The Two Babylons by Hislop
what the Bible says about Pagan belief systms - bible and goddess
Background of the Book and information
about the attempt by Ralph Woodrow to refute
its claims - Part 1
(Part 2 further below)
The Two Babylons is a book written by Alexander Hislop which asserts and documents 2 main points:
1. That the Ancient Pagan systems of worship of false gods were based on "mysteries", and that the genesis of those mysteries could be found within the old Babylonian (chaldean) system of worship.
2. That the Roman Catholic Church - [soon after its creation which occured 300 Years after Christ] - appropriated the characteristics of Pagan systems of worship, in order to try to convince Pagans into thinking that the Roman Catholic System was the same - as their own pagan worship.
This was not a deception. It is simply true. The majority of the extra teachings of the Roman Catholic Church do Not come from the Bible, but from the teachings of Pagan Gods of the Pantheon (family) of false Gods of the Roman Empire and Roman Emperors.
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The relationship between the 1st spiritual Babylon (in Ancient Babylon) and the 2nd spiritual Babylon (the Roman Catholic Church) is not something difficult to prove. But it is something difficult to understand - if you do not know anything about ancient systems of Pagan worship.
The Ancient systems of the Worship of the Roman Pantheon of Gods is well documented. Those systems of worship:
a. were around and Still in practice at the time of the Roman Empire
b. were filled with symbology, meanings and methods which are still to be found in the Roman Catholic Church (and the Eastern Orthodox Church also).
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Some people today who know ONLY of either The Two Babylons by Hislop or the book by Ralph Woodrow think that - the contents of The Two Babylons are some kind of "original" work, and that no one else has figured this out.
The fact is that several modern sources and books have said the same thing as The Two Babylons in 2 key points:
A. Pagan Rituals all over the world related to different godess-worship movement are actually Almost All actually the worship of Cybele/Isis/Ishtar.
B. The Roman Catholic Church has absorbed many Pagan rituals from the pantheon of false goos and goddesses that surrounded it in the Roman Empire.
Examples that affirm either one of these points include the following:
1. The TWELVE VOLUME set by James Frazier know as THE GOLDEN BOUGH, [1911-1915/limited] documents the many pagan rituals all over the world and their
a) similarities and b) their identical meanings in diverse cultures
2. The White Goddess by Robert
Graves N.Y., Farrar, Strauss & Giroux
(1973). This is a book
that documents the extensive system of worship Around the Ancient World of
CYBELE, known also as Mary - in the Roman Catholic Church. The book explains how
this cult of Cybele worship was all over the ancient word, and DOES date back to
Babylon.
3. Magic From Mexico by Mary Devine (1992)
This is a book written by a witch, and published by the occultic publishing company called "llewellyn". This book documents how native american and mexican witches have been using Roman Catholic symbolism and the worship of Mary in order to make contact with Ishtar/Cybele
4. Lectures on the Origin and Growth of Religion as Illustrated by Celtic Heathendom by John Rhys (1892)
This is a book about the Pantheon of gods worshipped by the Celts. More than 600 pages of documentation about the celtic worship of Gods and tracing that back to much earlier times. This is one more book that supports The Two Babylons by Hislop.
5.The Cult of the Mother Goddess by E.O. James - Barnes & Noble -
(1959)
Its unfortunate that Ralph Woodrow did not spend enough time researching the subject of the Pagan Roots of the Roman Catholic Church, before criticising The Two Babylons by Hislop. He could have read any one of the 5 sources that we just posted, and come to the conclusion that The Two Babylons is correct in its materials and conclusions.
Alexander Hislop - author of The Two Babylons - documents that the worship of Mary in the Roman Catholic System is actually a system of worship that is not supplementing, but is rather competing with the worship of God through His one and only Son Jesus Christ. The system of Mary-worship in the Roman Catholic Church is actually the worship of Semiramis, the great Mother-Goddess worshipped in ancient civilizations, as a companion to Baal-Nimrod. Critics of the Two Babylons would have us think that the worship of Semiramis was almost non-existent and never widespread. But that is not the case. As the Two Babylon documents further, the worship of Semiramis-Ishtar was the standard practice of many Ancient Empires.
