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(94)
Maxwell, Graham, Taylor, Jacolliot. Jacolliot traces the original
to the Indian Manou: "This name of Manou, or Manes . . . is
not a substantive, applying to an individual man; its Sanscrit
signification is the man, par excellence, the
legislator. It is a title aspired to by all the leaders of men in
antiquity." He also says, "We shall presently see
Egypt, Judea, Greece, Rome, all antiquity, in fact, copy
Brahminical Society in its castes, its theories, its religious
opinions; and adopt its Brahmins, its priests, its levities, as
they had already adopted the language, legislation and philosophy
of that ancient Vedic Society whence their ancestors had departed
through the world to disseminate the grand ideas of primitive
revelation."
(95)
The Mahabharata.
(96)
The BAR article seeks to prove that the Exodus is historical.
Massey: "The Exodus or 'Coming out of Egypt' first
celebrated by the festival of Passover or the transit at the
vernal equinox, occurred in the heavens before it was made
historical as the migration of the Jews. The 600,000 men who came
up out of Egypt as Hebrew warriors in the Book of Exodus are
600,000 inhabitants of Israel in the heavens according to Jewish
Kabalah, and the same scenes, events, and personages that appear
as mundane in the Pentateuch are celestial in the Book of
Enoch." Mead: ". . . Bishop Colenso's . . .
mathematical arguments that an army of 600,000 men could not very
well have been mobilized in a single night, that three millions
of people with their flocks and herds could not very well have
drawn water from a single well, and hundreds of other equally
ludicrous inaccuracies of a similar nature, were popular points
which even the most unlearned could appreciate, and therefore
especially roused the ire of apologists and conservatives."
(97)
See Walker, Maxwell, et al.
(98)
There have been floods and deluge stories in many different parts
of the world, including but not limited to the Middle East. The
so-called Flood of Noah may refer to the annual flooding of the
Nile - an event that was incorporated in Egyptian mythology.
However, it is also yet another part of ancient mythology. As
Walker says, "The biblical flood story, the 'deluge,' was a
late offshoot of a cycle of flood myths known everywhere in the
ancient world. Thousands of years before the Bible was written,
an ark was built by the Sumerian Ziusudra. In Akkad, the flood
hero's name was Atrakhasis. In Babylon, he was Uta-Napishtim, the
only mortal to become immortal. In Greece he was Deucalion, who
repopulated the earth after the waters subsided [and after the
ark landed on Mt. Parnassos] . . . In Armenia, the hero was
Xisuthros - a corruption of Sumerian Ziusudra - whose ark landed
on Mount Ararat. . . . According to the original Chaldean
account, the flood hero was told by his god, 'Build a vessel and
finish it. By a deluge I will destroy substance and life. Cause
thou to go up into the vessel the substance of all that has
life."
(99)
Walker, et al., and The Encyclopedia of Religions.
(100)
Indeed, although professing to contain the history of the
universe, the supposedly all-knowing "Word of God"
barely mentions the many thousands of years on this planet that
the Goddess was recognized and worshipped and only does so in
order to disparage her and convert her followers. At Acts 19:27,
the author does admit the existence and popularity of the
"great goddess Artemis . . . she whom all Asia and the world
worship." In addition, despite all efforts to erase from
history the memory of the Goddess in the Old Testament, the truth
of her existence slipped by the redactor's pen at 1 Kings 11:5,
where Solomon "went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the
Simonians." Regardless of the presence of these few passages
and any others concerning the Goddess, the compilers of the Bible
certainly did not wish to acknowledge how powerful and widespread
was the belief in and reverence for the divine feminine
principle. In addition, Wheless has this to say about the books
of the Old Testament: "It may stated with assurance that not
one of them bears the name of its true author; that every one of
them is a composite work of many hands 'interpolating' the most
anachronistic and contradictory matters into the original
writings, and often reciting as accomplished facts things which
occurred many centuries after the time of the supposed writer . .
. " Indeed, we would add that the bulk of the Old Testament
is as mythical as the entire New Testament.
(101)
Taylor, pp. 21-22.
(102)
" . . . the holy Saint Josaphat, under which name and due to
an odd slip of inerrant inspiration, the great Lord Buddha, 'The
Light of Asia,' was duly certified a Saint in the Roman
Martyrology." (Wheless) Walker: "Medieval saintmakers
adapted the story of Buddha's early life to their own fictions,
calling the father of St. Josaphat 'an Indian king' who kept the
young saint confined to prevent him from becoming a Christian. He
was converted anyway, and produced the usual assortment of
miracles, some of them copied from incidents in the life story of
Buddha. St. Josaphat enjoyed great popularity in the Middle Ages,
an ironical development in a Europe that abhorred Buddhism as the
work of the devil."
(103)
In Antiquities Unveiled, JM Roberts, Esq., reiterates
that Christ drama represents " . . . the passage of the Sun,
in its annual course through the constellations of the Zodiac;
having his birth in the sign of the Goat, the Augean stable of
the Greeks; his baptism in Aquarius, the John the Baptist in the
heavens; his triumph when he becomes the Lamb of God in Aries;
his greatest exaltation on St. John's, the beloved disciple's
day, on the 21st of June, in the Sign of the Twins, the emblem of
double power; his tribulation in the Garden of Gethsemane, in the
sign of the rural Virgo; his betrayal in the sign of Scorpio, the
malignant emblem of his approaching death in the stormy and
adverse sign, Sagittarius, and his resurrection or renewed birth
on the twenty-fifth of December in the same sign of the celestial
Goat . . ." Walker states, "Medieval monks tried to
Christianize the zodiac as they Christianized everything else, by
renaming it the Corona seu Circulus Sanctorum Apostolorum:
the Crown of the Circle of the Holy Apostles. They placed John
the Baptist at the position of Aquarius, to finish off the
circle."
(104)
Walker, p. 787: "The myth of St. Peter was the slender
thread from which hung the whole weighty structure of the Roman
papacy. . . . Unfortunately for papal credibility, the so-called
Petrine passage was a forgery. It was deliberately inserted into
the scripture about the 3rd century A.D. as a political ploy, to
uphold the primacy of the Roman see against rival churches in the
east. Various Christian bishropics were engaged in a power
struggle in which the chief weapons were bribery, forgery, and
intrigue, with elaborate fictions and hoaxes written into sacred
books, and the ruthless competition between rival parties for the
lucrative position of God's elite. . . . Most early churches put
forth spurious claims to foundation by apostles, even though the
apostles themselves were no more than the mandatory 'zodiacal
twelve' attached to the figure of the sacred king."
(105)
"The Naked Truth" video series by IRES. Antiquities
Unveiled, above.
(106)
Massey, MC.
(107)
Ibid. "The lion is Matthew's symbol, and that is the
zodiacal sign of the month of Taht-Matiu (Thoth), in the fixed
year. Tradition makes Matthew to have been the eighth of
the apostles; and the eighth (Esmen) is a title of Taht-Matiu.
Moreover, it is Matthias, upon whom the lot fell, who was chosen
to fill the place of the Typhonian traitor Judas. So was it in
the mythos when Matiu (Taht) succeeded Sut [Set], and occupied
his place after the betrayal of Osiris. . . . It is to the
Gnostics that we must turn for the missing link between the oral
and the written word; between the Egyptian Ritual and
the canonical gospels; between the Matthew who wrote the Hebrew
or Aramaic gospel of the sayings, and Taht-Mati, who wrote the Ritual,
the Hermetic, which means inspired writings, that are
said to have been inscribed in hieroglyphics by the very finger
of Mati himself."
(108)
Deceptions and Myths of the Bible by Graham; Apollonius
the Nazarene by Raymond Bernard, PhD. Like Bernard, et al.,
Hotema also claims the "historical" details later added
to the sungod mythos were those from the life of Apollonius of
Tyana, who was also called "Pol." According to this
theory, "Pol" then serves as a model for both the
Christ character and the apostle Paul. It is said that Apollonius
brought the New Testament from India, and that he had certain
yogic powers which allowed him to do miracles. This theory is, to
our mind, unsatisfactorily reconciled at this time. While it may
be true that the historicizers, looking back in time, decided
they needed to pluck up a quasi-historical character who was
still in memory upon which to base their fictions, they would not
have needed to add much to the extant sungod mythos and ritual,
merely a few "historical" details.
