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PREFACE.
INVERSELY to the remoteness of time has been man's ascent toward the temple of knowledge. Truth has
made its ingress into the human mind in the ratio by which man has attained the capacity to receive and
appreciate it. Hence, as we tread back the meandering pathway of human history, every step in the
receding process brings us to a lower plane of intelligence and a state of mind more thoroughly
encrusted with ignorance and superstition. It is, therefore, no source of surprise to learn, when we take
a survey of the world two or three thousand years in the past, that every religious writer of that era
committed errors on every subject which employed his pen, involving a scientific principle. Hence, the
bible, or sacred book, to which he was a contributor, is now found to bear the marks of human
imperfection. For the temple of knowledge was but partially reared, and its chambers but dimly lighted
up. The intellectual brain was in a dark, feeble and dormant condition. Hence, the moral and religious
feelings were drifted about without a pilot on the turbulent waves of superstition, and finally stranded
on the shoals of bigotry. The Christian bible, like other bibles, having been written in an age when
science was but budding into life, and philosophy had attained but a feeble growth, should be expected
to teach many things incompatible with the principles of modern science. And accordingly it is found to
contain, like other bibles, numerous statements so obviously at war with present established scientific
truths that almost any school-boy, at the present day, can demonstrate their falsity. Let the unbiased
reader examine and compare the oriental and Christian bibles together, and he will note the following
facts, viz:—
1. That the cardinal religious conceptions of all bibles are essentially the same—all running in parable
grooves.
2. That every chapter of every bible is but a transcript of the mental chart of the writer.
3. That no bible, pagan or Christian, contains anything surpassing the natural, mental and moral
capacity of the writer to originate. And hence no divine aid or inspiration was necessary for its
production.
4. That the moral and religious teachings of no bible reach a higher altitude than the intelligence and
mental development of the age and country, which produced it.
That the Christian bible, in some respects, is superior to some of the other bibles, but only to the extent
to which the age in which it was written was superior in intelligence and natural mental capacity to the
era in which the older bibles were penned; and that this superiority consists not its more exalted
religious conceptions, but only in the fact that, being of more modern origin, the progress of mind had
worn away some of the legendary rubbish of the past. Being written in a later and more enlightened age,
it is consequently a little less encrusted with mythological tradition and oriental imagery. Though not
free from these elements, it possesses them in less degree. And by comparing Christ's history with those
of the oriental Gods, it will be found: —
1. That he taught no new doctrine or moral precept.
2. That he inculcated the same religion and morality, which he elaborated, as other moral teachers, to
great extremes.
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3. That Christ differs so little in his character, preaching, and practical life from some of the oriental
Gods, that no person whose mind is not deplorably warped and biased by early training can call one
divine while he considers the other human.
That if Christ was a God, then, all were Gods.
THE AUTHOR.
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PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
The author desires to say that this work has been carefully reviewed and corrected, and some additions
made, embracing two chapters from "the Bible of Bibles," and some explanatory notes, and is now able
to place before the reader a greatly improved edition.
The author also desires to say here, that the many flattering letters he has received from various parts of
the country, from those who have supplied themselves with the work, excites in his mind the hope it
will ultimately effect something towards achieving the important end sought to be attained by its
publication—the banishment of that wide-spread delusion comprehended in the belief in an incarnate,
virgin-born God, called Jesus Christ, and the infallibility of his teachings, with the numerous evils
growing legitimately out of this belief—among the most important of which is, its cramping effect upon
the mind of the possessor, which interdicts its growth, and thus constitutes a serious obstacle to the
progress both of the individual and of society. And such has been the blinding effect of this delusion
upon all who have fallen victims to its influence, that the numerous errors and evils of our popular
system of religious faith, which constitutes its legitimate fruits, have passed from age to age, unnoticed
by all except scientific and progressive maids, who are constantly bringing these errors and evils to
light. This state of things has been a source of sorrow and regret to every philanthropist desiring the
welfare of the race. And if this work shall achieve anything towards arresting this great evil, the author
will feel that he is amply compensated for the years of toil and mental labor spent in its preparation.
NOTE.—As the different works consulted have assigned different dates for the same event, the author
has, in one or two cases, followed their example, accepting them as authority; as in the date of the birth
and death of the Gods of Mexico. The reader will also notice that the name of the same God is found in
different countries. Example—Adonis and Bacchus are found amongst the Gods of both Greece and
Egypt.
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CONTENTS.
PREFACE
EXPLANATION
INTRODUCTION
ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY
CHAPTER I
RIVAL CLAIMS OF THE SAVIORS
CHAPTER II
MESSIANIC PROPHECIES.
CHAPTER III
PROPHECIES BY THE FIGURE OF A SERPENT
CHAPTER IV
MIRACULOUS AND IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE GODS
CHAPTER V
VIRGIN MOTHERS AND VIRGIN-BORN GODS.
CHAPTER VI
STARS POINT OUT THE TIME AND THE SAVIORS' BIRTH-PLACE
CHAPTER VII
ANGELS, SHEPHERDS, AND MAGI VISIT THE INFANT SAVIORS
CHAPTER VIII
THE TWENTY-FIFTH OF DECEMBER THE BIRTHDAY OF THE GODS
CHAPTER IX
TITLES OF THE SAVIORS
CHAPTER X
THE SAVIORS OF ROYAL DESCENT, BUT HUMBLE BIRTH
CHAPTER XI
CHRIST'S GENEALOGY
CHAPTER XII
THE WORLD'S SAVIORS SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION IN INFANCY
CHAPTER XIII
THE SAVIORS EXHIBIT EARLY PROOFS OF DIVINITY
CHAPTER XIV
THE SAVIORS' KINGDOMS NOT OF THIS WORLD
CHAPTER XV
THE SAVIORS ARE REAL PERSONAGES
CHAPTER XVI
SIXTEEN SAVIORS CRUCIFIED
CHAPTER XVII
THE APHANASIA, OR DARKNESS, AT THE CRUCIFIXION
CHAPTER XVIII
DESCENT OF THE SAVIORS INTO HELL
CHAPTER XIX
RESURRECTION OF THE SAVIORS
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