I long to see that
Divine Splendour of the ages stand out white and shining and free
from the mud and slime with which His priests have bespattered Him.
I believe in Him absolutely! But I can find nowhere in His Gospel
that He wished us to turn Religion into a sort of stock-jobbing
company managed by sacerdotal directors in Rome!"
"What do you know about the 'sacerdotal directors' as you call them,
of Rome?" asked Gherardi slowly, his eyes narrowing at the corners,
and his whole countenance expressing ineffable disdain, "Do you
think we give out the complex and necessary workings of our sacred
business to the uneducated public?"
"No, I do not," replied Aubrey, "For you keep the public in the dark
as much as you can. Your methods of action are precisely those of
the priests of ancient Egypt, who juggled with what they were
pleased to call their sacred 'mysteries' in precisely the same way
as you do. Race copies race. Roman Christianity is grafted upon
Roman Paganism. When the Apostles were all dead, and their
successors (who had never been in personal touch with Christ) came
on to the scene of action, they discovered that the people of Rome
would not do without the worship of woman in their creed, so they
cleverly substituted the Virgin Mary for Venus and Diana.
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