King Solomon's Goat

by George Willard Bartlett

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.