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11 Oct 2005 04:41:14 PM |
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Re: Catholic Morality |
Rowland Croucher wrote:
Roman Catholic morality is a contradiction in terms. Catholics worship
Mary, and venerate paedophile priests.
In Christ
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Rowland Butter (ne=E9 Croucher)
Croucher Rs-lickin GmbH (Z=FCrich)
http://rowlandcroucher.chelmsfordbaptist.com/
Catholics do not worship Mary. She is adored and is prayed to as an
intercessor, like all of the saints are, but only God is worshiped and
glorified. It is through God and only God that all others are able to
enact.
When the Virgin Mary appeared to the children at Fatima, or to St. Juan
Diego in Mexico five hundred years ago, it was by God's authority that
she did so.
Hail Mary:
Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with Thee;
Blessed art Thou among women;
And blessed is the fruit
of Thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
*pray for us sinners,*
now and at the hour
of our death. Amen.
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| User: "Olrik" |
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11 Oct 2005 10:12:04 PM |
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wrote:
Rowland Croucher wrote:
Roman Catholic morality is a contradiction in terms. Catholics worship
Mary, and venerate paedophile priests.
In Christ
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Rowland Butter (neé Croucher)
Croucher Rs-lickin GmbH (Zürich)
http://rowlandcroucher.chelmsfordbaptist.com/
Catholics do not worship Mary. She is adored and is prayed to as an
intercessor, like all of the saints are, but only God is worshiped and
glorified. It is through God and only God that all others are able to
enact.
When the Virgin Mary appeared to the children at Fatima, or to St. Juan
Diego in Mexico five hundred years ago, it was by God's authority that
she did so.
What, she has no free will? She was raped by "god" and she can't even
come here and tease little brats? For shame!
Hail Mary:
Hail Mary, full of grace,
the Lord is with Thee;
Blessed art Thou among women;
And blessed is the fruit
of Thy womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God,
*pray for us sinners,*
now and at the hour
of our death. Amen.
--
Olrik
aa #1981
Qualified SMASH member
EAC Chief Food Inspector, Bacon Division
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| User: "Richo" |
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11 Oct 2005 10:01:33 PM |
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wrote:
Rowland Croucher wrote:
Roman Catholic morality is a contradiction in terms. Catholics worship
Mary, and venerate paedophile priests.
In Christ
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Rowland Butter (ne=E9 Croucher)
Croucher Rs-lickin GmbH (Z=FCrich)
http://rowlandcroucher.chelmsfordbaptist.com/
Catholics do not worship Mary. She is adored and is prayed to as an
intercessor, like all of the saints are, but only God is worshiped and
glorified.
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A meaningless distinction.
Mark.
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| User: "EbedDoulos" |
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12 Oct 2005 09:05:45 PM |
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"Richo" <m.richardson@utas.edu.au> wrote in message
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vivapadrepio@aol.com wrote:
Rowland Croucher wrote:
Roman Catholic morality is a contradiction in terms. Catholics worship
Mary, and venerate paedophile priests.
In Christ
--
Rowland Butter (neé Croucher)
Croucher Rs-lickin GmbH (Zürich)
http://rowlandcroucher.chelmsfordbaptist.com/
Catholics do not worship Mary. She is adored and is prayed to as an
intercessor, like all of the saints are, but only God is worshiped and
glorified.
A meaningless distinction.
Mark.
I may be LDS and not Catholic but that is a far cry from a meaningless
distiction unless of course one is being purposefully argumenative, one is
either being deliberately obtuse or one's vocabulary is permanently arrested
at a 6th grade level. Let me explain it to you: Catholics "talk" to Mary in
the hope that she in turn will "talk" in your behalf to to her son Jesus.
Like Latter-day Saints and most protestants, Catholics think only Heavenly
Father, his son Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are to be respected and
esteemed as God.
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| User: "øéòéï áøúåïý/Riain Barton" |
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12 Oct 2005 11:57:39 PM |
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Making ye all polytheistic idiots!
KEEP YOUR FUCKING MYTHOLOGY OFF OF OUR JEWISH GROUP!
"EbedDoulos" <ebeddoulos@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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:
: I may be LDS and not Catholic but that is a far cry from a meaningless
: distiction unless of course one is being purposefully argumenative,
one is
: either being deliberately obtuse or one's vocabulary is permanently
arrested
: at a 6th grade level. Let me explain it to you: Catholics "talk" to
Mary in
: the hope that she in turn will "talk" in your behalf to to her son
Jesus.
: Like Latter-day Saints and most protestants, Catholics think only
Heavenly
: Father, his son Jesus Christ and the Holy Ghost are to be respected
and
: esteemed as God.
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| User: "The Department of Defense" |
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13 Oct 2005 04:29:13 PM |
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"øéòéï áøúåïý/Riain Barton" <riain@zion.org.il> wrote in message
news:qMl3f.6854$Ls.5343@bignews2.bellsouth.net...
Making ye all polytheistic idiots!
KEEP YOUR FUCKING MYTHOLOGY OFF OF OUR JEWISH GROUP!
Hey fuckhead, this is X-posted to other groups and not by that user you are
screaming at.
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| User: "EbedDoulos" |
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13 Oct 2005 06:50:35 PM |
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Excellent, I see it works on assorted subspecies of the vulgar pygmy
intellects, as well.
--
Ebed Doulos ~ A Christ seeking, Bible believing, Blood bought, Truth taught
Latter-day Saint Christian.
"The Department of Defense" <thecats@ss.mil> wrote in message
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"øéòéï áøúåïý/Riain Barton" <riain@zion.org.il> wrote in message
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Making ye all polytheistic idiots!
KEEP YOUR FUCKING MYTHOLOGY OFF OF OUR JEWISH GROUP!
Hey fuckhead, this is X-posted to other groups and not by that user you
are
screaming at.
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| User: "The Department of Defense" |
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13 Oct 2005 08:26:29 PM |
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"EbedDoulos" <ebeddoulos@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Excellent, I see it works on assorted subspecies of the vulgar pygmy
intellects, as well.
Go away, you are not my target.
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| User: "Mimi Cohen" |
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13 Oct 2005 08:47:49 PM |
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The Department of Defense wrote:
"EbedDoulos" <ebeddoulos@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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Excellent, I see it works on assorted subspecies of the vulgar pygmy
intellects, as well.
Go away, you are not my target.
Isn't the phrase "catholic morality" an oxymoron? :)
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| User: "The Department of Defense" |
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13 Oct 2005 09:09:34 PM |
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"Mimi Cohen" <imnot@cox.net> wrote in message
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The Department of Defense wrote:
"EbedDoulos" <ebeddoulos@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:dimrsh$rn$1@news.xmission.com...
Excellent, I see it works on assorted subspecies of the vulgar pygmy
intellects, as well.
Go away, you are not my target.
Isn't the phrase "catholic morality" an oxymoron? :)
That is not nice...... I wouldn't say to you is the phrase "judaic morality"
an oxymoron....... I would rather build bridges than torch them. :o(
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| User: "" |
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13 Oct 2005 11:55:21 PM |
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On 13-Oct-2005, "EbedDoulos" <ebeddoulos@yahoo.com> wrote:
Excellent, I see it works on assorted subspecies of the vulgar pygmy
intellects, as well.
You are, as usual, wrong - *nothing* seems to work on you.
Susan
--
"The Department of Defense" <thecats@ss.mil> wrote in message
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"øéòéï áøúåïý/Riain Barton" <riain@zion.org.il> wrote in message
news:qMl3f.6854$Ls.5343@bignews2.bellsouth.net...
Making ye all polytheistic idiots!
KEEP YOUR FUCKING MYTHOLOGY OFF OF OUR JEWISH GROUP!
Hey fuckhead, this is X-posted to other groups and not by that user you
are
screaming at.
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| User: "EbedDoulos" |
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14 Oct 2005 12:59:41 AM |
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You are incorrect. Civility works. Vulgarity does not, incivility does not
and arrogance does not. I will not stoop to vulgarity as your associates
have but if you are arrogant or uncivil, you can rely on me giving you an
overdose of your own medicine. I would highly suggest that you and your ilk
either slink back to what-ever festering hole you clambered out of or back
off of your vulgarity, your incivility and your arrogance. If you do
either, I shall go about my business and not bother you again for you will
not be bothering me.
--
Ebed Doulos ~ A Christ seeking, Bible believing, Blood bought, Truth taught
Latter-day Saint Christian.
<flaviaR@verizon.net> wrote in message news:ZSG3f.25913$3w.3967@trnddc07...
On 13-Oct-2005, "EbedDoulos" <ebeddoulos@yahoo.com> wrote:
Excellent, I see it works on assorted subspecies of the vulgar pygmy
intellects, as well.
You are, as usual, wrong - *nothing* seems to work on you.
Susan
--
"The Department of Defense" <thecats@ss.mil> wrote in message
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"øéòéï áøúåïý/Riain Barton" <riain@zion.org.il> wrote in message
news:qMl3f.6854$Ls.5343@bignews2.bellsouth.net...
Making ye all polytheistic idiots!
KEEP YOUR FUCKING MYTHOLOGY OFF OF OUR JEWISH GROUP!
Hey fuckhead, this is X-posted to other groups and not by that user you
are
screaming at.
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| User: "øéòéï áøúåïý/Riain Barton" |
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14 Oct 2005 01:53:00 AM |
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http://jdstone.org/cr/files/theoriginsofchristianity.html
THE ORIGINS OF CHRISTIANITY AND
THE QUEST FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS CHRIST
Acharya S *
Introduction
Around the world over the centuries, much has been written about
religion, its meaning, its relevance and contribution to humanity. In
the West particularly, sizable tomes have been composed speculating upon
the nature and historical background of the main character of Western
religions, Jesus Christ. Many have tried to dig into the precious few
clues as to Jesus’ identity and come up with a biographical sketch that
either bolsters faith or reveals a more human side of this god–man to
which we can all relate. Obviously, considering the time and energy
spent on them, the subjects of Christianity and its legendary founder
are very important to the Western mind and culture.
The Controversy
Despite all of this literature continuously being cranked out and the
significance of the issue, in the public at large there is a serious
lack of formal and broad education regarding religion and mythology, and
most individuals are highly uninformed in this area. Concerning the
issue of Christianity, for example, the majority of people are taught in
most schools and churches that Jesus Christ was an actual historical
figure and that the only controversy regarding him is that some people
accept him as the Son of God and the Messiah, while others do not.
However, whereas this is the raging debate most evident in this field
today, it is not the most important. Shocking as it may seem to the
general populace, the most enduring and profound controversy in this
subject is whether or not a person named Jesus Christ ever really
existed.
