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) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: Cover; By courtesy of The New York Sunday American; FIRST EDITION] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ King Solomonâs Goat _By_ WILLARD BARTLETT _Author of_ âThe Origin of Priestcraft,â âThe Tenderfoot,â âThe War of the Stomachs,â etc. _Apologies are due to numerous authors who have failed to receive due credit through the carelessness of the compiler._ EVERETT PRINT 13 Otis Street BOSTON ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 1918 BY G. WILLARD BARTLETT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER I. The Divine Moloch. The genial gentleman with horns, shown on the cover hereof, is christ.[1] The hybrid Christian-Egyptian religion was stolen from the sun-worship of Egypt and India and other religious impositions. When the sun, called Ra and Osiris in Egypt, identical with Jehovah, at the end of each cycle of about 2155 years, entered a new sign of the zodiac, it was said to be reborn, or the son of god came in a character to correspond with the astronomical sign.âGerald 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: âBlessed art thou Io Elohanu Melech ... who bringeth forth bread from the earth.ââKrinskyâs First Lessons in Hebrew, 84. The pagans claimed that their god Moloch âhad his castle of fire in the seventh heaven.â And âJehovah had his castle of fire over the seventh heaven.ââBook 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. âThey have built the high places of Tophet in the Valley of Hinnom to burn their sons and daughters in the fire.â 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: âIt 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.â 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.ââOrgiesâ and âOrpheusâ, 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.âGerald 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.âSee 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. âOne should eat fish for into them the souls of the righteous are transmigrated.ââTalmud. The Buddhist cross, from which the Christian cross was taken, is called Swastika (fishes) and consists of the two fishes of the zodiac crossed. âMaya 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.â âThe sunâs present position is in Aquarius. Our Lordâs advent was in the previous sign of Pisces, but the sign which he declared should precede his next coming was that of Aquarius. âWhen ye see a man bearing a pitcher of water follow ye him.âââDaughter 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.âSee âSaturn,â 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.âBook 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 Witchesâ 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.âPlate 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 âAltarâ, 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: âI A O, the Sun, the Light of the World.â 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.âStinson 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 âEnthronization,â Stand. Dic., and you will see the Mark of the Beast on the bishopâs hand, and look at the pagan god Siva, and you will find the same mark on his forehead. See âFreemason,â 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 âGlory,â 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 Witchesâ 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.âEncy. Brit. 2:735. Mary is the same as Venus and Diana, the moon goddess.âElephas Levi, the priest. The Hindu Litany of Our Lady Nari, the Virgin, says: âHoly Nari. Mariama, Mother of an Incarnate God, Mother of Christna, Virgin Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven.â The Egyptian Litany of Our Lady Isis says: âHoly Isis, Mother of Gods, Mother of Horus, Virgin Sacred Earth, Isis, Queen of Heaven.â The Christian Litany says: âHoly Mary, Mother of God, Mother of Christ, Virgin Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven.ââIsis 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.âSee Book of All Religions, 467. âReligion is a monstrous fraud and delusion that has desolated the earth and filled the spirit world with demons.ââAntiquity Unveiled, 58. The Gnostics claimed that it was Ilda Baoth, the Devil, that overshadowed Mary, instead of Gabriel. âThe 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.ââBuddha & Early Buddhism, 20. Mare and Mary mean the sea, and the fish god Jesus, of course, came out of the sea. âThe 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.ââIsis 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.âEpiphanius, 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 âCall God,â 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 âIsis,â 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.âEncy. 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: âWe burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings unto her and made cakes to worship her.â And Jeremiah says in verse 22: âBecause of these abominations which you have committed, therefore is your land a desolation and a curse, without an inhabitant as at this day.â The Buddhists say: âUpon a lotus of precious stones sustaining a moon crescent sits Buddha Matraâ (the Mother of God). The Chinese invocation says: âHail Matraâ, and they call her âOur Lady, the Queen of Heaven, the Mother of Buddha.ââBuddha & 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 Witchesâ 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 âAltar,â 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: [ð©]. Here is the male emblem shown as the Masonic square, as found in the ruins of Gaza: [ð]. This is the Egyptian K. Ka is the Egyptian name of the male emblem. See âHieroglyphicsâ, 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, [â], 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 MasonsâA. 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: âBy this sign [ï¼] Lord Tau, deliver me.â 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 âstoleâ, 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 Masonsâ 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 manâs 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: âImprecations 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.â 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 Witchesâ Sabbath. In Mysteries of Magic, 7 and 75, the author thus describes a Witchesâ Sabbath: âApproach 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: âHe is here, âtis himself.â 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.â 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. âLet 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.ââElephas 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 Witchesâ 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 eternityâs 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 Serpentsâ Catacombs of Egypt. The countersign of the Witchesâ 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.âMachenâs 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 Devilâs 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 Witchesâ Sabbath.âSee 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.âKabala. 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.âKabala Kitzur Shâlh. 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.âIbid, 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, âheld up by God to the human race as an exemplary pattern of godliness and destined to share the Empire of Heaven with Christ,â 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.âSee 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. âThere 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,â as the strange god of Johnâs Revelation is pictured on his throne.ââBaal,â 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. âThe 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, Ladyâs 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.ââBuckleâs Hist. Civ. 1-188. CHAPTER VI. Jehovah, alias Adonai. According to the Hebrew lexicon ×× (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 Witchesâ 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 âSephiraâ) 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 Shâlh, 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: âThou 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.â 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: âWho shall ascend into the high place of the Lord (Iach, in the original)? who shall stand in the place of his Kadishu (holy ladies)?ââPsalms, 24:3. âSolomon went to the high place of Gibeon, for there was the Tabernacle of God.ââ2 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 âIo Evohe.â Ei Eh Ei is I Am the I Am, and Ei was found inscribed on the temple of Apollo.âPlutarch, 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: âThe 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.â 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,
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