attained to perfection and was reabsorbed

-in this godhead, he had stormed the heights

-<span class='pageno' title='73' id='Page_73'></span>of Heaven and attained eternal bliss. He

-considered that his spirit would no longer be

-subjected to endless incarnations in material

-forms. But there is no knowing when it would

-again by choice or compulsion enter the ether

-and form another atom and again commence

-the unavoidable cycle.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>All the vile religions have scared the human

-race into ca’niption fits by their assertion that

-our souls will be lost unless we bow down to

-their priests and worship their idols. According

-to the original parent religion, the Hindu, if

-we obey the priests faithfully, we will go to

-Nirvana and become a creator or electron,

-or elementary spirit. And all the authorities,

-both pagan and Christian, agree that the elementary

-spirits are mischievous, wicked entities.

-It would be better to lose our souls, for in that

-case they are banished into the ether or chaos

-and become the nucleus of a material atom.

-If we go to Nirvana, we are one step farther

-removed from the ultimate goal of all the ambitions

-of all the heavenly electrons and material

-atoms, the supreme pinnacle of attainment,

-man’s high estate, which is greater than that

-of the gods.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Theosophists revel in the mystic and

-occult. If they can construct a sentence that

-no one can understand, and that they do not

-know the meaning of themselves, they are in

-the seventh heaven of delight, their wisdom

-borders on the Divine. Stating their doctrine

-of transmigration in plain language: God sits

-at his desk in Heaven, with a great lot of pigeonholes

-before him, in each one of which is a

-soul in a state of coma. When he receives a

-wireless from the earth that Pat and Biddie

-McGee have formed in their marital relationship

-a psychic vortex, or soul vortex, he makes a

-<span class='pageno' title='74' id='Page_74'></span>grab at the pigeonholes and lights perhaps on

-the soul of Pythagoras and sticks it into the

-new-born embryo, which already has a soul,

-and there is no room for any other. See “Spermatozoa,”

-Stand. Dic., and note those very energetic

-individuals in a frantic race to enter the

-ovum and blossom out as human beings. You

-will then realize that the child already has a

-very lively soul, provided by nature, and there

-is no occasion for any doped soul, supplied by

-any idiotic human plan.</p>

-

-<p class='c011'>“The astral light keeps an unmutilated

-record of all that was, that is, or ever will be.

-The minutest acts of our lives are imprinted

-on it, and even our thoughts rest photographed

-on its eternal tablets. It is the Book of Life,

-it is the memory of God. If the medium or

-subject’s sight is ably directed by the mesmerizer,

-magician or spirit, the light must yield

-up its most secret records to our scrutiny.”—Astral

-World. It is claimed that each person’s

-atmosphere in the astral light is peopled with

-the images of his or her immediate family, thus

-accounting for the assertions of the mediums

-that they see the spirits of our lost ones.</p>

-

-<p class='c011'>Swedenborgians claimed that the human

-body is sometimes abandoned by the soul in

-consequence of overpowering fright, grief, despair

-or sickness, and that we encounter every

-day such living corpses. Into these bodies

-may enter the soul of an adept sorcerer or some

-earth-bound, disembodied soul. In insanity the

-astral soul is partly paralyzed, bewildered, and

-subject to the influence of every passing spirit

-of any sort, or it has departed forever, and the

-body is taken possession of by some vampire

-or human soul near its own dissolution, and

-clinging desperately to earth, whose sensual

-<span class='pageno' title='75' id='Page_75'></span>pleasures it may enjoy for a brief season longer

-by this expedient.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The ancients claimed that the soul was

-located in the solar plexus, and it was asserted

-that they could read, hear, see and smell through

-the navel. In our vermiform stage of development

-before evolution had supplied us with

-heads, the soul was perhaps in the stomach,

-but it may have moved since. Plato says

-that the divine part of the soul is located in

-the head. Haeckel says that the human soul

-is a combination of the souls of all the cells

-of the body. It is impossible to destroy any

-simple substance, and if it affords you any

-comfort, you can assume that the soul or ego

-is an indestructible electron. The Stoics claimed

-that the soul is in the heart, and that although

-it outlives the body, it is yet perishable and

-can only endure at the longest till the termination

-of the world period, 4,320,000,000 years. Epicurus

-claimed that “nothing that exists will

-ever cease to exist. Atoms exist from all eternity,

-and worlds were formed by their vortical

-motion. The soul is material and composed

-of exceedingly fine atoms, and is dispersed

-through the whole body. The rational soul is

-in the breast.” Stephanus, of Alexandria, says

-that “copper is like a man, it has a soul and

-body.” Yoga Ramacharaka says that “iron

-is alive and may be killed by poison.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“Transmigration of the soul takes place

-in all flesh, in beasts, reptiles and fowls. For

-one form of uncleanness the soul will pass into

-a Gentile, for another into a mule, for others

-into an ass, a woman, a bat, a she-mule or a

-camel.”—Kabala Nishmath Chaim, Ch. 13,

-No. 1. It sometimes happens that one sacrifices

-an animal with a human soul in it. Therefore

-the slaughtering knife must be without defect,

-<span class='pageno' title='76' id='Page_76'></span>and the slaughter must needs be delicately

-done to avoid cutting the gizzard out of the

-human soul. “The soul of a murderer is transmigrated

-into water. Let no man drink from

-a running stream, lest the soul of a wicked sinner

-pass into him.”—Kabala Emeh Hamelech, fol.

-153, col. 1.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“By a combination of the letters of the

-ineffable name Rava once created a man and

-sent him to Rav. Zera. The man being unable

-to reply when spoken to, the Rabbi said to

-him: ‘Thou art a creation of the company (of

-necromancers) return to thy dust.’ By the

-same means a Rabbi created pumpkins, melons,

-deers and roes.”—Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrim,

-ch. 7.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The soul, called Psyche, when she is at

-home, lives in that part of the brain called

-the Medulla Oblongata, and the spirit, called

-Budhi, lives in the next house up the street,

-the Pineal Gland. When Budhi, or the Word,

-wins the affections of Psyche, and they are

-married, the Word saves the soul, and the man

-who harbors these entities is illuminated and

-becomes a master.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>If you read Genesis in the original Hebrew,

-you will find that Al or El, the sun, not

-the Christian God, says: “To every beast of

-the earth I gave a living soul.” The souls of

-human beings are composed of material as

-refined and spiritual as that of the souls of

-cockroaches and bedbugs, and men, if they

-behave themselves, are equally as good as those

-animals and of just as much importance in

-the universe.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='77' id='Page_77'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XIII.<br /> <br /><b>Ghosts and Hobgoblins.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>The Hindus of the Malibar coast said they

-had ghosts, but they knew them to be bad

-spirits, for good ones can hardly ever appear

-at all. Apuleius says the human soul is a

-demon or genius, an immortal god. According

-to Philo Judaeus, the air is filled with an

-invisible host of spirits, the bad ones are mortal,

-and the good ones are immortal. The soul,

-upon the death of the body, transforms into a

-lemure (phantom). If it is wicked, it is called

-a larvae. The ghosts who, through vice, fearful

-crimes and animal passions, are confined to

-the eighth sphere immediately surrounding the

-earth, are the magnetic vampires and demons

-so well known to mediaeval ecstatics, nuns,

-monks and witches, the blood demons of Porphery.

-They may be cast out by powerful

-magicians, but if a sorcerer is not available,

-you can take a saucer containing two ounces of

-nitre and pour over it one ounce of vitrol and

-place it under the bed of the obsessed, and the

-devil will take to his heels.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Paracelsus says: “It is possible that my

-spirit, without the aid of the body and through

-a fiery will alone, and without a sword, can stab

-and wound others. I can also bring the spirit

-of my adversary into an image, and then double

-him up and lame him.” According to Cotton

-Mather some young girls had become mediums

-by sitting with a West Indian negro woman.

-They declared that the spectres of various

-<span class='pageno' title='78' id='Page_78'></span>witches appeared to them and bit and pinched

-and stuck pins into them. Some of the witches

-confessed that they did afflict these girls by

-sticking pins into manikins made of wax or rags,

-and by clutching and pinching their hands together

-and wishing in what part and after what

-manner they would have the girls afflicted,

-and it was done.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>If you are haunted by an objectionable

-ghost, provide yourself with a sword or a dagger

-and stab him when he makes his appearance.

-They are awfully afraid of swords, although if

-you cut one in two, he will join together again,

-or if you cut his head off or leg off, he will put

-the member right on again. But he does not

-like it, and will thereafter leave you severely

-alone. Bodin says that in 1557 an elementary,

-thundering demon fell down with the lightning

-into the house of one Poudot and kept throwing

-stones all about the room for several days. The

-magistrate came to investigate, and the spirit

-knocked his hat off and drove him out of the

-house. At last Poudot got a sword and slashed

-all around the room, whereupon the spirit disappeared.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Where the ghosts are real troublesome, you

-can drive them away by distributing holy medallions

-around the house where the ghosts can

-see them. As the medallions have been blessed

-or magnetized, God has been injected into them,

-and they consequently are gods, and mischievous

-spirits who cut up capers around the house

-are afraid of these deities. I have a blessed

-idol of Buddha on my desk to keep the ghosts

-out of the office and prevent them from interfering

-with the composition of this pious work.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Modern spirits are often lying spirits.

-They are ever on hand to humor the respective

-hobbies of the persons who communicate with

-<span class='pageno' title='79' id='Page_79'></span>them at circles, and deceive them. When

-Luther, the sorcerer, evoked the demon, he was

-told that he should not worship the Virgin.

-But when St. Dominic called upon the devils,

-they told him that nobody was damned that

-persevered in her holy worship. The golden

-legend of James de Viragine shows that the Virgin

-gave to St. Dominic a miraculous rosary, by

-which he could perform greater miracles than

-Christ. But a certain abandoned sinner was

-bold enough to doubt the virtues of the rosary,

-and immediately fifteen thousand devils took

-possession of him, and being questioned by St.

-Dominic, they emitted flames from the nostrils,

-eyes and ears of the demoniac and certified to

-the virtues of the rosary. Over a hundred

-angels appeared in golden armor, together with

-the blessed Virgin herself bearing a golden rod,

-with which she administered a sound thrashing

-to the demoniac. The numerous theological

-truths uttered by St. Dominic’s devils were

-embodied in so many articles of faith, according

-to Isis Unveiled, 2-76.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>One who is unprotected, the tricky powers

-of the air but too often delude with the semblance

-of voices. In all the Mysteries, strong

-drink or anaesthetics were administered to the

-initiates to sunder the soul from the body and

-produce visions. The Sankhya system teaches

-that the ghost, or astral body, can shrink to such

-a minute space that it can penetrate anything,

-or enlarge to a gigantic body, or float through

-space, or standing on the earth can reach the

-moon, that its will is irresistible, having dominion

-over all things and the ability to attain

-every desire.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>It is claimed that phantom hands have appeared

-at seances under test conditions and

-written messages on a table in broad daylight,

-<span class='pageno' title='80' id='Page_80'></span>when the medium was six or eight feet away,

-but the theory is that the materialized hand is

-an emanation from the medium, the astral hand

-of the medium. Madam Blavatsky says that

-“this is the spiritual or astral body that is raised

-in incorruption. It is useless to argue that

-these are spirit hands. To make hands or faces

-objective, they are compelled to use either the

-astral limb of the medium, or material furnished

-by the elementals, or the aural emanation of all

-persons present. Pure spirits will not and cannot

-show themselves objectively. Those that

-do are elementary spirits.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Madam Blavatsky tells of the following

-wonderful manifestations that occurred in Thibet.

-A body of traveling Bikshus, or monks, claimed

-the power to reincarnate the Buddha in any infant.

-A child four months old was brought to

-their cave and set down in the middle of the

-room, while the monks sat in a circle around it

-at some distance. A skeptic minister sat close

-to the child to expose the trickery. The chief

-Pase Budha went into a trance, and his astral

-and spiritual body took possession of the child

-and made it walk and talk, saying “I am Buddha,

-I am the old Lama, I am his spirit in a new

-body.” The minister said: “The baby looked

-at me with an expression of intelligence that

-was simply awful. It sent a chill through me,

-I felt a real terror, my hair rose upon my head,

-and my blood ran cold. The eyes seemed to

-search my very soul with an expression that

-made me think that it was the face of the Superior

-himself, his eyes, his very look that was

-gazing upon me.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>If you wish to conjure up or materialize a

-spirit, purchase from the Yogis some ancient

-blood of a black cat, which comes in powdered

-form. This, together with a sparrow’s brain,

-<span class='pageno' title='81' id='Page_81'></span>burnt upon the altar will produce a smoke or

-vapor of peculiar odor and a color unknown

-and unnamed by human beings, being a combination

-of many colors. From the smoke of

-this magic altar it is possible for spirits to materialize,

-so that even persons without the astral

-vision can see them.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Sometimes a band of occultists will meet

-around their altar fire, which is kindled between

-the horns of the goat and fed with the ancient

-blood of a black cat and other material from

-which ghosts can materialize. The occultists

-stand in a row hand in hand, the Grand Master

-at the head by the altar, and all strongly command

-that a spirit shall manifest. As the command

-passes from one brother to another it

-gains force, and the power of the will is enormously

-augmented, and after a time there issues

-from the floor a thread of astral matter, which

-ascends perpendicularly and widens out as

-it ascends, assuming a human form, but weak,

-wavering and limp, bending this way and that

-on every breath of air. But after the circle

-has pumped the power into him for a while, he

-becomes sufficiently strong to walk or glide

-about and take a seat in the circle and talk to

-the members. The materialized body is soft

-and moist and cold as a corpse. When they

-wish him to disappear they stand again hand

-in hand, the Grand Master next to the spirit,

-and send the command from one to the other

-ordering the ghost to depart, and he will again

-become weak and wabbly and sink down to

-the floor and disappear through the same nail

-hole from which he emerged.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>If the company wishes to engage in a dangerous

-experiment, one half of them will occupy

-one side of the hall and the other half the other

-side. They must first erect between them a

-<span class='pageno' title='82' id='Page_82'></span>circle of sheet lead, over which the devil cannot

-jump to attack any of the members. Then

-each bunch will think evil vindictive and murderous

-thoughts of the other bunch, and conjure

-up dire monsters to attack them, and soon a

-horrible, gigantic and vicious thought-monster,

-part beast, part devil and part human, will

-materialize and rush at the members and endeavor

-to attack them, but fortunately for

-them, he cannot pass the leaden circle, for if

-he could reach those that made him, he would

-strike them dead with a charge of electricity

-through the heart. In order to lay this devil

-they have conjured up, they have to clothe

-themselves entirely in silver-colored garments.

-They then enter the circle from both sides and

-close in on the monster. These silver-colored

-beings scare the devil to death, and he crawls

-back in his hole.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>A man, named B, built a house with second-hand

-lumber from an old building that had

-been torn down. The old building was reputed

-to be haunted by the former owner, who was

-murdered there. The ghost was very mad

-because B took his lumber, and, in order to be

-revenged, he went with the lumber to the new

-house and haunted that. B says that the ghost

-would appear to him when he was going to sleep

-and jab him in the eye with his finger and seize

-his arm and hurl it against the wall. When

-B was half asleep one night, the ghost appeared

-with a pail of water and threw it all over him.

-The dog could see the ghost even when B could

-not, and would bark and show his teeth and

-propose to fight the phantom. B sold the

-house to some colored folks. They were scared

-white by the skilligin, gave up the property

-and demanded their money back, because the

-ghost was an incumbrance on the estate and

-<span class='pageno' title='83' id='Page_83'></span>a legal defect in title, he being in possession,

-claiming ownership.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>St. Clemens Romanus says that Simon

-Magus (Paul), of the New Testament, could

-make himself invisible when and to whom he

-pleased. He created a man out of air, who

-passed through the rocks and mountains and

-flew along through the air. He threw himself

-from precipices without being injured and

-flung himself into the fire without being burned,

-he animated statues, he walked through the

-streets attended by strange figures, which he

-said were the souls of people departed.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='84' id='Page_84'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XIV.<br /> <br /><b>Witches and Sorcerers.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>“Burn everybody,” the Inquisition seemed

-to say, “God can easily sort out his own.” Poor

-fools, hysterical women and idiots were roasted

-alive for the crime of magic.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Catherine de Medicis, the author of the

-Massacre of St. Bartholomew, had in her service

-an apostate Jacobin priest who was proficient

-in the black art. King Charles lay dangerously

-ill, and Catherine, the queen mother, had everything

-to lose by the death of the King. In her

-anxiety she commanded the priest to inquire

-of the Devil what should be done to save the

-life of the King. The priest, taking with him

-a beautiful child, went into the chapel and

-after administering to the child its first communion,

-decapitated it on the very steps of the

-altar and placed the palpitating head upon the

-paten. Then, standing on a reversed cross,

-he celebrated the Devil’s Mass before an image

-of the Demon, and commanded the Devil to

-answer by the lips of this murdered child the

-question of the Queen. Then a strange voice,

-which had nothing human about it, made itself

-audible in this poor little martyr’s head. But

-the sorcery availed nothing, the King died.—Elephas

-Levi.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“Pope Sylvester was publicly accused by

-Cardinal Benno with being a sorcerer and

-enchanter. The brazen oracular head made

-by his Holiness was of the same kind as the one

-fabricated by Albertus Magnus. The latter

-<span class='pageno' title='85' id='Page_85'></span>was smashed to pieces by Thomas Aquinas,

-not because it was the work of or inhabited by

-a demon, but because the spook, that was

-fixed inside by mesmeric power, talked incessantly

-and disturbed the eloquent saint. These

-heads and other talking statues, trophies of

-the magical skill of monks and bishops, were

-fac-similes of the animated gods of the ancient

-temples. It was demonstrated that this Pope

-was constantly attended by demons or spirits.

-Benedict IX, John XX and the VI and VII Gregory

-were all known as magicians. The latter

-Pope, it was said, could shake lightning out

-of his sleeve. In the latter part of the sixteenth

-century there was hardly a parish to be

-found in which the priests did not study magic

-and alchemy. John Reuchlin, father of the Reformation

-and teacher of Luther, was a Kabalist

-and occultist. The occult knowledge gleaned

-by religion from the fat fields of theurgy was

-sedulously guarded for its own use, and it sent

-to the stake only those practitioners who poached

-on its preserves. Between 1580 and 1595 in

-the single province of Lorraine, the President

-Remigius burned nine hundred witches.”—Isis

-Unveiled, 2-57.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“The gorgeous standard of the Inquisition

-is represented as waving in the Heavenly breezes

-at the foot of the Great White Throne of the

-Almighty. On its crimson, damask face is the

-cross, the symbol of the Son of God who died

-for mankind, with an olive branch on one side

-and a sword stained to the hilt with human gore

-on the other.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“The true origin of the daily accusations

-and death sentences for witchcraft are traced by

-Dr. Soldan, of Stuttgart, to personal, political

-and religious enmities. Prince Bishop, John

-George II, of Bamberg, caused six hundred

-<span class='pageno' title='86' id='Page_86'></span>to be burned for sorcery in five years. The

-petty princes were not unwilling to seize upon

-any pretence to fill their coffers, the persons most

-persecuted being those whose property was a

-matter of consideration.”—Sorcery and Magic,

-2-185. A horse was burnt at the stake in Lisbon

-in 1601 for witchcraft, because it could tell the

-number of spots on a card.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the list of twenty nine burnings, or

-autos da fe, in nineteen months in Germany,

-162 persons were murdered, of whom 28 were

-Protestants, 100 wealthy citizens and 34 little

-children, the youngest an infant. Wright says

-that 27 little girls, from seven to ten years of

-age, were burnt as witches. Lorente, the historian

-of the Inquisition, computes that Torquamada

-in eighteen years burned at the stake 10,220

-persons, and otherwise punished 97,321. In

-Andalusia alone, in a single year, the Inquisition

-sent to the stake 2000 Jews.—Buckle’s Hist.

-Civ. 1-136. “We learn that much money was

-realized by selling to the rich dispensations to

-secure them from the Inquisition.”—Conflict

-Between Religion and Science, 146.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Stevens says: “A monk of St. Anthony,

-having been at Jerusalem, brought home with

-him a bit of the finger of the Holy Ghost, the

-snoot of a seraphim, one of the nails of a cherub,

-one of the ribs of the Word Made Flesh, some

-rays of the Star of the East, and a vial of St.

-Michael’s sweat. Henry III, of England,

-received from the Grand Master of the Templars

-a vial containing some of the blood that Christ

-shed upon the cross, attested by the seal of the

-Patriarch of Jerusalem.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The hand of one of the innocents massacred

-by Herod, although Herod died four years B.

-C., was, in 1837, still preserved in the Convent

-at Bethlehem. There also is the pit in which the

-<span class='pageno' title='87' id='Page_87'></span>bodies of the infants were thrown, and also the

-manger which came down from the constellation

-of the Crab. Some depraved Christian copped

-the stone on which the cock crowed when Peter

-denied his Master, and, in 1837, it was said to be

-in a church in Rome. In the Church of the

-Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, among other

-wonders, is a monument erected over the grave of

-Adam, who never existed, and there is a polished

-marble bathtub or sarcophagus, which they

-claimed was the sepulchre hewn out of the rock.

-See Travels in Holy Land, 2-163.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The fight of the fools and fakirs over the

-location of the grave of a mythical sun-god is

-certainly ludicrous, but more amusing was the

-magic trick of the early Christians who stole

-the grave of Adam either from Hebron or Mecca

-and also swiped the grave of Christ from the

-Damascus Road, north of Jerusalem, and exhibited

-both, with other shell and three-card-monte

-games, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,

-in the centre of Jerusalem, for the purpose

-of annexing the coin of the dupes, farmers and

-come-ons from all over the world.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>According to Tichenor, over three hundred

-years after the crucifixion, St. Helena found the

-true cross, and also dug up the crosses of the

-two thieves, and this lumber was sold for centuries

-to millions of the faithful. Even a splinter

-will save you from Hell and cure you of what

-ails you. And the bones, hair and nails of the

-Apostles have been sold all over the world.

-You could formerly buy a gunnysack full of St.

-Peter’s fingers and toes if you had the necessary

-dough. The people not only worshipped the

-Mother of God, but worshipped St. Ann, the

-Grandmother of God. God came unto Mary

-in the form of Gabriel, and to prove it the monk

-Eiseling exhibited all over Europe a pin-feather

-<span class='pageno' title='88' id='Page_88'></span>from Gabriel’s wing, which he shed at the conference.

-Thorns, from the crown of thorns,

-the blood of Jesus, by the drop or the bottle,

-and the milk of the Holy Virgin were peddled

-out all over the world for centimes.—See Tichenor’s

-Roman Religion.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='89' id='Page_89'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XV.<br /> <br /><b>The Great King Solomon.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>Solomon’s Song is very choice reading and

-would be eminently appropriate to the foulest

-book on earth, the circulation of which would be

-a criminal offense under the law. The Christian

-compilers of the Bible have asserted in the

-headings of the Song that it represents the love

-of Christ and the Church. They were not only

-wilful liars, but foully besmirched their own

-church, for that was about 1200 years before

-their church existed. The whole context shows

-that it has nothing to do with the Christian

-Church, but is evidently the hymn book of the

-church of Ashtoreth, of which Solomon was a

-deacon. Any institution that foists upon the

-world such vile obscenity as the inspired word

-of God, is the Temple of the Devil, the antechamber

-of Hell, an annex of the Witches’

-Sabbath. It should utterly perish from the

-face of the earth. In fact, the die is already

-cast, the handwriting is on the wall, the hand

-of death is on it now.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Solomon was Grand Master of the secret

-societies. Those things that were esoteric or

-secret or occult in magic and religion, claimed

-by the priests to be too sacred for the people,

-were either criminal or too vile to utter. That

-was the only reason for keeping them secret.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Solomon had cheated his brother Adonijah

-out of the throne to which the latter was entitled

-by birth, and Adonijah thought that he

-should at least be allowed to have Abishag, the

-<span class='pageno' title='90' id='Page_90'></span>sixteen-year-old beauty that they had put in

-bed with the dying King David to save his life.

-And he induced Bathsheba, the mother of

-Solomon, to make the request of the king.

-When Solomon had heard the petition of Bathsheba

-he said: “And why dost thou ask Abishag

-for Adonijah, ask for him the kingdom also.”

-Abishag is the only jewel in the Jewish crown,

-the most priceless legacy that King David left.

-A perfect beauty is more to be desired than the

-riches of a kingdom. I will not give her up.

-All the good things in Israel are reserved for the

-king. Then Solomon swore by the Lord saying:

-“God do so to me and more also if Adonijah

-hath not spoken this word against his own

-life. Now therefore as the Lord liveth Adonijah

-shall be put to death this day.” What ho!

-guards, summon Benaiah, Commander of the

-Knights of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>When Benaiah appeared, he bowed low before

-the throne, and, raising his right hand,

-made the occult sign of the Witches’ Sabbath.

-Then Solomon said: “Rise, O beloved of the

-king, favorite of the gods of the groves and the

-gardens. The king hath weighty matters to

-communicate to thee. It is reported that

-Adonijah, our brother, hath taken refuge at the

-shrine of that second-rate God Jehovah and

-doth cling to the horns of the altar. And behold

-all of Adonijah’s followers are devotees of

-Jehovah, while all of our partisans and all of

-you whom the king hath deigned to grace with

-official rank are devotees of Baal and Asherah.

-Now the king commandeth that you seek out

-all of those Jehovah worshippers who have

-stood by Adonijah and eliminate them from the

-problem of life. Go in and out among them and

-slay each one your father and your mother,

-your sister and your brother, if so be that they

-<span class='pageno' title='91' id='Page_91'></span>be among the rebels. Relieve them of life’s

-burdens. Do not be harsh with them, show

-them our royal mercy, shove them gently

-through the gates of Hell, cutting them with

-saws and with harrows of iron and with axes,

-emulating the clemency of our royal father, the

-bandit chief. As for Adonijah, fall upon him

-and slay him as he clings to the horns of the

-altar. It is true that the altar of a god is sacred

-ground and a refuge as a general proposition,

-but general propositions do not apply to the

-king, the king is above the law. What do I

-care for these imaginary gods, they are all right

-to scare children with, but they cut no ice with

-your Solomon.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Solomon sat in all his glory upon the great

-throne of ivory and gold, flanked by the twelve

-brazen lions of the zodiac, and the Knights of

-the Mystic Shrine of Asherah in dazzling regalia

-guarded the beloved of the Lord. Around

-the throne, with naked swords and the three

-hundred golden shields, stood the Princes of the

-Tribes of Israel, as the rays of the setting sun,

-reflected from the jeweled walls of cedar and

-gold, bathed in dazzling light the royal panoplies

-of blue and purple and crimson.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>And King Solomon’s sacred, hermaphrodite

-Billygoat, in trappings of purple and gold,

-wearing ribbons on his horns and ribbons on

-his tail, stood beside the golden throne with his

-revered back to the audience in accordance with

-the law in such case made and provided. And

-he informed the King in no uncertain words

-that he did not propose to be the goat any longer,

-that the Knights of the Mystic Shrine of

-Asherah, that had been assigned as priests to

-serve him, one of the highest gods, drank up all

-the wine sacrificed to him, and thus prevented

-him from getting as full as a goat, as required

-<span class='pageno' title='92' id='Page_92'></span>by the tenets of his religion. And further,

-they did not give him exercise enough, they

-called him Baphomet and Devil and other hard

-names and took him up out of the pit for a walk

-around the town only once a month, at dead

-of night, in the dark of the moon, when Hell

-yawns, and the graves give up their dead. Upon

-the conclusion of this divine oration, the whole

-audience crawled on their hands and knees up

-the steps of the golden throne and devoutly

-kissed the back of Baphomet, as we kiss the

-male and female emblems on the Pax.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>This pious ceremony being completed, the

-Great King, raising the royal sceptre, summoned

-to his exalted presence the Commander of

-the Knights of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah

-and said: “While you, Benaiah, my faithful

-servant, go and kill Adonijah, my well beloved

-brother, I will hie me to my devotions, for I

-can see that at the mystic shrine on yonder

-hilltop, the luscious Asherah is yearning for me.

-My adored, my most beautiful, my ravishing

-one stands in the open door of the pagoda, the

-beautiful gate ajar, stands there in all her pristine

-loveliness, a beauty unadorned, young and

-plump and enchanting. See that innocent radiant

-face beaming with loving kindness, perfect

-in every feature, see that form divine, of which

-the gods in Heaven do envy me. She is my

-favorite nun, the incarnation of the Divine

-Asherah, and she is calling me to prayer. See

-her beckoning me over with that sweet hand,

-that angel hand that holds me, the King of the

-Earth and Sea, a willing slave in its gentle grasp.

-She says the door is open wide, and all who will

-may enter in, and no one is denied.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Then while Benaiah slew Adonijah as he

-clung to the horns of the altar, Solomon and his

-court in gorgeous array, decked in purple and

-<span class='pageno' title='93' id='Page_93'></span>fine linen and blazing with jewels rare and gold to

-burn, marched in one grand pageant from the

-house of cedar and gold, out through the Golden

-Gate, to the high place of Asherah. When they

-reached the oval, foliated door between the two

-great pillars of Baal, beneath the blazing, golden

-dome of Asher, supported by the circle of monoliths

-or twelve zodiacal redeemers, they bowed

-low before the open portal and crossed themselves,

-and by thus drawing upon their bodies

-the male symbol, they became themselves male

-emblems and worthy to enter in, and a worthy

-offering to a female divinity.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The dazzling beauty who stood in the door

-of the pagoda then ran and threw herself into

-the arms of the king. He folded her pink and

-white form to his royal breast and impressed

-upon her ruby lips a long and loving caress, saying:

-“My divine one, my goddess, my life, my

-all, God is love, I know, I feel. Thou art the

-only angel e’er worshipped by Solomon the

-Magnificent. Thy lips are like the roses, like

-the sweet-scented, dew-bediamond roses in the

-royal gardens of Judea. Thine eyes are fathomless

-wells of priceless love, at which I drink till

-my soul is drunk and reels in its maddened delirium.

-Thy flesh is like the lilies of the valley,

-pure and white, meet vessel for a soul so true,

-white as the lilies of Asherah, white as the column

-of Baal, indeed so tempting and plump

-and luscious, that in thy divine and radiant

-neck I fain would bite the name of the King of

-the Earth and the Sea.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“Solomon offered one thousand burnt offerings

-in the great high place of Gibeon,” a

-brothel, where they worshipped the pillar and

-the grove.—1 Kings: 3-4. “And they set them

-up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill

-and under every green tree.”—2 Kings, 17-10.

-<span class='pageno' title='94' id='Page_94'></span>“Solomon loved the Lord, and the Lord loved

-Solomon.” They formed a mutual admiration

-society, and in Gibeon the Lord said to Solomon:

-“Ask what I shall give thee.” And “Solomon

-built a high place before Jerusalem at the Mount

-of Corruption (Mount of Olives) dedicated to

-Ashtoreth,” now replaced by the Church of the

-Ascension, erected over the footprint made by

-Christ in the rock when he jumped from the

-earth to Alcyone. The Bible says that Ashtoreth

-was the abomination of the Sidonians, but

-it happens that Asher, one of the aliases of the

-Hebrew god, was the husband of Ashtoreth.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The secret and mysterious name of the

-supreme God of the Hebrews, the Ancient of

-Ancients, was Eh Ei Eh, pronounced in three

-breaths, with hand to ear and the name at low

-breath. This is the name that was engraved

-on the great seal of Solomon, wherewith he

-conjured up demons from the abyss, for he

-was a potent wizard. By virtue of this great

-name and by rubbing the seal, Solomon became

-Lord of the Demons, and Beelzebub, at the

-mighty summons, would bob up serenely and

-obey the behests of the king. Solomon soared

-into the celestial altitudes and mastered the

-Divine secrets and learned the omnipotent

-words which constitute all the power of God

-over the demons. He penetrated into the

-remotest haunts of the spirits, whom he bound

-and forced them to obey him by the power of

-his clavicle (Key). He tells in the Key of Solomon

-the true composition of, with directions

-for making the dreadful blasting rod which

-causes the spirits to tremble, and which was

-used by God in driving Adam and Eve out of

-the Garden, and which he also used in casting

-the devils out of Heaven.—Book of Black Magic,

-83.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='95' id='Page_95'></span>Ashmedai, King of the Demons, and a

-great mason, collaborated with Solomon, Hiram

-of Tyre and Hiram Abiff in building the Temple.

-He was the one who fashioned the stones without

-the sound of hammer by means of an insect

-he had, called the Shameer, the same that Moses

-used in cutting the precious stones of the Ephod.

-The spirits evoked by Solomon said that Ashmedai

-had the Shameer, and they gave him the

-location of Ashmedai’s water-hole in the mountains,

-where he went to drink. Benaiah then

-went out and filled the water-hole with liquor

-and laid in wait near by. The demon came and

-drank the liquor, and when he was drunk, Benaiah

-bound him with a ring and a chain, on

-which was the name of God, so that he could

-not break it. Thus Solomon captured the

-demon and compelled him to call up Shameer,

-the insect stone-cutter, and prepare all the

-stones of the Temple.—Talmud Gittin, fol. 68,

-col. 1.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>This jolly quartette of pagan and infernal

-pals, assisted by the masonic bug, in laying the

-foundation of the Temple, seized upon a hewer

-of wood and cut his throat and caught the blood

-in a vessel. After sprinkling the corner stone

-with the blood, they placed the vessel of human

-gore inside the stone and buried the body of the

-human sacrifice beneath it, that his spirit might

-guard the Temple and preserve it as long as

-grass grows and water runs. Then they danced

-around the stone the Dance of Death, or the

-dance of the Maccabees.</p>

-

-<h3 class='c012'>King Solomon’s Signal of Distress.</h3>

-

-<p class='c011'>One day King Solomon, being bored about

-to death, and finding that all was vanity and

-vexation of spirit, wrote to his friend Manus,

-high priest of Baal, something as follows:</p>

-

-<div class='c013'><span class='pageno' title='96' id='Page_96'></span>Jerusalem, 20th Nisan. A. M. 3000.</div>

-<p class='c014'>To His Eminence the High Priest of Baal,

-beloved of the Lord and the Devil, Grand

-High Potentate of the Knights of Kadish,

-Beloved Minister of the Holy of Holies, the

-sacred Grove of Asherah.</p>

-

-<p class='c015'>Behold the Great King Solomon, Lord

-of the Earth and the Sea, Patron of God Almighty,

-Imperial Potentate of the Imperial

-Divan of Ashtoreth, Grand High Mucky-Muck

-and Past Grand Master of the Phallic Cult.</p>

-

-<p class='c015'>Sends Greeting. And doth herein represent

-that he hasn’t a thing in the way of nice girls,

-only but just a thousand old hens that were

-passé in three days after their respective inauspicious

-arrivals, and the heart of the Great

-King doth yearn for a vision of youth and beauty

-from the corn fields of Bethlehem. If thou

-wouldst save the King’s life, get a move on and

-corral a fair virgin, with golden hair and eyes of

-blue, for verily a brunette doth make the King

-tired. The King recommendeth thee to bring

-the fair one to the back door of the palace, at

-the entering-in of the woodshed, for behold the

-thousand old hens have two thousand eyes, and

-each eye is jealous of your unhappy Solomon.

-Verily, they are determined that we shall not

-have a thing that is fresh and fair to look upon.

-They are a lot of old cats, and we pray thee to

-promulgate a feast to Moloch and Baal, and

-announce to the multitude that seven hundred

-back-number princesses and three hundred fat

-old concubines have been devoted, and will

-be passed through the fire to Moloch and Baal,

-and will be basted and roasted to a turn and

-served to the people with the gravy oozing

-out. May the blessings of the Great Gods Ashtoreth,

-Chemoth and Baal be with thee and thine.</p>

-

-<div class='c016'>Yours fraternally,      SOLOMON.</div>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='97' id='Page_97'></span>One night King Solomon, together with his

-two old cronies, Hiram of Tyre and Hiram Abiff,

-went a-hunting in Jerusalem, which at that

-period was a noted sporting resort, abounding in

-all kinds of game. At length they caught a coon

-near the North Gate, at the high place of Asher,

-where were worshipped the images of the male,

-and took her to the king’s palace. She says

-(Sol. Song, 1-4): “The King hath brought me

-into his chambers.” Having reached the King’s

-apartments, Solomon said to Hiram of Tyre:

-“Wouldst thy Majesty kindly rush the duck?

-Thou wilt find the can behind the throne. And

-thou Abiff, wilt thou be so good as to go out in

-the woodshed and play tag with thyself for a

-season and half a season, while I pass the salve to

-this colored lady?”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Having got rid of the crowd, Solomon says:

-“Behold thou art fair my love, thou hast dove’s

-eyes. Thy nose is like unto the Tower of Lebanon

-that looketh toward Damascus, and the

-beautiful hump in the centre thereof is like

-unto that of a camel, that wabbleth ever this

-way and that.” And the buxom nigger wench,

-pouting her ruby, liver lips, replies: “Kiss me

-with the kisses of thy mouth, for thy love is

-better than wine. Because of the savor of thy

-good ointments, which counteract the Jewish

-odor diligently collected since thy last annual

-bath, therefore do the virgins love thee. I am

-black, but comely. I am not a nigger, but only

-tanned. They made me the keeper of vineyards,

-(deleted by the censor). Place thy left

-hand beneath my head, and thy right hand shall

-embrace me, (deleted by the censor). My beloved

-is mine, and I am his, a bundle of myrrh

-is my well-beloved unto me.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>During the tête-à-tête, the captivating

-beauty was absent-mindedly picking the Tower

-<span class='pageno' title='98' id='Page_98'></span>of Lebanon, when Solomon said: “Knowest

-thou not that our laws prohibit the touching of

-the unwashed fingers to the nose, mouth or eyes.

-The Talmud says: ‘The evil spirit Bath

-Chorin rests upon the hands at night and will

-not depart until water is poured upon him three

-times over.’ That fairy tale is for the ignorant

-rabble. You and I have the gnosis. Some of

-the prophets say that the worship of Asherah,

-in which we indulge, is reprehensible, but who

-fashioned the first Grove among us? Ask them

-that.” In Jasher, 27-27, it is said that Abraham

-formed at Beersheba a Grove, and that he practiced

-all kinds of abominations. He gave to his

-seventeen children by Katurah charms by which

-they could exorcise spirits and perform all sorts

-of miracles in the black art.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>When King Hiram returned with the booze,

-anticipating a jolly orgy with the wise one, he

-pounded loudly on the door of the King’s chamber.

-Solomon, being busy, petulantly said:

-“Get thee hence Hiram, or I will have the cop

-run thee in.” Then King Hiram was exceeding

-wroth, and threatened to make war on Solomon

-and come up to Jerusalem with one hundred

-thousand warriors and take the fair colored

-charmer away from the seductive Jewish King.

-Then Solomon replied: “Chase thyself back,

-Hiram, to besotted Tyre and make love to that

-great pillar, which, with much pomp and ceremony,

-thou hast recently erected there, and

-which thou dost salute with the holy kiss every

-morning at sunrise.”</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='99' id='Page_99'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XVI.<br /> <br /><b>The Mystic Societies.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>Pope Pius IX was accused of saying: “Damn

-the clandestine societies.” Oh, My! such

-shocking language, and so unjust too, for these

-quasi-religious societies, even like certain churches,

-were anciently faithful devotees of, and expert

-manipulators of the mystic symbols.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Dr. Dalcho, a Masonic writer, asserts:

-“God was the first Grand Master and Adam the

-second.” And Adam initiated Eve into the

-profound and archaic mystery of the square and

-the eye.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>It may be interesting to know what they

-did at the Witches’ Sabbath and the meetings

-of the ancient mystic societies. They murdered

-their christ, that is what they did, and the

-Christians have always charged that they offered

-up human sacrifices. I should judge

-from the ritual of the Masons that it originated

-in the sacrifice of a human being, that in ancient

-times human beings were sacrificed in the mystic

-societies, from some of which, perhaps, Masonry

-descended. Here are extracts from an

-old ritual as near as the author can decipher

-them, not guaranteeing that they are correct:</p>

-

-<h3 class='c012'>Opening a Lodge of Entered Apprentices.</h3>

-

-<p class='c011'>Sen. War.: “Brother, the lambskin in all ages

-has been considered an emblem of purity.” This

-lambskin is the skin of the Lamb of God. It is

-worn on the stomach for occult reasons. The female

-emblem, the Eye, is stamped upon it for the

-<span class='pageno' title='100' id='Page_100'></span>same occult reasons. The mystic societies, sun-worshippers

-and Jews were anciently devotees of

-the lamb as well as the cow. They sacrificed him

-and adorned themselves with his skin as a saving

-rite. The Ram is identical with the god Priapus.

-You remember that Saul sent David out to gather

-one hundred Philistine mementos to put in the

-Ark of the Covenant. These mementos and the

-lambskin are of equal efficacy, both being relics of

-the crucifixion.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>When christ came in the sign of Capricorn,

-he came as the goat. At the celebration of

-Lupercalia in Rome, they sacrificed the goat

-christ. Two young men are chosen, and the dagger,

-or Signa Tau, or the Mark of the Living God,

-is drawn in blood in their foreheads. Then they

-cut the goatskin into thongs and run about lashing

-all they meet. “The young wives like to be

-lashed, fancying that it will make them fruitful.”

-“The Jews in Jereboam’s time had priests for

-the service of their divinities, the sacred billy-goats.”—Plutarch,

-1-78. The religious sorcerers,

-who sought to invoke demons, formed their magic

-circle with strips of goatskin nailed to the ground

-with four nails from the coffin of a dead child. As

-the circle was made of the skin of christ, the

-demons dare not pass it to attack the sorcerer.

-This is the circle of the Kabalists, of which King

-Solomon was the Most Worshipful, Sublime and

-Exalted Phalatz.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the ritual ascribed to Pope Honorius, the

-method of raising the Devil was by sacrificing

-a black cock, which is an emblem of Christ. The

-eyes, tongue and heart are torn out and burnt

-to ashes. These are religious symbols and

-objects of adoration. The sorcerer also sacrifices

-a lamb, and places the ashes of the eye,

-the tongue and the heart on the lambskin.

-He prays to Jesus that the lambskin, with the

-<span class='pageno' title='101' id='Page_101'></span>signs thereon, may save him from the wiles of

-the demons, that they may be terrified by the

-sight of these figures. This, I think, is the

-origin of the figures on the Mason’s lambskin.

-This ritual provided that the eye, the cross

-and the moon should be drawn on the lambskin.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the Fellowcraft degree of the ritual,

-when the candidate has stuck the heel of his

-right foot in the hollow of the left, which is a

-sacred mystic rite that will save your immortal

-soul from Hell, the Sen. War. says: “You will

-now show the Worshipful Master the Degree

-Gag (?) and sign of an Entered Apprentice,

-and when you step forward, place the heel of

-your left foot in the hollow of the right. You

-will now advance with me to the altar. You

-are now to be made a Fellowcraft in due form.

-You will now bare your left foot and side and

-your breast expose. You now receive the

-mark of the square on the breast.” The Tau

-Cross, a symbol of identical significance with

-the square, was used in the Bacchic and Eleusinian

-Mysteries. It was laid upon the breast

-of the initiate to cause him to be born again.

-The square is the Egyptian Ka, the idol worshipped

-by the savages in the temples of darkest

-Africa, and which is also worshipped in the

-Kaaba at Mecca. Ka, Kaaba, abba, father,

-papa and pope all have the same meaning. See

-“Kaaba” Stand. Dic.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the initiation the candidate was allowed

-to play that he was Hiram Abiff. He was

-conducted around the circle of the zodiac from

-one door of the Temple to another and encountered

-three of the beasts of the four cardinal

-points, that is, the gentlemen who played the

-parts of the beasts in the heavenly drama.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>First Right. Master: Hiram, give me the

-sign of a Master Mason.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='102' id='Page_102'></span>Sen. Dea.: Candidate, the sign cannot

-be given except in the presence of three, Solomon,

-King of Israel, Hiram, King of Tyre, &amp;c.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Master: For the second time I demand of

-you the sign of a Master Mason.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Sen. Dea.: You cannot have that.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Master: Hiram, for the third and last

-time I demand of you the sign of a Master

-Mason. Give it to me, or I will take your life.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Sen. Dea.: You shall not have that (but

-the candidate can have this, and he hits him

-on the head with the 24-inch gauge, in the play,

-as near as I can make out.)</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>At the Second Right, the Master makes

-the same demands.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Sen. Dea.: You shall not have that. Blow

-with the square (on the head of the candidate,

-I presume, but as he is still alive, he is conducted

-to the beast at the third door.)</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Third Right: The Master repeats the

-same demands.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Sen. Dea.: Lord of Darkness (who is

-about to kill the sun-christ in the west) you

-shall not have that.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Third Right: Damn thee take that, blow

-with gavel on forehead, (and the candidate or

-human sacrifice falls dead, in the play.)</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Second Right: We have slain our Grand

-Master Hiram.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Third Right: What shall we do with the

-body?... Let us carry it a due West

-course from the Temple (because the crucified

-sun is buried in the west) and bury it in a grave

-sunk due East and West.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Master: Brother Sen. War. What is the

-commotion?</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Sen. War.: Our Grand Master Hiram is

-assassinated.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Master: How was he assassinated?</p>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='103' id='Page_103'></span>Sen. War.: By the Brothers at the door of

-the Temple.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Master: Our Grand Master Hiram may

-be ill. You will cause search to be made for him

-in the secret antichambers of the Temple and

-see if he can be found.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Sen. War.: Search has been made, Worshipful,

-and he cannot be found.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>According to the Egyptian religion Souphis

-Khunfu Nefer Hept, Lord of the Underworld,

-murdered the Great Architect. The victim,

-whether he be called the Great Architect, or

-Hiram, or Adonis, or Horus, or Christ is always

-and ever the setting sun murdered by the darkness,

-or Prince of Darkness, called Sat in Egypt

-and Satan with us. The sacrifice of Hiram

-Abiff is one form of the Passion Play.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>A Masonic society, established in China

-from the earliest times, is called Our Ladyship’s

-Society and the Queen of Heaven Society. In

-the Chinese society the candidate is made to

-pass through the arch of swords. He could not

-be born again or come forth into the light unless

-he passed through the door of life and came

-out of the cave. The Chinese god Fo was born

-of a virgin impregnated by a ray of the sun, as

-shown in Christian pictures of Mary. In the

-Indian Mysteries three hierophants sit in the

-East and the West and the South. After an

-invocation to the sun, the candidate is baptized,

-his shoes taken away from him, and he

-is made to circumnavigate the cavern three

-times with the sun. He is conducted through

-seven dark caverns and assailed by legions of

-hobgoblins. The victim slaughtered is called

-Siva, and the lamentations of Maya for the

-death of Siva correspond to the weeping of Mary

-at the tomb of Christ. The sword was aimed

-at the throat of the candidate by the Evil One,

-<span class='pageno' title='104' id='Page_104'></span>but he was brought forth at last into the light.

-The Eye was marked on his forehead and the

-Tau Cross on his breast. He was presented

-with the sacred girdle or apron, the magical

-stone and the talismanic jewel for the breast.—Isis

-Unveiled.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the Mysteries of Aphrodite, a male emblem

-is handed to the initiate, and those initiated

-bring a piece of money to her as her hire.

-Demeter, of the Eleusinian Mysteries, is identical

-with Mary, and Clement says that he knows

-not whether she is the mother or wife of the god

-Zeus or Deus. This god is a serpent. The

-token of the Sabazian Mysteries is this serpent

-god gliding over the human breast. The offspring

-of the rape of Proserpine (Mary) by this

-god was christ, the bull.—Clement 1-29. If

-you wish to know what foul things were kept in

-the Ark of the Covenant, see Clement 1-31.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>According to the Egyptian Book of the

-Dead, in the judgment in Amenti, or the Lower

-World, the deceased or candidate for Heaven is

-given the name of Osiris, and he is tried before

-the supreme god Osiris and forty other deities

-or beasts. An altar stands before the supreme

-god on which is placed the bribes offered by the

-soul to god. The forty-two deities are the

-judges of the forty-two sins. One is called the

-Devourer of Shades, another the Cracker of

-Bones, and another the Eater of Hearts. If the

-soul denies that he has committed the forty-two

-sins, the judges must acquit him, but if he is

-convicted of being a land-grabber, he cannot

-get by, as the priests propose to attend to all

-that business themselves. In the Christian

-Judgment, the judges will be the confessors,

-monks and virgins.—The Elucidarium.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“The Buddhist novice, like the Freemasons,

-is forced to bare his shoulder and breast and

-<span class='pageno' title='105' id='Page_105'></span>give up his money and bare his feet, in fact to

-simulate the vows of poverty, chastity and

-obedience of the Buddhist.”—Buddha &amp; Early

-Buddhism, 136.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In Lalita Vistara, Buddha is called the

-Great Physician, and at his appearance the sick

-are healed, the deaf are cured, the blind see. He

-cures by the laying on of hands or mesmerism.

-Akasa, the mesmeric fluid or the astral light,

-and the Spirit of God are one in the East. Buddha

-was born of a virgin, presented in the Temple,

-disputed with the doctors, was tempted in the

-wilderness, passed his life in preaching and

-working miracles, and descended into Hell and

-ascended into Heaven.—Idem, 80.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Heaven was also calmly purloined from

-Buddhism. The Buddhist heaven is the city

-four square of John, with the gates of gold and

-silver, adorned with precious stones. The great

-throne of God stands in the centre thereof by the

-gem lake or crystal sea, by which stands the Tree

-of Life or Tree of Infamy. The Buddhist religion

-is wholly phallic. See Book of All Religions, 86.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>If you read the life of Buddha in the Ency.

-Brit. you will find that it is almost identical

-with the life of Christ. In any Chinese store

-you can buy an idol of Buddha, who, like Christ,

-is the god of life, bringing us life and life yet

-more abundantly. He wears a fish skin for a

-miter, showing that he is the fish god, and on

-his divine and radiant forehead is the Eye, and

-on his stomach, between his clasped hands, is the

-sacred Tree of Life. These divine secrets should

-not be disclosed to the uninitiated, but, to tell

-the truth, I am convinced that this is the origin

-of the hermaphrodite abdominal Eye, worn and

-revered by all the great and good men from the

-time our religion found its birth in the foul sties

-of India down to the immortal Washington.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='106' id='Page_106'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XVII.<br /> <br /><b>Revelations.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>If you do not believe that all the beasts of

-the zodiac bear rule in Heaven, read Revelations

-with your eyes open. The Ram is the Grand

-Vizier. The Bull is also there, with eyes before

-and behind, and the Lion and the Man, the

-Waterman, in fact the four beasts of the four

-cardinal points of the zodiac.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Ch. 1, v 7, says: “Behold he cometh with

-clouds.” It is evident from Revelations that

-Christ is one of the seven Buddhas who came at

-the end of each cycle, and the seven were one,

-and that one was the sun in the heavens. Budhi

-means the Word, one of our beloved idols.

-“I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last,”

-that is, he is the same God that came at first as

-Adam and last as the Lamb of God. It is claimed

-that the Revelations were stolen and the

-original was written before the Fish God came.

-In verse 12, John saw seven golden candle-sticks,

-typifying the seven christs or lights of

-the world, “and one of the seven was like unto

-the Son of Man.” The Persian fire god Agni is

-called the Son of Man, and it is claimed that

-John got the Revelations from the Persians.

-In the Clementines St. Clement says: “Christ,

-it is said, has changed his forms and names from

-the beginning of the world.”—Clement, cap. 51.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Verse 18 says: “I am he that liveth and

-was dead,” that is, the sun that was crucified

-annually at the winter solstice, when it stood

-still for three days, or remained in the tomb

-<span class='pageno' title='107' id='Page_107'></span>three days, and was reborn on the 25th of

-December. “And have the keys of death and

-Hell.” The christ that was crucified in the

-west, according to the Egyptian religion, was

-Judge of the Underworld and carried the keys

-and descended into Hell when the sun went

-down. They were the keys of Hell, not Heaven,

-that were transmitted to St. Peter.</p>

-

-<hr class='c017' />

-

-<p class='c009'>Ch. 2, v 7 says: “To him that overcometh

-will I give to eat of the tree of life,” which

-being interpreted means that the successful candidate

-or worthy brother will be permitted to

-eat the male emblem. Verse 17 says: “To

-him that overcometh will I give to eat of the

-hidden manna,” which is a small round cake or

-wafer in the Mithraic Mysteries, representing

-the female emblem. In these Mysteries they

-killed a lamb or bull christ and sprinkled the

-candidate with its blood, as we drink the blood

-of Christ and eat his flesh in the depths of our

-beastial ignorance, superstition and depravity.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“And will give him a white stone, and in

-the stone a new name written, the Word, which

-no man knoweth save him that receiveth it.”

-This stone is the symbol of Siva, and the new

-name is Ling, the secret, the Sanscrit name of

-the Word. St. Clemens says: “It is difficult

-to exhibit the pure and transparent Word to

-swinish hearers. (All are swine except the

-priests and ministers.) For nothing they could

-hear would be more ludicrous to the multitude.

-The truly sacred Word is deposited in the

-shrine (Monstrance). It is improper that these

-emblems should be exposed to those who have

-never been purified in soul. The Mysteries

-were established because it was wise that the

-holy and blessed contemplation of realities

-be concealed.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='108' id='Page_108'></span>In Ch. 4, v 3, the four beasts and the

-four and twenty elders, the angels and saints

-and all the other vermin in Heaven fall down and

-knock their foreheads on the ground, groveling

-in abject baseness, servility and degradation before

-the sardine stone or pillar that sits on the throne

-in the royal arch of the rainbow, and before the

-beast, (the bull). This lovely pillar is worshipped

-throughout India. You will find the above

-scene and this foul worship depicted in Inman’s A.

-P. &amp; M. C. Symbolism, Plate XIX. John has

-set a foul pagan idol on the throne of Heaven.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Ch. 12, v 1. The woman clothed with the

-sun and the moon under her feet, with a crown of

-twelve stars, is Mary, the moon goddess, the wife

-of the sun-god, and the crown of twelve stars are

-the twelve christs that she bore, or that crowned

-her labors in the twelve signs of the zodiac. The

-dragon that waited to devour the child is called

-Herod in the other story of Mary and Jesus. In

-the Hindu myth, from which this is copied, the woman

-fled to the wilderness, as Mary fled to Egypt.

-According to another astronomical legend, when

-the sun-god is born on the 25th of December, old

-King Sagittarius, the Archer or Herod, who lives

-in the next house (November), tries to kill the Son

-of God with the arrow of death.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>If you refer to an astronomical chart, you

-will see depicted there all the gods that ever existed.

-In the first sign, Leo, is the Lion of the

-Tribe of Judah, the christ that came in the Golden

-Age, 12,934 years ago, a Jew god, that would not

-do a thing to you but rend you and steal your

-shirt.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the sign of Gemini you see the Twins, or

-Castor and Pollux, or Cain and Abel, or Romulus

-and Remus, or Solomon and Adonijah, or Jacob

-and Esau. Cain has a club in his hand, with

-which he kills his brother god, as Romulus killed

-<span class='pageno' title='109' id='Page_109'></span>Remus and Solomon killed Adonijah. In the

-sign of Taurus, you will see Auriga, a Mystic

-of high degree kissing the goat, and Orion,

-the Lord of Darkness, killing the bull christ.

-And there is the triangle of seven stars that

-Christ held in his hand. This is the solar system

-of the Pleiades, of which the great star Alcyone is

-the sun, and around which the whole universe revolves.

-It is the Kingdom of Heaven and the

-home of god and his sons Jesus and the Devil.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the sign of Aries, you see the Lamb of God

-and the christ Perseus, who has just amputated

-the Medusa’s head and destroyed the serpents of

-which the hair was composed. In the next sign of

-Pisces is the beautiful Andromeda (mother of men),

-or Mary, bearing the fish-god, the Son of Man,

-under her arm, as Isis bears it on her head. In

-the sign of Scorpio, you will see Christ or Orpheus

-overcoming the Great Serpent. And another

-christ, Hercules by name, holds a club in one

-hand and two serpents in the other, to whom, as

-representing the Devil or the infernal god Cerberus,

-he is about to administer, in the classic

-language of modern ministers, a good wallop.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“When the sun shall have passed through the

-sign of Virgo, the Great Cycle of 25,868 years

-will be ended. The sun then enters the sign

-of Leo, and this junction of Virgo and Leo, this

-secret of the Great Cycle, is expressed in the

-Sphinx of Egypt, the woman and the lion conjoined.

-This is the mystery of the ages, the

-pillar on the border of Egypt, which shall be

-for a sign and a testimony.”—Daughter of the

-Druids, 276. It is said that in that great Day

-Draconis will again be the pole star, and the great

-pyramid is so constructed that at the end of the

-Great Year the light from Draconis will again

-shine through the passage in the pyramid that

-<span class='pageno' title='110' id='Page_110'></span>leads to the Bottomless Pit, or the dragon will be

-cast into the Bottomless Pit.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the sign of Virgo is the Virgin Mary, the

-mother of all the gods, and the Great Serpent

-will be seen waiting there for her to deliver

-another god for his consumption. Ch. 5, v 1,

-says that the book was sealed with seven seals,

-corresponding with the seven comings or avatars

-of Christ, when the book was opened or the word

-was preached. When the first seal was opened,

-Christ appeared as Sagittarius, the Archer.

-“And behold a white horse and he that sat on

-him had a bow.” When he had opened the

-third seal, behold a black horse, and he that sat

-thereon had a pair of balances in his hand. This

-is the Christ that came in the sign of Libra or the

-Scales, who weighed them in the balance and

-found them wanting.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Ch. 4, v 6. The four beasts referred to are

-the four hieroglyphic beasts of the priests and

-magicians, which they placed on the playing

-cards of Egypt, the lion, the bull, the man and the

-eagle. They are zodiacal gods and sit in the

-North, the East, the South and the West respectively.

-The churches declare truly that a pack of

-cards is the Devil’s book. Cards were invented by

-the priests, and they are reeking with sacred, occult

-and religious emblems. The pack is composed of

-four sets of ten. Ten is a Kabalistic sacred

-number, for there are ten persons in the Hebrew

-Godhead, and 10 or IO is the name of God. Then

-there are the four beasts or aces, and the Trinity

-is represented by the king, queen, and jack. The

-clubs, or the three sacred balls of the Jews, are the

-symbol of the male god and the Trinity. Any

-deeper meaning can only be disclosed to the initiated.

-The heart is the cup or chalice or Eye of

-Isis, the symbol of love. The queen of hearts is

-clothed with the sun and moon, and she is Mary,

-<span class='pageno' title='111' id='Page_111'></span>the Queen of Heaven. The Queen of spades holds

-in her left hand the sacred candle, and she is

-adorned with another male emblem, the fleur de

-lys, and in her right hand is the flower of Isis, a

-female emblem, the same as the circles and

-rosaries with which she is also decorated. The

-seven circles are the emblems of the seven joys

-that Mary had. The twelve precious stones in

-the jewel on her breast correspond with the twelve

-christs she bore and the twelve jewels in the

-Ephod of the high priest.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The jack of hearts carries the male emblem

-in his hand and the three links are on his belt to

-show that he is an Oddfellow in good standing. The

-jack of spades holds up the three links, and the

-spade itself is a patent, combination, hermaphrodite,

-religious emblem of sufficient magic potency

-to save from the pains of Tophet all who gaze

-upon its sacred and occult form. The king of

-hearts performs the occult and saving rite of

-putting the sword or cross through the crown.

-This crown is adorned with shamrocks, and on

-his coat he wears the seven hearts or chalices.

-He belongs to the zodiacal sign of the Lion, and

-this is the heart sign, and in it is found the constellation

-of the Chalice. And he holds his hand

-on his breast like Buddha to show that he is a

-Mason in due form.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Rev. 7-4. The angel seals in their foreheads

-144,000 Jews with the Signa Tau or Word, the

-signet of the Living God. The devotees of Siva

-also wear this Tree of Infamy on their foreheads.

-John says that it is the Father’s name written

-in the forehead. Only those sealed with this

-Baum Bosheth can sit with Abraham, Isaac and

-Jacob and the other beasts around the Throne.

-All but the 144,000 Jews can go to Hell. The

-priests draw the cross or Signa Tau in ashes on

-<span class='pageno' title='112' id='Page_112'></span>the foreheads of their devotees every Ash Wednesday.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Rev. 16-12. And the sixth angel poured

-out his vial upon the earth, and I saw three unclean

-spirits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of

-the Dragon and out of the mouth of the beast.

-For they are the spirits of devils which go forth

-unto the kings of the earth to gather them to the

-great day of God Almighty. The sixth angel is

-the angel of the sixth sign of the zodiac, our present

-sign, the Waterman, and the nations of the

-earth are now fighting the battles of Armageddon.

-We are now at the end of a Great Cycle. The

-end of the world has come according to the astrological

-and theological fakirs, and the inhabitants

-of the earth are again being destroyed, this time

-by fire and sword. Christ now comes to bring a

-sword upon the earth.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>According to the Christians, all the nations

-engaged in the war, save two, march forth

-under the banner and protection of Jehovah,

-the God of Battles, and he divides himself

-into two persons and, perched upon two

-clouds, commands the two contending hosts,

-urging them on to kill each other. After this

-holocaust of blood and carnage, there will be found

-no fool so utter as to assert that God rules the

-destinies of mankind.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='113' id='Page_113'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XVIII.<br /> <br /><b>The Clergy.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>The Presbyterian clergy or sorcerers of

-Scotland, of old times, claimed that they could

-consign their deluded victims to Heaven or Hell

-by a word, and could by their magic power

-strike with death any enemy of God, that is,

-the clergy. They would not allow anyone to

-remain in town who failed to go and hear their

-sermons. Buckle says the clergy kept the people

-in a worse than Egyptian bondage, inasmuch as

-they enslaved mind as well as body.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“John Knox sanctioned the murder of the

-Roman Archbishop Beaton of Scotland in 1548,

-and shut himself up with the assassins in the

-palace of the Archbishop. When the Catholic

-power was destroyed in Scotland by the nobles

-in 1560 and the church property confiscated by

-them, the Protestant clergy claimed that it was

-impious to secularize ecclesiastical property, and

-that they should be endowed with the spoils of the

-war, that it was right for the Lords to plunder the

-Church of Rome, but the loot should be turned

-over to them. They said that what rightly belonged

-to them was devoured by idle bellies.

-The Presbyterian clergy said that King James

-was a traitor and had seven devils inside of him,

-and he ought to be seized. And their

-associate in crime, the Earl of Gourie, entrapped

-the King into his castle in order to murder

-him.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 2-201.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Presbyterian clergy said that cheerfulness

-was to be guarded against. Smiling, provided

-<span class='pageno' title='114' id='Page_114'></span>it stopped short of laughter, might occasionally

-be allowed, still being a carnal pastime, it was a

-sin to smile on Sunday. A Christian has no

-business with love or sympathy. He has his

-own soul to attend to, that is enough for him.

-On Sunday in particular he must never think of

-benefitting others and thus break the Sabbath.

-On no occasion must food or shelter be given to

-a starving man unless he is a Presbyterian.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“In priest-ridden Spain, Charles V, the tool

-of religion, in his will provided that all heretics

-should be put to death and that the Inquisition

-should be upheld. Under his orders, according

-to Grotius, 100,000 persons were beheaded,

-buried alive and burnt at the stake in the Netherlands.

-Phillip II, of Spain, said it was better

-not to reign at all than to reign over heretics.

-The Duke of Alva, in this reign, boasted that in

-five or six years he had put to death in cold blood

-more than 18,000 heretics, beside a still greater

-number of infidels he had slain on the battlefield.”—Idem

-2-14.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>When it was proposed to expel from Spain

-the remnant of Moors remaining, who had

-turned Christians and were baptized by force,

-Bleda, the Dominican, said that every Moor in

-Spain should have his throat cut, because it was

-impossible to tell which of them were Christians

-at heart, but God knew his own and he

-could sort them out. About one million of the

-most industrious inhabitants of Spain were

-hunted out like wild beasts. Many were slain

-as they approached the coast, others were beaten

-and plundered, and the majority in the most

-wretched plight sailed for Africa. During the

-passage the crew in many of the ships butchered

-the men, ravished the women and threw the

-children into the sea. From this time Spain

-began to degenerate. The tyranny of religion

-<span class='pageno' title='115' id='Page_115'></span>was supreme. While every other country was

-advancing, Spain, numbed into a death-like

-torpor, spell-bound and entranced by the accursed

-superstition, presented to Europe a solitary

-instance of constant decay.“—Idem, 2-53.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“The French Revolution freed the world

-from ecclesiastical tyranny and opened an unobstructed

-path to Napoleon, who had given

-the death blow to the Inquisition, the great

-slaughter house, where they butchered in the

-name of the Lamb.”—Isis Unveiled, 2-22.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Brahmins, the clergy of India, were

-quite as disreputable as the others. The Institutes

-of Manu provided that if a common

-person molested a Brahmin, he was to be put to

-death. If he sat on the same carpet with a

-Brahmin, he was to be maimed for life. If he

-listened to the reading of the sacred books, burning

-oil was to be poured into his ears, and if he

-committed them to memory, he was to be killed.

-If he spoke disrespectfully of a Brahmin, an iron

-stile ten fingers long was to be thrust red-hot

-into his mouth. To give to the Brahmins or

-will them your property was an act of the highest

-piety.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The laws of the clergy in certain provinces

-of France, ruled by them in old times, provided

-that every man that died without bequeathing

-part of his estate to the church, should be deprived

-of the Sacrament (and would consequently

-go to Hell). If he died without making a

-will, his relatives were obliged to prevail upon

-the Bishop to appoint arbitrators to determine

-what sum the deceased should have given to

-the church in case he had made a will. At one

-time in France, “married couples could not sleep

-together the first three nights without purchasing

-leave of the church.”—Montesquieu’s Spirit

-of the Laws, 665.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='116' id='Page_116'></span>“Pope John XII was assassinated in the

-arms of his mistress. Crecentious, the illegitimate

-son of John X, caused Benedict VI

-to be murdered. His faction elected Boniface

-VII, and a third faction elected John XV, who

-was put to death by Boniface. We find shortly

-after 1044 Benedict IX, a boy of twelve, and

-Rholeme and Sylvester III all reigning at the

-same time, and all leading the most profligate

-and scandalous lives.”—Doubts of Infidels, 95.

-Bishop Hopkins says that “the great body of

-the clergy before the seventh century were

-steeped in licentiousness, avarice, simony, cruelty,

-violence and blood. They consecrated every

-vice in the interest of so-called religion, they

-graduated sins by pecuniary amercement, they

-commissioned assassins, having pardoned them

-before the commission of the murder.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The priests or Magi of Persia, as ecclesiastical

-bandits, were unexcelled. The people had

-to give up one tenth of their income to these

-magical fakirs. Every woman in Babylon was

-obliged to offer her person for sale one day in the

-year at the temple of Astarte, and the money

-went to the priests. The pirates of Babylon

-ransacked the world and bought or stole the

-most beautiful women on earth for the use of the

-priests, who made a pretence of offering them up

-as human sacrifices to Baal. The god held in his

-hand the appropriate symbol of the traffic, the

-circle and the pillar, that may still be seen in nearly

-all churches. The beautiful sacrifice was placed

-on the lap of the god in the presence of the audience,

-to be devoured by the lions that surrounded

-the god. But after the meeting the priests drove

-the lions out and stole the sacrifice, as priests

-always did steal the offerings from god.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Egyptian priests were the rulers of the

-whole, and owned one third the land of Egypt.

-<span class='pageno' title='117' id='Page_117'></span>Besides the princely revenue from this immense

-landed estate, they received, in addition to their

-salaries, all the offerings and sacrifices that the

-fools gave up as an atonement for sin. A very

-large part of their income was derived from the

-Bethel or Brothel maintained around the temple

-of the goddess Hathor, the cow, the wife of the

-god Ammon, which is another name for the Ram

-god or the lamb of god. Every woman in Egypt

-was obliged to sell herself for one month at this

-temple. And then, besides, there were the

-regular sacred ladies who lived constantly in the

-temple. The priests chose the most beautiful,

-then the remainder were turned over to the mob

-of pious dupes and devotees. The young lady

-who earned the most money for the priests

-was, in the after life, assigned by Osiris, alias

-Yahvah, to a seat beside the Golden Throne.

-This rotten pagan church subsequently changed

-its name to Christian.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Calvin, the blood-drenched, the fiend incarnate,

-one of the founders of the Protestant

-Churches, compelled his lady parishioners to

-confess on the rack their indiscretions, and then

-threw them naked into the lake and drowned

-them. He hanged a child for cursing its parents,

-burned old women as witches, and burned alive

-Michael Servetus for contradicting Moses in

-asserting that Palestine was a desert that did

-not flow with milk and honey. Calvin died in

-convulsions of fear, raving and cursing because

-he thought he was going to Hell.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Oliver Cromwell, the pious Puritan, the

-murder demon, the regicide, the usurper, with

-the Bible in one hand and the sword in the other,

-rode at the head of his army of religious fanatics

-singing psalms. This sanctified Christian, upon

-the capture of Drogheda, Ireland, himself reported

-to Parliament that he massacred two thousand

-<span class='pageno' title='118' id='Page_118'></span>of the garrison. He fired St. Peter’s

-Church, to which the people had fled, and put

-a thousand of them to the sword. All the friars

-were killed but two. And the likes of him settled

-Boston and robbed and murdered the Indians.

-One of these Puritan buccaneers, named Will

-Bartlett, in Boston, in 1637, was sentenced

-to be set in the stocks, with his tongue in a cleft

-stick, because he got drunk and cussed and swore

-and refused to go to church on Sunday.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In those blithesome days a citizen could not

-vote unless he belonged to the Congregational

-Church and kissed the big toe of Cotton Mather,

-the superstitious bigot, the Prosecutor of the New

-England Protestant Inquisition. Ridpath says

-that Mather was chiefly responsible for the

-horrors and crimes of the Salem Witchcraft,

-and that this massacre, torture and imprisonment

-of 263 innocent persons was started by a Salem

-minister for the purpose of revenging himself

-upon those of his flock who antagonized him.—Ridpath’s

-Hist. of U. S. 131. The Quakers

-were perhaps the only decent body of Christians

-up to that time, and for that reason the Puritan

-pirates and slave-dealers hung four of them, one

-woman and three men, on Boston Common.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“Infuse a few different kinds of religious

-poison into a community of human beings, and

-they hate each other like tigers. Religious

-creeds have a worse effect on a man than booze.

-You can work the booze out of your system and

-quit the stuff, but when a victim is loaded up on

-some rotten brand of orthodoxy, it is hard to do

-anything with him. A Protestant will damn the

-Catholics, and a Catholic will yell ‘To Hell with

-the Protestants,’ and both will hate the Jews.”—Roman

-Religion, 27.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The churches have soaked the earth with the

-blood of their countless victims. Frederick, the

-<span class='pageno' title='119' id='Page_119'></span>Emperor of Germany, sentenced heretics of all

-descriptions alive to the flames. Sixty thousand

-heretics were slaughtered in the city of Beziers.

-Seventy thousand Huguenots were put to death

-in France. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew

-began at midnight, Aug. 23, 1572, and the carnival

-of death lasted seven days. Medals commemorating

-the holy event were distributed

-among the loyal butchers.—Roman Religion, 35.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“When the Crusaders took Jerusalem from

-the Moslems in 969 A. D., they massacred all

-the Mussulmans and burned the Jews alive.

-Seventy thousand persons were put to death in

-a week to attest the superior morality of the

-Christians.”—Boston Sun. American.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Dr. Fernald says that Sultan Bejazet wrote

-to Pope Alexander VI that he would give him

-300,000 ducats, several cities and the shirt of

-Jesus Christ if His Holiness would kill Zimzim,

-the brother of the Sultan, “and you Most Illustrious

-Lord will not commit a crime, since by

-your religion Christians are ordered to exterminate

-heretics and infidels.” The Ency. Brit. says

-that “the unfortunate prince was murdered by

-Alexander, who received 300,000 ducats as the reward

-of the crime.” Zimzim was held captive by

-certain bandits in Rhodes, a Commandery of the

-Knights of St. John, a Christian organization

-under the domination of Alexander. Alexander

-was a Borgia, whose children were all illegitimate.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='120' id='Page_120'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XIX.<br /> <br /><b>The Bible.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>As the Old Testament was originally written

-without vowels, the Lord only knows what

-it meant. The best the copyists could do was

-to make a good guess at the meaning, or supply

-whatever vowels suited their purposes.—See

-Ency. Brit. 3-64.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Moses was a magician, a thief and a murderer

-according to the Bible, a fakir who foisted upon

-the Hebrews a magnificent system of priestly

-plunder. In pursuance of Moses pretence that

-the world was created in six days, and that their

-god El or Bel or Baal rested on the seventh, he

-commanded the people to refrain from labor on

-that day and go to church, so that he would have

-frequent opportunities to pick their pockets. The

-story of Moses’ birth and secretion in an ark

-of bulrushes was taken from the Babylonians,

-where it was applied to King Sargon, according

-to tablets excavated at Babylon.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The great, learned and profound Irenaeus

-says that there must be four gospels because there

-are four winds of heaven. This is a fair sample

-of the logic of theologians. The fact is, there

-are four gospels because those four jumped from

-the floor onto the table at the council of Nice.

-There was at that time so much doubt as to what

-alleged sacred writings were inspired by God, that

-the delegates put them all together under the

-communion table one night at the close of the

-session, and agreed that those that got up on top

-of the table during the night should be considered

-<span class='pageno' title='121' id='Page_121'></span>as inspired, and those that were too weak to get

-up on the table should be stamped as the work of

-the Devil.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“Many of the bishops in these councils

-were ruffians and were followed by crowds of

-vicious supporters, who stood ready on the

-slightest excuse to maim and kill their opponents.”—Keeler’s

-Hist. of the Bible. Tichenor says that

-“they decided all holy questions by a vote or a

-knock-down fight. It is doubtful if any of them

-drew a sober breath during the entire proceedings.”

-Millman says that “they fought in the

-streets and much blood was shed.”—Millman’s

-Hist. Christianity. “What these drunken, fighting,

-ignorant, pagan priests declared to be received

-from God, that is what is taught as Divine to-day.

-To this day they cram their abominable

-lies of devils and damnation into the brains of

-little children. The miserable, crazy creeds of

-Christendom were concocted by these brawling

-pagan priests, and their poison still pollutes the

-souls of men. Fire all the gods of all the creeds

-into the melting pot, and out comes the brazen

-face of Mammon.”—Tichenor.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Another reason why there are four gospels,

-according to Irenaeus, was because the Cherubim

-had four faces. But he thus calls attention to

-the fact that Christianity was spawned in the

-sties of paganism, as the Jews took the four beasts

-of the Cherubim, the bull, the lion, the eagle and

-the man, from the idolatrous Babylonians. And

-the four Evangelists adopted the four beasts as

-their totems and placed their beastly images on

-the four gospels. The Maya Indians and the

-Mexicans worshipped the same four idols of the

-four quarters of the heavens.—Ency. Brit. 12-823.

-The priests of the Ojibways wear the horns of the

-bull and sacrifice to the dragon or great serpent

-(Mary) that wears on its head the crescent moon.

-<span class='pageno' title='122' id='Page_122'></span>They also worship the eagle and the Tree of Life.

-The Ojibway picture writing shows that the

-Indian Adam and Eve had the same disgraceful

-scandal in the garden of Eden. See “Indians,”

-Ency. Americana.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>It is claimed that Apollonius of Tyana

-(alleged to be the original of Paul and Christ)

-came through a medium and said: “Nine epistles

-were made a present to me by Pharaotes, a

-Satrap of Taxila, between Babylon and India.

-These epistles contained all that is embraced

-in the present epistles claimed to have been

-written by Paul. Further, I retired to the Isle

-of Patmos in 69 and 70 A. D. and wrote in a

-trance state an almost identical story with that

-attributed to St. John. The Christian Gospels

-were all preached by me at Jerusalem, Ephesus,

-Philippi, Rome, Antioch, Alexandria and Babylon,

-and in all those countries I healed the sick, cured

-the blind and raised the dead. The original

-of the four gospels I obtained at Singapore.

-They treated of the four stages of the life of

-Buddha.”—Antiquity Unveiled, 21.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Moses and God were mad at the Midianites

-because the Jews had entered into the tents

-of the Midianite ladies and worshipped Baal

-Poer, from which ensued a plague among the

-Congregation of the Lord. Num. 31-18. And

-they warred against the Midianites, as the

-Lord commanded, and slew all the males and

-took all the women and children captive. Moses

-was wroth because they had saved all the women

-and children, and ordered all the males among

-the children to be killed and all the females to

-be turned over to the soldiers for outrage. And

-he ordered all the women murdered except the

-virgins, of whom 16,000 went to the soldiers

-and 16,000 to the people, but the soldiers and

-the people were compelled to pay of these into

-<span class='pageno' title='123' id='Page_123'></span>the storehouse of the Lord 3200 in tithes. “And

-the priests laid with the virgins at the door of

-the Tabernacle.” Such a monstrosity of iniquity,

-such a fiend incarnate from the shades

-of Hell is the senior member of the firm of Moses

-and the Lamb.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The history of Moses is copied from the

-history of Bacchus, who was called Mises by

-the Egyptians. Like Moses, Bacchus was born

-in Egypt, he sojourned on Mt. Sinai, he passed

-through the Red Sea on dry land, he was a

-lawgiver and wrote the laws on two tables, he

-was found in a box that floated on the water,

-he smote a rock and wine gushed forth, and

-Bacchus was worshipped and these deeds of

-his sung in Egypt, Phenicia, Syria, Arabia and

-Greece before Abraham’s day.—Doubts of Infidels,

-31.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The account of creation as given in the Bible

-has been found on tablets in the ruins of Nineveh,

-written in a language that was dead and buried

-before the Jews ever existed. In this Persian

-cosmogony the name of the first man was

-Adomah, and of the woman Hevah.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Greeks said miracles for fools. Paul

-boasts of lying for the glory of God and catching

-converts with guile. Chrysostom said: “Great

-is the force of deceit.” St. Hermas, an Apostolic

-Father, said that he always lived in dissimulation

-and affirmed a lie for truth to all men.—

-Doubts of Infidels, 78.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>You will see that the Bible is dedicated to

-King James, and that he is canonized in the

-dedication, probably because he kept fifty mistresses

-and was in the habit of becoming beastly

-intoxicated without provocation.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The only real revelations received by the

-priests and prophets of any religion were spirit

-messages, and the Lord only knows whether

-<span class='pageno' title='124' id='Page_124'></span>these were from God or the Devil, from good or

-bad spirits. In fact it is claimed by some spiritualists

-that all the good spirits are in Heaven

-with God and can’t get out. In other words, they

-are in limbo, while those that were not so good

-are at liberty to visit the loved spots and fond

-friends of earth and indulge on the astral in their

-favorite pastimes, whether it be a prayer meeting

-or a poker game. This is purgatory, the next

-story above Hell, which is the earth.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Gibbon said that Eusebius was a consummate

-liar. The Gospel of Matthew and the Epistle

-to the Hebrews were his work, taken from the

-lives of Christna and Apollonius and the records

-of the Essenes and some of the Jewish and

-Phenician legends.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>A Coptic version of the life of Apollonius

-in the possession of the monks of Seville, Spain,

-about 1458, was placed in the hands of Juan

-Hermonez for translation. In the margin was a

-Latin translation, in which the name of Apollonius

-had been changed to John among many other

-falsifications. The Latin translation was almost

-identical with the Gospel of St. John. When

-Hermonez called the attention of the Superior

-to these changes, he was seized and thrown into

-a dungeon, in which he was allowed to starve and

-rot.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The Bible has been too much neglected, due,

-no doubt, to the general impression that, being

-religious, it must be dry. Far from it. For

-instance: Elohim, the gods, made the light and

-days and nights four days before they made

-the sun. They made a firmament, probably of

-metal, to divide the ocean above from the ocean

-below, and had windows in it, so that they could

-open them and drown the inhabitants of the earth

-whenever they got drunk and needed a little

-diversion. And they stuck the sun, moon and

-<span class='pageno' title='125' id='Page_125'></span>stars in the metal firmament, which revolved

-around the earth.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>When the serpent was not working, he was

-coiled around the Tree of Life telling Eve in

-snake language what luscious fruit the tree bore.

-For this interference with the plans of the

-gods, they made the serpent crawl on his belly.

-He had been crawling on his back.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Moses and his first assistant fakir, Aaron, destroyed

-all the horses and cattle in Egypt by a

-murrain, and then, as Pharaoh still had a stiff

-neck, they destroyed them all again by hail. Then,

-as Pharaoh still had trouble with his neck, they

-killed all the first-born of Egypt, both men and

-cattle. Then the Israelites fled, and Pharaoh

-hitched up his horses, that had been killed three

-times, to his six hundred chariots and pursued

-the chosen of God, who had pinched all the

-jewelry of the Egyptians. The Bible is full of

-these delightful stories from beginning to end.

-If you have conscientious scruples against reading

-the Bible, you will find them attractively

-set forth in Le Brun’s Doubts of Infidels.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='126' id='Page_126'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XX.<br /> <br /><b>Heaven.</b></h2>

-</div>

-

-<div class='lg-container-b c002'>

-  <div class='linegroup'>

-    <div class='group'>

-      <div class='line'>The Lord doeth all things well.</div>

-      <div class='line'>He consigns the Jews to Heaven,</div>

-      <div class='line'>And all the rest to Hell.</div>

-    </div>

-  </div>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>There are forty nine heavens to which we ordinary

-mortals may attain, so you needn’t worry.

-Besides, there are certain aristocratic heavens

-reserved for the great and good men of high

-spirituality, such as Moses, the fakir, thief and

-murderer, and David, the bandit, outlaw and

-assassin, and Solomon, the fratricide, Mormon

-and pillar of Ashtoreth, and all the popes, bishops,

-priests and ministers. We will each go to that

-place we like the best, and to which we are fitted

-by our vibration. Some of us, like certain ministers,

-will go to that heaven where the beautiful

-fairies are. The ancient Jews will have a little

-heaven of their own, where they can worship the

-three balls and the ass-headed god and the god

-with whiskers on, and where they will have a

-chance to cop the golden paving stones, and sell

-corner lots, and insure their palace not made

-with hands eternal in the heavens.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>And the ancient Scotch Presbyterian will

-walk the golden streets with his savage, gore-imbued

-devil-god, in his paradise overlooking

-the abyss of Hell, where he can gloat over the

-souls in torment, as they rise up out of the

-Bottomless Pit every thousand years, each one

-fastened by his tongue to a hook on an endless

-chain, which rises from such a fathomless depth

-of hellfire that it takes the victim a thousand

-<span class='pageno' title='127' id='Page_127'></span>years to make the circuit. It is claimed that

-these heavens and hells are built up from the

-astral substance by the imaginative power of the

-minds of the different religious sects.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>This region contains all the heavens that

-have ever been dreamed of in theology, each

-filled with the devotees of the various creeds.

-Each of the great religions has its own particular

-region in which its disciples gather, worship and

-rejoice. In each region the religious soul finds

-just what he had expected and hoped to find

-on the other shore. You may even see the golden

-crowns, harps and stiff halos in some cases and

-hear the eternal chant of praise. These heavens

-are not eternal. Everything on the astral plane

-is subject to change like all other matter. Even

-the religious progress and change their opinions.—Astral

-World, 70.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The occultists do not, as a rule, disclose the

-process by which you may see the astral visions

-and pass out of the physical and journey in the

-astral body. But this is one way to see the

-pictures in the astral light: Between sleeping

-and waking, in the neutral state of Jagrata, when

-the eyes are closed and a numbness falls upon the

-body, and you experience a floating sensation,

-take note of the visions that appear to you, if

-any, and then by your will power impress them

-upon physical brain, so that you may remember

-them. These visions may be pictures on the

-astral light or scenes on the astral plane, but

-whatever they are, some of them prove to be

-true prophetic visions.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>One occult teacher advised those who wished

-to induce trance to go into the silence, that is, to

-go into a room by yourself, where you will not

-be disturbed, and lie down and completely relax

-the muscles and think of nothing at all. The

-Hindus say fix your mind on your navel, but some

-<span class='pageno' title='128' id='Page_128'></span>fix their gaze on a crystal. You will see the

-visions when you doze off, if you can get them

-at all.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>When you are in the astral body it is possible

-to remember the experiences of your previous

-lives, that is, the lives of your ancestors. In the

-physical body heredity and memory are stored in

-the cromatin or brain matter of all the millions of

-cells of the body. The human astral body is made

-up of the astral bodies of all the cells. It is

-possible that memory is inherent in the astral

-matter of all the cells, and that in the astral we

-are more in rapport with the cells than in the

-physical.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the lowest astral plane next to the earth,

-it is said, is the region where the astral shells or

-corpses disintegrate, an arm sloughing off here, a

-leg there, and a head elsewhere. It is claimed

-that the spirits have deserted these shells. If

-you should happen to meet one of these ghosts

-walking in a graveyard without any legs or without

-any head, it may scare you into a fit, but it

-will not do you any harm, for it is dead. Then

-there are certain spectres or phantoms whose

-company is very undesirable when you take a

-lonely walk in the ghoul-haunted woodlands.

-These elemental spirits like to play practical

-jokes and have a little fun with you, but they

-will not do you any harm, unless you are sufficiently

-weak to allow them to obsess you. Cast

-out fear, cultivate a strong will, and be, like

-Solomon, the master of demons and men.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“There are certain entities or beings in the

-astral world which never were human and never

-will be, for they belong to an entirely different

-order of nature. They are fairies, satyrs, imps

-and goblins. At spiritual seances they sometimes

-play elfish pranks. They seem to be

-particularly apt to play tricks on neophytes in

-<span class='pageno' title='129' id='Page_129'></span>psychic research who seek to penetrate the

-astral without proper instruction. To such a

-one they appear as hideous forms, monsters

-&amp;c.”—Astral World, 92.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Some of the elementals are electric spirits

-and confer upon the medium the power of

-magnetic healing. The medium, upon the approach

-of the spirit, is charged with electricity.

-The spirit may appear as a bird with a human

-face and a parrot’s bill and sharp, black eyes

-and body covered with hair, and deliver messages

-which can be heard clairaudiently by the

-medium. That reminds us of the claim of

-Mahomet that a little bird stood on his shoulder

-and whispered the laws of the Koran in his

-ear. They are certainly the Devil’s own laws.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>“Many of the angels on the astral and the

-ghosts that haunt houses are thought forms

-created by the people who imagine them, and

-obtain all their apparent mind from the action

-of the thought force of their creators. Repeated

-thought and repeated belief will serve

-to keep alive and strengthen these entities,

-otherwise they will disappear in time. Many

-supernatural visitors, saints and semi-divine

-beings of all religions have been formed in this

-way. The power of the devils arise in the

-same way.”—Idem.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>According to the Theosophists man has

-two souls, the animal and the spiritual, and at

-death the animal soul or spook, together with

-the spiritual soul, passes to that part of the

-astral called Kamaloka, or place of spooks,

-the lowest plane. But the spirit soon deserts

-the spook and leaves it to meet its just reward

-in the second death, because on earth it desired

-too much of carnal pleasures. The spooks

-retain all the impressions accumulated in the

-earth life and can communicate with mortals

-<span class='pageno' title='130' id='Page_130'></span>through mediums. Among these are the demons

-that obsess human beings. The spiritual soul

-passes on to Devachan, or the house of gods,

-which evidently includes those astral planes

-where the religious grovel before their various

-imaginary idols. See “What is Theosophy,” 46.

-This alleged spiritual soul, that deserts its

-brother soul in the depths of Hell, receives its

-due reward, for in the sub-heaven to which

-it goes, it has no memory of the earth life,

-consequently it is not immortal, and it is in

-jail and cannot get out. It would be better

-to stay in Hell with the spook, for it could have

-more fun haunting houses than worshipping

-imaginary gods with a lot of stiff-necked orthodox

-hypocrites.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In Ceylon they have twenty six heavens,

-and at the end of the world period they kill

-off all the spirits in all these heavens except

-those in the five upper spheres, the four highest

-of which are Nirvana.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>You need not think that because you go

-across that you will have surcease from sorrow.

-It is only in the highest heavens that they have

-no sorrow, and that is because they don’t know

-anything. You cannot obtain happiness here

-or hereafter by purchasing absolution from any

-fakir, but only by doing to others as you would

-be done by. The astral planes of the Spiritualists

-in which the soul may advance, improve and

-ultimately attain to the highest heaven, corresponds

-with Purgatory, that superlative graft

-of religion. You can be prayed out of this

-limbo, if your relatives are willing to put up

-the stuff, otherwise you will be shoveled down

-into Hell. But a cheaper way is to have a

-Hindu prayer wheel. I am going to devote

-the immense revenues which I shall receive from

-this pious work to the construction of prayer

-<span class='pageno' title='131' id='Page_131'></span>wheels, which will be placed at street corners

-on all the highways and byways, so that even

-he who runs can turn the wheel and bring around

-to the open slot, so that God can see it, one of

-the many prayers printed on the wheel, for

-instance: “O, God, save my mother-in-law from

-Hell.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the coma, between sleeping and waking,

-the gates of the astral world are sometimes

-opened, and you can see the ghosts on the astral

-plane, great throngs of spirits, having no indication

-of piety, all busily engaged in their favorite

-occupations or sports. If in this state of Jagrata

-you happen to float into a graveyard, you will

-see the ghosts lying or sitting on their graves

-or pacing up and down beside them with bowed

-heads and in deep thought, trying to figure

-out how they got there and where they are

-going. See Seership, 179.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>It is said that two persons can exchange

-bodies if they wish. Or if someone else has a

-better body than you have, and you wish to

-steal it, invite him to take a trip with you in

-his astral body on the astral plane. All the

-time keep commanding your astral body, sotto

-voce, to enter into his body, and when his

-astral body has emerged, prepared to take a

-trip with you in spook-land, that is the instant

-for your astral body to take possession of his

-physical body and leave his astral body out

-in the cold. But be careful to back into his

-body, for if your astral body enters his physical

-body face to face, you will be in wrong end to

-and will be crazy as a loon. Now there is no

-place for the other astral body to go except

-into your abandoned physical body, and as

-you are a wicked robber who just stole a house,

-he will probably hesitate about entering the

-body of such a person, and if he delays too long,

-<span class='pageno' title='132' id='Page_132'></span>he will be a lost spook, condemned to wander

-forever in the land of shades.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Do not allow them to palm off any gods

-upon you. Do not allow anyone to assume

-authority over you. I charge you to teach

-your descendants these things from father to

-son, down through the clanging corridors of

-time, down through the endless vista of eternity.

-There is nothing but matter in the universe,

-and all matter is equal. This being so, all

-forms produced therefrom, whether visible or

-invisible, must be equal, and one form has no

-right to assume authority over another. All

-beings are composed of matter, be they gods or

-be they worms, and no one mass of matter is

-superior to another or worthy of worship. The

-worm that crawls the earth is the equal of the

-king that sits upon a throne. Never bow the

-knee to anything that walks or swims or flies,

-that lives in the flesh or that exists only in the

-diseased imagination of depraved religious fanatics.

-Remember this: There is none greater

-than you in Heaven or Earth or Hell.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='133' id='Page_133'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>THE DEVIL’S HALF ACRE.<br />By Willard Bartlett.<br /><i>From the Beacon.</i></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>In rummaging through the attic of an old

-wraith-haunted, country house, I discovered

-a course of lessons in Yogi Philosophy. These

-lessons I devoured with avidity, and practiced

-with assiduity the occult rites, until I could

-readily pass into the silence and project my astral

-body or ghost to any desired place. In fact the

-unruly ghost would sometimes quit the body

-without my consent and leave me stranded high

-and dry without any soul.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>One night while I lay sleeping, my astral

-body left the physical and sped through the air, as

-it had a very bad habit of doing, to Hapenny, the

-very last place on earth, the place manufactured

-by the Devil out of scraps and old junk, which he

-had left over after building Hell. But my perverted

-soul always insisted on going there whenever

-it succeeded in bursting through the carnal and

-beating down its being’s door.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The soul atom or Ego is said to be located in

-the Medulla Oblongata. If the soul is immortal,

-it is probably an electron. An atom is said to be

-composed of ions or electrons, and probably is

-subject to dissolution, and consequently not immortal.

