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“And now, the Supreme, Unknown One, the Father of grace and mercy, and his celestial hierarchy are managed by the Church as though they were so many theatrical stars and supernumeraries under salary! Six centuries before the Christian era, Xenophanes had disposed of such anthropomorphism by an immortal satire, recorded and preserved by Clement of [...]

"From the earliest days of Christianity, when Paul upbraided the Church of Corinth for a crime "as is not so much as named among the Gentiles - that one should have his father's wife"; and for their making a pretext of the "Lord's Supper" for debauch and drunkenness, (1 Corinthians 5:1), the profession of the [...]

"Few are the men who, like Dr. Priestly, have the courage to write, "We find nothing like divinity ascribed to Christ before Justin Martyr, (A.D. 141), who, from being a philosopher, became a Christian." Mahomet appeared nearly six hundred years after the presumed deicide. The Graeco-Roman world was still convulsed with religious dissensions, withstanding all [...]

"Having thus traced the similarity of views respecting the Logos, Metatron, and Mediator, as found in the Kabala and the Codex of the Christian Nazarenes and Gnostics, the reader is prepared to appreciate the audacity of the Patristic scheme to reduce a purely metaphysical figure into concrete form, and make it appear as if the [...]