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• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven (Matt. 16). Thus the Catholic Church is founded on Peter whom, four verses later, Jesus openly calls Satan. 23. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me . . . Thus if the Catholic Church is founded on Peter, it is founded on Satan—a fact we have long suspected. Satan means matter, and so does Peter the rock; therefore the two are one. Peter is but the New Testament Esau who founded, or rather was, the city called Petra, rock, and also édom, atom, earth. This it is that binds and looses according to its laws—St. Peter’s keys— and what it binds and looses is the Life Principle. The seven churches of Revelation are an outline of this. This binding and loosing Peter is also the New Testament Pharaoh; he too bound and loosed the life force. Moses’ warfare with him represents this, and Paul’s quarrel with Peter has the same meaning, cosmologically. As this binding and loosing is of nature, that of the Church is utterly false and pretentious. And this includes its blessings and its cursings; its excommunication, so dreaded by its people, has no moral or spiritual effect whatever; its results are political and social only and so but another means to power. And such also is Peter. Aside from its cosmological meaning, Peter’s story is the veriest nonsense—one mortal man endowed with the power over all humanity for all eternity; we thought that only God had this authority. In things religious, Catholics are indeed credulous but can they be so credulous as to believe that pre-Christian sages like Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates, and even Buddha require this ignorant Jewish fisherman to bind and loose their souls? And what of those pre-Christian Initiates from whom these ignorant religionists got their knowledge? Are they too bound and loosed by Peter? No, and neither are we. Such a man as Peter never existed; what then of the Catholic claim that he founded the Papacy of Rome? It is one with Romulus founding Rome itself; thus Peter is but an eponym. Yet the Catholic Encyclopedia says his founding of the Roman bishopric is “among the best ascertained facts of history,” and “no scholar now dares contradict it.” This is just a sample of Catholic scholarship. With its capacity for intellectual dishonesty, anything can be proved. And if no scholar dares contradict it, it is only because no scholar has sufficient knowledge to do so, thanks to two thousand years of Catholic scholarship.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead. 31. And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get ye forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord as ye have said. Thus stands the record, and upon that record religion must stand or fall, for if it be literally true and historical, this monster should be damned instead of worshiped; and if it be but mythology, the Bible’s religious authority is gone forever. The latter, we claim, is its true nature. That the race can read it, believe it, and still worship its monstrous God is an index of our intelligence, our knowledge of Causation, Reality, Truth. It is that of the child and the savage, yet this is the intelligence that is running our world; this is the intelligence that sustains our religion, nationalism, commercialism—and the giving away of countries on the words of a myth. These are not the fruits of wisdom and understanding but of incredible ignorance. Do you wonder then that we have war and oppression, crime and corruption? What would you expect of beings still in the God-worshiping stage? The destruction of the firstborn was the final touch; the broken Pharaoh was willing now to let the people go. Had this been history they would have been driven out or put in a ghetto. But what were these firstborn, and what the destruction? Literally, it should be the lastborn, final elements in the atomic table, but it all depends on what the mythologist was thinking about. Perhaps he knew that these last and heaviest elements were the first to be afflicted with disintegration and radiation. Our scientists are well aware of this process but they are not fully aware of its biologic significance, namely, that through disintegration and radiation creative intelligence becomes free from matter to create biologic forms, and atomic energy free to become biotic energy. As such it becomes vital enough to warrant a place in creation mythology; as history it does not. The ancients were well aware of the significance of this process but a mythologist could not say so in plain words, and so he made an allegory out of it. And the priestly scribe gave it a name; he called it “circumcision”—the removal through radiation of the genetic’s obstruction, namely, physical matter; and ridiculous as the terminology is, this is the place for it, Exodus, not Genesis. To quote the Kabbalah again: “The spirit clothes itself to come down and unclothes itself to go up.” And so all the elements going out must be circumcised (chapter 12). Later we will find them clothing themselves in flesh and again the priest has a strange and wonderful name for it.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  To quote him directly: “Under the Ostrogothic kingdom the manners in Italy might seem to revert to the dignified austerity of the old Roman Republic.” The Vandals were ignorant and hence destructive but the Church has put upon them far too much blame for the havoc she herself had wrought. As Draper said: “It was not the Goths, nor the Vandals, nor the Normans, nor the Saracen, but the popes and their nephews who produced the dilapidation of Rome.” This was Christian Rome. As for Christian Greece: Eternal summer gilds thee yet, But all, except thy sun, has set. Byron, Don Juan , Canto HI Nor was it pagan sin that destroyed the Roman Empire; since it was thoroughly Christianized by the fifth century, the claim that its fall was due to the enervating influence of Christianity would be more logical; in fact, it was the natural result of Augustine’s City of God—take no thought for this world, prepare for the next. Such was the Christian teaching. When Celsus