Chapter 13

Jerome found the authentic and original Evangel written in Hebrew, by Matthew the Publican, at the library collected at Cæsarea by the martyr Pamphilius.“I received permission from the Nazaræans, who at Berœa of Syria used this (gospel)[pg 149]to translate it,”he writes toward the end of the fourth century.260“In the Evangel which theNazarenesandEbionitesuse,”said Jerome,“which recently I translated from Hebrew into Greek, and which is called by most persons thegenuinegospel of Matthew,”etc.261That the apostles had received a“secret doctrine”from Jesus, and that he himself taught one, is evident from the following words of Jerome, who confessed it in an unguarded moment. Writing to the Bishops Chromatius and Heliodorus, he complains that“a difficult work is enjoined, since this (translation) has been commanded me by your Felicities, whichSt. Matthew himself, the Apostle and Evangelist,did not wish to be openly written. For if this had not beensecret, he (Matthew) would have added to the Evangel that what he gave forthwas his; but he made up this booksealed up in the Hebrew characters, which he put fortheven in such a waythat the book, written in Hebrew letters and by the hand of himself, might be possessedby the men most religious; who also, in the course of time, received it from those who preceded them. But this very book they never gave to any one to be transcribed, andits textthey related some one way and some another.”262And he adds further on the same page:“And it happened that this book, having been published by a disciple of Manichæus, named Seleucus, who also wrote falselyThe Acts of the Apostles, exhibited matter not for edification, but for destruction; and that this (book) wasapproved in a synodwhich the ears of the Church properly refused to listen to.”263Jerome admits, himself, that the book which he authenticates as being written“by the hand of Matthew,”was nevertheless a book which, notwithstanding that he translated it twice, was nearly unintelligible to him, for it was arcane. Nevertheless, Jerome coolly sets down every commentary upon it but his own asheretical. More than that, Jerome knew that this Gospel was the onlyoriginalone, yet he becomes more zealous than ever in his persecution of the“Heretics.”Why? Because to accept it was equivalent to reading the death sentence of the established Church.The Gospel according to the Hebrewswas well known to have been the[pg 150]only one accepted for four centuries by the Jewish Christians, the Nazarenes and the Ebionites. And neither of the latter accepted thedivinity ofChrist.264The Ebionites were the first, the earliest Christians, whose representative was the Gnostic author of theClementine Homilies, and as the author ofSupernatural Religionshows,265Ebionitic Gnosticism had once been the purest form of Christianity. They were the pupils and followers of the early Nazarenes—the kabalistic Gnostics. They believed in the Æons, as the Cerinthians did, and that“the world was put together by Angels”(Dhyân Chohans), as Epiphanius complains (Contra Ebionitas):“Ebion had the opinion of the Nazarenes, the form of Cerinthians.”“They decided that Christ was of the seed of a man,”he laments.266Thus again:The badge of Dan-Scorpio isdeath-life, in the symbol ☧ ascross-bones and skull, ... orlife-death... the standard of Constantine, the Roman Emperor. Abel has been shown to be Jesus, and Cain-Vulcain, or Mars, pierced him. Constantine was the Roman Emperor, whose warlike god was Mars, and a Roman soldier pierced Jesus on the cross....But the piercing of Abel was the consummation of his marriage with Cain, and this was proper under the form of Mars Generator; hence the double glyph, one of Mars-Generator [Osiris-Sun] and Mars-Destroyer [Mercury the God of Death in the Egyptianbasso-relievo] in one; significant, again, of the primal idea of the living cosmos, or of birth and death, as necessary to the continuation of the stream of life.267To quote once more fromIsis Unveiled:A Latin cross of a perfect Christian shape was found hewn upon the granite slabs of the Adytum of the Serapeum; and the monks did not fail to claim that the cross had been hallowed by the Pagans in a“spirit of prophecy.”At least, Sozomen, with an air of triumph, records the fact.268But archæology and symbolism, those tireless and implacable enemies of clerical false pretences, have found in the hieroglyphics of the legend running round the design at least a partial interpretation of its meaning.According to King and other numismatists and archæologists, the cross was[pg 151]placed there as the symbol of eternal life. Such a Tau, or Egyptian cross, was used in the Bacchic and Eleusinian Mysteries. Symbol of the dual generative power, it was laid upon the breast of the Initiate, after his“new birth”was accomplished, and the Mystæ had returned from their baptism in the sea. It was a mystic sign that his spiritual birth had regenerated and united his astral soul with his divine spirit, and that he was ready to ascend in spirit to the blessed abodes of light and glory—the Eleusinia. The Tau was a magic talisman at the same time as a religious emblem. It was adopted by the Christians through the Gnostics and Kabalists, who used it largely, as their numerous gems testify. These in turn had the Tau (or handled cross) from the Egyptians, and the Latin Cross from the Buddhist missionaries, who brought it from India (where it can be found even now) two or three centuriesb.c.The Assyrians, Egyptians, ancient Americans, Hindus and Romans had it in various, but very slight modifications of shape. Till very late in the middle ages, it was considered a potent spell again at epilepsy and demoniacal possession, and the“signet of the living God”brought down in St. John's vision by the angel ascending from the east to“seal the servants of our God in the foreheads,”was but the same mystic Tau—the Egyptian Cross. In the painted glass of St. Denis (France) this angel is represented as stamping this sign on the forehead of the elect; the legend reads, SIGNUM TAY. In King'sGnostics, the author reminds us that“this mark is commonly borne by St. Anthony, anEgyptianrecluse.”269What the real meaning of the Tau was, is explained to us by the Christian St. John, the Egyptian Hermes, and the Hindu Brahmans. It is but too evident that, with the Apostle at least, it meant the“Ineffable Name,”as he calls this“signet of the living God”a few chapters further on270the“Father's name written in their foreheads.”The Brahmâtmâ, the chief of the Hindu Initiates, had on his head-gear two keys, symbol of the revealed mystery of life and death, placed cross-like; and in some Buddhist pagodas of Tartary and Mongolia, the entrance of a chamber within the temple, generally containing the staircase which leads to the inner dagoba,271and the porticos of somePrachidas272are ornamented with a cross formed of two fishes, as found on some of the zodiacs of the Buddhists. We should not wonder at all at learning that the sacred device in the tombs in the catacombs at Rome, the“Vesica Piscis,”was derived from the said Buddhist zodiacal sign. How general must have been that geometrical figure in the world-symbols, may be inferred from the fact that there is a Masonic tradition that Solomon's temple was built on three foundations, forming the“triple Tau”or three crosses.In its mystical sense, the Egyptian cross owes its origin, as an emblem, to the realisation by the earliest philosophy of anandrogynous dualism of every manifestation in nature, which proceeds from the abstract ideal of a likewise androgynous deity, while the Christian emblem is simply due to chance. Had the Mosaic law[pg 152]prevailed, Jesus should have been lapidated.273The crucifix was an instrument of torture, and utterly common among Romans as it was unknown among Semitic nations. It was called the“Tree of Infamy.”It is but later that it was adopted as a Christian symbol; but during the first two decades the apostles looked upon it with horror.274It is certainly not the Christian Cross that John had in mind when speaking of the“signet of the living God,”but themysticTau—the Tetragrammaton, or mighty name, which, on the most ancient Kabalistic talismans, was represented by the four Hebrew letters composing the Holy Word.The famous Lady Ellenborough, known among the Arabs of Damascus, and in the desert, after her last marriage, asHanoum Medjouye, had a talisman in her possession, presented to her by a Druse from Mount Lebanon. It was recognised by a certain sign on its left corner as belonging to that class of gems which is known in Palestine as a“Messianic”amulet, of the second or third centuryb.c.It is a green stone of a pentagonal form; at the bottom is engraved a fish; higher, Solomon's Seal;275and still higher, the four Chaldaic letters—Jod, He, Vau, He, IAHO, which form the name of the Deity. These are arranged in quite an unusual way, running from below upward, in reversed order, and forming the Egyptian Tau. Around these there is a legend which, as the gem is not our property, we are not at liberty to give. The Tau, in its mystical sense, as well as theCrux ansata, is theTree of Life.It is well known that the earliest Christian emblems—before it was ever attempted to represent the bodily appearance of Jesus—were the Lamb, the Good Shepherd, andThe Fish. The origin of the latter emblem, which has so puzzled the archæologists, thus becomes comprehensible. The whole secret lies in the easily ascertained fact that, while in theKabalahthe King Messiah is called“Interpreter,”or Revealer of the Mystery, and shown to be thefifthemanation, in theTalmud—for reasons we will now explain—the Messiah is very often designated as“DAG,”or the Fish. This is an inheritance from the Chaldees, and relates—as the very name indicates—to the Babylonian Dagon, the man-fish, who was the instructor and interpreter of the people, to whom he appeared. Abarbanel explains the name, by stating that the sign of his (Messiah's) coming is the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the signPisces.276Therefore, as the Christians were intent upon identifying their Christos with the Messiah of theOld Testament, they adopted it so readily as to forget that its true origin might be traced still further back than the Babylonian Dagon. How eagerly and closely the ideal of Jesus was united, by the early Christians, with every imaginable kabalistic and pagan tenet, may be inferred from the language of Clemens, of Alexandria, addressed to his co-religionists.[pg 153]When they were debating upon the choice of the most appropriate symbol to remind them of Jesus, Clemens advised them in the following words:“Let the engraving upon the gem of your ring be eithera dove, ora ship running before the wind(the Argha), or afish.”Was the good father, when writing this sentence, labouring under the recollection of Joshua, son of Nun (calledJesusin the Greek and Slavonian versions); or had he forgotten the real interpretation of these pagan symbols?277And now, with the help of all these passages scattered hither and thither inIsisand other works of this kind, the reader will see and judge for himself which of the two explanations—the Christian or that of the Occultist—is the nearer to truth. If Jesus were not an Initiate, why should all theseallegoricalincidents of his life be given? Why should such extreme trouble be taken, so much time wasted trying to make the above: (a) answer and dovetail with purposely picked out sentences in theOld Testament, to show them asprophecies; and (b) to preserve in them the initiatory symbols, the emblems so pregnant with Occult meaning and all of these belonging to PaganmysticPhilosophy? The author of theSource of Measuresgives out thatmysticalintent; but only once now and again, in its one-sided, numerical and kabalistic meaning, without paying any attention to, or having concern with, the primeval and more spiritual origin, and he deals with it only so far as it relates to theOld Testament. He attributes thepurposedchange in the sentence“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani”to the principle already mentioned of the crossed bones and skull in the Labarum,As an emblem of death, being placed over the door of life and signifyingbirth, or of the intercontainment of two opposite principles in one, just as, mystically, the Saviour was held to be man-woman.278The author's idea is to show the mystic blending by the Gospel writers of Jehovah, Cain, Abel, etc., with Jesus (in accordance with Jewish kabalistic numeration); the better he succeeds, the more clearly he shows that it was aforcedblending, and that we have not a record of the real events of the life of Jesus, narrated by eye-witnesses or the Apostles. The narrative is all based on the signs of the Zodiac:Each a double sign or male-female [in ancient astrological Magic]—viz: it was Taurus-Eve, and Scorpio was Mars-Lupa, or Mars with the female wolf [in relation to[pg 154]Romulus]. So, as these signs were opposites of each other, yetmet in the centre, they were connected; and so in fact it was, and in a double sense, the conception of the year was in Taurus, as the conception of Eve by Mars, her opposite, in Scorpio. The birth would be at the winter solstice, or Christmas. On the contrary, by conception in Scorpio—viz., of Lupa by Taurus—birth would be in Leo. Scorpio was Chrēstos inhumiliation, while Leo was Christos intriumph. While Taurus-Eve fulfilled astronomical functions, Mars-Lupa fulfilled spiritual ones by type.279The author bases all this on Egyptian correlations and meanings of Gods and Goddesses, but ignores the Âryan, which are far earlier.MoothorMouth, was the Egyptian cognomen of Venus, (Eve, mother of all living) [asVach, mother of all living, a permutation ofAditi, as Eve was one of Sephira]or the moon. Plutarch (Isis, 374) hands it down that Isis was sometimes calledMuth, which word meansmother... (Issa, אשה, woman). (Isis, p. 372). Isis, he says is that part of Nature, which, as feminine, contains in herself, as (nutrix) nurse, all things to be born....“Certainly the moon,”speaking astronomically,“chiefly exercises this function in Taurus, Venus being the house (in opposition to Mars,generator, in Scorpio), because the sign is luna, hypsoma. Since ... Isis Metheur differs from IsisMuthand that in the vocableMuththenotion of bringing forthmay be concealed, and since fructification must take place,Solbeing joined withLunainLibra, it is not improbable that Muth first indeed signifies Venus in Libra; hence Luna in Libra.”(Beiträge zur Kenntniss, pars. 11, S. 9, underMuth.)280Then Fuerst, underBohu, is quoted to showThe double play upon the wordMuthby help of which the real intent is produced in the occult way ...sin,death, andwomanare one in the glyph, and correlatively connected withintercourseanddeath.281All this is applied by the authoronlyto the exoteric and Jewish euhemerised symbols, whereas they were meant, first of all, to conceal cosmogonical mysteries, and then, those of anthropological evolution with reference to the Seven Races, already evoluted and to come, and especially as regards the last branch races of the third Root-Race. However, the wordvoid(primeval Chaos) is shown to be taken for Eve-Venus-Naamah, agreeably with Fuerst's definition; for as he says:In this primitive signification [of void] was בהו [bohu] taken in the Biblical cosmogony, and used in establishing the dogma יש מאיןJes(us)m'aven, (Jes-us from nothing), respecting creation. [Which shows the writers of theNew Testamentconsiderably skilled in theKabalahand Occult Sciences, and corroborates still more our assertion.] Hence Aquila translates οὔδεν vulg. vacua (hencevacca,cow) [hence also the horns of Isis—Nature, Earth, and the Moon—taken from Vâch, the Hindu“Mother of all that lives,”identified with Virâj and called in Atharvaveda the daughter of Kâma, thefirstdesires:“That daughter of thine, O Kâma, iscalled[pg 155]the