A SIGN OF THE BEAST, THE OBELISK!

            Roman emperors, who considered Egypt their personal preserve, collected antiquities on a grand scale. They carted off hundreds of statues and other objects to decorate their capital. But it was the tall Obelisk, topped by a small pyramid and chiseled with mysterious hieroglyphs, that the Romans most fancied. Obelisks were dedicated to the sun god and inscribed with names of pharaohs, the foreigners, however, knew nothing of this, so it is said. Pliny the Elder believed the inscriptions interpreted “the operations of Nature according to the philosophy of the Egyptians,” and today more Obelisks stand in Rome than in Egypt. Others are scattered about the world from New York to Istanbul. “Picture of Cleopatra’s Needle.”

            The United States acquired an Obelisk in 1881, It was a gift of the khedive and was erected in New York’s Central Park. Once it stood before the Temple of the Sun at Heliopolis. All of this intrigue over the centuries did not unlock Egypt’s mysteries and Ancient Egypt still wore its veil of mystery until Napoleon brought the first printing press to Egypt in 1799. Works could now be published quickly and cheaply in Arabic, French and Greek. He also founded the French Institute in Cairo, a research facility that still exists. In due course, the 24-volume Description                                                                             

de l’Egypte appeared. This encyclopedic record of the nation’s antiquities, natural history, and contemporary customs, thrust Egypt into the center of the world stage. The 19^th century was to be the greatest period of European exploration and plunder. Today most of the mysteries are un-locked.

            Due to the mass migration of the Obelisk to the whole world, I have been pressed by the Spirit of the Lord to write about the mysteries of the Obelisk that have not been told, although un-locked. They effect us dramatically even today.

The Obelisk!

ob-e-lisk \ [MF obelisque, fr. L obeliscus, fr. Gk Obeliskos small spit, Obelisk, dim. Of obelos spit, pointed pillar, obelus] 1: an upright, 4 sided, and usu. monolithic pillar that gradually tapers as it rises and terminates in a pyramid <Cleopatra’s Needle and the Washington Monument are Obelisks>. 2. A: OBELUS B: DAGGER 3: A decorative feature (as a lamp base or on a chandelier) having a tall slender tapering form, Obelisk.

            The Obelisk, also called stela and phallic is a four-sided tapering monument, usually hewn of a single great peace of stone, terminating in a pointed or pyramidical top. In America you can and probably have seen the Washington Monument. It is an Obelisk.

            Among the ancient Egyptians, the Obelisks or monoliths were commonly of “Red Granite” from Syene. They were seen throughout Egypt in front of Temples, normally in pairs and were dedicated to honour the sun god Ra or Re. The greatest number in any one place was at “Heliopolis.” The caps, or pyramidion were sometimes sheathed with copper or other precious metals such as gold to radiate the sun’s rays honoring the sun god. The spread of the Obelisk from ancient times can be seen today in India, China, Rome, London, New York, Florence, Paris, Mexico, Central America and yes even Washington.

            But what is the significance of the Obelisk? In ancient times it was used in worship of pagan deities through many rituals which today are looked upon as myths. But are they myths? The cost alone of manufacture, transport and erection at site of these monoliths are in the millions of dollars and perhaps billions if we consider all that are erected in the world today. Two of the ancient Obelisks, or phallus from Egypt known as Cleopatra’s Needles are made of solid red granite stone and stand approximately 69 feet tall. Today, one of these stands in London England and the other in New York City. London and New York happen to be the two greatest centers of world financial power, the crown jewels of economic global strength.

            Cleopatra had two distinct lovers other than her two brother-husbands. They were Caesar of Rome and Marc Anthony around the period of 42 B.C. This is not a myth and perhaps there is greater significance to the proliferation of the Obelisk in our world today than at first meets the eye. The greatest number of Obelisks was at Heliopolis. Why Heliopolis? The picture to right: Heliopolis in Ancient times, the center of Egypt’s sun worship god“Ra-Harakh, or Rḗ-Harmakhis.”

            Heliopolis is a Greek word meaning, “city of the sun” and it was one of the most ancient cities of Egypt dating back to the I Dynasty in the Old Kingdom 4500 B.C. and located on the Nile Delta, 6 miles below modern Cairo. The native (beginning) name for this city is in the Bible and it was “On.” The Assyrian name was “Baalbek” as empires rose and fell.

