The Druidical Mysteries

The Druids were a sacred order of priests who existed in Britain and Gaul, but whose mystical rites were practiced in most perfection in the former country, where the Isle of Anglesea was considered as their principle seat. Higgins thinks that they were also found in Germany, but against their opinion we have the positive statement of Caeser.

The meanings given to the word have been very numerous, and most of them wholly untenable. The Romans seeing that they worshiped in groves of oak, because the tree was peculiarly sacred among them, derived their name from the Greek word, drus; thus absurdly seeking the etymology of a word of am older language in one comparatively modern. Their derivation would have been more reasonable had they known that in Sanskrit duma is an oak, from dru, wood. It has also been traced to the Hebrew with equal incorrectness, for the Druids were not of the Semitic race. Its derivation is rather to be sought in the Celtic language. The Gaelic word Druiah signifies a holy or wise man; in a bad sense, a magician; and this we may readily trace to the Aryan druh, applied to the spirit of night or darkness, whence we have the Zend dru, a magician. Drudism was a mystical profession, and in the olden time mystery and magic were always confounded. Vallencey (Coll. Beb. Hib., iii. 503,) says: Welsh, Drud, a Druid, i.e. the ab-solver or remitter of sins; so the Irish Drui, a Druid, most certainly from the Persian duru, a good and holy man;" and Ousely (coll. Orient., iv. 302,) adds to this the Arabic dari, which means a wise man. Bosworth (A.S. Dict.) gives dry, pronounced dru, as the Anglo Saxon for "a magician sorcerer, druid." I think that with the old Celts the Druids occupied the same place as the Magi did with the old Persians.

Druidism was divided into three orders or degrees, which were, beginning with the lowest, the Bards, the Prophets, and the Druids. Higgins thinks that the prophets were the lowest order, but he admits that it is not generally allowed. The constitution of the Order was in many respects like that of the Freemasons. In every country there was an Arch-Druid in whom all authority was placed. In Britain it is said that there was under him three arch-flamens or priests, and twenty-five flamens. There was an annual assembly for the administration of justice and the making of laws, and, besides, four quarterly meetings, which took place on the days when the sun reached his equinoctial and solstitial points. The latter would very nearly correspond at this time with the festivals of St. John the Evangelist. It was not lawful to commit their ceremonies or doctrines to writing, and Caeser says (Bell. Gall., vi. 13,) that they used the Greek letters, which was, of course, as a cipher; but Higgins (p.90) says that one of the Irish Ogum alphabets, which Toland calls secret writing, "was the original, sacred, and secret character of the Druids."

Winston Churchill In the center

The places of worship, which were also places of initiation, were of various forms: circular, because a circle was an emblem of the universe; or oval, in allusion to the mundane egg(i.e. Orphic Egg/mohodiscontiuity) , from which, according to the Egyptians, our first parents issued; or serpentine, because, because a serpent was a symbol of Hu, (Hu-Man)the druidical Noah; or winged, to represent the motion of the Divine Spirit; or cruciform, because a cross was the emblem of regeneration. Their only covering was the clouded canopy, because they deemed it absurd to confine the Omnipotent beneath a roof; and they were constructed of embankments of earth, and of unhewn stones, unpolluted with a metal tool. Nor was any one permitted to enter their sacred retreats, unless he bore a chain.

The ceremony of initiation into the Druidical Mysteries required much preliminary mental preparation and physical purification. The aspirant was clothed with three sacred colors, white, blue, and green; white(sacrifice) as the symbol of Light, blue(bluebloods) of Truth, and green(future) of Hope. When the rites of initiation were passed, the tri-colored robe was changed for one of green; in the second degree, the candidate was clothed in blue; and having surmounted all the dangers of the third, and arrived at the summit of perfection, he received the red tiara and flowing mantle of purest white. The ceremonies were numerous , the physical proofs painful, and the mental trials appalling.. They commenced in the first degree, with placing the aspirant in the pastos, bed or coffin, where his symbolized death was represented, and they terminated in the third, by his regeneration or restoration to life from the womb of the giantess Ceridwin, and the committal of the body of the newly born to the waves of in a small boat, symbolical of the ark. The result was, generally that he suceeded in reaching the safe landing place, but if his arm was weak, or his heart failed, death was the almost inevitable consequence. If he refused the trial through timidity, he was contemptuously rejected, and declared forever ineligible to participate in the sacred rites. But if he undertook it and succeeded, he was joyously invested with all the privileges of Druidism.