cow, she whom Sages nameVâch-Virâj,”who wasmilkedby Brihaspati, the Rishi, which is another mystery] Onkelos and Samarit. ריקבי.The Phœnician cosmogony has connectedBohuבהו Βααυ into a personified expression denoting theprimitive substance, and as a deity, themother of races of the gods[which is Aditi and Vâch]. The Aramean name בהו-תא, בהו-ת, בהו-ת, Βαώθ, Βυθ-ός, Buto, for themother of the gods, which passed over to the Gnostics, Babylonians and Egyptians,is identical then with Môt(מות, ourMuth) properly, (Βώθ)originated in Phœnicianfrom an interchange ofbwithm.282Rather, one would say, go to the origin. The mystic euhemerisation of Wisdom and Intelligence, operating in the work of cosmic evolution, orBuddhiunder the names of Brahmâ, Purusha, etc., as male power, and Aditi-Vâch, etc., as female, whence Sarasvatî, Goddess of Wisdom, who became under the veils of Esoteric concealment, Butos,Bythos—Depth, the grossly material, personal female, called Eve, the“primitive woman”of Irenæus, and the world springing out ofNothing.The workings out of this glyph of 4thGenesishelp to the comprehension of the division of one character into the forms of two persons; as Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Abram and Isaac, Jacob and Esau, and so on [all male and female].... Now, as linking together several great salient points in the Biblical structure: (1) as to theOldandNew Testaments; with also (2) as to the Roman Empire; (3) as to confirming the meanings and uses of symbols; and (4) as to confirming the entire explanation and reading of the glyphs; as (5) recognising and laying down the base of the great pyramid as thefoundation squareof the Bible construction; (6) as well as the new Roman adoption under Constantine—the following given:283Cain has been shown to be ... the 360 circle of the Zodiac, the perfect and exact standard, by a squared division; hence his name of Melchizadik.... [The geometrical and numerical demonstrations here follow.] It has been repeatedly stated that the object of the Great Pyramid construction was to measure theheavens and the earth... [the objective spheres as evoluting from the subjective, purely spiritual Kosmos, we beg leave to add]; therefore, its measuring containment would indicate all the substance of measure ofthe heavens and the earth, or agreeably to ancient recognition,Earth,Air,WaterandFire.284(The base side of this pyramid was diameter to a circumferencein feetof 2400. The characteristic of this is 24 feet, or 6 × 4 = 24, or this very Cain-Adam square.) Now, by the restoration of the encampment of the Israelites, as initiated by Moses, by the great[pg 156]scholar, Father Athanasius Kircher, the Jesuit priest, the above is precisely, by Biblical record and traditionary sources, the method of laying off this encampment. Thefour interior squareswere devoted to (1) Moses and Aaron; (2) Kohath; (3) Gershom; and (4) Merari—the last three being the heads of the Levites. The attributes of these squares were theprimalattributes of Adam-Mars and were concreted of the elements,Earth,Air,Fire,Water, or ים = Iam =Water, נור = Nour =Fire, רוח = Rouach =Air, and יבשׂׂשׂה = Iābeshah =Earth. The initial letters of these words are INRI—the symbol usually translated asIesusNazarenusRexIudæorum—“Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.”This square of INRI is theAdam square, which was extended from, as a foundation, into four others of 144 × 2 = 288, to the side of the large square of 288 × 4 = 1152, = the whole circumference. But this square is the display of also circular elements and 115·2 can denote this. PutINRIinto a circle, or read it as the letters stand in the square, as to its values of 1521, and we have [Symbol: circle with numbers inside: 1, 1, 2, 5] which reads 115·2.But as seen Cain denotes this as, or in, the 115 of his name: which 115 was the very complement to make up the 360 day year, to agree with the balances of the standard circle, which were Cain. The corner squares of the larger square are, A = Leo, and B = Dan Scorpio; and it is seen that Cain pierces Abel at the intersection of the equinoctial with the solstice cross lines, referred to from Dan-Scorpio on the celestial circle. But Dan-Scorpio borders on Libra, the scales, whose sign is ♎ (which sign is that of the ancientpillowon whichthe back of the head to the ears285rested, the pillow of Jacob), and is represented for one symbol as [Symbol: Letters X, P, and S, with Libra symbol atop them].... Also the badge of Dan-Scorpio is death-life, in the symbol ☧. Now the cross is the emblem of theorigin of measures, in theJehovahform of astraight line one of a denomination of 20612, the perfect circumference; hence Cain was this as Jehovah, for the text says thathe wasJehovah. But the attachment of a man to this cross was that of 113: 355 to 6561: 5153 × 4 = 20612, as shown. Now, over theheadof Jesus crucified was placed the inscription, of which the initial letters of the words have always been retained as symbolic, and handed down and used as a monogram of Jesus Chrestos—viz., INRI orJesus Nazarenus Rex Judæorum; but they are located on theCross, or the cubedformof the circular origin of measures which measure the substance ofEarth,Air,FireandWater, or INRI = 1152, as shown. Here is themanon thecross, or 113: 355 combined with 6561: 5153 × 4 = 20612. These are thepyramid-basenumbers as coming from 113: 355 as the Hebrew source; whence the Adam-square, which is the pyramid base, and the centre one to the larger square of theencampment. Bend INRI into a circle, and we have 1152, or the circumference of the latter. But Jesus dying (or Abel married) made use of the very words needed to set forth all. He says,Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani.... Read them by their power values, incircular form, as produced from[pg 157]the Adam form as shown, and we have אלי = 113, אלי = 113, or 113—311: לפה = 345, or Moses in the Cain-Adam pyramid circle: שכחת = 710, equals Dove, or Jonah and 710 ÷ 2 = 355, or 355—553; and finally, as determinative of all יב orni, where ב =nun, fish = 565, and י = 1 or 10; together 565 י = יהוה or the Christ value....[All of the above] throws light on the transfiguration scene on the mount. There were present there Peter and James and John with Jesus; or ים Iami, James,Water; יבשה, Peter,Earth; דרה, John,Spirit,Air, and יבור Jesus,Fire,Life—together INRI. But behold Eli and Moses met them there, or אלי and למה orEliandLamah, or 113 and 345. And this shows that the scene of transfiguration was connected with the one above set forth.286This kabalistical reading of the Gospel narratives—hitherto supposed to record the most important, the most mystically awful, yet most real events of the life of Jesus—must fall with terrible weight upon some Christians. Every honest trusting believer who has shed tears of reverential emotion over the events of the short period of the public life of Jesus of Nazareth, has to choose one of the two ways opening before him after reading the aforesaid: either his faith has to render him quite impervious to any light coming from human reasoning and evident fact; or he must confess that he has lost his Saviour. The One whom he had hitherto considered as the unique incarnation on this earth of the One Living God in heaven, fades into thin air, on the authority of the properly read and correctly interpretedBibleitself. Moreover, since on the authority of Jerome himself and his accepted and authentic confession, the book written by the hand of Matthew“exhibits matter not foredificationbut fordestruction”(of Church andhumanChristianity, and only that) what truth can be expected from his famousVulgate?Humanmysteries, concocted by generations of Church Fathers bent upon evolving a religion of their own invention, are seen instead of adivineRevelation; and that this was so is corroborated by a prelate of the Latin Church. Saint Gregory Nazianzen wrote to his friend and confidant, Saint Jerome:

