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

scientific secrets which they jealously preserved intheir own exclusive keeping, to give t.he ignorantinitiates what might seem ocuLar demonstration thatNimrod who had been slain, and for whom such lamentationshad been made, was again alive, and nowencompassed with heavenly glory; Thm the wholesystem of the secret " Mysteries of Babylon introducedby the help d magic (sham miracles), wasintended to glorify a dead man; and when once theworship of one dead Illian was established, the worshipof many more was sure to follow.In this way Nimrod became the "father of thegods," being said to be the Arst of " deified mortals."As such he was worshipped under the titles ol Krorlosand Saturn. Saturn was the god of the Mysteries, thename itself signifying "the Hidden one." He wasrevealed to the initiated, but hidden to all others.The Identity of the Creek Cod Bacchus.Another of the names under which the deifledNimrod received honour was Bacchus. In Greece,Bacchus was symbolically represented by a spottedfawn, which animal was intended in the figurativelanguage of the Mysteries to covertly identify Bacchuswith Nimrod. The name of the fawn in Greectwas " Nebros," which signifies the spot.ted one,while the name of Nimrod, as known to theGreeks, was "Nebrod,." and is so translated in theGreek translation of the Hebrew Scripturesi.e., theSeptuagint. It will be remembered that Nimrodgained much of his success as a hunter by trainingthe leopard to assist him in the chase. The skin of thefawn was intended to suggest the spotted. leopard.The custom of wearing the skin of the fawn appears