In this episode, I sit down with my good friend and fellow author, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, to talk about her new book, "The Women's Bible: A Feminist's Guide to Sex, Feminism, and the Bible."
00:00:00.000So the reason I felt like I need to do a book is because everything I'm saying goes counter to the mainstream narrative and what people believe about what they think is true about feminism, this idea that women were just super oppressed.
00:00:14.160And one day they had enough and they started marching and they demanded the right to vote and then they got the right to vote and then they said we are not going to stay in abusive marriages and we want no fault divorce and you know like this is what people think happened that that women were just on this quest for justice and equality and they were just fighting the oppression that they lived under for so long because they just couldn't take it anymore.
00:00:37.220And that's not at all what we find if we go back and read what women at the time were writing about in fact, to go back to this idea of feminism being born from the occult, a lot of people don't know that a lot of the prominent suffragettes from the late 1800s rewrote the first five books of the Bible with a feminist spin.
00:01:00.660And it's called yeah it's called the women's Bible and you can still buy it right now on Amazon it's by Elizabeth Cady Stanton who was best friends with Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton is probably one of you know she's maybe the number two most popular suffragists of all time.
00:01:16.540um and she wrote this with 39 other feminists and they said right in the foreword right in the beginning of the book the introduction Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes that women will never have true liberation until we get rid of Christianity and Christianity is patriarchal you know the men are in charge.
00:01:38.540um it always you know has this worldview of women being mothers and being you know like Mary was a pure virgin right and uh it's always the men who are the ministers and the clergy and the kings and things like this and so um we have to she said it'd be great if we could just get rid of the Bible if we could just get rid of it that'd be my first preference but it's too popular it's the most popular book in print.
00:02:04.540uh millions of copies all over the world it's been popular for a thousand years so we can't get rid of it so what we have to do then is change it to the point that it's unrecognizable.
00:02:16.540and she she says that right in there the quotes in my book as well so from their perspective we have to do away with and destroy Christianity we have to destroy the family because women can't be truly liberated until we do those two things.
00:02:30.540so they rewrote the Bible took all the patriarchal stuff out they didn't like um for instance they did not make any reference to Eve being the one to eat from the tree of knowledge they made it to where it was both Adam and Eve or or something like that like they took out anything they felt was patriarchal.
00:02:50.540yeah and you know I felt like that I felt like that that Bible tale I was like it's really shows what happens when you listen to women like we should not.
00:02:58.540well and part of the moral of that story is that Adam was nowhere around the reason the serpent went for Eve was because Adam was not like keeping her under his watch and protection somehow momentarily she was on her own.
00:03:16.540and he knew that the way to get to the man was through the woman and that is still very true to this day and especially in politics.
00:03:23.540the way they get to the men is through the women and in marketing the way they get to men is through women so.
00:03:29.540oh my gosh that's the most red pill thing I've ever heard.
00:03:32.540that's so true even like in war stories like the way they get to like a powerful ruler rulers through the girl he's sleeping with.
00:03:42.540oh my god okay so so 19 are you said this what is the sense table.
00:03:48.540yes so that's that chapter is about how all of these suffragettes who are out marching and terrorizing and trying to get the vote for women were also.
00:03:57.540having seances and pretending to be spirit mediums some of them really believed it some of them were total scam artists like I talk about Victoria Woodhull in the book.
00:04:08.540and she was a spirit medium who was also a complete shyster literal snake oil salesman.
00:04:15.540and she would pretend to be a spirit medium and then give people phony cancer cures.
00:04:21.540she would give them stock market information and this is a really interesting story.
00:04:27.540so somehow Victoria Woodhull meets Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the big you know mega rich gilded age millionaires.
00:04:36.540one of the biggest guys on wall street at the time.
00:04:39.540and she was an advocate of free love and she wanted to make you know sex outside of marriage mainstream and acceptable and normal.
00:04:48.540she had a ring of suits who were kind of like spies for her.
00:04:53.540so what she did by hooking up with Cornelius Vanderbilt she would have all of his all of her sleep with a lot of the wall street bankers who were in those circles and get information.
00:05:08.540they say prostitution is the world's oldest profession but actually espionage probably goes right along with prostitution.
00:05:14.540very often you will have escorts and prostitutes be informants or intelligence agents.
00:05:19.540so that's what she did she got a bunch of insider trading info through her prostitution ring gave it to Cornelius Vanderbilt and they took the stock market for a ginormous amount of money.
