1917_The_Finished_Mystery_Text

The Pope with his clergy are the forerunners ofAntiChrist, rather than the servants of Christ.The Pope's court on earth plunders the Heavenlycourt of Christ. The clergy never read the Bookof God; but they are ever studying the book ofthis world. I once loved priests more than menand even angels. The kiss of those fornicatingpriests is the kiss of Judas when he betrayed ourLord!"— Montagu, pages 305-6.An essential factor in the power of this evil one,and an important part of the iniquity ofecclesiasticism is the Romish confessional,which many Episcopal and Protestantecclesiastics would, if they could, establish in theharlot daughters, the daughter, churches,Protestantism. This feature is of Pagan origin."Auricular confession was enjoined in theElusinian mysteries, by Zoroaster in Persia, byBuddha in India, and was practiced by theancient Babyionians and Egyptians, theMexicans before Cortez, the Peruvians beforePizarro, by the Japanese, the Siamese, andothers." The confessional has made of everypriest a spy upon the privacy of the home, theinner secrets of business and the confidentialaffairs of city, state, province, and nation.Theoretically the confessions are confidential, asDr. Dens says: "It is not lawful to revealanything that is told in confession, though it beto avoid the greatest evil that can happen; butactually the secrets of the confessional arerevealed."De Sanctis," page 122, says: "While thepenitent arraigns his faults with all the fatuity ofa simpleton, what is the confessor doing?Laughing at the simplicity of the penitent: andafterwards in the priestly orgies that follow amorning of great confessions, in the hilarity thatflows from wine, amid coarse explosions oflaughter, they describe the stupid folly of theirFM526penitents; and each priest vies with his fellows inrendering his own penitents more ridiculous than