Although this debate may not be evident from publications readily found
in popular bookstores1, when one examines this issue closely, one will
find a tremendous volume of literature that demonstrates, logically and
intelligently, time and again that Jesus Christ is a mythological
character along the same lines as the Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Sumerian,
Phoenician, Indian or other god–men, who are all presently accepted as
myths rather than historical figures2. Delving deeply into this large
body of work, one uncovers evidence that the Jesus character is based
upon much older myths and heroes from around the globe. One discovers
that this story is not, therefore, a historical representation of a
Jewish rebel carpenter who had physical incarnation in the Levant 2,000
years ago. In other words, it has been demonstrated continually for
centuries that this character, Jesus Christ, was invented and did not
depict a real person who was either the “son of God” or was
“evemeristically” made into a superhuman by enthusiastic followers3.
History and Positions of the Debate
This controversy has existed from the very beginning, and the writings
of the “Church Fathers” themselves reveal that they were constantly
forced by the pagan intelligentsia to defend what the non–Christians and
other Christians (“heretics”)4 alike saw as a preposterous and
fabricated yarn with absolutely no evidence of it ever having taken
place in history. As Rev. Robert Taylor says, “And from the apostolic
age downwards, in a never interrupted succession, but never so strongly
and emphatically as in the most primitive times, was the existence of
Christ as a man most strenuously denied.”5 Emperor Julian, who, coming
after the reign of the fanatical and murderous “good Christian”
Constantine, returned rights to pagan worshippers, stated, “If anyone
should wish to know the truth with respect to you Christians, he will
find your impiety to be made up partly of the Jewish audacity, and
partly of the indifference and confusion of the Gentiles, and that you
have put together not the best, but the worst characteristics of them
both.”6 According to these learned dissenters, the New Testament could
rightly be called, “Gospel Fictions.”7
A century ago, mythicist Albert Churchward said, “The canonical gospels
can be shown to be a collection of sayings from the Egyptian Mythos and
Eschatology.”8 In Forgery in Christianity, Joseph Wheless states, “The
gospels are all priestly forgeries over a century after their pretended
dates.”9 Those who concocted some of the hundreds of “alternative”
gospels and epistles that were being kicked about during the first
several centuries C.E. have even admitted that they had forged the
documents.10 Forgery during the first centuries of the Church’s
existence was admittedly rampant, so common in fact that a new phrase
was coined to describe it: “pious fraud.”11 Such prevarication is
confessed to repeatedly in the Catholic Encyclopedia.12 Some of the
“great” church fathers, such as Eusebius13, were determined by their own
peers to be unbelievable liars who regularly wrote their own fictions of
what “the Lord” said and did during “his” alleged sojourn upon the
earth.14
The Proof
The assertion that Jesus Christ is a myth can be proved not only through
the works of dissenters and “pagans” who knew the truth – and who were
viciously refuted or murdered for their battle against the Christian
priests and “Church Fathers” fooling the masses with their fictions –
but also through the very statements of the Christians themselves, who
continuously disclose that they knew Jesus Christ was a myth founded
upon more ancient deities located throughout the known ancient world. In
fact, Pope Leo X, privy to the truth because of his high rank, made this
curious declaration, “What profit has not that fable of Christ brought
us!”15 (Emphasis added.) As Wheless says, “The proofs of my indictment
are marvelously easy.”
The Gnostics
From their own admissions, the early Christians were incessantly under
criticism by scholars of great repute who were impugned as “heathens” by
their Christian adversaries. This group included many Gnostics, who
strenuously objected to the carnalization of their deity, as the
Christians can be shown to have taken many of the characteristics of
their god and god–man from the Gnostics, meaning “Ones who know,” a
loose designation applied to members of a variety of esoteric schools
and brotherhoods. The refutations of the Christians against the Gnostics
reveal that the Christian god–man was an insult to the Gnostics, who
held that their god could never take human form.16
Biblical Sources
It is very telling that the earliest Christian documents, the Epistles
attributed to “Paul,” never discuss a historical background of Jesus but
deal exclusively with a spiritual being who was known to all gnostic
sects for hundreds to thousands of years. The few “historical”
references to an actual life of Jesus cited in the Epistles are
demonstrably interpolations and forgeries, as are, according to Wheless,
the Epistles themselves, as they were not written by “Paul.”17 Aside
from the brief reference to Pontius Pilate at 1 Timothy 6:13, an epistle
dated ben Yehoshua to 144 CE and thus not written by Paul, the Pauline
literature (as pointed out by Edouard Dujardin) “does not refer to
Pilate18, or the Romans, or Caiaphas, or the Sanhedrin, or Herod19, or
Judas, or the holy women, or any person in the gospel account of the
Passion, and that it also never makes any allusion to them; lastly, that
it mentions absolutely none of the events of the Passion, either
directly or by way of allusion.”20 Dujardin additionally relates that
other early “Christian” writings such as Revelation do not mention any
historical details or drama.21 Mangasarian notes that Paul also never
quotes from Jesus’ purported sermons and speeches, parables and prayers,
nor does he mention Jesus’ supernatural birth or any of his alleged
wonders and miracles, all which one would presume would be very
important to his followers, had such exploits and sayings been known
prior to “Paul.”22
Turning to the gospels themselves, which were composed between 170–180
C.E.22a, their pretended authors, the apostles, give sparse histories
and genealogies of Jesus that contradict each other and themselves in
numerous places. The birthdate of Jesus is depicted as having taken
place at different times. His birth and childhood are not mentioned in
“Mark,” and although he is claimed in “Matthew” and “Luke” to have been
“born of a virgin,” his lineage is traced to the House of David through
Joseph, such that he may “fulfill prophecy.”23 He is said in the first
three (Synoptic) gospels to have taught for one year before he died,
while in “John” the number is three years. “Matthew” relates that Jesus
delivered “The Sermon on the Mount”24 before “the multitudes,” while
“Luke” says it was a private talk given only to the disciples. The
accounts of his Passion and Resurrection differ utterly from each other,
and no one states how old he was when he died.25 Wheless says, “The
so–called ‘canonical’ books of the New Testament, as of the Old, are a
mess of contradictions and confusions of text, to the present estimate
of 150,000 and more ‘variant readings,’ as is well known and admitted.”26
In addition, of the dozens of gospels, ones that were once considered
canonical or genuine were later rejected as “apocryphal” or spurious,
and vice versa. So much for the “infallible Word of God” and
“infallible” Church! The confusion exists because the Christian
plagiarists over the centuries were attempting to amalgamate and fuse
practically every myth, fairytale, legend, doctrine or bit of wisdom
they could pilfer from the innumerable different mystery religions and
philosophies that existed at the time. In doing so, they forged,
interpolated, mutilated, changed, and rewrote these texts for
centuries.27
Non–Biblical Sources
Basically, there are no non–biblical references to a historical Jesus by
any known historian of the time during and after Jesus’ purported
advent. Walker says, “No literate person of his own time mentioned him
in any known writing.” Eminent Hellenistic Jewish historian and
philosopher Philo (20 B.C.E.–50 C.E.), alive at the purported time of
Jesus, makes no mention of him. Nor do any of the some 40 other
historians who wrote during the first one to two centuries of the Common
Era. “Enough of the writings of [these] authors...remain to form a
library. Yet in this mass of Jewish and Pagan literature, aside from two
forged passages in the works of a Jewish author, and two disputed
passages in the works of Roman writers, there is to be found no mention
of Jesus Christ.”28 Their silence is deafening testimony against the
historicizers.
In the entire works of the Jewish historian Josephus, which constitute
many volumes, there are only two paragraphs that purport to refer to
Jesus. Although much has been made of these “references,” they have been
dismissed by all scholars and even by Christian apologists as forgeries,
as have been those referring to John the Baptist and James, “brother” of
Jesus. Bishop Warburton labeled the Josephus interpolation regarding
Jesus as “a rank forgery, and a very stupid one, too.”29 Wheless notes
that, “The first mention ever made of this passage, and its text, are in
the Church History of that ‘very dishonest writer,’ Bishop Eusebius, in
the fourth century...CE [Catholic Encyclopedia] admits... the above
cited passage was not known to Origen and the earlier patristic
writers.” Wheless, a lawyer, and Taylor, a minister, agree that it was
Eusebius himself who forged the passage.
Regarding the letter to Trajan supposedly written by Pliny the Younger,
which is one of the pitifully few “references” to Jesus or Christianity
held up by Christians as evidence of the existence of Jesus, there is
but one word that is applicable – “Christian” – and that has been
demonstrated to be spurious, as is also suspected of the entire letter.
Concerning the passage in the works of the historian Tacitus, who did
not live during the purported time of Jesus but was born two decades
after his purported death, this is also considered by competent scholars
as an interpolation and forgery.30 Christian defenders also like to hold
up the passage in Suetonius that refers to someone named “Chrestus” or
“Chresto” as reference to their Savior; however, while some have
speculated that there was a Roman man of that name at that time, the
name “Chrestus” or “Chrestos,” meaning “useful,” was frequently held by
freed slaves. Others opine that this passage is also an interpolation.
As to these references and their constant regurgitation by Christian
apologists, Dr. Alvin Boyd Kuhn says:
“The average Christian minister who has not read outside the pale of
accredited Church authorities will impart to any parishioner making the
inquiry the information that no event in history is better attested by
witness than the occurrences in the Gospel narrative of Christ’s life.
He will go over the usual citation of the historians who mention Jesus
and the letters claiming to have been written about him. When the
credulous questioner, putting trust in the intelligence and good faith
of his pastor, gets this answer, he goes away assured on the point of
the veracity of the Gospel story. The pastor does not qualify his data
with the information that the practice of forgery, fictionizing and
fable was rampant in the early Church. In the simple interest of truth,
then, it is important to examine the body of alleged testimony from
secular history and see what credibility and authority it possesses.
“First, as to the historians whose works record the existence of Jesus,
the list comprises but four. They are Pliny, Tacitus, Suetonius and
Josephus. There are short paragraphs in the works of each of these, two
in Josephus. The total quantity of this material is given by Harry Elmer
Barnes in The Twilight of Christianity as some twenty–four lines. It may
total a little more, perhaps twice that amount. This meager testimony
constitutes the body or mass of the evidence of ‘one of the best
attested events in history.’ Even if it could be accepted as
indisputably authentic and reliable, it would be faltering support for
an event that has dominated the thought of half the world for eighteen
centuries.
