The devil's pulpit: by Taylor Robert 1784-1844

Author:Taylor, Robert, 1784-1844
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Rationalism
Publisher: New York, C. Blanchard
Published: 1857-05-18T05:00:00+00:00

transported to Edessa. Some Portuguese writers assure us that he suffered martyrdom at Meliapour, in the peninsula of India ; while the Manichees affirm, that a man who struck him was killed by a lion. The whole protestant world is wisely aware, that the less inquiries of this sort are prosecuted, the better. All historical writers, without excepting one, have been infidels. They would never condescend to take the least notice of the heroes of theology.

It was necessary to invent the story that one of the apostles had preached the gospel in India. St. Thomas, therefore, as the genius of that month in which the sun is hottest, was fixed on as the proper saint for that hot climate; to counteract the awkward historical evidence found in the Bhagavat Pourana, which proves that the gospel had been preached in India, more than fifteen hundred years before its Jewish origin had been pretended.

Both of the names of Thomas, Thomas and Didymus, are names of pagan deities ; and, what is still more fatal to the pretence of a distinction between Christianity and paganism, those deities bear precisely the same character and part in the pagan mythology as in the Christian gospel. One of the most distinguished surnames of the God Apollo, was Didymus, that name signifying a Twin: and Apollo was called Apollo Didymaeus, as dispenser of the twin light, or light by both day and night.

The month of May is subscribed, in the calendar of Julius Caesar, ^^ under the protection of Apollo,'''' as every one knows, that the Twins, Gemini, is, to this day, the name of the third of the twelve signs of the Zodiac, reckoning Aries the first—that is, the fifth, reckoning Aquarius, the Water-bearer, the first. The Sun, entering Gemini on the 19th of May, quits it for Cancer^ the sign immediately following, on the 20th of June. Now the Hebrew name for the month of June happens to be none other than the direct basis of this word Thomas (Thamuz): and thus Didymus—z. e., the Twin, is not an interpretation of the name Thomas, but a surname added to it: Didymus expressing the thirteen days which the Sun of Gemini, the Twins, takes out of the month of May, and Thomas, the remaining nineteen out of the month of June—the whole, Didymus Thomas, or Thomas-

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