reproved the Christians for not helping the pagans defend the Empire, Origen replied, “We defend it with our prayers.” And so it fell, and with it, a thousand years of darkness. The nadir of this Christian night was around the seventh, eighth and ninth centuries, practically a blank page in European history. Nothing was done of any consequence, yet this period was most prolific in the production of saints. From this we can see where the saints come from—out of the night of ignorance, fear and superstition, the three grey hags with the single eye, the eye of faith. With this all Christendom saw Reality inverted: truth was error, right was wrong, and science of the devil. During this “Reign of Thartac,” education was frowned upon. As Compayre said, “Once the pagan schools were closed Christianity did not open others, and after the fourth century a profound night enveloped humanity. The labor of the Greeks and Romans was as though it had never been.” The only effort to restore education was made by those barbarians the Church claims to have civilized. Theodoric the Goth brought to his court all the artists and scholars of his day, and his daughter Amalasuntha carried on the work after his death. Charlemagne tried to reestablish general education because, as he said, “the study of letters is well-nigh extinguished through the neglect of our ancestors.” But “the monks and bishops resisted the pressure of Charlemagne and closed nearly the whole of the schools as soon as he was dead.” Bishop Brown in The Bankruptcy of Christian Super-naturalism , p. 102. It is the proud boast of the Catholic Church that its “monks and bishops” kept alive the light of learning throughout this night. It did, but it also kept it to itself and for the very good reason that this light was also a means to power. For the same reason it kept it from the masses; these could neither read nor write.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  When they (the wise men)3 had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was (Matt., Chap. 2). This is the mysterious “Star of Bethlehem,” over which even our scientists argue and guess. Because it’s in the Bible, they must find an explanation. This well illustrates the plight of those who accept absurd hypotheses then wrestle with their absurd deductions. Why not recognize it for another of those unprovables and throw it out? Had such a phenomenon actually occurred two thousand years ago, it would have been recorded by someone, the great Ptolemy, for instance. It was before his time, but had it been real no doubt he would have mentioned it. The reason he did not was because there was no such phenomenon. It was a star all right but that one seen crystal clear in Maia’s womb, namely a nascent sun in the womb of space. Thus as we said, “out of the womb of time and space a sun is born.” Here it was a star in the true etymological sense, an astral entity. If our world in its solar stage, the time might be some trillion years B.C.— B(efore) (the) C(onfusion). Little wonder then it’s been a mystery. “Such stories as these echo from the dim horizon of all religions, invest the birth and infancy of the spiritually elect with wonder. Legend and symbol, memory and devotion combine to weave the fabric of them, and it is beyond our power to disentangle their strangely colored strands and find the fact.” Atkins.4 The fact is not at all difficult to find when the fact is known, namely, the creative process. This is the basis of all mythology, all metaphysics, and all religion, that is the philosophy thereof. Long before religion existed, man learned from nature the facts of Reality and put them into a form of narrative known as mythology. In this the impersonal forces were personified, they were given names, they became gods, and devils, heroes and saviors. As the natural facts underlying them were forgotten, the personifications became the realities, endowed with moral instead of creative qualities. And here mythology became theology. Thus belief in theology and religion is due to ignorance of fiction as well as fact. And yet we have such statements as this: “For theology is a science—the Queen of Sciences; it is the science of objective revelation, which has come to the rescue of reason.” Reverend M. O’Connor. Come to bedevil reason would be more correct. Would you call the Gospels science? Would you call the following rational? 13.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  Now Nimrod on hearing of this wonder child sent soldiers to kidnap him but God blinded them with a cloud of darkness. This so frightened Nimrod he fled to the land of Babel. (So Babel was a land, not just a tower, and that’s what we made it—earth.) When first we meet with the scriptural Abraham he is called Abram, and according to our “best authorities” the word means “lifted up,” “exalted.” The “up” and “exalted,” however, do not refer to his human position but to his planetary position—the highest planes in Involution. But where did the word itself come from? Is it Hebrew, or is it, like their history, borrowed mythology? In our Preface we said the Hebrews got many of their religious ideas from India, not God, and here we have some proof of this. Abram is but the Hindu Brama, with the a as prefix instead of suffix; and Brama was the original name of the Hindu Creator. Later the letter h was added, thus making it Brahma. So with Abram; it also acquired an h and became Abraham. To see the source of this more clearly, we have only to write down the Hindu name of Brahma’s source, namely, Vzrabrahm . In Persia the name was originally Abriman, which also acquired an h and became Ahriman—an “evil deity; the ruler over the kingdom of darkness.” the Babylonians also had their Abraham, only they spelt it Abarama. He was a farmer and mythologically contemporary with the Hebrew Abraham. Commenting on this, one of our “great Bible students” had this to say: “The Patriarch of Ur about whom we are studying probably was related to the farmer who lived near Babylon. At any rate they were not the same person, because they had different fathers, and the farmer was not a monotheist. But family names persisted in the ancient days among Semites, and we may suppose that a near descendant of this farmer became a monotheist, moved to Haran, and then went on to Canaan.” Thus do the credulous account for parallel myths. The Moslems also claim Abraham as their “spiritual father,” but to them he is Ibrahim. He it was who produced the Kaaba, the sacred stone at Mecca, a relic of a myth about that stone called Earth. And Abram’s father was Terah, so like the Latin terra , also earth. Now to form an earth every Creator, except the Jews’ and Christians’, must have a female consort, matter. In the Greek myth the Creator marries his sister, shocking indeed; in the Hebrew he marries his half-sister, which is quite all right. To our Bible students these little touches are called “Jewish refinements.” Here the consort was Sarai, and as with Abram and Brama, an h was added and she became Sarah. But it so happens that Brahma had another name, Ishvara, and his wife was Shri.