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ANTICHRISTS AND BABYLONIAN WHORES 

OF TRINITARIAN CHRISTIANITY

Excerpts from the Baha'i Faith Web Site subject "Babylonian Whores" (click to read in full)

Illustration of Semiramis and her god-incarnate-son depicted as Mary with Jesus.

For centuries Christians have pondered the identities of the elusive Antichrists and Babylonian Whores. The corrupt clergy pointed fingers of suspicion at every tyrant appearing on the scene to falsely accuse them of being the Antichrists and Babylonian Whores in order to divert attention away from themselves. This writing documents that the Antichrists and Babylonian Whores are none other than the Trinitarian Christians.

The Trinitarian doctrine of god the father, god the son, and god the holy spirit is biblically unfounded, but it existed as the pagan worship of Nimrod and Semiramis who were the first King and Queen of Babylonian. This worship spread throughout the world as the Babylonian Mystery religion and eventually assumed the title of Trinitarian Christianity. Descendants of the first pagan Babylonian priests became the pagan Trinitarian Christian priests and continued the Trinitarian worship to maintain political control over the nations of the world. For centuries, this superstitious nonsense of the pagan Trinitarian clergy deprived people of the guiding knowledge of God's prophets and perpetuated all the evil in the world. The greed of the pagan clergies for material possessions, however, eventually escalates into a nuclear war which consumes the evil clergy and their followers in a world encompassing fire leaving only the true believers (i.e., believers of truth) to enter the Kingdom of God on earth.

Sketch of Semiramis and god-incarnate-son Nimrod as represented on a 1990 Christmas Issue of a United States postage stamp.

BABYLONIAN WHORES

The revelation presented by Jesus the Christ to His Apostle John describes the pagan Mystery religion as "Babylon the great, mother of harlots:"

Then one of the seven angels who had the seven bowls came and said to me, "Come, I will show you the judgment of the great harlot who is seated upon many waters, with whom the kings of the earth have committed fornication, and with the wine of whose fornication the dwellers on earth have become drunk." And he carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, and I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of blasphemous names, and it had seven heads and ten horns. The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet, and bedecked with gold and jewels and pearls, holding in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her fornication; and on her forehead was written a name of mystery: "Babylon the great, mother of harlots and of earth's abominations." And I saw the woman, drunk with the blood of the saints and the blood of the martyrs of Jesus...- Apostle John1

After this I heard what seemed to be the mighty voice of a great multitude in heaven, crying, "Hallelujah! Salvation and glory and power belong to our God, for his judgments are true and just; he has judged the great harlot who corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he has avenged on her the blood of his servants."- Apostle John2

When the Apostle John received his vision, the ancient Babylonian Empire had already been destroyed as prophesied in the Old Testament:

The oracle concerning Babylon which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw.... And Babylon, the glory of the kingdoms, the splendor and pride of the Chaldeans, will be like Sodom and Gomorrah when God overthrew them. It will never be inhabited or dwelt in for all generations ...- Prophet Isaiah3

The Babylonian Empire ceased to exist, but the ancient pagan Babylonian Mystery religion thrived under the guise of Roman Catholicism and survived to this day as Trinitarian Christianity4. The Babylonian Mystery religion is represented as a whore because the pagan Trinitarian Christian religions prostituted the teachings of Jesus the Christ in order to politically and economically control all nations of the world. Trinitarian Christianity officially adopted the pagan triune-god dogma with the Nicene Creed:

"I believe in one God the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible;
"And in one Lord Jesus Christ ... God of God ... Very God of Very God ...
"And I believe in the Holy Ghost; The Lord ...- Nicene Creed5

The Nicene Creed, however, was never taught by Jesus nor His apostles. It was not even conceived until 325 A.D. at the Council of Nicaea6. The Holy Roman Emperor Constantine convened the Council of Nicaea for the sole purpose of politically unifying his empire under one religion, regardless of whether or not that religion was pagan. Roman Catholicism subsequently emerged as the mother of the daughter-harlot religions by giving birth to the numerous Protestant sects of Trinitarian Christianity.

