The Christians sacrificed cakes with holes in them to Mary, Queen of Heaven.—Ency. Brit. 15:391. This is the very idolatry for which Jehovah drove the Jewish nation out of Palestine. In Jeremiah, 44:19, the Jews say: “We burned incense to the Queen of Heaven and poured out drink offerings unto her and made cakes to worship her.” And Jeremiah says in verse 22: “Because of these abominations which you have committed, therefore is your land a desolation and a curse, without an inhabitant as at this day.” The Buddhists say: “Upon a lotus of precious stones sustaining a moon crescent sits Buddha Matra” (the Mother of God). The Chinese invocation says: “Hail Matra”, and they call her “Our Lady, the Queen of Heaven, the Mother of Buddha.”—Buddha & Early Buddhism, 22. The fact that the Queen of Heaven existed as a goddess in the time of Jeremiah, before Christianity was spawned, shows that the Buddhists did not steal their Queen of Heaven from the Christians as charged. In Josephus, Book 8, ch. 11, it is seen that Shishac subdued Israel and erected some charming pillars on which were carved captivating female symbols, which they worshipped. Jereboam erected two aesthetic heifers, images of Hathor for the worship and spiritual edification of the Jews. In Judges, 3:7, it is asserted that Israel served Baalim and the Grove. Baalim are images of Baal, male emblems, corresponding to the candles and manikins (sons of man) of the Witches’ Sabbath, called images of men in Ezek. 16:17. I think that the christ of the Hebrews was the candle, and that they sacrificed him every Friday, the same as the Christians do their fish god. The candle is the appropriate offering to a goddess, and it may have been Ashtoreth. The Mezuzah, which is nailed on the door post, corresponds with the pillars erected by Shishac, for it is a miniature pillar with an oval hole on the side, which hole it is necessary to kiss, as we kiss the male and female emblems on the Pax to secure eternal life. In the hole is one of the names of god, Shaday, one of the female Sephiroth or persons of the godhead. If you refer to “Altar,” Stand. Dic., you will see the people worshipping the hole in the Mezuzah, or the Virgin standing in her symbol above the altar, which is all the same. The phylactery, worn on the forehead and on the left arm, contains passages of Scripture, which must be printed on the skin of the cow, the mother of christ, and the phylactery itself, must be made of the skin of christ, the calf. God himself wore phylacteries according to the Talmud.