The high altars of most of the churches were rank Assyrian Groves, to which the devotees bowed low in holy reverence. See “Altar”, Stand. Dic. and Ency. Brit. 16:75. The deity emerging from the female symbol of the high Christian altar of Pistoia holds in his hand a book on which is written: “I A O, the Sun, the Light of the World.” When we take off our hats to the church, we are not doing obeisance to the pile of brick and stone but to this symbol above the altar. The Dabistan says that Siva has a spouse called Maya, as Jehovah had Mary, and the high altar in a mosque of the Mussulmans is an emblem of the Bhaga or the Grove or Royal Arch. The ancient Knights of the Royal Bhaga were also Knights of the Cave, the Gate, the Fornix (tent of a Kadish) to the defense of which they pledged their lives, their property and their sacred honors, and each brave knight wore emblazoned on his forehead or on his stomach the emblem of his goddess, the open Eye. Venus, called C U in Celtic, was the moon goddess of the round towers of Ireland. The priests of the goddess called themselves C U R, and a cur offers a sacrifice to the Virgin. From C U R we derive the word curate.—Stinson Jarvis. The Druid priests always wore the crescent moon on their robes. Osiris is identical with the Egyptian god Anubis, the dog, and their symbol is the open Eye. They both worship at the shrine of Hathor or the Virgin holding the sacred Eye in their hands. That is why in Christianity, we see the dog offering to Mary the sacred perforated wafer. Refer to “Enthronization,” Stand. Dic., and you will see the Mark of the Beast on the bishop’s hand, and look at the pagan god Siva, and you will find the same mark on his forehead. See “Freemason,” and you find that Washington wears the same symbol on his stomach. Look at Brahma, who carries the rosary in his hand, a symbol of identical significance. Refer to “Glory,” and you see Christ standing in the Mark of the Beast. Turn to Vesica Piscis, where the Virgin stands in her symbol, the symbol of the hideous faith of the Witches’ Sabbath, a faith coeval with the dawn of time, spawned in the slums of chaos. Astarte or Ashtoreth was the moon goddess and Queen of Heaven and patron of immorality.—Ency. Brit. 2:735. Mary is the same as Venus and Diana, the moon goddess.—Elephas Levi, the priest. The Hindu Litany of Our Lady Nari, the Virgin, says: “Holy Nari. Mariama, Mother of an Incarnate God, Mother of Christna, Virgin Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven.” The Egyptian Litany of Our Lady Isis says: “Holy Isis, Mother of Gods, Mother of Horus, Virgin Sacred Earth, Isis, Queen of Heaven.” The Christian Litany says: “Holy Mary, Mother of God, Mother of Christ, Virgin Most Chaste, Queen of Heaven.”—Isis Unveiled, 209.