The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1909-11-21

ears about the original sin of man, vicar
Gus atonement, anthropQmorphism, pallid
abstraction, trying to harmonic blind
faith and miracles with rationalism and
science.
As DR.. Draper in his admirable book,
Science VS.. Religion shows the con-
trary, misquoung facts about historical
characters. Philo, Spinoza and Mendels-
sohn. Moses Mendelssohn, the friend of
Kant and Leasing, as Thomas Carlyle
speaks of him In his writings as the great
Jewish sage. The new Moses who led his
brethren from medieval thralldom to a
higher civic and religious life paved the
way for reform in Judaism, beloved by
all enlightened people, yet lived the life
of strict obseryant Jew in all religious
ceremonies and traditions.
Baruch Spinoza, the pantheistic philos-
opher, that was offered a professorship
in a celebrated university, refused that
honor and preferred to work at his trade
as q diamond cutter. He shared the same
treatment with Uriel Acosta In persecu-
ton from the narrow minded Jewish con-
gregation in Amsterdam, Holland, due to
their inquisitorial instinct, inherited from
SPAIN their motherland
Philo, the Jew, the Alexandrian, eclectic
philosopher, the contemporary of cAe-
brated Josephus, tho most learned man
of his time, the Grecian Levi, from their
fragmentary writings that have come
down to us, the world can form no cor
rect estimate of their real achievements,
unless he who understands the numerous
illusions and esoteric meaning in the Tai
mudfc Midrashic, Apocryphal, and New
Testament writings, translated back into
Hebrew language. A critical investiga-
ton by anyone who knows the peculiar
rules laid down for interpreting this pro-
found literature, such as the anachro-
nisms, play on words, acrostcs, the num-
erous synonyms, metonyms will reveal the
obscure passages of the New Testament,
its relation to the parent literature rneY
mastery In Israel and church 1athers I'M
naScent Christianity disseminating the
! truth dressed in suitable attire for the
Semitic mind. and oothed with the rich
| imagery, according to the psychological
temperament of Pagan people. cThis
radical utte%nce ms arouse censure and
ridioule In some q Lrters, but there is
ample evidence to- onfirm this claim)
preparing Israel OF his onward spiritual
conquest, as these ieers understood that
Judah as politics entity is no match
against mighty be; st Rome, SO judah
became spiritual kingdom-'My king
dom is not here forifying him with laws
and regulations, so e could repel the in.
fiuence of degenei tie pagan world. A 7
the same time sen( ag him as mission
airy to battle with degenerate and CT p
rupt paganism, to propagate light ind
truth as a morally defunct people was
mentally able to receive a new light.
Philo and Josephls when their true
identity will be Known the part they
played in the grea est drama in the
worlds history, in TIN moral uplift of ii.
what a revolution thsre will be IN mod
ern thought when tn. real facts will be
known for it Is written IN Luke, chap
ter u, For there is ntthing Covered that
shall not be revealed nett er hid that
shall not be known" Therefore who so
blasphefnes against the Holy Ghost hath
| never forgiveness (meaning the pure and
altruistie spirit. motive)I When that time
| comes, then, and nc; until then, will
their real names, no. pseudonyms receive
| the homage and h, FOR due to their men,
| DRY from Jew ard Gentle alike. Then the
religion of enlightened mankind will be
| what the prophet Micah said: HE hath
| showed. oh, men, what is good, and what
| doth the Lord require of thee but to do
| justice and to love mercy and to walk
| humbly with thy Cod"
| A word anent anthropomorphism. The
| Jew in the dawn of his history and the
| different stages of his mental evolution
abhorred any thought that savors Of an
thropopaorphism and polytheistic con-
ception of God Exodus, chapter 20.
says: Thou shalt not make unto thee
any likeness of anything that is The
word ANY" in the original text implies
all. meaning neither physical nor mental
form. Again in Deuteronomy chapter 4:
Take ye therefore good heed unto your