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  When this alleged revelation was written, supposedly near the close of the first century, there may or may not have been seven churches in Asia Minor, but the number is not important; seven was chosen regardless of fact, because of its symbolic significance. Indeed we have some evidence on this point. The Alogi, who opposed the Montanists, contended there was no church in Thyatira at that time, and since then the only proof of this church’s existence is this revelation itself. Now that we understand its true nature, we see the Alogi may have been right. The seven letters to these churches, or planes, are but descriptions of and admonitions to the life thereof. As anything else they aren’t even good sense. So many practical things to be said and this mentor deals only in symbols so fantastic Western man has not been able to comprehend them in two thousand years. What he needs is cosmology, not theology. The seven spirits are the seven divisions of planetary life, and as such, stand figuratively before the throne of the planetary Logos. This latter, actually the genetic intelligence, warns, threatens and admonishes the lazy, lagging epigenetic, exactly as in Exodus, Joshua, Judges, and so on. The seven churches are identical with the seven zodiacal stages from Leo to Aquarius. And this is the mystery of Revelation 1-3. [image "image" file=Image00013.jpg] Ephesus1. Unto the angel of the church of Ephesus write; These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks; 2. I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars: 3. And hast borne, and hast patience, and for my name’s sake hast laboured, and hast not fainted. 4. Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love. 5. Remember therefore from whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will remove thy candlestick out of his place, except thou repent. 6. But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate. 7. He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God (Chap. 2). This is the language of Genesis and its meaning is identical. What has borne with patience is the earth itself, or rather the Life Principle within it. Here in matter it has labored long and suffered much, bondage in Egypt, so to speak. If it will not awaken and remember its source and purpose, it will remain there.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  This is how it reads: This then is what I conceive O my God when I hear thy Scriptures saying, In the beginning God made heaven and earth: and the earth was invisible and without form, and darkness was upon the deep, and not mentioning what day thou createst them; this is what I conceive, that because of the heavens—that intellectual heaven, whose intelligences know all at once, not in part, not darkly, not through a glass, but as a whole, in manifestation face to face; not this thing now, that thing anon; but (as I said) know all at once, without any succession of times; and because of the earth invisible and without form, without any succession of time, which succession presents ‘this thing now, that thing anon; because where there is no form, there is no distinction of things; it is then, on account of these two, a primitive formed and a primitive formless; this one, heaven, but the heaven of heavens; the other earth but the earth movable and without form; because of these two do I conceive did the Scriptures say without mention of days, In the beginning God created heaven and earth. For, forthwith it subjoined what earth it spoke of; and also in that the firmament is recorded to be created the second day, and called heaven, it conveys to us of which heaven he before spoke, without mention of days. And this goes on for pages, ending in rhapsodical raving. And for this the Christian world renounced Greek science and philosophy; for this all ancient learning was burned in the marketplace. If ever Disraeli’s words were applicable it is here: “It is worse than a crime; it is a mistake.” A crime may affect only a few, and for a brief period, whereas a mistake of this proportion affects the destiny of the race; it can even subvert Evolution —and did. Thus are the sins of the Christian Fathers visited upon their sons, and not just to the fourth generation, but to the present time. But for this crime the light of Greece might have burned on, from Aristarchus to Copernicus, from Aristotle to Bacon, and from Democritus to Darwin. Hero’s steam engine might have been perfected, America discovered in 492 . Why, we might now be civilized. But no, that guiding light went out and darkness was again upon the deep. Until this triumph of fanaticism, the ancient world was on its way to true enlightenment. Besides those already mentioned, it had produced such men as Pythagoras, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, and many others. Collectively, they laid the philosophic and even scientific bases for true civilization; the Christian Church destroyed them. “The Emperor Justinian closed the doors of the Academy at Athens, and the seven philosophers, who alone represented the Neoplatonic faith, took their books and sought the hospitality of the East.” Hodges. And not until their philosophy reappeared did the darkness disappear.

