That Eurasian

by Aleph Bey

I put it as a question of good taste, leaving out religion altogether, would not the feelings of a refined man be shocked at the suggestion that the Infinite God had a human mother?

It is assumed that Mary conceived by the Holy Ghost. Such stories are common in the world. Buddha is said to have been born of a virgin. It was a common occurrence when people wanted to set up a new god or hero to assert that they were born of a virgin by the help of a god. It was claimed for all of them that there were wondrous signs, portents and occurrences about them, and that these beings to be exalted were not, like ordinary men, born of a human father.

The virgin mother of Egypt, Isis, was represented holding her infant son Horus in her arms. She is also shown as the Queen of Heaven, holding in her hand a cross. On one of the tombs of the Pharaohs, Champolion found a picture, the most ancient of a woman ever found, bedecked with stars, with the form of a child issuing from her bosom. The Hindu virgin is shown as nursing Krishna, a golden aureole around the head of each.

In the caves of Ellora is a figure of Indruna seated on a lounge, with her infant son god pointing toward heaven, with the same gestures as of the Italian Madonna and her child.

Horus, Ishter, Venus, Juno, and a host of Pagan goddesses, have been called Queen of Heaven, Queen of the Universe, Mother of God, Spouse of God, the Celestial Virgin.

The Buddhists believe that Maha Maya, the mother of Gotama, was an immaculate virgin, and conceived him through a divine influence.

Perictione, a virgin, immaculately conceived Plato through the influence of the god Apollo.

The ancient Mexicans, though they believed in one Almighty Invisible God, had minor deities, the chief among them being the god, born of a virgin, conceived by a ball of light colored feathers floating in the air.

Says a writer, “Hundreds of Christs and virgins are being continually born into the world in Russia, and find thousands of worshipers and disciples.”

So great is the resemblance of these virgins and goddesses to the alleged character and adoration of Mary, that the Romish Church should be indicted for its false claims to a patent to which it has no right or title. Bishop Newton, of the English Church, asks, “Is not the worship of saints and angels now in all respects the same that the worship of demons was in former times? The name only different, the thing is identically the same ... the very same temples, the very same images, which were once consecrated to Jupiter, and the other demons, are now consecrated to the Virgin Mary and other saints ... the whole of Paganism is consecrated and applied to Popery.”