Notes

1 Revelation 17:1-18.

2 Revelation 19:1-3.

3 Isaiah 13:1-22 (also, Jeremiah 51;52).

4 The Two Babylons, pp. 12-19.

5 NICENE CREED. Baker's Pocket Dictionary of Religious Terms.

6 Christianity, pp. 96-100; The Two Babylons, p. 82; The Outline of History, volume 2, pp. 462-464.

IN DEFENSE OF THE TRINITY

In order to deceive their ignorant followers, the Trinitarian Christian clergy invented a barrage of contradictions in defense of their pagan Trinitarian Mystery religion. For instance, they maintain that the trinity does not consist of three separate gods; but, at the same time, they insist that each of the three persons in the trinity is a separate god:

At this point, let us suggest a definition of the doctrine of the Trinity: "There is one true God; but in the unity of the Deity [God-ship] there are three Persons: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit; co-eternal and co-equal, the same in substance but distinguishable in subsistence (not tritheism--three gods). God is one, but in essence three, as to Persons."...- Trinitarian Clergy7

It is in the Westminster Confession of Faith. The question is asked: "How many persons are there in the Godhead?" The answer is: "There are three persons in the Godhead: the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost; and these three are one God. The same in substance, equal in power and glory." That definition is the finest you can find....

The three Persons are the same in their attributes, in their will and in their purpose....Each one is God.- Trinitarian Clergy8

Pagan Christian theologians also acknowledge that the trinity cannot be understood, nor does it exist in the Bible; nonetheless, they emphatically insist that the Bible supports the trinitarian dogma:

The doctrine of the Trinity is neither clear nor readily understood....

We must not fall into the trap of merely arguing about words.... All that we know about God is what he has told us--that is why this study is based on the Bible.... The formulated doctrine arose only gradually and painfully as people struggled to express in words the mystery [i.e. the pagan Babylonian Mystery religion] and glory that is God himself.- Trinitarian Clergy9

Lord Colerdige in a conversation with Robert Browning remarked ... I would be content if I understood one-tenth of the great truth concerning our triune God.... I find that it is impossible to explain.

One reason for this is that the Trinity is not geared to this mechanical age....

I hasten to say that the word trinity is not used in Scripture... It is not necessary to have the word, for that which the word signifies is taught in the New Testament Scripture....

Leaning how to get to the moon is a triviality compared to learning to know the Trinity.

Our triune God! No, you will not understand Him. He would not be God if you could. But you can bow in adoration and praise, and yield that little, stubborn, rebellious heart to your redeemer, Jesus Christ.- Trinitarian Clergy10

Obviously, the Bible does not refer to three persons in the Godhead within our human concept of the term. So we must sweep from our minds any strictly human analogy....

The doctrine of the Trinity is not quickly apparent in the Old Testament, but it is present and it can be discovered fairly easily by the average Bible student....

The abundant Scripture evidence should be sufficient for the truth to be plain in this matter....

The many types, symbols, and figures of the Old Testament, as well as the parables of the New, illustrate doctrine rather than teach it.

We confess that it is difficult, if not impossible, adequately to illustrate the doctrine of the Trinity. The above are cited merely to prod our thinking.- Trinitarian Clergy11

Although Trinitarian Christians admit that their trinitarian doctrine does not appear in the Bible, they maintain that the New Testament defends their dogma, and that the Old Testament alludes to it because of the Hebrew word Elohim which is plural for God must certainly refer to the triune-gods:

... the Old Testament is by no means silent on the direct revelation of the Trinity, as we note from the following:

... the name by which God introduces Himself in the very first verse of the Bible, and it is a plural name.... "In the beginning God (Elohim--plural) created (bara--singular verb) the heaven and the earth."

It should not surprise us to find the revelation of God beginning in this way--a plural noun with a singular verb.

The combination and interchange of plural and singular is found in other texts, and has a direct bearing on this doctrine.

"And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.... So God created man in His own image, in the image of God created He him; male and female created He them" (Genesis 1:26-27).

... the God in whose image man is to be made is plural: 'Our image.'...

In the New Testament we find strong emphasis on the Trinity, with only sporadic references to one God. It is in the cumulative evidence of text after text that the New Testament underscores the doctrine of the Trinity, as we observe that three Persons of the Godhead unite in many mighty works.- Trinitarian Clergy12

Notes

7 The Trinity: Is the Doctrine Biblical? Is it Important?, p. 10.

8 How Can God Exist in Three Persons?, pp. 7, 8.

9 The Trinity, pp. 5, 6, 32.

10 How Can God Exist in Three Persons?, pp. 5, 9, 10, 22, 23, 24.

11 The Trinity: Is the Doctrine Biblical? Is it Important?, pp. 10, 28, 29.

12 ibid., pp. 13-15, 18 (also, How Can God Exist in Three Persons?, pp. 10, 11).

