The Church which has its seat and headquarters on the Seven Hills of Rome might most appropriately be called "Babylon"

"The lofty city on seven hills which governs the whole world"

It has been known all along that Popery was baptised Paganism. The gigantic system of moral corruption and idolatry under the emblem of a woman with a "GOLDEN CUP IN HER HAND," "making all nations DRUNK with the wine of her fornication," is divinely called "MYSTERY, Babylon the Great"

Let every Christian henceforth and for ever treat it as an outcast from the pale of Christianity. Instead of speaking of it as a Christian Church, let it be recognised and regarded as the Mystery of Iniquity, yea, as the very Synagogue of Satan.

Chaldean Mysteries can be traced up to the days of Semiramis. That beautiful but abandoned queen of Babylon was not only herself a paragon of unbridled lust and licentiousness, but in the Mysteries which she had a chief hand in forming, she was worshipped as Rhea, the great "MOTHER" of the gods, with such atrocious rites as identified her with Venus, the MOTHER of all impurity.

The Apocalyptic emblem of the Harlot woman with the cup in her hand, derived from ancient Babylon, the Roman Church has taken as her own chosen emblem.

In 1825, on occasion of the jubilee, Pope Leo XII struck a medal, bearing on the one side his own image, and on the other, that of the Church of Rome symbolised as a "Woman," holding in her left hand a cross, and in her right a CUP, with the legend around her, "Sedet super universum," "The whole world is her seat."

Even though introduced by the hand of power, if it had appeared at once in all its hideousness, it would have alarmed the consciences of men, and defeated the very object in view. That object was to bind all mankind in absolute submission to a hierarchy entirely dependent on the sovereigns of Babylon. In the carrying out of this scheme, all knowledge, sacred and profane, came to be monopolised by the priesthood, who dealt it out to those who were initiated in the "Mysteries"

One of the great objects of the Mysteries was the presenting to fallen man the means of his return to God. Accordingly the Mysteries were termed Teletae, 'perfections' because they were supposed to induce a perfectness of life. Those who were purified by them were styled Teloumenoi and Tetelesmenoi - 'brought to perfection'

When the Pope ordains his clergy, he takes them bound to prohibit, except in special circumstances, the reading of the Word of God "in the vulgar tongue," that is, in a language which the people can understand.

In conformity with the principle out of which the confessional grew, the Church, that is, the clergy, claimed to be the sole depositaries of the true faith of Christianity. They, therefore, require implicit faith in their dogmas; all men were bound to believe as the Church believed, while the Church in this way could shape its faith as it pleased.

The Babylonians, in their popular religion, supremely worshipped a Goddess Mother and a Son. In Egypt, the Mother and the Child were worshipped under the names of Isis and Osiris. In Asia - Cybele and Deoius. In Pagan Rome - Fortuna and Jupiter. In Greece as Ceres, the Great Mother with the babe at her breast, or as Irene the goddess of Peace, with the boy Plutus in her arms.

The original of that mother, so widely worshipped, was Semiramis. It was from the son however, that she derived all her glory and her claims to deification. In Scripture he is referred to under the name of Tammuz, but he is commonly known under the name of Bacchus, that is, "The Lamented one."

The name of Bacchus suggests nothing more than revelry and drunkenness, but amid all the abominations that attended his orgies, their grand design was professedly "the purification of souls" and that from the guilt and defilement of sin. This lamented one, exhibited and adored as a little child in his mother's arms, seems in point of fact, to have been the husband of Semiramis, whose name Ninus, literally signified "The Son"

This also accounts for the origin of the very same confusion of relationship between Isis and Osiris, the mother and child of the Egyptians. Osiris was represented in Egypt as at once the son and husband of his mother; and actually bore as one of his titles, the name "Husband of the Mother."

