This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1884 Excerpt: ... we see the later Jachin and Boaz, the pillars of Hercules, and the two stones or slabs on which the laws of Elohim were written. A very remarkable passage in Amos (the oldest of the Prophets) written about 790 B.C., attributes the worship of Saturn and Moloch to the Hebrews in the desert. "But ye bare the booths of your Moloch and Chiun ("the pillar ") your images, the Star your god, whom ye made for yourselves." Chiun is the Arab Kiwan or Saturn, and his emblems thus enumerated are the booth, the pillar, and the star, to which the serpent may be added. The later Rabbis who dealt in astrology explain this passage by saying that Sabbathai or Saturn was the planet presiding over the destinies of Israel.2 We are thus introduced to the analogies between the worship of Elohim and Moloch, and also to that existing between Elohim and the "ancient one," who under the names of Cronos, Saturn, Tan, BaalHaldim, Hobal, Oulam, was adored by various Semitic tribes, as a stone, as a tree, as a great dragon, or an androgynous figure. He is the father of all gods, the tyrant of Heaven, and lord of Hell, worshipped as the oldest deity in Phoenicia under the names Israel and Saturn,3 with human sacrifice, and in Assyria honoured by the crowds of sacred women attached to the service of the Temple of Anu.4 The worship of the ancient serpent was early imported into Egypt by the Semites. Tanen, the Tan or " dragon," whose name has already occurred as that of Saturn in the case of Dan, and which forms part of the word Leviathan, "the serpent dragon " of the sea, was identified with Nu, 1 Amos v. 25. a " Worship of Baalim in Israel," Dr Voort. 3 " Sanchoniathon," quoted by Eusebius, "Prsep. Evang." i. 10. Lenormant's "Magie," p. 4. the sky, as father of the gods.1 Set, whom we hav...