And these are but the leading characters. It is a strange fact that practically all the leading biblical characters meet with an untimely death. Surely it is anything but a sane calling with such flimsy evidences of reward.

It is plain that the reason is, these are but figurative characters and their murder involves no actual turpitude, and it is essential to eliminate them from further active participation in the system, which now is become but the putting into actual practice of that which has been so elaborately designed and rehearsed in the wholly romantic Hebraic system.

That prophecy is a fixed thing is easily proven.

"But the prophet which shall presume to speak a word in my name which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that prophet shall die." (Deut. 18:20.)

Here god is speaking although he is "neither man nor son of man."

The test of true prophecy is absurd.

"When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken." (Deut. 18:22.)

This is the stuff contained in the mass of testimony left in Gilead.

We believe it will be interesting to examine some of the surrounding facts associated with the immediate introduction of the Christian dispensation.

Elijah represented the active prophecy of the old testament, which could not pass over Jordan. He transferred his prophetic office to Elisha, who inspired John, who was the temporary, living prophet to announce the coming of Christ.

In view of what we have said in our previous chapter, it is evident that Elijah assumes the attitude of the electric god, for the meaning of the name is the Lord is God.

John is believed to be Elijah, also Christ, but says:

"I am not the Christ." (John 1:20.)

When asked if he were Elias, meaning Elijah, he said

No, and he then declared: "I am the voice of one crying in the wilderness," as said by the prophet Esaias, meaning Isaiah. This clears the matter.

Elijah, prophecy, in the Hebraic dispensation, is the supreme power to be transmitted to Christianity. Therefore god takes him, as spoken by god.

Elisha, the salvation of god, is made the agent for transmitting the power of prophecy over the Jordan. He speaks for god, not as god.

We may now understand why Elisha succeeds Elijah. Shah means monarch. Monarchy is to be established, that is why the "Kingdom of God" is so persistently named.

Esais, of whom John speaks, is the prophet Isaiah who prophesies "the voice of one crying in the wilderness," he speaks of John.

This refers to the wilderness through which the Israelites had passed before crossing over Jordan, the wilderness of ignorance, before the coming of Christ, the light of the world, human intellect.

Isaiah means the salvation of John.

Active prophecy was to give way to the voice of the evangelist or preacher.

"And the word was made flesh." (John 1:14.)

In simple, the evangelical work was personified in John. Where the Hebraic god was in heaven speaking through his prophets, we see in the Christian dispensation god becomes personified-god in the flesh. This we believe reveals the human tongue as the god manifested in the flesh through Christ.

All of these fanciful personages are but personified principles, like thought, speech, muscular action, etc.; put in forms they become flesh.

In a special chapter we exhibit the personification of the bones of the body, as representing the Israelites in which Abram, Isaac, Jacob, Noah, Shem, Jepheth, Ham, and their offspring are conspicuous characters, all merely symbolizing essential names, places, and conditions found in the grand rehearsal of the Christian exploitation.

It is useless to attempt to justify or defend the Christian scheme on any ground, so long as it is based upon fictions like these.

The well established fact that there is no more authentic foundation for the characters of the new testament than for the old, clearly reveals that the whole mass is fiction. For two hundred years there did not exist an authentic gospel of the new testament. The plea that they were lost is too puerile for consideration. To say they could be restored by traditional stories is equally absurd.

If one single important character is a myth, the whole Bible fabric falls to pieces. Origen, one of the founders of the church, admits that Christ is but a figurative thing. Why, then, should any of the others be real, living characters? There is not one single evidence outside the Bible lore, to prove they are, and yet they are all "preached to the multitude literally.”

How long will this false pretense continue? How long will humanity survive under a dual government maintained by corrupt political intrigues?

PART XXV

CHRISTIAN MYTHOLOGY. CREATING FALSE

BELIEFS

(A single false belief may poison the blood of a nation.)

Having taken a superficial view of the whole subject, to give understanding, we may now focus the plot into a more visible form.

The ecclesiasts conceived the idea of organizing a universal government to control and develop all of mankind, through which to exploit its powers and glorify itself.

Established civil governments, and strong kingdoms, already established over nations of well civilized peoples, forbade a direct introduction of such a revolutionary enterprise. Therefore a secret, oath-bound priesthood assumed the task of elaborating a religio-political organization to surreptitiously usurp control. This necessitated an authority superior to recognized civil authority.

The religious aspect was to win and convince the masses of people, and the political aspect was to persuade, bribe, and coerce civil rulers.

The whole scheme was worked out and theoretically rehearsed before it was cautiously introduced. To be a universal religion it was necessary to adopt the leading doctrines of all the influential forms of religions, that it might be "all things to all men."

To be a universal government it was necessary to establish a divine authority to appoint and depose kings, such authority to come direct from its fictitious god.

To this end the ecclesiasts plagiarized every important doctrine from previous religions and it secretly includes their gods, and pretends, figuratively at least, to worship them-sun-gods, fire-gods, light-gods, images, and natural objects, also innumer

able others, including the ancient phallic worship, human sacrifices, and cannibalism.

Genesis is the text-book minutely covering the genealogical line essential to establish the divine authority from god. This is a wholly fictitious and fabulous story with a childish attempt at adjustment with the scientific knowledge of that period, in order to claim also a divine right to all wisdom, and to teach the future generations.

The pivot upon which the whole enterprise turns is the power to rule and enlighten the new posterity to enable it to raise up a super-people wholly under its rule of obedience and discipline.

The first five books of the old testament are named the Pentateuch, "the five-fold book," meaning in the Hebrew Torah, "the law."

Ecclesia is derived from the Greek, signifying a legislative assembly.

Thus, from the very beginning, a form of law-making sovereignty was contemplated, the underyling purpose being adroitly concealed by an elaborately designed code wrapped in a bombastic and entertaining romance and fable.

The first ten words in the Bible establish the ecclesiastic or heavenly people who are to rule, and the common or earthy people who are to be governed.

Heaven means ecclesiastic government.

Ecclesia means the law-making power.

Earth means the common masses of producing people. This signifies a self-appointed guardianship over mankind and the usurpation of the powers of long-established civil institutions, which naturally have been developed out of the expanding intelligence and wisdom of evoluting races.

There is not one single word or indication to justify this enterprise. Every page of church history not sweetened by a fictitious genealogical tree, condems it as an evil thing. It confesses its antagonistic and warlike character and its determination to tear down what civilization has builded up.