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Classical Theology. —V.

CLASSICAL THEOLOGY . —

LONDON , SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 12 , 1889 .

JUPITER AND JULY ( CONTINUED ) . To DO away ivith . the dogma of the human races , OT distinct tribes , is to do away witli the orthodoxy of the Scriptures . We mean that , could it be proved that there was no primordial spiritual and physical distinction between man ancl man , the truth of holy writ would be destroyed ; but

that can never be accomplished . Nevertheless , one grand object of the sacred law is to get rid of their stubborn demarcations . We know that in mind , in size , in colour , men have been and still are very different . Tlie Lord " set a mark upon Cain ; " here is a proof at once he was not like others —but what was that markand who were these others ?

, We will answer question by question . Was the race of Cain black 1 What kind of creature was his wife ? We do not know , neither is it important to know ; except , however , that the words " Whosoever slayeth Cain , vengeance shall ho taken on him sevenfold " became the meaning and explanation of the mark to his own and other generations .

We are told it was not till after the birth of Enos that " men began to call upon the name of the Lord . " Cain offered up of the earth no more unto God . Consequently we may believe that he and his family were not God serving ,

out rather at variance with the Almighty . In point of proof ; our glance is on the passages ivhere it is written , " Sin lieth at the door . And unto thee shall be his desire , and thou shalt rule over him . " _ " And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth , and that every imagination ofthe thoughts of his heart was only evil continually . "

In process of time men built altars to the gods ( of whom St . Jude , well versed in the lore of mysteries , felt compelled to record that they are "reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment ofthe great day" ) , and from these false gods they are said to have learned tho names of the stars , while Lucifer , we are told , was there to tell them how to

worship them . " The daughters of men bare children unto them "—and these were the antediluvian demigods from whom the Assyrians and other nations derived many of their deities , and thc classic ancients the heroes of long poems . That star " which did weaken tlie nations , " and said iu his heart , " I will ascend into heaven ; I will exalt my throne

above the stars of God , " and "be like the Most Hi gh , " was known before the world ' s deluge by the name of Jupiter , as well as the "Pleiades , " "Orion , " "Mazzaroth , " and"Arctiiriis and his sons" were in like manner known by their names ; for so they are called by the author of the book of Job . In the same way , it is to be observed , that former translations into heaven after death found their revivals afterwards in . the .

apotheosis or canonizing of men to become gods or saints . ¦ B y means of this deification and transnomination , before the period of the flood , Cain was the first mortal who was advanced among the stars , and worshipped as a star , and in consequence as an idol . Granting this , we shall find the causes of the idolatry in the restored world after the flood ,

ivhich appears to have been a complete resumption of that of the destroyed one . Ham , like Cain , was cursed with the countenance of a fallen god ; in his eyes was a " lurking devil . " ISTot for his own sake had he been saved from an earth " corrupt before God , filled with violence , " by which lie us ivell as others was contaminated ( for " all flesh had

corrupted his way upon tho earth" ) , his heart was idolatrous , he forsook his father ' s God , and with his descendants lifted up and renewed the abominations of idols , as we see corroborated in the recognition of him as Jupiter Amnion , or tlie star god Ham . This vain glory of men making gods was the first act of

asfcrotheology consequent upon the rebellion agaiust heaven iud man ' s first and second disruption with the Godhead , As 1 < - 'w various pvoptos . xroa & ' . e suftfecfes and swvik .. ma

deification of those who reigned over them took place , and these in their turn assumed to themselves divine honours , their images were set upon altars , and incense was offered to them . An immoderate desire of immortal fame which some studied to attain by leaving behind them vast monuments and gigantic statues to perj . etuate their memory and the place of

their embalmed existence—the funeral brass in which they seemed to breathe again , and the lifelike marble which caused them , among the vulgar , to be thought more than mortalsand last not least , superstition , ignorance , and false teachingwere other causes of idolatry . We are told that in the two thousandth year of the world

, or the last year but one of Noah , a magnificent statue and temjile were erected to Belus , the founder and monarch of the city of Babylon , and with a variety of sacrifices dedicated to Jupiter , or as some write , Saturn , because he ( Belus ) was the first king there . This god statue was made tlie lawful sanctuary to the offender and the miserable , hut how this

sacrilegious presumption could have arisen is the puzzle . But who and what was Jupiter ? In pagan religion generally there is a jumbling up and darkening of the holy scriptures by words , both by ignorance and by design . We have shown Jupiter to be a " wandering star , " and how ___ Eneas was resuscitated as Jupiter Indigetes ; alsohow Cain was made

, a god both as the son of Adam and as the son of JEther . Yet still , like Ccelum , Osiris , Brahm , Taou , Thor , and all such gods of various countries , Jupiter constituted the sky , the firmament , the primum mobile , nay , as Jovis ( a Jehovah ) he lias been made God himself !