“But what is the standing of this witness? Not even Catholic scholars of
importance have dissented from a general agreement of academic
investigators that these passages, one and all, must by put down as
forgeries and interpolations by partisan Christian scribes who wished
zealously to array the authority of these historians behind the
historicity of the Gospel life of Jesus. A sum total of forty or fifty
lines from secular history supporting the existence of Jesus of
Nazareth, and they completely discredited!”30a
Of these “references,” Dujardin says, “But even if they are authentic,
and were derived from earlier sources, they would not carry us back
earlier than the period in which the gospel legend took form, and so
could attest only the legend of Jesus, and not his historicity.” In any
case, these scarce and brief “references” to a man who supposedly shook
up the world can hardly be held up as proof of his existence, and it is
absurd that the purported historicity of the entire Christian religion
is founded upon them.31 As it is said, “Extraordinary claims require
extraordinary proof”; yet, no proof of any kind for the historicity of
Jesus has ever existed or is forthcoming.
The Characters
It is evident that there was no single historical person upon whom the
Christian religion was founded, and that “Jesus Christ” is a compilation
of legends, heroes, gods and god–men. There is not adequate room here to
go into detail about each god or god–man that contributed to the
formation of the Jewish Jesus character; suffice it to say that there is
plenty of documentation to show that this issue is not a question of
“faith” or “belief.” The truth is that during the era this character
supposedly lived there was an extensive library at Alexandria and an
incredibly nimble brotherhood network that stretched from Europe to
China, and this information network had access to numerous manuscripts
that told the same narrative portrayed in the New Testament with
different place names and ethnicity for the characters. In actuality,
the legend of Jesus nearly identically parallels the story of Krishna,
for example, even in detail, as was presented by noted mythologist and
scholar Gerald Massey over 100 years ago, as well as by Rev. Robert
Taylor 160 years ago, among others.32 The Krishna tale as told in the
Hindu Vedas has been dated to at least as far back as 1400 B.C.E.33 The
same can be said of the well–woven Horus mythos, which also is
practically identical, in detail, to the Jesus story, but which predates
the Christian version by thousands of years.
As concerns the specious claim that the analogies between the Christ
myth and those outlined below are “non–existent” because they are not
found in “primary sources,” let us turn to the words of the early Church
fathers, who acknowledged that major important aspects of the Christ
character are indeed to be found in the stories of earlier, “Pagan”
gods, but who asserted that the reason for these similarities was
because the evidently prescient devil “anticipated” Christ and planted
“foreshadowing” of his “coming” in the heathens’ minds.
In his First Apology, Christian father Justin Martyr (c. 100–165 CE)
acknowledged the similarities between the older Pagan gods and religions
and those of Christianity, when he attempted to demonstrate, in the face
of ridicule, that Christianity was no more ridiculous than the earlier
myths:
“ANALOGIES TO THE HISTORY OF CHRIST. And when we say also that the Word,
who is the first–birth of God, was produced without sexual union, and
that He, Jesus Christ, our Teacher, was crucified and died, and rose
again, and ascended into heaven, we propound nothing different from what
you believe regarding those whom you esteem sons of Jupiter. For you
know how many sons your esteemed writers ascribed to Jupiter: Mercury,
the interpreting word and teacher of all; Aesculapius, who, though he
was a great physician, was struck by a thunderbolt, and so ascended to
heaven; and Bacchus too, after he had been torn limb from limb; and
Hercules, when he had committed himself to the flames to escape his
toils; and the sons of Leda, and Dioscuri; and Perseus, son of Danae;
and Bellerophon, who, though sprung from mortals, rose to heaven on the
horse Pegasus. For what shall I say of Ariadne, and those who, like her,
have been declared to be set among the stars? And what of the emperors
who die among yourselves, whom you deem worthy of deification, and in
whose behalf you produce some one who swears he has seen the burning
Caesar rise to heaven from the funeral pyre?”
In his endless apologizing, Justin reiterates the similarities between
his god–man and the gods of other cultures:
“As to the objection of our Jesus’ being crucified, I say, that
suffering was common to all the aforementioned sons of Jove [Jupiter] .
.. . As to his being born of a virgin, you have your Perseus to balance
that. As to his curing the lame, and the paralytic, and such as were
cripples from birth, this is little more than what you say of your
Aesculapius.”
In making these comparisons between Christianity and its predecessor
Paganism, however, Martyr sinisterly spluttered:
“It having reached the Devil’s ears that the prophets had foretold the
coming of Christ, the Son of God, he set the heathen Poets to bring
forward a great many who should be called the sons of Jove. The Devil
laying his scheme in this, to get men to imagine that the true history
of Christ was of the same characters the prodigious fables related of
the sons of Jove.”
In his Dialogue with Trypho the Jew, Martyr again admits the
pre–existence of the Christian tale and then uses his standard,
irrational and self–serving apology, i.e., “the devil got there first”:
“Be well assured, then, Trypho, that I am established in the knowledge
of and faith in the Scriptures by those counterfeits which he who is
called the devil is said to have performed among the Greeks; just as
some were wrought by the Magi in Egypt, and others by the false prophets
in Elijah’s days. For when they tell that Bacchus, son of Jupiter, was
begotten by [Jupiter’s] intercourse with Semele, and that he was the
discoverer of the vine; and when they relate, that being torn in pieces,
and having died, he rose again, and ascended to heaven; and when they
introduce wine into his mysteries, do I not perceive that [the devil]
has imitated the prophecy announced by the patriarch Jacob, and recorded
by Moses? And when they tell that Hercules was strong, and travelled
over all the world, and was begotten by Jove of Alcmene, and ascended to
heaven when he died, do I not perceive that the Scripture which speaks
of Christ, “strong as a giant to run his race,” has been in like manner
imitated? And when he [the devil] brings forward Aesculapius as the
raiser of the dead and healer of all diseases, may I not say that in
this matter likewise he has imitated the prophecies about Christ? . . .
And when I hear, Trypho, that Perseus was begotten of a virgin, I
understand that the deceiving serpent counterfeited also this.”
And in his Octavius, Christian writer Minucius Felix (c. 250 CE) denied
that Christians worshipped a “criminal and his cross,” and retorted that
the Pagans did esteem a crucified man:
“Chapter XXIX.–Argument: Nor is It More True that a Man Fastened to a
Cross on Account of His Crimes is Worshipped by Christians, for They
Believe Not Only that He Was Innocent, But with Reason that He Was God.
But, on the Other Hand, the Heathens Invoke the Divine Powers of Kings
Raised into Gods by Themselves; They Pray to Images, and Beseech Their
Genii.
“These, and such as these infamous things, we are not at liberty even to
hear; it is even disgraceful with any more words to defend ourselves
from such charges. For you pretend that those things are done by chaste
and modest persons, which we should not believe to be done at all,
unless you proved that they were true concerning yourselves. For in that
you attribute to our religion the worship of a criminal and his cross,
you wander far from the neighborhood of the truth, in thinking either
that a criminal deserved, or that an earthly being was able, to be
believed God... Crosses, moreover, we neither worship nor wish for. You,
indeed, who consecrate gods of wood, adore wooden crosses perhaps as
parts of your gods. For your very standards, as well as your banners;
and flags of your camp, what else are they but crosses gilded and
adorned? Your victorious trophies not only imitate the appearance of a
simple cross, but also that of a man affixed to it...”
The Jesus story incorporated elements from the tales of other deities
recorded in this widespread area, such as many of the following world
saviors and “sons of God,” most or all of whom predate the Christian
myth, and a number of whom were crucified or executed.33a
· Adad of Assyria
· Adonis, Apollo, Heracles (“Hercules”) and Zeus of Greece
· Alcides of Thebes
· Attis of Phrygia
· Baal of Phoenicia
· Bali of Afghanistan
· Beddru of Japan
· Buddha of India
· Crite of Chaldea
· Deva Tat of Siam
· Hesus of the Druids
· Horus, Osiris, and Serapis of Egypt, whose long–haired, bearded
appearance was adopted for the Christ character34
· Indra of Tibet/India
· Jao of Nepal
· Krishna of India
· Mikado of the Sintoos
· Mithra of Persia
· Odin of the Scandinavians
· Prometheus of Caucasus/Greece
· Quetzalcoatl of Mexico
· Salivahana of Bermuda
· Tammuz of Syria (who was, in a typical mythmaking move, later
turned into the disciple Thomas35)
· Thor of the Gauls
· Universal Monarch of the Sibyls36
· Wittoba of the Bilingonese
· Xamolxis of Thrace
· Zarathustra/Zoroaster of Persia
· Zoar of the Bonzes
The Major Players
Buddha
Although most people think of Buddha as being one person who lived
around 500 B.C.E., the character commonly portrayed as Buddha can also
be demonstrated to be a compilation of god–men, legends and sayings of
various holy men both preceding and succeeding the period attributed to
the Buddha.37
The Buddha character has the following in common with the Christ
figure:38
· Buddha was born of the virgin Maya, who was considered the
“Queen of Heaven.”38a
· He was of royal descent.
· He crushed a serpent’s head.
· Sakyamuni Buddha had 12 disciples.38b
· He performed miracles and wonders, healed the sick, fed 500 men
from a “small basket of cakes,” and walked on water.38c
· He abolished idolatry, was a “sower of the word,” and preached
“the establishment of a kingdom of righteousness.”38d
· He taught chastity, temperance, tolerance, compassion, love,
and the equality of all.
· He was transfigured on a mount.
· Sakya Buddha was crucified in a sin–atonement, suffered for
three days in hell, and was resurrected.38e
· He ascended to Nirvana or “heaven.”
· Buddha was considered the “Good Shepherd”39, the “Carpenter”40,
the “Infinite and Everlasting.”40a
· He was called the “Savior of the World” and the “Light of the
World.”
Horus of Egypt
The stories of Jesus and Horus are very similar, with Horus even
contributing the name of Jesus Christ. Horus and his once–and–future
Father, Osiris, are frequently interchangeable in the mythos (“I and my
Father are one”).41 The legends of Horus go back thousands of years, and
he shares the following in common with Jesus:
· Horus was born of the virgin Isis–Meri on December 25th in a
cave/manger42, with his birth being announced by a star in the East and
attended by three wise men.43
· He was a child teacher in the Temple and was baptized when he
was 30 years old.44
· Horus was also baptized by “Anup the Baptizer,” who becomes
“John the Baptist.”
· He had 12 disciples.
· He performed miracles and raised one man, El–Azar–us, from the
dead.
· He walked on water.
· Horus was transfigured on the Mount.
· He was crucified, buried in a tomb and resurrected.
· He was also the “Way, the Truth, the Light, the Messiah, God’s
Anointed Son, the Son of Man, the Good Shepherd, the Lamb of God, the
Word” etc.
