Idols and colossal images surround the lurid pit or fires; certain imperial dead were lowered into the arms of these “awful idols” that looked upon the crater/fires of Zul, consumed by the flames, with ashes placed in the temple (hearts sometimes thrown to vultures).
Its cyclopean pyramidal form, terraces, flames, lurid fiery pit, idols, and sacrificial rites create a sense of grim majesty mixed with foreboding.
Begat by Apollo; associated with idols/heavenly figures like Vishnu, Etau, Ram, Osiris in Orachnebauhgalah.
In the end, Yahweh demands worship of only one and orders the others to be called idols.
He dictates doctrines denouncing idols, false gods like Kriste, and promoting ethics: no lies, no fornication, charity, sacred days, defense of the oppressed (Chapter L, verse 18; Chapter XLIX, verses 30-31).
Unlike destructive approaches of other false gods, Osiris favors building idols, temples, and cultural systems to gain worship.
These people were slaves or in hiding from idol-worshipping rulers.
The ancients found joy in an idol; were content to eat and sleep, their faith being equal to their wisdom.
Had I been born in darkness, the idols of my forefathers would have sufficed.
Must I stop myself to blaspheme against Thee for sake of swallowing the idols of men in darkness?
I will know why Thou permittedst idols of stone and wood and graven images?
Yea, I will know why man buildeth an idol on earth or imagineth one in heaven?
For, for these idols have they cursed the whole earth around about with war and destruction.
Thou art prone to overlook all things; thou beratest idols and graven images, without weighing thy speech.
Nor canst thou prove a single problem in mathematics without graven images, and idols and symbols.
To a man who never saw a hat, without a sign, or image, or symbol or an idol of one, or by one itself, how wilt thou convince him?
How, then, could the angels of Jehovih teach man of Jehovih, but by idols and graven images?
Weigh the matter, and thou shalt perceive that knowledge is conveyed from man to man by idols and images.
Even the sound of a spoken word, is an idol of an idea; and the idea is carried within that which is not the real thing itself, but merely wind.
Spiritual things, of which ideas are a part, can be conveyed by es force, and without idols and images.
And as to Thy Gods and saviors, and idols of all kinds, I was cursing Thee in cursing them.
Search thou the road of Vishnu and Etau, and Ram, and Osiris, for all the idols of heaven run the same course, as thou shalt prove in Orachnebuahgalah, nor is here any help for them.
And man became tenacious of his gods, verily making idols of them, and depending on the gods and angels to accomplish by intercession and otherwise, man's ultimate exaltation in heaven.
Men saw him as the One, the causeless Cause of all that is, and he was sacred unto them, as Tao to the dwellers of the farther East.17. The people lived in peace, and justice ruled.18. But, as in other lands, in Persia priests arose imbued with self and self desires, who outraged Force, Intelligence and Love;19. Religion grew corrupt, and birds and beasts and creeping things were set apart as gods.20. In course of time a lofty soul, whom men called Zarathustra, came in flesh.21. He saw the causeless Spirit, high and lifted up; he saw the weakness of all man appointed gods.22. He spoke and all of Persia heard; and when he said, One God, one people and one shrine, the altars of the idols fell, and Persia was redeemed.23. But men must see their Gods with human eyes, and Zarathustra said,24. The greatest of the Spirits standing near the throne is the Ahura Mazda, who manifests in brightness of the sun.25. And all the people saw Ahura Mazda in the sun, and they fell down and worshipped him in temples of the sun.26. And Persia is the magian land where live the priests who saw the star arise to mark the place where Mary's son was born, and were the first to greet him as the Prince of Peace.27. The precepts and the laws of Zarathustra are preserved in the Avesta which you can read and make your own.28. But you must know that words are naught till they are made alive; until the lessons they contain become a part of head and heart.29. Now truth is one; but no one knows the truth until he is the truth.
This custom with its cruel rites was borrowed from the idol worshippers of other lands.14. No sin was ever blotted out by sacrifice of animal, of bird, or man.15. Sin is the rushing forth of man into fens of wickedness.
