The _Encyclopedia Britannica_, in its article on Alexandria, says: “When the temple of Serapis was demolished ... the valuable library was _pillaged_ or destroyed; and _twenty_ years afterwards[37] the _empty shelves_ excited the regret ... etc.” But it does not state the subsequent fate of the _pillaged_ books. In rivalry of the fierce Mary-worshippers of the fourth century, the modern clerical persecutors of liberalism and “heresy” would willingly shut up all the heretics and their books in some modern Serapion and burn them alive.[38] The cause of this hatred is natural. Modern research has more than ever unveiled the secret. “Is not the worship of saints and angels now,” said Bishop Newton, years ago, “in all respects the same that the worship of demons was in former times? The name only is different, the thing is identically the same ... the very same temples, the very same images, which were once consecrated to Jupiter and the other demons, are now consecrated to the Virgin Mary and other saints ... the whole of Paganism is converted and applied _to Popery_.” Why not be impartial and add that “a good portion of it was adopted by Protestant religions also?” The very apostolic designation _Peter_ is from the Mysteries. The hierophant or supreme pontiff bore the Chaldean title פתר, _peter_, or interpreter. The names Phtah, Peth’r, the residence of Balaam, Patara, and Patras, the names of oracle-cities, _pateres_ or _pateras_ and, perhaps, Buddha,[39] all come from the same root. Jesus says: “Upon this _petra_ I will build my Church, and the gates, or rulers of Hades, shall not prevail against it;” meaning by _petra_ the rock-temple, and by metaphor, the Christian Mysteries; the adversaries to which were the old mystery-gods of the underworld, who were worshipped in the rites of Isis, Adonis, Atys, Sabazius, Dionysus, and the Eleusinia. No _apostle_ Peter was ever at Rome; but the Pope, seizing the sceptre of the _Pontifex Maximus_, the keys of Janus and Kubelé, and adorning his Christian head with the cap of the _Magna Mater_, copied from that of the tiara of Brahmâtma, the Supreme Pontiff of the Initiates of old India, became the successor of the Pagan high priest, the real Peter-Roma, or _Petroma_.[40]