            Heliopolis was the center of Egypt’s sun worship and god “Ra or Rḗ,” the state deity until Thebes became capital in 2100 B.C. The god “Ammon” was then joined with Ra or Rḗ as Ammon-Ra and Ammon-Rḗ. There appears to be two forms of the sun-god at Heliopolis in the New Kingdom--namely, god“Ra-Harakht, or Rḗ- Harmakhis, falcon headed and Etōm, human-headed; the former was the sun in mid-day strength, the latter the evening sun. A sacred bull was worshiped here under the name Mnevis (Eg. Mreu), and was especially connected with Etōm.

The sun-god Rḗ was especially the royal god, the ancestor of all the Pharaohs, who therefore held the temple of Heliopolis in great honour. All the dynasties might give the first             place to the god of its residence, but all alike honoured Rḗ. Notice in the next graphic the Obelisk shape in the front of Etōm’s robe. It is also capped with a sheath like the pyramid and Obelisk.

“Ra-Harakht, or Rḗ-Harmakhis, falcon headed and Etōm, human- headed”

            Let us take a journey back in time to look at the beginnings of man’s religious history. There is in the nature of man, or in the circumstances in which he is conditioned, something which leads him to recognize and worship a superior being. What that something is, is not important in our present inquiry:- whether it be a constitutional instinct wrought by the Maker-whether it be a deduction of universal reason, inferring a first cause from the things that are made-whether it be the effect of tradition, descending from the first worshipers, through all the tribes of the human family- whether any or all of these be the cause, the fact is the same. Man is a religious being. HE WILL WORSHIP!

            In view of this propension of human nature, philosophers, in seeking a generic appellation for man, have denominated him a “religious animal.”The characteristic is true of him in whatever part of the world he may be found, and in whatever condition; and it has been true of him in all ages of which we have any record either fabulous or authentic.

            Many in ancient and modern times have come in their name and have sought for the worship of man. They perhaps unknowingly have taken on the spirit of a fallen angelic being the Bible calls Lucifer; Quote! ‘How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! [how] art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.’

            The worship of the sun-god Ra or Re is not a myth! The idolaters of ancient antiquities actually knew who they were worshiping and it was a man by the name of Nimrod, his ancestors Ham and Cush and his direct successors, their families and heirs after them continuing up to this very day. After the deluge they broke the earth in pieces by perverting the commands of God, man subduing man to take the worship away from his Creator. The spirit of lucifer indwelt them for his perverted purposes of self worship and as ruler of the earth he still controls all the kingdoms of this world. Lucifer, that is, satan was given the earth as his kingdom because of Adam’s sin and his angelic beings have influenced the behavior of man ever since. Even during the temptation of Jesus we read that he offered him all the kingdoms of the world if He would worship him. Nimrod was a mighty hunter against God’s established laws that had been transmitted orally to men like Seth, Noah and Shem. Nimrod was the offspring of Cush who was the offspring of Ham who had sinned a grievous sin which brought the iniquity of the father to the children. God the same yesterday today and forever!

NIMROD

                       To establish the point that the worship of Nimrod as Ra or Re and his successors is not a myth and still exists today, we must go to writings on the ‘The Child in Assyria.’ We start with this subject discussing Semiramis who has been referred to many times in history. She is well known to have been deified and worshiped by the Babylonians, and other eastern nations and that under the name of Rhea, the great Goddess “Mother.” The worship of Semiramis in Babylon is as the worship of Shing Moo, the Holy Mother in China, being represented with a child in her arms, and a glory around her, exactly as if a Roman Catholic artist had been employed to set her up. It was from the son, (Nimrod) however, that she derived all her glory and her claims to deification. That son, though represented as a child in his mother’s arms, was a person of great stature and immense bodily powers, as well as most fascinating manners. In Scripture he is referred to under the name of Tammuz, but he is commonly known among classical writers under the name of Bacchus, that is, “The Lamented One.”

            To the ordinary reader the name of Bacchus suggests nothing more than revelry and drunkenness, but it is now well known, that amid all the abominations that attended his orgies, their grand design was professedly “the purification of souls,” and that from the guilt and defilement of sin. This lamented one, exhibited and adored as a little child in his mothers’ arms, seems, in point of fact, to have been the husband of Semiramis, whose name, Ninus, by which he is commonly known in classical history, literally signified “The Son.” As Semiramis, the wife was worshiped as Rhea, whose grand distinguishing character was that of the great goddess “Mother.” The conjunction with her of her husband, under the name Ninus, or “The Son,” was sufficient to originate the peculiar worship of the “Mother and Son.” This no doubt, is the explanation of the fact which has so much puzzled the inquirers into ancient history, that Ninus is sometimes called the husband, and sometimes the son of Semiramis.

