The Monstrance was a conventionalized Assyrian Grove, containing the Host, the male and female emblems, and corresponded with the Ark and was transparent, so that the devotees could look on the blessed symbols and live forever. It was called the Monstrance because it contained the hermaphrodite monster, now or formerly worshipped by the devotees of all religions. The directions of St. Cyril, of Jerusalem, were: “After kissing all the brothers and sisters, you touch the consecrated things to the eyes, nose, mouth and ears.” See Ency. Brit. 8:632.

Under the mediumship of Eugene Vintras in Paris, the Devil placed his signature on the Hosts of the Church in characters of blood. The Abbe Charvoz brought one of the miraculously marked Hosts, bearing the signature of Satan, to Elephas Levi. One of the signatures was the Caduceus of the Greeks, the emblem of the Godhead, two serpents entwined about a rod, but the rod was omitted. Levi calls it the Typhonian sign manual because by omitting the rod, it thus denies the existence of the Supreme God Jehovah. The Devil, in the stigmata, asserts that there are only two gods, the two powers of the astral light, attraction and repulsion, the creator and the destroyer.—Mysteries of Magic.

“In the case of Father Gerard in 1731, who was tried at Aix, in France, for resorting to sorcery in the seduction of his parishioner, Mlle. Catherine Cadiere, it was shown that he breathed upon her, and that she instantly conceived a violent love for him and had extatic visions and hysterical convulsions, and stigmata or blood marks of the Passion appeared upon her, that is, the bleeding marks of thorns on her brow, of nails in her hands and feet, and of a lance cut in her side. Of the twenty five judges, twelve voted to send the priest to the stake.”—Isis Unveiled, 2-633.

The doctrine of transubstantiation, or the myth that the bread and wine become the actual body and blood of God, originated among the Hindus, and we stole it from them. The god Brahma was the astral light or magnetism, and when the priests charged the hosts with magnetism, they were charged with god, and consequently were gods. It is said that each separate part of this blood sacrifice is a Christ, so thousands of Christs were served up at a feast to be eaten by the savage devotees, and each cannibal ate a whole Christ to save his dastard soul. It is called the Host because they knifed him or struck him down, and it is called the Eucharist because they rejoice over his death and make a joyful feast upon the carcass. The Eucharist is one of the oldest rites of antiquity, instituted many hundreds of years before the Lord’s Supper. It was a repetition of the drama in Eden in commemoration of the fall into generation. By the worship of the foul idols in the Monstrance, by the idolatry of the Eucharist the pagans euchred the Devil out of their souls.

The Eucharist was a human sacrifice. The devotees groveling in abject superstition, offered up their Christ on the reeking, blood-stained altar, and ate his flesh and drank his blood to wash their sins away. At the twelfth general council of the Church, the bread and wine was made the flesh and blood of Christ, and at the Council of Trent they added the soul. So at the orgies, the depraved devotee destroyed both the body and soul of his savior by casting him into his carrion carcass, into that charnel house, into that cavernous and loathsome inferno, from which there is no escape, there to rot and disintegrate and forever die. Thus they subjected their savior to the foulest method of annihilation to save their worthless souls from Hell.

At the Passover the Jews sacrificed over 250,000 lambs to propitiate some blood-loving god. The altars and courts of the Temple ran red with the life blood of these innocent creatures. And certain beasts still sing: “And sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains.” “Such a blood-sacrifice is unworthy of any people except the worshippers of some heathen devil-god in darkest Africa.”—Mystic Christianity, 65.

When Richard, Robert, Sarah and Isabella Bartlett, at Lincoln, England, in 1521, expressed their opinions too freely on religious matters, they were burned at the stake by Bishop John Longland, but they were a pestiferous and seditious lot. They even objected to eating the male emblems, or images of the male, on communion day, and these double-dyed heretics denied the real presence of either Christ or Priapus in the images.