· He was “the Fisher,” and was associated with the Lamb, Lion and
Fish (“Ichthys”).45
· Horus’s personal epithet was “Iusa,” the “ever–becoming son” of
“Ptah,” the “Father.”46
· Horus was called “the KRST,” or “Anointed One,” long before the
Christians duplicated the story.47
In fact, in the catacombs at Rome are pictures of the baby Horus being
held by the virgin mother Isis – the original “Madonna and Child”48 –
and the Vatican itself is built upon the papacy of Mithra49, who shares
many qualities with Jesus and who existed as a deity long before the
Jesus character was formalized. The Christian hierarchy is nearly
identical to the Mithraic version it replaced50. Virtually all of the
elements of the Catholic ritual, from miter to wafer to water to altar
to doxology, are directly taken from earlier pagan mystery religions.51
Mithra, Sungod of Persia
The story of Mithra precedes the Christian fable by at least 600 years.
According to Wheless, the cult of Mithra was, shortly before the
Christian era, “the most popular and widely spread ‘Pagan’ religion of
the times.” Mithra has the following in common with the Christ
character:
· Mithra was born on December 25th.
· He was considered a great traveling teacher and master.
· He had 12 companions or disciples.
· He performed miracles.
· He was buried in a tomb.
· After three days he rose again.
· His resurrection was celebrated every year.
· Mithra was called “the Good Shepherd.”
· He was considered “the Way, the Truth and the Light, the
Redeemer, the Savior, the Messiah.”
· He was identified with both the Lion and the Lamb.
· His sacred day was Sunday, “the Lord’s Day,” hundreds of years
before the appearance of Christ.
· Mithra had his principal festival on what was later to become
Easter, at which time he was resurrected.
· His religion had a Eucharist or “Lord’s Supper.”52
Krishna of India
The similarities between the Christian character and the Indian messiah
are many. Indeed, Massey finds over 100 similarities between the Hindu
and Christian saviors, and Graves, who includes the various noncanonical
gospels in his analysis, lists over 300 likenesses. It should be noted
that a common earlier English spelling of Krishna was “Christna,” which
reveals its relation to ‘“Christ.” It should also be noted that, like
the Jewish god–man, many people have believed in a historical,
carnalized Krishna.53
· Krishna was born of the Virgin Devaki (“Divine One”) 53a
· His father was a carpenter.54
· His birth was attended by angels, wise men and shepherds, and
he was presented with gold, frankincense and myrrh.54a
· He was persecuted by a tyrant who ordered the slaughter of
thousands of infants.55
· He was of royal descent.
· He was baptized in the River Ganges.55a
· He worked miracles and wonders.
· He raised the dead and healed lepers, the deaf and the blind.
· Krishna used parables to teach the people about charity and
love.
· “He lived poor and he loved the poor.”56
· He was transfigured in front of his disciples.57
· In some traditions he died on a tree or was crucified between
two thieves.58
· He rose from the dead and ascended to heaven.
· Krishna is called the “Shepherd God” and “Lord of lords,” and
was considered “the Redeemer, Firstborn, Sin Bearer, Liberator,
Universal Word.”59
· He is the second person of the Trinity,60 and proclaimed
himself the “Resurrection” and the “way to the Father.”60a
· He was considered the “Beginning, the Middle and the End,”
(“Alpha and Omega”), as well as being omniscient, omnipresent and
omnipotent.
· His disciples bestowed upon him the title “Jezeus,” meaning
“pure essence.”61
· Krishna is to return to do battle with the “Prince of Evil,”
who will desolate the earth.62
Prometheus of Greece
The Greek god Prometheus has been claimed to have come from Egypt, but
his drama took place in the Caucasus mountains. Prometheus shares a
number of striking similarities with the Christ character.
· Prometheus descended from heaven as God incarnate as man, to
save mankind.
· He was crucified, suffered and rose from the dead.
· He was called the Logos or Word.62a
Five centuries before the Christian era, esteemed Greek poet Aeschylus
wrote Prometheus Bound, which, according to Taylor, was presented in the
theater in Athens. Taylor claims that in the play Prometheus is
crucified “on a fatal tree” and the sky goes dark:
“The darkness which closed the scene on the suffering Prometheus, was
easily exhibited on the stage, by putting out the lamps; but when the
tragedy was to become history, and the fiction to be turned into fact,
the lamp of day could not be so easily disposed of. Nor can it be denied
that the miraculous darkness which the Evangelists so solemnly declare
to have attended the crucifixion of Christ, labors under precisely the
same fatality of an absolute and total want of evidence.”63
Tradition holds that Prometheus was crucified on a rock, yet some
sources have opined that legend also held he was crucified on a tree and
that Christians muddled the story and/or mutilated the text, as they did
with the works of so many ancient authors. In any case, the sun hiding
in darkness parallels the Christian fable of the darkness descending
when Jesus was crucified. This remarkable occurrence is not recorded in
history but is only explainable within the Mythos and as part of a
recurring play.
The Creation of a Myth
The Christians went on a censorship rampage that led to the virtual
illiteracy of the ancient world and ensured that their secret would be
hidden from the masses64, but the scholars of other schools/sects never
gave up their arguments against the historicizing of a very ancient
mythological creature. We have lost the arguments of these learned
dissenters because the Christians destroyed any traces of their works.
Nonetheless, the Christians preserved the contentions of their
detractors through the Christians’ own refutations.
For example, early Church Father Tertullian (abt 160–220 C.E.), an
“ex–Pagan” and Bishop of Carthage, ironically admits the true origins of
the Christ story and of all other such god–men by stating in refutation
of his critics, “You say we worship the sun; so do you.”65
Interestingly, a previously strident believer and defender of the faith,
Tertullian later renounced Christianity66.
The “Son” of God is the “Sun” of God 67
The reason why all these narratives are so similar, with a god–man who
is crucified and resurrected, who does miracles and has 12 disciples, is
that these stories were based on the movements of the sun through the
heavens, an astrotheological development that can be found throughout
the planet because the sun and the 12 zodiac signs can be observed
around the globe. In other words, Jesus Christ and all the others upon
whom this character is predicated are personifications of the sun, and
the Gospel fable is merely a rehash of a mythological formula (the
“Mythos,” as mentioned above) revolving around the movements of the sun
through the heavens.68
For instance, many of the world’s crucified god–men have their
traditional birthday on December 25th (“Christmas”69). This is because
the ancients recognized that (from an earth–centric perspective) the sun
makes an annual descent southward until December 21st or 22nd, the
winter solstice, when it stops moving southerly for three days and then
starts to move northward again. During this time, the ancients declared
that “God’s sun” had “died” for three days and was “born again” on
December 25th. The ancients realized quite abundantly that they needed
the sun to return every day and that they would be in big trouble if the
sun continued to move southward and did not stop and reverse its
direction. Thus, these many different cultures celebrated the “sun of
God’s” birthday on December 25th.70 The following are the
characteristics of the “sun of God”:
· The sun “dies” for three days on December 22nd, the winter
solstice, when it stops in its movement south, to be born again or
resurrected on December 25th, when it resumes its movement north.
· In some areas, the calendar originally began in the
constellation of Virgo, and the sun would therefore be “born of a
Virgin.”
· The sun is the “Light of the World.”
· The sun “cometh on clouds, and every eye shall see him.”
· The sun rising in the morning is the “Savior of mankind.”
· The sun wears a corona, “crown of thorns” or halo.71
· The sun “walks on water.”
· The sun’s “followers,” “helpers” or “disciples” are the 12
months and the 12 signs of the zodiac or constellations, through which
the sun must pass.
· The sun at 12 noon is in the house or temple of the “Most High”;
thus, “he” begins “his Father’s work” at “age” 12.
· The sun enters into each sign of the zodiac at 30°; hence, the
“Sun of God” begins his ministry at “age” 30.
· The sun is hung on a cross or “crucified,” which represents its
passing through the equinoxes, the vernal equinox being Easter, at which
time it is then resurrected.72
Contrary to popular belief, the ancients were not an ignorant and
superstitious lot who actually believed their deities to be literal
characters. Indeed, this slanderous propaganda has been part of the
conspiracy to make the ancients appear as if they were truly the dark
and dumb rabble that was in need of the “light of Jesus.”73 The reality
is that the ancients were no less advanced in their morals and spiritual
practices, and in many cases were far more advanced, than the Christians
in their own supposed morality and ideology, which, in its very attempt
at historicity, is in actuality a degradation of the ancient Mythos.
Indeed, unlike the “superior” Christians, the true intelligentsia
amongst the ancients were well aware that their gods were astronomical
and atmospheric in nature. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle74 surely knew
that Zeus, the sky god father figure who migrated to Greece from India
and/or Egypt, was never a real person, despite the fact that the Greeks
have designated on Crete both a birth cave and a death cave of Zeus. In
addition, all over the world are to be found sites where this god or
that allegedly was born, walked, suffered, died, etc., a common and
unremarkable occurrence that is not monopolized by, and did not
originate with, Christianity.74a
Etymology Tells the Story
Zeus, aka “Zeus Pateras,” who we now automatically believe to be a myth
and not a historical figure, takes his name from the Indian version,
“Dyaus Pitar.” Dyaus Pitar in turn is related to the Egyptian “Ptah,”
and from both Pitar and Ptah comes the word “pater,” or “father.” “Zeus”
equals “Dyaus,” which became “Deos,” “Deus” and “Dios” – “God.” “Zeus
Pateras,” like Dyaus Pitar, means, “God the Father,” a very ancient
concept that in no way originated with “Jesus” and Christianity. There
is no question of Zeus being a historical character. Dyaus Pitar becomes
“Jupiter” in Roman mythology, and likewise is not representative of an
actual, historical character. In Egyptian mythology, Ptah, the Father,
is the unseen god–force, and the sun was viewed as Ptah’s visible proxy
who brings everlasting life to the earth; hence, the “son of God” is
really the “sun of God.” Indeed, according to Hotema, the very name
“Christ” comes from the Hindi word “Kris” (as in Krishna), which is a
name for the sun.75
Furthermore, since Horus was called “Iusa/Iao/Iesu”76 the “KRST,” and
Krishna/Christna was called “Jezeus,” centuries before any Jewish
character similarly named, it would be safe to assume that Jesus Christ
is just a repeat of Horus and Krishna, among the rest. According to Rev.
Taylor, the title “Christ” in its Hebraic form meaning “Anointed”
(“Masiah”77) was held by all kings of Israel, as well as being “so
commonly assumed by all sorts of impostors, conjurers, and pretenders to
supernatural communications, that the very claim to it is in the gospel
itself considered as an indication of imposture . . .”78 Hotema states
that the name “Jesus Christ” was not formally adopted in its present
form until after the first Council of Nicea, i.e., in 325 C.E.79
In actuality, even the place names and the appellations of many other
characters in the New Testament can be revealed to be Hebraicized
renderings of the Egyptian texts.
