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Appalled by his parents' Scotch-Irish Presbyterianism, he soaked up the religious mysticism of Emanuel Sweden-borg.-Believing that God was within man, he was scornful. of the traditional figure of Jehovah: "Any mother who suckles her babe upon her own breast, any bitch in fact who litters her periodical brood of pups, presents to my imagination a vastly nearer and sweeter Divine charm. . . . Against this lurid power-half-pedagogue, half-policeman, but wholly imbecile in both aspects-I . . . raise my gleeful fist, I lift my scornful foot." This kind of "elegant Billingsgate," as his friend Ralph Waldo Emerson...
...Canadian Travel Bureau in Ottawa came a worried letter from a Michigan resident who had read of Premier Maurice Duplessis' all-out campaign against Jehovah's Witnesses (TiME, Dec. 16). The letter writer, who was planning a Canadian tour, asked : "Is it safe for a Protestant to travel in Quebec...
Topsy, a Pig, & Grandmama. Father Rupert Potter, a barrister, was as awe-inspiring as Jehovah (see cut). In London's respectable Earl's Court, he and Mrs. Potter ate breakfast, alone, in absolute silence. Then Mr. Potter went to his club. At 1 o'clock, a small cutlet and some rice pudding went up to the nursery by the back stairs. Then a Calvinist nurse named McKenzie came and took little Beatrix for a good walk...
Jesus' real mission, explains Agabus-Graves, was to "destroy the power of the Female"-i.e., of Jehovah's predecessor, rival and unacknowledged consort, the Great Mother Goddess or Triple Moon Goddess, known in the Eastern Mediterranean lands by various names, including Hecate and Astarte. She had ruled Canaan before the Israelites came; her worship included ritual prostitution, and Jesus' mother Miriam (Mary in the English Scriptures) had actually been born, so the High Priest said, "under the old dispensation," as a result of a dreamlike unmarital incident in a garden during the Feast of Tabernacles. Jesus...
...this, including the fair warning to Satan, was the work of an extraordinary army of 75,000 invading and noisy militants-from Finland, Argentina, Scotland, Mexico and every corner of the U.S. They were encamped on the shores of Lake Erie for the Glad Nations Theocratic Assembly of Jehovah's Witnesses...