It is suggestive that this mysticism responds to the Ecclesiastic code, with sufficient variation to intimate suitable changes as a disguise. Why should these ancient names link up to Christianity?

PART XIII

MYSTICISM AND CONCEALED FORCES

(People fear the dangers which are concealed.)

The purpose of the mysticism found throughout the Bible, is solely to create superstitious fear in the minds of the ignorant masses, while Ecclesiasticism builds up a super-class of highly educated men to control the world.

The most amazing thing in civilization today is, that the laws permit so-called preachers to stand in their pulpits and frighten those seeking the truth, into hysteria, by threats of "hell-fire" and "eternal damnation." The church still insists that it must "mother" and "father" humanity as a child, with its eternal hypocrisy and fairy tales. Never, once, in two thousand years, has Christianity shown concrete evidence that it favored the education of the 'masses along the higher lines. It has always clung to the original dogma that ignorance is an essential element of control, to coerce the people churchward.

It is astonishing to observe this great republic coddling and encouraging the Christian powers while they steadily creep towards their goal, a kingdom, with the head of the church as king. There is scarcely a sermon preached in which the words Lord and king are not the key to the theme.

If they are preaching that to which they aspire, what is this republic going to do about it? Are the churches going to be permitted to insidiously instill into the masses of foreign blood brought into this country the idea that a king should rule the nation? This foreign blood never knew any other form of government, therefore, this is not improbable.

If they claim that they do not mean literally what they preach, then it is high time to demand a reason for binding masses of people in hysteria and fanaticism by terrorism, for

the best philosophy and science prove conclusively that Christianity is pure fable and romance.

What is the real situation at this time? The answer is simple:

American Politics and Church Intrigue

The churches hold the balance of power under our system. They are preaching exactly what their aspirations have been since Christianity became a power, a religious civil government.

For several centuries the church held the temporal power in Europe. Are we to understand that Europe was wrong in removing the church from this illogical control of the worldif it did shake it loose? Many incurable diseases may be temporarily driven from the surface of the body.

The prompt answer by the church is to point to the condition of the European nations today.

The reply to this is the record of torture and murder of some fifty millions of innocent men, women and children, in the name of Christ, while Christianity held temporal power, and a state of terrorism which no other animals ever experienced. It was truly a reign of terrorism which makes the present conditions seem Elysian.

We need not dwell upon this. Our business is to show that Christianity is built upon sand instead of a rock.

Rock signifies, in the Ecclesiastic code, a refuge. It is a living fact, that legislative control is the rock to which Ecclesiasticism is frantically clinging at this time. The hope of Christian supremacy is in the conglomerated mass of nationalities of which the United States is composed, and their untutored nature. Ignorance and poverty are the two edges of the ecclesiastical sword, which would cleave its way around the world.

We warn mankind that, it is fostering a serpent in its bosom, which is amassing untold wealth at the expense of credulous humanity, against the approaching day of famine, which is not far distant. In less than a hundred years, more people will die of diseases due to lack of food, than from all other diseases combined. Millions of people throughout the world today have

not sufficient food, because the parasitic, non-producers outnumber the true producers.

There are hundreds of thousands of able-bodied men in the ranks of the clergy who, by entering useful fields of production, could lighten the terrible burden of mankind. What we see about us is not suffering humanity; it is the veneer which disguises the cheap fabric beneath. This symbolizes the shoddy nature of our boasted civilization. It has neither system nor stability.

Men shout loudest when they are most uncertain regarding their safety. They whistle loudest when it is darkest. We try to frighten away the unknown dangers by assuming a bravado which is unnatural. The real danger is in the fanatic by our side, who has been trained in the belief that to live he must kill; to breathe himself, he must throttle others. Monopoly and control are the true savages of civilization. They can feed or starve humanity, therefore, they are all-powerful weapons to compel obedience. That is why Christianity cherishes the centuries old aspiration to a power over rulers which will make it in fact, "Lord of lords and King of kings."

Did it ever occur to you that this "King of kings" must refer to control of earthly kings? If it does not, where are the kings to be governed by a super-king?

It is our purpose to reveal the subtle means by which the Ecclesiasts perform their miracles.

In our research for evidences of plagiarism in the Bible, we find practically every Christian doctrine plagiarized from mythologies, religions, and systems of philosophy and so-called magic, which are centuries older than Christianity.

Its methods of subtle persuasion, hypnotic suggestion, and slow and patient training of human minds in inspired ignorance, ⚫ superstitious fear, fanatical intolerance, and hysterical hallucinations, are a combination of the so-called magic of early philosophers; what was in that day called magic, we name today psychology.

It was then the literary style, as it were, to exaggerate the most simple and natural phenomena, by clothing them in figure,

allegory and mysticism, to train the unsophisticated mind to reason out the truth. The highest attainable accomplishment of a learner, was the ability to convey an understanding of the truth of a theorem to the master, in mystic language which would not reveal it to others. The learner could not assume to

be a teacher.

This was the origin of mysticism in the Bible.

The disciples of Christ asked questions, but they did not presume to teach in his presence.

The first instruction given by Christ to his disciples was a lesson in subtlety:

"Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents and harmless as doves." (Matt. 10:16.)

This is plainly disguise, for no shepherd would deliberately send his sheep to the wolves, for subtlety could not save them; but men in sheep's clothing could protect themselves by subtlety, while secretly sowing propaganda.

The system was infallible. It was like pouring a poisonous gas into a community. The motives were evil. It was an assault upon the weak, impressionable masses; nervous organizations were cast into a state of frenzy; those prone to hysteria were smothered in hallucinations; superstitious ignorance took full possession. Every man was armed with invisible weapons. Whispered suggestions to stir the impressionable, became an unanswerable power. Subtle praise aroused wonder and foolish false sentiment in weak minds; insidious innuendo aroused the ire and hatred of the fanatical. A sly nod of disapproval, a mere motion of the hand, suggestive grimace of the face, a smirk, frown or sarcasm, all became a code language to move the people. A confidential leer is more potent to egg on an irresponsible fanatic than spoken words, and leaves no accusation against the instigator. This is the most contemptible trait in human nature.

A gush of artificial emotion, at the right moment, will throw a whole congregation into a state of suppressed or expressed