It ivas said that Seuc was thc proper appellation of Jupiter , because he gives life to animals ; as he was also named Diespiter , because he is the source of light . There was hardly a nation which had not a Jupiter of its own ; Yarro reckoned up three hundred deities of this name . ' * Jupiter almost universally has been styled the father and

king of gods and men ; so the learned writers of antiquity have thought , and were taught from their cradle . The learned likewise of tile far distant past have told us of his actions , which we would not pollute our jiages by describing . Some of old , the most skilled in heathen theology , have with deep discernment pointed out the distinct being of

three Jiqiiters;—the first whose father was __ 3 __ ther , the second the son of Ccelits , ancl a third the oflspring of Saturn , which will clearly show that there was a Star Jupiter , a Gain Jupiter , and a Ham Jupiter the son of Noah or Saturn ,+ to whom many of the exploits of the other two are ascribed with a usurpation of his omnipotency—as , for example , in

the victories and events' of the Angelic ancl Titanic warfares , which must have happened before the flood . Although often alluded to both in sacred and profane history , these deities are left still vague , mythic and poetic , to the hasty reader ; hut it was not without due consideration of these apocryphal traditions that Dante founded the plot of the " Inferno , " or Milton his erudite " Paradise Lost . " The classic emblems of Jupiter , displayed in his temples , are easily recognized , even upon coins ; yet , as seen there they

* Jupiter , under various names , by different tongues and nations the whole world over , was worshipped , -with , the single exception of the orthodox Jews , many of whose kings reaped the just consecptenee of being smitten , with , tlie incense of Jupiter ; whilst on the other hand many of them , zealously and righteously helped to despoil him of liis stolen plumes . •]¦ Bocliartus maintains , with very conclusive reasonings , that Saturn and Noah were the same ; Chain , or Ham , is shown to be the eldest

son of Noah , as Jupiter was of Saturn . The delugo swallowed up mankind ; so Saturn was allegorically made to swallow up his children . Jupiter is feigned to be the king or "lord of the heavens" ( Hymn acl Jovcm ) . Ham was the chief or first patriarch of Africa , which , with the planets vertical , is considered to be nearer heaven than other countries . Noah foretold the coming of tho flood ; so did Saturn foretell " that there should be an overwhelming quantity of rain ; and that an ark should bo built , in which men and birds and creeping things should all . sail together . " Alex . PolyldsUir up . Cyril , contra- Jul . i . 1 . An quite untenable we have abandoned tho Hypoyiwis * 'f So . t-uni being Die e' . n ' . c ¦ m > . _ uiix « . f .

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Classical Theology. —V.

CLASSICAL THEOLOGY . —

LONDON , SATURDAY , NOVEMBER 12 , 1889 .

JUPITER AND JULY ( CONTINUED ) . To DO away ivith . the dogma of the human races , OT distinct tribes , is to do away witli the orthodoxy of the Scriptures . We mean that , could it be proved that there was no primordial spiritual and physical distinction between man ancl man , the truth of holy writ would be destroyed ; but

that can never be accomplished . Nevertheless , one grand object of the sacred law is to get rid of their stubborn demarcations . We know that in mind , in size , in colour , men have been and still are very different . Tlie Lord " set a mark upon Cain ; " here is a proof at once he was not like others —but what was that markand who were these others ?

, We will answer question by question . Was the race of Cain black 1 What kind of creature was his wife ? We do not know , neither is it important to know ; except , however , that the words " Whosoever slayeth Cain , vengeance shall ho taken on him sevenfold " became the meaning and explanation of the mark to his own and other generations .

We are told it was not till after the birth of Enos that " men began to call upon the name of the Lord . " Cain offered up of the earth no more unto God . Consequently we may believe that he and his family were not God serving ,

out rather at variance with the Almighty . In point of proof ; our glance is on the passages ivhere it is written , " Sin lieth at the door . And unto thee shall be his desire , and thou shalt rule over him . " _ " And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth , and that every imagination ofthe thoughts of his heart was only evil continually . "

In process of time men built altars to the gods ( of whom St . Jude , well versed in the lore of mysteries , felt compelled to record that they are "reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment ofthe great day" ) , and from these false gods they are said to have learned tho names of the stars , while Lucifer , we are told , was there to tell them how to

worship them . " The daughters of men bare children unto them "—and these were the antediluvian demigods from whom the Assyrians and other nations derived many of their deities , and thc classic ancients the heroes of long poems . That star " which did weaken tlie nations , " and said iu his heart , " I will ascend into heaven ; I will exalt my throne

above the stars of God , " and "be like the Most Hi gh , " was known before the world ' s deluge by the name of Jupiter , as well as the "Pleiades , " "Orion , " "Mazzaroth , " and"Arctiiriis and his sons" were in like manner known by their names ; for so they are called by the author of the book of Job . In the same way , it is to be observed , that former translations into heaven after death found their revivals afterwards in . the .