That the apostles had received a“secret doctrine”from Jesus, and that he himself taught one, is evident from the following words of Jerome, who confessed it in an unguarded moment. Writing to the Bishops Chromatius and Heliodorus, he complains that“a difficult work is enjoined, since this (translation) has been commanded me by your Felicities, whichSt. Matthew himself, the Apostle and Evangelist,did not wish to be openly written. For if this had not beensecret, he (Matthew) would have added to the Evangel that what he gave forthwas his; but he made up this booksealed up in the Hebrew characters, which he put fortheven in such a waythat the book, written in Hebrew letters and by the hand of himself, might be possessedby the men most religious; who also, in the course of time, received it from those who preceded them. But this very book they never gave to any one to be transcribed, andits textthey related some one way and some another.”262And he adds further on the same page:“And it happened that this book, having been published by a disciple of Manichæus, named Seleucus, who also wrote falselyThe Acts of the Apostles, exhibited matter not for edification, but for destruction; and that this (book) wasapproved in a synodwhich the ears of the Church properly refused to listen to.”263

Jerome admits, himself, that the book which he authenticates as being written“by the hand of Matthew,”was nevertheless a book which, notwithstanding that he translated it twice, was nearly unintelligible to him, for it was arcane. Nevertheless, Jerome coolly sets down every commentary upon it but his own asheretical. More than that, Jerome knew that this Gospel was the onlyoriginalone, yet he becomes more zealous than ever in his persecution of the“Heretics.”Why? Because to accept it was equivalent to reading the death sentence of the established Church.The Gospel according to the Hebrewswas well known to have been the[pg 150]only one accepted for four centuries by the Jewish Christians, the Nazarenes and the Ebionites. And neither of the latter accepted thedivinity ofChrist.264

The Ebionites were the first, the earliest Christians, whose representative was the Gnostic author of theClementine Homilies, and as the author ofSupernatural Religionshows,265Ebionitic Gnosticism had once been the purest form of Christianity. They were the pupils and followers of the early Nazarenes—the kabalistic Gnostics. They believed in the Æons, as the Cerinthians did, and that“the world was put together by Angels”(Dhyân Chohans), as Epiphanius complains (Contra Ebionitas):“Ebion had the opinion of the Nazarenes, the form of Cerinthians.”“They decided that Christ was of the seed of a man,”he laments.266Thus again:

The badge of Dan-Scorpio isdeath-life, in the symbol ☧ ascross-bones and skull, ... orlife-death... the standard of Constantine, the Roman Emperor. Abel has been shown to be Jesus, and Cain-Vulcain, or Mars, pierced him. Constantine was the Roman Emperor, whose warlike god was Mars, and a Roman soldier pierced Jesus on the cross....But the piercing of Abel was the consummation of his marriage with Cain, and this was proper under the form of Mars Generator; hence the double glyph, one of Mars-Generator [Osiris-Sun] and Mars-Destroyer [Mercury the God of Death in the Egyptianbasso-relievo] in one; significant, again, of the primal idea of the living cosmos, or of birth and death, as necessary to the continuation of the stream of life.267

But the piercing of Abel was the consummation of his marriage with Cain, and this was proper under the form of Mars Generator; hence the double glyph, one of Mars-Generator [Osiris-Sun] and Mars-Destroyer [Mercury the God of Death in the Egyptianbasso-relievo] in one; significant, again, of the primal idea of the living cosmos, or of birth and death, as necessary to the continuation of the stream of life.267

To quote once more fromIsis Unveiled:

A Latin cross of a perfect Christian shape was found hewn upon the granite slabs of the Adytum of the Serapeum; and the monks did not fail to claim that the cross had been hallowed by the Pagans in a“spirit of prophecy.”At least, Sozomen, with an air of triumph, records the fact.268But archæology and symbolism, those tireless and implacable enemies of clerical false pretences, have found in the hieroglyphics of the legend running round the design at least a partial interpretation of its meaning.According to King and other numismatists and archæologists, the cross was[pg 151]placed there as the symbol of eternal life. Such a Tau, or Egyptian cross, was used in the Bacchic and Eleusinian Mysteries. Symbol of the dual generative power, it was laid upon the breast of the Initiate, after his“new birth”was accomplished, and the Mystæ had returned from their baptism in the sea. It was a mystic sign that his spiritual birth had regenerated and united his astral soul with his divine spirit, and that he was ready to ascend in spirit to the blessed abodes of light and glory—the Eleusinia. The Tau was a magic talisman at the same time as a religious emblem. It was adopted by the Christians through the Gnostics and Kabalists, who used it largely, as their numerous gems testify. These in turn had the Tau (or handled cross) from the Egyptians, and the Latin Cross from the Buddhist missionaries, who brought it from India (where it can be found even now) two or three centuriesb.c.The Assyrians, Egyptians, ancient Americans, Hindus and Romans had it in various, but very slight modifications of shape. Till very late in the middle ages, it was considered a potent spell again at epilepsy and demoniacal possession, and the“signet of the living God”brought down in St. John's vision by the angel ascending from the east to“seal the servants of our God in the foreheads,”was but the same mystic Tau—the Egyptian Cross. In the painted glass of St. Denis (France) this angel is represented as stamping this sign on the forehead of the elect; the legend reads, SIGNUM TAY. In King'sGnostics, the author reminds us that“this mark is commonly borne by St. Anthony, anEgyptianrecluse.”269What the real meaning of the Tau was, is explained to us by the Christian St. John, the Egyptian Hermes, and the Hindu Brahmans. It is but too evident that, with the Apostle at least, it meant the“Ineffable Name,”as he calls this“signet of the living God”a few chapters further on270the“Father's name written in their foreheads.”The Brahmâtmâ, the chief of the Hindu Initiates, had on his head-gear two keys, symbol of the revealed mystery of life and death, placed cross-like; and in some Buddhist pagodas of Tartary and Mongolia, the entrance of a chamber within the temple, generally containing the staircase which leads to the inner dagoba,271and the porticos of somePrachidas272are ornamented with a cross formed of two fishes, as found on some of the zodiacs of the Buddhists. We should not wonder at all at learning that the sacred device in the tombs in the catacombs at Rome, the“Vesica Piscis,”was derived from the said Buddhist zodiacal sign. How general must have been that geometrical figure in the world-symbols, may be inferred from the fact that there is a Masonic tradition that Solomon's temple was built on three foundations, forming the“triple Tau”or three crosses.In its mystical sense, the Egyptian cross owes its origin, as an emblem, to the realisation by the earliest philosophy of anandrogynous dualism of every manifestation in nature, which proceeds from the abstract ideal of a likewise androgynous deity, while the Christian emblem is simply due to chance. Had the Mosaic law[pg 152]prevailed, Jesus should have been lapidated.273The crucifix was an instrument of torture, and utterly common among Romans as it was unknown among Semitic nations. It was called the“Tree of Infamy.”It is but later that it was adopted as a Christian symbol; but during the first two decades the apostles looked upon it with horror.274It is certainly not the Christian Cross that John had in mind when speaking of the“signet of the living God,”but themysticTau—the Tetragrammaton, or mighty name, which, on the most ancient Kabalistic talismans, was represented by the four Hebrew letters composing the Holy Word.The famous Lady Ellenborough, known among the Arabs of Damascus, and in the desert, after her last marriage, asHanoum Medjouye, had a talisman in her possession, presented to her by a Druse from Mount Lebanon. It was recognised by a certain sign on its left corner as belonging to that class of gems which is known in Palestine as a“Messianic”amulet, of the second or third centuryb.c.It is a green stone of a pentagonal form; at the bottom is engraved a fish; higher, Solomon's Seal;275and still higher, the four Chaldaic letters—Jod, He, Vau, He, IAHO, which form the name of the Deity. These are arranged in quite an unusual way, running from below upward, in reversed order, and forming the Egyptian Tau. Around these there is a legend which, as the gem is not our property, we are not at liberty to give. The Tau, in its mystical sense, as well as theCrux ansata, is theTree of Life.It is well known that the earliest Christian emblems—before it was ever attempted to represent the bodily appearance of Jesus—were the Lamb, the Good Shepherd, andThe Fish. The origin of the latter emblem, which has so puzzled the archæologists, thus becomes comprehensible. The whole secret lies in the easily ascertained fact that, while in theKabalahthe King Messiah is called“Interpreter,”or Revealer of the Mystery, and shown to be thefifthemanation, in theTalmud—for reasons we will now explain—the Messiah is very often designated as“DAG,”or the Fish. This is an inheritance from the Chaldees, and relates—as the very name indicates—to the Babylonian Dagon, the man-fish, who was the instructor and interpreter of the people, to whom he appeared. Abarbanel explains the name, by stating that the sign of his (Messiah's) coming is the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the signPisces.276Therefore, as the Christians were intent upon identifying their Christos with the Messiah of theOld Testament, they adopted it so readily as to forget that its true origin might be traced still further back than the Babylonian Dagon. How eagerly and closely the ideal of Jesus was united, by the early Christians, with every imaginable kabalistic and pagan tenet, may be inferred from the language of Clemens, of Alexandria, addressed to his co-religionists.[pg 153]When they were debating upon the choice of the most appropriate symbol to remind them of Jesus, Clemens advised them in the following words:“Let the engraving upon the gem of your ring be eithera dove, ora ship running before the wind(the Argha), or afish.”Was the good father, when writing this sentence, labouring under the recollection of Joshua, son of Nun (calledJesusin the Greek and Slavonian versions); or had he forgotten the real interpretation of these pagan symbols?277

According to King and other numismatists and archæologists, the cross was[pg 151]placed there as the symbol of eternal life. Such a Tau, or Egyptian cross, was used in the Bacchic and Eleusinian Mysteries. Symbol of the dual generative power, it was laid upon the breast of the Initiate, after his“new birth”was accomplished, and the Mystæ had returned from their baptism in the sea. It was a mystic sign that his spiritual birth had regenerated and united his astral soul with his divine spirit, and that he was ready to ascend in spirit to the blessed abodes of light and glory—the Eleusinia. The Tau was a magic talisman at the same time as a religious emblem. It was adopted by the Christians through the Gnostics and Kabalists, who used it largely, as their numerous gems testify. These in turn had the Tau (or handled cross) from the Egyptians, and the Latin Cross from the Buddhist missionaries, who brought it from India (where it can be found even now) two or three centuriesb.c.The Assyrians, Egyptians, ancient Americans, Hindus and Romans had it in various, but very slight modifications of shape. Till very late in the middle ages, it was considered a potent spell again at epilepsy and demoniacal possession, and the“signet of the living God”brought down in St. John's vision by the angel ascending from the east to“seal the servants of our God in the foreheads,”was but the same mystic Tau—the Egyptian Cross. In the painted glass of St. Denis (France) this angel is represented as stamping this sign on the forehead of the elect; the legend reads, SIGNUM TAY. In King'sGnostics, the author reminds us that“this mark is commonly borne by St. Anthony, anEgyptianrecluse.”269What the real meaning of the Tau was, is explained to us by the Christian St. John, the Egyptian Hermes, and the Hindu Brahmans. It is but too evident that, with the Apostle at least, it meant the“Ineffable Name,”as he calls this“signet of the living God”a few chapters further on270the“Father's name written in their foreheads.”

The Brahmâtmâ, the chief of the Hindu Initiates, had on his head-gear two keys, symbol of the revealed mystery of life and death, placed cross-like; and in some Buddhist pagodas of Tartary and Mongolia, the entrance of a chamber within the temple, generally containing the staircase which leads to the inner dagoba,271and the porticos of somePrachidas272are ornamented with a cross formed of two fishes, as found on some of the zodiacs of the Buddhists. We should not wonder at all at learning that the sacred device in the tombs in the catacombs at Rome, the“Vesica Piscis,”was derived from the said Buddhist zodiacal sign. How general must have been that geometrical figure in the world-symbols, may be inferred from the fact that there is a Masonic tradition that Solomon's temple was built on three foundations, forming the“triple Tau”or three crosses.

