Lord (God Sol) as the giver of all good gifts. Hence being observed but
once a year, it was in reality not an ordinance but an anniversary; and
the fact that Christians partake of these emblems so frequently during
the year indicates that the original signification of the Lord's Supper
has been lost.


Transubstantiation,

or the conversion of the bread and wine into the veritable blood and
body of Christ, is a doctrine of the Catholic church which was derived
from the ritual of the ancient solar worship.

In the 26th chapter of Matthew we have an account of the Lord
administering the last supper to his Disciples on the eve of the
autumnal crucifixion, and in verse 27 it reads that "he took the cup,
and gave thanks, and gave it to them, saying, Drink ye all of it." The
compilers of the modern version of the Gospel story must surely have
inadvertently copied this text as it read in the ancient versions of
that old, old story, which, when observed in remembrance of "Our Lord
and Saviour Bacchus," was called the Bacchanalia, or feast, of Bacchus.
At these orgies the participants give thanks for the wine by not only
drinking all of one cup, but many more; in fact they kept on drinking
until they fell under the table.


Autumnal Crucifixion.

The beneficent seasons of Spring and Summer coming to an end at the
Autumnal Equinox, the 22d of September was made the anniversary of the