[If this upsets anyone, they should ask themselves is they have the courage to read The Two Babylons and take a serious look at the evidence, rather than simply deciding that this cannot be the case, because a person might lack the courage to have their religion face Truth.]
Here is what Encyclopedia Britannica had to say on the subject of Semiramis:
Professor Lehmann-Haupt, by putting together the results of archaeological discoveries, has arrived at the following conclusions. Semiramis is the Greek form of Sammuramat. She was probably a Babylonian (for it was she who imposed the Babylonian cult of Nebo or Nabu upon the Assyrian religion). A column discovered in 1909 describes her as " a woman of the palace of Samsi-Adad, King of the World, King of Assyria, King of the Four Quarters of the World." Ninus was her son.
The dedication of this column shows that Semiramis occupied a position of unique influence, lasting probably for more than one reign. She waged war against the Indo-Germanic Medes and the Chaldaeans. The legends probably have a Median origin. A popular etymology, which connected the name with the Assyrian summat, " dove," seems to have first started the identification of the historical SemIramis with the goddess Ishtar and her doves.
Source: Encyclopedia Britannica - 1910 Article titled: Semiramis
You may note the links in the above passage between 1) Semiramis and Ishtar, and also 2) between Semiramis, Babylon and Assyria. And so far, that is only ONE paragraph. Imagine how an entire book might enlighten us about the connections between ancient Semiramis and the modern worship of the Virgin Mary in the R.C.C. & E.O.C.
The Encyclopedia rightly notes the connection established Thousands of years ago between Semiramis and Ishtar.
All ancient systems of Pagan worship have all of the same elements that the Bible in fact - describes them as having:
1. They all worship demons & demonic beings
2. They all believe in the existence of Giants and demi-Gods, who were powerful and/or supernatural - but in any case always evil
3. They all included the worship of an ancient Mother Goddess
4. They all included a Common origin for all of the Human Race
5. They all included a system of an event which shattered the Race of men's attempt - to build a global system to be unified
6. They all included a global flood
7. they all included the payment of blood as an atoning sacrifice for sin (in regular terms, that means - often...human sacrifice)
8. they all included pyramids, in an imitation of the original tower of Babel, and also as the Place to contact the Pantheon of Gods.
(concerning the Pyramids, contact with the false gods was attempted either on the Top of the Pyramids [mexico] or in the Pyramids [egypt] )
These elements are already found in common in the ancient systems of Pagan worship. These elements already exits in the ancient Pagan systems of worship in the various Empires.
So what is the surprise supposedly created by the assertions of Alexander Hislop in the Two Babylons ?
The Roman Catholic Church began when all of those systems of worship of foreign Gods was thriving in the Roman Empire, both in the East AND in the West. So how difficult would it have been to appropriate those elements of worship [of pagan gods], and simply bring them in...to the Roman Catholic System ?
The Catholic Church STILL does this today, incorporating aspects of local deities or local customs into its own. Pagan celebration days are now Roman Catholic Celebration days. the titles of certain early saints, were the titles of pagans who were being celebrated. And the doctrines found in the Roman Catholic Church were those found in Pagan systems and rituals - long before they were incorporated into the Roman Catholic System. Many of the Roman Catholic Cathedrals in Europe are built on the exact location where human sacrifices, and sacrifices to false Gods were committed, so that the locals would start coming to the Roman Catholic Church, as a sacred place. Those early buildings were sacred because they were in honor, hommage, veneration and worship of Foreign and Pagan Gods.
In fact, this is so well known - that many occultists are Former Roman Catholics who figured this out, and then decided on their own "short cut" and went straight into worshipping those Pagan Gods directly.
The problem for those occultists is that their research was not complete enough.
Just because the Roman Catholic Church has a history of allowing occult pagan gods and systems to corrupt its own church is Not related to the actual text of the Bible iself
- to the surprise of occultists. The Bible (both the New Testament and the Old Testament existed Long Before the Roman Catholic Church). The Old Testament predates the advent of Christ on Earth {He was in Heaven}, and and the New Testament pre-dates the Roman Catholic Church by 300 years.
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So, we must ask - in order to clarify - Occultism and Pagan Rituals in the Roman Catholic Church ?
Yes, Definitely !
Occultic authors or counterfeit authors writing the New Testament ?
No, Definitely Not !
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