In its mystical sense, the Egyptian cross owes its origin, as an emblem, to the realisation by the earliest philosophy of anandrogynous dualism of every manifestation in nature, which proceeds from the abstract ideal of a likewise androgynous deity, while the Christian emblem is simply due to chance. Had the Mosaic law[pg 152]prevailed, Jesus should have been lapidated.273The crucifix was an instrument of torture, and utterly common among Romans as it was unknown among Semitic nations. It was called the“Tree of Infamy.”It is but later that it was adopted as a Christian symbol; but during the first two decades the apostles looked upon it with horror.274It is certainly not the Christian Cross that John had in mind when speaking of the“signet of the living God,”but themysticTau—the Tetragrammaton, or mighty name, which, on the most ancient Kabalistic talismans, was represented by the four Hebrew letters composing the Holy Word.

The famous Lady Ellenborough, known among the Arabs of Damascus, and in the desert, after her last marriage, asHanoum Medjouye, had a talisman in her possession, presented to her by a Druse from Mount Lebanon. It was recognised by a certain sign on its left corner as belonging to that class of gems which is known in Palestine as a“Messianic”amulet, of the second or third centuryb.c.It is a green stone of a pentagonal form; at the bottom is engraved a fish; higher, Solomon's Seal;275and still higher, the four Chaldaic letters—Jod, He, Vau, He, IAHO, which form the name of the Deity. These are arranged in quite an unusual way, running from below upward, in reversed order, and forming the Egyptian Tau. Around these there is a legend which, as the gem is not our property, we are not at liberty to give. The Tau, in its mystical sense, as well as theCrux ansata, is theTree of Life.

It is well known that the earliest Christian emblems—before it was ever attempted to represent the bodily appearance of Jesus—were the Lamb, the Good Shepherd, andThe Fish. The origin of the latter emblem, which has so puzzled the archæologists, thus becomes comprehensible. The whole secret lies in the easily ascertained fact that, while in theKabalahthe King Messiah is called“Interpreter,”or Revealer of the Mystery, and shown to be thefifthemanation, in theTalmud—for reasons we will now explain—the Messiah is very often designated as“DAG,”or the Fish. This is an inheritance from the Chaldees, and relates—as the very name indicates—to the Babylonian Dagon, the man-fish, who was the instructor and interpreter of the people, to whom he appeared. Abarbanel explains the name, by stating that the sign of his (Messiah's) coming is the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the signPisces.276Therefore, as the Christians were intent upon identifying their Christos with the Messiah of theOld Testament, they adopted it so readily as to forget that its true origin might be traced still further back than the Babylonian Dagon. How eagerly and closely the ideal of Jesus was united, by the early Christians, with every imaginable kabalistic and pagan tenet, may be inferred from the language of Clemens, of Alexandria, addressed to his co-religionists.

When they were debating upon the choice of the most appropriate symbol to remind them of Jesus, Clemens advised them in the following words:“Let the engraving upon the gem of your ring be eithera dove, ora ship running before the wind(the Argha), or afish.”Was the good father, when writing this sentence, labouring under the recollection of Joshua, son of Nun (calledJesusin the Greek and Slavonian versions); or had he forgotten the real interpretation of these pagan symbols?277

And now, with the help of all these passages scattered hither and thither inIsisand other works of this kind, the reader will see and judge for himself which of the two explanations—the Christian or that of the Occultist—is the nearer to truth. If Jesus were not an Initiate, why should all theseallegoricalincidents of his life be given? Why should such extreme trouble be taken, so much time wasted trying to make the above: (a) answer and dovetail with purposely picked out sentences in theOld Testament, to show them asprophecies; and (b) to preserve in them the initiatory symbols, the emblems so pregnant with Occult meaning and all of these belonging to PaganmysticPhilosophy? The author of theSource of Measuresgives out thatmysticalintent; but only once now and again, in its one-sided, numerical and kabalistic meaning, without paying any attention to, or having concern with, the primeval and more spiritual origin, and he deals with it only so far as it relates to theOld Testament. He attributes thepurposedchange in the sentence“Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani”to the principle already mentioned of the crossed bones and skull in the Labarum,

As an emblem of death, being placed over the door of life and signifyingbirth, or of the intercontainment of two opposite principles in one, just as, mystically, the Saviour was held to be man-woman.278

The author's idea is to show the mystic blending by the Gospel writers of Jehovah, Cain, Abel, etc., with Jesus (in accordance with Jewish kabalistic numeration); the better he succeeds, the more clearly he shows that it was aforcedblending, and that we have not a record of the real events of the life of Jesus, narrated by eye-witnesses or the Apostles. The narrative is all based on the signs of the Zodiac:

Each a double sign or male-female [in ancient astrological Magic]—viz: it was Taurus-Eve, and Scorpio was Mars-Lupa, or Mars with the female wolf [in relation to[pg 154]Romulus]. So, as these signs were opposites of each other, yetmet in the centre, they were connected; and so in fact it was, and in a double sense, the conception of the year was in Taurus, as the conception of Eve by Mars, her opposite, in Scorpio. The birth would be at the winter solstice, or Christmas. On the contrary, by conception in Scorpio—viz., of Lupa by Taurus—birth would be in Leo. Scorpio was Chrēstos inhumiliation, while Leo was Christos intriumph. While Taurus-Eve fulfilled astronomical functions, Mars-Lupa fulfilled spiritual ones by type.279

The author bases all this on Egyptian correlations and meanings of Gods and Goddesses, but ignores the Âryan, which are far earlier.

MoothorMouth, was the Egyptian cognomen of Venus, (Eve, mother of all living) [asVach, mother of all living, a permutation ofAditi, as Eve was one of Sephira]or the moon. Plutarch (Isis, 374) hands it down that Isis was sometimes calledMuth, which word meansmother... (Issa, אשה, woman). (Isis, p. 372). Isis, he says is that part of Nature, which, as feminine, contains in herself, as (nutrix) nurse, all things to be born....“Certainly the moon,”speaking astronomically,“chiefly exercises this function in Taurus, Venus being the house (in opposition to Mars,generator, in Scorpio), because the sign is luna, hypsoma. Since ... Isis Metheur differs from IsisMuthand that in the vocableMuththenotion of bringing forthmay be concealed, and since fructification must take place,Solbeing joined withLunainLibra, it is not improbable that Muth first indeed signifies Venus in Libra; hence Luna in Libra.”(Beiträge zur Kenntniss, pars. 11, S. 9, underMuth.)280

Then Fuerst, underBohu, is quoted to show

The double play upon the wordMuthby help of which the real intent is produced in the occult way ...sin,death, andwomanare one in the glyph, and correlatively connected withintercourseanddeath.281

