The prophet's dictionary guide to the supernatural

between the priest-worshipper and the spirit who is served for supposed magical powers. The symbol for the mother goddess is the crescent moon. Any religion embracing it as their emblem, knowingly or not, is a worshipper of her. See Magic, Sorcery, Goddesses, Shamanism, and Goddess Religions. 889. Mother of God—The persistent myth that gods were birthed by women and that creators and creatresses produced lesser gods. Every mother goddess in history was credited with birthing divine offspring, an act mythology promotes as the answer to how creation began and how it is being upheld. The infusion of this stubborn myth into world religions is seen in the claim that the virgin Mary was deified by her role as the birth mother of Jesus Christ. To accept this is to say that the earth is a goddess because it bears fruit, quite reminiscent of the mother goddess contention held by witches, occultists, paganists, and polytheists since time began. Ishtar, Anat, Inanna, Diana, and Venus to name a few, have all laid claim to the titles mother of god and queen of heaven. Christ surely was aware of this obstinate—one word for the Hebrew meaning of Mary—religious belief and took great pains to publicly deliver his natural mother to the apostle John to care for as a son. His doing so showed that Mary’s role as His earthly mother was finished and that it did not constitute her deification. See John 19:25–27. The truth is borne out by the fact that she was in the upper room with the other disciples on the day of Pentecost when the Holy Spirit fell in Jerusalem. She too had to be born again. In addition, before He went to the cross Jesus had His scribes write for later generations that, after Mary gave birth to Him, she went on to have other sons and daughters. See Matthew 13:55–56. It is much like Hannah whose son, after being devoted to the Lord, went on to have other children, and also like Abraham who after Isaac was born and Sarah had died, remarried and begot another family. Political expedience caused the post apostolic Roman church to transfer her role as the mother of the Savior to that of the pagan mother goddesses that have dominated heathen religion for millennia. See Goddess Religions, Queen of Heaven, Mother Goddess, the Dying God, and Creation Myths. 890. Mother of Harlots—The term for Mystery Babylon in Revelation 17:5, so named because of the spiritual and natural connection to the ancient, the goddesses, and their fertility cults of Babylonia. 891. Mount Carmel—Properly called Baal Karmela, it refers to the Canaanite Moabite deity Baal. Mount Carmel was a center of oracular and divinatory prophetics. It is also called the Mount of Divination and was accepted by Yahweh and His prophets as the center of false prophetics. Its name means