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Table
of Contents for this page. 1
Creating
Gods 2
A. The Written History of Jesus 2
B. The Making of Jesus 7
B.1. The Major Contributors to Jesus 10
Horus
of Egypt 10
Mithra,
Sungod of Persia. 13
Krishna
of India. 15
Prometheus
of Greece. 17
Buddha. 18
C The Sun-god Concept 20
D The Making of the Bible & Its Characters 23
A. The Written History of
Jesus
Jesus
Christ is a mythological character along the same lines as the Greek,
Roman, Egyptian, Sumerian, Phoenician, Indian and other god-men. These
characters are all presently accepted as myths rather than historical
figures, yet the later Jesus is still purported to be
legitimate by Christians. Delving deeply
into this history, one uncovers evidence that the Jesus character is based
upon much older myths and heroes from around the globe. This story is not a
historical representation of a Jewish rebel carpenter, who had physical
incarnation 2,000 years ago, but the blending and pilfering of previous
religions and myths.
The
controversy over the legitimacy and even existence of Jesus has existed
from the very beginning of Christianity, 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 heretics alike saw as a preposterous and fabricated yarn. 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."
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."[2] In Forgery in
Christianity, Joseph Wheless states, "The
gospels are all priestly forgeries over a century after their pretended
dates."[3] 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. 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." Such
prevarication is confessed to repeatedly in the Catholic Encyclopedia.[4]
Some of the "great" church fathers, such as Eusebius,
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.[5]
The
church historian, Mosheim, writes that, “'The Christian Fathers
deemed it a pious act to employ deception and fraud.”
[Ecclesiastical History, Vol. I, p. 347] Another
historian, Milman, writes that, “Pious
fraud was admitted and avowed by the early missionaries of
Jesus.” The assertion that Jesus Christ is a myth can be proved
not only through the works of dissenters and "pagans", but also
through the very statements of the Christians themselves, who continuously
disclosed 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!"[6]
Essentially,
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." Their silence
is deafening testimony against the historicizers.
[7]
In
the entire works of Josephus, the Jewish historian, there are only two
paragraphs that claim to refer to Jesus in those many volumes. 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."[8]
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."
Many scholars 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."
That instance has been demonstrated to be spurious, as is also suspected of
the entire letter. 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 supposed death, is also considered
by competent scholars as an interpolation and forgery.[9] 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.
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 be 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!"[10]
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.[11] 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."
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’ 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)
B. The Making of Jesus
During
the era Jesus supposedly lived, there was an extensive library at Alexandria
and an incredibly nimble brotherhood network that stretched from Europe to China.
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 closely
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. [12] The Krishna
tale as told in the Hindu Vedas has been dated to at least as far back as
1400 B.C.E. 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 a thousand 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. These men 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) 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’s 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:
"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."
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." 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 neighbourhood 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.
[14]
B.1. The Major
Contributors to Jesus
Horus of Egypt
The
stories of Jesus and Horus are very similar, with
Horus even contributing the name of Jesus Christ.
Horus and his Father, Osiris,
are frequently interchangeable in the mythos ("I and my Father are
one"). 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/manger, with his
birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men.
He was a child teacher in the Temple and
was baptized when he was 30 years old.
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").
Horus's personal epithet was "Iusa,"
the "ever-becoming son" of "Ptah,"
the "Father."
Horus was called "the KRST," or
"Anointed One," long before the Christians duplicated the story.
In
the catacombs of Rome are pictures of the baby Horus
being held by the virgin mother Isis, the original "Madonna and
Child". The Vatican itself is built upon the papacy of Mithra. Mithra shares many qualities with Jesus and existed as
a deity before the Jesus character was formalized, as the following section
describes.
However,
back to Horus, who has no history between the
ages of 12 and 30, as Jesus. There exists a very old Egyptian papyrus dated
to 75 C.E. but based on an older document, which contains a story about the
"Son of Osiris" (i.e., the "Son of
God") that parallels in a number of details the gospel narratives. The
Son of God is claimed to have wondrous powers and to have outwitted all of
the teachers in the Temple of Ptah.
In the papyrus there is also a tale of two dead men that closely resemble
the biblical fable of Dives and Lazarus (Lk. 16:19-31).