Ninus or "Son," borne in the arms of the Babylonian Madonna, is so described as very clearly to identify him with Nimrod. "Ninus, king of the Assyrians." He was the first who carried on war against his neighbours, and he conquered all nations from Assyria to Lybia.

Nimrod, as Head and Captain of those men of war, and who were the instruments of establishing his power, was "Baal-aberin," "Lord of the mighty ones." But "Baal-abirin" signified "The winged one." Let it be borne in mind that "the birds," that is the "winged ones," symbolised "the Lords of the mighty ones."

The secret system of Free Masonry was originally founded on the Mysteries of the Egyptian Isis, the goddess-mother, or wife of Osiris. Osiris was celebrated as "the strong chief of the buildings." This strong chief of the buildings was originally worshipped in Egypt with every physical characteristic of Nimrod.

The dress in which this Negro god is arrayed directly connects him with Nimrod. Osiris is clothed from head to foot in a spotted dress, the upper part being a leopard's skin, the under part also being spotted to correspond with it. Nimrod signifies "the subduer of the leopard." "Nimr-rod"; from Nimr, a "leopard," and rada or rad "to subdue."

The god worshipped as a child in the arms of the great Mother in Greece, under the names of Dionysus, or Bacchus, or Iacchus, is expressly identified with the Egyptian Osiris. The rites of Osiris and Bacchus are the same; those of Isis and Ceres exactly resemble each other. To identify Bacchus with Nimrod, "the Leopard-tamer," leopards were employed to draw his car; he himself was represented as clothed with a leopard's skin; his priests were attired in the same manner.

Nimrod came to be called not only the "Subduer of the Spotted one, but to be called "The spotted one" himself. We find that a title of Bacchus was Aithiopais, "the son of Aethiops." As the Aethiopians were Cushites, so Aethiops was Cush. Nimrod, the son of Cush, the Aethiop.

Wherever the rites of Bacchus were performed, and his orgies were celebrated, the Ivy branch was sure to appear. Kissos, the Greek name for Ivy, was one of the names of Bacchus. This god who was recognised as "the scion of Cush," was worshipped under a name, which did also describe him as the great Fortifier. That name was Bassareus, which, in its two-fold meaning, signified at once "The houser of grapes, or the vintage gatherer," and "The Encompasser with a wall." In this latter sense identifying the Grecian god with the Egyptian Osiris, "the strong chief of the buildings," and with the Assyrian Belus, who encompassed Babylon with a wall.

Osiris, or Nimrod, whom the Pope represents, was called by many different titles, and therefore he was much in the same position as his wife, who was called "Myrionymus," the goddess with "ten thousand names."

Wherever the Negro aspect of Nimrod was found an obstacle to his worship, this was very easily obviated. According to the Chaldean doctrine, all that was needful was just to teach that Ninus had reappeared in the person of a posthumous son, of a fair complexion, supernaturally borne by his widowed wife after the father had gone to glory.

In Egypt the fair Horus, the son of the black Osiris, who was the favourite object of worship, in the arms of the goddess Isis, was said to have been miraculously born in consequence of a connection, on the part of that goddess, with Osiris after his death, and, in point of fact, to have been a new incarnation of that god.

Nimrod by gathering men together in masses, and surrounding them with walls enabled them to pass their days in security, free from the alarms to which they had been exposed in their scattered life, when no one could tell what moment he might be called to engage in deadly conflict with prowling wild beasts. But not content with delivering men from the fear of wild beasts, he set to work also to emancipate them from that fear of the Lord.

The era of Phoroneus is exactly the era of Nimrod. He lived about the time when men had used one speech, when the confusion of tongues began, and when mankind was scattered abroad. Phoroneus, in one of its meanings, signifies the "Apostate." But that name had also another meaning, that is, "to set free"; and therefore his own adherents adopted it, and glorified the great "Apostate" though he was the first that abridged the liberties of mankind, as the grand "Emancipator!"