PLURAL GOD

If God is a single entity, then why does the Bible refer to God in the plural? Elohim, the Hebrew plural word for Gods refers to the reason or logic of God revealed through many successive prophets, and not to three or more separate gods13. The Apostle John defines God as a preexisting reason or logic and not a single person nor three persons:

In the beginning was the Word [Logos, meaning reason or logic], and the Word [logos] was with God, and the Word [logos] was God.- Apostle John14

Logos, a philosophical and theological term and concept; a dynamic principle of reason operating in the world, and forming a medium of communion between God and man.... Logos is imperfectly rendered by "Word," and it is not easy to apprehend the full content of the idea in its Judaeo-Hellenistic context.- Biblical Dictionary15

The English word logic, meaning reason, is derived from the Greek logos16. The logic or reasoning of God revealed through the prophets is only revealed in the degree that the people at a particular time can comprehend it. The revealed reasoning or logic of God appears as a plural concept because it is revealed to various degrees by the many prophets. In this regard, Jesus stated that He could not disclose all of God's knowledge to the people of His time because they could not bear it, but the Spirit of Truth would reveal all of God's knowledge when He appeared at a later time:

I have yet many things to say to you, but you cannot bear them now. When the Spirit of truth comes, he will guide you into all the truth; for he will not speak on his own authority, but whatever he hears he will speak, and he will declare to you the things that are to come.- Apostle John17

Eventually, mankind will comprehend and reflect the image of all the various aspects of God's knowledge as revealed through all the prophets:

Thus, "And God said, Let us make man in our image [the reasoning revealed by all God's prophets], after our likeness."- Moses18

Likewise, the statement, "... God ['plural' Elohim] created the heaven and the earth19," refers to the heavenly teachings of all God's prophets being manifested in the physical world. Heaven, which is the dwelling place of God's logic and revealed knowledge20, represents the minds of the prophets where the knowledge of God resides, and not to the sky as most Trinitarian Christians maintain. Thus, when Jesus bid His disciples pray, "Thy kingdom come ... On earth as it is in heaven,"21 He was instructing them to pray that the heavenly teachings contained in the mind of God's prophets should become manifested as a Kingdom of reason and logic in the physical world. God's Kingdom can only be established on earth when mankind reflects the image of all the aspects of God's revealed reasoning.

Notes

13 ELOHIM. The New Compact Bible Dictionary.

14 John 1:1.

15 The New Compact Bible Dictionary.

16 LOGIC. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary.

17 John 16:12,13.

18 Genesis 1:26-27.

19 Genesis 1:1.

20 2 Chronicles 36:23; Ezra 1:2; 5:11,12; 6:9,10; 7:12,21,23; Nehemiah 1:4; 2:4; Psalms 136:26; Daniel 2:18,19,44; John 1:9; Revelation 11:13; 16:11.

21 Matthew 6:10.

JESUS IS NOT AN INCARNATE GOD

The trinitarian dogma of three gods in one god is a biblically unfounded, Babylonian concept based on the concocted deification of Jesus as the incarnate-god son22. In fact, the Trinitarian Christian clergy maintains that the trinity can only be comprehended when one accepts Jesus as an incarnate god:

Once a person comes to believe in the divinity [god-ship] of [Jesus the] Christ, belief in God's existence as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit [i.e. the trinity] is usually not a problem.- Trinitarian Clergy23

According to the Bible, Jesus, like all God's prophets, taught of one God, and claimed to be only the Son of God, but never a god:

And the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he [Jesus] answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the first of all?" Jesus answered, "The first is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one ...- Jesus the Christ24

The Jews took up stones again to stone him [Jesus]. Jesus answered them, "I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of these do you stone me?" The Jews answered him, "We stone you for no good work but for blasphemy; because you, being a man, make yourself God." Jesus answered them, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods'? If he called them gods to whom the word of God came (and scripture cannot be broken), do you say of him whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?- Jesus the Christ25

If Jesus was a god as maintained by the pagan Trinitarian Christians, then Moses and Adam must also be gods because the Bible records that Jesus was a Prophet just like Moses, and God even proclaimed Moses to be a God, but not Jesus the Christ:

And the LORD said to me [Moses] ... I will raise up for them [Israel] a prophet [Jesus] like you [Moses] from among their brethren ...- Moses26

