Jonah was a christ or sun-god. The sign of the Goat in the Buddhist zodiac is represented by a leviathan or whale vomiting out the sacred Elephant, or sun, or Son of God. When the sun entered the sign of the Leviathan in December it was swallowed by the whale, but was vomited out again three days later on the 25th of December, when the sun commenced to return. Hence the story of Jonah and the whale, which has been so hard to swallow, and which has taxed our piety to the limit. Ies is the Phoenician name of the god Bacchus. Ies, or Iesu, or Jesus was stolen from the Phoenicians and Egyptians, and the god Christos was taken from the Hindus and thrown together into the melting pot of Potoman of Alexandria, and out came Jesus Christ. Potoman compiled the Christian religion from Hindu, Greek and Egyptian originals. If God made man in his own image, why does he have to be redeemed? It is true that man stubbed his toe and fell, but it was because he obeyed the command of God to increase and multiply. The Yogis claim that Christ was not virgin born, but was a virgin spirit split off of God and came to redeem the world. If he redeemed the world, how is it that the people are worse now than they ever were, that the history of his religion has been a history of depravity, vice, crime, murder and carnage, which has now culminated in a world-orgy of savagery, pillage and slaughter, of which the fiends in Hell would be incapable? How is it that the beasts, which have never been redeemed, the doves, the rabbits, the lambs, the deer, are far superior to us who were bought by the blood? CHAPTER IX Hell-fire and Brimstone. You’ll burn in Hell ten thousand years, In vain will be your cries and tears, You’ll burn in Hell till ages meet, And just begin to feel the heat.—Amasa Alden. We are in Hell now. Rabbi Eleasher says that “the demons who were cast out of Heaven and the descendants of the witless progeny of matter and spirit became in the course of time the men of our planet, after having passed through every form of every one of the elements.” Where did the Church dig up Hell? The Scandinavian Hell is not a place of punishment, but simply the abode of the dead. The dictionary says that Hades, the Hell of the Bible, is the abode of all the departed, the unseen spirit world. The Shoel of the Hebrews is the place of departed spirits, not a region of torment. The Underworld or Amenti, of the Egyptians, is a region of judgment and purification. The Onderah, the abyss of darkness of the Hindus, is an intermediate state or purgatory. Whence then came the dogma of Hell, that Archimedean lever of Christian theology, with which they have succeeded in holding in subjection the numberless millions of Christians for nineteen centuries.—Isis Unveiled.