Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-06-02

ANY one who is at all acquainted with
the allegories OF the Bible. their exoteric
or secret meaning. and the exoteric mean
ing given to the people IN general can
easily see the two meanings TO every ale
CORY. The same Is true OF Egyptian. Eas-
tern and Grecian mythology. All priest
craft. in all religions have two meanings
20 their allegories. The few is no excep-
ton to the rule. as he was a known
great borrower from other religions. His
paradise. angels and devils he brought
from Babylon. his bull worship he brought
from Egypt; his snake or serpent wor-
ship was given him by Moses in the will
derness: his Baal worship he took from
the Canaanites- The serpent worship was
destroyed in the DAYS OF Hezekiah-
ALL RELIGIONS
Are more or less borrowed History tells
rs that fact. Greece borrowed largely
from Egypt: Rome from Greece, and all
has traces Of India mythology in them
Your writer has made a study OF all re-
lgions. Some were OF high and exalted
nature, and others low and thoroughly
sensual in every respect. The Eastern
mind in respect 10 women. IS essentially
low and degrading. We see that in the
story OF the Serpent in Eden and his talk
with woman and not man. In the East
the woman IS always the seducer. and
hence she IS made 10 go yelled. and
never Is admitted to entertain company.
IL Is so 10 this day. In the west another
idea prevails. and man is the seducer.
Read my theology.
THE SERPENT.
The serpent mentioned in the Bible,
means Wisdom. II has even meant
that in the East Aaron turning his rod
20 a serpent and the magicians doing the
same thing before Pharaoh. simply means
that the wisdom Of Aaron was greater
than that OF the magicians. as his serpent
swallowed the rest. Meaning plain
enough when the escoteric meanining Is
understood Moses making a brazen SER
pent with healing virtues in its nature, is
the old idea OF serpent worship I'm the
east. and the belief that the serpent had
some secret healing virtues in II. as in
Ascuipatus and in Hygien. is always seen
with a serpent about them, as II was sup
posed that they had the power Of renova-
ton. and were believed TO have the power
Of discovering healing herbs.
The serpent who talked TO Eve. was
wisdom. he knew all about the tree, the
power OF the fruit and it's peculiar quail
tiles 20 make one wise. He was wiser or
more subtle than any beast OF the field
which God had made. Does not say that
God made him at ali. but was more subtitle
than anything God had made. wiser per
haps than the angels. The serpent had
the divine spirit OF knowledge in him.
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aoout the tree or the fruit. Where did
the serpent then get his knowledge?
THE ESOTERIC MEANING.
/ cannot 90 into the esoteric sacred
meaning OF the story or allegory, but TO
say. that Adam having received a certain
and positive hammond from the lips OF
God not 70 eat OF the fruit But Eve did
offer him the fruit. and he ate. and he
and she was wise enough IN a short time
The esOteric meaning OF the fig leaves
tell the story. The fig. leaf had a very
peculiar meaning in the East in the past.
IN the East they counted by meaning Of
nowers. Every flower had a positive
meaing- The hg and the fg leaf had
most positive meaning. All Phallic.
As 70 God changing the serpent into
crawling. creeping snake. that was what
Jupiter and the rest OF the Gods did often.
The power OF the gods were never called
into question; nor were their morals ever
criticized for they were allowed TO do as
they pleased
Why the serpent should have been
ranked as the wisest OF all animals is
known 70 the eastern mind. for the west
ern mind sees no peculiar virtue in him. or
When We take into consideration that the
Bible is an eastern book. we must know
something OF the eastern mind TO under
stand eastern allegories. There IS not a
story in the Bible which Is not an allegory.
with two meanings. esoteric secret and
ex0teric. open 20 the people. The first for
the priests. the latter for the people.
In Revelation we have the eastern mind
, IN the figure OF the dragon. And the
great Dragon was cast out, that old ser
pent. called the Devil. and Satan, which
deceived the whole world" Then It was
the Devi who was talking to Eve. IL ST.
John r. to be believed.
ANTI-CHRISTIAN ALLEGORISING.
I have read Bishop W. A. Gambler on
Adam. Eve and the Serpent. Pure ale
CORY. VIII the bishop teach that the
world was made in six days. a hours
each? VIII he teach that the human race
sprung from Adam? There Is not a story