At Katak, by the river side, he taught, and thousands of the people followed him.2. One day a car of Jagannath was hauled along by scores of frenzied men, and Jesus said,3. Behold, a form without a spirit passes by; a body with no soul; a temple with no altar fires.4. This car of Krishna is an empty thing, for Krishna is not there.5. This car is but an idol of a people drunk on wine of carnal things.6. God lives not in the noise of tongues; there is no way to him from any idol shrine.7. God's meeting place with man is in the heart, and in a still small voice he speaks; and he who hears is still.8. And all the people said, Teach us to know the Holy One who speaks within the heart, God of the still small voice.9. And Jesus said, The Holy Breath cannot be seen with mortal eyes; nor can men see the Spirits of the Holy;10. But in their image man was made, and he who looks into the face of man, looks at the image of the God who speaks within.11. And when man honours man he honours God, and what man does for man, he does for God.12. And you must bear in mind that when man harms in thought, or word or deed another man, he does a wrong to God.13. If you would serve the God who speaks within the heart, just serve your near of kin, and those that are no kin, the stranger at your gates, the foe who seeks to do you harm;14. Assist the poor, and help the weak; do harm to none, and covet not what is not yours;15. Then, with your tongue the Holy One will speak; and he will smile behind your tears, will light your countenance with joy, and fill your hearts with peace.16. And then the people asked.
No blessings can attend the one who takes the food from hungry mouths to be destroyed by fire.19. When you would offer sacrifice unto our God, just take your gift of grain, or meat and lay it on the table of the poor.20. From it an incense will arise to heaven, which will return to you with blessedness.21. Tear down your idols; they can hear you not; turn all your sacrificial altars into fuel for the flames.22. Make human hearts your altars, and burn your sacrifices with the fire of love.23. And all the people were entranced, and would have worshiped Jesus as a God; but Jesus said,24. I am your brother man just come to show to way to God; you shall not worship man; praise God, the Holy One.
1. The words and works of Jesus caused unrest through all the land.2. The common people were his friends, believed in him and followed him in thongs.3. The priests and rulers were afraid of him, his very name sent terror to their hearts.4. He preached the brotherhood of life, the righteousness of equal rights, and taught the uselessness of priests, and sacrificial rites.5. He shook the very sand on which the Brahmic system stood; he made the Brahmic idols seem so small, and sacrifice so fraught with sin, that shrines and wheels of prayer were all forgot.6. The priests declared that if this Jewish boy should tarry longer in the land a revolution would occur; the common people would arise and kill the priests, and tear the temples down.7. And so they sent a call abroad, and priests from every province came.
The Athenians pray to idols.
Shall I forget all creatures else, and lose my life in this fair maiden, though she is the highest type of beauty, purity and love?21. Into its very depths his soul was stirred, and long he wrestled with this angel-idol of his heart.22. But when the day was almost lost, his higher ego rose in might; he found himself again, and then he said,23. Although my heart shall break I will not fail in this my hardest task; I will be victor over carnal love.24. And when again the maiden came, and offered him her hand and heart, he said,25. Fair one, your very presence thrills me with delight; your voice is benediction to my soul; my human self would fly with you, and be contented in your love;26. But all the world is craving for a love that I have come to manifest.27. I must, then, bid you go; but we will meet again; our ways on earth will not be cast apart.28. I see you in the hurrying throngs of earth as minister of love; I hear your voice in song, that wins the hearts of men to better things.29. And then in sorrow and in tears the maiden went away, and Jesus was again alone.30. And instantly the great bells of the temple rang; the singers sung a new, new song; the grotto blazed with light.31. The hierophant himself appeared, and said, All hail!
But you can never see the king while you press sin as such a precious idol to your hearts.28. The king is God; the pure in heart alone can see the face of God and live.29. And then the priests cried out, This fellow claims to be the God.
Man cannot make an image of the Infinite in force.12. And when men make a God of stone or wood or clay they make an image of a shade; and they who worship at the shrine of shades are shades.13. So God in mercy said, You shall not carve out images of wood, or clay, or stone.14. Such idols are ideals, abased ideals, and men can gain no higher plane than their ideals.15. The God is Spirit men must worship if they would attain a consciousness of God.16. But man can never make a picture or an image of the Holy Breath.17. The name of God man may not speak with carnal lips; with Holy Breath alone can man pronounce the name.18. In vanity men think they know the name of God; they speak it lightly and irreverently, and thus they are accursed.19. If men did know the sacred name and spoke it with unholy lips, they would not live to speak it once again.20. But God in mercy has not yet unveiled his name to those who cannot speak with Holy Breath.21. But they who speak the substitute in idle way are guilty in the sight of God, who said,22. You shall not take the name of God in vain.23. The number of the Holy Breath is seven, and God holds in his hands the sevens of time.24. In forming worlds he rested on the seventh day, and every seventh day is set apart as Sabbath day for men.
