Axiom—Truth is Truth.

Axiom—Truth is truth only.

Axiet—Truth has no inset.

Axiet—Truth has no outset.

Axiot—Truth is truth.

Esset—Truth is accomplished fact. Opinion is the halting place of Error.

I find a Pene; men call it Christianity. I contemplate. It governs men's conduct, it rules their laws, it tempers their manners, it grooves their customs, it pervades their literature, it tones their morals, it moulds their lives, it checks their actions. It is, therefore, at every time and place, what it is there, and nowhere else.

It is nothing. It is peon—potent, unset.

I note an effect. I cannot trace the cause. Men attribute it to Christianity, To a trained priest it is the Church—priestcraft, power, dominion, authority, law. To a Protestant Minister it is power, authority, law, wealth and importance.

It is something. It is poen—potent, wrapt.

It governs the Catholic, it governs the Protestant, but it does not govern both. What does it? It governs and divides.

What is it? It is every where at times. At times it leaves no trace. It is at every man's bidding, a weapon or a shield. Its name is potent and its name is all—a fact no fact, a phantom no phantom, a truth no truth—nothing.

In its name men love and they hate; they bless and they curse. It is a creed—a dozen creeds. It is a belief—a hundred beliefs set to ærial text. It is conviction—a thousand convictions, all differing. It is born in fact, nursed in surmise, set in opinion—a theology, a satyr.

Truth is accomplished fact—a spell is a fact and a myth. Christianity is a spell.

A spell is a myth and a power.—Christianity is a power.

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Christianity is a power. Its thorms are legion; still shaping, shaping, shaping out of nothing.

Shaping out of nothing! Shaping into forms. What forms? Many forms with one symbol. What Symbol?

A Crucifix.

A Symbol? Of what? Of nothing—of Love.

Made a story improbable, impossible, incomprehensible false, and true, and woven into a mystic Religion, fact and mythology. A Religion enforced by precept, illustrated by example, buoyed by hope, encouraged by interest, made alluring by gain, terrible by dread, beautiful by desire, enchanting by vista. A. Myth, a Truth, a Fiction, a Hope, a Fable, a Dread, A Fact.

Axiom—A fact never dies.

Ixite.—A transpired event is a fact. A fact to-day will be a fact to-morrow fact for ever.

Exist—A Fact lives for ever.

Your attention, Brethren,

Truth only irritates when truth hurts. Truth cannot hurt itself. If I tell you a lie you are irritated, unless my lie finds affinity in some lie of your own. My truth cannot irritate your truth, nor can my truth irritate your ignorance, for ignorance is the absence of everything.

Now reverse it. If I tell you a truth, and you are irritated, my truth has puddled some favorite lie of yours. My truth could not puddle your truth, nor could my truth puddle your ignorance, for you have none.

If any irate man contradicts anything I say in this little book, let him look to his own fame, for he will berate one of two postulates. Either he knows of his own knowledge that I am wrong, or can indicate by silocism (not syllogism, that's conjecture) that I cannot be right: or, he does not know, and cannot playmate a problem. So he risks a periquet to bother me, bothers himself, and fogs everybody else.

If he cannot array my cote the mental puddle is his, not mine. I may have a purpose in my puddling; it is for him to display it. If I am puddled and he is clear, nobody will be in a fog after he has dispelled it. If he wants to fight I have no weapon a match for him, for "argument can only be set at rest by folly." A man who is accustomed to sermonise only, I have no foil for, for he makes thrusts at a whole battalion at once, and engages, may-be, half of the powers of the air, at the same time, in the same squabble.