apotheosis or canonizing of men to become gods or saints . ¦ B y means of this deification and transnomination , before the period of the flood , Cain was the first mortal who was advanced among the stars , and worshipped as a star , and in consequence as an idol . Granting this , we shall find the causes of the idolatry in the restored world after the flood ,

ivhich appears to have been a complete resumption of that of the destroyed one . Ham , like Cain , was cursed with the countenance of a fallen god ; in his eyes was a " lurking devil . " ISTot for his own sake had he been saved from an earth " corrupt before God , filled with violence , " by which lie us ivell as others was contaminated ( for " all flesh had

corrupted his way upon tho earth" ) , his heart was idolatrous , he forsook his father ' s God , and with his descendants lifted up and renewed the abominations of idols , as we see corroborated in the recognition of him as Jupiter Amnion , or tlie star god Ham . This vain glory of men making gods was the first act of

asfcrotheology consequent upon the rebellion agaiust heaven iud man ' s first and second disruption with the Godhead , As 1 < - 'w various pvoptos . xroa & ' . e suftfecfes and swvik .. ma

deification of those who reigned over them took place , and these in their turn assumed to themselves divine honours , their images were set upon altars , and incense was offered to them . An immoderate desire of immortal fame which some studied to attain by leaving behind them vast monuments and gigantic statues to perj . etuate their memory and the place of

their embalmed existence—the funeral brass in which they seemed to breathe again , and the lifelike marble which caused them , among the vulgar , to be thought more than mortalsand last not least , superstition , ignorance , and false teachingwere other causes of idolatry . We are told that in the two thousandth year of the world

, or the last year but one of Noah , a magnificent statue and temjile were erected to Belus , the founder and monarch of the city of Babylon , and with a variety of sacrifices dedicated to Jupiter , or as some write , Saturn , because he ( Belus ) was the first king there . This god statue was made tlie lawful sanctuary to the offender and the miserable , hut how this

sacrilegious presumption could have arisen is the puzzle . But who and what was Jupiter ? In pagan religion generally there is a jumbling up and darkening of the holy scriptures by words , both by ignorance and by design . We have shown Jupiter to be a " wandering star , " and how ___ Eneas was resuscitated as Jupiter Indigetes ; alsohow Cain was made

, a god both as the son of Adam and as the son of JEther . Yet still , like Ccelum , Osiris , Brahm , Taou , Thor , and all such gods of various countries , Jupiter constituted the sky , the firmament , the primum mobile , nay , as Jovis ( a Jehovah ) he lias been made God himself !

It ivas said that Seuc was thc proper appellation of Jupiter , because he gives life to animals ; as he was also named Diespiter , because he is the source of light . There was hardly a nation which had not a Jupiter of its own ; Yarro reckoned up three hundred deities of this name . ' * Jupiter almost universally has been styled the father and

king of gods and men ; so the learned writers of antiquity have thought , and were taught from their cradle . The learned likewise of tile far distant past have told us of his actions , which we would not pollute our jiages by describing . Some of old , the most skilled in heathen theology , have with deep discernment pointed out the distinct being of

three Jiqiiters;—the first whose father was __ 3 __ ther , the second the son of Ccelits , ancl a third the oflspring of Saturn , which will clearly show that there was a Star Jupiter , a Gain Jupiter , and a Ham Jupiter the son of Noah or Saturn ,+ to whom many of the exploits of the other two are ascribed with a usurpation of his omnipotency—as , for example , in

the victories and events' of the Angelic ancl Titanic warfares , which must have happened before the flood . Although often alluded to both in sacred and profane history , these deities are left still vague , mythic and poetic , to the hasty reader ; hut it was not without due consideration of these apocryphal traditions that Dante founded the plot of the " Inferno , " or Milton his erudite " Paradise Lost . " The classic emblems of Jupiter , displayed in his temples , are easily recognized , even upon coins ; yet , as seen there they

* Jupiter , under various names , by different tongues and nations the whole world over , was worshipped , -with , the single exception of the orthodox Jews , many of whose kings reaped the just consecptenee of being smitten , with , tlie incense of Jupiter ; whilst on the other hand many of them , zealously and righteously helped to despoil him of liis stolen plumes . •]¦ Bocliartus maintains , with very conclusive reasonings , that Saturn and Noah were the same ; Chain , or Ham , is shown to be the eldest

son of Noah , as Jupiter was of Saturn . The delugo swallowed up mankind ; so Saturn was allegorically made to swallow up his children . Jupiter is feigned to be the king or "lord of the heavens" ( Hymn acl Jovcm ) . Ham was the chief or first patriarch of Africa , which , with the planets vertical , is considered to be nearer heaven than other countries . Noah foretold the coming of tho flood ; so did Saturn foretell " that there should be an overwhelming quantity of rain ; and that an ark should bo built , in which men and birds and creeping things should all . sail together . " Alex . PolyldsUir up . Cyril , contra- Jul . i . 1 . An quite untenable we have abandoned tho Hypoyiwis * 'f So . t-uni being Die e' . n ' . c ¦ m > . _ uiix « . f .

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