-But as no one ever saw an atom or electron

-on account of their extreme minuteness, for

-the purpose of this veracious story, we will call

-the soul an atom and play it is eternal. An

-atom is a vortex ring of ether in a constant state

-of vibration, and assumed to resemble in form a

-<span class='pageno' title='134' id='Page_134'></span>ring of smoke. Some of the Hindus claim that

-a Purusha or soul from the countless spirit ions

-constituting the spirit principle of the universe,

-the akasa or astral light, becoming involved in the

-ether, originates the vortex movement by which

-the atom is produced. The ether is the ultimate

-refinement of matter, a body of extreme tenuity

-that pervades the whole universe and permeates

-all grosser bodies. By the waves of this ether all

-the vibrations of light, heat, sound, energy,

-electricity and life are transmitted.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The electron is an extremely minute corpuscle

-or particle endowed with life, mind and energy.

-A thousand electrons, more or less, revolve in the

-atom at a terrific rate around a central sun, thus

-resembling the solar system. This central sun is a

-male or positive electron, and all those revolving

-about it are females or negative electrons and

-constitute the harem of the central sun, thus

-establishing polygamy at the very basis of life.

-Our solar system is an atom in a great cosmic

-animal or god called Pan, the all-god.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In my nocturnal journeys, I thought I was

-clothed in the carnal body, but as I was

-transported through the air, I must necessarily

-conclude that I traveled in the astral

-body and on the astral plane, in which astral

-bodies move about and ghosts manifest, together

-with doubles, wraiths, hobgoblins and dopplegangers,

-to which latter class I belonged. The

-astral body, one of the bodies of the soul, is composed

-of fine, ethereal matter, and in form is a

-duplicate of the human body. It is claimed

-that this body persists for some time after death,

-but eventually disintegrates.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Many a night I have been there in Hapenny

-when the body lay many miles away. These were

-not ordinary dreams. I was actually there, that

-is, I being in the soul atom or astral body. One

-<span class='pageno' title='135' id='Page_135'></span>night I was conducted through a new manufactory

-there, which I had never seen with the mortal

-eyes and never knew existed. But the next time

-I went there in the body, I found the building

-just as I had seen it in the vision.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The favorite outing place of my doppleganger

-is the Devil’s Half Acre, or Murderer’s Paradise.

-It always flies to that obsessed and

-accursed spot hard by the gates of Tophet, close

-round the hinges of Hell. Traveling in the astral

-body, I can see both the quick and the dead, but

-as I am always out there at night, the live ones

-are asleep, and only the spooks are abroad, prowling

-hither and yon in the moon’s pale rays, visiting

-again, like myself, the scenes of former crimes.

-These are earth-bound spirits who, during life,

-lived out a low, degraded existence, and they are

-bound by their own desires and the vibration of

-their astral bodies to these astral slums. I stood

-out on the old road in front of the dilapidated

-shack formerly occupied by a gun-fighter, and

-watched the astral bodies as they glided to and

-fro in the air.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>There was Mr. B. with a red gash from ear

-to ear and a crimson stream of blood running down

-over the white, astral, vapor-like body. Around

-the body was the aura, a cloudy vapor extending

-outward to a distance of two or three feet in the

-shape of an egg, an emanation of a dark and

-dismal color, corresponding to his dark and dismal

-career. It was in back of that very shack that he

-cut his throat and burst the door that bound him

-to the mortal clay, crying as he passed over that

-he was eternally lost and damned, as the church

-had hypnotized him into believing. But that Hell

-is immeasurably preferable to the Devil’s Half

-Acre, because the astral body is relieved of pain,

-hunger and thirst and the necessity of laboring

-for food and clothing. In fact, I believe that we

-<span class='pageno' title='136' id='Page_136'></span>are in Hell now, that this is the lowest plane of

-existence. In the Devil’s Half Acre the poor and

-wretched outcasts of the earth, embellished with

-dirt and clad in rotting rags, lived on three

-cents a day.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>There was something in the atmosphere

-of the neighborhood that urged all the inhabitants

-on to crime. The family life was a hell on earth.

-The place was obsessed by the Devil and accursed

-of God. A village will acquire a character of its

-own. It is claimed that all the evil thoughts

-of all the vicious inhabitants of a vile place will

-linger in the surrounding atmosphere for years

-and exercise a baneful influence on all who dwell

-there. In the Devil’s Half Acre you could not

-take a step without treading on the crimson

-stain of a reeking crime. The spooks were and

-are now as thick as Tophet there; the place is

-haunted by ghosts and fiends unholy in Death

-and Hell bedight. It was the obsession of the

-place by the powers of evil that attracted to it

-all the notorious criminals.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The next spook to pollute the atmosphere

-was that of Mr. D. who, when on earth, was

-engaged in the banking business. In his left

-hand he carried a jimmy and in his right a gun,

-and he was peering here and there looking for a

-safe to crack or a cashier to shoot up. He was

-floating through the air at a height of about

-ten feet, and on his forehead blazed the blood-red

-mark of Cain, and his black aura was lighted

-by the fires of Tophet. When in life he lived in the

-house across the road. From this house also

-emerged a ghost with a halter around its neck.

-It was there with the halter he had swung himself

-over the battlements of time and dropped into

-eternity. The vicious influence of this house was

-irresistible. It is well to know this law of thought

-obsession and avoid these accursed places.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='137' id='Page_137'></span>The next spirit to make its appearance was

-my old friend Mr. E. who came from walking up

-and down in the earth trying to sell the girl he

-led by the hand. He was still on his uppers as

-usual, as I could see by the ragged condition of his

-astral body. The accompanying aura of a

-slate-green hue, embellished with dull-red flames,

-indicated a low, deceitful and sensual character.

-He stopped and, looking me over, said: “I remember

-you. Don’t you want to buy my wife here

-again? She is in good condition now. I admit

-that I cheated you forty years ago when I sold

-her to you for fifty cents, but now in the astral

-world she is a vision of youth and beauty.”</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Then came the ghost of Mr. F., a Sunday

-School teacher, who operated on a class of young

-ladies in the vestry of the church, that time-worn

-vestry, that well-beloved vestry, where the

-foundations of their philosophy were laid. A

-very genial, loving gentleman he was too, but

-his scholars being exceedingly frivolous, he found

-it necessary, in order to impress upon them the

-Divine truths, to pat them on the knees and sort

-of instil religion into them by the massage process.

-He has found his heaven. He appeared

-on the astral, surrounded, embraced and beloved

-by that same dazzling galaxy of beauties, now

-a star-crowned angel band.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>It is claimed that they have schools over

-there, in which those who so desire may be instructed

-in virtue and wisdom and assisted to

-advance. When at last they learn the great

-secret and discover the key that unlocks the horns

-of the bull, they pass through the low and narrow

-portal between the horns of Taurus, squeeze

-through the needle’s eye, and enter the higher

-heaven.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Then I saw a lot of ghosts and fragments

-of ghosts sometimes without any heads, and

-<span class='pageno' title='138' id='Page_138'></span>sometimes lacking limbs, floating about aimlessly

-without any rudders, for they were dead, and their

-spirits had fled, leaving in the Devil’s Half

-Acre their astral shells. That is what they are

-called when their spirits have departed in the

-spiritual body and left the astral body to return

-to the elements like the carnal body.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>A human being in a normal condition is

-unable to see an astral body, or ghost, because

-the vibrations on the astral plane are too rapid for

-the human eye to see. The vibrations of the

-ultra-violet or X rays, at one end of the spectrum

-are too rapid, and the infra-red rays, at the other

-end of the spectrum, are too slow for the

-human eye to see. But we have astral senses,

-appurtenant to the astral body, duplicates of

-the physical senses, and persons in a trance and

-sometimes people asleep are able to use these

-astral senses and see and communicate with the

-denizens of the astral world.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <span class='pageno' title='139' id='Page_139'></span>

-  <h2 class='c005'>THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE SOUL ATOM.<br />By Willard Bartlett.<br /><i>From The Nautilus.</i></h2>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c006'>I will preface my story with the simple

-statement that I am now 500,000,000 years old,

-more or less, that the atom in which my soul

-is located, or which constitutes my soul, first

-found a home in what is called a living being,

-a cytod or cell, in the primordial or earliest

-epoch of earth’s history. A cell is a minute

-mass of living protoplasm, or jelly-like substance,

-not as large as the head of a pin, a combination

-of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen,

-ammonia, sulphur, etc. While it is true that

-I existed before that, and, in fact, from all

-eternity, I previously resided in what is called

-inanimate matter, in the igneous rocks. But

-we will say that I was born when my soul atom

-became involved in the said protoplasm of one

-of the earliest plant cells.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>All matter is endowed with mind, and a

-soul exists in every atom. It is impossible to

-produce new life, as it is said scientists have

-done, and impossible to create life, as God is

-claimed to have done, for life always existed in

-every atom. It is by certain combinations of

-matter that life becomes manifest in motion.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Each of the thousands of atoms, of which

-said primitive life cell was composed, had a soul

-destined to take its place in some descendant,

-if it had an opportunity. And the souls are

-waiting in the atoms to be born, and not in

-Heaven as asserted by the Yogi philosophers.

-<span class='pageno' title='140' id='Page_140'></span>The Yogis claim that the souls are waiting in

-some department of the Buddhist heaven crying

-to be born. Bosh! They are waiting in the

-spermatozoa, those little monsters, those little

-devils that drive their great human masters

-to crime and murder, to the gallows and the

-stake; there they are howling to be born. In their

-frantic race to enter the ovum, as shown under

-“Spermatozoa,” Stand. Dic., no wonder they

-are excited. They have been waiting 500,000,000

-years for the opportunity to become human

-beings.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Cells propagate by division; that is my

-original ancestor, a little, round mass of protoplasm,

-divided itself into two cells to produce

-offspring, and all of my ancestors have done the

-same through all these millions of years, consequently

-I have in my body, in all of the cells,

-some of the original matter of which my original

-cell ancestor was composed. That is eternity’s

-great highway by which the soul walked down.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The human germ cell divides in the same

-manner into two individuals and we propagate,

-as our earliest ancestors did, by casting off a

-cell, which, being joined by a cell of the opposite

-sex, becomes fertilized. The human embryo

-develops by repeated subdivisions of this twin

-cell, and each one of the myriads of cells so

-produced is a living, thinking being.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The question has arisen why the cells in

-an embryo arrange themselves in the form of

-the parent, and it has been asserted that they

-are so distributed by God in pursuance of a

-Divine plan. But it is actually done by the

-volition of the cells themselves. Each cell

-takes its proper position in compliance with the

-instruction of its parent cell, and if removed by

-force to some other part of the embryo, will

-return to its original place, thus evincing the

-<span class='pageno' title='141' id='Page_141'></span>most surprising intelligence. It must be remembered

-that a molecule is as large as a universe,

-that there is no such thing as size, that as much

-ability may be stored up in the nerve centre of a

-cell as in all the debris of a human brain.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>We are immortal, but with no memory of

-past lives. If we do not propagate, this life will

-be the end of our line that has continued unbroken

-for millions of years, and we will have to go back

-into the abysmal void, into the womb of chaos

-and commence all over again. That will be our

-fate in any case. Only that cell of our bodies

-which may be incorporated in our progeny will

-continue in human form. That cell is a remote

-relative of ours, having descended from the

-ancestral germ cell from which our embryo was

-developed.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Of the earliest plant cells, developed by

-spontaneous generation in the primordial epoch,

-some developed tails, or projected filaments of

-protoplasm from their jelly-like bodies. With

-these tails they propelled themselves through the

-primeval seas, and thus separated themselves

-from the plants and became animals. In this

-earliest epoch of life’s history all beings lived in

-the water. These primitive plants possessed as

-much soul and mind as the animals that thus

-branched off from them, and all plants still possess

-soul and mind.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>But I am sorry to say that my ancestor, who

-thus projected a tail and became an animal, was

-a degenerate, a lazy loafer, a robber, a murderer

-and a cannibal. We all have to live on protoplasm.

-The plants made their own living plasm,

-manufacturing it from inorganic matter, but the

-animals were too indolent to do such laborious

-work, when they could just as well kill and eat

-the plant cells and subsist on them. In this

-way they lost the recipe for making plasm, and

-<span class='pageno' title='142' id='Page_142'></span>we descendants are consequently born cannibals,

-condemned to rob, murder, despoil and eat our

-fellow beings, or starve.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>My next beautiful ancestor, to whom I will

-introduce you, was an animal consisting of numerous

-cells arranged in the form of a sack or stomach,

-called a blastoderm or gastraea. There was

-no central brain at this time, each cell having a

-brain of its own.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>Yesterday, while patrolling my beat down

-in the mine, in a drift in the limestone, the earliest

-sedimentary deposit laid down on the bed of the

-primeval ocean, I found the house of my archaic

-ancestor, willed to me by him millions of years ago,

-and delivered by him to me yesterday. It is a

-minute shell, with which he protected his precious

-stomach. This stomach took its flight to Heaven

-in the earliest dawn of time, but the house, one

-of the many mansions of the soul, preserved intact

-came down to me through unnumbered ages,

-while myriad races came into being and faded

-into eternity, and religions sprang up and flourished

-and waned, and empires rose and rotted and

-fell.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>In the next stage, the stomach has become

-elongated, and the nerve centre or spinal cord

-makes its appearance along the whole length of

-the body. At this period my beloved grandfather

-was a very aristocratic and exclusive worm, belonging

-to one of the first families, and, like them,

-had as much brains in his tail as in his head, for no

-cranial brain had yet developed.</p>

-

-<p class='c009'>The remaining steps of the evolution, through

-which my ancestors have passed, are depicted in

-the development of the human embryo, and I

-will ask you to read up on the subject of embryology,

-which I have found quite as interesting as

-dime novels.</p>

-

-<div class='chapter'>

-  <h2 class='c005'>Transcriber's Notes</h2>

-</div>

-<div class='lg-container-l c018'>

-  <div class='linegroup'>

-    <div class='group'>

-      <div class='line'>Several obvious punctuation errors have been silently corrected.</div>

-      <div class='line'>Signa Tau was used consistently so it was not changed to Sigma Tau.</div>

-      <div class='line'>On pages <a href='#Page_2'>2</a> and <a href='#Page_55'>55</a>, alter was changed to altar.</div>

-      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_71'>71</a>, metalic was changed to metallic, twice.</div>

-      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_83'>83</a>, phanton was changed to phantom.</div>

-      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_95'>95</a>, colaborated was changed to collaborated.</div>

-      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>, tate-a-tate was changed to tête-à-tête.</div>

-      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>, bear was changed to bare.</div>

-      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, polutes was changed to pollutes.</div>

-      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_127'>127</a>, Astral Word was Changed to Astral World.</div>

-    </div>

-  </div>

-</div>

-

-<p class='c015'>Other variations in spelling, punctuation, accents and hyphenation remain as in the original.</p>

