King Solomon's Goat

by George Willard Bartlett

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.