“But reserve for yourselves all the young girls who are still virgins.”
Moses spoke “in the name of God,” as does his Holiness at Rome to-day. Comment is hardly necessary. A few more quotations from the Vedas:
“A virtuous woman needs no purification, for she is never defiled, even by contact with impurity.
“Women should be shielded by fostering solicitude by their fathers, their brothers, their husbands, and the brothers of their husbands, if they hope for great prosperity.
“When women are honored, the divinities are content, but where they are not honored, all undertakings fail.”
The sacerdotal caste in Egypt followed the inspiration of the Brahmans, and took care to make no change in that situation.
And Moses followed the example of the priests of Egypt, where woman was a slave or a prostitute in the temples as out.
The degeneracy of a people, the decay of religion, and the degradation of woman are inseparable, and it is so-called “religion” that institutes the change, and sets the pace, “down the steep descent.”
The Brahmans “forgot God” and instituted the worship of saints and holy men, and mythological characters, just as Rome does to-day. The women of America to-day by a consensus of public opinion should make auricular confession disreputable.
Excommunication, which is such a power in the hands of Rome, is merely a subterfuge and substitute for the degradation of “outcasts,” and pariahs, instituted by the Brahman priests to terrify the disobedient and retain their power.