1. The Lord was standing by the sea; the multitudes were there and one stood forth and said,2. Does God bestow rewards as men bestow rewards, for what is done?3. And Jesus said, Men never know what other men have done, this life is such a seeming life.4. One man may seem to do a mighty work, and be adjudged by men as worthy of a great reward.5. Another man may seem to be a failure in the harvest fields of life, and be dishonoured in the face of men.6. Men do not know the hearts of men; God only knows the hearts of men, and when the day is done he may reward with life the man who fell beneath the burdens of the day, and turn away the man who was the idol of the hearts of men.7. And then he spoke a parable; he said, The kingdom of the soul is like a man who had a vast estate,8. And in the morning time he went down to the market place to search for men to gather in his grain.9. He found three men, and he agreed to give to each a penny for his service for the day, and sent them to his field.10. Again he went down to the market place the third hour of the day and found five men in waiting, and he said, Go down into my field and serve, and I will pay you what is right; and they went down and served.11. He went again; it was the sixth hour of the day, and seven men were waiting at the stand; he sent them to the field to serve.12. And at the eleventh hour he went again; twelve men stood there in seeming idleness; he said to them, Why stand you here in idleness all day?13. They said, Because we have no work to do; no man has hired us.14. And then he sent them to his field to serve.15. Now, when the evening came the man said to his steward, Call the labourers from the field, and pay them for his services.
They have a faith that they have borrowed from the idol worshippers of other lands, that at the end of every year,2. They may heap all their sins upon the head of some man set apart to bear their sins.3. The man becomes a scapegoat for the multitudes; and they believe that when they drive him forth into the wilds, or into foreign lands, they are released from sin.4. So every spring before the feast they chose a prisoner from the prisons of the land, and by a form their own, they fain would make him bear their sins away.5. Among the Jewish prisoners in Jerusalem were three who were the leaders of a vile, seditious band, who had engages in thefts and murders and rapine, and had been sentenced to be crucified.6. Barabbas bar Jezia was among the men who were to die; but he was rich and he had bought of priests the boon to be scapegoat for the people at the coming feast, and he was anxiously in waiting for his hour to come.7. Now, Pilate thought to turn this superstition to account to save the Lord, and so he went again before the Jews and said,8. You men of Israel, according to my custom I will release to you to-day a prisoner who shall bear you sins away.9. This man you drive into the wilds or into foreign lands, and you have asked me to release Barabbas, who has been proven guilty of the murder of a score of men.10. Now, hear me men, Let Jesus be released and let Barabbas pay his debt upon the cross; then you can send this Jesus to the wilds and hear no more of him.11. At what the ruler said the people were enraged, and they began to plot to tear the Roman palace down and drive in exile Pilate, and his household and his guards.12. When Pilate was assured that civil war would follow if he heeded not the wishes of the mob, he took a bowl of water and in the presence of the multitude he washed hid hands and said,13. This man whom you accuse is son of the most holy Gods, and I proclaim my innocence.14. If you would shed his blood, his blood is on your hands and not on mine.15. And then the Jews exclaimed, And let his blood be on our hands and on our children's hands.16. And Pilate trembled like a leaf, in fear.
They said, A great disaster is to come; our gods are mad; they have destroyed our Oracle.4. But when the flames had spent themselves, a man stood on the orac pedestal and said,5. God speaks to man, not by an oracle of wood and gold, but by the voice of man.6. The gods have spoken to the Greeks, and kindred tongues, through images made by man, but God, the One, now speaks to man through Christ the only son, who was, and is and evermore will be.7. This Oracle shall fail; the Living Oracle of God, the One, will never fail.8. Apollo knew the man who spoke; he knew it was the Nazarene who once had taught the wise men in the Acropolis and had rebuked the idol worshippers upon the Athen's beach;9. And in a moment Jesus stood before Apollo and the Silent Brotherhood, and said,10. Behold, for I have risen from the dead with gifts for men.
Always Elohim but the theologians say that those Elohim did not exist, and were only idols.
I understand Dagon and Ashera being referred to as idols, but the word Elohim is also, according to you, wrongly translated as the one God?
