King Solomon's Goat. George Willard Bartlett
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