As an example, in the fable of “Lazarus,” the mummy raised from the dead
by Jesus, the Christian copyists did not change his name much,
“El–Azar–us” being the Egyptian mummy raised from the dead by Horus
possibly 1,000 years or more before the Jewish version.80 This story is
allegory for the sun reviving its old, dying self, or father, as in
“El–Osiris.”81 It is not a true story.
Horus’s principal enemy – originally Horus’s other face or “dark”
aspect – was “Set” or “Sata,” whence comes “Satan.”82 Horus struggles
with Set in the exact manner that Jesus battles with Satan, with 40 days
in the wilderness, among other similarities.83 This is because this myth
represents the triumph of light over dark, or the sun’s return to
relieve the terror of the night.
“Jerusalem” simply means “City of Peace,” and the actual city in Israel
was named after the holy city of peace in the Egyptian sacred texts that
already existed at the time the city was founded. Likewise, “Bethany,”
site of the famous multiplying of the loaves, means “House of God,” and
is allegory for the “multiplication of the many out of the One.”84 Any
town of that designation was named for the allegorical place in the
texts that existed before the town’s foundation. The Egyptian
predecessor and counterpart is “Bethanu.”85
The Book of Revelation is Egyptian and Zoroastrian
One can find certain allegorical place names such as “Jerusalem” and
“Israel” in the Book of Revelation. Massey has stated that Revelation,
rather than having been written by any apostle called John during the
1st Century C.E., is a very ancient text that dates to the beginning of
this era of history, i.e. possibly as early as 4,000 years ago.86 Massey
asserts that Revelation relates the Mithraic legend of
Zarathustra/Zoroaster.87 Hotema says of this mysterious book, which has
baffled mankind for centuries: “It is expressed in terms of creative
phenomena; its hero is not Jesus but the Sun of the Universe, its
heroine is the Moon; and all its other characters are Planets, Stars and
Constellations; while its stage–setting comprises the Sky, the Earth,
the Rivers and the Sea.” The common form of this text has been
attributed by Churchward to Horus’s scribe, Aan, whose name has been
passed down to us as “John.”88
The word Israel itself, far from being a Jewish appellation, probably
comes from the combination of three different reigning deities: Isis,
the Earth Mother Goddess revered throughout the ancient world; Ra, the
Egyptian sungod; and El, the Semitic deity passed down in form as
Saturn.90 El was one of the earliest names for the god of the ancient
Hebrews (whence Emmanu–El, Micha–El, Gabri–El, Samu–El, etc.), and his
worship is reflected in the fact that the Jews still consider Saturday
as “God’s Day.”91
Indeed, that the Christians worship on Sunday betrays the genuine
origins of their god and god–man. Their “savior” is actually the sun,
which is the “Light of the world that every eye can see.” The sun has
been viewed consistently throughout history as the savior of mankind for
reasons that are obvious. Without the sun, the planet would scarcely
last one day. So important was the sun to the ancients that they
composed a “Sun Book,” or “Helio Biblia,” which became the “Holy Bible.”91a
The “Patriarchs” and “Saints” are the Gods of Other Cultures
When one studies mythmaking, one can readily discern and delineate a
pattern that is repeated throughout history. Whenever an invading
culture takes over its predecessors, it either vilifies the preceding
deities or makes them into lesser gods, “patriarchs” or, in the case of
Christianity, “saints.” This process is exemplified in the adoption of
the Hindu god Brahma as the Hebrew patriarch Abraham.92 Another school
of thought proposes that the patriarch Joshua was based on Horus as
“Iusa,” since the cult of Horus had migrated by this period to the
Levant. In this theory, the cult of Joshua, which was situated in
exactly the area where the Christ drama allegedly took place, then
mutated into the Christian story, with Joshua becoming Jesus.93 As
Robertson says, “The Book of Joshua leads us to think that he had
several attributes of the Sun–god, and that, like Samson and Moses, he
was an ancient deity reduced to human status.”
Indeed, the legend of Moses, rather than being that of a historical
Hebrew character, is found around the ancient Middle and Far East, with
the character having different names and races, depending on the locale:
“Manou” is the Indian legislator; “Nemo the lawgiver,” who brought down
the tablets from the Mountain of God, hails from Babylon; “Mises” is
found in Syria and Egypt, where also “Manes the lawgiver” takes the
stage; “Minos” is the Cretan reformer; and the Ten Commandments are
simply a repetition of the Babylonian Code of Hammurabi and the Hindu
Vedas, among others.94 Like Moses, Krishna was placed by his mother in a
reed boat and set adrift in a river to be discovered by another woman.95
A century ago, Massey outlined, and Graham recently reiterated, that
even the Exodus itself is not a historical event. That the historicity
of the Exodus has been questioned is echoed by the lack of any
archaeological record, as is reported in Biblical Archaeology Review
(“BAR”), September/October 1994.96
Like many biblical characters, Noah is also a myth97, long ago
appropriated from the Egyptians, the Sumerians and others, as any
sophisticated scholar could demonstrate, and yet we find all sorts of
books – some even presumably “channeling” the “ultimate truth” from a
mystical, omniscient, omnipresent and eternal being such as Jesus
himself – prattling on about a genuine, historical Noah, his
extraordinary adventures, and the “Great Flood!”98
Additionally, the “Esther” of the Old Testament Book of Esther is a
remake of the Goddess Ishtar, Astarte, Astoreth or Isis, from whom comes
“Easter”99 and about whose long and ubiquitous reign little is said in
“God’s infallible Word.”100 Per Harwood (Mythology’s Last Gods, 230),
“Esther” is best transliterated “Ishtar” and “Mordechai” is “Mardukay.”
The Virgin Mother/Goddess/Queen of Heaven motif is found around the
globe, long before the Christian era, with Isis, for instance, also
being called “Mata–Meri” (“Mother Mary”). As Walker says, “Mari” was the
“basic name of the Goddess known to the Chaldeans as Marratu, to the
Jews as Marah, to the Persians as Mariham, to the Christians as Mary . .
.. Semites worshipped an androgynous combination of Goddess and God
called Mari–El (Mary–God), corresponding to the Egyptian Meri–Ra, which
combined the feminine principle of water with the masculine principle of
the sun.”
Even the Hebraic name of God, “Yahweh,” was taken from the Egyptian
“IAO.”101
In one of the most notorious of Christian deceptions, in order to
convert followers of “Lord Buddha,” the Church canonized him as “St.
Josaphat,” which represented a Christian corruption of the buddhistic
title, “Bodhisat.”102
The “Disciples” are the Signs of the Zodiac
Moreover, it is no accident that there are 12 patriarchs and 12
disciples, 12 being the number of the astrological signs, or months.
Indeed, like the 12 Herculean tasks and the 12 “helpers” of Horus, Jesus’
12 disciples are symbolic for the zodiacal signs and do not depict any
literal figures who played out a drama upon the earth circa 30 C.E. The
disciples can be shown to have been an earlier deity/folkloric
hero/constellation.103 Peter is easily revealed to be a mythological
character104, while Judas has been said to represent Scorpio, “the
backbiter,” the time of year when the sun’s rays are weakening and the
sun appears to be dying.105 James, “brother of Jesus” and “brother of
the Lord,” is equivalent to Amset, brother of Osiris and brother of the
Lord.106 Massey says “Taht–Matiu was the scribe of the gods, and in
Christian art Matthew is depicted as the scribe of the gods, with an
angel standing near him, to dictate the gospel.”107 Even the apostle
Paul is a compilation of several characters: The Old Testament Saul,
Apollonius of Tyana and the Greek demigod Orpheus.108
Was Jesus an Essene Master? 109
As regards Jesus being an Essene according to “secret” Dead Sea Scrolls,
even before the discovery of the scrolls, over the centuries there has
been much speculation to this effect, but Massey skillfully argued that
many of Jesus’ presumed teachings were either in contradiction to or
were non–existent in Essene philosophy.110 The Essenes did not believe
in corporeal resurrection, nor did they believe in a carnalized messiah.
They did not accept the historicity of Jesus. They were not followers of
the Hebrew Bible, or its prophets, or the concept of the original fall
that must produce a savior. Massey further points out that the Essenes
were teetotalers and ate to live rather than the other way around.
Compared to this, the assumed Essene Jesus appears to be a glutton and
drunkard. Also, whereas according to Josephus the Essenes abhorred the
swearing of oaths, Jesus was fond of “swearing unto” his disciples.111
While many Essenic doctrines are included in the New Testament, the list
of disparities between the Dead Sea Scroll Essenes and their alleged
great master Jesus goes on.112
Qumran is Not an Essene Community
It should also be noted that there is another debate as to whether or
not Qumran, the site traditionally associated with the Dead Sea Scrolls,
was an Essene community. In BAR, previously cited, it is reported that
archaeological finds indicate Qumran was not an Essene community but was
possibly a waystation for travelers and merchants crossing the Dead Sea.
In BAR, it has also been hypothesized that the fervent tone and
warrior–stance of some of the scrolls unearthed near Qumran belie any
Essene origin and indicate a possible attribution to Jewish Zealots
instead. In Who Wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls, Norman Golb makes a very
good case that the Dead Sea Scrolls were not written by any Essene
scribes but were a collection of tomes from various libraries that were
secreted in caves throughout eastern Israel by Jews fleeing the Roman
armies during the First Revolt of 70 A.D. Golb also hypothesizes that
Qumran itself was a fortress, not a monastery. In any case, it is
impossible to equate the “Teacher of Righteousness” found in any scrolls
with Jesus Christ.
Was the New Testament Composed by Therapeuts?
