Forlong - Rivers of Life

Fire Worship.
Thus, then, in the terms Messiah, Christ, and Mediator, we observe that Christianity
only followed the universal law of all faiths, by adhering to the old names which
people had revered or loved under quite different notions. We do the same in calling
our God—who is really an abstract spiritual idea—the “All Father,” “Our Father,”
“The Creator,” &c.; and although we do not connect with such words any mundane
generative ideas, this was not the case formerly. Even to this day, five-sixths of mankind
preserve the old idea in the father, mother, child, and nursing Madonnas, especially
in Europe. The names which Christians gave to their new god-idea were but some
of those “ninety-nine names” which Arabians tell us belong to God, and of course the
apostles sprang from a northern tribe of Arabs. One of these names, Ya-Fattah, we
have had lately very prominently before us as the motto or monogram of the Seyid of
Zanzibar, which signifies, as correctly stated by the Times of 21st June 1875. “The
Opener,” “The Conqueror,” or “He who openeth the way”—of Life. It was strange
to those who could trace back the original idea from which the word came, to see it
“emblazoned in golden Arabic characters backwards and forwards” over the vast
assemblages who met to welcome this Moslem Ruler at the Sydenham palace; to see
it traced in various devices over a choir of 2,500 performers, singing such anthems as
“Glory to Thee, O God;” and then in the evening written high in mid air in letters of
Fire (Siva’s special element), gorgeous with many colours, and applauded by a dense
multitude, more numerous than many an ancient state that used to shout IAKO
to their phallic Lord.
I have before alluded to the ploughshare as being the sign or monogram of
most very ancient Indian rulers, because these stood before their tribes as “Patri-
Arks” or great progenitors; so my readers will here see the full force of Al-Fattah,
and such-like names of “the Creator.” The ploughshare was also designated “The
Opener of the Way” for the seed, and the “Queen of heaven,” or “the King’s land,” was
Sita, “the field furrow.” Only those who have studied the Shemitic races in Asia
with the books and manuscript tales which they and most half-educated Asiatic
Mahomedans and Jews delight in, can understand with what pleasure these illiterate
men prattle over for hours together the grossest possible tales, replete with. the most
indecent language. I do not, of course, here allude to our educated fellow-subjects.
The Moslem’s most holy day is that sacred to Friga, or Venus Aphrodite in her most
sexual character, and in every Islami household on that day Moslems eat a peculiar
food, anciently held to be provocative of Passion. Friday is now specially devoted to
to anoint. No such word exists in Greek as
Messiah or Messias, unless from Mesos “middle,”
and then it would signifiy “The Divider” or
“Dividing God,” equivalent to the Baal-Peor of
the Hebrews.
Kristos or Christos is from Greek Krio, “to
anoint.” Same as hycm according to the
writer of John i. 41—iv. 25, who calls the
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Messiah Kristos, a word then unknown to
Greeks unless as “the Anointed One” from
Krio to anoint, or Krio the Horn in which the
oil was held, and which was a Phallic emblem.
It is connected with crh, Krē, “need” “necessity,”from
which come Krema, riches, wealth, and
Krematiso “to utter oracles,” the special
function of a Phallic Deity, or Omphe.