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presented with rich gifts of gold, myrrh, and incense, was
lying. The condensed material in this historical event or
fictitious story of the "Wise Men" from the East is in itself
a plausible legend consisting of more than half a dozen mira-
cles, which the Christian Church alone has been able to
create and to believe in. The Church has preserved the
very names of the Magi, who, headed by the King Caspar,
were "inspired by God," and knew that the little Babe of
Bethlehem was God, Lamb, and King, and therefore they
offered him incense as to a deity, myrrh for his burial as a
sacrifice, and gold for his royal treasury! That the Zoroas-
trian magicians, or the astrologian Chaldees, through the
astral divination and guidance, traversed all that distance to
Jerusalem, and there lost the sight of the star; that the Jewish
reigning sovereign Herod and the inhabitants of Jerusalem
lying. The condensed material in this historical event or
fictitious story of the "Wise Men" from the East is in itself
a plausible legend consisting of more than half a dozen mira-
cles, which the Christian Church alone has been able to
create and to believe in. The Church has preserved the
very names of the Magi, who, headed by the King Caspar,
were "inspired by God," and knew that the little Babe of
Bethlehem was God, Lamb, and King, and therefore they
offered him incense as to a deity, myrrh for his burial as a
sacrifice, and gold for his royal treasury! That the Zoroas-
trian magicians, or the astrologian Chaldees, through the
astral divination and guidance, traversed all that distance to
Jerusalem, and there lost the sight of the star; that the Jewish
reigning sovereign Herod and the inhabitants of Jerusalem