• From Boys & Sex (2020)

  At first I found it inexplicable that boys used such violent words in reference to sex. Why would you be proud of being a lousy lover? If they were truly talking about sex in those situations, they might bring up pleasure, connection, finesse: they wouldn’t weaponize it. But the whole point of “locker room banter” is that it’s not actually about sex, and that, I think, is why guys were more ashamed to discuss it as openly with me as topics that were equally explicit. Those (often clearly exaggerated) stories are in truth about power: about asserting masculinity through control of women’s bodies. And that requires—demands—a denial of girls’ humanity. In mixed-sex groups, teenagers may talk about “hooking up” (which is already impersonal—if you want to make them gag, use the phrase “making love”), but when guys are on their own, it can be hard to tell if they’ve engaged in an intimate act or have just returned from a visit to a construction site. They nail, they pound, they bang, they smash, they slam, they hammer. They “hit that,” they “tap that ass,” they “tear her up,” they “destroy” her. The truth is less important than the posturing itself: using symbolic aggression toward women to bond and validate their heterosexuality. Dismissing that as “locker room banter” denies the ways that language can desensitize and abrade boys’ ability to see girls as people deserving of respect and dignity. And, in fact, by the time they are in college, athletes are three times more likely than other students to be accused of sexual misconduct or intimate partner violence. That puts such bluster in a different light.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  According to the Tell-el-Amarna tablets it was originally called Urusalim—Ur and Salem, light and peace— identical with the city of Abram and Melchizedek. But these involutionary cities never stay luminous and peaceful long; they soon become the battleground of warring Titans—the “war in heaven,” “the wars of Jehovah,” and others. This is the warfare of David, the king. But David was not only a warrior; he was also a lecher, a thief, a murderer and a bandit. Next to Joshua’s God he is, perhaps, the worst character in the scriptures. This we learn from his means of securing wives and concubines, of which he had many. His first wife was Michal, Saul’s daughter. But Saul, fearing David, and hoping to be rid of him, sent him on a dangerous mission. This was to secure for him 100 Philistine foreskins as a dowry. To the smart boy David this was child’s play, so he doubled the dowry, 200 foreskins. This not only pleased Saul but Michal also and so she married him. His second wife was Abigail, the wife of Nabal. By a lifetime of toil this man had acquired great wealth in sheep and goats. On learning of this, David blackmailed him. He demanded tribute or death. When Nabal refused, David sent 400 men to kill him, but his partner in crime saved him the trouble, “the Lord smote Nabal, that he died.” Now David sent for Abigail and made her his wife. His next conquest was even more despicable. While spying on Bathsheba at her bath, he fell in love with her. But alas she, too, was married, to Uriah, a military hero. So what to do? Why, as he did to Nabal. To this end he sent a letter to Joab his general ordering him to put Uriah in the forefront of battle that he might be killed. He was, and David married Bathsheba. In the meantime he was killing Philistines by the tens of thousands. And this is the book we compel our children to read for moral uplift. If it be history, and if God required a man to build him a holy temple, lead His “chosen people” and serve as forebear to His “only begotten son,” why should He choose a man like David? For the same reason he chose the murderous Moses and Joshua. Force and violence are His way and so He needed an agent of like nature. “God is a man of war,” and to Him David attributed all his warlike power. God is my strength and power. He teaches my hands to war. Thou hast girded me with strength to battle. Thou hast also given me the necks of mine enemies (Psalm 18). Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad (2 Sam. 22:43).

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  Enough nails and wood from the cross were discovered to build a score of them, though Constan-tine’s mother in her day could not find the original. Washington Irving went further: concerning the wood of the cross, he said “There is enough extant to build a ship of the line.” Every church in Europe had these “holy relics”; indeed three of them had the one spear with which Longinus pierced Jesus’ side. This, by the way, caused a serious internal strife. A Sultan presented the supposedly real one to the city of Rome. The French cardinals were horrified; the original was in Paris, they said. The German cardinals ridiculed both for, as they said, everyone knows the original is in Nuremberg. Such antics seemed bad enough while we believed in the historicity of the Christ story, but when we know its purely mythical nature they take on a double meaning—dishonesty as well as credulity. And speaking of credulity, another “money-making scheme” was, and still is, the “holy places” of Palestine. Concerning these and the gullibility of pilgrims thereto, the Encyclopaedia Britan-nica has this to say: “It is a pathetic record. No site, no legend is too impossible for the unquestioning faith of these simple-minded men and women. And by comparing one record with another, we can follow the multiplication of ‘holy places’ and sometimes can even see them being shifted from one spot to another as the centuries pass. Not one of these devout souls has any shadow of suspicion that, except natural features (such as the Mount of Olives, the Jordan, Ebal, and Gerazim) and possibly a very few individual sites (such as Jacob’s well at Shechem) there was not