Nimrod was deified after his death by the name of Orion, and placed among the stars. If there was one who was more deeply concerned in the tragic death of Nimrod than another, it was his wife Semiramis. In life her husband had been honoured as a hero; in death she will have him worshipped as a god, yea, as the woman's promised Seed, "Zero-ashta."

Zero - in Chaldee, "the seed" - though in Greek it sometimes appeared as Zeira, quite naturally passed also into Zoro. Zoro-babel; and hence Zuro-ashta, "the seed of the woman" became Zoroaster, the well known name of the head of the fire-worshippers.

The Chaldean version of the story of the great Zoroaster is that he prayed to the supreme God of heaven to take away his life; that his prayer was heard, and that he expired, assuring his followers that, if they cherished due regard for his memory, the empire would never depart from the Babylonians.

Belus commanded one of the gods to cut off his head, which from the blood thus shed by his own command and with his own consent, when mingled with the earth, new creatures might be formed. Thus the death of Belus, who was Nimrod, like that attributed to Zoroaster, was represented as entirely voluntary, and as submitted to for the benefit of the world.

It seems to have been now only when the dead hero was to be deified, that the secret Mysteries were set up. The previous form of apostacy during the life of Nimrod appears to have been open and public.

The Egyptians say, that the grand enemy of their god overcame him, not by open violence, but that, having entered into a conspiracy with seventy-two of the leading men of Egypt, he got him into his power, put him to death, and then cut his dead body into pieces, and sent the different parts to many different cities throughout the country.

This act was naturally the object of intense abhorrence to all his sympathisers; and for his share in it the chief actor was stigmatised as Typho, or "The Evil One." One of the most noted names by which Typho, or the Evil One, was called, was Seth. Seth and Shem are synonymous, both alike signifying "The appointed one."

When Shem had so powerfully wrought upon the minds of men as to induce them to make a terrible example of the great Apostate, and when that Apostate's dismembered limbs were sent to the chief cities, in these circumstances, if idolatry was to continue, it was indispensable that it should operate in secret.

The scheme, thus skilfully formed, took effect. Semiramis gained glory from her dead and deified husband; and in course of time both of them, under the names of Rhea and Nin or "Goddess - Mother and Son" were worshipped and their images were everywhere adored.

This son, thus worshipped in his mother's arms, was looked upon as invested with all the attributes, and called by almost all the names of the promised Messiah.

Ichor is the term appropriated to the blood of a divinity. In Chaldee, Ichor signifies "The precious thing." The grand purpose of the Bacchic orgies "was the purification of souls," and in these orgies there was regularly the tearing asunder and the shedding of the blood of an animal, in memory of the shedding of the life's blood of the great divinity.

Bacchus in Greece was Dionysus or Dionusos. D'ion-nuso-s signifies "THE SIN-BEARER." This Babylonian god, known in Greece as "The sin-bearer," was commonly addressed as the "Saviour of the world."

Not only was he honoured as the great "World King," he was regarded as Lord of the invisible world. As the true Messiah was prophesied of under the title of the "Man whose name was the branch," he was celebrated not only as the "Branch of Cush," but as the "Branch of God," graciously given to the earth for healing all the ills that flesh is heir to.

As time wore away and the facts of Semiramis’s history became obscured, her son's birth was boldly declared to be miraculous: and therefore she was called "Alma Mater," "the Virgin Mother."

In her, as the Tabernacle or Temple of God, not only all power but all grace and goodness were believed to dwell. When death had closed her career, while she was fabled to have been deified and changed into a pigeon, to express the celestial benignity of her nature, she was called by the name of "D'Iune" or "The Dove" or without the article, "Juno" - the name of the Roman "queen of heaven."

When such transcendent dignity was bestowed on her, and when her images presented her to the eyes of men as Venus Urania, "the heavenly Venus," the queen of beauty, who assured her worshippers of salvation, while giving loose reins to every unholy passion, and every depraved and sensual appetite - no wonder that everywhere she was enthusiastically adored.

