NIEMOJEWSKI Andrew - The Bible and the stars. A hundred questions, put to biblical scholars, and a hundred answers, for people who know how to think with their own heads [1924].

Warsaw 1924, published by the author's family. 14.5x22 cm, pp. (4), 121, (1), half cloth bookbinding, publisher's soft cover preserved. Good condition (rust spots in several places).

The cover was designed by Lech Niemojewski.

Andrzej Niemojewski (1864-1921) - poet, writer and publicist of the Young Poland period, publisher of the weekly "Myśl Niepodległa" (Independent Thought), creator of the theory of the astrological origin of the doctrines of Christianity.

"I aspire to (...) scientifically clarify the literary garment of the Bible and its rhetorical images, so that the modern mind does not take this venerable monument as a collection of fables, but as a masterpiece of the wisdom of the time and the writing genius of the time. (...) To this end, I pose a hundred questions to biblical scholars, the answers to which they will not find in the arsenals of their knowledge. And in order to free the mental world from a new deluge of their venerable dialectics, supported in sometimes the most amusing and outright compromising manner by the unfortunate philology, pulled violently by the hair, I throw them at the same time a hundred answers, so that instead of indulging in supposedly pious and supposedly skillful declamations, they begin at last to study what is necessary, and as a result of this diligence actually merit chairs and titles, giving them, in the eyes of the general public who are unaware of things, a patent of authority, and which authority I take the liberty here of questioning. (...)" [from the preface].