The doctrines of the Druids were the same as those entertained by Pythagoras. They taught the existence of one Supreme Being; a future state of rewards and punishments; the immortality of the soul, and a metempsychosis; and the object of their mystic rites was to communicate those doctrines in symbolic language, an object and a method common alike to Druidism, to the Ancient Mysteries and Modern Freemasonry.


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OA- Alpha to Omega i.e. beginning to End
K - Mission

Oak. A large class of trees and shrubs. There are about three hundred species, found mostly in temperate regions, and more numerous in America than Europe. Some species are evergreen, as the live oak of the southern states, and the evergreen oak of California. The different kinds vary very much, some having the leaves very deeply indented, others with straight edged leaves; some produce their fruit every year; and other only every other year; while some have the fruit growing on stems, and in others it grows directly on the tree. They are all known, however, by their fruit, the acorn, a nut set in a cup. Among the most common kinds are the white oak, black oak, scarlet oak, red oak, willow oak, black scrub oak, live oak, etc. European varieties include also the Barbury oak, evergreen oak, Italian oak, cork oak, dwarf chestnut oak, the gall oak, and the manna oak. The species most common in Great Britain is one like our whit oak, with smaller leaves. The oak furbishes a large part of our best timber, ranking next to the white pine in the variety of its uses. The wood of many varieties is very tough and durable, and is used in shipbuilding, carriage making, for barrels and agricultural implements, and as splints it is used for baskets and chair seats. The bark yields tannin in large quantities, and is used in medicine and in tanneries. The acorns are used for feeding hogs, and in Tukey are ground and made into a sweetmeat. The oak is a very long lived tree, especially the British oak, some of which are probably 1,00 years old. The "King Oak" in Windsor Forest is said to have shaded William the Conqueror. The tree is of a slow growth, and plantations of it are not of maketable value for some time.

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MONEY IS THE HINDU/PERSIAN LION'S AMMUNITION

Stand alone beaker baby warriors -LAN, LEN, LIN, LON, LUN, LYN- versus "Savvy Saviours" ie: Zeus, Jesus and General Patraeus

"Myths tell only of that which really happened." This does not mean that myths correctly explain what literally happened. It does suggest, however, that behind the explanation there is a reality that normally cannot be seen and examined by anyone other than members of secret societies.

ZEUS (The Just). Reportedly the greatest of the three Earth gods (surface, sea and underworld) in classical mythology was called Zeus by the Greeks and Jupiter, or Jove, by the Romans. He was the father of gods and men, protector of kings, supporter of law and order, and avenger of broken oaths and other offenses. He watched over the state and the family and over strangers and suppliants; his hand wielded lightning and guided the stars; he gathered rain clouds; he ordained the changes of the seasons and regulated the whole course of nature (see Noaa and the kabuki typhoon season dance). Zeus, with the other gods on Mount Olympus, ruled over the affairs of mankind.

JESUS. The life and death of Jesus is an allegory which symbolizes the shelf life and "end times" cruci fiction ruse imposed on residents of the Northern Hemisphere.

PETRAEUS (David Howell) (born November 7, 1952) is a general in the United States Army and commander of Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I), the four-star post that oversees all U.S. forces in the country. He was confirmed to that position by the Senate in a vote of 81-0 on January 26, 2007. He replaced General George Casey who was subsequently confirmed as Chief of Staff of the United States Army. In his new position, Petraeus oversees all forces in Iraq and carries out the new Iraqi strategy plan outlined by the Bush administration. Casey relinquished command in Iraq to Petraeus on February 10, 2007. The change of command was presided over by General John Abizaid, then commander of United States Central Command.