            This form or system of worship became ingrained so deep into the hearts of the people that when the dispersion came at the Tower of Babel, they took their pagan religion with them. So extensively was it diffused among the nations of antiquity that even today throughout the world we still see the resemblance of it in modern forms of worship and symbolism surrounding that worship such as the Obelisk.

            This also accounts for the origin of the very same confusion of relationship between Isis and Osiris, the mother and child of the Egyptians; for as Bunsen shows, Osiris was represented in Egypt as at once the son and husband of his mother; and actually bore, as one of his titles of dignity and honour, the name “Husband of the Mother.”

            In some places in Egypt the song of Linus or Osiris a peculiar melody, seems to have been used. Savary says that, in the temple of Abydos, “the priest repeated the seven vowels in the form of hymns, and that musicians were forbid to enter it.” Strabo whom Savary refers to, calls the god of that temple Memnon, but we learn from Wilkinson, that Osiris was the great god of Abydos, whence it is evedent that Memnon and Osiris were only different names of the same divinity. Now the name of Linus or Osiris, as the “husband of his mother,” in Egypt; was Kamut!

            When Gregory the Great introduced into the Church of Rome what are now called the Gregorian Chants, he got them from the Chaldean mysteries, which had long been established in Rome, for the Roman Catholic priest, Eustace, admits that these chants were largely composed of “Lydian and Phrygian tunes.” Lydia and Phrygia being among the chief seats in later times of those mysteries, of which the Egyptian mysteries were only a branch. These tunes were sacred, the music of the great god, and in introducing them, Gregory introduced the music of Kamut. And thus, to all appearance, has it come to pass, that the name of Osiris or Kamut, “the husband of the mother,” is in every-day use among ourselves as the name of the musical scale; for what is the melody of Osiris, consisting of the “seven vowels” formed into a hymn, but the Gamut?

                                                                                                                                            OSIRIS

ISWARA & ISI or PARVATI

                                                                    This still further casts light on the fact already noticed, that the Indian God Iswara is represented as a babe at the breast of his own wife Isi, or Parvati. Now, this Ninus, or “Son,” borne in the arms of the Babylonian Madonna, is so described as very clearly to identify him with Nimrod. “Ninus, king of the Assyrians,” says Trogus Pompeius, epitomised by Justin, “first of all changed the contented moderation of the ancient manners, incited by a new passion, the desire of conquest. He was the first who carried on war against his neighbours, and he conquered all nations from Assyria to Lybia, as they were yet unacquainted with the arts of war.” This account points directly to Nimrod, and can apply to no other.

The account of Diodorus Siculus entirely agrees with it, and adds another trait that goes still further to determine the identity. That account is as follows:--”Ninus, the most ancient of the Assyrian kings mentioned in history, performed great actions. Being naturally of a warlike disposition, and ambitious of glory that results from valor, he armed a considerable number of young men that were brave and vigorous like himself, trained them up a long time in laborious exercises and hardships, and by that means accustomed them to bear the fatigues of war, and to face dangers with intrepidity.”

            As Diodorus makes Ninus “the most ancient of the Assyrian kings,” and represents him as beginning those wars which raised his power to an extraordinary height by bringing the people of Babylonia under subjection to him, while as yet the city of Babylon was not in existence, this shows that he occupied the very position of Nimrod, of whom the Scriptural account is, that he first “began to be mighty on the earth,” and that the “beginning of his kingdom was Babylon.” As the Babel builders, when their speach was confounded, were scattered abroad on the face of the earth, (they took their Obelisk’s and religion with them) and therefore deserted both the city and the tower which they had commenced to build.

            Babylon as a city, could not properly be said to exist till Nimrod, by establishing his power there, made it the foundation and starting-point of his greatness. In this respect, then, the story of Ninus and of Nimrod exactly harmonise. The way, too, in which Ninus gained his power is the very way in which Nimrod erected his. There can be no doubt that it was by injuring his followers to the toils and dangers of the chase, that he gradually formed them                                                                                                                                          TOWER OF BABEL

to use the arms, and so prepared them for aiding him in establishing his dominions; just as Ninus, by training his companions for a long time “in laborious exercises and hardships,” qualified them for making him the first of the Assyrian kings. The conclusions deduced from these testimonies of ancient history are greatly strengthened by many additional considerations.