In 1829 Rev. Taylor adeptly made the case that the entire Gospel story
was already in existence long before the beginning of the Common Era and
was probably composed by the monks at Alexandria called “Therapeuts” in
Greek and “Essenes” in Egyptian, both names meaning “healers.”113 This
theory has stemmed in part from the statement of early church father
Eusebius, who, in a rare moment of seeming honesty, “admitted . . . that
the canonical Christian gospels and epistles were the ancient writings
of the Essenes or Therapeutae reproduced in the name of Jesus.”114
Taylor also opines that “the travelling Egyptian Therapeuts brought the
whole story from India to their monasteries in Egypt, where, some time
after the commencement of the Roman monarchy, it was transmuted in
Christianity.”115 In addition, Wheless evinces that one can find much of
the fable of “Jesus Christ” in the Book of Enoch116, which predated the
supposed advent of the Jewish master by hundreds of years.117 According
to Massey, it was the “pagan” Gnostics – who included members of the
Essene/Therapeut and Nazarene118 brotherhoods, among others – who
actually carried to Rome the esoteric (gnostic) texts containing the
Mythos, upon which the numerous gospels, including the canonical four,
were based. Wheless says, “Obviously, the Gospels and other New
Testament booklets, written in Greek and quoting 300 times the Greek
Septuagint, and several Greek Pagan authors, as Aratus, and Cleanthes,
were written, not by illiterate Jewish peasants, but by Greek–speaking
ex–Pagan Fathers and priests far from the Holy Land of the Jews.”119
Mead averred, “We thus conclude that the autographs of our four Gospels
were most probably written in Egypt, in the reign of Hadrian.”120
Conclusion
As Walker said, “Scholars’ efforts to eliminate paganism from the
Gospels in order to find a historical Jesus have proved as hopeless as
searching for a core in an onion.” The “gospel” story of Jesus is not a
factual portrayal of a historical “master” who walked the earth 2,000
years ago. It is a myth built upon other myths and god–men, who in turn
were personifications of the ubiquitous sun-god mythos.
“The Christ of the gospels is in no sense an historical personage or a
supreme model of humanity, a hero who strove, and suffered, and failed
to save the world by his death. It is impossible to establish the
existence of an historical character even as an impostor. For such an
one the two witnesses, astronomical mythology and gnosticism, completely
prove an alibi. The Christ is a popular lay–figure that never lived, and
a lay–figure of Pagan origin; a lay–figure that was once the Ram and
afterwards the Fish; a lay–figure that in human form was the portrait
and image of a dozen different gods.” –– Gerald Massey
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Footnotes:
1. In the ‘80s this controversy erupted once again when GA Wells
published Did Jesus Exist? and later The Historical Evidence for Jesus,
both of which sought to prove that Jesus is a nonhistorical character.
An attempt to repudiate Wells was made by Ian Wilson in Jesus: The
Evidence, an entire book written to establish that Jesus did exist.
(There is a chapter titled, “Did Jesus Even Exist?,” which in itself
immediately places a possibly hitherto unknown doubt in the reader’s
mind.) It should be noted that no such book would be needed if the
existence of Jesus Christ as a historical figure were a proven fact
accepted by all.
2. As regards the work of Erich von Daniken, Zecharia Sitchin and
others, it should be understood that few of the stories of god-men can
be taken literally to reveal actual superhuman “masters” or alien
presences and influences. Most of these characters are, to learned
mythologists, clearly myths. (See below)
3. “Evemerism,” named after Evemeras, a 4th Century B.C.E. Greek
philosopher who developed the idea that, rather than being mythological
creatures as was accepted by the reigning intellectuals, the gods of old
were in fact historical characters, kings, emperors and heroes whose
exploits were then deified. Evemerists have put forth a great deal of
literature attempting to prove that Jesus was a great Jewish reformer
and revolutionary who threatened the status quo and thus had to be put
to death. Unfortunately for historicizers, no historian of his purported
time even noticed this “great reformer.” In Ancient History of the God
Jesus, Dujardin states, “This doctrine [Evemerism] is nowadays
discredited except in the case of Jesus. No scholar believes that Osiris
or Jupiter or Dionysus was an historical person promoted to the rank of
a god, but exception is made only in favour of Jesus. . . .It is
impossible to rest the colossal work of Christianity on Jesus, if he was
a man.” The standard Christian response to the Evemerists has been that
no such Jesus, stripped of his miracles and other supernatural
attributes, could ever “have been adored as a god or even been saluted
as the Messiah of Israel.” (Dujardin) This response is quite accurate:
No man could have caused such a hullabaloo and hellish fanaticism, the
product of which has been the unending spilling of blood. The crazed
“inspiration” that has kept the Church afloat merely confirms the
mythological origins of this tale. “The general assumption concerning
the canonical gospels is that the historic element was the kernel of the
whole, and that the fables accreted round it; whereas the mythos, being
pre–extant, proves the core of the matter was mythical, and it follows
that the history is incremental. . . . It was the human history that
accreted round the divinity, and not a human being who became divine.”
(Massey, The Historical Jesus and the Mythical Christ, henceforth, “MC”)
The bottom line is that when one removes all the elements of those
preceding deities and myths that contributed to the formation of this
Jewish god–man – which is what Evemerists insist on doing – there is
nothing historical left to point to. As Massey says, “. . . a composite
likeness of twenty different persons merged in one . . . is not
anybody.” (MC)
4. “Those who denied the humanity of Christ were the first class of
professing Christians, and not only first in order of time, but in
dignity of character, in intelligence, and in moral influence.” (Taylor)
While those who held onto the millennia–old gnostic Mythos of Christ
preceded the carnalizers, or sarkolaters (those who made Christ into
flesh), having long–established rituals and doctrines, it was they who
were accused of being heretics by their younger, ignorant, carnalizing
cousins, who were in reality the true heretics. Taylor: “The deniers of
the humanity of Christ, or, in a word, professing Christians, who denied
that any such man as Jesus Christ ever existed at all, but who took the
name Jesus Christ to signify only an abstraction, or prosopop?ia, the
principle of Reason personified; and who understood the whole gospel
story to be a sublime allegory . . . these were the first, and (it is
not dishonour to Christianity to pronounce them) the best and most
rational Christians.”
5. Rev. Robert Taylor, The Diegesis. Rev. Taylor was an English
clergyman widely known for his “heretical” sermons, which he began to
deliver after discovering, through a superior classical education, that
Christ was a mythological character. He was twice imprisoned in England
in the 1820’s for “blasphemy.” Taylor was one of the early
“freethinkers,” although he maintained he was a “Deist,” and, therefore,
not an atheist. Taylor suffered tremendous persecution for his stance,
yet from his prison cell, he composed The Diegesis, a remarkable and
scholarly dissertation of the highest quality.
6. Ibid.
7. With acknowledgment to Randel Helms, author of Gospel Fictions.
8. The Origin and Evolution of Religion by Albert Churchward.
9. Forgery in Christianity by Joseph Wheless: “As said by the great
critic, Salomon Reinach, ‘With the exception of Papias, who speaks of a
narrative by Mark, and a collection of sayings of Jesus, no Christian
writer of the first half of the second century (i.e., up to 150 A.D.)
quotes the Gospels or their reputed authors.’” In The Book Your Church
Doesn’t Want You to Read, John Remsburg states: “The Four Gospels were
unknown to the early Christian Fathers. Justin Martyr, the most eminent
of the early Fathers, wrote about the middle of the second century. His
writings in proof of the divinity of Christ demanded the use of these
Gospels had they existed in his time. He makes more than 300 quotations
from the books of the Old Testament, and nearly one hundred from the
Apocryphal books of the New Testament; but none from the four Gospels.
Rev. Giles says: ‘The very names of the Evangelists, Matthew, Mark, Luke
and John, are never mentioned by him (Justin) – do not occur once in all
his writings.’” In A Short History of the Bible, Keeler says, “The books
[canonical gospels] are not heard of till 150 A.D., that is, till Jesus
had been dead nearly a hundred and twenty years. No writer before 150
A.D. makes the slightest mention of them.”
10. Wheless quotes the Catholic Encyclopedia: “Enterprising spirits
responded to this natural craving by pretended gospels full of romantic
fables, and fantastic and striking details; their fabrications were
eagerly read and accepted as true by common folk who were devoid of any
critical faculty and who were predisposed to believe what so luxuriously
fed their pious curiosity. Both Catholics and Gnostics were concerned in
writing these fictions. The former had no motive other than that of a
PIOUS FRAUD.” (NB: “C.E.” denotes “Common Era” and is equivalent to
“A.D.,” whereas “B.C.E.” denotes “Before the Common Era” and is
equivalent to “B.C.” )
11. Wheless, op cit. Mangasarian states: “The church historian,
Mosheim, writes that, ‘The Christian Fathers deemed it a pious act to
employ deception and fraud.’ [Ecclesiastical Hist., Vol. I, p. 347.]
Again, he says: ‘The greatest and most pious teachers were nearly all of
them infected with this leprosy.’ Will not some believer tell us why
forgery and fraud were necessary to prove the historicity of Jesus. . .
.. Another historian, Milman, writes that, ‘Pious fraud was admitted and
avowed by the early missionaries of Jesus.’ ‘It was an age of literary
frauds,’ writes Bishop Ellicott, speaking of the times immediately
following the alleged crucifixion of Jesus. Dr. Giles declares that,
‘There can be no doubt that great numbers of books were written with no
other purpose than to deceive.’ And it is the opinion of Dr. Robertson
Smith that, ‘There was an enormous floating mass of spurious literature
created to suit party views.’”
12. Wheless: “The clerical confessions of lies and frauds in the
ponderous volumes of the Catholic Encyclopedia alone suffice . . . to
wreck the Church and to destroy utterly the Christian religion. . . .
The Church exists mostly for wealth and self–aggrandizement; to quit
paying money to the priests would kill the whole scheme in a couple of
years. This is the sovereign remedy.”
13. In one of his works, Eusebius provides this handy chapter entitled:
“How it may be Lawful and Fitting to use Falsehood as Medicine, and for
the Benefit of those who Want to be Deceived.” (Wheless) Wheless also
calls Justin Martyr, Eusebius and Tertullian “three luminous liars.”
Keeler: “The early Christian fathers were extremely ignorant and
superstitious; and they were singularly incompetent to deal with the
supernatural.”
14. Wheless. “If the pious Christians, confessedly, committed so many
and so extensive forgeries and frauds to adapt these popular Jewish
fairy–tales of their God and holy Worthies to the new Christian Jesus
and his Apostles, we need feel no surprise when we discover these same
Christians forging outright new wonder–tales of their Christ under the
fiction of the most noted Christian names and in the guise of inspired
Gospels, Epistles, Acts and Apocalypses. . . . Half a hundred of false
and forged Apostolic ‘Gospels of Jesus Christ,’ together with more
numerous other ‘Scripture’ forgeries, was the output, so far as known
now, of the lying pens of the pious Christians of the first two
centuries of the Christian ‘Age of Apocryphal Literature’ . . . ‘Almost
every one of the Apostles had a Gospel fathered upon him by one early
sect or another.’ . . .If the Gospel tales were true, why should God
need pious lies to give them credit? Lies and forgeries are only needed
to bolster up falsehood. . . But Jesus Christ must needs be propagated
by lies upon lies; and what better proof of his actuality than to
exhibit letters written by him in his own handwriting? The ‘Little Liars
of the Lord’ were equal to the forgery of the signature of their God –
false letters in his name, as above cited from that exhaustless mine of
clerical falsities, the Catholic Encyclopedia [C.E.] . . . The forged
New Testament booklets and the foolish writings of the Fathers, are the
sole ‘evidence’ we have for the alleged facts and doctrines of our most
holy Faith, as is admitted by C.E.”
