French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1916-1919, 1917-05-10
,PATHFINDERS. PYRAMIDS.
AND DARK AGES.
-fRv Thos. j. Rickman.l

IN c.. a most excellent JOuAA
the Pathfinder and this weekly.
nal seems to have as its mission. ne
nubIishine of news and remarkable
Ifacts, which are found in no other mag
~azine. One of it's notices seems to pc
in keeping as far away from the DARK
Ages in our ideas and thoughts as pos
sibIe. 1t may be that some OF the
Hustler readers are puzzled i their
minds as to just what is meant Wnen
tho Dark ages are referred to. AS we
understand it, this name is applied TO
a norton of the early middle ages n
includes a period of about one thou
sand years from the fall of the Roman
Empire. five hundred years after
Christ. to about the 18th century and
at this time there took place n is
called the revival of letters. Alas!
alas! to think of one thousand years OF
b1ackness and ignorance, when scarce
Iv a man. Woman or child could even
read or write. and learning was at sucn
a low ebb that people! were III htt!e
other than blind beasts. The great
ness of Egypt, Persia, Babylon Greece
and Rome had all passed away n d
world was swayed by corrupt priests
and rotten military leaders. 1t may
be a strange fact for us, to believe. Dut
even what We call the church itself,
was a %corrupter of humanity instead
of an uplifter. This was h age Wnen
corrupt leaders in both church and
state, filled the minds of the tnsus-
pecting people with all sorts OF unrea-
sonable dogmas, myths, creeds,
Misrepresentation. false gods, and
other prehistoric fables and legends
destitute of the real God, truth n ma
ture. .
The wonderful pyramids of Egypt
Assyria, China, India, Greece. Italy n
even this built by the ancient Aztecs
of Mexico and which were then un-
known to the Eastern world, had pass
ed away and these designing priests
and demagogues taught and 1nst1lle6
Into the minds of the pOpulace. all
kinds of falsehoods concerning the God
/ of the universe, in-the form of religion,
and which is even now so deeply rooted
lin mems minds and thoughts. that 1t
is hard to eradicate. Take for in
stance the Egyptian Goddess Sphinx
WHICH, were Iudu0 dUOuI IAC I4AhS VI S"O
building of the Pyramids. These were
reproduced and represented as being
made of stone, about twenty feet high,
having the body of a crouching lion.
with a head and neck about one hun
dred feet high, some having the head
of a man. others of a RAM, hawk, goat
eagle and ignorant men and women
were made to believe that these were
actually God himself, ready to bounce
upon the individual himself if he fail
ed to obey all the ignominious DEGREES
of the priest and so called church.
Both the church and state during
these. dark ages, engaged in slaughter
ing men, women and even children
who refused to believe in their mon
strous teachings.
Since the great American declara-
ton of rights. allowing intelligent peo-
pie to worship what they conceive to
be the true God according to the die
fates of their own conscience, and the
establishing of a government of the
| people, by the people and for the peo-
pie. it now necessitates these Mummy
dust teachers of ages past, to retire
into the background.
The fellow who would now teach
that all are alien m~endicants, o "a
far-off God, entitled to receive onlU
such aims as a stinted Creator sees
proper to bestow, must get out of the
way of intelligent minds. who see all
around them a beneficent Creator, who
not only loves, bat in whom they live
and move and have their being.
If we will but open u eyes to the
significance of this great world war in
which we are now concerned. led by
| our great President we will see that a
sure and certain decree that the old
idolitrous notion of Divine right OF
kings must be RELOCATED to the trash
heap and men allowed to rule them
selves under free republican or demo-
cratic governments. We will dig deep,
cultivate our gardens and fields and do
our part nob1y to feed u brothers,
striving to come from under the &C
cursed yoke. This writer has one boy
at the helm, a musician. on the great
Dreadnaught warship, Oklahoma. and
, that boy is at his task with a Wiling
mind and hopeful heart. More anon.
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