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The Holy Inquisition was perhaps the most heinous extortion system ever devised; it served as a foundation for the Church’s immense wealth, since all whom it accused had their property confiscated at once. Conviction was essentially inevitable, due to the unrestricted use of torture. Each victim was forced by torture to supply the names of many alleged “accomplices,” so that whole villages could be wiped out by a visit from the Hounds of God (Domini canes, the Dominicans), and the Church could take over lands and other assets virtually without limit.
Various stories about Mary as mother of Jesus the Enlightened One were evidently based on older stories about Maia, the Virgin Mother of Hermes, the Enlightened One, which in turn were related to Far-Eastern stories about Maya, the Virgin Mother of Buddha, the Enlightened One. The name of Maya/Maia meant “magic” and provided the root of our own merry month of May, season of rebirth and renewal. Maia was caught up into heaven and became one of the Pleiades, a myth that may have provided a basis for the later doctrine of Mary’s Assumption. Maia made her son Hermes the Psychopomp, or “Conductor of Souls,” a role that was assigned later to Jesus, but earlier to the Hindu god Ya-Ma, a male reversal of the sacred syllables of the Goddess’s name.
In Hellenized Alexandria, a newborn baby was displayed and the people gave the ritual cry: “The Virgin has brought forth! The light is growing!” Egypt had long revered the annual birth of the savior Osiris, whose coming was announced by angels, shepherds and the “Three Wise Men,” meaning the three stars in the belt of Orion, which point directly to the brightest star in the heavens, Sirius. Its rising signaled the all-important annual flooding of the Nile, bringing salvation from famine. The savior’s body and blood were symbolically eaten as bread and wine, and those who thus assimilated him were said to spend eternity with their Good Shepherd who led them to his Nefer-Nefer land of green pastures and still waters, as specifically stated in Egyptian hymns. He was sometimes called Son of the Sun, or Osiris-Ra, or Sarapis/Serapis, who became virtually identical with the Judeo-Christian Yahweh around the first centuries bce and ad/ce.
Ancient Romans thought the souls of the dead frequently become birds, which is why Roman augurs took omens from observing birds. Egyptians and Persians specifically characterized the Crone Goddess as a holy vulture, whose emissaries in bird form carried away the dead as part of themselves. Persians used to expose their dead in open-topped “towers of silence” where carrion birds could feed on them. Some Native Americans placed their dead on tree platforms for the same purpose.
The ancient gods had been almost entirely demonized, although the Catholic Encyclopedia today admits that a number of their statues were officially baptized and converted into saints, in order to assimilate their worshippers. Thus we have the double curiosity of pagan gods and goddesses not only diabolized, but also simultaneously canonized.
Even the purported miracles and visions of Old Testament characters were derivative. For example, the four creatures of Ezekiel’s “vision” (Eze 1:10) were simply symbols of the four cardinal points of the stellar zodiac, Aquarius, Taurus, Leo and Scorpio: “All antiquity knew about them... Among the Orphics they were designated Dragon, Bull, Lion and Eagle.”
According to the original Persian scripture, the Zend-Avesta, God and the devil were twin brothers born simultaneously from the womb of a mysterious androgynous being named Zurvan, “Infinite Time.”
In 1325, Pope John XXII issued a bull of infallibility declaring it heretical to say that Jesus and his apostles owned no property, and ordering inquisitors to prosecute those who called Jesus a poor man. The pope had Spiritual Franciscans burned alive, just to drive the point home.
Society becomes sexist when the original Mother/Goddess/ Creatress is replaced by a father god, who doesn’t give birth but creates the world in some more artificial way, by breath or by the use of a magic word, the Logos. Even that, however, was stolen from Goddess traditions that claimed her use of the first life-giving word. In Sanskrit, her word was Om. Greek renders it Omega, “great Om,” placing it at the end of the alphabet instead of at the beginning; but in pre-Hellenic cyclic religious imagery, the Omega and the Alpha were united in endless recurrences of the Great Round, birth and death alternating, for all creatures as well as for humans and even for the universe itself.
“Man is certainly stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by dozens.”
Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592)
Mystical Judaism, such as the Cabala, was deeply influenced by Tantric traditions, including the belief that a priest or god was powerless without his female counterpart. Cabalists declared that all the world’s ills and evils arose from God’s loss of his Sophia, his Shakti, whom the Jews called Shekinah.
Adonis was miraculously born of a temple maiden in Bethlehem, which means “the House of Bread.” He appears to have been the “Bread of God,” which became the worshiper’s body also, as in John 6:56: “He that eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.”
Through the Middle Ages, the village witches or wise-women were the only healers available to ordinary people. Physicians usually treated only the rich, and clergymen were forbidden to learn anything about medicine, being taught that sickness is the work of demons and must be treated only with holy water and exorcisms. Medical knowledge, however crude, was to be found chiefly in the local witches who carried on the ancient traditions. Renaissance physician Paracelsus (1493-1541) wrote that everything he knew about medicine was taught to him by witches.
In Rome, the Holy Sisters of the Order of St. Mary Magdalene were supported by the earnings of a “sacred” brothel founded by Pope Julius II (1443-1513), and its members were known as either virgines or magdalenes, meaning “whores.” But the Latin word virgins didn’t mean only literal virgins: It also meant unmarried women, often priestesses, like the Vestal Virgins.
The sacrificed god Dionysus, another son of the Heavenly Father, first performed Jesus’s miracle of turning water into wine at temples in Sidon and other places, representing the rain of heaven fructifying the vine. In Alexandria, the Dionysian/Christian miracle was demonstrated literally by means of an ingenious system of siphons invented by an engineer named Heron, to enhance the awe of the faithful.