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The worship of Apollo included the establishment and maintenance of places of prophecy by means of which the gods could communicate with mankind and reveal futurity to such as deserved the boon. The early history of Greece abounds with accounts of talking trees, rivers, statues, and caves in which nymphs, dryads, or dæmons had taken up their abodes and from which they delivered oracles. While Christian authors have tried to prove that oracular revelations were delivered by the Devil for the purpose of misleading humanity, they have not dared to attack the theory of oracles, because of the repeated reference to it in their own sacred writings. If the onyx stones on the shoulders of Israel's high priest made known by their flashings the will of Jehovah, then a black dove, temporarily endowed with the faculty of speech, could indeed pronounce oracles in the temple of Jupiter Ammon. If the witch of Endor could invoke the shade of Samuel, who in turn gave prophecies to Saul, could not a priestess of Apollo call up the specter of her liege to foretell the destiny of Greece?

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

The Greeks were merely broadcasters and disseminators of letters and culture. They are now known not to be the originators. It was the Phoenicians, Etruscans, Mycenaeans, Thracians, and Cretans, and Armenians, who originated what the world would inherit by way of Greeks and Romans. And these groups and tribes were Indo-European or Caucasian.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

Our point is that the Greek civilization and the first Grecian journalism on foreign parts came centuries <em>after</em> the rise of the Irish and their worldwide civilizations.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

The greatness of classical Greece was due to the culture of the Illi which for the first time in the history of the world was made available to the public.

— Henry Binkley Stein; Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah view

Thus the first Greeks called themselves the Acheans which means people of the Axe, that is Druids, and volumes have been written to show the crossing of Irish and Greek cultures.

— Henry Binkley Stein; The Axe Was God view

The earliest Greeks were the Achaeans. Whence they came is not definitely known, yet in 2000 B.C. their very name indicates an association with the priesthood of the Axe. Ithaca when translated signifies a "piece of the oak" or of the axe.

— Henry Binkley Stein; The Axe Was God view

Extensive reading in Greek history will convince one of the relation of the Greeks to the Great Race of Els, who lived partly in Crete and Memphis.

— Henry Binkley Stein; Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah view

"Duke" means leader, "ali" means god. Ducalion identifies himself as belonging to the race of Els, from which sprang the Greeks.

— Henry Binkley Stein; Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah view

Historians have stated that the various states of ancient Greece went through the forms of government from Royalty to Tyranny, passing through such stages as oligarchy, aristocracy, timocracy, and democracy. They omit the one supreme control that prevailed throughout Greece during any and all the different forms of government: The Oracle held sway in Greece no matter what the form of government. No great design was enacted, no city founded, no colony planted, no war undertaken, without the advice of the Oracle.

— Henry Binkley Stein; Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah view

The Greeks were no longer consulting the Oracle, the word of god. The Sophists were maintaining that there were no gods, that the gods were a myth. In fact, the remote control method of the gods made them seem mythical.

— Henry Binkley Stein; Thirty Thousand Gods Before Jehovah view

In the cosmogony of the Greeks the material universe is brought into being by seven gods, each of whom rules over one of the seven parts of the mundane diffusion. In the Greek system the gods are: Phanes, Ouranos, Chronos, Rhea, Zeus, Poseidon and Hades. The mundane world consists of seven interpenetrating spheres of which six are superphysical and the lowest or seventh is physical. According to this system, the seventh or physical plane is ruled over by Hades, the subterranean god, to symbolize the physical plane as being the farthest removed from the divine energy.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view