The Inner Life
THE HERALD OF THE NEW AGE | MAY 1935
In the worship of (the majority of people) today everywhere, their prayers, rites, ceremonies, sacrifices and offerings reach only to the illusionary “sun” and “stars” on the boundary line of the Astral World, and enter the ears of the Moon-Gods only, and the Moon-Gods add to the deception and illusion by bountifully answering their prayers. This they do by rewarding their devotion and providing for their gratification many “signs and wonders” through their demon-endowed mediums, ministers, priests, and their many superstitious practices.
The Supreme God of Babylon was the super-human being, Bel-Istar, the Arch-Demon, the King-Queen of heaven, or firmament, the “Prince of this earth”—“Lord of the World”; who is the same potent One who is the Ruler of the world today, honored and worshipped at the altars of the Churches of Christendom.
“Bel” is the primeval name for “Beelzebub,” “Baal,” “Moloch,” and the many equivalent titles in the various nations and ages of the world’s history.
All religions, from “Ur of the Chaldees” to the “Christian” religion, are framed and organized on the same design of the Astronomical or Astrological foundations of the “sun,” “moon,” and “stars.” The symbolical origin of the Catholic “Host,” a round “wafer,” was in representation of the full “moon,” and the most sinister signification of the Bel-Istar religion is that presented in the Moon.
“In the Moon there is no illusion such as there is in the ‘sun’ and the ‘stars’; it is a very actual reality, and the peculiar form of the illusion of the Moon is in the fact that it is the positive point of gravitation to which all human aspirations, thoughts, prayers, and actions are drawn, and from which their potencies, energies, and inceptions spring.
The present-day “Babel” of religions and beliefs is more concretely and universally pregnant and prolific in the world to-day than at any time in human history, portending the “New Era” of the “Abomination of Desolation,” spoken of by Daniel the prophet, when the “New Race” of quasi-supermen and “super-women” will populate the earth, of whom the “Gods” and “Goddesses” of the Moon (the very
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