And the Lord said to Moses, "See, I make you as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron your brother shall be your prophet.- Moses27

Then the Lord said to him [Moses] ... [Aaron] shall speak for you to the people; and he shall be a mouth for you, and you [Moses] shall be to him as God.- Moses28

Regarding the god-ship of Adam, if the title "Son of God" is any claim to Jesus' deity, then Adam must also be a god because He was not only entitled Son of God, but the Bible even records that Adam was created in the very likeness of God:

... Adam, the son of God.- Moses29

This is the book of the generations of Adam. When God created man [Adam], he made him in the likeness of God.- Moses30

Furthermore, God was apparently both father and mother to the son-of-god Adam, which would give Adam a greater claim to deification than Jesus, because, according to Trinitarian Christianity, Jesus only had God as His father and Mary as His mother.31 Therefore, if one applies the reasoning that the Trinitarian Christians use in defence of their trinitarian dogma, then one soon realizes that there are not only the three gods of the trinity, but now Moses and Adam must also be considered as gods. "Ye gods, three gods, and now Adam and Moses too!" In contrast to the dogma of the Trinitarian Christians, all of God's prophets teach of only one God.32

Notes

22 The Two Babylonians, pp. 58-74.

23 Jesus, A Biblical Defense of His Deity, p. 17.

24 Mark 12:28,29.

25 John 10:31-36.

26 Deuteronomy 18:18 (also, Deuteronomy 18:15; Acts 3:22,23; 7:37).

27 Exodus 1:1.

28 Exodus 4:11-16.

29 Luke 3:38.

30 Genesis 5:1.

31 Matthew 1:18-20.

32 Deuteronomy 6:4; Mark 12:28,29.

THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT A GOD

The Holy Spirit is not one of the three trinitarian gods. Instead, it refers to the whole or complete thought of God placed in the mind of each of God's prophets. Holy is derived from "whole or complete:"

HOLY [Middle English, from Old English halig; akin to Old English hal whole - more at WHOLE].- Biblical Dictionary33

Spirit represents the invisible abstract thought of God revealed in the words of God's prophets:

God is spirit ...- Apostle John34

... the words that I [Jesus] have spoken to you are spirit ...- Jesus the Christ35

His [God's] voice you have never heard, his form you have never seen ...- Jesus the Christ36

No one has ever seen God; the only Son, who is in the bosom of the Father, he has made him known [through His Words].- Apostle John37

He [Jesus] is the image of the invisible God [the Holy Spirit] ... For in him all the fulness of God [the Holy Spirit] was pleased to dwell...- Apostle Paul38

Thus, the Holy Spirit is the whole thought of God possessed by each of God's prophets whose words reveal the Thought of God to the degree that the people at various times in history can comprehend God's Knowledge.39

Notes

33 HOLY. Webster's New Collegiate Dictionary.

34 John 4:24.

35 John 6:63.

36 John 5:37.

37 John 1:18.

38 Colossians 1:15,19.

39 John 16:12,13.

GOD-INCARNATE SON

Nimrod became both the husband and son of Semiramis, and was worshiped as both god the father and god the incarnate son54. The father and son, were worshiped by different names in the various languages throughout the world (Table 1, page 11). For instance, the respective Greek and Roman names applied to the worship of Nimrod include: Ares and Mars, the god of war55; Eros and Cupid, the god of love56; Hephaestus and Vulcan, the god of fire57; Hermes and Mercury, the messenger of the gods58; Poseidon and Neptune, the god of the sea59; Zeus and Jupiter, the ruler of the gods60; Kronos and Saturn, the horned and hidden god of the underworld61; Dionysus or Bacchus, the Greek god of fertility and wine62; and the Greek Pluto or Hades and the Roman Pluto, the god of the underworld63. In addition, Nimrod was the Scandinavian god Odin or Wodan, who was also known in Mexican mythology as the founder of the Mexican race64. He was the Egyptian god Osiris65. In the Bible, Nimrod was called Tammuz66 and Molech67. He was worshiped in Babylon as El-Bar, meaning "god the son.68" In Assyria, Nimrod was called Baal, Bal or Belus meaning "lord."69 As the Greek Atlas, Nimrod was viewed lifting the heavens off the earth70, representing the fact that he lifted the oppressive heavenly teachings of one invisible God off the people's preferred worship of earth-bound objects.

