Prisca means ancient. This merely disguises a pretty deceit to please women. Prisca is Priscilla, the wife of Aquila, "a friend to Paul." or friendly towards the church worker. The mentioning of Priscilla, the wife, before the husband, which is contrary to the old testament, is to encourage the assistance of the wife to hold the husband in sympathy with the church. (I Peter 3:1-7.)

"That they may be won by the conversation of the wives. "While they behold your chaste conversation coupled with

fear."

The significance of the meaning ancient for Prisca, is found in the fifth verse of the above chapter.

This becomes a very interesting little romance. Aquila is supposed to be a converted Jew, whom Paul picked up at Corinth, the Jew having been ordered out of Rome by Claudius. The name Aquila means eagle, but is described in Micah 1:16 as the Griffon vulture. He was a native of Pontus, meaning the sea, about which we find all of the apostles hovering, hence it is logical that the sea symbolizes the Holy See, meaning seat, from sedere, that is, all of these working forces are sent out from a common seat of power and instruction.

In any event, the Griffon vulture becomes an agent of the church.

"And he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the fowls that fly in the midst of heaven, come gather yourselves together unto the supper of the great God.

"That ye may eat the flesh of Kings, and the flesh of captains, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of all men both free and bond, both small and great." (Rev. 19:17-18.)

Anyone who has ever witnessed a feast of vultures on a carcass in the desert, will quickly recognize the grewsome origin of this savage picture in Revelation.

Aquila accompanied Paul to Ephesus, meaning desire, or desirable.

Pause a moment, reader, and picture in your mind, one of the alleged founders of Christianity tramping about with a renegade Jew and his wife, as a part of the great work, and

pausing at Ephesus, desire, desirability, long enough to instruct Apollos in some grewsome task.

Apollos signifies one that destroys and lays waste.

That Paul is merely the trumpet for the distribution of this fiendish program under the disguise of soft words and names, is proven by the alleged utterance of the fictitious Peter, backing up Paul in II Peter 3:16.

The next character associated with the name Paul, is Onesiphorus, signifying profitable, he who brings profit. He also is at Ephesus with Paul. The presence of all these at Ephesus merely signifies the desirability of adopting these influences in the church work.

Erastus means amiable. Also a friend of Paul at Ephesus. Naturally, amiability would be a most powerful assistant to the church worker. But in this case there is a broader significance. Erastus was of Corinth, signifying, that which is satisfied, hence this amiability was due to a feeling of satisfaction.

Here is a most significant one. Paul volunteered the statement, without explanation, that, he had left Trophimus, a Christian convert residing in Ephesus, in Miletum, sick.

As we have explained, Ephesus means desire.
Trophimus means well educated, well brought up.

Miletum means scarlet, red. Inasmuch as this ancient city was torn and destroyed long before the alleged time of Paul, we shall assume that the name is merely adopted to symbolize, perhaps, a condition of bloody warfare, hence the well-educated were left sick and stricken. But, we are given a clue, in, that it is in Ionia. In I Macc. 8:8, Ionia means India, signifying praise and the law. The well-educated and well brought up were, by praise and flattery, brought under the church law, hence, they sought solace for their sins and sickness direct from the church.

It is from II Tim. 4:21, we find a continuation of this duplicity on the part of the alleged Paul.

He salutes Eubulus, meaning prudence and a good counselor. Merely cautioning the church workers that prudence is always a good counselor.

Pudens, meaning modesty, shamefaced.

This was the assumed attitude to invoke confidence and sympathy. Linus, meaning nets, more clearly defines the concealed purpose.

"The Kingdom of heaven is like a net." (Matt. 13:47.) Read this chapter in Matthew, if you want a thrill. "Follow me and I will make you fishers of men." (Matt. 4:19.)

PART XXXI

SOWING IMBECILITY

THE MAKING OF CHURCH LITERATURE

To deceive and cheat humanity was the original purpose of the founders of Christianity. To profess that the so-called church fathers were fools, is to wholly destroy their preposterous works; to admit they were wise men, is to convict them of willful perjury, and their own works betray them.

The fact of the mere existence of the so-called gospels proves nothing. Antiquity in most things qualifying human progress, signifies the crudity of early stages of evolution, not the perfection of wisdom. Perfection comes with finish and completion.

The very best authority we can find concerning the origin of certain alleged church writings, clearly defines all of the gospels as the merest rot and tomfoolery, pressed upon the superstitious minds of uneducated people at a period when they were stupefied by a hypnotic romancing, much of which was not intended to foster religion. It was a contest of fabulous stories between many men and many factions, finally culminating in a well-defined priesthood which ingloriously crushed all but the Christian scheme-a well-defined conspiracy to conquer the world and exploit humanity.

The organization of any institution which primarily must be supported by humanity, is an exploitation, hence it cannot be divine-God does not exploit his own creations for profit. The church wealth is evidence of profiteering.

Let common sense, in this enlightened age, judge if these things are entitled to the slightest consideration.

In the first hundred years after Christ, there were no authorized gospels, hence they are reported as lost. The second hundred years struggled to establish gospels and doctrines.

Everything purporting to belong to that period is classed as subsequent fiction.

The greater part of the writings of the second century after Christ are also alleged to have been lost.

Therefore everything declared to be authentic as gospels are hearsay and palpable fiction-no matter at what period written.

The most essential period in the establishment of the Christian literature necessarily was the first centuries of the Christian era.

Waite divides the first two centuries into the following well defined periods:

First period, apostolic age. A. D. 30-A. D. 80.

Second period, apostolic fathers. A. D. 80-A. D. 120. Third period, the three apocryphal gospels. A. D. 120–130. Fourth period, forty years of writers. A. D. 130-170. Fifth period, the four canonical gospels. A. D. 170-185. Sixth period, close of the second century. A. D. 185—200. This was the formative period of Christianity.

The word Jesus signifies to heal, but as Jesus the Christ it has been frequently forged into profane history in vain attempt to give it authenticity as signifying a supernatural human being. (Chap. 3, 18th book, Antiquities, Josephus.)

The use of the Christ character in religions, antedates Christianity many centuries, being common to all nations, because it is a principle in nature.

It is quite authentically demonstrated that the Christian. founders boldly appropriated the Chrishna of Hindoo mythology (1156 B. C.) as its Christ character. (Annals and Antiquities of Rajust'han, vol. 1, p. 37.)

If the very foundation truths of Christianity are proven falsehood, there can remain no plausible or even probable reason for its having deceived humanity all these centuries in the belief that it is a "divine" and worthy institution. Its works alone cannot justify or recommend it. Its alleged evidences and testimonies are pure fabrications drawn from the romancers of