Brethren, you are Christians by right, by birth, and by profession, I am Christian by right and study. I cannot impart my Christianity to you. Its mysteries are secrets, as open to you as to me if you will give yourselves the same trouble I have done. There is not a natural page 19 phenomenon to be encompassed but study will encompass it—there is not a mystery in Eternity, in God, or Nature to be dispelled, but study will dispel it—there is not a problem to solve but study will solve it. But a lifetime is not long enough to commence and perfect study by investigation—the uncompleted investigation of others is a quicksand, a radiate, and a baulk—and "The True Religion" has closed the past, its history and lore, with a bloody barricade. Until the past is present again, Christianity and Science must remain no more than speculations. Christianity is set truth. If you still insist on Modem Substituted Christianity also being truth, I ask you—how so! when it admits of controversy.

This is my Baulk.

I make my Pulle—

Modern Christianity is founded on "belief." If any man can feather a belief he can do what all the philosophy of past ages has not been able to do. What you know, you know : all you do not know you know nothing about. Knowledge is active, belief is passive doubt. Religion is the duty of man to God, Christianity is the duty of man to man, as entableted by Christ. The present Bible was partly compiled from old manuscript written by inspiration in "The Temple," found in the Forum in Clement's Collection. It was entitled" A Canon of Holy Writ," and was intended to supply the place of the Scriptures, withdrawn from every town by the closing of Masonic Lodges and schools, enforced by the tribunals of Rome. The Bible is a compilation from fragment, made to appear sequential by editing, and for Church Endowment only, "to serve as a Text Book" and for "undisputed reference." The Old manuscripts were selected as the Prophetic Candemere, but referred to periods and dynasties long, long swept away, and replaced by a new clopote of the race of Adam, and new cities on the sites of those the prophesies referred? to. Eleven books of prophesies were selected, all of them bearing the mark of the Temple of Summon, a Greek Temple of Karnatic, in Asia Minor. The originals are now in possession of the Lodge of Luxor, with the notes, indexes, and references of nine of the scribes. The Temple mark in "2222222221 Insporetted" in red ink on the top margin. The mark of archived Bummotrie.

No person can suppose that the Bible, Regularly Versified as it appears now is the work of men living thousands of years apart from each other. The versification was the work of the compilers "to allow of interpolations where the sequence was broken." The Canon is partly the writing of James the Evangelist, a man to whom contemporary Masonic correspondence gives the character of a pure man who would not be guilty of a cajole. The Books of Kings and Chronicles were both summarised, by him and revised by David (one of the Holy page 20 Three) who has endeavored to trail all through the Bible a genealogy for himself, by impersonating a descendant of David, King of Israel.

The Book of Isaiah was transmated from a Dutch poem, rendered into flowing verse, the figures taken from a Greek Sacred Drama. The manuscript was purchased by the wife of Clotus, who took it to Jerusalem, found it there, and sold the "holy relic" to Daniel. The copy sold to Daniel was not three months old, by the date of the Scrivenir. The Psalms of David were obtained from a Hymn Book written by David, King Elect of the Judah of Israel, (a happy little kingdom on the Plains of Silestria, made the Empiret of Media, when Cyrus placed his son Cymbrasis on the throne of Europe, after the Greek war of Independence, before Socrates 212 years). The Five Books of Moses were compiled by Moses Hardtman, "an Earthenware Man" in Smyrna. Moses purchased the fragment of the Book of Genesis at a bookstall, the Pentateuch from a trunk maker, and the rest from a Jew. He altered the names of Darien and Moss into Moses, to make the narrative "a runner." The other books wore selected from 201 manuscripts, all of them now in the possession of the Lodge of Sumne.

The Gospels were compiled in the years from 401 to 404 by Matthew Jonne, Mark Aragos, and John Jymme, (Matthew, Mark and John,) and edited in 409 and 410 by James Plummer, from the caligraphic edition of "Jesus The Christ, His Tobot, Escrutoired by Luke the Scrivenir." Luke'S book was written for sale in 231, and 251 copies were sold. The New Sectary was an after-thought, necessitated when Christianity was included with the temporal powers of the Church of Rome "as a matter of precaution," and to "create a power against which no heritical combination of future Masonry in emblett could prevail."—Daniel's Appendix to the Crucifixion Theoret.

