Mystery Babylon The Great

An Exposition of Revelation 17 and 18 and an Account of the Rise of the Roman Catholic Church under Pagan Influences

Second Edition, 1988
72 pgs.

George Hawkins Pember was born in 1837.  He was educated at Cambridge University where he took his M.A. in Classics at age twenty-six.  Upon his conversion to Christ, Pember determined to devote his scholastic talents to a close and comprehensive study of the Scriptures for the benefit of God's people.  His penchant for meticulous scholarship, extensive knowledge of ancient cultures, and keen spiritual insight combined to produce works of a quality and depth with few parallels in Christian expository literature.

G. H. Pember died in 1910, leaving a rich legacy of reclaimed spiritual truth, upon which subsequent reformers such as J. N. Darby, Watchman Nee, G. H. Lang, and T. Austin-Sparks would build.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Part 1: Babylon, Religious and Political

1. The Woman on Seven Hills: Mystery Babylon
2. The City Babylon
3. The City Will Re-appear
4. The Vision of the Ephah
5. The Future Babylon

Part 2: The Mysteries and Catholicism

6. The Great Religious Feature of Antiquity
7. The Probable Meaning of Initiation
8. The Lesser and the Greater Mysteries
9. Preparation for the Lesser Mysteries
10. The Orphic Hymns
11. Ancient and Modern Use of Incense
12. The Incense and Pure Offering of the Gentiles
13. The Spiritual Meaning of Incense
14. Doctrine of the Lesser Mysteries
15. The Mystery-Plays
16. Initiation into the Lesser Mysteries
17. The Morality of the Mysteries
18. The Greater Mysteries
19. The Appearance of Deities or Saints
20. "The Real Presence"
21. The Hierophant, or Peter, was the the First Pope
22. Initiation into the Higher Mysteries
23. The Hierophant, or Priest, as God
24. A Third Order of Initiates, corresponding to Bishops
25. The Working of the Leaven
26. The Transfer of Pagan Terms to Nominal Christianity
27. Apostolical Tradition
28. Jewish Tradition
29. Basil on Tradition and Indispensable Pagan Practices
30. The Origin of the Word "Mass"
31. Summary and Inference
32. Historical Developments
33. Dr. Mivart's Apology for Polytheism
34. A Parallel and a Warning

Index