Here is what Taine says as to this affair: “The Bishops had received the right of imprisoning without trial laymen suspected of heresy, and the jurisdiction of all crimes, offenses and sins was given to the ecclesiastical tribunals. They burned Lord Cobham alive. With what shamelessness this power was transformed into a vehicle for extortions. A man begins to think when he is thus downtrodden. He asks himself if it is really by divine dispensation that mitred thieves thus practice tyranny and pillage. He wants to know if they themselves practice the regularity that they impose on others, and he learns strange things. Cardinal Wolsey writes to the Pope that both the secular and regular priests were in the habit of committing atrocious crimes, for which, if not in orders, they would have been promptly executed. A priest convicted of incest with the prioress of Kilbourn was condemned to carry a cross in a procession and pay a fine of 3s and 4p. In the reign of Henry VII the gentlemen and farmers of Carnarvonshire laid a complaint accusing the clergy of systematically seducing their wives and daughters. The Holy Father Prior of Maiden Bradley hath but six children, and but one daughter married yet of the goods of the monastery, trusting shortly to marry the rest. The royal visitors found concubines in the secret apartments of the Abbots. At the nunnery of Sion the confessors seduced the nuns and absolved them at the same time. There were convents, Burnett tells us, where all the recluses were found pregnant.”—Taine’s English Literature, 2-18.

“Bishop Longland, of Lincoln, about 1521, summons the relatives of the accused, brothers, women and children, and administers the oath. As they have already been prosecuted and have abjured, they must make oath, or they are relapsed, and the fagots await them. Then they denounce their kinsmen and themselves. Three of the accused were charged with passing the night together in reading the scriptures. Several of them at church, at the moment of the Elevation would not say their prayers and remained seated dumb as beasts. A brazier denied the real presence. Six were burnt alive. The children of John Scrivener were themselves obliged to set fire to their father’s funeral pyre. They saw him, bound by an iron chain, with clasped hands, praying amidst the smoke, whilst the flame blackened his skin and destroyed his flesh. Such sights are not forgotten.”—Idem.

“At the peril of his life the Englishman obtains some portion of the Bible, which Tyndale had just translated, and hides it and learns it by heart. Tyndale, the translator, was condemned, hunted, in concealment, his mind full of the idea of a speedy death and of the Great God, for whom at last he mounted the funeral pyre.”—Idem, 2-21.

If you do not believe that Priapus is christ, see Ency. Brit. 19-170, where he is represented as the shepherd god with a shepherd’s crook, and as the god of the vineyards and of fishermen, giving them abundant harvests. And sailors, in their sore distress, called upon him as Peter did.

“The Masons, in the darkness, hunt for Hiram Abiff, as the worshippers in the Eleusinian Mysteries hunted for their lost Cora.” In the grand finale the Mystics say: “I have taken the emblems from the kiste, and after kissing and tasting them, I have deposited in the bag, and from the bag back into the kiste.”

In the first illustrated English Bible, the Devil will be seen, wearing a pair of wings and a Hebrew nose, tempting Eve. He says: “Take this fruit, bite it and taste it.” You will see that the thing presented to her is not an apple at all, but the emblem of Ashtoreth. See Sun. Am. Mag. Dec. 20, 1914. You will also find in another illustration there the angel Gabriel, with the Word strapped on his back, descending into Hell to deliver the souls in torment.

Yesterday in passing a great church, when I raised my eyes to the cross, I there beheld on each arm of the cross, the circle, the same revered article that the Devil offered to Eve. This blessed and holy symbol is found engraven over the portals of the eternal rock temples of the ruined city of Petra, Arabia, that flourished in the time of Esau and his son Edom, as well as over the doors of the ancient churches of Ireland, and on the modern cathedrals. In fact this aesthetic Eye worship extends around the world, starting in the slums of India, it has circled the globe.

The Christian religion was copied largely from the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were founded at the city of Eleusis, near Athens. These mysterious rites were employed in the worship of Demeter or Mater, the mother god, or Mary. In these Mysteries the worshippers indulged in the foul orgies of the Agape. The men carried male emblems or Signa Taus, and the females carried the kiste or box. Placing the Signa Tau in the kiste caused them to be born again and saved their souls from Tophet.