That the teaching of Iêsous was largely allegorical is clearly apparent from the subject matter of the four Evangels, as well as from such express statements as that in Matthew xiii. 34: ” ALL these things Iêsous spoke to the people in parables, and without a parable he did not speak [anything] to them.” That the teaching had an inner and concealed meaning, divulged only to the few who were worthy to receive it, is evident from many passages in the New Testament; and it was so held by all the early Christian sects, and plainly admitted by the patristic writers. But, in addition to this allegorical teaching, certain rules of right-conduct are given, which constitute, not a mere arbitrary code of ethics, but one based upon the laws of man’s inner nature, his relation to Deity, to Nature, and to his fellow-beings. It is only by living according to these rules of right-conduct that the will of the man comes into harmony with the will of The God ; and in Iôannês (vii. 17) the final test is laid down : ” If any one wills to do his will, he shall have knowledge about the teaching, whether it is from The God.”

Table of Contents

Preface
The Seen and the Unseen
The Four Evangels
The Drama of the Soul
Explanatory Note
The Magical Message According to Iôannês
Appendix I., The Prodigal Son
Appendix II., The Birth from Above .
Index of Notes

“Without making any pretence to literary talent, I have in the following pages attempted to gather and arrange the fragmentary remains of a world-wide system of worship and belief which has been perpetuated under different names in the various systems of religion and continues to
give laws to the modern christian as well as the pagan world.”

INDEX
INTRODUCTION.
Object of the book, page 13—Universality of star -worship,
15—Basis of all religions and secret societies, 16—
Similarity of Jewish and heathen worship, 18—Antiquity
and supposed origin of Egypt, 1 9—Origin of the Priesthood,
22—Origin of Lent, 25—Jesus of Nazareth, 26.

CHAPTER I
The religious element in man, p. 28—Age of thought,
31—The Bible, 34—Destruction of ancient and modern
literature, 37—Reasons for running counter to the opinions
of the age, 39.

CHAPTER II
Introduction of religious forms, 43—Planet worship,
45—Saturn, Jupiter, Brahm, 45—Dives and Lazarus, 47
Sun travel, 50—Zodiac, 52—”War in heaven, 53—Moses
and the Jews, 54—Jewish sects, 55—Canonization of
Saints, 57—Symbol language, 58—Phallum worship, 63
— Correspondence, 65.

CHAPTER III.
Common origin of all religions, 67—The talent of the
world anciently absorbed by astronomy and astrology,
70—Origin of unlucky days and seasons, 71—War in
heaven, “7 2—Devil born, 73—Hell discovered, 74—Bottomless
pit, 74—Lake of fire, 75—Devil slain, 77—The
Old Serpent, 80—Origin of plays and secret societies, 84—
• Oriental style, 85—Witchcraft, 87.

CHAPTER IV.
Amours of the gods, 89—Trinity of evils, 90—Constellations,
96—Baal worship, 98—Indian star worship, 99
Ceremonies of Indians and Hebrews identical, 102—Jonal
among our western Indians, 102—Devil in China, 105—
The Cross among the Aztecs, 106.

CHAPTER V.
Osiris, Isis and Typlion, 107—Pyramids, 114 —System
of gradual Divinities,’ 118—Difference between Moses and
the Egyptians, 110—Abraham, Isaac and Jacob always
pagans, 120.
CHAPTER VI.
Circumcision, 125—Circle, 126r-Druids, 126—Celtic
temples, 127—Hall of Odin, 128—Masonry, 123—Names
of God, 128—Trinity, 132—Creation, 137.

CHAPTER VII
Origin of Man, 142—Garden of Eden and the fall, 144
— Mysteries in the Bible, 151—Oriental style, 152—Most
ancient names of God, 156
CHAPTER YIII.
Cherubim, 161—Satan to be restored, 166—Jacob’s
blessing, 168—Joseph’s coat, 168—Mistakes in Jewish
encampment, 174—White throne, 177.
CHAPTER IX.
David’s intrigues, 180—Samson, 182—Baalim. 186—
Phaeton, 187—Change of the names of the Patriarchs,
189—Abraham sacrificing Isaac, 190.

CHAPTER X.
Serpent symbol, 191—The two Sauls, 195—The Devil
202.
CHAPTER XL
Fallen spirits. 203—War in heaven, 213—The Apocalypse,
215—The mystical number seven, 215—The perfect
number twelve, 218—Seven churches, 219—The two
Covenants, 221—Theology of the Magi, 224—The Woman
clothed with the Sun, 225.
CHAPTER XIL
The Sun and Moon stand still, 227—Elijah translated,
228—Jonah and the whale, 230—Christmas, 231—Epiphany,
232—Phallum worship, 232—Assumption, 234—Nativity,
234.

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter I – The key of the Gnosis
Chapter II – The path of power
Chapter III – The riddles of „Revelation“
Chapter IV – The drama of self-conquest

This was the third such official translation into English; the first having been the Great Bible commissioned by the Church of England in the reign of King Henry VIII, and the second having been the Bishop’s Bible of 1568. In January 1604, King James I of England convened the Hampton Court Conference where a new English version was conceived in response to the perceived problems of the earlier translations as detected by the Puritans, a faction within the Church of England.

James gave the translators instructions intended to guarantee that the new version would conform to the ecclesiology and reflect the episcopal structure of the Church of England and its beliefs about an ordained clergy. The translation was by 47 scholars, all of whom were members of the Church of England. In common with most other translations of the period, the New Testament was translated from the Textus Receptus (Received Text) series of the Greek texts. The Old Testament was translated from the Masoretic Hebrew text, while the Apocrypha were translated from the Greek Septuagint (LXX), except for 2 Esdras, which was translated from the Latin Vulgate.

While the Authorized Version was meant to replace the Bishops’ Bible as the official version for readings in the Church of England, it was apparently (unlike the Great Bible) never specifically “authorized”, although it is commonly known as the Authorized Version in the United Kingdom. However, the King’s Printer issued no further editions of the Bishops’ Bible; so necessarily the Authorized Version supplanted it as the standard lectern Bible in parish church use in England. In the Book of Common Prayer (1662), the text of the Authorized Version replaced the text of the Great Bible — for Epistle and Gospel readings — and as such was “authorized” by Act of Parliament. In the United States, the Authorized Version is known as the King James Version. The earliest appearance in print of the phrase “authorized version”, to mean this particular version of the bible, was published in 1824. The phrase “King James version” first appeared in print in 1884.