SECTION XV. ST. PAUL THE REAL FOUNDER OF PRESENT CHRISTIANITY. We may repeat with the author of _Phallicism_: We are all for _construction_—even for _Christian_, although of course philosophical _construction_. We have nothing to do with reality, in man’s limited, mechanical, scientific sense, or with _realism_. We have undertaken to show that mysticism is the very life and soul of religion;(218) ... that _the Bible is only misread and misrepresented when rejected as advancing supposed fabulous and contradictory things_; that Moses did not make mistakes, but spoke to the “children of men” in the only way in which _children_ in their nonage can be addressed; that the world is, indeed, a very different place from that which it is assumed to be; that what is derided as superstition is the only true and the only scientific _knowledge_, and moreover that modern knowledge and modern science are to a great extent not only _superstition_, but superstition of a very destructive and deadly kind.(219) All this is perfectly true and correct. But it is also true that the _New Testament_, the _Acts_ and the _Epistles_—however much the historical figure of Jesus may be true—are all symbolical and allegorical sayings, and that “it was not Jesus but Paul who was the real founder of Christianity;”(220) but it was not the official Church Christianity, at any rate. “The disciples were called Christians first in Antioch,” the _Acts of the Apostles_ tell us,(221) and they were not so called before, nor for a long time after, but simply Nazarenes. This view is found in more than one writer of the present and the past centuries. But, hitherto, it has always been laid aside as an unproven hypothesis, a blasphemous assumption; though, as the author of _Paul, the Founder of Christianity_(222) truly says: Such men as Irenæus, Epiphanius and Eusebius have transmitted to posterity a reputation for such untruth and dishonest practices that the heart sickens at the story of the crimes of that period. The more so, since the whole Christian scheme rests upon _their_ sayings. But we find now another corroboration, and this time on the perfect reading of biblical glyphs. In _The Source of Measures_ we find the following: