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A significant change occurred in the Babylonian triune god.  Their three persons became the eternal Father, the Spirit of God incarnate in a HUMAN MOTHER, and a divine Son, the fruit of that incarnation.

The Melchites at the Nicean Council in 325 AD avowed that the Holy Trinity consisted of “The Father, The Virgin Mary, and the Messiah their Son.” (Nimrod, iii.  p.  329).

“Heart of Jesus I adore thee; Heart of Mary, I implore thee; Heart of Joseph, pure and just; In these three hearts I put my trust.” (What Every Christian Must Know and Do, Rev.  J.  Furniss, published by James Duffy, Dublin).

The edition with the above quote is now withdrawn from circulation to the general public, but is genuine beyond refute.

A similar Trinity is found in Ireland.  A card entitled “Paschal Duty, St.  Mary’s Church, Bishopwearmouth, 1859″ held the following quote headed by “Dear Christians.”

“Blessed be Jesus, Mary and Joseph. Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I give you my heart, my life and my soul. Jesus Mary and Joseph, assist me always; and in my last agony, Jesus Mary and Joseph, receive my last breath.  Amen.”

Also, in Furniss’s Manual:

“In the morning before you get up make the sign of the cross, and say, Jesus, Mary and Joseph, I give you my heart and soul. (Each time you say this prayer, you get an indulgence of 100 days, which you can give to the souls in purgatory)” (Furniss, What Every Christian Must Know and Do, Rule of Life, p.  30).

The Roman Catholic Church is responsible for bringing paganism into the church world.  The pagan doctrine of a trinity was among the salvaged folly.  They went so far as to include the alternative pagan trinity of Father, Mother, and Son!

The pagan mother of the child was characterized by gentleness and mercy as centered in her.  Death, ending her career, caused her to become deified and changed into a pigeon to express the celestial gentleness of her nature.  She became known as “D’Iune” or “the Dove” (Fasti, lib.  ii.  461-464, vol. iii.  p 113).

Note the close proximity to the gentle character of the Holy Ghost in the Bible, that ascended upon Jesus in the bodily shape of a dove.

This Mother was worshipped by the Babylonians in the form of a Dove.  And this dove was commonly symbolized with an olive branch in her mouth, as she is in her human form also seen bearing an olive branch in her hand.  She had the name given to her as “Z’emir-amit” which means “The Branch-Bearer.” (Layard, Ninevah and Babylon, p.  25).  Therefore, there can be no doubt that the story of the Flood must have had an influence upon these pagans.  Noah’s dove returned with an olive branch.  But there is more a reason for this.

“A Branch” was the symbol of the deified Son in paganism.  So we see how Roman Catholicism came to worship Mary as a person of their trinity instead of the Holy Spirit.

Once paganism crept into Christian circles in form of a trinity of persons, the trend toward further pagan beliefs began.  The leaven of error and heathenism spread.  It grew so much as to pull the adherents towards other pagan traditions with alternative Christian characters playing the roles of pagan players.

The Assyrian goddess Juno or “the Virgin Venus” was identified with the Air.  Why would “air” be identified with her? Well, the symbol for the pagan goddess of this trinity was the dove.  In Chaldee, the same word which is translated “air” is also translated “Holy Ghost”.  “Juno imparts the generation of soul” (Proclus, lib. vi. cap. 22, vol. ii. p. 76).  And where does man’s soul come from?  It comes from the Spirit of God, or, in paganism, the third person of the pagan trinity.

Now connect this with an Orphic Hymn:

“O royal Juno, of majestic mien, Aerial formed, divine, Jove’s blessed queen, Throned in the bosom of Caerulean air, The race of mortals is thy constant care; The cooling gales, thy power alone inspires, Which nourish life, which every life desires, Mother of showers and winds, from thee alone Producing all things, mortal life is known; All natures show thy temperament divine, And universal sway alone is thine, With sounding blasts of wind, the swelling sea And rolling rivers roar when shook by thee.” (Taylor, Orphic Hymns, p.  50).

In the temple of Hieropolis in Syria a famous statue existed of Juno with a golden dove on her head, and was called Semeion.  Only in that country was it thus called, meaning “The Habitation”.  And the golden dove shows what she was the habitation of – the Spirit of God – paganism’s third person of the trinity.

A Goddess in India is called Sacti which means “The Tabernacle”.  (Kennedy, Hindoo Mythology, pp.  246, 256).  In Babylon she was called Sacca and was the dwelling place of God (Chesney, Euphrates Expedition. vol. I. p. 381).