In
actuality, even the place names and the appellations of many other characters
in the New Testament can be revealed to be Hebraic renderings of the
Egyptian texts. As an example, in the fable of "Lazarus," who was
raised from the dead by Jesus, the Christian copyists did not even change
his name much. "El-Azar-us" was a person
of Egyptian folklore raised from the dead by Horus
possibly 1,000 years or more before the Jewish version.[31]
Horus's
principal enemy, originally Horus' other face or "dark"
aspect, was "Set" or "Sata,", no small surprise to then find the biblical
"Satan." Horus struggles with
Set in the exact manner that Jesus battles with Satan, with 40 days in the wilderness,
among other similarities.[16]
"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." 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."[17]
Much
like the revered fish symbol found in Christianity, Massey [see 12]: "Horus in Egypt had been a fish from time immemorial, and when
the equinox entered the sign of Pisces, Horus,
was portrayed as Ichthys with the fish
sign of over his head." Dujardin: "The
patriarch Joshua, who was plainly an ancient god of Palestine
and bore the same name as the god of Christianity, is called the son of
Nun, which signifies 'son of the fish.'" Walker:
"The fish symbol of the yonic Goddess was so
revered throughout the Roman empire that Christian authorities insisted on taking it
over, with extensive revision of myths to deny its earlier female-genital
meanings." Wheless: "The fish anagram
was an ancient Pagan symbol of fecundity . . ."
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 "the most popular and
widely spread 'Pagan' religion of the times”, shortly before the
Christian era. The Christian hierarchy is nearly identical to the Mithraic version it replaced. 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.
[13] 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”.
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."
The
Vatican hill in Rome that is regarded as sacred to Peter, the
Christian rock, was already sacred to Mithra.
Many Mithraic remains have been found there. The
merging of the worship of Attis into that of Mithra, then later into that of Jesus, was effected
almost without interruption." [6] "The cave of the Vatican
belonged to Mithra until 376 A.D., when a city
prefect suppressed the cult of the rival Savior and seized the shrine in
the name of Christ, on the very birthday of the pagan god, December
25."
Writes
Shamuel Golding, in The
Book Your Church: ‘Paul says, ‘They
drank from that spiritual rock and that rock was Christ’ (I Cor. 10:4). These are identical words to those found in
the Mithraic scriptures, except that the name
Christ is used instead of Mithra.
Wheless:
"Mithraism is one of the oldest religious systems on earth, as it
dates from the dawn of history before the primitive Iranian race divided
into sections which became Persian and Indian . . . When in 65-63 B.C., the
conquering armies of Pompey were largely converted by its high precepts,
they brought it with them into the Roman
Empire. Mithraism spread with great
rapidity throughout the Empire, and it was adopted, patronized and
protected by a number of the Emperors up to the time of Constantine."
Of Mithraism, the Catholic Encyclopedia states: "The fathers
conducted the worship. The chief of the fathers, a sort of pope, who
always lived at Rome, was called 'Pater Patratus."
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 non-canonical 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,
living Krishna.
Krishna was born of the Virgin Devaki
("Divine One")
His father was a carpenter.
His birth was attended by
angels, wise men and shepherds, and he was presented with gold,
frankincense and myrrh.
He was persecuted by a tyrant
who ordered the slaughter of thousands of infants.
He was of royal descent.
He was baptized in the River
Ganges.
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."
He was transfigured in front
of his disciples.
In some traditions he died on
a tree or was crucified between two thieves.
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."
He is the second person of the
Trinity, and proclaimed
himself the "Resurrection" and the "way to the Father."
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."
Krishna is to return to do battle with the "Prince
of Evil," who will desolate the earth.
The
terrible story of Herod killing the infants as portrayed in Matthew is not
found in any histories of the day, including Josephus, who does otherwise
expose Herod's real abuses. The "slaughter of the infants" is yet
another part of the standard Mythos. This story is a rehash of the Krishna
tale: "[The tyrant Kansa] ordained the massacre in all his states,
of all the children of the male sex, born during the night of the birth of Christna. . ." (Jacolliot)
Jesus
believers attempt to distinguish their god-man from all these others by
claiming a historical framework, which gives more credence to their
"Savior" being the "right" one. Let us pretend that
Jesus was historical. Followers of Krishna also claim he was historical, yet his advent predates
that of Jesus by hundreds to thousands of years. If we assume both are
historical, and both are teaching nearly the identical thing, why should we
not go to the source and become Krishna followers? Here, we see clearly the ugly head of
cultural bigotry, when the Christians claim their god-man superior to one
already in existence that is virtually identical. Why not go with Krishna?
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 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.
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, labours under
precisely the same fatality of an absolute and total want of
evidence." [14]
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
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
masses [64], 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. Nonetheless, the Christians
preserved the controversy of their detractors through their own rebuttals.
For
example, early Church Father Tertullian (160-220
C.E.), Bishop of Carthage, ironically admits the true origins of the Christ
story and many other god-men by stating in refutation of his critics,
"You say we worship the sun; so do you."
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.