Petraeus was the General George C. Marshall Award winner as the top graduate of the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College - class of 1983. He subsequently earned a Master of Public Administration (1985) and a Ph.D. (1987) in International Relations from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He later served as Assistant Professor of International Relations at the U.S. Military Academy, and also completed a fellowship at Georgetown University. He has a BS from the U.S. Military Academy - class of 1974.

To Helen

Helen, thy beauty is to me
Like those Nicean barks of yore,
That gently, o'er a perfumed sea,
The weary, way-worn wanderer bore
To his own native shore.

On desperate seas long won't to roam,
Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face,
Thy Naiad airs have brought me home
To the glory that was Greece
And the grandeur that was Rome.

Lo! in you brilliant window niche
How statue-like I see thee stand!
The agate lamp within thy hand
Ah! Psyche, from the regions which
Are Holy Land!

- Edgar Allan Poe



Hints:

The way-worn wanderer was Dionysus or Bacchus, after his renowned conquests. His native shore was the Western Horn, called the Amalthean Horn. And the Nicean barks were vessels sent from the island Nysa, to which in infancy Dionysus was conveyed to screen him from Rhea. The perfumed sea was the sea surrounding Nysa, a paradisaical island.

Nebuchadnezzar

About 630 years B.C. the empire and city of Babylon were conquered by Nebuchadezzar, the king of the Chaldeans, a nomadic race, who, descending from their homes in the Caucasian mountains, had overwhelmed the countries of Southern Asia. Nebuchadnezar was engaged during his whole reign in wars of conquest. Among other nations who fell beneath his victorious arms was Judea, whose king, Jehoiakim, was slain by Nebuchadnezzar, and his son, Jehoiachin, ascended the Jewish throne. After a reign of three years, he was deposed by Nebuchadnezzar, and his kingdom given to his uncle, Zedekiah, a monarch distinguished for his vices. Having repeatedly rebelled against the Babylonian king, Nebuchadnezzar repaired to Jerusalem, and, after a siege of eighteen months, reduced it. The city was leveled with the ground, the Temple pillaged and burned, and the inhabitants carried captive to Babylon. These events are commemorated in the first section of the English and American Royal Arch system.

Nebuchadnezzar, the most illustrious of Babylonian kings, was the son of Nabopolassar, the general of the Babylonian garrison at the time the Assyrian empire fell to pieces after the death of Assur-bani-pal. The Babylonians then threw off the hated yoke of Assyria, and the Nabopolassar was proclaimed king of Babylonia, in 625 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar succeeded him in 604 B.C., reigning 43 years and was one of the greatest sovereigns who ever ruled over an ancient empire. He recovered the long lost provinces of the kingdom, rebuilt palaces and temples, as well as the city of Babylon , captured and destroyed Jerusalem, taking the Jews into captivity. It is an astonishing fact that not a single mound has been opened by explorers in Babylonia, which did not contain bricks, cylinders and tablets inscribed with his name. The accompanying cut is a facsimile of a coin bearing his image and superscription, the only genuine one in existence.


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The Nebuchadnezzar is the hovercraft captained by Morpheus in the Matrix movies.

According the Matrix, the Nebuchadnezzar was built in 2069. It is a hovercraft designed for the sewers and tunnels under the ground. It can broadcast up to seven people at a time and can upload programs directly to them.

MASONRY ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLS

HELL, PURGATORY and HEAVEN

MASONRY ALLEGORY AND SYMBOLS

WISDOM OF THE GODS

HELL : Is when our DNA is never able to remember with the SIMA, the orphic egg shell memory bank, the Moho which envelops the mantle at the core of our planet EARTH. PURGATORY : Is being part of the SIAL, the angry lava that flows back to the surface from below the Earth's crust, through stone tree volcanoes, and thereby temporarily Delays some DNA's ability to remember with the SIMA, the singularity of life on our planet. HEAVEN : Is when our DNA takes the shortest path possible to the MOHO discontinuity and immediately remembers with the SIMA, the DNA of all who have gone before. Burial at sea improves the chances of this happening more rapidly.