All this is applied by the authoronlyto the exoteric and Jewish euhemerised symbols, whereas they were meant, first of all, to conceal cosmogonical mysteries, and then, those of anthropological evolution with reference to the Seven Races, already evoluted and to come, and especially as regards the last branch races of the third Root-Race. However, the wordvoid(primeval Chaos) is shown to be taken for Eve-Venus-Naamah, agreeably with Fuerst's definition; for as he says:

In this primitive signification [of void] was בהו [bohu] taken in the Biblical cosmogony, and used in establishing the dogma יש מאיןJes(us)m'aven, (Jes-us from nothing), respecting creation. [Which shows the writers of theNew Testamentconsiderably skilled in theKabalahand Occult Sciences, and corroborates still more our assertion.] Hence Aquila translates οὔδεν vulg. vacua (hencevacca,cow) [hence also the horns of Isis—Nature, Earth, and the Moon—taken from Vâch, the Hindu“Mother of all that lives,”identified with Virâj and called in Atharvaveda the daughter of Kâma, thefirstdesires:“That daughter of thine, O Kâma, iscalled[pg 155]the cow, she whom Sages nameVâch-Virâj,”who wasmilkedby Brihaspati, the Rishi, which is another mystery] Onkelos and Samarit. ריקבי.The Phœnician cosmogony has connectedBohuבהו Βααυ into a personified expression denoting theprimitive substance, and as a deity, themother of races of the gods[which is Aditi and Vâch]. The Aramean name בהו-תא, בהו-ת, בהו-ת, Βαώθ, Βυθ-ός, Buto, for themother of the gods, which passed over to the Gnostics, Babylonians and Egyptians,is identical then with Môt(מות, ourMuth) properly, (Βώθ)originated in Phœnicianfrom an interchange ofbwithm.282

The Phœnician cosmogony has connectedBohuבהו Βααυ into a personified expression denoting theprimitive substance, and as a deity, themother of races of the gods[which is Aditi and Vâch]. The Aramean name בהו-תא, בהו-ת, בהו-ת, Βαώθ, Βυθ-ός, Buto, for themother of the gods, which passed over to the Gnostics, Babylonians and Egyptians,is identical then with Môt(מות, ourMuth) properly, (Βώθ)originated in Phœnicianfrom an interchange ofbwithm.282

Rather, one would say, go to the origin. The mystic euhemerisation of Wisdom and Intelligence, operating in the work of cosmic evolution, orBuddhiunder the names of Brahmâ, Purusha, etc., as male power, and Aditi-Vâch, etc., as female, whence Sarasvatî, Goddess of Wisdom, who became under the veils of Esoteric concealment, Butos,Bythos—Depth, the grossly material, personal female, called Eve, the“primitive woman”of Irenæus, and the world springing out ofNothing.

The workings out of this glyph of 4thGenesishelp to the comprehension of the division of one character into the forms of two persons; as Adam and Eve, Cain and Abel, Abram and Isaac, Jacob and Esau, and so on [all male and female].... Now, as linking together several great salient points in the Biblical structure: (1) as to theOldandNew Testaments; with also (2) as to the Roman Empire; (3) as to confirming the meanings and uses of symbols; and (4) as to confirming the entire explanation and reading of the glyphs; as (5) recognising and laying down the base of the great pyramid as thefoundation squareof the Bible construction; (6) as well as the new Roman adoption under Constantine—the following given:283Cain has been shown to be ... the 360 circle of the Zodiac, the perfect and exact standard, by a squared division; hence his name of Melchizadik.... [The geometrical and numerical demonstrations here follow.] It has been repeatedly stated that the object of the Great Pyramid construction was to measure theheavens and the earth... [the objective spheres as evoluting from the subjective, purely spiritual Kosmos, we beg leave to add]; therefore, its measuring containment would indicate all the substance of measure ofthe heavens and the earth, or agreeably to ancient recognition,Earth,Air,WaterandFire.284(The base side of this pyramid was diameter to a circumferencein feetof 2400. The characteristic of this is 24 feet, or 6 × 4 = 24, or this very Cain-Adam square.) Now, by the restoration of the encampment of the Israelites, as initiated by Moses, by the great[pg 156]scholar, Father Athanasius Kircher, the Jesuit priest, the above is precisely, by Biblical record and traditionary sources, the method of laying off this encampment. Thefour interior squareswere devoted to (1) Moses and Aaron; (2) Kohath; (3) Gershom; and (4) Merari—the last three being the heads of the Levites. The attributes of these squares were theprimalattributes of Adam-Mars and were concreted of the elements,Earth,Air,Fire,Water, or ים = Iam =Water, נור = Nour =Fire, רוח = Rouach =Air, and יבשׂׂשׂה = Iābeshah =Earth. The initial letters of these words are INRI—the symbol usually translated asIesusNazarenusRexIudæorum—“Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.”This square of INRI is theAdam square, which was extended from, as a foundation, into four others of 144 × 2 = 288, to the side of the large square of 288 × 4 = 1152, = the whole circumference. But this square is the display of also circular elements and 115·2 can denote this. PutINRIinto a circle, or read it as the letters stand in the square, as to its values of 1521, and we have [Symbol: circle with numbers inside: 1, 1, 2, 5] which reads 115·2.But as seen Cain denotes this as, or in, the 115 of his name: which 115 was the very complement to make up the 360 day year, to agree with the balances of the standard circle, which were Cain. The corner squares of the larger square are, A = Leo, and B = Dan Scorpio; and it is seen that Cain pierces Abel at the intersection of the equinoctial with the solstice cross lines, referred to from Dan-Scorpio on the celestial circle. But Dan-Scorpio borders on Libra, the scales, whose sign is ♎ (which sign is that of the ancientpillowon whichthe back of the head to the ears285rested, the pillow of Jacob), and is represented for one symbol as [Symbol: Letters X, P, and S, with Libra symbol atop them].... Also the badge of Dan-Scorpio is death-life, in the symbol ☧. Now the cross is the emblem of theorigin of measures, in theJehovahform of astraight line one of a denomination of 20612, the perfect circumference; hence Cain was this as Jehovah, for the text says thathe wasJehovah. But the attachment of a man to this cross was that of 113: 355 to 6561: 5153 × 4 = 20612, as shown. Now, over theheadof Jesus crucified was placed the inscription, of which the initial letters of the words have always been retained as symbolic, and handed down and used as a monogram of Jesus Chrestos—viz., INRI orJesus Nazarenus Rex Judæorum; but they are located on theCross, or the cubedformof the circular origin of measures which measure the substance ofEarth,Air,FireandWater, or INRI = 1152, as shown. Here is themanon thecross, or 113: 355 combined with 6561: 5153 × 4 = 20612. These are thepyramid-basenumbers as coming from 113: 355 as the Hebrew source; whence the Adam-square, which is the pyramid base, and the centre one to the larger square of theencampment. Bend INRI into a circle, and we have 1152, or the circumference of the latter. But Jesus dying (or Abel married) made use of the very words needed to set forth all. He says,Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani.... Read them by their power values, incircular form, as produced from[pg 157]the Adam form as shown, and we have אלי = 113, אלי = 113, or 113—311: לפה = 345, or Moses in the Cain-Adam pyramid circle: שכחת = 710, equals Dove, or Jonah and 710 ÷ 2 = 355, or 355—553; and finally, as determinative of all יב orni, where ב =nun, fish = 565, and י = 1 or 10; together 565 י = יהוה or the Christ value....[All of the above] throws light on the transfiguration scene on the mount. There were present there Peter and James and John with Jesus; or ים Iami, James,Water; יבשה, Peter,Earth; דרה, John,Spirit,Air, and יבור Jesus,Fire,Life—together INRI. But behold Eli and Moses met them there, or אלי and למה orEliandLamah, or 113 and 345. And this shows that the scene of transfiguration was connected with the one above set forth.286

