PREFACE

As a sequel to our previous volume, THE REVELATION, this book will not mince words. It will reveal the true Gnostic origin of the Christian scheme which was made the concealing cloak of Ecclesiasticism, a political organization.

We shall attempt to demonstrate that a secret political body conceived the idea of usurping all civil powers and seizing control of and exploiting humanity for power and profit. Its basic policy was to establish a "King of Kings" to lord it over civil sovereigns appointed by the head of the Church as Princes, and to build up an hereditary priestly nobility.

“He hath made us Kings and Priests." (Rev. 1-6.)

"The Kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord." (Rev. 11-15).

"We wrestle not with flesh and blood but against principalities." (Eph. 6-12.)

"The Kingdom of God comes with power." (Mark 9:1). "I will give power over the Nations, and he shall rule them with a rod of iron." (Rev. 2-27).

"For the time is come when judgment must begin at the house of God; and if it first begin at us what shall the end be of them that obey not the Gospel of God?" (I Peter 4-17). "Behold, I come as a thief." (Rev. 16-15).

"In the flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the Gospels." (II Thes. 1-8.) To the contrary Christ preached to the people: "My kingdom is not of this world." (Jno. 18-36.) "I came not to judge the world." (Jno. 12-47.) Ecclesia is a Greek word meaning a legislative assembly.

It has no religious significance.

The Christian Church is the militant body to execute all that ecclesiasticism means. Therefore ignorance is made the

agent of the predatory wise.

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"Christ is the head of the church." (Eph. 5-23.)

"Christ is the word (Authority) clothed in a vesture dipped

in blood." (Rev. 19-13.)

"The Word is God." (Jno. 1-1.) (Authority.)

"God is manifested in the flesh." (I Tim. 3-16.)
"God is the Father." (Matt. 23-9.)

The holy father is the pope, long addressed by his cardinals

as the "Manifested God"—the papa of Mankind.

"Then cometh the end when he (Christ) shall have delivered up the Kingdom to God, even the father (the pope): when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power." (I Cor. 15-24.)

"And the Kings of the earth and the great men, and the rich men, and the mighty men hid themselves." (Rev. 6-15.) This same Christ declared to his apostles:

"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace but a sword.

"For I come to set a man at variance against his father and the daughter against her mother." (Matt. 10:34-35.) "I am come to send fire on earth.” (Luke 12-49.) This is quite sufficient for our purpose.

This is Ecclesiasticism reflected through Christianity. Christianity is the pretended, religious cloak to shield an exploitation.

We have quoted these drastic things from the Bible, to arouse the readers of this book to the urgent necessity for diligent inquiry into the true significance of this so-called Christian religion, which has so long held humanity enthralled.

We have published a previous volume, THE REVELATION, in which we expose a secret code, or at least a system not understood by the masses of people, which reveals ecclesiasticism and Christianity as associated factors in a well defined exploitation of humanity. This is the sole object of Christianity.

We have urgently declared that this astounding enterprise is based upon a conglomerated mass of doctrines plagiarized from every previously known religion back to antiquity, an

attempt being made to construct a religious form of ethical control to be "all things to all men.”

It gradually eliminated the philosophical schools, appropriating their wisdom and learning as its own. This especially was true with that broad and instructive school known as Gnosticism, which it wholly destroyed. This wicked process required about five hundred years and was one of the great human tragedies of history. All the avenues through which progressing, expanding humanity could rise to higher intellectual planes were closed. Extant learning, especially of a scientific nature, was seized and concealed or destroyed, and men were forbidden to teach. The Church was to be made the "Gateway" to learning and was to choose those who might enter. In the very beginning the common earthly people were driven out of "the garden of Eden," signifying a place of cultivation, and condemned to eternal toil. They were forbidden to partake of knowledge under pain of death.

We broadly cover this aspect of the subject in THE REVELATION. In this present volume we shall take up Gnosticism and show to what extent Christianity is based upon its wisdom and philosophy. The Gnostic system extends into and becomes a part of the code system of concealment throughout the Bible, because the ecclesiasts attempt to appropriate the Gnostic symbolisms and similitudes as their own.

Gnosis means to know-Knowledge.
Christianity means to believe-Ignorance.

It is very apparent that if a man knows a thing he does not have to appeal to others for this knowledge, but if he desires to know something of which he has no knowledge, he must seek this enlightenment of some one else, and he must believe what is told him is true, or become a skeptic. This is the basis of faith. Look up the definition of the word faith, in Webster. This immediately explains the selfish attitude of the Church. It desired to pose as the dispenser of all wisdom and knowledge, in order that it might possess the exclusive monopoly of training the new generations. To this end and purpose it suppressed Gnosticism; swept the earth of all previous learning; forbade