The Trinity, instead of being a new revelation of the Christian religion, was taken from the trinities of the older pagan religions. The Chinese, the Hindus, the Babylonians, the Persians and the Egyptians each had a triune or hydra-headed god, a nightmare of their imagination, without foundation in nature or reason. If we have the only true religion, how is it that the Mexicans, before this country was discovered by the savages of Europe, had the trinity, the rite of baptism, the sign of the cross and purgatory. They had the tradition of the flood and the escape of Noah, and they offered as an oblation little, dough, male images of their savior as we do at the communion service. Some claimed that the astral light or ether was the supreme god, that one portion of it was male (spirit), and the other part was female (matter), and that the living forms of matter produced by the union of these two gods, are the third person of the trinity, the son of man. Others claim that the incomprehensible god back of the ether, of which the latter is an emanation, is the supreme god, and that the spiritual portion of the ether is the Word or Son, and the material portion of the ether is the mother, and the union of the son and the mother produces the phenomenal world. This a charming family relationship eminently appropriate to our pot-pourri of superstitions, called religion. Manu, the Hindu lawgiver, says: “The Sovereign Master, who exists through himself, divides his body into two halves, male and female, and from the union of these two principles is born Viradj, the son, or material forms.” The first name of this hermaphrodite god in the picture writing was IO. Haeckel says that the Christian God is a gaseous vertebrate. Socrates was put to death because he did not believe in the gods and introduced new demoniacal beings (spirits). In the Sunday American Magazine was also a picture of the Rock of Ages, in fact two pillars or Asherim or images of Asher are shown, together with two circles or groves. They were found in the ruins of Gaza. These are the idols that Abraham, David and Solomon worshipped when they hit the high places. And we still revere them and have the shafts erected over our graves and the wreaths placed upon the shafts so that we may be born again. If you do not think that Moses worshipped this rock god read Deut. 32:8. “Of the rock that begat thee thou art unmindful.” There were only seven thousand in all Israel that had not kissed the pillar.—1 Kings, 19:18.