GODS are those Neanderthals who first penetrated and took up lodging within the SIMA, without first having died. They, and/or their descendants, now live inside the accumulated billion (+) year DNA memory bank of our planet. They are also the Genetic Engineers who fabricated Cro Magnons (Roma), then Semites (Arabs, Arameans, Babylonians, Carthaginians, Ethiopians, Hebrews and Phoenicians), and later Asians, and finally, Caucasians; all being part of the preliminary beta testing leading to the Human Engineering of a 2 in 1 androgyny SuperSlave hermaphrodyte.

Please accept this, the fruit of my acquired wisdom, as my life's free gift to all humanity, at this, the end times of the greatest show on Earth.

ON THE ROAD TO UBERMENSCH

ON THE ROAD TO UBERMENSCH

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ELEVEN DESDEMONA PRIMARY METRICS CHARACTERS

0 : The HOLY EGG

1 : The FERTILIZER

2 : The DIRECTOR

3 : The PRODUCER

4 : The VENDOR

5 : The DISTRIBUTOR

6 : WISE MEN

7 : The ALTAR

8 : The CONQUERED

9 : IAGO

10 : THE NEW EVE

Cyrus(ruse) the Great the Founder of the Persian Empire

The founder of the Persian empire, is first known to us from the record, on the cuneiform clay tablet and cylinder, which recounts his reign, his conquest and capture of Astyages, king of Media, in 549 B.C. At this time Cyrus was called king of Elam. Year after year was idly spent by Nobonidas, king of Babylonia, at Terma, a suburb of the capital, Babylon, while his son - doubtless Belshazzar - was with his army at Akkad (Northern Babylon). In 538 Cyrus, favored by a revolt of the tribes on the Persian gulf, advanced on Babylon from the southeast, and after giving battle to the army of Akkad, took Sippona, and lastly Babylon, "without fighting." Cyrus at once began a friendly policy of religion. The nations who had been carried captive to Babylon, along with the Jews, were restored by their countries and allowed to take their gods with them. The empire of Croesus in Lydia had been taken two years before, and Cyrus was now master of all Asia from the Mediterranean to the Hindu-Kush. The conqueror's hold over Asia Minor and Syria was much strengthened by his friendly relations with the Phoenicians and the Jews, who received the news of his triumphs with joy. After the great king had widened his dominions from the Arabian desert and the Persian gulf on the south to the Black sea, Caucasus and the Caspian, he died in 529 B.C. Cyrus ranks high among Asiatic conquerors. He was a wise ruler, whose aim was to soften by kindness the harsh rule which his sword was constantly extending.



Persia. called by the natives Iran, the most extensive and powerful native kingdom of western Asia, is bounded on the north by the Caspian sea and Asiatic provinces of Russia; on the east by Afghanistan and Beluchistan; on the south by the Indian ocean, the Strait of Ormuz and the Persan Gulf; on the west by Asiatic Turkey. It extends about 900 miles from the east to west, and 700 miles from north to south, and has an area of 600,000 square miles. It consist for the most part of an elevated plateau, which in the center and on the east side is almost a dead level, but on the northwest and south is covered with mountain chains.

The climate is exceedingly varied. The younger Cyrus is reported to have said to Xenophon that "people perish with cold at one extremity of the country, while they are suffocated with heat at the other." Persia, in fact, may be said to possess three climates - that of the gulf coast, that of the elevated plateau, and that of the Caspian Provinces. Along the southern coast the heat of summer and autumn is very severe, while in winter and spring thew climate is delightful. On the plateau there is considerable difference of climate, , and considerable variation from heat to cold. About Ispahan the winters and summers are equally mild; but to the north and northwest of this the winters are very severe, and the desert region of the center and east of the country of its border endure most oppressive heat in summer and piercing cold in winter. The Caspian provinces in the north, on account of their general depression below the sea level, are exposed to a degree of heat in summer almost equal to that of the West Indies, and their winters are mild. Rains, however, are frequent, and many tracts of low country are very unhealthy. Except in the Caspian provinces, the atmosphere of Persia is remarkable for its dryness and beauty.

