The Great God Baal.
The palm tree, the candle and the Asherim are symbols and images of
Baal, and the two last are offered up as sacrifices, corresponding to
the pillars and candles in the worship of Jehovah. Around the temple of
Jehovah as well as the temple of Baal, in the Holy Land, were the
ancient nunneries. The Kadishim or Holy Ladies lived in tents arranged
in a circle about the temple, and on each side of each tent or Fornix
stood a Knight of Kadish. The pious people who desired to worship god
gave up to the guard a shekel (sixty cents) and entered into the tent of
the Kadish, and the money so collected went to the service of god, which
means the priestly white slavers and the Worshipful Knights of Kadish.
The Kadishim were the same as the Deva Dasi, the concubines and dancing
girls of the Hindu temples, the slaves of the gods. “There is reason to
believe that the Israelites at an early date applied the name of Baal to
Jehovah. Baal was represented on the high places by pillars,” as the
strange god of John’s Revelation is pictured on his throne.—“Baal,”
Ency. Brit. One hundred of the most beautiful and seductive daughters of
the people, innocent girls of tender age, were torn from their homes by
the ruthless priests to fill the holy places of god around each temple.
The priests by constant iteration convinced the parents that it was a
high honor to be permitted to devote their daughters to god, and that as
a reward, in the great hereafter, they would sit beside the Great White
Throne with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the other Jews, and all the
hod-carriers, who, having washed their robes white in the blood of the
Lamb, sit on their little golden thrones with their dudeens in their
mouths and their hats gently tilted over one eye, while they decorate
with tobacco juice the dazzling surface of the crystal sea.
At the great temple of Baal, they had a palm tree standing in the midst
of the garden, and in the holy temple of Jehovah they had a stone pillar
around which the Kadishim, at the vernal equinox, danced in the nude.
This is the day dedicated to Astarte, or Ishtar or Easter. This occult
ceremony is one of the most beautiful and entrancing in our refulgent
and god-given religion. As the Tree of Life stands in the midst of the
circle of females, so the rays from the sun penetrate the earth and
annually renew its life. So the rays of the sun at high noon penetrated
the ark, that old box in which the priests kept the male and female
emblems, and before which King David for occult reasons danced in the
altogether. The ark corresponds with the sacred Argha of the Hindus, an
oblong vessel, a sacrificial chalice, used in the worship of Isis,
Astarte and Venus. It is a most holy symbol, containing, in the play,
the germs of all living things, and when we drink out of it at the
communion service, we drink eternal life. They planted the Tree of Life
in the midst of the garden or grove, as God planted the tree in the
midst of the Garden of Eden. You will notice the serpent coiled about
the tree in Eden. This is the symbol of Life. The serpent is a symbol of
the female.
The Israelites were commanded not to worship idols, but in the darkest
hour of their history, when their own God, Jehovah, had sent upon them
the plague of serpents and consigned them to destruction, then they
called upon the mighty sun-god, they looked upon the brazen serpent on a
cross, the Elevation of the Host, and the remnant of Israel was saved.
Israel, it is said, worshipped the serpent or Devil until about 726 B.
C. You will see this same god on the Masonic chart.
The Talmud says that when Ben Asai and Ben Zoma were to be initiated
into the Garden of Delights, Ben Asai looked and lost his sight, and Ben
Zoma looked and lost his reason. Eusebius shows that St. James, the
brother of Jesus and first Bishop of Jerusalem, never shaved or took a
bath, and he alone could enter into the holy places.
The merry maidens who circulate about the May-pole on May-day are
devoted devotees of the loving god Baal Poer. And we on Palm Sunday
carry palm leaves from the sacred palm tree to show that we are faithful
worshippers of the true god Baal.
In Italy, the clergy had at one time, according to Isis Unveiled, 2-5, a
thriving trade in those things which they called the holy limbs of
Saints Cosmo and Damiano. These male emblems were made of wax and
certainly beautiful to behold. The divine spirit shining through them in
resplendent glory cast its radiance afar. He who was so fortunate as to
possess sufficient filthy lucre to purchase one saved his immortal soul
from Hell, for was it not the symbol of life and the image of the great
god.
For the form of the pillar as worshipped in Syria, see page 121, A. P. &
M. C. Symbolism, and on the mall of Boston Common may be seen the same
pillar as adored by us at the Hub of Universal Culture, erected there to
commemorate the birth of American liberty. Let us hope that you will get
out early in the morning and see the blue-bellied Puritans and the
codfish aristocracy kneeling before this sacred shrine, with their hands
thrust through their rosaries, praying that this great god may make them
fruitful.
“The superstition of Europe instead of being diminished by the
introduction of Christianity was only turned into a fresh channel. The
new religion was corrupted by the old follies, the worship of the Virgin
was substituted for the worship of Cybele, the mother of the gods. March
25th, Lady’s Day, dedicated to Mary, was formerly called Hilaria and
dedicated to Cybele. The religion of mankind is the effect of their
improvement not the cause of it.”—Buckle’s Hist. Civ. 1-188.