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{{Style P-No indent|proves that Michael is the Mercury of the ''pagans'', and Maury and other French writers corroborate him, and add that “ according to great theologians ''Mercury and the Sun are one'',” (?) and no wonder, they think, since “ Mercury being so near the Wisdom of the ''Verbum ''(the Sun), must be absorbed by and confounded with him.”}} | {{Style P-No indent|proves that Michael is the Mercury of the ''pagans'', and Maury and other French writers corroborate him, and add that “ according to great theologians ''Mercury and the Sun are one'',” (?) and no wonder, they think, since “ Mercury being so near the Wisdom of the ''Verbum ''(the Sun), must be absorbed by and confounded with him.”}} | ||
This “ pagan ” view was accepted from the first century of our era, as shown in the original ''Acts of the Apostles ''(the English translation being worthless). So much is Michael the Mercury of the Greeks and other nations, that when the inhabitants of Lystra mistook Paul and Barnabas for Mercury and Jupiter — “ the gods have come down to us in the likeness of men,” — verse 12 (xiv.) adds : “ And they called Barnabas Zeus, and Paul, Hermes (or Mercury), because he was the ''leader of the ''word ''( Verbum )'',” and not “ the chief speaker,” as erroneously translated in the authorised, and repeated even in the revised, English Bible. Michael is the angel in the Vision, the Son of God, “ who was like unto a Son of Man.” It is the Hermes-Christos of the Gnostics, the Anubis-Syrius of the Egyptians, the Counsellor of Osiris in ''Amenti'', the Michael ''leontoid ''ὀφιομορφος of the Ophites, who wears on certain Gnostic jewels a lion ''head'', like his father Ildabaoth. (See King’s ''Gnostics''.) | This “ pagan ” view was accepted from the first century of our era, as shown in the original ''Acts of the Apostles ''(the English translation being worthless). So much is Michael the Mercury of the Greeks and other nations, that when the inhabitants of Lystra mistook Paul and Barnabas for Mercury and Jupiter — “ the gods have come down to us in the likeness of men,” — verse 12 (xiv.) adds : “ And they called Barnabas Zeus, and Paul, Hermes (or Mercury), because he was the ''leader of the'' {{Style S-Small capitals|word}} ''( Verbum )'',” and not “ the chief speaker,” as erroneously translated in the authorised, and repeated even in the revised, English Bible. Michael is the angel in the Vision, the Son of God, “ who was like unto a Son of Man.” It is the Hermes-Christos of the Gnostics, the Anubis-Syrius of the Egyptians, the Counsellor of Osiris in ''Amenti'', the Michael ''leontoid ''ὀφιομορφος of the Ophites, who wears on certain Gnostic jewels a lion ''head'', like his father Ildabaoth. (See King’s ''Gnostics''.) | ||
Now to all this the Roman Catholic Church consents tacitly, many of her writers avowing it publicly. And, unable to deny the flagrant “ borrowing ” of their Church, who “ spoilt ” the symbols of her seniors, as the Jews had “ spoilt ” the Egyptians of their jewels of silver and gold, they explain the fact quite coolly and as seriously. Thus the writers who were hitherto ''timid ''enough to see, in this repetition by Christian dogmas of old Pagan ideas, “ a ''legendary plagiarism ''perpetrated by man,” are gravely assured that, far from such a simple solution of the almost perfect resemblance, it has to be attributed to quite another cause : “ to a ''prehistorical ''plagiarism, of a ''superhuman ''origin.” | Now to all this the Roman Catholic Church consents tacitly, many of her writers avowing it publicly. And, unable to deny the flagrant “ borrowing ” of their Church, who “ spoilt ” the symbols of her seniors, as the Jews had “ spoilt ” the Egyptians of their jewels of silver and gold, they explain the fact quite coolly and as seriously. Thus the writers who were hitherto ''timid ''enough to see, in this repetition by Christian dogmas of old Pagan ideas, “ a ''legendary plagiarism ''perpetrated by man,” are gravely assured that, far from such a simple solution of the almost perfect resemblance, it has to be attributed to quite another cause : “ to a ''prehistorical ''plagiarism, of a ''superhuman ''origin.” | ||