According to the Greeks and Romans, Cybele, the mother of the gods, and of Venus, the goddess of love, are in general very distinct.  Many have found it most difficult to identify the two.  But keep in mind the fundamental principle of the Mysteries and you have no trouble.

At first the Mysteries only had Adad as the “One God” (Macrobii Saturnalia lib. I. cap. 23. p. 73).  Adad, being triune, allowed three different forms of divinity when the Babylonian Mystery of Iniquity formed further.  The Babylonians used an equilateral triangle to display this concept, just as Trinitarians do today!! (Layard, Babylon and Ninevah, p.605).  The Egyptians did the same (Maurice, Indian Antiquities, vol. iv. p. 445. London, 1794).  These forms became the Father, Mother and Son.  Apuleius tells us that when he was initiated, the goddess Isis revealed herself to him as:

“The first of the celestials, and the uniform manifestation of the gods and goddesses…  WHOSE ONE SOLE DIVINITY the whole orb of the earth venerated, and under a manifold form, with different rites, and under a variety of appellations;”

And going over many of these appellations, she declares herself at one instance as “Pessinuntica, the mother of the gods (i.e.  Cybele), and Paphian Venus.”

Originally the Mysteries set out with the doctrine of the Unity of the godhead.  Wilkinson writes:

“I have stated that Amun-re and other gods took the form of different deities, which, though it appears at first sight to represent some difficulty, may readily be accounted for when we consider that each one of those figures or emblems that were adopted, was only an emanation, or deified attribute of the Same Great Being to whom they ascribe various characters, according to the several offices he was supposed to perform.”

Based on the question of the identification of Cybele and Astarte we see the following.  Fundamentally there was only one goddess - the Holy Spirit, represented as female, when the distinction of sex was wickedly assigned to the godhead.  This happened through a perversion of the Scriptural idea that all children of God were begotten by the Father, and born of the Spirit in a husband and wife scenario.

The Spirit of God was represented as the Mother in the form of a dove.  This was supposedly based upon the reference to the Spirit that “fluttered” at the creation.  This is the exact meaning of the term in Gen.  1:2.  “The Spirit fluttered on the face of the waters”.  Therefore this goddess was called Ops, “the Flutterer”, or Juno, “The Dove”, or Kubele, “The Binder with Cords”.  This last title had a reference to the “bands of love, the cords of man”, referred to in Hosea 11:4 as “Khubeli Adam”.  God supposedly draws man unto himself with such cords, and also bound Adam to God through the Spirit’s indwelling while the covenant of Eden was unbroken.

The Romans joined the two terms Juno and Kubele – or as it was commonly pronounced, Cybele – together.  And on certain occasions they invoked their supreme goddess by the name of Juno Covella, “the Dove that binds with cords”.   In “STATIUS”, the name of the great goddess is Cybele:

“Italo gemitus Almone Cybele Ponit, et Idaeos jam non reminiscitur manes.”

The triune emblem of the supreme Assyrian divinity was pictured as a man holding a large ring.  Large wings protrude from an orb out of which the upper half of the man appears.  Instead of two feet there are two bands portrayed with the wings and tail of this dove.

It was only natural that once the “Christian” trinity was introduced this pagan trend would lead further until Mary-worship became an integral part of the Roman Catholic Church.  Just as Paganism birthed departures from the true God and this One God became three persons, so did paganism’s traits appear within Christian circles, and there resulted a Trinitarian doctrine.  And as the pagan trinity spawned into mother worship, by linking motherhood with birthing of the Spirit, so, too, did the Roman Catholic Church (which allowed Trinity creeds within) begin to worship Mary the mother of Jesus.

Mariolatry (Mary worship) was only a natural byproduct of the Trinitarian doctrine of three person being Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  If you consider the Holy Spirit as a separate person whose only characteristics are “birthing” all into being, and “gentleness”, then such a “person” is easily connected to motherhood.  But keep the Oneness of the Godhead in mind and you do not separate each manifestation as a person.  And you do not thereby assign a personality of a divine member of some trinity who is in question. Therefore Mary worship could only result from a Trinitarian view of the Godhead.  And this is precisely how paganism also developed over the ancient centuries into various forms.  It changes.  Christianity supposedly changed in the first four centuries into a Trinitarian-oriented concept of God. But truth does not change! When one looks at the things of God from that basis of concept, one will never accept any dogmatic assertion that is not explicitly taught in Scripture.  Therefore, Trinity-type doctrines are cast away by people, even today, who realize that it was a “developed doctrine”, as admitted by Trinitarian scholars.

This alone sheds great insight into the pagan nature of a Trinity doctrine. It shows the potential spreading of leaven that can only come from that which has leaven already in it

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