The Watchtower Society and John and Morton Edgar - A2Z.org

versa1 that all nations were made "mad," i.e., void ofjudgment. Only those who worship the true Godhave the spirit of a sound mind (2 Tim. 1 : 7)."Mothw and Son worahlp.While in " Babylon the Great " the principal subjectsof devotion are the Madorma and her cMld (said tobe the virgin Mary and Jesus), so in typical Babylonthe popular worship was extended to a goddess motherand her son, who had their origin in Semiramis andher son Ninus (the Hebrew word for "son is nin).Remembering the religious influence which proceededfrom Babylon, we have here the explanation of theuniversal adoration d the "Mother and Son." InGreece they were worshipped as Ceres the greatmother, with the babe at her breast ; or as Irene thegoddess of Peace, with the boy Plutus in her arms.In Pagan Rome as Fortuna and Jupiter-puer, orJupiter the boy. In Asia as Cybele and DMius. InIndia as Isi and Iswara; and even in Thibet, China,and Japan, missionaries were astonished to And theexact counterpart of the Madonna and her child asdevoutly reverenced as in Papal Rome itself IThe Egyptian Cod Osiris was Nimrod.In Egypt the Mother was wowpped as Isis, and theSon as Osiris, though more often as Horus. RegardingOsiris, Bunsen shows that he was represented as atonce the Son and Husband of his mother, and actuallybore as one of his titlas of honour the name " Husbandof the Mother (Bunsen, Vol. i, pp. 438, 439). Thisserves to identify Osiris with Ninus who married hisown mother. There are many strong proofs thatOsirls was Nimrod or Ninus. In some of his f0Ims0sil-i~ was represented clothed in a leopard's skin ;