------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: Cover; By courtesy of The New York Sunday American; FIRST EDITION] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ King Solomon’s Goat _By_ WILLARD BARTLETT _Author of_ “The Origin of Priestcraft,” “The Tenderfoot,” “The War of the Stomachs,” etc. _Apologies are due to numerous authors who have failed to receive due credit through the carelessness of the compiler._ EVERETT PRINT 13 Otis Street BOSTON ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Copyright 1918 BY G. WILLARD BARTLETT ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CHAPTER I. The Divine Moloch. The genial gentleman with horns, shown on the cover hereof, is christ.[1] The hybrid Christian-Egyptian religion was stolen from the sun-worship of Egypt and India and other religious impositions. When the sun, called Ra and Osiris in Egypt, identical with Jehovah, at the end of each cycle of about 2155 years, entered a new sign of the zodiac, it was said to be reborn, or the son of god came in a character to correspond with the astronomical sign.—Gerald Massey. ----- Footnote 1: Where in this book the words God, Lord, Christ, Messiah and Lamb are capitalized they refer to Christian deities, otherwise to pagan gods. When the sun entered the sign of Taurus, the bull, god was reborn, or christ came as the bull, called Apis in Egypt and Moloch in Syria. It is the latter beauty whose entrancing charms are the subject of this panegyric. When Jacob wrestled with the lord, the bout was with Moloch Iho, as will be seen by reading the original Hebrew text. This is lord I O, the supreme, the hermaphrodite god or idol of the pagans. Read the Blessing that the Hebrews say before eating: “Blessed art thou Io Elohanu Melech ... who bringeth forth bread from the earth.”—Krinsky’s First Lessons in Hebrew, 84.