part VSch, the other, from Osiris and Isis — never from the One Infinite

God. In the Judaeo-Christian systems it is different. Whereas the lotus, containing BrahmS, the Universe, is shown growing out of Vishnu's Navel, the Central Point in the Waters of Infinite Space, and •whereas Horus springs from the lotus of the Celestial Nile — all these abstract pantheistic ideas are dwarfed and made terrestrially concrete in the Bible. One is almost inclined to say that in the esoteric they are grosser and still more anthropomorphic^ than in their exoteric rendering. Take as an example the same symbol, even in its Christian application — the lilies in the hand of the Archangel Gabriel.* In Hindiiism — the "Holy of Holies" is a universal abstraction, whose dramatis persona are Infinite Spirit and Nature; in Christian Judaism, it is a personal God, outside of that Nature, and the human womb — Eve, Sarah, etc.; hence, an anthropomorphic phallic God, and his image — man.
Thus it is maintained, that with regard to the contents of the Bible, one of two hypotheses has to be admitted. Either behind the symbolic substitute Jehovah, there was the Unknown, Incognizable Deity, the kabalistic Ain Suph; or. the Jews have been from the beginning no better than the dead-letter Lingam -worshippers t of the India of to- day. We say it was the former; and that, therefore, the secret or esoteric worship of the Jews was the same Pantheism that the VedSn- tin Philosophers are reproached with to-day; Jehovah was n. substitute for purposes of an exoteric national faith, and had no importance or reality in the eyes of the erudite Priests and Philosophers — the Saddu- cees, the most refined and the most learned of all the Israelite sects, who stand as a living proof of it, with their contemptuous rejection of every belief, save the Law. For how could those who invented the stupendous scheme now known as the Bible, or their successors who knew, as all Kabalists do, that it was so invented for a popular *'blind" — how could they, we ask, feel reverence for such a phallic symbol and a number, as Jehovah is shown most undeniably to be in the kabalistic ■works? How could anyone worthy of the name of a Philosopher, and knowing the real secret meaning of their "Pillar of Jacob," their Bethels, oil-anointed Phalli, and their ** Brazen Serpent," worship such a gross symbol, and minister unto it, seeing in it their "Covenant" —
• Luke. i. 38.
^ Their consecrated tillan (nnhewD stones) erected by Abraham and Jacob were Lingawu,
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the Lord Himself! Let the reader turn to Gcmara Sanhedrim aad judge. As various writers have shown, and as brutally stated in Hargrave Jennings' Pkallicism;
We know from the Jewish records that the ArV contained k table of sUme: and if it can be demonstrated that that stone was phaUic, and yet identical with the sacred name Jehovah or Yehovah. which, written in unpointed Hebrew with four letters, is J-E-V-E or J-H-V-H (the H being merely an aspirate and the same as E). This process leaves us the two letters I and V (or in another of its forms U); tbeo if we place the I in the U we have the "Holy of Holies"; we also have the Linga and Yoni and Argha of the HindOs the Iswarra [fshvara] or "supreme Lord*'; and here we have the whole secret of its mystic and arc-celestial import, con&nned in itself by bein^ identical with the Linyoni [?] of the Ark of the Covenant*
The biblical Jews of to-day do not date from Moses but from David ^-even admitting the identity of the old and genuine with the later and remodelled Mosaic scrolls. Before that time their nationality is lost in the mists of pre-historic darkness, the veil from which is now withdrawn as much as we have space to do. It is only to the days of the Babylo- nian captivity that the Old Testament may be referred by the most lenient criticism as the approximately correct views that were current about the days of Moses. Even such fanatical Christians and worship- pers of Jehovah as the Rev. Mr. Home, have to admit the numerous changes and alterations made by the later compilers of the "Book of God/* since it was found hy Hilkiah,t and since
The Pentateuch arose out of the primitive or older documents, by means of a supplementary one.
The Elohistic texts were re- written 500 years after the date of Moses; the Jehovistic 800. on the authority of the biblical chronology itself. Hence, it is maintained that the deity, represented as the organ of generation in his pillar-form, and as a symbol of the double-sexed organ in the numeral value of the letters of his name — the Yod. \ or "phallus," and He, n, the "opening," or the "womb," according to kabalistic authority — is of a far later date than the Elohim- symbols and is borrowed from the Pagan exoteric rites; and Jehovah is thus on a par with the Lingam and Yoni found on every roadside in India.
Just as the lao of the Mysteries was distinct from Jehovah, so was the later lao and Abraxas, or Abrasax, of some Gnostic sects identical with the God of the Hebrews, who was the same as the Egyptian Horns.
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* op, cU„ p. 67.
t Sec Introdiution to the Old TeitamcHl^ «nd also Blibop Colcoso's EiakiUu and Jekcvistie tVriten.
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This is undeniably proven on '*Heathen*' as on the Gnostic "Christian'* gems. In Matter's collection of such gems there is a '* Horns" —
Seat« parallel to the so frequent EI2 ZEY2 SAPAIII (Bis Zeus Sarapi) ou the contem- porary Heathen gems, and therefore only to be translated by "Abraxas is the One Jehovah."*
But who was Abraxas? As the same author shows:
The numerical or Kabbalistic value of the name Abraxas directly refers to the Persian title of the god "Mithras," Ruler of the year, worshipped from the earliest times under the appellation of lao.t
Thus, he was the Sun, in one aspect, the Moon or the Lunar Genius, in another, that Generative Deity whom the Gnostics saluted as "Thou that presides! over the Mysteries of the Father and the Son. who shinest in the night-time, holding i/ig second rank, the first Lord of Death."
It is only in his capacity of the Genius of the Moon — the latter being credited in the old cosmogony with being the parent of our Earth — that Jehovah could ever be regarded as the Creator of our Globe and tis Heaven, namely, the Firmament,
The knowledge of all this will be no proof, however, to the average bigot. Missionaries will go on with the most virulent attacks on the religions of India, and Christians read with the same benighted smile of satisfaction as ever these preposterously unjust words of Coleridge :
It IB highly worthy of observation that the inspired writings received by Christians are distinguishable from all other books pretending to inspiration, from the Scriptare& of the Brahmins, and even from the Koran, in their strong and frequent recofH' mendation of truth [! \\
* King'* GnosWcs and their Rcmaim, p. 317, zad ed.
♦ Ibid.,p. 3a6.