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+ <hr class='pb c000' />
+</div>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id001'>
+<img src='images/cover.jpg' alt='King Solomon' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000' />
+</div>
+
+<div>
+  <h1 class='c001'><span class='xlarge'>King Solomon’s Goat</span></h1>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+<div class='nf-center c000'>
+    <div class='c002'><i>By</i></div>
+    <div><span class='large'>WILLARD BARTLETT</span></div>
+    <div class='c000'><i>Author of</i></div>
+    <div class='c000'>“The Origin of Priestcraft,” “The Tenderfoot,”</div>
+    <div>“The War of the Stomachs,” etc.</div>
+    <div class='c003'><i>Apologies are due to numerous authors</i></div>
+    <div><i>who have failed to receive due credit</i></div>
+    <div><i>through the carelessness of the compiler.</i></div>
+    <div class='c004'>EVERETT PRINT</div>
+    <div>13 Otis Street</div>
+    <div><span class='small'>BOSTON</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+  <div class='nf-center'>
+    <div class='c003'>Copyright 1918</div>
+    <div class='c000'><span class='small'>BY</span></div>
+    <div class='c000'>G. WILLARD BARTLETT</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='1' id='Page_1'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER I.<br /> <br /><b>The Divine Moloch.</b></h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c006'>The genial gentleman with horns, shown
+on the cover hereof, is christ.<a id='r1' /><a href='#f1' class='c007'><sup>[1]</sup></a> The hybrid
+Christian-Egyptian religion was stolen from the
+sun-worship of Egypt and India and other religious
+impositions. When the sun, called Ra and
+Osiris in Egypt, identical with Jehovah, at the
+end of each cycle of about 2155 years, entered a
+new sign of the zodiac, it was said to be reborn,
+or the son of god came in a character to correspond
+with the astronomical sign.—Gerald Massey.</p>
+
+<hr class='c008' />
+<div class='footnote' id='f1'>
+<p class='c009'><span class='label'><a href='#r1'>1</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Where in this book the words God, Lord, Christ, Messiah and
+Lamb are capitalized they refer to Christian deities, otherwise to
+pagan gods.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c009'>When the sun entered the sign of Taurus, the
+bull, god was reborn, or christ came as
+the bull, called Apis in Egypt and Moloch in Syria.
+It is the latter beauty whose entrancing charms
+are the subject of this panegyric. When Jacob
+wrestled with the lord, the bout was with Moloch
+Iho, as will be seen by reading the original Hebrew
+text. This is lord I O, the supreme, the hermaphrodite
+god or idol of the pagans. Read the
+Blessing that the Hebrews say before eating:
+“Blessed art thou Io Elohanu Melech ...
+who bringeth forth bread from the earth.”—Krinsky’s
+First Lessons in Hebrew, 84.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The pagans claimed that their god Moloch
+“had his castle of fire in the seventh heaven.”
+And “Jehovah had his castle of fire over the
+seventh heaven.”—Book of Enoch, 14:7. The
+<span class='pageno' title='2' id='Page_2'></span>identity of Moloch and the Hindu god Siva is
+indicated by the bull Nardi, the sacred emblem
+of the latter. The Persian bull christ, the son
+of Ormazd, killed by Ahriman, the Lord of
+Darkness, and all the other christs that sport
+horns must share the infamy of the great god
+Moloch, alias Saturn, alias Israel, alias Ilda Baoth
+or Devil. The heaven of Moloch is in the Northeast,
+and it is paved with gold, and his throne is
+made of lapis lazuli.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>You will notice that the priest is offering up
+a child to the great god who so loved human flesh
+and blood that he caused his own son to be
+slaughtered. There was also another reason for
+the human sacrifices by the priests and sorcerers
+and secret societies, that is, the desire to evoke
+the dead and summon up phantoms for consultation.
+These ghosts are very fond of blood, in
+fact it is difficult for them to materialize unless
+they can absorb the steam arising from human
+blood. It is true that some sorcerers have evoked
+the dead with the blood of kids or lambs, but the
+goat and lamb christs are ancient redeemers,
+whose efficacy is not to be compared with the
+man christ. Elephas Levi says that a phantom
+will attract the vapor of blood and human corpuscles
+in the air as a magnet attracts iron filings.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“They have built the high places of Tophet
+in the Valley of Hinnom to burn their sons and
+daughters in the fire.” They made their children
+pass through the fire to Moloch, forsooth,
+because young children, like young pigs, are
+tender and easy to chew. They cooked their own
+flesh and blood on the reeking altar of the Devil,
+even as the great and good Ahaz served up his
+son for the delectation of the mob, and sitting
+down to the delicious feast, ate up the heir and
+hope of Israel. Then, chopping up the remnants
+into sausages, he exposed and hawked them in
+<span class='pageno' title='3' id='Page_3'></span>the market place, crying: “It is true they come
+high, but see what they are made of. Each
+sausage is stamped with the Tetragrammaton
+and stuffed with the royal house of Israel. If
+you plebeians, decorated with dirt and adorned
+with bugs, wish to get some blue blood into your
+clotted veins, now is the time. Avail yourselves
+of this opportunity to eat a prince of the royal
+blood, an imperial descendant of our Mother in
+Israel, Tamar, the daughter and wife of Judah
+and ancestor of David and the messiah.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The fact that the Jews worshipped on Saturn-day
+would indicate that they were worshippers
+of Saturn or Moloch. The sacrifice of the
+first-born unto the Lord was required by the Old
+Testament. Human sacrifices by proxy still
+survive in parts of England, where at Christmas
+time the goodman goes forth to hunt for an old
+wife to sacrifice, and returns with an old log,
+which he plays is his wife, and puts her on the
+fire. This takes the place of the human being
+his ancestors formerly offered up. In Hertfordshire,
+an ox, representing Moloch, is killed every
+Christmas, and the church bell tolls at its death
+in imitation of the crucifixion of the bull christ
+or sun at the winter solstice. At the orgies of
+Orpheus they originally sacrificed a man and
+tore his flesh from his body with their teeth and
+ate it raw, but in later times substituted a bull
+representing Orpheus or Christ.—“Orgies” and
+“Orpheus”, Ency. Brit. All religion originated
+in human sacrifices and cannibalism.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The wife of god is a cow, called Hathor in
+Egypt, also named Isis and Meri, which goddess
+we have stolen and worship under the name of
+Mary. When the sun entered the stable or sign
+of Taurus, a christ was produced, or god was
+reborn as a bull. That is why Christ was born
+in a stable.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='4' id='Page_4'></span>When the sun entered the sign of Aries or
+the Ram, God was reborn, or Christ came as the
+Lamb of God, the son of the Ram, identical with
+Rama, the seventh incarnation of the god Vishnu.—Gerald
+Massey. In Thebes the principal object
+worshipped by the pagan ancestors of Christianity
+was the Ram.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>At the eighth incarnation of God, when the
+sun entered the sign of Fishes, about the beginning
+of the Christian Era, God was reborn as the
+Great Fish or Fisher of Men, and was slain on
+Friday for the redemption of the world. That
+is why the Christians killed and ate their fish
+Jesus every Friday to save their craven souls
+from Hell. That is why the priests of Dagon,
+the fish god of the Philistines, wore fish skins on
+their backs and the head of a fish for a miter.
+The miter of the church dignitaries was the
+gaping mouth of their fish god. That is why
+Christ had such phenomenal piscatorial luck and
+why his disciples were fishermen. That is why
+he came up out of the waters of Jordan.—See
+Ancient Pagan &amp; Modern Christian Symbolism.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>We are baptized that we may typically
+become fish or Christlike, but complete immersion
+is indispensable to save our wicked souls.
+A few drops of water on the forehead do not
+make a fish. Jesus came out of the stellar pool
+in the sign of Fishes, and we have seen superstitious
+and benighted fishes, who have been born
+again, come up out of the pool beneath the church
+altar in the Hub of Universal Culture. The
+basin at the church door or piscina, containing
+alleged holy water, is but a type of that celestial
+pool in which the stellar fishes swim, and into
+which the sun plunged and washed away the sins
+of the world. The Egyptian Madonna, Isis, is
+represented as holding in her arms the christ
+Horus, and on her head is a fish. The Hindus
+<span class='pageno' title='5' id='Page_5'></span>worship the fish-god at the temple of the Golden
+Dagon near Rangoon, India.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Jews sacrificed the fish-christ at each
+of the three meals of the Sabbath. “One should
+eat fish for into them the souls of the righteous
+are transmigrated.”—Talmud. The Buddhist
+cross, from which the Christian cross was taken,
+is called Swastika (fishes) and consists of the
+two fishes of the zodiac crossed. “Maya or Mary,
+the Virgin of the skies, at the moment of the birth
+of her son Buddha on Dec. 25, was just rising
+above the horizon.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The sun’s present position is in Aquarius.
+Our Lord’s advent was in the previous sign of
+Pisces, but the sign which he declared should
+precede his next coming was that of Aquarius.
+‘When ye see a man bearing a pitcher of water
+follow ye him.’”—Daughter of the Druids, 101.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When the sun entered the sign of Cancer,
+the sun god, or the son of god came as the Crab
+or the Good Scarabaeus, the lucky bug of Egypt,
+and was born in the nebula of the Manger in the
+sign of Cancer. Still there is no law against believing
+in the story of the Jew Christ born in the
+Manger of Bethlehem. Even the Church Fathers
+claimed that Christ was the Good Scarabaeus.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Catacombs of Rome is a picture of a
+supper at which seven persons sit down to eat
+seven loaves and two small fishes. Some writers
+have failed to grasp the significance of this
+picture. They are assembled there to eat their
+Christ, as we do now at every Communion Service.
+Christ is the bread of life, born in the astronomical
+house of Breadcorn. He came seven
+times in the ancient division of the heavens, and
+in his eighth avatar he came as the two fishes in
+the sign of Pisces.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Our Christmas is a new name for the old
+<span class='pageno' title='6' id='Page_6'></span>Roman Saturnalia, a festival celebrating the birth
+of the sun-god Saturn or Moloch at the winter
+solstice, at which time they feasted, exchanged
+presents, got drunk and played craps. The
+Christians, in celebrating the 25th of December,
+admit that their Christ is a sun-god.—See
+“Saturn,” Ency. Brit.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='7' id='Page_7'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER II.<br /> <br /><b>The Queen of Heaven.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>The Hebrews in the wilderness indulged
+in this pagan idolatry and sacrificed bullocks and
+lambs on the altar for the remission of their sins,
+and erected a golden calf. The golden calf was
+christ, and his mother was the sacred cow Hathor
+or Mary. This Meri or Mary was an astral
+goddess, the moon goddess, the Queen of Heaven,
+represented as standing in the crescent moon.
+She is identical with the foul goddesses Astarte,
+Venus, Ishtar, Asherah and Ashtoreth, the
+abomination of the Sidonians. Ishtar is the
+same as Easter, and we celebrate Easter because
+the sun-god arose at the full moon of Easter.
+The Sacred Cow of India is worshipped as the
+Mother of the Gods.—Book of all Religions, 224.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>You will see in the idol stores the graven
+image of Mary, the Queen of Heaven, standing
+in the crescent moon, and a dog crouching before
+her offering her a cake with a hole in it. This
+cake is the Mark of the Beast, the female symbol
+of the cow Hathor, the Assyrian Grove, the
+sacred Eye, which was worn by the Christian
+and pagan priests in their foreheads and on their
+hands. It is the Sacti of the goddess Maha
+Deva, called Sacti because it is sacred and is
+offered up as a sacrifice, closely related to sacrum
+and the caudal appendage.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The three links are the symbol of the hermaphrodite
+godhead. The link is the female emblem
+and three is the sign of the male. The Eye within
+the tent or triangle or compasses is an object of
+<span class='pageno' title='8' id='Page_8'></span>worship and adoration. The three-cornered
+triangle is the emblem of the male. In Ency.
+Brit., 6: 462, a bishop is represented with the
+Eye on his left hand, and he holds up three fingers
+of his right hand, the sign of the male.
+This is just as efficacious as the three links, as it
+presents to the audience the male and female emblems
+together, formerly the only objects of worship
+in all religions. They are the emblems of life,
+and must be held up together to insure the worshippers
+eternal life. It will be seen in this
+investigation that in every religious assembly,
+from the Witches’ Sabbath to the Elevation of
+the Host, the male and female emblems were
+displayed together for the salvation of the world.
+Without these emblems the devotees cannot be
+born again. The image of the Hindu Madonna
+and Christna shows the Virgin holding up three
+fingers, and with the thumb and forefinger she
+makes the circle of Ashtoreth to save the souls
+of her devotees.—Plate 14, A. P. &amp; M. C. Symbolism.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The high altars of most of the churches
+were rank Assyrian Groves, to which the devotees
+bowed low in holy reverence. See “Altar”,
+Stand. Dic. and Ency. Brit. 16:75. The deity
+emerging from the female symbol of the high
+Christian altar of Pistoia holds in his hand a
+book on which is written: “I A O, the Sun, the
+Light of the World.” When we take off our
+hats to the church, we are not doing obeisance
+to the pile of brick and stone but to this symbol
+above the altar. The Dabistan says that Siva
+has a spouse called Maya, as Jehovah had Mary,
+and the high altar in a mosque of the Mussulmans
+is an emblem of the Bhaga or the Grove or Royal
+Arch. The ancient Knights of the Royal Bhaga
+were also Knights of the Cave, the Gate, the
+Fornix (tent of a Kadish) to the defense of which
+<span class='pageno' title='9' id='Page_9'></span>they pledged their lives, their property and their
+sacred honors, and each brave knight wore emblazoned
+on his forehead or on his stomach the
+emblem of his goddess, the open Eye.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Venus, called C U in Celtic, was the moon
+goddess of the round towers of Ireland. The
+priests of the goddess called themselves C U R,
+and a cur offers a sacrifice to the Virgin. From
+C U R we derive the word curate.—Stinson
+Jarvis. The Druid priests always wore the
+crescent moon on their robes. Osiris is identical
+with the Egyptian god Anubis, the dog, and their
+symbol is the open Eye. They both worship at
+the shrine of Hathor or the Virgin holding the
+sacred Eye in their hands. That is why in
+Christianity, we see the dog offering to Mary
+the sacred perforated wafer.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Refer to “Enthronization,” Stand. Dic., and
+you will see the Mark of the Beast on the bishop’s
+hand, and look at the pagan god Siva, and you
+will find the same mark on his forehead. See
+“Freemason,” and you find that Washington
+wears the same symbol on his stomach. Look
+at Brahma, who carries the rosary in his hand,
+a symbol of identical significance. Refer to
+“Glory,” and you see Christ standing in the Mark
+of the Beast. Turn to Vesica Piscis, where the
+Virgin stands in her symbol, the symbol of the
+hideous faith of the Witches’ Sabbath, a faith
+coeval with the dawn of time, spawned in the
+slums of chaos. Astarte or Ashtoreth was the
+moon goddess and Queen of Heaven and patron
+of immorality.—Ency. Brit. 2:735. Mary is
+the same as Venus and Diana, the moon goddess.—Elephas
+Levi, the priest.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Hindu Litany of Our Lady Nari, the
+Virgin, says: “Holy Nari. Mariama, Mother of
+an Incarnate God, Mother of Christna, Virgin
+Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven.” The Egyptian
+<span class='pageno' title='10' id='Page_10'></span>Litany of Our Lady Isis says: “Holy Isis, Mother
+of Gods, Mother of Horus, Virgin Sacred Earth,
+Isis, Queen of Heaven.” The Christian Litany
+says: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, Mother of
+Christ, Virgin Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven.”—Isis
+Unveiled, 209.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Why does St. Peter (Petra, the Rock God)
+as shown by his statue in Rome, hold up three
+fingers and make the circle or Eye with the other
+two fingers? Why is the Christian Benedictional,
+like the Totem Pole of the Indians, covered with
+the so-called All-Seeing Eye? Why is the Eye
+on the stomach of the Bishop, where he does not
+need it? This is a very occult matter that can
+be disclosed only to the initiates of the foul
+religions.—See Book of All Religions, 467.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Religion is a monstrous fraud and delusion
+that has desolated the earth and filled the spirit
+world with demons.”—Antiquity Unveiled, 58.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Gnostics claimed that it was Ilda Baoth,
+the Devil, that overshadowed Mary, instead of
+Gabriel. “The female Serpent of the Sky, the
+Mother, is imaged in Buddhism by the lotus, the
+water, the female fish. Her mansion is in Virgo.
+By Manu she is called the Spirit of God (the Holy
+Ghost) but she represents matter as well as spirit.”—Buddha
+&amp; Early Buddhism, 20. Mare and
+Mary mean the sea, and the fish god Jesus, of
+course, came out of the sea.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The bells used by the Christians came to
+them directly from the Buddhists, Thibetans and
+Chinese, who used them to attract the gods.
+The beads and rosary have the same origin, and
+have been used by Buddhist monks for over
+2300 years.”—Isis Unveiled, 95. The Jews used
+bells to warn their god that some dupe was
+about to adore him, so that he would have a
+chance to change his character and not appear
+as the ass-headed god.—Epiphanius, Gospel of
+<span class='pageno' title='11' id='Page_11'></span>Mary. In China and India they ring the church
+bell to call god and the other ghosts to dinner,
+and after the spirits have eaten, the remnants
+of the sacrifices are thrown by the priests to the
+dogs of worshippers, the scum of the earth, who
+furnished the offerings. The church bell in
+Japan is called “Call God,” and we, having copied
+our religion from the Buddhist, ring our church
+bells to call God to listen to our fool prayers, and
+every Sunday he walks a leg off hustling around
+to the millions of places of superstition.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A statue of the cow Hathor, with the moon
+between her horns, was unearthed in a temple of
+Egypt. This is the mother of Horus, also called
+Ies and Iesu and Jesu in Egypt. And to further
+fix her catholicity beyond question she is covered
+with Christian crosses. If you refer to “Isis,”
+Stand. Dic., you will see that the Egyptian
+Madonna wears horns and the full moon on her
+head. The moon goddess of Peru was called
+Mamma Quilka, or Mother Moon, the mother
+of all the Incas, and the real pious devotees got
+soused on corn whiskey in her holy worship.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Christians sacrificed cakes with holes
+in them to Mary, Queen of Heaven.—Ency.
+Brit. 15:391. This is the very idolatry for
+which Jehovah drove the Jewish nation out of
+Palestine. In Jeremiah, 44:19, the Jews say:
+“We burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and
+poured out drink offerings unto her and made
+cakes to worship her.” And Jeremiah says in
+verse 22: “Because of these abominations which
+you have committed, therefore is your land a
+desolation and a curse, without an inhabitant
+as at this day.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Buddhists say: “Upon a lotus of precious
+stones sustaining a moon crescent sits Buddha
+Matra” (the Mother of God). The Chinese
+invocation says: “Hail Matra”, and they call
+<span class='pageno' title='12' id='Page_12'></span>her “Our Lady, the Queen of Heaven, the Mother
+of Buddha.”—Buddha &amp; Early Buddhism, 22.
+The fact that the Queen of Heaven existed as
+a goddess in the time of Jeremiah, before Christianity
+was spawned, shows that the Buddhists
+did not steal their Queen of Heaven from the
+Christians as charged.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In Josephus, Book 8, ch. 11, it is seen that
+Shishac subdued Israel and erected some charming
+pillars on which were carved captivating
+female symbols, which they worshipped. Jereboam
+erected two aesthetic heifers, images
+of Hathor for the worship and spiritual edification
+of the Jews. In Judges, 3:7, it is asserted
+that Israel served Baalim and the Grove.
+Baalim are images of Baal, male emblems,
+corresponding to the candles and manikins
+(sons of man) of the Witches’ Sabbath, called
+images of men in Ezek. 16:17. I think that
+the christ of the Hebrews was the candle, and
+that they sacrificed him every Friday, the
+same as the Christians do their fish god. The
+candle is the appropriate offering to a goddess,
+and it may have been Ashtoreth.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Mezuzah, which is nailed on the door
+post, corresponds with the pillars erected by
+Shishac, for it is a miniature pillar with an oval
+hole on the side, which hole it is necessary to
+kiss, as we kiss the male and female emblems
+on the Pax to secure eternal life. In the hole
+is one of the names of god, Shaday, one of the
+female Sephiroth or persons of the godhead.
+If you refer to “Altar,” Stand. Dic., you will
+see the people worshipping the hole in the Mezuzah,
+or the Virgin standing in her symbol
+above the altar, which is all the same.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The phylactery, worn on the forehead
+and on the left arm, contains passages of Scripture,
+which must be printed on the skin of the
+<span class='pageno' title='13' id='Page_13'></span>cow, the mother of christ, and the phylactery
+itself, must be made of the skin of christ, the
+calf. God himself wore phylacteries according
+to the Talmud.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Dianus, or the sun, or god, had twelve
+wives, capturing a new one whenever he entered
+a new sign of the zodiac. It was Rhea
+in the sign of the Twins, and Hathor in the
+sign of Taurus, and Mary in the sign of Pisces.
+One of his wives was Diana of the Ephesians,
+the object of a foul worship in Asia Minor.
+She wears upon her head the crescent moon,
+and she is Mary, the Queen of Heaven. She
+bears six lions in her arms, because she is the
+mother of all the gods. Six christs have been
+born since she ruled the heavens in the sign of
+Virgo. The christ who came in the sign immediately
+following Virgo was Leo. It is one
+and the same god, the sun, that comes in every
+sign, consequently they are all lions.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='14' id='Page_14'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER III.<br /> <br /><b>Religious Symbolism.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>This is the Egyptian Tau Cross, the symbol
+of Apis, the bull, and other male gods:
+ <img class='inline c010' src='images/tau.png' alt='𝝩' />.
+Here
+is the male emblem shown as the Masonic square,
+as found in the ruins of Gaza:
+ <img class='inline c010' src='images/msq.png' alt='𝝘' />.
+This is
+the Egyptian K. Ka is the Egyptian name
+of the male emblem. See “Hieroglyphics”,
+Ency. Brit. This holy god, in the form of a
+stone, is stuck in the wall of the Kaaba, the
+shrine at Mecca, which shrine was built by
+Abraham, who was fond of chasing after gods
+with tarnished reputations. This god in Mecca
+is a meteorite seven inches long, brought down
+from Heaven by Gabriel, and about 300,000
+pilgrims annually kiss this foul, germ-laden
+god to save their tarnal souls.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>And this is the cross ansata of Egypt,
+ <img class='inline c010' src='images/anx.png' alt='♀' />,
+or cross of anx (life), a combination of the cross
+of the bull and the sacred symbol of Isis. The
+High Priest of Egypt wore three cross ansatas
+and three links on his breast-plate, symbols
+of the trinity. Many of the pagan religions,
+from which ours descended, used only the main
+portion of the cross, the shaft or upright, the
+symbol of Siva, Baal Poer and Jehovah. It
+is called phalatz in Hebrew, meaning broken.
+See the broken column of the Masons—A. P.
+&amp; M. C. Symbolism.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>You place the three balls of the pawnbroker
+or the shamrock of Ireland on top of the
+shaft, and you have the most archaic form of
+the cross, before which the devils tremble and
+<span class='pageno' title='15' id='Page_15'></span>fall in a fit. Christian crosses, wreaths, bells,
+squares, eyes, Asherim and Baalim have been
+discovered in the ruins of Gaza, in the fourth
+city that was destroyed about 1600 B. C. The
+original text of Ezek. 9:4 shows that the sign
+of Jehovah was the Signa Tau, or the cross of
+Taurus, the bull, with which the elect were sealed
+in their foreheads. In the Enchiridion, a prayer
+book and book of magic credited to Pope Leo III,
+he says: “By this sign
+ <img class='inline c010' src='images/crs.png' alt='＋' />
+Lord Tau, deliver
+me.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The male emblem, or triangle, placed in
+the circle of Asherah makes the Three in One,
+the profound and esoteric mystery forever
+hidden from the profane and vulgar. That is
+the sacred quartet, those are the idols we worship.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Turn to Siva, Stand. Dic., and you will
+see that he has stolen all the pious Christian
+symbols, although he existed for ages before the
+Christians. In one hand is the circle and in
+another hand a trident or fleur de lys, a male
+emblem. Around his neck is a large rosary or
+stole. Thrusting his male head through this
+female emblem is a symbol of life and a saving
+rite. Putting his hand through a rosary is
+just as effective. We can trace the spotless
+lineage of our beloved religion back through
+the dim vistas of time to a very archaic and
+rotten ancestry.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In both the Christian and pagan symbolism
+the oval in which the saints and gods do stand
+is often represented as composed of roses and
+constitutes a rosary. The horseshoe brings
+good luck because it is identical with the cave,
+the arch and the grove and is the sacred emblem
+of the goddess Mary or Astarte. Both Buddha
+and Christ are represented as standing in the
+horseshoe or Royal Arch. I conclude that
+the Masonic Holy Royal Arch and the oval
+<span class='pageno' title='16' id='Page_16'></span>above the church altar, in which the Virgin
+stands, represent the Grove that Manasseh set
+up in the House of the Lord, 2 Kings, 21, and that
+Josiah burnt at the brook Kidron, 2 Kings, 23:6.
+The stole, worn by the priests, is equivalent to,
+and has all the mystic powers of, the cross ansata.
+It is well named “stole”, as the early Christians
+stole it from the pagan worship.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Serapis, the Egyptian god, is bedecked
+and bedizened with all the Christian emblems.
+He holds the crook of the Good Shepherd in
+one hand and the cross ansata in the other.
+He has the head and horns of a bull, showing
+that he is the son of the cow Hathor or Mary.
+And over his head are the Masons’ marks, the
+square and the eye, showing that he is in good
+standing in his lodge in Hell, for he, like christ,
+is Lord of the Underworld.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Refer to Vishnu, Stand. Dic., and you will
+see that pagan god wearing all the above emblems.
+He is christ and came as Rama in the
+sign of the Ram and as Krishna in the sign of
+Pisces. Turn to Krishna, and you will see the
+Hindu Madonna and christ that we kidnapped.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Sun. Am. Magazine, Aug. 29, 1910,
+we see a picture of Isis mourning at the bier of
+Osiris. At Egyptian funerals they assured the
+dead of eternal life by raising the symbol of
+Isis, the circle or rosary above the body. You
+will see that the head of the deceased at the
+wake is surrounded by male emblems, which
+gross symbols are now replaced in the present
+civilization by candles. You will see that
+Isis is bowing down before the Tree of Life, and
+that she has at hand a basket of perforated
+cakes, which she is about to offer to the Tree
+of Life, which tree is called Osiris or Baal or
+Moloch or Buddha or Yahveh or Iao or Siva or
+Jove according to the country in which the religion
+<span class='pageno' title='17' id='Page_17'></span>is perpetrated. If you place a wreath on a
+dead man’s stomach and seven candles around
+his head, he is no longer a meet candidate for
+Hell, but an heir of eternal glory. If you stick
+a cross through the wreath, it is a through ticket
+to the seventh heaven, and you may be assured
+that he will go through purgatory a-humping.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='18' id='Page_18'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER IV.<br /> <br /><b>The Sabbatic Goat or God of the Sabbath.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>When the sun entered the sign of Capricorn,
+it was reborn as, or christ came as the goat,
+that individual on whom the Jews used to load
+all their sins and then drive him forth into the
+wilderness. They sacrificed goats on the altar
+because the goat was one of the ancient redeemers.
+Caesar says of Egyptian sacrifices:
+“Imprecations were uttered over the head of
+the expiatory victim, around whose horns a
+piece of byblus was rolled. The animal was
+generally led to some barren region sacred to
+Typhon. It is in this custom that lies the
+origin of the scapegoat of the Jews, who, when
+the ass-headed god was rejected by the Egyptians,
+began sacrificing to another deity, the
+red heifer.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It was claimed by Madam Blavatsky and
+Elephas Levi that the hermaphrodite Goat of
+Mendes, or Baphomet, was anciently an object
+of worship and adoration by the mystic societies
+and at the Witches’ Sabbath. In Mysteries
+of Magic, 7 and 75, the author thus describes
+a Witches’ Sabbath: “Approach stealthily this
+cross roads among the rocks. A hoarse and
+funeral trumpet is heard, lurid torches burn
+on every side, a disorderly assembly surges
+around an empty seat. All look around in
+expectation, then suddenly fall prostrate and
+mutter: ‘He is here, ’tis himself.’ A goat-headed
+prince comes forward with bounds, he
+ascends the throne, turns around and stooping
+<span class='pageno' title='19' id='Page_19'></span>presents his back to the audience, which everyone
+approaches, black taper in hand, to salute
+and to kiss. Then he stands up with a discordant
+laugh and distributes to his favorites gold,
+secret instructions, occult medicines and poisons.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Goat of Mendes is pictured by Elephas
+Levi as a regular god. He wears the male
+emblem on his head like all gods in good standing
+and holds up three fingers, and has the double
+triangle in his forehead, and the caduceus, or
+male and female emblems, on his stomach.
+With one hand he coagulates or creates, and
+with the other he dissolves or destroys.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Let us say boldly and loudly that all the
+inferior initiates of the occult sciences and the
+betrayers of the Great Arcanum have adored, do
+and will always adore that which is signified
+by the frightful figure of the Sabbatic Goat.
+Yes in our profound conviction, the Grand Masters
+of the ancient orders of the Templars adored
+Baphomet.”—Elephas Levi. It will be seen
+by the chart that the Masonic coat of arms,
+consisting of the four zodiacal beasts, is supported
+on either side by the goat god Pan.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Pan, the Good Shepherd, the son of Deus,
+with the horns and feet of a goat, is the same
+as the Devil or christ. At the Witches’ Sabbath
+in England, the women made manikins, or images
+of men, of clay or wax, and these they worshipped
+and played with. And when these
+images were properly magnetized, they could
+perform miracles therewith and summon up
+demons from the abyss. If they possessed
+sufficient will power and knew the occult and
+secret form of words to use, they could play
+that the manikin was an enemy, and then stick
+him through the heart with a needle, and the
+next morning the enemy would be dead. If
+<span class='pageno' title='20' id='Page_20'></span>their magical power was sufficiently potent,
+they could summon a satyr or subordinate
+goat god to take the place of the manikin and
+consummate the Sabbatical marriage ceremony.
+Their spells were said to be sufficiently powerful
+to reduce a human being to the primordial
+protoplasm, and then cause it to again pursue
+the path of evolution through the cell, the
+blastoderm, the devil-fish and all the other
+beasts constituting eternity’s great highway
+by which the soul walks down. This is similar
+to the unavoidable cycle, the circle of necessity,
+the inexorable doom of the sacred mysteries
+of the Serpents’ Catacombs of Egypt.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The countersign of the Witches’ Sabbath
+was the closed hand with the thumb between
+the first and second fingers pointing downward
+to the abyss. The meeting place was lighted
+only by the altar fire, where the human sacrifice
+sizzled to attract the phantoms and ghosts.
+And the devotees, singing mystic songs, danced
+hand in hand in a circle around the god Pan.
+They used the holy grail like the churches and
+mystic societies, and the drafts from this poisonous
+cup, the singing, the whirling dance and
+the incense from the altar brought on the oft-times
+fatal frenzies in which the victims fell
+shrieking to the ground, as they do among certain
+Christian sects. They were seized and
+possessed by foul fiends from the Pit, or elementary
+spirits, and sometimes by the spirits of
+serpents that materialized themselves in the
+writhing human victims and crawled out of the
+prostrate bodies in plain view of the audience.
+There in the blackest hour of the night the
+Vinum Sabbati was prepared, a few grains of
+white powder thrown into a glass of water.
+And each one that drank found himself attended
+by a companion, a shape of glamour and unearthly
+<span class='pageno' title='21' id='Page_21'></span>allurement beckoning him apart to
+share in joys more exquisite, more piercing
+than the thrill of any dream.—Machen’s House
+of Souls, 438.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Similar to these convulsionaries are the miserable
+creatures in Russia afflicted by strange disorders,
+which people attributed to possession by
+the Devil. They throng the entrance of cathedrals
+without daring to enter, lest their controlling
+demons cast them on the ground. At
+the Elevation of the Host, these half maniacs,
+half mediums begin crowing like cocks, barking,
+bellowing and braying, and finally fall down
+in fearful convulsions. They prophesy and
+see visions. Paracelsus, the magician, could
+cast the demons out of the persons so possessed
+by the power of a stronger demon which he
+carried around in his pocket. That reminds
+us of the Salem witch that fled from a mob of
+Christolators who were intent on burning her,
+but when they were about to seize her, she
+crawled into a bottle, and nobody ever saw her
+afterward.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Devil’s Mass of the Yezdis, or Devil
+worshippers and sorcerers of Mesopotamia, the
+Jakshas or aerial spirits carry their prayers to
+the Devil and the Afrites of the desert. In
+their prayer meeting they dance in a ring about
+their high priest and whirl and leap in the air
+and cut each other with daggers until they are
+soaked with blood for the purpose of attracting
+the ghosts. The mystic circle induces Satan
+to manifest himself in miracles. Enormous
+globes of fire appear and assume the shapes of
+monsters.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Sabbath was the Sunday of the Hebrew
+Kabalists, the day of their religious assembly,
+or rather the night of their habitual meetings.
+This festival, surrounded by mysteries as it
+<span class='pageno' title='22' id='Page_22'></span>was, found its safeguard in the very fright of
+the vulgar and escaped persecution through the
+terror it occasioned. The early Christians celebrated
+the pagan Mysteries of Jesus and probably
+held a Witches’ Sabbath.—See Mystic
+Christianity, 212.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>One should trim his finger nails on Friday,
+never on Thursday, otherwise the nails will
+commence growing on the Sabbath, and it is
+very wicked for the nails to grow on the Sabbath.—Kabala.
+The Israelite, after the endless
+Sabbath observances, should fold up his
+veil, but if he forgets to do so, he is to shake it
+thoroughly the next morning, so as to shake all
+the devils out of it. And the reason is known
+to the Lords of the Kabala.—Kabala Kitzur
+Sh’lh. It is a very pious act to say a prayer
+to the moon at the close of the Sabbath, for the
+moon is a symbol of Jacob, the lesser light,
+(who was a christ). The full moon, the Queen
+of Heaven is his mother, and the sun is his
+father. The new moon is Jacob or Christ.—Ibid,
+fol. 72, col. 2. You should learn these
+things together with all the other profound
+wisdom of the Talmud, for Rabbi Yochannan
+says that it is lawful to split open an unlearned
+man like a fish.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Constantine, the Roman Emperor and canonized
+saint, the superstition-besotted, the
+assassin, the fratricide, the parricide, the uxoricide,
+the filicide, the regicide, chosen from
+Heaven as the murderer-in-chief of the world,
+according to Eusebius, “held up by God to the
+human race as an exemplary pattern of godliness
+and destined to share the Empire of Heaven
+with Christ,” this was the bloated, red-faced
+profligate who established Sunday worship in
+321 A. D. and compelled the Christians to
+worship the sun-god on Dies Solis, the Day of
+<span class='pageno' title='23' id='Page_23'></span>the Sun, because his own god was Apollo.—See
+First Council of Nice, 28. Constantine
+was the founder of Christianity, and, like father
+like son, it followed in his footsteps. He could
+not obtain absolution for his crimes from pagan
+priests, but Eusebius washed them whiter than
+snow. Some said that Constantine had to
+sacrifice an infant to obtain the blood for the
+absolution.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='24' id='Page_24'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER V.<br /> <br /><b>The Great God Baal.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>The palm tree, the candle and the Asherim
+are symbols and images of Baal, and the two
+last are offered up as sacrifices, corresponding
+to the pillars and candles in the worship of
+Jehovah. Around the temple of Jehovah as
+well as the temple of Baal, in the Holy Land,
+were the ancient nunneries. The Kadishim or
+Holy Ladies lived in tents arranged in a circle
+about the temple, and on each side of each tent
+or Fornix stood a Knight of Kadish. The
+pious people who desired to worship god gave
+up to the guard a shekel (sixty cents) and entered
+into the tent of the Kadish, and the money
+so collected went to the service of god, which
+means the priestly white slavers and the Worshipful
+Knights of Kadish. The Kadishim were
+the same as the Deva Dasi, the concubines and
+dancing girls of the Hindu temples, the slaves
+of the gods. “There is reason to believe that
+the Israelites at an early date applied the name
+of Baal to Jehovah. Baal was represented on
+the high places by pillars,” as the strange god of
+John’s Revelation is pictured on his throne.—“Baal,”
+Ency. Brit. One hundred of the most
+beautiful and seductive daughters of the people,
+innocent girls of tender age, were torn from
+their homes by the ruthless priests to fill the
+holy places of god around each temple. The
+priests by constant iteration convinced the
+parents that it was a high honor to be permitted
+to devote their daughters to god, and that as
+<span class='pageno' title='25' id='Page_25'></span>a reward, in the great hereafter, they would
+sit beside the Great White Throne with Abraham,
+Isaac and Jacob and all the other Jews,
+and all the hod-carriers, who, having washed
+their robes white in the blood of the Lamb, sit
+on their little golden thrones with their dudeens
+in their mouths and their hats gently tilted
+over one eye, while they decorate with tobacco
+juice the dazzling surface of the crystal sea.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>At the great temple of Baal, they had a palm
+tree standing in the midst of the garden, and in
+the holy temple of Jehovah they had a stone
+pillar around which the Kadishim, at the vernal
+equinox, danced in the nude. This is the day
+dedicated to Astarte, or Ishtar or Easter. This
+occult ceremony is one of the most beautiful and
+entrancing in our refulgent and god-given religion.
+As the Tree of Life stands in the midst
+of the circle of females, so the rays from the sun
+penetrate the earth and annually renew its life.
+So the rays of the sun at high noon penetrated
+the ark, that old box in which the priests kept
+the male and female emblems, and before which
+King David for occult reasons danced in the altogether.
+The ark corresponds with the sacred
+Argha of the Hindus, an oblong vessel, a sacrificial
+chalice, used in the worship of Isis, Astarte
+and Venus. It is a most holy symbol, containing,
+in the play, the germs of all living things, and
+when we drink out of it at the communion service,
+we drink eternal life. They planted the
+Tree of Life in the midst of the garden or grove,
+as God planted the tree in the midst of the
+Garden of Eden. You will notice the serpent
+coiled about the tree in Eden. This is the
+symbol of Life. The serpent is a symbol of
+the female.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Israelites were commanded not to
+worship idols, but in the darkest hour of their
+<span class='pageno' title='26' id='Page_26'></span>history, when their own God, Jehovah, had
+sent upon them the plague of serpents and
+consigned them to destruction, then they called
+upon the mighty sun-god, they looked upon the
+brazen serpent on a cross, the Elevation of the
+Host, and the remnant of Israel was saved.
+Israel, it is said, worshipped the serpent or
+Devil until about 726 B. C. You will see this
+same god on the Masonic chart.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Talmud says that when Ben Asai and
+Ben Zoma were to be initiated into the Garden
+of Delights, Ben Asai looked and lost his sight,
+and Ben Zoma looked and lost his reason. Eusebius
+shows that St. James, the brother of Jesus
+and first Bishop of Jerusalem, never shaved
+or took a bath, and he alone could enter into
+the holy places.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The merry maidens who circulate about the
+May-pole on May-day are devoted devotees of
+the loving god Baal Poer. And we on Palm
+Sunday carry palm leaves from the sacred palm
+tree to show that we are faithful worshippers of
+the true god Baal.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In Italy, the clergy had at one time, according
+to Isis Unveiled, 2-5, a thriving trade in
+those things which they called the holy limbs of
+Saints Cosmo and Damiano. These male emblems
+were made of wax and certainly beautiful
+to behold. The divine spirit shining through
+them in resplendent glory cast its radiance afar.
+He who was so fortunate as to possess sufficient
+filthy lucre to purchase one saved his immortal
+soul from Hell, for was it not the symbol of life
+and the image of the great god.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>For the form of the pillar as worshipped in
+Syria, see page 121, A. P. &amp; M. C. Symbolism,
+and on the mall of Boston Common may be seen
+the same pillar as adored by us at the Hub of
+Universal Culture, erected there to commemorate
+<span class='pageno' title='27' id='Page_27'></span>the birth of American liberty. Let us hope
+that you will get out early in the morning and
+see the blue-bellied Puritans and the codfish
+aristocracy kneeling before this sacred shrine,
+with their hands thrust through their rosaries,
+praying that this great god may make them
+fruitful.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The superstition of Europe instead of
+being diminished by the introduction of Christianity
+was only turned into a fresh channel.
+The new religion was corrupted by the old follies,
+the worship of the Virgin was substituted
+for the worship of Cybele, the mother of the
+gods. March 25th, Lady’s Day, dedicated to
+Mary, was formerly called Hilaria and dedicated
+to Cybele. The religion of mankind is the
+effect of their improvement not the cause of
+it.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 1-188.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='28' id='Page_28'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER VI.<br /> <br /><b>Jehovah, alias Adonai.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>According to the Hebrew lexicon<b> יה </b>(Yh
+or Ih) is one of the names of God. Y, I and
+J. are interchangeable, and Jehovah is identical
+with the god Yah of the Philistines and Iach or
+Iachus or Bacchus and Iao or Io and Jove.
+Bel of the Babylonians is the Chaldaic form
+of Baal, and according to Herodotus is identical
+with Zeus, who is the same as Deus or Jehovah.
+Ja or Jagannatha, the idol of the Hindus, is
+said to smile when a human blood sacrifice is
+thrown before his car.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Jehovah Binah seemed to be a favorite
+divinity among the Masons. The name of
+this daemon, or subordinate goddess, is written
+on the serpent in the magic circle of King Solomon,
+which he employed in raising the Devil,
+and as Sabbath appears in her title, and she
+belongs to the sphere of Saturn or Moloch, I
+conclude that she was the goddess of the Witches’
+Sabbath. There are ten persons in the Hebrew
+godhead, and she is the third, the supernal
+mother, the wife of Kether, consequently the
+mother of god. See Lesser Key of King Solomon,
+47.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the Standard Dictionary, (see
+“Sephira”) Jehovah is not the Supreme God,
+there is a party named Kether above him, the
+Ancient of Ancients. Baal, Bel or El is the
+fourth, next below Binah. He is the god of
+love and mercy, with whom we have no truck.
+We prefer the God of Battles. Baal Poer was
+<span class='pageno' title='29' id='Page_29'></span>worshipped in the groves under the name of
+Adonis. It may be seen by reference to the
+Hebrew Kabala, Kitzur Sh’lh, fol. 62, col. 1,
+that Adonai is called the Rock of Ages, like
+Christ. Madam Blavatsky says that Iachoh,
+Iach and Lord Sabaoth, the Baal Adonis or
+Bacchus, who was worshipped in the groves
+and public sods or Mysteries, under the polishing
+hand of Ezra, becomes Adonai, the one and
+supreme god of the Christians. The codex
+of the Nazarenes says: “Thou shalt not worship
+the sun, who is called Adonai and Kadush and
+El El. This Adonai will elect to himself a
+nation, Jerusalem will become the refuge and
+city of the abortive, who shall circumcise themselves
+with the sword and shall adore Adonai.”
+Israel is the same as Adonis. It means son of
+the Lord Ra, the Egyptian sun-god. So Israel
+was one of the christs, and it was his duty to
+wrestle with the Devil, Moloch. And he had
+a right to put his brother out and take his place,
+as christ, the new moon takes the place of the
+old moon (called the old and ugly christ) and
+as Solomon killed Adonijah and took his place.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Haeckel says Jehovah was originally derived
+from the heaven god called Moloch and
+Baal, also Seth and Typhon of the Egyptians
+and Saturn of the Greeks.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>David says: “Who shall ascend into the
+high place of the Lord (Iach, in the original)?
+who shall stand in the place of his Kadishu
+(holy ladies)?”—Psalms, 24:3. “Solomon went
+to the high place of Gibeon, for there was the Tabernacle
+of God.”—2 Chron. 1:3. You will see
+that the high places were the temples of a foul
+worship by reference to 1 Kings, 3:3.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Yahevah is the ineffable name for which the
+Hebrews substituted Adonai. The Bacchantes,
+in their orgies or feasts of Iachus, pronounced
+<span class='pageno' title='30' id='Page_30'></span>the mystic word “Io Evohe.” Ei Eh Ei is I
+Am the I Am, and Ei was found inscribed on the
+temple of Apollo.—Plutarch, 1:14. Eidol is a
+doll or image of the god Ei, or Kether.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Jehovah is identical with the god Brahma.
+Every 4,320,000,000 years all the planets in
+our solar system are in conjunction. This
+is one day of Brahma, 365 times that is one
+year, and one hundred of these years is the
+lifetime of Brahma, then god dies, and thereafter
+we have to worry along without him.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Trinity, instead of being a new revelation
+of the Christian religion, was taken from
+the trinities of the older pagan religions. The
+Chinese, the Hindus, the Babylonians, the Persians
+and the Egyptians each had a triune or
+hydra-headed god, a nightmare of their imagination,
+without foundation in nature or reason.
+If we have the only true religion, how is it that
+the Mexicans, before this country was discovered
+by the savages of Europe, had the trinity, the
+rite of baptism, the sign of the cross and purgatory.
+They had the tradition of the flood and
+the escape of Noah, and they offered as an
+oblation little, dough, male images of their savior
+as we do at the communion service.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Some claimed that the astral light or ether
+was the supreme god, that one portion of it was
+male (spirit), and the other part was female
+(matter), and that the living forms of matter
+produced by the union of these two gods, are
+the third person of the trinity, the son of man.
+Others claim that the incomprehensible god
+back of the ether, of which the latter is an emanation,
+is the supreme god, and that the spiritual
+portion of the ether is the Word or Son, and the
+material portion of the ether is the mother, and
+the union of the son and the mother produces
+the phenomenal world. This a charming family
+<span class='pageno' title='31' id='Page_31'></span>relationship eminently appropriate to our pot-pourri
+of superstitions, called religion.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Manu, the Hindu lawgiver, says: “The
+Sovereign Master, who exists through himself,
+divides his body into two halves, male and
+female, and from the union of these two principles
+is born Viradj, the son, or material forms.”
+The first name of this hermaphrodite god in
+the picture writing was IO.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Haeckel says that the Christian God is
+a gaseous vertebrate. Socrates was put to
+death because he did not believe in the gods
+and introduced new demoniacal beings (spirits).</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Sunday American Magazine was
+also a picture of the Rock of Ages, in fact two
+pillars or Asherim or images of Asher are shown,
+together with two circles or groves. They
+were found in the ruins of Gaza. These are
+the idols that Abraham, David and Solomon
+worshipped when they hit the high places.
+And we still revere them and have the shafts
+erected over our graves and the wreaths placed
+upon the shafts so that we may be born again.
+If you do not think that Moses worshipped
+this rock god read Deut. 32:8. “Of the rock
+that begat thee thou art unmindful.” There
+were only seven thousand in all Israel that had
+not kissed the pillar.—1 Kings, 19:18.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>There was also found in the ruins of Gaza
+an oval medallion in which stood “Horus, the
+strong bull, resplendent in strength.” Why
+is the Infant Jesus of Prague placed in an oval
+medallion? Why is the oval, with the Lamb in
+the centre thereof, placed on the front of the
+Infant Jesus, as it is on the front of the Virgin
+Mary? This picture of the Infant Jesus is
+a mine of esoteric symbolism. He has his
+name embroidered on his rich, elaborate dress,
+to wit, I E S. He holds up three fingers as he
+<span class='pageno' title='32' id='Page_32'></span>was taught to do when he was the infant Buddha,
+and on his head is the seven-rayed headdress
+of Buddha, the god of the seven-rayed sun.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If you have catarrh, place a medallion of
+the Infant Jesus on your nose, and the catarrh
+will disappear.—Miraculous Infant Jesus of
+Prague, 30. A medal of the Divine Infant has
+been known to cure a sore thumb, if fastened
+in faith to the diseased member and accompanied
+by nine days prayer.—Idem 36. A man in
+financial difficulties made a novena (nine days
+prayer) to the Holy Child, and at the end of
+the devotions somebody gave him $35. Then
+he commenced another novena and was helped
+to win a prize in a lottery. Then he commenced
+the third novena, and Jehovah compelled a
+grasping mortgagee to discharge his mortgage
+on the devotee’s house, and another party gave
+him $10.—Idem 52.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Hebrew Bible you will see that
+Bethel, or house of God, referred to in Genesis,
+28:19, is spelt Bath Al, which means the
+house of the sun or sun-god, the same as Bothal
+or Brothel, the temple of worship of the Druids
+and Indians, a circle of twelve monoliths with
+a pillar in the centre, also called paradise. We
+changed the vowels and made it read Beth El,
+as we did not care to have our God related to
+such trash as Al and Allah, the Arabian god.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Arius and the Council of Nice agreed that
+the Son is called Wisdom. Refer to “Sephira,”
+Stand. Dic., and you will see that Jehovah is
+named Wisdom and that he is the son of, or
+first emanation from Kether, consequently it is
+claimed that he is one of the christs. The
+only gods ever worshipped were the sun and
+his wife, the moon, to whom he was not legally
+married. The idols are images of incarnate
+sun-gods.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='33' id='Page_33'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER VII.<br /> <br /><b>The Host, a Human Sacrifice.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>The Monstrance was a conventionalized
+Assyrian Grove, containing the Host, the male
+and female emblems, and corresponded with
+the Ark and was transparent, so that the devotees
+could look on the blessed symbols and
+live forever. It was called the Monstrance
+because it contained the hermaphrodite monster,
+now or formerly worshipped by the devotees
+of all religions. The directions of St. Cyril,
+of Jerusalem, were: “After kissing all the brothers
+and sisters, you touch the consecrated things
+to the eyes, nose, mouth and ears.” See Ency.
+Brit. 8:632.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Under the mediumship of Eugene Vintras
+in Paris, the Devil placed his signature on the
+Hosts of the Church in characters of blood.
+The Abbe Charvoz brought one of the miraculously
+marked Hosts, bearing the signature
+of Satan, to Elephas Levi. One of the signatures
+was the Caduceus of the Greeks, the
+emblem of the Godhead, two serpents entwined
+about a rod, but the rod was omitted. Levi
+calls it the Typhonian sign manual because
+by omitting the rod, it thus denies the existence
+of the Supreme God Jehovah. The Devil, in
+the stigmata, asserts that there are only two
+gods, the two powers of the astral light, attraction
+and repulsion, the creator and the
+destroyer.—Mysteries of Magic.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“In the case of Father Gerard in 1731,
+who was tried at Aix, in France, for resorting
+<span class='pageno' title='34' id='Page_34'></span>to sorcery in the seduction of his parishioner,
+Mlle. Catherine Cadiere, it was shown that he
+breathed upon her, and that she instantly conceived
+a violent love for him and had extatic
+visions and hysterical convulsions, and stigmata
+or blood marks of the Passion appeared upon
+her, that is, the bleeding marks of thorns on
+her brow, of nails in her hands and feet, and
+of a lance cut in her side. Of the twenty five
+judges, twelve voted to send the priest to the
+stake.”—Isis Unveiled, 2-633.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The doctrine of transubstantiation, or the
+myth that the bread and wine become the
+actual body and blood of God, originated among
+the Hindus, and we stole it from them. The
+god Brahma was the astral light or magnetism,
+and when the priests charged the hosts with
+magnetism, they were charged with god, and
+consequently were gods. It is said that each
+separate part of this blood sacrifice is a Christ,
+so thousands of Christs were served up at a
+feast to be eaten by the savage devotees, and
+each cannibal ate a whole Christ to save his
+dastard soul. It is called the Host because they
+knifed him or struck him down, and it is called
+the Eucharist because they rejoice over his
+death and make a joyful feast upon the carcass.
+The Eucharist is one of the oldest rites of antiquity,
+instituted many hundreds of years before
+the Lord’s Supper. It was a repetition of the
+drama in Eden in commemoration of the fall
+into generation. By the worship of the foul
+idols in the Monstrance, by the idolatry of the
+Eucharist the pagans euchred the Devil out
+of their souls.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Eucharist was a human sacrifice. The
+devotees groveling in abject superstition, offered
+up their Christ on the reeking, blood-stained
+altar, and ate his flesh and drank his blood to
+<span class='pageno' title='35' id='Page_35'></span>wash their sins away. At the twelfth general
+council of the Church, the bread and wine was
+made the flesh and blood of Christ, and at the
+Council of Trent they added the soul. So at the
+orgies, the depraved devotee destroyed both the
+body and soul of his savior by casting him into
+his carrion carcass, into that charnel house, into
+that cavernous and loathsome inferno, from
+which there is no escape, there to rot and disintegrate
+and forever die. Thus they subjected
+their savior to the foulest method of annihilation
+to save their worthless souls from Hell.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>At the Passover the Jews sacrificed over
+250,000 lambs to propitiate some blood-loving
+god. The altars and courts of the Temple ran
+red with the life blood of these innocent creatures.
+And certain beasts still sing: “And sinners
+plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty
+stains.” “Such a blood-sacrifice is unworthy of
+any people except the worshippers of some
+heathen devil-god in darkest Africa.”—Mystic
+Christianity, 65.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When Richard, Robert, Sarah and Isabella
+Bartlett, at Lincoln, England, in 1521, expressed
+their opinions too freely on religious matters,
+they were burned at the stake by Bishop John
+Longland, but they were a pestiferous and seditious
+lot. They even objected to eating the
+male emblems, or images of the male, on communion
+day, and these double-dyed heretics denied
+the real presence of either Christ or Priapus in
+the images.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Here is what Taine says as to this affair:
+“The Bishops had received the right of imprisoning
+without trial laymen suspected of heresy,
+and the jurisdiction of all crimes, offenses and
+sins was given to the ecclesiastical tribunals.
+They burned Lord Cobham alive. With what
+shamelessness this power was transformed into
+<span class='pageno' title='36' id='Page_36'></span>a vehicle for extortions. A man begins to think
+when he is thus downtrodden. He asks himself
+if it is really by divine dispensation that mitred
+thieves thus practice tyranny and pillage. He
+wants to know if they themselves practice the
+regularity that they impose on others, and he
+learns strange things. Cardinal Wolsey writes
+to the Pope that both the secular and regular
+priests were in the habit of committing atrocious
+crimes, for which, if not in orders, they would
+have been promptly executed. A priest convicted
+of incest with the prioress of Kilbourn was
+condemned to carry a cross in a procession and
+pay a fine of 3s and 4p. In the reign of Henry
+VII the gentlemen and farmers of Carnarvonshire
+laid a complaint accusing the clergy of systematically
+seducing their wives and daughters.
+The Holy Father Prior of Maiden Bradley hath
+but six children, and but one daughter married
+yet of the goods of the monastery, trusting
+shortly to marry the rest. The royal visitors
+found concubines in the secret apartments of the
+Abbots. At the nunnery of Sion the confessors
+seduced the nuns and absolved them at the same
+time. There were convents, Burnett tells us,
+where all the recluses were found pregnant.”—Taine’s
+English Literature, 2-18.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Bishop Longland, of Lincoln, about 1521,
+summons the relatives of the accused, brothers,
+women and children, and administers the oath.
+As they have already been prosecuted and have
+abjured, they must make oath, or they are relapsed,
+and the fagots await them. Then they
+denounce their kinsmen and themselves. Three
+of the accused were charged with passing the
+night together in reading the scriptures. Several
+of them at church, at the moment of the Elevation
+would not say their prayers and remained seated
+dumb as beasts. A brazier denied the real presence.
+<span class='pageno' title='37' id='Page_37'></span>Six were burnt alive. The children of
+John Scrivener were themselves obliged to set
+fire to their father’s funeral pyre. They saw
+him, bound by an iron chain, with clasped hands,
+praying amidst the smoke, whilst the flame
+blackened his skin and destroyed his flesh. Such
+sights are not forgotten.”—Idem.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“At the peril of his life the Englishman obtains
+some portion of the Bible, which Tyndale
+had just translated, and hides it and learns it by
+heart. Tyndale, the translator, was condemned,
+hunted, in concealment, his mind full of the idea
+of a speedy death and of the Great God, for whom
+at last he mounted the funeral pyre.”—Idem, 2-21.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If you do not believe that Priapus is christ,
+see Ency. Brit. 19-170, where he is represented
+as the shepherd god with a shepherd’s crook, and
+as the god of the vineyards and of fishermen,
+giving them abundant harvests. And sailors,
+in their sore distress, called upon him as Peter did.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The Masons, in the darkness, hunt for
+Hiram Abiff, as the worshippers in the Eleusinian
+Mysteries hunted for their lost Cora.” In the
+grand finale the Mystics say: “I have taken the
+emblems from the kiste, and after kissing and
+tasting them, I have deposited in the bag, and
+from the bag back into the kiste.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the first illustrated English Bible, the
+Devil will be seen, wearing a pair of wings and a
+Hebrew nose, tempting Eve. He says: “Take
+this fruit, bite it and taste it.” You will see
+that the thing presented to her is not an apple at
+all, but the emblem of Ashtoreth. See Sun. Am.
+Mag. Dec. 20, 1914. You will also find in
+another illustration there the angel Gabriel,
+with the Word strapped on his back, descending
+into Hell to deliver the souls in torment.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Yesterday in passing a great church, when I
+raised my eyes to the cross, I there beheld on each
+<span class='pageno' title='38' id='Page_38'></span>arm of the cross, the circle, the same revered
+article that the Devil offered to Eve. This
+blessed and holy symbol is found engraven over
+the portals of the eternal rock temples of the
+ruined city of Petra, Arabia, that flourished in
+the time of Esau and his son Edom, as well as
+over the doors of the ancient churches of Ireland,
+and on the modern cathedrals. In fact this
+aesthetic Eye worship extends around the world,
+starting in the slums of India, it has circled the
+globe.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Christian religion was copied largely
+from the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were
+founded at the city of Eleusis, near Athens.
+These mysterious rites were employed in the
+worship of Demeter or Mater, the mother god, or
+Mary. In these Mysteries the worshippers indulged
+in the foul orgies of the Agape. The men
+carried male emblems or Signa Taus, and the females
+carried the kiste or box. Placing the
+Signa Tau in the kiste caused them to be born
+again and saved their souls from Tophet.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='39' id='Page_39'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER VIII.<br /> <br /><b>Jesus Christ.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>If the clergymen tell you that there is
+only one christ, politely present them with the
+seal of Belial. Each of the principal religions
+had twelve christs. Christ was never crucified,
+but the human race was crucified by religion
+from its very inception, and the Christian
+world wallowed in the Egyptian darkness of
+ignorance and superstition till in the middle ages,
+the golden age, no king in Europe could read and
+write.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Christ is the same as Agni, the sun god of
+the Aryans, who was called the Son of God and
+the Son of Man. The god Agni is represented by
+us by the idol, the Agnus Dei, the Ram God, that
+holds in his hoof a cross and some banner, perhaps
+the blood-stained banner of the Inquisition.
+Adam Kadmon, Enoch, Horus, Krishna, Ormazd,
+and Hermes, the patron of thieves and flocks, the
+son of Deus and Maia, these and many other
+gods are all identical with christ. Noah was the
+christ that came in the sign of the Waterman 25,868
+years ago. In the Babylonian legend the
+deluge continued seven days, and the ship landed
+on Mt. Niser. This is a resurrection of the great
+god Dionysius or Bacchus, and the first thing he
+did when he got ashore was to get drunk. He is
+also Jehovah Nissi or the Egyptian god Osiris
+who was born on Mt. Nissa or Sinai in the month
+of Nisan or Easter.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sephir Toldos Jeshu, a Kabalist, says: “A
+virgin named Mariam, betrothed to one Johannan
+<span class='pageno' title='40' id='Page_40'></span>was outraged by another man named Joseph
+Panther. Her betrothed left her. The child born
+was Jesus, named Joshua, adopted by his uncle
+Rabbi Jehosuah. He was initiated into the
+secret doctrines by Rabbi Elhanan, a Kabalist,
+and then by the Egyptian priests, who consecrated
+him High Pontiff of the Universal Secret
+Doctrine. Upon his returning to Judea his
+learning and powers excited the jealousy of the
+rabbis, and they publicly reproached him with
+his origin and insulted his mother.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the Pretevangelium Jacobi,
+“From her third to her twelfth year Mary was in
+the Temple. When she became of nubile age,
+lest she should defile the Sanctuary of the Lord,
+she was committed to the guardianship of Joseph,
+an elderly man and a widower with a family.
+When the Virgin’s pregnancy was discovered,
+Joseph and she were brought before the high
+priest, and though asserting their innocence
+in all sincerity, were acquitted only after they
+had been tried with the water of the ordeal of
+the Lord.”—Ency. Brit. 15:590. Mary was
+then a virgin and ever after remained so, although
+she had other children.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The author does not believe that either of
+the above passages refers to the Christian Jesus.
+He is an Egyptian or Hindu deity, not a Jew.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The christs were all illegitimate. Their parents,
+the sun and moon, would have complied with
+the idiotic human laws if there had been any
+magistrate in Heaven to marry them. There
+was Asphalius of Greece, born of the Virgin
+Ethra out of wedlock. Then there are Romulus
+and Remus, alias Castor and Pollux or Gemini,
+the Twins of the zodiac. They were sons of
+a Vestal Virgin named Rhea. King Amulius,
+corresponding with Herod, commanded his servant
+to destroy the two children, but the servant
+<span class='pageno' title='41' id='Page_41'></span>put them in a trough or ark, and they floated
+on the river as Moses, who was also a christ,
+did in his ark, and as the males and females
+did in Noah’s Ark. Their mother claimed
+that their father was the god Mars. Unmarried
+ladies, in those halcyon days, always put their
+children up to the gods.—See Plutarch, 1:33.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Christ is a mythical sun-god, a rebirth of
+the sun in a new sign of the zodiac. The Church
+Fathers, in localizing the Christ in the Holy
+Land, could claim that any Jesus of that region
+was the Son of God, either Jesus, the bandit
+of Galilee, or the one described above, as long
+as his name corresponded with the I E S of Egypt,
+and as long as he was dead and could not defend
+himself. According to Josephus, the Jesus that
+lived in the reign of King Agrippa and Herod the
+Tetrarch was Jesus of Galilee, the captain of a
+band of robbers, a wicked man, a seditious person
+and an innovator, the leader of a tumult of mariners
+and poor people. He sacked the temple at
+Samaria. See Life of Josephus, 5.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Renan says that Philo, who died about 50
+A. D., and who was born before Jesus, and who
+lived in Palestine during the alleged preaching
+of Christ, had never heard of him. Josephus
+does not mention a Christian sect at all. The
+Emperor Adrian called the Christians worshippers
+of Serapis, and that was probably the truth.
+Serapis is the Devil, with horns, Lord of the
+Underworld.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Christna, Apollo, Zeus and others, like
+Christ, were good shepherds. The Hindus represent
+Christna as crucified on the cross between
+two thieves, with the nail marks in his hands,
+and with a crown of seven points to show that he
+is the seventh avatar. His father was a carpenter,
+and he slew the great serpent Caliva and was
+worshipped in India ages before the Christian Era.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='42' id='Page_42'></span>The doctrine of Christ and the atonement
+originated in heathendom. It came from the
+pagan sacrificers of human beings and the eaters
+of human flesh in human gore imbued. They
+took the doctrine from the Chaldean Kabala.
+It is a pagan myth. Bacchus or Dionysius was
+the god of the vine, and his worshippers drank
+his blood to wash their sins away. He was the
+son of Deus or Zeus and an earthly mother. He
+was slain or sacrificed at the winter solstice and
+went down into Hell. Hera, who corresponds
+with Herod, sought Bacchus to slay him. He
+was honored by festivals at Christmas, when the
+sun died, and at Easter when it was resurrected.
+His emblems were the bull, the ass and the goat.
+The Christians of Rome were ridiculed for worshipping
+an ass-headed god. The symbol of the
+Bacchic orgies is named Eva or Heva, identical
+with the serpent raised by the Hebrews in the
+wilderness. Heva means a female serpent and
+constitutes a part of god, the second part of the
+name Yaheva. The first part of that hermaphrodite
+god is Ya, the male, and the last part is Heva,
+the female, or serpent, or Devil.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Christ not only never rose from the dead,
+but he never existed. The doctrine of vicarious
+atonement is a lie and a farce. The Christian’s
+hope of escaping Hell by cowardly allowing another
+to suffer for his sins, has taken wings and
+flown away.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Gnostics, one of the earliest Christian
+sects, formerly called Essenes, claimed that
+Christ was a phantom, that he was neither born
+nor suffered on the cross. See Book of All Religions,
+213. Origen believed the same. He
+tells of the popular irrational Christianity based
+on the fictitious gospel history devised to assist
+the masses, who could not comprehend a spiritual
+christ.—Mystic Christianity, 211.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='43' id='Page_43'></span>Madam Blavatsky says that this abominable
+doctrine of the forgiveness of sins is the cause of
+three fourths of the crimes of so-called Christians.
+The murdered victim goes to Hell in the
+midst of his sins, but the murderer receives absolution
+and goes to Heaven and sits with Christ
+beside the Golden Throne. The Parsis say: “If
+any of you commit sin under the belief that he
+shall be saved by somebody, both the deceiver
+as well as the deceived shall be damned to the
+day of Rasla Khaz. There is no savior. In the
+other world you shall receive the return according
+to your actions. Your savior is your good
+deeds.” Plato says in 2-187: “Even if there
+are gods, they can be bribed by prayers and offerings,
+so it is better to be unjust and offer of the
+fruits of injustice to the gods. By our sinning
+and praying and praying and sinning, the gods
+will be propitiated, and we shall be forgiven.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Jews offered seven lambs at the new
+moon because the Lamb came seven times. It
+is to be noted that they gave none of the offering
+to God except the refuse, the extremities and the
+fat and the lobe of the liver, but the priests had
+the breast and the right shoulder. The Lord
+and the mob were welcome to the offal.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>We are saved by the blood of christ or Priapus,
+but the Jews were saved by the blood of
+the circumcision of Abraham, who was also a
+christ. “Abraham was circumcised on the day
+of the atonement, and God looks that day annually
+on the blood of the covenant of our father
+Abraham’s circumcision as atoning for all our
+iniquities.”—Talmud Yalcut Chadish, fol. 121,
+sec. 3.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When the young and beautiful philosopher,
+Hypatia, disclosed these sacred religious secrets
+in Egypt about 412 A. D., she was torn from her
+chariot by a Christian mob, dragged to a Christian
+<span class='pageno' title='44' id='Page_44'></span>church, stripped naked and ravished at the
+very feet of the idol of Christ, and then beaten
+to death by Peter, the Reader. Her body was
+cut into pieces, the flesh scraped from the
+bones with oyster shells, and the remnants
+cast into the fire by the order of the canonized
+saint, Bishop Cyril of Alexandria.—Ency. Brit.
+12:596.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A Nazar or Nazarene, according to Hosea,
+was one who had consecrated himself to Bosheth,
+(a shameful thing, a foul idol.) It was in Nazareth
+that the Nazarenes anciently held their
+Witches’ Sabbath. Bosher is the Hebrew name
+of the Tree of Infamy. The “Sod of the Kadishim,”
+Psalms, 89:7, is rendered by the
+translators “Assembly of the Saints,” when
+it was in truth an orgy of the ladies devoted
+to the service of the Temple. Sod was the
+name given to the vile assemblies in the ancient
+Mysteries in Sodom, and the nature of the
+sacred ceremonies may be gathered from the
+name. They were the same as those of the
+ancient Christian Agape or Love Feast.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It is claimed that Apollonius of Tyana
+was the original of Christ, for the former was
+worshipped in Rome in the third century as
+the savior of man, and that no such person
+as Jesus Christ was then known. There was
+a sect that worshipped the Hindu Christos.
+Their religion was a mixture of Buddhism and
+Platonism, and their chief symbol was the phallic
+cross within the circle. The Christian religion
+takes its name and symbols from this Hindu
+religion. See Antiquity Unveiled, 98. Lucian
+says that the Christians spoke of Apollonius,
+called in Romans Apollos, as a god and took
+him for a lawgiver, and honored him with the
+title of Master.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='45' id='Page_45'></span>Prior to the sixth Ecumenical Council,
+680 A. D., the Christians worshipped an animal
+idol, the lamb on a cross, but it was found from
+ancient monuments that the pagans had worshipped
+the same idol. So the Council decreed
+that the figure of a man should be placed on the
+cross, Christ was not nailed to the cross until
+680 A. D. and then by the Ecumenical Council.—Idem
+161.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The pagan priests, at a very early date in
+the present era, finding that they were losing
+their hold on the people, concocted from pagan
+originals a new religion called the Christian. As
+a sop to the depraved and besotted worshippers
+of virgin-born gods, they alleged that their god
+was born of the Virgin Mary, and they seized
+upon and falsified the Hindu gospels, containing
+the life of Buddha, till they were made to appear
+to apply to the life of Christ. In order to bolster
+up this foul imposition and conceal the origin of
+Christianity, they destroyed the records of
+Grecian, Egyptian and Roman civilization and
+sank the world in darkness for a thousand years,
+filling it with woe and bloodshed. The success
+of this crime against their fellowmen set back
+the hands of time two thousand years. See
+Doubts of Infidels.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The doctrine of blood atonement came from
+Phoenicia, where they continually indulged in
+human sacrifice. In the event of an eclipse of
+the sun, the priests burned a man on a cross at
+the altar of the sun-god to avert the threatened
+calamity. “From the sixth hour there was
+darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.”
+And on these altars, 2600 B. C., was I H S or
+I E S. As the E or H in Egyptian hieroglyphics
+is a circle, this sign was originally I O S. I
+represents the father god, and O the mother god,
+and S represents the son or serpent. The serpent
+<span class='pageno' title='46' id='Page_46'></span>was crucified on the cross by the Egyptians and
+Jews as a saving rite.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>At the church festival of Tezcatlipoca in
+Mexico, they chose a prisoner as the incarnate
+representative of god and placed a garland and
+an embroidered mantle upon him, as the Jews
+did on Christ. Then they led him to the temple,
+where the priest cut his heart out and held the
+sacred bleeding heart up to the sun, and his
+body was eaten by the church members, as we
+eat the body of our Savior.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Rev. Robert Taylor says in his Diegesis:
+“Not a single passage written in the first century
+can be produced from any independent authority
+to show the existence of such a person as Jesus
+Christ or his disciples.” The silence of all contemporary
+writers respecting Jesus Christ is a
+notorious fact. Philo, Seneca, Plutarch, Juvenal,
+Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Lucian, who lived in
+that period, make no allusion to his works, nor
+even mention his name.—Doubts of Infidels, 66.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The christ Prometheus died for the salvation
+of the world and was nailed on the cross many
+hundreds of years before the Christian Era.
+And the christ Esculapius, the Great Physician,
+healed the sick and raised the dead and died in
+the West and rose again in the East.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Jonah was a christ or sun-god. The sign
+of the Goat in the Buddhist zodiac is represented
+by a leviathan or whale vomiting out the sacred
+Elephant, or sun, or Son of God. When the
+sun entered the sign of the Leviathan in December
+it was swallowed by the whale, but was vomited
+out again three days later on the 25th of December,
+when the sun commenced to return. Hence
+the story of Jonah and the whale, which has been
+so hard to swallow, and which has taxed our
+piety to the limit.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='47' id='Page_47'></span>Ies is the Phoenician name of the god Bacchus.
+Ies, or Iesu, or Jesus was stolen from the
+Phoenicians and Egyptians, and the god Christos
+was taken from the Hindus and thrown together
+into the melting pot of Potoman of
+Alexandria, and out came Jesus Christ. Potoman
+compiled the Christian religion from Hindu,
+Greek and Egyptian originals.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If God made man in his own image, why
+does he have to be redeemed? It is true that
+man stubbed his toe and fell, but it was because
+he obeyed the command of God to increase and
+multiply. The Yogis claim that Christ was not
+virgin born, but was a virgin spirit split off of
+God and came to redeem the world. If he redeemed
+the world, how is it that the people are
+worse now than they ever were, that the history
+of his religion has been a history of depravity,
+vice, crime, murder and carnage, which has now
+culminated in a world-orgy of savagery, pillage
+and slaughter, of which the fiends in Hell would
+be incapable? How is it that the beasts, which
+have never been redeemed, the doves, the rabbits,
+the lambs, the deer, are far superior to us who
+were bought by the blood?</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='48' id='Page_48'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER IX<br /> <br /><b>Hell-fire and Brimstone.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c002'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'>You’ll burn in Hell ten thousand years,</div>
+      <div class='line'>In vain will be your cries and tears,</div>
+      <div class='line'>You’ll burn in Hell till ages meet,</div>
+      <div class='line'>And just begin to feel the heat.—Amasa Alden.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>We are in Hell now. Rabbi Eleasher says
+that “the demons who were cast out of Heaven
+and the descendants of the witless progeny of
+matter and spirit became in the course of time
+the men of our planet, after having passed
+through every form of every one of the elements.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Where did the Church dig up Hell? The
+Scandinavian Hell is not a place of punishment,
+but simply the abode of the dead. The dictionary
+says that Hades, the Hell of the Bible, is
+the abode of all the departed, the unseen spirit
+world. The Shoel of the Hebrews is the place
+of departed spirits, not a region of torment.
+The Underworld or Amenti, of the Egyptians,
+is a region of judgment and purification. The
+Onderah, the abyss of darkness of the Hindus,
+is an intermediate state or purgatory. Whence
+then came the dogma of Hell, that Archimedean
+lever of Christian theology, with which they
+have succeeded in holding in subjection the
+numberless millions of Christians for nineteen
+centuries.—Isis Unveiled.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Here is where Eusebius and the other
+Biblical writers got Hell. According to Mahabad,
+the christ and Adam of the Parsees, who
+wrote all the laws of God, Hell is peopled with
+<span class='pageno' title='49' id='Page_49'></span>ants, serpents and scorpions, ignorant, sick
+and indigent men and irreligious philosophers,
+and on account of the detestable qualities of
+the later, the ants, serpents and scorpions
+pounce upon and torture them. This is the
+Hell of Hells.—Dabistan, 81.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the chart of the cosmogony of the Kabalists,
+representing their idea of the creation
+of the universe, the last and most insignificant
+creation is the earth, which they have labeled
+Hell, the abode of the Devil, the Kingdom of
+the Great Serpent according to the Buddhists.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the religious Mysteries, if the soul has
+attained the final knowledge of the heavenly
+and infernal mysteries, the gnosis, complete
+reunion with the spirit, and knows the Word,
+at the death of the body, it becomes a god, or
+is absorbed into the soul of the world, the astral
+light, and becomes one of the creative deities
+or Elohim. If not, it has its part in the lake
+of fire and brimstone (the elements), the second
+death. This death is the gradual dissolution
+of the astral body into its primal elements and
+the banishment of the human spirit or electron
+into chaos.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Elephas Levi and many of the wise ones
+have said that the astral light is the Great
+Serpent or Devil, so we will go to the Devil
+anyway, no matter which path we pursue.
+What difference does it make whether we are
+united to the astral light or the material ether?
+All the atoms of all the elements have individual
+souls.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Krishna, the Hindu christ, Horus, the
+Egyptian christ, the Scandinavian Thor, the
+Greek Apollo and St. Patrick, the Irish christ,
+are all represented as killing the Great Serpent,
+the Devil. All of the christs, including
+Buddha, Bacchus, Hercules, Orpheus and Askelapius,
+<span class='pageno' title='50' id='Page_50'></span>as well as Jesus, descended into Hell
+and ascended again the third day. According
+to the Gospel of Nicodemus, Christ found Adam,
+Moses, David, Isaiah and all the other saints
+there, and as they had been burning in Hell
+several thousand years, their wings were pretty
+well singed and they were badly mussed up,
+but Christ took them by the hands and led
+them up to the Hebrew heaven, where the
+three balls are worshipped, together with the
+ass-headed god. The Devil had no one left
+to rule over except the depraved, uncircumcised
+gentiles and the elemental demons. The
+Gentiles cannot get past the gates of Tophet,
+but must linger for a time, and half a time, and
+ten thousand times while they do battle with
+the phantoms of Hell and wrestle with the
+Serpent of the Great Abyss.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The Presbyterian clergy of Scotland delighted
+in telling their hearers that they would
+be roasted in great fires and hung up on hooks
+by their tongues. They were to be lashed with
+scorpions and see their companions writhing
+and howling around them. They were to be
+thrown into boiling oil and scalding lead. A
+river of fire and brimstone broader than the
+earth was prepared for them, their bones, their
+lungs and their liver were to boil but never
+be consumed, and while worms were gnawing
+at their bodies, they were to be surrounded
+by devils mocking and making pastime of their
+pains, the torment to be varied in its character
+as well as eternal in its duration. Hell was
+created before man came into the world, the
+Almighty having spent his previous leisure in
+preparing this place of torment, so that when
+the human race appeared, it might be ready
+for their reception.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 2-293.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='51' id='Page_51'></span>Hell is the lowest of the astral planes, in
+the immediate atmosphere of the earth, where
+the most of us go. Heaven is the highest of
+the spiritual planes, where God lives, but as
+nobody to speak of ever goes there, no one on
+the astral ever saw God or can make affidavit
+that he exists, and any spirit that claims that
+he has seen God is either deceiving us or is
+himself mistaken. He may have seen some
+astral idol, formed from the astral substance
+by the imagination and worshipped by the
+religion-besotted spirits. “The aura of the spirits
+in the lowest astral plane is the same as
+that of wicked human beings, a dark, cloudy
+or smoky emanation, streaked with the red
+flames of anger and passion. Deep shades
+of color whirl and swirl in the depths, lightning-like
+flashes shoot forth, and great bodies of
+lurid, smoky, clouds fly on the surface, having
+all the appearance of an inferno, and the region
+itself has the same aura, derived from the combined
+auras of its inhabitants. It is not surprising
+that the witches and wizards of the
+Bible, who could see by clairvoyant vision,
+described it as a Hell of fire and brimstone.”—Human
+Aura, 45.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the religion of Zoroaster,
+“Hell is the House of Destruction. It is the
+abode chiefly of the priests of bad religions,”
+that is, all religions except the Persian, but
+this is not to be taken seriously, as every religion
+is a joke. Here we have the original
+doctrine of the resurrection of the body, which
+our Christian ministers have had the consummate
+nerve to preach even here in this age of
+the world.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Mark Twain says in “The Mysterious
+Stranger”: “A God who mouths justice and
+mercy and invented Hell, mouths golden rules
+<span class='pageno' title='52' id='Page_52'></span>and forgiveness and invented Hell, who mouths
+morals to other people and has none himself,
+who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them
+all, who created man without invitation, then
+tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s
+acts upon man, instead of placing it where it
+belongs upon himself.” The trouble with Mark
+was that he accepted as true all that silly superstition,
+all those puerile fairy tales, all those
+black lies from the Pit of Hell written and taught
+by the old priests and prophets. God never
+created the human race, he never made Hell.
+This cruel remark of Mark is libelous, almost
+bordering on blasphemy.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Read what the insane Church Fathers
+said: “There in Hell the intelligent fire burns
+the limbs and restores them, feeds on them
+and nourishes them.”—Felix.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The proud monarchs and magistrates (and
+everybody but the Christians) shall liquefy in
+the fierce flames of Hell.—Tertullian.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>We shall be compensated by a perpetual
+spectacle of our persecutors in an ever-burning
+Gehenna being devoured by living flames.—Cyprian.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Ling or the Word is the Commander-in-chief
+of the universe.—Clement.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Every sinner kindles for himself the flame
+of his own fire, and is not plunged into some
+fire kindled by another.—Origen.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The wicked will be provided not with the
+old earthly body, but with an indestructible
+body capable of holding out forever against
+everlasting fire.—Lactantius.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The whole mass of the human race is condemned.
+If we can pray the wicked out of
+Hell, we can pray the devils out.—Augustine.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Everybody, infants included, go to Hell,
+unless they are baptized.—Ambrose.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='53' id='Page_53'></span>There shall be eternal torments for all
+devils and skeptics.—Jerome.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Votive offerings by the living will reduce
+the torments of the dead. The blessed shall
+rejoice over the punishment of the damned.—Aquinas.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='54' id='Page_54'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER X.<br /> <br /><b>The Devil.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>Christ overcame the Great Serpent, the
+Devil, and the Irish Bacchus, St. Patrick, drove
+all the snakes out of Ireland. The drunken
+Bacchus, whose Saturnalia was held on the
+17th of March, when they poured out libations
+to him, was canonized and is now St. Bacchus,
+and his coffin and relics, endowed with magical
+and miraculous powers, were exhibited at Rome
+according to Isis Unveiled, 1:160.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Deus was Dyaus of the old Aryan or earlier
+Persian religion. Dyaus means to shine, and
+was a name of the sun. The followers of Zoroaster
+asserted that Dyaus was the Devil,
+and if they were right, it follows that Deus is
+the Devil. In this connection read the Lord’s
+Prayer, in which the ignorant worshipper endeavors
+to persuade the Lord not to lead him
+into temptation. According to the writers of
+the Bible, who were probably liars, He hardened
+the heart of Pharaoh, commanded the Israelites
+to steal, put an evil spirit into Saul and sent
+lying messages to the prophets. In Samuel
+it says that the Lord moved David to number
+Israel, but according to Chronicles it was the
+Devil who put him up to it. The words divine
+and devil are from Deva, the shining one, the
+Hindu god of light. Light is also luc, and
+Lucifer is a sun-god identical with Yahvah.
+The worshippers of Dyaus said that Ahura
+Mazda, of the Zoroastrians was the Devil.
+Ahura Mazda means I Am the I Am, and he
+<span class='pageno' title='55' id='Page_55'></span>is our God, the supreme God of the Hebrews,
+Kether, the father of Jehovah. According to
+the early Christians, the Gnostics and Nazarenes,
+the creator was Ilda Baoth, but in the Gospel
+of Nicodemus Ilda Baoth is Satan. Aaron
+sacrificed human beings to Azazel, identical
+with Moloch or the Devil. The Bible says
+that “man shall devote unto the Lord of all
+that he hath, both of man and beast. None
+devoted shall be redeemed, but shall surely
+be put to death.” We conclude that god and
+the Devil are one, that Brahma, Buddha, Dyaus,
+Ahura Mazda, Baal, Osiris, Jove, Bacchus,
+Christ, Priapus, Adonis, Deva and Devil are
+different names of the same god, and that god
+is a myth.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Devil is an emanation of god. He is
+Typhon, also called Sat and Seth in the Egyptian
+religion. The Ency. Brit. says that he is a
+brother or son of Osiris, and we have shown
+that Osiris and god are one, so we conclude
+that the Devil is the son of god as claimed in
+Job, 1:6. The Salvation Army says: “You
+must be a lover of the lord if you want to go
+to Heaven when you die.” So you must love
+the Devil and all these beasts of pagan gods,
+or you will have to shovel coal while the endless
+years of eternity roll.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Pentagram, by the power of which
+Solomon could summon the high gods to his
+assistance or call up the goblins damned, represents
+God when one horn of the star is in the
+ascendent or at the top, but when the two horns
+are in the ascendent, it represents the Devil
+or the goat. When Solomon summoned Gabriel
+to help him capture a new girl, the head
+of the star, on which is the mystic eye, was
+pointed toward the altar of evocation. But
+if he wished to raise the Devil, the horns of
+<span class='pageno' title='56' id='Page_56'></span>the goat were pointed toward the altar. In
+the infernal invocation Solomon wore a leaden
+cap, on which were the signs of the Moon,
+Venus and Saturn. He had two candles of
+human fat in a crescent candlestick, a copper
+vase holding the blood of the human victim, a
+censer containing incense moistened with the
+blood of a goat, four nails from the coffin of
+an executed criminal, the head of a black cat
+which has been fed on human flesh for five
+days, a bat drowned in blood, the horns of an
+immoral goat, the scull of a parricide. Then
+Solomon says in the evocation of the Devil:
+“By Adonai Elohim (the Creator), Adonai
+Jehovah (the Son), Adonai Sabbaoth (the Mother),
+by the womb of the Mother Adonai, by
+the Word of the Python and the Mystery of
+the Salamanders, by the Conclave of the Sylphs
+and the Gnomes, by the Demons of God in
+Heaven and Alamousin and Gibor, Come!
+Come! Come!”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>On the Pentagram is the mystic word יחוח,
+Yahvah, the spelling of which indicates
+that it represents two hermaphrodite gods.
+יח, Yah, is the good god, and וח, Vah, is
+the god of evil. The good god is represented
+in a pack of cards by the king of hearts, the
+god of love, and his wife, the queen of diamonds.
+And the hermaphrodite god of evil is represented
+by the king of spades and his wife, Lilith,
+the queen of clubs. Aristotle said that Jehovah
+was Ormazd, the god of light, and Pluto, the
+god of darkness. Jehovah is the God of Wisdom,
+so is the Egyptian serpent god, called Sat or
+Satan.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The serpent god is the astral light, the
+magnetic current. The priests by their great
+will power could direct this current at pleasure
+and perform the wonders and miracles that
+<span class='pageno' title='57' id='Page_57'></span>held enthralled their besotted devotees. They
+claimed that they were serpents because the
+serpent god magnetism permeated their bodies.
+A manuscript found among the Toltecs
+of Mexico asserted that they were descended
+from the house of Israel. Voltan, the Mexican
+demigod, says that he is the son of the snakes.
+The hierophants of Egypt and Babylon called
+themselves the sons of the serpent god. The
+chief priest of the serpent god of the Mexicans
+says: “I am a snake myself.” The Druids
+of Britain used to say: “I am a serpent, I am
+a Druid.”—Isis Unveiled.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Cneph or Cohen Eph (divine serpent)
+of Egypt was the supreme god, the flying dragon,
+the divine spirit permeating all creation, like
+the serpent god of the Buddhists. This spirit
+is electricity. The Ophites, Christian Gnostics,
+claimed that the serpent that tempted Eve was
+Jesus Christ, the Great Architect of the Universe,
+or Cohen Eph. Eve represented matter, and the
+spirit permeating matter produces living beings.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The astral light is both god and the Devil,
+the creator and the destroyer and also the Nirvana
+of the Buddhists. It is the Ah of the
+Hindus, or Iah or Eh Ei Eh of the Hebrews. It
+is life or the life-giving fluid. It is the Od and
+Ob of Moses and the Kabalists. When it acts
+on those that are drawn within its current it is
+the Ob or Python. Moses was determined to
+exterminate those witches who, sensitive to its
+influence, allowed themselves to fall under the
+control of the vicious beings which move in the
+astral waves like fish in the water.—Isis Unveiled,
+1-158. Porphery says that “these beings
+are mischievous and deceitful, though some are
+gentle and harmless, but so weak as to have the
+greatest difficulty in communicating with mortals.
+<span class='pageno' title='58' id='Page_58'></span>Their powers of reasoning are in a latent state,
+and therefore they themselves irresponsible.”
+But St. Augustine says: “These spirits are deceitful
+through malice. They pass themselves
+off for gods and for the souls of the defunct.”
+St. Jerome says that some of these elementary
+spirits or satyrs, with the legs and tails of goats,
+were exhibited at Alexandria, and one of them
+was pickled and sent to the Emperor Constantine,
+which he highly appreciated, as he was
+usually in the same condition. The Devil says,
+according to Edgar Allan Poe: “In a climate so
+sultry as mine it is frequently impossible to keep
+a spirit alive for more than two or three hours,
+and unless pickled immediately (and a pickled
+spirit is not good eating) they will smell.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>They called out sixty thousand militia in
+Cevennes, France, in 1700 to drive the Devil out
+of the boys and girls and babes at the breast
+who prophesied in pure French, a language unknown
+to them. The Prior reported to Rome
+that the Devil was so powerful that no torture
+and no amount of exorcism is able to dislodge
+him. He says he closed their hands on burning
+coals, and they were not even singed, that he
+wrapped their bodies in cotton soaked with oil
+and set them on fire and could not even blister
+their skins, that balls were shot at them and
+found flattened between the skin and clothes.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Perhaps the greatest number of miracles
+ever performed in the world were pulled off by
+the Devil at the tomb of Abbe Paris from 1727
+to 1749. The sick were cured, the deaf made to
+hear and the blind to see. Often a young girl
+among the convulsionaries would bend back into
+an arc, her loins supported by the sharpened
+point of an iron rod, and beg to be pounded with
+a fifty pound stone suspended from the ceiling.
+The stone was allowed to fall repeatedly with all
+<span class='pageno' title='59' id='Page_59'></span>its weight upon her abdomen, and the girl enjoyed
+it and cried for more, and no injury was
+found upon her person. When violent blows
+were struck with a sledge-hammer upon a drill
+held against her stomach she cried out: “O!
+how delightful, that does me good. Strike twice
+as hard if you can.”—Isis Unveiled.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='60' id='Page_60'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XI<br /> <br /><b>Life Cells.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>I Am the I Am, the Hebrew God, is supposed
+by Christians to be the First Cause, but the
+assumption of a first cause is quite unnecessary,
+and further, if you postulate a creative god, some
+impertinent person might ask you who made God.
+It is just as well to start with matter, in which
+mind and energy are inherent, which is eternal,
+infinite, immortal, self-existent and sustaining,
+requiring no supreme power as a basis or background,
+as set forth in the Sankhya System of
+the Hindus. See Phil. &amp; Relig. of India, 55.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The attraction or love of one mass of matter
+for another is the energy. It is that love that
+creates all forms. The atoms go a-chasing after
+other atoms, even as you and I. There can be
+no attraction without mind. Anaxagoras and
+Empedocles believed in a dualism of mind and
+matter. The latter says: “The periods of the
+formation of the world depend upon the alternate
+prevalence of love and hate. During certain
+periods all heterogeneous atoms are separated
+from each other by hate, during others they are
+everywhere united by love.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Haeckel says: “These three fundamental
+attributes, matter, force and sensation, are found
+inseparably united throughout the whole universe
+in every atom and every molecule.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Edgar Allan Poe says: “That which is not
+matter is not at all. The ultimate unparticled
+matter not only permeates all things but impels
+all things. This matter is God. What men attempt
+<span class='pageno' title='61' id='Page_61'></span>to embody in the word ‘thought’ is this
+matter in motion. The unparticled matter, or
+God, in quiescence is what men call mind. The
+motion of the unparticled matter is the universal
+thought of the universal mind. This thought
+creates. All things are but the thought of God.
+For new individualities gross matter is necessary.
+To create individual, thinking beings, it was
+necessary to incarnate portions of the Divine
+Mind. Thus man is individualized. Divested
+of corporate investiture, he were God.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the Ionic philosophy matter
+is by nature endowed with life, and life is inseparably
+connected with matter.—Ueberweg’s
+Hist. of Philosophy, 1-32.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It is said that in the beginning a male electron
+or spirit, or purusha, or soul, from the spirit
+principle of the universe, becoming involved in
+the material ether, formed a vortex, about which
+the female or material electrons of the ether
+revolved, thus producing an atom, the basis
+of all visible forms. The electron attracts
+the particles of matter in the ether as a magnet
+attracts steel. The electrons are called units
+of electricity, and there are perhaps a thousand
+in an atom. The space between these ions
+is comparatively as great as the space between
+the planets of our solar system. Leucippus,
+of Abdera, says that souls are round atoms.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The religious claim that the Divine Thought
+or Word originated the vortex movement. As
+John did not care to proclaim that his god was
+Ling, which he had stolen from the Hindus,
+he called it the Word, another meaning of Ling,
+from Ling comes linguist. Word is the exoteric
+meaning designed for fools, and the other is
+the esoteric or hidden meaning known only to
+the initiates. I think that the Christians are
+in error in claiming John’s god as their own,
+<span class='pageno' title='62' id='Page_62'></span>but amid such a flock of gods the confusion
+is not surprising.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“New Light has arisen, coming from Heaven,
+it assumed a mortal form. Virgin receive
+God in thy bosom, and the Word flew into the
+womb. Becoming incarnate in time, and animated
+by her body, it was found in mortal
+image, and a boy was created.”—Plutarch,
+Isis and Osiris, 17. Christna or the Word, the
+Hindu savior, like Christ was a shepherd, and
+he became entangled with the shepherdesses. He
+was born in the cave of Venus, as all Simon-pure
+christs have to be, and King Kamsa, in
+seeking to kill him, ordered the destruction of
+all male infants. He also had two fathers,
+God and Vasu Deva, the Earth god or Joseb.
+He and the god Vishnu were one.—Phil. &amp;
+Relig. of India, 278.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Hindus claim that the akasa or astral
+light, or Brahma, (electricity) originated the
+vortex movement that formed the atoms. Akasa
+is the source of life, the reservoir of all energy,
+the all-directing and omnipotent god. It was
+the indispensable agent of every magical performance,
+and the Brahmans said that they
+had to stir up Brahma in order to perform a
+trick in magic to delude their devotees. Madam
+Blavatsky says: “As God creates so can man
+create. By the action of the will power on the
+atoms he can call objective forms into being.
+The atoms are like automatic workmen moved
+by the influx of the will directed upon them.”
+“Every motion we make, every word we utter
+gives an impulse to the ether and thus creates
+atoms.”—Edgar Allan Poe.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Aristotle says: “The world always was
+and always will be. The ether fills the celestial
+spaces, and of it the spheres and stars are
+formed.” The atoms combine to form molecules,
+<span class='pageno' title='63' id='Page_63'></span>and these, being attracted together, form the
+gases of which nebulae are composed. These
+nebulae follow the same circular movement
+that prevails in the atoms, and the result of
+this movement is a solar system, the nucleus
+of which becomes the sun. The rings that
+separate from the main body in this revolution
+eventually break up and form planets. When
+these planets cool, we find all the atomic souls
+either in the water or imprisoned in the rocks
+or in the central fire. The sea beats up against
+the rocks, and the rains descend upon and
+disintegrate them and thus release the souls
+that were imprisoned there in the process of
+involution. Now they commence to evolve
+toward what the egotistic have termed man’s
+high estate.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Yogi Ramacharaka says: “The Yogi teaching
+informs us that even in the molten mass
+there were elementary forms that were to
+become the ancestral forms of the later living
+beings. From these elementary forms there
+gradually evolved, as the earth cooled and
+solidified, other forms, and so on until at last
+the first living form manifested. The lowest
+forms of what we call life were evolved from
+forms of crystal life, which indeed they very
+much resemble.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Haeckel, the world’s greatest scientist, says:
+“Man descends immediately from the ape, and
+secondarily from a long line of lower vertebrates
+back to the Silurian fishes. The lowest man
+appeared on the earth about three million years
+ago.”—Riddle of the Universe, 82. Anaximander,
+of Miletus, says: “Living beings arose
+by gradual development out of the elementary
+moisture under the influence of heat. We land
+animals had in the beginning the form of
+fishes.”—Ueberweg, 1:35.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='64' id='Page_64'></span>The atoms combining by their own desire
+and will formed a molecule, and the molecules
+by their own volition combined to form a life
+cell, our earliest ancestor, a minute, animate
+mass of protoplasm, the lowest form of animal
+life, born in the slum of the ocean bed millions
+of years ago. Myriads of these life cells form
+the human body. Each cell is a distinct individual,
+having brain, mind and soul. Haeckel
+says that the primordial living substance is
+plasm. We can live only by eating other living
+beings or plasm, that is, by cannibalism. Plants
+create living plasm out of alleged non-living matter,
+they form carbo-hydrates, and from these form
+plasm by a combination with water, carbolic
+acid, ammonia and nitric acid. We claim to
+have souls, but deny them to the plants, the
+divine creators whose chemical laboratories,
+the cells, are beyond human comprehension.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The cells arrange themselves in the embryo
+in the form of a human being by their own
+will. “They use the materials which are at
+hand, fabricating organs for themselves by
+instinct, and in the appointed hour are born
+in the shape which they have formed for themselves.”—Enoch,
+ch. 14. The human embryo
+in its development passes through all the forms
+through which the race has struggled in its
+evolution from stone, through the primordial
+cell, the worm, the fish, the saurian and gorilla.
+In the last stage, that of the gorilla, the embryo
+is entirely covered with hair like our beloved
+ancestors, and sometimes development is arrested
+at this point and a hairy child is born
+occasionally with a tail.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The scientists have discovered in the cell
+body a god more potent than any known deity
+and have named it centrosome. It is a being
+of stellar form, located just above the nucleus
+<span class='pageno' title='65' id='Page_65'></span>or nerve centre of the cell. It is a creator
+whose magic far excels the feats of gods or
+men. It divides one living being into two,
+splitting the brain and the body of the cell in
+halves in such a manner that the two individuals
+produced are the exact duplicates of the parent
+cell in form and character. The cell brain
+matter, called cromatin, is composed of strings
+of very minute granules, termed cromosome,
+which are supposed to contain all the hereditary
+traits. The division of each one of these cromosomes
+into equal halves gives to the individuals
+produced a similar character. The centrosome
+is one in the beginning, but before dividing
+the cell it divides itself into two persons, so
+that one of the centrosomes may accompany
+each of the two cells. Each centrosome seizes
+one half of the brain of the parent cell thus
+divided and draws it to one side of the cell to
+form the nucleus of one of the new cells. Then
+the whole body of the cell is divided in the
+centre.—Story of the Living Machine, 100.
+When the centrosome divides the cell, two
+cells are produced capable of reproducing themselves
+in like manner. Prof. A. Dastre says
+that “under suitable circumstances the lowest
+animated forms are immortal.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Our soul is formed by the combination of
+the souls of the two germ cells from which the
+embryo originated. We existed in our parents
+prior to our advent here and in all of our ancestors
+for 500,000,000 years back, more or less.
+The conscious matter that constitutes me, the
+cromatin, existed in every one of my ancestors
+since we were washed out of the igneous rocks or
+spawned in the ocean depths. Jack London
+says: “I did not begin when I was born. I
+have been growing, developing through incalculable
+myriads of milleniums. All these experiences
+<span class='pageno' title='66' id='Page_66'></span>of all these lives and of countless other
+lives have gone to the making of the soul-stuff
+that is I.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Elephas Levi says: “The millions of germ
+cells that fail to become human beings are transformed
+into phantoms or larvae. These larvae
+possess aerial bodies formed from the steam of
+blood. For this reason they seek out spilt
+blood, and were formerly nourished by the smoke
+of sacrifices. The cohesion of the parts of these
+phantastic organisms is so feeble that they fear
+a strong wind, large fires, and above all the points
+of swords. They are vampires.” This accounts
+for the craving of the gods for blood sacrifices.
+The spirits and phantoms were mistaken for gods
+by the drunken prophets.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The cells are spheroids and they are men in
+embryo,” says Plato. “God caused the universe
+to move with a circular motion and created
+original man as a perfect circle. The sexes were
+originally three in number, man, woman and
+hermaphrodite, and they had two faces and four
+arms and four legs, but Zeus cut them in two.
+After the division the two parts of man, each
+desiring the other half, came together and threw
+their arms about one another eager to grow into
+one. Each of us when separate is but the indenture
+of a man, having one side only like a flat-fish,
+and he is always looking for his other half.”—Plato,
+1-483.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The intelligence of the cells has been clearly
+established by overwhelming proofs. An egg
+or ovum is at first a small fertilized cell, and
+in its development or transformation into an
+embryo, it is at first divided into several cells,
+to wit, the head cell, the body cell, the tail cell
+and the food cells. Prof. Oppel, in his experiments
+in embryology, separated these cells,
+removing them from their proper positions,
+<span class='pageno' title='67' id='Page_67'></span>but the cells so removed, traveled about trying
+first one place and then another until they
+usually found their proper positions and there
+joined the body and grew thereon, producing
+a perfect animal. If they made a mistake and
+joined the body in the wrong place, a monster
+was produced.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Furthermore, a scientist produced a mushroom-shaped
+being by subjecting metallic salts
+to the action of a galvanic current. The particles
+of the metal gathered around the pole of
+the magnet in the shape of a mushroom. This
+thing was a living being, with alimentary canal
+in its stem, through which it drew its nourishment
+and added to its growth. It was only
+necessary that a current of life or electricity
+be introduced among the particles to cause
+them to assume the form of a living organism.
+The metallic tree is produced by the same means.
+A copper wire and a piece of zinc are suspended
+in a bottle of a solution of acetate of lead, and
+the particles of lead gather about the copper
+wire and put forth branches, limbs and foliage.—Yogi
+Ramacharaka.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Each atom of matter, each molecule and
+every life cell, of which man is composed, has
+a soul of its own. And it is claimed that beside
+the individual cell souls, man not only has
+a communal soul in his brain, but a soul in his
+Solar Plexus. After a frog is beheaded, if a
+drop of acid is placed on his body, he will wipe
+it off with his foot.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The development of animals out of frogs
+and men out of animals was held by Anaximenes
+600 B. C., and the evolution of species
+was an accepted doctrine before the flood. In
+the Hindu books it is written: “When the world
+had issued out of the darkness, the subtle, elementary
+principles produced the vegetal seed,
+<span class='pageno' title='68' id='Page_68'></span>which animated first the plants, from the plants
+life passed into fantastical bodies which were
+born in the waters, then through a series of
+forms and various animals it reached man.”—Bhagavata.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Kapella, an Aryan sage, denied the existence
+of a first cause, claiming that everything
+in nature found itself developed only in consequence
+of material fatal forces. The ancient
+Kabalists said: “A stone becomes a plant, a
+plant a beast, a beast a man, a man a spirit, and
+the spirit a god.”</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='69' id='Page_69'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XII.<br /> <br /><b>Magic and Devil Worship.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>Elephas Levi claimed that the attraction
+and repulsion of the atoms is caused by the
+astral light. “There exists an agent which is
+material and spiritual, a universal plastic medium,
+a common receptacle of the vibrations of motions
+and the images of forms, a fluid and a force.
+By means of this force all nervous apparatuses
+secretly communicate with each other, thence
+come sympathy and antipathy, thence dreams
+and second sight. The existence and use of
+this force is the great secret of practical magic.
+The astral light attracts, repels, vivifies and
+destroys all things under the influence of powerful
+wills. It can be directed by the leaders
+of souls. By means of this agent we can correspond
+instantaneously from one end of the
+earth to the other, discern what is taking place
+at the antipodes, heal or hurt at a distance.
+The Gnostics called it the burning body of the
+Holy Ghost. Life is produced by the action
+of the astral light on the ether or matter. In
+man it forms the astral body, it is the first
+envelope of the soul, and it is by combining
+with the most subtil fluids that it forms this
+etherized body or phantom. The astral body
+is nourished by the astral light, as the physical
+body is nourished by the earth. The astral
+light is saturated with souls, which it releases
+in the incessant generation of existences, and
+whose imperfect wills can be dominated and
+employed by stronger ones. The elementary
+<span class='pageno' title='70' id='Page_70'></span>spirits are like children, they torment those
+who concern themselves about them. It is
+these that produce the raps on the walls and
+furniture.”—Mysteries of Magic, 65.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“An individual can leave the physical
+body and actually travel on either the material
+or astral plane in the astral body. Many persons
+are able to travel thus in their ordinary
+sleep.”—Astral World, 25.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>All magic is religious, having been invented
+by the priests or Magi. It is said that the
+religious bodies copied their demonology from
+the Kabala of the Jews, and that the latter
+borrowed their system of theurgy and theology
+from the Egyptian and Babylonian priests.
+If any one outside of the religious bodies started
+any opposition devil-worship, they were promptly
+burnt. All the magic rituals are derived from
+the Key of King Solomon, claimed to have been
+found in his sepulchre at Jerusalem.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Magic Grimore, ascribed to Pope
+Honorius, he says: “We have seen with what
+power Jesus commanded demons, which power
+was transmitted to St. Peter, and, as the lawful
+successors of St. Peter, having the keys of the
+Kingdom of Heaven, and desiring to share the
+power of invoking and commanding spirits,
+which has been reserved unto us alone, with
+our brethren, we have included in this Bull
+the manner of their invocation. And because
+it is meet that the ministers of the altar should
+have authority over rebellious spirits, we hereby
+depute unto them all the powers which we
+possess in virtue of the Holy Apostolic Chair.”—Book
+of Black Magic, 100.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In invoking the Devil or other choice spirits,
+it is necessary to murder some being. If the
+conjurer cannot or dare not murder a human
+being, he takes an innocent virgin lamb and
+<span class='pageno' title='71' id='Page_71'></span>cuts its throat and tears off its skin to use for
+a magic apron or parchment. Instead of the
+skin of a lamb, the caul of a new-born child
+may be used.—Idem.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The sign manual of the demon Valefor,
+the patron of thieves, contains two Maltese
+crosses rampant and three links. As Solomon
+and his entourage worshipped the demon Astaroth,
+they probably stole from him the two
