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Chapter 5: Whose world is it, anyway? 149
sacrificial victims, though hitherto buyers were rare. So it is easy to conjecture what
a great number of offenders may be reformed, if a chance to repent is given. 69
So we have these clues:
1. Christians were hated because of their outrageous practices.
2. Their beliefs were described as a pernicious superstition.
3. The pernicious superstition had its origin in Judaea.
4. Christians were convicted because of their “hatred of humanity”.
5. Pliny describes their practices as “benign” but that the core belief was a “vile
superstition carried to an immoderate length”.
6. This “vile superstition” was pervasive and apparently led to the temples and
ancient rites including sacrifice being abandoned.
The question that comes to mind is: what would the peoples of that time have
considered a “vile superstition” or “outrageous practices” when one is aware of
what they considered normal religious practice which included dying god myths
and gnosticism and sacrifice and all the other accoutrements of Christianity as we
know it today? The only real clue we have is the remark: “not so much on the
charge of incendiarism as because of their hatred of humanity - a vile superstition
carried to an immoderate length”.
Their what?
“Their hatred of humanity.”
In Book III of his Gnosis, Boris Mouravieff discusses what he calls “pre-adamic
humanity” and “adamic humanity”. Here are some excerpts of what Mouravieff
has to say:
In the first volume of Gnosis, we already referred several times to the coexistence
of two essentially different races: one of Men, and another of Anthropoids. We
must emphasize the fact that from the esoteric point of view the latter term has no
derogatory meaning.
…The Scriptures contain more than one reference to the coexistence on our planet
of these two humanities – which are now alike in form but unlike in essence. We
can even say that the whole dramatic history of humanity, from the fall of Adam
until today, not excluding the prospect of the new era, is overshadowed by the
coexistence of these two human races whose separation will occur only at the Last
Judgment. 70
…The human tares, the anthropoid race, are the descendants of pre-adamic
humanity. The principal difference between contemporary pre-adamic man and
69 Heironimus, John Paul, trans., “Selected Letters of the Younger Pliny,” in MacKendrick, Paul and
Herbert M. Howe, Classics in Translation, Vol. II: Latin Literature, C (Madison: The University of
Wisconsin Press 1952).
70 Mouravieff, Boris, Gnosis, Volume III, translated and edited by Robin Amis, (Robertsbridge, UK:
Praxis Institute Press 1993) p. 107.