00:05:31.540I don't even remember millions of dollars in today's money hundreds of millions maybe in the first stock market crash.
00:05:38.540they basically engineered the first stock market crash and profited off of it through the intelligence gathering she did through her prostitution.
00:05:47.540like okay okay that's wrong that's absolutely wrong but I'm a little impressed that's like kind of smart.
00:05:56.540I would not have thought like go get inside information that's a smart plan.
00:06:01.540okay so what was is that what the science table was?
00:06:07.540yeah it was this phenomenon through the late 1800s when spiritualism was very popular.
00:06:13.540spiritualism was like this religious movement of talking to the dead contacting ghosts and spirits.
00:06:19.540house hauntings things like that that's when that stuff became really popular.
00:06:24.540and so a lot of the suffragettes would pretend to be spirit mediums or tarot card readers or fortune tellers.
00:06:30.540in order to do public speaking or like what Victoria Woodhull was doing it was kind of a grifty way to make money.
00:06:39.540It was a way if you were kind of say that you had gotten kind of kicked out of the good graces of society for being a loose woman, you could still make a living as like a spirit medium or a tarot card reader or fortune teller.
00:06:52.540So there's an old saying that goes there's hardly a suffragette who did not sit around the seance table, because it was just it was so.
00:07:08.540in fact, one of the other really popular suffragettes who helped rewrite the Bible, her name was Matilda Joslyn Gage.
00:07:15.540And she was the inspiration for the witches in the Wizard of Oz because she was the mother in law of Frank L. Baum, who wrote the Wizard of Oz.
00:07:23.540And she, he was, they were very close and she inspired him and so Glenda the Good Witch came from Matilda Joslyn Gage because she would teach Frank L. Baum that witchcraft really isn't that bad.
00:07:36.540It's just women fighting for, for, you know, power and it's just women fighting oppression which craft is actually just like based women fighting the patriarchy right so that's actually where.
00:07:49.540The good, the idea of the Good Witch and the Wizard of Oz came from, too, so she was into witchcraft.
00:07:55.540Many of them were theosophists occultists.
00:07:58.540Some of them were in the Golden Dawn, like Aleister Crowley circles.
00:08:03.540So yeah, there was a lot of, a lot of occult practice going on in suffrage circles.
00:08:09.540And then that led to the suffrage march.
00:08:14.540So that's when they all decided to take to the streets and start terrorizing and protesting, knowing that they had these wealthy backers who would bail them out of jail if they got arrested.
00:08:26.540And so that's when, like, that's why they're seen as a terrorist group because they had the, the divorced lady for Victoria something, right?
00:08:45.540The Vanderbilt family is this like ultra wealthy family.
00:08:48.540Um, like Anderson Cooper is from the Vanderbilt family, Gloria Vanderbilt, the designer.
00:08:54.540Um, so they were like a really wealthy family of the time.
00:08:58.540And yeah, that's, that's why they were able to go out and do terrorism and get her.
00:09:03.540They were kind of like feminist Antifa.
00:09:05.540They'd go out and do a bunch of activist terrorism, get arrested, and then just get bailed right back out by wealthy backers who would put them back out on the street to continue doing what they were doing.
00:09:15.540And they, and these are the same people that funded the passage of the 19th amendment.
00:09:21.540And again, their reasoning is they're better able to control people and sell them a solution where they, and usually the solution involves more control.
00:09:40.540So the golden dawn was an occult group in Europe.
00:09:43.540It came to America as well, but it was really popular in the UK.
00:09:47.540Um, and it was the, it was like the theosophical society and some hermetic occultists of various different occult flavors that were kind of blended into one occult religion.
00:10:00.540Aleister Crowley came out of the golden dawn.
00:10:03.540Um, a lot of the other like popular occultists, the, the guys who ended up eventually founding, um, Scientology originally came out of the golden dawn as well.
00:10:13.540And they were the, one of the, this is another reason that occult religion is so, uh, enticing to feminists is because they can usually become presidents of these organizations.
00:10:25.540They can become clergy in these organizations.
00:10:27.540Um, a lot of the feminists I talk about in the book, one of them was like a high priestess in the golden dawn, and she had her own little cult within it that she controlled.
00:10:37.540And it, uh, she taught people how to do sex magic and, uh, all kinds of bizarre stuff.
00:10:43.540So, uh, feminist, you just, uh, occult practice is very enticing to feminists because it offers power based on female sexuality.