a single spot in the whole elaborate system that could show even the flimsiest evidence of authenticity.” Thus does modern scholarship bear out our contention. Not one of these places or relics is genuine, not even Jacob’s well. They are all mythic material, now commercial material of a money-hungry Church. This is the meaning of our statement—the Church turned Golgotha into Golconda. It was for plunder this Golconda was turned into a battleground—that of the Crusades. Ostensibly the purpose was to wrest the tomb of Christ from the “unclean” hands of the infidels, but the real motivation was hungry Europe’s envy of the comparative wealth and splendor of Araby. This has long been overlaid with Christian sanctity but the contemporary Pope, Urban II, made no bones about it; in fact, it was his inducement to volunteers. In an address at Clermont he said: “The wealth of our enemies will be yours, and you will despoil them of their treasures.” This was also the motive for the plunder and exile of the wealthy Jews and Mohammedans in Spain. Several hundred thousand were killed or banished and their property confiscated by the Church. And “the Pope granted indulgences to all who carried on this pious work,” wrote Vacandard, a Catholic historian. “Pious work!” This is some more of their intellectual dishonesty.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  All this realized, we know of nothing in all literature that needs debunking more than this so-called revelation. It is not to be taken seriously, that is religiously, because it is not what it is alleged to be—a vision of the awful majesty of God, his retribution upon wicked humanity, his promise of a new heaven and a new earth, the posthumous existence of Christ, and his preeminence in heaven. This is no part of Reality; it is but priestly “stage props.” So again, we know of nothing so deserving of the phrase, “Much ado about nothing,” spiritually. Stripped of its nonsense, it is but the creative process, the many visions, but different aspects of this, thrown together without logic or sequence, either by the author because he did not know the sequence, or by subsequent redactors who desired to hide its true meaning. The book opens with the 7 letters to the 7 churches, but as this is more apropos of subsequent “mysteries,” we will leave it with a promise of a surprise when later we return to it. Here we will begin with Chapter 4. As the book is much too long to deal with verse by verse, we will comment only on what is most relevant. 1. After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. 2. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. 3. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald. After learning about revelators from Ezekiel, we should know what this is—ecclesiastical deception. There are no revelators, no prophets, and no prophecies in the scriptures; there are only cunning priests religionizing cosmology. There was no door opened in heaven, and there was no voice as of a trumpet; there was only pagan imagery and symbolism. The throne is the earth itself, set up in that heaven called space; the rainbow round about it is its cosmogonical trajectory as represented by the zodiac. The precious stones are but lapidarian symbols thereof, as of the Jews. The jasper, emerald and sardine (sardonyx) stones are the gem symbols of Pisces, Gemini, and Cancer. See p. 375. 5. And out of the throne proceeded lightlings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God. The “seven Spirits of God” are the seven plane forces in Involution, and their thunder and lightning represent their violence. 6.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  Their present sequence is the work of a later priesthood that either ignorantly or maliciously confused them. The key to it lies not in the textual sequence, but in the planetary sequence, and so it is this we will follow. But where, you ask, is the figurative earth this time? It is Jericho instead of Egypt. The parallel is cunningly hidden by presenting Joshua’s Red Sea incident first, that is, the crossing of the Jordan. We, however, will follow the Creative process. 1. Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in (as in Egypt). 2. And the Lord said unto Joshua (as he did unto Moses), See, I have given into thine hand Jericho (Egypt), and the king thereof (Pharaoh), and the mighty men of valour (his charioteers). 3. And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days. 4. And seven priests shall bear before the ark seven trumpets of rams’ horns: . . . and the priests shall blow with the trumpets (the seven plagues of the Moses myth, and both are chemical disintegration) (Chap. 6). And for twenty-five hundred years the Jews have been blowing a ram’s horn, the shofar; I hope that they will now see that this is as mythical as all the rest. 16. And it came to pass at the seventh time, when the priests blew with the trumpets, Joshua said unto the people, Shout; for the Lord hath given you the city. 20. So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city. Here we have in cryptic form the long account of Egypt’s conquest, namely, the destruction of matter. We have also a fact not revealed in Exodus, that the destruction of matter is accomplished by vibration—we called it radiation, and the scientist, fission. As stated elsewhere, all the details of Creation cannot be presented in one myth, hence the many. Collectively they tell a fairly complete story, but only abysmal ignorance of the subject can look upon them as racial history. And this, we claim, the Jews have done since 400 B.C., hence their racial delusions, one of which is their right to take whatever they want. Another is that they bless all places, and now we find that they not only destroy Jericho but put a curse upon it. 17. And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent (the Hebrews’ “wooden horse”).