+pillars at the door of the Temple and the double
+triangle above them, for they appeared in the
+seal of that spirit. There are two or more crosses
+in each of the seals or signatures of Solomon’s
+seventy two black fiends. Their motto is,
+“In this sign we conquer.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Solomon imprisoned the seventy two devils,
+with all their legions, in a brazen vessel and
+sank it in a deep lake in Babylon. The Babylonians,
+thinking that there must be a great
+treasure in the vessel, took it out of the lake
+and broke it open, when out flew the chief
+devils immediately, with all their legions following
+them.—See Waite’s Book of Black Magic.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>We still worship pagan gods. The Hexagram,
+or double triangle of Solomon, is still
+used by different sects and societies. On it
+is the name of Agla, a pagan sun-god, and also
+the name of Tau, the Egyptian bull christ Taurus,
+with the pagan symbol, the Tau cross.
+The god A. and O., Alpha and Omega, with
+which the Hexagram is adorned, is a foul Babylonian
+idol, the same as IO. It has been represented
+that the Devil falls prostrate before
+the cross. But, to tell the truth, Lucifer uses
+the sign himself, also the double triangle and
+the single triangle in his signature. And Belial
+has four crosses by which he lies.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When a sorcerer conjures up one of the
+seventy two demons, he must draw the double
+<span class='pageno' title='72' id='Page_72'></span>seal of Solomon (double triangle) and the Pentagram,
+(five-pointed star) on a parchment
+of calfskin. These must be worn on his white
+vestment, together with the seal of the spirit
+invoked. And the secret seal of Solomon (the
+pillar standing in a circle) must be drawn with
+the blood of a black, virgin cock on virgin parchment.
+This is part of the conjuration: “I invoke
+and conjure you, O Spirit, by God the Father,
+by God the son, by God the Holy Ghost, by
+the Most Glorious and Holy Mother of God,
+by her Sacred Heart, by her Blessed Milk, by
+the Power and Victory of Hell, by the Ministers
+of the Tartarean Seat. I exorcise thee in the
+names of El, Elohim, Zabaoth &amp;c. do thou
+forthwith appear. I conjure thee by the Living
+and True God Heliorem (Helios, the sun god)
+and Tetragrammaton Jehovah (the God of
+four letters). Come! I Adonai Saday, King of
+Kings, commands thee.” See Lesser Key of
+King Solomon, 55.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>There is no use in trying to invoke spirits
+or perform any tricks in black magic unless
+you have confessed and received the Holy
+Communion, and you must pray for assistance
+to the pagan gods Adonai, Eloim, Ariel, Yahveh
+and Gibor, and fast, and abstain from the society
+of females for nine days, and take a bath, and
+wear the garb of a priest or a Levite, and you
+must have the sacred Masons’ implements,
+the sword, the staff, the rod, the sickle and
+the poniard. See Waite’s Book of Black Magic.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>That part of nature called the astral light
+or universal spirit was virtually the supreme
+god of all religions. It was the Heaven or
+Nirvana of the Buddhist, (where the soul is
+blown out like a lamp some believed.) When
+he attained to perfection and was reabsorbed
+in this godhead, he had stormed the heights
+<span class='pageno' title='73' id='Page_73'></span>of Heaven and attained eternal bliss. He
+considered that his spirit would no longer be
+subjected to endless incarnations in material
+forms. But there is no knowing when it would
+again by choice or compulsion enter the ether
+and form another atom and again commence
+the unavoidable cycle.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>All the vile religions have scared the human
+race into ca’niption fits by their assertion that
+our souls will be lost unless we bow down to
+their priests and worship their idols. According
+to the original parent religion, the Hindu, if
+we obey the priests faithfully, we will go to
+Nirvana and become a creator or electron,
+or elementary spirit. And all the authorities,
+both pagan and Christian, agree that the elementary
+spirits are mischievous, wicked entities.
+It would be better to lose our souls, for in that
+case they are banished into the ether or chaos
+and become the nucleus of a material atom.
+If we go to Nirvana, we are one step farther
+removed from the ultimate goal of all the ambitions
+of all the heavenly electrons and material
+atoms, the supreme pinnacle of attainment,
+man’s high estate, which is greater than that
+of the gods.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Theosophists revel in the mystic and
+occult. If they can construct a sentence that
+no one can understand, and that they do not
+know the meaning of themselves, they are in
+the seventh heaven of delight, their wisdom
+borders on the Divine. Stating their doctrine
+of transmigration in plain language: God sits
+at his desk in Heaven, with a great lot of pigeonholes
+before him, in each one of which is a
+soul in a state of coma. When he receives a
+wireless from the earth that Pat and Biddie
+McGee have formed in their marital relationship
+a psychic vortex, or soul vortex, he makes a
+<span class='pageno' title='74' id='Page_74'></span>grab at the pigeonholes and lights perhaps on
+the soul of Pythagoras and sticks it into the
+new-born embryo, which already has a soul,
+and there is no room for any other. See “Spermatozoa,”
+Stand. Dic., and note those very energetic
+individuals in a frantic race to enter the
+ovum and blossom out as human beings. You
+will then realize that the child already has a
+very lively soul, provided by nature, and there
+is no occasion for any doped soul, supplied by
+any idiotic human plan.</p>
+
+<p class='c011'>“The astral light keeps an unmutilated
+record of all that was, that is, or ever will be.
+The minutest acts of our lives are imprinted
+on it, and even our thoughts rest photographed
+on its eternal tablets. It is the Book of Life,
+it is the memory of God. If the medium or
+subject’s sight is ably directed by the mesmerizer,
+magician or spirit, the light must yield
+up its most secret records to our scrutiny.”—Astral
+World. It is claimed that each person’s
+atmosphere in the astral light is peopled with
+the images of his or her immediate family, thus
+accounting for the assertions of the mediums
+that they see the spirits of our lost ones.</p>
+
+<p class='c011'>Swedenborgians claimed that the human
+body is sometimes abandoned by the soul in
+consequence of overpowering fright, grief, despair
+or sickness, and that we encounter every
+day such living corpses. Into these bodies
+may enter the soul of an adept sorcerer or some
+earth-bound, disembodied soul. In insanity the
+astral soul is partly paralyzed, bewildered, and
+subject to the influence of every passing spirit
+of any sort, or it has departed forever, and the
+body is taken possession of by some vampire
+or human soul near its own dissolution, and
+clinging desperately to earth, whose sensual
+<span class='pageno' title='75' id='Page_75'></span>pleasures it may enjoy for a brief season longer
+by this expedient.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The ancients claimed that the soul was
+located in the solar plexus, and it was asserted
+that they could read, hear, see and smell through
+the navel. In our vermiform stage of development
+before evolution had supplied us with
+heads, the soul was perhaps in the stomach,
+but it may have moved since. Plato says
+that the divine part of the soul is located in
+the head. Haeckel says that the human soul
+is a combination of the souls of all the cells
+of the body. It is impossible to destroy any
+simple substance, and if it affords you any
+comfort, you can assume that the soul or ego
+is an indestructible electron. The Stoics claimed
+that the soul is in the heart, and that although
+it outlives the body, it is yet perishable and
+can only endure at the longest till the termination
+of the world period, 4,320,000,000 years. Epicurus
+claimed that “nothing that exists will
+ever cease to exist. Atoms exist from all eternity,
+and worlds were formed by their vortical
+motion. The soul is material and composed
+of exceedingly fine atoms, and is dispersed
+through the whole body. The rational soul is
+in the breast.” Stephanus, of Alexandria, says
+that “copper is like a man, it has a soul and
+body.” Yoga Ramacharaka says that “iron
+is alive and may be killed by poison.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Transmigration of the soul takes place
+in all flesh, in beasts, reptiles and fowls. For
+one form of uncleanness the soul will pass into
+a Gentile, for another into a mule, for others
+into an ass, a woman, a bat, a she-mule or a
+camel.”—Kabala Nishmath Chaim, Ch. 13,
+No. 1. It sometimes happens that one sacrifices
+an animal with a human soul in it. Therefore
+the slaughtering knife must be without defect,
+<span class='pageno' title='76' id='Page_76'></span>and the slaughter must needs be delicately
+done to avoid cutting the gizzard out of the
+human soul. “The soul of a murderer is transmigrated
+into water. Let no man drink from
+a running stream, lest the soul of a wicked sinner
+pass into him.”—Kabala Emeh Hamelech, fol.
+153, col. 1.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“By a combination of the letters of the
+ineffable name Rava once created a man and
+sent him to Rav. Zera. The man being unable
+to reply when spoken to, the Rabbi said to
+him: ‘Thou art a creation of the company (of
+necromancers) return to thy dust.’ By the
+same means a Rabbi created pumpkins, melons,
+deers and roes.”—Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrim,
+ch. 7.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The soul, called Psyche, when she is at
+home, lives in that part of the brain called
+the Medulla Oblongata, and the spirit, called
+Budhi, lives in the next house up the street,
+the Pineal Gland. When Budhi, or the Word,
+wins the affections of Psyche, and they are
+married, the Word saves the soul, and the man
+who harbors these entities is illuminated and
+becomes a master.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If you read Genesis in the original Hebrew,
+you will find that Al or El, the sun, not
+the Christian God, says: “To every beast of
+the earth I gave a living soul.” The souls of
+human beings are composed of material as
+refined and spiritual as that of the souls of
+cockroaches and bedbugs, and men, if they
+behave themselves, are equally as good as those
+animals and of just as much importance in
+the universe.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='77' id='Page_77'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XIII.<br /> <br /><b>Ghosts and Hobgoblins.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>The Hindus of the Malibar coast said they
+had ghosts, but they knew them to be bad
+spirits, for good ones can hardly ever appear
+at all. Apuleius says the human soul is a
+demon or genius, an immortal god. According
+to Philo Judaeus, the air is filled with an
+invisible host of spirits, the bad ones are mortal,
+and the good ones are immortal. The soul,
+upon the death of the body, transforms into a
+lemure (phantom). If it is wicked, it is called
+a larvae. The ghosts who, through vice, fearful
+crimes and animal passions, are confined to
+the eighth sphere immediately surrounding the
+earth, are the magnetic vampires and demons
+so well known to mediaeval ecstatics, nuns,
+monks and witches, the blood demons of Porphery.
+They may be cast out by powerful
+magicians, but if a sorcerer is not available,
+you can take a saucer containing two ounces of
+nitre and pour over it one ounce of vitrol and
+place it under the bed of the obsessed, and the
+devil will take to his heels.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Paracelsus says: “It is possible that my
+spirit, without the aid of the body and through
+a fiery will alone, and without a sword, can stab
+and wound others. I can also bring the spirit
+of my adversary into an image, and then double
+him up and lame him.” According to Cotton
+Mather some young girls had become mediums
+by sitting with a West Indian negro woman.
+They declared that the spectres of various
+<span class='pageno' title='78' id='Page_78'></span>witches appeared to them and bit and pinched
+and stuck pins into them. Some of the witches
+confessed that they did afflict these girls by
+sticking pins into manikins made of wax or rags,
+and by clutching and pinching their hands together
+and wishing in what part and after what
+manner they would have the girls afflicted,
+and it was done.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If you are haunted by an objectionable
+ghost, provide yourself with a sword or a dagger
+and stab him when he makes his appearance.
+They are awfully afraid of swords, although if
+you cut one in two, he will join together again,
+or if you cut his head off or leg off, he will put
+the member right on again. But he does not
+like it, and will thereafter leave you severely
+alone. Bodin says that in 1557 an elementary,
+thundering demon fell down with the lightning
+into the house of one Poudot and kept throwing
+stones all about the room for several days. The
+magistrate came to investigate, and the spirit
+knocked his hat off and drove him out of the
+house. At last Poudot got a sword and slashed
+all around the room, whereupon the spirit disappeared.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Where the ghosts are real troublesome, you
+can drive them away by distributing holy medallions
+around the house where the ghosts can
+see them. As the medallions have been blessed
+or magnetized, God has been injected into them,
+and they consequently are gods, and mischievous
+spirits who cut up capers around the house
+are afraid of these deities. I have a blessed
+idol of Buddha on my desk to keep the ghosts
+out of the office and prevent them from interfering
+with the composition of this pious work.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Modern spirits are often lying spirits.
+They are ever on hand to humor the respective
+hobbies of the persons who communicate with
+<span class='pageno' title='79' id='Page_79'></span>them at circles, and deceive them. When
+Luther, the sorcerer, evoked the demon, he was
+told that he should not worship the Virgin.
+But when St. Dominic called upon the devils,
+they told him that nobody was damned that
+persevered in her holy worship. The golden
+legend of James de Viragine shows that the Virgin
+gave to St. Dominic a miraculous rosary, by
+which he could perform greater miracles than
+Christ. But a certain abandoned sinner was
+bold enough to doubt the virtues of the rosary,
+and immediately fifteen thousand devils took
+possession of him, and being questioned by St.
+Dominic, they emitted flames from the nostrils,
+eyes and ears of the demoniac and certified to
+the virtues of the rosary. Over a hundred
+angels appeared in golden armor, together with
+the blessed Virgin herself bearing a golden rod,
+with which she administered a sound thrashing
+to the demoniac. The numerous theological
+truths uttered by St. Dominic’s devils were
+embodied in so many articles of faith, according
+to Isis Unveiled, 2-76.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>One who is unprotected, the tricky powers
+of the air but too often delude with the semblance
+of voices. In all the Mysteries, strong
+drink or anaesthetics were administered to the
+initiates to sunder the soul from the body and
+produce visions. The Sankhya system teaches
+that the ghost, or astral body, can shrink to such
+a minute space that it can penetrate anything,
+or enlarge to a gigantic body, or float through
+space, or standing on the earth can reach the
+moon, that its will is irresistible, having dominion
+over all things and the ability to attain
+every desire.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It is claimed that phantom hands have appeared
+at seances under test conditions and
+written messages on a table in broad daylight,
+<span class='pageno' title='80' id='Page_80'></span>when the medium was six or eight feet away,
+but the theory is that the materialized hand is
+an emanation from the medium, the astral hand
+of the medium. Madam Blavatsky says that
+“this is the spiritual or astral body that is raised
+in incorruption. It is useless to argue that
+these are spirit hands. To make hands or faces
+objective, they are compelled to use either the
+astral limb of the medium, or material furnished
+by the elementals, or the aural emanation of all
+persons present. Pure spirits will not and cannot
+show themselves objectively. Those that
+do are elementary spirits.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Madam Blavatsky tells of the following
+wonderful manifestations that occurred in Thibet.
+A body of traveling Bikshus, or monks, claimed
+the power to reincarnate the Buddha in any infant.
+A child four months old was brought to
+their cave and set down in the middle of the
+room, while the monks sat in a circle around it
+at some distance. A skeptic minister sat close
+to the child to expose the trickery. The chief
+Pase Budha went into a trance, and his astral
+and spiritual body took possession of the child
+and made it walk and talk, saying “I am Buddha,
+I am the old Lama, I am his spirit in a new
+body.” The minister said: “The baby looked
+at me with an expression of intelligence that
+was simply awful. It sent a chill through me,
+I felt a real terror, my hair rose upon my head,
+and my blood ran cold. The eyes seemed to
+search my very soul with an expression that
+made me think that it was the face of the Superior
+himself, his eyes, his very look that was
+gazing upon me.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If you wish to conjure up or materialize a
+spirit, purchase from the Yogis some ancient
+blood of a black cat, which comes in powdered
+form. This, together with a sparrow’s brain,
+<span class='pageno' title='81' id='Page_81'></span>burnt upon the altar will produce a smoke or
+vapor of peculiar odor and a color unknown
+and unnamed by human beings, being a combination
+of many colors. From the smoke of
+this magic altar it is possible for spirits to materialize,
+so that even persons without the astral
+vision can see them.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sometimes a band of occultists will meet
+around their altar fire, which is kindled between
+the horns of the goat and fed with the ancient
+blood of a black cat and other material from
+which ghosts can materialize. The occultists
+stand in a row hand in hand, the Grand Master
+at the head by the altar, and all strongly command
+that a spirit shall manifest. As the command
+passes from one brother to another it
+gains force, and the power of the will is enormously
+augmented, and after a time there issues
+from the floor a thread of astral matter, which
+ascends perpendicularly and widens out as
+it ascends, assuming a human form, but weak,
+wavering and limp, bending this way and that
+on every breath of air. But after the circle
+has pumped the power into him for a while, he
+becomes sufficiently strong to walk or glide
+about and take a seat in the circle and talk to
+the members. The materialized body is soft
+and moist and cold as a corpse. When they
+wish him to disappear they stand again hand
+in hand, the Grand Master next to the spirit,
+and send the command from one to the other
+ordering the ghost to depart, and he will again
+become weak and wabbly and sink down to
+the floor and disappear through the same nail
+hole from which he emerged.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If the company wishes to engage in a dangerous
+experiment, one half of them will occupy
+one side of the hall and the other half the other
+side. They must first erect between them a
+<span class='pageno' title='82' id='Page_82'></span>circle of sheet lead, over which the devil cannot
+jump to attack any of the members. Then
+each bunch will think evil vindictive and murderous
+thoughts of the other bunch, and conjure
+up dire monsters to attack them, and soon a
+horrible, gigantic and vicious thought-monster,
+part beast, part devil and part human, will
+materialize and rush at the members and endeavor
+to attack them, but fortunately for
+them, he cannot pass the leaden circle, for if
+he could reach those that made him, he would
+strike them dead with a charge of electricity
+through the heart. In order to lay this devil
+they have conjured up, they have to clothe
+themselves entirely in silver-colored garments.
+They then enter the circle from both sides and
+close in on the monster. These silver-colored
+beings scare the devil to death, and he crawls
+back in his hole.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A man, named B, built a house with second-hand
+lumber from an old building that had
+been torn down. The old building was reputed
+to be haunted by the former owner, who was
+murdered there. The ghost was very mad
+because B took his lumber, and, in order to be
+revenged, he went with the lumber to the new
+house and haunted that. B says that the ghost
+would appear to him when he was going to sleep
+and jab him in the eye with his finger and seize
+his arm and hurl it against the wall. When
+B was half asleep one night, the ghost appeared
+with a pail of water and threw it all over him.
+The dog could see the ghost even when B could
+not, and would bark and show his teeth and
+propose to fight the phantom. B sold the
+house to some colored folks. They were scared
+white by the skilligin, gave up the property
+and demanded their money back, because the
+ghost was an incumbrance on the estate and
+<span class='pageno' title='83' id='Page_83'></span>a legal defect in title, he being in possession,
+claiming ownership.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>St. Clemens Romanus says that Simon
+Magus (Paul), of the New Testament, could
+make himself invisible when and to whom he
+pleased. He created a man out of air, who
+passed through the rocks and mountains and
+flew along through the air. He threw himself
+from precipices without being injured and
+flung himself into the fire without being burned,
+he animated statues, he walked through the
+streets attended by strange figures, which he
+said were the souls of people departed.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='84' id='Page_84'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XIV.<br /> <br /><b>Witches and Sorcerers.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>“Burn everybody,” the Inquisition seemed
+to say, “God can easily sort out his own.” Poor
+fools, hysterical women and idiots were roasted
+alive for the crime of magic.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Catherine de Medicis, the author of the
+Massacre of St. Bartholomew, had in her service
+an apostate Jacobin priest who was proficient
+in the black art. King Charles lay dangerously
+ill, and Catherine, the queen mother, had everything
+to lose by the death of the King. In her
+anxiety she commanded the priest to inquire
+of the Devil what should be done to save the
+life of the King. The priest, taking with him
+a beautiful child, went into the chapel and
+after administering to the child its first communion,
+decapitated it on the very steps of the
+altar and placed the palpitating head upon the
+paten. Then, standing on a reversed cross,
+he celebrated the Devil’s Mass before an image
+of the Demon, and commanded the Devil to
+answer by the lips of this murdered child the
+question of the Queen. Then a strange voice,
+which had nothing human about it, made itself
+audible in this poor little martyr’s head. But
+the sorcery availed nothing, the King died.—Elephas
+Levi.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Pope Sylvester was publicly accused by
+Cardinal Benno with being a sorcerer and
+enchanter. The brazen oracular head made
+by his Holiness was of the same kind as the one
+fabricated by Albertus Magnus. The latter
+<span class='pageno' title='85' id='Page_85'></span>was smashed to pieces by Thomas Aquinas,
+not because it was the work of or inhabited by
+a demon, but because the spook, that was
+fixed inside by mesmeric power, talked incessantly
+and disturbed the eloquent saint. These
+heads and other talking statues, trophies of
+the magical skill of monks and bishops, were
+fac-similes of the animated gods of the ancient
+temples. It was demonstrated that this Pope
+was constantly attended by demons or spirits.
+Benedict IX, John XX and the VI and VII Gregory
+were all known as magicians. The latter
+Pope, it was said, could shake lightning out
+of his sleeve. In the latter part of the sixteenth
+century there was hardly a parish to be
+found in which the priests did not study magic
+and alchemy. John Reuchlin, father of the Reformation
+and teacher of Luther, was a Kabalist
+and occultist. The occult knowledge gleaned
+by religion from the fat fields of theurgy was
+sedulously guarded for its own use, and it sent
+to the stake only those practitioners who poached
+on its preserves. Between 1580 and 1595 in
+the single province of Lorraine, the President
+Remigius burned nine hundred witches.”—Isis
+Unveiled, 2-57.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The gorgeous standard of the Inquisition
+is represented as waving in the Heavenly breezes
+at the foot of the Great White Throne of the
+Almighty. On its crimson, damask face is the
+cross, the symbol of the Son of God who died
+for mankind, with an olive branch on one side
+and a sword stained to the hilt with human gore
+on the other.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The true origin of the daily accusations
+and death sentences for witchcraft are traced by
+Dr. Soldan, of Stuttgart, to personal, political
+and religious enmities. Prince Bishop, John
+George II, of Bamberg, caused six hundred
+<span class='pageno' title='86' id='Page_86'></span>to be burned for sorcery in five years. The
+petty princes were not unwilling to seize upon
+any pretence to fill their coffers, the persons most
+persecuted being those whose property was a
+matter of consideration.”—Sorcery and Magic,
+2-185. A horse was burnt at the stake in Lisbon
+in 1601 for witchcraft, because it could tell the
+number of spots on a card.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the list of twenty nine burnings, or
+autos da fe, in nineteen months in Germany,
+162 persons were murdered, of whom 28 were
+Protestants, 100 wealthy citizens and 34 little
+children, the youngest an infant. Wright says
+that 27 little girls, from seven to ten years of
+age, were burnt as witches. Lorente, the historian
+of the Inquisition, computes that Torquamada
+in eighteen years burned at the stake 10,220
+persons, and otherwise punished 97,321. In
+Andalusia alone, in a single year, the Inquisition
+sent to the stake 2000 Jews.—Buckle’s Hist.
+Civ. 1-136. “We learn that much money was
+realized by selling to the rich dispensations to
+secure them from the Inquisition.”—Conflict
+Between Religion and Science, 146.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Stevens says: “A monk of St. Anthony,
+having been at Jerusalem, brought home with
+him a bit of the finger of the Holy Ghost, the
+snoot of a seraphim, one of the nails of a cherub,
+one of the ribs of the Word Made Flesh, some
+rays of the Star of the East, and a vial of St.
+Michael’s sweat. Henry III, of England,
+received from the Grand Master of the Templars
+a vial containing some of the blood that Christ
+shed upon the cross, attested by the seal of the
+Patriarch of Jerusalem.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The hand of one of the innocents massacred
+by Herod, although Herod died four years B.
+C., was, in 1837, still preserved in the Convent
+at Bethlehem. There also is the pit in which the
+<span class='pageno' title='87' id='Page_87'></span>bodies of the infants were thrown, and also the
+manger which came down from the constellation
+of the Crab. Some depraved Christian copped
+the stone on which the cock crowed when Peter
+denied his Master, and, in 1837, it was said to be
+in a church in Rome. In the Church of the
+Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, among other
+wonders, is a monument erected over the grave of
+Adam, who never existed, and there is a polished
+marble bathtub or sarcophagus, which they
+claimed was the sepulchre hewn out of the rock.
+See Travels in Holy Land, 2-163.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The fight of the fools and fakirs over the
+location of the grave of a mythical sun-god is
+certainly ludicrous, but more amusing was the
+magic trick of the early Christians who stole
+the grave of Adam either from Hebron or Mecca
+and also swiped the grave of Christ from the
+Damascus Road, north of Jerusalem, and exhibited
+both, with other shell and three-card-monte
+games, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
+in the centre of Jerusalem, for the purpose
+of annexing the coin of the dupes, farmers and
+come-ons from all over the world.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to Tichenor, over three hundred
+years after the crucifixion, St. Helena found the
+true cross, and also dug up the crosses of the
+two thieves, and this lumber was sold for centuries
+to millions of the faithful. Even a splinter
+will save you from Hell and cure you of what
+ails you. And the bones, hair and nails of the
+Apostles have been sold all over the world.
+You could formerly buy a gunnysack full of St.
+Peter’s fingers and toes if you had the necessary
+dough. The people not only worshipped the
+Mother of God, but worshipped St. Ann, the
+Grandmother of God. God came unto Mary
+in the form of Gabriel, and to prove it the monk
+Eiseling exhibited all over Europe a pin-feather
+<span class='pageno' title='88' id='Page_88'></span>from Gabriel’s wing, which he shed at the conference.
+Thorns, from the crown of thorns,
+the blood of Jesus, by the drop or the bottle,
+and the milk of the Holy Virgin were peddled
+out all over the world for centimes.—See Tichenor’s
+Roman Religion.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='89' id='Page_89'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XV.<br /> <br /><b>The Great King Solomon.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>Solomon’s Song is very choice reading and
+would be eminently appropriate to the foulest
+book on earth, the circulation of which would be
+a criminal offense under the law. The Christian
+compilers of the Bible have asserted in the
+headings of the Song that it represents the love
+of Christ and the Church. They were not only
+wilful liars, but foully besmirched their own
+church, for that was about 1200 years before
+their church existed. The whole context shows
+that it has nothing to do with the Christian
+Church, but is evidently the hymn book of the
+church of Ashtoreth, of which Solomon was a
+deacon. Any institution that foists upon the
+world such vile obscenity as the inspired word
+of God, is the Temple of the Devil, the antechamber
+of Hell, an annex of the Witches’
+Sabbath. It should utterly perish from the
+face of the earth. In fact, the die is already
+cast, the handwriting is on the wall, the hand
+of death is on it now.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Solomon was Grand Master of the secret
+societies. Those things that were esoteric or
+secret or occult in magic and religion, claimed
+by the priests to be too sacred for the people,
+were either criminal or too vile to utter. That
+was the only reason for keeping them secret.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Solomon had cheated his brother Adonijah
+out of the throne to which the latter was entitled
+by birth, and Adonijah thought that he
+should at least be allowed to have Abishag, the
+<span class='pageno' title='90' id='Page_90'></span>sixteen-year-old beauty that they had put in
+bed with the dying King David to save his life.
+And he induced Bathsheba, the mother of
+Solomon, to make the request of the king.
+When Solomon had heard the petition of Bathsheba
+he said: “And why dost thou ask Abishag
+for Adonijah, ask for him the kingdom also.”
+Abishag is the only jewel in the Jewish crown,
+the most priceless legacy that King David left.
+A perfect beauty is more to be desired than the
+riches of a kingdom. I will not give her up.
+All the good things in Israel are reserved for the
+king. Then Solomon swore by the Lord saying:
+“God do so to me and more also if Adonijah
+hath not spoken this word against his own
+life. Now therefore as the Lord liveth Adonijah
+shall be put to death this day.” What ho!
+guards, summon Benaiah, Commander of the
+Knights of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When Benaiah appeared, he bowed low before
+the throne, and, raising his right hand,
+made the occult sign of the Witches’ Sabbath.
+Then Solomon said: “Rise, O beloved of the
+king, favorite of the gods of the groves and the
+gardens. The king hath weighty matters to
+communicate to thee. It is reported that
+Adonijah, our brother, hath taken refuge at the
+shrine of that second-rate God Jehovah and
+doth cling to the horns of the altar. And behold
+all of Adonijah’s followers are devotees of
+Jehovah, while all of our partisans and all of
+you whom the king hath deigned to grace with
+official rank are devotees of Baal and Asherah.
+Now the king commandeth that you seek out
+all of those Jehovah worshippers who have
+stood by Adonijah and eliminate them from the
+problem of life. Go in and out among them and
+slay each one your father and your mother,
+your sister and your brother, if so be that they
+<span class='pageno' title='91' id='Page_91'></span>be among the rebels. Relieve them of life’s
+burdens. Do not be harsh with them, show
+them our royal mercy, shove them gently
+through the gates of Hell, cutting them with
+saws and with harrows of iron and with axes,
+emulating the clemency of our royal father, the
+bandit chief. As for Adonijah, fall upon him
+and slay him as he clings to the horns of the
+altar. It is true that the altar of a god is sacred
+ground and a refuge as a general proposition,
+but general propositions do not apply to the
+king, the king is above the law. What do I
+care for these imaginary gods, they are all right
+to scare children with, but they cut no ice with
+your Solomon.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Solomon sat in all his glory upon the great
+throne of ivory and gold, flanked by the twelve
+brazen lions of the zodiac, and the Knights of
+the Mystic Shrine of Asherah in dazzling regalia
+guarded the beloved of the Lord. Around
+the throne, with naked swords and the three
+hundred golden shields, stood the Princes of the
+Tribes of Israel, as the rays of the setting sun,
+reflected from the jeweled walls of cedar and
+gold, bathed in dazzling light the royal panoplies
+of blue and purple and crimson.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>And King Solomon’s sacred, hermaphrodite
+Billygoat, in trappings of purple and gold,
+wearing ribbons on his horns and ribbons on
+his tail, stood beside the golden throne with his
+revered back to the audience in accordance with
+the law in such case made and provided. And
+he informed the King in no uncertain words
+that he did not propose to be the goat any longer,
+that the Knights of the Mystic Shrine of
+Asherah, that had been assigned as priests to
+serve him, one of the highest gods, drank up all
+the wine sacrificed to him, and thus prevented
+him from getting as full as a goat, as required
+<span class='pageno' title='92' id='Page_92'></span>by the tenets of his religion. And further,
+they did not give him exercise enough, they
+called him Baphomet and Devil and other hard
+names and took him up out of the pit for a walk
+around the town only once a month, at dead
+of night, in the dark of the moon, when Hell
+yawns, and the graves give up their dead. Upon
+the conclusion of this divine oration, the whole
+audience crawled on their hands and knees up
+the steps of the golden throne and devoutly
+kissed the back of Baphomet, as we kiss the
+male and female emblems on the Pax.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>This pious ceremony being completed, the
+Great King, raising the royal sceptre, summoned
+to his exalted presence the Commander of
+the Knights of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah
+and said: “While you, Benaiah, my faithful
+servant, go and kill Adonijah, my well beloved
+brother, I will hie me to my devotions, for I
+can see that at the mystic shrine on yonder
+hilltop, the luscious Asherah is yearning for me.
+My adored, my most beautiful, my ravishing
+one stands in the open door of the pagoda, the
+beautiful gate ajar, stands there in all her pristine
+loveliness, a beauty unadorned, young and
+plump and enchanting. See that innocent radiant
+face beaming with loving kindness, perfect
+in every feature, see that form divine, of which
+the gods in Heaven do envy me. She is my
+favorite nun, the incarnation of the Divine
+Asherah, and she is calling me to prayer. See
+her beckoning me over with that sweet hand,
+that angel hand that holds me, the King of the
+Earth and Sea, a willing slave in its gentle grasp.
+She says the door is open wide, and all who will
+may enter in, and no one is denied.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Then while Benaiah slew Adonijah as he
+clung to the horns of the altar, Solomon and his
+court in gorgeous array, decked in purple and
+<span class='pageno' title='93' id='Page_93'></span>fine linen and blazing with jewels rare and gold to
+burn, marched in one grand pageant from the
+house of cedar and gold, out through the Golden
+Gate, to the high place of Asherah. When they
+reached the oval, foliated door between the two
+great pillars of Baal, beneath the blazing, golden
+dome of Asher, supported by the circle of monoliths
+or twelve zodiacal redeemers, they bowed
+low before the open portal and crossed themselves,
+and by thus drawing upon their bodies
+the male symbol, they became themselves male
+emblems and worthy to enter in, and a worthy
+offering to a female divinity.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The dazzling beauty who stood in the door
+of the pagoda then ran and threw herself into
+the arms of the king. He folded her pink and
+white form to his royal breast and impressed
+upon her ruby lips a long and loving caress, saying:
+“My divine one, my goddess, my life, my
+all, God is love, I know, I feel. Thou art the
+only angel e’er worshipped by Solomon the
+Magnificent. Thy lips are like the roses, like
+the sweet-scented, dew-bediamond roses in the
+royal gardens of Judea. Thine eyes are fathomless
+wells of priceless love, at which I drink till
+my soul is drunk and reels in its maddened delirium.
+Thy flesh is like the lilies of the valley,
+pure and white, meet vessel for a soul so true,
+white as the lilies of Asherah, white as the column
+of Baal, indeed so tempting and plump
+and luscious, that in thy divine and radiant
+neck I fain would bite the name of the King of
+the Earth and the Sea.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Solomon offered one thousand burnt offerings
+in the great high place of Gibeon,” a
+brothel, where they worshipped the pillar and
+the grove.—1 Kings: 3-4. “And they set them
+up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill
+and under every green tree.”—2 Kings, 17-10.
+<span class='pageno' title='94' id='Page_94'></span>“Solomon loved the Lord, and the Lord loved
+Solomon.” They formed a mutual admiration
+society, and in Gibeon the Lord said to Solomon:
+“Ask what I shall give thee.” And “Solomon
+built a high place before Jerusalem at the Mount
+of Corruption (Mount of Olives) dedicated to
+Ashtoreth,” now replaced by the Church of the
+Ascension, erected over the footprint made by
+Christ in the rock when he jumped from the
+earth to Alcyone. The Bible says that Ashtoreth
+was the abomination of the Sidonians, but
+it happens that Asher, one of the aliases of the
+Hebrew god, was the husband of Ashtoreth.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The secret and mysterious name of the
+supreme God of the Hebrews, the Ancient of
+Ancients, was Eh Ei Eh, pronounced in three
+breaths, with hand to ear and the name at low
+breath. This is the name that was engraved
+on the great seal of Solomon, wherewith he
+conjured up demons from the abyss, for he
+was a potent wizard. By virtue of this great
+name and by rubbing the seal, Solomon became
+Lord of the Demons, and Beelzebub, at the
+mighty summons, would bob up serenely and
+obey the behests of the king. Solomon soared
+into the celestial altitudes and mastered the
+Divine secrets and learned the omnipotent
+words which constitute all the power of God
+over the demons. He penetrated into the
+remotest haunts of the spirits, whom he bound
+and forced them to obey him by the power of
+his clavicle (Key). He tells in the Key of Solomon
+the true composition of, with directions
+for making the dreadful blasting rod which
+causes the spirits to tremble, and which was
+used by God in driving Adam and Eve out of
+the Garden, and which he also used in casting
+the devils out of Heaven.—Book of Black Magic,
+83.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='95' id='Page_95'></span>Ashmedai, King of the Demons, and a
+great mason, collaborated with Solomon, Hiram
+of Tyre and Hiram Abiff in building the Temple.
+He was the one who fashioned the stones without
+the sound of hammer by means of an insect
+he had, called the Shameer, the same that Moses
+used in cutting the precious stones of the Ephod.
+The spirits evoked by Solomon said that Ashmedai
+had the Shameer, and they gave him the
+location of Ashmedai’s water-hole in the mountains,
+where he went to drink. Benaiah then
+went out and filled the water-hole with liquor
+and laid in wait near by. The demon came and
+drank the liquor, and when he was drunk, Benaiah
+bound him with a ring and a chain, on
+which was the name of God, so that he could
+not break it. Thus Solomon captured the
+demon and compelled him to call up Shameer,
+the insect stone-cutter, and prepare all the
+stones of the Temple.—Talmud Gittin, fol. 68,
+col. 1.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>This jolly quartette of pagan and infernal
+pals, assisted by the masonic bug, in laying the
+foundation of the Temple, seized upon a hewer
+of wood and cut his throat and caught the blood
+in a vessel. After sprinkling the corner stone
+with the blood, they placed the vessel of human
+gore inside the stone and buried the body of the
+human sacrifice beneath it, that his spirit might
+guard the Temple and preserve it as long as
+grass grows and water runs. Then they danced
+around the stone the Dance of Death, or the
+dance of the Maccabees.</p>
+
+<h3 class='c012'>King Solomon’s Signal of Distress.</h3>
+
+<p class='c011'>One day King Solomon, being bored about
+to death, and finding that all was vanity and
+vexation of spirit, wrote to his friend Manus,
+high priest of Baal, something as follows:</p>
+
+<div class='c013'><span class='pageno' title='96' id='Page_96'></span>Jerusalem, 20th Nisan. A. M. 3000.</div>
+<p class='c014'>To His Eminence the High Priest of Baal,
+beloved of the Lord and the Devil, Grand
+High Potentate of the Knights of Kadish,
+Beloved Minister of the Holy of Holies, the
+sacred Grove of Asherah.</p>
+
+<p class='c015'>Behold the Great King Solomon, Lord
+of the Earth and the Sea, Patron of God Almighty,
+Imperial Potentate of the Imperial
+Divan of Ashtoreth, Grand High Mucky-Muck
+and Past Grand Master of the Phallic Cult.</p>
+
+<p class='c015'>Sends Greeting. And doth herein represent
+that he hasn’t a thing in the way of nice girls,
+only but just a thousand old hens that were
+passé in three days after their respective inauspicious
+arrivals, and the heart of the Great
+King doth yearn for a vision of youth and beauty
+from the corn fields of Bethlehem. If thou
+wouldst save the King’s life, get a move on and
+corral a fair virgin, with golden hair and eyes of
+blue, for verily a brunette doth make the King
+tired. The King recommendeth thee to bring
+the fair one to the back door of the palace, at
+the entering-in of the woodshed, for behold the
+thousand old hens have two thousand eyes, and
+each eye is jealous of your unhappy Solomon.
+Verily, they are determined that we shall not
+have a thing that is fresh and fair to look upon.
+They are a lot of old cats, and we pray thee to
+promulgate a feast to Moloch and Baal, and
+announce to the multitude that seven hundred
+back-number princesses and three hundred fat
+old concubines have been devoted, and will
+be passed through the fire to Moloch and Baal,
+and will be basted and roasted to a turn and
+served to the people with the gravy oozing
+out. May the blessings of the Great Gods Ashtoreth,
+Chemoth and Baal be with thee and thine.</p>
+
+<div class='c016'>Yours fraternally,      SOLOMON.</div>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='97' id='Page_97'></span>One night King Solomon, together with his
+two old cronies, Hiram of Tyre and Hiram Abiff,
+went a-hunting in Jerusalem, which at that
+period was a noted sporting resort, abounding in
+all kinds of game. At length they caught a coon
+near the North Gate, at the high place of Asher,
+where were worshipped the images of the male,
+and took her to the king’s palace. She says
+(Sol. Song, 1-4): “The King hath brought me
+into his chambers.” Having reached the King’s
+apartments, Solomon said to Hiram of Tyre:
+“Wouldst thy Majesty kindly rush the duck?
+Thou wilt find the can behind the throne. And
+thou Abiff, wilt thou be so good as to go out in
+the woodshed and play tag with thyself for a
+season and half a season, while I pass the salve to
+this colored lady?”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Having got rid of the crowd, Solomon says:
+“Behold thou art fair my love, thou hast dove’s
+eyes. Thy nose is like unto the Tower of Lebanon
+that looketh toward Damascus, and the
+beautiful hump in the centre thereof is like
+unto that of a camel, that wabbleth ever this
+way and that.” And the buxom nigger wench,
+pouting her ruby, liver lips, replies: “Kiss me
+with the kisses of thy mouth, for thy love is
+better than wine. Because of the savor of thy
+good ointments, which counteract the Jewish
+odor diligently collected since thy last annual
+bath, therefore do the virgins love thee. I am
+black, but comely. I am not a nigger, but only
+tanned. They made me the keeper of vineyards,
+(deleted by the censor). Place thy left
+hand beneath my head, and thy right hand shall
+embrace me, (deleted by the censor). My beloved
+is mine, and I am his, a bundle of myrrh
+is my well-beloved unto me.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>During the tête-à-tête, the captivating
+beauty was absent-mindedly picking the Tower
+<span class='pageno' title='98' id='Page_98'></span>of Lebanon, when Solomon said: “Knowest
+thou not that our laws prohibit the touching of
+the unwashed fingers to the nose, mouth or eyes.
+The Talmud says: ‘The evil spirit Bath
+Chorin rests upon the hands at night and will
+not depart until water is poured upon him three
+times over.’ That fairy tale is for the ignorant
+rabble. You and I have the gnosis. Some of
+the prophets say that the worship of Asherah,
+in which we indulge, is reprehensible, but who
+fashioned the first Grove among us? Ask them
+that.” In Jasher, 27-27, it is said that Abraham
+formed at Beersheba a Grove, and that he practiced
+all kinds of abominations. He gave to his
+seventeen children by Katurah charms by which
+they could exorcise spirits and perform all sorts
+of miracles in the black art.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When King Hiram returned with the booze,
+anticipating a jolly orgy with the wise one, he
+pounded loudly on the door of the King’s chamber.
+Solomon, being busy, petulantly said:
+“Get thee hence Hiram, or I will have the cop
+run thee in.” Then King Hiram was exceeding
+wroth, and threatened to make war on Solomon
+and come up to Jerusalem with one hundred
+thousand warriors and take the fair colored
+charmer away from the seductive Jewish King.
+Then Solomon replied: “Chase thyself back,
+Hiram, to besotted Tyre and make love to that
+great pillar, which, with much pomp and ceremony,
+thou hast recently erected there, and
+which thou dost salute with the holy kiss every
+morning at sunrise.”</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='99' id='Page_99'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XVI.<br /> <br /><b>The Mystic Societies.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>Pope Pius IX was accused of saying: “Damn
+the clandestine societies.” Oh, My! such
+shocking language, and so unjust too, for these
+quasi-religious societies, even like certain churches,
+were anciently faithful devotees of, and expert
+manipulators of the mystic symbols.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Dr. Dalcho, a Masonic writer, asserts:
+“God was the first Grand Master and Adam the
+second.” And Adam initiated Eve into the
+profound and archaic mystery of the square and
+the eye.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It may be interesting to know what they
+did at the Witches’ Sabbath and the meetings
+of the ancient mystic societies. They murdered
+their christ, that is what they did, and the
+Christians have always charged that they offered
+up human sacrifices. I should judge
+from the ritual of the Masons that it originated
+in the sacrifice of a human being, that in ancient
+times human beings were sacrificed in the mystic
+societies, from some of which, perhaps, Masonry
+descended. Here are extracts from an
+old ritual as near as the author can decipher
+them, not guaranteeing that they are correct:</p>
+
+<h3 class='c012'>Opening a Lodge of Entered Apprentices.</h3>
+
+<p class='c011'>Sen. War.: “Brother, the lambskin in all ages
+has been considered an emblem of purity.” This
+lambskin is the skin of the Lamb of God. It is
+worn on the stomach for occult reasons. The female
+emblem, the Eye, is stamped upon it for the
+<span class='pageno' title='100' id='Page_100'></span>same occult reasons. The mystic societies, sun-worshippers
+and Jews were anciently devotees of
+the lamb as well as the cow. They sacrificed him
+and adorned themselves with his skin as a saving
+rite. The Ram is identical with the god Priapus.
+You remember that Saul sent David out to gather
+one hundred Philistine mementos to put in the
+Ark of the Covenant. These mementos and the
+lambskin are of equal efficacy, both being relics of
+the crucifixion.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When christ came in the sign of Capricorn,
+he came as the goat. At the celebration of
+Lupercalia in Rome, they sacrificed the goat
+christ. Two young men are chosen, and the dagger,
+or Signa Tau, or the Mark of the Living God,
+is drawn in blood in their foreheads. Then they
+cut the goatskin into thongs and run about lashing
+all they meet. “The young wives like to be
+lashed, fancying that it will make them fruitful.”
+“The Jews in Jereboam’s time had priests for
+the service of their divinities, the sacred billy-goats.”—Plutarch,
+1-78. The religious sorcerers,
+who sought to invoke demons, formed their magic
+circle with strips of goatskin nailed to the ground
+with four nails from the coffin of a dead child. As
+the circle was made of the skin of christ, the
+demons dare not pass it to attack the sorcerer.
+This is the circle of the Kabalists, of which King
+Solomon was the Most Worshipful, Sublime and
+Exalted Phalatz.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the ritual ascribed to Pope Honorius, the
+method of raising the Devil was by sacrificing
+a black cock, which is an emblem of Christ. The
+eyes, tongue and heart are torn out and burnt
+to ashes. These are religious symbols and
+objects of adoration. The sorcerer also sacrifices
+a lamb, and places the ashes of the eye,
+the tongue and the heart on the lambskin.
+He prays to Jesus that the lambskin, with the
+<span class='pageno' title='101' id='Page_101'></span>signs thereon, may save him from the wiles of
+the demons, that they may be terrified by the
+sight of these figures. This, I think, is the
+origin of the figures on the Mason’s lambskin.
+This ritual provided that the eye, the cross
+and the moon should be drawn on the lambskin.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Fellowcraft degree of the ritual,
+when the candidate has stuck the heel of his
+right foot in the hollow of the left, which is a
+sacred mystic rite that will save your immortal
+soul from Hell, the Sen. War. says: “You will
+now show the Worshipful Master the Degree
+Gag (?) and sign of an Entered Apprentice,
+and when you step forward, place the heel of
+your left foot in the hollow of the right. You
+will now advance with me to the altar. You
+are now to be made a Fellowcraft in due form.
+You will now bare your left foot and side and
+your breast expose. You now receive the
+mark of the square on the breast.” The Tau
+Cross, a symbol of identical significance with
+the square, was used in the Bacchic and Eleusinian
+Mysteries. It was laid upon the breast
+of the initiate to cause him to be born again.
+The square is the Egyptian Ka, the idol worshipped
+by the savages in the temples of darkest
+Africa, and which is also worshipped in the
+Kaaba at Mecca. Ka, Kaaba, abba, father,
+papa and pope all have the same meaning. See
+“Kaaba” Stand. Dic.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the initiation the candidate was allowed
+to play that he was Hiram Abiff. He was
+conducted around the circle of the zodiac from
+one door of the Temple to another and encountered
+three of the beasts of the four cardinal
+points, that is, the gentlemen who played the
+parts of the beasts in the heavenly drama.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>First Right. Master: Hiram, give me the
+sign of a Master Mason.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='102' id='Page_102'></span>Sen. Dea.: Candidate, the sign cannot
+be given except in the presence of three, Solomon,
+King of Israel, Hiram, King of Tyre, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Master: For the second time I demand of
+you the sign of a Master Mason.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sen. Dea.: You cannot have that.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Master: Hiram, for the third and last
+time I demand of you the sign of a Master
+Mason. Give it to me, or I will take your life.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sen. Dea.: You shall not have that (but
+the candidate can have this, and he hits him
+on the head with the 24-inch gauge, in the play,
+as near as I can make out.)</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>At the Second Right, the Master makes
+the same demands.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sen. Dea.: You shall not have that. Blow
+with the square (on the head of the candidate,
+I presume, but as he is still alive, he is conducted
+to the beast at the third door.)</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Third Right: The Master repeats the
+same demands.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sen. Dea.: Lord of Darkness (who is
+about to kill the sun-christ in the west) you
+shall not have that.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Third Right: Damn thee take that, blow
+with gavel on forehead, (and the candidate or
+human sacrifice falls dead, in the play.)</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Second Right: We have slain our Grand
+Master Hiram.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Third Right: What shall we do with the
+body?... Let us carry it a due West
+course from the Temple (because the crucified
+sun is buried in the west) and bury it in a grave
+sunk due East and West.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Master: Brother Sen. War. What is the
+commotion?</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sen. War.: Our Grand Master Hiram is
+assassinated.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Master: How was he assassinated?</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='103' id='Page_103'></span>Sen. War.: By the Brothers at the door of
+the Temple.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Master: Our Grand Master Hiram may
+be ill. You will cause search to be made for him
+in the secret antichambers of the Temple and
+see if he can be found.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sen. War.: Search has been made, Worshipful,
+and he cannot be found.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the Egyptian religion Souphis
+Khunfu Nefer Hept, Lord of the Underworld,
+murdered the Great Architect. The victim,
+whether he be called the Great Architect, or
+Hiram, or Adonis, or Horus, or Christ is always
+and ever the setting sun murdered by the darkness,
+or Prince of Darkness, called Sat in Egypt
+and Satan with us. The sacrifice of Hiram
+Abiff is one form of the Passion Play.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A Masonic society, established in China
+from the earliest times, is called Our Ladyship’s
+Society and the Queen of Heaven Society. In
+the Chinese society the candidate is made to
+pass through the arch of swords. He could not
+be born again or come forth into the light unless
+he passed through the door of life and came
+out of the cave. The Chinese god Fo was born
+of a virgin impregnated by a ray of the sun, as
+shown in Christian pictures of Mary. In the
+Indian Mysteries three hierophants sit in the
+East and the West and the South. After an
+invocation to the sun, the candidate is baptized,
+his shoes taken away from him, and he
+is made to circumnavigate the cavern three
+times with the sun. He is conducted through
+seven dark caverns and assailed by legions of
+hobgoblins. The victim slaughtered is called
+Siva, and the lamentations of Maya for the
+death of Siva correspond to the weeping of Mary
+at the tomb of Christ. The sword was aimed
+at the throat of the candidate by the Evil One,
+<span class='pageno' title='104' id='Page_104'></span>but he was brought forth at last into the light.
+The Eye was marked on his forehead and the
+Tau Cross on his breast. He was presented
+with the sacred girdle or apron, the magical
+stone and the talismanic jewel for the breast.—Isis
+Unveiled.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Mysteries of Aphrodite, a male emblem
+is handed to the initiate, and those initiated
+bring a piece of money to her as her hire.
+Demeter, of the Eleusinian Mysteries, is identical
+with Mary, and Clement says that he knows
+not whether she is the mother or wife of the god
+Zeus or Deus. This god is a serpent. The
+token of the Sabazian Mysteries is this serpent
+god gliding over the human breast. The offspring
+of the rape of Proserpine (Mary) by this
+god was christ, the bull.—Clement 1-29. If
+you wish to know what foul things were kept in
+the Ark of the Covenant, see Clement 1-31.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the Egyptian Book of the
+Dead, in the judgment in Amenti, or the Lower
+World, the deceased or candidate for Heaven is
+given the name of Osiris, and he is tried before
+the supreme god Osiris and forty other deities
+or beasts. An altar stands before the supreme
+god on which is placed the bribes offered by the
+soul to god. The forty-two deities are the
+judges of the forty-two sins. One is called the
+Devourer of Shades, another the Cracker of
+Bones, and another the Eater of Hearts. If the
+soul denies that he has committed the forty-two
+sins, the judges must acquit him, but if he is
+convicted of being a land-grabber, he cannot
+get by, as the priests propose to attend to all
+that business themselves. In the Christian
+Judgment, the judges will be the confessors,
+monks and virgins.—The Elucidarium.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The Buddhist novice, like the Freemasons,
+is forced to bare his shoulder and breast and
+<span class='pageno' title='105' id='Page_105'></span>give up his money and bare his feet, in fact to
+simulate the vows of poverty, chastity and
+obedience of the Buddhist.”—Buddha &amp; Early
+Buddhism, 136.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In Lalita Vistara, Buddha is called the
+Great Physician, and at his appearance the sick
+are healed, the deaf are cured, the blind see. He
+cures by the laying on of hands or mesmerism.
+Akasa, the mesmeric fluid or the astral light,
+and the Spirit of God are one in the East. Buddha
+was born of a virgin, presented in the Temple,
+disputed with the doctors, was tempted in the
+wilderness, passed his life in preaching and
+working miracles, and descended into Hell and
+ascended into Heaven.—Idem, 80.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Heaven was also calmly purloined from
+Buddhism. The Buddhist heaven is the city
+four square of John, with the gates of gold and
+silver, adorned with precious stones. The great
+throne of God stands in the centre thereof by the
+gem lake or crystal sea, by which stands the Tree
+of Life or Tree of Infamy. The Buddhist religion
+is wholly phallic. See Book of All Religions, 86.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If you read the life of Buddha in the Ency.
+Brit. you will find that it is almost identical
+with the life of Christ. In any Chinese store
+you can buy an idol of Buddha, who, like Christ,
+is the god of life, bringing us life and life yet
+more abundantly. He wears a fish skin for a
+miter, showing that he is the fish god, and on
+his divine and radiant forehead is the Eye, and
+on his stomach, between his clasped hands, is the
+sacred Tree of Life. These divine secrets should
+not be disclosed to the uninitiated, but, to tell
+the truth, I am convinced that this is the origin
+of the hermaphrodite abdominal Eye, worn and
+revered by all the great and good men from the
+time our religion found its birth in the foul sties
+of India down to the immortal Washington.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='106' id='Page_106'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XVII.<br /> <br /><b>Revelations.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>If you do not believe that all the beasts of
+the zodiac bear rule in Heaven, read Revelations
+with your eyes open. The Ram is the Grand
+Vizier. The Bull is also there, with eyes before
+and behind, and the Lion and the Man, the
+Waterman, in fact the four beasts of the four
+cardinal points of the zodiac.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Ch. 1, v 7, says: “Behold he cometh with
+clouds.” It is evident from Revelations that
+Christ is one of the seven Buddhas who came at
+the end of each cycle, and the seven were one,
+and that one was the sun in the heavens. Budhi
+means the Word, one of our beloved idols.
+“I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last,”
+that is, he is the same God that came at first as
+Adam and last as the Lamb of God. It is claimed
+that the Revelations were stolen and the
+original was written before the Fish God came.
+In verse 12, John saw seven golden candle-sticks,
+typifying the seven christs or lights of
+the world, “and one of the seven was like unto
+the Son of Man.” The Persian fire god Agni is
+called the Son of Man, and it is claimed that
+John got the Revelations from the Persians.
+In the Clementines St. Clement says: “Christ,
+it is said, has changed his forms and names from
+the beginning of the world.”—Clement, cap. 51.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Verse 18 says: “I am he that liveth and
+was dead,” that is, the sun that was crucified
+annually at the winter solstice, when it stood
+still for three days, or remained in the tomb
+<span class='pageno' title='107' id='Page_107'></span>three days, and was reborn on the 25th of
+December. “And have the keys of death and
+Hell.” The christ that was crucified in the
+west, according to the Egyptian religion, was
+Judge of the Underworld and carried the keys
+and descended into Hell when the sun went
+down. They were the keys of Hell, not Heaven,
+that were transmitted to St. Peter.</p>
+
+<hr class='c017' />
+
+<p class='c009'>Ch. 2, v 7 says: “To him that overcometh
+will I give to eat of the tree of life,” which
+being interpreted means that the successful candidate
+or worthy brother will be permitted to
+eat the male emblem. Verse 17 says: “To
+him that overcometh will I give to eat of the
+hidden manna,” which is a small round cake or
+wafer in the Mithraic Mysteries, representing
+the female emblem. In these Mysteries they
+killed a lamb or bull christ and sprinkled the
+candidate with its blood, as we drink the blood
+of Christ and eat his flesh in the depths of our
+beastial ignorance, superstition and depravity.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“And will give him a white stone, and in
+the stone a new name written, the Word, which
+no man knoweth save him that receiveth it.”
+This stone is the symbol of Siva, and the new
+name is Ling, the secret, the Sanscrit name of
+the Word. St. Clemens says: “It is difficult
+to exhibit the pure and transparent Word to
+swinish hearers. (All are swine except the
+priests and ministers.) For nothing they could
+hear would be more ludicrous to the multitude.
+The truly sacred Word is deposited in the
+shrine (Monstrance). It is improper that these
+emblems should be exposed to those who have
+never been purified in soul. The Mysteries
+were established because it was wise that the
+holy and blessed contemplation of realities
+be concealed.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='108' id='Page_108'></span>In Ch. 4, v 3, the four beasts and the
+four and twenty elders, the angels and saints
+and all the other vermin in Heaven fall down and
+knock their foreheads on the ground, groveling
+in abject baseness, servility and degradation before
+the sardine stone or pillar that sits on the throne
+in the royal arch of the rainbow, and before the
+beast, (the bull). This lovely pillar is worshipped
+throughout India. You will find the above
+scene and this foul worship depicted in Inman’s A.
+P. &amp; M. C. Symbolism, Plate XIX. John has
+set a foul pagan idol on the throne of Heaven.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Ch. 12, v 1. The woman clothed with the
+sun and the moon under her feet, with a crown of
+twelve stars, is Mary, the moon goddess, the wife
+of the sun-god, and the crown of twelve stars are
+the twelve christs that she bore, or that crowned
+her labors in the twelve signs of the zodiac. The
+dragon that waited to devour the child is called
+Herod in the other story of Mary and Jesus. In
+the Hindu myth, from which this is copied, the woman
+fled to the wilderness, as Mary fled to Egypt.
+According to another astronomical legend, when
+the sun-god is born on the 25th of December, old
+King Sagittarius, the Archer or Herod, who lives
+in the next house (November), tries to kill the Son
+of God with the arrow of death.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If you refer to an astronomical chart, you
+will see depicted there all the gods that ever existed.
+In the first sign, Leo, is the Lion of the
+Tribe of Judah, the christ that came in the Golden
+Age, 12,934 years ago, a Jew god, that would not
+do a thing to you but rend you and steal your
+shirt.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the sign of Gemini you see the Twins, or
+Castor and Pollux, or Cain and Abel, or Romulus
+and Remus, or Solomon and Adonijah, or Jacob
+and Esau. Cain has a club in his hand, with
+which he kills his brother god, as Romulus killed
+<span class='pageno' title='109' id='Page_109'></span>Remus and Solomon killed Adonijah. In the
+sign of Taurus, you will see Auriga, a Mystic
+of high degree kissing the goat, and Orion,
+the Lord of Darkness, killing the bull christ.
+And there is the triangle of seven stars that
+Christ held in his hand. This is the solar system
+of the Pleiades, of which the great star Alcyone is
+the sun, and around which the whole universe revolves.
+It is the Kingdom of Heaven and the
+home of god and his sons Jesus and the Devil.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the sign of Aries, you see the Lamb of God
+and the christ Perseus, who has just amputated
+the Medusa’s head and destroyed the serpents of
+which the hair was composed. In the next sign of
+Pisces is the beautiful Andromeda (mother of men),
+or Mary, bearing the fish-god, the Son of Man,
+under her arm, as Isis bears it on her head. In
+the sign of Scorpio, you will see Christ or Orpheus
+overcoming the Great Serpent. And another
+christ, Hercules by name, holds a club in one
+hand and two serpents in the other, to whom, as
+representing the Devil or the infernal god Cerberus,
+he is about to administer, in the classic
+language of modern ministers, a good wallop.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“When the sun shall have passed through the
+sign of Virgo, the Great Cycle of 25,868 years
+will be ended. The sun then enters the sign
+of Leo, and this junction of Virgo and Leo, this
+secret of the Great Cycle, is expressed in the
+Sphinx of Egypt, the woman and the lion conjoined.
+This is the mystery of the ages, the
+pillar on the border of Egypt, which shall be
+for a sign and a testimony.”—Daughter of the
+Druids, 276. It is said that in that great Day
+Draconis will again be the pole star, and the great
+pyramid is so constructed that at the end of the
+Great Year the light from Draconis will again
+shine through the passage in the pyramid that
+<span class='pageno' title='110' id='Page_110'></span>leads to the Bottomless Pit, or the dragon will be
+cast into the Bottomless Pit.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the sign of Virgo is the Virgin Mary, the
+mother of all the gods, and the Great Serpent
+will be seen waiting there for her to deliver
+another god for his consumption. Ch. 5, v 1,
+says that the book was sealed with seven seals,
+corresponding with the seven comings or avatars
+of Christ, when the book was opened or the word
+was preached. When the first seal was opened,
+Christ appeared as Sagittarius, the Archer.
+“And behold a white horse and he that sat on
+him had a bow.” When he had opened the
+third seal, behold a black horse, and he that sat
+thereon had a pair of balances in his hand. This
+is the Christ that came in the sign of Libra or the
+Scales, who weighed them in the balance and
+found them wanting.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Ch. 4, v 6. The four beasts referred to are
+the four hieroglyphic beasts of the priests and
+magicians, which they placed on the playing
+cards of Egypt, the lion, the bull, the man and the
+eagle. They are zodiacal gods and sit in the
+North, the East, the South and the West respectively.
+The churches declare truly that a pack of
+cards is the Devil’s book. Cards were invented by
+the priests, and they are reeking with sacred, occult
+and religious emblems. The pack is composed of
+four sets of ten. Ten is a Kabalistic sacred
+number, for there are ten persons in the Hebrew
+Godhead, and 10 or IO is the name of God. Then
+there are the four beasts or aces, and the Trinity
+is represented by the king, queen, and jack. The
+clubs, or the three sacred balls of the Jews, are the
+symbol of the male god and the Trinity. Any
+deeper meaning can only be disclosed to the initiated.
+The heart is the cup or chalice or Eye of
+Isis, the symbol of love. The queen of hearts is
+clothed with the sun and moon, and she is Mary,
+<span class='pageno' title='111' id='Page_111'></span>the Queen of Heaven. The Queen of spades holds
+in her left hand the sacred candle, and she is
+adorned with another male emblem, the fleur de
+lys, and in her right hand is the flower of Isis, a
+female emblem, the same as the circles and
+rosaries with which she is also decorated. The
+seven circles are the emblems of the seven joys
+that Mary had. The twelve precious stones in
+the jewel on her breast correspond with the twelve
+christs she bore and the twelve jewels in the
+Ephod of the high priest.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The jack of hearts carries the male emblem
+in his hand and the three links are on his belt to
+show that he is an Oddfellow in good standing. The
+jack of spades holds up the three links, and the
+spade itself is a patent, combination, hermaphrodite,
+religious emblem of sufficient magic potency
+to save from the pains of Tophet all who gaze
+upon its sacred and occult form. The king of
+hearts performs the occult and saving rite of
+putting the sword or cross through the crown.
+This crown is adorned with shamrocks, and on
+his coat he wears the seven hearts or chalices.
+He belongs to the zodiacal sign of the Lion, and
+this is the heart sign, and in it is found the constellation
+of the Chalice. And he holds his hand
+on his breast like Buddha to show that he is a
+Mason in due form.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Rev. 7-4. The angel seals in their foreheads
+144,000 Jews with the Signa Tau or Word, the
+signet of the Living God. The devotees of Siva
+also wear this Tree of Infamy on their foreheads.
+John says that it is the Father’s name written
+in the forehead. Only those sealed with this
+Baum Bosheth can sit with Abraham, Isaac and
+Jacob and the other beasts around the Throne.
+All but the 144,000 Jews can go to Hell. The
+priests draw the cross or Signa Tau in ashes on
+<span class='pageno' title='112' id='Page_112'></span>the foreheads of their devotees every Ash Wednesday.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Rev. 16-12. And the sixth angel poured
+out his vial upon the earth, and I saw three unclean
+spirits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of
+the Dragon and out of the mouth of the beast.
+For they are the spirits of devils which go forth
+unto the kings of the earth to gather them to the
+great day of God Almighty. The sixth angel is
+the angel of the sixth sign of the zodiac, our present
+sign, the Waterman, and the nations of the
+earth are now fighting the battles of Armageddon.
+We are now at the end of a Great Cycle. The
+end of the world has come according to the astrological
+and theological fakirs, and the inhabitants
+of the earth are again being destroyed, this time
+by fire and sword. Christ now comes to bring a
+sword upon the earth.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the Christians, all the nations
+engaged in the war, save two, march forth
+under the banner and protection of Jehovah,
+the God of Battles, and he divides himself
+into two persons and, perched upon two
+clouds, commands the two contending hosts,
+urging them on to kill each other. After this
+holocaust of blood and carnage, there will be found
+no fool so utter as to assert that God rules the
+destinies of mankind.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='113' id='Page_113'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XVIII.<br /> <br /><b>The Clergy.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>The Presbyterian clergy or sorcerers of
+Scotland, of old times, claimed that they could
+consign their deluded victims to Heaven or Hell
+by a word, and could by their magic power
+strike with death any enemy of God, that is,
+the clergy. They would not allow anyone to
+remain in town who failed to go and hear their
+sermons. Buckle says the clergy kept the people
+in a worse than Egyptian bondage, inasmuch as
+they enslaved mind as well as body.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“John Knox sanctioned the murder of the
+Roman Archbishop Beaton of Scotland in 1548,
+and shut himself up with the assassins in the
+palace of the Archbishop. When the Catholic
+power was destroyed in Scotland by the nobles
+in 1560 and the church property confiscated by
+them, the Protestant clergy claimed that it was
+impious to secularize ecclesiastical property, and
+that they should be endowed with the spoils of the
+war, that it was right for the Lords to plunder the
+Church of Rome, but the loot should be turned
+over to them. They said that what rightly belonged
+to them was devoured by idle bellies.
+The Presbyterian clergy said that King James
+was a traitor and had seven devils inside of him,
+and he ought to be seized. And their
+associate in crime, the Earl of Gourie, entrapped
+the King into his castle in order to murder
+him.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 2-201.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Presbyterian clergy said that cheerfulness
+was to be guarded against. Smiling, provided
+<span class='pageno' title='114' id='Page_114'></span>it stopped short of laughter, might occasionally
+be allowed, still being a carnal pastime, it was a
+sin to smile on Sunday. A Christian has no
+business with love or sympathy. He has his
+own soul to attend to, that is enough for him.
+On Sunday in particular he must never think of
+benefitting others and thus break the Sabbath.
+On no occasion must food or shelter be given to
+a starving man unless he is a Presbyterian.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“In priest-ridden Spain, Charles V, the tool
+of religion, in his will provided that all heretics
+should be put to death and that the Inquisition
+should be upheld. Under his orders, according
+to Grotius, 100,000 persons were beheaded,
+buried alive and burnt at the stake in the Netherlands.
+Phillip II, of Spain, said it was better
+not to reign at all than to reign over heretics.
+The Duke of Alva, in this reign, boasted that in
+five or six years he had put to death in cold blood
+more than 18,000 heretics, beside a still greater
+number of infidels he had slain on the battlefield.”—Idem
+2-14.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When it was proposed to expel from Spain
+the remnant of Moors remaining, who had
+turned Christians and were baptized by force,
+Bleda, the Dominican, said that every Moor in
+Spain should have his throat cut, because it was
+impossible to tell which of them were Christians
+at heart, but God knew his own and he
+could sort them out. About one million of the
+most industrious inhabitants of Spain were
+hunted out like wild beasts. Many were slain
+as they approached the coast, others were beaten
+and plundered, and the majority in the most
+wretched plight sailed for Africa. During the
+passage the crew in many of the ships butchered
+the men, ravished the women and threw the
+children into the sea. From this time Spain
+began to degenerate. The tyranny of religion
+<span class='pageno' title='115' id='Page_115'></span>was supreme. While every other country was
+advancing, Spain, numbed into a death-like
+torpor, spell-bound and entranced by the accursed
+superstition, presented to Europe a solitary
+instance of constant decay.“—Idem, 2-53.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The French Revolution freed the world
+from ecclesiastical tyranny and opened an unobstructed
+path to Napoleon, who had given
+the death blow to the Inquisition, the great
+slaughter house, where they butchered in the
+name of the Lamb.”—Isis Unveiled, 2-22.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Brahmins, the clergy of India, were
+quite as disreputable as the others. The Institutes
+of Manu provided that if a common
+person molested a Brahmin, he was to be put to
+death. If he sat on the same carpet with a
+Brahmin, he was to be maimed for life. If he
+listened to the reading of the sacred books, burning
+oil was to be poured into his ears, and if he
+committed them to memory, he was to be killed.
+If he spoke disrespectfully of a Brahmin, an iron
+stile ten fingers long was to be thrust red-hot
+into his mouth. To give to the Brahmins or
+will them your property was an act of the highest
+piety.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The laws of the clergy in certain provinces
+of France, ruled by them in old times, provided
+that every man that died without bequeathing
+part of his estate to the church, should be deprived
+of the Sacrament (and would consequently
+go to Hell). If he died without making a
+will, his relatives were obliged to prevail upon
+the Bishop to appoint arbitrators to determine
+what sum the deceased should have given to
+the church in case he had made a will. At one
+time in France, “married couples could not sleep
+together the first three nights without purchasing
+leave of the church.”—Montesquieu’s Spirit
+of the Laws, 665.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='116' id='Page_116'></span>“Pope John XII was assassinated in the
+arms of his mistress. Crecentious, the illegitimate
+son of John X, caused Benedict VI
+to be murdered. His faction elected Boniface
+VII, and a third faction elected John XV, who
+was put to death by Boniface. We find shortly
+after 1044 Benedict IX, a boy of twelve, and
+Rholeme and Sylvester III all reigning at the
+same time, and all leading the most profligate
+and scandalous lives.”—Doubts of Infidels, 95.
+Bishop Hopkins says that “the great body of
+the clergy before the seventh century were
+steeped in licentiousness, avarice, simony, cruelty,
+violence and blood. They consecrated every
+vice in the interest of so-called religion, they
+graduated sins by pecuniary amercement, they
+commissioned assassins, having pardoned them
+before the commission of the murder.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The priests or Magi of Persia, as ecclesiastical
+bandits, were unexcelled. The people had
+to give up one tenth of their income to these
+magical fakirs. Every woman in Babylon was
+obliged to offer her person for sale one day in the
+year at the temple of Astarte, and the money
+went to the priests. The pirates of Babylon
+ransacked the world and bought or stole the
+most beautiful women on earth for the use of the
+priests, who made a pretence of offering them up
+as human sacrifices to Baal. The god held in his
+hand the appropriate symbol of the traffic, the
+circle and the pillar, that may still be seen in nearly
+all churches. The beautiful sacrifice was placed
+on the lap of the god in the presence of the audience,
+to be devoured by the lions that surrounded
+the god. But after the meeting the priests drove
+the lions out and stole the sacrifice, as priests
+always did steal the offerings from god.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Egyptian priests were the rulers of the
+whole, and owned one third the land of Egypt.
+<span class='pageno' title='117' id='Page_117'></span>Besides the princely revenue from this immense
+landed estate, they received, in addition to their
+salaries, all the offerings and sacrifices that the
+fools gave up as an atonement for sin. A very
+large part of their income was derived from the
+Bethel or Brothel maintained around the temple
+of the goddess Hathor, the cow, the wife of the
+god Ammon, which is another name for the Ram
+god or the lamb of god. Every woman in Egypt
+was obliged to sell herself for one month at this
+temple. And then, besides, there were the
+regular sacred ladies who lived constantly in the
+temple. The priests chose the most beautiful,
+then the remainder were turned over to the mob
+of pious dupes and devotees. The young lady
+who earned the most money for the priests
+was, in the after life, assigned by Osiris, alias
+Yahvah, to a seat beside the Golden Throne.
+This rotten pagan church subsequently changed
+its name to Christian.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Calvin, the blood-drenched, the fiend incarnate,
+one of the founders of the Protestant
+Churches, compelled his lady parishioners to
+confess on the rack their indiscretions, and then
+threw them naked into the lake and drowned
+them. He hanged a child for cursing its parents,
+burned old women as witches, and burned alive
+Michael Servetus for contradicting Moses in
+asserting that Palestine was a desert that did
+not flow with milk and honey. Calvin died in
+convulsions of fear, raving and cursing because
+he thought he was going to Hell.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Oliver Cromwell, the pious Puritan, the
+murder demon, the regicide, the usurper, with
+the Bible in one hand and the sword in the other,
+rode at the head of his army of religious fanatics
+singing psalms. This sanctified Christian, upon
+the capture of Drogheda, Ireland, himself reported
+to Parliament that he massacred two thousand
+<span class='pageno' title='118' id='Page_118'></span>of the garrison. He fired St. Peter’s
+Church, to which the people had fled, and put
+a thousand of them to the sword. All the friars
+were killed but two. And the likes of him settled
+Boston and robbed and murdered the Indians.
+One of these Puritan buccaneers, named Will
+Bartlett, in Boston, in 1637, was sentenced
+to be set in the stocks, with his tongue in a cleft
+stick, because he got drunk and cussed and swore
+and refused to go to church on Sunday.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In those blithesome days a citizen could not
+vote unless he belonged to the Congregational
+Church and kissed the big toe of Cotton Mather,
+the superstitious bigot, the Prosecutor of the New
+England Protestant Inquisition. Ridpath says
+that Mather was chiefly responsible for the
+horrors and crimes of the Salem Witchcraft,
+and that this massacre, torture and imprisonment
+of 263 innocent persons was started by a Salem
+minister for the purpose of revenging himself
+upon those of his flock who antagonized him.—Ridpath’s
+Hist. of U. S. 131. The Quakers
+were perhaps the only decent body of Christians
+up to that time, and for that reason the Puritan
+pirates and slave-dealers hung four of them, one
+woman and three men, on Boston Common.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Infuse a few different kinds of religious
+poison into a community of human beings, and
+they hate each other like tigers. Religious
+creeds have a worse effect on a man than booze.
+You can work the booze out of your system and
+quit the stuff, but when a victim is loaded up on
+some rotten brand of orthodoxy, it is hard to do
+anything with him. A Protestant will damn the
+Catholics, and a Catholic will yell ‘To Hell with
+the Protestants,’ and both will hate the Jews.”—Roman
+Religion, 27.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The churches have soaked the earth with the
+blood of their countless victims. Frederick, the
+<span class='pageno' title='119' id='Page_119'></span>Emperor of Germany, sentenced heretics of all
+descriptions alive to the flames. Sixty thousand
+heretics were slaughtered in the city of Beziers.
+Seventy thousand Huguenots were put to death
+in France. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew
+began at midnight, Aug. 23, 1572, and the carnival
+of death lasted seven days. Medals commemorating
+the holy event were distributed
+among the loyal butchers.—Roman Religion, 35.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“When the Crusaders took Jerusalem from
+the Moslems in 969 A. D., they massacred all
+the Mussulmans and burned the Jews alive.
+Seventy thousand persons were put to death in
+a week to attest the superior morality of the
+Christians.”—Boston Sun. American.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Dr. Fernald says that Sultan Bejazet wrote
+to Pope Alexander VI that he would give him
+300,000 ducats, several cities and the shirt of
+Jesus Christ if His Holiness would kill Zimzim,
+the brother of the Sultan, “and you Most Illustrious
+Lord will not commit a crime, since by
+your religion Christians are ordered to exterminate
+heretics and infidels.” The Ency. Brit. says
+that “the unfortunate prince was murdered by
+Alexander, who received 300,000 ducats as the reward
+of the crime.” Zimzim was held captive by
+certain bandits in Rhodes, a Commandery of the
+Knights of St. John, a Christian organization
+under the domination of Alexander. Alexander
+was a Borgia, whose children were all illegitimate.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='120' id='Page_120'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XIX.<br /> <br /><b>The Bible.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>As the Old Testament was originally written
+without vowels, the Lord only knows what
+it meant. The best the copyists could do was
+to make a good guess at the meaning, or supply
+whatever vowels suited their purposes.—See
+Ency. Brit. 3-64.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Moses was a magician, a thief and a murderer
+according to the Bible, a fakir who foisted upon
+the Hebrews a magnificent system of priestly
+plunder. In pursuance of Moses pretence that
+the world was created in six days, and that their
+god El or Bel or Baal rested on the seventh, he
+commanded the people to refrain from labor on
+that day and go to church, so that he would have
+frequent opportunities to pick their pockets. The
+story of Moses’ birth and secretion in an ark
+of bulrushes was taken from the Babylonians,
+where it was applied to King Sargon, according
+to tablets excavated at Babylon.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The great, learned and profound Irenaeus
+says that there must be four gospels because there
+are four winds of heaven. This is a fair sample
+of the logic of theologians. The fact is, there
+are four gospels because those four jumped from
+the floor onto the table at the council of Nice.
+There was at that time so much doubt as to what
+alleged sacred writings were inspired by God, that
+the delegates put them all together under the
+communion table one night at the close of the
+session, and agreed that those that got up on top
+of the table during the night should be considered
+<span class='pageno' title='121' id='Page_121'></span>as inspired, and those that were too weak to get
+up on the table should be stamped as the work of
+the Devil.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Many of the bishops in these councils
+were ruffians and were followed by crowds of
+vicious supporters, who stood ready on the
+slightest excuse to maim and kill their opponents.”—Keeler’s
+Hist. of the Bible. Tichenor says that
+“they decided all holy questions by a vote or a
+knock-down fight. It is doubtful if any of them
+drew a sober breath during the entire proceedings.”
+Millman says that “they fought in the
+streets and much blood was shed.”—Millman’s
+Hist. Christianity. “What these drunken, fighting,
+ignorant, pagan priests declared to be received
+from God, that is what is taught as Divine to-day.
+To this day they cram their abominable
+lies of devils and damnation into the brains of
+little children. The miserable, crazy creeds of
+Christendom were concocted by these brawling
+pagan priests, and their poison still pollutes the
+souls of men. Fire all the gods of all the creeds
+into the melting pot, and out comes the brazen
+face of Mammon.”—Tichenor.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Another reason why there are four gospels,
+according to Irenaeus, was because the Cherubim
+had four faces. But he thus calls attention to
+the fact that Christianity was spawned in the
+sties of paganism, as the Jews took the four beasts
+of the Cherubim, the bull, the lion, the eagle and
+the man, from the idolatrous Babylonians. And
+the four Evangelists adopted the four beasts as
+their totems and placed their beastly images on
+the four gospels. The Maya Indians and the
+Mexicans worshipped the same four idols of the
+four quarters of the heavens.—Ency. Brit. 12-823.
+The priests of the Ojibways wear the horns of the
+bull and sacrifice to the dragon or great serpent
+(Mary) that wears on its head the crescent moon.
+<span class='pageno' title='122' id='Page_122'></span>They also worship the eagle and the Tree of Life.
+The Ojibway picture writing shows that the
+Indian Adam and Eve had the same disgraceful
+scandal in the garden of Eden. See “Indians,”
+Ency. Americana.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It is claimed that Apollonius of Tyana
+(alleged to be the original of Paul and Christ)
+came through a medium and said: “Nine epistles
+were made a present to me by Pharaotes, a
+Satrap of Taxila, between Babylon and India.
+These epistles contained all that is embraced
+in the present epistles claimed to have been
+written by Paul. Further, I retired to the Isle
+of Patmos in 69 and 70 A. D. and wrote in a
+trance state an almost identical story with that
+attributed to St. John. The Christian Gospels
+were all preached by me at Jerusalem, Ephesus,
+Philippi, Rome, Antioch, Alexandria and Babylon,
+and in all those countries I healed the sick, cured
+the blind and raised the dead. The original
+of the four gospels I obtained at Singapore.
+They treated of the four stages of the life of
+Buddha.”—Antiquity Unveiled, 21.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Moses and God were mad at the Midianites
+because the Jews had entered into the tents
+of the Midianite ladies and worshipped Baal
+Poer, from which ensued a plague among the
+Congregation of the Lord. Num. 31-18. And
+they warred against the Midianites, as the
+Lord commanded, and slew all the males and
+took all the women and children captive. Moses
+was wroth because they had saved all the women
+and children, and ordered all the males among
+the children to be killed and all the females to
+be turned over to the soldiers for outrage. And
+he ordered all the women murdered except the
+virgins, of whom 16,000 went to the soldiers
+and 16,000 to the people, but the soldiers and
+the people were compelled to pay of these into
+<span class='pageno' title='123' id='Page_123'></span>the storehouse of the Lord 3200 in tithes. “And
+the priests laid with the virgins at the door of
+the Tabernacle.” Such a monstrosity of iniquity,
+such a fiend incarnate from the shades
+of Hell is the senior member of the firm of Moses
+and the Lamb.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The history of Moses is copied from the
+history of Bacchus, who was called Mises by
+the Egyptians. Like Moses, Bacchus was born
+in Egypt, he sojourned on Mt. Sinai, he passed
+through the Red Sea on dry land, he was a
+lawgiver and wrote the laws on two tables, he
+was found in a box that floated on the water,
+he smote a rock and wine gushed forth, and
+Bacchus was worshipped and these deeds of
+his sung in Egypt, Phenicia, Syria, Arabia and
+Greece before Abraham’s day.—Doubts of Infidels,
+31.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The account of creation as given in the Bible
+has been found on tablets in the ruins of Nineveh,
+written in a language that was dead and buried
+before the Jews ever existed. In this Persian
+cosmogony the name of the first man was
+Adomah, and of the woman Hevah.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Greeks said miracles for fools. Paul
+boasts of lying for the glory of God and catching
+converts with guile. Chrysostom said: “Great
+is the force of deceit.” St. Hermas, an Apostolic
+Father, said that he always lived in dissimulation
+and affirmed a lie for truth to all men.—
+Doubts of Infidels, 78.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>You will see that the Bible is dedicated to
+King James, and that he is canonized in the
+dedication, probably because he kept fifty mistresses
+and was in the habit of becoming beastly
+intoxicated without provocation.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The only real revelations received by the
+priests and prophets of any religion were spirit
+messages, and the Lord only knows whether
+<span class='pageno' title='124' id='Page_124'></span>these were from God or the Devil, from good or
+bad spirits. In fact it is claimed by some spiritualists
+that all the good spirits are in Heaven
+with God and can’t get out. In other words, they
+are in limbo, while those that were not so good
+are at liberty to visit the loved spots and fond
+friends of earth and indulge on the astral in their
+favorite pastimes, whether it be a prayer meeting
+or a poker game. This is purgatory, the next
+story above Hell, which is the earth.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Gibbon said that Eusebius was a consummate
+liar. The Gospel of Matthew and the Epistle
+to the Hebrews were his work, taken from the
+lives of Christna and Apollonius and the records
+of the Essenes and some of the Jewish and
+Phenician legends.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A Coptic version of the life of Apollonius
+in the possession of the monks of Seville, Spain,
+about 1458, was placed in the hands of Juan
+Hermonez for translation. In the margin was a
+Latin translation, in which the name of Apollonius
+had been changed to John among many other
+falsifications. The Latin translation was almost
+identical with the Gospel of St. John. When
+Hermonez called the attention of the Superior
+to these changes, he was seized and thrown into
+a dungeon, in which he was allowed to starve and
+rot.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Bible has been too much neglected, due,
+no doubt, to the general impression that, being
+religious, it must be dry. Far from it. For
+instance: Elohim, the gods, made the light and
+days and nights four days before they made
+the sun. They made a firmament, probably of
+metal, to divide the ocean above from the ocean
+below, and had windows in it, so that they could
+open them and drown the inhabitants of the earth
+whenever they got drunk and needed a little
+diversion. And they stuck the sun, moon and
+<span class='pageno' title='125' id='Page_125'></span>stars in the metal firmament, which revolved
+around the earth.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When the serpent was not working, he was
+coiled around the Tree of Life telling Eve in
+snake language what luscious fruit the tree bore.
+For this interference with the plans of the
+gods, they made the serpent crawl on his belly.
+He had been crawling on his back.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Moses and his first assistant fakir, Aaron, destroyed
+all the horses and cattle in Egypt by a
+murrain, and then, as Pharaoh still had a stiff
+neck, they destroyed them all again by hail. Then,
+as Pharaoh still had trouble with his neck, they
+killed all the first-born of Egypt, both men and
+cattle. Then the Israelites fled, and Pharaoh
+hitched up his horses, that had been killed three
+times, to his six hundred chariots and pursued
+the chosen of God, who had pinched all the
+jewelry of the Egyptians. The Bible is full of
+these delightful stories from beginning to end.
+If you have conscientious scruples against reading
+the Bible, you will find them attractively
+set forth in Le Brun’s Doubts of Infidels.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='126' id='Page_126'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XX.<br /> <br /><b>Heaven.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c002'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'>The Lord doeth all things well.</div>
+      <div class='line'>He consigns the Jews to Heaven,</div>
+      <div class='line'>And all the rest to Hell.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>There are forty nine heavens to which we ordinary
+mortals may attain, so you needn’t worry.
+Besides, there are certain aristocratic heavens
+reserved for the great and good men of high
+spirituality, such as Moses, the fakir, thief and
+murderer, and David, the bandit, outlaw and
+assassin, and Solomon, the fratricide, Mormon
+and pillar of Ashtoreth, and all the popes, bishops,
+priests and ministers. We will each go to that
+place we like the best, and to which we are fitted
+by our vibration. Some of us, like certain ministers,
+will go to that heaven where the beautiful
+fairies are. The ancient Jews will have a little
+heaven of their own, where they can worship the
+three balls and the ass-headed god and the god
+with whiskers on, and where they will have a
+chance to cop the golden paving stones, and sell
+corner lots, and insure their palace not made
+with hands eternal in the heavens.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>And the ancient Scotch Presbyterian will
+walk the golden streets with his savage, gore-imbued
+devil-god, in his paradise overlooking
+the abyss of Hell, where he can gloat over the
+souls in torment, as they rise up out of the
+Bottomless Pit every thousand years, each one
+fastened by his tongue to a hook on an endless
+chain, which rises from such a fathomless depth
+of hellfire that it takes the victim a thousand
+<span class='pageno' title='127' id='Page_127'></span>years to make the circuit. It is claimed that
+these heavens and hells are built up from the
+astral substance by the imaginative power of the
+minds of the different religious sects.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>This region contains all the heavens that
+have ever been dreamed of in theology, each
+filled with the devotees of the various creeds.
+Each of the great religions has its own particular
+region in which its disciples gather, worship and
+rejoice. In each region the religious soul finds
+just what he had expected and hoped to find
+on the other shore. You may even see the golden
+crowns, harps and stiff halos in some cases and
+hear the eternal chant of praise. These heavens
+are not eternal. Everything on the astral plane
+is subject to change like all other matter. Even
+the religious progress and change their opinions.—Astral
+World, 70.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The occultists do not, as a rule, disclose the
+process by which you may see the astral visions
+and pass out of the physical and journey in the
+astral body. But this is one way to see the
+pictures in the astral light: Between sleeping
+and waking, in the neutral state of Jagrata, when
+the eyes are closed and a numbness falls upon the
+body, and you experience a floating sensation,
+take note of the visions that appear to you, if
+any, and then by your will power impress them
+upon physical brain, so that you may remember
+them. These visions may be pictures on the
+astral light or scenes on the astral plane, but
+whatever they are, some of them prove to be
+true prophetic visions.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>One occult teacher advised those who wished
+to induce trance to go into the silence, that is, to
+go into a room by yourself, where you will not
+be disturbed, and lie down and completely relax
+the muscles and think of nothing at all. The
+Hindus say fix your mind on your navel, but some
+<span class='pageno' title='128' id='Page_128'></span>fix their gaze on a crystal. You will see the
+visions when you doze off, if you can get them
+at all.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When you are in the astral body it is possible
+to remember the experiences of your previous
+lives, that is, the lives of your ancestors. In the
+physical body heredity and memory are stored in
+the cromatin or brain matter of all the millions of
+cells of the body. The human astral body is made
+up of the astral bodies of all the cells. It is
+possible that memory is inherent in the astral
+matter of all the cells, and that in the astral we
+are more in rapport with the cells than in the
+physical.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the lowest astral plane next to the earth,
+it is said, is the region where the astral shells or
+corpses disintegrate, an arm sloughing off here, a
+leg there, and a head elsewhere. It is claimed
+that the spirits have deserted these shells. If
+you should happen to meet one of these ghosts
+walking in a graveyard without any legs or without
+any head, it may scare you into a fit, but it
+will not do you any harm, for it is dead. Then
+there are certain spectres or phantoms whose
+company is very undesirable when you take a
+lonely walk in the ghoul-haunted woodlands.
+These elemental spirits like to play practical
+jokes and have a little fun with you, but they
+will not do you any harm, unless you are sufficiently
+weak to allow them to obsess you. Cast
+out fear, cultivate a strong will, and be, like
+Solomon, the master of demons and men.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“There are certain entities or beings in the
+astral world which never were human and never
+will be, for they belong to an entirely different
+order of nature. They are fairies, satyrs, imps
+and goblins. At spiritual seances they sometimes
+play elfish pranks. They seem to be
+particularly apt to play tricks on neophytes in
+<span class='pageno' title='129' id='Page_129'></span>psychic research who seek to penetrate the
+astral without proper instruction. To such a
+one they appear as hideous forms, monsters
+&amp;c.”—Astral World, 92.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Some of the elementals are electric spirits
+and confer upon the medium the power of
+magnetic healing. The medium, upon the approach
+of the spirit, is charged with electricity.
+The spirit may appear as a bird with a human
+face and a parrot’s bill and sharp, black eyes
+and body covered with hair, and deliver messages
+which can be heard clairaudiently by the
+medium. That reminds us of the claim of
+Mahomet that a little bird stood on his shoulder
+and whispered the laws of the Koran in his
+ear. They are certainly the Devil’s own laws.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Many of the angels on the astral and the
+ghosts that haunt houses are thought forms
+created by the people who imagine them, and
+obtain all their apparent mind from the action
+of the thought force of their creators. Repeated
+thought and repeated belief will serve
+to keep alive and strengthen these entities,
+otherwise they will disappear in time. Many
+supernatural visitors, saints and semi-divine
+beings of all religions have been formed in this
+way. The power of the devils arise in the
+same way.”—Idem.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the Theosophists man has
+two souls, the animal and the spiritual, and at
+death the animal soul or spook, together with
+the spiritual soul, passes to that part of the
+astral called Kamaloka, or place of spooks,
+the lowest plane. But the spirit soon deserts
+the spook and leaves it to meet its just reward
+in the second death, because on earth it desired
+too much of carnal pleasures. The spooks
+retain all the impressions accumulated in the
+earth life and can communicate with mortals
+<span class='pageno' title='130' id='Page_130'></span>through mediums. Among these are the demons
+that obsess human beings. The spiritual soul
+passes on to Devachan, or the house of gods,
+which evidently includes those astral planes
+where the religious grovel before their various
+imaginary idols. See “What is Theosophy,” 46.
+This alleged spiritual soul, that deserts its
+brother soul in the depths of Hell, receives its
+due reward, for in the sub-heaven to which
+it goes, it has no memory of the earth life,
+consequently it is not immortal, and it is in
+jail and cannot get out. It would be better
+to stay in Hell with the spook, for it could have
+more fun haunting houses than worshipping
+imaginary gods with a lot of stiff-necked orthodox
+hypocrites.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In Ceylon they have twenty six heavens,
+and at the end of the world period they kill
+off all the spirits in all these heavens except
+those in the five upper spheres, the four highest
+of which are Nirvana.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>You need not think that because you go
+across that you will have surcease from sorrow.
+It is only in the highest heavens that they have
+no sorrow, and that is because they don’t know
+anything. You cannot obtain happiness here
+or hereafter by purchasing absolution from any
+fakir, but only by doing to others as you would
+be done by. The astral planes of the Spiritualists
+in which the soul may advance, improve and
+ultimately attain to the highest heaven, corresponds
+with Purgatory, that superlative graft
+of religion. You can be prayed out of this
+limbo, if your relatives are willing to put up
+the stuff, otherwise you will be shoveled down
+into Hell. But a cheaper way is to have a
+Hindu prayer wheel. I am going to devote
+the immense revenues which I shall receive from
+this pious work to the construction of prayer
+<span class='pageno' title='131' id='Page_131'></span>wheels, which will be placed at street corners
+on all the highways and byways, so that even
+he who runs can turn the wheel and bring around
+to the open slot, so that God can see it, one of
+the many prayers printed on the wheel, for
+instance: “O, God, save my mother-in-law from
+Hell.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the coma, between sleeping and waking,
+the gates of the astral world are sometimes
+opened, and you can see the ghosts on the astral
+plane, great throngs of spirits, having no indication
+of piety, all busily engaged in their favorite
+occupations or sports. If in this state of Jagrata
+you happen to float into a graveyard, you will
+see the ghosts lying or sitting on their graves
+or pacing up and down beside them with bowed
+heads and in deep thought, trying to figure
+out how they got there and where they are
+going. See Seership, 179.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It is said that two persons can exchange
+bodies if they wish. Or if someone else has a
+better body than you have, and you wish to
+steal it, invite him to take a trip with you in
+his astral body on the astral plane. All the
+time keep commanding your astral body, sotto
+voce, to enter into his body, and when his
+astral body has emerged, prepared to take a
+trip with you in spook-land, that is the instant
+for your astral body to take possession of his
+physical body and leave his astral body out
+in the cold. But be careful to back into his
+body, for if your astral body enters his physical
+body face to face, you will be in wrong end to
+and will be crazy as a loon. Now there is no
+place for the other astral body to go except
+into your abandoned physical body, and as
+you are a wicked robber who just stole a house,
+he will probably hesitate about entering the
+body of such a person, and if he delays too long,
+<span class='pageno' title='132' id='Page_132'></span>he will be a lost spook, condemned to wander
+forever in the land of shades.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Do not allow them to palm off any gods
+upon you. Do not allow anyone to assume
+authority over you. I charge you to teach
+your descendants these things from father to
+son, down through the clanging corridors of
+time, down through the endless vista of eternity.
+There is nothing but matter in the universe,
+and all matter is equal. This being so, all
+forms produced therefrom, whether visible or
+invisible, must be equal, and one form has no
+right to assume authority over another. All
+beings are composed of matter, be they gods or
+be they worms, and no one mass of matter is
+superior to another or worthy of worship. The
+worm that crawls the earth is the equal of the
+king that sits upon a throne. Never bow the
+knee to anything that walks or swims or flies,
+that lives in the flesh or that exists only in the
+diseased imagination of depraved religious fanatics.
+Remember this: There is none greater
+than you in Heaven or Earth or Hell.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='133' id='Page_133'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>THE DEVIL’S HALF ACRE.<br />By Willard Bartlett.<br /><i>From the Beacon.</i></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>In rummaging through the attic of an old
+wraith-haunted, country house, I discovered
+a course of lessons in Yogi Philosophy. These
+lessons I devoured with avidity, and practiced
+with assiduity the occult rites, until I could
+readily pass into the silence and project my astral
+body or ghost to any desired place. In fact the
+unruly ghost would sometimes quit the body
+without my consent and leave me stranded high
+and dry without any soul.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>One night while I lay sleeping, my astral
+body left the physical and sped through the air, as
+it had a very bad habit of doing, to Hapenny, the
+very last place on earth, the place manufactured
+by the Devil out of scraps and old junk, which he
+had left over after building Hell. But my perverted
+soul always insisted on going there whenever
+it succeeded in bursting through the carnal and
+beating down its being’s door.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The soul atom or Ego is said to be located in
+the Medulla Oblongata. If the soul is immortal,
+it is probably an electron. An atom is said to be
+composed of ions or electrons, and probably is
+subject to dissolution, and consequently not immortal.
+But as no one ever saw an atom or electron
+on account of their extreme minuteness, for
+the purpose of this veracious story, we will call
+the soul an atom and play it is eternal. An
+atom is a vortex ring of ether in a constant state
+of vibration, and assumed to resemble in form a
+<span class='pageno' title='134' id='Page_134'></span>ring of smoke. Some of the Hindus claim that
+a Purusha or soul from the countless spirit ions
+constituting the spirit principle of the universe,
+the akasa or astral light, becoming involved in the
+ether, originates the vortex movement by which
+the atom is produced. The ether is the ultimate
+refinement of matter, a body of extreme tenuity
+that pervades the whole universe and permeates
+all grosser bodies. By the waves of this ether all
+the vibrations of light, heat, sound, energy,
+electricity and life are transmitted.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The electron is an extremely minute corpuscle
+or particle endowed with life, mind and energy.
+A thousand electrons, more or less, revolve in the
+atom at a terrific rate around a central sun, thus
+resembling the solar system. This central sun is a
+male or positive electron, and all those revolving
+about it are females or negative electrons and
+constitute the harem of the central sun, thus
+establishing polygamy at the very basis of life.
+Our solar system is an atom in a great cosmic
+animal or god called Pan, the all-god.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In my nocturnal journeys, I thought I was
+clothed in the carnal body, but as I was
+transported through the air, I must necessarily
+conclude that I traveled in the astral
+body and on the astral plane, in which astral
+bodies move about and ghosts manifest, together
+with doubles, wraiths, hobgoblins and dopplegangers,
+to which latter class I belonged. The
+astral body, one of the bodies of the soul, is composed
+of fine, ethereal matter, and in form is a
+duplicate of the human body. It is claimed
+that this body persists for some time after death,
+but eventually disintegrates.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Many a night I have been there in Hapenny
+when the body lay many miles away. These were
+not ordinary dreams. I was actually there, that
+is, I being in the soul atom or astral body. One
+<span class='pageno' title='135' id='Page_135'></span>night I was conducted through a new manufactory
+there, which I had never seen with the mortal
+eyes and never knew existed. But the next time
+I went there in the body, I found the building
+just as I had seen it in the vision.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The favorite outing place of my doppleganger
+is the Devil’s Half Acre, or Murderer’s Paradise.
+It always flies to that obsessed and
+accursed spot hard by the gates of Tophet, close
+round the hinges of Hell. Traveling in the astral
+body, I can see both the quick and the dead, but
+as I am always out there at night, the live ones
+are asleep, and only the spooks are abroad, prowling
+hither and yon in the moon’s pale rays, visiting
+again, like myself, the scenes of former crimes.
+These are earth-bound spirits who, during life,
+lived out a low, degraded existence, and they are
+bound by their own desires and the vibration of
+their astral bodies to these astral slums. I stood
+out on the old road in front of the dilapidated
+shack formerly occupied by a gun-fighter, and
+watched the astral bodies as they glided to and
+fro in the air.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>There was Mr. B. with a red gash from ear
+to ear and a crimson stream of blood running down
+over the white, astral, vapor-like body. Around
+the body was the aura, a cloudy vapor extending
+outward to a distance of two or three feet in the
+shape of an egg, an emanation of a dark and
+dismal color, corresponding to his dark and dismal
+career. It was in back of that very shack that he
+cut his throat and burst the door that bound him
+to the mortal clay, crying as he passed over that
+he was eternally lost and damned, as the church
+had hypnotized him into believing. But that Hell
+is immeasurably preferable to the Devil’s Half
+Acre, because the astral body is relieved of pain,
+hunger and thirst and the necessity of laboring
+for food and clothing. In fact, I believe that we
+<span class='pageno' title='136' id='Page_136'></span>are in Hell now, that this is the lowest plane of
+existence. In the Devil’s Half Acre the poor and
+wretched outcasts of the earth, embellished with
+dirt and clad in rotting rags, lived on three
+cents a day.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>There was something in the atmosphere
+of the neighborhood that urged all the inhabitants
+on to crime. The family life was a hell on earth.
+The place was obsessed by the Devil and accursed
+of God. A village will acquire a character of its
+own. It is claimed that all the evil thoughts
+of all the vicious inhabitants of a vile place will
+linger in the surrounding atmosphere for years
+and exercise a baneful influence on all who dwell
+there. In the Devil’s Half Acre you could not
+take a step without treading on the crimson
+stain of a reeking crime. The spooks were and
+are now as thick as Tophet there; the place is
+haunted by ghosts and fiends unholy in Death
+and Hell bedight. It was the obsession of the
+place by the powers of evil that attracted to it
+all the notorious criminals.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The next spook to pollute the atmosphere
+was that of Mr. D. who, when on earth, was
+engaged in the banking business. In his left
+hand he carried a jimmy and in his right a gun,
+and he was peering here and there looking for a
+safe to crack or a cashier to shoot up. He was
+floating through the air at a height of about
+ten feet, and on his forehead blazed the blood-red
+mark of Cain, and his black aura was lighted
+by the fires of Tophet. When in life he lived in the
+house across the road. From this house also
+emerged a ghost with a halter around its neck.
+It was there with the halter he had swung himself
+over the battlements of time and dropped into
+eternity. The vicious influence of this house was
+irresistible. It is well to know this law of thought
+obsession and avoid these accursed places.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='137' id='Page_137'></span>The next spirit to make its appearance was
+my old friend Mr. E. who came from walking up
+and down in the earth trying to sell the girl he
+led by the hand. He was still on his uppers as
+usual, as I could see by the ragged condition of his
+astral body. The accompanying aura of a
+slate-green hue, embellished with dull-red flames,
+indicated a low, deceitful and sensual character.
+He stopped and, looking me over, said: “I remember
+you. Don’t you want to buy my wife here
+again? She is in good condition now. I admit
+that I cheated you forty years ago when I sold
+her to you for fifty cents, but now in the astral
+world she is a vision of youth and beauty.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Then came the ghost of Mr. F., a Sunday
+School teacher, who operated on a class of young
+ladies in the vestry of the church, that time-worn
+vestry, that well-beloved vestry, where the
+foundations of their philosophy were laid. A
+very genial, loving gentleman he was too, but
+his scholars being exceedingly frivolous, he found
+it necessary, in order to impress upon them the
+Divine truths, to pat them on the knees and sort
+of instil religion into them by the massage process.
+He has found his heaven. He appeared
+on the astral, surrounded, embraced and beloved
+by that same dazzling galaxy of beauties, now
+a star-crowned angel band.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It is claimed that they have schools over
+there, in which those who so desire may be instructed
+in virtue and wisdom and assisted to
+advance. When at last they learn the great
+secret and discover the key that unlocks the horns
+of the bull, they pass through the low and narrow
+portal between the horns of Taurus, squeeze
+through the needle’s eye, and enter the higher
+heaven.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Then I saw a lot of ghosts and fragments
+of ghosts sometimes without any heads, and
+<span class='pageno' title='138' id='Page_138'></span>sometimes lacking limbs, floating about aimlessly
+without any rudders, for they were dead, and their
+spirits had fled, leaving in the Devil’s Half
+Acre their astral shells. That is what they are
+called when their spirits have departed in the
+spiritual body and left the astral body to return
+to the elements like the carnal body.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A human being in a normal condition is
+unable to see an astral body, or ghost, because
+the vibrations on the astral plane are too rapid for
+the human eye to see. The vibrations of the
+ultra-violet or X rays, at one end of the spectrum
+are too rapid, and the infra-red rays, at the other
+end of the spectrum, are too slow for the
+human eye to see. But we have astral senses,
+appurtenant to the astral body, duplicates of
+the physical senses, and persons in a trance and