15. The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, by Barbara Walker,
p. 471. Rev. Taylor, in The Diegesis, reports a slightly different
version of Leo X’s admission: “It was well known how profitable this
fable of Christ has been to us.” (footnote, p. 35.)
16. Massey, MC: “. . . It was the Gnostics who had faithfully preserved
the true traditions. It was they who continued the mythos intact from
Egypt; they who made the images in the Christian iconography, and
reproduced the Iao–Chnubis and the Kamite Horus on the talismanic stones
and the catacombs of Rome . . . “
17. “The entire ‘Pauline group’ is the same forged class . . . says
E.B. [Encyclopedia Biblica] . . .’With respect to the canonical Pauline
Epistles, . . .. there are none of them by Paul; neither fourteen, nor
thirteen, nor nine or eight, nor yet even the four so long “universally”
regarded as unassailable. They are all, without distinction,
pseudographia (false–writings, forgeries). . . ‘ They are thus all
uninspired anonymous church forgeries for Christ’s sweet sake!”
(Wheless)
18. Walker: “The most ‘historical’ figure in the Gospels was Pontius
Pilate, to whom Jesus was presented as ‘king’ of the Jews and
simultaneously as a criminal deserving the death penalty for ‘blasphemy’
because he called himself Christ, Son of the Blessed. . . . This alleged
crime was no real crime. Eastern provinces swarmed with self–styled
Christs and Messiahs, calling themselves Sons of god and announcing the
end of the world. None of them was executed for ‘blasphemy.’” Massey
(MC) avers: “The great judge of the dead in Amenti [Egyptian place of
afterlife] was designated the Rhat (Eg.), whence the Greek Rhadamanthus.
The Rhat with the letter L instead of R is the Lat, and with the
masculine article Pi, becomes Pilate, for the judge in Amenti.”
Mangasarian states: “A Roman judge, while admitting that he finds no
guilt in Jesus deserving of death, is nevertheless represented as
handing him over to the mob to be killed, after he has himself scourged
him. No Roman judge could have behaved as this Pilate is reported to
have behaved toward an accused person on trial for his life.” As to the
“Acts of Pilate,” an “apocryphal” and spurious document that purports to
relate the trial of Jesus before Pilate, in accordance with the
canonical gospel accounts but with greater detail, Mead relates that a
scholar named Rendel Harris opined that the scenes in the “Acts” were
directly lifted from the Iliad: “. . . Pilate has been turned into
Achilles, . . . Joseph is the good old Priam, begging the body of
Hector, and the the whole story is based upon the dramatic passages of
the twenty–fourth book of the Iliad.” (Did Jesus Live 100 B.C.?)
Jacolliot evinces, “ . . . the Iliad of Homer is nothing but an echo, an
enfeebled souvenir of the Ramayana, a Hindoo poem in which Rama goes at
the head of his allies to recover his wife, Sita, who had been carried
off by the King of Ceylon.”
19. Massey, ibid., states: “It is demonstrable that Herod is a form of
the Apophis serpent called the enemy of the sun. In Syriac Herod is a
red dragon. Herod in Hebrew signifies a terror. Her (Eg.) is to terrify,
and herrut (Eg.) is the snake, or typical reptile.”
20. Ancient History of the God Jesus by Edouard Dujardin, p. 33.
21. Ibid., p. 36.
22. “Is it conceivable that a preacher of Jesus could go throughout the
world to convert people to the teachings of Jesus, as Paul did, without
ever quoting a single one of his sayings? Had Paul known that Jesus had
preached a sermon, or formulated a prayer, or said many inspired things
about the here and the hereafter, he could not have helped quoting, now
and then, from the words of his master. If Christianity could have been
established without a knowledge of the teachings of Jesus, why then, did
Jesus come to teach, and why were his teachings preserved by divine
inspiration? . . . If Paul knew of a miracle–working Jesus, one who
could feed the multitude with a few loaves and fishes, who could command
the grave to open, who could cast out devils, and cleanse the land of
the foulest disease of leprosy, who could, and did, perform many other
wonderful works to convince the unbelieving generation of his divinity –
is it conceivable that either intentionally or inadvertently he would
have never once referred to them in all his preaching? . . . The
position, then, that there is not a single saying of Jesus in the
gospels which is quoted by Paul in his many epistles is unassailable,
and certainly fatal to the historicity of the gospel Jesus.”
(Mangasarian) Massey: “The ‘sayings’ [logia] were common property in the
mysteries ages before they were ever written down.” (MC) Meaning they
were not original with Jesus, also leading one to conclude that “Paul”
and crew were not initiates into the mysteries, since they were ignorant
of these ages–old logia.
22a. “. . . the New Testament is not a single book but a collection of
groups of books and single volumes, which were at first and even long
afterwards circulated separately. . . . the Gospels are found in any and
every order. . . . Egyptian tradition places Jn. [John] first among the
Gospels.” (Mead, The Gospels and the Gospel) See History of the
Christian Religion to the Year Two Hundred by Judge Charles Waite, who
essentially proves the 170–180 date, and Supernatural Religion by Walter
Richard Cassels, for the dating of the gospels and Acts to the last
quarter of the second century. The simple fact is that the gospels do
not appear anywhere until that time, as Cassels shows quite thoroughly
in his scholarly, 1100–page exegesis. Cassels essentially proves that
Justin Martyr used not the canonical gospels but older texts, including
the Gospels of the Hebrews, and that Martyr’s “Memoirs of the Apostles,”
rather than representing the canonical gospels, constituted a single
text, like the Acts of the Apostles, that has since perished.
23. Wheless: “Both genealogies are false and forged lists of mostly
fictitious names.”
24. Wheless: “Like the whole ‘Sermon on the Mount,’ the [Lord’s] Prayer
is a composite of ancient sayings of the Scripture strung together to
form it, as the marginal cross–references show throughout.” We might add
that the “Scripture” is not only from the Old Testament but is part of
the ancient Mythos/Ritual. Many of the concepts within the Sermon, which
is held up by Christian defenders as the core of Jesus’ teachings and a
reflection of his compassion, can also be found in the Vedas as spoken
by the compassionate Krishna, in the doctrines of the Therapeuts, and in
the “Dhammapada” attributed to the equally compassionate Buddha. There
is nothing new here that would merit such attention as has been given
this Jesus character. Also, there is apparently within the Egyptian
Hermetic or Trismegistic tradition a discourse called “The Secret Sermon
on the Mount,” so it would seem that “Sermons on the Mount” were also a
common occurrence within the Mythos and Ritual. (Mead, Did Jesus Live
100 B.C.?)
25. There have been “Passions” of many gods. Dujardin: “Other scholars
have been impressed by the resemblance between the Passion of Jesus as
told in the gospels and the ceremonies of the popular f?tes, such as the
Sac?a in Babylon, the festival of Kronos in Greece, and the Saturnalia
in Italy. . . . If the stories of the Passions of Dionysus, Attis,
Osiris and Demeter are the transpositions of cult dramas, and not actual
events, it can hardly be otherwise with the Passion of Jesus.” (See
footnote 93 below.) As concerns the accounts of the resurrection, Graves
states, “With respect to the persons who first visited the sepulchre,
Matthew states that it was Mary Magdalene and another Mary; but Luke
says it was ‘Mary Magdalene and Joanna, and Mary the mother of James,
and other women;’ while, according to John (and he virtually reiterates
it), Mary Magdalene went alone. It will be observed, then, that the
first ‘inspired’ and ‘infallible’ witness testifies there were two
witnesses; and the second that there were four; and the third witness
declares there was but one. What beautiful harmony! No court in the
civilized world would accept such discordant testimony!”
26. In the canonical gospels, Jesus himself makes many illogical
contradictions concerning some of his most important teachings. First,
he repeatedly states the he is sent only “to the lost sheep of Israel,”
and forbids his disciples to preach to the Gentiles. Then he is made to
say, “Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.” (It is also
interesting to note that the Trinity was not adopted by the Church until
the 4th century, long after “Jesus’” purported statements concerning it.
These proselytizers, then, were awfully slow in their preaching of this
doctrine!) Next, Jesus claims that the end of the world is imminent and
warns his disciples to be prepared at a moment’s notice. Then he tells
them to build a church from which to preach his message. Now, if the end
of the world is coming, why should they build anything? We know that
this “prophecy” didn’t happen; nor has Jesus returned “soon,” as was his
promise. Even if he had been real, he would not have been worthy of
listening to. “The Gentile Church of Christ has therefore no divine
sanction; was never contemplated nor created by Jesus Christ. The
Christian Church is thus founded on a forgery of pretended words of the
pretended Christ.” (Wheless) “Again, ‘several of the reported sayings of
Jesus clearly bear the impress of a time he did not live to see.’”
(Mead)
27. Wheless: “. . . the Hebrew and Greek religious forgers were so
ignorant or careless of the principles of criticism, that they
‘interpolated’ their fraudulent new matter into old manuscripts without
taking care to erase or suppress the previous statements glaringly
contradicted by the new interpolations.” The Church forgery mill did not
limit itself to mere writings but for centuries cranked out thousands of
phony “relics” of its “Lord,” “Apostles” and “Saints.” The Shroud of
Turin, among innumerable others, is counted in this group.”There were at
least 26 ‘authentic’ burial shrouds scattered throughout the abbeys of
Europe, of which the Shroud of Turin is just one. . . .The Shroud of
Turin is one of the many relics manufactured for profit during the
Middle Ages. Shortly after the Shroud emerged it was declared a fake by
the bishop who discovered the artist. This is verified by recent
scientific investigation which found paint in the image areas. The
Shroud of Turin is also not consistent with Gospel accounts of Jesus’
burial, which clearly refer to multiple cloths and a separate napkin
over his face.” (Freethought Datasheet #5, Atheists United) At one
point, a number of churches claimed the one foreskin of Jesus, and there
were enough splinters of the “True Cross” that Calvin said the amount of
wood would make “a full load for a good ship.” (Walker) The disgraceful
list of absurdities and frauds goes on, and, as Pope Leo X claimed, it
has been enormously profitable for the Church. And where the fraud
failed, fear and force prevailed, as millions were subjected to horrible
tortures and murders in the name of the pretended “Prince of Peace,”
during an abysmally dark Age of Faith that propelled the world into a
state of ignorance.
28. McKlintock and Strong’s Cyclop?dia of Theological Literature.
29. Mangasarian. Wheless: “The fact is, that with the exception of this
one incongruous forged passage, section 3, the wonder–mongering Josephus
makes not the slightest mention of his wonder–working fellow–countryman,
Jesus the Christ – though some score of other Joshuas, or Jesuses, are
recorded by him, nor does he mention any of his transcendent wonders.”