Monolatry, worshipping one idol they served one of many Elohims, just as others did.
And the only little rule they came up with was: only we should ensure that believers remain sexually pure, and they don't eat meat sacrificed to idols.
When they say "don't eat meat sacrificed to idols," they're not talking about buying meat from the market and you don't know what was done to it previously.
No: eating meat sacrificed to idols means sacrificing to idols.
Don't eat meat sacrificed to idols; our worship is of God, the source of the cosmos and everything in it—that in which we all live and move and have our being, of which we are all offspring.
He goes to Tibet, India, calls out the Brahmins for idol worship, subjugating lower castes to make idols for cheap labor: "A bunch of hypocrites." The Brahmins come to kill him; he bounces.
A figure called the false Osiris (distinct from any true higher entity) inspires the creation of idols for worship.
He declares male and female aspects of himself as creator, leading to idols named Osiris (male) and Isis (female).
This occurs in sections like the Book of Wars Against Jehovih (Chapter XLVII), where Osiris consults with other false gods such as Baal, Ashtaroth, and Egupt to establish these idols.
Faithists celebrate Jehovih’s creation through gatherings tied to natural cycles (e.g., solstices, harvests), giving thanks without idols.
Inspirer of Prophets: Jehovih raises mortal prophets (e.g., Noe, Zarathustra, Moses) via angels to teach Faithism—monotheistic worship free of idols—guiding humanity toward spiritual purity (Oahspe: Book of Cpenta-armij, Chapter IV).
Disorganized and Malevolent: They lack organization unless manipulated by false gods (e.g., Anuhasaj, Baal), who use drujas to enslave other spirits or inspire mortals to worship idols (Book of Wars Against Jehovih, Chapter XLV).
They are inherently Faithists, worshiping Jehovih as the Great Spirit without idols (Book of Sethantes, Chapter VI).
Sethantes, through Jehovih’s angels, guides the I’hins to establish early communities, teaching them language, rituals, and the principles of Faithism (monotheistic worship of Jehovih without idols).
Osire’s actions break the power of false religions on Earth, particularly those promoting idol worship and warlike practices.
Idol worship increased.Excerpt: “In the four hundred and ninth year after the departure out of Egypt, the entire peace policy and non-resistance of the Mosaical Inspiration was overthrown, and the Israelites became warriors, and even warred against one another… They not only worshiped the imaginary idol, Lord God in heaven, but built representatives of Him in stone and wood.”
They quickly turn to idolatry: they serve Baalim and Ashtaroth, make and worship idols of wood and stone (Judges 2:11–13; 3:7; 10:6).
The book shows a repeated pattern: Israel forsakes God → serves idols → enemies oppress them → they cry out → God sends a judge → temporary deliverance → new cycle of idolatry and violence.
≈591 BCE – ≈961 years after ExodusManasseth, son of Hezekiah, made idol worship official by law and banned Jehovih worship.
He ordered the prophet Isaah sawn in two.Excerpt: “In the year 2439 years before kosmon, Manasseth, son of Hezekiah, established idol worship, and, by law, abolished the worship of Jehovih.
Built altars in the house of the LORD (the Temple) for the host of heaven and set up a carved idol in the Temple (2 Kings 21:7; 2 Chronicles 33:7).
This matches the Oahspe excerpt's claim that Manasseh established idol worship (made it official and widespread, including in the Temple) and abolished pure worship of God (Jehovih in Oahspe terms; the LORD in the Bible).
Idolatry under Manasseh: Both show Manasseh promoting idol worship and reversing reforms (2 Kings 21:1–9 aligns, though Isaiah's sawing is extra-biblical tradition).
The people had made a golden idol (to Baal and another figure) during his long absence (possibly a year).
Often paired with Baal in narratives involving idol worship.
Beginnings in Vind’yu In the rugged mountains of Dharma, Vind’yu (India), God chose Capilya’s family to gather the scattered Faithists—called Vedes, Parsi’es, and others—who were enslaved or hiding from idol-worshipping tyrants.
No other god, lord, idol, man, or angel shall you worship, forever.
Swear against all false gods, lords, and idols, vowing never to serve them—and pass this oath to your children, and their children, forever.
This tracks with biblical complaints about "high places" and idol worship (e.g., 2 Kings 17), hinting that the monotheistic ideal of later Judaism wasn’t fully baked.