In Egypt this "queen of heaven" was the greatest and most worshipped of all the divinities. Truly the nations might be said to be "made drunk" with the wine of her fornications. So deeply in particular, did the Jews in the days of Jeremiah drink of her wine cup, that even after Jerusalem had been burnt and the land desolated for this very thing, they could not be prevailed on to give it up.

Instead of the Babylonian goddess being cast out, in too many cases her name only was changed. She was called the Virgin Mary, and with her child, was worshipped with the same idolatrous feeling by professing Christians, as formerly by open and avowed Pagans.

What will it avail to mitigate the heinous character of that idolatry, to say that the child she holds forth to adoration is called by the name of Jesus?

That infant is worshipped as the child of her who was adored as Queen of Heaven, with all the attributes of divinity, and was at the same time the "Mother of harlots and abominations of the earth."

From the Pope downwards, all can be shown to be radically Babylonian. The College of Cardinals, with its "Pontifex Maximus" or "Sovereign Pontiff" existed in Rome from the earliest times, and is known to have been framed on the model of the grand original Council of Pontiffs at Babylon.

It is well known that regeneration by baptism is a fundamental article of Rome. The doctrine is, that all who are canonically baptised, however ignorant, however immoral, if they only give implicit faith to the Church, and surrender their consciences to the priests, are as much regenerated as ever they can be, and that children coming from the waters of baptism are entirely purged from the stain of original sin.

In the Chaldean mysteries, before any instruction could be received, it was required first of all, that the person to be initiated submit to baptism in token of blind and implicit obedience.

"Holy water" (water impregnated with salt and consecrated), and many other things that were the very instruments and appendages of demon-worship were all sanctified by adoption into the Church.

That which is now called the Christian cross was originally no Christian emblem at all, but was the mystic Tau of the Chaldeans and Egyptians - the true original form of the letter T - the initial of the name of Tammuz. Tau was marked in baptism on the foreheads of those initiated in the Mysteries, and was used in every variety of way as a most sacred symbol.

To identify Tammuz with the sun it was joined sometimes to the circle of the sun, sometimes it was inserted in the circle. The mystic Tau, as the symbol of the great divinity, was called "the sign of life."

When Constantinople threatened to eclipse Rome, some new ground for maintaining the dignity of the Bishop of Rome had to be sought. About 378, the Pope fell heir to the keys that were the symbols of two well-known Pagan divinities. Janus bore a key, and Cybele bore a key; and these are the two keys that the Pope emblazons on his arms as the ensigns of his spiritual authority.

When he had come, in the estimation of the Pagans, to occupy the place of the representatives of Janus and Cybele, and therefore to be entitled to bear their keys, the Pope saw that if he could only get it believed among the Christians that Peter alone had the power of the keys, and that he was Peter's successor, then the sight of these keys would keep up the delusion.

The keys that the Pope bore were the keys of a "Peter" well known to the Pagans initiated in the Chaldean Mysteries. That Peter the apostle was ever Bishop of Rome has been proved again and again to be an arrant fable.

But, while this is the case with Peter the Christian, it can be shown to be by no means doubtful that before the Christian era, there was a "Peter" at Rome, who occupied the highest place in the Pagan priesthood. The priest who explained the Mysteries to the initiated; in primitive Chaldee, the real language of the Mysteries, was Peter - "the interpreter" As the revealer of that which was hidden, nothing was more natural than that, while opening up the esoteric doctrine of the Mysteries, he should be decorated with the keys of the two divinities whose mysteries he unfolded.

The Turkish Mufties, or "interpreters" of the Koran, derive that name from the very same verb as that from which comes Miftah, a key.

Thus we may see how the keys of Janus and Cybele would come to be known as the keys of Peter. In the Eleusinian Mysteries at Athens, when the candidates for initiation were instructed in the secret doctrine, it was read to them out of the "Book Petroma" that is, a book formed of stone. But this is just a play upon words, according to the usual spirit of Paganism, intended to amuse the vulgar.