            This speaks of it as something remarkable, that Asshur went out of the land of Shinar, while yet the human race in general went forth in the same land. It goes upon the supposition that Asshur had some sort of divine right to that land, and that he had been, in a manner, expelled from it by Nimrod, while no divine right is elsewhere hinted at in the context, or seems capable of proof. Moreover, it represents Asshur as setting up in the IMMEDIATE NEIGHBORHOOD of Nimrod as mighty a kingdom as Nimrod himself, Asshur building four cities, one of which is emphatically said to have been “great” (verse 12); while Nimrod, on this interpretation, built just the same number of cities, of which none is specially characterized as “great.” Now, it is in the last degree improbable that Nimrod would have quietly borne so mighty a rival so near him. To obviate such difficulties as these, it has been proposed to render the words, “out of that land he (Nimrod) went forth into Asshur, or Assyria.”But then, according to ordinary usage of grammar, the word in the original should have been “Asshurah,” with the sign of motion to a place affixed to it, whereas it is simply Asshur, without any such sign of motion affixed. I am persuaded that the whole perplexity that commentators have hitherto felt in considering this passage, has arisen from supposing that there is a proper name in the passage, where in reality no proper name exists. Asshur is the passive participle of a verb, which, in its Chaldee sense, signifies “to make strong,” and, consequently, signifies “being strengthened,” or “made strong.” Read thus, the whole passage is natural and easy (ver. 10), “And the beginning of his (Nimrod’s) kingdom was Babel, and Erech, and Accad, and Calneh.” A beginning naturally implies something to succeed, and here we find it (ver. 11); “Out of that land he went forth, being made strong, or when he had been made strong (Ashur), and builded Nineveh,” &.

            Now, this exactly agrees with the statement in the ancient history of Justin: “Ninus strengthened the greatness of his acquired dominion by continued possession. Having subdued, therefore, his neighbors, when, by an accession of forces, being still further strengthened, he went forth against other tribes, and every new victory paved the way for another, he subdued all the peoples of the East.” Thus, then, Nimrod, or Ninus, was the builder of Nineveh; and the origin of the name of that city, as “the habitation of Ninus,” is accounted for, and light is hereby, at the same time, cast on the fact, that the name of the chief part of the ruins of Nineveh is Nimrod at this day. Now, assuming that Ninus is Nimrod, the way in which that assumption explains what is otherwise inexplicable in the statements of ancient history greatly confirms the truth of that assumption itself. 

                                                                                                            ANCIENT NINEVEH

            Ninus is said to have been the son of Belus or Bel, and Bel is said to have been the founder of Babylon. If Ninus was in reality the first king of Babylon, how could Belus or Bel, his father, be said to be the founder of it? Both might very well be, as will appear if we consider who was Bel, and what we can trace of his doings. If Ninus was Nimrod, who was the historical Bel? He must have been Cush: for the Bible says that “Cush begat Nimrod” and Cush is generally represented as having been a ring leader in the great apostasy. But again, Cush, as the son of Ham, was Her-mes or Mercury: for Hermes is just an Egyptian synonym for the “son of Ham.”

            The composition of Her-mes is, first, from “Her,” which, in Chaldee, is synonymous with Ham, or Khem, “The Burnt One.” As “Her” also, like Ham, signified “The Hot or Burning One,” this name formed a foundation for covertly identifying Ham with the “Sun,” and so deifying the great patriarch, after whose name the land of Egypt was called, in connection with the sun. Khem, or Ham, in his own name was openly worshipped in later ages in the land of Ham (Bunsen, vol.i.p.373); but this would have been too daring at first. By means of “Her,” the synonym, however, the way was paved for this. “Her” is the name of Horus, who is identified with the sun (Bunsen, vol.i.p.507), which shows the real etymology of the name to be from the verb to which I have traced it. Then, secondly, “Mes,” is from Mesheh (or, without the last radical, which is omissible, see Parhurst, sub voce, p. 416), Mesh, “to draw forth.” In Egyptian, we have Ms in the sense of “to bring forth” (Bunsen, vol. I., Hieroglyphical Signs, Append., b. 43, p. 540), which is evidently a different form of the same word. In the passive sense, also, we find Ms used (Bunsen, Vocabulary, Appendix i.p.470, at bottom, &c., “Ms . . . . born”). The radical meaning of Mesheh in Stockii Lexicon, is given in Latin “Extraxit,” and our English word “extraction,” as applied to birth or descent, shows that there is a connection between the generic meaning of this word and birth.