In Italy, Saint Valentine's Day (February 14 of the Christian calendar) originated as the pagan festival of Lupercalia honoring the birth of Nimrod by the name of Lupercus, meaning the "hunter of wolves."71 It was on this day in ancient Babylon that Semiramis proclaimed the birth of her god-incarnate son Nimrod. In 496 A.D., Pope Gelasius changed the name of the Lupercalia festival to Saint Valentine's Day. Cupid, the winged-god of love, is identified with Valentine's Day because Cupid is one of Nimrod's Roman names (Figure 1, page 12)72. The Valentine heart is associated with Valentine's Day because Nimrod was known as "Baal," the Chaldean word meaning "lord," which is a homonym of the Chaldean word "bel" meaning "heart."73 The custom of exchanging valentines arose from a name-drawing ritual to select fornication partners during the Roman Lupercalia festival.

Notes

54 The Two Babylons, pp. 12-19, 21-74.

55 ibid., pp. 44, 153, 246.

56 ibid., p. 40.

57 ibid., pp. 27, 28.

58 ibid., 25, 26.

59 ibid., 41.

60 ibid., pp., 52, 72, 307.

61 ibid., pp. 31-315, 42, 97, 153, 264.

62 ibid., pp. 71, 122, 273.

63 ibid., 153, 277.

64 ibid., 133, 245.

65 ibid., pp. 20-23.

66 Ezekiel 8:14.

67 Leviticus 18:21; 20:1-5; 1 Kings 11:7; Jeremiah 7:29-34; 19:1-13; Ezekiel 20:26-39; Amos 5:26.

68 The Two Babylons, p. 73.

69 ibid., pp. 25-29.

70 ibid., pp. 54, 55.

71 Herman L. Hoeh, "Valentine's Day, Christian Custom or Pagan Pageantry?," The Good News, volume 32, pp. 11-13, 1985.

72 The Two Babylons, p. 40.

73 ibid., pp. 25-29, 187-191.

SYMBOLS OF NIMROD

In addition to Cupid, various other symbols represent Nimrod (Figure 1). The "man of the moon"74 illustrates that Nimrod once reflected the light of God's reasoning. The horned and cloven-hoofed Satan, the Devil, and the hidden god of the underworld portray Nimrod.75 The title Satan is derived from the hidden-god Saturn who is the same as the horned-god Kronos.76 Nimrod is referred to as a hidden god because the priests of the Babylonian Mystery religion hid the fact that Nimrod corrupted the teachings of the one true invisible God, plus the fact that all the pagan gods are Nimrod. He is the Centaur77, a half-man and half-horse creature, signifying that Nimrod was the first man to ride the horse. The symbol of a fish depicts Nimrod, who the Philistines worshiped as the fish-god Dagon.78 The Trinitarian Christians continue to use the pagan fish symbol of Dagon, and deceptively contend that "ichthys," the Greek word for fish is an acronym for "Jesus the Christ, God's Son, Savior:"

The fish, ichthys in Greek, is the symbol for the Savior Jesus Christ. It was so used already in the first century [but not during the time of the apostles], not primarily because fish played a part in Jesus' life or because He appointed His apostles to be spiritual fisherman using the net of the Gospel, but because ichthys could be used as a rebus form which one could derive a statement of faith. The word consists of these five letters of the Greek alphabet: i-ch-th-y-s. When these five letters are regarded as initials for five words, we obtain [or contrive] this Christian declaration: Iesous Christos Theou Yios Sorter. These words say: Jesus Christ, God's Son, Savior.

Very likely the ichthys symbol was used as a sign by which early Christians found and identified one another, especially in times of persecution. When scrawled on a wall or on the ground in the marketplace or near a fountain where people congregated, it let wandering Christians know that others of their faith had come to this community. A scene in a religious movie shows a man introducing himself to another by scratching the fish symbol into the sand before him....