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  These were “consecrated unto the Lord”—the Hebrew “fence” for stolen goods; “they shall come into the treasury of the Lord.” The “tabernacle of the Lord” is now “the treasury of the Lord,” the human body, on which a later priesthood built a treasury for loot; another even built a Vatican on it. That this Hebrew conquest of Jericho is a myth is proved by recent discoveries. According to Barton, the pre-Israelitish city of Jericho was so small that “the whole of it could have been put into the Colosseum at Rome.” Thus there was no great city of Jericho at that time for the Jews to take. And now comes the Red Sea parallel: the children of Israel are about to pass over a body of water again on dry land. And this passing over takes place at precisely the same time as that of Exodus. What is more, the same rites and ceremonies are repeated, though differently placed to hide the parallel. They celebrate the Passover; they are also circumcised. “And the Lord said unto Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you,” 5:9. The reproach of “accursed” matter. But they were circumcised in Moses’ day. This is not a second cut-off, but a tip-off that this is a wholly unrelated myth. They remove from Shittim (the Jewish concept of matter, elsewhere called dragon-dirt) and arrive at the river Jordan, the evolutionary equivalent of Jabok, over which Jacob passed in Involution. Here they tarry three days, during which the officers instruct the people. 3. And they commanded the people, saying, When ye see the ark of the covenant of the Lord your God, and the priests of the Levites bearing it, then ye shall remove from your place, and go after it (Chap. 3). The three days represent that halfway goal where, as in Peleg’s day, “the earth was divided” into Involution and Evolution. Here the genetic principle, the Levites, is awakened and begins to “pass over,” the ark, as we said, being the carrier. And now the Red Sea miracle. 13. And it shall come to pass, as soon as the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off from the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand upon an heap. Jordan is the mythic “river of life,” whose waters came “down from above,” Involution; and when they were cut off they did literally “stand upon an heap,” a heap of matter called earth. These are “the waters standing in line” that Moses saw, and later crossed. And now as in Moses’ day, the people gather stones and build a memorial, that their descendants may remember that here “the Lord of all the earth” wrought miracles for the elect of all the earth, the Jewish people.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  The many descendants of these three were not even races but divisions in the earth itself: “And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided . . .” (Chap. 10:25). Divided into Involution and Evolution and its planes. The earth now created, we find a very different Noah. No longer is he the saint who “walked with God,” but an old reprobate who got drunk, exposed his nakedness and cursed his son for seeing it—”Demon est Deus inversus . “ 20. And Noah began to be a husbandman, and he planted a vineyard: 21. And he drank of the wine, and was drunken; and he was uncovered within his tent (Chap. 9). That is, he was, like Adam, naked. This is the naked earth— Gymnoge . He was also, like Adam, a tiller of the ground; in other words, he was Adam. The vineyard he planted was the Garden of Eden; the grapes he grew were the forbidden fruit of “the tree of good and evil”; the wine he drank was of this tree, and as with Adam, it was too much for him, therefore he also slept. Don’t blame him, however, for even God had to rest. The wine is the opiate matter and its story is very old. In the Puranas of India, Indra the Creator became drunk on soma, an intoxicant that produces stupefaction rather than hilarity; actually the deathlike sleep of genetic consciousness in matter. And how many of us can see the epigenetic parallel? In this materialistic cycle we too are drunk on soma and stupefied spiritually. That is why we cannot see the meaning of the scriptures, or solve “the riddle of the universe.” 22. And Ham, the father of Canaan (now the evolutionary etheric), saw the nakedness of his father, and told his two brethren without. We dislike the Greek story of Cronos taking advantage of his father’s nakedness, but it’s all right here—this is “the word of God,” and so is the tale of Lot’s daughters. Naked Noah is naked earth; naturally, then the first emanation, etheric, saw the earth’s nakedness as it had not yet been covered with vegetation. And now, like God covering Adam, “. . . Shem and Japheth took a garment (vegetation) and laid it upon both their shoulders, and went backward, and covered the nakedness of their father, and their faces were backward and they saw not their father’s nakedness.” This casting the garment backward is identical with Deucalion and Pyrrha casting the stones backward, the creative process reversed, evolutionary fission instead of involutionary fusion. Their faces backward from their father, earth, means they were turned from dense matter toward Evolution. Otherwise, why should a man’s nakedness be such a moral offense in those primitive days, that a third of the race should be cursed for all time? The Jews, even today, are not oversensitive about it.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  Christ gave us the latter but it is no more his than his philosophy. It came not from him nor from his God; it is from man and from man came Christ’s. It antedates him by untold millenia, and even in his day Hillel taught the same fine precepts: “Judge not thy neighbor until thou hast been in his place.” “Do not do unto others what thou wouldst not they should do unto thee; this is the whole of the law—the rest is only commentary.” And so taught Socrates and Plato, Buddha and Confucius. “The doctrine of our master (Confucius) consists in having an invariable correctness of heart, and in doing towards others as we would that they should do to us.” “Socrates and Plato are far superior to the Jewish moralists.” And “let us add that no modern theology has taught higher and purer moral notions than those of Aeschylus and his school.” Professor Ma-haffy, D.D. “In reading Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius or Seneca, I often believe myself hearing the sage of Nazareth. The dignity of man, the all surpassing value of virtue, the independence and fortitude of the righteous man, the superior value of spiritual qualities as compared to all worldly goods, the sacrifice of selfish enjoyments and of life for the sake of virtue and truth—all these ideals, so worthy of reverence, we find in the one as well as in the other. The striking resemblance between the Christian and the Stoic doctrine . . . cannot escape being noticed by all.” Staeudlin, in his History of Moral Philosophy . Believers in the Christian origin of morals might also read Josephus’s account of the Essenes, whom he calls “the most virtuous men on earth,” and whose cult, according to Pliny, existed for ages before the time of Christ. To quote Josephus in part: “They are eminent for fidelity, and are ministers of peace; whatsoever they say is firmer than an oath, but swearing is avoided by them, and they esteem it worse than perjury.” Speaking of the vows that each must take, he says: “And before he is allowed to touch their common food he is obliged to take tremendous oaths; that in the first place, he will exercise piety towards God; and then that he will observe justice towards men; and that he will do no harm to anyone, either of his own accord or by the command of others . . . that he will keep his hands clear from theft and his soul from unlawful gain. . .”And what more did Jesus teach? Nothing, save false doctrines about God and man. The result is hypocrites and corruptionists instead of Essenes. No, morality and wisdom came not from Christ; on the contrary, this Christ’s teaching came from the morality and wisdom of his day.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  Is this but primitive man mistaking his own inner promptings for the voice of God, or is it a trick of the priestly trade? It is the latter and used only to give what they wanted divine authority. Spinoza, himself a Jew, said, whatever the Jews thought, they asserted God said it. God speaks not until he speaks as man. Once this simple fact is known, the trick no longer works. And now this talkative God foretells the future of his “chosen.” 13. And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years. If the gift of Palestine was a “Divine pronouncement” and a decree of God, then so is this. Why then call their bondage unjust and blame the Egyptians? Why slander them, and destroy them as Moses did? 16. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again . . . (Chap. 15). Do four generations make four hundred years? No matter, we have here the prophecy on which the Hebrew captivity in Egypt is based. This we will deal with more fully in Exodus; here we will say only that this is as spurious as all the rest. The Jews were never in bondage in Egypt save mythologically. The four hundred years are the four cycles in Involution and the fourth generation represents the earth. From this life will arise and ultimately return to its source. As yet it is still on the way down and so Abram now descends to a lower plane and acquires a new name. 12. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. 17. And it came to pass, that, when the sun went down, and it was dark, behold a smoking furnace, and a burning lamp that passed between those pieces (Chap. IS). So Abram also slept, but it is not the same sleep as that of Adam and Noah in dense matter. It is the sleep and the horror of the creative “spirit” as it descends into materiality. The primordial light has gone out, but soon it appears again as “a smoking furnace and a burning lamp.” That smoking furnace and burning lamp is the earth in its sun period. We are here taking liberties with the scriptural sequence, but since the Editor did likewise, innumerable times, we see no reason why we should not. Indeed without some rearrangement the true sequence, Creation, is lost. And who knows, perhaps the original sequence was confused for just that purpose. 3. And Abram fell on his face: and God talked with him, saying, 4. As for me, behold, my covenant is with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations (biologically, not ethnologically). 5.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself. . . . Grass, trees, fruit, and all this before the sun was created or ever it had rained on the earth, according to Genesis 2:5. This is real occultism and not one of our ecclesiastics knows what it means. With our theory, however, its meaning is obvious. On this third day and plane, grass, trees and fruit are purely ideative, defined in our outline as planetary ideation. On the metaphysical planes below, this becomes archetypal. There can be no other meaning to Genesis 2:4-5. “. . . the Lord God made the earth and the heavens, and every plant of the field before it was in the earth , and every herb of the field before it grew . “The Jews got this bit of occult truth from the Hindus. According to their cosmology all evolutionary forms were first created in mental, astral and etheric matter in Involution, these serving later as models for the physical. This does not mean that every form that has appeared in Evolution was there in archetype, thus proving each a permanent entity as some would like to believe; on the contrary, the specie and kingdom prototypes were there and their first evolutionary counterparts were endowed from the beginning with the capacity for incalculable proliferation, hence the myriads today. Be this as it may, to understand the myths such as this we must cease to think of the earth as of now and think in terms of a cosmic entity, invisible but evolving and creating for trillions of years before it became a visible, concrete object. This is the aforesaid key to the biologic kingdoms. There the reader may have had his doubts, not knowing he had read it all before in his holy scriptures. 13. And the evening and the morning were the third day. This third day and plane is the end of the ideative period and you will remember it was here Uranus, the last god in the Greek trinity, was dispatched. This is correct since he represented the end of ideation. Creation went on, however, under Cronos. This is Greek henotheism—one god at a time. No such change is recognised by the priest, however; to him the same God remains throughout, external and omnipotent. Now since there is only one Creator, this method is defensible, but it hides from us the all important fact that the creation of worlds is a natural process, cyclical in nature and incalculable in time. 14. And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years: 15. And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. 16.

