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Hypatia of Alexandria (370 AD - 415 AD) was a teacher, philosopher and polymath. A Christian mob attacked her as she drove through the streets of the city. They dragged her from her chariot and proceeded to beat her to death. After she was dead the mob took sharp shells and used them to tear every piece of flesh from her bones. Her remains were then cast into a bonfire and burned so that not a trace of the seer remained.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

While it is true that the best minds of the Christianity of that period may readily be absolved from the charge of participes criminis, the implacable hatred of Cyril unquestionably communicated itself to the more fanatical members of his faith, particularly to a group of monks from the Nitrian desert. Led by Peter the Reader, a savage and illiterate man, they attacked Hypatia on the open street as she was passing from the academy to her home. Dragging the defenseless woman from her chariot, they took her to the Cæsarean Church. Tearing away her garments, they pounded her to death with clubs, after which they scraped the flesh from her bones with oyster shells and carried the mutilated remains to a place called Cindron, where they burned them to ashes.

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

At this time Cyril--later to be renowned as the founder of the doctrine of the Christian Trinity and canonized for his zeal--was Bishop of Alexandria. Seeing in Hypatia a continual menace to the promulgation of the Christian faith, Cyril--indirectly at least--was the cause of her tragic end. Despite every later effort to exonerate him from the stigma of her murder, the incontrovertible fact remains that he made no effort to avert the foul and brutal crime.

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

Hypatia not only proved conclusively the pagan origin of the Christian faith but also exposed the purported miracles then advanced by the Christians as tokens of divine preference by demonstrating the natural laws controlling the phenomena.

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

One afternoon in 414 when Hypatia was leaving a lecture hall, a gang of black-cowelled monks forced her from her chariot, stripping her naked and dragged her through the streets to a nearby church. There they pulled her through the cool, flitting shadows to the alter. In an atmosphere perfumed with incense they swarmed all over her body, her naked form now covered by black cloth, and they tore her limb from limb. Later they scraped the flesh from her bones using oyster shells and burned all her remains.

The [Roman] church was trying to erase Hypatia from history just as the priests of Amun had tried to erase Akhenaten.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view