(109)
"Another popular delusion most ignorantly cherished is, that
there was a golden age of primitive Christianity, which followed
the preaching of the Founder and the practice of his apostles;
and that there was a falling away from this paradisiacal state of
primordial perfection when the Catholic Church in Rome lapsed
into idolatry, Paganised and perverted the original religion, and
poisoned the springs of the faith at the very fountain-head of
their flowing purity. Such is the pious opinion of those orthodox
Protestants who are always clamouring to get back beyond
the Roman Church to that ideal of primitive perfection supposed
to be found in the simple teachings of Jesus, and the lives of
his personal followers, as recorded in the four canonical gospels
and in the Acts of the Apostles. But when we do penetrate far
enough into the past to see somewhat clearly through and beyond
the cloud of dust that was the cause of a great obscuration in
the first two centuries of our era, we find that there was no
such new beginning, that the earliest days of the purest
Christianity were pre-historic, and that the real golden age of
knowledge and simple morality preceded, and did not follow, the
Apostolic Roman Church, or the Deification of its Founder, or the
humanising of the 'Lamb of God' . . ." (Massey, G&HC)
"It sounds strange to hear persons in these days express a
desire for a 'return to primitive Christianithy, when all was
peace and love.' There never was such a time." (Keeler)
(110)
Indeed, Jesus's character and many of his actions were utterly
contrary to the notion of him being a great Essene healer.
"A poor Canaanitish woman comes to him from a long distance
and beseeches him to cure her daughter who is grievously
obsessed. 'Have mercy on me, O Lord,' she pleads. But he answered
her not a word. The disciples, brutes as they were, if the scene
were real, besought him to send her away because she cried after
them. Jesus answered, and said: 'I was only sent to the lost
sheep of the House of Israel.' She worships him, he calls her one
of the dogs." (Massey, G&HC) We might add that if Jesus
only came for the 'lost sheep of the House of Israel,' then we
may ignore him, for we are not lost sheep, nor are we of the
House of Israel.
(111)
This is another aspect of the Christian character that is
conflicted. While Jesus is busy swearing unto, he also exhorts
his followers to "swear not at all." (Matt. 5:34; James
5:12) These are Essenic/Therapeutan dictates that would be
appropriate for a spiritual community, such that they were no
doubt useful to the Christian copyists in their attempts at
making the drama appear to be historical. It is an intricately,
if clumsily, woven tale, utilizing everything possible at hand,
which is the only explanation for the glaring contradictions.
(112)
Massey, Gnostic and Historic Christianity. Graves
provides numerous examples of Essenic doctrine, such as the
Essene writer Philo's pronouncement, "It is our first duty
to seek the kingdom of God and his righteousness." (Matt.
6:33; Lk. 12:31) It would seem that, in order to give the sungod
mythos the appearance of a historical man heading a spiritual
movement, the NT compilers also drew heavily on the Essene
spiritual community. (See below.)
(113)
Taylor: ". . . Eusebius has attested, that the Therapeutan
monks were Christians, many ages before the period assigned to
the birth of Christ; and that the Diegesis and Gnomologue, from
which the Evangelists compiled their gospels, were writings which
had for ages constituted the sacred scriptures of those Egyptian
visionaries." While this Therapeut/Essene origins of the
autograph or original "gospel" texts would seem to
contradict what Massey says about "Jesus" not being an
Essene, it is the Essenes of Josephus to whom he refers, rather
than the Alexandrian/Egyptian Therapeuts. Of the two differing
groups of "healers," historian Philo opined that the
communities in Palestine and Arabia "did not soar to such a
lofty height of philosophic and mystic endeavour as the members
of the community near Alexandria. . . " (Mead, DJL) In our
opinion, the Essenes of Palestine, i.e., those who may or may not
have lived near the Dead Sea, were much simpler and more
contemplative than the worldly Therapeuts, who were profoundly
engaged in the mystery religions, initiations and rituals.
Clearly, while both were called "healers," these are
two different sects, although they were probably connected. The
Therapeuts seems to have been a solid part of the brotherhood
network that stretched from Egypt to India and up into Europe,
while the Dead Sea Essenes - for want of a better term - were
isolationists.
(114)
Massey, MC.
(115)
Taylor: "The first draft of the mystical adventures of
Chrishna, as brought from India into Egypt, was The Diegesis; the
first version of the Diegesis was the Gospel according to the
Egyptians; the first renderings out of the language of Egypt into
that of Greece, for the purpose of imposing on the nations of
Europe, were the apocryphal gospels; the correct,
castigated, and authorised versions of these apocryphal
compilations were the gospels of our [sic] four
evangelists." There is, however, a legend
about the Egyptian god Osiris traveling to India in very ancient
times and establishing his religion there. This
brings up again the "out-of-India" v.
"out-of-Egypt" debate. It may very well be that an
extremely ancient culture from Africa/Egypt migrated many
thousands of years ago to India. In this theory, India would
still remain the cradle of Western/Middle Eastern culture, with
subsequent migrations back to the west, carrying the mutated
Proto-Egyptian/Indian language and the refined Mythos, which
would be further refined or change by Egyptians. What cannot be
disputed is that India and Egypt have both have a profound impact
on Western/Middle Eastern culture and that the original Mythos
and Ritual were well developed by both nations.