We can testify to our [pagan Trinitarian] Christian faith today through the symbol of the ichthys, perhaps wearing it as a piece of jewelry or posting it as a door plate. When people ask what the picture of the fish means, we have a golden opportunity to explain who Jesus Christ is and what He means to us.- Trinitarian Clergy79

The bull or calf80 characterizes Nimrod as a "mighty prince."81 The Israelites worshiped him as a golden calf when they journeyed through the wilderness after fleeing the bondage of Egyptian paganism:

When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to [the High Priest Aaron, and said to him, "Up, make us gods, who shall go before us; as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him." ... So all the people took off the rings of gold which were in their ears, and brought them to Aaron. And he received the gold at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made a molten calf; and they said, "These are your gods, O Israel, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt!" ... And the LORD sent a plague upon the people, because they made the calf which Aaron made.- Moses82

Table 1

COMMON NAMES APPLIED TO THE PAGAN GOD NIMROD

NAMES IN OTHER COUNTRIES

Scandinavian ODIN or WODAN, also founder of Mexican race
Egyptian OSIRIS
Babylonian TAMMUZ and EL-BAR meaning "God the Son"
Assyrian MOLECH and BAAL, BEL or BELUS meaning "Lord"
Greek ATLAS, who lifted the heavens off the earth
Roman SAINT VALENTINE
Philistine DAGON the fish-god

Figure 1. SYMBOLS ASSOCIATED WITH NIMROD

The Babylonian King Nimrod is represented by various symbols. On Valentine's Day he is CUPID, the winged god of love. Valentine's Day originated as a pagan festival honoring the birth of Nimrod under the name of LUPERCUS, meaning "hunter of wolves." On this day in ancient Babylon (February 14 of the Christian calendar), the Babylonian Queen Semiramis proclaimed that the birth of her son was actually her husband Nimrod reborn as her god-incarnate son. In 496 A.D., the pagan Pope Gelasius renamed the festival as Valentine's Day. CUPID, the winged-god of love is identified with Valentine's Day because Cupid is one of Nimrod's Roman names. The Valentine heart is associated with Valentine's Day because Nimrod was known in Babylon as "BAAL," which is a Chaldean word meaning "lord," and is a homonym of the Chaldean word "BEL" meaning "heart." The custom of exchanging valentines arose as a "name-drawing" ritual which led to matching couples for fornication during the Lupercalia festival.

Nimrod is pictured as the horned and cloven-hoofed SATAN, who is the DEVIL and hidden god of the underworld. Nimrod is referred to as the "hidden god" because priests of the Babylonian mystery religion "hid" the fact that Nimrod corrupted the teachings of the one true invisible God. They also "hid" the fact that all the pagan gods were representations of Nimrod.

Nimrod is the mythological CENTAUR, a half-man and half-horse creature, signifying that Nimrod was the first man to ride a horse. Also, the Philistines worshiped Nimrod as the FISH-GOD DAGON, which is the source of the fish symbol presently used by pagan Trinitarian Christians to signify Jesus the Christ. He is portrayed as a BULL OR CALF, meaning a "mighty prince," and was worshiped as a GOLDEN CALF by the Israelites who followed Moses in the wilderness. Nimrod is further illustrated as the "MAN IN THE MOON" indicating that he once reflected the light of God.

Notes

74 ibid., p. 95.

75 The Two Babylons, pp. 153, 275, 276.

76 ibid., pp. 275, 276.

77 ibid, pp. 41, 42, 297.

78 The Two Babylons, pp. 114, 215, 252; DAGON.... worshiped also in Babylonia and Phoenicia, usually in the form of a fish. Baker's Pocket Dictionary of Religious Terms.

79 Symbols and Their Meaning, p. 19.

80 ibid., pp. 33, 38, 45, 46.

81 ibid., p. 45.

82 Exodus 32:1-35.

WORSHIP OF SEMIRAMIS

Semiramis, who was both Nimrod's wife and mother, was worshiped as the "mother of god"83 and a "fertility goddess" because she had to be extremely fertile to give birth to all the pagan incarnate gods that represented Nimrod. She was worshiped throughout the world by each the titles associated with Nimrod's worship, in addition to many titles unique to herself (Table 2, page 15). For instance, the respective Greek and Roman names applied to the worship of Semiramis include: Aphrodite and Venus, the goddess of love84; Artemis and Diana, the goddess of hunting and childbirth85; Athena and Minerva, the goddess of crafts, war and wisdom86; Demeter and Ceres, the goddess of growing things87; Gaea and Terra, symbol of the fertile earth88; Hera and Juno, the protector of marriage and women, who was the sister and wife of Zeus in Greek mythology, and the wife of Jupiter in Roman mythology89; Hestia and Vesta, the goddess of the hearth90; plus Rhea or Ops, who was wife and sister of the Greek horned-god Kronos.91