+sometimes people asleep are able to use these
+astral senses and see and communicate with the
+denizens of the astral world.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='139' id='Page_139'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE SOUL ATOM.<br />By Willard Bartlett.<br /><i>From The Nautilus.</i></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>I will preface my story with the simple
+statement that I am now 500,000,000 years old,
+more or less, that the atom in which my soul
+is located, or which constitutes my soul, first
+found a home in what is called a living being,
+a cytod or cell, in the primordial or earliest
+epoch of earth’s history. A cell is a minute
+mass of living protoplasm, or jelly-like substance,
+not as large as the head of a pin, a combination
+of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen,
+ammonia, sulphur, etc. While it is true that
+I existed before that, and, in fact, from all
+eternity, I previously resided in what is called
+inanimate matter, in the igneous rocks. But
+we will say that I was born when my soul atom
+became involved in the said protoplasm of one
+of the earliest plant cells.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>All matter is endowed with mind, and a
+soul exists in every atom. It is impossible to
+produce new life, as it is said scientists have
+done, and impossible to create life, as God is
+claimed to have done, for life always existed in
+every atom. It is by certain combinations of
+matter that life becomes manifest in motion.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Each of the thousands of atoms, of which
+said primitive life cell was composed, had a soul
+destined to take its place in some descendant,
+if it had an opportunity. And the souls are
+waiting in the atoms to be born, and not in
+Heaven as asserted by the Yogi philosophers.
+<span class='pageno' title='140' id='Page_140'></span>The Yogis claim that the souls are waiting in
+some department of the Buddhist heaven crying
+to be born. Bosh! They are waiting in the
+spermatozoa, those little monsters, those little
+devils that drive their great human masters
+to crime and murder, to the gallows and the
+stake; there they are howling to be born. In their
+frantic race to enter the ovum, as shown under
+“Spermatozoa,” Stand. Dic., no wonder they
+are excited. They have been waiting 500,000,000
+years for the opportunity to become human
+beings.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Cells propagate by division; that is my
+original ancestor, a little, round mass of protoplasm,
+divided itself into two cells to produce
+offspring, and all of my ancestors have done the
+same through all these millions of years, consequently
+I have in my body, in all of the cells,
+some of the original matter of which my original
+cell ancestor was composed. That is eternity’s
+great highway by which the soul walked down.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The human germ cell divides in the same
+manner into two individuals and we propagate,
+as our earliest ancestors did, by casting off a
+cell, which, being joined by a cell of the opposite
+sex, becomes fertilized. The human embryo
+develops by repeated subdivisions of this twin
+cell, and each one of the myriads of cells so
+produced is a living, thinking being.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The question has arisen why the cells in
+an embryo arrange themselves in the form of
+the parent, and it has been asserted that they
+are so distributed by God in pursuance of a
+Divine plan. But it is actually done by the
+volition of the cells themselves. Each cell
+takes its proper position in compliance with the
+instruction of its parent cell, and if removed by
+force to some other part of the embryo, will
+return to its original place, thus evincing the
+<span class='pageno' title='141' id='Page_141'></span>most surprising intelligence. It must be remembered
+that a molecule is as large as a universe,
+that there is no such thing as size, that as much
+ability may be stored up in the nerve centre of a
+cell as in all the debris of a human brain.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>We are immortal, but with no memory of
+past lives. If we do not propagate, this life will
+be the end of our line that has continued unbroken
+for millions of years, and we will have to go back
+into the abysmal void, into the womb of chaos
+and commence all over again. That will be our
+fate in any case. Only that cell of our bodies
+which may be incorporated in our progeny will
+continue in human form. That cell is a remote
+relative of ours, having descended from the
+ancestral germ cell from which our embryo was
+developed.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Of the earliest plant cells, developed by
+spontaneous generation in the primordial epoch,
+some developed tails, or projected filaments of
+protoplasm from their jelly-like bodies. With
+these tails they propelled themselves through the
+primeval seas, and thus separated themselves
+from the plants and became animals. In this
+earliest epoch of life’s history all beings lived in
+the water. These primitive plants possessed as
+much soul and mind as the animals that thus
+branched off from them, and all plants still possess
+soul and mind.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>But I am sorry to say that my ancestor, who
+thus projected a tail and became an animal, was
+a degenerate, a lazy loafer, a robber, a murderer
+and a cannibal. We all have to live on protoplasm.
+The plants made their own living plasm,
+manufacturing it from inorganic matter, but the
+animals were too indolent to do such laborious
+work, when they could just as well kill and eat
+the plant cells and subsist on them. In this
+way they lost the recipe for making plasm, and
+<span class='pageno' title='142' id='Page_142'></span>we descendants are consequently born cannibals,
+condemned to rob, murder, despoil and eat our
+fellow beings, or starve.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>My next beautiful ancestor, to whom I will
+introduce you, was an animal consisting of numerous
+cells arranged in the form of a sack or stomach,
+called a blastoderm or gastraea. There was
+no central brain at this time, each cell having a
+brain of its own.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Yesterday, while patrolling my beat down
+in the mine, in a drift in the limestone, the earliest
+sedimentary deposit laid down on the bed of the
+primeval ocean, I found the house of my archaic
+ancestor, willed to me by him millions of years ago,
+and delivered by him to me yesterday. It is a
+minute shell, with which he protected his precious
+stomach. This stomach took its flight to Heaven
+in the earliest dawn of time, but the house, one
+of the many mansions of the soul, preserved intact
+came down to me through unnumbered ages,
+while myriad races came into being and faded
+into eternity, and religions sprang up and flourished
+and waned, and empires rose and rotted and
+fell.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the next stage, the stomach has become
+elongated, and the nerve centre or spinal cord
+makes its appearance along the whole length of
+the body. At this period my beloved grandfather
+was a very aristocratic and exclusive worm, belonging
+to one of the first families, and, like them,
+had as much brains in his tail as in his head, for no
+cranial brain had yet developed.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The remaining steps of the evolution, through
+which my ancestors have passed, are depicted in
+the development of the human embryo, and I
+will ask you to read up on the subject of embryology,
+which I have found quite as interesting as
+dime novels.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 class='c005'>Transcriber's Notes</h2>
+</div>
+<div class='lg-container-l c018'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'>Several obvious punctuation errors have been silently corrected.</div>
+      <div class='line'>Signa Tau was used consistently so it was not changed to Sigma Tau.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On pages <a href='#Page_2'>2</a> and <a href='#Page_55'>55</a>, alter was changed to altar.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_71'>71</a>, metalic was changed to metallic, twice.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_83'>83</a>, phanton was changed to phantom.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_95'>95</a>, colaborated was changed to collaborated.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>, tate-a-tate was changed to tête-à-tête.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>, bear was changed to bare.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, polutes was changed to pollutes.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_127'>127</a>, Astral Word was Changed to Astral World.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c015'>Other variations in spelling, punctuation, accents and hyphenation remain as in the original.</p>
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+                          King Solomon’s Goat
+
+
+
+                                  _By_
+                            WILLARD BARTLETT
+
+                              _Author of_
+
+             “The Origin of Priestcraft,” “The Tenderfoot,”
+                    “The War of the Stomachs,” etc.
+
+
+
+                 _Apologies are due to numerous authors
+                 who have failed to receive due credit
+               through the carelessness of the compiler._
+
+
+
+
+                             EVERETT PRINT
+                             13 Otis Street
+                                 BOSTON
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                             Copyright 1918
+
+                                   BY
+
+                          G. WILLARD BARTLETT
+
+------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAPTER I.
+
+                           The Divine Moloch.
+
+
+The genial gentleman with horns, shown on the cover hereof, is
+christ.[1] The hybrid Christian-Egyptian religion was stolen from the
+sun-worship of Egypt and India and other religious impositions. When the
+sun, called Ra and Osiris in Egypt, identical with Jehovah, at the end
+of each cycle of about 2155 years, entered a new sign of the zodiac, it
+was said to be reborn, or the son of god came in a character to
+correspond with the astronomical sign.—Gerald Massey.
+
+-----
+
+Footnote 1:
+
+  Where in this book the words God, Lord, Christ, Messiah and Lamb are
+  capitalized they refer to Christian deities, otherwise to pagan gods.
+
+When the sun entered the sign of Taurus, the bull, god was reborn, or
+christ came as the bull, called Apis in Egypt and Moloch in Syria. It is
+the latter beauty whose entrancing charms are the subject of this
+panegyric. When Jacob wrestled with the lord, the bout was with Moloch
+Iho, as will be seen by reading the original Hebrew text. This is lord I
+O, the supreme, the hermaphrodite god or idol of the pagans. Read the
+Blessing that the Hebrews say before eating: “Blessed art thou Io
+Elohanu Melech ... who bringeth forth bread from the earth.”—Krinsky’s
+First Lessons in Hebrew, 84.
+
+The pagans claimed that their god Moloch “had his castle of fire in the
+seventh heaven.” And “Jehovah had his castle of fire over the seventh
+heaven.”—Book of Enoch, 14:7. The identity of Moloch and the Hindu god
+Siva is indicated by the bull Nardi, the sacred emblem of the latter.
+The Persian bull christ, the son of Ormazd, killed by Ahriman, the Lord
+of Darkness, and all the other christs that sport horns must share the
+infamy of the great god Moloch, alias Saturn, alias Israel, alias Ilda
+Baoth or Devil. The heaven of Moloch is in the Northeast, and it is
+paved with gold, and his throne is made of lapis lazuli.
+
+You will notice that the priest is offering up a child to the great god
+who so loved human flesh and blood that he caused his own son to be
+slaughtered. There was also another reason for the human sacrifices by
+the priests and sorcerers and secret societies, that is, the desire to
+evoke the dead and summon up phantoms for consultation. These ghosts are
+very fond of blood, in fact it is difficult for them to materialize
+unless they can absorb the steam arising from human blood. It is true
+that some sorcerers have evoked the dead with the blood of kids or
+lambs, but the goat and lamb christs are ancient redeemers, whose
+efficacy is not to be compared with the man christ. Elephas Levi says
+that a phantom will attract the vapor of blood and human corpuscles in
+the air as a magnet attracts iron filings.
+
+“They have built the high places of Tophet in the Valley of Hinnom to
+burn their sons and daughters in the fire.” They made their children
+pass through the fire to Moloch, forsooth, because young children, like
+young pigs, are tender and easy to chew. They cooked their own flesh and
+blood on the reeking altar of the Devil, even as the great and good Ahaz
+served up his son for the delectation of the mob, and sitting down to
+the delicious feast, ate up the heir and hope of Israel. Then, chopping
+up the remnants into sausages, he exposed and hawked them in the market
+place, crying: “It is true they come high, but see what they are made
+of. Each sausage is stamped with the Tetragrammaton and stuffed with the
+royal house of Israel. If you plebeians, decorated with dirt and adorned
+with bugs, wish to get some blue blood into your clotted veins, now is
+the time. Avail yourselves of this opportunity to eat a prince of the
+royal blood, an imperial descendant of our Mother in Israel, Tamar, the
+daughter and wife of Judah and ancestor of David and the messiah.”
+
+The fact that the Jews worshipped on Saturn-day would indicate that they
+were worshippers of Saturn or Moloch. The sacrifice of the first-born
+unto the Lord was required by the Old Testament. Human sacrifices by
+proxy still survive in parts of England, where at Christmas time the
+goodman goes forth to hunt for an old wife to sacrifice, and returns
+with an old log, which he plays is his wife, and puts her on the fire.
+This takes the place of the human being his ancestors formerly offered
+up. In Hertfordshire, an ox, representing Moloch, is killed every
+Christmas, and the church bell tolls at its death in imitation of the
+crucifixion of the bull christ or sun at the winter solstice. At the
+orgies of Orpheus they originally sacrificed a man and tore his flesh
+from his body with their teeth and ate it raw, but in later times
+substituted a bull representing Orpheus or Christ.—“Orgies” and
+“Orpheus”, Ency. Brit. All religion originated in human sacrifices and
+cannibalism.
+
+The wife of god is a cow, called Hathor in Egypt, also named Isis and
+Meri, which goddess we have stolen and worship under the name of Mary.
+When the sun entered the stable or sign of Taurus, a christ was
+produced, or god was reborn as a bull. That is why Christ was born in a
+stable.
+
+When the sun entered the sign of Aries or the Ram, God was reborn, or
+Christ came as the Lamb of God, the son of the Ram, identical with Rama,
+the seventh incarnation of the god Vishnu.—Gerald Massey. In Thebes the
+principal object worshipped by the pagan ancestors of Christianity was
+the Ram.
+
+At the eighth incarnation of God, when the sun entered the sign of
+Fishes, about the beginning of the Christian Era, God was reborn as the
+Great Fish or Fisher of Men, and was slain on Friday for the redemption
+of the world. That is why the Christians killed and ate their fish Jesus
+every Friday to save their craven souls from Hell. That is why the
+priests of Dagon, the fish god of the Philistines, wore fish skins on
+their backs and the head of a fish for a miter. The miter of the church
+dignitaries was the gaping mouth of their fish god. That is why Christ
+had such phenomenal piscatorial luck and why his disciples were
+fishermen. That is why he came up out of the waters of Jordan.—See
+Ancient Pagan & Modern Christian Symbolism.
+
+We are baptized that we may typically become fish or Christlike, but
+complete immersion is indispensable to save our wicked souls. A few
+drops of water on the forehead do not make a fish. Jesus came out of the
+stellar pool in the sign of Fishes, and we have seen superstitious and
+benighted fishes, who have been born again, come up out of the pool
+beneath the church altar in the Hub of Universal Culture. The basin at
+the church door or piscina, containing alleged holy water, is but a type
+of that celestial pool in which the stellar fishes swim, and into which
+the sun plunged and washed away the sins of the world. The Egyptian
+Madonna, Isis, is represented as holding in her arms the christ Horus,
+and on her head is a fish. The Hindus worship the fish-god at the temple
+of the Golden Dagon near Rangoon, India.
+
+The Jews sacrificed the fish-christ at each of the three meals of the
+Sabbath. “One should eat fish for into them the souls of the righteous
+are transmigrated.”—Talmud. The Buddhist cross, from which the Christian
+cross was taken, is called Swastika (fishes) and consists of the two
+fishes of the zodiac crossed. “Maya or Mary, the Virgin of the skies, at
+the moment of the birth of her son Buddha on Dec. 25, was just rising
+above the horizon.”
+
+“The sun’s present position is in Aquarius. Our Lord’s advent was in the
+previous sign of Pisces, but the sign which he declared should precede
+his next coming was that of Aquarius. ‘When ye see a man bearing a
+pitcher of water follow ye him.’”—Daughter of the Druids, 101.
+
+When the sun entered the sign of Cancer, the sun god, or the son of god
+came as the Crab or the Good Scarabaeus, the lucky bug of Egypt, and was
+born in the nebula of the Manger in the sign of Cancer. Still there is
+no law against believing in the story of the Jew Christ born in the
+Manger of Bethlehem. Even the Church Fathers claimed that Christ was the
+Good Scarabaeus.
+
+In the Catacombs of Rome is a picture of a supper at which seven persons
+sit down to eat seven loaves and two small fishes. Some writers have
+failed to grasp the significance of this picture. They are assembled
+there to eat their Christ, as we do now at every Communion Service.
+Christ is the bread of life, born in the astronomical house of
+Breadcorn. He came seven times in the ancient division of the heavens,
+and in his eighth avatar he came as the two fishes in the sign of
+Pisces.
+
+Our Christmas is a new name for the old Roman Saturnalia, a festival
+celebrating the birth of the sun-god Saturn or Moloch at the winter
+solstice, at which time they feasted, exchanged presents, got drunk and
+played craps. The Christians, in celebrating the 25th of December, admit
+that their Christ is a sun-god.—See “Saturn,” Ency. Brit.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER II.
+
+                          The Queen of Heaven.
+
+
+The Hebrews in the wilderness indulged in this pagan idolatry and
+sacrificed bullocks and lambs on the altar for the remission of their
+sins, and erected a golden calf. The golden calf was christ, and his
+mother was the sacred cow Hathor or Mary. This Meri or Mary was an
+astral goddess, the moon goddess, the Queen of Heaven, represented as
+standing in the crescent moon. She is identical with the foul goddesses
+Astarte, Venus, Ishtar, Asherah and Ashtoreth, the abomination of the
+Sidonians. Ishtar is the same as Easter, and we celebrate Easter because
+the sun-god arose at the full moon of Easter. The Sacred Cow of India is
+worshipped as the Mother of the Gods.—Book of all Religions, 224.
+
+You will see in the idol stores the graven image of Mary, the Queen of
+Heaven, standing in the crescent moon, and a dog crouching before her
+offering her a cake with a hole in it. This cake is the Mark of the
+Beast, the female symbol of the cow Hathor, the Assyrian Grove, the
+sacred Eye, which was worn by the Christian and pagan priests in their
+foreheads and on their hands. It is the Sacti of the goddess Maha Deva,
+called Sacti because it is sacred and is offered up as a sacrifice,
+closely related to sacrum and the caudal appendage.
+
+The three links are the symbol of the hermaphrodite godhead. The link is
+the female emblem and three is the sign of the male. The Eye within the
+tent or triangle or compasses is an object of worship and adoration. The
+three-cornered triangle is the emblem of the male. In Ency. Brit., 6:
+462, a bishop is represented with the Eye on his left hand, and he holds
+up three fingers of his right hand, the sign of the male. This is just
+as efficacious as the three links, as it presents to the audience the
+male and female emblems together, formerly the only objects of worship
+in all religions. They are the emblems of life, and must be held up
+together to insure the worshippers eternal life. It will be seen in this
+investigation that in every religious assembly, from the Witches’
+Sabbath to the Elevation of the Host, the male and female emblems were
+displayed together for the salvation of the world. Without these emblems
+the devotees cannot be born again. The image of the Hindu Madonna and
+Christna shows the Virgin holding up three fingers, and with the thumb
+and forefinger she makes the circle of Ashtoreth to save the souls of
+her devotees.—Plate 14, A. P. & M. C. Symbolism.
+
+The high altars of most of the churches were rank Assyrian Groves, to
+which the devotees bowed low in holy reverence. See “Altar”, Stand. Dic.
+and Ency. Brit. 16:75. The deity emerging from the female symbol of the
+high Christian altar of Pistoia holds in his hand a book on which is
+written: “I A O, the Sun, the Light of the World.” When we take off our
+hats to the church, we are not doing obeisance to the pile of brick and
+stone but to this symbol above the altar. The Dabistan says that Siva
+has a spouse called Maya, as Jehovah had Mary, and the high altar in a
+mosque of the Mussulmans is an emblem of the Bhaga or the Grove or Royal
+Arch. The ancient Knights of the Royal Bhaga were also Knights of the
+Cave, the Gate, the Fornix (tent of a Kadish) to the defense of which
+they pledged their lives, their property and their sacred honors, and
+each brave knight wore emblazoned on his forehead or on his stomach the
+emblem of his goddess, the open Eye.
+
+Venus, called C U in Celtic, was the moon goddess of the round towers of
+Ireland. The priests of the goddess called themselves C U R, and a cur
+offers a sacrifice to the Virgin. From C U R we derive the word
+curate.—Stinson Jarvis. The Druid priests always wore the crescent moon
+on their robes. Osiris is identical with the Egyptian god Anubis, the
+dog, and their symbol is the open Eye. They both worship at the shrine
+of Hathor or the Virgin holding the sacred Eye in their hands. That is
+why in Christianity, we see the dog offering to Mary the sacred
+perforated wafer.
+
+Refer to “Enthronization,” Stand. Dic., and you will see the Mark of the
+Beast on the bishop’s hand, and look at the pagan god Siva, and you will
+find the same mark on his forehead. See “Freemason,” and you find that
+Washington wears the same symbol on his stomach. Look at Brahma, who
+carries the rosary in his hand, a symbol of identical significance.
+Refer to “Glory,” and you see Christ standing in the Mark of the Beast.
+Turn to Vesica Piscis, where the Virgin stands in her symbol, the symbol
+of the hideous faith of the Witches’ Sabbath, a faith coeval with the
+dawn of time, spawned in the slums of chaos. Astarte or Ashtoreth was
+the moon goddess and Queen of Heaven and patron of immorality.—Ency.
+Brit. 2:735. Mary is the same as Venus and Diana, the moon
+goddess.—Elephas Levi, the priest.
+
+The Hindu Litany of Our Lady Nari, the Virgin, says: “Holy Nari.
+Mariama, Mother of an Incarnate God, Mother of Christna, Virgin Most
+Chaste, Queen of Heaven.” The Egyptian Litany of Our Lady Isis says:
+“Holy Isis, Mother of Gods, Mother of Horus, Virgin Sacred Earth, Isis,
+Queen of Heaven.” The Christian Litany says: “Holy Mary, Mother of God,
+Mother of Christ, Virgin Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven.”—Isis Unveiled,
+209.
+
+Why does St. Peter (Petra, the Rock God) as shown by his statue in Rome,
+hold up three fingers and make the circle or Eye with the other two
+fingers? Why is the Christian Benedictional, like the Totem Pole of the
+Indians, covered with the so-called All-Seeing Eye? Why is the Eye on
+the stomach of the Bishop, where he does not need it? This is a very
+occult matter that can be disclosed only to the initiates of the foul
+religions.—See Book of All Religions, 467.
+
+“Religion is a monstrous fraud and delusion that has desolated the earth
+and filled the spirit world with demons.”—Antiquity Unveiled, 58.
+
+The Gnostics claimed that it was Ilda Baoth, the Devil, that
+overshadowed Mary, instead of Gabriel. “The female Serpent of the Sky,
+the Mother, is imaged in Buddhism by the lotus, the water, the female
+fish. Her mansion is in Virgo. By Manu she is called the Spirit of God
+(the Holy Ghost) but she represents matter as well as spirit.”—Buddha &
+Early Buddhism, 20. Mare and Mary mean the sea, and the fish god Jesus,
+of course, came out of the sea.
+
+“The bells used by the Christians came to them directly from the
+Buddhists, Thibetans and Chinese, who used them to attract the gods. The
+beads and rosary have the same origin, and have been used by Buddhist
+monks for over 2300 years.”—Isis Unveiled, 95. The Jews used bells to
+warn their god that some dupe was about to adore him, so that he would
+have a chance to change his character and not appear as the ass-headed
+god.—Epiphanius, Gospel of Mary. In China and India they ring the church
+bell to call god and the other ghosts to dinner, and after the spirits
+have eaten, the remnants of the sacrifices are thrown by the priests to
+the dogs of worshippers, the scum of the earth, who furnished the
+offerings. The church bell in Japan is called “Call God,” and we, having
+copied our religion from the Buddhist, ring our church bells to call God
+to listen to our fool prayers, and every Sunday he walks a leg off
+hustling around to the millions of places of superstition.
+
+A statue of the cow Hathor, with the moon between her horns, was
+unearthed in a temple of Egypt. This is the mother of Horus, also called
+Ies and Iesu and Jesu in Egypt. And to further fix her catholicity
+beyond question she is covered with Christian crosses. If you refer to
+“Isis,” Stand. Dic., you will see that the Egyptian Madonna wears horns
+and the full moon on her head. The moon goddess of Peru was called Mamma
+Quilka, or Mother Moon, the mother of all the Incas, and the real pious
+devotees got soused on corn whiskey in her holy worship.
+
+The Christians sacrificed cakes with holes in them to Mary, Queen of
+Heaven.—Ency. Brit. 15:391. This is the very idolatry for which Jehovah
+drove the Jewish nation out of Palestine. In Jeremiah, 44:19, the Jews
+say: “We burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink
+offerings unto her and made cakes to worship her.” And Jeremiah says in
+verse 22: “Because of these abominations which you have committed,
+therefore is your land a desolation and a curse, without an inhabitant
+as at this day.”
+
+The Buddhists say: “Upon a lotus of precious stones sustaining a moon
+crescent sits Buddha Matra” (the Mother of God). The Chinese invocation
+says: “Hail Matra”, and they call her “Our Lady, the Queen of Heaven,
+the Mother of Buddha.”—Buddha & Early Buddhism, 22. The fact that the
+Queen of Heaven existed as a goddess in the time of Jeremiah, before
+Christianity was spawned, shows that the Buddhists did not steal their
+Queen of Heaven from the Christians as charged.
+
+In Josephus, Book 8, ch. 11, it is seen that Shishac subdued Israel and
+erected some charming pillars on which were carved captivating female
+symbols, which they worshipped. Jereboam erected two aesthetic heifers,
+images of Hathor for the worship and spiritual edification of the Jews.
+In Judges, 3:7, it is asserted that Israel served Baalim and the Grove.
+Baalim are images of Baal, male emblems, corresponding to the candles
+and manikins (sons of man) of the Witches’ Sabbath, called images of men
+in Ezek. 16:17. I think that the christ of the Hebrews was the candle,
+and that they sacrificed him every Friday, the same as the Christians do
+their fish god. The candle is the appropriate offering to a goddess, and
+it may have been Ashtoreth.
+
+The Mezuzah, which is nailed on the door post, corresponds with the
+pillars erected by Shishac, for it is a miniature pillar with an oval
+hole on the side, which hole it is necessary to kiss, as we kiss the
+male and female emblems on the Pax to secure eternal life. In the hole
+is one of the names of god, Shaday, one of the female Sephiroth or
+persons of the godhead. If you refer to “Altar,” Stand. Dic., you will
+see the people worshipping the hole in the Mezuzah, or the Virgin
+standing in her symbol above the altar, which is all the same.
+
+The phylactery, worn on the forehead and on the left arm, contains
+passages of Scripture, which must be printed on the skin of the cow, the
+mother of christ, and the phylactery itself, must be made of the skin of
+christ, the calf. God himself wore phylacteries according to the Talmud.
+
+Dianus, or the sun, or god, had twelve wives, capturing a new one
+whenever he entered a new sign of the zodiac. It was Rhea in the sign of
+the Twins, and Hathor in the sign of Taurus, and Mary in the sign of
+Pisces. One of his wives was Diana of the Ephesians, the object of a
+foul worship in Asia Minor. She wears upon her head the crescent moon,
+and she is Mary, the Queen of Heaven. She bears six lions in her arms,
+because she is the mother of all the gods. Six christs have been born
+since she ruled the heavens in the sign of Virgo. The christ who came in
+the sign immediately following Virgo was Leo. It is one and the same
+god, the sun, that comes in every sign, consequently they are all lions.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER III.
+
+                          Religious Symbolism.
+
+
+This is the Egyptian Tau Cross, the symbol of Apis, the bull, and other
+male gods: [𝝩]. Here is the male emblem shown as the Masonic square, as
+found in the ruins of Gaza: [𝝘]. This is the Egyptian K. Ka is the
+Egyptian name of the male emblem. See “Hieroglyphics”, Ency. Brit. This
+holy god, in the form of a stone, is stuck in the wall of the Kaaba, the
+shrine at Mecca, which shrine was built by Abraham, who was fond of
+chasing after gods with tarnished reputations. This god in Mecca is a
+meteorite seven inches long, brought down from Heaven by Gabriel, and
+about 300,000 pilgrims annually kiss this foul, germ-laden god to save
+their tarnal souls.
+
+And this is the cross ansata of Egypt, [♀], or cross of anx (life), a
+combination of the cross of the bull and the sacred symbol of Isis. The
+High Priest of Egypt wore three cross ansatas and three links on his
+breast-plate, symbols of the trinity. Many of the pagan religions, from
+which ours descended, used only the main portion of the cross, the shaft
+or upright, the symbol of Siva, Baal Poer and Jehovah. It is called
+phalatz in Hebrew, meaning broken. See the broken column of the
+Masons—A. P. & M. C. Symbolism.
+
+You place the three balls of the pawnbroker or the shamrock of Ireland
+on top of the shaft, and you have the most archaic form of the cross,
+before which the devils tremble and fall in a fit. Christian crosses,
+wreaths, bells, squares, eyes, Asherim and Baalim have been discovered
+in the ruins of Gaza, in the fourth city that was destroyed about 1600
+B. C. The original text of Ezek. 9:4 shows that the sign of Jehovah was
+the Signa Tau, or the cross of Taurus, the bull, with which the elect
+were sealed in their foreheads. In the Enchiridion, a prayer book and
+book of magic credited to Pope Leo III, he says: “By this sign [＋] Lord
+Tau, deliver me.”
+
+The male emblem, or triangle, placed in the circle of Asherah makes the
+Three in One, the profound and esoteric mystery forever hidden from the
+profane and vulgar. That is the sacred quartet, those are the idols we
+worship.
+
+Turn to Siva, Stand. Dic., and you will see that he has stolen all the
+pious Christian symbols, although he existed for ages before the
+Christians. In one hand is the circle and in another hand a trident or
+fleur de lys, a male emblem. Around his neck is a large rosary or stole.
+Thrusting his male head through this female emblem is a symbol of life
+and a saving rite. Putting his hand through a rosary is just as
+effective. We can trace the spotless lineage of our beloved religion
+back through the dim vistas of time to a very archaic and rotten
+ancestry.
+
+In both the Christian and pagan symbolism the oval in which the saints
+and gods do stand is often represented as composed of roses and
+constitutes a rosary. The horseshoe brings good luck because it is
+identical with the cave, the arch and the grove and is the sacred emblem
+of the goddess Mary or Astarte. Both Buddha and Christ are represented
+as standing in the horseshoe or Royal Arch. I conclude that the Masonic
+Holy Royal Arch and the oval above the church altar, in which the Virgin
+stands, represent the Grove that Manasseh set up in the House of the
+Lord, 2 Kings, 21, and that Josiah burnt at the brook Kidron, 2 Kings,
+23:6. The stole, worn by the priests, is equivalent to, and has all the
+mystic powers of, the cross ansata. It is well named “stole”, as the
+early Christians stole it from the pagan worship.
+
+Serapis, the Egyptian god, is bedecked and bedizened with all the
+Christian emblems. He holds the crook of the Good Shepherd in one hand
+and the cross ansata in the other. He has the head and horns of a bull,
+showing that he is the son of the cow Hathor or Mary. And over his head
+are the Masons’ marks, the square and the eye, showing that he is in
+good standing in his lodge in Hell, for he, like christ, is Lord of the
+Underworld.
+
+Refer to Vishnu, Stand. Dic., and you will see that pagan god wearing
+all the above emblems. He is christ and came as Rama in the sign of the
+Ram and as Krishna in the sign of Pisces. Turn to Krishna, and you will
+see the Hindu Madonna and christ that we kidnapped.
+
+In the Sun. Am. Magazine, Aug. 29, 1910, we see a picture of Isis
+mourning at the bier of Osiris. At Egyptian funerals they assured the
+dead of eternal life by raising the symbol of Isis, the circle or rosary
+above the body. You will see that the head of the deceased at the wake
+is surrounded by male emblems, which gross symbols are now replaced in
+the present civilization by candles. You will see that Isis is bowing
+down before the Tree of Life, and that she has at hand a basket of
+perforated cakes, which she is about to offer to the Tree of Life, which
+tree is called Osiris or Baal or Moloch or Buddha or Yahveh or Iao or
+Siva or Jove according to the country in which the religion is
+perpetrated. If you place a wreath on a dead man’s stomach and seven
+candles around his head, he is no longer a meet candidate for Hell, but
+an heir of eternal glory. If you stick a cross through the wreath, it is
+a through ticket to the seventh heaven, and you may be assured that he
+will go through purgatory a-humping.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER IV.
+
+                The Sabbatic Goat or God of the Sabbath.
+
+
+When the sun entered the sign of Capricorn, it was reborn as, or christ
+came as the goat, that individual on whom the Jews used to load all
+their sins and then drive him forth into the wilderness. They sacrificed
+goats on the altar because the goat was one of the ancient redeemers.
+Caesar says of Egyptian sacrifices: “Imprecations were uttered over the
+head of the expiatory victim, around whose horns a piece of byblus was
+rolled. The animal was generally led to some barren region sacred to
+Typhon. It is in this custom that lies the origin of the scapegoat of
+the Jews, who, when the ass-headed god was rejected by the Egyptians,
+began sacrificing to another deity, the red heifer.”
+
+It was claimed by Madam Blavatsky and Elephas Levi that the
+hermaphrodite Goat of Mendes, or Baphomet, was anciently an object of
+worship and adoration by the mystic societies and at the Witches’
+Sabbath. In Mysteries of Magic, 7 and 75, the author thus describes a
+Witches’ Sabbath: “Approach stealthily this cross roads among the rocks.
+A hoarse and funeral trumpet is heard, lurid torches burn on every side,
+a disorderly assembly surges around an empty seat. All look around in
+expectation, then suddenly fall prostrate and mutter: ‘He is here, ’tis
+himself.’ A goat-headed prince comes forward with bounds, he ascends the
+throne, turns around and stooping presents his back to the audience,
+which everyone approaches, black taper in hand, to salute and to kiss.
+Then he stands up with a discordant laugh and distributes to his
+favorites gold, secret instructions, occult medicines and poisons.”
+
+The Goat of Mendes is pictured by Elephas Levi as a regular god. He
+wears the male emblem on his head like all gods in good standing and
+holds up three fingers, and has the double triangle in his forehead, and
+the caduceus, or male and female emblems, on his stomach. With one hand
+he coagulates or creates, and with the other he dissolves or destroys.
+
+“Let us say boldly and loudly that all the inferior initiates of the
+occult sciences and the betrayers of the Great Arcanum have adored, do
+and will always adore that which is signified by the frightful figure of
+the Sabbatic Goat. Yes in our profound conviction, the Grand Masters of
+the ancient orders of the Templars adored Baphomet.”—Elephas Levi. It
+will be seen by the chart that the Masonic coat of arms, consisting of
+the four zodiacal beasts, is supported on either side by the goat god
+Pan.
+
+Pan, the Good Shepherd, the son of Deus, with the horns and feet of a
+goat, is the same as the Devil or christ. At the Witches’ Sabbath in
+England, the women made manikins, or images of men, of clay or wax, and
+these they worshipped and played with. And when these images were
+properly magnetized, they could perform miracles therewith and summon up
+demons from the abyss. If they possessed sufficient will power and knew
+the occult and secret form of words to use, they could play that the
+manikin was an enemy, and then stick him through the heart with a
+needle, and the next morning the enemy would be dead. If their magical
+power was sufficiently potent, they could summon a satyr or subordinate
+goat god to take the place of the manikin and consummate the Sabbatical
+marriage ceremony. Their spells were said to be sufficiently powerful to
+reduce a human being to the primordial protoplasm, and then cause it to
+again pursue the path of evolution through the cell, the blastoderm, the
+devil-fish and all the other beasts constituting eternity’s great
+highway by which the soul walks down. This is similar to the unavoidable
+cycle, the circle of necessity, the inexorable doom of the sacred
+mysteries of the Serpents’ Catacombs of Egypt.
+
+The countersign of the Witches’ Sabbath was the closed hand with the
+thumb between the first and second fingers pointing downward to the
+abyss. The meeting place was lighted only by the altar fire, where the
+human sacrifice sizzled to attract the phantoms and ghosts. And the
+devotees, singing mystic songs, danced hand in hand in a circle around
+the god Pan. They used the holy grail like the churches and mystic
+societies, and the drafts from this poisonous cup, the singing, the
+whirling dance and the incense from the altar brought on the oft-times
+fatal frenzies in which the victims fell shrieking to the ground, as
+they do among certain Christian sects. They were seized and possessed by
+foul fiends from the Pit, or elementary spirits, and sometimes by the
+spirits of serpents that materialized themselves in the writhing human
+victims and crawled out of the prostrate bodies in plain view of the
+audience. There in the blackest hour of the night the Vinum Sabbati was
+prepared, a few grains of white powder thrown into a glass of water. And
+each one that drank found himself attended by a companion, a shape of
+glamour and unearthly allurement beckoning him apart to share in joys
+more exquisite, more piercing than the thrill of any dream.—Machen’s
+House of Souls, 438.
+
+Similar to these convulsionaries are the miserable creatures in Russia
+afflicted by strange disorders, which people attributed to possession by
+the Devil. They throng the entrance of cathedrals without daring to
+enter, lest their controlling demons cast them on the ground. At the
+Elevation of the Host, these half maniacs, half mediums begin crowing
+like cocks, barking, bellowing and braying, and finally fall down in
+fearful convulsions. They prophesy and see visions. Paracelsus, the
+magician, could cast the demons out of the persons so possessed by the
+power of a stronger demon which he carried around in his pocket. That
+reminds us of the Salem witch that fled from a mob of Christolators who
+were intent on burning her, but when they were about to seize her, she
+crawled into a bottle, and nobody ever saw her afterward.
+
+In the Devil’s Mass of the Yezdis, or Devil worshippers and sorcerers of
+Mesopotamia, the Jakshas or aerial spirits carry their prayers to the
+Devil and the Afrites of the desert. In their prayer meeting they dance
+in a ring about their high priest and whirl and leap in the air and cut
+each other with daggers until they are soaked with blood for the purpose
+of attracting the ghosts. The mystic circle induces Satan to manifest
+himself in miracles. Enormous globes of fire appear and assume the
+shapes of monsters.
+
+The Sabbath was the Sunday of the Hebrew Kabalists, the day of their
+religious assembly, or rather the night of their habitual meetings. This
+festival, surrounded by mysteries as it was, found its safeguard in the
+very fright of the vulgar and escaped persecution through the terror it
+occasioned. The early Christians celebrated the pagan Mysteries of Jesus
+and probably held a Witches’ Sabbath.—See Mystic Christianity, 212.
+
+One should trim his finger nails on Friday, never on Thursday, otherwise
+the nails will commence growing on the Sabbath, and it is very wicked
+for the nails to grow on the Sabbath.—Kabala. The Israelite, after the
+endless Sabbath observances, should fold up his veil, but if he forgets
+to do so, he is to shake it thoroughly the next morning, so as to shake
+all the devils out of it. And the reason is known to the Lords of the
+Kabala.—Kabala Kitzur Sh’lh. It is a very pious act to say a prayer to
+the moon at the close of the Sabbath, for the moon is a symbol of Jacob,
+the lesser light, (who was a christ). The full moon, the Queen of Heaven
+is his mother, and the sun is his father. The new moon is Jacob or
+Christ.—Ibid, fol. 72, col. 2. You should learn these things together
+with all the other profound wisdom of the Talmud, for Rabbi Yochannan
+says that it is lawful to split open an unlearned man like a fish.
+
+Constantine, the Roman Emperor and canonized saint, the
+superstition-besotted, the assassin, the fratricide, the parricide, the
+uxoricide, the filicide, the regicide, chosen from Heaven as the
+murderer-in-chief of the world, according to Eusebius, “held up by God
+to the human race as an exemplary pattern of godliness and destined to
+share the Empire of Heaven with Christ,” this was the bloated, red-faced
+profligate who established Sunday worship in 321 A. D. and compelled the
+Christians to worship the sun-god on Dies Solis, the Day of the Sun,
+because his own god was Apollo.—See First Council of Nice, 28.
+Constantine was the founder of Christianity, and, like father like son,
+it followed in his footsteps. He could not obtain absolution for his
+crimes from pagan priests, but Eusebius washed them whiter than snow.
+Some said that Constantine had to sacrifice an infant to obtain the
+blood for the absolution.
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAPTER V.
+
+                          The Great God Baal.
+
+
+The palm tree, the candle and the Asherim are symbols and images of
+Baal, and the two last are offered up as sacrifices, corresponding to
+the pillars and candles in the worship of Jehovah. Around the temple of
+Jehovah as well as the temple of Baal, in the Holy Land, were the
+ancient nunneries. The Kadishim or Holy Ladies lived in tents arranged
+in a circle about the temple, and on each side of each tent or Fornix
+stood a Knight of Kadish. The pious people who desired to worship god
+gave up to the guard a shekel (sixty cents) and entered into the tent of
+the Kadish, and the money so collected went to the service of god, which
+means the priestly white slavers and the Worshipful Knights of Kadish.
+The Kadishim were the same as the Deva Dasi, the concubines and dancing
+girls of the Hindu temples, the slaves of the gods. “There is reason to
+believe that the Israelites at an early date applied the name of Baal to
+Jehovah. Baal was represented on the high places by pillars,” as the
+strange god of John’s Revelation is pictured on his throne.—“Baal,”
+Ency. Brit. One hundred of the most beautiful and seductive daughters of
+the people, innocent girls of tender age, were torn from their homes by
+the ruthless priests to fill the holy places of god around each temple.
+The priests by constant iteration convinced the parents that it was a
+high honor to be permitted to devote their daughters to god, and that as
+a reward, in the great hereafter, they would sit beside the Great White
+Throne with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the other Jews, and all the
+hod-carriers, who, having washed their robes white in the blood of the
+Lamb, sit on their little golden thrones with their dudeens in their
+mouths and their hats gently tilted over one eye, while they decorate
+with tobacco juice the dazzling surface of the crystal sea.
+
+At the great temple of Baal, they had a palm tree standing in the midst
+of the garden, and in the holy temple of Jehovah they had a stone pillar
+around which the Kadishim, at the vernal equinox, danced in the nude.
+This is the day dedicated to Astarte, or Ishtar or Easter. This occult
+ceremony is one of the most beautiful and entrancing in our refulgent
+and god-given religion. As the Tree of Life stands in the midst of the
+circle of females, so the rays from the sun penetrate the earth and
+annually renew its life. So the rays of the sun at high noon penetrated
+the ark, that old box in which the priests kept the male and female
+emblems, and before which King David for occult reasons danced in the
+altogether. The ark corresponds with the sacred Argha of the Hindus, an
+oblong vessel, a sacrificial chalice, used in the worship of Isis,
+Astarte and Venus. It is a most holy symbol, containing, in the play,
+the germs of all living things, and when we drink out of it at the
+communion service, we drink eternal life. They planted the Tree of Life
+in the midst of the garden or grove, as God planted the tree in the
+midst of the Garden of Eden. You will notice the serpent coiled about
+the tree in Eden. This is the symbol of Life. The serpent is a symbol of
+the female.
+
+The Israelites were commanded not to worship idols, but in the darkest
+hour of their history, when their own God, Jehovah, had sent upon them
+the plague of serpents and consigned them to destruction, then they
+called upon the mighty sun-god, they looked upon the brazen serpent on a
+cross, the Elevation of the Host, and the remnant of Israel was saved.
+Israel, it is said, worshipped the serpent or Devil until about 726 B.
+C. You will see this same god on the Masonic chart.
+
+The Talmud says that when Ben Asai and Ben Zoma were to be initiated
+into the Garden of Delights, Ben Asai looked and lost his sight, and Ben
+Zoma looked and lost his reason. Eusebius shows that St. James, the
+brother of Jesus and first Bishop of Jerusalem, never shaved or took a
+bath, and he alone could enter into the holy places.
+
+The merry maidens who circulate about the May-pole on May-day are
+devoted devotees of the loving god Baal Poer. And we on Palm Sunday
+carry palm leaves from the sacred palm tree to show that we are faithful
+worshippers of the true god Baal.
+
+In Italy, the clergy had at one time, according to Isis Unveiled, 2-5, a
+thriving trade in those things which they called the holy limbs of
+Saints Cosmo and Damiano. These male emblems were made of wax and
+certainly beautiful to behold. The divine spirit shining through them in
+resplendent glory cast its radiance afar. He who was so fortunate as to
+possess sufficient filthy lucre to purchase one saved his immortal soul
+from Hell, for was it not the symbol of life and the image of the great
+god.
+
+For the form of the pillar as worshipped in Syria, see page 121, A. P. &
+M. C. Symbolism, and on the mall of Boston Common may be seen the same
+pillar as adored by us at the Hub of Universal Culture, erected there to
+commemorate the birth of American liberty. Let us hope that you will get
+out early in the morning and see the blue-bellied Puritans and the
+codfish aristocracy kneeling before this sacred shrine, with their hands
+thrust through their rosaries, praying that this great god may make them
+fruitful.
+
+“The superstition of Europe instead of being diminished by the
+introduction of Christianity was only turned into a fresh channel. The
+new religion was corrupted by the old follies, the worship of the Virgin
+was substituted for the worship of Cybele, the mother of the gods. March
+25th, Lady’s Day, dedicated to Mary, was formerly called Hilaria and
+dedicated to Cybele. The religion of mankind is the effect of their
+improvement not the cause of it.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 1-188.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER VI.
+
+                         Jehovah, alias Adonai.
+
+
+According to the Hebrew lexicon יה (Yh or Ih) is one of the names of
+God. Y, I and J. are interchangeable, and Jehovah is identical with the
+god Yah of the Philistines and Iach or Iachus or Bacchus and Iao or Io
+and Jove. Bel of the Babylonians is the Chaldaic form of Baal, and
+according to Herodotus is identical with Zeus, who is the same as Deus
+or Jehovah. Ja or Jagannatha, the idol of the Hindus, is said to smile
+when a human blood sacrifice is thrown before his car.
+
+Jehovah Binah seemed to be a favorite divinity among the Masons. The
+name of this daemon, or subordinate goddess, is written on the serpent
+in the magic circle of King Solomon, which he employed in raising the
+Devil, and as Sabbath appears in her title, and she belongs to the
+sphere of Saturn or Moloch, I conclude that she was the goddess of the
+Witches’ Sabbath. There are ten persons in the Hebrew godhead, and she
+is the third, the supernal mother, the wife of Kether, consequently the
+mother of god. See Lesser Key of King Solomon, 47.
+
+According to the Standard Dictionary, (see “Sephira”) Jehovah is not the
+Supreme God, there is a party named Kether above him, the Ancient of
+Ancients. Baal, Bel or El is the fourth, next below Binah. He is the god
+of love and mercy, with whom we have no truck. We prefer the God of
+Battles. Baal Poer was worshipped in the groves under the name of
+Adonis. It may be seen by reference to the Hebrew Kabala, Kitzur Sh’lh,
+fol. 62, col. 1, that Adonai is called the Rock of Ages, like Christ.
+Madam Blavatsky says that Iachoh, Iach and Lord Sabaoth, the Baal Adonis
+or Bacchus, who was worshipped in the groves and public sods or
+Mysteries, under the polishing hand of Ezra, becomes Adonai, the one and
+supreme god of the Christians. The codex of the Nazarenes says: “Thou
+shalt not worship the sun, who is called Adonai and Kadush and El El.
+This Adonai will elect to himself a nation, Jerusalem will become the
+refuge and city of the abortive, who shall circumcise themselves with
+the sword and shall adore Adonai.” Israel is the same as Adonis. It
+means son of the Lord Ra, the Egyptian sun-god. So Israel was one of the
+christs, and it was his duty to wrestle with the Devil, Moloch. And he
+had a right to put his brother out and take his place, as christ, the
+new moon takes the place of the old moon (called the old and ugly
+christ) and as Solomon killed Adonijah and took his place.
+
+Haeckel says Jehovah was originally derived from the heaven god called
+Moloch and Baal, also Seth and Typhon of the Egyptians and Saturn of the
+Greeks.
+
+David says: “Who shall ascend into the high place of the Lord (Iach, in
+the original)? who shall stand in the place of his Kadishu (holy
+ladies)?”—Psalms, 24:3. “Solomon went to the high place of Gibeon, for
+there was the Tabernacle of God.”—2 Chron. 1:3. You will see that the
+high places were the temples of a foul worship by reference to 1 Kings,
+3:3.
+
+Yahevah is the ineffable name for which the Hebrews substituted Adonai.
+The Bacchantes, in their orgies or feasts of Iachus, pronounced the
+mystic word “Io Evohe.” Ei Eh Ei is I Am the I Am, and Ei was found
+inscribed on the temple of Apollo.—Plutarch, 1:14. Eidol is a doll or
+image of the god Ei, or Kether.
+
+Jehovah is identical with the god Brahma. Every 4,320,000,000 years all
+the planets in our solar system are in conjunction. This is one day of
+Brahma, 365 times that is one year, and one hundred of these years is
+the lifetime of Brahma, then god dies, and thereafter we have to worry
+along without him.
+
+The Trinity, instead of being a new revelation of the Christian
+religion, was taken from the trinities of the older pagan religions. The
+Chinese, the Hindus, the Babylonians, the Persians and the Egyptians
+each had a triune or hydra-headed god, a nightmare of their imagination,
+without foundation in nature or reason. If we have the only true
+religion, how is it that the Mexicans, before this country was
+discovered by the savages of Europe, had the trinity, the rite of
+baptism, the sign of the cross and purgatory. They had the tradition of
+the flood and the escape of Noah, and they offered as an oblation
+little, dough, male images of their savior as we do at the communion
+service.
+
+Some claimed that the astral light or ether was the supreme god, that
+one portion of it was male (spirit), and the other part was female
+(matter), and that the living forms of matter produced by the union of
+these two gods, are the third person of the trinity, the son of man.
+Others claim that the incomprehensible god back of the ether, of which
+the latter is an emanation, is the supreme god, and that the spiritual
+portion of the ether is the Word or Son, and the material portion of the
+ether is the mother, and the union of the son and the mother produces
+the phenomenal world. This a charming family relationship eminently
+appropriate to our pot-pourri of superstitions, called religion.
+
+Manu, the Hindu lawgiver, says: “The Sovereign Master, who exists
+through himself, divides his body into two halves, male and female, and
+from the union of these two principles is born Viradj, the son, or
+material forms.” The first name of this hermaphrodite god in the picture
+writing was IO.
+
+Haeckel says that the Christian God is a gaseous vertebrate. Socrates
+was put to death because he did not believe in the gods and introduced
+new demoniacal beings (spirits).
+
+In the Sunday American Magazine was also a picture of the Rock of Ages,
+in fact two pillars or Asherim or images of Asher are shown, together
+with two circles or groves. They were found in the ruins of Gaza. These
+are the idols that Abraham, David and Solomon worshipped when they hit
+the high places. And we still revere them and have the shafts erected
+over our graves and the wreaths placed upon the shafts so that we may be
+born again. If you do not think that Moses worshipped this rock god read
+Deut. 32:8. “Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful.” There were
+only seven thousand in all Israel that had not kissed the pillar.—1
+Kings, 19:18.
+
+There was also found in the ruins of Gaza an oval medallion in which
+stood “Horus, the strong bull, resplendent in strength.” Why is the
+Infant Jesus of Prague placed in an oval medallion? Why is the oval,
+with the Lamb in the centre thereof, placed on the front of the Infant
+Jesus, as it is on the front of the Virgin Mary? This picture of the
+Infant Jesus is a mine of esoteric symbolism. He has his name
+embroidered on his rich, elaborate dress, to wit, I E S. He holds up
+three fingers as he was taught to do when he was the infant Buddha, and
+on his head is the seven-rayed headdress of Buddha, the god of the
+seven-rayed sun.
+
+If you have catarrh, place a medallion of the Infant Jesus on your nose,
+and the catarrh will disappear.—Miraculous Infant Jesus of Prague, 30. A
+medal of the Divine Infant has been known to cure a sore thumb, if
+fastened in faith to the diseased member and accompanied by nine days
+prayer.—Idem 36. A man in financial difficulties made a novena (nine
+days prayer) to the Holy Child, and at the end of the devotions somebody
+gave him $35. Then he commenced another novena and was helped to win a
+prize in a lottery. Then he commenced the third novena, and Jehovah
+compelled a grasping mortgagee to discharge his mortgage on the
+devotee’s house, and another party gave him $10.—Idem 52.
+
+In the Hebrew Bible you will see that Bethel, or house of God, referred
+to in Genesis, 28:19, is spelt Bath Al, which means the house of the sun
+or sun-god, the same as Bothal or Brothel, the temple of worship of the
+Druids and Indians, a circle of twelve monoliths with a pillar in the
+centre, also called paradise. We changed the vowels and made it read
+Beth El, as we did not care to have our God related to such trash as Al
+and Allah, the Arabian god.
+
+Arius and the Council of Nice agreed that the Son is called Wisdom.
+Refer to “Sephira,” Stand. Dic., and you will see that Jehovah is named
+Wisdom and that he is the son of, or first emanation from Kether,
+consequently it is claimed that he is one of the christs. The only gods
+ever worshipped were the sun and his wife, the moon, to whom he was not
+legally married. The idols are images of incarnate sun-gods.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER VII.
+
+                      The Host, a Human Sacrifice.
+
+
+The Monstrance was a conventionalized Assyrian Grove, containing the
+Host, the male and female emblems, and corresponded with the Ark and was
+transparent, so that the devotees could look on the blessed symbols and
+live forever. It was called the Monstrance because it contained the
+hermaphrodite monster, now or formerly worshipped by the devotees of all
+religions. The directions of St. Cyril, of Jerusalem, were: “After
+kissing all the brothers and sisters, you touch the consecrated things
+to the eyes, nose, mouth and ears.” See Ency. Brit. 8:632.
+
+Under the mediumship of Eugene Vintras in Paris, the Devil placed his
+signature on the Hosts of the Church in characters of blood. The Abbe
+Charvoz brought one of the miraculously marked Hosts, bearing the
+signature of Satan, to Elephas Levi. One of the signatures was the
+Caduceus of the Greeks, the emblem of the Godhead, two serpents entwined
+about a rod, but the rod was omitted. Levi calls it the Typhonian sign
+manual because by omitting the rod, it thus denies the existence of the
+Supreme God Jehovah. The Devil, in the stigmata, asserts that there are
+only two gods, the two powers of the astral light, attraction and
+repulsion, the creator and the destroyer.—Mysteries of Magic.
+
+“In the case of Father Gerard in 1731, who was tried at Aix, in France,
+for resorting to sorcery in the seduction of his parishioner, Mlle.
+Catherine Cadiere, it was shown that he breathed upon her, and that she
+instantly conceived a violent love for him and had extatic visions and
+hysterical convulsions, and stigmata or blood marks of the Passion
+appeared upon her, that is, the bleeding marks of thorns on her brow, of
+nails in her hands and feet, and of a lance cut in her side. Of the
+twenty five judges, twelve voted to send the priest to the stake.”—Isis
+Unveiled, 2-633.
+
+The doctrine of transubstantiation, or the myth that the bread and wine
+become the actual body and blood of God, originated among the Hindus,
+and we stole it from them. The god Brahma was the astral light or
+magnetism, and when the priests charged the hosts with magnetism, they
+were charged with god, and consequently were gods. It is said that each
+separate part of this blood sacrifice is a Christ, so thousands of
+Christs were served up at a feast to be eaten by the savage devotees,
+and each cannibal ate a whole Christ to save his dastard soul. It is
+called the Host because they knifed him or struck him down, and it is
+called the Eucharist because they rejoice over his death and make a
+joyful feast upon the carcass. The Eucharist is one of the oldest rites
+of antiquity, instituted many hundreds of years before the Lord’s
+Supper. It was a repetition of the drama in Eden in commemoration of the
+fall into generation. By the worship of the foul idols in the
+Monstrance, by the idolatry of the Eucharist the pagans euchred the
+Devil out of their souls.
+
+The Eucharist was a human sacrifice. The devotees groveling in abject
+superstition, offered up their Christ on the reeking, blood-stained
+altar, and ate his flesh and drank his blood to wash their sins away. At
+the twelfth general council of the Church, the bread and wine was made
+the flesh and blood of Christ, and at the Council of Trent they added
+the soul. So at the orgies, the depraved devotee destroyed both the body
+and soul of his savior by casting him into his carrion carcass, into
+that charnel house, into that cavernous and loathsome inferno, from
+which there is no escape, there to rot and disintegrate and forever die.
+Thus they subjected their savior to the foulest method of annihilation
+to save their worthless souls from Hell.
+
+At the Passover the Jews sacrificed over 250,000 lambs to propitiate
+some blood-loving god. The altars and courts of the Temple ran red with
+the life blood of these innocent creatures. And certain beasts still
+sing: “And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty
+stains.” “Such a blood-sacrifice is unworthy of any people except the
+worshippers of some heathen devil-god in darkest Africa.”—Mystic
+Christianity, 65.
+
+When Richard, Robert, Sarah and Isabella Bartlett, at Lincoln, England,
+in 1521, expressed their opinions too freely on religious matters, they
+were burned at the stake by Bishop John Longland, but they were a
+pestiferous and seditious lot. They even objected to eating the male
+emblems, or images of the male, on communion day, and these double-dyed
+heretics denied the real presence of either Christ or Priapus in the
+images.
+
+Here is what Taine says as to this affair: “The Bishops had received the
+right of imprisoning without trial laymen suspected of heresy, and the
+jurisdiction of all crimes, offenses and sins was given to the
+ecclesiastical tribunals. They burned Lord Cobham alive. With what
+shamelessness this power was transformed into a vehicle for extortions.
+A man begins to think when he is thus downtrodden. He asks himself if it
+is really by divine dispensation that mitred thieves thus practice
+tyranny and pillage. He wants to know if they themselves practice the
+regularity that they impose on others, and he learns strange things.
+Cardinal Wolsey writes to the Pope that both the secular and regular
+priests were in the habit of committing atrocious crimes, for which, if
+not in orders, they would have been promptly executed. A priest
+convicted of incest with the prioress of Kilbourn was condemned to carry
+a cross in a procession and pay a fine of 3s and 4p. In the reign of
+Henry VII the gentlemen and farmers of Carnarvonshire laid a complaint
+accusing the clergy of systematically seducing their wives and
+daughters. The Holy Father Prior of Maiden Bradley hath but six
+children, and but one daughter married yet of the goods of the
+monastery, trusting shortly to marry the rest. The royal visitors found
+concubines in the secret apartments of the Abbots. At the nunnery of
+Sion the confessors seduced the nuns and absolved them at the same time.
+There were convents, Burnett tells us, where all the recluses were found
+pregnant.”—Taine’s English Literature, 2-18.
+
+“Bishop Longland, of Lincoln, about 1521, summons the relatives of the
+accused, brothers, women and children, and administers the oath. As they
+have already been prosecuted and have abjured, they must make oath, or
+they are relapsed, and the fagots await them. Then they denounce their
+kinsmen and themselves. Three of the accused were charged with passing
+the night together in reading the scriptures. Several of them at church,
+at the moment of the Elevation would not say their prayers and remained
+seated dumb as beasts. A brazier denied the real presence. Six were
+burnt alive. The children of John Scrivener were themselves obliged to
+set fire to their father’s funeral pyre. They saw him, bound by an iron
+chain, with clasped hands, praying amidst the smoke, whilst the flame
+blackened his skin and destroyed his flesh. Such sights are not
+forgotten.”—Idem.
+
+“At the peril of his life the Englishman obtains some portion of the
+Bible, which Tyndale had just translated, and hides it and learns it by
+heart. Tyndale, the translator, was condemned, hunted, in concealment,
+his mind full of the idea of a speedy death and of the Great God, for
+whom at last he mounted the funeral pyre.”—Idem, 2-21.
+
+If you do not believe that Priapus is christ, see Ency. Brit. 19-170,
+where he is represented as the shepherd god with a shepherd’s crook, and
+as the god of the vineyards and of fishermen, giving them abundant
+harvests. And sailors, in their sore distress, called upon him as Peter
+did.
+
+“The Masons, in the darkness, hunt for Hiram Abiff, as the worshippers
+in the Eleusinian Mysteries hunted for their lost Cora.” In the grand
+finale the Mystics say: “I have taken the emblems from the kiste, and
+after kissing and tasting them, I have deposited in the bag, and from
+the bag back into the kiste.”
+
+In the first illustrated English Bible, the Devil will be seen, wearing
+a pair of wings and a Hebrew nose, tempting Eve. He says: “Take this
+fruit, bite it and taste it.” You will see that the thing presented to
+her is not an apple at all, but the emblem of Ashtoreth. See Sun. Am.
+Mag. Dec. 20, 1914. You will also find in another illustration there the
+angel Gabriel, with the Word strapped on his back, descending into Hell
+to deliver the souls in torment.
+
+Yesterday in passing a great church, when I raised my eyes to the cross,
+I there beheld on each arm of the cross, the circle, the same revered
+article that the Devil offered to Eve. This blessed and holy symbol is
+found engraven over the portals of the eternal rock temples of the
+ruined city of Petra, Arabia, that flourished in the time of Esau and
+his son Edom, as well as over the doors of the ancient churches of
+Ireland, and on the modern cathedrals. In fact this aesthetic Eye
+worship extends around the world, starting in the slums of India, it has
+circled the globe.
+
+The Christian religion was copied largely from the Eleusinian Mysteries,
+which were founded at the city of Eleusis, near Athens. These mysterious
+rites were employed in the worship of Demeter or Mater, the mother god,
+or Mary. In these Mysteries the worshippers indulged in the foul orgies
+of the Agape. The men carried male emblems or Signa Taus, and the
+females carried the kiste or box. Placing the Signa Tau in the kiste
+caused them to be born again and saved their souls from Tophet.
+
+
+
+
+                             CHAPTER VIII.
+
+                             Jesus Christ.
+
+
+If the clergymen tell you that there is only one christ, politely
+present them with the seal of Belial. Each of the principal religions
+had twelve christs. Christ was never crucified, but the human race was
+crucified by religion from its very inception, and the Christian world
+wallowed in the Egyptian darkness of ignorance and superstition till in
+the middle ages, the golden age, no king in Europe could read and write.
+
+Christ is the same as Agni, the sun god of the Aryans, who was called
+the Son of God and the Son of Man. The god Agni is represented by us by
+the idol, the Agnus Dei, the Ram God, that holds in his hoof a cross and
+some banner, perhaps the blood-stained banner of the Inquisition. Adam
+Kadmon, Enoch, Horus, Krishna, Ormazd, and Hermes, the patron of thieves
+and flocks, the son of Deus and Maia, these and many other gods are all
+identical with christ. Noah was the christ that came in the sign of the
+Waterman 25,868 years ago. In the Babylonian legend the deluge continued
+seven days, and the ship landed on Mt. Niser. This is a resurrection of
+the great god Dionysius or Bacchus, and the first thing he did when he
+got ashore was to get drunk. He is also Jehovah Nissi or the Egyptian
+god Osiris who was born on Mt. Nissa or Sinai in the month of Nisan or
+Easter.
+
+Sephir Toldos Jeshu, a Kabalist, says: “A virgin named Mariam, betrothed
+to one Johannan was outraged by another man named Joseph Panther. Her
+betrothed left her. The child born was Jesus, named Joshua, adopted by
+his uncle Rabbi Jehosuah. He was initiated into the secret doctrines by
+Rabbi Elhanan, a Kabalist, and then by the Egyptian priests, who
+consecrated him High Pontiff of the Universal Secret Doctrine. Upon his
+returning to Judea his learning and powers excited the jealousy of the
+rabbis, and they publicly reproached him with his origin and insulted
+his mother.”
+
+According to the Pretevangelium Jacobi, “From her third to her twelfth
+year Mary was in the Temple. When she became of nubile age, lest she
+should defile the Sanctuary of the Lord, she was committed to the
+guardianship of Joseph, an elderly man and a widower with a family. When
+the Virgin’s pregnancy was discovered, Joseph and she were brought
+before the high priest, and though asserting their innocence in all
+sincerity, were acquitted only after they had been tried with the water
+of the ordeal of the Lord.”—Ency. Brit. 15:590. Mary was then a virgin
+and ever after remained so, although she had other children.
+
+The author does not believe that either of the above passages refers to
+the Christian Jesus. He is an Egyptian or Hindu deity, not a Jew.
+
+The christs were all illegitimate. Their parents, the sun and moon,
+would have complied with the idiotic human laws if there had been any
+magistrate in Heaven to marry them. There was Asphalius of Greece, born
+of the Virgin Ethra out of wedlock. Then there are Romulus and Remus,
+alias Castor and Pollux or Gemini, the Twins of the zodiac. They were
+sons of a Vestal Virgin named Rhea. King Amulius, corresponding with
+Herod, commanded his servant to destroy the two children, but the
+servant put them in a trough or ark, and they floated on the river as
+Moses, who was also a christ, did in his ark, and as the males and
+females did in Noah’s Ark. Their mother claimed that their father was
+the god Mars. Unmarried ladies, in those halcyon days, always put their
+children up to the gods.—See Plutarch, 1:33.
+
+Christ is a mythical sun-god, a rebirth of the sun in a new sign of the
+zodiac. The Church Fathers, in localizing the Christ in the Holy Land,
+could claim that any Jesus of that region was the Son of God, either
+Jesus, the bandit of Galilee, or the one described above, as long as his
+name corresponded with the I E S of Egypt, and as long as he was dead
+and could not defend himself. According to Josephus, the Jesus that
+lived in the reign of King Agrippa and Herod the Tetrarch was Jesus of
+Galilee, the captain of a band of robbers, a wicked man, a seditious
+person and an innovator, the leader of a tumult of mariners and poor
+people. He sacked the temple at Samaria. See Life of Josephus, 5.
+
+Renan says that Philo, who died about 50 A. D., and who was born before
+Jesus, and who lived in Palestine during the alleged preaching of
+Christ, had never heard of him. Josephus does not mention a Christian
+sect at all. The Emperor Adrian called the Christians worshippers of
+Serapis, and that was probably the truth. Serapis is the Devil, with
+horns, Lord of the Underworld.
+
+Christna, Apollo, Zeus and others, like Christ, were good shepherds. The
+Hindus represent Christna as crucified on the cross between two thieves,
+with the nail marks in his hands, and with a crown of seven points to
+show that he is the seventh avatar. His father was a carpenter, and he
+slew the great serpent Caliva and was worshipped in India ages before
+the Christian Era.
+
+The doctrine of Christ and the atonement originated in heathendom. It
+came from the pagan sacrificers of human beings and the eaters of human
+flesh in human gore imbued. They took the doctrine from the Chaldean
+Kabala. It is a pagan myth. Bacchus or Dionysius was the god of the
+vine, and his worshippers drank his blood to wash their sins away. He
+was the son of Deus or Zeus and an earthly mother. He was slain or
+sacrificed at the winter solstice and went down into Hell. Hera, who
+corresponds with Herod, sought Bacchus to slay him. He was honored by
+festivals at Christmas, when the sun died, and at Easter when it was
+resurrected. His emblems were the bull, the ass and the goat. The
+Christians of Rome were ridiculed for worshipping an ass-headed god. The
+symbol of the Bacchic orgies is named Eva or Heva, identical with the
+serpent raised by the Hebrews in the wilderness. Heva means a female
+serpent and constitutes a part of god, the second part of the name
+Yaheva. The first part of that hermaphrodite god is Ya, the male, and
+the last part is Heva, the female, or serpent, or Devil.
+
+Christ not only never rose from the dead, but he never existed. The
+doctrine of vicarious atonement is a lie and a farce. The Christian’s
+hope of escaping Hell by cowardly allowing another to suffer for his
+sins, has taken wings and flown away.
+
+The Gnostics, one of the earliest Christian sects, formerly called
+Essenes, claimed that Christ was a phantom, that he was neither born nor
+suffered on the cross. See Book of All Religions, 213. Origen believed
+the same. He tells of the popular irrational Christianity based on the
+fictitious gospel history devised to assist the masses, who could not
+comprehend a spiritual christ.—Mystic Christianity, 211.
+
+Madam Blavatsky says that this abominable doctrine of the forgiveness of
+sins is the cause of three fourths of the crimes of so-called
+Christians. The murdered victim goes to Hell in the midst of his sins,
+but the murderer receives absolution and goes to Heaven and sits with
+Christ beside the Golden Throne. The Parsis say: “If any of you commit
+sin under the belief that he shall be saved by somebody, both the
+deceiver as well as the deceived shall be damned to the day of Rasla
+Khaz. There is no savior. In the other world you shall receive the
+return according to your actions. Your savior is your good deeds.” Plato
+says in 2-187: “Even if there are gods, they can be bribed by prayers
+and offerings, so it is better to be unjust and offer of the fruits of
+injustice to the gods. By our sinning and praying and praying and
+sinning, the gods will be propitiated, and we shall be forgiven.”
+
+The Jews offered seven lambs at the new moon because the Lamb came seven
+times. It is to be noted that they gave none of the offering to God
+except the refuse, the extremities and the fat and the lobe of the
+liver, but the priests had the breast and the right shoulder. The Lord
+and the mob were welcome to the offal.
+
+We are saved by the blood of christ or Priapus, but the Jews were saved
+by the blood of the circumcision of Abraham, who was also a christ.
+“Abraham was circumcised on the day of the atonement, and God looks that
+day annually on the blood of the covenant of our father Abraham’s
+circumcision as atoning for all our iniquities.”—Talmud Yalcut Chadish,
+fol. 121, sec. 3.
+
+When the young and beautiful philosopher, Hypatia, disclosed these
+sacred religious secrets in Egypt about 412 A. D., she was torn from her
+chariot by a Christian mob, dragged to a Christian church, stripped
+naked and ravished at the very feet of the idol of Christ, and then
+beaten to death by Peter, the Reader. Her body was cut into pieces, the
+flesh scraped from the bones with oyster shells, and the remnants cast
+into the fire by the order of the canonized saint, Bishop Cyril of
+Alexandria.—Ency. Brit. 12:596.
+
+A Nazar or Nazarene, according to Hosea, was one who had consecrated
+himself to Bosheth, (a shameful thing, a foul idol.) It was in Nazareth
+that the Nazarenes anciently held their Witches’ Sabbath. Bosher is the
+Hebrew name of the Tree of Infamy. The “Sod of the Kadishim,” Psalms,
+89:7, is rendered by the translators “Assembly of the Saints,” when it
+was in truth an orgy of the ladies devoted to the service of the Temple.
+Sod was the name given to the vile assemblies in the ancient Mysteries
+in Sodom, and the nature of the sacred ceremonies may be gathered from
+the name. They were the same as those of the ancient Christian Agape or
+Love Feast.
+
+It is claimed that Apollonius of Tyana was the original of Christ, for
+the former was worshipped in Rome in the third century as the savior of
+man, and that no such person as Jesus Christ was then known. There was a
+sect that worshipped the Hindu Christos. Their religion was a mixture of
+Buddhism and Platonism, and their chief symbol was the phallic cross
+within the circle. The Christian religion takes its name and symbols
+from this Hindu religion. See Antiquity Unveiled, 98. Lucian says that
+the Christians spoke of Apollonius, called in Romans Apollos, as a god
+and took him for a lawgiver, and honored him with the title of Master.
+
+Prior to the sixth Ecumenical Council, 680 A. D., the Christians
+worshipped an animal idol, the lamb on a cross, but it was found from
+ancient monuments that the pagans had worshipped the same idol. So the
+Council decreed that the figure of a man should be placed on the cross,
+Christ was not nailed to the cross until 680 A. D. and then by the
+Ecumenical Council.—Idem 161.
+
+The pagan priests, at a very early date in the present era, finding that
+they were losing their hold on the people, concocted from pagan
+originals a new religion called the Christian. As a sop to the depraved
+and besotted worshippers of virgin-born gods, they alleged that their
+god was born of the Virgin Mary, and they seized upon and falsified the
+Hindu gospels, containing the life of Buddha, till they were made to
+appear to apply to the life of Christ. In order to bolster up this foul
+imposition and conceal the origin of Christianity, they destroyed the
+records of Grecian, Egyptian and Roman civilization and sank the world
+in darkness for a thousand years, filling it with woe and bloodshed. The
+success of this crime against their fellowmen set back the hands of time
+two thousand years. See Doubts of Infidels.
+
+The doctrine of blood atonement came from Phoenicia, where they
+continually indulged in human sacrifice. In the event of an eclipse of
+the sun, the priests burned a man on a cross at the altar of the sun-god
+to avert the threatened calamity. “From the sixth hour there was
+darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.” And on these altars,
+2600 B. C., was I H S or I E S. As the E or H in Egyptian hieroglyphics
+is a circle, this sign was originally I O S. I represents the father
+god, and O the mother god, and S represents the son or serpent. The
+serpent was crucified on the cross by the Egyptians and Jews as a saving
+rite.
+
+At the church festival of Tezcatlipoca in Mexico, they chose a prisoner
+as the incarnate representative of god and placed a garland and an
+embroidered mantle upon him, as the Jews did on Christ. Then they led
+him to the temple, where the priest cut his heart out and held the
+sacred bleeding heart up to the sun, and his body was eaten by the
+church members, as we eat the body of our Savior.
+
+Rev. Robert Taylor says in his Diegesis: “Not a single passage written
+in the first century can be produced from any independent authority to
+show the existence of such a person as Jesus Christ or his disciples.”
+The silence of all contemporary writers respecting Jesus Christ is a
+notorious fact. Philo, Seneca, Plutarch, Juvenal, Virgil, Horace, Ovid
+and Lucian, who lived in that period, make no allusion to his works, nor
+even mention his name.—Doubts of Infidels, 66.
+
+The christ Prometheus died for the salvation of the world and was nailed
+on the cross many hundreds of years before the Christian Era. And the
+christ Esculapius, the Great Physician, healed the sick and raised the
+dead and died in the West and rose again in the East.
+
+Jonah was a christ or sun-god. The sign of the Goat in the Buddhist
+zodiac is represented by a leviathan or whale vomiting out the sacred
+Elephant, or sun, or Son of God. When the sun entered the sign of the
+Leviathan in December it was swallowed by the whale, but was vomited out
+again three days later on the 25th of December, when the sun commenced
+to return. Hence the story of Jonah and the whale, which has been so
+hard to swallow, and which has taxed our piety to the limit.
+
+Ies is the Phoenician name of the god Bacchus. Ies, or Iesu, or Jesus
+was stolen from the Phoenicians and Egyptians, and the god Christos was
+taken from the Hindus and thrown together into the melting pot of
+Potoman of Alexandria, and out came Jesus Christ. Potoman compiled the
+Christian religion from Hindu, Greek and Egyptian originals.
+
+If God made man in his own image, why does he have to be redeemed? It is
+true that man stubbed his toe and fell, but it was because he obeyed the
+command of God to increase and multiply. The Yogis claim that Christ was
+not virgin born, but was a virgin spirit split off of God and came to
+redeem the world. If he redeemed the world, how is it that the people
+are worse now than they ever were, that the history of his religion has
+been a history of depravity, vice, crime, murder and carnage, which has
+now culminated in a world-orgy of savagery, pillage and slaughter, of
+which the fiends in Hell would be incapable? How is it that the beasts,
+which have never been redeemed, the doves, the rabbits, the lambs, the
+deer, are far superior to us who were bought by the blood?
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAPTER IX
+
+                        Hell-fire and Brimstone.
+
+             You’ll burn in Hell ten thousand years,
+             In vain will be your cries and tears,
+             You’ll burn in Hell till ages meet,
+             And just begin to feel the heat.—Amasa Alden.
+
+
+We are in Hell now. Rabbi Eleasher says that “the demons who were cast
+out of Heaven and the descendants of the witless progeny of matter and
+spirit became in the course of time the men of our planet, after having
+passed through every form of every one of the elements.”
+
+Where did the Church dig up Hell? The Scandinavian Hell is not a place
+of punishment, but simply the abode of the dead. The dictionary says
+that Hades, the Hell of the Bible, is the abode of all the departed, the
+unseen spirit world. The Shoel of the Hebrews is the place of departed
+spirits, not a region of torment. The Underworld or Amenti, of the
+Egyptians, is a region of judgment and purification. The Onderah, the
+abyss of darkness of the Hindus, is an intermediate state or purgatory.
+Whence then came the dogma of Hell, that Archimedean lever of Christian
+theology, with which they have succeeded in holding in subjection the
+numberless millions of Christians for nineteen centuries.—Isis Unveiled.
+
+Here is where Eusebius and the other Biblical writers got Hell.
+According to Mahabad, the christ and Adam of the Parsees, who wrote all
+the laws of God, Hell is peopled with ants, serpents and scorpions,
+ignorant, sick and indigent men and irreligious philosophers, and on
+account of the detestable qualities of the later, the ants, serpents and
+scorpions pounce upon and torture them. This is the Hell of
+Hells.—Dabistan, 81.
+
+In the chart of the cosmogony of the Kabalists, representing their idea
+of the creation of the universe, the last and most insignificant
+creation is the earth, which they have labeled Hell, the abode of the
+Devil, the Kingdom of the Great Serpent according to the Buddhists.
+
+In the religious Mysteries, if the soul has attained the final knowledge
+of the heavenly and infernal mysteries, the gnosis, complete reunion
+with the spirit, and knows the Word, at the death of the body, it
+becomes a god, or is absorbed into the soul of the world, the astral
+light, and becomes one of the creative deities or Elohim. If not, it has
+its part in the lake of fire and brimstone (the elements), the second
+death. This death is the gradual dissolution of the astral body into its
+primal elements and the banishment of the human spirit or electron into
+chaos.
+
+Elephas Levi and many of the wise ones have said that the astral light
+is the Great Serpent or Devil, so we will go to the Devil anyway, no
+matter which path we pursue. What difference does it make whether we are
+united to the astral light or the material ether? All the atoms of all
+the elements have individual souls.
+
+Krishna, the Hindu christ, Horus, the Egyptian christ, the Scandinavian
+Thor, the Greek Apollo and St. Patrick, the Irish christ, are all
+represented as killing the Great Serpent, the Devil. All of the christs,
+including Buddha, Bacchus, Hercules, Orpheus and Askelapius, as well as
+Jesus, descended into Hell and ascended again the third day. According
+to the Gospel of Nicodemus, Christ found Adam, Moses, David, Isaiah and
+all the other saints there, and as they had been burning in Hell several
+thousand years, their wings were pretty well singed and they were badly
+mussed up, but Christ took them by the hands and led them up to the
+Hebrew heaven, where the three balls are worshipped, together with the
+ass-headed god. The Devil had no one left to rule over except the
+depraved, uncircumcised gentiles and the elemental demons. The Gentiles
+cannot get past the gates of Tophet, but must linger for a time, and
+half a time, and ten thousand times while they do battle with the
+phantoms of Hell and wrestle with the Serpent of the Great Abyss.
+
+“The Presbyterian clergy of Scotland delighted in telling their hearers
+that they would be roasted in great fires and hung up on hooks by their
+tongues. They were to be lashed with scorpions and see their companions
+writhing and howling around them. They were to be thrown into boiling
+oil and scalding lead. A river of fire and brimstone broader than the
+earth was prepared for them, their bones, their lungs and their liver
+were to boil but never be consumed, and while worms were gnawing at
+their bodies, they were to be surrounded by devils mocking and making
+pastime of their pains, the torment to be varied in its character as
+well as eternal in its duration. Hell was created before man came into
+the world, the Almighty having spent his previous leisure in preparing
+this place of torment, so that when the human race appeared, it might be
+ready for their reception.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 2-293.
+
+Hell is the lowest of the astral planes, in the immediate atmosphere of
+the earth, where the most of us go. Heaven is the highest of the
+spiritual planes, where God lives, but as nobody to speak of ever goes
+there, no one on the astral ever saw God or can make affidavit that he
+exists, and any spirit that claims that he has seen God is either
+deceiving us or is himself mistaken. He may have seen some astral idol,
+formed from the astral substance by the imagination and worshipped by
+the religion-besotted spirits. “The aura of the spirits in the lowest
+astral plane is the same as that of wicked human beings, a dark, cloudy
+or smoky emanation, streaked with the red flames of anger and passion.
+Deep shades of color whirl and swirl in the depths, lightning-like
+flashes shoot forth, and great bodies of lurid, smoky, clouds fly on the
+surface, having all the appearance of an inferno, and the region itself
+has the same aura, derived from the combined auras of its inhabitants.
+It is not surprising that the witches and wizards of the Bible, who
+could see by clairvoyant vision, described it as a Hell of fire and
+brimstone.”—Human Aura, 45.
+
+According to the religion of Zoroaster, “Hell is the House of
+Destruction. It is the abode chiefly of the priests of bad religions,”
+that is, all religions except the Persian, but this is not to be taken
+seriously, as every religion is a joke. Here we have the original
+doctrine of the resurrection of the body, which our Christian ministers
+have had the consummate nerve to preach even here in this age of the
+world.
+
+Mark Twain says in “The Mysterious Stranger”: “A God who mouths justice
+and mercy and invented Hell, mouths golden rules and forgiveness and
+invented Hell, who mouths morals to other people and has none himself,
+who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all, who created man without
+invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s acts upon
+man, instead of placing it where it belongs upon himself.” The trouble
+with Mark was that he accepted as true all that silly superstition, all
+those puerile fairy tales, all those black lies from the Pit of Hell
+written and taught by the old priests and prophets. God never created
+the human race, he never made Hell. This cruel remark of Mark is
+libelous, almost bordering on blasphemy.
+
+Read what the insane Church Fathers said: “There in Hell the intelligent
+fire burns the limbs and restores them, feeds on them and nourishes
+them.”—Felix.
+
+The proud monarchs and magistrates (and everybody but the Christians)
+shall liquefy in the fierce flames of Hell.—Tertullian.
+
+We shall be compensated by a perpetual spectacle of our persecutors in
+an ever-burning Gehenna being devoured by living flames.—Cyprian.
+
+Ling or the Word is the Commander-in-chief of the universe.—Clement.
+
+Every sinner kindles for himself the flame of his own fire, and is not
+plunged into some fire kindled by another.—Origen.
+
+The wicked will be provided not with the old earthly body, but with an
+indestructible body capable of holding out forever against everlasting
+fire.—Lactantius.
+
+The whole mass of the human race is condemned. If we can pray the wicked
+out of Hell, we can pray the devils out.—Augustine.
+
+Everybody, infants included, go to Hell, unless they are
+baptized.—Ambrose.
+
+There shall be eternal torments for all devils and skeptics.—Jerome.
+
+Votive offerings by the living will reduce the torments of the dead. The
+blessed shall rejoice over the punishment of the damned.—Aquinas.
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAPTER X.
+
+                               The Devil.
+
+
+Christ overcame the Great Serpent, the Devil, and the Irish Bacchus, St.
+Patrick, drove all the snakes out of Ireland. The drunken Bacchus, whose
+Saturnalia was held on the 17th of March, when they poured out libations
+to him, was canonized and is now St. Bacchus, and his coffin and relics,
+endowed with magical and miraculous powers, were exhibited at Rome
+according to Isis Unveiled, 1:160.
+
+Deus was Dyaus of the old Aryan or earlier Persian religion. Dyaus means
+to shine, and was a name of the sun. The followers of Zoroaster asserted
+that Dyaus was the Devil, and if they were right, it follows that Deus
+is the Devil. In this connection read the Lord’s Prayer, in which the
+ignorant worshipper endeavors to persuade the Lord not to lead him into
+temptation. According to the writers of the Bible, who were probably
+liars, He hardened the heart of Pharaoh, commanded the Israelites to
+steal, put an evil spirit into Saul and sent lying messages to the
+prophets. In Samuel it says that the Lord moved David to number Israel,
+but according to Chronicles it was the Devil who put him up to it. The
+words divine and devil are from Deva, the shining one, the Hindu god of
+light. Light is also luc, and Lucifer is a sun-god identical with
+Yahvah. The worshippers of Dyaus said that Ahura Mazda, of the
+Zoroastrians was the Devil. Ahura Mazda means I Am the I Am, and he is
+our God, the supreme God of the Hebrews, Kether, the father of Jehovah.
+According to the early Christians, the Gnostics and Nazarenes, the
+creator was Ilda Baoth, but in the Gospel of Nicodemus Ilda Baoth is
+Satan. Aaron sacrificed human beings to Azazel, identical with Moloch or
+the Devil. The Bible says that “man shall devote unto the Lord of all
+that he hath, both of man and beast. None devoted shall be redeemed, but
+shall surely be put to death.” We conclude that god and the Devil are
+one, that Brahma, Buddha, Dyaus, Ahura Mazda, Baal, Osiris, Jove,
+Bacchus, Christ, Priapus, Adonis, Deva and Devil are different names of
+the same god, and that god is a myth.
+
+The Devil is an emanation of god. He is Typhon, also called Sat and Seth
+in the Egyptian religion. The Ency. Brit. says that he is a brother or
+son of Osiris, and we have shown that Osiris and god are one, so we
+conclude that the Devil is the son of god as claimed in Job, 1:6. The
+Salvation Army says: “You must be a lover of the lord if you want to go
+to Heaven when you die.” So you must love the Devil and all these beasts
+of pagan gods, or you will have to shovel coal while the endless years
+of eternity roll.
+
+The Pentagram, by the power of which Solomon could summon the high gods
+to his assistance or call up the goblins damned, represents God when one
+horn of the star is in the ascendent or at the top, but when the two
+horns are in the ascendent, it represents the Devil or the goat. When
+Solomon summoned Gabriel to help him capture a new girl, the head of the
+star, on which is the mystic eye, was pointed toward the altar of
+evocation. But if he wished to raise the Devil, the horns of the goat
+were pointed toward the altar. In the infernal invocation Solomon wore a
+leaden cap, on which were the signs of the Moon, Venus and Saturn. He
+had two candles of human fat in a crescent candlestick, a copper vase
+holding the blood of the human victim, a censer containing incense
+moistened with the blood of a goat, four nails from the coffin of an
+executed criminal, the head of a black cat which has been fed on human
+flesh for five days, a bat drowned in blood, the horns of an immoral
+goat, the scull of a parricide. Then Solomon says in the evocation of
+the Devil: “By Adonai Elohim (the Creator), Adonai Jehovah (the Son),
+Adonai Sabbaoth (the Mother), by the womb of the Mother Adonai, by the
+Word of the Python and the Mystery of the Salamanders, by the Conclave
+of the Sylphs and the Gnomes, by the Demons of God in Heaven and
+Alamousin and Gibor, Come! Come! Come!”
+
+On the Pentagram is the mystic word יחוח, Yahvah, the spelling of which
+indicates that it represents two hermaphrodite gods. יח, Yah, is the
+good god, and וח, Vah, is the god of evil. The good god is represented
+in a pack of cards by the king of hearts, the god of love, and his wife,
+the queen of diamonds. And the hermaphrodite god of evil is represented
+by the king of spades and his wife, Lilith, the queen of clubs.
+Aristotle said that Jehovah was Ormazd, the god of light, and Pluto, the
+god of darkness. Jehovah is the God of Wisdom, so is the Egyptian
+serpent god, called Sat or Satan.
+
+The serpent god is the astral light, the magnetic current. The priests
+by their great will power could direct this current at pleasure and
+perform the wonders and miracles that held enthralled their besotted
+devotees. They claimed that they were serpents because the serpent god
+magnetism permeated their bodies. A manuscript found among the Toltecs
+of Mexico asserted that they were descended from the house of Israel.
+Voltan, the Mexican demigod, says that he is the son of the snakes. The
+hierophants of Egypt and Babylon called themselves the sons of the
+serpent god. The chief priest of the serpent god of the Mexicans says:
+“I am a snake myself.” The Druids of Britain used to say: “I am a
+serpent, I am a Druid.”—Isis Unveiled.
+
+Cneph or Cohen Eph (divine serpent) of Egypt was the supreme god, the
+flying dragon, the divine spirit permeating all creation, like the
+serpent god of the Buddhists. This spirit is electricity. The Ophites,
+Christian Gnostics, claimed that the serpent that tempted Eve was Jesus
+Christ, the Great Architect of the Universe, or Cohen Eph. Eve
+represented matter, and the spirit permeating matter produces living
+beings.
+
+The astral light is both god and the Devil, the creator and the
+destroyer and also the Nirvana of the Buddhists. It is the Ah of the
+Hindus, or Iah or Eh Ei Eh of the Hebrews. It is life or the life-giving
+fluid. It is the Od and Ob of Moses and the Kabalists. When it acts on
+those that are drawn within its current it is the Ob or Python. Moses
+was determined to exterminate those witches who, sensitive to its
+influence, allowed themselves to fall under the control of the vicious
+beings which move in the astral waves like fish in the water.—Isis
+Unveiled, 1-158. Porphery says that “these beings are mischievous and
+deceitful, though some are gentle and harmless, but so weak as to have
+the greatest difficulty in communicating with mortals. Their powers of
+reasoning are in a latent state, and therefore they themselves
+irresponsible.” But St. Augustine says: “These spirits are deceitful
+through malice. They pass themselves off for gods and for the souls of
+the defunct.” St. Jerome says that some of these elementary spirits or
+satyrs, with the legs and tails of goats, were exhibited at Alexandria,
+and one of them was pickled and sent to the Emperor Constantine, which
+he highly appreciated, as he was usually in the same condition. The
+Devil says, according to Edgar Allan Poe: “In a climate so sultry as
+mine it is frequently impossible to keep a spirit alive for more than
+two or three hours, and unless pickled immediately (and a pickled spirit
+is not good eating) they will smell.”
+
+They called out sixty thousand militia in Cevennes, France, in 1700 to
+drive the Devil out of the boys and girls and babes at the breast who
+prophesied in pure French, a language unknown to them. The Prior
+reported to Rome that the Devil was so powerful that no torture and no
+amount of exorcism is able to dislodge him. He says he closed their
+hands on burning coals, and they were not even singed, that he wrapped
+their bodies in cotton soaked with oil and set them on fire and could
+not even blister their skins, that balls were shot at them and found
+flattened between the skin and clothes.
+
+Perhaps the greatest number of miracles ever performed in the world were
+pulled off by the Devil at the tomb of Abbe Paris from 1727 to 1749. The
+sick were cured, the deaf made to hear and the blind to see. Often a
+young girl among the convulsionaries would bend back into an arc, her
+loins supported by the sharpened point of an iron rod, and beg to be
+pounded with a fifty pound stone suspended from the ceiling. The stone
+was allowed to fall repeatedly with all its weight upon her abdomen, and
+the girl enjoyed it and cried for more, and no injury was found upon her
+person. When violent blows were struck with a sledge-hammer upon a drill
+held against her stomach she cried out: “O! how delightful, that does me
+good. Strike twice as hard if you can.”—Isis Unveiled.
+
+
+
+
+                               CHAPTER XI
+
+                              Life Cells.
+
+
+I Am the I Am, the Hebrew God, is supposed by Christians to be the First
+Cause, but the assumption of a first cause is quite unnecessary, and
+further, if you postulate a creative god, some impertinent person might
+ask you who made God. It is just as well to start with matter, in which
+mind and energy are inherent, which is eternal, infinite, immortal,
+self-existent and sustaining, requiring no supreme power as a basis or
+background, as set forth in the Sankhya System of the Hindus. See Phil.
+& Relig. of India, 55.
+
+The attraction or love of one mass of matter for another is the energy.
+It is that love that creates all forms. The atoms go a-chasing after
+other atoms, even as you and I. There can be no attraction without mind.
+Anaxagoras and Empedocles believed in a dualism of mind and matter. The
+latter says: “The periods of the formation of the world depend upon the
+alternate prevalence of love and hate. During certain periods all
+heterogeneous atoms are separated from each other by hate, during others
+they are everywhere united by love.”
+
+Haeckel says: “These three fundamental attributes, matter, force and
+sensation, are found inseparably united throughout the whole universe in
+every atom and every molecule.”
+
+Edgar Allan Poe says: “That which is not matter is not at all. The
+ultimate unparticled matter not only permeates all things but impels all
+things. This matter is God. What men attempt to embody in the word
+‘thought’ is this matter in motion. The unparticled matter, or God, in
+quiescence is what men call mind. The motion of the unparticled matter
+is the universal thought of the universal mind. This thought creates.
+All things are but the thought of God. For new individualities gross
+matter is necessary. To create individual, thinking beings, it was
+necessary to incarnate portions of the Divine Mind. Thus man is
+individualized. Divested of corporate investiture, he were God.”
+
+According to the Ionic philosophy matter is by nature endowed with life,
+and life is inseparably connected with matter.—Ueberweg’s Hist. of
+Philosophy, 1-32.
+
+It is said that in the beginning a male electron or spirit, or purusha,
+or soul, from the spirit principle of the universe, becoming involved in
+the material ether, formed a vortex, about which the female or material
+electrons of the ether revolved, thus producing an atom, the basis of
+all visible forms. The electron attracts the particles of matter in the
+ether as a magnet attracts steel. The electrons are called units of
+electricity, and there are perhaps a thousand in an atom. The space
+between these ions is comparatively as great as the space between the
+planets of our solar system. Leucippus, of Abdera, says that souls are
+round atoms.
+
+The religious claim that the Divine Thought or Word originated the
+vortex movement. As John did not care to proclaim that his god was Ling,
+which he had stolen from the Hindus, he called it the Word, another
+meaning of Ling, from Ling comes linguist. Word is the exoteric meaning
+designed for fools, and the other is the esoteric or hidden meaning
+known only to the initiates. I think that the Christians are in error in
+claiming John’s god as their own, but amid such a flock of gods the
+confusion is not surprising.
+
+“New Light has arisen, coming from Heaven, it assumed a mortal form.
+Virgin receive God in thy bosom, and the Word flew into the womb.
+Becoming incarnate in time, and animated by her body, it was found in
+mortal image, and a boy was created.”—Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, 17.
+Christna or the Word, the Hindu savior, like Christ was a shepherd, and
+he became entangled with the shepherdesses. He was born in the cave of
+Venus, as all Simon-pure christs have to be, and King Kamsa, in seeking
+to kill him, ordered the destruction of all male infants. He also had
+two fathers, God and Vasu Deva, the Earth god or Joseb. He and the god
+Vishnu were one.—Phil. & Relig. of India, 278.
+
+The Hindus claim that the akasa or astral light, or Brahma,
+(electricity) originated the vortex movement that formed the atoms.
+Akasa is the source of life, the reservoir of all energy, the
+all-directing and omnipotent god. It was the indispensable agent of
+every magical performance, and the Brahmans said that they had to stir
+up Brahma in order to perform a trick in magic to delude their devotees.
+Madam Blavatsky says: “As God creates so can man create. By the action
+of the will power on the atoms he can call objective forms into being.
+The atoms are like automatic workmen moved by the influx of the will
+directed upon them.” “Every motion we make, every word we utter gives an
+impulse to the ether and thus creates atoms.”—Edgar Allan Poe.
+
+Aristotle says: “The world always was and always will be. The ether
+fills the celestial spaces, and of it the spheres and stars are formed.”
+The atoms combine to form molecules, and these, being attracted
+together, form the gases of which nebulae are composed. These nebulae
+follow the same circular movement that prevails in the atoms, and the
+result of this movement is a solar system, the nucleus of which becomes
+the sun. The rings that separate from the main body in this revolution
+eventually break up and form planets. When these planets cool, we find
+all the atomic souls either in the water or imprisoned in the rocks or
+in the central fire. The sea beats up against the rocks, and the rains
+descend upon and disintegrate them and thus release the souls that were
+imprisoned there in the process of involution. Now they commence to
+evolve toward what the egotistic have termed man’s high estate.
+
+Yogi Ramacharaka says: “The Yogi teaching informs us that even in the
+molten mass there were elementary forms that were to become the
+ancestral forms of the later living beings. From these elementary forms
+there gradually evolved, as the earth cooled and solidified, other
+forms, and so on until at last the first living form manifested. The
+lowest forms of what we call life were evolved from forms of crystal
+life, which indeed they very much resemble.”
+
+Haeckel, the world’s greatest scientist, says: “Man descends immediately
+from the ape, and secondarily from a long line of lower vertebrates back
+to the Silurian fishes. The lowest man appeared on the earth about three
+million years ago.”—Riddle of the Universe, 82. Anaximander, of Miletus,
+says: “Living beings arose by gradual development out of the elementary
+moisture under the influence of heat. We land animals had in the
+beginning the form of fishes.”—Ueberweg, 1:35.
+
+The atoms combining by their own desire and will formed a molecule, and
+the molecules by their own volition combined to form a life cell, our
+earliest ancestor, a minute, animate mass of protoplasm, the lowest form
+of animal life, born in the slum of the ocean bed millions of years ago.
+Myriads of these life cells form the human body. Each cell is a distinct
+individual, having brain, mind and soul. Haeckel says that the
+primordial living substance is plasm. We can live only by eating other
+living beings or plasm, that is, by cannibalism. Plants create living
+plasm out of alleged non-living matter, they form carbo-hydrates, and
+from these form plasm by a combination with water, carbolic acid,
+ammonia and nitric acid. We claim to have souls, but deny them to the
+plants, the divine creators whose chemical laboratories, the cells, are
+beyond human comprehension.
+
+The cells arrange themselves in the embryo in the form of a human being
+by their own will. “They use the materials which are at hand,
+fabricating organs for themselves by instinct, and in the appointed hour
+are born in the shape which they have formed for themselves.”—Enoch, ch.
+14. The human embryo in its development passes through all the forms
+through which the race has struggled in its evolution from stone,
+through the primordial cell, the worm, the fish, the saurian and
+gorilla. In the last stage, that of the gorilla, the embryo is entirely
+covered with hair like our beloved ancestors, and sometimes development
+is arrested at this point and a hairy child is born occasionally with a
+tail.
+
+The scientists have discovered in the cell body a god more potent than
+any known deity and have named it centrosome. It is a being of stellar
+form, located just above the nucleus or nerve centre of the cell. It is
+a creator whose magic far excels the feats of gods or men. It divides
+one living being into two, splitting the brain and the body of the cell
+in halves in such a manner that the two individuals produced are the
+exact duplicates of the parent cell in form and character. The cell
+brain matter, called cromatin, is composed of strings of very minute
+granules, termed cromosome, which are supposed to contain all the
+hereditary traits. The division of each one of these cromosomes into
+equal halves gives to the individuals produced a similar character. The
+centrosome is one in the beginning, but before dividing the cell it
+divides itself into two persons, so that one of the centrosomes may
+accompany each of the two cells. Each centrosome seizes one half of the
+brain of the parent cell thus divided and draws it to one side of the
+cell to form the nucleus of one of the new cells. Then the whole body of
+the cell is divided in the centre.—Story of the Living Machine, 100.
+When the centrosome divides the cell, two cells are produced capable of
+reproducing themselves in like manner. Prof. A. Dastre says that “under
+suitable circumstances the lowest animated forms are immortal.”
+
+Our soul is formed by the combination of the souls of the two germ cells
+from which the embryo originated. We existed in our parents prior to our
+advent here and in all of our ancestors for 500,000,000 years back, more
+or less. The conscious matter that constitutes me, the cromatin, existed
+in every one of my ancestors since we were washed out of the igneous
+rocks or spawned in the ocean depths. Jack London says: “I did not begin
+when I was born. I have been growing, developing through incalculable
+myriads of milleniums. All these experiences of all these lives and of
+countless other lives have gone to the making of the soul-stuff that is
+I.”
+
+Elephas Levi says: “The millions of germ cells that fail to become human
+beings are transformed into phantoms or larvae. These larvae possess
+aerial bodies formed from the steam of blood. For this reason they seek
+out spilt blood, and were formerly nourished by the smoke of sacrifices.
+The cohesion of the parts of these phantastic organisms is so feeble
+that they fear a strong wind, large fires, and above all the points of
+swords. They are vampires.” This accounts for the craving of the gods
+for blood sacrifices. The spirits and phantoms were mistaken for gods by
+the drunken prophets.
+
+“The cells are spheroids and they are men in embryo,” says Plato. “God
+caused the universe to move with a circular motion and created original
+man as a perfect circle. The sexes were originally three in number, man,
+woman and hermaphrodite, and they had two faces and four arms and four
+legs, but Zeus cut them in two. After the division the two parts of man,
+each desiring the other half, came together and threw their arms about
+one another eager to grow into one. Each of us when separate is but the
+indenture of a man, having one side only like a flat-fish, and he is
+always looking for his other half.”—Plato, 1-483.
+
+The intelligence of the cells has been clearly established by
+overwhelming proofs. An egg or ovum is at first a small fertilized cell,
+and in its development or transformation into an embryo, it is at first
+divided into several cells, to wit, the head cell, the body cell, the
+tail cell and the food cells. Prof. Oppel, in his experiments in
+embryology, separated these cells, removing them from their proper
+positions, but the cells so removed, traveled about trying first one
+place and then another until they usually found their proper positions
+and there joined the body and grew thereon, producing a perfect animal.
+If they made a mistake and joined the body in the wrong place, a monster
+was produced.
+
+Furthermore, a scientist produced a mushroom-shaped being by subjecting
+metallic salts to the action of a galvanic current. The particles of the
+metal gathered around the pole of the magnet in the shape of a mushroom.
+This thing was a living being, with alimentary canal in its stem,
+through which it drew its nourishment and added to its growth. It was
+only necessary that a current of life or electricity be introduced among
+the particles to cause them to assume the form of a living organism. The
+metallic tree is produced by the same means. A copper wire and a piece
+of zinc are suspended in a bottle of a solution of acetate of lead, and
+the particles of lead gather about the copper wire and put forth
+branches, limbs and foliage.—Yogi Ramacharaka.
+
+Each atom of matter, each molecule and every life cell, of which man is
+composed, has a soul of its own. And it is claimed that beside the
+individual cell souls, man not only has a communal soul in his brain,
+but a soul in his Solar Plexus. After a frog is beheaded, if a drop of
+acid is placed on his body, he will wipe it off with his foot.
+
+The development of animals out of frogs and men out of animals was held
+by Anaximenes 600 B. C., and the evolution of species was an accepted
+doctrine before the flood. In the Hindu books it is written: “When the
+world had issued out of the darkness, the subtle, elementary principles
+produced the vegetal seed, which animated first the plants, from the
+plants life passed into fantastical bodies which were born in the
+waters, then through a series of forms and various animals it reached
+man.”—Bhagavata.
+
+Kapella, an Aryan sage, denied the existence of a first cause, claiming
+that everything in nature found itself developed only in consequence of
+material fatal forces. The ancient Kabalists said: “A stone becomes a
+plant, a plant a beast, a beast a man, a man a spirit, and the spirit a
+god.”
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER XII.
+
+                        Magic and Devil Worship.
+
+
+Elephas Levi claimed that the attraction and repulsion of the atoms is
+caused by the astral light. “There exists an agent which is material and
+spiritual, a universal plastic medium, a common receptacle of the
+vibrations of motions and the images of forms, a fluid and a force. By
+means of this force all nervous apparatuses secretly communicate with
+each other, thence come sympathy and antipathy, thence dreams and second
+sight. The existence and use of this force is the great secret of
+practical magic. The astral light attracts, repels, vivifies and
+destroys all things under the influence of powerful wills. It can be
+directed by the leaders of souls. By means of this agent we can
+correspond instantaneously from one end of the earth to the other,
+discern what is taking place at the antipodes, heal or hurt at a
+distance. The Gnostics called it the burning body of the Holy Ghost.
+Life is produced by the action of the astral light on the ether or
+matter. In man it forms the astral body, it is the first envelope of the
+soul, and it is by combining with the most subtil fluids that it forms
+this etherized body or phantom. The astral body is nourished by the
+astral light, as the physical body is nourished by the earth. The astral
+light is saturated with souls, which it releases in the incessant
+generation of existences, and whose imperfect wills can be dominated and
+employed by stronger ones. The elementary spirits are like children,
+they torment those who concern themselves about them. It is these that
+produce the raps on the walls and furniture.”—Mysteries of Magic, 65.
+
+“An individual can leave the physical body and actually travel on either
+the material or astral plane in the astral body. Many persons are able
+to travel thus in their ordinary sleep.”—Astral World, 25.
+
+All magic is religious, having been invented by the priests or Magi. It
+is said that the religious bodies copied their demonology from the
+Kabala of the Jews, and that the latter borrowed their system of theurgy
+and theology from the Egyptian and Babylonian priests. If any one
+outside of the religious bodies started any opposition devil-worship,
+they were promptly burnt. All the magic rituals are derived from the Key
+of King Solomon, claimed to have been found in his sepulchre at
+Jerusalem.
+
+In the Magic Grimore, ascribed to Pope Honorius, he says: “We have seen
+with what power Jesus commanded demons, which power was transmitted to
+St. Peter, and, as the lawful successors of St. Peter, having the keys
+of the Kingdom of Heaven, and desiring to share the power of invoking
+and commanding spirits, which has been reserved unto us alone, with our
+brethren, we have included in this Bull the manner of their invocation.
+And because it is meet that the ministers of the altar should have
+authority over rebellious spirits, we hereby depute unto them all the
+powers which we possess in virtue of the Holy Apostolic Chair.”—Book of
+Black Magic, 100.
+
+In invoking the Devil or other choice spirits, it is necessary to murder
+some being. If the conjurer cannot or dare not murder a human being, he
+takes an innocent virgin lamb and cuts its throat and tears off its skin
+to use for a magic apron or parchment. Instead of the skin of a lamb,
+the caul of a new-born child may be used.—Idem.
+
+The sign manual of the demon Valefor, the patron of thieves, contains
+two Maltese crosses rampant and three links. As Solomon and his
+entourage worshipped the demon Astaroth, they probably stole from him
+the two pillars at the door of the Temple and the double triangle above
+them, for they appeared in the seal of that spirit. There are two or
+more crosses in each of the seals or signatures of Solomon’s seventy two
+black fiends. Their motto is, “In this sign we conquer.”
+
+Solomon imprisoned the seventy two devils, with all their legions, in a
+brazen vessel and sank it in a deep lake in Babylon. The Babylonians,
+thinking that there must be a great treasure in the vessel, took it out
+of the lake and broke it open, when out flew the chief devils
+immediately, with all their legions following them.—See Waite’s Book of
+Black Magic.
+
+We still worship pagan gods. The Hexagram, or double triangle of
+Solomon, is still used by different sects and societies. On it is the
+name of Agla, a pagan sun-god, and also the name of Tau, the Egyptian
+bull christ Taurus, with the pagan symbol, the Tau cross. The god A. and
+O., Alpha and Omega, with which the Hexagram is adorned, is a foul
+Babylonian idol, the same as IO. It has been represented that the Devil
+falls prostrate before the cross. But, to tell the truth, Lucifer uses
+the sign himself, also the double triangle and the single triangle in
+his signature. And Belial has four crosses by which he lies.
+
+When a sorcerer conjures up one of the seventy two demons, he must draw
+the double seal of Solomon (double triangle) and the Pentagram,
+(five-pointed star) on a parchment of calfskin. These must be worn on
+his white vestment, together with the seal of the spirit invoked. And
+the secret seal of Solomon (the pillar standing in a circle) must be
+drawn with the blood of a black, virgin cock on virgin parchment. This
+is part of the conjuration: “I invoke and conjure you, O Spirit, by God
+the Father, by God the son, by God the Holy Ghost, by the Most Glorious
+and Holy Mother of God, by her Sacred Heart, by her Blessed Milk, by the
+Power and Victory of Hell, by the Ministers of the Tartarean Seat. I
+exorcise thee in the names of El, Elohim, Zabaoth &c. do thou forthwith
+appear. I conjure thee by the Living and True God Heliorem (Helios, the
+sun god) and Tetragrammaton Jehovah (the God of four letters). Come! I
+Adonai Saday, King of Kings, commands thee.” See Lesser Key of King
+Solomon, 55.
+
+There is no use in trying to invoke spirits or perform any tricks in
+black magic unless you have confessed and received the Holy Communion,
+and you must pray for assistance to the pagan gods Adonai, Eloim, Ariel,
+Yahveh and Gibor, and fast, and abstain from the society of females for
+nine days, and take a bath, and wear the garb of a priest or a Levite,
+and you must have the sacred Masons’ implements, the sword, the staff,
+the rod, the sickle and the poniard. See Waite’s Book of Black Magic.
+
+That part of nature called the astral light or universal spirit was
+virtually the supreme god of all religions. It was the Heaven or Nirvana
+of the Buddhist, (where the soul is blown out like a lamp some
+believed.) When he attained to perfection and was reabsorbed in this
+godhead, he had stormed the heights of Heaven and attained eternal
+bliss. He considered that his spirit would no longer be subjected to
+endless incarnations in material forms. But there is no knowing when it
+would again by choice or compulsion enter the ether and form another
+atom and again commence the unavoidable cycle.
+
+All the vile religions have scared the human race into ca’niption fits
+by their assertion that our souls will be lost unless we bow down to
+their priests and worship their idols. According to the original parent
+religion, the Hindu, if we obey the priests faithfully, we will go to
+Nirvana and become a creator or electron, or elementary spirit. And all
+the authorities, both pagan and Christian, agree that the elementary
+spirits are mischievous, wicked entities. It would be better to lose our
+souls, for in that case they are banished into the ether or chaos and
+become the nucleus of a material atom. If we go to Nirvana, we are one
+step farther removed from the ultimate goal of all the ambitions of all
+the heavenly electrons and material atoms, the supreme pinnacle of
+attainment, man’s high estate, which is greater than that of the gods.
+
+The Theosophists revel in the mystic and occult. If they can construct a
+sentence that no one can understand, and that they do not know the
+meaning of themselves, they are in the seventh heaven of delight, their
+wisdom borders on the Divine. Stating their doctrine of transmigration
+in plain language: God sits at his desk in Heaven, with a great lot of
+pigeonholes before him, in each one of which is a soul in a state of
+coma. When he receives a wireless from the earth that Pat and Biddie
+McGee have formed in their marital relationship a psychic vortex, or