The New Testament was a postscript ordered by the Council of Trent, to be added to the Canon, after it was examined and passed by Daniel the Prophet, then the Archive Register Keeper of the Council's Decrees, and Secretary to the Council of Tamar. Daniel had already supplied one of the Books of the Holy Canon, "from his own manuscript of a former life, in which he had been the Lord's Own Anointed," (verbatim) and was appointed to revise and correct the issue of the Holy Scriptures. By the Compact of Clodus, all Christian Lectret who had suffered death by decree of the authorities, of the Church were to be received into the Church, and canonised as Saints. The writings of Paul Silas, a Christian lecturer who had been hung and beheaded in Rome, 211 years before, were in possession of Arian. They were revised and corrected by James, adapted by Daniel, and incorporated in the New Testament as the Epistles of Saint Paul.

Modern Christianity is a speculative theology, a myth, founded on the Catholic theories of the Masonic Symbol of the Crucifixion, (a studied secret,) interwoven with mythological misconstrued doctrines Christ the unintentional founder of, Christian theories was Divine of page 21 the Lodge of Sidon, and left 89 large tome volumes of his writings in custody of the Lodge. He was burned in the public street in Sidon by order of Pontius Pilate for heresy. Jesus of Nazareth, The Christ, was another person, and with him the story of the Crucifixion is connected. Paul Silas and Jesu of Smyrna, both martyred, were the real founders of Modern Christianity. The Lectures of Silas were the text book of the Smyrna Christians (Arien's Heresy), before the Compact of Clotius merged the Christian independent congregations into the Church of Rome. The Book of Luke was not known before the Church Scribes transmuted it into the Gospel of St. Luke. The Lectures of Silas were made the foundation for Adair's "Theory of the Crucifixion, and its Connexion with the Everton Heresy of the Fall of Man," and this "Encyclet" was given by Adair to the Priests of Cardova, in return for the gift of a Prebendary in the Church. Jesu of Smyrna, a Saddler, also surnamed "The Christ," an enthusiastic man (cotemporary with Junneval, mis-spelt Juvenal), left 78 volumes which Daniel had possession of. All put together into the hands of the "Commentators" Matthew, Mark, John and Barnaby, produced the greater part of the New Testament, to which the Book of Enoch (now transmuted into the Book of Revelations) was afterwards added.

"The Christians had only lately been added to the power of the Church, the Canon of Holy Writ had not yet been extracted from its entombment in 39 tons of Traditions, and the Council, the Scribes, and the Prophet Daniel were busy looking to the future of the Hierarchy, and setting the religion of millions upon a firm basis. Accordingly, nothing was to be thrown on one side which could elucidate the mysteries of the Holy Religion we were about to adopt. The Old Testament was the outcome of 34 years anxious solicitude in searching the mummeries of the records of the past to find the True Religion buried in its envelletted surroundings. The Old Craft Freemasons had made such inviolate secrets even of their every day transactions, to extract them seemed to be, at one time, an impossibility."—Daniel's Secundumus.

The horrible persecutions to which the Christians of the Church of Rome wore subjected if they did not conform to every alteration the temporal power of the Church thought necessary to make, to keep down heresy, utterly destroyed the Sectary, and 24 years after the Compact there was not one Congregation of Christians meeting together in Europe except in secret.

Whatever value the Catholic Bible possesses is in its intrinsic worth as a sequo, which no man can add to, no man take away. As a Canon of Scripture it is a fraud, there is but one chapter copied, even in part, from the Scriptures. It is partly the writing of men who were in-spired, but the whole of it is curtailed, fragmentary, and summarised. But neither the fraud nor the villany which has accompanied it affects the perusal of its contents. If it is not what the priestcraft have represented it to be, no matter, every man sets his own value on it. No page 22 man can get evil out of good, for there is none to get: any man may get good out of evil, for evil cannot exist without it.

