The doctrine of Christ and the atonement originated in heathendom. It came from the pagan sacrificers of human beings and the eaters of human flesh in human gore imbued. They took the doctrine from the Chaldean Kabala. It is a pagan myth. Bacchus or Dionysius was the god of the vine, and his worshippers drank his blood to wash their sins away. He was the son of Deus or Zeus and an earthly mother. He was slain or sacrificed at the winter solstice and went down into Hell. Hera, who corresponds with Herod, sought Bacchus to slay him. He was honored by festivals at Christmas, when the sun died, and at Easter when it was resurrected. His emblems were the bull, the ass and the goat. The Christians of Rome were ridiculed for worshipping an ass-headed god. The symbol of the Bacchic orgies is named Eva or Heva, identical with the serpent raised by the Hebrews in the wilderness. Heva means a female serpent and constitutes a part of god, the second part of the name Yaheva. The first part of that hermaphrodite god is Ya, the male, and the last part is Heva, the female, or serpent, or Devil. Christ not only never rose from the dead, but he never existed. The doctrine of vicarious atonement is a lie and a farce. The Christian’s hope of escaping Hell by cowardly allowing another to suffer for his sins, has taken wings and flown away. The Gnostics, one of the earliest Christian sects, formerly called Essenes, claimed that Christ was a phantom, that he was neither born nor suffered on the cross. See Book of All Religions, 213. Origen believed the same. He tells of the popular irrational Christianity based on the fictitious gospel history devised to assist the masses, who could not comprehend a spiritual christ.—Mystic Christianity, 211. Madam Blavatsky says that this abominable doctrine of the forgiveness of sins is the cause of three fourths of the crimes of so-called Christians. The murdered victim goes to Hell in the midst of his sins, but the murderer receives absolution and goes to Heaven and sits with Christ beside the Golden Throne. The Parsis say: “If any of you commit sin under the belief that he shall be saved by somebody, both the deceiver as well as the deceived shall be damned to the day of Rasla Khaz. There is no savior. In the other world you shall receive the return according to your actions. Your savior is your good deeds.” Plato says in 2-187: “Even if there are gods, they can be bribed by prayers and offerings, so it is better to be unjust and offer of the fruits of injustice to the gods. By our sinning and praying and praying and sinning, the gods will be propitiated, and we shall be forgiven.” The Jews offered seven lambs at the new moon because the Lamb came seven times. It is to be noted that they gave none of the offering to God except the refuse, the extremities and the fat and the lobe of the liver, but the priests had the breast and the right shoulder. The Lord and the mob were welcome to the offal.