+soul vortex, he makes a grab at the pigeonholes and lights perhaps on
+the soul of Pythagoras and sticks it into the new-born embryo, which
+already has a soul, and there is no room for any other. See
+“Spermatozoa,” Stand. Dic., and note those very energetic individuals in
+a frantic race to enter the ovum and blossom out as human beings. You
+will then realize that the child already has a very lively soul,
+provided by nature, and there is no occasion for any doped soul,
+supplied by any idiotic human plan.
+
+“The astral light keeps an unmutilated record of all that was, that is,
+or ever will be. The minutest acts of our lives are imprinted on it, and
+even our thoughts rest photographed on its eternal tablets. It is the
+Book of Life, it is the memory of God. If the medium or subject’s sight
+is ably directed by the mesmerizer, magician or spirit, the light must
+yield up its most secret records to our scrutiny.”—Astral World. It is
+claimed that each person’s atmosphere in the astral light is peopled
+with the images of his or her immediate family, thus accounting for the
+assertions of the mediums that they see the spirits of our lost ones.
+
+Swedenborgians claimed that the human body is sometimes abandoned by the
+soul in consequence of overpowering fright, grief, despair or sickness,
+and that we encounter every day such living corpses. Into these bodies
+may enter the soul of an adept sorcerer or some earth-bound, disembodied
+soul. In insanity the astral soul is partly paralyzed, bewildered, and
+subject to the influence of every passing spirit of any sort, or it has
+departed forever, and the body is taken possession of by some vampire or
+human soul near its own dissolution, and clinging desperately to earth,
+whose sensual pleasures it may enjoy for a brief season longer by this
+expedient.
+
+The ancients claimed that the soul was located in the solar plexus, and
+it was asserted that they could read, hear, see and smell through the
+navel. In our vermiform stage of development before evolution had
+supplied us with heads, the soul was perhaps in the stomach, but it may
+have moved since. Plato says that the divine part of the soul is located
+in the head. Haeckel says that the human soul is a combination of the
+souls of all the cells of the body. It is impossible to destroy any
+simple substance, and if it affords you any comfort, you can assume that
+the soul or ego is an indestructible electron. The Stoics claimed that
+the soul is in the heart, and that although it outlives the body, it is
+yet perishable and can only endure at the longest till the termination
+of the world period, 4,320,000,000 years. Epicurus claimed that “nothing
+that exists will ever cease to exist. Atoms exist from all eternity, and
+worlds were formed by their vortical motion. The soul is material and
+composed of exceedingly fine atoms, and is dispersed through the whole
+body. The rational soul is in the breast.” Stephanus, of Alexandria,
+says that “copper is like a man, it has a soul and body.” Yoga
+Ramacharaka says that “iron is alive and may be killed by poison.”
+
+“Transmigration of the soul takes place in all flesh, in beasts,
+reptiles and fowls. For one form of uncleanness the soul will pass into
+a Gentile, for another into a mule, for others into an ass, a woman, a
+bat, a she-mule or a camel.”—Kabala Nishmath Chaim, Ch. 13, No. 1. It
+sometimes happens that one sacrifices an animal with a human soul in it.
+Therefore the slaughtering knife must be without defect, and the
+slaughter must needs be delicately done to avoid cutting the gizzard out
+of the human soul. “The soul of a murderer is transmigrated into water.
+Let no man drink from a running stream, lest the soul of a wicked sinner
+pass into him.”—Kabala Emeh Hamelech, fol. 153, col. 1.
+
+“By a combination of the letters of the ineffable name Rava once created
+a man and sent him to Rav. Zera. The man being unable to reply when
+spoken to, the Rabbi said to him: ‘Thou art a creation of the company
+(of necromancers) return to thy dust.’ By the same means a Rabbi created
+pumpkins, melons, deers and roes.”—Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrim, ch. 7.
+
+The soul, called Psyche, when she is at home, lives in that part of the
+brain called the Medulla Oblongata, and the spirit, called Budhi, lives
+in the next house up the street, the Pineal Gland. When Budhi, or the
+Word, wins the affections of Psyche, and they are married, the Word
+saves the soul, and the man who harbors these entities is illuminated
+and becomes a master.
+
+If you read Genesis in the original Hebrew, you will find that Al or El,
+the sun, not the Christian God, says: “To every beast of the earth I
+gave a living soul.” The souls of human beings are composed of material
+as refined and spiritual as that of the souls of cockroaches and
+bedbugs, and men, if they behave themselves, are equally as good as
+those animals and of just as much importance in the universe.
+
+
+
+
+                             CHAPTER XIII.
+
+                         Ghosts and Hobgoblins.
+
+
+The Hindus of the Malibar coast said they had ghosts, but they knew them
+to be bad spirits, for good ones can hardly ever appear at all. Apuleius
+says the human soul is a demon or genius, an immortal god. According to
+Philo Judaeus, the air is filled with an invisible host of spirits, the
+bad ones are mortal, and the good ones are immortal. The soul, upon the
+death of the body, transforms into a lemure (phantom). If it is wicked,
+it is called a larvae. The ghosts who, through vice, fearful crimes and
+animal passions, are confined to the eighth sphere immediately
+surrounding the earth, are the magnetic vampires and demons so well
+known to mediaeval ecstatics, nuns, monks and witches, the blood demons
+of Porphery. They may be cast out by powerful magicians, but if a
+sorcerer is not available, you can take a saucer containing two ounces
+of nitre and pour over it one ounce of vitrol and place it under the bed
+of the obsessed, and the devil will take to his heels.
+
+Paracelsus says: “It is possible that my spirit, without the aid of the
+body and through a fiery will alone, and without a sword, can stab and
+wound others. I can also bring the spirit of my adversary into an image,
+and then double him up and lame him.” According to Cotton Mather some
+young girls had become mediums by sitting with a West Indian negro
+woman. They declared that the spectres of various witches appeared to
+them and bit and pinched and stuck pins into them. Some of the witches
+confessed that they did afflict these girls by sticking pins into
+manikins made of wax or rags, and by clutching and pinching their hands
+together and wishing in what part and after what manner they would have
+the girls afflicted, and it was done.
+
+If you are haunted by an objectionable ghost, provide yourself with a
+sword or a dagger and stab him when he makes his appearance. They are
+awfully afraid of swords, although if you cut one in two, he will join
+together again, or if you cut his head off or leg off, he will put the
+member right on again. But he does not like it, and will thereafter
+leave you severely alone. Bodin says that in 1557 an elementary,
+thundering demon fell down with the lightning into the house of one
+Poudot and kept throwing stones all about the room for several days. The
+magistrate came to investigate, and the spirit knocked his hat off and
+drove him out of the house. At last Poudot got a sword and slashed all
+around the room, whereupon the spirit disappeared.
+
+Where the ghosts are real troublesome, you can drive them away by
+distributing holy medallions around the house where the ghosts can see
+them. As the medallions have been blessed or magnetized, God has been
+injected into them, and they consequently are gods, and mischievous
+spirits who cut up capers around the house are afraid of these deities.
+I have a blessed idol of Buddha on my desk to keep the ghosts out of the
+office and prevent them from interfering with the composition of this
+pious work.
+
+Modern spirits are often lying spirits. They are ever on hand to humor
+the respective hobbies of the persons who communicate with them at
+circles, and deceive them. When Luther, the sorcerer, evoked the demon,
+he was told that he should not worship the Virgin. But when St. Dominic
+called upon the devils, they told him that nobody was damned that
+persevered in her holy worship. The golden legend of James de Viragine
+shows that the Virgin gave to St. Dominic a miraculous rosary, by which
+he could perform greater miracles than Christ. But a certain abandoned
+sinner was bold enough to doubt the virtues of the rosary, and
+immediately fifteen thousand devils took possession of him, and being
+questioned by St. Dominic, they emitted flames from the nostrils, eyes
+and ears of the demoniac and certified to the virtues of the rosary.
+Over a hundred angels appeared in golden armor, together with the
+blessed Virgin herself bearing a golden rod, with which she administered
+a sound thrashing to the demoniac. The numerous theological truths
+uttered by St. Dominic’s devils were embodied in so many articles of
+faith, according to Isis Unveiled, 2-76.
+
+One who is unprotected, the tricky powers of the air but too often
+delude with the semblance of voices. In all the Mysteries, strong drink
+or anaesthetics were administered to the initiates to sunder the soul
+from the body and produce visions. The Sankhya system teaches that the
+ghost, or astral body, can shrink to such a minute space that it can
+penetrate anything, or enlarge to a gigantic body, or float through
+space, or standing on the earth can reach the moon, that its will is
+irresistible, having dominion over all things and the ability to attain
+every desire.
+
+It is claimed that phantom hands have appeared at seances under test
+conditions and written messages on a table in broad daylight, when the
+medium was six or eight feet away, but the theory is that the
+materialized hand is an emanation from the medium, the astral hand of
+the medium. Madam Blavatsky says that “this is the spiritual or astral
+body that is raised in incorruption. It is useless to argue that these
+are spirit hands. To make hands or faces objective, they are compelled
+to use either the astral limb of the medium, or material furnished by
+the elementals, or the aural emanation of all persons present. Pure
+spirits will not and cannot show themselves objectively. Those that do
+are elementary spirits.”
+
+Madam Blavatsky tells of the following wonderful manifestations that
+occurred in Thibet. A body of traveling Bikshus, or monks, claimed the
+power to reincarnate the Buddha in any infant. A child four months old
+was brought to their cave and set down in the middle of the room, while
+the monks sat in a circle around it at some distance. A skeptic minister
+sat close to the child to expose the trickery. The chief Pase Budha went
+into a trance, and his astral and spiritual body took possession of the
+child and made it walk and talk, saying “I am Buddha, I am the old Lama,
+I am his spirit in a new body.” The minister said: “The baby looked at
+me with an expression of intelligence that was simply awful. It sent a
+chill through me, I felt a real terror, my hair rose upon my head, and
+my blood ran cold. The eyes seemed to search my very soul with an
+expression that made me think that it was the face of the Superior
+himself, his eyes, his very look that was gazing upon me.”
+
+If you wish to conjure up or materialize a spirit, purchase from the
+Yogis some ancient blood of a black cat, which comes in powdered form.
+This, together with a sparrow’s brain, burnt upon the altar will produce
+a smoke or vapor of peculiar odor and a color unknown and unnamed by
+human beings, being a combination of many colors. From the smoke of this
+magic altar it is possible for spirits to materialize, so that even
+persons without the astral vision can see them.
+
+Sometimes a band of occultists will meet around their altar fire, which
+is kindled between the horns of the goat and fed with the ancient blood
+of a black cat and other material from which ghosts can materialize. The
+occultists stand in a row hand in hand, the Grand Master at the head by
+the altar, and all strongly command that a spirit shall manifest. As the
+command passes from one brother to another it gains force, and the power
+of the will is enormously augmented, and after a time there issues from
+the floor a thread of astral matter, which ascends perpendicularly and
+widens out as it ascends, assuming a human form, but weak, wavering and
+limp, bending this way and that on every breath of air. But after the
+circle has pumped the power into him for a while, he becomes
+sufficiently strong to walk or glide about and take a seat in the circle
+and talk to the members. The materialized body is soft and moist and
+cold as a corpse. When they wish him to disappear they stand again hand
+in hand, the Grand Master next to the spirit, and send the command from
+one to the other ordering the ghost to depart, and he will again become
+weak and wabbly and sink down to the floor and disappear through the
+same nail hole from which he emerged.
+
+If the company wishes to engage in a dangerous experiment, one half of
+them will occupy one side of the hall and the other half the other side.
+They must first erect between them a circle of sheet lead, over which
+the devil cannot jump to attack any of the members. Then each bunch will
+think evil vindictive and murderous thoughts of the other bunch, and
+conjure up dire monsters to attack them, and soon a horrible, gigantic
+and vicious thought-monster, part beast, part devil and part human, will
+materialize and rush at the members and endeavor to attack them, but
+fortunately for them, he cannot pass the leaden circle, for if he could
+reach those that made him, he would strike them dead with a charge of
+electricity through the heart. In order to lay this devil they have
+conjured up, they have to clothe themselves entirely in silver-colored
+garments. They then enter the circle from both sides and close in on the
+monster. These silver-colored beings scare the devil to death, and he
+crawls back in his hole.
+
+A man, named B, built a house with second-hand lumber from an old
+building that had been torn down. The old building was reputed to be
+haunted by the former owner, who was murdered there. The ghost was very
+mad because B took his lumber, and, in order to be revenged, he went
+with the lumber to the new house and haunted that. B says that the ghost
+would appear to him when he was going to sleep and jab him in the eye
+with his finger and seize his arm and hurl it against the wall. When B
+was half asleep one night, the ghost appeared with a pail of water and
+threw it all over him. The dog could see the ghost even when B could
+not, and would bark and show his teeth and propose to fight the phantom.
+B sold the house to some colored folks. They were scared white by the
+skilligin, gave up the property and demanded their money back, because
+the ghost was an incumbrance on the estate and a legal defect in title,
+he being in possession, claiming ownership.
+
+St. Clemens Romanus says that Simon Magus (Paul), of the New Testament,
+could make himself invisible when and to whom he pleased. He created a
+man out of air, who passed through the rocks and mountains and flew
+along through the air. He threw himself from precipices without being
+injured and flung himself into the fire without being burned, he
+animated statues, he walked through the streets attended by strange
+figures, which he said were the souls of people departed.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER XIV.
+
+                         Witches and Sorcerers.
+
+
+“Burn everybody,” the Inquisition seemed to say, “God can easily sort
+out his own.” Poor fools, hysterical women and idiots were roasted alive
+for the crime of magic.
+
+Catherine de Medicis, the author of the Massacre of St. Bartholomew, had
+in her service an apostate Jacobin priest who was proficient in the
+black art. King Charles lay dangerously ill, and Catherine, the queen
+mother, had everything to lose by the death of the King. In her anxiety
+she commanded the priest to inquire of the Devil what should be done to
+save the life of the King. The priest, taking with him a beautiful
+child, went into the chapel and after administering to the child its
+first communion, decapitated it on the very steps of the altar and
+placed the palpitating head upon the paten. Then, standing on a reversed
+cross, he celebrated the Devil’s Mass before an image of the Demon, and
+commanded the Devil to answer by the lips of this murdered child the
+question of the Queen. Then a strange voice, which had nothing human
+about it, made itself audible in this poor little martyr’s head. But the
+sorcery availed nothing, the King died.—Elephas Levi.
+
+“Pope Sylvester was publicly accused by Cardinal Benno with being a
+sorcerer and enchanter. The brazen oracular head made by his Holiness
+was of the same kind as the one fabricated by Albertus Magnus. The
+latter was smashed to pieces by Thomas Aquinas, not because it was the
+work of or inhabited by a demon, but because the spook, that was fixed
+inside by mesmeric power, talked incessantly and disturbed the eloquent
+saint. These heads and other talking statues, trophies of the magical
+skill of monks and bishops, were fac-similes of the animated gods of the
+ancient temples. It was demonstrated that this Pope was constantly
+attended by demons or spirits. Benedict IX, John XX and the VI and VII
+Gregory were all known as magicians. The latter Pope, it was said, could
+shake lightning out of his sleeve. In the latter part of the sixteenth
+century there was hardly a parish to be found in which the priests did
+not study magic and alchemy. John Reuchlin, father of the Reformation
+and teacher of Luther, was a Kabalist and occultist. The occult
+knowledge gleaned by religion from the fat fields of theurgy was
+sedulously guarded for its own use, and it sent to the stake only those
+practitioners who poached on its preserves. Between 1580 and 1595 in the
+single province of Lorraine, the President Remigius burned nine hundred
+witches.”—Isis Unveiled, 2-57.
+
+“The gorgeous standard of the Inquisition is represented as waving in
+the Heavenly breezes at the foot of the Great White Throne of the
+Almighty. On its crimson, damask face is the cross, the symbol of the
+Son of God who died for mankind, with an olive branch on one side and a
+sword stained to the hilt with human gore on the other.”
+
+“The true origin of the daily accusations and death sentences for
+witchcraft are traced by Dr. Soldan, of Stuttgart, to personal,
+political and religious enmities. Prince Bishop, John George II, of
+Bamberg, caused six hundred to be burned for sorcery in five years. The
+petty princes were not unwilling to seize upon any pretence to fill
+their coffers, the persons most persecuted being those whose property
+was a matter of consideration.”—Sorcery and Magic, 2-185. A horse was
+burnt at the stake in Lisbon in 1601 for witchcraft, because it could
+tell the number of spots on a card.
+
+In the list of twenty nine burnings, or autos da fe, in nineteen months
+in Germany, 162 persons were murdered, of whom 28 were Protestants, 100
+wealthy citizens and 34 little children, the youngest an infant. Wright
+says that 27 little girls, from seven to ten years of age, were burnt as
+witches. Lorente, the historian of the Inquisition, computes that
+Torquamada in eighteen years burned at the stake 10,220 persons, and
+otherwise punished 97,321. In Andalusia alone, in a single year, the
+Inquisition sent to the stake 2000 Jews.—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 1-136. “We
+learn that much money was realized by selling to the rich dispensations
+to secure them from the Inquisition.”—Conflict Between Religion and
+Science, 146.
+
+Stevens says: “A monk of St. Anthony, having been at Jerusalem, brought
+home with him a bit of the finger of the Holy Ghost, the snoot of a
+seraphim, one of the nails of a cherub, one of the ribs of the Word Made
+Flesh, some rays of the Star of the East, and a vial of St. Michael’s
+sweat. Henry III, of England, received from the Grand Master of the
+Templars a vial containing some of the blood that Christ shed upon the
+cross, attested by the seal of the Patriarch of Jerusalem.”
+
+The hand of one of the innocents massacred by Herod, although Herod died
+four years B. C., was, in 1837, still preserved in the Convent at
+Bethlehem. There also is the pit in which the bodies of the infants were
+thrown, and also the manger which came down from the constellation of
+the Crab. Some depraved Christian copped the stone on which the cock
+crowed when Peter denied his Master, and, in 1837, it was said to be in
+a church in Rome. In the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem,
+among other wonders, is a monument erected over the grave of Adam, who
+never existed, and there is a polished marble bathtub or sarcophagus,
+which they claimed was the sepulchre hewn out of the rock. See Travels
+in Holy Land, 2-163.
+
+The fight of the fools and fakirs over the location of the grave of a
+mythical sun-god is certainly ludicrous, but more amusing was the magic
+trick of the early Christians who stole the grave of Adam either from
+Hebron or Mecca and also swiped the grave of Christ from the Damascus
+Road, north of Jerusalem, and exhibited both, with other shell and
+three-card-monte games, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, in the
+centre of Jerusalem, for the purpose of annexing the coin of the dupes,
+farmers and come-ons from all over the world.
+
+According to Tichenor, over three hundred years after the crucifixion,
+St. Helena found the true cross, and also dug up the crosses of the two
+thieves, and this lumber was sold for centuries to millions of the
+faithful. Even a splinter will save you from Hell and cure you of what
+ails you. And the bones, hair and nails of the Apostles have been sold
+all over the world. You could formerly buy a gunnysack full of St.
+Peter’s fingers and toes if you had the necessary dough. The people not
+only worshipped the Mother of God, but worshipped St. Ann, the
+Grandmother of God. God came unto Mary in the form of Gabriel, and to
+prove it the monk Eiseling exhibited all over Europe a pin-feather from
+Gabriel’s wing, which he shed at the conference. Thorns, from the crown
+of thorns, the blood of Jesus, by the drop or the bottle, and the milk
+of the Holy Virgin were peddled out all over the world for centimes.—See
+Tichenor’s Roman Religion.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER XV.
+
+                        The Great King Solomon.
+
+
+Solomon’s Song is very choice reading and would be eminently appropriate
+to the foulest book on earth, the circulation of which would be a
+criminal offense under the law. The Christian compilers of the Bible
+have asserted in the headings of the Song that it represents the love of
+Christ and the Church. They were not only wilful liars, but foully
+besmirched their own church, for that was about 1200 years before their
+church existed. The whole context shows that it has nothing to do with
+the Christian Church, but is evidently the hymn book of the church of
+Ashtoreth, of which Solomon was a deacon. Any institution that foists
+upon the world such vile obscenity as the inspired word of God, is the
+Temple of the Devil, the antechamber of Hell, an annex of the Witches’
+Sabbath. It should utterly perish from the face of the earth. In fact,
+the die is already cast, the handwriting is on the wall, the hand of
+death is on it now.
+
+Solomon was Grand Master of the secret societies. Those things that were
+esoteric or secret or occult in magic and religion, claimed by the
+priests to be too sacred for the people, were either criminal or too
+vile to utter. That was the only reason for keeping them secret.
+
+Solomon had cheated his brother Adonijah out of the throne to which the
+latter was entitled by birth, and Adonijah thought that he should at
+least be allowed to have Abishag, the sixteen-year-old beauty that they
+had put in bed with the dying King David to save his life. And he
+induced Bathsheba, the mother of Solomon, to make the request of the
+king. When Solomon had heard the petition of Bathsheba he said: “And why
+dost thou ask Abishag for Adonijah, ask for him the kingdom also.”
+Abishag is the only jewel in the Jewish crown, the most priceless legacy
+that King David left. A perfect beauty is more to be desired than the
+riches of a kingdom. I will not give her up. All the good things in
+Israel are reserved for the king. Then Solomon swore by the Lord saying:
+“God do so to me and more also if Adonijah hath not spoken this word
+against his own life. Now therefore as the Lord liveth Adonijah shall be
+put to death this day.” What ho! guards, summon Benaiah, Commander of
+the Knights of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah.
+
+When Benaiah appeared, he bowed low before the throne, and, raising his
+right hand, made the occult sign of the Witches’ Sabbath. Then Solomon
+said: “Rise, O beloved of the king, favorite of the gods of the groves
+and the gardens. The king hath weighty matters to communicate to thee.
+It is reported that Adonijah, our brother, hath taken refuge at the
+shrine of that second-rate God Jehovah and doth cling to the horns of
+the altar. And behold all of Adonijah’s followers are devotees of
+Jehovah, while all of our partisans and all of you whom the king hath
+deigned to grace with official rank are devotees of Baal and Asherah.
+Now the king commandeth that you seek out all of those Jehovah
+worshippers who have stood by Adonijah and eliminate them from the
+problem of life. Go in and out among them and slay each one your father
+and your mother, your sister and your brother, if so be that they be
+among the rebels. Relieve them of life’s burdens. Do not be harsh with
+them, show them our royal mercy, shove them gently through the gates of
+Hell, cutting them with saws and with harrows of iron and with axes,
+emulating the clemency of our royal father, the bandit chief. As for
+Adonijah, fall upon him and slay him as he clings to the horns of the
+altar. It is true that the altar of a god is sacred ground and a refuge
+as a general proposition, but general propositions do not apply to the
+king, the king is above the law. What do I care for these imaginary
+gods, they are all right to scare children with, but they cut no ice
+with your Solomon.”
+
+Solomon sat in all his glory upon the great throne of ivory and gold,
+flanked by the twelve brazen lions of the zodiac, and the Knights of the
+Mystic Shrine of Asherah in dazzling regalia guarded the beloved of the
+Lord. Around the throne, with naked swords and the three hundred golden
+shields, stood the Princes of the Tribes of Israel, as the rays of the
+setting sun, reflected from the jeweled walls of cedar and gold, bathed
+in dazzling light the royal panoplies of blue and purple and crimson.
+
+And King Solomon’s sacred, hermaphrodite Billygoat, in trappings of
+purple and gold, wearing ribbons on his horns and ribbons on his tail,
+stood beside the golden throne with his revered back to the audience in
+accordance with the law in such case made and provided. And he informed
+the King in no uncertain words that he did not propose to be the goat
+any longer, that the Knights of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah, that had
+been assigned as priests to serve him, one of the highest gods, drank up
+all the wine sacrificed to him, and thus prevented him from getting as
+full as a goat, as required by the tenets of his religion. And further,
+they did not give him exercise enough, they called him Baphomet and
+Devil and other hard names and took him up out of the pit for a walk
+around the town only once a month, at dead of night, in the dark of the
+moon, when Hell yawns, and the graves give up their dead. Upon the
+conclusion of this divine oration, the whole audience crawled on their
+hands and knees up the steps of the golden throne and devoutly kissed
+the back of Baphomet, as we kiss the male and female emblems on the Pax.
+
+This pious ceremony being completed, the Great King, raising the royal
+sceptre, summoned to his exalted presence the Commander of the Knights
+of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah and said: “While you, Benaiah, my
+faithful servant, go and kill Adonijah, my well beloved brother, I will
+hie me to my devotions, for I can see that at the mystic shrine on
+yonder hilltop, the luscious Asherah is yearning for me. My adored, my
+most beautiful, my ravishing one stands in the open door of the pagoda,
+the beautiful gate ajar, stands there in all her pristine loveliness, a
+beauty unadorned, young and plump and enchanting. See that innocent
+radiant face beaming with loving kindness, perfect in every feature, see
+that form divine, of which the gods in Heaven do envy me. She is my
+favorite nun, the incarnation of the Divine Asherah, and she is calling
+me to prayer. See her beckoning me over with that sweet hand, that angel
+hand that holds me, the King of the Earth and Sea, a willing slave in
+its gentle grasp. She says the door is open wide, and all who will may
+enter in, and no one is denied.”
+
+Then while Benaiah slew Adonijah as he clung to the horns of the altar,
+Solomon and his court in gorgeous array, decked in purple and fine linen
+and blazing with jewels rare and gold to burn, marched in one grand
+pageant from the house of cedar and gold, out through the Golden Gate,
+to the high place of Asherah. When they reached the oval, foliated door
+between the two great pillars of Baal, beneath the blazing, golden dome
+of Asher, supported by the circle of monoliths or twelve zodiacal
+redeemers, they bowed low before the open portal and crossed themselves,
+and by thus drawing upon their bodies the male symbol, they became
+themselves male emblems and worthy to enter in, and a worthy offering to
+a female divinity.
+
+The dazzling beauty who stood in the door of the pagoda then ran and
+threw herself into the arms of the king. He folded her pink and white
+form to his royal breast and impressed upon her ruby lips a long and
+loving caress, saying: “My divine one, my goddess, my life, my all, God
+is love, I know, I feel. Thou art the only angel e’er worshipped by
+Solomon the Magnificent. Thy lips are like the roses, like the
+sweet-scented, dew-bediamond roses in the royal gardens of Judea. Thine
+eyes are fathomless wells of priceless love, at which I drink till my
+soul is drunk and reels in its maddened delirium. Thy flesh is like the
+lilies of the valley, pure and white, meet vessel for a soul so true,
+white as the lilies of Asherah, white as the column of Baal, indeed so
+tempting and plump and luscious, that in thy divine and radiant neck I
+fain would bite the name of the King of the Earth and the Sea.
+
+“Solomon offered one thousand burnt offerings in the great high place of
+Gibeon,” a brothel, where they worshipped the pillar and the grove.—1
+Kings: 3-4. “And they set them up pillars and Asherim upon every high
+hill and under every green tree.”—2 Kings, 17-10. “Solomon loved the
+Lord, and the Lord loved Solomon.” They formed a mutual admiration
+society, and in Gibeon the Lord said to Solomon: “Ask what I shall give
+thee.” And “Solomon built a high place before Jerusalem at the Mount of
+Corruption (Mount of Olives) dedicated to Ashtoreth,” now replaced by
+the Church of the Ascension, erected over the footprint made by Christ
+in the rock when he jumped from the earth to Alcyone. The Bible says
+that Ashtoreth was the abomination of the Sidonians, but it happens that
+Asher, one of the aliases of the Hebrew god, was the husband of
+Ashtoreth.
+
+The secret and mysterious name of the supreme God of the Hebrews, the
+Ancient of Ancients, was Eh Ei Eh, pronounced in three breaths, with
+hand to ear and the name at low breath. This is the name that was
+engraved on the great seal of Solomon, wherewith he conjured up demons
+from the abyss, for he was a potent wizard. By virtue of this great name
+and by rubbing the seal, Solomon became Lord of the Demons, and
+Beelzebub, at the mighty summons, would bob up serenely and obey the
+behests of the king. Solomon soared into the celestial altitudes and
+mastered the Divine secrets and learned the omnipotent words which
+constitute all the power of God over the demons. He penetrated into the
+remotest haunts of the spirits, whom he bound and forced them to obey
+him by the power of his clavicle (Key). He tells in the Key of Solomon
+the true composition of, with directions for making the dreadful
+blasting rod which causes the spirits to tremble, and which was used by
+God in driving Adam and Eve out of the Garden, and which he also used in
+casting the devils out of Heaven.—Book of Black Magic, 83.
+
+Ashmedai, King of the Demons, and a great mason, collaborated with
+Solomon, Hiram of Tyre and Hiram Abiff in building the Temple. He was
+the one who fashioned the stones without the sound of hammer by means of
+an insect he had, called the Shameer, the same that Moses used in
+cutting the precious stones of the Ephod. The spirits evoked by Solomon
+said that Ashmedai had the Shameer, and they gave him the location of
+Ashmedai’s water-hole in the mountains, where he went to drink. Benaiah
+then went out and filled the water-hole with liquor and laid in wait
+near by. The demon came and drank the liquor, and when he was drunk,
+Benaiah bound him with a ring and a chain, on which was the name of God,
+so that he could not break it. Thus Solomon captured the demon and
+compelled him to call up Shameer, the insect stone-cutter, and prepare
+all the stones of the Temple.—Talmud Gittin, fol. 68, col. 1.
+
+This jolly quartette of pagan and infernal pals, assisted by the masonic
+bug, in laying the foundation of the Temple, seized upon a hewer of wood
+and cut his throat and caught the blood in a vessel. After sprinkling
+the corner stone with the blood, they placed the vessel of human gore
+inside the stone and buried the body of the human sacrifice beneath it,
+that his spirit might guard the Temple and preserve it as long as grass
+grows and water runs. Then they danced around the stone the Dance of
+Death, or the dance of the Maccabees.
+
+
+                   King Solomon’s Signal of Distress.
+
+One day King Solomon, being bored about to death, and finding that all
+was vanity and vexation of spirit, wrote to his friend Manus, high
+priest of Baal, something as follows:
+
+                                      Jerusalem, 20th Nisan. A. M. 3000.
+
+  To His Eminence the High Priest of Baal, beloved of the Lord and the
+    Devil, Grand High Potentate of the Knights of Kadish, Beloved
+    Minister of the Holy of Holies, the sacred Grove of Asherah.
+
+  Behold the Great King Solomon, Lord of the Earth and the Sea, Patron
+  of God Almighty, Imperial Potentate of the Imperial Divan of
+  Ashtoreth, Grand High Mucky-Muck and Past Grand Master of the Phallic
+  Cult.
+
+  Sends Greeting. And doth herein represent that he hasn’t a thing in
+  the way of nice girls, only but just a thousand old hens that were
+  passé in three days after their respective inauspicious arrivals, and
+  the heart of the Great King doth yearn for a vision of youth and
+  beauty from the corn fields of Bethlehem. If thou wouldst save the
+  King’s life, get a move on and corral a fair virgin, with golden hair
+  and eyes of blue, for verily a brunette doth make the King tired. The
+  King recommendeth thee to bring the fair one to the back door of the
+  palace, at the entering-in of the woodshed, for behold the thousand
+  old hens have two thousand eyes, and each eye is jealous of your
+  unhappy Solomon. Verily, they are determined that we shall not have a
+  thing that is fresh and fair to look upon. They are a lot of old cats,
+  and we pray thee to promulgate a feast to Moloch and Baal, and
+  announce to the multitude that seven hundred back-number princesses
+  and three hundred fat old concubines have been devoted, and will be
+  passed through the fire to Moloch and Baal, and will be basted and
+  roasted to a turn and served to the people with the gravy oozing out.
+  May the blessings of the Great Gods Ashtoreth, Chemoth and Baal be
+  with thee and thine.
+
+                                        Yours fraternally,      SOLOMON.
+
+One night King Solomon, together with his two old cronies, Hiram of Tyre
+and Hiram Abiff, went a-hunting in Jerusalem, which at that period was a
+noted sporting resort, abounding in all kinds of game. At length they
+caught a coon near the North Gate, at the high place of Asher, where
+were worshipped the images of the male, and took her to the king’s
+palace. She says (Sol. Song, 1-4): “The King hath brought me into his
+chambers.” Having reached the King’s apartments, Solomon said to Hiram
+of Tyre: “Wouldst thy Majesty kindly rush the duck? Thou wilt find the
+can behind the throne. And thou Abiff, wilt thou be so good as to go out
+in the woodshed and play tag with thyself for a season and half a
+season, while I pass the salve to this colored lady?”
+
+Having got rid of the crowd, Solomon says: “Behold thou art fair my
+love, thou hast dove’s eyes. Thy nose is like unto the Tower of Lebanon
+that looketh toward Damascus, and the beautiful hump in the centre
+thereof is like unto that of a camel, that wabbleth ever this way and
+that.” And the buxom nigger wench, pouting her ruby, liver lips,
+replies: “Kiss me with the kisses of thy mouth, for thy love is better
+than wine. Because of the savor of thy good ointments, which counteract
+the Jewish odor diligently collected since thy last annual bath,
+therefore do the virgins love thee. I am black, but comely. I am not a
+nigger, but only tanned. They made me the keeper of vineyards, (deleted
+by the censor). Place thy left hand beneath my head, and thy right hand
+shall embrace me, (deleted by the censor). My beloved is mine, and I am
+his, a bundle of myrrh is my well-beloved unto me.”
+
+During the tête-à-tête, the captivating beauty was absent-mindedly
+picking the Tower of Lebanon, when Solomon said: “Knowest thou not that
+our laws prohibit the touching of the unwashed fingers to the nose,
+mouth or eyes. The Talmud says: ‘The evil spirit Bath Chorin rests upon
+the hands at night and will not depart until water is poured upon him
+three times over.’ That fairy tale is for the ignorant rabble. You and I
+have the gnosis. Some of the prophets say that the worship of Asherah,
+in which we indulge, is reprehensible, but who fashioned the first Grove
+among us? Ask them that.” In Jasher, 27-27, it is said that Abraham
+formed at Beersheba a Grove, and that he practiced all kinds of
+abominations. He gave to his seventeen children by Katurah charms by
+which they could exorcise spirits and perform all sorts of miracles in
+the black art.
+
+When King Hiram returned with the booze, anticipating a jolly orgy with
+the wise one, he pounded loudly on the door of the King’s chamber.
+Solomon, being busy, petulantly said: “Get thee hence Hiram, or I will
+have the cop run thee in.” Then King Hiram was exceeding wroth, and
+threatened to make war on Solomon and come up to Jerusalem with one
+hundred thousand warriors and take the fair colored charmer away from
+the seductive Jewish King. Then Solomon replied: “Chase thyself back,
+Hiram, to besotted Tyre and make love to that great pillar, which, with
+much pomp and ceremony, thou hast recently erected there, and which thou
+dost salute with the holy kiss every morning at sunrise.”
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER XVI.
+
+                         The Mystic Societies.
+
+
+Pope Pius IX was accused of saying: “Damn the clandestine societies.”
+Oh, My! such shocking language, and so unjust too, for these
+quasi-religious societies, even like certain churches, were anciently
+faithful devotees of, and expert manipulators of the mystic symbols.
+
+Dr. Dalcho, a Masonic writer, asserts: “God was the first Grand Master
+and Adam the second.” And Adam initiated Eve into the profound and
+archaic mystery of the square and the eye.
+
+It may be interesting to know what they did at the Witches’ Sabbath and
+the meetings of the ancient mystic societies. They murdered their
+christ, that is what they did, and the Christians have always charged
+that they offered up human sacrifices. I should judge from the ritual of
+the Masons that it originated in the sacrifice of a human being, that in
+ancient times human beings were sacrificed in the mystic societies, from
+some of which, perhaps, Masonry descended. Here are extracts from an old
+ritual as near as the author can decipher them, not guaranteeing that
+they are correct:
+
+
+                Opening a Lodge of Entered Apprentices.
+
+Sen. War.: “Brother, the lambskin in all ages has been considered an
+emblem of purity.” This lambskin is the skin of the Lamb of God. It is
+worn on the stomach for occult reasons. The female emblem, the Eye, is
+stamped upon it for the same occult reasons. The mystic societies,
+sun-worshippers and Jews were anciently devotees of the lamb as well as
+the cow. They sacrificed him and adorned themselves with his skin as a
+saving rite. The Ram is identical with the god Priapus. You remember
+that Saul sent David out to gather one hundred Philistine mementos to
+put in the Ark of the Covenant. These mementos and the lambskin are of
+equal efficacy, both being relics of the crucifixion.
+
+When christ came in the sign of Capricorn, he came as the goat. At the
+celebration of Lupercalia in Rome, they sacrificed the goat christ. Two
+young men are chosen, and the dagger, or Signa Tau, or the Mark of the
+Living God, is drawn in blood in their foreheads. Then they cut the
+goatskin into thongs and run about lashing all they meet. “The young
+wives like to be lashed, fancying that it will make them fruitful.” “The
+Jews in Jereboam’s time had priests for the service of their divinities,
+the sacred billy-goats.”—Plutarch, 1-78. The religious sorcerers, who
+sought to invoke demons, formed their magic circle with strips of
+goatskin nailed to the ground with four nails from the coffin of a dead
+child. As the circle was made of the skin of christ, the demons dare not
+pass it to attack the sorcerer. This is the circle of the Kabalists, of
+which King Solomon was the Most Worshipful, Sublime and Exalted Phalatz.
+
+In the ritual ascribed to Pope Honorius, the method of raising the Devil
+was by sacrificing a black cock, which is an emblem of Christ. The eyes,
+tongue and heart are torn out and burnt to ashes. These are religious
+symbols and objects of adoration. The sorcerer also sacrifices a lamb,
+and places the ashes of the eye, the tongue and the heart on the
+lambskin. He prays to Jesus that the lambskin, with the signs thereon,
+may save him from the wiles of the demons, that they may be terrified by
+the sight of these figures. This, I think, is the origin of the figures
+on the Mason’s lambskin. This ritual provided that the eye, the cross
+and the moon should be drawn on the lambskin.
+
+In the Fellowcraft degree of the ritual, when the candidate has stuck
+the heel of his right foot in the hollow of the left, which is a sacred
+mystic rite that will save your immortal soul from Hell, the Sen. War.
+says: “You will now show the Worshipful Master the Degree Gag (?) and
+sign of an Entered Apprentice, and when you step forward, place the heel
+of your left foot in the hollow of the right. You will now advance with
+me to the altar. You are now to be made a Fellowcraft in due form. You
+will now bare your left foot and side and your breast expose. You now
+receive the mark of the square on the breast.” The Tau Cross, a symbol
+of identical significance with the square, was used in the Bacchic and
+Eleusinian Mysteries. It was laid upon the breast of the initiate to
+cause him to be born again. The square is the Egyptian Ka, the idol
+worshipped by the savages in the temples of darkest Africa, and which is
+also worshipped in the Kaaba at Mecca. Ka, Kaaba, abba, father, papa and
+pope all have the same meaning. See “Kaaba” Stand. Dic.
+
+In the initiation the candidate was allowed to play that he was Hiram
+Abiff. He was conducted around the circle of the zodiac from one door of
+the Temple to another and encountered three of the beasts of the four
+cardinal points, that is, the gentlemen who played the parts of the
+beasts in the heavenly drama.
+
+First Right. Master: Hiram, give me the sign of a Master Mason.
+
+Sen. Dea.: Candidate, the sign cannot be given except in the presence of
+three, Solomon, King of Israel, Hiram, King of Tyre, &c.
+
+Master: For the second time I demand of you the sign of a Master Mason.
+
+Sen. Dea.: You cannot have that.
+
+Master: Hiram, for the third and last time I demand of you the sign of a
+Master Mason. Give it to me, or I will take your life.
+
+Sen. Dea.: You shall not have that (but the candidate can have this, and
+he hits him on the head with the 24-inch gauge, in the play, as near as
+I can make out.)
+
+At the Second Right, the Master makes the same demands.
+
+Sen. Dea.: You shall not have that. Blow with the square (on the head of
+the candidate, I presume, but as he is still alive, he is conducted to
+the beast at the third door.)
+
+Third Right: The Master repeats the same demands.
+
+Sen. Dea.: Lord of Darkness (who is about to kill the sun-christ in the
+west) you shall not have that.
+
+Third Right: Damn thee take that, blow with gavel on forehead, (and the
+candidate or human sacrifice falls dead, in the play.)
+
+Second Right: We have slain our Grand Master Hiram.
+
+Third Right: What shall we do with the body?... Let us carry it a due
+West course from the Temple (because the crucified sun is buried in the
+west) and bury it in a grave sunk due East and West.
+
+Master: Brother Sen. War. What is the commotion?
+
+Sen. War.: Our Grand Master Hiram is assassinated.
+
+Master: How was he assassinated?
+
+Sen. War.: By the Brothers at the door of the Temple.
+
+Master: Our Grand Master Hiram may be ill. You will cause search to be
+made for him in the secret antichambers of the Temple and see if he can
+be found.
+
+Sen. War.: Search has been made, Worshipful, and he cannot be found.
+
+According to the Egyptian religion Souphis Khunfu Nefer Hept, Lord of
+the Underworld, murdered the Great Architect. The victim, whether he be
+called the Great Architect, or Hiram, or Adonis, or Horus, or Christ is
+always and ever the setting sun murdered by the darkness, or Prince of
+Darkness, called Sat in Egypt and Satan with us. The sacrifice of Hiram
+Abiff is one form of the Passion Play.
+
+A Masonic society, established in China from the earliest times, is
+called Our Ladyship’s Society and the Queen of Heaven Society. In the
+Chinese society the candidate is made to pass through the arch of
+swords. He could not be born again or come forth into the light unless
+he passed through the door of life and came out of the cave. The Chinese
+god Fo was born of a virgin impregnated by a ray of the sun, as shown in
+Christian pictures of Mary. In the Indian Mysteries three hierophants
+sit in the East and the West and the South. After an invocation to the
+sun, the candidate is baptized, his shoes taken away from him, and he is
+made to circumnavigate the cavern three times with the sun. He is
+conducted through seven dark caverns and assailed by legions of
+hobgoblins. The victim slaughtered is called Siva, and the lamentations
+of Maya for the death of Siva correspond to the weeping of Mary at the
+tomb of Christ. The sword was aimed at the throat of the candidate by
+the Evil One, but he was brought forth at last into the light. The Eye
+was marked on his forehead and the Tau Cross on his breast. He was
+presented with the sacred girdle or apron, the magical stone and the
+talismanic jewel for the breast.—Isis Unveiled.
+
+In the Mysteries of Aphrodite, a male emblem is handed to the initiate,
+and those initiated bring a piece of money to her as her hire. Demeter,
+of the Eleusinian Mysteries, is identical with Mary, and Clement says
+that he knows not whether she is the mother or wife of the god Zeus or
+Deus. This god is a serpent. The token of the Sabazian Mysteries is this
+serpent god gliding over the human breast. The offspring of the rape of
+Proserpine (Mary) by this god was christ, the bull.—Clement 1-29. If you
+wish to know what foul things were kept in the Ark of the Covenant, see
+Clement 1-31.
+
+According to the Egyptian Book of the Dead, in the judgment in Amenti,
+or the Lower World, the deceased or candidate for Heaven is given the
+name of Osiris, and he is tried before the supreme god Osiris and forty
+other deities or beasts. An altar stands before the supreme god on which
+is placed the bribes offered by the soul to god. The forty-two deities
+are the judges of the forty-two sins. One is called the Devourer of
+Shades, another the Cracker of Bones, and another the Eater of Hearts.
+If the soul denies that he has committed the forty-two sins, the judges
+must acquit him, but if he is convicted of being a land-grabber, he
+cannot get by, as the priests propose to attend to all that business
+themselves. In the Christian Judgment, the judges will be the
+confessors, monks and virgins.—The Elucidarium.
+
+“The Buddhist novice, like the Freemasons, is forced to bare his
+shoulder and breast and give up his money and bare his feet, in fact to
+simulate the vows of poverty, chastity and obedience of the
+Buddhist.”—Buddha & Early Buddhism, 136.
+
+In Lalita Vistara, Buddha is called the Great Physician, and at his
+appearance the sick are healed, the deaf are cured, the blind see. He
+cures by the laying on of hands or mesmerism. Akasa, the mesmeric fluid
+or the astral light, and the Spirit of God are one in the East. Buddha
+was born of a virgin, presented in the Temple, disputed with the
+doctors, was tempted in the wilderness, passed his life in preaching and
+working miracles, and descended into Hell and ascended into
+Heaven.—Idem, 80.
+
+Heaven was also calmly purloined from Buddhism. The Buddhist heaven is
+the city four square of John, with the gates of gold and silver, adorned
+with precious stones. The great throne of God stands in the centre
+thereof by the gem lake or crystal sea, by which stands the Tree of Life
+or Tree of Infamy. The Buddhist religion is wholly phallic. See Book of
+All Religions, 86.
+
+If you read the life of Buddha in the Ency. Brit. you will find that it
+is almost identical with the life of Christ. In any Chinese store you
+can buy an idol of Buddha, who, like Christ, is the god of life,
+bringing us life and life yet more abundantly. He wears a fish skin for
+a miter, showing that he is the fish god, and on his divine and radiant
+forehead is the Eye, and on his stomach, between his clasped hands, is
+the sacred Tree of Life. These divine secrets should not be disclosed to
+the uninitiated, but, to tell the truth, I am convinced that this is the
+origin of the hermaphrodite abdominal Eye, worn and revered by all the
+great and good men from the time our religion found its birth in the
+foul sties of India down to the immortal Washington.
+
+
+
+
+                             CHAPTER XVII.
+
+                              Revelations.
+
+
+If you do not believe that all the beasts of the zodiac bear rule in
+Heaven, read Revelations with your eyes open. The Ram is the Grand
+Vizier. The Bull is also there, with eyes before and behind, and the
+Lion and the Man, the Waterman, in fact the four beasts of the four
+cardinal points of the zodiac.
+
+Ch. 1, v 7, says: “Behold he cometh with clouds.” It is evident from
+Revelations that Christ is one of the seven Buddhas who came at the end
+of each cycle, and the seven were one, and that one was the sun in the
+heavens. Budhi means the Word, one of our beloved idols. “I am Alpha and
+Omega, the first and the last,” that is, he is the same God that came at
+first as Adam and last as the Lamb of God. It is claimed that the
+Revelations were stolen and the original was written before the Fish God
+came. In verse 12, John saw seven golden candle-sticks, typifying the
+seven christs or lights of the world, “and one of the seven was like
+unto the Son of Man.” The Persian fire god Agni is called the Son of
+Man, and it is claimed that John got the Revelations from the Persians.
+In the Clementines St. Clement says: “Christ, it is said, has changed
+his forms and names from the beginning of the world.”—Clement, cap. 51.
+
+Verse 18 says: “I am he that liveth and was dead,” that is, the sun that
+was crucified annually at the winter solstice, when it stood still for
+three days, or remained in the tomb three days, and was reborn on the
+25th of December. “And have the keys of death and Hell.” The christ that
+was crucified in the west, according to the Egyptian religion, was Judge
+of the Underworld and carried the keys and descended into Hell when the
+sun went down. They were the keys of Hell, not Heaven, that were
+transmitted to St. Peter.
+
+                  *       *       *       *       *
+
+Ch. 2, v 7 says: “To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree
+of life,” which being interpreted means that the successful candidate or
+worthy brother will be permitted to eat the male emblem. Verse 17 says:
+“To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden manna,” which
+is a small round cake or wafer in the Mithraic Mysteries, representing
+the female emblem. In these Mysteries they killed a lamb or bull christ
+and sprinkled the candidate with its blood, as we drink the blood of
+Christ and eat his flesh in the depths of our beastial ignorance,
+superstition and depravity.
+
+“And will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written,
+the Word, which no man knoweth save him that receiveth it.” This stone
+is the symbol of Siva, and the new name is Ling, the secret, the
+Sanscrit name of the Word. St. Clemens says: “It is difficult to exhibit
+the pure and transparent Word to swinish hearers. (All are swine except
+the priests and ministers.) For nothing they could hear would be more
+ludicrous to the multitude. The truly sacred Word is deposited in the
+shrine (Monstrance). It is improper that these emblems should be exposed
+to those who have never been purified in soul. The Mysteries were
+established because it was wise that the holy and blessed contemplation
+of realities be concealed.”
+
+In Ch. 4, v 3, the four beasts and the four and twenty elders, the
+angels and saints and all the other vermin in Heaven fall down and knock
+their foreheads on the ground, groveling in abject baseness, servility
+and degradation before the sardine stone or pillar that sits on the
+throne in the royal arch of the rainbow, and before the beast, (the
+bull). This lovely pillar is worshipped throughout India. You will find
+the above scene and this foul worship depicted in Inman’s A. P. & M. C.
+Symbolism, Plate XIX. John has set a foul pagan idol on the throne of
+Heaven.
+
+Ch. 12, v 1. The woman clothed with the sun and the moon under her feet,
+with a crown of twelve stars, is Mary, the moon goddess, the wife of the
+sun-god, and the crown of twelve stars are the twelve christs that she
+bore, or that crowned her labors in the twelve signs of the zodiac. The
+dragon that waited to devour the child is called Herod in the other
+story of Mary and Jesus. In the Hindu myth, from which this is copied,
+the woman fled to the wilderness, as Mary fled to Egypt. According to
+another astronomical legend, when the sun-god is born on the 25th of
+December, old King Sagittarius, the Archer or Herod, who lives in the
+next house (November), tries to kill the Son of God with the arrow of
+death.
+
+If you refer to an astronomical chart, you will see depicted there all
+the gods that ever existed. In the first sign, Leo, is the Lion of the
+Tribe of Judah, the christ that came in the Golden Age, 12,934 years
+ago, a Jew god, that would not do a thing to you but rend you and steal
+your shirt.
+
+In the sign of Gemini you see the Twins, or Castor and Pollux, or Cain
+and Abel, or Romulus and Remus, or Solomon and Adonijah, or Jacob and
+Esau. Cain has a club in his hand, with which he kills his brother god,
+as Romulus killed Remus and Solomon killed Adonijah. In the sign of
+Taurus, you will see Auriga, a Mystic of high degree kissing the goat,
+and Orion, the Lord of Darkness, killing the bull christ. And there is
+the triangle of seven stars that Christ held in his hand. This is the
+solar system of the Pleiades, of which the great star Alcyone is the
+sun, and around which the whole universe revolves. It is the Kingdom of
+Heaven and the home of god and his sons Jesus and the Devil.
+
+In the sign of Aries, you see the Lamb of God and the christ Perseus,
+who has just amputated the Medusa’s head and destroyed the serpents of
+which the hair was composed. In the next sign of Pisces is the beautiful
+Andromeda (mother of men), or Mary, bearing the fish-god, the Son of
+Man, under her arm, as Isis bears it on her head. In the sign of
+Scorpio, you will see Christ or Orpheus overcoming the Great Serpent.
+And another christ, Hercules by name, holds a club in one hand and two
+serpents in the other, to whom, as representing the Devil or the
+infernal god Cerberus, he is about to administer, in the classic
+language of modern ministers, a good wallop.
+
+“When the sun shall have passed through the sign of Virgo, the Great
+Cycle of 25,868 years will be ended. The sun then enters the sign of
+Leo, and this junction of Virgo and Leo, this secret of the Great Cycle,
+is expressed in the Sphinx of Egypt, the woman and the lion conjoined.
+This is the mystery of the ages, the pillar on the border of Egypt,
+which shall be for a sign and a testimony.”—Daughter of the Druids, 276.
+It is said that in that great Day Draconis will again be the pole star,
+and the great pyramid is so constructed that at the end of the Great
+Year the light from Draconis will again shine through the passage in the
+pyramid that leads to the Bottomless Pit, or the dragon will be cast
+into the Bottomless Pit.
+
+In the sign of Virgo is the Virgin Mary, the mother of all the gods, and
+the Great Serpent will be seen waiting there for her to deliver another
+god for his consumption. Ch. 5, v 1, says that the book was sealed with
+seven seals, corresponding with the seven comings or avatars of Christ,
+when the book was opened or the word was preached. When the first seal
+was opened, Christ appeared as Sagittarius, the Archer. “And behold a
+white horse and he that sat on him had a bow.” When he had opened the
+third seal, behold a black horse, and he that sat thereon had a pair of
+balances in his hand. This is the Christ that came in the sign of Libra
+or the Scales, who weighed them in the balance and found them wanting.
+
+Ch. 4, v 6. The four beasts referred to are the four hieroglyphic beasts
+of the priests and magicians, which they placed on the playing cards of
+Egypt, the lion, the bull, the man and the eagle. They are zodiacal gods
+and sit in the North, the East, the South and the West respectively. The
+churches declare truly that a pack of cards is the Devil’s book. Cards
+were invented by the priests, and they are reeking with sacred, occult
+and religious emblems. The pack is composed of four sets of ten. Ten is
+a Kabalistic sacred number, for there are ten persons in the Hebrew
+Godhead, and 10 or IO is the name of God. Then there are the four beasts
+or aces, and the Trinity is represented by the king, queen, and jack.
+The clubs, or the three sacred balls of the Jews, are the symbol of the
+male god and the Trinity. Any deeper meaning can only be disclosed to
+the initiated. The heart is the cup or chalice or Eye of Isis, the
+symbol of love. The queen of hearts is clothed with the sun and moon,
+and she is Mary, the Queen of Heaven. The Queen of spades holds in her
+left hand the sacred candle, and she is adorned with another male
+emblem, the fleur de lys, and in her right hand is the flower of Isis, a
+female emblem, the same as the circles and rosaries with which she is
+also decorated. The seven circles are the emblems of the seven joys that
+Mary had. The twelve precious stones in the jewel on her breast
+correspond with the twelve christs she bore and the twelve jewels in the
+Ephod of the high priest.
+
+The jack of hearts carries the male emblem in his hand and the three
+links are on his belt to show that he is an Oddfellow in good standing.
+The jack of spades holds up the three links, and the spade itself is a
+patent, combination, hermaphrodite, religious emblem of sufficient magic
+potency to save from the pains of Tophet all who gaze upon its sacred
+and occult form. The king of hearts performs the occult and saving rite
+of putting the sword or cross through the crown. This crown is adorned
+with shamrocks, and on his coat he wears the seven hearts or chalices.
+He belongs to the zodiacal sign of the Lion, and this is the heart sign,
+and in it is found the constellation of the Chalice. And he holds his
+hand on his breast like Buddha to show that he is a Mason in due form.
+
+Rev. 7-4. The angel seals in their foreheads 144,000 Jews with the Signa
+Tau or Word, the signet of the Living God. The devotees of Siva also
+wear this Tree of Infamy on their foreheads. John says that it is the
+Father’s name written in the forehead. Only those sealed with this Baum
+Bosheth can sit with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and the other beasts
+around the Throne. All but the 144,000 Jews can go to Hell. The priests
+draw the cross or Signa Tau in ashes on the foreheads of their devotees
+every Ash Wednesday.
+
+Rev. 16-12. And the sixth angel poured out his vial upon the earth, and
+I saw three unclean spirits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of the
+Dragon and out of the mouth of the beast. For they are the spirits of
+devils which go forth unto the kings of the earth to gather them to the
+great day of God Almighty. The sixth angel is the angel of the sixth
+sign of the zodiac, our present sign, the Waterman, and the nations of
+the earth are now fighting the battles of Armageddon. We are now at the
+end of a Great Cycle. The end of the world has come according to the
+astrological and theological fakirs, and the inhabitants of the earth
+are again being destroyed, this time by fire and sword. Christ now comes
+to bring a sword upon the earth.
+
+According to the Christians, all the nations engaged in the war, save
+two, march forth under the banner and protection of Jehovah, the God of
+Battles, and he divides himself into two persons and, perched upon two
+clouds, commands the two contending hosts, urging them on to kill each
+other. After this holocaust of blood and carnage, there will be found no
+fool so utter as to assert that God rules the destinies of mankind.
+
+
+
+
+                             CHAPTER XVIII.
+
+                              The Clergy.
+
+
+The Presbyterian clergy or sorcerers of Scotland, of old times, claimed
+that they could consign their deluded victims to Heaven or Hell by a
+word, and could by their magic power strike with death any enemy of God,
+that is, the clergy. They would not allow anyone to remain in town who
+failed to go and hear their sermons. Buckle says the clergy kept the
+people in a worse than Egyptian bondage, inasmuch as they enslaved mind
+as well as body.
+
+“John Knox sanctioned the murder of the Roman Archbishop Beaton of
+Scotland in 1548, and shut himself up with the assassins in the palace
+of the Archbishop. When the Catholic power was destroyed in Scotland by
+the nobles in 1560 and the church property confiscated by them, the
+Protestant clergy claimed that it was impious to secularize
+ecclesiastical property, and that they should be endowed with the spoils
+of the war, that it was right for the Lords to plunder the Church of
+Rome, but the loot should be turned over to them. They said that what
+rightly belonged to them was devoured by idle bellies. The Presbyterian
+clergy said that King James was a traitor and had seven devils inside of
+him, and he ought to be seized. And their associate in crime, the Earl
+of Gourie, entrapped the King into his castle in order to murder
+him.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 2-201.
+
+The Presbyterian clergy said that cheerfulness was to be guarded
+against. Smiling, provided it stopped short of laughter, might
+occasionally be allowed, still being a carnal pastime, it was a sin to
+smile on Sunday. A Christian has no business with love or sympathy. He
+has his own soul to attend to, that is enough for him. On Sunday in
+particular he must never think of benefitting others and thus break the
+Sabbath. On no occasion must food or shelter be given to a starving man
+unless he is a Presbyterian.
+
+“In priest-ridden Spain, Charles V, the tool of religion, in his will
+provided that all heretics should be put to death and that the
+Inquisition should be upheld. Under his orders, according to Grotius,
+100,000 persons were beheaded, buried alive and burnt at the stake in
+the Netherlands. Phillip II, of Spain, said it was better not to reign
+at all than to reign over heretics. The Duke of Alva, in this reign,
+boasted that in five or six years he had put to death in cold blood more
+than 18,000 heretics, beside a still greater number of infidels he had
+slain on the battlefield.”—Idem 2-14.
+
+When it was proposed to expel from Spain the remnant of Moors remaining,
+who had turned Christians and were baptized by force, Bleda, the
+Dominican, said that every Moor in Spain should have his throat cut,
+because it was impossible to tell which of them were Christians at
+heart, but God knew his own and he could sort them out. About one
+million of the most industrious inhabitants of Spain were hunted out
+like wild beasts. Many were slain as they approached the coast, others
+were beaten and plundered, and the majority in the most wretched plight
+sailed for Africa. During the passage the crew in many of the ships
+butchered the men, ravished the women and threw the children into the
+sea. From this time Spain began to degenerate. The tyranny of religion
+was supreme. While every other country was advancing, Spain, numbed into
+a death-like torpor, spell-bound and entranced by the accursed
+superstition, presented to Europe a solitary instance of constant
+decay.“—Idem, 2-53.
+
+“The French Revolution freed the world from ecclesiastical tyranny and
+opened an unobstructed path to Napoleon, who had given the death blow to
+the Inquisition, the great slaughter house, where they butchered in the
+name of the Lamb.”—Isis Unveiled, 2-22.
+
+The Brahmins, the clergy of India, were quite as disreputable as the
+others. The Institutes of Manu provided that if a common person molested
+a Brahmin, he was to be put to death. If he sat on the same carpet with
+a Brahmin, he was to be maimed for life. If he listened to the reading
+of the sacred books, burning oil was to be poured into his ears, and if
+he committed them to memory, he was to be killed. If he spoke
+disrespectfully of a Brahmin, an iron stile ten fingers long was to be
+thrust red-hot into his mouth. To give to the Brahmins or will them your
+property was an act of the highest piety.
+
+The laws of the clergy in certain provinces of France, ruled by them in
+old times, provided that every man that died without bequeathing part of
+his estate to the church, should be deprived of the Sacrament (and would
+consequently go to Hell). If he died without making a will, his
+relatives were obliged to prevail upon the Bishop to appoint arbitrators
+to determine what sum the deceased should have given to the church in
+case he had made a will. At one time in France, “married couples could
+not sleep together the first three nights without purchasing leave of
+the church.”—Montesquieu’s Spirit of the Laws, 665.
+
+“Pope John XII was assassinated in the arms of his mistress.
+Crecentious, the illegitimate son of John X, caused Benedict VI to be
+murdered. His faction elected Boniface VII, and a third faction elected
+John XV, who was put to death by Boniface. We find shortly after 1044
+Benedict IX, a boy of twelve, and Rholeme and Sylvester III all reigning
+at the same time, and all leading the most profligate and scandalous
+lives.”—Doubts of Infidels, 95. Bishop Hopkins says that “the great body
+of the clergy before the seventh century were steeped in licentiousness,
+avarice, simony, cruelty, violence and blood. They consecrated every
+vice in the interest of so-called religion, they graduated sins by
+pecuniary amercement, they commissioned assassins, having pardoned them
+before the commission of the murder.”
+
+The priests or Magi of Persia, as ecclesiastical bandits, were
+unexcelled. The people had to give up one tenth of their income to these
+magical fakirs. Every woman in Babylon was obliged to offer her person
+for sale one day in the year at the temple of Astarte, and the money
+went to the priests. The pirates of Babylon ransacked the world and
+bought or stole the most beautiful women on earth for the use of the
+priests, who made a pretence of offering them up as human sacrifices to
+Baal. The god held in his hand the appropriate symbol of the traffic,
+the circle and the pillar, that may still be seen in nearly all
+churches. The beautiful sacrifice was placed on the lap of the god in
+the presence of the audience, to be devoured by the lions that
+surrounded the god. But after the meeting the priests drove the lions
+out and stole the sacrifice, as priests always did steal the offerings
+from god.
+
+The Egyptian priests were the rulers of the whole, and owned one third
+the land of Egypt. Besides the princely revenue from this immense landed
+estate, they received, in addition to their salaries, all the offerings
+and sacrifices that the fools gave up as an atonement for sin. A very
+large part of their income was derived from the Bethel or Brothel
+maintained around the temple of the goddess Hathor, the cow, the wife of
+the god Ammon, which is another name for the Ram god or the lamb of god.
+Every woman in Egypt was obliged to sell herself for one month at this
+temple. And then, besides, there were the regular sacred ladies who
+lived constantly in the temple. The priests chose the most beautiful,
+then the remainder were turned over to the mob of pious dupes and
+devotees. The young lady who earned the most money for the priests was,
+in the after life, assigned by Osiris, alias Yahvah, to a seat beside
+the Golden Throne. This rotten pagan church subsequently changed its
+name to Christian.
+
+Calvin, the blood-drenched, the fiend incarnate, one of the founders of
+the Protestant Churches, compelled his lady parishioners to confess on
+the rack their indiscretions, and then threw them naked into the lake
+and drowned them. He hanged a child for cursing its parents, burned old
+women as witches, and burned alive Michael Servetus for contradicting
+Moses in asserting that Palestine was a desert that did not flow with
+milk and honey. Calvin died in convulsions of fear, raving and cursing
+because he thought he was going to Hell.
+
+Oliver Cromwell, the pious Puritan, the murder demon, the regicide, the
+usurper, with the Bible in one hand and the sword in the other, rode at
+the head of his army of religious fanatics singing psalms. This
+sanctified Christian, upon the capture of Drogheda, Ireland, himself
+reported to Parliament that he massacred two thousand of the garrison.
+He fired St. Peter’s Church, to which the people had fled, and put a
+thousand of them to the sword. All the friars were killed but two. And
+the likes of him settled Boston and robbed and murdered the Indians. One
+of these Puritan buccaneers, named Will Bartlett, in Boston, in 1637,
+was sentenced to be set in the stocks, with his tongue in a cleft stick,
+because he got drunk and cussed and swore and refused to go to church on
+Sunday.
+
+In those blithesome days a citizen could not vote unless he belonged to
+the Congregational Church and kissed the big toe of Cotton Mather, the
+superstitious bigot, the Prosecutor of the New England Protestant
+Inquisition. Ridpath says that Mather was chiefly responsible for the
+horrors and crimes of the Salem Witchcraft, and that this massacre,
+torture and imprisonment of 263 innocent persons was started by a Salem
+minister for the purpose of revenging himself upon those of his flock
+who antagonized him.—Ridpath’s Hist. of U. S. 131. The Quakers were
+perhaps the only decent body of Christians up to that time, and for that
+reason the Puritan pirates and slave-dealers hung four of them, one
+woman and three men, on Boston Common.
+
+“Infuse a few different kinds of religious poison into a community of
+human beings, and they hate each other like tigers. Religious creeds
+have a worse effect on a man than booze. You can work the booze out of
+your system and quit the stuff, but when a victim is loaded up on some
+rotten brand of orthodoxy, it is hard to do anything with him. A
+Protestant will damn the Catholics, and a Catholic will yell ‘To Hell
+with the Protestants,’ and both will hate the Jews.”—Roman Religion, 27.
+
+The churches have soaked the earth with the blood of their countless
+victims. Frederick, the Emperor of Germany, sentenced heretics of all
+descriptions alive to the flames. Sixty thousand heretics were
+slaughtered in the city of Beziers. Seventy thousand Huguenots were put
+to death in France. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew began at midnight,
+Aug. 23, 1572, and the carnival of death lasted seven days. Medals
+commemorating the holy event were distributed among the loyal
+butchers.—Roman Religion, 35.
+
+“When the Crusaders took Jerusalem from the Moslems in 969 A. D., they
+massacred all the Mussulmans and burned the Jews alive. Seventy thousand
+persons were put to death in a week to attest the superior morality of
+the Christians.”—Boston Sun. American.
+
+Dr. Fernald says that Sultan Bejazet wrote to Pope Alexander VI that he
+would give him 300,000 ducats, several cities and the shirt of Jesus
+Christ if His Holiness would kill Zimzim, the brother of the Sultan,
+“and you Most Illustrious Lord will not commit a crime, since by your
+religion Christians are ordered to exterminate heretics and infidels.”
+The Ency. Brit. says that “the unfortunate prince was murdered by
+Alexander, who received 300,000 ducats as the reward of the crime.”
+Zimzim was held captive by certain bandits in Rhodes, a Commandery of
+the Knights of St. John, a Christian organization under the domination
+of Alexander. Alexander was a Borgia, whose children were all
+illegitimate.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER XIX.
+
+                               The Bible.
+
+
+As the Old Testament was originally written without vowels, the Lord
+only knows what it meant. The best the copyists could do was to make a
+good guess at the meaning, or supply whatever vowels suited their
+purposes.—See Ency. Brit. 3-64.
+
+Moses was a magician, a thief and a murderer according to the Bible, a
+fakir who foisted upon the Hebrews a magnificent system of priestly
+plunder. In pursuance of Moses pretence that the world was created in
+six days, and that their god El or Bel or Baal rested on the seventh, he
+commanded the people to refrain from labor on that day and go to church,
+so that he would have frequent opportunities to pick their pockets. The
+story of Moses’ birth and secretion in an ark of bulrushes was taken
+from the Babylonians, where it was applied to King Sargon, according to
+tablets excavated at Babylon.
+
+The great, learned and profound Irenaeus says that there must be four
+gospels because there are four winds of heaven. This is a fair sample of
+the logic of theologians. The fact is, there are four gospels because
+those four jumped from the floor onto the table at the council of Nice.
+There was at that time so much doubt as to what alleged sacred writings
+were inspired by God, that the delegates put them all together under the
+communion table one night at the close of the session, and agreed that
+those that got up on top of the table during the night should be
+considered as inspired, and those that were too weak to get up on the
+table should be stamped as the work of the Devil.
+
+“Many of the bishops in these councils were ruffians and were followed
+by crowds of vicious supporters, who stood ready on the slightest excuse
+to maim and kill their opponents.”—Keeler’s Hist. of the Bible. Tichenor
+says that “they decided all holy questions by a vote or a knock-down
+fight. It is doubtful if any of them drew a sober breath during the
+entire proceedings.” Millman says that “they fought in the streets and
+much blood was shed.”—Millman’s Hist. Christianity. “What these drunken,
+fighting, ignorant, pagan priests declared to be received from God, that
+is what is taught as Divine to-day. To this day they cram their
+abominable lies of devils and damnation into the brains of little
+children. The miserable, crazy creeds of Christendom were concocted by
+these brawling pagan priests, and their poison still pollutes the souls
+of men. Fire all the gods of all the creeds into the melting pot, and
+out comes the brazen face of Mammon.”—Tichenor.
+
+Another reason why there are four gospels, according to Irenaeus, was
+because the Cherubim had four faces. But he thus calls attention to the
+fact that Christianity was spawned in the sties of paganism, as the Jews
+took the four beasts of the Cherubim, the bull, the lion, the eagle and
+the man, from the idolatrous Babylonians. And the four Evangelists
+adopted the four beasts as their totems and placed their beastly images
+on the four gospels. The Maya Indians and the Mexicans worshipped the
+same four idols of the four quarters of the heavens.—Ency. Brit. 12-823.
+The priests of the Ojibways wear the horns of the bull and sacrifice to
+the dragon or great serpent (Mary) that wears on its head the crescent
+moon. They also worship the eagle and the Tree of Life. The Ojibway
+picture writing shows that the Indian Adam and Eve had the same
+disgraceful scandal in the garden of Eden. See “Indians,” Ency.
+Americana.
+
+It is claimed that Apollonius of Tyana (alleged to be the original of
+Paul and Christ) came through a medium and said: “Nine epistles were
+made a present to me by Pharaotes, a Satrap of Taxila, between Babylon
+and India. These epistles contained all that is embraced in the present
+epistles claimed to have been written by Paul. Further, I retired to the
+Isle of Patmos in 69 and 70 A. D. and wrote in a trance state an almost
+identical story with that attributed to St. John. The Christian Gospels
+were all preached by me at Jerusalem, Ephesus, Philippi, Rome, Antioch,
+Alexandria and Babylon, and in all those countries I healed the sick,
+cured the blind and raised the dead. The original of the four gospels I
+obtained at Singapore. They treated of the four stages of the life of
+Buddha.”—Antiquity Unveiled, 21.
+
+Moses and God were mad at the Midianites because the Jews had entered
+into the tents of the Midianite ladies and worshipped Baal Poer, from
+which ensued a plague among the Congregation of the Lord. Num. 31-18.
+And they warred against the Midianites, as the Lord commanded, and slew
+all the males and took all the women and children captive. Moses was
+wroth because they had saved all the women and children, and ordered all
+the males among the children to be killed and all the females to be
+turned over to the soldiers for outrage. And he ordered all the women
+murdered except the virgins, of whom 16,000 went to the soldiers and
+16,000 to the people, but the soldiers and the people were compelled to
+pay of these into the storehouse of the Lord 3200 in tithes. “And the
+priests laid with the virgins at the door of the Tabernacle.” Such a
+monstrosity of iniquity, such a fiend incarnate from the shades of Hell
+is the senior member of the firm of Moses and the Lamb.
+
+The history of Moses is copied from the history of Bacchus, who was
+called Mises by the Egyptians. Like Moses, Bacchus was born in Egypt, he
+sojourned on Mt. Sinai, he passed through the Red Sea on dry land, he
+was a lawgiver and wrote the laws on two tables, he was found in a box
+that floated on the water, he smote a rock and wine gushed forth, and
+Bacchus was worshipped and these deeds of his sung in Egypt, Phenicia,
+Syria, Arabia and Greece before Abraham’s day.—Doubts of Infidels, 31.
+
+The account of creation as given in the Bible has been found on tablets
+in the ruins of Nineveh, written in a language that was dead and buried
+before the Jews ever existed. In this Persian cosmogony the name of the
+first man was Adomah, and of the woman Hevah.
+
+The Greeks said miracles for fools. Paul boasts of lying for the glory
+of God and catching converts with guile. Chrysostom said: “Great is the
+force of deceit.” St. Hermas, an Apostolic Father, said that he always
+lived in dissimulation and affirmed a lie for truth to all men.— Doubts
+of Infidels, 78.
+
+You will see that the Bible is dedicated to King James, and that he is
+canonized in the dedication, probably because he kept fifty mistresses
+and was in the habit of becoming beastly intoxicated without
+provocation.
+
+The only real revelations received by the priests and prophets of any
+religion were spirit messages, and the Lord only knows whether these
+were from God or the Devil, from good or bad spirits. In fact it is
+claimed by some spiritualists that all the good spirits are in Heaven
+with God and can’t get out. In other words, they are in limbo, while
+those that were not so good are at liberty to visit the loved spots and
+fond friends of earth and indulge on the astral in their favorite
+pastimes, whether it be a prayer meeting or a poker game. This is
+purgatory, the next story above Hell, which is the earth.
+
+Gibbon said that Eusebius was a consummate liar. The Gospel of Matthew
+and the Epistle to the Hebrews were his work, taken from the lives of
+Christna and Apollonius and the records of the Essenes and some of the
+Jewish and Phenician legends.
+
+A Coptic version of the life of Apollonius in the possession of the
+monks of Seville, Spain, about 1458, was placed in the hands of Juan
+Hermonez for translation. In the margin was a Latin translation, in
+which the name of Apollonius had been changed to John among many other
+falsifications. The Latin translation was almost identical with the
+Gospel of St. John. When Hermonez called the attention of the Superior
+to these changes, he was seized and thrown into a dungeon, in which he
+was allowed to starve and rot.
+
+The Bible has been too much neglected, due, no doubt, to the general
+impression that, being religious, it must be dry. Far from it. For
+instance: Elohim, the gods, made the light and days and nights four days
+before they made the sun. They made a firmament, probably of metal, to
+divide the ocean above from the ocean below, and had windows in it, so
+that they could open them and drown the inhabitants of the earth
+whenever they got drunk and needed a little diversion. And they stuck
+the sun, moon and stars in the metal firmament, which revolved around
+the earth.
+
+When the serpent was not working, he was coiled around the Tree of Life
+telling Eve in snake language what luscious fruit the tree bore. For
+this interference with the plans of the gods, they made the serpent
+crawl on his belly. He had been crawling on his back.
+
+Moses and his first assistant fakir, Aaron, destroyed all the horses and
+cattle in Egypt by a murrain, and then, as Pharaoh still had a stiff
+neck, they destroyed them all again by hail. Then, as Pharaoh still had
+trouble with his neck, they killed all the first-born of Egypt, both men
+and cattle. Then the Israelites fled, and Pharaoh hitched up his horses,
+that had been killed three times, to his six hundred chariots and
+pursued the chosen of God, who had pinched all the jewelry of the
+Egyptians. The Bible is full of these delightful stories from beginning
+to end. If you have conscientious scruples against reading the Bible,
+you will find them attractively set forth in Le Brun’s Doubts of
+Infidels.
+
+
+
+
+                              CHAPTER XX.
+
+                                Heaven.
+
+                    The Lord doeth all things well.
+                    He consigns the Jews to Heaven,
+                    And all the rest to Hell.
+
+
+There are forty nine heavens to which we ordinary mortals may attain, so
+you needn’t worry. Besides, there are certain aristocratic heavens
+reserved for the great and good men of high spirituality, such as Moses,
+the fakir, thief and murderer, and David, the bandit, outlaw and
+assassin, and Solomon, the fratricide, Mormon and pillar of Ashtoreth,
+and all the popes, bishops, priests and ministers. We will each go to
+that place we like the best, and to which we are fitted by our
+vibration. Some of us, like certain ministers, will go to that heaven
+where the beautiful fairies are. The ancient Jews will have a little
+heaven of their own, where they can worship the three balls and the
+ass-headed god and the god with whiskers on, and where they will have a
+chance to cop the golden paving stones, and sell corner lots, and insure
+their palace not made with hands eternal in the heavens.
+
+And the ancient Scotch Presbyterian will walk the golden streets with
+his savage, gore-imbued devil-god, in his paradise overlooking the abyss
+of Hell, where he can gloat over the souls in torment, as they rise up
+out of the Bottomless Pit every thousand years, each one fastened by his
+tongue to a hook on an endless chain, which rises from such a fathomless
+depth of hellfire that it takes the victim a thousand years to make the
+circuit. It is claimed that these heavens and hells are built up from
+the astral substance by the imaginative power of the minds of the
+different religious sects.
+
+This region contains all the heavens that have ever been dreamed of in
+theology, each filled with the devotees of the various creeds. Each of
+the great religions has its own particular region in which its disciples
+gather, worship and rejoice. In each region the religious soul finds
+just what he had expected and hoped to find on the other shore. You may
+even see the golden crowns, harps and stiff halos in some cases and hear
+the eternal chant of praise. These heavens are not eternal. Everything
+on the astral plane is subject to change like all other matter. Even the
+religious progress and change their opinions.—Astral World, 70.
+
+The occultists do not, as a rule, disclose the process by which you may
+see the astral visions and pass out of the physical and journey in the
+astral body. But this is one way to see the pictures in the astral
+light: Between sleeping and waking, in the neutral state of Jagrata,
+when the eyes are closed and a numbness falls upon the body, and you
+experience a floating sensation, take note of the visions that appear to
+you, if any, and then by your will power impress them upon physical
+brain, so that you may remember them. These visions may be pictures on
+the astral light or scenes on the astral plane, but whatever they are,
+some of them prove to be true prophetic visions.
+
+One occult teacher advised those who wished to induce trance to go into
+the silence, that is, to go into a room by yourself, where you will not
+be disturbed, and lie down and completely relax the muscles and think of
+nothing at all. The Hindus say fix your mind on your navel, but some fix
+their gaze on a crystal. You will see the visions when you doze off, if
+you can get them at all.
+
+When you are in the astral body it is possible to remember the
+experiences of your previous lives, that is, the lives of your
+ancestors. In the physical body heredity and memory are stored in the
+cromatin or brain matter of all the millions of cells of the body. The
+human astral body is made up of the astral bodies of all the cells. It
+is possible that memory is inherent in the astral matter of all the
+cells, and that in the astral we are more in rapport with the cells than
+in the physical.
+
+In the lowest astral plane next to the earth, it is said, is the region
+where the astral shells or corpses disintegrate, an arm sloughing off
+here, a leg there, and a head elsewhere. It is claimed that the spirits
+have deserted these shells. If you should happen to meet one of these
+ghosts walking in a graveyard without any legs or without any head, it
+may scare you into a fit, but it will not do you any harm, for it is
+dead. Then there are certain spectres or phantoms whose company is very
+undesirable when you take a lonely walk in the ghoul-haunted woodlands.
+These elemental spirits like to play practical jokes and have a little
+fun with you, but they will not do you any harm, unless you are
+sufficiently weak to allow them to obsess you. Cast out fear, cultivate
+a strong will, and be, like Solomon, the master of demons and men.
+
+“There are certain entities or beings in the astral world which never
+were human and never will be, for they belong to an entirely different
+order of nature. They are fairies, satyrs, imps and goblins. At
+spiritual seances they sometimes play elfish pranks. They seem to be
+particularly apt to play tricks on neophytes in psychic research who
+seek to penetrate the astral without proper instruction. To such a one
+they appear as hideous forms, monsters &c.”—Astral World, 92.
+
+Some of the elementals are electric spirits and confer upon the medium
+the power of magnetic healing. The medium, upon the approach of the
+spirit, is charged with electricity. The spirit may appear as a bird
+with a human face and a parrot’s bill and sharp, black eyes and body
+covered with hair, and deliver messages which can be heard
+clairaudiently by the medium. That reminds us of the claim of Mahomet
+that a little bird stood on his shoulder and whispered the laws of the
+Koran in his ear. They are certainly the Devil’s own laws.
+
+“Many of the angels on the astral and the ghosts that haunt houses are
+thought forms created by the people who imagine them, and obtain all
+their apparent mind from the action of the thought force of their
+creators. Repeated thought and repeated belief will serve to keep alive
+and strengthen these entities, otherwise they will disappear in time.
+Many supernatural visitors, saints and semi-divine beings of all
+religions have been formed in this way. The power of the devils arise in
+the same way.”—Idem.
+
+According to the Theosophists man has two souls, the animal and the
+spiritual, and at death the animal soul or spook, together with the
+spiritual soul, passes to that part of the astral called Kamaloka, or
+place of spooks, the lowest plane. But the spirit soon deserts the spook
+and leaves it to meet its just reward in the second death, because on
+earth it desired too much of carnal pleasures. The spooks retain all the
+impressions accumulated in the earth life and can communicate with
+mortals through mediums. Among these are the demons that obsess human
+beings. The spiritual soul passes on to Devachan, or the house of gods,
+which evidently includes those astral planes where the religious grovel
+before their various imaginary idols. See “What is Theosophy,” 46. This
+alleged spiritual soul, that deserts its brother soul in the depths of
+Hell, receives its due reward, for in the sub-heaven to which it goes,
+it has no memory of the earth life, consequently it is not immortal, and
+it is in jail and cannot get out. It would be better to stay in Hell
+with the spook, for it could have more fun haunting houses than
+worshipping imaginary gods with a lot of stiff-necked orthodox
+hypocrites.
+
+In Ceylon they have twenty six heavens, and at the end of the world
+period they kill off all the spirits in all these heavens except those
+in the five upper spheres, the four highest of which are Nirvana.
+
+You need not think that because you go across that you will have
+surcease from sorrow. It is only in the highest heavens that they have
+no sorrow, and that is because they don’t know anything. You cannot
+obtain happiness here or hereafter by purchasing absolution from any
+fakir, but only by doing to others as you would be done by. The astral
+planes of the Spiritualists in which the soul may advance, improve and
+ultimately attain to the highest heaven, corresponds with Purgatory,
+that superlative graft of religion. You can be prayed out of this limbo,
+if your relatives are willing to put up the stuff, otherwise you will be
+shoveled down into Hell. But a cheaper way is to have a Hindu prayer
+wheel. I am going to devote the immense revenues which I shall receive
+from this pious work to the construction of prayer wheels, which will be
+placed at street corners on all the highways and byways, so that even he
+who runs can turn the wheel and bring around to the open slot, so that
+God can see it, one of the many prayers printed on the wheel, for
+instance: “O, God, save my mother-in-law from Hell.”
+
+In the coma, between sleeping and waking, the gates of the astral world
+are sometimes opened, and you can see the ghosts on the astral plane,
+great throngs of spirits, having no indication of piety, all busily
+engaged in their favorite occupations or sports. If in this state of
+Jagrata you happen to float into a graveyard, you will see the ghosts
+lying or sitting on their graves or pacing up and down beside them with
+bowed heads and in deep thought, trying to figure out how they got there
+and where they are going. See Seership, 179.
+
+It is said that two persons can exchange bodies if they wish. Or if
+someone else has a better body than you have, and you wish to steal it,
+invite him to take a trip with you in his astral body on the astral
+plane. All the time keep commanding your astral body, sotto voce, to
+enter into his body, and when his astral body has emerged, prepared to
+take a trip with you in spook-land, that is the instant for your astral
+body to take possession of his physical body and leave his astral body
+out in the cold. But be careful to back into his body, for if your
+astral body enters his physical body face to face, you will be in wrong
+end to and will be crazy as a loon. Now there is no place for the other
+astral body to go except into your abandoned physical body, and as you
+are a wicked robber who just stole a house, he will probably hesitate
+about entering the body of such a person, and if he delays too long, he
+will be a lost spook, condemned to wander forever in the land of shades.
+
+Do not allow them to palm off any gods upon you. Do not allow anyone to
+assume authority over you. I charge you to teach your descendants these
+things from father to son, down through the clanging corridors of time,
+down through the endless vista of eternity. There is nothing but matter
+in the universe, and all matter is equal. This being so, all forms
+produced therefrom, whether visible or invisible, must be equal, and one
+form has no right to assume authority over another. All beings are
+composed of matter, be they gods or be they worms, and no one mass of
+matter is superior to another or worthy of worship. The worm that crawls
+the earth is the equal of the king that sits upon a throne. Never bow
+the knee to anything that walks or swims or flies, that lives in the
+flesh or that exists only in the diseased imagination of depraved
+religious fanatics. Remember this: There is none greater than you in
+Heaven or Earth or Hell.
+
+
+
+
+                         THE DEVIL’S HALF ACRE.
+                          By Willard Bartlett.
+                           _From the Beacon._
+
+
+In rummaging through the attic of an old wraith-haunted, country house,
+I discovered a course of lessons in Yogi Philosophy. These lessons I
+devoured with avidity, and practiced with assiduity the occult rites,
+until I could readily pass into the silence and project my astral body
+or ghost to any desired place. In fact the unruly ghost would sometimes
+quit the body without my consent and leave me stranded high and dry
+without any soul.
+
+One night while I lay sleeping, my astral body left the physical and
+sped through the air, as it had a very bad habit of doing, to Hapenny,
+the very last place on earth, the place manufactured by the Devil out of
+scraps and old junk, which he had left over after building Hell. But my
+perverted soul always insisted on going there whenever it succeeded in
+bursting through the carnal and beating down its being’s door.
+
+The soul atom or Ego is said to be located in the Medulla Oblongata. If
+the soul is immortal, it is probably an electron. An atom is said to be
+composed of ions or electrons, and probably is subject to dissolution,
+and consequently not immortal. But as no one ever saw an atom or
+electron on account of their extreme minuteness, for the purpose of this
+veracious story, we will call the soul an atom and play it is eternal.
+An atom is a vortex ring of ether in a constant state of vibration, and
+assumed to resemble in form a ring of smoke. Some of the Hindus claim
+that a Purusha or soul from the countless spirit ions constituting the
+spirit principle of the universe, the akasa or astral light, becoming
+involved in the ether, originates the vortex movement by which the atom
+is produced. The ether is the ultimate refinement of matter, a body of
+extreme tenuity that pervades the whole universe and permeates all
+grosser bodies. By the waves of this ether all the vibrations of light,
+heat, sound, energy, electricity and life are transmitted.
+
+The electron is an extremely minute corpuscle or particle endowed with
+life, mind and energy. A thousand electrons, more or less, revolve in
+the atom at a terrific rate around a central sun, thus resembling the
+solar system. This central sun is a male or positive electron, and all
+those revolving about it are females or negative electrons and
+constitute the harem of the central sun, thus establishing polygamy at
+the very basis of life. Our solar system is an atom in a great cosmic
+animal or god called Pan, the all-god.
+
+In my nocturnal journeys, I thought I was clothed in the carnal body,
+but as I was transported through the air, I must necessarily conclude
+that I traveled in the astral body and on the astral plane, in which
+astral bodies move about and ghosts manifest, together with doubles,
+wraiths, hobgoblins and dopplegangers, to which latter class I belonged.
+The astral body, one of the bodies of the soul, is composed of fine,
+ethereal matter, and in form is a duplicate of the human body. It is
+claimed that this body persists for some time after death, but
+eventually disintegrates.
+
+Many a night I have been there in Hapenny when the body lay many miles
+away. These were not ordinary dreams. I was actually there, that is, I
+being in the soul atom or astral body. One night I was conducted through
+a new manufactory there, which I had never seen with the mortal eyes and
+never knew existed. But the next time I went there in the body, I found
+the building just as I had seen it in the vision.
+
+The favorite outing place of my doppleganger is the Devil’s Half Acre,
+or Murderer’s Paradise. It always flies to that obsessed and accursed
+spot hard by the gates of Tophet, close round the hinges of Hell.
+Traveling in the astral body, I can see both the quick and the dead, but
+as I am always out there at night, the live ones are asleep, and only
+the spooks are abroad, prowling hither and yon in the moon’s pale rays,
+visiting again, like myself, the scenes of former crimes. These are
+earth-bound spirits who, during life, lived out a low, degraded
+existence, and they are bound by their own desires and the vibration of
+their astral bodies to these astral slums. I stood out on the old road
+in front of the dilapidated shack formerly occupied by a gun-fighter,
+and watched the astral bodies as they glided to and fro in the air.
+
+There was Mr. B. with a red gash from ear to ear and a crimson stream of
+blood running down over the white, astral, vapor-like body. Around the
+body was the aura, a cloudy vapor extending outward to a distance of two
+or three feet in the shape of an egg, an emanation of a dark and dismal
+color, corresponding to his dark and dismal career. It was in back of
+that very shack that he cut his throat and burst the door that bound him
+to the mortal clay, crying as he passed over that he was eternally lost
+and damned, as the church had hypnotized him into believing. But that
+Hell is immeasurably preferable to the Devil’s Half Acre, because the
+astral body is relieved of pain, hunger and thirst and the necessity of
+laboring for food and clothing. In fact, I believe that we are in Hell
+now, that this is the lowest plane of existence. In the Devil’s Half
+Acre the poor and wretched outcasts of the earth, embellished with dirt
+and clad in rotting rags, lived on three cents a day.
+
+There was something in the atmosphere of the neighborhood that urged all
+the inhabitants on to crime. The family life was a hell on earth. The
+place was obsessed by the Devil and accursed of God. A village will
+acquire a character of its own. It is claimed that all the evil thoughts
+of all the vicious inhabitants of a vile place will linger in the
+surrounding atmosphere for years and exercise a baneful influence on all
+who dwell there. In the Devil’s Half Acre you could not take a step
+without treading on the crimson stain of a reeking crime. The spooks
+were and are now as thick as Tophet there; the place is haunted by
+ghosts and fiends unholy in Death and Hell bedight. It was the obsession
+of the place by the powers of evil that attracted to it all the
+notorious criminals.
+
+The next spook to pollute the atmosphere was that of Mr. D. who, when on
+earth, was engaged in the banking business. In his left hand he carried
+a jimmy and in his right a gun, and he was peering here and there
+looking for a safe to crack or a cashier to shoot up. He was floating
+through the air at a height of about ten feet, and on his forehead
+blazed the blood-red mark of Cain, and his black aura was lighted by the
+fires of Tophet. When in life he lived in the house across the road.
+From this house also emerged a ghost with a halter around its neck. It
+was there with the halter he had swung himself over the battlements of
+time and dropped into eternity. The vicious influence of this house was
+irresistible. It is well to know this law of thought obsession and avoid
+these accursed places.
+
+The next spirit to make its appearance was my old friend Mr. E. who came
+from walking up and down in the earth trying to sell the girl he led by
+the hand. He was still on his uppers as usual, as I could see by the
+ragged condition of his astral body. The accompanying aura of a
+slate-green hue, embellished with dull-red flames, indicated a low,
+deceitful and sensual character. He stopped and, looking me over, said:
+“I remember you. Don’t you want to buy my wife here again? She is in
+good condition now. I admit that I cheated you forty years ago when I
+sold her to you for fifty cents, but now in the astral world she is a
+vision of youth and beauty.”
+
+Then came the ghost of Mr. F., a Sunday School teacher, who operated on
+a class of young ladies in the vestry of the church, that time-worn
+vestry, that well-beloved vestry, where the foundations of their
+philosophy were laid. A very genial, loving gentleman he was too, but
+his scholars being exceedingly frivolous, he found it necessary, in
+order to impress upon them the Divine truths, to pat them on the knees
+and sort of instil religion into them by the massage process. He has
+found his heaven. He appeared on the astral, surrounded, embraced and
+beloved by that same dazzling galaxy of beauties, now a star-crowned
+angel band.
+
+It is claimed that they have schools over there, in which those who so
+desire may be instructed in virtue and wisdom and assisted to advance.
+When at last they learn the great secret and discover the key that
+unlocks the horns of the bull, they pass through the low and narrow
+portal between the horns of Taurus, squeeze through the needle’s eye,
+and enter the higher heaven.
+
+Then I saw a lot of ghosts and fragments of ghosts sometimes without any
+heads, and sometimes lacking limbs, floating about aimlessly without any
+rudders, for they were dead, and their spirits had fled, leaving in the
+Devil’s Half Acre their astral shells. That is what they are called when
+their spirits have departed in the spiritual body and left the astral
+body to return to the elements like the carnal body.
+
+A human being in a normal condition is unable to see an astral body, or
+ghost, because the vibrations on the astral plane are too rapid for the
+human eye to see. The vibrations of the ultra-violet or X rays, at one
+end of the spectrum are too rapid, and the infra-red rays, at the other
+end of the spectrum, are too slow for the human eye to see. But we have
+astral senses, appurtenant to the astral body, duplicates of the
+physical senses, and persons in a trance and sometimes people asleep are
+able to use these astral senses and see and communicate with the
+denizens of the astral world.
+
+
+
+
+                    THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE SOUL ATOM.
+                          By Willard Bartlett.
+                          _From The Nautilus._
+
+
+I will preface my story with the simple statement that I am now
+500,000,000 years old, more or less, that the atom in which my soul is
+located, or which constitutes my soul, first found a home in what is
+called a living being, a cytod or cell, in the primordial or earliest
+epoch of earth’s history. A cell is a minute mass of living protoplasm,
+or jelly-like substance, not as large as the head of a pin, a
+combination of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen, ammonia, sulphur,
+etc. While it is true that I existed before that, and, in fact, from all
+eternity, I previously resided in what is called inanimate matter, in
+the igneous rocks. But we will say that I was born when my soul atom
+became involved in the said protoplasm of one of the earliest plant
+cells.
+
+All matter is endowed with mind, and a soul exists in every atom. It is
+impossible to produce new life, as it is said scientists have done, and
+impossible to create life, as God is claimed to have done, for life
+always existed in every atom. It is by certain combinations of matter
+that life becomes manifest in motion.
+
+Each of the thousands of atoms, of which said primitive life cell was
+composed, had a soul destined to take its place in some descendant, if
+it had an opportunity. And the souls are waiting in the atoms to be
+born, and not in Heaven as asserted by the Yogi philosophers. The Yogis
+claim that the souls are waiting in some department of the Buddhist
+heaven crying to be born. Bosh! They are waiting in the spermatozoa,
+those little monsters, those little devils that drive their great human
+masters to crime and murder, to the gallows and the stake; there they
+are howling to be born. In their frantic race to enter the ovum, as
+shown under “Spermatozoa,” Stand. Dic., no wonder they are excited. They
+have been waiting 500,000,000 years for the opportunity to become human
+beings.
+
+Cells propagate by division; that is my original ancestor, a little,
+round mass of protoplasm, divided itself into two cells to produce
+offspring, and all of my ancestors have done the same through all these
+millions of years, consequently I have in my body, in all of the cells,
+some of the original matter of which my original cell ancestor was
+composed. That is eternity’s great highway by which the soul walked
+down.
+
+The human germ cell divides in the same manner into two individuals and
+we propagate, as our earliest ancestors did, by casting off a cell,
+which, being joined by a cell of the opposite sex, becomes fertilized.
+The human embryo develops by repeated subdivisions of this twin cell,
+and each one of the myriads of cells so produced is a living, thinking
+being.
+
+The question has arisen why the cells in an embryo arrange themselves in
+the form of the parent, and it has been asserted that they are so
+distributed by God in pursuance of a Divine plan. But it is actually
+done by the volition of the cells themselves. Each cell takes its proper
+position in compliance with the instruction of its parent cell, and if
+removed by force to some other part of the embryo, will return to its
+original place, thus evincing the most surprising intelligence. It must
+be remembered that a molecule is as large as a universe, that there is
+no such thing as size, that as much ability may be stored up in the
+nerve centre of a cell as in all the debris of a human brain.
+
+We are immortal, but with no memory of past lives. If we do not
+propagate, this life will be the end of our line that has continued
+unbroken for millions of years, and we will have to go back into the
+abysmal void, into the womb of chaos and commence all over again. That
+will be our fate in any case. Only that cell of our bodies which may be
+incorporated in our progeny will continue in human form. That cell is a
+remote relative of ours, having descended from the ancestral germ cell
+from which our embryo was developed.
+
+Of the earliest plant cells, developed by spontaneous generation in the
+primordial epoch, some developed tails, or projected filaments of
+protoplasm from their jelly-like bodies. With these tails they propelled
+themselves through the primeval seas, and thus separated themselves from
+the plants and became animals. In this earliest epoch of life’s history
+all beings lived in the water. These primitive plants possessed as much
+soul and mind as the animals that thus branched off from them, and all
+plants still possess soul and mind.
+
+But I am sorry to say that my ancestor, who thus projected a tail and
+became an animal, was a degenerate, a lazy loafer, a robber, a murderer
+and a cannibal. We all have to live on protoplasm. The plants made their
+own living plasm, manufacturing it from inorganic matter, but the
+animals were too indolent to do such laborious work, when they could
+just as well kill and eat the plant cells and subsist on them. In this
+way they lost the recipe for making plasm, and we descendants are
+consequently born cannibals, condemned to rob, murder, despoil and eat
+our fellow beings, or starve.
+
+My next beautiful ancestor, to whom I will introduce you, was an animal
+consisting of numerous cells arranged in the form of a sack or stomach,
+called a blastoderm or gastraea. There was no central brain at this
+time, each cell having a brain of its own.
+
+Yesterday, while patrolling my beat down in the mine, in a drift in the
+limestone, the earliest sedimentary deposit laid down on the bed of the
+primeval ocean, I found the house of my archaic ancestor, willed to me
+by him millions of years ago, and delivered by him to me yesterday. It
+is a minute shell, with which he protected his precious stomach. This
+stomach took its flight to Heaven in the earliest dawn of time, but the
+house, one of the many mansions of the soul, preserved intact came down
+to me through unnumbered ages, while myriad races came into being and
+faded into eternity, and religions sprang up and flourished and waned,
+and empires rose and rotted and fell.
+
+In the next stage, the stomach has become elongated, and the nerve
+centre or spinal cord makes its appearance along the whole length of the
+body. At this period my beloved grandfather was a very aristocratic and
+exclusive worm, belonging to one of the first families, and, like them,
+had as much brains in his tail as in his head, for no cranial brain had
+yet developed.
+
+The remaining steps of the evolution, through which my ancestors have
+passed, are depicted in the development of the human embryo, and I will
+ask you to read up on the subject of embryology, which I have found
+quite as interesting as dime novels.
+
+
+
+
+                          Transcriber's Notes
+
+  Several obvious punctuation errors have been silently corrected.
+  Signa Tau was used consistently so it was not changed to Sigma Tau.
+  On pages 2 and 55, alter was changed to altar.
+  On page 71, metalic was changed to metallic, twice.
+  On page 83, phanton was changed to phantom.
+  On page 95, colaborated was changed to collaborated.
+  On page 97, tate-a-tate was changed to tête-à-tête.
+  On page 103, bear was changed to bare.
+  On page 121, polutes was changed to pollutes.
+  On page 127, Astral Word was Changed to Astral World.
+
+  Other variations in spelling, punctuation, accents and hyphenation
+  remain as in the original.
+
+  In Chapter III, the four symbols in the UTF-8 text version have been
+  approximated with UTF-8 characters which are very similar.
+
+  Italics are represented thus _italic_.
+
+
+
+
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+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000' />
+</div>
+
+<div  class='figcenter id001'>
+<img src='images/cover.jpg' alt='King Solomon' class='ig001' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000' />
+</div>
+
+<div>
+  <h1 class='c001'><span class='xlarge'>King Solomon’s Goat</span></h1>
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+<div class='nf-center c000'>
+    <div class='c002'><i>By</i></div>
+    <div><span class='large'>WILLARD BARTLETT</span></div>
+    <div class='c000'><i>Author of</i></div>
+    <div class='c000'>“The Origin of Priestcraft,” “The Tenderfoot,”</div>
+    <div>“The War of the Stomachs,” etc.</div>
+    <div class='c003'><i>Apologies are due to numerous authors</i></div>
+    <div><i>who have failed to receive due credit</i></div>
+    <div><i>through the carelessness of the compiler.</i></div>
+    <div class='c004'>EVERETT PRINT</div>
+    <div>13 Otis Street</div>
+    <div><span class='small'>BOSTON</span></div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='nf-center-c1'>
+  <div class='nf-center'>
+    <div class='c003'>Copyright 1918</div>
+    <div class='c000'><span class='small'>BY</span></div>
+    <div class='c000'>G. WILLARD BARTLETT</div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<div class='pbb'>
+ <hr class='pb c000' />
+</div>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='1' id='Page_1'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER I.<br /> <br /><b>The Divine Moloch.</b></h2>
+</div>
+<p class='c006'>The genial gentleman with horns, shown
+on the cover hereof, is christ.<a id='r1' /><a href='#f1' class='c007'><sup>[1]</sup></a> The hybrid
+Christian-Egyptian religion was stolen from the
+sun-worship of Egypt and India and other religious
+impositions. When the sun, called Ra and
+Osiris in Egypt, identical with Jehovah, at the
+end of each cycle of about 2155 years, entered a
+new sign of the zodiac, it was said to be reborn,
+or the son of god came in a character to correspond
+with the astronomical sign.—Gerald Massey.</p>
+
+<hr class='c008' />
+<div class='footnote' id='f1'>
+<p class='c009'><span class='label'><a href='#r1'>1</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Where in this book the words God, Lord, Christ, Messiah and
+Lamb are capitalized they refer to Christian deities, otherwise to
+pagan gods.</p>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c009'>When the sun entered the sign of Taurus, the
+bull, god was reborn, or christ came as
+the bull, called Apis in Egypt and Moloch in Syria.
+It is the latter beauty whose entrancing charms
+are the subject of this panegyric. When Jacob
+wrestled with the lord, the bout was with Moloch
+Iho, as will be seen by reading the original Hebrew
+text. This is lord I O, the supreme, the hermaphrodite
+god or idol of the pagans. Read the
+Blessing that the Hebrews say before eating:
+“Blessed art thou Io Elohanu Melech ...
+who bringeth forth bread from the earth.”—Krinsky’s
+First Lessons in Hebrew, 84.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The pagans claimed that their god Moloch
+“had his castle of fire in the seventh heaven.”
+And “Jehovah had his castle of fire over the
+seventh heaven.”—Book of Enoch, 14:7. The
+<span class='pageno' title='2' id='Page_2'></span>identity of Moloch and the Hindu god Siva is
+indicated by the bull Nardi, the sacred emblem
+of the latter. The Persian bull christ, the son
+of Ormazd, killed by Ahriman, the Lord of
+Darkness, and all the other christs that sport
+horns must share the infamy of the great god
+Moloch, alias Saturn, alias Israel, alias Ilda Baoth
+or Devil. The heaven of Moloch is in the Northeast,
+and it is paved with gold, and his throne is
+made of lapis lazuli.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>You will notice that the priest is offering up
+a child to the great god who so loved human flesh
+and blood that he caused his own son to be
+slaughtered. There was also another reason for
+the human sacrifices by the priests and sorcerers
+and secret societies, that is, the desire to evoke
+the dead and summon up phantoms for consultation.
+These ghosts are very fond of blood, in
+fact it is difficult for them to materialize unless
+they can absorb the steam arising from human
+blood. It is true that some sorcerers have evoked
+the dead with the blood of kids or lambs, but the
+goat and lamb christs are ancient redeemers,
+whose efficacy is not to be compared with the
+man christ. Elephas Levi says that a phantom
+will attract the vapor of blood and human corpuscles
+in the air as a magnet attracts iron filings.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“They have built the high places of Tophet
+in the Valley of Hinnom to burn their sons and
+daughters in the fire.” They made their children
+pass through the fire to Moloch, forsooth,
+because young children, like young pigs, are
+tender and easy to chew. They cooked their own
+flesh and blood on the reeking altar of the Devil,
+even as the great and good Ahaz served up his
+son for the delectation of the mob, and sitting
+down to the delicious feast, ate up the heir and
+hope of Israel. Then, chopping up the remnants
+into sausages, he exposed and hawked them in
+<span class='pageno' title='3' id='Page_3'></span>the market place, crying: “It is true they come
+high, but see what they are made of. Each
+sausage is stamped with the Tetragrammaton
+and stuffed with the royal house of Israel. If
+you plebeians, decorated with dirt and adorned
+with bugs, wish to get some blue blood into your
+clotted veins, now is the time. Avail yourselves
+of this opportunity to eat a prince of the royal
+blood, an imperial descendant of our Mother in
+Israel, Tamar, the daughter and wife of Judah
+and ancestor of David and the messiah.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The fact that the Jews worshipped on Saturn-day
+would indicate that they were worshippers
+of Saturn or Moloch. The sacrifice of the
+first-born unto the Lord was required by the Old
+Testament. Human sacrifices by proxy still
+survive in parts of England, where at Christmas
+time the goodman goes forth to hunt for an old
+wife to sacrifice, and returns with an old log,
+which he plays is his wife, and puts her on the
+fire. This takes the place of the human being
+his ancestors formerly offered up. In Hertfordshire,
+an ox, representing Moloch, is killed every
+Christmas, and the church bell tolls at its death
+in imitation of the crucifixion of the bull christ
+or sun at the winter solstice. At the orgies of
+Orpheus they originally sacrificed a man and
+tore his flesh from his body with their teeth and
+ate it raw, but in later times substituted a bull
+representing Orpheus or Christ.—“Orgies” and
+“Orpheus”, Ency. Brit. All religion originated
+in human sacrifices and cannibalism.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The wife of god is a cow, called Hathor in
+Egypt, also named Isis and Meri, which goddess
+we have stolen and worship under the name of
+Mary. When the sun entered the stable or sign
+of Taurus, a christ was produced, or god was
+reborn as a bull. That is why Christ was born
+in a stable.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='4' id='Page_4'></span>When the sun entered the sign of Aries or
+the Ram, God was reborn, or Christ came as the
+Lamb of God, the son of the Ram, identical with
+Rama, the seventh incarnation of the god Vishnu.—Gerald
+Massey. In Thebes the principal object
+worshipped by the pagan ancestors of Christianity
+was the Ram.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>At the eighth incarnation of God, when the
+sun entered the sign of Fishes, about the beginning
+of the Christian Era, God was reborn as the
+Great Fish or Fisher of Men, and was slain on
+Friday for the redemption of the world. That
+is why the Christians killed and ate their fish
+Jesus every Friday to save their craven souls
+from Hell. That is why the priests of Dagon,
+the fish god of the Philistines, wore fish skins on
+their backs and the head of a fish for a miter.
+The miter of the church dignitaries was the
+gaping mouth of their fish god. That is why
+Christ had such phenomenal piscatorial luck and
+why his disciples were fishermen. That is why
+he came up out of the waters of Jordan.—See
+Ancient Pagan &amp; Modern Christian Symbolism.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>We are baptized that we may typically
+become fish or Christlike, but complete immersion
+is indispensable to save our wicked souls.
+A few drops of water on the forehead do not
+make a fish. Jesus came out of the stellar pool
+in the sign of Fishes, and we have seen superstitious
+and benighted fishes, who have been born
+again, come up out of the pool beneath the church
+altar in the Hub of Universal Culture. The
+basin at the church door or piscina, containing
+alleged holy water, is but a type of that celestial
+pool in which the stellar fishes swim, and into
+which the sun plunged and washed away the sins
+of the world. The Egyptian Madonna, Isis, is
+represented as holding in her arms the christ
+Horus, and on her head is a fish. The Hindus