Those who feel aggrieved to find that the origin of the Bible is not what they thought it was, may now abandon the mystic for a minute or two, and ask themselves how they would have ordered it, had they, in the year 404, been employed to collate a sacred book for Church service wherever the materials could be found. Half of the mysterious awe with which the Bible is regarded is self-imposed, and not demanded by anything the book contains, nor was it insisted upon by the compilers. The Bible is entitled "A Canon," any other authority given to the book, beyond this is given in excess.

Everything the Church of Rome possesses, except the Craft of the Priest, has been obtained by appropriation.

This is a strictly true summing of the origin of Modern Christianity, and its suppression by the Church of Rome, until the Wurtemburg Riots taught Pope Summe that Christianity was a birthfall, hereditary, and "although it might be diverted, could not be smothered by penal enactments, or be propagated by alien conversion." I have given no more than a bare summing of a few of the leading events, but my story will both confirm and contradict the tale of the priestcraft, and New Testament impress.

The Three Days Anniversary of the Crucifixion is kept in old Lodges in deep mourning. To the brethren then assembled there is no mystery. An event which has fifty-fold more importance to the Christian Races than anything modern theories have made of it, and which affects every one mentally, morally and socially, has, by suppression and the mysterious silence which surrounds it, become a yearning tie of relationship, vainly seeking quietude by every lane and every avenue.

A lost presence, felt in every error committed, has become a solicitude, which finds its only vent in the maze of mystery Out of an undefined hope of re-union, the priestcraft of Rome, in centuries of organisation, have made a theology, a commerce, a supremacy, a cajole, and a fraud.

The tale of the crucifixion has never been told, and never will be whilst the priestcraft of Rome have power to turn it to their own account.

It was kept a secret at first to prevent finding the body. It has been kept secret since to suppress the power of the priestcraft, and keep them in ignorance, and also to prevent the culmination which now enthrals Europe, and sets a seal for good or evil on every public act.

Protestant Christianity is a New Divinity with no study but its own made mysteries, the theology of its own exigencies. Religion is the relationship of man to God, Christianity is human mythology in which God is only allowed a subordinate place. The two united are mystery added to mythology. But amongst all the maze of Protestant page 23 speculations, there is no doctrine, that I know of, not founded on truth, and conveying truth, and obedient to inevitable organic law, from Calvin's predestined, to Primitive Methodist any-body. This is paradox, and a paradox must convey two truths. All that is wanted is the suppression of the craft of the priest, and then the office of public teacher would be one of honor. It would be madness to add to the influence of men sworn to set up the usurpation of the Hierarchy of Rome as the centered Seat of Supreme Power, by giving them new means of enthral, and instructing them in the mythology of the laws which govern mental aberration. They know far more already than any modern Statesmen or Protestant Divines give them credit for.

The mysteries imported into Modern Christianity are studies in Divinity, and should never be the subject of a discourse before a mixed audience. The Perebellion, Atonement, Vicarage, and the Trinity, the Creation and the Attributes of God, are not to be explained by preaching. Protestant ministers have plenty to do in organising society, interesting and instructing Sunday audiences, and doing work the State neglects, without muddling money-getting brains with unsolved mysteries.

Colloquat.

I have made the Indo-European and English Languages identical in derivation.

I have made the English Alphabet the sum of a natural endet.

I have put Modern Historical Fiction into quarantine.

I have shown that increase of population by generation is fixed by organic law, retarded only by man's ignorance and violence.

I have proved that human life has been lost in millions of millions since Adam, unaccounted for by natural causes.

I have shown by narration from record that inorganic forces have been the agent of destruction, in sweeping the planet with suffocating vapors.

I have shown that Generation restores human life, in chrysolite transition to primordial type again.

I have separated Christianity and Religion : cast aside theology as modern speculation, and made Christianity the duty of man to man, and Religion the duty of man to God.