Cain has been shown to be ... the 360 circle of the Zodiac, the perfect and exact standard, by a squared division; hence his name of Melchizadik.... [The geometrical and numerical demonstrations here follow.] It has been repeatedly stated that the object of the Great Pyramid construction was to measure theheavens and the earth... [the objective spheres as evoluting from the subjective, purely spiritual Kosmos, we beg leave to add]; therefore, its measuring containment would indicate all the substance of measure ofthe heavens and the earth, or agreeably to ancient recognition,Earth,Air,WaterandFire.284(The base side of this pyramid was diameter to a circumferencein feetof 2400. The characteristic of this is 24 feet, or 6 × 4 = 24, or this very Cain-Adam square.) Now, by the restoration of the encampment of the Israelites, as initiated by Moses, by the great[pg 156]scholar, Father Athanasius Kircher, the Jesuit priest, the above is precisely, by Biblical record and traditionary sources, the method of laying off this encampment. Thefour interior squareswere devoted to (1) Moses and Aaron; (2) Kohath; (3) Gershom; and (4) Merari—the last three being the heads of the Levites. The attributes of these squares were theprimalattributes of Adam-Mars and were concreted of the elements,Earth,Air,Fire,Water, or ים = Iam =Water, נור = Nour =Fire, רוח = Rouach =Air, and יבשׂׂשׂה = Iābeshah =Earth. The initial letters of these words are INRI—the symbol usually translated asIesusNazarenusRexIudæorum—“Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.”This square of INRI is theAdam square, which was extended from, as a foundation, into four others of 144 × 2 = 288, to the side of the large square of 288 × 4 = 1152, = the whole circumference. But this square is the display of also circular elements and 115·2 can denote this. PutINRIinto a circle, or read it as the letters stand in the square, as to its values of 1521, and we have [Symbol: circle with numbers inside: 1, 1, 2, 5] which reads 115·2.

But as seen Cain denotes this as, or in, the 115 of his name: which 115 was the very complement to make up the 360 day year, to agree with the balances of the standard circle, which were Cain. The corner squares of the larger square are, A = Leo, and B = Dan Scorpio; and it is seen that Cain pierces Abel at the intersection of the equinoctial with the solstice cross lines, referred to from Dan-Scorpio on the celestial circle. But Dan-Scorpio borders on Libra, the scales, whose sign is ♎ (which sign is that of the ancientpillowon whichthe back of the head to the ears285rested, the pillow of Jacob), and is represented for one symbol as [Symbol: Letters X, P, and S, with Libra symbol atop them].... Also the badge of Dan-Scorpio is death-life, in the symbol ☧. Now the cross is the emblem of theorigin of measures, in theJehovahform of astraight line one of a denomination of 20612, the perfect circumference; hence Cain was this as Jehovah, for the text says thathe wasJehovah. But the attachment of a man to this cross was that of 113: 355 to 6561: 5153 × 4 = 20612, as shown. Now, over theheadof Jesus crucified was placed the inscription, of which the initial letters of the words have always been retained as symbolic, and handed down and used as a monogram of Jesus Chrestos—viz., INRI orJesus Nazarenus Rex Judæorum; but they are located on theCross, or the cubedformof the circular origin of measures which measure the substance ofEarth,Air,FireandWater, or INRI = 1152, as shown. Here is themanon thecross, or 113: 355 combined with 6561: 5153 × 4 = 20612. These are thepyramid-basenumbers as coming from 113: 355 as the Hebrew source; whence the Adam-square, which is the pyramid base, and the centre one to the larger square of theencampment. Bend INRI into a circle, and we have 1152, or the circumference of the latter. But Jesus dying (or Abel married) made use of the very words needed to set forth all. He says,Eli, Eli, Lama Sabachthani.... Read them by their power values, incircular form, as produced from[pg 157]the Adam form as shown, and we have אלי = 113, אלי = 113, or 113—311: לפה = 345, or Moses in the Cain-Adam pyramid circle: שכחת = 710, equals Dove, or Jonah and 710 ÷ 2 = 355, or 355—553; and finally, as determinative of all יב orni, where ב =nun, fish = 565, and י = 1 or 10; together 565 י = יהוה or the Christ value....

[All of the above] throws light on the transfiguration scene on the mount. There were present there Peter and James and John with Jesus; or ים Iami, James,Water; יבשה, Peter,Earth; דרה, John,Spirit,Air, and יבור Jesus,Fire,Life—together INRI. But behold Eli and Moses met them there, or אלי and למה orEliandLamah, or 113 and 345. And this shows that the scene of transfiguration was connected with the one above set forth.286

This kabalistical reading of the Gospel narratives—hitherto supposed to record the most important, the most mystically awful, yet most real events of the life of Jesus—must fall with terrible weight upon some Christians. Every honest trusting believer who has shed tears of reverential emotion over the events of the short period of the public life of Jesus of Nazareth, has to choose one of the two ways opening before him after reading the aforesaid: either his faith has to render him quite impervious to any light coming from human reasoning and evident fact; or he must confess that he has lost his Saviour. The One whom he had hitherto considered as the unique incarnation on this earth of the One Living God in heaven, fades into thin air, on the authority of the properly read and correctly interpretedBibleitself. Moreover, since on the authority of Jerome himself and his accepted and authentic confession, the book written by the hand of Matthew“exhibits matter not foredificationbut fordestruction”(of Church andhumanChristianity, and only that) what truth can be expected from his famousVulgate?Humanmysteries, concocted by generations of Church Fathers bent upon evolving a religion of their own invention, are seen instead of adivineRevelation; and that this was so is corroborated by a prelate of the Latin Church. Saint Gregory Nazianzen wrote to his friend and confidant, Saint Jerome:

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