Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. IN an age when Gods and men were on the most familiar terms, and when the character of one furnished a transcript for the other, and when each consented to act a reciprocal part towards elevating, honoring and glorifying the other, the birth of a God or Messiah […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. A PROFUSION of evidence is furnished at every step, along the devious pathway of sacred history, tending to show that all the systems of worship which have existed in the past have had a dip in “the halo of the heavenly orbs,” and hence shine with a light […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE report in authentic history of a case of a virtuous woman giving birth to a child with the usual form, and possessing the usual characteristics of a human being, and who should testify she had no male partner in the conception, might in an age of miracles […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. CHAPTER XLV IN writing the concluding chapter of this work, the author deems it proper to re-state some points, and elaborate others, and anticipate some objections to some of the positions advanced. Each division of the subject will be marked by a separate figure, and treated in a […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE most important lesson deducible from all the religious systems, commemorated in history, and noticed in this work, is, that all religious conceptions, whether in the shape of doctrine, precept, prophecy, prayer, religious devotion, or a belief in miracles, are a spontaneous outgrowth of the moral and religious […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THEIR NUMEROUS EVILS AND ABSURDITIES OF all the follies ever enacted or exhibited under the sun, and of all the ignorance of history, science, and human nature ever displayed in the history of the human race, that which stands out in bold relief, as preeminent, is the fashionable […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THERE are many incidents related in the life of Christ, which, when critically examined, furnish abundant evidence that he was what is now known as a spiritual medium. He unquestionably represented, and often practically exhibited, several important phases of mediumship.   The many instantaneous cures which he wrought, […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. HIS TWO HUNDRED ERRORS THE exaltation of men to the character and homage of divine beings has always had the effect to draw a vail over their errors and imperfections, so as to render them imperceptible to those who worship them as Gods. This is true of nearly […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. IF Jesus Christ were truly God, or if there existed such a coequal and co-essential oneness between the Father and the Son that they constituted but one being or divine essence, then what is true of one is true of the other, and a change of names and […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE ancients very naturally concluded that an offspring of God (a son of God) should have a purer, higher and holier maternal origin than is incident to the lot of mortals, and this was to constitute one of the evidences of his emanation from the Deity — that […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE monstrous scientific paradox (as coming ages will regard it) comprehended in the conception of an almighty, omnipresent, and infinite Being, “the Creator of innumerable worlds,” (“by him [Christ] were all things made that were made,” John i. 3-10), being born of a frail and finite woman, as […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. A MOST fatal distrust is thrown upon the miraculous portions of the history of Jesus Christ, as found in his Gospel narratives, by the discovery of the fact (brought to light through recent archaeological researches), that the same marvelous feats, the same miraculous incidents, which were recorded in […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THERE is also a physiological principle (discovered by the author) comprised in the doctrine of the Divine Incarnation fatal in its practical and logical application to the divinity of Jesus Christ, and all the other incarnate or flesh-invested Gods of antiquity. It is evidently fraught with much logical […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THERE is a philosophical principle underlying the doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, whose logical deductions completely overthrow the claim of Jesus of Nazareth to the Godhead, and which we regard as settling the question as conclusively as any demonstrated problem in mathematics. This argument is predicated upon the […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE incarnation of an infinite God is a shocking absurdity, and an infinite impossibility. We ask in all solemn earnestness, and in the name of the intuitive monitions of an unshackled reason and an unbiased conscience, can, any man in his sober senses, who has been in the […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. WHEN Christians are asked for the proof of the divinity of Jesus Christ, they point to his miracles and precepts, and the Messianic prophecies, said to have been fulfilled by his coming. And the same kind of evidence is adduced to prove the divine claims of their bible […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. MIRACULOUS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF OTHER GODS AND DEMI-GODS OF ANTIQUITY THE age in which Christ flourished, as before remarked, was pre-eminently an age of miracle. The practice of thaumaturgy, and the legends invested with the display of the miracle-working power, both preceding and subsequent to that era, rose […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THEIR MIRACULOUS HISTORY AND LEADING PRINCIPLES The advent of each Savior was miraculously foretold by prophets.   The fallen and degenerate condition of the human race is taught in the religion of each.   A plan of restoration or salvation is provided for in each case.   A […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. MORE than twenty thousand sermons are preached in the Christian pulpits, on every recurring Sabbath, to convince the people that the religion and morality taught and practiced by Jesus Christ was of divine emanation, and was never before taught in the world, — that his system of morality […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. Extraordinary Revelations in History and Science RECENT explorations in the field of oriental sacred history have revealed to the antiquarian some curious and deeply interesting facts appertaining to traditions founded on, and growing out of, astronomical phenomena and changes in the visible heavens, which throw much light on, […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. “AND I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and thou shall bruise his heel.” (Gen. iii. 15.) This text is often cited by Christian writers and controversialists as prefiguring the mission of the Christian […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. CHAPTER XXIX JESUS CHRIST A DEMIGOD, ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN WRITERS IT is truly surprising to observe the damaging concessions of some of the early Christian writers, ruinous to the dogmas of their own faith with respect to the divinity of Jesus Christ, placing him, as they do, on […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE custom and ceremony of anointing with oil by way of imparting some fancied spiritual power and religious qualification seems to have been extensively practiced by the Jews and primitive Christians, and still more anciently by various oriental nations. Mark (xiv. 4), reports Jesus Christ as speaking commendingly […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. At the feast of the Passover, Christ is represented, while distributing bread to his disciples, to have said, “Take, eat; this is my body” (Matt. xxvi. 26); and while handing round the consecrated cup, he enjoined, “Drink ye all of it, for this is my blood of the […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. BAPTISM, in some of its various forms, is a very ancient rite, and was extensively practiced in several oriental countries. It was administered in a great variety of forms, and with the use of different elements. Water was the most common, but fire and air, wind, spirit or […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. SOME Christian writers have labored to make it appear that this is exclusively a Christian doctrine, while others have labored as hard to get it out of their bible, or make the people believe that it is not therein taught. We shall show, upon scriptural and historical authority, […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. “THERE are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one.” (i John v. 7.) This text, which evidently discloses a belief in the existence of three separate and distinct beings in the Godhead, sets forth a doctrine […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THE WORD AS CREATOR, AS SECOND PERSON OF THE TRINITY, AND ITS PRE-EXISTENCE The Word of Oriental Origin “IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” (John i. 1.) The doctrine of the divine creative word (from the Greek […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. OF all the weird, fanciful, and fabulous stories appertaining to the Gods and other spiritual entities of the olden times, whose capricious adventures we find so profusely narrated in oriental mythology — of all the strange, mythical and mystical feats, and ever-varying and ever-diverging changes in the shape, […]

Order The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors now. THERE were various practices in vogue amongst the orientalists, which originated with the design of appeasing the anger and propitiating the favor of a presumed to be irascible deity. Most of these practices consisted in some kind of sacrifice or destructive offering called the “atonement.” But here let […]