            This derivation will be found to explain the meaning of the names of the Egyptian kings, Ramesses and Thothmes, the former evidently being “The son of Ra,” or the Sun; for Ramesses is ‘Нʎɩοų παἱς (Ammianus Marcellinus, lib. 17, cap. 4, p. 162); the latter, in like manner, being “The son of Thoth.” For the very same reason Her-mes is the “Son of Her, or Ham,” the burnt one-that is, Cush. The mythology is now not a myth!

            Now, Hermes was the great original prophet of idolatry; for he was recognized by the pagans as the author of their religious rites, and the interpreter of the gods. The distinguished Gesenius identifies him with the Babylonian Nebo, as the prophetic god; and a statement of Hyginus shows that he was known as the grand agent in that movement which produced the division of tongues. His words are these; “For many ages men lived under the government of Yah, I AM [evidently not the Roman Jupiter, but the YHVH of the Hebrews], without cities and without laws, and all speaking one language. But after Mercury interpreted the speeches of men (whence an interpreter is called Hermeneutes), the same individual distributed the nations. Then discord began.”

            Here there is a manifest enigma, that is, an obscure riddle. How could Mercury or Hermes have any need to interpret the speeches of mankind when they “all spake the same language?” To find out the meaning of this, we must go to the language of the Mysteries. Peresh, in Chaldee, signifies “to interpret;” but was pronounced by old Egyptians and by Greeks, and often by the Chaldees themselves, in the same way as “Peres” to “divide.” Mercury then or Hermes or Cush, “the son of Ham,” was the “DIVIDER of the speeches of men.” He, it would seem, had been the ringleader in the scheme for building the great city and tower of Babel: and, as the well-known title of Hermes,--”the interpreter of the gods,” would indicate, had encouraged them, in the name of God, to proceed in their presumptuous enterprise, and so had caused the language of men to be divided, and themselves to be scattered abroad on the face of the earth. Now look at the name of Belus, or Bel, given to the father of Ninus, or Nimrod, in connection with this. While the Greek name Belus represented both the Baal and Bel of the Chaldees, these were nevertheless two entirely distinct titles. These titles were both alike often given to the same god, but they had totally different meanings. Baal, as we have already seen, signified “The Lord;” but Bel signified “The Confounder.” When, then, we read that Belus, the father of Ninus, was he that built or founded Babylon, can there be a doubt, in what sense it was that the title of Belus was given to him? It must have been in the sense of Bel the "Confounder." And to this meaning of the name of the Babylonian Bel, there is a very distinct allusion in Jeremiah 50:2, where it is said "Bel is confounded," that is, "The Confounder is brought to confusion." That Cush was known to Pagan antiquity under the very character of Bel, "The Confounder," a statement of Ovid very clearly proves. The statement to which I refer is that in which Janus "the god of gods," from whom all other gods had their origin, is made to say of himself: “The ancients. . . . called me Chaos.” Now, first this decisively shows that Chaos was known not merely as a state of confusion, but as the "god of Confusion." But, secondly, who that is at all acquainted with the laws of Chaldaic pronunciation, does not know that Chaos is just one of the established forms of the name of Chus or Cush? Then, look at the symbol of Janus, Fig 7, whom "the ancients called Chaos," and it will be seen how exactly it tallies with the doings of Cush, when he is identified with Bel, "The Confounder." That symbol is a club; and the name of "a club" in Chaldee comes from the very word which signifies "to break in pieces, or scatter abroad." He who caused the confusion of tongues was he who "broke" the previously united earth (Gen 11:1) "in pieces," and "scattered" the fragments abroad. How significant, then, as a symbol, is the club, as commemorating the work of Cush, as Bel, the "Confounder"? And that significance will be all the more apparent when the reader turns to the Hebrew of Genesis 11:9, and finds that the very word from which a club derives its name is that which is employed when it is said, that in consequence of the confusion of tongues, the children of men were "scattered abroad on the face of all the earth." The word there used for scattered abroad is Hephaitz, which, in the Greek form becomes Hephaizt, and hence the origin of the well known but little understood name of Hephaistos, as applied to Vulcan, "The father of the gods."