30. Massey, Mangasarian, Taylor. Zealous defender of the faith Eusebius
never mentions the Tacitus passage, nor does anyone else prior to the
15th century C.E. (Taylor)
30a. Who is this King of Glory?, p. 258–9.
31. See Taylor and Wheless for more on the fraudulent nature of these
passages. “It has always been unfailing source of astonishment to the
historical investigator of Christian beginnings, that there is not a
single word from the pen of any Pagan writer of the first century of our
era, which can in any fashion be referred to the marvellous story
recounted by the Gospel writer. The very existence of Jesus seems
unknown.” (Mead, Did Jesus Live 100 B.C.?)
32. Gnostic and Historic Christianity by Massey (see below). See also
The Diegesis by Rev. Robert Taylor, The World’s Sixteen Crucified
Saviors by Kersey Graves, Pagan Christs by JM Robertson, any works by
Hilton Hotema, Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter, and
Deceptions and Myths of the Bible by Lloyd Graham. Although some
historicizers may glom onto these dates as proof that the research is
outdated, this is simply not true. These numbers are provided here to
demonstrate that this truth has been known, and has been suppressed by
vested interests, for a long time.
33. Graves, p. 15. “‘We cannot,’ says the celebrated Orientalist, Sir
William Jones, ‘refuse to the Vedas the honor of an antiquity the most
distant.’” (Jacolliot, The Bible in India) Indeed, certain scholars have
opined that the Rig Veda contains mention of an astronomical
configuration that could only have occurred 90,000 years ago; it true,
this would attest that the Veda was recording the experience of someone
far too advanced for that period, according to the standardized
anthrolopogical perspective, not to mention that the Veda would
represent the world’s oldest “historical” recording, although the actual
physically extant copies are, obviously, very recent. Ancient scribes
India mostly used, as occurs in some places today, leaves to write on,
and these were endlessly copied over the thousands of years. As
everywhere, knowledge was also passed along orally. This subject opens
up the debate as to whether ancient India or Egypt was the progenitor of
Western and Middle Eastern culture. Both have claims to extreme
antiquity. The question is who came first within the Mythos,
Brahma–Krishna or Osiris–Horus? Based on linguistical evidence, many
scholars have concluded it was India. However, the ancient Egyptian
language is not fully known, nor has the extent of its influence been
adequately examined. Walker hypothesizes that “Horus” was “Heruka” of
India, indicating that the Horus myth succeeded and was built upon the
Indian. The chronology of the Brahmins goes back millions of years, and
there has been effort made by such Hare Krishna authors as Thompson and
Cremo to push civilization, rather than man’s apelike progenitors, back
at least to that period. Obviously, such “Forbidden Archeology” is
widely dismissed for seeming lack of solid evidence. What is known is
that the Judeo–Christian bible can be found in earlier versions in both
countries. Thus, it is the rehash of the well–developed systems and
ideologies (Ritual and Mythos) of both nations. (See Jacolliot and
Massey.)
33a. Many on this list come from The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors
by Graves. This is not to suggest that all of these god-men characters
were utilized in the formation of the Christian myth, as overt contact
had not occurred in such places as Mexico or Bermuda. Also, modern
orthodoxy does not allow for the dates provided by Graves, i.e., that
Quetzalcoatl originates in the 6th B.C.E., a date far too early in the
orthodox perspective. However, we utilize this list to demonstrate that
the same concepts are found worldwide with and without cultural
exchange, because they are derived from the same astrotheological
observations. Also, we are in concurrence with the “ancient advanced
civilization” theory (“Atlantis”) that would allow for one or more
centralized civilizations to have spread throughout the world during a
very remote period in protohistory, thus taking with it the
well–developed Mythos and Ritual, which would then mutate into the
various forms found around the globe.
34. Taylor quotes the letter of Emperor Hadrian (134 C.E.): “The
worshippers of Serapis are Christians, and those are devoted to the God
Serapis, who (I find) call themselves the bishops of Christ.”
35. Walker: “. . . Later, an unknown Gospel writer inserted the story
of doubting Thomas, who insisted on touching Jesus. This was to combat
the heretical idea that there was no resurrection in the flesh, and also
to subordinate Jerusalem’s municipal god Tammuz (Thomas) to the new
savior. Actually, the most likely source of primary Christian mythology
was the Tammuz cult in Jerusalem.” The “doubting Thomas” character also
finds its place in the Mythos, as the “genius” of the time when the sun
is at its weakest (winter solstice). (Taylor)
36. The Sibylline Oracles, books produced over time allegedly by a
number of pagan prophetesses called Sibyls, were widely regarded in the
ancient world prior to the advent of the Christian era. “The Sibyls are
quoted frequently by the early Fathers and Christian writers, Justin,
Athenagoras, Theophilus, Clement of Alexandria, etc.” (Catholic
Encyclopedia, cited by Wheless) These books or Oracles were often cited
by Christians as proof of their religion. For instance, the following is
considered a Sibylline Oracle: “With five loaves at the same time, and
with two fishes, He shall satisfy five thousand men in the wilderness;
And afterwards taking all the fragments that remain, He shall fill
twelve baskets to the hope of many. . . .He shall still the winds by His
word, and calm the sea as it rages, treading with feet of peace and
faith. . . . He shall walk on the waves, He shall release men from
disease. He shall raise the dead, and drive away many pains. . .”
(Wheless) Although the Christians interpreted this as a prophecy of
Christ becoming fulfilled, it is in fact an aspect of the ubiquitous
Mythos and was already said of Horus, for one, hundreds of years
earlier. It has never referred to an actual man but, once again, is
astrotheological. The fact that it purportedly existed prior to the
Christian era constitutes proof to those who use logic that the
Christians utilized it in creating their Christ character, rather than
it acting as a prophecy of their god–man. As they did with other texts,
the Christians forged and interpolated many passages into the well–known
Oracles in order to cement their fiction and convert followers. It is
also amusing to note that the Christians had to resort to despised
“pagan” documents for their enterprise, especially since they spent
their lives attempting to demonstrate that everything that preceded them
was “of the devil.” This then implies that Christianity was also a work
of the devil.
37. Pagan Christs by JM Robertson.
38. In Gnostic and Historian Christianity, Massey says, “In . . .
Buddhism in Christendom, [author] Mr. Lillie thinks he has found Jesus,
the author of Christianity, as one of the Essenes, and a Buddhist! But
there is no need of craning one’s neck out of joint in looking to India,
or straining in that direction at all, for the origin of that which was
Egyptian born and Gnostic bred! Essenism was no new birth of Hindu
Buddhism brought to Alexandria about two centuries before our era; and
Christianity, whether considered to be mystical or historical, was not
derived from Buddhism at any time. They have some things in common,
because there is a Beyond to both.” We will add that the Egyptians
refined the Mythos in exquisite and overwhelming detail, but
linguistical theory has in the past, and now again with the Nostratic
theory, traced the origins of Western and Middle Eastern language and
culture in large part to India. It is yet difficult to say which came
first, Krishna, the predecessor of Buddha, or Osiris–Horus. Certainly
Horus was a well–developed savior–god by the time attributed to THE
Buddha. There would be no need to build Horus upon Buddha (Egyptian
“Putha” or “Ptah”), and it is true that Christianity did not need to
rely on the doctrines of Buddhism, having the complete Mythos at hand.
However, we do know absolutely that there was cultural exchange between
the West/Levant and the Buddhistic world of the Far East prior to the
inception of Christianity, in the form of travelers, traders, and monks
of the vast brotherhood network, who were constantly exchanging
information concerning religion, the esoteric gnosis, and the Mythos and
Ritual. Also, it has been suggested that there was at least one group of
Brahmanic and Vedic scholars living in the Levant prior to the founding
of Christianity. These individuals, who would likely be members of one
or more aspects of the brotherhood network, would certainly also be
exchanging information about the very ancient Krishna, et al., and
contributing to the culture around them. It is not only entirely
possible but probable that Hindus ventured to the Levant over the
millennia. But they would not have needed to, in order to spread their
version of the Mythos, since there were those, such as Alexander the
Great, who went to them. Indeed, Louis Jacolliot expertly traces the
Judeo–Christian Bible back to India, noting many similarities between
the Hindu and Christian priesthoods. (The Bible in India) There are also
quite a few similarities between the Catholic and Tibetan Buddhist
hierarchies and rituals. The influence from the Far East has come in
waves beginning several thousand years ago, and culture may have begun
to develop there in in the protohistoric period some 12,000 years ago or
more. If the reckonings of maverick Egyptologists are accurate, however,
Egypt would have been developing simultaneously with this Indian
culture, the origins of both, then, being a possibly much older
civilization. There is no question, however, that the archaic Indian
language Sanskrit or its Nostratic predecessor has highly influenced
many of the Western/Middle Eastern languages. Therefore, there has
unquestionably been early and ongoing contact, and with language comes
religion. “The ancient peoples of India were Asiatic Ethiopians, and it
should not surprise us that they shared common traditions with their
brothers in Africa.” (John Jackson, Christianity Before Christ)
38a. Some people have tried to dispute the “virgin” status of Buddha’s
mother. However, in the first place, it should be remembered that the
“life of the Buddha” does not represent the biography of a person but is
an account of a solar hero; thus, the typical solar attribute would be
appropriate. In any case, Joseph McCabe relates: “ . . . Mr. Robertson
shows from St. Jerome that the Buddhists themselves did call Maya ‘a
virgin’ – they believed in a ‘virgin birth’ – and he rightly rejects the
statement of Professor Rhys Davids that these Buddhists understood the
birth of Buddha quite differently from the Christians because ‘before
his descent into his mother’s womb he was a deva.’ That is exactly what
Christians say of Jesus.”
38b. See Temple of the Recumbent Buddha
for artifacts proving the motif of Buddha and the 12.
38.c. Mead, p. 133.
38d. Ibid.
38e. Graves, p. 118.
39. Isis Unveiled by Helena Blavatsky, vol. II, pp. 209, 537–538.
40. Massey, MC, p. 150.
40.a. Mead, p. 134.
41. Walker says, “Of all savior–gods worshipped at the beginning of the
Christian era, Osiris may have contributed more details to the evolving
Christ figure than any other. Already very old in Egypt, Osiris was
identified with nearly every other Egyptian god and was on the way to
absorbing them all. He had well over 200 divine names. He was called the
Lord of Lords, King of Kings, God of Gods. He was the Resurrection and
the Life, the Good Shepherd, Eternity and Everlastingness, the god who
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