Excerpt from The Auto-Christ: Self-Anointed The auto-christ set forth in the text has no relevancy, except by antithesis, to the Messiah of Hebrew h0pe and Christian faith. One may be the anointed in many more senses than that of a Saviour. In truth, my Christos is an anointed destroyer of the divine dogma of popular self-gov ernment, as taught and. Practiced by Saxon Chris tendom. The thought of an enthroned community whose will, crystallized into law, should govern all the relations of citizenship, has ever been the bogy man of autocracy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.

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