The cultivated portions of Persia, when supplied with moisture, either by rainfall or irrigation, are very fertile - in some places two crops can be raised in a year. The principle products are wheat(the best in the world), barley, corn, sugar and rice. The vine flourishes in several provinces, and the wines of Shiraz are celebrated in eastern poetry. Mulberries are largely cultivated, and silk is one of the most important productions of the country. The silk cultivation has greatly diminished of the late years, however, on account of the silkworm disease.

Among the domestic animals the horse, the ass and the camel hold the first place. The horses of Persia are larger and handsomer than those of Arabia, but less fleet. Salt is the principal mineral product, although copper, lead, antimony and some other minerals abound in certain localities. Considerable coal has been mined in the mountains near Teheran. The settled portion of the population are chiefly descendants of the ancient Persian race with an inter-mixture of foreign blood. They are all Mohammedans of the Shiite sect, except the few Parsees who still retain the ancient faith of Zoroaster. The nomads or pastoral tribes are for distinct races - Turks, Kurds, Lirurs and Arabs. Of these nomad races the Turkish is the most numerous, the present Kajar dynasty belonging to it. The nomad races are distinguished from courage, manliness and independence of character; but they are inveterate robbers, and have been the cause of many revolutions and civil wars. There is a small population of native Christians - the Nestorians of Urumiah and Telmais, and Armenians, whose principle settlement is at Ispahan. Including those who have joined the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches the whole number of Christians can hardly exceed 50,000. Christian missions are, however making steady progress in Persia. The population of Persia is variously estimated at from 5,000,000 to 10,000,000. The government is a pure despotism, the "shah," or "padishah," possessing absolute authority over the lives and property of his subjects. His deputies, the governors of provinces and districts, possess a like authority over those under them although they are accountable to the shah, and may be punished by him for any acts that he doesn't approve. The revenue is derived almost exclusively from tax on the land and its products, and as a natural result the peasantry are seriously oppressed by the provincial governors. It is believed that great as the legal taxes are, the illegal exactions amount to nearly an equal sum. For the history of ancient Persia see Rawlinson's The Seventh Great Oriental Monarchy


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Mongola (The Grand Orient Man)

An Asiatic race, constituting one of the large division of mankind, including the Mongols proper, known as East Mongols and West Mongols and Bariats, and the Tartars, who form a distinct branch. The Kalmucks belong to the West Mongols. Mongolia inhabited by the east Mongols, is a part of the Chinese empire lying south of Siberia, and shut in by mountain ranges. The people lead a wandering life, dwelling in tents, and having flocks of sheep and herds of horses, cattle, camels and goats. They are mostly Buddhists in religion, and fond of making long pilgrimages. There are about 2,000,000 of them under Chinese rule. The Western Mongols have mingled with their Turkish neighbors so that it is difficult to number them. They are found in Russia, Astrakhan, Turkestan, Bokhara, Samarcand and the Crimea. The history of the Mongols begins with Genghis Kahn, born about 1160, who united the different tribes into one nation and led them out to the conquest. They overran Tartary, a large part of China, Persia, Russia and Afghanistan. Under his sons and their successors, other portions of China were conquered, the caliphs of Baghdad overthrown and Europe invaded as far as the Danube, making the Mongol empire at its height, the greatest the world has known. Kubla Khan, the grandson of Genghis Khan, established the first Mongol dynasty in China, which was finally overthrown by the Chinese in the 14th century. The Mongol kingdom, divided in the 13th century, was united again in the 14th century under Tamerlane, but after his death lost its power, until in the 17th century it became a part of the Chinese empire. The Mongolian language belongs to what is called the Turanian family. there is very little literature, what they posses being mostly translation from Chinese religious works; the original works being mainly accounts of the deeds of Genghis Khan and Tamerlane. See History of the Mongols, by Howorth; Among the Mongols, by Gilmour.