JANUS , GOD OF CONFUSED

            Hephaistos is the name of the ringleader in the first rebellion, as "The Scatterer abroad," as Bel is the name of the same individual as the "Confounder of tongues." Here, then, the reader may see the real origin of Vulcan's Hammer, which is just another name for the club of Janus or Chaos, "The god of Confusion;" and to this, as breaking the earth in pieces, there is a covert allusion in Jeremiah 50:23, where Babylon, as identified with its primeval god, is thus apostrophized: "How is the hammer of the whole earth cut asunder and broken"!
The following link will take you to modern day symbolism of Janus showing the continuous power and worship of Nimrod!

• Janus - Two Faced god!

• Masonic - Two Faced Symbols!

            Now, as the tower-building was the first act of open rebellion after the flood, and Cush, as Bel, was the ringleader in it, he was, of course, the first to whom the name Merodach, "The great Rebel," must have been given, and, therefore, according to the usual parallelism of the prophetic language, we find both names of the Babylonian god referred to together, when the judgment on Babylon is predicted: "Bel is confounded: Merodach is broken in pieces" (Jer 50:2).

            The judgment comes upon the Babylonian god according to what he had done. As Bel, he had "confounded" the whole earth, therefore he is "confounded." As Merodach, by the rebellion he had stirred up, he had "broken" the united world in pieces; therefore he himself is "broken in pieces."

Centaur

            The ordinary classical derivation of this name gives little satisfaction; for, even though it could be derived from words that signify "Bull-killers" (and the derivation itself is but lame), such a meaning casts no light at all on the history of the Centaurs. Take it as a Chaldee word, and it will be seen at once that the whole history of the primitive Kentaurus entirely agrees with the history of Nimrod, with whom we have already identified him. Kentaurus is evidently derived from Kehn, "a priest," and Tor, "to go round." "Kehn-Tor," therefore, is "Priest of the revolver," that is, of the sun, which, to appearance, makes a daily revolution round the earth. The name for a priest, as written, is just Khn, and the vowel is supplied according to the different dialects of those who pronounce it, so as to make it either Kohn, Kahn, or Kehn. Tor, "the revolver," as applied to the sun, is evidently just another name for the Greek Zen or Zan applied to Jupiter, as identified with the sun, which signifies the "Encircler" or "Encompasser,"--the very word from which comes our own word "Sun," which, in Anglo-Saxon, was Sunna (MALLET, Glossary), and of which we find distinct traces in Egypt in the term sunnu (BUNSEN'S Vocab.), as applied to the sun's orbit.

            The Hebrew Zon or Zawon, to "encircle," from which these words come, in Chaldee becomes Don or Dawon, and thus we penetrate the meaning of the name given by the Boeotians to the "Mighty hunter," Orion. That name was Kandaon, as appears from the following words of the Scholiast on Lycophron, quoted in BRYANT: "Orion, whom the Boeotians call also Kandaon." Kahn-daon, then, and Kehn-tor, were just different names for the same office--the one meaning "Priest of the Encircler," the other, "Priest of the revolver"--titles evidently equivalent to that of Bol-kahn, or "Priest of Baal, or the Sun," which, there can be no doubt, was the distinguishing title of Nimrod. As the title of Centaurus thus exactly agrees with the known position of Nimrod, so the history of the father of the Centaurs does the same.

            Let us now continue on the subject at hand, having proven that the myths of antiquities were in fact a reality of man worshiping an evil spirit being in man in a state of confusion. This confusion continues today, to the unsuspecting soul who actually is worshiping “the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”

            In our Bible we read of the many warnings against Baal and Baal worship. We know too that the Bible speaks of a corrupt religious/economic/political system that satan set up to cause man to worship him rather than the True God of Heaven. Revelations states that the whole world wondered, or was amazed by the beast, one that burdens all of mankind in every aspect of life, but at the same time displays great wealth, pomp and pageantry.

Baal & Baal Worship

            There can be no doubt that Nimrod was worshiped as the god of the sun long before the scriptures were written. Job is believed to have lived in the time of Seth the son of Adam. He was the son of Aram the grandson of Seth and would have first hand knowledge of sun worship. Today we have the oral law of the patriarchs written which state; “If I beheld [worshiped] the sun when it shined, or the moon walking [in] brightness; and my heart hath been secretly enticed, or my mouth hath kissed my hand: this also [were] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judge: for I should have denied the God [that is] above.”