+<span class='pageno' title='5' id='Page_5'></span>worship the fish-god at the temple of the Golden
+Dagon near Rangoon, India.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Jews sacrificed the fish-christ at each
+of the three meals of the Sabbath. “One should
+eat fish for into them the souls of the righteous
+are transmigrated.”—Talmud. The Buddhist
+cross, from which the Christian cross was taken,
+is called Swastika (fishes) and consists of the
+two fishes of the zodiac crossed. “Maya or Mary,
+the Virgin of the skies, at the moment of the birth
+of her son Buddha on Dec. 25, was just rising
+above the horizon.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The sun’s present position is in Aquarius.
+Our Lord’s advent was in the previous sign of
+Pisces, but the sign which he declared should
+precede his next coming was that of Aquarius.
+‘When ye see a man bearing a pitcher of water
+follow ye him.’”—Daughter of the Druids, 101.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When the sun entered the sign of Cancer,
+the sun god, or the son of god came as the Crab
+or the Good Scarabaeus, the lucky bug of Egypt,
+and was born in the nebula of the Manger in the
+sign of Cancer. Still there is no law against believing
+in the story of the Jew Christ born in the
+Manger of Bethlehem. Even the Church Fathers
+claimed that Christ was the Good Scarabaeus.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Catacombs of Rome is a picture of a
+supper at which seven persons sit down to eat
+seven loaves and two small fishes. Some writers
+have failed to grasp the significance of this
+picture. They are assembled there to eat their
+Christ, as we do now at every Communion Service.
+Christ is the bread of life, born in the astronomical
+house of Breadcorn. He came seven
+times in the ancient division of the heavens, and
+in his eighth avatar he came as the two fishes in
+the sign of Pisces.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Our Christmas is a new name for the old
+<span class='pageno' title='6' id='Page_6'></span>Roman Saturnalia, a festival celebrating the birth
+of the sun-god Saturn or Moloch at the winter
+solstice, at which time they feasted, exchanged
+presents, got drunk and played craps. The
+Christians, in celebrating the 25th of December,
+admit that their Christ is a sun-god.—See
+“Saturn,” Ency. Brit.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='7' id='Page_7'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER II.<br /> <br /><b>The Queen of Heaven.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>The Hebrews in the wilderness indulged
+in this pagan idolatry and sacrificed bullocks and
+lambs on the altar for the remission of their sins,
+and erected a golden calf. The golden calf was
+christ, and his mother was the sacred cow Hathor
+or Mary. This Meri or Mary was an astral
+goddess, the moon goddess, the Queen of Heaven,
+represented as standing in the crescent moon.
+She is identical with the foul goddesses Astarte,
+Venus, Ishtar, Asherah and Ashtoreth, the
+abomination of the Sidonians. Ishtar is the
+same as Easter, and we celebrate Easter because
+the sun-god arose at the full moon of Easter.
+The Sacred Cow of India is worshipped as the
+Mother of the Gods.—Book of all Religions, 224.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>You will see in the idol stores the graven
+image of Mary, the Queen of Heaven, standing
+in the crescent moon, and a dog crouching before
+her offering her a cake with a hole in it. This
+cake is the Mark of the Beast, the female symbol
+of the cow Hathor, the Assyrian Grove, the
+sacred Eye, which was worn by the Christian
+and pagan priests in their foreheads and on their
+hands. It is the Sacti of the goddess Maha
+Deva, called Sacti because it is sacred and is
+offered up as a sacrifice, closely related to sacrum
+and the caudal appendage.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The three links are the symbol of the hermaphrodite
+godhead. The link is the female emblem
+and three is the sign of the male. The Eye within
+the tent or triangle or compasses is an object of
+<span class='pageno' title='8' id='Page_8'></span>worship and adoration. The three-cornered
+triangle is the emblem of the male. In Ency.
+Brit., 6: 462, a bishop is represented with the
+Eye on his left hand, and he holds up three fingers
+of his right hand, the sign of the male.
+This is just as efficacious as the three links, as it
+presents to the audience the male and female emblems
+together, formerly the only objects of worship
+in all religions. They are the emblems of life,
+and must be held up together to insure the worshippers
+eternal life. It will be seen in this
+investigation that in every religious assembly,
+from the Witches’ Sabbath to the Elevation of
+the Host, the male and female emblems were
+displayed together for the salvation of the world.
+Without these emblems the devotees cannot be
+born again. The image of the Hindu Madonna
+and Christna shows the Virgin holding up three
+fingers, and with the thumb and forefinger she
+makes the circle of Ashtoreth to save the souls
+of her devotees.—Plate 14, A. P. &amp; M. C. Symbolism.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The high altars of most of the churches
+were rank Assyrian Groves, to which the devotees
+bowed low in holy reverence. See “Altar”,
+Stand. Dic. and Ency. Brit. 16:75. The deity
+emerging from the female symbol of the high
+Christian altar of Pistoia holds in his hand a
+book on which is written: “I A O, the Sun, the
+Light of the World.” When we take off our
+hats to the church, we are not doing obeisance
+to the pile of brick and stone but to this symbol
+above the altar. The Dabistan says that Siva
+has a spouse called Maya, as Jehovah had Mary,
+and the high altar in a mosque of the Mussulmans
+is an emblem of the Bhaga or the Grove or Royal
+Arch. The ancient Knights of the Royal Bhaga
+were also Knights of the Cave, the Gate, the
+Fornix (tent of a Kadish) to the defense of which
+<span class='pageno' title='9' id='Page_9'></span>they pledged their lives, their property and their
+sacred honors, and each brave knight wore emblazoned
+on his forehead or on his stomach the
+emblem of his goddess, the open Eye.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Venus, called C U in Celtic, was the moon
+goddess of the round towers of Ireland. The
+priests of the goddess called themselves C U R,
+and a cur offers a sacrifice to the Virgin. From
+C U R we derive the word curate.—Stinson
+Jarvis. The Druid priests always wore the
+crescent moon on their robes. Osiris is identical
+with the Egyptian god Anubis, the dog, and their
+symbol is the open Eye. They both worship at
+the shrine of Hathor or the Virgin holding the
+sacred Eye in their hands. That is why in
+Christianity, we see the dog offering to Mary
+the sacred perforated wafer.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Refer to “Enthronization,” Stand. Dic., and
+you will see the Mark of the Beast on the bishop’s
+hand, and look at the pagan god Siva, and you
+will find the same mark on his forehead. See
+“Freemason,” and you find that Washington
+wears the same symbol on his stomach. Look
+at Brahma, who carries the rosary in his hand,
+a symbol of identical significance. Refer to
+“Glory,” and you see Christ standing in the Mark
+of the Beast. Turn to Vesica Piscis, where the
+Virgin stands in her symbol, the symbol of the
+hideous faith of the Witches’ Sabbath, a faith
+coeval with the dawn of time, spawned in the
+slums of chaos. Astarte or Ashtoreth was the
+moon goddess and Queen of Heaven and patron
+of immorality.—Ency. Brit. 2:735. Mary is
+the same as Venus and Diana, the moon goddess.—Elephas
+Levi, the priest.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Hindu Litany of Our Lady Nari, the
+Virgin, says: “Holy Nari. Mariama, Mother of
+an Incarnate God, Mother of Christna, Virgin
+Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven.” The Egyptian
+<span class='pageno' title='10' id='Page_10'></span>Litany of Our Lady Isis says: “Holy Isis, Mother
+of Gods, Mother of Horus, Virgin Sacred Earth,
+Isis, Queen of Heaven.” The Christian Litany
+says: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, Mother of
+Christ, Virgin Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven.”—Isis
+Unveiled, 209.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Why does St. Peter (Petra, the Rock God)
+as shown by his statue in Rome, hold up three
+fingers and make the circle or Eye with the other
+two fingers? Why is the Christian Benedictional,
+like the Totem Pole of the Indians, covered with
+the so-called All-Seeing Eye? Why is the Eye
+on the stomach of the Bishop, where he does not
+need it? This is a very occult matter that can
+be disclosed only to the initiates of the foul
+religions.—See Book of All Religions, 467.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Religion is a monstrous fraud and delusion
+that has desolated the earth and filled the spirit
+world with demons.”—Antiquity Unveiled, 58.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Gnostics claimed that it was Ilda Baoth,
+the Devil, that overshadowed Mary, instead of
+Gabriel. “The female Serpent of the Sky, the
+Mother, is imaged in Buddhism by the lotus, the
+water, the female fish. Her mansion is in Virgo.
+By Manu she is called the Spirit of God (the Holy
+Ghost) but she represents matter as well as spirit.”—Buddha
+&amp; Early Buddhism, 20. Mare and
+Mary mean the sea, and the fish god Jesus, of
+course, came out of the sea.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The bells used by the Christians came to
+them directly from the Buddhists, Thibetans and
+Chinese, who used them to attract the gods.
+The beads and rosary have the same origin, and
+have been used by Buddhist monks for over
+2300 years.”—Isis Unveiled, 95. The Jews used
+bells to warn their god that some dupe was
+about to adore him, so that he would have a
+chance to change his character and not appear
+as the ass-headed god.—Epiphanius, Gospel of
+<span class='pageno' title='11' id='Page_11'></span>Mary. In China and India they ring the church
+bell to call god and the other ghosts to dinner,
+and after the spirits have eaten, the remnants
+of the sacrifices are thrown by the priests to the
+dogs of worshippers, the scum of the earth, who
+furnished the offerings. The church bell in
+Japan is called “Call God,” and we, having copied
+our religion from the Buddhist, ring our church
+bells to call God to listen to our fool prayers, and
+every Sunday he walks a leg off hustling around
+to the millions of places of superstition.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A statue of the cow Hathor, with the moon
+between her horns, was unearthed in a temple of
+Egypt. This is the mother of Horus, also called
+Ies and Iesu and Jesu in Egypt. And to further
+fix her catholicity beyond question she is covered
+with Christian crosses. If you refer to “Isis,”
+Stand. Dic., you will see that the Egyptian
+Madonna wears horns and the full moon on her
+head. The moon goddess of Peru was called
+Mamma Quilka, or Mother Moon, the mother
+of all the Incas, and the real pious devotees got
+soused on corn whiskey in her holy worship.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Christians sacrificed cakes with holes
+in them to Mary, Queen of Heaven.—Ency.
+Brit. 15:391. This is the very idolatry for
+which Jehovah drove the Jewish nation out of
+Palestine. In Jeremiah, 44:19, the Jews say:
+“We burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and
+poured out drink offerings unto her and made
+cakes to worship her.” And Jeremiah says in
+verse 22: “Because of these abominations which
+you have committed, therefore is your land a
+desolation and a curse, without an inhabitant
+as at this day.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Buddhists say: “Upon a lotus of precious
+stones sustaining a moon crescent sits Buddha
+Matra” (the Mother of God). The Chinese
+invocation says: “Hail Matra”, and they call
+<span class='pageno' title='12' id='Page_12'></span>her “Our Lady, the Queen of Heaven, the Mother
+of Buddha.”—Buddha &amp; Early Buddhism, 22.
+The fact that the Queen of Heaven existed as
+a goddess in the time of Jeremiah, before Christianity
+was spawned, shows that the Buddhists
+did not steal their Queen of Heaven from the
+Christians as charged.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In Josephus, Book 8, ch. 11, it is seen that
+Shishac subdued Israel and erected some charming
+pillars on which were carved captivating
+female symbols, which they worshipped. Jereboam
+erected two aesthetic heifers, images
+of Hathor for the worship and spiritual edification
+of the Jews. In Judges, 3:7, it is asserted
+that Israel served Baalim and the Grove.
+Baalim are images of Baal, male emblems,
+corresponding to the candles and manikins
+(sons of man) of the Witches’ Sabbath, called
+images of men in Ezek. 16:17. I think that
+the christ of the Hebrews was the candle, and
+that they sacrificed him every Friday, the
+same as the Christians do their fish god. The
+candle is the appropriate offering to a goddess,
+and it may have been Ashtoreth.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Mezuzah, which is nailed on the door
+post, corresponds with the pillars erected by
+Shishac, for it is a miniature pillar with an oval
+hole on the side, which hole it is necessary to
+kiss, as we kiss the male and female emblems
+on the Pax to secure eternal life. In the hole
+is one of the names of god, Shaday, one of the
+female Sephiroth or persons of the godhead.
+If you refer to “Altar,” Stand. Dic., you will
+see the people worshipping the hole in the Mezuzah,
+or the Virgin standing in her symbol
+above the altar, which is all the same.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The phylactery, worn on the forehead
+and on the left arm, contains passages of Scripture,
+which must be printed on the skin of the
+<span class='pageno' title='13' id='Page_13'></span>cow, the mother of christ, and the phylactery
+itself, must be made of the skin of christ, the
+calf. God himself wore phylacteries according
+to the Talmud.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Dianus, or the sun, or god, had twelve
+wives, capturing a new one whenever he entered
+a new sign of the zodiac. It was Rhea
+in the sign of the Twins, and Hathor in the
+sign of Taurus, and Mary in the sign of Pisces.
+One of his wives was Diana of the Ephesians,
+the object of a foul worship in Asia Minor.
+She wears upon her head the crescent moon,
+and she is Mary, the Queen of Heaven. She
+bears six lions in her arms, because she is the
+mother of all the gods. Six christs have been
+born since she ruled the heavens in the sign of
+Virgo. The christ who came in the sign immediately
+following Virgo was Leo. It is one
+and the same god, the sun, that comes in every
+sign, consequently they are all lions.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='14' id='Page_14'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER III.<br /> <br /><b>Religious Symbolism.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>This is the Egyptian Tau Cross, the symbol
+of Apis, the bull, and other male gods:
+ <img class='inline c010' src='images/tau.png' alt='𝝩' />.
+Here
+is the male emblem shown as the Masonic square,
+as found in the ruins of Gaza:
+ <img class='inline c010' src='images/msq.png' alt='𝝘' />.
+This is
+the Egyptian K. Ka is the Egyptian name
+of the male emblem. See “Hieroglyphics”,
+Ency. Brit. This holy god, in the form of a
+stone, is stuck in the wall of the Kaaba, the
+shrine at Mecca, which shrine was built by
+Abraham, who was fond of chasing after gods
+with tarnished reputations. This god in Mecca
+is a meteorite seven inches long, brought down
+from Heaven by Gabriel, and about 300,000
+pilgrims annually kiss this foul, germ-laden
+god to save their tarnal souls.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>And this is the cross ansata of Egypt,
+ <img class='inline c010' src='images/anx.png' alt='♀' />,
+or cross of anx (life), a combination of the cross
+of the bull and the sacred symbol of Isis. The
+High Priest of Egypt wore three cross ansatas
+and three links on his breast-plate, symbols
+of the trinity. Many of the pagan religions,
+from which ours descended, used only the main
+portion of the cross, the shaft or upright, the
+symbol of Siva, Baal Poer and Jehovah. It
+is called phalatz in Hebrew, meaning broken.
+See the broken column of the Masons—A. P.
+&amp; M. C. Symbolism.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>You place the three balls of the pawnbroker
+or the shamrock of Ireland on top of the
+shaft, and you have the most archaic form of
+the cross, before which the devils tremble and
+<span class='pageno' title='15' id='Page_15'></span>fall in a fit. Christian crosses, wreaths, bells,
+squares, eyes, Asherim and Baalim have been
+discovered in the ruins of Gaza, in the fourth
+city that was destroyed about 1600 B. C. The
+original text of Ezek. 9:4 shows that the sign
+of Jehovah was the Signa Tau, or the cross of
+Taurus, the bull, with which the elect were sealed
+in their foreheads. In the Enchiridion, a prayer
+book and book of magic credited to Pope Leo III,
+he says: “By this sign
+ <img class='inline c010' src='images/crs.png' alt='＋' />
+Lord Tau, deliver
+me.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The male emblem, or triangle, placed in
+the circle of Asherah makes the Three in One,
+the profound and esoteric mystery forever
+hidden from the profane and vulgar. That is
+the sacred quartet, those are the idols we worship.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Turn to Siva, Stand. Dic., and you will
+see that he has stolen all the pious Christian
+symbols, although he existed for ages before the
+Christians. In one hand is the circle and in
+another hand a trident or fleur de lys, a male
+emblem. Around his neck is a large rosary or
+stole. Thrusting his male head through this
+female emblem is a symbol of life and a saving
+rite. Putting his hand through a rosary is
+just as effective. We can trace the spotless
+lineage of our beloved religion back through
+the dim vistas of time to a very archaic and
+rotten ancestry.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In both the Christian and pagan symbolism
+the oval in which the saints and gods do stand
+is often represented as composed of roses and
+constitutes a rosary. The horseshoe brings
+good luck because it is identical with the cave,
+the arch and the grove and is the sacred emblem
+of the goddess Mary or Astarte. Both Buddha
+and Christ are represented as standing in the
+horseshoe or Royal Arch. I conclude that
+the Masonic Holy Royal Arch and the oval
+<span class='pageno' title='16' id='Page_16'></span>above the church altar, in which the Virgin
+stands, represent the Grove that Manasseh set
+up in the House of the Lord, 2 Kings, 21, and that
+Josiah burnt at the brook Kidron, 2 Kings, 23:6.
+The stole, worn by the priests, is equivalent to,
+and has all the mystic powers of, the cross ansata.
+It is well named “stole”, as the early Christians
+stole it from the pagan worship.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Serapis, the Egyptian god, is bedecked
+and bedizened with all the Christian emblems.
+He holds the crook of the Good Shepherd in
+one hand and the cross ansata in the other.
+He has the head and horns of a bull, showing
+that he is the son of the cow Hathor or Mary.
+And over his head are the Masons’ marks, the
+square and the eye, showing that he is in good
+standing in his lodge in Hell, for he, like christ,
+is Lord of the Underworld.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Refer to Vishnu, Stand. Dic., and you will
+see that pagan god wearing all the above emblems.
+He is christ and came as Rama in the
+sign of the Ram and as Krishna in the sign of
+Pisces. Turn to Krishna, and you will see the
+Hindu Madonna and christ that we kidnapped.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Sun. Am. Magazine, Aug. 29, 1910,
+we see a picture of Isis mourning at the bier of
+Osiris. At Egyptian funerals they assured the
+dead of eternal life by raising the symbol of
+Isis, the circle or rosary above the body. You
+will see that the head of the deceased at the
+wake is surrounded by male emblems, which
+gross symbols are now replaced in the present
+civilization by candles. You will see that
+Isis is bowing down before the Tree of Life, and
+that she has at hand a basket of perforated
+cakes, which she is about to offer to the Tree
+of Life, which tree is called Osiris or Baal or
+Moloch or Buddha or Yahveh or Iao or Siva or
+Jove according to the country in which the religion
+<span class='pageno' title='17' id='Page_17'></span>is perpetrated. If you place a wreath on a
+dead man’s stomach and seven candles around
+his head, he is no longer a meet candidate for
+Hell, but an heir of eternal glory. If you stick
+a cross through the wreath, it is a through ticket
+to the seventh heaven, and you may be assured
+that he will go through purgatory a-humping.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='18' id='Page_18'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER IV.<br /> <br /><b>The Sabbatic Goat or God of the Sabbath.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>When the sun entered the sign of Capricorn,
+it was reborn as, or christ came as the goat,
+that individual on whom the Jews used to load
+all their sins and then drive him forth into the
+wilderness. They sacrificed goats on the altar
+because the goat was one of the ancient redeemers.
+Caesar says of Egyptian sacrifices:
+“Imprecations were uttered over the head of
+the expiatory victim, around whose horns a
+piece of byblus was rolled. The animal was
+generally led to some barren region sacred to
+Typhon. It is in this custom that lies the
+origin of the scapegoat of the Jews, who, when
+the ass-headed god was rejected by the Egyptians,
+began sacrificing to another deity, the
+red heifer.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It was claimed by Madam Blavatsky and
+Elephas Levi that the hermaphrodite Goat of
+Mendes, or Baphomet, was anciently an object
+of worship and adoration by the mystic societies
+and at the Witches’ Sabbath. In Mysteries
+of Magic, 7 and 75, the author thus describes
+a Witches’ Sabbath: “Approach stealthily this
+cross roads among the rocks. A hoarse and
+funeral trumpet is heard, lurid torches burn
+on every side, a disorderly assembly surges
+around an empty seat. All look around in
+expectation, then suddenly fall prostrate and
+mutter: ‘He is here, ’tis himself.’ A goat-headed
+prince comes forward with bounds, he
+ascends the throne, turns around and stooping
+<span class='pageno' title='19' id='Page_19'></span>presents his back to the audience, which everyone
+approaches, black taper in hand, to salute
+and to kiss. Then he stands up with a discordant
+laugh and distributes to his favorites gold,
+secret instructions, occult medicines and poisons.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Goat of Mendes is pictured by Elephas
+Levi as a regular god. He wears the male
+emblem on his head like all gods in good standing
+and holds up three fingers, and has the double
+triangle in his forehead, and the caduceus, or
+male and female emblems, on his stomach.
+With one hand he coagulates or creates, and
+with the other he dissolves or destroys.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Let us say boldly and loudly that all the
+inferior initiates of the occult sciences and the
+betrayers of the Great Arcanum have adored, do
+and will always adore that which is signified
+by the frightful figure of the Sabbatic Goat.
+Yes in our profound conviction, the Grand Masters
+of the ancient orders of the Templars adored
+Baphomet.”—Elephas Levi. It will be seen
+by the chart that the Masonic coat of arms,
+consisting of the four zodiacal beasts, is supported
+on either side by the goat god Pan.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Pan, the Good Shepherd, the son of Deus,
+with the horns and feet of a goat, is the same
+as the Devil or christ. At the Witches’ Sabbath
+in England, the women made manikins, or images
+of men, of clay or wax, and these they worshipped
+and played with. And when these
+images were properly magnetized, they could
+perform miracles therewith and summon up
+demons from the abyss. If they possessed
+sufficient will power and knew the occult and
+secret form of words to use, they could play
+that the manikin was an enemy, and then stick
+him through the heart with a needle, and the
+next morning the enemy would be dead. If
+<span class='pageno' title='20' id='Page_20'></span>their magical power was sufficiently potent,
+they could summon a satyr or subordinate
+goat god to take the place of the manikin and
+consummate the Sabbatical marriage ceremony.
+Their spells were said to be sufficiently powerful
+to reduce a human being to the primordial
+protoplasm, and then cause it to again pursue
+the path of evolution through the cell, the
+blastoderm, the devil-fish and all the other
+beasts constituting eternity’s great highway
+by which the soul walks down. This is similar
+to the unavoidable cycle, the circle of necessity,
+the inexorable doom of the sacred mysteries
+of the Serpents’ Catacombs of Egypt.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The countersign of the Witches’ Sabbath
+was the closed hand with the thumb between
+the first and second fingers pointing downward
+to the abyss. The meeting place was lighted
+only by the altar fire, where the human sacrifice
+sizzled to attract the phantoms and ghosts.
+And the devotees, singing mystic songs, danced
+hand in hand in a circle around the god Pan.
+They used the holy grail like the churches and
+mystic societies, and the drafts from this poisonous
+cup, the singing, the whirling dance and
+the incense from the altar brought on the oft-times
+fatal frenzies in which the victims fell
+shrieking to the ground, as they do among certain
+Christian sects. They were seized and
+possessed by foul fiends from the Pit, or elementary
+spirits, and sometimes by the spirits of
+serpents that materialized themselves in the
+writhing human victims and crawled out of the
+prostrate bodies in plain view of the audience.
+There in the blackest hour of the night the
+Vinum Sabbati was prepared, a few grains of
+white powder thrown into a glass of water.
+And each one that drank found himself attended
+by a companion, a shape of glamour and unearthly
+<span class='pageno' title='21' id='Page_21'></span>allurement beckoning him apart to
+share in joys more exquisite, more piercing
+than the thrill of any dream.—Machen’s House
+of Souls, 438.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Similar to these convulsionaries are the miserable
+creatures in Russia afflicted by strange disorders,
+which people attributed to possession by
+the Devil. They throng the entrance of cathedrals
+without daring to enter, lest their controlling
+demons cast them on the ground. At
+the Elevation of the Host, these half maniacs,
+half mediums begin crowing like cocks, barking,
+bellowing and braying, and finally fall down
+in fearful convulsions. They prophesy and
+see visions. Paracelsus, the magician, could
+cast the demons out of the persons so possessed
+by the power of a stronger demon which he
+carried around in his pocket. That reminds
+us of the Salem witch that fled from a mob of
+Christolators who were intent on burning her,
+but when they were about to seize her, she
+crawled into a bottle, and nobody ever saw her
+afterward.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Devil’s Mass of the Yezdis, or Devil
+worshippers and sorcerers of Mesopotamia, the
+Jakshas or aerial spirits carry their prayers to
+the Devil and the Afrites of the desert. In
+their prayer meeting they dance in a ring about
+their high priest and whirl and leap in the air
+and cut each other with daggers until they are
+soaked with blood for the purpose of attracting
+the ghosts. The mystic circle induces Satan
+to manifest himself in miracles. Enormous
+globes of fire appear and assume the shapes of
+monsters.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Sabbath was the Sunday of the Hebrew
+Kabalists, the day of their religious assembly,
+or rather the night of their habitual meetings.
+This festival, surrounded by mysteries as it
+<span class='pageno' title='22' id='Page_22'></span>was, found its safeguard in the very fright of
+the vulgar and escaped persecution through the
+terror it occasioned. The early Christians celebrated
+the pagan Mysteries of Jesus and probably
+held a Witches’ Sabbath.—See Mystic
+Christianity, 212.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>One should trim his finger nails on Friday,
+never on Thursday, otherwise the nails will
+commence growing on the Sabbath, and it is
+very wicked for the nails to grow on the Sabbath.—Kabala.
+The Israelite, after the endless
+Sabbath observances, should fold up his
+veil, but if he forgets to do so, he is to shake it
+thoroughly the next morning, so as to shake all
+the devils out of it. And the reason is known
+to the Lords of the Kabala.—Kabala Kitzur
+Sh’lh. It is a very pious act to say a prayer
+to the moon at the close of the Sabbath, for the
+moon is a symbol of Jacob, the lesser light,
+(who was a christ). The full moon, the Queen
+of Heaven is his mother, and the sun is his
+father. The new moon is Jacob or Christ.—Ibid,
+fol. 72, col. 2. You should learn these
+things together with all the other profound
+wisdom of the Talmud, for Rabbi Yochannan
+says that it is lawful to split open an unlearned
+man like a fish.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Constantine, the Roman Emperor and canonized
+saint, the superstition-besotted, the
+assassin, the fratricide, the parricide, the uxoricide,
+the filicide, the regicide, chosen from
+Heaven as the murderer-in-chief of the world,
+according to Eusebius, “held up by God to the
+human race as an exemplary pattern of godliness
+and destined to share the Empire of Heaven
+with Christ,” this was the bloated, red-faced
+profligate who established Sunday worship in
+321 A. D. and compelled the Christians to
+worship the sun-god on Dies Solis, the Day of
+<span class='pageno' title='23' id='Page_23'></span>the Sun, because his own god was Apollo.—See
+First Council of Nice, 28. Constantine
+was the founder of Christianity, and, like father
+like son, it followed in his footsteps. He could
+not obtain absolution for his crimes from pagan
+priests, but Eusebius washed them whiter than
+snow. Some said that Constantine had to
+sacrifice an infant to obtain the blood for the
+absolution.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='24' id='Page_24'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER V.<br /> <br /><b>The Great God Baal.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>The palm tree, the candle and the Asherim
+are symbols and images of Baal, and the two
+last are offered up as sacrifices, corresponding
+to the pillars and candles in the worship of
+Jehovah. Around the temple of Jehovah as
+well as the temple of Baal, in the Holy Land,
+were the ancient nunneries. The Kadishim or
+Holy Ladies lived in tents arranged in a circle
+about the temple, and on each side of each tent
+or Fornix stood a Knight of Kadish. The
+pious people who desired to worship god gave
+up to the guard a shekel (sixty cents) and entered
+into the tent of the Kadish, and the money
+so collected went to the service of god, which
+means the priestly white slavers and the Worshipful
+Knights of Kadish. The Kadishim were
+the same as the Deva Dasi, the concubines and
+dancing girls of the Hindu temples, the slaves
+of the gods. “There is reason to believe that
+the Israelites at an early date applied the name
+of Baal to Jehovah. Baal was represented on
+the high places by pillars,” as the strange god of
+John’s Revelation is pictured on his throne.—“Baal,”
+Ency. Brit. One hundred of the most
+beautiful and seductive daughters of the people,
+innocent girls of tender age, were torn from
+their homes by the ruthless priests to fill the
+holy places of god around each temple. The
+priests by constant iteration convinced the
+parents that it was a high honor to be permitted
+to devote their daughters to god, and that as
+<span class='pageno' title='25' id='Page_25'></span>a reward, in the great hereafter, they would
+sit beside the Great White Throne with Abraham,
+Isaac and Jacob and all the other Jews,
+and all the hod-carriers, who, having washed
+their robes white in the blood of the Lamb, sit
+on their little golden thrones with their dudeens
+in their mouths and their hats gently tilted
+over one eye, while they decorate with tobacco
+juice the dazzling surface of the crystal sea.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>At the great temple of Baal, they had a palm
+tree standing in the midst of the garden, and in
+the holy temple of Jehovah they had a stone
+pillar around which the Kadishim, at the vernal
+equinox, danced in the nude. This is the day
+dedicated to Astarte, or Ishtar or Easter. This
+occult ceremony is one of the most beautiful and
+entrancing in our refulgent and god-given religion.
+As the Tree of Life stands in the midst
+of the circle of females, so the rays from the sun
+penetrate the earth and annually renew its life.
+So the rays of the sun at high noon penetrated
+the ark, that old box in which the priests kept
+the male and female emblems, and before which
+King David for occult reasons danced in the altogether.
+The ark corresponds with the sacred
+Argha of the Hindus, an oblong vessel, a sacrificial
+chalice, used in the worship of Isis, Astarte
+and Venus. It is a most holy symbol, containing,
+in the play, the germs of all living things, and
+when we drink out of it at the communion service,
+we drink eternal life. They planted the
+Tree of Life in the midst of the garden or grove,
+as God planted the tree in the midst of the
+Garden of Eden. You will notice the serpent
+coiled about the tree in Eden. This is the
+symbol of Life. The serpent is a symbol of
+the female.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Israelites were commanded not to
+worship idols, but in the darkest hour of their
+<span class='pageno' title='26' id='Page_26'></span>history, when their own God, Jehovah, had
+sent upon them the plague of serpents and
+consigned them to destruction, then they called
+upon the mighty sun-god, they looked upon the
+brazen serpent on a cross, the Elevation of the
+Host, and the remnant of Israel was saved.
+Israel, it is said, worshipped the serpent or
+Devil until about 726 B. C. You will see this
+same god on the Masonic chart.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Talmud says that when Ben Asai and
+Ben Zoma were to be initiated into the Garden
+of Delights, Ben Asai looked and lost his sight,
+and Ben Zoma looked and lost his reason. Eusebius
+shows that St. James, the brother of Jesus
+and first Bishop of Jerusalem, never shaved
+or took a bath, and he alone could enter into
+the holy places.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The merry maidens who circulate about the
+May-pole on May-day are devoted devotees of
+the loving god Baal Poer. And we on Palm
+Sunday carry palm leaves from the sacred palm
+tree to show that we are faithful worshippers of
+the true god Baal.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In Italy, the clergy had at one time, according
+to Isis Unveiled, 2-5, a thriving trade in
+those things which they called the holy limbs of
+Saints Cosmo and Damiano. These male emblems
+were made of wax and certainly beautiful
+to behold. The divine spirit shining through
+them in resplendent glory cast its radiance afar.
+He who was so fortunate as to possess sufficient
+filthy lucre to purchase one saved his immortal
+soul from Hell, for was it not the symbol of life
+and the image of the great god.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>For the form of the pillar as worshipped in
+Syria, see page 121, A. P. &amp; M. C. Symbolism,
+and on the mall of Boston Common may be seen
+the same pillar as adored by us at the Hub of
+Universal Culture, erected there to commemorate
+<span class='pageno' title='27' id='Page_27'></span>the birth of American liberty. Let us hope
+that you will get out early in the morning and
+see the blue-bellied Puritans and the codfish
+aristocracy kneeling before this sacred shrine,
+with their hands thrust through their rosaries,
+praying that this great god may make them
+fruitful.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The superstition of Europe instead of
+being diminished by the introduction of Christianity
+was only turned into a fresh channel.
+The new religion was corrupted by the old follies,
+the worship of the Virgin was substituted
+for the worship of Cybele, the mother of the
+gods. March 25th, Lady’s Day, dedicated to
+Mary, was formerly called Hilaria and dedicated
+to Cybele. The religion of mankind is the
+effect of their improvement not the cause of
+it.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 1-188.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='28' id='Page_28'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER VI.<br /> <br /><b>Jehovah, alias Adonai.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>According to the Hebrew lexicon<b> יה </b>(Yh
+or Ih) is one of the names of God. Y, I and
+J. are interchangeable, and Jehovah is identical
+with the god Yah of the Philistines and Iach or
+Iachus or Bacchus and Iao or Io and Jove.
+Bel of the Babylonians is the Chaldaic form
+of Baal, and according to Herodotus is identical
+with Zeus, who is the same as Deus or Jehovah.
+Ja or Jagannatha, the idol of the Hindus, is
+said to smile when a human blood sacrifice is
+thrown before his car.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Jehovah Binah seemed to be a favorite
+divinity among the Masons. The name of
+this daemon, or subordinate goddess, is written
+on the serpent in the magic circle of King Solomon,
+which he employed in raising the Devil,
+and as Sabbath appears in her title, and she
+belongs to the sphere of Saturn or Moloch, I
+conclude that she was the goddess of the Witches’
+Sabbath. There are ten persons in the Hebrew
+godhead, and she is the third, the supernal
+mother, the wife of Kether, consequently the
+mother of god. See Lesser Key of King Solomon,
+47.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the Standard Dictionary, (see
+“Sephira”) Jehovah is not the Supreme God,
+there is a party named Kether above him, the
+Ancient of Ancients. Baal, Bel or El is the
+fourth, next below Binah. He is the god of
+love and mercy, with whom we have no truck.
+We prefer the God of Battles. Baal Poer was
+<span class='pageno' title='29' id='Page_29'></span>worshipped in the groves under the name of
+Adonis. It may be seen by reference to the
+Hebrew Kabala, Kitzur Sh’lh, fol. 62, col. 1,
+that Adonai is called the Rock of Ages, like
+Christ. Madam Blavatsky says that Iachoh,
+Iach and Lord Sabaoth, the Baal Adonis or
+Bacchus, who was worshipped in the groves
+and public sods or Mysteries, under the polishing
+hand of Ezra, becomes Adonai, the one and
+supreme god of the Christians. The codex
+of the Nazarenes says: “Thou shalt not worship
+the sun, who is called Adonai and Kadush and
+El El. This Adonai will elect to himself a
+nation, Jerusalem will become the refuge and
+city of the abortive, who shall circumcise themselves
+with the sword and shall adore Adonai.”
+Israel is the same as Adonis. It means son of
+the Lord Ra, the Egyptian sun-god. So Israel
+was one of the christs, and it was his duty to
+wrestle with the Devil, Moloch. And he had
+a right to put his brother out and take his place,
+as christ, the new moon takes the place of the
+old moon (called the old and ugly christ) and
+as Solomon killed Adonijah and took his place.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Haeckel says Jehovah was originally derived
+from the heaven god called Moloch and
+Baal, also Seth and Typhon of the Egyptians
+and Saturn of the Greeks.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>David says: “Who shall ascend into the
+high place of the Lord (Iach, in the original)?
+who shall stand in the place of his Kadishu
+(holy ladies)?”—Psalms, 24:3. “Solomon went
+to the high place of Gibeon, for there was the Tabernacle
+of God.”—2 Chron. 1:3. You will see
+that the high places were the temples of a foul
+worship by reference to 1 Kings, 3:3.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Yahevah is the ineffable name for which the
+Hebrews substituted Adonai. The Bacchantes,
+in their orgies or feasts of Iachus, pronounced
+<span class='pageno' title='30' id='Page_30'></span>the mystic word “Io Evohe.” Ei Eh Ei is I
+Am the I Am, and Ei was found inscribed on the
+temple of Apollo.—Plutarch, 1:14. Eidol is a
+doll or image of the god Ei, or Kether.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Jehovah is identical with the god Brahma.
+Every 4,320,000,000 years all the planets in
+our solar system are in conjunction. This
+is one day of Brahma, 365 times that is one
+year, and one hundred of these years is the
+lifetime of Brahma, then god dies, and thereafter
+we have to worry along without him.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Trinity, instead of being a new revelation
+of the Christian religion, was taken from
+the trinities of the older pagan religions. The
+Chinese, the Hindus, the Babylonians, the Persians
+and the Egyptians each had a triune or
+hydra-headed god, a nightmare of their imagination,
+without foundation in nature or reason.
+If we have the only true religion, how is it that
+the Mexicans, before this country was discovered
+by the savages of Europe, had the trinity, the
+rite of baptism, the sign of the cross and purgatory.
+They had the tradition of the flood and
+the escape of Noah, and they offered as an
+oblation little, dough, male images of their savior
+as we do at the communion service.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Some claimed that the astral light or ether
+was the supreme god, that one portion of it was
+male (spirit), and the other part was female
+(matter), and that the living forms of matter
+produced by the union of these two gods, are
+the third person of the trinity, the son of man.
+Others claim that the incomprehensible god
+back of the ether, of which the latter is an emanation,
+is the supreme god, and that the spiritual
+portion of the ether is the Word or Son, and the
+material portion of the ether is the mother, and
+the union of the son and the mother produces
+the phenomenal world. This a charming family
+<span class='pageno' title='31' id='Page_31'></span>relationship eminently appropriate to our pot-pourri
+of superstitions, called religion.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Manu, the Hindu lawgiver, says: “The
+Sovereign Master, who exists through himself,
+divides his body into two halves, male and
+female, and from the union of these two principles
+is born Viradj, the son, or material forms.”
+The first name of this hermaphrodite god in
+the picture writing was IO.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Haeckel says that the Christian God is
+a gaseous vertebrate. Socrates was put to
+death because he did not believe in the gods
+and introduced new demoniacal beings (spirits).</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Sunday American Magazine was
+also a picture of the Rock of Ages, in fact two
+pillars or Asherim or images of Asher are shown,
+together with two circles or groves. They
+were found in the ruins of Gaza. These are
+the idols that Abraham, David and Solomon
+worshipped when they hit the high places.
+And we still revere them and have the shafts
+erected over our graves and the wreaths placed
+upon the shafts so that we may be born again.
+If you do not think that Moses worshipped
+this rock god read Deut. 32:8. “Of the rock
+that begat thee thou art unmindful.” There
+were only seven thousand in all Israel that had
+not kissed the pillar.—1 Kings, 19:18.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>There was also found in the ruins of Gaza
+an oval medallion in which stood “Horus, the
+strong bull, resplendent in strength.” Why
+is the Infant Jesus of Prague placed in an oval
+medallion? Why is the oval, with the Lamb in
+the centre thereof, placed on the front of the
+Infant Jesus, as it is on the front of the Virgin
+Mary? This picture of the Infant Jesus is
+a mine of esoteric symbolism. He has his
+name embroidered on his rich, elaborate dress,
+to wit, I E S. He holds up three fingers as he
+<span class='pageno' title='32' id='Page_32'></span>was taught to do when he was the infant Buddha,
+and on his head is the seven-rayed headdress
+of Buddha, the god of the seven-rayed sun.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If you have catarrh, place a medallion of
+the Infant Jesus on your nose, and the catarrh
+will disappear.—Miraculous Infant Jesus of
+Prague, 30. A medal of the Divine Infant has
+been known to cure a sore thumb, if fastened
+in faith to the diseased member and accompanied
+by nine days prayer.—Idem 36. A man in
+financial difficulties made a novena (nine days
+prayer) to the Holy Child, and at the end of
+the devotions somebody gave him $35. Then
+he commenced another novena and was helped
+to win a prize in a lottery. Then he commenced
+the third novena, and Jehovah compelled a
+grasping mortgagee to discharge his mortgage
+on the devotee’s house, and another party gave
+him $10.—Idem 52.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Hebrew Bible you will see that
+Bethel, or house of God, referred to in Genesis,
+28:19, is spelt Bath Al, which means the
+house of the sun or sun-god, the same as Bothal
+or Brothel, the temple of worship of the Druids
+and Indians, a circle of twelve monoliths with
+a pillar in the centre, also called paradise. We
+changed the vowels and made it read Beth El,
+as we did not care to have our God related to
+such trash as Al and Allah, the Arabian god.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Arius and the Council of Nice agreed that
+the Son is called Wisdom. Refer to “Sephira,”
+Stand. Dic., and you will see that Jehovah is
+named Wisdom and that he is the son of, or
+first emanation from Kether, consequently it is
+claimed that he is one of the christs. The
+only gods ever worshipped were the sun and
+his wife, the moon, to whom he was not legally
+married. The idols are images of incarnate
+sun-gods.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='33' id='Page_33'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER VII.<br /> <br /><b>The Host, a Human Sacrifice.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>The Monstrance was a conventionalized
+Assyrian Grove, containing the Host, the male
+and female emblems, and corresponded with
+the Ark and was transparent, so that the devotees
+could look on the blessed symbols and
+live forever. It was called the Monstrance
+because it contained the hermaphrodite monster,
+now or formerly worshipped by the devotees
+of all religions. The directions of St. Cyril,
+of Jerusalem, were: “After kissing all the brothers
+and sisters, you touch the consecrated things
+to the eyes, nose, mouth and ears.” See Ency.
+Brit. 8:632.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Under the mediumship of Eugene Vintras
+in Paris, the Devil placed his signature on the
+Hosts of the Church in characters of blood.
+The Abbe Charvoz brought one of the miraculously
+marked Hosts, bearing the signature
+of Satan, to Elephas Levi. One of the signatures
+was the Caduceus of the Greeks, the
+emblem of the Godhead, two serpents entwined
+about a rod, but the rod was omitted. Levi
+calls it the Typhonian sign manual because
+by omitting the rod, it thus denies the existence
+of the Supreme God Jehovah. The Devil, in
+the stigmata, asserts that there are only two
+gods, the two powers of the astral light, attraction
+and repulsion, the creator and the
+destroyer.—Mysteries of Magic.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“In the case of Father Gerard in 1731,
+who was tried at Aix, in France, for resorting
+<span class='pageno' title='34' id='Page_34'></span>to sorcery in the seduction of his parishioner,
+Mlle. Catherine Cadiere, it was shown that he
+breathed upon her, and that she instantly conceived
+a violent love for him and had extatic
+visions and hysterical convulsions, and stigmata
+or blood marks of the Passion appeared upon
+her, that is, the bleeding marks of thorns on
+her brow, of nails in her hands and feet, and
+of a lance cut in her side. Of the twenty five
+judges, twelve voted to send the priest to the
+stake.”—Isis Unveiled, 2-633.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The doctrine of transubstantiation, or the
+myth that the bread and wine become the
+actual body and blood of God, originated among
+the Hindus, and we stole it from them. The
+god Brahma was the astral light or magnetism,
+and when the priests charged the hosts with
+magnetism, they were charged with god, and
+consequently were gods. It is said that each
+separate part of this blood sacrifice is a Christ,
+so thousands of Christs were served up at a
+feast to be eaten by the savage devotees, and
+each cannibal ate a whole Christ to save his
+dastard soul. It is called the Host because they
+knifed him or struck him down, and it is called
+the Eucharist because they rejoice over his
+death and make a joyful feast upon the carcass.
+The Eucharist is one of the oldest rites of antiquity,
+instituted many hundreds of years before
+the Lord’s Supper. It was a repetition of the
+drama in Eden in commemoration of the fall
+into generation. By the worship of the foul
+idols in the Monstrance, by the idolatry of the
+Eucharist the pagans euchred the Devil out
+of their souls.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Eucharist was a human sacrifice. The
+devotees groveling in abject superstition, offered
+up their Christ on the reeking, blood-stained
+altar, and ate his flesh and drank his blood to
+<span class='pageno' title='35' id='Page_35'></span>wash their sins away. At the twelfth general
+council of the Church, the bread and wine was
+made the flesh and blood of Christ, and at the
+Council of Trent they added the soul. So at the
+orgies, the depraved devotee destroyed both the
+body and soul of his savior by casting him into
+his carrion carcass, into that charnel house, into
+that cavernous and loathsome inferno, from
+which there is no escape, there to rot and disintegrate
+and forever die. Thus they subjected
+their savior to the foulest method of annihilation
+to save their worthless souls from Hell.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>At the Passover the Jews sacrificed over
+250,000 lambs to propitiate some blood-loving
+god. The altars and courts of the Temple ran
+red with the life blood of these innocent creatures.
+And certain beasts still sing: “And sinners
+plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty
+stains.” “Such a blood-sacrifice is unworthy of
+any people except the worshippers of some
+heathen devil-god in darkest Africa.”—Mystic
+Christianity, 65.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When Richard, Robert, Sarah and Isabella
+Bartlett, at Lincoln, England, in 1521, expressed
+their opinions too freely on religious matters,
+they were burned at the stake by Bishop John
+Longland, but they were a pestiferous and seditious
+lot. They even objected to eating the
+male emblems, or images of the male, on communion
+day, and these double-dyed heretics denied
+the real presence of either Christ or Priapus in
+the images.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Here is what Taine says as to this affair:
+“The Bishops had received the right of imprisoning
+without trial laymen suspected of heresy,
+and the jurisdiction of all crimes, offenses and
+sins was given to the ecclesiastical tribunals.
+They burned Lord Cobham alive. With what
+shamelessness this power was transformed into
+<span class='pageno' title='36' id='Page_36'></span>a vehicle for extortions. A man begins to think
+when he is thus downtrodden. He asks himself
+if it is really by divine dispensation that mitred
+thieves thus practice tyranny and pillage. He
+wants to know if they themselves practice the
+regularity that they impose on others, and he
+learns strange things. Cardinal Wolsey writes
+to the Pope that both the secular and regular
+priests were in the habit of committing atrocious
+crimes, for which, if not in orders, they would
+have been promptly executed. A priest convicted
+of incest with the prioress of Kilbourn was
+condemned to carry a cross in a procession and
+pay a fine of 3s and 4p. In the reign of Henry
+VII the gentlemen and farmers of Carnarvonshire
+laid a complaint accusing the clergy of systematically
+seducing their wives and daughters.
+The Holy Father Prior of Maiden Bradley hath
+but six children, and but one daughter married
+yet of the goods of the monastery, trusting
+shortly to marry the rest. The royal visitors
+found concubines in the secret apartments of the
+Abbots. At the nunnery of Sion the confessors
+seduced the nuns and absolved them at the same
+time. There were convents, Burnett tells us,
+where all the recluses were found pregnant.”—Taine’s
+English Literature, 2-18.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Bishop Longland, of Lincoln, about 1521,
+summons the relatives of the accused, brothers,
+women and children, and administers the oath.
+As they have already been prosecuted and have
+abjured, they must make oath, or they are relapsed,
+and the fagots await them. Then they
+denounce their kinsmen and themselves. Three
+of the accused were charged with passing the
+night together in reading the scriptures. Several
+of them at church, at the moment of the Elevation
+would not say their prayers and remained seated
+dumb as beasts. A brazier denied the real presence.
+<span class='pageno' title='37' id='Page_37'></span>Six were burnt alive. The children of
+John Scrivener were themselves obliged to set
+fire to their father’s funeral pyre. They saw
+him, bound by an iron chain, with clasped hands,
+praying amidst the smoke, whilst the flame
+blackened his skin and destroyed his flesh. Such
+sights are not forgotten.”—Idem.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“At the peril of his life the Englishman obtains
+some portion of the Bible, which Tyndale
+had just translated, and hides it and learns it by
+heart. Tyndale, the translator, was condemned,
+hunted, in concealment, his mind full of the idea
+of a speedy death and of the Great God, for whom
+at last he mounted the funeral pyre.”—Idem, 2-21.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If you do not believe that Priapus is christ,
+see Ency. Brit. 19-170, where he is represented
+as the shepherd god with a shepherd’s crook, and
+as the god of the vineyards and of fishermen,
+giving them abundant harvests. And sailors,
+in their sore distress, called upon him as Peter did.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The Masons, in the darkness, hunt for
+Hiram Abiff, as the worshippers in the Eleusinian
+Mysteries hunted for their lost Cora.” In the
+grand finale the Mystics say: “I have taken the
+emblems from the kiste, and after kissing and
+tasting them, I have deposited in the bag, and
+from the bag back into the kiste.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the first illustrated English Bible, the
+Devil will be seen, wearing a pair of wings and a
+Hebrew nose, tempting Eve. He says: “Take
+this fruit, bite it and taste it.” You will see
+that the thing presented to her is not an apple at
+all, but the emblem of Ashtoreth. See Sun. Am.
+Mag. Dec. 20, 1914. You will also find in
+another illustration there the angel Gabriel,
+with the Word strapped on his back, descending
+into Hell to deliver the souls in torment.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Yesterday in passing a great church, when I
+raised my eyes to the cross, I there beheld on each
+<span class='pageno' title='38' id='Page_38'></span>arm of the cross, the circle, the same revered
+article that the Devil offered to Eve. This
+blessed and holy symbol is found engraven over
+the portals of the eternal rock temples of the
+ruined city of Petra, Arabia, that flourished in
+the time of Esau and his son Edom, as well as
+over the doors of the ancient churches of Ireland,
+and on the modern cathedrals. In fact this
+aesthetic Eye worship extends around the world,
+starting in the slums of India, it has circled the
+globe.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Christian religion was copied largely
+from the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were
+founded at the city of Eleusis, near Athens.
+These mysterious rites were employed in the
+worship of Demeter or Mater, the mother god, or
+Mary. In these Mysteries the worshippers indulged
+in the foul orgies of the Agape. The men
+carried male emblems or Signa Taus, and the females
+carried the kiste or box. Placing the
+Signa Tau in the kiste caused them to be born
+again and saved their souls from Tophet.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='39' id='Page_39'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER VIII.<br /> <br /><b>Jesus Christ.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>If the clergymen tell you that there is
+only one christ, politely present them with the
+seal of Belial. Each of the principal religions
+had twelve christs. Christ was never crucified,
+but the human race was crucified by religion
+from its very inception, and the Christian
+world wallowed in the Egyptian darkness of
+ignorance and superstition till in the middle ages,
+the golden age, no king in Europe could read and
+write.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Christ is the same as Agni, the sun god of
+the Aryans, who was called the Son of God and
+the Son of Man. The god Agni is represented by
+us by the idol, the Agnus Dei, the Ram God, that
+holds in his hoof a cross and some banner, perhaps
+the blood-stained banner of the Inquisition.
+Adam Kadmon, Enoch, Horus, Krishna, Ormazd,
+and Hermes, the patron of thieves and flocks, the
+son of Deus and Maia, these and many other
+gods are all identical with christ. Noah was the
+christ that came in the sign of the Waterman 25,868
+years ago. In the Babylonian legend the
+deluge continued seven days, and the ship landed
+on Mt. Niser. This is a resurrection of the great
+god Dionysius or Bacchus, and the first thing he
+did when he got ashore was to get drunk. He is
+also Jehovah Nissi or the Egyptian god Osiris
+who was born on Mt. Nissa or Sinai in the month
+of Nisan or Easter.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sephir Toldos Jeshu, a Kabalist, says: “A
+virgin named Mariam, betrothed to one Johannan
+<span class='pageno' title='40' id='Page_40'></span>was outraged by another man named Joseph
+Panther. Her betrothed left her. The child born
+was Jesus, named Joshua, adopted by his uncle
+Rabbi Jehosuah. He was initiated into the
+secret doctrines by Rabbi Elhanan, a Kabalist,
+and then by the Egyptian priests, who consecrated
+him High Pontiff of the Universal Secret
+Doctrine. Upon his returning to Judea his
+learning and powers excited the jealousy of the
+rabbis, and they publicly reproached him with
+his origin and insulted his mother.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the Pretevangelium Jacobi,
+“From her third to her twelfth year Mary was in
+the Temple. When she became of nubile age,
+lest she should defile the Sanctuary of the Lord,
+she was committed to the guardianship of Joseph,
+an elderly man and a widower with a family.
+When the Virgin’s pregnancy was discovered,
+Joseph and she were brought before the high
+priest, and though asserting their innocence
+in all sincerity, were acquitted only after they
+had been tried with the water of the ordeal of
+the Lord.”—Ency. Brit. 15:590. Mary was
+then a virgin and ever after remained so, although
+she had other children.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The author does not believe that either of
+the above passages refers to the Christian Jesus.
+He is an Egyptian or Hindu deity, not a Jew.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The christs were all illegitimate. Their parents,
+the sun and moon, would have complied with
+the idiotic human laws if there had been any
+magistrate in Heaven to marry them. There
+was Asphalius of Greece, born of the Virgin
+Ethra out of wedlock. Then there are Romulus
+and Remus, alias Castor and Pollux or Gemini,
+the Twins of the zodiac. They were sons of
+a Vestal Virgin named Rhea. King Amulius,
+corresponding with Herod, commanded his servant
+to destroy the two children, but the servant
+<span class='pageno' title='41' id='Page_41'></span>put them in a trough or ark, and they floated
+on the river as Moses, who was also a christ,
+did in his ark, and as the males and females
+did in Noah’s Ark. Their mother claimed
+that their father was the god Mars. Unmarried
+ladies, in those halcyon days, always put their
+children up to the gods.—See Plutarch, 1:33.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Christ is a mythical sun-god, a rebirth of
+the sun in a new sign of the zodiac. The Church
+Fathers, in localizing the Christ in the Holy
+Land, could claim that any Jesus of that region
+was the Son of God, either Jesus, the bandit
+of Galilee, or the one described above, as long
+as his name corresponded with the I E S of Egypt,
+and as long as he was dead and could not defend
+himself. According to Josephus, the Jesus that
+lived in the reign of King Agrippa and Herod the
+Tetrarch was Jesus of Galilee, the captain of a
+band of robbers, a wicked man, a seditious person
+and an innovator, the leader of a tumult of mariners
+and poor people. He sacked the temple at
+Samaria. See Life of Josephus, 5.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Renan says that Philo, who died about 50
+A. D., and who was born before Jesus, and who
+lived in Palestine during the alleged preaching
+of Christ, had never heard of him. Josephus
+does not mention a Christian sect at all. The
+Emperor Adrian called the Christians worshippers
+of Serapis, and that was probably the truth.
+Serapis is the Devil, with horns, Lord of the
+Underworld.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Christna, Apollo, Zeus and others, like
+Christ, were good shepherds. The Hindus represent
+Christna as crucified on the cross between
+two thieves, with the nail marks in his hands,
+and with a crown of seven points to show that he
+is the seventh avatar. His father was a carpenter,
+and he slew the great serpent Caliva and was
+worshipped in India ages before the Christian Era.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='42' id='Page_42'></span>The doctrine of Christ and the atonement
+originated in heathendom. It came from the
+pagan sacrificers of human beings and the eaters
+of human flesh in human gore imbued. They
+took the doctrine from the Chaldean Kabala.
+It is a pagan myth. Bacchus or Dionysius was
+the god of the vine, and his worshippers drank
+his blood to wash their sins away. He was the
+son of Deus or Zeus and an earthly mother. He
+was slain or sacrificed at the winter solstice and
+went down into Hell. Hera, who corresponds
+with Herod, sought Bacchus to slay him. He
+was honored by festivals at Christmas, when the
+sun died, and at Easter when it was resurrected.
+His emblems were the bull, the ass and the goat.
+The Christians of Rome were ridiculed for worshipping
+an ass-headed god. The symbol of the
+Bacchic orgies is named Eva or Heva, identical
+with the serpent raised by the Hebrews in the
+wilderness. Heva means a female serpent and
+constitutes a part of god, the second part of the
+name Yaheva. The first part of that hermaphrodite
+god is Ya, the male, and the last part is Heva,
+the female, or serpent, or Devil.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Christ not only never rose from the dead,
+but he never existed. The doctrine of vicarious
+atonement is a lie and a farce. The Christian’s
+hope of escaping Hell by cowardly allowing another
+to suffer for his sins, has taken wings and
+flown away.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Gnostics, one of the earliest Christian
+sects, formerly called Essenes, claimed that
+Christ was a phantom, that he was neither born
+nor suffered on the cross. See Book of All Religions,
+213. Origen believed the same. He
+tells of the popular irrational Christianity based
+on the fictitious gospel history devised to assist
+the masses, who could not comprehend a spiritual
+christ.—Mystic Christianity, 211.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='43' id='Page_43'></span>Madam Blavatsky says that this abominable
+doctrine of the forgiveness of sins is the cause of
+three fourths of the crimes of so-called Christians.
+The murdered victim goes to Hell in the
+midst of his sins, but the murderer receives absolution
+and goes to Heaven and sits with Christ
+beside the Golden Throne. The Parsis say: “If
+any of you commit sin under the belief that he
+shall be saved by somebody, both the deceiver
+as well as the deceived shall be damned to the
+day of Rasla Khaz. There is no savior. In the
+other world you shall receive the return according
+to your actions. Your savior is your good
+deeds.” Plato says in 2-187: “Even if there
+are gods, they can be bribed by prayers and offerings,
+so it is better to be unjust and offer of the
+fruits of injustice to the gods. By our sinning
+and praying and praying and sinning, the gods
+will be propitiated, and we shall be forgiven.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Jews offered seven lambs at the new
+moon because the Lamb came seven times. It
+is to be noted that they gave none of the offering
+to God except the refuse, the extremities and the
+fat and the lobe of the liver, but the priests had
+the breast and the right shoulder. The Lord
+and the mob were welcome to the offal.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>We are saved by the blood of christ or Priapus,
+but the Jews were saved by the blood of
+the circumcision of Abraham, who was also a
+christ. “Abraham was circumcised on the day
+of the atonement, and God looks that day annually
+on the blood of the covenant of our father
+Abraham’s circumcision as atoning for all our
+iniquities.”—Talmud Yalcut Chadish, fol. 121,
+sec. 3.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When the young and beautiful philosopher,
+Hypatia, disclosed these sacred religious secrets
+in Egypt about 412 A. D., she was torn from her
+chariot by a Christian mob, dragged to a Christian
+<span class='pageno' title='44' id='Page_44'></span>church, stripped naked and ravished at the
+very feet of the idol of Christ, and then beaten
+to death by Peter, the Reader. Her body was
+cut into pieces, the flesh scraped from the
+bones with oyster shells, and the remnants
+cast into the fire by the order of the canonized
+saint, Bishop Cyril of Alexandria.—Ency. Brit.
+12:596.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A Nazar or Nazarene, according to Hosea,
+was one who had consecrated himself to Bosheth,
+(a shameful thing, a foul idol.) It was in Nazareth
+that the Nazarenes anciently held their
+Witches’ Sabbath. Bosher is the Hebrew name
+of the Tree of Infamy. The “Sod of the Kadishim,”
+Psalms, 89:7, is rendered by the
+translators “Assembly of the Saints,” when
+it was in truth an orgy of the ladies devoted
+to the service of the Temple. Sod was the
+name given to the vile assemblies in the ancient
+Mysteries in Sodom, and the nature of the
+sacred ceremonies may be gathered from the
+name. They were the same as those of the
+ancient Christian Agape or Love Feast.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It is claimed that Apollonius of Tyana
+was the original of Christ, for the former was
+worshipped in Rome in the third century as
+the savior of man, and that no such person
+as Jesus Christ was then known. There was
+a sect that worshipped the Hindu Christos.
+Their religion was a mixture of Buddhism and
+Platonism, and their chief symbol was the phallic
+cross within the circle. The Christian religion
+takes its name and symbols from this Hindu
+religion. See Antiquity Unveiled, 98. Lucian
+says that the Christians spoke of Apollonius,
+called in Romans Apollos, as a god and took
+him for a lawgiver, and honored him with the
+title of Master.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='45' id='Page_45'></span>Prior to the sixth Ecumenical Council,
+680 A. D., the Christians worshipped an animal
+idol, the lamb on a cross, but it was found from
+ancient monuments that the pagans had worshipped
+the same idol. So the Council decreed
+that the figure of a man should be placed on the
+cross, Christ was not nailed to the cross until
+680 A. D. and then by the Ecumenical Council.—Idem
+161.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The pagan priests, at a very early date in
+the present era, finding that they were losing
+their hold on the people, concocted from pagan
+originals a new religion called the Christian. As
+a sop to the depraved and besotted worshippers
+of virgin-born gods, they alleged that their god
+was born of the Virgin Mary, and they seized
+upon and falsified the Hindu gospels, containing
+the life of Buddha, till they were made to appear
+to apply to the life of Christ. In order to bolster
+up this foul imposition and conceal the origin of
+Christianity, they destroyed the records of
+Grecian, Egyptian and Roman civilization and
+sank the world in darkness for a thousand years,
+filling it with woe and bloodshed. The success
+of this crime against their fellowmen set back
+the hands of time two thousand years. See
+Doubts of Infidels.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The doctrine of blood atonement came from
+Phoenicia, where they continually indulged in
+human sacrifice. In the event of an eclipse of
+the sun, the priests burned a man on a cross at
+the altar of the sun-god to avert the threatened
+calamity. “From the sixth hour there was
+darkness over all the land until the ninth hour.”
+And on these altars, 2600 B. C., was I H S or
+I E S. As the E or H in Egyptian hieroglyphics
+is a circle, this sign was originally I O S. I
+represents the father god, and O the mother god,
+and S represents the son or serpent. The serpent
+<span class='pageno' title='46' id='Page_46'></span>was crucified on the cross by the Egyptians and
+Jews as a saving rite.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>At the church festival of Tezcatlipoca in
+Mexico, they chose a prisoner as the incarnate
+representative of god and placed a garland and
+an embroidered mantle upon him, as the Jews
+did on Christ. Then they led him to the temple,
+where the priest cut his heart out and held the
+sacred bleeding heart up to the sun, and his
+body was eaten by the church members, as we
+eat the body of our Savior.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Rev. Robert Taylor says in his Diegesis:
+“Not a single passage written in the first century
+can be produced from any independent authority
+to show the existence of such a person as Jesus
+Christ or his disciples.” The silence of all contemporary
+writers respecting Jesus Christ is a
+notorious fact. Philo, Seneca, Plutarch, Juvenal,
+Virgil, Horace, Ovid and Lucian, who lived in
+that period, make no allusion to his works, nor
+even mention his name.—Doubts of Infidels, 66.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The christ Prometheus died for the salvation
+of the world and was nailed on the cross many
+hundreds of years before the Christian Era.
+And the christ Esculapius, the Great Physician,
+healed the sick and raised the dead and died in
+the West and rose again in the East.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Jonah was a christ or sun-god. The sign
+of the Goat in the Buddhist zodiac is represented
+by a leviathan or whale vomiting out the sacred
+Elephant, or sun, or Son of God. When the
+sun entered the sign of the Leviathan in December
+it was swallowed by the whale, but was vomited
+out again three days later on the 25th of December,
+when the sun commenced to return. Hence
+the story of Jonah and the whale, which has been
+so hard to swallow, and which has taxed our
+piety to the limit.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='47' id='Page_47'></span>Ies is the Phoenician name of the god Bacchus.
+Ies, or Iesu, or Jesus was stolen from the
+Phoenicians and Egyptians, and the god Christos
+was taken from the Hindus and thrown together
+into the melting pot of Potoman of
+Alexandria, and out came Jesus Christ. Potoman
+compiled the Christian religion from Hindu,
+Greek and Egyptian originals.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If God made man in his own image, why
+does he have to be redeemed? It is true that
+man stubbed his toe and fell, but it was because
+he obeyed the command of God to increase and
+multiply. The Yogis claim that Christ was not
+virgin born, but was a virgin spirit split off of
+God and came to redeem the world. If he redeemed
+the world, how is it that the people are
+worse now than they ever were, that the history
+of his religion has been a history of depravity,
+vice, crime, murder and carnage, which has now
+culminated in a world-orgy of savagery, pillage
+and slaughter, of which the fiends in Hell would
+be incapable? How is it that the beasts, which
+have never been redeemed, the doves, the rabbits,
+the lambs, the deer, are far superior to us who
+were bought by the blood?</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='48' id='Page_48'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER IX<br /> <br /><b>Hell-fire and Brimstone.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c002'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'>You’ll burn in Hell ten thousand years,</div>
+      <div class='line'>In vain will be your cries and tears,</div>
+      <div class='line'>You’ll burn in Hell till ages meet,</div>
+      <div class='line'>And just begin to feel the heat.—Amasa Alden.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>We are in Hell now. Rabbi Eleasher says
+that “the demons who were cast out of Heaven
+and the descendants of the witless progeny of
+matter and spirit became in the course of time
+the men of our planet, after having passed
+through every form of every one of the elements.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Where did the Church dig up Hell? The
+Scandinavian Hell is not a place of punishment,
+but simply the abode of the dead. The dictionary
+says that Hades, the Hell of the Bible, is
+the abode of all the departed, the unseen spirit
+world. The Shoel of the Hebrews is the place
+of departed spirits, not a region of torment.
+The Underworld or Amenti, of the Egyptians,
+is a region of judgment and purification. The
+Onderah, the abyss of darkness of the Hindus,
+is an intermediate state or purgatory. Whence
+then came the dogma of Hell, that Archimedean
+lever of Christian theology, with which they
+have succeeded in holding in subjection the
+numberless millions of Christians for nineteen
+centuries.—Isis Unveiled.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Here is where Eusebius and the other
+Biblical writers got Hell. According to Mahabad,
+the christ and Adam of the Parsees, who
+wrote all the laws of God, Hell is peopled with
+<span class='pageno' title='49' id='Page_49'></span>ants, serpents and scorpions, ignorant, sick
+and indigent men and irreligious philosophers,
+and on account of the detestable qualities of
+the later, the ants, serpents and scorpions
+pounce upon and torture them. This is the
+Hell of Hells.—Dabistan, 81.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the chart of the cosmogony of the Kabalists,
+representing their idea of the creation
+of the universe, the last and most insignificant
+creation is the earth, which they have labeled
+Hell, the abode of the Devil, the Kingdom of
+the Great Serpent according to the Buddhists.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the religious Mysteries, if the soul has
+attained the final knowledge of the heavenly
+and infernal mysteries, the gnosis, complete
+reunion with the spirit, and knows the Word,
+at the death of the body, it becomes a god, or
+is absorbed into the soul of the world, the astral
+light, and becomes one of the creative deities
+or Elohim. If not, it has its part in the lake
+of fire and brimstone (the elements), the second
+death. This death is the gradual dissolution
+of the astral body into its primal elements and
+the banishment of the human spirit or electron
+into chaos.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Elephas Levi and many of the wise ones
+have said that the astral light is the Great
+Serpent or Devil, so we will go to the Devil
+anyway, no matter which path we pursue.
+What difference does it make whether we are
+united to the astral light or the material ether?
+All the atoms of all the elements have individual
+souls.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Krishna, the Hindu christ, Horus, the
+Egyptian christ, the Scandinavian Thor, the
+Greek Apollo and St. Patrick, the Irish christ,
+are all represented as killing the Great Serpent,
+the Devil. All of the christs, including
+Buddha, Bacchus, Hercules, Orpheus and Askelapius,
+<span class='pageno' title='50' id='Page_50'></span>as well as Jesus, descended into Hell
+and ascended again the third day. According
+to the Gospel of Nicodemus, Christ found Adam,
+Moses, David, Isaiah and all the other saints
+there, and as they had been burning in Hell
+several thousand years, their wings were pretty
+well singed and they were badly mussed up,
+but Christ took them by the hands and led
+them up to the Hebrew heaven, where the
+three balls are worshipped, together with the
+ass-headed god. The Devil had no one left
+to rule over except the depraved, uncircumcised
+gentiles and the elemental demons. The
+Gentiles cannot get past the gates of Tophet,
+but must linger for a time, and half a time, and
+ten thousand times while they do battle with
+the phantoms of Hell and wrestle with the
+Serpent of the Great Abyss.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The Presbyterian clergy of Scotland delighted
+in telling their hearers that they would
+be roasted in great fires and hung up on hooks
+by their tongues. They were to be lashed with
+scorpions and see their companions writhing
+and howling around them. They were to be
+thrown into boiling oil and scalding lead. A
+river of fire and brimstone broader than the
+earth was prepared for them, their bones, their
+lungs and their liver were to boil but never
+be consumed, and while worms were gnawing
+at their bodies, they were to be surrounded
+by devils mocking and making pastime of their
+pains, the torment to be varied in its character
+as well as eternal in its duration. Hell was
+created before man came into the world, the
+Almighty having spent his previous leisure in
+preparing this place of torment, so that when
+the human race appeared, it might be ready
+for their reception.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 2-293.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='51' id='Page_51'></span>Hell is the lowest of the astral planes, in
+the immediate atmosphere of the earth, where
+the most of us go. Heaven is the highest of
+the spiritual planes, where God lives, but as
+nobody to speak of ever goes there, no one on
+the astral ever saw God or can make affidavit
+that he exists, and any spirit that claims that
+he has seen God is either deceiving us or is
+himself mistaken. He may have seen some
+astral idol, formed from the astral substance
+by the imagination and worshipped by the
+religion-besotted spirits. “The aura of the spirits
+in the lowest astral plane is the same as
+that of wicked human beings, a dark, cloudy
+or smoky emanation, streaked with the red
+flames of anger and passion. Deep shades
+of color whirl and swirl in the depths, lightning-like
+flashes shoot forth, and great bodies of
+lurid, smoky, clouds fly on the surface, having
+all the appearance of an inferno, and the region
+itself has the same aura, derived from the combined
+auras of its inhabitants. It is not surprising
+that the witches and wizards of the
+Bible, who could see by clairvoyant vision,
+described it as a Hell of fire and brimstone.”—Human
+Aura, 45.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the religion of Zoroaster,
+“Hell is the House of Destruction. It is the
+abode chiefly of the priests of bad religions,”
+that is, all religions except the Persian, but
+this is not to be taken seriously, as every religion
+is a joke. Here we have the original
+doctrine of the resurrection of the body, which
+our Christian ministers have had the consummate
+nerve to preach even here in this age of
+the world.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Mark Twain says in “The Mysterious
+Stranger”: “A God who mouths justice and
+mercy and invented Hell, mouths golden rules
+<span class='pageno' title='52' id='Page_52'></span>and forgiveness and invented Hell, who mouths
+morals to other people and has none himself,
+who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them
+all, who created man without invitation, then
+tries to shuffle the responsibility for man’s
+acts upon man, instead of placing it where it
+belongs upon himself.” The trouble with Mark
+was that he accepted as true all that silly superstition,
+all those puerile fairy tales, all those
+black lies from the Pit of Hell written and taught
+by the old priests and prophets. God never
+created the human race, he never made Hell.
+This cruel remark of Mark is libelous, almost
+bordering on blasphemy.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Read what the insane Church Fathers
+said: “There in Hell the intelligent fire burns
+the limbs and restores them, feeds on them
+and nourishes them.”—Felix.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The proud monarchs and magistrates (and
+everybody but the Christians) shall liquefy in
+the fierce flames of Hell.—Tertullian.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>We shall be compensated by a perpetual
+spectacle of our persecutors in an ever-burning
+Gehenna being devoured by living flames.—Cyprian.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Ling or the Word is the Commander-in-chief
+of the universe.—Clement.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Every sinner kindles for himself the flame
+of his own fire, and is not plunged into some
+fire kindled by another.—Origen.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The wicked will be provided not with the
+old earthly body, but with an indestructible
+body capable of holding out forever against
+everlasting fire.—Lactantius.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The whole mass of the human race is condemned.
+If we can pray the wicked out of
+Hell, we can pray the devils out.—Augustine.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Everybody, infants included, go to Hell,
+unless they are baptized.—Ambrose.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='53' id='Page_53'></span>There shall be eternal torments for all
+devils and skeptics.—Jerome.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Votive offerings by the living will reduce
+the torments of the dead. The blessed shall
+rejoice over the punishment of the damned.—Aquinas.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='54' id='Page_54'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER X.<br /> <br /><b>The Devil.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>Christ overcame the Great Serpent, the
+Devil, and the Irish Bacchus, St. Patrick, drove
+all the snakes out of Ireland. The drunken
+Bacchus, whose Saturnalia was held on the
+17th of March, when they poured out libations
+to him, was canonized and is now St. Bacchus,
+and his coffin and relics, endowed with magical
+and miraculous powers, were exhibited at Rome
+according to Isis Unveiled, 1:160.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Deus was Dyaus of the old Aryan or earlier
+Persian religion. Dyaus means to shine, and
+was a name of the sun. The followers of Zoroaster
+asserted that Dyaus was the Devil,
+and if they were right, it follows that Deus is
+the Devil. In this connection read the Lord’s
+Prayer, in which the ignorant worshipper endeavors
+to persuade the Lord not to lead him
+into temptation. According to the writers of
+the Bible, who were probably liars, He hardened
+the heart of Pharaoh, commanded the Israelites
+to steal, put an evil spirit into Saul and sent
+lying messages to the prophets. In Samuel
+it says that the Lord moved David to number
+Israel, but according to Chronicles it was the
+Devil who put him up to it. The words divine
+and devil are from Deva, the shining one, the
+Hindu god of light. Light is also luc, and
+Lucifer is a sun-god identical with Yahvah.
+The worshippers of Dyaus said that Ahura
+Mazda, of the Zoroastrians was the Devil.
+Ahura Mazda means I Am the I Am, and he
+<span class='pageno' title='55' id='Page_55'></span>is our God, the supreme God of the Hebrews,
+Kether, the father of Jehovah. According to
+the early Christians, the Gnostics and Nazarenes,
+the creator was Ilda Baoth, but in the Gospel
+of Nicodemus Ilda Baoth is Satan. Aaron
+sacrificed human beings to Azazel, identical
+with Moloch or the Devil. The Bible says
+that “man shall devote unto the Lord of all
+that he hath, both of man and beast. None
+devoted shall be redeemed, but shall surely
+be put to death.” We conclude that god and
+the Devil are one, that Brahma, Buddha, Dyaus,
+Ahura Mazda, Baal, Osiris, Jove, Bacchus,
+Christ, Priapus, Adonis, Deva and Devil are
+different names of the same god, and that god
+is a myth.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Devil is an emanation of god. He is
+Typhon, also called Sat and Seth in the Egyptian
+religion. The Ency. Brit. says that he is a
+brother or son of Osiris, and we have shown
+that Osiris and god are one, so we conclude
+that the Devil is the son of god as claimed in
+Job, 1:6. The Salvation Army says: “You
+must be a lover of the lord if you want to go
+to Heaven when you die.” So you must love
+the Devil and all these beasts of pagan gods,
+or you will have to shovel coal while the endless
+years of eternity roll.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Pentagram, by the power of which
+Solomon could summon the high gods to his
+assistance or call up the goblins damned, represents
+God when one horn of the star is in the
+ascendent or at the top, but when the two horns
+are in the ascendent, it represents the Devil
+or the goat. When Solomon summoned Gabriel
+to help him capture a new girl, the head
+of the star, on which is the mystic eye, was
+pointed toward the altar of evocation. But
+if he wished to raise the Devil, the horns of
+<span class='pageno' title='56' id='Page_56'></span>the goat were pointed toward the altar. In
+the infernal invocation Solomon wore a leaden
+cap, on which were the signs of the Moon,
+Venus and Saturn. He had two candles of
+human fat in a crescent candlestick, a copper
+vase holding the blood of the human victim, a
+censer containing incense moistened with the
+blood of a goat, four nails from the coffin of
+an executed criminal, the head of a black cat
+which has been fed on human flesh for five
+days, a bat drowned in blood, the horns of an
+immoral goat, the scull of a parricide. Then
+Solomon says in the evocation of the Devil:
+“By Adonai Elohim (the Creator), Adonai
+Jehovah (the Son), Adonai Sabbaoth (the Mother),
+by the womb of the Mother Adonai, by
+the Word of the Python and the Mystery of
+the Salamanders, by the Conclave of the Sylphs
+and the Gnomes, by the Demons of God in
+Heaven and Alamousin and Gibor, Come!
+Come! Come!”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>On the Pentagram is the mystic word יחוח,
+Yahvah, the spelling of which indicates
+that it represents two hermaphrodite gods.
+יח, Yah, is the good god, and וח, Vah, is
+the god of evil. The good god is represented
+in a pack of cards by the king of hearts, the
+god of love, and his wife, the queen of diamonds.
+And the hermaphrodite god of evil is represented
+by the king of spades and his wife, Lilith,
+the queen of clubs. Aristotle said that Jehovah
+was Ormazd, the god of light, and Pluto, the
+god of darkness. Jehovah is the God of Wisdom,
+so is the Egyptian serpent god, called Sat or
+Satan.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The serpent god is the astral light, the
+magnetic current. The priests by their great
+will power could direct this current at pleasure
+and perform the wonders and miracles that
+<span class='pageno' title='57' id='Page_57'></span>held enthralled their besotted devotees. They
+claimed that they were serpents because the
+serpent god magnetism permeated their bodies.
+A manuscript found among the Toltecs
+of Mexico asserted that they were descended
+from the house of Israel. Voltan, the Mexican
+demigod, says that he is the son of the snakes.
+The hierophants of Egypt and Babylon called
+themselves the sons of the serpent god. The
+chief priest of the serpent god of the Mexicans
+says: “I am a snake myself.” The Druids
+of Britain used to say: “I am a serpent, I am
+a Druid.”—Isis Unveiled.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Cneph or Cohen Eph (divine serpent)
+of Egypt was the supreme god, the flying dragon,
+the divine spirit permeating all creation, like
+the serpent god of the Buddhists. This spirit
+is electricity. The Ophites, Christian Gnostics,
+claimed that the serpent that tempted Eve was
+Jesus Christ, the Great Architect of the Universe,
+or Cohen Eph. Eve represented matter, and the
+spirit permeating matter produces living beings.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The astral light is both god and the Devil,
+the creator and the destroyer and also the Nirvana
+of the Buddhists. It is the Ah of the
+Hindus, or Iah or Eh Ei Eh of the Hebrews. It
+is life or the life-giving fluid. It is the Od and
+Ob of Moses and the Kabalists. When it acts
+on those that are drawn within its current it is
+the Ob or Python. Moses was determined to
+exterminate those witches who, sensitive to its
+influence, allowed themselves to fall under the
+control of the vicious beings which move in the
+astral waves like fish in the water.—Isis Unveiled,
+1-158. Porphery says that “these beings
+are mischievous and deceitful, though some are
+gentle and harmless, but so weak as to have the
+greatest difficulty in communicating with mortals.
+<span class='pageno' title='58' id='Page_58'></span>Their powers of reasoning are in a latent state,
+and therefore they themselves irresponsible.”
+But St. Augustine says: “These spirits are deceitful
+through malice. They pass themselves
+off for gods and for the souls of the defunct.”
+St. Jerome says that some of these elementary
+spirits or satyrs, with the legs and tails of goats,
+were exhibited at Alexandria, and one of them
+was pickled and sent to the Emperor Constantine,
+which he highly appreciated, as he was
+usually in the same condition. The Devil says,
+according to Edgar Allan Poe: “In a climate so
+sultry as mine it is frequently impossible to keep
+a spirit alive for more than two or three hours,
+and unless pickled immediately (and a pickled
+spirit is not good eating) they will smell.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>They called out sixty thousand militia in
+Cevennes, France, in 1700 to drive the Devil out
+of the boys and girls and babes at the breast
+who prophesied in pure French, a language unknown
+to them. The Prior reported to Rome
+that the Devil was so powerful that no torture
+and no amount of exorcism is able to dislodge
+him. He says he closed their hands on burning
+coals, and they were not even singed, that he
+wrapped their bodies in cotton soaked with oil
+and set them on fire and could not even blister
+their skins, that balls were shot at them and
+found flattened between the skin and clothes.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Perhaps the greatest number of miracles
+ever performed in the world were pulled off by
+the Devil at the tomb of Abbe Paris from 1727
+to 1749. The sick were cured, the deaf made to
+hear and the blind to see. Often a young girl
+among the convulsionaries would bend back into
+an arc, her loins supported by the sharpened
+point of an iron rod, and beg to be pounded with
+a fifty pound stone suspended from the ceiling.
+The stone was allowed to fall repeatedly with all
+<span class='pageno' title='59' id='Page_59'></span>its weight upon her abdomen, and the girl enjoyed
+it and cried for more, and no injury was
+found upon her person. When violent blows
+were struck with a sledge-hammer upon a drill
+held against her stomach she cried out: “O!
+how delightful, that does me good. Strike twice
+as hard if you can.”—Isis Unveiled.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='60' id='Page_60'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XI<br /> <br /><b>Life Cells.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>I Am the I Am, the Hebrew God, is supposed
+by Christians to be the First Cause, but the
+assumption of a first cause is quite unnecessary,
+and further, if you postulate a creative god, some
+impertinent person might ask you who made God.
+It is just as well to start with matter, in which
+mind and energy are inherent, which is eternal,
+infinite, immortal, self-existent and sustaining,
+requiring no supreme power as a basis or background,
+as set forth in the Sankhya System of
+the Hindus. See Phil. &amp; Relig. of India, 55.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The attraction or love of one mass of matter
+for another is the energy. It is that love that
+creates all forms. The atoms go a-chasing after
+other atoms, even as you and I. There can be
+no attraction without mind. Anaxagoras and
+Empedocles believed in a dualism of mind and
+matter. The latter says: “The periods of the
+formation of the world depend upon the alternate
+prevalence of love and hate. During certain
+periods all heterogeneous atoms are separated
+from each other by hate, during others they are
+everywhere united by love.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Haeckel says: “These three fundamental
+attributes, matter, force and sensation, are found
+inseparably united throughout the whole universe
+in every atom and every molecule.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Edgar Allan Poe says: “That which is not
+matter is not at all. The ultimate unparticled
+matter not only permeates all things but impels
+all things. This matter is God. What men attempt
+<span class='pageno' title='61' id='Page_61'></span>to embody in the word ‘thought’ is this
+matter in motion. The unparticled matter, or
+God, in quiescence is what men call mind. The
+motion of the unparticled matter is the universal
+thought of the universal mind. This thought
+creates. All things are but the thought of God.
+For new individualities gross matter is necessary.
+To create individual, thinking beings, it was
+necessary to incarnate portions of the Divine
+Mind. Thus man is individualized. Divested
+of corporate investiture, he were God.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the Ionic philosophy matter
+is by nature endowed with life, and life is inseparably
+connected with matter.—Ueberweg’s
+Hist. of Philosophy, 1-32.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It is said that in the beginning a male electron
+or spirit, or purusha, or soul, from the spirit
+principle of the universe, becoming involved in
+the material ether, formed a vortex, about which
+the female or material electrons of the ether
+revolved, thus producing an atom, the basis
+of all visible forms. The electron attracts
+the particles of matter in the ether as a magnet
+attracts steel. The electrons are called units
+of electricity, and there are perhaps a thousand
+in an atom. The space between these ions
+is comparatively as great as the space between
+the planets of our solar system. Leucippus,
+of Abdera, says that souls are round atoms.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The religious claim that the Divine Thought
+or Word originated the vortex movement. As
+John did not care to proclaim that his god was
+Ling, which he had stolen from the Hindus,
+he called it the Word, another meaning of Ling,
+from Ling comes linguist. Word is the exoteric
+meaning designed for fools, and the other is
+the esoteric or hidden meaning known only to
+the initiates. I think that the Christians are
+in error in claiming John’s god as their own,
+<span class='pageno' title='62' id='Page_62'></span>but amid such a flock of gods the confusion
+is not surprising.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“New Light has arisen, coming from Heaven,
+it assumed a mortal form. Virgin receive
+God in thy bosom, and the Word flew into the
+womb. Becoming incarnate in time, and animated
+by her body, it was found in mortal
+image, and a boy was created.”—Plutarch,
+Isis and Osiris, 17. Christna or the Word, the
+Hindu savior, like Christ was a shepherd, and
+he became entangled with the shepherdesses. He
+was born in the cave of Venus, as all Simon-pure
+christs have to be, and King Kamsa, in
+seeking to kill him, ordered the destruction of
+all male infants. He also had two fathers,
+God and Vasu Deva, the Earth god or Joseb.
+He and the god Vishnu were one.—Phil. &amp;
+Relig. of India, 278.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Hindus claim that the akasa or astral
+light, or Brahma, (electricity) originated the
+vortex movement that formed the atoms. Akasa
+is the source of life, the reservoir of all energy,
+the all-directing and omnipotent god. It was
+the indispensable agent of every magical performance,
+and the Brahmans said that they
+had to stir up Brahma in order to perform a
+trick in magic to delude their devotees. Madam
+Blavatsky says: “As God creates so can man
+create. By the action of the will power on the
+atoms he can call objective forms into being.
+The atoms are like automatic workmen moved
+by the influx of the will directed upon them.”
+“Every motion we make, every word we utter
+gives an impulse to the ether and thus creates
+atoms.”—Edgar Allan Poe.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Aristotle says: “The world always was
+and always will be. The ether fills the celestial
+spaces, and of it the spheres and stars are
+formed.” The atoms combine to form molecules,
+<span class='pageno' title='63' id='Page_63'></span>and these, being attracted together, form the
+gases of which nebulae are composed. These
+nebulae follow the same circular movement
+that prevails in the atoms, and the result of
+this movement is a solar system, the nucleus
+of which becomes the sun. The rings that
+separate from the main body in this revolution
+eventually break up and form planets. When
+these planets cool, we find all the atomic souls
+either in the water or imprisoned in the rocks
+or in the central fire. The sea beats up against
+the rocks, and the rains descend upon and
+disintegrate them and thus release the souls
+that were imprisoned there in the process of
+involution. Now they commence to evolve
+toward what the egotistic have termed man’s
+high estate.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Yogi Ramacharaka says: “The Yogi teaching
+informs us that even in the molten mass
+there were elementary forms that were to
+become the ancestral forms of the later living
+beings. From these elementary forms there
+gradually evolved, as the earth cooled and
+solidified, other forms, and so on until at last
+the first living form manifested. The lowest
+forms of what we call life were evolved from
+forms of crystal life, which indeed they very
+much resemble.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Haeckel, the world’s greatest scientist, says:
+“Man descends immediately from the ape, and
+secondarily from a long line of lower vertebrates
+back to the Silurian fishes. The lowest man
+appeared on the earth about three million years
+ago.”—Riddle of the Universe, 82. Anaximander,
+of Miletus, says: “Living beings arose
+by gradual development out of the elementary
+moisture under the influence of heat. We land
+animals had in the beginning the form of
+fishes.”—Ueberweg, 1:35.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='64' id='Page_64'></span>The atoms combining by their own desire
+and will formed a molecule, and the molecules
+by their own volition combined to form a life
+cell, our earliest ancestor, a minute, animate
+mass of protoplasm, the lowest form of animal
+life, born in the slum of the ocean bed millions
+of years ago. Myriads of these life cells form
+the human body. Each cell is a distinct individual,
+having brain, mind and soul. Haeckel
+says that the primordial living substance is
+plasm. We can live only by eating other living
+beings or plasm, that is, by cannibalism. Plants
+create living plasm out of alleged non-living matter,
+they form carbo-hydrates, and from these form
+plasm by a combination with water, carbolic
+acid, ammonia and nitric acid. We claim to
+have souls, but deny them to the plants, the
+divine creators whose chemical laboratories,
+the cells, are beyond human comprehension.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The cells arrange themselves in the embryo
+in the form of a human being by their own
+will. “They use the materials which are at
+hand, fabricating organs for themselves by
+instinct, and in the appointed hour are born
+in the shape which they have formed for themselves.”—Enoch,
+ch. 14. The human embryo
+in its development passes through all the forms
+through which the race has struggled in its
+evolution from stone, through the primordial
+cell, the worm, the fish, the saurian and gorilla.
+In the last stage, that of the gorilla, the embryo
+is entirely covered with hair like our beloved
+ancestors, and sometimes development is arrested
+at this point and a hairy child is born
+occasionally with a tail.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The scientists have discovered in the cell
+body a god more potent than any known deity
+and have named it centrosome. It is a being
+of stellar form, located just above the nucleus
+<span class='pageno' title='65' id='Page_65'></span>or nerve centre of the cell. It is a creator
+whose magic far excels the feats of gods or
+men. It divides one living being into two,
+splitting the brain and the body of the cell in
+halves in such a manner that the two individuals
+produced are the exact duplicates of the parent
+cell in form and character. The cell brain
+matter, called cromatin, is composed of strings
+of very minute granules, termed cromosome,
+which are supposed to contain all the hereditary
+traits. The division of each one of these cromosomes
+into equal halves gives to the individuals
+produced a similar character. The centrosome
+is one in the beginning, but before dividing
+the cell it divides itself into two persons, so
+that one of the centrosomes may accompany
+each of the two cells. Each centrosome seizes
+one half of the brain of the parent cell thus
+divided and draws it to one side of the cell to
+form the nucleus of one of the new cells. Then
+the whole body of the cell is divided in the
+centre.—Story of the Living Machine, 100.
+When the centrosome divides the cell, two
+cells are produced capable of reproducing themselves
+in like manner. Prof. A. Dastre says
+that “under suitable circumstances the lowest
+animated forms are immortal.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Our soul is formed by the combination of
+the souls of the two germ cells from which the
+embryo originated. We existed in our parents
+prior to our advent here and in all of our ancestors
+for 500,000,000 years back, more or less.
+The conscious matter that constitutes me, the
+cromatin, existed in every one of my ancestors
+since we were washed out of the igneous rocks or
+spawned in the ocean depths. Jack London
+says: “I did not begin when I was born. I
+have been growing, developing through incalculable
+myriads of milleniums. All these experiences
+<span class='pageno' title='66' id='Page_66'></span>of all these lives and of countless other
+lives have gone to the making of the soul-stuff
+that is I.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Elephas Levi says: “The millions of germ
+cells that fail to become human beings are transformed
+into phantoms or larvae. These larvae
+possess aerial bodies formed from the steam of
+blood. For this reason they seek out spilt
+blood, and were formerly nourished by the smoke
+of sacrifices. The cohesion of the parts of these
+phantastic organisms is so feeble that they fear
+a strong wind, large fires, and above all the points
+of swords. They are vampires.” This accounts
+for the craving of the gods for blood sacrifices.
+The spirits and phantoms were mistaken for gods
+by the drunken prophets.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The cells are spheroids and they are men in
+embryo,” says Plato. “God caused the universe
+to move with a circular motion and created
+original man as a perfect circle. The sexes were
+originally three in number, man, woman and
+hermaphrodite, and they had two faces and four
+arms and four legs, but Zeus cut them in two.
+After the division the two parts of man, each
+desiring the other half, came together and threw
+their arms about one another eager to grow into
+one. Each of us when separate is but the indenture
+of a man, having one side only like a flat-fish,
+and he is always looking for his other half.”—Plato,
+1-483.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The intelligence of the cells has been clearly
+established by overwhelming proofs. An egg
+or ovum is at first a small fertilized cell, and
+in its development or transformation into an
+embryo, it is at first divided into several cells,
+to wit, the head cell, the body cell, the tail cell
+and the food cells. Prof. Oppel, in his experiments
+in embryology, separated these cells,
+removing them from their proper positions,
+<span class='pageno' title='67' id='Page_67'></span>but the cells so removed, traveled about trying
+first one place and then another until they
+usually found their proper positions and there
+joined the body and grew thereon, producing
+a perfect animal. If they made a mistake and
+joined the body in the wrong place, a monster
+was produced.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Furthermore, a scientist produced a mushroom-shaped
+being by subjecting metallic salts
+to the action of a galvanic current. The particles
+of the metal gathered around the pole of
+the magnet in the shape of a mushroom. This
+thing was a living being, with alimentary canal
+in its stem, through which it drew its nourishment
+and added to its growth. It was only
+necessary that a current of life or electricity
+be introduced among the particles to cause
+them to assume the form of a living organism.
+The metallic tree is produced by the same means.
+A copper wire and a piece of zinc are suspended
+in a bottle of a solution of acetate of lead, and
+the particles of lead gather about the copper
+wire and put forth branches, limbs and foliage.—Yogi
+Ramacharaka.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Each atom of matter, each molecule and
+every life cell, of which man is composed, has
+a soul of its own. And it is claimed that beside
+the individual cell souls, man not only has
+a communal soul in his brain, but a soul in his
+Solar Plexus. After a frog is beheaded, if a
+drop of acid is placed on his body, he will wipe
+it off with his foot.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The development of animals out of frogs
+and men out of animals was held by Anaximenes
+600 B. C., and the evolution of species
+was an accepted doctrine before the flood. In
+the Hindu books it is written: “When the world
+had issued out of the darkness, the subtle, elementary
+principles produced the vegetal seed,
+<span class='pageno' title='68' id='Page_68'></span>which animated first the plants, from the plants
+life passed into fantastical bodies which were
+born in the waters, then through a series of
+forms and various animals it reached man.”—Bhagavata.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Kapella, an Aryan sage, denied the existence
+of a first cause, claiming that everything
+in nature found itself developed only in consequence
+of material fatal forces. The ancient
+Kabalists said: “A stone becomes a plant, a
+plant a beast, a beast a man, a man a spirit, and
+the spirit a god.”</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='69' id='Page_69'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XII.<br /> <br /><b>Magic and Devil Worship.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>Elephas Levi claimed that the attraction
+and repulsion of the atoms is caused by the
+astral light. “There exists an agent which is
+material and spiritual, a universal plastic medium,
+a common receptacle of the vibrations of motions
+and the images of forms, a fluid and a force.
+By means of this force all nervous apparatuses
+secretly communicate with each other, thence
+come sympathy and antipathy, thence dreams
+and second sight. The existence and use of
+this force is the great secret of practical magic.
+The astral light attracts, repels, vivifies and
+destroys all things under the influence of powerful
+wills. It can be directed by the leaders
+of souls. By means of this agent we can correspond
+instantaneously from one end of the
+earth to the other, discern what is taking place
+at the antipodes, heal or hurt at a distance.
+The Gnostics called it the burning body of the
+Holy Ghost. Life is produced by the action
+of the astral light on the ether or matter. In
+man it forms the astral body, it is the first
+envelope of the soul, and it is by combining
+with the most subtil fluids that it forms this
+etherized body or phantom. The astral body
+is nourished by the astral light, as the physical
+body is nourished by the earth. The astral
+light is saturated with souls, which it releases
+in the incessant generation of existences, and
+whose imperfect wills can be dominated and
+employed by stronger ones. The elementary
+<span class='pageno' title='70' id='Page_70'></span>spirits are like children, they torment those
+who concern themselves about them. It is
+these that produce the raps on the walls and
+furniture.”—Mysteries of Magic, 65.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“An individual can leave the physical
+body and actually travel on either the material
+or astral plane in the astral body. Many persons
+are able to travel thus in their ordinary
+sleep.”—Astral World, 25.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>All magic is religious, having been invented
+by the priests or Magi. It is said that the
+religious bodies copied their demonology from
+the Kabala of the Jews, and that the latter
+borrowed their system of theurgy and theology
+from the Egyptian and Babylonian priests.
+If any one outside of the religious bodies started
+any opposition devil-worship, they were promptly
+burnt. All the magic rituals are derived from
+the Key of King Solomon, claimed to have been
+found in his sepulchre at Jerusalem.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Magic Grimore, ascribed to Pope
+Honorius, he says: “We have seen with what
+power Jesus commanded demons, which power
+was transmitted to St. Peter, and, as the lawful
+successors of St. Peter, having the keys of the
+Kingdom of Heaven, and desiring to share the
+power of invoking and commanding spirits,
+which has been reserved unto us alone, with
+our brethren, we have included in this Bull
+the manner of their invocation. And because
+it is meet that the ministers of the altar should
+have authority over rebellious spirits, we hereby
+depute unto them all the powers which we
+possess in virtue of the Holy Apostolic Chair.”—Book
+of Black Magic, 100.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In invoking the Devil or other choice spirits,
+it is necessary to murder some being. If the
+conjurer cannot or dare not murder a human
+being, he takes an innocent virgin lamb and
+<span class='pageno' title='71' id='Page_71'></span>cuts its throat and tears off its skin to use for
+a magic apron or parchment. Instead of the
+skin of a lamb, the caul of a new-born child
+may be used.—Idem.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The sign manual of the demon Valefor,
+the patron of thieves, contains two Maltese
+crosses rampant and three links. As Solomon
+and his entourage worshipped the demon Astaroth,
+they probably stole from him the two
+pillars at the door of the Temple and the double
+triangle above them, for they appeared in the
+seal of that spirit. There are two or more crosses
+in each of the seals or signatures of Solomon’s
+seventy two black fiends. Their motto is,
+“In this sign we conquer.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Solomon imprisoned the seventy two devils,
+with all their legions, in a brazen vessel and
+sank it in a deep lake in Babylon. The Babylonians,
+thinking that there must be a great
+treasure in the vessel, took it out of the lake
+and broke it open, when out flew the chief
+devils immediately, with all their legions following
+them.—See Waite’s Book of Black Magic.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>We still worship pagan gods. The Hexagram,
+or double triangle of Solomon, is still
+used by different sects and societies. On it
+is the name of Agla, a pagan sun-god, and also
+the name of Tau, the Egyptian bull christ Taurus,
+with the pagan symbol, the Tau cross.
+The god A. and O., Alpha and Omega, with
+which the Hexagram is adorned, is a foul Babylonian
+idol, the same as IO. It has been represented
+that the Devil falls prostrate before
+the cross. But, to tell the truth, Lucifer uses
+the sign himself, also the double triangle and
+the single triangle in his signature. And Belial
+has four crosses by which he lies.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When a sorcerer conjures up one of the
+seventy two demons, he must draw the double
+<span class='pageno' title='72' id='Page_72'></span>seal of Solomon (double triangle) and the Pentagram,
+(five-pointed star) on a parchment
+of calfskin. These must be worn on his white
+vestment, together with the seal of the spirit
+invoked. And the secret seal of Solomon (the
+pillar standing in a circle) must be drawn with
+the blood of a black, virgin cock on virgin parchment.
+This is part of the conjuration: “I invoke
+and conjure you, O Spirit, by God the Father,
+by God the son, by God the Holy Ghost, by
+the Most Glorious and Holy Mother of God,
+by her Sacred Heart, by her Blessed Milk, by
+the Power and Victory of Hell, by the Ministers
+of the Tartarean Seat. I exorcise thee in the
+names of El, Elohim, Zabaoth &amp;c. do thou
+forthwith appear. I conjure thee by the Living
+and True God Heliorem (Helios, the sun god)
+and Tetragrammaton Jehovah (the God of
+four letters). Come! I Adonai Saday, King of
+Kings, commands thee.” See Lesser Key of
+King Solomon, 55.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>There is no use in trying to invoke spirits
+or perform any tricks in black magic unless
+you have confessed and received the Holy
+Communion, and you must pray for assistance
+to the pagan gods Adonai, Eloim, Ariel, Yahveh
+and Gibor, and fast, and abstain from the society
+of females for nine days, and take a bath, and
+wear the garb of a priest or a Levite, and you
+must have the sacred Masons’ implements,
+the sword, the staff, the rod, the sickle and
+the poniard. See Waite’s Book of Black Magic.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>That part of nature called the astral light
+or universal spirit was virtually the supreme
+god of all religions. It was the Heaven or
+Nirvana of the Buddhist, (where the soul is
+blown out like a lamp some believed.) When
+he attained to perfection and was reabsorbed
+in this godhead, he had stormed the heights
+<span class='pageno' title='73' id='Page_73'></span>of Heaven and attained eternal bliss. He
+considered that his spirit would no longer be
+subjected to endless incarnations in material
+forms. But there is no knowing when it would
+again by choice or compulsion enter the ether
+and form another atom and again commence
+the unavoidable cycle.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>All the vile religions have scared the human
+race into ca’niption fits by their assertion that
+our souls will be lost unless we bow down to
+their priests and worship their idols. According
+to the original parent religion, the Hindu, if
+we obey the priests faithfully, we will go to
+Nirvana and become a creator or electron,
+or elementary spirit. And all the authorities,
+both pagan and Christian, agree that the elementary
+spirits are mischievous, wicked entities.
+It would be better to lose our souls, for in that
+case they are banished into the ether or chaos
+and become the nucleus of a material atom.
+If we go to Nirvana, we are one step farther
+removed from the ultimate goal of all the ambitions
+of all the heavenly electrons and material
+atoms, the supreme pinnacle of attainment,
+man’s high estate, which is greater than that
+of the gods.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Theosophists revel in the mystic and
+occult. If they can construct a sentence that
+no one can understand, and that they do not
+know the meaning of themselves, they are in
+the seventh heaven of delight, their wisdom
+borders on the Divine. Stating their doctrine
+of transmigration in plain language: God sits
+at his desk in Heaven, with a great lot of pigeonholes
+before him, in each one of which is a
+soul in a state of coma. When he receives a
+wireless from the earth that Pat and Biddie
+McGee have formed in their marital relationship
+a psychic vortex, or soul vortex, he makes a
+<span class='pageno' title='74' id='Page_74'></span>grab at the pigeonholes and lights perhaps on
+the soul of Pythagoras and sticks it into the
+new-born embryo, which already has a soul,
+and there is no room for any other. See “Spermatozoa,”
+Stand. Dic., and note those very energetic
+individuals in a frantic race to enter the
+ovum and blossom out as human beings. You
+will then realize that the child already has a
+very lively soul, provided by nature, and there
+is no occasion for any doped soul, supplied by
+any idiotic human plan.</p>
+
+<p class='c011'>“The astral light keeps an unmutilated
+record of all that was, that is, or ever will be.
+The minutest acts of our lives are imprinted
+on it, and even our thoughts rest photographed
+on its eternal tablets. It is the Book of Life,
+it is the memory of God. If the medium or
+subject’s sight is ably directed by the mesmerizer,
+magician or spirit, the light must yield
+up its most secret records to our scrutiny.”—Astral
+World. It is claimed that each person’s
+atmosphere in the astral light is peopled with
+the images of his or her immediate family, thus
+accounting for the assertions of the mediums
+that they see the spirits of our lost ones.</p>
+
+<p class='c011'>Swedenborgians claimed that the human
+body is sometimes abandoned by the soul in
+consequence of overpowering fright, grief, despair
+or sickness, and that we encounter every
+day such living corpses. Into these bodies
+may enter the soul of an adept sorcerer or some
+earth-bound, disembodied soul. In insanity the
+astral soul is partly paralyzed, bewildered, and
+subject to the influence of every passing spirit
+of any sort, or it has departed forever, and the
+body is taken possession of by some vampire
+or human soul near its own dissolution, and
+clinging desperately to earth, whose sensual
+<span class='pageno' title='75' id='Page_75'></span>pleasures it may enjoy for a brief season longer
+by this expedient.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The ancients claimed that the soul was
+located in the solar plexus, and it was asserted
+that they could read, hear, see and smell through
+the navel. In our vermiform stage of development
+before evolution had supplied us with
+heads, the soul was perhaps in the stomach,
+but it may have moved since. Plato says
+that the divine part of the soul is located in
+the head. Haeckel says that the human soul
+is a combination of the souls of all the cells
+of the body. It is impossible to destroy any
+simple substance, and if it affords you any
+comfort, you can assume that the soul or ego
+is an indestructible electron. The Stoics claimed
+that the soul is in the heart, and that although
+it outlives the body, it is yet perishable and
+can only endure at the longest till the termination
+of the world period, 4,320,000,000 years. Epicurus
+claimed that “nothing that exists will
+ever cease to exist. Atoms exist from all eternity,
+and worlds were formed by their vortical
+motion. The soul is material and composed
+of exceedingly fine atoms, and is dispersed
+through the whole body. The rational soul is
+in the breast.” Stephanus, of Alexandria, says
+that “copper is like a man, it has a soul and
+body.” Yoga Ramacharaka says that “iron
+is alive and may be killed by poison.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Transmigration of the soul takes place
+in all flesh, in beasts, reptiles and fowls. For
+one form of uncleanness the soul will pass into
+a Gentile, for another into a mule, for others
+into an ass, a woman, a bat, a she-mule or a
+camel.”—Kabala Nishmath Chaim, Ch. 13,
+No. 1. It sometimes happens that one sacrifices
+an animal with a human soul in it. Therefore
+the slaughtering knife must be without defect,
+<span class='pageno' title='76' id='Page_76'></span>and the slaughter must needs be delicately
+done to avoid cutting the gizzard out of the