G.yps.ies~ Roma ~C.roma.gnon

Gypsies are a wandering race of people found all over the world, peculiar alike in their looks, language and manner of living. How they got the name "gypsy," or where they originally came from, is not known. That they are from the east is generally admitted, but as to the probable antiquity of the Romani, as they call themselves, the ablest scholars are divided . As a race they are good looking, with a tawny, olive skin; a dark, lustrous eye; very white teeth; black or dark brown hair, rather coarse and frizzled; a graceful from, with remarkable finely made hands and feet. These peculiarities in their person are as marked as are those of the Jewish people. In character, also, they seem to stand apart, or alone. The better kind are quick witted, courteous and trustworthy - when trusted; lavishly generous with one hand, while they grasp a bargain with other. Having no ambition and leading a kind of cuckoo like life, their aims seems to make the best of this life, as they find it, thinking little and caring less for the future. Their piety, when they assume any, is largely cant, and the faults of these "spoilt children of nature" are very similar to those of our native American Indian - boastful, crafty, superstitious, thriftless and indolent - with a passionate streak added. They break most of the ten commandments - but lightly - great crimes being rare among them. Their specialties of horse-dealing and fortune telling favor easy ideas of right and wrong , and their views on what is mine or thine are decidedly loose. They excel as tinkers and blacksmiths. Their language is a bond of universal brotherhood - for gypsies everywhere speak in the same Romani, or "gypsy tongue." In the Romani vocabulary - of some 5,00 words - the Indian or Hindustani elements prevails, though there is a large portion of borrowed words - Persian, Armenian, Slavonic, Roumanian, Magyar, etc. These words make a kind of record of the route by which the English gypsies arrived in England, and as there are fifty Greek words and thirty Slavonic words, which together outnumber all the other borrowed words put together, it would seem to follow that they carried longest in Greek and Slavonic speaking countries. In Turkey, as also in England, Finland and Italy, the gypsy calls himself "rom" (man or husband), from which comes "romni" (female gypsy woman, or wife) and the adjective "romano" (gypsy). This may account for the supposed Egyptian origin of the race - the ancient Egyptian "rome" being man. They were traced late in 1417 from the east through Germany, Switzerland, Italy and France; while in 1447 they reached Spain; Polan and Russia about 1501, Sweden in 1512 and England in 1514. They have been protected by kings and popes, and nobles; Emperor Sigismund, Pope Martin V., Earl of Surrey James IV., and the Arch-duke Joseph of Austria being among the number of their friends. They have also been persecuted in many countries, charged with kidnapping children and acting as spies. They number in Europe about 700,000. Asia has thousands of them, and they are constantly emigrating to the United States ad Australia.

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ROMANY CRO~MAGNON

PRE ICE AGE (24,000 to 8000 BC)
Cro-Magnon : The earliest form of TAN 'genetically modified' modern humans. The Cro-Magnons were developed about 35,000 years ago by the Neanderthals, and physically resembled modern Europeans. Cro-Magnon people painted the walls of their caves, producing the first known human art. See LionMan (28000 BC)

Romany : Of or relating to the Gypsies or their language or culture. [Romany romani, feminine of romano, gypsy, from rom, man, from Prakrit íoma, man of a low caste, slave, of Dravidian origin.]
Prophets don't exist; business planners do.

