The veneration of the "sacred heart" seems also to have extended to India,
for there Vishnu, the Mediatorial god, in one of his forms,
with the mark of the wound in his foot,
in consequence of which he died, and for which such lamentation is annually made,
is represented as wearing a heart suspended on his breast. It is asked,
How came it that the "Heart" became the recognised symbol of the Child
of the great Mother?
The answer is, "The Heart" in Chaldee is "BEL"; and as, at first,
after the check given to idolatry,
almost all the most important elements of the Chaldean system were introduced
under a veil,
so under that veil they continued to be shrouded from the gaze of the uninitiated,
after the first reason--the reason of fear--had long ceased to operate.
Now, the worship of the "Sacred Heart" was just, under a symbol,
the worship of the "Sacred Bel," that mighty one of Babylon,
who had died a martyr for idolatry;
for Harpocrates, or Horus, the infant god, was regarded as Bel, born again.
That this was in very deed the case, the following extract
from Taylor, in one of his notes to his translation of the Orphic Hymns, will show.
"While Bacchus," says he, was "beholding himself" with admiration "in a mirror,
he was miserably torn to pieces by the Titans, who, not
content with this cruelty,
first boiled his members in water,
and afterwards roasted them in the fire;
but while they were
tasting his flesh thus dressed, Jupiter, excited by the steam, and perceiving the cruelty of the deed,
hurled his thunder at the Titans, but committed his members to Apollo,
the brother of Bacchus, that they might be properly interred. And this being performed,
Dionysius [i.e., Bacchus],
(whose HEART, during his laceration, was snatched away by Minerva and preserved) by a new REGENERATION,
again emerged, and he being restored to his pristine life and integrity,
afterwards filled up the number of the gods."
This surely shows, in a striking light, the peculiar sacredness of the heart of Bacchus;
and that the regeneration of his heart has the very meaning I have attached to it--viz.,
the new birth or new incarnation of Nimrod or Bel.
When Bel, however was born again as a child, he was,
as we have seen, represented as an incarnation of the sun.
Therefore, to indicate his connection with the fiery and burning sun,
the "sacred heart" was frequently represented as a "heart of flame."
So the "Sacred Heart" of Rome is actually worshipped as a flaming heart, as may be seen on the rosaries devoted to that worship.
Of what use, then, is it to say that the "Sacred Heart" which Rome worships is called
by the name of "Jesus,"
when not only is the devotion given to a material image borrowed from the worship of the Babylonian Antichrist,
but when the attributes ascribed to that "Jesus" are not the attributes of the living
and loving Saviour,
but the genuine attributes of the ancient Moloch or Bel?
(From Alexander Hislop`s [Two Babylon])
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