            Baal technically was at first considered subordinate to “EL,” EL Shaddai, God Almighty, the God of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. By the time of the Ugarit Tablets (14^th Century B.C.) however, Baal had become the ruler of the universe, that is, man on earth. Therefore the symbols of Baal worship such as Obelisks and pyramid structures permeate the earth and still remain even up to this present time with millions paying homage to them in various ways.

                                                                                                                                    HELIOPOLIS TEMPLE

            In the Mayan, Somar, Assyrian and Egyptian societies temples were on their tops where pagan worship was conducted as an every day occurrence. Entrance to the ancient temple of Re or Ra at Heliopolis had seven pillars. The Bible speaks of the importance of seven in this manner. “Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars:” and “and unto the angel of the church in Sardis write; These things saith he that hath the seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars; I know thy works, that thou hast a name that thou livest, and art dead.”

            In modern Western Societies we see the symbolism of the past in our banks and government structures with pillars and porches having pyramidion tops. Now, the lesser Nations are subservient to the lender nations who dominate using the World Bank, IMF and other Global Financial Institutions and a good question is; - why are many of our banks and other buildings of importance constructed with porches in front of them consisting mostly of seven large white pillars.

                                                                                                            Even the seat of American Power and Wisdom is represented by pillars, the Obelisk and Abraham Lincoln. Americas halls of Justice, both Federal and County have the same features on the exteriors. They all have the “Doric fluted style columns,” which are purely Egyptian design, and were used in Egypt at least 2000 years before Greece ever used them. An example of this column design still stands in Saqqara, and other places throughout Egypt. Is it mere coincidence?

                                                                                                            The Ugarit tablets made Baal, that is Nimrod, chief of the Canaanite Pantheon. Remember Canaan was cursed by Noah in Genesis 9:25 and therefore this whole system of pagan deities called a pantheon was cursed. The Western World’s system of government, economical power and spiritual power was started by Nimrod who being deified became satan’s symbol, a cursed system in the earth that still exists today. He was worshiped as “The Source of all life and Fertility,” the mighty hero, the lord (beginner) of war and the defeater of the God of heaven, Yah or Jah. The “Y” names for God come from the Tetragrammaton in Hebrew writings and is translated as YHVH or I AM that I AM from where the name Jesus comes from.

            The practice of sacred prostitution seems to have been associated with the worship of Baal. Hosea and Jeremiah, prophets in Hebrew scripture vehemently denounced the worship of Baal, that is Nimrod in the high places where they often sacrificed their children. Nimrod, satan’s icon and system of deception was set in the earth after the flood in Noah’s day which destroyed his prior system that he had set up through Cain after man’s fall in Eden. It is recorded in the Encyclopedia Britannica that Nimrod, the embodiment of satan’s spirit spoke great threatening words in anger against God because God destroyed his kingdom on earth with the flood.

            To the left of the Axometric View of the Temple area of Baalbek is the Temple dedicated to Baachus. (See the next actual picture and note the pillars in its front.)

            The Bible records with clarity the sometimes obscure understanding of Baal worship as actually being the worship of satan. Substitutions through name changes in cultures as recorded on walls and tablets found through archeological discoveries can be hard to trace and peace together to understand their true meaning. The abhorrence in which the cult was held probably explains the substitution of Ish-Bosheth for Esh-Baal, or Jerubbesheth for Jerubabaal, (a name for Gideon) and of Mephibosheth for Merib-Baal. The substituted terms probably mean

“shame.” The same abhorrence is evident by the use of the pejorative name Baal-Zebub, that is, “satan” as recorded in the Bible. As cognates, that is, related to each other, Baal in other Semitic Languages is Bel in Babylonian religions. Bel was absolutely Nimrod who demonstrated and led great rebellion against the True God of creation. The practice of sacred prostitution was associated with the worship of Baal, that is, Nimrod, man worshiping the creature, that is himself, more than the creator.