The
Buddha characters have the following in common with the Christ figure:
Buddha was born of the virgin
Maya, who was considered the "Queen of Heaven."
He was of royal descent.
He crushed a serpent's head.
Sakyamuni Buddha had 12 disciples.
He performed miracles and
wonders, healed the sick, fed 500 men from a "small basket of
cakes," and walked on water.
He abolished idolatry, was a
"sower of the word," and preached
"the establishment of a kingdom of righteousness."
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.
He ascended to Nirvana or
"heaven."
Buddha was considered the
"Good Shepherd", the
"Carpenter", the
"Infinite and Everlasting."
He was called the "Savior
of the World" and the "Light of the World."
C The Sun-god
Concept
A
plausible reason why 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.
The astro-theological development can be found
throughout because the sun and the twelve zodiac signs can be and were
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") revolving around the movements of the sun through the
heavens.
For
instance, many of the world's crucified god-men have their traditional
birthday on December 25th. 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.
The
following are the characteristics of the sun 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'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 it’s passing through the
equinoxes, the vernal equinox being Easter, at which time it is then
resurrected.
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.[15]
Furthermore,
since Horus was called "Iusa/Iao/Iesu"
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" ("Messiah")
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 . . ." Hotema states that the name "Jesus Christ"
was not formally adopted in its present form until after the first Council
of Nicea in 325 C.E.
One
can find certain allegorical place names such as "Jerusalem"
and "Israel" in the Book of Revelation. Massey asserts
that Revelation relates the Mithraic legend of Zarathustra/Zoroaster.[18] 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 it’s 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."
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.[19] 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
(day of Saturn) as "God's Day" or the Sabbath.
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."
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
fêtes, such as the Sacæa 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." [30]
D The Making of the
Bible & Its Characters
When
someone 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."
Indeed,
the legend of Moses, rather than being that of a historical Hebrew
character, is found predated around the ancient Middle and Far East.
The character having different names and races, depending on the locale:
"Manou" is the Indian legislator; the
Babylonian "Nemo, the lawgiver," who
brought down the tablets from the Mountain of God; "Mises" is
found in Syria and Egypt, where also "Manes the lawgiver" takes
the stage; "Minos" is the Cretan
reformer. The Ten Commandments are simply a repetition of the Babylonian
Code of Hammurabi and the Hindu Vedas, among
others. Like Moses, Krishna was
placed by his mother in a reed boat and set adrift in a river to be
discovered by another woman. 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.
"Esther"
of the Old Testament Book of Esther is a remake of the Goddess Ishtar, Astarte, Astoreth or Isis, from whom comes "Easter"
and about whose long and ubiquitous reign little is said in "God's
infallible Word." 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."
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."[21]
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 folkloric hero/constellation.[22]
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.[24] James,
"brother of Jesus" and "brother of the Lord," is
equivalent to Amset, brother of Osiris and brother of the Lord. Even the
apostle Paul is a compilation of several characters: The Old Testament
Saul, Apollonius of Tyana and the Greek demigod
Orpheus.[26]
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." 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." 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." In addition, Wheless evinces that one can find much of the fable of
"Jesus Christ" in the Book of Enoch, which
predated the supposed advent of the Jewish master by hundreds of years.[27]
According to Massey, it was the "pagan" Gnostics, who included
members of the Essene/Therapeut and Nazarene
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."
Mead averred, "We thus conclude that the autographs of our four
Gospels were most probably written in Egypt, in the reign of Hadrian."
The
"Word" is a very ancient concept and does not originate with
Christianity. The term "Logos" is Greek. The Christian copyists
adopted the Word concept directly from the Greeks, whether it be from Plato
or applicable to the gods Prometheus and Hermes. However, the Greeks in
turn had adopted this idea from more ancient traditions, such as the Indian
and Egyptian. Graves states, ". . . the Chinese bible, much older
than the Christian's New Testament, likewise declares, 'God pronounced the
primeval Word, and his own eternal and glorious abode sprang into existence.'
Mr. Guizot, in a note on Gibbon's work, says,
'According to the Zend-Avesta (the Persian bible, more than three thousand
years old), it is by the Word, more ancient than the world, that Ormuzd created the universe.' . . . And the ancient
Greek writer Amelias, speaking of the God Mercury
[Hermes] says, 'And this plainly was the Logos (the Word), by whom all
things were made, he being himself eternal, as Heraclitus
would say, . . . He assumed to be with God, and to be God, and in him
everything that was made, has its life and being, who, descending into
body, and putting on flesh, took the appearance of a man, though still
retaining the majesty of his nature.' Here is 'the Word made flesh,' set
forth in most explicit terms."
Walker: "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 port |
