Jesus, our Christ, the Christ of the religion named for him was the
transmitter of heavenly truths. To him the world owes forever a debt
for making known a knowledge of the fact of the continued existence of
the individual being after physical death, and it was given to him to
point out the way of life that can alone lead to eternal happiness and
peace. He is our Teacher, our Leader above all others. We have
nothing to do with the impossible, faked-up personality that the
priests have so long exploited as the "blood Redeemer" of the world; it
is to the inspired philanthropist, the greatly-loving man that we owe
our allegiance. This will appear more and more as time goes on, and a
lot of untruths will fade out and give place to great realities.




THE GODS.

The pagan gods were innumerable and their distinctive attributes were
understood. They well might be, as they were only deified men and
women. The next unfoldment caused them to raise altars to "the unknown
God." Then came Jesus, the Nazarene, who told them that the "unknown
God" was their Heavenly Father, not of a chosen people only, but of all
the human race. The new religion, inspired by Jesus--our Christ--and
which was to bear his name, naturally brought with it all the
superstitions of the pagans, and these have been handed down through
the ages, and accepted and believed as true.

The primitive conception of a god was of a being with qualities like
their own, and as men delighted in rapine and every possible
accompanying vice and crime, so they endowed their gods in like manner,