+human soul. “The soul of a murderer is transmigrated
+into water. Let no man drink from
+a running stream, lest the soul of a wicked sinner
+pass into him.”—Kabala Emeh Hamelech, fol.
+153, col. 1.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“By a combination of the letters of the
+ineffable name Rava once created a man and
+sent him to Rav. Zera. The man being unable
+to reply when spoken to, the Rabbi said to
+him: ‘Thou art a creation of the company (of
+necromancers) return to thy dust.’ By the
+same means a Rabbi created pumpkins, melons,
+deers and roes.”—Jerusalem Talmud, Sanhedrim,
+ch. 7.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The soul, called Psyche, when she is at
+home, lives in that part of the brain called
+the Medulla Oblongata, and the spirit, called
+Budhi, lives in the next house up the street,
+the Pineal Gland. When Budhi, or the Word,
+wins the affections of Psyche, and they are
+married, the Word saves the soul, and the man
+who harbors these entities is illuminated and
+becomes a master.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If you read Genesis in the original Hebrew,
+you will find that Al or El, the sun, not
+the Christian God, says: “To every beast of
+the earth I gave a living soul.” The souls of
+human beings are composed of material as
+refined and spiritual as that of the souls of
+cockroaches and bedbugs, and men, if they
+behave themselves, are equally as good as those
+animals and of just as much importance in
+the universe.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='77' id='Page_77'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XIII.<br /> <br /><b>Ghosts and Hobgoblins.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>The Hindus of the Malibar coast said they
+had ghosts, but they knew them to be bad
+spirits, for good ones can hardly ever appear
+at all. Apuleius says the human soul is a
+demon or genius, an immortal god. According
+to Philo Judaeus, the air is filled with an
+invisible host of spirits, the bad ones are mortal,
+and the good ones are immortal. The soul,
+upon the death of the body, transforms into a
+lemure (phantom). If it is wicked, it is called
+a larvae. The ghosts who, through vice, fearful
+crimes and animal passions, are confined to
+the eighth sphere immediately surrounding the
+earth, are the magnetic vampires and demons
+so well known to mediaeval ecstatics, nuns,
+monks and witches, the blood demons of Porphery.
+They may be cast out by powerful
+magicians, but if a sorcerer is not available,
+you can take a saucer containing two ounces of
+nitre and pour over it one ounce of vitrol and
+place it under the bed of the obsessed, and the
+devil will take to his heels.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Paracelsus says: “It is possible that my
+spirit, without the aid of the body and through
+a fiery will alone, and without a sword, can stab
+and wound others. I can also bring the spirit
+of my adversary into an image, and then double
+him up and lame him.” According to Cotton
+Mather some young girls had become mediums
+by sitting with a West Indian negro woman.
+They declared that the spectres of various
+<span class='pageno' title='78' id='Page_78'></span>witches appeared to them and bit and pinched
+and stuck pins into them. Some of the witches
+confessed that they did afflict these girls by
+sticking pins into manikins made of wax or rags,
+and by clutching and pinching their hands together
+and wishing in what part and after what
+manner they would have the girls afflicted,
+and it was done.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If you are haunted by an objectionable
+ghost, provide yourself with a sword or a dagger
+and stab him when he makes his appearance.
+They are awfully afraid of swords, although if
+you cut one in two, he will join together again,
+or if you cut his head off or leg off, he will put
+the member right on again. But he does not
+like it, and will thereafter leave you severely
+alone. Bodin says that in 1557 an elementary,
+thundering demon fell down with the lightning
+into the house of one Poudot and kept throwing
+stones all about the room for several days. The
+magistrate came to investigate, and the spirit
+knocked his hat off and drove him out of the
+house. At last Poudot got a sword and slashed
+all around the room, whereupon the spirit disappeared.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Where the ghosts are real troublesome, you
+can drive them away by distributing holy medallions
+around the house where the ghosts can
+see them. As the medallions have been blessed
+or magnetized, God has been injected into them,
+and they consequently are gods, and mischievous
+spirits who cut up capers around the house
+are afraid of these deities. I have a blessed
+idol of Buddha on my desk to keep the ghosts
+out of the office and prevent them from interfering
+with the composition of this pious work.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Modern spirits are often lying spirits.
+They are ever on hand to humor the respective
+hobbies of the persons who communicate with
+<span class='pageno' title='79' id='Page_79'></span>them at circles, and deceive them. When
+Luther, the sorcerer, evoked the demon, he was
+told that he should not worship the Virgin.
+But when St. Dominic called upon the devils,
+they told him that nobody was damned that
+persevered in her holy worship. The golden
+legend of James de Viragine shows that the Virgin
+gave to St. Dominic a miraculous rosary, by
+which he could perform greater miracles than
+Christ. But a certain abandoned sinner was
+bold enough to doubt the virtues of the rosary,
+and immediately fifteen thousand devils took
+possession of him, and being questioned by St.
+Dominic, they emitted flames from the nostrils,
+eyes and ears of the demoniac and certified to
+the virtues of the rosary. Over a hundred
+angels appeared in golden armor, together with
+the blessed Virgin herself bearing a golden rod,
+with which she administered a sound thrashing
+to the demoniac. The numerous theological
+truths uttered by St. Dominic’s devils were
+embodied in so many articles of faith, according
+to Isis Unveiled, 2-76.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>One who is unprotected, the tricky powers
+of the air but too often delude with the semblance
+of voices. In all the Mysteries, strong
+drink or anaesthetics were administered to the
+initiates to sunder the soul from the body and
+produce visions. The Sankhya system teaches
+that the ghost, or astral body, can shrink to such
+a minute space that it can penetrate anything,
+or enlarge to a gigantic body, or float through
+space, or standing on the earth can reach the
+moon, that its will is irresistible, having dominion
+over all things and the ability to attain
+every desire.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It is claimed that phantom hands have appeared
+at seances under test conditions and
+written messages on a table in broad daylight,
+<span class='pageno' title='80' id='Page_80'></span>when the medium was six or eight feet away,
+but the theory is that the materialized hand is
+an emanation from the medium, the astral hand
+of the medium. Madam Blavatsky says that
+“this is the spiritual or astral body that is raised
+in incorruption. It is useless to argue that
+these are spirit hands. To make hands or faces
+objective, they are compelled to use either the
+astral limb of the medium, or material furnished
+by the elementals, or the aural emanation of all
+persons present. Pure spirits will not and cannot
+show themselves objectively. Those that
+do are elementary spirits.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Madam Blavatsky tells of the following
+wonderful manifestations that occurred in Thibet.
+A body of traveling Bikshus, or monks, claimed
+the power to reincarnate the Buddha in any infant.
+A child four months old was brought to
+their cave and set down in the middle of the
+room, while the monks sat in a circle around it
+at some distance. A skeptic minister sat close
+to the child to expose the trickery. The chief
+Pase Budha went into a trance, and his astral
+and spiritual body took possession of the child
+and made it walk and talk, saying “I am Buddha,
+I am the old Lama, I am his spirit in a new
+body.” The minister said: “The baby looked
+at me with an expression of intelligence that
+was simply awful. It sent a chill through me,
+I felt a real terror, my hair rose upon my head,
+and my blood ran cold. The eyes seemed to
+search my very soul with an expression that
+made me think that it was the face of the Superior
+himself, his eyes, his very look that was
+gazing upon me.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If you wish to conjure up or materialize a
+spirit, purchase from the Yogis some ancient
+blood of a black cat, which comes in powdered
+form. This, together with a sparrow’s brain,
+<span class='pageno' title='81' id='Page_81'></span>burnt upon the altar will produce a smoke or
+vapor of peculiar odor and a color unknown
+and unnamed by human beings, being a combination
+of many colors. From the smoke of
+this magic altar it is possible for spirits to materialize,
+so that even persons without the astral
+vision can see them.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sometimes a band of occultists will meet
+around their altar fire, which is kindled between
+the horns of the goat and fed with the ancient
+blood of a black cat and other material from
+which ghosts can materialize. The occultists
+stand in a row hand in hand, the Grand Master
+at the head by the altar, and all strongly command
+that a spirit shall manifest. As the command
+passes from one brother to another it
+gains force, and the power of the will is enormously
+augmented, and after a time there issues
+from the floor a thread of astral matter, which
+ascends perpendicularly and widens out as
+it ascends, assuming a human form, but weak,
+wavering and limp, bending this way and that
+on every breath of air. But after the circle
+has pumped the power into him for a while, he
+becomes sufficiently strong to walk or glide
+about and take a seat in the circle and talk to
+the members. The materialized body is soft
+and moist and cold as a corpse. When they
+wish him to disappear they stand again hand
+in hand, the Grand Master next to the spirit,
+and send the command from one to the other
+ordering the ghost to depart, and he will again
+become weak and wabbly and sink down to
+the floor and disappear through the same nail
+hole from which he emerged.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If the company wishes to engage in a dangerous
+experiment, one half of them will occupy
+one side of the hall and the other half the other
+side. They must first erect between them a
+<span class='pageno' title='82' id='Page_82'></span>circle of sheet lead, over which the devil cannot
+jump to attack any of the members. Then
+each bunch will think evil vindictive and murderous
+thoughts of the other bunch, and conjure
+up dire monsters to attack them, and soon a
+horrible, gigantic and vicious thought-monster,
+part beast, part devil and part human, will
+materialize and rush at the members and endeavor
+to attack them, but fortunately for
+them, he cannot pass the leaden circle, for if
+he could reach those that made him, he would
+strike them dead with a charge of electricity
+through the heart. In order to lay this devil
+they have conjured up, they have to clothe
+themselves entirely in silver-colored garments.
+They then enter the circle from both sides and
+close in on the monster. These silver-colored
+beings scare the devil to death, and he crawls
+back in his hole.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A man, named B, built a house with second-hand
+lumber from an old building that had
+been torn down. The old building was reputed
+to be haunted by the former owner, who was
+murdered there. The ghost was very mad
+because B took his lumber, and, in order to be
+revenged, he went with the lumber to the new
+house and haunted that. B says that the ghost
+would appear to him when he was going to sleep
+and jab him in the eye with his finger and seize
+his arm and hurl it against the wall. When
+B was half asleep one night, the ghost appeared
+with a pail of water and threw it all over him.
+The dog could see the ghost even when B could
+not, and would bark and show his teeth and
+propose to fight the phantom. B sold the
+house to some colored folks. They were scared
+white by the skilligin, gave up the property
+and demanded their money back, because the
+ghost was an incumbrance on the estate and
+<span class='pageno' title='83' id='Page_83'></span>a legal defect in title, he being in possession,
+claiming ownership.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>St. Clemens Romanus says that Simon
+Magus (Paul), of the New Testament, could
+make himself invisible when and to whom he
+pleased. He created a man out of air, who
+passed through the rocks and mountains and
+flew along through the air. He threw himself
+from precipices without being injured and
+flung himself into the fire without being burned,
+he animated statues, he walked through the
+streets attended by strange figures, which he
+said were the souls of people departed.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='84' id='Page_84'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XIV.<br /> <br /><b>Witches and Sorcerers.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>“Burn everybody,” the Inquisition seemed
+to say, “God can easily sort out his own.” Poor
+fools, hysterical women and idiots were roasted
+alive for the crime of magic.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Catherine de Medicis, the author of the
+Massacre of St. Bartholomew, had in her service
+an apostate Jacobin priest who was proficient
+in the black art. King Charles lay dangerously
+ill, and Catherine, the queen mother, had everything
+to lose by the death of the King. In her
+anxiety she commanded the priest to inquire
+of the Devil what should be done to save the
+life of the King. The priest, taking with him
+a beautiful child, went into the chapel and
+after administering to the child its first communion,
+decapitated it on the very steps of the
+altar and placed the palpitating head upon the
+paten. Then, standing on a reversed cross,
+he celebrated the Devil’s Mass before an image
+of the Demon, and commanded the Devil to
+answer by the lips of this murdered child the
+question of the Queen. Then a strange voice,
+which had nothing human about it, made itself
+audible in this poor little martyr’s head. But
+the sorcery availed nothing, the King died.—Elephas
+Levi.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Pope Sylvester was publicly accused by
+Cardinal Benno with being a sorcerer and
+enchanter. The brazen oracular head made
+by his Holiness was of the same kind as the one
+fabricated by Albertus Magnus. The latter
+<span class='pageno' title='85' id='Page_85'></span>was smashed to pieces by Thomas Aquinas,
+not because it was the work of or inhabited by
+a demon, but because the spook, that was
+fixed inside by mesmeric power, talked incessantly
+and disturbed the eloquent saint. These
+heads and other talking statues, trophies of
+the magical skill of monks and bishops, were
+fac-similes of the animated gods of the ancient
+temples. It was demonstrated that this Pope
+was constantly attended by demons or spirits.
+Benedict IX, John XX and the VI and VII Gregory
+were all known as magicians. The latter
+Pope, it was said, could shake lightning out
+of his sleeve. In the latter part of the sixteenth
+century there was hardly a parish to be
+found in which the priests did not study magic
+and alchemy. John Reuchlin, father of the Reformation
+and teacher of Luther, was a Kabalist
+and occultist. The occult knowledge gleaned
+by religion from the fat fields of theurgy was
+sedulously guarded for its own use, and it sent
+to the stake only those practitioners who poached
+on its preserves. Between 1580 and 1595 in
+the single province of Lorraine, the President
+Remigius burned nine hundred witches.”—Isis
+Unveiled, 2-57.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The gorgeous standard of the Inquisition
+is represented as waving in the Heavenly breezes
+at the foot of the Great White Throne of the
+Almighty. On its crimson, damask face is the
+cross, the symbol of the Son of God who died
+for mankind, with an olive branch on one side
+and a sword stained to the hilt with human gore
+on the other.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The true origin of the daily accusations
+and death sentences for witchcraft are traced by
+Dr. Soldan, of Stuttgart, to personal, political
+and religious enmities. Prince Bishop, John
+George II, of Bamberg, caused six hundred
+<span class='pageno' title='86' id='Page_86'></span>to be burned for sorcery in five years. The
+petty princes were not unwilling to seize upon
+any pretence to fill their coffers, the persons most
+persecuted being those whose property was a
+matter of consideration.”—Sorcery and Magic,
+2-185. A horse was burnt at the stake in Lisbon
+in 1601 for witchcraft, because it could tell the
+number of spots on a card.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the list of twenty nine burnings, or
+autos da fe, in nineteen months in Germany,
+162 persons were murdered, of whom 28 were
+Protestants, 100 wealthy citizens and 34 little
+children, the youngest an infant. Wright says
+that 27 little girls, from seven to ten years of
+age, were burnt as witches. Lorente, the historian
+of the Inquisition, computes that Torquamada
+in eighteen years burned at the stake 10,220
+persons, and otherwise punished 97,321. In
+Andalusia alone, in a single year, the Inquisition
+sent to the stake 2000 Jews.—Buckle’s Hist.
+Civ. 1-136. “We learn that much money was
+realized by selling to the rich dispensations to
+secure them from the Inquisition.”—Conflict
+Between Religion and Science, 146.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Stevens says: “A monk of St. Anthony,
+having been at Jerusalem, brought home with
+him a bit of the finger of the Holy Ghost, the
+snoot of a seraphim, one of the nails of a cherub,
+one of the ribs of the Word Made Flesh, some
+rays of the Star of the East, and a vial of St.
+Michael’s sweat. Henry III, of England,
+received from the Grand Master of the Templars
+a vial containing some of the blood that Christ
+shed upon the cross, attested by the seal of the
+Patriarch of Jerusalem.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The hand of one of the innocents massacred
+by Herod, although Herod died four years B.
+C., was, in 1837, still preserved in the Convent
+at Bethlehem. There also is the pit in which the
+<span class='pageno' title='87' id='Page_87'></span>bodies of the infants were thrown, and also the
+manger which came down from the constellation
+of the Crab. Some depraved Christian copped
+the stone on which the cock crowed when Peter
+denied his Master, and, in 1837, it was said to be
+in a church in Rome. In the Church of the
+Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem, among other
+wonders, is a monument erected over the grave of
+Adam, who never existed, and there is a polished
+marble bathtub or sarcophagus, which they
+claimed was the sepulchre hewn out of the rock.
+See Travels in Holy Land, 2-163.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The fight of the fools and fakirs over the
+location of the grave of a mythical sun-god is
+certainly ludicrous, but more amusing was the
+magic trick of the early Christians who stole
+the grave of Adam either from Hebron or Mecca
+and also swiped the grave of Christ from the
+Damascus Road, north of Jerusalem, and exhibited
+both, with other shell and three-card-monte
+games, in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre,
+in the centre of Jerusalem, for the purpose
+of annexing the coin of the dupes, farmers and
+come-ons from all over the world.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to Tichenor, over three hundred
+years after the crucifixion, St. Helena found the
+true cross, and also dug up the crosses of the
+two thieves, and this lumber was sold for centuries
+to millions of the faithful. Even a splinter
+will save you from Hell and cure you of what
+ails you. And the bones, hair and nails of the
+Apostles have been sold all over the world.
+You could formerly buy a gunnysack full of St.
+Peter’s fingers and toes if you had the necessary
+dough. The people not only worshipped the
+Mother of God, but worshipped St. Ann, the
+Grandmother of God. God came unto Mary
+in the form of Gabriel, and to prove it the monk
+Eiseling exhibited all over Europe a pin-feather
+<span class='pageno' title='88' id='Page_88'></span>from Gabriel’s wing, which he shed at the conference.
+Thorns, from the crown of thorns,
+the blood of Jesus, by the drop or the bottle,
+and the milk of the Holy Virgin were peddled
+out all over the world for centimes.—See Tichenor’s
+Roman Religion.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='89' id='Page_89'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XV.<br /> <br /><b>The Great King Solomon.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>Solomon’s Song is very choice reading and
+would be eminently appropriate to the foulest
+book on earth, the circulation of which would be
+a criminal offense under the law. The Christian
+compilers of the Bible have asserted in the
+headings of the Song that it represents the love
+of Christ and the Church. They were not only
+wilful liars, but foully besmirched their own
+church, for that was about 1200 years before
+their church existed. The whole context shows
+that it has nothing to do with the Christian
+Church, but is evidently the hymn book of the
+church of Ashtoreth, of which Solomon was a
+deacon. Any institution that foists upon the
+world such vile obscenity as the inspired word
+of God, is the Temple of the Devil, the antechamber
+of Hell, an annex of the Witches’
+Sabbath. It should utterly perish from the
+face of the earth. In fact, the die is already
+cast, the handwriting is on the wall, the hand
+of death is on it now.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Solomon was Grand Master of the secret
+societies. Those things that were esoteric or
+secret or occult in magic and religion, claimed
+by the priests to be too sacred for the people,
+were either criminal or too vile to utter. That
+was the only reason for keeping them secret.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Solomon had cheated his brother Adonijah
+out of the throne to which the latter was entitled
+by birth, and Adonijah thought that he
+should at least be allowed to have Abishag, the
+<span class='pageno' title='90' id='Page_90'></span>sixteen-year-old beauty that they had put in
+bed with the dying King David to save his life.
+And he induced Bathsheba, the mother of
+Solomon, to make the request of the king.
+When Solomon had heard the petition of Bathsheba
+he said: “And why dost thou ask Abishag
+for Adonijah, ask for him the kingdom also.”
+Abishag is the only jewel in the Jewish crown,
+the most priceless legacy that King David left.
+A perfect beauty is more to be desired than the
+riches of a kingdom. I will not give her up.
+All the good things in Israel are reserved for the
+king. Then Solomon swore by the Lord saying:
+“God do so to me and more also if Adonijah
+hath not spoken this word against his own
+life. Now therefore as the Lord liveth Adonijah
+shall be put to death this day.” What ho!
+guards, summon Benaiah, Commander of the
+Knights of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When Benaiah appeared, he bowed low before
+the throne, and, raising his right hand,
+made the occult sign of the Witches’ Sabbath.
+Then Solomon said: “Rise, O beloved of the
+king, favorite of the gods of the groves and the
+gardens. The king hath weighty matters to
+communicate to thee. It is reported that
+Adonijah, our brother, hath taken refuge at the
+shrine of that second-rate God Jehovah and
+doth cling to the horns of the altar. And behold
+all of Adonijah’s followers are devotees of
+Jehovah, while all of our partisans and all of
+you whom the king hath deigned to grace with
+official rank are devotees of Baal and Asherah.
+Now the king commandeth that you seek out
+all of those Jehovah worshippers who have
+stood by Adonijah and eliminate them from the
+problem of life. Go in and out among them and
+slay each one your father and your mother,
+your sister and your brother, if so be that they
+<span class='pageno' title='91' id='Page_91'></span>be among the rebels. Relieve them of life’s
+burdens. Do not be harsh with them, show
+them our royal mercy, shove them gently
+through the gates of Hell, cutting them with
+saws and with harrows of iron and with axes,
+emulating the clemency of our royal father, the
+bandit chief. As for Adonijah, fall upon him
+and slay him as he clings to the horns of the
+altar. It is true that the altar of a god is sacred
+ground and a refuge as a general proposition,
+but general propositions do not apply to the
+king, the king is above the law. What do I
+care for these imaginary gods, they are all right
+to scare children with, but they cut no ice with
+your Solomon.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Solomon sat in all his glory upon the great
+throne of ivory and gold, flanked by the twelve
+brazen lions of the zodiac, and the Knights of
+the Mystic Shrine of Asherah in dazzling regalia
+guarded the beloved of the Lord. Around
+the throne, with naked swords and the three
+hundred golden shields, stood the Princes of the
+Tribes of Israel, as the rays of the setting sun,
+reflected from the jeweled walls of cedar and
+gold, bathed in dazzling light the royal panoplies
+of blue and purple and crimson.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>And King Solomon’s sacred, hermaphrodite
+Billygoat, in trappings of purple and gold,
+wearing ribbons on his horns and ribbons on
+his tail, stood beside the golden throne with his
+revered back to the audience in accordance with
+the law in such case made and provided. And
+he informed the King in no uncertain words
+that he did not propose to be the goat any longer,
+that the Knights of the Mystic Shrine of
+Asherah, that had been assigned as priests to
+serve him, one of the highest gods, drank up all
+the wine sacrificed to him, and thus prevented
+him from getting as full as a goat, as required
+<span class='pageno' title='92' id='Page_92'></span>by the tenets of his religion. And further,
+they did not give him exercise enough, they
+called him Baphomet and Devil and other hard
+names and took him up out of the pit for a walk
+around the town only once a month, at dead
+of night, in the dark of the moon, when Hell
+yawns, and the graves give up their dead. Upon
+the conclusion of this divine oration, the whole
+audience crawled on their hands and knees up
+the steps of the golden throne and devoutly
+kissed the back of Baphomet, as we kiss the
+male and female emblems on the Pax.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>This pious ceremony being completed, the
+Great King, raising the royal sceptre, summoned
+to his exalted presence the Commander of
+the Knights of the Mystic Shrine of Asherah
+and said: “While you, Benaiah, my faithful
+servant, go and kill Adonijah, my well beloved
+brother, I will hie me to my devotions, for I
+can see that at the mystic shrine on yonder
+hilltop, the luscious Asherah is yearning for me.
+My adored, my most beautiful, my ravishing
+one stands in the open door of the pagoda, the
+beautiful gate ajar, stands there in all her pristine
+loveliness, a beauty unadorned, young and
+plump and enchanting. See that innocent radiant
+face beaming with loving kindness, perfect
+in every feature, see that form divine, of which
+the gods in Heaven do envy me. She is my
+favorite nun, the incarnation of the Divine
+Asherah, and she is calling me to prayer. See
+her beckoning me over with that sweet hand,
+that angel hand that holds me, the King of the
+Earth and Sea, a willing slave in its gentle grasp.
+She says the door is open wide, and all who will
+may enter in, and no one is denied.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Then while Benaiah slew Adonijah as he
+clung to the horns of the altar, Solomon and his
+court in gorgeous array, decked in purple and
+<span class='pageno' title='93' id='Page_93'></span>fine linen and blazing with jewels rare and gold to
+burn, marched in one grand pageant from the
+house of cedar and gold, out through the Golden
+Gate, to the high place of Asherah. When they
+reached the oval, foliated door between the two
+great pillars of Baal, beneath the blazing, golden
+dome of Asher, supported by the circle of monoliths
+or twelve zodiacal redeemers, they bowed
+low before the open portal and crossed themselves,
+and by thus drawing upon their bodies
+the male symbol, they became themselves male
+emblems and worthy to enter in, and a worthy
+offering to a female divinity.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The dazzling beauty who stood in the door
+of the pagoda then ran and threw herself into
+the arms of the king. He folded her pink and
+white form to his royal breast and impressed
+upon her ruby lips a long and loving caress, saying:
+“My divine one, my goddess, my life, my
+all, God is love, I know, I feel. Thou art the
+only angel e’er worshipped by Solomon the
+Magnificent. Thy lips are like the roses, like
+the sweet-scented, dew-bediamond roses in the
+royal gardens of Judea. Thine eyes are fathomless
+wells of priceless love, at which I drink till
+my soul is drunk and reels in its maddened delirium.
+Thy flesh is like the lilies of the valley,
+pure and white, meet vessel for a soul so true,
+white as the lilies of Asherah, white as the column
+of Baal, indeed so tempting and plump
+and luscious, that in thy divine and radiant
+neck I fain would bite the name of the King of
+the Earth and the Sea.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Solomon offered one thousand burnt offerings
+in the great high place of Gibeon,” a
+brothel, where they worshipped the pillar and
+the grove.—1 Kings: 3-4. “And they set them
+up pillars and Asherim upon every high hill
+and under every green tree.”—2 Kings, 17-10.
+<span class='pageno' title='94' id='Page_94'></span>“Solomon loved the Lord, and the Lord loved
+Solomon.” They formed a mutual admiration
+society, and in Gibeon the Lord said to Solomon:
+“Ask what I shall give thee.” And “Solomon
+built a high place before Jerusalem at the Mount
+of Corruption (Mount of Olives) dedicated to
+Ashtoreth,” now replaced by the Church of the
+Ascension, erected over the footprint made by
+Christ in the rock when he jumped from the
+earth to Alcyone. The Bible says that Ashtoreth
+was the abomination of the Sidonians, but
+it happens that Asher, one of the aliases of the
+Hebrew god, was the husband of Ashtoreth.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The secret and mysterious name of the
+supreme God of the Hebrews, the Ancient of
+Ancients, was Eh Ei Eh, pronounced in three
+breaths, with hand to ear and the name at low
+breath. This is the name that was engraved
+on the great seal of Solomon, wherewith he
+conjured up demons from the abyss, for he
+was a potent wizard. By virtue of this great
+name and by rubbing the seal, Solomon became
+Lord of the Demons, and Beelzebub, at the
+mighty summons, would bob up serenely and
+obey the behests of the king. Solomon soared
+into the celestial altitudes and mastered the
+Divine secrets and learned the omnipotent
+words which constitute all the power of God
+over the demons. He penetrated into the
+remotest haunts of the spirits, whom he bound
+and forced them to obey him by the power of
+his clavicle (Key). He tells in the Key of Solomon
+the true composition of, with directions
+for making the dreadful blasting rod which
+causes the spirits to tremble, and which was
+used by God in driving Adam and Eve out of
+the Garden, and which he also used in casting
+the devils out of Heaven.—Book of Black Magic,
+83.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='95' id='Page_95'></span>Ashmedai, King of the Demons, and a
+great mason, collaborated with Solomon, Hiram
+of Tyre and Hiram Abiff in building the Temple.
+He was the one who fashioned the stones without
+the sound of hammer by means of an insect
+he had, called the Shameer, the same that Moses
+used in cutting the precious stones of the Ephod.
+The spirits evoked by Solomon said that Ashmedai
+had the Shameer, and they gave him the
+location of Ashmedai’s water-hole in the mountains,
+where he went to drink. Benaiah then
+went out and filled the water-hole with liquor
+and laid in wait near by. The demon came and
+drank the liquor, and when he was drunk, Benaiah
+bound him with a ring and a chain, on
+which was the name of God, so that he could
+not break it. Thus Solomon captured the
+demon and compelled him to call up Shameer,
+the insect stone-cutter, and prepare all the
+stones of the Temple.—Talmud Gittin, fol. 68,
+col. 1.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>This jolly quartette of pagan and infernal
+pals, assisted by the masonic bug, in laying the
+foundation of the Temple, seized upon a hewer
+of wood and cut his throat and caught the blood
+in a vessel. After sprinkling the corner stone
+with the blood, they placed the vessel of human
+gore inside the stone and buried the body of the
+human sacrifice beneath it, that his spirit might
+guard the Temple and preserve it as long as
+grass grows and water runs. Then they danced
+around the stone the Dance of Death, or the
+dance of the Maccabees.</p>
+
+<h3 class='c012'>King Solomon’s Signal of Distress.</h3>
+
+<p class='c011'>One day King Solomon, being bored about
+to death, and finding that all was vanity and
+vexation of spirit, wrote to his friend Manus,
+high priest of Baal, something as follows:</p>
+
+<div class='c013'><span class='pageno' title='96' id='Page_96'></span>Jerusalem, 20th Nisan. A. M. 3000.</div>
+<p class='c014'>To His Eminence the High Priest of Baal,
+beloved of the Lord and the Devil, Grand
+High Potentate of the Knights of Kadish,
+Beloved Minister of the Holy of Holies, the
+sacred Grove of Asherah.</p>
+
+<p class='c015'>Behold the Great King Solomon, Lord
+of the Earth and the Sea, Patron of God Almighty,
+Imperial Potentate of the Imperial
+Divan of Ashtoreth, Grand High Mucky-Muck
+and Past Grand Master of the Phallic Cult.</p>
+
+<p class='c015'>Sends Greeting. And doth herein represent
+that he hasn’t a thing in the way of nice girls,
+only but just a thousand old hens that were
+passé in three days after their respective inauspicious
+arrivals, and the heart of the Great
+King doth yearn for a vision of youth and beauty
+from the corn fields of Bethlehem. If thou
+wouldst save the King’s life, get a move on and
+corral a fair virgin, with golden hair and eyes of
+blue, for verily a brunette doth make the King
+tired. The King recommendeth thee to bring
+the fair one to the back door of the palace, at
+the entering-in of the woodshed, for behold the
+thousand old hens have two thousand eyes, and
+each eye is jealous of your unhappy Solomon.
+Verily, they are determined that we shall not
+have a thing that is fresh and fair to look upon.
+They are a lot of old cats, and we pray thee to
+promulgate a feast to Moloch and Baal, and
+announce to the multitude that seven hundred
+back-number princesses and three hundred fat
+old concubines have been devoted, and will
+be passed through the fire to Moloch and Baal,
+and will be basted and roasted to a turn and
+served to the people with the gravy oozing
+out. May the blessings of the Great Gods Ashtoreth,
+Chemoth and Baal be with thee and thine.</p>
+
+<div class='c016'>Yours fraternally,      SOLOMON.</div>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='97' id='Page_97'></span>One night King Solomon, together with his
+two old cronies, Hiram of Tyre and Hiram Abiff,
+went a-hunting in Jerusalem, which at that
+period was a noted sporting resort, abounding in
+all kinds of game. At length they caught a coon
+near the North Gate, at the high place of Asher,
+where were worshipped the images of the male,
+and took her to the king’s palace. She says
+(Sol. Song, 1-4): “The King hath brought me
+into his chambers.” Having reached the King’s
+apartments, Solomon said to Hiram of Tyre:
+“Wouldst thy Majesty kindly rush the duck?
+Thou wilt find the can behind the throne. And
+thou Abiff, wilt thou be so good as to go out in
+the woodshed and play tag with thyself for a
+season and half a season, while I pass the salve to
+this colored lady?”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Having got rid of the crowd, Solomon says:
+“Behold thou art fair my love, thou hast dove’s
+eyes. Thy nose is like unto the Tower of Lebanon
+that looketh toward Damascus, and the
+beautiful hump in the centre thereof is like
+unto that of a camel, that wabbleth ever this
+way and that.” And the buxom nigger wench,
+pouting her ruby, liver lips, replies: “Kiss me
+with the kisses of thy mouth, for thy love is
+better than wine. Because of the savor of thy
+good ointments, which counteract the Jewish
+odor diligently collected since thy last annual
+bath, therefore do the virgins love thee. I am
+black, but comely. I am not a nigger, but only
+tanned. They made me the keeper of vineyards,
+(deleted by the censor). Place thy left
+hand beneath my head, and thy right hand shall
+embrace me, (deleted by the censor). My beloved
+is mine, and I am his, a bundle of myrrh
+is my well-beloved unto me.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>During the tête-à-tête, the captivating
+beauty was absent-mindedly picking the Tower
+<span class='pageno' title='98' id='Page_98'></span>of Lebanon, when Solomon said: “Knowest
+thou not that our laws prohibit the touching of
+the unwashed fingers to the nose, mouth or eyes.
+The Talmud says: ‘The evil spirit Bath
+Chorin rests upon the hands at night and will
+not depart until water is poured upon him three
+times over.’ That fairy tale is for the ignorant
+rabble. You and I have the gnosis. Some of
+the prophets say that the worship of Asherah,
+in which we indulge, is reprehensible, but who
+fashioned the first Grove among us? Ask them
+that.” In Jasher, 27-27, it is said that Abraham
+formed at Beersheba a Grove, and that he practiced
+all kinds of abominations. He gave to his
+seventeen children by Katurah charms by which
+they could exorcise spirits and perform all sorts
+of miracles in the black art.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When King Hiram returned with the booze,
+anticipating a jolly orgy with the wise one, he
+pounded loudly on the door of the King’s chamber.
+Solomon, being busy, petulantly said:
+“Get thee hence Hiram, or I will have the cop
+run thee in.” Then King Hiram was exceeding
+wroth, and threatened to make war on Solomon
+and come up to Jerusalem with one hundred
+thousand warriors and take the fair colored
+charmer away from the seductive Jewish King.
+Then Solomon replied: “Chase thyself back,
+Hiram, to besotted Tyre and make love to that
+great pillar, which, with much pomp and ceremony,
+thou hast recently erected there, and
+which thou dost salute with the holy kiss every
+morning at sunrise.”</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='99' id='Page_99'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XVI.<br /> <br /><b>The Mystic Societies.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>Pope Pius IX was accused of saying: “Damn
+the clandestine societies.” Oh, My! such
+shocking language, and so unjust too, for these
+quasi-religious societies, even like certain churches,
+were anciently faithful devotees of, and expert
+manipulators of the mystic symbols.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Dr. Dalcho, a Masonic writer, asserts:
+“God was the first Grand Master and Adam the
+second.” And Adam initiated Eve into the
+profound and archaic mystery of the square and
+the eye.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It may be interesting to know what they
+did at the Witches’ Sabbath and the meetings
+of the ancient mystic societies. They murdered
+their christ, that is what they did, and the
+Christians have always charged that they offered
+up human sacrifices. I should judge
+from the ritual of the Masons that it originated
+in the sacrifice of a human being, that in ancient
+times human beings were sacrificed in the mystic
+societies, from some of which, perhaps, Masonry
+descended. Here are extracts from an
+old ritual as near as the author can decipher
+them, not guaranteeing that they are correct:</p>
+
+<h3 class='c012'>Opening a Lodge of Entered Apprentices.</h3>
+
+<p class='c011'>Sen. War.: “Brother, the lambskin in all ages
+has been considered an emblem of purity.” This
+lambskin is the skin of the Lamb of God. It is
+worn on the stomach for occult reasons. The female
+emblem, the Eye, is stamped upon it for the
+<span class='pageno' title='100' id='Page_100'></span>same occult reasons. The mystic societies, sun-worshippers
+and Jews were anciently devotees of
+the lamb as well as the cow. They sacrificed him
+and adorned themselves with his skin as a saving
+rite. The Ram is identical with the god Priapus.
+You remember that Saul sent David out to gather
+one hundred Philistine mementos to put in the
+Ark of the Covenant. These mementos and the
+lambskin are of equal efficacy, both being relics of
+the crucifixion.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When christ came in the sign of Capricorn,
+he came as the goat. At the celebration of
+Lupercalia in Rome, they sacrificed the goat
+christ. Two young men are chosen, and the dagger,
+or Signa Tau, or the Mark of the Living God,
+is drawn in blood in their foreheads. Then they
+cut the goatskin into thongs and run about lashing
+all they meet. “The young wives like to be
+lashed, fancying that it will make them fruitful.”
+“The Jews in Jereboam’s time had priests for
+the service of their divinities, the sacred billy-goats.”—Plutarch,
+1-78. The religious sorcerers,
+who sought to invoke demons, formed their magic
+circle with strips of goatskin nailed to the ground
+with four nails from the coffin of a dead child. As
+the circle was made of the skin of christ, the
+demons dare not pass it to attack the sorcerer.
+This is the circle of the Kabalists, of which King
+Solomon was the Most Worshipful, Sublime and
+Exalted Phalatz.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the ritual ascribed to Pope Honorius, the
+method of raising the Devil was by sacrificing
+a black cock, which is an emblem of Christ. The
+eyes, tongue and heart are torn out and burnt
+to ashes. These are religious symbols and
+objects of adoration. The sorcerer also sacrifices
+a lamb, and places the ashes of the eye,
+the tongue and the heart on the lambskin.
+He prays to Jesus that the lambskin, with the
+<span class='pageno' title='101' id='Page_101'></span>signs thereon, may save him from the wiles of
+the demons, that they may be terrified by the
+sight of these figures. This, I think, is the
+origin of the figures on the Mason’s lambskin.
+This ritual provided that the eye, the cross
+and the moon should be drawn on the lambskin.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Fellowcraft degree of the ritual,
+when the candidate has stuck the heel of his
+right foot in the hollow of the left, which is a
+sacred mystic rite that will save your immortal
+soul from Hell, the Sen. War. says: “You will
+now show the Worshipful Master the Degree
+Gag (?) and sign of an Entered Apprentice,
+and when you step forward, place the heel of
+your left foot in the hollow of the right. You
+will now advance with me to the altar. You
+are now to be made a Fellowcraft in due form.
+You will now bare your left foot and side and
+your breast expose. You now receive the
+mark of the square on the breast.” The Tau
+Cross, a symbol of identical significance with
+the square, was used in the Bacchic and Eleusinian
+Mysteries. It was laid upon the breast
+of the initiate to cause him to be born again.
+The square is the Egyptian Ka, the idol worshipped
+by the savages in the temples of darkest
+Africa, and which is also worshipped in the
+Kaaba at Mecca. Ka, Kaaba, abba, father,
+papa and pope all have the same meaning. See
+“Kaaba” Stand. Dic.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the initiation the candidate was allowed
+to play that he was Hiram Abiff. He was
+conducted around the circle of the zodiac from
+one door of the Temple to another and encountered
+three of the beasts of the four cardinal
+points, that is, the gentlemen who played the
+parts of the beasts in the heavenly drama.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>First Right. Master: Hiram, give me the
+sign of a Master Mason.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='102' id='Page_102'></span>Sen. Dea.: Candidate, the sign cannot
+be given except in the presence of three, Solomon,
+King of Israel, Hiram, King of Tyre, &amp;c.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Master: For the second time I demand of
+you the sign of a Master Mason.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sen. Dea.: You cannot have that.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Master: Hiram, for the third and last
+time I demand of you the sign of a Master
+Mason. Give it to me, or I will take your life.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sen. Dea.: You shall not have that (but
+the candidate can have this, and he hits him
+on the head with the 24-inch gauge, in the play,
+as near as I can make out.)</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>At the Second Right, the Master makes
+the same demands.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sen. Dea.: You shall not have that. Blow
+with the square (on the head of the candidate,
+I presume, but as he is still alive, he is conducted
+to the beast at the third door.)</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Third Right: The Master repeats the
+same demands.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sen. Dea.: Lord of Darkness (who is
+about to kill the sun-christ in the west) you
+shall not have that.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Third Right: Damn thee take that, blow
+with gavel on forehead, (and the candidate or
+human sacrifice falls dead, in the play.)</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Second Right: We have slain our Grand
+Master Hiram.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Third Right: What shall we do with the
+body?... Let us carry it a due West
+course from the Temple (because the crucified
+sun is buried in the west) and bury it in a grave
+sunk due East and West.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Master: Brother Sen. War. What is the
+commotion?</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sen. War.: Our Grand Master Hiram is
+assassinated.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Master: How was he assassinated?</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='103' id='Page_103'></span>Sen. War.: By the Brothers at the door of
+the Temple.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Master: Our Grand Master Hiram may
+be ill. You will cause search to be made for him
+in the secret antichambers of the Temple and
+see if he can be found.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Sen. War.: Search has been made, Worshipful,
+and he cannot be found.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the Egyptian religion Souphis
+Khunfu Nefer Hept, Lord of the Underworld,
+murdered the Great Architect. The victim,
+whether he be called the Great Architect, or
+Hiram, or Adonis, or Horus, or Christ is always
+and ever the setting sun murdered by the darkness,
+or Prince of Darkness, called Sat in Egypt
+and Satan with us. The sacrifice of Hiram
+Abiff is one form of the Passion Play.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A Masonic society, established in China
+from the earliest times, is called Our Ladyship’s
+Society and the Queen of Heaven Society. In
+the Chinese society the candidate is made to
+pass through the arch of swords. He could not
+be born again or come forth into the light unless
+he passed through the door of life and came
+out of the cave. The Chinese god Fo was born
+of a virgin impregnated by a ray of the sun, as
+shown in Christian pictures of Mary. In the
+Indian Mysteries three hierophants sit in the
+East and the West and the South. After an
+invocation to the sun, the candidate is baptized,
+his shoes taken away from him, and he
+is made to circumnavigate the cavern three
+times with the sun. He is conducted through
+seven dark caverns and assailed by legions of
+hobgoblins. The victim slaughtered is called
+Siva, and the lamentations of Maya for the
+death of Siva correspond to the weeping of Mary
+at the tomb of Christ. The sword was aimed
+at the throat of the candidate by the Evil One,
+<span class='pageno' title='104' id='Page_104'></span>but he was brought forth at last into the light.
+The Eye was marked on his forehead and the
+Tau Cross on his breast. He was presented
+with the sacred girdle or apron, the magical
+stone and the talismanic jewel for the breast.—Isis
+Unveiled.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the Mysteries of Aphrodite, a male emblem
+is handed to the initiate, and those initiated
+bring a piece of money to her as her hire.
+Demeter, of the Eleusinian Mysteries, is identical
+with Mary, and Clement says that he knows
+not whether she is the mother or wife of the god
+Zeus or Deus. This god is a serpent. The
+token of the Sabazian Mysteries is this serpent
+god gliding over the human breast. The offspring
+of the rape of Proserpine (Mary) by this
+god was christ, the bull.—Clement 1-29. If
+you wish to know what foul things were kept in
+the Ark of the Covenant, see Clement 1-31.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the Egyptian Book of the
+Dead, in the judgment in Amenti, or the Lower
+World, the deceased or candidate for Heaven is
+given the name of Osiris, and he is tried before
+the supreme god Osiris and forty other deities
+or beasts. An altar stands before the supreme
+god on which is placed the bribes offered by the
+soul to god. The forty-two deities are the
+judges of the forty-two sins. One is called the
+Devourer of Shades, another the Cracker of
+Bones, and another the Eater of Hearts. If the
+soul denies that he has committed the forty-two
+sins, the judges must acquit him, but if he is
+convicted of being a land-grabber, he cannot
+get by, as the priests propose to attend to all
+that business themselves. In the Christian
+Judgment, the judges will be the confessors,
+monks and virgins.—The Elucidarium.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The Buddhist novice, like the Freemasons,
+is forced to bare his shoulder and breast and
+<span class='pageno' title='105' id='Page_105'></span>give up his money and bare his feet, in fact to
+simulate the vows of poverty, chastity and
+obedience of the Buddhist.”—Buddha &amp; Early
+Buddhism, 136.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In Lalita Vistara, Buddha is called the
+Great Physician, and at his appearance the sick
+are healed, the deaf are cured, the blind see. He
+cures by the laying on of hands or mesmerism.
+Akasa, the mesmeric fluid or the astral light,
+and the Spirit of God are one in the East. Buddha
+was born of a virgin, presented in the Temple,
+disputed with the doctors, was tempted in the
+wilderness, passed his life in preaching and
+working miracles, and descended into Hell and
+ascended into Heaven.—Idem, 80.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Heaven was also calmly purloined from
+Buddhism. The Buddhist heaven is the city
+four square of John, with the gates of gold and
+silver, adorned with precious stones. The great
+throne of God stands in the centre thereof by the
+gem lake or crystal sea, by which stands the Tree
+of Life or Tree of Infamy. The Buddhist religion
+is wholly phallic. See Book of All Religions, 86.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If you read the life of Buddha in the Ency.
+Brit. you will find that it is almost identical
+with the life of Christ. In any Chinese store
+you can buy an idol of Buddha, who, like Christ,
+is the god of life, bringing us life and life yet
+more abundantly. He wears a fish skin for a
+miter, showing that he is the fish god, and on
+his divine and radiant forehead is the Eye, and
+on his stomach, between his clasped hands, is the
+sacred Tree of Life. These divine secrets should
+not be disclosed to the uninitiated, but, to tell
+the truth, I am convinced that this is the origin
+of the hermaphrodite abdominal Eye, worn and
+revered by all the great and good men from the
+time our religion found its birth in the foul sties
+of India down to the immortal Washington.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='106' id='Page_106'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XVII.<br /> <br /><b>Revelations.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>If you do not believe that all the beasts of
+the zodiac bear rule in Heaven, read Revelations
+with your eyes open. The Ram is the Grand
+Vizier. The Bull is also there, with eyes before
+and behind, and the Lion and the Man, the
+Waterman, in fact the four beasts of the four
+cardinal points of the zodiac.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Ch. 1, v 7, says: “Behold he cometh with
+clouds.” It is evident from Revelations that
+Christ is one of the seven Buddhas who came at
+the end of each cycle, and the seven were one,
+and that one was the sun in the heavens. Budhi
+means the Word, one of our beloved idols.
+“I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last,”
+that is, he is the same God that came at first as
+Adam and last as the Lamb of God. It is claimed
+that the Revelations were stolen and the
+original was written before the Fish God came.
+In verse 12, John saw seven golden candle-sticks,
+typifying the seven christs or lights of
+the world, “and one of the seven was like unto
+the Son of Man.” The Persian fire god Agni is
+called the Son of Man, and it is claimed that
+John got the Revelations from the Persians.
+In the Clementines St. Clement says: “Christ,
+it is said, has changed his forms and names from
+the beginning of the world.”—Clement, cap. 51.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Verse 18 says: “I am he that liveth and
+was dead,” that is, the sun that was crucified
+annually at the winter solstice, when it stood
+still for three days, or remained in the tomb
+<span class='pageno' title='107' id='Page_107'></span>three days, and was reborn on the 25th of
+December. “And have the keys of death and
+Hell.” The christ that was crucified in the
+west, according to the Egyptian religion, was
+Judge of the Underworld and carried the keys
+and descended into Hell when the sun went
+down. They were the keys of Hell, not Heaven,
+that were transmitted to St. Peter.</p>
+
+<hr class='c017' />
+
+<p class='c009'>Ch. 2, v 7 says: “To him that overcometh
+will I give to eat of the tree of life,” which
+being interpreted means that the successful candidate
+or worthy brother will be permitted to
+eat the male emblem. Verse 17 says: “To
+him that overcometh will I give to eat of the
+hidden manna,” which is a small round cake or
+wafer in the Mithraic Mysteries, representing
+the female emblem. In these Mysteries they
+killed a lamb or bull christ and sprinkled the
+candidate with its blood, as we drink the blood
+of Christ and eat his flesh in the depths of our
+beastial ignorance, superstition and depravity.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“And will give him a white stone, and in
+the stone a new name written, the Word, which
+no man knoweth save him that receiveth it.”
+This stone is the symbol of Siva, and the new
+name is Ling, the secret, the Sanscrit name of
+the Word. St. Clemens says: “It is difficult
+to exhibit the pure and transparent Word to
+swinish hearers. (All are swine except the
+priests and ministers.) For nothing they could
+hear would be more ludicrous to the multitude.
+The truly sacred Word is deposited in the
+shrine (Monstrance). It is improper that these
+emblems should be exposed to those who have
+never been purified in soul. The Mysteries
+were established because it was wise that the
+holy and blessed contemplation of realities
+be concealed.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='108' id='Page_108'></span>In Ch. 4, v 3, the four beasts and the
+four and twenty elders, the angels and saints
+and all the other vermin in Heaven fall down and
+knock their foreheads on the ground, groveling
+in abject baseness, servility and degradation before
+the sardine stone or pillar that sits on the throne
+in the royal arch of the rainbow, and before the
+beast, (the bull). This lovely pillar is worshipped
+throughout India. You will find the above
+scene and this foul worship depicted in Inman’s A.
+P. &amp; M. C. Symbolism, Plate XIX. John has
+set a foul pagan idol on the throne of Heaven.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Ch. 12, v 1. The woman clothed with the
+sun and the moon under her feet, with a crown of
+twelve stars, is Mary, the moon goddess, the wife
+of the sun-god, and the crown of twelve stars are
+the twelve christs that she bore, or that crowned
+her labors in the twelve signs of the zodiac. The
+dragon that waited to devour the child is called
+Herod in the other story of Mary and Jesus. In
+the Hindu myth, from which this is copied, the woman
+fled to the wilderness, as Mary fled to Egypt.
+According to another astronomical legend, when
+the sun-god is born on the 25th of December, old
+King Sagittarius, the Archer or Herod, who lives
+in the next house (November), tries to kill the Son
+of God with the arrow of death.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>If you refer to an astronomical chart, you
+will see depicted there all the gods that ever existed.
+In the first sign, Leo, is the Lion of the
+Tribe of Judah, the christ that came in the Golden
+Age, 12,934 years ago, a Jew god, that would not
+do a thing to you but rend you and steal your
+shirt.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the sign of Gemini you see the Twins, or
+Castor and Pollux, or Cain and Abel, or Romulus
+and Remus, or Solomon and Adonijah, or Jacob
+and Esau. Cain has a club in his hand, with
+which he kills his brother god, as Romulus killed
+<span class='pageno' title='109' id='Page_109'></span>Remus and Solomon killed Adonijah. In the
+sign of Taurus, you will see Auriga, a Mystic
+of high degree kissing the goat, and Orion,
+the Lord of Darkness, killing the bull christ.
+And there is the triangle of seven stars that
+Christ held in his hand. This is the solar system
+of the Pleiades, of which the great star Alcyone is
+the sun, and around which the whole universe revolves.
+It is the Kingdom of Heaven and the
+home of god and his sons Jesus and the Devil.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the sign of Aries, you see the Lamb of God
+and the christ Perseus, who has just amputated
+the Medusa’s head and destroyed the serpents of
+which the hair was composed. In the next sign of
+Pisces is the beautiful Andromeda (mother of men),
+or Mary, bearing the fish-god, the Son of Man,
+under her arm, as Isis bears it on her head. In
+the sign of Scorpio, you will see Christ or Orpheus
+overcoming the Great Serpent. And another
+christ, Hercules by name, holds a club in one
+hand and two serpents in the other, to whom, as
+representing the Devil or the infernal god Cerberus,
+he is about to administer, in the classic
+language of modern ministers, a good wallop.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“When the sun shall have passed through the
+sign of Virgo, the Great Cycle of 25,868 years
+will be ended. The sun then enters the sign
+of Leo, and this junction of Virgo and Leo, this
+secret of the Great Cycle, is expressed in the
+Sphinx of Egypt, the woman and the lion conjoined.
+This is the mystery of the ages, the
+pillar on the border of Egypt, which shall be
+for a sign and a testimony.”—Daughter of the
+Druids, 276. It is said that in that great Day
+Draconis will again be the pole star, and the great
+pyramid is so constructed that at the end of the
+Great Year the light from Draconis will again
+shine through the passage in the pyramid that
+<span class='pageno' title='110' id='Page_110'></span>leads to the Bottomless Pit, or the dragon will be
+cast into the Bottomless Pit.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the sign of Virgo is the Virgin Mary, the
+mother of all the gods, and the Great Serpent
+will be seen waiting there for her to deliver
+another god for his consumption. Ch. 5, v 1,
+says that the book was sealed with seven seals,
+corresponding with the seven comings or avatars
+of Christ, when the book was opened or the word
+was preached. When the first seal was opened,
+Christ appeared as Sagittarius, the Archer.
+“And behold a white horse and he that sat on
+him had a bow.” When he had opened the
+third seal, behold a black horse, and he that sat
+thereon had a pair of balances in his hand. This
+is the Christ that came in the sign of Libra or the
+Scales, who weighed them in the balance and
+found them wanting.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Ch. 4, v 6. The four beasts referred to are
+the four hieroglyphic beasts of the priests and
+magicians, which they placed on the playing
+cards of Egypt, the lion, the bull, the man and the
+eagle. They are zodiacal gods and sit in the
+North, the East, the South and the West respectively.
+The churches declare truly that a pack of
+cards is the Devil’s book. Cards were invented by
+the priests, and they are reeking with sacred, occult
+and religious emblems. The pack is composed of
+four sets of ten. Ten is a Kabalistic sacred
+number, for there are ten persons in the Hebrew
+Godhead, and 10 or IO is the name of God. Then
+there are the four beasts or aces, and the Trinity
+is represented by the king, queen, and jack. The
+clubs, or the three sacred balls of the Jews, are the
+symbol of the male god and the Trinity. Any
+deeper meaning can only be disclosed to the initiated.
+The heart is the cup or chalice or Eye of
+Isis, the symbol of love. The queen of hearts is
+clothed with the sun and moon, and she is Mary,
+<span class='pageno' title='111' id='Page_111'></span>the Queen of Heaven. The Queen of spades holds
+in her left hand the sacred candle, and she is
+adorned with another male emblem, the fleur de
+lys, and in her right hand is the flower of Isis, a
+female emblem, the same as the circles and
+rosaries with which she is also decorated. The
+seven circles are the emblems of the seven joys
+that Mary had. The twelve precious stones in
+the jewel on her breast correspond with the twelve
+christs she bore and the twelve jewels in the
+Ephod of the high priest.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The jack of hearts carries the male emblem
+in his hand and the three links are on his belt to
+show that he is an Oddfellow in good standing. The
+jack of spades holds up the three links, and the
+spade itself is a patent, combination, hermaphrodite,
+religious emblem of sufficient magic potency
+to save from the pains of Tophet all who gaze
+upon its sacred and occult form. The king of
+hearts performs the occult and saving rite of
+putting the sword or cross through the crown.
+This crown is adorned with shamrocks, and on
+his coat he wears the seven hearts or chalices.
+He belongs to the zodiacal sign of the Lion, and
+this is the heart sign, and in it is found the constellation
+of the Chalice. And he holds his hand
+on his breast like Buddha to show that he is a
+Mason in due form.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Rev. 7-4. The angel seals in their foreheads
+144,000 Jews with the Signa Tau or Word, the
+signet of the Living God. The devotees of Siva
+also wear this Tree of Infamy on their foreheads.
+John says that it is the Father’s name written
+in the forehead. Only those sealed with this
+Baum Bosheth can sit with Abraham, Isaac and
+Jacob and the other beasts around the Throne.
+All but the 144,000 Jews can go to Hell. The
+priests draw the cross or Signa Tau in ashes on
+<span class='pageno' title='112' id='Page_112'></span>the foreheads of their devotees every Ash Wednesday.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Rev. 16-12. And the sixth angel poured
+out his vial upon the earth, and I saw three unclean
+spirits, like frogs, come out of the mouth of
+the Dragon and out of the mouth of the beast.
+For they are the spirits of devils which go forth
+unto the kings of the earth to gather them to the
+great day of God Almighty. The sixth angel is
+the angel of the sixth sign of the zodiac, our present
+sign, the Waterman, and the nations of the
+earth are now fighting the battles of Armageddon.
+We are now at the end of a Great Cycle. The
+end of the world has come according to the astrological
+and theological fakirs, and the inhabitants
+of the earth are again being destroyed, this time
+by fire and sword. Christ now comes to bring a
+sword upon the earth.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the Christians, all the nations
+engaged in the war, save two, march forth
+under the banner and protection of Jehovah,
+the God of Battles, and he divides himself
+into two persons and, perched upon two
+clouds, commands the two contending hosts,
+urging them on to kill each other. After this
+holocaust of blood and carnage, there will be found
+no fool so utter as to assert that God rules the
+destinies of mankind.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='113' id='Page_113'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XVIII.<br /> <br /><b>The Clergy.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>The Presbyterian clergy or sorcerers of
+Scotland, of old times, claimed that they could
+consign their deluded victims to Heaven or Hell
+by a word, and could by their magic power
+strike with death any enemy of God, that is,
+the clergy. They would not allow anyone to
+remain in town who failed to go and hear their
+sermons. Buckle says the clergy kept the people
+in a worse than Egyptian bondage, inasmuch as
+they enslaved mind as well as body.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“John Knox sanctioned the murder of the
+Roman Archbishop Beaton of Scotland in 1548,
+and shut himself up with the assassins in the
+palace of the Archbishop. When the Catholic
+power was destroyed in Scotland by the nobles
+in 1560 and the church property confiscated by
+them, the Protestant clergy claimed that it was
+impious to secularize ecclesiastical property, and
+that they should be endowed with the spoils of the
+war, that it was right for the Lords to plunder the
+Church of Rome, but the loot should be turned
+over to them. They said that what rightly belonged
+to them was devoured by idle bellies.
+The Presbyterian clergy said that King James
+was a traitor and had seven devils inside of him,
+and he ought to be seized. And their
+associate in crime, the Earl of Gourie, entrapped
+the King into his castle in order to murder
+him.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 2-201.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Presbyterian clergy said that cheerfulness
+was to be guarded against. Smiling, provided
+<span class='pageno' title='114' id='Page_114'></span>it stopped short of laughter, might occasionally
+be allowed, still being a carnal pastime, it was a
+sin to smile on Sunday. A Christian has no
+business with love or sympathy. He has his
+own soul to attend to, that is enough for him.
+On Sunday in particular he must never think of
+benefitting others and thus break the Sabbath.
+On no occasion must food or shelter be given to
+a starving man unless he is a Presbyterian.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“In priest-ridden Spain, Charles V, the tool
+of religion, in his will provided that all heretics
+should be put to death and that the Inquisition
+should be upheld. Under his orders, according
+to Grotius, 100,000 persons were beheaded,
+buried alive and burnt at the stake in the Netherlands.
+Phillip II, of Spain, said it was better
+not to reign at all than to reign over heretics.
+The Duke of Alva, in this reign, boasted that in
+five or six years he had put to death in cold blood
+more than 18,000 heretics, beside a still greater
+number of infidels he had slain on the battlefield.”—Idem
+2-14.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When it was proposed to expel from Spain
+the remnant of Moors remaining, who had
+turned Christians and were baptized by force,
+Bleda, the Dominican, said that every Moor in
+Spain should have his throat cut, because it was
+impossible to tell which of them were Christians
+at heart, but God knew his own and he
+could sort them out. About one million of the
+most industrious inhabitants of Spain were
+hunted out like wild beasts. Many were slain
+as they approached the coast, others were beaten
+and plundered, and the majority in the most
+wretched plight sailed for Africa. During the
+passage the crew in many of the ships butchered
+the men, ravished the women and threw the
+children into the sea. From this time Spain
+began to degenerate. The tyranny of religion
+<span class='pageno' title='115' id='Page_115'></span>was supreme. While every other country was
+advancing, Spain, numbed into a death-like
+torpor, spell-bound and entranced by the accursed
+superstition, presented to Europe a solitary
+instance of constant decay.“—Idem, 2-53.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“The French Revolution freed the world
+from ecclesiastical tyranny and opened an unobstructed
+path to Napoleon, who had given
+the death blow to the Inquisition, the great
+slaughter house, where they butchered in the
+name of the Lamb.”—Isis Unveiled, 2-22.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Brahmins, the clergy of India, were
+quite as disreputable as the others. The Institutes
+of Manu provided that if a common
+person molested a Brahmin, he was to be put to
+death. If he sat on the same carpet with a
+Brahmin, he was to be maimed for life. If he
+listened to the reading of the sacred books, burning
+oil was to be poured into his ears, and if he
+committed them to memory, he was to be killed.
+If he spoke disrespectfully of a Brahmin, an iron
+stile ten fingers long was to be thrust red-hot
+into his mouth. To give to the Brahmins or
+will them your property was an act of the highest
+piety.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The laws of the clergy in certain provinces
+of France, ruled by them in old times, provided
+that every man that died without bequeathing
+part of his estate to the church, should be deprived
+of the Sacrament (and would consequently
+go to Hell). If he died without making a
+will, his relatives were obliged to prevail upon
+the Bishop to appoint arbitrators to determine
+what sum the deceased should have given to
+the church in case he had made a will. At one
+time in France, “married couples could not sleep
+together the first three nights without purchasing
+leave of the church.”—Montesquieu’s Spirit
+of the Laws, 665.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='116' id='Page_116'></span>“Pope John XII was assassinated in the
+arms of his mistress. Crecentious, the illegitimate
+son of John X, caused Benedict VI
+to be murdered. His faction elected Boniface
+VII, and a third faction elected John XV, who
+was put to death by Boniface. We find shortly
+after 1044 Benedict IX, a boy of twelve, and
+Rholeme and Sylvester III all reigning at the
+same time, and all leading the most profligate
+and scandalous lives.”—Doubts of Infidels, 95.
+Bishop Hopkins says that “the great body of
+the clergy before the seventh century were
+steeped in licentiousness, avarice, simony, cruelty,
+violence and blood. They consecrated every
+vice in the interest of so-called religion, they
+graduated sins by pecuniary amercement, they
+commissioned assassins, having pardoned them
+before the commission of the murder.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The priests or Magi of Persia, as ecclesiastical
+bandits, were unexcelled. The people had
+to give up one tenth of their income to these
+magical fakirs. Every woman in Babylon was
+obliged to offer her person for sale one day in the
+year at the temple of Astarte, and the money
+went to the priests. The pirates of Babylon
+ransacked the world and bought or stole the
+most beautiful women on earth for the use of the
+priests, who made a pretence of offering them up
+as human sacrifices to Baal. The god held in his
+hand the appropriate symbol of the traffic, the
+circle and the pillar, that may still be seen in nearly
+all churches. The beautiful sacrifice was placed
+on the lap of the god in the presence of the audience,
+to be devoured by the lions that surrounded
+the god. But after the meeting the priests drove
+the lions out and stole the sacrifice, as priests
+always did steal the offerings from god.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Egyptian priests were the rulers of the
+whole, and owned one third the land of Egypt.
+<span class='pageno' title='117' id='Page_117'></span>Besides the princely revenue from this immense
+landed estate, they received, in addition to their
+salaries, all the offerings and sacrifices that the
+fools gave up as an atonement for sin. A very
+large part of their income was derived from the
+Bethel or Brothel maintained around the temple
+of the goddess Hathor, the cow, the wife of the
+god Ammon, which is another name for the Ram
+god or the lamb of god. Every woman in Egypt
+was obliged to sell herself for one month at this
+temple. And then, besides, there were the
+regular sacred ladies who lived constantly in the
+temple. The priests chose the most beautiful,
+then the remainder were turned over to the mob
+of pious dupes and devotees. The young lady
+who earned the most money for the priests
+was, in the after life, assigned by Osiris, alias
+Yahvah, to a seat beside the Golden Throne.
+This rotten pagan church subsequently changed
+its name to Christian.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Calvin, the blood-drenched, the fiend incarnate,
+one of the founders of the Protestant
+Churches, compelled his lady parishioners to
+confess on the rack their indiscretions, and then
+threw them naked into the lake and drowned
+them. He hanged a child for cursing its parents,
+burned old women as witches, and burned alive
+Michael Servetus for contradicting Moses in
+asserting that Palestine was a desert that did
+not flow with milk and honey. Calvin died in
+convulsions of fear, raving and cursing because
+he thought he was going to Hell.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Oliver Cromwell, the pious Puritan, the
+murder demon, the regicide, the usurper, with
+the Bible in one hand and the sword in the other,
+rode at the head of his army of religious fanatics
+singing psalms. This sanctified Christian, upon
+the capture of Drogheda, Ireland, himself reported
+to Parliament that he massacred two thousand
+<span class='pageno' title='118' id='Page_118'></span>of the garrison. He fired St. Peter’s
+Church, to which the people had fled, and put
+a thousand of them to the sword. All the friars
+were killed but two. And the likes of him settled
+Boston and robbed and murdered the Indians.
+One of these Puritan buccaneers, named Will
+Bartlett, in Boston, in 1637, was sentenced
+to be set in the stocks, with his tongue in a cleft
+stick, because he got drunk and cussed and swore
+and refused to go to church on Sunday.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In those blithesome days a citizen could not
+vote unless he belonged to the Congregational
+Church and kissed the big toe of Cotton Mather,
+the superstitious bigot, the Prosecutor of the New
+England Protestant Inquisition. Ridpath says
+that Mather was chiefly responsible for the
+horrors and crimes of the Salem Witchcraft,
+and that this massacre, torture and imprisonment
+of 263 innocent persons was started by a Salem
+minister for the purpose of revenging himself
+upon those of his flock who antagonized him.—Ridpath’s
+Hist. of U. S. 131. The Quakers
+were perhaps the only decent body of Christians
+up to that time, and for that reason the Puritan
+pirates and slave-dealers hung four of them, one
+woman and three men, on Boston Common.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Infuse a few different kinds of religious
+poison into a community of human beings, and
+they hate each other like tigers. Religious
+creeds have a worse effect on a man than booze.
+You can work the booze out of your system and
+quit the stuff, but when a victim is loaded up on
+some rotten brand of orthodoxy, it is hard to do
+anything with him. A Protestant will damn the
+Catholics, and a Catholic will yell ‘To Hell with
+the Protestants,’ and both will hate the Jews.”—Roman
+Religion, 27.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The churches have soaked the earth with the
+blood of their countless victims. Frederick, the
+<span class='pageno' title='119' id='Page_119'></span>Emperor of Germany, sentenced heretics of all
+descriptions alive to the flames. Sixty thousand
+heretics were slaughtered in the city of Beziers.
+Seventy thousand Huguenots were put to death
+in France. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew
+began at midnight, Aug. 23, 1572, and the carnival
+of death lasted seven days. Medals commemorating
+the holy event were distributed
+among the loyal butchers.—Roman Religion, 35.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“When the Crusaders took Jerusalem from
+the Moslems in 969 A. D., they massacred all
+the Mussulmans and burned the Jews alive.
+Seventy thousand persons were put to death in
+a week to attest the superior morality of the
+Christians.”—Boston Sun. American.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Dr. Fernald says that Sultan Bejazet wrote
+to Pope Alexander VI that he would give him
+300,000 ducats, several cities and the shirt of
+Jesus Christ if His Holiness would kill Zimzim,
+the brother of the Sultan, “and you Most Illustrious
+Lord will not commit a crime, since by
+your religion Christians are ordered to exterminate
+heretics and infidels.” The Ency. Brit. says
+that “the unfortunate prince was murdered by
+Alexander, who received 300,000 ducats as the reward
+of the crime.” Zimzim was held captive by
+certain bandits in Rhodes, a Commandery of the
+Knights of St. John, a Christian organization
+under the domination of Alexander. Alexander
+was a Borgia, whose children were all illegitimate.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='120' id='Page_120'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XIX.<br /> <br /><b>The Bible.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>As the Old Testament was originally written
+without vowels, the Lord only knows what
+it meant. The best the copyists could do was
+to make a good guess at the meaning, or supply
+whatever vowels suited their purposes.—See
+Ency. Brit. 3-64.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Moses was a magician, a thief and a murderer
+according to the Bible, a fakir who foisted upon
+the Hebrews a magnificent system of priestly
+plunder. In pursuance of Moses pretence that
+the world was created in six days, and that their
+god El or Bel or Baal rested on the seventh, he
+commanded the people to refrain from labor on
+that day and go to church, so that he would have
+frequent opportunities to pick their pockets. The
+story of Moses’ birth and secretion in an ark
+of bulrushes was taken from the Babylonians,
+where it was applied to King Sargon, according
+to tablets excavated at Babylon.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The great, learned and profound Irenaeus
+says that there must be four gospels because there
+are four winds of heaven. This is a fair sample
+of the logic of theologians. The fact is, there
+are four gospels because those four jumped from
+the floor onto the table at the council of Nice.
+There was at that time so much doubt as to what
+alleged sacred writings were inspired by God, that
+the delegates put them all together under the
+communion table one night at the close of the
+session, and agreed that those that got up on top
+of the table during the night should be considered
+<span class='pageno' title='121' id='Page_121'></span>as inspired, and those that were too weak to get
+up on the table should be stamped as the work of
+the Devil.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Many of the bishops in these councils
+were ruffians and were followed by crowds of
+vicious supporters, who stood ready on the
+slightest excuse to maim and kill their opponents.”—Keeler’s
+Hist. of the Bible. Tichenor says that
+“they decided all holy questions by a vote or a
+knock-down fight. It is doubtful if any of them
+drew a sober breath during the entire proceedings.”
+Millman says that “they fought in the
+streets and much blood was shed.”—Millman’s
+Hist. Christianity. “What these drunken, fighting,
+ignorant, pagan priests declared to be received
+from God, that is what is taught as Divine to-day.
+To this day they cram their abominable
+lies of devils and damnation into the brains of
+little children. The miserable, crazy creeds of
+Christendom were concocted by these brawling
+pagan priests, and their poison still pollutes the
+souls of men. Fire all the gods of all the creeds
+into the melting pot, and out comes the brazen
+face of Mammon.”—Tichenor.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Another reason why there are four gospels,
+according to Irenaeus, was because the Cherubim
+had four faces. But he thus calls attention to
+the fact that Christianity was spawned in the
+sties of paganism, as the Jews took the four beasts
+of the Cherubim, the bull, the lion, the eagle and
+the man, from the idolatrous Babylonians. And
+the four Evangelists adopted the four beasts as
+their totems and placed their beastly images on
+the four gospels. The Maya Indians and the
+Mexicans worshipped the same four idols of the
+four quarters of the heavens.—Ency. Brit. 12-823.
+The priests of the Ojibways wear the horns of the
+bull and sacrifice to the dragon or great serpent
+(Mary) that wears on its head the crescent moon.
+<span class='pageno' title='122' id='Page_122'></span>They also worship the eagle and the Tree of Life.
+The Ojibway picture writing shows that the
+Indian Adam and Eve had the same disgraceful
+scandal in the garden of Eden. See “Indians,”
+Ency. Americana.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It is claimed that Apollonius of Tyana
+(alleged to be the original of Paul and Christ)
+came through a medium and said: “Nine epistles
+were made a present to me by Pharaotes, a
+Satrap of Taxila, between Babylon and India.
+These epistles contained all that is embraced
+in the present epistles claimed to have been
+written by Paul. Further, I retired to the Isle
+of Patmos in 69 and 70 A. D. and wrote in a
+trance state an almost identical story with that
+attributed to St. John. The Christian Gospels
+were all preached by me at Jerusalem, Ephesus,
+Philippi, Rome, Antioch, Alexandria and Babylon,
+and in all those countries I healed the sick, cured
+the blind and raised the dead. The original
+of the four gospels I obtained at Singapore.
+They treated of the four stages of the life of
+Buddha.”—Antiquity Unveiled, 21.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Moses and God were mad at the Midianites
+because the Jews had entered into the tents
+of the Midianite ladies and worshipped Baal
+Poer, from which ensued a plague among the
+Congregation of the Lord. Num. 31-18. And
+they warred against the Midianites, as the
+Lord commanded, and slew all the males and
+took all the women and children captive. Moses
+was wroth because they had saved all the women
+and children, and ordered all the males among
+the children to be killed and all the females to
+be turned over to the soldiers for outrage. And
+he ordered all the women murdered except the
+virgins, of whom 16,000 went to the soldiers
+and 16,000 to the people, but the soldiers and
+the people were compelled to pay of these into
+<span class='pageno' title='123' id='Page_123'></span>the storehouse of the Lord 3200 in tithes. “And
+the priests laid with the virgins at the door of
+the Tabernacle.” Such a monstrosity of iniquity,
+such a fiend incarnate from the shades
+of Hell is the senior member of the firm of Moses
+and the Lamb.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The history of Moses is copied from the
+history of Bacchus, who was called Mises by
+the Egyptians. Like Moses, Bacchus was born
+in Egypt, he sojourned on Mt. Sinai, he passed
+through the Red Sea on dry land, he was a
+lawgiver and wrote the laws on two tables, he
+was found in a box that floated on the water,
+he smote a rock and wine gushed forth, and
+Bacchus was worshipped and these deeds of
+his sung in Egypt, Phenicia, Syria, Arabia and
+Greece before Abraham’s day.—Doubts of Infidels,
+31.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The account of creation as given in the Bible
+has been found on tablets in the ruins of Nineveh,
+written in a language that was dead and buried
+before the Jews ever existed. In this Persian
+cosmogony the name of the first man was
+Adomah, and of the woman Hevah.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Greeks said miracles for fools. Paul
+boasts of lying for the glory of God and catching
+converts with guile. Chrysostom said: “Great
+is the force of deceit.” St. Hermas, an Apostolic
+Father, said that he always lived in dissimulation
+and affirmed a lie for truth to all men.—
+Doubts of Infidels, 78.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>You will see that the Bible is dedicated to
+King James, and that he is canonized in the
+dedication, probably because he kept fifty mistresses
+and was in the habit of becoming beastly
+intoxicated without provocation.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The only real revelations received by the
+priests and prophets of any religion were spirit
+messages, and the Lord only knows whether
+<span class='pageno' title='124' id='Page_124'></span>these were from God or the Devil, from good or
+bad spirits. In fact it is claimed by some spiritualists
+that all the good spirits are in Heaven
+with God and can’t get out. In other words, they
+are in limbo, while those that were not so good
+are at liberty to visit the loved spots and fond
+friends of earth and indulge on the astral in their
+favorite pastimes, whether it be a prayer meeting
+or a poker game. This is purgatory, the next
+story above Hell, which is the earth.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Gibbon said that Eusebius was a consummate
+liar. The Gospel of Matthew and the Epistle
+to the Hebrews were his work, taken from the
+lives of Christna and Apollonius and the records
+of the Essenes and some of the Jewish and
+Phenician legends.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A Coptic version of the life of Apollonius
+in the possession of the monks of Seville, Spain,
+about 1458, was placed in the hands of Juan
+Hermonez for translation. In the margin was a
+Latin translation, in which the name of Apollonius
+had been changed to John among many other
+falsifications. The Latin translation was almost
+identical with the Gospel of St. John. When
+Hermonez called the attention of the Superior
+to these changes, he was seized and thrown into
+a dungeon, in which he was allowed to starve and
+rot.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The Bible has been too much neglected, due,
+no doubt, to the general impression that, being
+religious, it must be dry. Far from it. For
+instance: Elohim, the gods, made the light and
+days and nights four days before they made
+the sun. They made a firmament, probably of
+metal, to divide the ocean above from the ocean
+below, and had windows in it, so that they could
+open them and drown the inhabitants of the earth
+whenever they got drunk and needed a little
+diversion. And they stuck the sun, moon and
+<span class='pageno' title='125' id='Page_125'></span>stars in the metal firmament, which revolved
+around the earth.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When the serpent was not working, he was
+coiled around the Tree of Life telling Eve in
+snake language what luscious fruit the tree bore.
+For this interference with the plans of the
+gods, they made the serpent crawl on his belly.
+He had been crawling on his back.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Moses and his first assistant fakir, Aaron, destroyed
+all the horses and cattle in Egypt by a
+murrain, and then, as Pharaoh still had a stiff
+neck, they destroyed them all again by hail. Then,
+as Pharaoh still had trouble with his neck, they
+killed all the first-born of Egypt, both men and
+cattle. Then the Israelites fled, and Pharaoh
+hitched up his horses, that had been killed three
+times, to his six hundred chariots and pursued
+the chosen of God, who had pinched all the
+jewelry of the Egyptians. The Bible is full of
+these delightful stories from beginning to end.
+If you have conscientious scruples against reading
+the Bible, you will find them attractively
+set forth in Le Brun’s Doubts of Infidels.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='126' id='Page_126'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>CHAPTER XX.<br /> <br /><b>Heaven.</b></h2>
+</div>
+
+<div class='lg-container-b c002'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'>The Lord doeth all things well.</div>
+      <div class='line'>He consigns the Jews to Heaven,</div>
+      <div class='line'>And all the rest to Hell.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>There are forty nine heavens to which we ordinary
+mortals may attain, so you needn’t worry.
+Besides, there are certain aristocratic heavens
+reserved for the great and good men of high
+spirituality, such as Moses, the fakir, thief and
+murderer, and David, the bandit, outlaw and
+assassin, and Solomon, the fratricide, Mormon
+and pillar of Ashtoreth, and all the popes, bishops,
+priests and ministers. We will each go to that
+place we like the best, and to which we are fitted
+by our vibration. Some of us, like certain ministers,
+will go to that heaven where the beautiful
+fairies are. The ancient Jews will have a little
+heaven of their own, where they can worship the
+three balls and the ass-headed god and the god
+with whiskers on, and where they will have a
+chance to cop the golden paving stones, and sell
+corner lots, and insure their palace not made
+with hands eternal in the heavens.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>And the ancient Scotch Presbyterian will
+walk the golden streets with his savage, gore-imbued
+devil-god, in his paradise overlooking
+the abyss of Hell, where he can gloat over the
+souls in torment, as they rise up out of the
+Bottomless Pit every thousand years, each one
+fastened by his tongue to a hook on an endless
+chain, which rises from such a fathomless depth
+of hellfire that it takes the victim a thousand
+<span class='pageno' title='127' id='Page_127'></span>years to make the circuit. It is claimed that
+these heavens and hells are built up from the
+astral substance by the imaginative power of the
+minds of the different religious sects.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>This region contains all the heavens that
+have ever been dreamed of in theology, each
+filled with the devotees of the various creeds.
+Each of the great religions has its own particular
+region in which its disciples gather, worship and
+rejoice. In each region the religious soul finds
+just what he had expected and hoped to find
+on the other shore. You may even see the golden
+crowns, harps and stiff halos in some cases and
+hear the eternal chant of praise. These heavens
+are not eternal. Everything on the astral plane
+is subject to change like all other matter. Even
+the religious progress and change their opinions.—Astral
+World, 70.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The occultists do not, as a rule, disclose the
+process by which you may see the astral visions
+and pass out of the physical and journey in the
+astral body. But this is one way to see the
+pictures in the astral light: Between sleeping
+and waking, in the neutral state of Jagrata, when
+the eyes are closed and a numbness falls upon the
+body, and you experience a floating sensation,
+take note of the visions that appear to you, if
+any, and then by your will power impress them
+upon physical brain, so that you may remember
+them. These visions may be pictures on the
+astral light or scenes on the astral plane, but
+whatever they are, some of them prove to be
+true prophetic visions.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>One occult teacher advised those who wished
+to induce trance to go into the silence, that is, to
+go into a room by yourself, where you will not
+be disturbed, and lie down and completely relax
+the muscles and think of nothing at all. The
+Hindus say fix your mind on your navel, but some
+<span class='pageno' title='128' id='Page_128'></span>fix their gaze on a crystal. You will see the
+visions when you doze off, if you can get them
+at all.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>When you are in the astral body it is possible
+to remember the experiences of your previous
+lives, that is, the lives of your ancestors. In the
+physical body heredity and memory are stored in
+the cromatin or brain matter of all the millions of
+cells of the body. The human astral body is made
+up of the astral bodies of all the cells. It is
+possible that memory is inherent in the astral
+matter of all the cells, and that in the astral we
+are more in rapport with the cells than in the
+physical.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the lowest astral plane next to the earth,
+it is said, is the region where the astral shells or
+corpses disintegrate, an arm sloughing off here, a
+leg there, and a head elsewhere. It is claimed
+that the spirits have deserted these shells. If
+you should happen to meet one of these ghosts
+walking in a graveyard without any legs or without
+any head, it may scare you into a fit, but it
+will not do you any harm, for it is dead. Then
+there are certain spectres or phantoms whose
+company is very undesirable when you take a
+lonely walk in the ghoul-haunted woodlands.
+These elemental spirits like to play practical
+jokes and have a little fun with you, but they
+will not do you any harm, unless you are sufficiently
+weak to allow them to obsess you. Cast
+out fear, cultivate a strong will, and be, like
+Solomon, the master of demons and men.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“There are certain entities or beings in the
+astral world which never were human and never
+will be, for they belong to an entirely different
+order of nature. They are fairies, satyrs, imps
+and goblins. At spiritual seances they sometimes
+play elfish pranks. They seem to be
+particularly apt to play tricks on neophytes in
+<span class='pageno' title='129' id='Page_129'></span>psychic research who seek to penetrate the
+astral without proper instruction. To such a
+one they appear as hideous forms, monsters
+&amp;c.”—Astral World, 92.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Some of the elementals are electric spirits
+and confer upon the medium the power of
+magnetic healing. The medium, upon the approach
+of the spirit, is charged with electricity.
+The spirit may appear as a bird with a human
+face and a parrot’s bill and sharp, black eyes
+and body covered with hair, and deliver messages
+which can be heard clairaudiently by the
+medium. That reminds us of the claim of
+Mahomet that a little bird stood on his shoulder
+and whispered the laws of the Koran in his
+ear. They are certainly the Devil’s own laws.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>“Many of the angels on the astral and the
+ghosts that haunt houses are thought forms
+created by the people who imagine them, and
+obtain all their apparent mind from the action
+of the thought force of their creators. Repeated
+thought and repeated belief will serve
+to keep alive and strengthen these entities,
+otherwise they will disappear in time. Many
+supernatural visitors, saints and semi-divine
+beings of all religions have been formed in this
+way. The power of the devils arise in the
+same way.”—Idem.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>According to the Theosophists man has
+two souls, the animal and the spiritual, and at
+death the animal soul or spook, together with
+the spiritual soul, passes to that part of the
+astral called Kamaloka, or place of spooks,
+the lowest plane. But the spirit soon deserts
+the spook and leaves it to meet its just reward
+in the second death, because on earth it desired
+too much of carnal pleasures. The spooks
+retain all the impressions accumulated in the
+earth life and can communicate with mortals
+<span class='pageno' title='130' id='Page_130'></span>through mediums. Among these are the demons
+that obsess human beings. The spiritual soul
+passes on to Devachan, or the house of gods,
+which evidently includes those astral planes
+where the religious grovel before their various
+imaginary idols. See “What is Theosophy,” 46.
+This alleged spiritual soul, that deserts its
+brother soul in the depths of Hell, receives its
+due reward, for in the sub-heaven to which
+it goes, it has no memory of the earth life,
+consequently it is not immortal, and it is in
+jail and cannot get out. It would be better
+to stay in Hell with the spook, for it could have
+more fun haunting houses than worshipping
+imaginary gods with a lot of stiff-necked orthodox
+hypocrites.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In Ceylon they have twenty six heavens,
+and at the end of the world period they kill
+off all the spirits in all these heavens except
+those in the five upper spheres, the four highest
+of which are Nirvana.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>You need not think that because you go
+across that you will have surcease from sorrow.
+It is only in the highest heavens that they have
+no sorrow, and that is because they don’t know
+anything. You cannot obtain happiness here
+or hereafter by purchasing absolution from any
+fakir, but only by doing to others as you would
+be done by. The astral planes of the Spiritualists
+in which the soul may advance, improve and
+ultimately attain to the highest heaven, corresponds
+with Purgatory, that superlative graft
+of religion. You can be prayed out of this
+limbo, if your relatives are willing to put up
+the stuff, otherwise you will be shoveled down
+into Hell. But a cheaper way is to have a
+Hindu prayer wheel. I am going to devote
+the immense revenues which I shall receive from
+this pious work to the construction of prayer
+<span class='pageno' title='131' id='Page_131'></span>wheels, which will be placed at street corners
+on all the highways and byways, so that even
+he who runs can turn the wheel and bring around
+to the open slot, so that God can see it, one of
+the many prayers printed on the wheel, for
+instance: “O, God, save my mother-in-law from
+Hell.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the coma, between sleeping and waking,
+the gates of the astral world are sometimes
+opened, and you can see the ghosts on the astral
+plane, great throngs of spirits, having no indication
+of piety, all busily engaged in their favorite
+occupations or sports. If in this state of Jagrata
+you happen to float into a graveyard, you will
+see the ghosts lying or sitting on their graves
+or pacing up and down beside them with bowed
+heads and in deep thought, trying to figure
+out how they got there and where they are
+going. See Seership, 179.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It is said that two persons can exchange
+bodies if they wish. Or if someone else has a
+better body than you have, and you wish to
+steal it, invite him to take a trip with you in
+his astral body on the astral plane. All the
+time keep commanding your astral body, sotto
+voce, to enter into his body, and when his
+astral body has emerged, prepared to take a
+trip with you in spook-land, that is the instant
+for your astral body to take possession of his
+physical body and leave his astral body out
+in the cold. But be careful to back into his
+body, for if your astral body enters his physical
+body face to face, you will be in wrong end to
+and will be crazy as a loon. Now there is no
+place for the other astral body to go except
+into your abandoned physical body, and as
+you are a wicked robber who just stole a house,
+he will probably hesitate about entering the
+body of such a person, and if he delays too long,
+<span class='pageno' title='132' id='Page_132'></span>he will be a lost spook, condemned to wander
+forever in the land of shades.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Do not allow them to palm off any gods
+upon you. Do not allow anyone to assume
+authority over you. I charge you to teach
+your descendants these things from father to
+son, down through the clanging corridors of
+time, down through the endless vista of eternity.
+There is nothing but matter in the universe,
+and all matter is equal. This being so, all
+forms produced therefrom, whether visible or
+invisible, must be equal, and one form has no
+right to assume authority over another. All
+beings are composed of matter, be they gods or
+be they worms, and no one mass of matter is
+superior to another or worthy of worship. The
+worm that crawls the earth is the equal of the
+king that sits upon a throne. Never bow the
+knee to anything that walks or swims or flies,
+that lives in the flesh or that exists only in the
+diseased imagination of depraved religious fanatics.
+Remember this: There is none greater
+than you in Heaven or Earth or Hell.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='133' id='Page_133'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>THE DEVIL’S HALF ACRE.<br />By Willard Bartlett.<br /><i>From the Beacon.</i></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>In rummaging through the attic of an old
+wraith-haunted, country house, I discovered
+a course of lessons in Yogi Philosophy. These
+lessons I devoured with avidity, and practiced
+with assiduity the occult rites, until I could
+readily pass into the silence and project my astral
+body or ghost to any desired place. In fact the
+unruly ghost would sometimes quit the body
+without my consent and leave me stranded high
+and dry without any soul.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>One night while I lay sleeping, my astral
+body left the physical and sped through the air, as
+it had a very bad habit of doing, to Hapenny, the
+very last place on earth, the place manufactured
+by the Devil out of scraps and old junk, which he
+had left over after building Hell. But my perverted
+soul always insisted on going there whenever
+it succeeded in bursting through the carnal and
+beating down its being’s door.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The soul atom or Ego is said to be located in
+the Medulla Oblongata. If the soul is immortal,
+it is probably an electron. An atom is said to be
+composed of ions or electrons, and probably is
+subject to dissolution, and consequently not immortal.
+But as no one ever saw an atom or electron
+on account of their extreme minuteness, for
+the purpose of this veracious story, we will call
+the soul an atom and play it is eternal. An
+atom is a vortex ring of ether in a constant state
+of vibration, and assumed to resemble in form a
+<span class='pageno' title='134' id='Page_134'></span>ring of smoke. Some of the Hindus claim that
+a Purusha or soul from the countless spirit ions
+constituting the spirit principle of the universe,
+the akasa or astral light, becoming involved in the
+ether, originates the vortex movement by which
+the atom is produced. The ether is the ultimate
+refinement of matter, a body of extreme tenuity
+that pervades the whole universe and permeates
+all grosser bodies. By the waves of this ether all
+the vibrations of light, heat, sound, energy,
+electricity and life are transmitted.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The electron is an extremely minute corpuscle
+or particle endowed with life, mind and energy.
+A thousand electrons, more or less, revolve in the
+atom at a terrific rate around a central sun, thus
+resembling the solar system. This central sun is a
+male or positive electron, and all those revolving
+about it are females or negative electrons and
+constitute the harem of the central sun, thus
+establishing polygamy at the very basis of life.
+Our solar system is an atom in a great cosmic
+animal or god called Pan, the all-god.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In my nocturnal journeys, I thought I was
+clothed in the carnal body, but as I was
+transported through the air, I must necessarily
+conclude that I traveled in the astral
+body and on the astral plane, in which astral
+bodies move about and ghosts manifest, together
+with doubles, wraiths, hobgoblins and dopplegangers,
+to which latter class I belonged. The
+astral body, one of the bodies of the soul, is composed
+of fine, ethereal matter, and in form is a
+duplicate of the human body. It is claimed
+that this body persists for some time after death,
+but eventually disintegrates.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Many a night I have been there in Hapenny
+when the body lay many miles away. These were
+not ordinary dreams. I was actually there, that
+is, I being in the soul atom or astral body. One
+<span class='pageno' title='135' id='Page_135'></span>night I was conducted through a new manufactory
+there, which I had never seen with the mortal
+eyes and never knew existed. But the next time
+I went there in the body, I found the building
+just as I had seen it in the vision.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The favorite outing place of my doppleganger
+is the Devil’s Half Acre, or Murderer’s Paradise.
+It always flies to that obsessed and
+accursed spot hard by the gates of Tophet, close
+round the hinges of Hell. Traveling in the astral
+body, I can see both the quick and the dead, but
+as I am always out there at night, the live ones
+are asleep, and only the spooks are abroad, prowling
+hither and yon in the moon’s pale rays, visiting
+again, like myself, the scenes of former crimes.
+These are earth-bound spirits who, during life,
+lived out a low, degraded existence, and they are
+bound by their own desires and the vibration of
+their astral bodies to these astral slums. I stood
+out on the old road in front of the dilapidated
+shack formerly occupied by a gun-fighter, and
+watched the astral bodies as they glided to and
+fro in the air.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>There was Mr. B. with a red gash from ear
+to ear and a crimson stream of blood running down
+over the white, astral, vapor-like body. Around
+the body was the aura, a cloudy vapor extending
+outward to a distance of two or three feet in the
+shape of an egg, an emanation of a dark and
+dismal color, corresponding to his dark and dismal
+career. It was in back of that very shack that he
+cut his throat and burst the door that bound him
+to the mortal clay, crying as he passed over that
+he was eternally lost and damned, as the church
+had hypnotized him into believing. But that Hell
+is immeasurably preferable to the Devil’s Half
+Acre, because the astral body is relieved of pain,
+hunger and thirst and the necessity of laboring
+for food and clothing. In fact, I believe that we
+<span class='pageno' title='136' id='Page_136'></span>are in Hell now, that this is the lowest plane of
+existence. In the Devil’s Half Acre the poor and
+wretched outcasts of the earth, embellished with
+dirt and clad in rotting rags, lived on three
+cents a day.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>There was something in the atmosphere
+of the neighborhood that urged all the inhabitants
+on to crime. The family life was a hell on earth.
+The place was obsessed by the Devil and accursed
+of God. A village will acquire a character of its
+own. It is claimed that all the evil thoughts
+of all the vicious inhabitants of a vile place will
+linger in the surrounding atmosphere for years
+and exercise a baneful influence on all who dwell
+there. In the Devil’s Half Acre you could not
+take a step without treading on the crimson
+stain of a reeking crime. The spooks were and
+are now as thick as Tophet there; the place is
+haunted by ghosts and fiends unholy in Death
+and Hell bedight. It was the obsession of the
+place by the powers of evil that attracted to it
+all the notorious criminals.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The next spook to pollute the atmosphere
+was that of Mr. D. who, when on earth, was
+engaged in the banking business. In his left
+hand he carried a jimmy and in his right a gun,
+and he was peering here and there looking for a
+safe to crack or a cashier to shoot up. He was
+floating through the air at a height of about
+ten feet, and on his forehead blazed the blood-red
+mark of Cain, and his black aura was lighted
+by the fires of Tophet. When in life he lived in the
+house across the road. From this house also
+emerged a ghost with a halter around its neck.
+It was there with the halter he had swung himself
+over the battlements of time and dropped into
+eternity. The vicious influence of this house was
+irresistible. It is well to know this law of thought
+obsession and avoid these accursed places.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'><span class='pageno' title='137' id='Page_137'></span>The next spirit to make its appearance was
+my old friend Mr. E. who came from walking up
+and down in the earth trying to sell the girl he
+led by the hand. He was still on his uppers as
+usual, as I could see by the ragged condition of his
+astral body. The accompanying aura of a
+slate-green hue, embellished with dull-red flames,
+indicated a low, deceitful and sensual character.
+He stopped and, looking me over, said: “I remember
+you. Don’t you want to buy my wife here
+again? She is in good condition now. I admit
+that I cheated you forty years ago when I sold
+her to you for fifty cents, but now in the astral
+world she is a vision of youth and beauty.”</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Then came the ghost of Mr. F., a Sunday
+School teacher, who operated on a class of young
+ladies in the vestry of the church, that time-worn
+vestry, that well-beloved vestry, where the
+foundations of their philosophy were laid. A
+very genial, loving gentleman he was too, but
+his scholars being exceedingly frivolous, he found
+it necessary, in order to impress upon them the
+Divine truths, to pat them on the knees and sort
+of instil religion into them by the massage process.
+He has found his heaven. He appeared
+on the astral, surrounded, embraced and beloved
+by that same dazzling galaxy of beauties, now
+a star-crowned angel band.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>It is claimed that they have schools over
+there, in which those who so desire may be instructed
+in virtue and wisdom and assisted to
+advance. When at last they learn the great
+secret and discover the key that unlocks the horns
+of the bull, they pass through the low and narrow
+portal between the horns of Taurus, squeeze
+through the needle’s eye, and enter the higher
+heaven.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Then I saw a lot of ghosts and fragments
+of ghosts sometimes without any heads, and
+<span class='pageno' title='138' id='Page_138'></span>sometimes lacking limbs, floating about aimlessly
+without any rudders, for they were dead, and their
+spirits had fled, leaving in the Devil’s Half
+Acre their astral shells. That is what they are
+called when their spirits have departed in the
+spiritual body and left the astral body to return
+to the elements like the carnal body.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>A human being in a normal condition is
+unable to see an astral body, or ghost, because
+the vibrations on the astral plane are too rapid for
+the human eye to see. The vibrations of the
+ultra-violet or X rays, at one end of the spectrum
+are too rapid, and the infra-red rays, at the other
+end of the spectrum, are too slow for the
+human eye to see. But we have astral senses,
+appurtenant to the astral body, duplicates of
+the physical senses, and persons in a trance and
+sometimes people asleep are able to use these
+astral senses and see and communicate with the
+denizens of the astral world.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <span class='pageno' title='139' id='Page_139'></span>
+  <h2 class='c005'>THE BIOGRAPHY OF THE SOUL ATOM.<br />By Willard Bartlett.<br /><i>From The Nautilus.</i></h2>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c006'>I will preface my story with the simple
+statement that I am now 500,000,000 years old,
+more or less, that the atom in which my soul
+is located, or which constitutes my soul, first
+found a home in what is called a living being,
+a cytod or cell, in the primordial or earliest
+epoch of earth’s history. A cell is a minute
+mass of living protoplasm, or jelly-like substance,
+not as large as the head of a pin, a combination
+of carbon, oxygen, hydrogen, nitrogen,
+ammonia, sulphur, etc. While it is true that
+I existed before that, and, in fact, from all
+eternity, I previously resided in what is called
+inanimate matter, in the igneous rocks. But
+we will say that I was born when my soul atom
+became involved in the said protoplasm of one
+of the earliest plant cells.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>All matter is endowed with mind, and a
+soul exists in every atom. It is impossible to
+produce new life, as it is said scientists have
+done, and impossible to create life, as God is
+claimed to have done, for life always existed in
+every atom. It is by certain combinations of
+matter that life becomes manifest in motion.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Each of the thousands of atoms, of which
+said primitive life cell was composed, had a soul
+destined to take its place in some descendant,
+if it had an opportunity. And the souls are
+waiting in the atoms to be born, and not in
+Heaven as asserted by the Yogi philosophers.
+<span class='pageno' title='140' id='Page_140'></span>The Yogis claim that the souls are waiting in
+some department of the Buddhist heaven crying
+to be born. Bosh! They are waiting in the
+spermatozoa, those little monsters, those little
+devils that drive their great human masters
+to crime and murder, to the gallows and the
+stake; there they are howling to be born. In their
+frantic race to enter the ovum, as shown under
+“Spermatozoa,” Stand. Dic., no wonder they
+are excited. They have been waiting 500,000,000
+years for the opportunity to become human
+beings.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Cells propagate by division; that is my
+original ancestor, a little, round mass of protoplasm,
+divided itself into two cells to produce
+offspring, and all of my ancestors have done the
+same through all these millions of years, consequently
+I have in my body, in all of the cells,
+some of the original matter of which my original
+cell ancestor was composed. That is eternity’s
+great highway by which the soul walked down.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The human germ cell divides in the same
+manner into two individuals and we propagate,
+as our earliest ancestors did, by casting off a
+cell, which, being joined by a cell of the opposite
+sex, becomes fertilized. The human embryo
+develops by repeated subdivisions of this twin
+cell, and each one of the myriads of cells so
+produced is a living, thinking being.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The question has arisen why the cells in
+an embryo arrange themselves in the form of
+the parent, and it has been asserted that they
+are so distributed by God in pursuance of a
+Divine plan. But it is actually done by the
+volition of the cells themselves. Each cell
+takes its proper position in compliance with the
+instruction of its parent cell, and if removed by
+force to some other part of the embryo, will
+return to its original place, thus evincing the
+<span class='pageno' title='141' id='Page_141'></span>most surprising intelligence. It must be remembered
+that a molecule is as large as a universe,
+that there is no such thing as size, that as much
+ability may be stored up in the nerve centre of a
+cell as in all the debris of a human brain.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>We are immortal, but with no memory of
+past lives. If we do not propagate, this life will
+be the end of our line that has continued unbroken
+for millions of years, and we will have to go back
+into the abysmal void, into the womb of chaos
+and commence all over again. That will be our
+fate in any case. Only that cell of our bodies
+which may be incorporated in our progeny will
+continue in human form. That cell is a remote
+relative of ours, having descended from the
+ancestral germ cell from which our embryo was
+developed.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Of the earliest plant cells, developed by
+spontaneous generation in the primordial epoch,
+some developed tails, or projected filaments of
+protoplasm from their jelly-like bodies. With
+these tails they propelled themselves through the
+primeval seas, and thus separated themselves
+from the plants and became animals. In this
+earliest epoch of life’s history all beings lived in
+the water. These primitive plants possessed as
+much soul and mind as the animals that thus
+branched off from them, and all plants still possess
+soul and mind.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>But I am sorry to say that my ancestor, who
+thus projected a tail and became an animal, was
+a degenerate, a lazy loafer, a robber, a murderer
+and a cannibal. We all have to live on protoplasm.
+The plants made their own living plasm,
+manufacturing it from inorganic matter, but the
+animals were too indolent to do such laborious
+work, when they could just as well kill and eat
+the plant cells and subsist on them. In this
+way they lost the recipe for making plasm, and
+<span class='pageno' title='142' id='Page_142'></span>we descendants are consequently born cannibals,
+condemned to rob, murder, despoil and eat our
+fellow beings, or starve.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>My next beautiful ancestor, to whom I will
+introduce you, was an animal consisting of numerous
+cells arranged in the form of a sack or stomach,
+called a blastoderm or gastraea. There was
+no central brain at this time, each cell having a
+brain of its own.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>Yesterday, while patrolling my beat down
+in the mine, in a drift in the limestone, the earliest
+sedimentary deposit laid down on the bed of the
+primeval ocean, I found the house of my archaic
+ancestor, willed to me by him millions of years ago,
+and delivered by him to me yesterday. It is a
+minute shell, with which he protected his precious
+stomach. This stomach took its flight to Heaven
+in the earliest dawn of time, but the house, one
+of the many mansions of the soul, preserved intact
+came down to me through unnumbered ages,
+while myriad races came into being and faded
+into eternity, and religions sprang up and flourished
+and waned, and empires rose and rotted and
+fell.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>In the next stage, the stomach has become
+elongated, and the nerve centre or spinal cord
+makes its appearance along the whole length of
+the body. At this period my beloved grandfather
+was a very aristocratic and exclusive worm, belonging
+to one of the first families, and, like them,
+had as much brains in his tail as in his head, for no
+cranial brain had yet developed.</p>
+
+<p class='c009'>The remaining steps of the evolution, through
+which my ancestors have passed, are depicted in
+the development of the human embryo, and I
+will ask you to read up on the subject of embryology,
+which I have found quite as interesting as
+dime novels.</p>
+
+<div class='chapter'>
+  <h2 class='c005'>Transcriber's Notes</h2>
+</div>
+<div class='lg-container-l c018'>
+  <div class='linegroup'>
+    <div class='group'>
+      <div class='line'>Several obvious punctuation errors have been silently corrected.</div>
+      <div class='line'>Signa Tau was used consistently so it was not changed to Sigma Tau.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On pages <a href='#Page_2'>2</a> and <a href='#Page_55'>55</a>, alter was changed to altar.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_71'>71</a>, metalic was changed to metallic, twice.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_83'>83</a>, phanton was changed to phantom.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_95'>95</a>, colaborated was changed to collaborated.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_97'>97</a>, tate-a-tate was changed to tête-à-tête.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_103'>103</a>, bear was changed to bare.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_121'>121</a>, polutes was changed to pollutes.</div>
+      <div class='line'>On page <a href='#Page_127'>127</a>, Astral Word was Changed to Astral World.</div>
+    </div>
+  </div>
+</div>
+
+<p class='c015'>Other variations in spelling, punctuation, accents and hyphenation remain as in the original.</p>
+
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