Lets Play Baal

Baal Hammon
(above picture)

he was the chief divinity among the Phoenicians, the Canaanites, and the Babylonians. The word signifies in Hebrew lord or master. It was among the orientalist a comprehensive term of denoting divinity of any kind without reference to class or sex. The Sabaists understood Baal as the sun, and Baalim,(I'm Baal) in the plural were the sun, moon, and stars, "the host of heaven." Whenever the Israelites made one of their almost periodical deflections to idolatry, Bail seems to have been the favorite idol to worship they addicted themselves . Hence he became the especial object of denunciation with the prophets. Thus, in 1 Kings (xviii.,) we see Elijah showing, by practical demonstration, the difference between Baal and Jehovah(there is no difference). The idolaters, at his instigation called on Baal, as their sun god, to light the sacrificial fire, from morning until noon, because at noon he had acquired his greatest intensity. And after noon, no fire having been kindled on the altar, they began to cry aloud, and to cut themselves in token of mortification, because as the sun descended there was no hope of his help. But Elijah, depending on Jehovah, made his sacrifice towards sunset, to show the greatest contrast between Baal and the true God. And when the people saw the fire come down and consume the offering, they acknowledged the weakness of their idol, and falling on their faces cried out, Jehovah hu hahelohim - "Jehovah, he is the God." And Hosea afterwords promises the people that they shall abandon their idolatry, and and that he would take away from them the Shemoth hahbaalim, the names of Baalim, so that they should be no more remembered by their names and the people should in that day "know Jehovah."

Hence we see that there was an evident antagonism in the orthodox Hebrew mind between Jehovah and Baal. The latter was, however, worshiped by the Jews, whenever they became heterodox, and by the Oriental or Semitic nations as a supreme divinity, representing the sun in some of his modifications as the ruler of the day. In Tyre, Baal was the sun, and Ashtaroth, the moon. Baal-peor, the lord of priapism, was the sun represented as the generative principle of nature, and identical with the phllus of other religions. Baal-gad was the lord of the multitude, (of stars,) that is, the sun as the chief of the heavenly host. In brief, Baal wherever his cults was established, a development or form of the old sun worship.


As this personage is so often mentioned in Scripture, and the name as apart of compound names, is so repeatedly used, we must give some some account of him as one of the principle gods in the western part of Asia, accompanied by representations of himcopied from ancient metals.

The word Baal or Bel, in Hebrew, means he that rules and subdues; master, lord, or husband (governor, ruler).

As before stated, Baal and Ashtaroth being commonly mentioned together, and as it is believed Ashtaroth denoted the moon, it is concluded that Baal represents the sun. The name Baal is generically used for the superior of the Phoenicians, Chaldeans, Moabites, and other parts of Western Asia. No doubt, under different names peculiar to their different languages, as for instance, Chamosh or She.mesh(Heb.), for the sun in the immediate neighborhood of Jerusalem and elsewhere in Palestine, Baal is certainly the most ancient god of the Canaanites, and perhaps of the East.

It has been asserted by some learned men that Baal was the Saturn of Greece and Rome; and there was a great conformity between the rites and sacrifices offered to Saturn and what the Scriptures relate of the sacrifices offered to Baal.

Others are of the opinion that he corresponded with Hercules, who was an original god of Phoenicia. Now, when at this day we fully comprehend why certain names were given to certain gods, - and in changing the countries where they were worshiped they were considered different individualites, - just so many more gods were added as so many countries adopted the worship. Also the name was compounded with other names and constituted therby other gods, but evidently the one only, in fact: as Baal-Peor, Baal-Zebub, Baal-Gad, Baal-Zephon, Ball-Berith; and the Hebrews called the sun Baal-Shemesh (Baal the Sun). The Persian Mithra was the same as Baal. The Scripture call the temples of of the sun Chamanim. They were places enclosed with walls, wherein a perpetual fire was maintained. They were frequent all over the East, particularly in that region afterwords called Persia: the Greeks called them pyreia, or pyratheia, from pyr, fire, or pyra, a funeral pile. Strabo mentions them as having in them an altar, abundance of ashes, and a perpetual fire. From this, no doubt, arises the fire worship of the Parsees, which continues to the present day.

Take me out to the baal game,
Take me out with the crowd;
Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack,
I don't care if I never get back.
Let me root, root, root for the home team,
If they don't win, it's a shame.
For it's one, two, three strikes, you're out,
At the old baal game.