The Phœnician origin of Britons, Scots & Anglo-Saxons : discovered by Phœnician & Sumerian inscriptions in Britain, by preroman Briton coins & a mass of new history : with over one hundred illustrations and maps, стр. 340

304 PHGNICIAN ORIGIN OF BRITONS & SCOTS

pagan people, as they have hitherto supposed the Goths to be, notwithstanding the noble pictures left by contemporary Roman writers of the admirable character and personality of Alaric and other historical Gothic kings. But this “ Arianism” of the Goths is now seen to be the natural and logical outcome of the purity of the Gothic idea of Monotheism, as inherited from their ancestral “ pagan ”’ cult of the Father-god and his Sun-Cross of the Aryans.

This Sun-Fire Cross also now discloses the Gothic or Pheenician Catt: origin of “ The Fiery Cross,” familiar to readers of Scott's semi-historical romances, as carried by the Scottish clans through the glens in summoning the clans to a holy war. It is now seen to be a vestige of the ancient sacred Red Fire Cross of the Catti or Nafti or “ Scot” Sun-worshippers.

The “ Red Cross of St. George’’ of Cappadocia and England also is seen to be the original form of the Cappadocian Hittite or Gothic Fiery Red Cross of the Sun, carried erect as the sceptre or standard of divine Universal Victory. The ecclesiastical attempts at explaining the origin of St. George with his Red Cross and his transference from Cappadocia as patron saint to England, in common with Asia Minor, Syvia-Phenicia, Russia, Portugal and Aragon, form one of the paradoxes of Church history. It affords another illustration of the manner in which the Early Christian Fathers, for proselytizing purposes, introduced into the bosom of the Catholic Church “ pagan ” deities in the guise of Christian saints.

All the ecclesiastic legends of St. George locate him in Cappadocia ; but the personality of the Christian saint of that name is so shadowy as to be transparently non-historical. There are two supposed Christian St. Georges, one a disreputable bishop of that name of Cappadocia and Alexandria, who was martyred by a mob about 362 A.p. ; while a third, more or less mythical, is known only by two medieval references and said to have been martyred about 255 A.D.! The great Gibbon, who does not recognize either of the latter, dismisses the former, saying: “ The infamous George

1B.L.S., Apmil, 308.