The nature of the case, and the history of the Mysteries, alike show that this book could be none other than the "Book Pet-Roma"; that is, the "Book of the Grand Interpreter," in other words, of Hermes Trismegistus, the great "Interpreter of the Gods" In Egypt, from which Athens derived its religion, the books of Hermes were regarded as the divine fountain of all true knowledge of the Mysteries. In Egypt therefore, Hermes was looked up to in this very character of Grand Interpreter, or "Peter-Roma"

The Pope's Grand Council of State, which assists him in the government of the Church, comes to be called the College of Cardinals. The term Cardinal is derived from Cardo, a hinge. Janus, whose key the Pope bears, was the god of doors and hinges, and was called Patulcius, and Clusius "the opener and the shutter"

The Pope therefore, when he set up as the High-priest of Janus, assumed also the "jus vertendi cardinis," "the power of turning the hinge" Slowly and cautiously at first was this power asserted; but the foundation being laid, steadily, century after century, was the grand superstructure of priestly power erected upon it.

When his power increased, when his dominion extended, and especially after he became a temporal sovereign, the key of Janus became too heavy for his single hand. Hence his privy councillors, who were associated with him in the government of the Church and the world, got the title of "Cardinals" Janus was none other than the Babylonian Messiah.

Fire was worshipped as the enlightener and the purifier. Nimrod is singled out by the voice of antiquity as commencing this fire-worship. As the sun in the heavens was the great object of worship, so fire was worshipped as its earthly representative. Along with the sun, as the great fire-god, and identified with him, was the serpent worshipped.

In the mythology of the primitive world, the serpent is universally the symbol of the sun. In Egypt, one of the commonest symbols of the sun, or sun-god, is a disc with a serpent around it. The original reason of that identification seems to have been that, as the sun was the great enlightener of the physical world, so the serpent was held to have been the great enlightener of the spiritual, by giving mankind the "knowledge of good and evil."

Thus was the Sun, the Great Fire-god, identified with the Serpent. But he had also a human representative, and that was Tammuz, for whom the daughters of Israel lamented, in other words Nimrod. As Nimrod, "the god of fire," was Molk-Gheber, or, "the Mighty king," inasmuch as he was the first who was called Moloch, or King, and the first who began to be "mighty" (Gheber) on the earth. The "great fiery serpent" is represented with all the emblems of royalty. All its heads are encircled with "crowns or diadems."

In these and other respects there is an exact coincidence between Vulcan, the god of fire of the Romans, and Nimrod, the fire-god of Babylon.

As the Father of the gods, he was called Kronos; and "he devoured his sons as soon as they were born." This legend has a further and deeper meaning; but, as applied to Nimrod, or "The Horned One," it just refers to the fact, that, as Moloch or Baal, infants were the most acceptable offerings at his altar. The Phenicians, every year sacrificed their beloved and only-begotten children to Kronos or Saturn.

Among the lords many, and the gods many, worshipped in the imperial city, the two grand objects of worship were the "Eternal Fire," kept perpetually burning in the temple of Vesta, and the sacred Epidaurian Serpent. In Pagan Rome, this fire-worship and serpent-worship were sometimes separate, sometimes conjoined; but both occupied a pre-eminent place in Roman esteem.

The "great serpent of fire" was cast out, when, by the decree of Gratian, Paganism throughout the Roman empire was abolished, the fires of Vesta were extinguished, the Roman Emperor (who though for more than a century a half had been "Pontifex Maximus," the very head of the idolatry of Rome) through force of conscience abolished his own office.

The deadly wound, however, thus given to the Chaldean system, was destined to be healed. A colony of Etruscans, earnestly attached to the Chaldean idolatry, had migrated, and settled in the immediate neighbourhood of Rome. They were ultimately incorporated in the Roman state, but long before this political union took place they exercised the most powerful influence on the religion of the Romans.

