The Jewish writer Philo Judaeus (Philo the Jew) lived in the city of Alexandria, in Lower Egypt, around the time of Christ. He was greatly concerned about the degeneracy of morals he observed in the Roman Empire in his day. His words apply just as well to our own time, and the lax attitude of the common people to whom Philo was writing, are perfectly mirrored by the common attitude of the average brainwashed person today regarding homosexuality and transgenderism.
Yet another evil much more serious than the one mentioned, has crept into states, paederastia to wit, the bare naming of which was formerly an outrage. But now it is a matter of boast, not only with those who practise it, but also with the pathics, the men of whom it is customary to say, -- They suffer from feminine disease.
In fact they are effeminated in body and soul, and not one spark of manliness do they suffer to appear in them. They braid and deck their hair to look like women, they smear and paint their faces with ceruse and, cosmetics and such like things, anoint their persons with fragrant ointments, -- for a fragrant smell is an attraction much sought after by such. Expending every possible care on their outward adornment, they are not ashamed even to employ every device to change artificially their nature as men into that of women.
Against such it is right to be bloodthirsty, obeying the Law, which commands: to slay, -- and fear no penalty, -- the man-woman who transgresses the law of nature, to let him live not a day, not an hour, -- shaming as he does himself, his family, his country, nay! the whole race of mankind. The paederast must endure the same penalty, for he pursues after a pleasure that is contrary to Nature, and, so far as in him lies, makes States desert and empty of inhabitants, annihilating the begetting of children.
More than this he endeavours to entice others and lead them away into two most abominable vices, unmanliness and effeminacy, bedizening youths (like women), and womanizing men in the vigour of their age, just at the time when they ought rather to be roused to aim at strength and hardihood.
In a word, like a bad farmer, he lets the rich and fertile ploughland lie untilled, and makes it unfruitful, but labours day and night where he can expect no harvest whatever. Now this comes, I think, from the fact that in most States prizes are really offered for incontinence and effeminacy, -- the vices of the paederast and the pathic.
At any rate these men-women may be seen constantly strutting in the agora at the hour of high market, walking in procession at the sacred festivals, sharing, unholy as they are, in holy offices, participating in mysteries and sacrifices, even engaging in the rites of Demeter. Some of them have brought the charm of their youth to such a pass that craving a complete transformation into women, they have amputated their generative members; and now clad in purple robes, as if they had wrought some great benefit to their country, and surrounded by a body guard, they enter in state, all eyes fixed on them.
Now if only such indignation as our Lawgiver has expressed, were generally entertained against those guilty of such effrontery, and if they were banished, as expiating the common guilt of their country, without appeal, this would do much to improve many of their companions. The punishiment of such as had been condemned, if in no possible way to be shirked, would contribute no little to checking any imitation of these lusts on the part of others.
Philo Judaeus (c. 20 BC - c. 50 AD), quoted from the origial Greek by Julius Rosenbaum, The Plague of Lust, (Two Volumes, Paris: Charles Carrington, 1901) volume 1, pages 208-210.
The Jewish writer Philo Judaeus (Philo the Jew) lived in the city of Alexandria, in Lower Egypt, around the time of Christ. He was greatly concerned about the degeneracy of morals he observed in the Roman Empire in his day. His words apply just as well to our own time, and the lax attitude of the common people to whom Philo was writing, are perfectly mirrored by the common attitude of the average brainwashed person today regarding homosexuality and transgenderism.
>Yet another evil much more serious than the one mentioned, has crept into states, *paederastia* to wit, the bare naming of which was *formerly* an outrage. But now it is a matter of boast, not only with those who *practise* it, but also with the *pathics, the men of whom it is customary to say, -- They suffer from feminine disease.*
>In fact they are effeminated in body and soul, and not one spark of manliness do they suffer to appear in them. They braid and deck their hair to look like women, they smear and paint their faces with ceruse and, cosmetics and such like things, anoint their persons with fragrant ointments, -- for a fragrant smell is an attraction much sought after by such. Expending every possible care on their outward adornment, they are not ashamed even to employ every device *to change artificially their nature as men into that of women.*
>Against such it is right to be bloodthirsty, obeying the Law, which commands: to slay, -- and fear no penalty, -- *the man-woman* who transgresses the law of nature, to let him live not a day, not an hour, -- shaming as he does himself, his family, his country, nay! the whole race of mankind. The *paederast* must endure the same penalty, for he pursues after a pleasure that is contrary to Nature, and, so far as in him lies, makes States desert and empty of inhabitants, annihilating the begetting of children.
>More than this he endeavours to entice others and lead them away into two most abominable vices, *unmanliness* and *effeminacy*, bedizening youths (like women), and womanizing men in the vigour of their age, just at the time when they ought rather to be roused to aim at strength and hardihood.
In a word, like a bad farmer, he lets the rich and fertile ploughland lie untilled, and makes it unfruitful, but labours day and night where he can expect no harvest whatever. Now this comes, I think, from the fact that in most States prizes are really offered for *incontinence* and *effeminacy*, -- the vices of the paederast and the pathic.
>At any rate these men-women may be seen constantly strutting in the *agora* at the hour of high market, walking in procession at the sacred festivals, sharing, unholy as they are, in holy offices, participating in mysteries and sacrifices, even engaging in the rites of Demeter. Some of them have brought the charm of their youth to such a pass that *craving a complete transformation into women, they have amputated their generative members;* and now clad in purple robes, as if they had wrought some great benefit to their country, and surrounded by a body guard, they enter in state, all eyes fixed on them.
>Now if only such indignation as our Lawgiver has expressed, were generally entertained against those guilty of such effrontery, and if they were banished, as expiating the common guilt of their country, without appeal, this would do much to improve many of their companions. The punishiment of such as had been condemned, if in no possible way to be shirked, would contribute no little to checking any imitation of these lusts on the part of others.
>Philo Judaeus (c. 20 BC - c. 50 AD), quoted from the origial Greek by Julius Rosenbaum, The Plague of Lust, (Two Volumes, Paris: Charles Carrington, 1901) volume 1, pages 208-210.
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