MOTHER AND SON WORSHIP

Semiramis was initially included in the pagan Babylonian trinity as the holy spirit or seed of the divine son in his mother's womb. Within time, however, the father Nimrod was practically overlooked and worshiped only as the god-incarnate son in his mother's arms. In other words, the father became invisible and was no longer worshiped, whereas, the mother with the god-incarnate son in her arms became the grand object of worship.92 Numerous Babylonian monuments show the goddess-mother Semiramis with her son in arms (Figure 2, pages 16, 17). This worship of mother and child spread throughout the known world, and given different names in the various languages of the world. Ancient Germans worshipped the virgin Hertha with child in arms. Scandinavians called her Disa pictured with child. The Egyptian mother and child were worshiped as Isis with the infant Osiris or Horus seated on his mother's lap. In India, the mother and child were called Devaki and Krishna, and also Isi and Iswara as they are worshiped to this day. In Asia, they were known as Cybele and Deoius; in pagan Rome, as Fortuna and Jupiter-puer, or Jupiter, the boy; in Greece, as Ceres, the great mother with babe at her breast, or as Irene, the goddess of peace, with the boy Plutus in her arms.

The image of mother with child in her arms was so firmly entrenched in the pagan mind that by the time Christianity appeared on the scene in 30 A.D., these statues and paintings were merely renamed and worshiped as the virgin Mary with her god-incarnate son Jesus. Thus, the pagan mother and child entered Christianity as the Roman Catholic worship of Mary with the infant Jesus. In fact, in Tibet, China, and Japan, Jesuit missionaries were astonished to find the counterpart of the madonna and child as devoutly worshiped as they were in Rome. Shing Moo, the holy mother in China was portrayed with a child in her arms and a glory around her, exactly as if she had been fashioned by Roman Catholic artisans.

MOTHER WORSHIP

The pagan mother initially derived her deification from the divine nature attributed to her child.93 She was raised far above the level of all creatures, and worshiped as a partaker of the trinitarian godhead. The mother eventually became the preferred object of worship. The son was exhibited merely as a child in his mother's arms without any particular attraction, whereas the mother's image was displayed in magnificent artistic array and invested with the exquisite beauty attributed to Semiramis during her life.

To justify worship of the mother, she was elevated to a divine station just like her god-incarnate son. The deified queen mother was adored as the incarnation of the holy spirit of peace and love. The highest titles were accordingly bestowed on her (Table 3, page 18). In Egypt, the mother was styled Athor, the "habitation of god" to signify that all the "fulness of the godhead" dwelt in her womb.94 She was named Hestia in Greece and Vesta, which is just a Roman variation of the same name, meaning the "dwelling-place of deity."95

Under her title, "mother of the gods," the goddess queen of Babylon became an object of universal worship. The mother of the gods was worshiped by the Persians, the Syrians, and with the most profound religious veneration by all the kings of Europe and Asia. When Caesar invaded Britain, he discovered the Druid priests worshiping the "mother of god" as Virgo-Patitura.96

In Egypt, as the "queen of heaven" she was the greatest and most worshiped of all the divinities.97 During Egyptian bondage, the Israelites repeatedly departed from the one true invisible God and worshiped the pagan mother. When the Israelites fell into apostasy under King Solomon, they worshiped this mother goddess as Ashtaroth, a name by which the pagan Babylonian goddess was known to the Israelites:

And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals [various lord gods depicting Nimrod] and the Ashtaroth [Semiramis], the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the [one true] LORD, and did not serve him.- Judges 98

Later, during the time of the prophet Jeremiah, the Jews worshiped the queen of heaven so devoutly that they could not be convinced to give up this paganism even after Jerusalem had been burnt and the land desolated due to this very pagan worship:

Then all the men who knew that their wives had offered incense to other gods, and all the women who stood by, a great assembly, all the people who dwelt in Pathros in the land of Egypt, answered Jeremiah: "As for the word which you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you. But we will do everything that we have vowed, burn incense to the queen of heaven [Semiramis] and pour out libations to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no evil. But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven and pouring out libations to her, we have lacked everything and have been consumed by the sword and by famine." And the women said, "When we burned incense to the queen of heaven and poured out libations to her, was it without our husbands' approval that we made cakes for her bearing her image and poured out libations to her?- Prophet Jeremiah 99

Table 2

COMMON NAMES APPLIED TO THE
PAGAN GODDESS SEMIRAMIS

TITLE OF SEMIRAMIS

Figure 2.

Pagan Worship of Mary and Jesus

The worship of Mary and the god-incarnate Jesus originated with the pagan worship of Semiramis and her god-incarnate son. Numerous Babylonian monuments depict the goddess-mother Semiramis with her son in arms. The image of the mother and child was so firmly entrenched in the pagan mind that when Christianity appeared on the scene these pagan statues and paintings were merely renamed and worshiped as the virgin Mary and her god-incarnate son Jesus.

Worship of mother and child spread from Babylon to the ends of the earth, but were called different names in the languages of the various counties where their worship appeared. The ancient Germans worshipped the virgin HERTHA with the child in the arms of his mother. The Scandinavians called her DISA pictured with her child. In Egypt, the mother and her child were worshiped as ISIS with the infant OSIRIS or HORUS seated on his mother's lap. In India, the mother and child were called DEVAKI and KRISHNA, and also ISI and ISWARA as they are worshiped to this day. In Asia, they were known as CYBELE and DEOIUS; in pagan Rome, as FORTUNA and JUPITER-PUER, or the boy JUPITER; in Greece, as CERES, the great mother with babe at her breast, or as IRENE, the goddess of peace, with the boy PLUTUS in her arms. Even in Tibet, China, and Japan, Jesuit missionaries were astonished to find the Roman counterpart of MADONNA and child. SHING MOO, the holy mother in China was portrayed with a child in her arms and a glory around her.

Semiramis was worshiped in Ephesus as the pagan fertility goddess DIANA who represented the generative powers of nature. She was referred to as a fertility goddess because she mothered all the numerous pagan gods representing the god-incarnate Nimrod. Diana was pictured with numerous teats so that she could nurse all the pagan gods, and she wore a tower-shaped crown symbolizing the Babylonian tower of Babel.

Table 3

TITLES OF SEMIRAMIS APPLIED TO THE ROMAN CATHOLIC WORSHIP OF MARY

HABITATION OF GOD

In Egypt, the mother was called Athor, the "HABITATION OF GOD" to signify that the "fullness of the godhead" dwelt in her womb.

DWELLING-PLACE OF DEITY

In Greece she bore the name Hestia, and among the Romans, Vesta, which is a modification of the same name meaning the "DWELLING-PLACE OF DEITY."

MOTHER OF GOD, MOTHER OF GODS

Under the name, "MOTHER OF THE GODS," the goddess queen of Babylon became an object of universal worship. The mother of the gods was worshiped by the Persians, the Syrians and by all the kings of Europe and Asia. In Britain, the Druid priests worshiped the Virgo-Patitura as the "MOTHER OF GOD."

QUEEN OF HEAVEN

In Egypt, as the "QUEEN OF HEAVEN" she was the greatest and most worshiped of all the divinities. During and after Egyptian bondage, the Israelites repeatedly departed from the one true God and worshiped this pagan mother.

MADONNA, MY LADY, MEA DOMINA

Nimrod was known as Baal or Lord, and Semiramis was the female equivalent Baalti, meaning "MY LADY" in English, "MEA DOMINA" in Latin, and corrupted as "MADONNA" in Italian.

LADY OF THE SEA

Among the Phoenicians, the mother goddess was known as the "LADY OF THE SEA," which is a title applied to Mary although there is no connection between the sea and Jesus' Mother Mary.

MEDIATOR, MYLITTA, MEDIATRIX

Roman Catholics teach that Mary is a "MEDIATOR." Prayers to her are an intricate part of Roman Catholic worship. There is no biblical basis for this idea, yet this concept was not foreign to the ideas linked with the mother goddess of pagan Babylon. She bore as one of her titles "MYLITTA," that is, the "MEDIATRIX" meaning "MEDIATOR."

 Notes

83 ibid., p. 5.

84 ibid., p. 75.

85 ibid., p. 30.

86 ibid., pp. 20, 21.

87 ibid., pp. 85, 160, 161.

88 ibid., p. 76.

89 ibid., pp. 20, 110, 307.

90 ibid., p. 77.

91 ibid., p. 303.

92 Babylon Mystery Religion, pp. 13-15; The Two Babylons, pp. 19, 20.

93 The Two Babylons, pp. 74-90.

94 ibid., p. 77.

95 ibid., pp. 77, 78.

96 ibid., p. 81.

97 ibid., p. 77.

98 Judges 10:6 (also, Judges 2:13; 1 Samuel 7:3,4; 12:10; 1 Kings 11:5; 2 Kings 23:13).

99 Jeremiah 44:17-19,25.

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