The consequence was, that under the influence of men whose minds were moulded by those who clung to the ancient idol-worship, the Romans were brought back again to that idolatry which they had formerly repudiated and cast off.

Still the Sovereign Pontiff of Rome, even after the Etruscan idolatry was absorbed, was only an offshoot from the grand original Babylonian system. He was a devoted worshipper, but he was not the legitimate representative of that God. The true Babylonian Pontiff had his seat beyond the bounds of the Roman Empire. That seat was at Pergamos, where afterwards was one of the seven churches of Asia. There for many centuries was "Satan's seat."

Pergamos itself became part of the Roman Empire, when Attalus III, the last of its kings, at his death, left by will all his dominions to the Roman people, BC 133. When Julius Caesar became Emperor - the supreme civil ruler of the Romans, all the powers and functions of the true legitimate Babylonian Pontiff were supremely vested in him. Centring in himself "Venus Genetrix" which meant that Venus was the mother of the Julian race, appears to have been intended to make him "The Son" of the great goddess, as the "Bull-horned" Attalus had been regarded.

Then, on certain occasions, in the exercise of his high pontifical office, he appeared of course in all the pomp of the Babylonian costume, as Belshazzar himself might have done, in robes of scarlet, with the crosier of Nimrod in his hand, wearing the mitre of Dagon and bearing the keys of Janus and Cybele.

Ninus or Nimrod was worshipped as the son of his own wife, Aurora, the goddess of the dawn. The marriage of Orion with Aurora, his setting up as "The kindler of light," is said to have been the cause of his death, he having in consequence perished under the wrath of the gods.

"How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning"

While Phaethon claimed to be the son of Phoebus, or the sun, he was reproached with being only the son of Merops - the mortal husband of his mother Clymene. The story implies that the mother gave herself out to be Aurora, not in the physical sense of that term, but in its mystical sense; as "The woman pregnant with light" and consequently, her son was held up as the great "Light-bringer" who was to enlighten the world, - "Lucifer, the son of the morning."

The name Lucifer in Isaiah is the very word from which Eleleus, one of the names of Bacchus, comes. It comes from "Helel" which signifies "to irradiate" or "to bring light," and is equivalent to the name Tithon. Lucifer, the son of Aurora, or the morning, was worshipped in the very same character as Nimrod, when he appeared in his new character as a little child.

This Phaethon or Lucifer, who was cast down is further proved to be Janus, for Janus is called "Pater Matutinus" (HORACE). Dea Matuta signifies "The kindling or Light-bringing goddess" and accordingly she is identified with Aurora. Matutinus is the correlate of Matuta, goddess of the morning. Janus therefore, as Matutinus is "Lucifer, son of the morning."

In the old Babylonian system, the worship of the god of fire was followed with worship of the god of water or the sea. The origin of the worship of Dagon was founded upon a legend, that there came up a BEAST CALLED OANNES FROM THE RED SEA, half man, half fish - that civilised the Babylonians, taught them arts and sciences, and instructed them in politics and religion. In the secret Mysteries that were then set up, they sought to regain their influence and power.

The concocters of these Mysteries saw that if they could only bring men back again to idolatry in any shape, they could re-establish the very system that had been put down. Thus it was that, as soon as the way was prepared for it, Tammuz was introduced as one who had allowed himself to be slain for the good of mankind.

In the previous system, the grand mode of purification had been by fire. Now, it was by water that men were to be purified. Then began the doctrine of baptismal regeneration. Along with the water worship however, the old worship of fire was soon incorporated again. In the Mysteries, both modes of purification were conjoined. Purification by fire was still held to be indispensable; and the children were still made "to pass through the fire to Moloch."

