Fossilized customs 6th edition pg31 Christian minister once responded to a letter I sent him, admitting that there are many traditions within Christianity that were origi- nally Pagan, but he said they are only in the “background” now. Yes, they certainly are, buried under new meanings, reinterpreted to obscure them! He also said that since we don’t intend to be worshipping the sun now, that it’s all OK. When a person chooses to believe in something, their heart follows after it. Even if it’s a lie, or a fantasy, it matters not to them. Prov. 19:2 says, “It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor be hasty and miss the way. A man’s own folly ruins his life, yet his heart rages against hwhy.” Many believe that “Christmas” is in the Writings, with the stable, manger, star of Bethle- hem, shepherds, and Magi visitation. Also, every- one is programmed to celebrate birthdays, so why not celebrate the birth of the most important Per- son ever born? Please bear with this carefully The word Christmas means “anointed-depart”, and is seen abbreviated in “X—mas”. The “X” stands for Christos. Let me just say this: “If men originated any word or idea, then be sus- picious of it.” Is nothing sacred? The word “sacred” is Latin, sakra, and is used in place of the Hebrew word qodesh, meaning set-apart. Sakra itself traces back to an Indo-European language, “Sanskrit”, and turns out to be a Vedic form of an India sun deity, “Indra”. It came into Old Persian, and in one of its 12 forms is “Sakra”. Another form is Mitra, or the Persian/Roman “Mithras The wicked Mass Fossilized customs 6th edition pg31 Missa, Latin for depart, was the last word spoken at a Catholic “Mass”, and so the word for the liturgical procedure seems to be from that. It was tacked-on to the word “Christ” because the Mass ritual on December 25th was called Christ’s Mass. But, even the “Mass” existed before Ca- tholicism. It was what the Pagan priests of Mithra- ism and Mandaeanism called their Mass of the Dead, which was a ghastly “sacra-mental” ritual of animal and human sacrifice ~ on an indoor “altar”, with the Pagan worshippers assembled in two rows of benches with a center aisle. The Pagan priest would be at one end of the room, mumbling obscurely, leading the service to Mithras. At the spring equinox, new “initiates” into the mysteries of the cult were “baptized” (sprinkled) in blood, under a bull being hacked to death. This was the time which the Earth’s orbit “crossed” the celestial equator. These sun-worshippers interpreted this as “Mithras slaying the bull “ ~ the sun had “crossed” over the celestial equator, overcoming the “bull”, which they called the constellation of Taurus (Latin for “bull”). Every “Mass” is truly a Black Mass! The Pagan mind “mixed” this up with the Passover Seder known as “the Last Supper”, and POOF! The ’magic’ became our Sun-Day morning “supper”. You have just broken the Truth Barrier, as I call it. The word abracadabra was used during the Mithraic mystery Mass, when they transubstantiated a sun-shaped disc of bread into the sun, and ate it. You can find this out by digging it up in a library. The Mandaeans also had “7 sacraments”, among which were Holy Matri- mony, the “Eucharist” sun-disc bread wafer, “Confession”, Holy Orders, and the Mass of the Dead itself. They were sun-worshippers, from which a “Church Father”, Augustine, had come from. Are we still talking about Christmas? Sure! There was never an “indoor” altar in the ceremo- nial law of hwhy, and now there is no need for any altar. Alexander HISLOP Two babylons worship Pg89 It was no mere astronomic festival, then, that the Pagans celebrated at the winter solstice. That festival at Rome was called the feast of Saturn, and the mode in which it was celebrated there, showed whence it had been derived. The feast, as regulated by Caligula, lasted five days; * loose reins were given to drunkenness and revelry, slaves had a temporary emancipation, ** and used all manner of freedoms with their masters. ** If Saturn, or Kronos, was, as we have seen reason to believe, Phoroneus, The emancipator, the temporary emancipation of the slaves at his festival was exactly in keeping with his supposed character. This was precisely the way in which, according to Berosus, the drunken festival of the month Thebeth, answering to our December, in other words, the festival of Bacchus, was celebrated in Babylon. It was the custom, says he, during the five days it lasted, for masters to be in subjection to their servants, and one of them ruled the house, clothed in a purple garment like a king. This purple-robed servant was called Zoganes, the Man of sport and wantonness, and answered exactly to the Lord of Misrule, that in the dark ages, was chosen in all Popish countries to head the revels of Christmas. The wassailling bowl of Christmas had its precise counterpart in the Drunken festival of Babylon; and many of the other observances still kept up among ourselves at Christmas came from the very same quarter. The candles, in some parts of England, lighted on Christmas-eve, and used so long as the festive season lasts, were equally lighted by the Pagans on the eve of the festival of the Babylonian god, to do honour to him: for it was one of the distinguishing peculiarities of his worship to have lighted wax-candles on his altars. The Christmas tree, now so common among us, was equally common in Pagan Rome and Pagan Egypt. In Egypt that tree was the palm-tree; in Rome it was the fir; the palm-tree denoting the Pagan Messiah, as Baal-Tamar, the fir referring to him as Baal-Berith. The mother of Adonis, the Sun-God and great mediatorial divinity, was mystically said to have been changed into a tree, and when in that state to have brought forth her divine son. If the mother was a tree, the son must have been recognised as the Man the branch. And this entirely accounts for the putting of the Yule Log into the fire on Christmas-eve, and the appearance of the Christmas-tree the next morning. As Zero-Ashta, The seed of the woman, which name also signified Ignigena, or born of the fire, he has to enter the fire on Mother-night, that