The Devil.
Christ overcame the Great Serpent, the Devil, and the Irish Bacchus, St.
Patrick, drove all the snakes out of Ireland. The drunken Bacchus, whose
Saturnalia was held on the 17th of March, when they poured out libations
to him, was canonized and is now St. Bacchus, and his coffin and relics,
endowed with magical and miraculous powers, were exhibited at Rome
according to Isis Unveiled, 1:160.
Deus was Dyaus of the old Aryan or earlier Persian religion. Dyaus means
to shine, and was a name of the sun. The followers of Zoroaster asserted
that Dyaus was the Devil, and if they were right, it follows that Deus
is the Devil. In this connection read the Lord’s Prayer, in which the
ignorant worshipper endeavors to persuade the Lord not to lead him into
temptation. According to the writers of the Bible, who were probably
liars, He hardened the heart of Pharaoh, commanded the Israelites to
steal, put an evil spirit into Saul and sent lying messages to the
prophets. In Samuel it says that the Lord moved David to number Israel,
but according to Chronicles it was the Devil who put him up to it. The
words divine and devil are from Deva, the shining one, the Hindu god of
light. Light is also luc, and Lucifer is a sun-god identical with
Yahvah. The worshippers of Dyaus said that Ahura Mazda, of the
Zoroastrians was the Devil. Ahura Mazda means I Am the I Am, and he is
our God, the supreme God of the Hebrews, Kether, the father of Jehovah.
According to the early Christians, the Gnostics and Nazarenes, the
creator was Ilda Baoth, but in the Gospel of Nicodemus Ilda Baoth is
Satan. Aaron sacrificed human beings to Azazel, identical with Moloch or
the Devil. The Bible says that “man shall devote unto the Lord of all
that he hath, both of man and beast. None devoted shall be redeemed, but
shall surely be put to death.” We conclude that god and the Devil are
one, that Brahma, Buddha, Dyaus, Ahura Mazda, Baal, Osiris, Jove,
Bacchus, Christ, Priapus, Adonis, Deva and Devil are different names of
the same god, and that god is a myth.
The Devil is an emanation of god. He is Typhon, also called Sat and Seth
in the Egyptian religion. The Ency. Brit. says that he is a brother or
son of Osiris, and we have shown that Osiris and god are one, so we
conclude that the Devil is the son of god as claimed in Job, 1:6. The
Salvation Army says: “You must be a lover of the lord if you want to go
to Heaven when you die.” So you must love the Devil and all these beasts
of pagan gods, or you will have to shovel coal while the endless years
of eternity roll.
The Pentagram, by the power of which Solomon could summon the high gods
to his assistance or call up the goblins damned, represents God when one
horn of the star is in the ascendent or at the top, but when the two
horns are in the ascendent, it represents the Devil or the goat. When
Solomon summoned Gabriel to help him capture a new girl, the head of the
star, on which is the mystic eye, was pointed toward the altar of
evocation. But if he wished to raise the Devil, the horns of the goat
were pointed toward the altar. In the infernal invocation Solomon wore a
leaden cap, on which were the signs of the Moon, Venus and Saturn. He
had two candles of human fat in a crescent candlestick, a copper vase
holding the blood of the human victim, a censer containing incense
moistened with the blood of a goat, four nails from the coffin of an
executed criminal, the head of a black cat which has been fed on human
flesh for five days, a bat drowned in blood, the horns of an immoral
goat, the scull of a parricide. Then Solomon says in the evocation of
the Devil: “By Adonai Elohim (the Creator), Adonai Jehovah (the Son),
Adonai Sabbaoth (the Mother), by the womb of the Mother Adonai, by the
Word of the Python and the Mystery of the Salamanders, by the Conclave
of the Sylphs and the Gnomes, by the Demons of God in Heaven and
Alamousin and Gibor, Come! Come! Come!”