(116)
Massey says, "In the Book of Enoch one form of the
Messiah is the 'Son of Woman'; this was Enoch or Enos,
the Egyptian Sut-Anush [Set], who had been twin with Horus but
was superseded by him." (MC) Wheless: "The
Book of Enoch, forged in the name of the grandson of Adam, is the
fragmentary remains of a whole literature which circulated under
the pretended authorship of that mythical Patriarch. . . . This
work is a composite of at least five unknown Jewish writers, and
was composed during the last two centuries B.C. . . .In this Book
we first find the lofty titles: 'Christ' or 'the Anointed One,
'Son of Man,' the Righteous One,' 'the Elect One,' - all of which
were boldly plagiarized by the later Christians and bestowed upon
Jesus of Nazareth. . . . It abounds in such 'Christian' doctrines
as the Messianic Kingdom, Hell, the Resurrection, and Demonology,
the Seven Heavens, and the Millennium, all of which have here
their apocryphal Jewish promulgation, after being plagiarized
bodily from the Persian and Babylonian myths and superstitions,
as we have seen confessed. There are numerous quotations,
phrases, clauses, or thoughts derived from Enoch, or of closest
of kin with it, in several of the New Testament Gospels and
Epistles. . ."
(117)
Wheless, pp. 85-87.
(118)
In yet another attempt to produce a history for this mythical
character, Bible translators have taken to rendering the title
"Jesus the Nazarene" as "Jesus of Nazareth,"
a village that many scholars opine did not yet exist at the time
of Jesus's purported birth. "There is no such place as
Nazareth in the Old Testament or in Josephus' works, or on early
maps of the Holy Land. The name was apparently a later Christian
invention." (Holley) As Dujardin states, "It is
universally admitted that Jesus the Nazarene does not mean Jesus
of Nazareth." Massey and Churchward point out that the title
"Nazarene" is part of the Mythos, with Horus/Jesus
being considered "the plant, the shoot, the natzar. . . .
the true vine." (Churchward)
(119)
"There is another proof that the Gospels were not written by
Jews. Traditionally, Jesus and all the 'Apostles' were Jews; all
their associates and the people of their country with whom they
came into contact, were Jews. But throughout the Gospels, scores
of times, 'the Jews' are spoken of, always as a distinct and
alien people away from the writers, and mostly with a sense of
racial hatred and contempt." (Wheless)
(120)
The date of Hadrian's reign (117-138) precedes the period we have
ascribed to the appearance of the canonical gospels. However, we
are proposing that the texts composed by the Alexandrian
Therapeuts were autographs, or originals, upon which the
Christian gospels were based. This would mean that these
originals were nonhistorical, gnostic texts composed to commit
the Mythos and Ritual in its totality to writing. These texts
then were transported to Rome, where they were worked upon by
historicizers and eventually changed into the Christian gospels.
Sources:
- Ancient History of the God Jesus by Edouard
Dujardin
- Antiquities Unveiled by JM Roberts, Esq.
- Apollonius the Nazarene by Raymond Bernard, PhD
- A Short History of the Bible by Bronson C.
Keeler
- Christianity Before Christ by John G. Jackson
- Christianity: The Last Great Creation of the Pagan
World by Vernal Holley
- Deceptions and Myths of the Bible by Lloyd
Graham
- Did Jesus Exist? by GA Wells
- Forgery in Christianity by Joseph Wheless, Esq.
- Gnostic and Historic Christianity by Gerald
Massey
- Isis Unveiled by Helena Blavatsky
- Pagan and Christian Creeds by Edward Carpenter
- Pagan Christs by JM Roberts
- The Bible in India by Louis Jacolliot
- The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You to Read
- The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth by
John Allegro
- The Diegesis by Rev. Robert Taylor
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead by Gerald Massey
- "The Great Myth of the Sun-Gods" by Alvin Boyd
Kuhn, PhD
- The Gospels and the Gospel by G.R.S. Mead
- The Historical Jesus and the Mythical Christ by
Gerald Massey
- The Historical Evidence for Jesus by GA Wells
- "The Naked Truth" video series
- The Origin and Evolution of Religion by Albert
Churchward
- "The Truth about Jesus," lecture by M.
Mangasarian
- The Woman's Dictionary of Symbols and Sacred Objects
by Barbara Walker
- The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets by
Barbara Walker
- The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors by Kersey
Graves
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