                                                                                                                                  In India, even to this day, as Isi and Iswara; in Asia, as Cybele and Deoius; in Pagan Rome, as Fortuna and Jupiter-puer, or Jupiter, the boy; in Greece, as Ceres, the Great Mother, with the babe at her breast, or as Irene, the goddess of Peace, with the boy Plutus in her arms; and even in Thibet, in China, and Japan, the Jesuit missionaries were astonished to find the counterpart of Madonna and her child as devoutly worshipped as in Papal Rome itself.

                                                                                                                                  There is strong reason to believe, that Athena, the well known name of Minerva at Athens, had the very same meaning. The Hebrew Adon, “The Lord,” is, with the points, pronounced Athon. We have evidence that this name was known to the Asiatic Greeks, from whom idolatry, in a large measure, came into European Greece, as a name of God under the form of “Athan.” Eustathius, in a note on the Periergesis of Dionysius, speaking of local names in the district of Laodicea, says that “Athan is god.” The feminine of Athan, “The Lord,” is Athana, “The Lady,” which in the Attic dialect, is Athena. No doubt, Minerva is commonly represented as a virgin. Thus, man becomes worshiper of the creature more

than the Creator as recorded in the Bible in Romans, much more significant than a mere myth.

            Virgins in India were first deflowered by means of the lingam, a stone phallus symbolizing the god Shiva. Many ancient fertility rites persist today which include the May-Pole dance which derives from spring rituals to glorify the phallus, or erect penis.

            The tallest surviving stele or Obelisk (pictured at right) at Axum is one of the many splendid monuments erected by the rulers of the kingdom of Axum. Axum or Aksum is an ancient city in the province of Tigré which is in the northern part of Ethiopia. By about 1000 BC the New Kingdom had fallen, and Kush had emerged as a state that was politically and culturally independent from Egypt. It was a civilization that became wealthy as a result of their trade with Arabia, Egypt and even India via the Red Sea. In about 725 BC they were able to march down the Nile and conquer the whole of Egypt, where they formed the 25^th dynasty of pharaohs. Most of the antiquities of Axum still await excavation; those that have been described consist mainly of Obelisks, of which about fifty are still standing, while many more are fallen. The highly finished monoliths are all representations of a many-storied castle, with an altar at the base of each. They appear to be connected with Semitic sun-worship, and are assigned by Bent to the same period as the temple at Baalbek, though some antiquarians would place them much earlier. Kush, or Cush of course was the father of Nimrod. Tradition holds that the God of heaven visited Axum and destroyed the chief Obelisk by digging a trench from the river to its foundation.

                                                                                 Reliefs of Nimrod-stele- bull. The horns are the ancient symbols of divine power. Notice the (life) image on the top of the stele on the right.

            The Washington monument was designed by the architect Robert Mills after elaborate Greek temple types. It is an Obelisk, hollow inside with inscriptions on its walls as you ascend to the top of it. It is patterned after the Needles of Cleopatra and rises 555 ft., 5-1/8". Washington, a strong Bible believer objected to it being erected in 1783. It finally was dedicated in 1885 after his death. The conclusion of what all this means is left to you, a pilgrim like all of us passing through this world hoping to make heaven our home. It is interesting to note that Americas grandest 2000 millennial celebration focused on the Obelisk in its (see photo, next page) capital city.

2 Corinthians 6:17-AV ‘Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean [thing]; and I will receive you.’

                                                                                                               MADONNA ON THE BEAST WITH HORNS & HEADS

                                                                                             Concerning the things which we have written, the Bible states; Quote! ‘And the angel said unto me, Wherefore didst thou wonder? I will tell thee the mystery of the woman, and of the beast that carrieth her, which hath the seven heads and ten horns. The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and is about to come up out of the abyss, and he goeth into perdition. And they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, they whose name hath not been written on the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast, how that he was, and is not, and shall be present. Here is the meaning which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth: And these are seven kings; the five are fallen, the one is, the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a little while. And the beast that was, and is not, is himself even an eighth, and is of the seven; and goeth into perdition. And the ten horns that thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but they receive authority as kings, with the beast for one hour. These have one mind, and they give their power and authority unto the beast. These shall war against the Lamb, and the Lamb shall overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings: and they also shall overcome that are with him, called and chosen and faithful. And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the harlot sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues. And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire. For God did put in their hearts to do His mind, and to come to one mind, and to give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God shall be accomplished. And the woman whom thou sawest is the great city, which hath a kingdom over the kings of the earth.’ End Quote.

• Cultural Resources, "The Western Society"

August 2002