Masonic & Occult Symbols Illustrate

the Christians’ “God is not the God of the dead, but of the living” (Matthew 22:31-32, Mark 12:26-27, and Luke 20:37-38). Osiris is known by many other names in other countries. In Thrace and Greece he is known as Dionysus, the god of pleasures and of partying and wine. A contrast between this pagan god and the true Christ once again becomes obvious when we look at the Bible. When Jesus was on earth He was called a “man of sorrows,” not a “god of pleasures.” Isaiah 53:3 prophesied of Jesus that “He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from Him; He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.” Festivals held in Dionysus’ honor often resulted in HUMAN SACRIFICES AND ORGIASTIC (sexual) rites. In Rome Osiris is called Liber or Bacchus. The Lydians named him Bassareus and in Persia he is identified as Mithras, where ASTROLOGY is practiced by his followers. He is Zagreus to the Cretans and “became an underworld divinity who welcomed the souls of the dead to Hades [hell] and helped with their purification.” The Phrygians know Osiris as Sabazius where he is honored as a solar deity (a sun god) who was represented by horns and his emblem was a SERPENT. In other places he went by yet other names such as Deouis, The Boy Jupiter, The Centaur, Orion, Saturn, The Boy Plutus, Iswara, The Winged One, NIMROD, Adoni, Hermes, Prometheus, Poseidon, Butes, Dardanus, Himeros, Imbors, Iasius, Zeus, Iacchus, Hu, Thor, Bel, Serapis, Ormuzd, Apollo, Thammuz, Atus, Hercules, SHIVA, MOLOCH, and, believe it or not, BAAL! The Bible condemned Baal worship. In Jeremiah 32:35 we find that the Israelites “built the high places of Baal, which are in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to cause their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire unto Molech; which I commanded them not, neither came it into My mind, that they should do this abomination, to cause Judah to sin.” Jeremiah 19:5 mentions that the Israelites burnt their children with fire as burnt offerings for Baal. So, now we have a little better idea of who Osiris is and what the all-seeing eye represents. The symbolic sign for Osiris and the sun is the point within the circle. This symbol was covered in the chapter “The Circle,” but as a brief reminder, the point within the circle is a phallic symbol. This symbol also stands for the sun