he may be born the next day out of it, as the Branch of God, or the Tree that brings all divine gifts to men. But why, it may be asked, does he enter the fire under the symbol of a Log? To understand this, it must be remembered that the divine child born at the winter solstice was born as a new incarnation of the great god (after that god had been cut in pieces), on purpose to revenge his death upon his murderers. Now the great god, cut off in the midst of his power and glory, was symbolised as a huge tree, stripped of all its branches, and cut down almost to the ground. But the great serpent, the symbol of the life restoring Aesculapius, twists itself around the dead stock, and lo, at its side up sprouts a young tree--a tree of an entirely different kind, that is destined never to be cut down by hostile power--even the palm- tree, the well-known symbol of victory. The Christmas-tree, as has been stated, was generally at Rome a different tree, even the fir; but the very same idea as was implied in the palm-tree was implied in the Christmas-fir; for that covertly symbolised the new-born God as Baal-berith, * Lord of the Covenant, and thus shadowed forth the perpetuity and everlasting nature of his power, not that after having fallen before his enemies, he had risen triumphant over them all. Therefore, the 25th of December, the day that was observed at Rome as the day when the victorious god reappeared on earth, was held at the Natalis invicti solis, The birth-day of the unconquered Sun. Now the Yule Log is the dead stock of Nimrod, deified as the sun-god, but cut down by his enemies; the Christmas-tree is Nimrod redivivus--the slain god come to life again. In the light reflected by the above statement on customs that still linger among us, the origin of which has been lost in the midst of hoar antiquity, let the reader look at the singular practice still kept up in the South on Christmas-eve, of kissing under the mistletoe bough. That mistletoe bough in the Druidic superstition, which, as we have seen, was derived from Babylon, was a representation of the Messiah, The man the branch. The mistletoe was regarded as a divine branch *--a branch that came from heaven, and grew upon a tree that sprung out of the earth. There can be no doubt, then, that the Pagan festival at the winter solstice--in other words, Christmas-- was held in honour of the birth of the Babylonian Messiah. Christmas tree The Christmas tree ~ whether an oak, evergreen, or palm, is really Nimrod. Shatan is still using the tree to whisper lies to us. When I go out to stores at the end of the Roman year, I walk by many of these displays, and say, “Look, it’s Nimrod!” I do the same with wreaths. If there really was a real person named Nicholas, and it’s not all just a legend, he sure went through some changes. The oldest account of his existence is vague, and of relatively recent origin. His location places him among the Dutch, but as I men- tioned, these people were not yet Christians. The date and location for him makes it an anachronism (the time is “against” it being true). In the 3rd century, the people of the north were barbarians (meaning “bearded Aryans”). They were Druids who burned their enemies and criminals in wicker cages over fires, threw wealth into lakes to water idols (like we still see people do in fountains), burned children as offerings to the sun, and placed jack-o-lanterns outside their homes lit by candles made from the fat of their own children. If they weren’t Pagans, nobody was! So, the legendary Nicho- las couldn’t have been there at that time. An- other major problem is this: they claim Nicholas was a “bishop” (presbyter, elder). Yet, at his death on December 6th, he had only reached the ripe old age of 17. “Bishop” means elder, from the Greek word presbus, “old man”. I’m not leaning heavily in favor of believing the tale with all these conflicting facts. We’ve heard all the nice stuff; but what entangle- ments do we have with a man who supposedly flies horned beasts through the air at night? Is it about sorcery? He wears a wizard cap. The red costume is recent, but it’s the ancient color of fire. Its our cultural color for danger. The costume is trimmed in sheepskins. He descends into a fire pit at midnight ~ the hearth is directly linked to the idolatry of the Romans. The fire was sacred to them, and its place was the center of the Pagan worship of their deities. Our mythology of him comes to us through Angle-Land (Eng-land), and that traces to Holland, and Germany, and so on. The 3rd-century story about a “Saint Nicholas” never had any mention of “elves”, chimneys, flying reindeer, or supernatural feats. Even the “Christmas tree” isn’t mentioned in the story. Christianity had made no inroads into the northern areas of Angle Land, Hol Land, Scot Land, Fin Land, and Eire Land, until well into the 5th cen- tury. If anyone named “Nicholas” existed in Hol- land during the 3rd century, he was a Pagan who obeyed his Druid priests. In the 8th century, a man named Boniface encountered these Druid-led people of the north, and sought to convert them. He saw them bringing oak trees into their homes at the winter solstice, decorating them with gold balls (note picture on page 3). The word “Dru-id” means “oak-wise”, because oak trees were sacred to them. This comes from Babylon. At the death of Nimrod, the wife/mother Semiramis taught the young Tammuz to go into the groves (forests) and place a gift on a tree at the winter solstice. This was an offering to his father, Nimrod, who was now the sun. Jeremiah 10:1-6 Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel: Thus saith the Lord, Learn not the way of the heathen, and be not dismayed at the signs of heaven; for the heathen are dismayed at them. For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe. They deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. They are upright as the palm tree, but speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good. Forasmuch as there is none like unto thee, O Lord; thou art great, and thy name is great in might.
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