The god of the sea, when his worship had been firmly re-established, and all formidable opposition had been put down, was worshipped also as the great god of war, who, though he had died for the good of mankind, now that he had risen again, was absolutely invincible.

The two horned mitre the Pope wears when he sits on the high altar at Rome and receives the adoration of the Cardinals, is the very mitre worn by Dagon, the fish-god of the Philistines and Babylonians.

In memory of this new incarnation, the 25th of December, was celebrated in Pagan Rome as "Natalis Solis invicti," "the birth-day of the Unconquered Sun."

When Dagon was first set up to be worshipped, the favourite form in which he was worshipped was that of a child in his mother's arms. In the natural course of events, the mother came to be worshipped along with the child to be the favourite object of worship.

He, as the Sun-god, was called Beel-samen, "Lord of heaven" She, as the Moon-goddess, Melkat-ashemin, "Queen of heaven" He was worshipped in Egypt as the "Revealer of goodness and truth" She, in Babylon, under the symbol of the Dove, as the goddess of gentleness and mercy, the "Mother of gracious acceptance," "merciful and benignant to men." He, under the name of Mithra, was worshipped as Mesites, or "the Mediator" She, as Aphrodite, or the "Wrath-subduer," was called Mylitta, "the Mediatrix" He, under the name Janus, bore a key as the opener and shutter of the gates of the invisible world. She, under the name of Cybele, was invested with a like key, as an emblem of the same power.

He, as the cleanser from sin, was called the "Unpolluted god"; she too, had the power to wash away sin, and this mother of the seed was called the "Virgin, pure and undefiled" The name by which she was also known was Semele, which in the Babylonian language, signifies "THE IMAGE." Thus, in every respect, she became the express image of the Babylonian "beast that had the wound by a sword, and did live"

The image of the beast = the Virgin Mother or the Madonna.

December, 1854 - bishops from all parts of Christendom, and representatives from the ends of the earth, met in Rome; and with only four dissentient voices, it was decreed that Mary, the mother of God, who died, rose from the dead, and ascended into heaven, should henceforth be worshipped as the Immaculate Virgin, "conceived and born without sin." This was the formal setting up of the Image of the beast.

Formerly decrees ran less or more in the name of Christ. Now all things are pre-eminently done in the name of the Immaculate Virgin. Her voice is everywhere heard, her voice is supreme. But, be it observed, when that voice is heard, it is not the voice of mercy and love, it is the voice of cruelty and terror.

The decrees that come forth under the name of the Image are that "no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."

If we know the apocalyptic name of the system, that will lead us to the name of the head of the system. The name of the system is "Mystery" We have now only to inquire, what was the name by which Nimrod was known as the god of the Chaldean Masteries? That name was Saturn. Saturn and Mystery are both Chaldean words, and they are correlative terms. As Mystery signifies the Hidden system, so Saturn signifies the Hidden god.

In the Litany of the Mass, the worshippers are taught thus to pray: "God Hidden and my Saviour have mercy upon us"

To those who were initiated the god was revealed; to all else he was hidden. The name Saturn in Chaldee is pronounced Satur; but consists only of four letters, thus - Stur. This name contains exactly the number 666.

The number of the Pope, as head of the Mystery of Iniquity, is 666. But still further it turns out, that the original name of Rome itself was Saturnia, "the city of Saturn."

Thus then, the Pope has a double claim to the name and number of the beast. He is the only legitimate representative of the original Saturn at this day in existence, and he reigns in the very city of the seven hills where the Roman Saturn formerly reigned.

Saturn and Lateinos are synonymous. Lateinos to whom the Romans or Latin race traced back their lineage, was represented with a glory around his head, to show that he was a "child of the Sun."

Lateinos had occupied the very same position as Saturn did in the Mysteries, worshipped as the "offspring of the Sun." Moreover, it is evident that the Romans knew that the name "Lateinos" signifies the "Hidden One" for their antiquarians invariably affirm that Latium received its name from Saturn "lying hid"