This should indicate that we are drawing towards the end of the strenuous part of the alleged journey, and radical and rapid changes may be expected, and these will be of an ethical

nature.

We are more than vindicated in this conclusion by the next stop.

Moseroth or Mosera means bonds, discipline, erudition, teaching, correcting.

We must remember that the first halting place of Abram in Canaan was Moreh, signifying the teacher.

PART XI

THE REHEARSAL

THE LIGHT PERIOD.

SCHOOLS AND DISCIPLINE

(Light reveals horrors as readily as it does glories.)

At this point an attempt is to be made to lift humanity out of the state of ignorance into which it had been submerged. Like a child it is to be coaxed to absorb the superstition, intolerance, and bigotry which will convert it into the fanatical hosts of the church, the ever ready mob, trembling under the rod of the Christian church, the dreadful excommunication. Gudgodah or Hor-hag-gid-gad, meaning cleft mountain, or hill of felicity.

Up to Moseroth, Aaron, meaning enlightener, had been high priest, that is, the high priest was the source of all that the people were permitted to know. Aaron dies here and Eleazar, his son, ministers in the priest's office in his stead. Eleazar means the help or court of god. Hor hag-gid-gad is thought to signify thunder. We believe it distinguishes exhortation from teaching.

It is the purpose to separate the school from the church, the hill from the mountain. This presages the establishing of parochial or parish schools. Parish means attached to the church.

Technically, parochial means narrow limits in sentiment or taste. Therefore the extent of learning is to be held to narrow limits.

The church is symbolized by the mountain, and the school by the hill. Hill also means district. One must traverse the hills to reach the mountain.

The cleft-mountain is important; it means a division of ecclesiastic labor.

The preacher stands up to preach, the teacher sits down

to teach, the people kneel down to pray, man lies down to die, and he is lowered into the grave.

What is to be taught in these schools?

The original system is the Jewish haggadic fables, and this corresponds to the church classification. The word haggadoth is derived from the root word from which hagidgad is derived. It means the legends, anecdotes, fables, and sayings from the Hebrew Talmud, especially illustrative of the law, a cunning method of instilling into the minds of the ignorant masses a pleasing and sympathetic respect for the church discipline, the very essence of bigotry. Hag means a witch, a sorceress, enchantress, hence the system consists of fanciful and improbable stories, expressly intended to beget superstitious fear, awe and wonderment.

Added to this are the apocryphal fables derived from the Persian, Arabian and Hindoo mythological systems. This is the source from which Christianity plagiarized practically all of its doctrines.

Untutored humanity was treated like a child, after it had been held in the "bondage" of ignorance for a thousand years. It had to be taught these fabulous things, in order to attract it mentally toward a course of inspired superstitious bigotry, to convert the Mosaic terrroism into a respectful fear and obedience towards the priestly discipline.

Hill means an embankment, hence we recognize the ulterior and invisible significance of this similitude. This "hill of felicity" is a fortress to stand between the church and the civil government. The masses are secretly being trained into fanatical intolerant mobs.

In warfare mounds are thrown up as fortresses. parochial schools are the army barracks of the church.

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To make its teachings attractive it selected the alleged Hebrew haggodoth, with its astounding romance and fable. If this were but a simple and harmless attitude of the church towards the ignorant masses it would be bad enough, but it has an ulterior purpose. The fanatical mobs which stood ever ready to respond to the consecrated fingers of the priests, during the

periods when the crusades plundered all the weak nations, and the hellish inquisition was fertilizing Europe with the blood of its own people, were incubated in this school.

Philosophy is no respecter of persons. It exposes hypocrisy as readily as it reveals the truth. One of the great mysteries of Christianity has ever been the curious fact that it is eternally and forever parading sorrow, grief, pain, and misery; never portraying external joy, happiness, pleasure, and comfort, but openly combatting them, because they tend to deprive the church of the opportunity to pose as consoler of sorrow.

The advocates of Christianity assume a hypocritical aspect of long suffering, patient, enduring sorrow and pain. They cultivate a cadaverous, sallow, weeping, appearance to enhance and exaggerate the idea of soul suffering. They advance the mean idea that humanity was born to suffer. Adam, "the son of God," inherited sorrow and pain.

This is pure hypocrisy or fanatical hysteria. There is not one plausible reason why a religion should require the debasement of the human body. A healthy mind cannot abide in an unhealthy, pain-racked body. The very attitude of the church is one of beggary and a plea for sympathy. Stop to consider a god requiring such supplication of any of his creations. Think of an all-powerful god creating things which cause disobedience to his own laws and wishes.

Here is the explanation.

A negative force congests; restraint and congestion beget pain. A positive force relaxes the congestion, giving freedom of action, with consequent pleasure and bodily comfort, due to proper respiration and circulation.

The Christian religion assumed a negative attitude from its very origin, attempting to congest humanity under its control, restraining natural liberties and forbidding physical expansion and pleasure and cultivating pain and sorrow, grief and suffering to vindicate a fictitious Christ voluntarily suffering for humanity, a presumptive and intrusive sacrifice.

From time to time the church has found it necessary to relax its rigid restraints, life becoming unendurable.

We may quickly understand the urgent necessity for the adoption of a pleasing literature to break the monotonous grind of church routine.

This is highly suggestive of the truth that higher education was only intended for the priesthood, that they might continue selfishly to pose as the learned masters, while developing in the masses that hysterical state of mind which causes overwrought persons to overflow with religious fervor, ecstasy, and rapture, which quickly may be transformed into bitter and vengeful fanaticism. This is why it is called a hill, an embankment; the educational system of the Christian church is its army barracks. Embankments have always been resorted to in warfare as fortresses or safeguards.

We shall see some rapid changes of policy from this point on.

Jothbathah or Jotbath means goodness.

Goodness means value, worth, excellence.

Jotbath is "a land of rivers of water." (Deut. 10:7.)

In the scriptures bread and water symbolize the chief supports of life, therefore by the same similitude "rivers of water" should signify abundant avenues of maintenance.

But we found that Abraham became the father of the multitudes signifying people, therefore "rivers of water" could also signify the masses available to the church, which would naturally contribute towards maintenance.

"At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto him and to bless him in his name unto this day." (Deut. 10:8.)

This separates the priesthood from the schoolteachers, establishing the hereditary rights of the priesthood.

Let us examine Jotbath more closely.

To value means appraise, assess, reckon, estimate, prize, esteem, treasure.

Worth means price, value, rate, desert, merit, virtue, excellence.