• From The Confessions of Saint Augustine (354)

  Amidst these offences of foulness and violence, and so many iniquities, are sins of men, who are on the whole making proficiency; which by those that judge rightly, are, after the rule of perfection, discommended, yet the persons commended, upon hope of future fruit, as in the green blade of growing corn. And there are some, resembling offences of foulness or violence, which yet are no sins; because they offend neither Thee, our Lord God, nor human society; when, namely, things fitting for a given period are obtained for the service of life, and we know not whether out of a lust of having; or when things are, for the sake of correction, by constituted authority punished, and we know not whether out of a lust of hurting. Many an action then which in men’s sight is disapproved, is by Thy testimony approved; and many, by men praised, are (Thou being witness) condemned: because the show of the action, and the mind of the doer, and the unknown exigency of the period, severally vary. But when Thou on a sudden commandest an unwonted and unthought of thing, yea, although Thou hast sometime forbidden it, and still for the time hidest the reason of Thy command, and it be against the ordinance of some society of men, who doubts but it is to be done, seeing that society of men is just which serves Thee? But blessed are they who know Thy commands! For all things were done by Thy servants; either to show forth something needful for the present, or to foreshow things to come. These things I being ignorant of, scoffed at those Thy holy servants and prophets. And what gained I by scoffing at them, but to be scoffed at by Thee, being insensibly and step by step drawn on to those follies, as to believe that a fig-tree wept when it was plucked, and the tree, its mother, shed milky tears? Which fig notwithstanding (plucked by some other’s, not his own, guilt) had some Manichaean saint eaten, and mingled with his bowels, he should breathe out of it angels, yea, there shall burst forth particles of divinity, at every moan or groan in his prayer, which particles of the most high and true God had remained bound in that fig, unless they had been set at liberty by the teeth or belly of some “Elect” saint! And I, miserable, believed that more mercy was to be shown to the fruits of the earth than men, for whom they were created. For if any one an hungered, not a Manichaean, should ask for any, that morsel would seem as it were condemned to capital punishment, which should be given him.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  In this planetary isomerism lies also the meaning of the two ways Jesus, thereafter the Christ, delivered His message: the proverbs explained secretly to the disciples, and the promise of open demonstration. The one is planetary ideation impressed upon the involutionary forces, the other, their evolutionary expression. John puts it thus (16:25): “These things have I spoken unto you in proverbs: but the time cometh, when I shall no more speak unto you in proverbs, but I shall shew you plainly of the Father.” Potency and epiphany, and the latter, Epiphany or Twelfth Night, is this literalized and thus obscured. We would like to follow this inexorable process to its inevitable conclusion, but there are other incidents here that reveal quite clearly the fraudulent nature of this whole story. This, we think, the reader should know. One of these is the raising of Lazarus. This too is a miracle, but it is only a preview of Jesus’ own miraculous resurrection; therefore the two are one. 1. Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany . . . 4. When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God . . . (only the genetic’s sleep in matter). 6. When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. 11. These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may wake him out of sleep (Evolution). 14. Then said Jesus unto them plainly, Lazarus is dead (“dead matter,” the energy aspect). 17. Then when Jesus came, he found that he had lain in the grave four days already (middle point in Devolution). 37. And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died? 38. Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave , and a stone lay upon it. 39. Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. . . . 41. Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. 43. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. 44. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go (John 11). Here we have one of the greatest frauds and deceptions in the Bible. Besides being historically untrue, it is a copy brazenly offered as unique and original. Its source, however, is Egypt. Just as Jesus, the Judean Savior, went to Bethany to raise His friend, so Horus, the Egyptian Savior, went to Bethanu to raise his father.

• From Deceptions and Myths of the Bible (1975)

  Concerning Peter, Catholic apologists pretend to examine his position fairly and honestly, then present us with statements now known to be forgeries; they offer us documents dating back to the Dark Ages and ask us to accept the words of its benighted people. Then, to cap it all, quote from the source that deceived them. Of course the Bible proves “Peter’s Supremacy”—but the Bible is a book of mythology. That it does not provide a successor to Peter is a difficult point for the priestly sophists, yet they argue, and ably, that a successor is implied. When once they realize that Peter is the earth, they will see why no successor was provided. We trust they will also see the dishonesty of their arguments. They are not sincere examinations of the evidence, but only efforts of frightened little souls to defend a commitment, a refuge and a job. Now what applies to Peter applies to the whole mythic per-sonae . The twelve disciples were but the twelve planetary forces in Involution, later appearing as the twelve apostles with their “glad tidings” of life’s evolutionary resurrection. As such, they are the twelve sons of Jacob and the twelve tribes of Israel, of the New Testament. What part then did they play in the founding of the Church? None whatever; this was the work of priests three centries later. What the mythic twelve founded was the earth, and not by love but by violence. What then of their martyrdom? Why this was it; the violent death of the spirit principle. James and John were its thunderers . Peter was hung head downward, but so was the Tree of Life, and the pyramid “built from the top downward.” James was thrown from the top of the temple, but what temple? The planetary temple, and his fall made what the tree and the pyramid symbolize. Thomas, like Jesus, was a tekton , and like Jesus, a builder of this temple. Stephen was stoned to death, but according to apocryphal accounts, so was Jesus. As one version states it, he was “lapidated at the junction of two streams.” A deeper meaning than stoned would be turned to stone , at the junction of Involution and Evolution. This was Peter’s fate; not only was he hung head downward but from water he became petra , stone. This is the New Testament version of Demon est Deus inversus . And such is the painless record of apostolic martyrdom; such also is some of that attributed to the first Christians. They were thrown to the lions, but so was Daniel; they were imprisoned but so was Joseph. Actual martyrdom there was, and secular persecutions too, but they began not with the symbolic characters of this Creation myth, but with the actual characters who later, believing blindly in this myth, sought to impose it upon others. This they finally did, and because of it no one in two thousand years has had the intelligence to see the deception.