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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_. - - - - - -End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of King Solomon's Goat, by Willard Bartlett - -*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KING SOLOMON'S GOAT *** - -***** This file should be named 50368-0.txt or 50368-0.zip ***** -This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: - http://www.gutenberg.org/5/0/3/6/50368/ - -Produced by David Edwards, Elizabeth Oscanyan and the -Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net -(This file was produced from images generously made -available by The Internet Archive) - -Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions will -be renamed. - -Creating the works from print editions not protected by U.S. copyright -law means that no one owns a United States copyright in these works, -so the Foundation (and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United -States without permission and without paying copyright -royalties. 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