and others is shown the manner in which the doctrine that woman
is the cause of evil in the world became formulated and adopted
as part and parcel of the Christian belief.
Staniland Wake, director of the anthropological society of
London, when commenting on the obscene myths upon which the
Christian religion rests, remarks:
"The fundamental basis of Christianity is more purely phallic
than that of any other religion now existing, and its emotional
nature . . . shows how intimately it was related to the older
faiths which had a phallic basis."
After stating that the myth of creation and that of the flood
have their exact counterpart in India, the Rev. Mr. Faber
remarks that "there is no rite or ceremony directed in the
Pentateuch of which there is not an exact copy in the rites of
the pagans."
The Christian doctrines as established by Paul, and afterwards
formulated into a system by the Romish Church, were adopted by
the ignorant multitude who, being incapable of understanding the
higher principles involved, accepted the allegories beneath which
were veiled the ancient mysteries literally, and as the highest
expression of divine wisdom. Hence the comparatively recent
observation that the "new religion was eventually but the
gathering in of the superstitions of paganism" is a matter of
little surprise to those who have carefully examined the facts
connected with the growth of religious faith.
Under the new regime Christ became the New Solar Deity and round
him were finally ranged all the myths of Solo-phallic worship
which had prevailed under the adoration of Crishna at a time when
the higher truths underlying pure Nature-worship had been
forgotten.
CHAPTER XV.
CHRISTIANITY IN IRELAND.
According to the accounts in the New Testament, the wise men of
the East, meaning Persia, had foretold the coming of Christ. The
fulfilment of the ancient Persian prophecy as applied to Jesus,
together with the reference to the "star" which the Maji saw, and
which went before them till it came and stood over where the
young child lay, furnishes a striking illustration of the manner
in which Eastern legends and ancient sacred writings are
interwoven with the doctrines relating to Christianity.
In the sacred books of the East it is prophesied that "after
three thousand and one hundred years of the Caligula are elapsed,
will appear King Saca to remove wretchedness from the world." We
have seen that at the birth of Christ the time had arrived for a