On the Pentagram is the mystic word יחוח, Yahvah, the spelling of which
indicates that it represents two hermaphrodite gods. יח, Yah, is the
good god, and וח, Vah, is the god of evil. The good god is represented
in a pack of cards by the king of hearts, the god of love, and his wife,
the queen of diamonds. And the hermaphrodite god of evil is represented
by the king of spades and his wife, Lilith, the queen of clubs.
Aristotle said that Jehovah was Ormazd, the god of light, and Pluto, the
god of darkness. Jehovah is the God of Wisdom, so is the Egyptian
serpent god, called Sat or Satan.
The serpent god is the astral light, the magnetic current. The priests
by their great will power could direct this current at pleasure and
perform the wonders and miracles that held enthralled their besotted
devotees. They claimed that they were serpents because the serpent god
magnetism permeated their bodies. A manuscript found among the Toltecs
of Mexico asserted that they were descended from the house of Israel.
Voltan, the Mexican demigod, says that he is the son of the snakes. The
hierophants of Egypt and Babylon called themselves the sons of the
serpent god. The chief priest of the serpent god of the Mexicans says:
“I am a snake myself.” The Druids of Britain used to say: “I am a
serpent, I am a Druid.”—Isis Unveiled.
Cneph or Cohen Eph (divine serpent) of Egypt was the supreme god, the
flying dragon, the divine spirit permeating all creation, like the
serpent god of the Buddhists. This spirit is electricity. The Ophites,
Christian Gnostics, claimed that the serpent that tempted Eve was Jesus
Christ, the Great Architect of the Universe, or Cohen Eph. Eve
represented matter, and the spirit permeating matter produces living
beings.
The astral light is both god and the Devil, the creator and the
destroyer and also the Nirvana of the Buddhists. It is the Ah of the
Hindus, or Iah or Eh Ei Eh of the Hebrews. It is life or the life-giving
fluid. It is the Od and Ob of Moses and the Kabalists. When it acts on
those that are drawn within its current it is the Ob or Python. Moses
was determined to exterminate those witches who, sensitive to its
influence, allowed themselves to fall under the control of the vicious
beings which move in the astral waves like fish in the water.—Isis
Unveiled, 1-158. Porphery says that “these beings are mischievous and
deceitful, though some are gentle and harmless, but so weak as to have
the greatest difficulty in communicating with mortals. Their powers of
reasoning are in a latent state, and therefore they themselves
irresponsible.” But St. Augustine says: “These spirits are deceitful
through malice. They pass themselves off for gods and for the souls of
the defunct.” St. Jerome says that some of these elementary spirits or
satyrs, with the legs and tails of goats, were exhibited at Alexandria,
and one of them was pickled and sent to the Emperor Constantine, which
he highly appreciated, as he was usually in the same condition. The
Devil says, according to Edgar Allan Poe: “In a climate so sultry as
mine it is frequently impossible to keep a spirit alive for more than
two or three hours, and unless pickled immediately (and a pickled spirit
is not good eating) they will smell.”
They called out sixty thousand militia in Cevennes, France, in 1700 to
drive the Devil out of the boys and girls and babes at the breast who
prophesied in pure French, a language unknown to them. The Prior
reported to Rome that the Devil was so powerful that no torture and no
amount of exorcism is able to dislodge him. He says he closed their
hands on burning coals, and they were not even singed, that he wrapped
their bodies in cotton soaked with oil and set them on fire and could
not even blister their skins, that balls were shot at them and found
flattened between the skin and clothes.
Perhaps the greatest number of miracles ever performed in the world were
pulled off by the Devil at the tomb of Abbe Paris from 1727 to 1749. The
sick were cured, the deaf made to hear and the blind to see. Often a
young girl among the convulsionaries would bend back into an arc, her
loins supported by the sharpened point of an iron rod, and beg to be
pounded with a fifty pound stone suspended from the ceiling. The stone
was allowed to fall repeatedly with all its weight upon her abdomen, and
the girl enjoyed it and cried for more, and no injury was found upon her
person. When violent blows were struck with a sledge-hammer upon a drill
held against her stomach she cried out: “O! how delightful, that does me
good. Strike twice as hard if you can.”—Isis Unveiled.