(52)
The Eucharist, or the sharing of the god's blood and
body, has been a sacred ritual within many ancient mystery religions and is part
of the Mythos and Ritual. In a standard ritual that was practiced around the
world, and which continues in some places, participants in the ritual actually
ate and drank the "god's" body and blood, which was in reality that of a
sacrificed human (king) or animal. The Christian form of the Eucharist is very
similar to the ritual that was practiced as part of the Greek Eleusinian
Mysteries, in detail, as is outlined by Taylor. The Eleusinian Eucharist honored
both Ceres, goddess of wheat, and Bacchus/Dionysus, god of the vine. The
Christians also adopted the Bacchanal symbol IHS (Greek) or IES - Iesu/Jesus.
These letters stood for the sun. (See below.) "Mr. Higgins observes, 'The whole
paschal supper (the Lord's supper with the Christians) was in fact a festival of
joy to celebrate the passage of the sun across the equinox of spring.'"
(Graves)
(53)
At this point, the following needs to be addressed:
Jesus believers distinguish their godman from all these others by claiming a
historical framework, which gives more credence to their "Savior" being the
"right" one. We contend that this is precisely why the sungod mythos was
carnalized or made historical in the first place. However, 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 godman
superior to one already in existence that is virtually identical. Why not go
with Krishna? Because he was not of the "right" ethnicity. The question is moot,
however, since both characters are mythological and, by the arguments of the
Christians, should then be dismissed. However, we must not dismiss the Mythos
upon which they are formulated, as it is true revelation of the workings of the
cosmos.
(53a)
As with "Buddha," a number of people have disputed the
"virgin" status of Krishna's mother. As Joseph McCabe says, "The orthodox legend
of Krishna is that he was born of a married woman, Devaki; but like Maya,
Buddha's mother, she was considered to have had a miraculous conception. . . .
Thus one of the familiar religious emblems of India was the statue of the virgin
mother (as the Hindus repute her) Devaki and her divine son Krishna, an
incarnation of the great god Vishnu. Christian writers have held that this model
was borrowed from Christianity, but, as Mr. Robertson observes, the Hindus had
far earlier been in communication with Egypt and were more likely to borrow the
model of Isis and Horus."
(54)
The Book Your Church . . . p. 185. See also
Taylor.
(54a)
Graves, The World's Sixteen Crucified
Saviors: "And we have the statement from Mr. Higgins, that the same
assortment of spices (with the gold) constituted the materials offered as gifts
to the sun, in Persia more than three thousand years ago; and likewise in Arabia
near the same era."
(55)
It should be noted that 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)
(55a)
Graves, p. 110.
(56)
Jacolliot, p. 250.
(57)
Ibid., p. 306.
(58)
The Book Your Church; Graves; Taylor. The
crucifixion of the godman between two "thieves" is an element of the Mythos, and
is found in a number of sungod traditions that predate the Christian myth. "Anup
on one side of Horus, and Aan on the other, are the two thieves on either hand
of the Kamite Christ upon the cross at Easter." (Massey, MC) Anup and Aan are
also the two "witnesses" of Horus, and are the predecessors of the two Johns who
are Jesus's witnesses. (Churchward, Massey, ibid.)
(59)
Blavatsky, Walker, Graves.
(60)
"At first, Christianity did not hold to the Trinity
doctrine. That doctrine developed slowly and did not become officially the
creedal fact until C.E. 325." (Adrian Swindler, The Book Your Church)
Walker: "From the earliest ages, the concept of the Great Goddess was a trinity
and the model for all subsequent trinities, female, male or mixed. . . .Even
though Brahmans evolved a male trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva to play
these parts [of Creator, Preserver and Destroyer], Tantric scriptures insisted
that the Triple Goddess had created these gods in the first place. . . . The
Middle East had many trinities, most originally female. As time went on, one or
two members of the triad turned male. The usual pattern was Father-Mother-Son,
the Son figure envisioned as a Savior. . . . Among Arabian Christians there was
apparently a holy trinity of God, Mary, and Jesus, worshipped as an
interchangeable replacement for the Egyptian trinity of Osiris, Isis, and Horus.
. . " Jacolliot: "The Trinity in Unity, rejected by Moses, became afterwards the
foundation of Christian theology, which incontestably acquired it from
India."
(60a)
Graves.
(61)
Jacolliot, p. 251. "As we have seen, all these names of
Jesus, Jeosuah, Josias, Josu‚ derive from two Sanscrit words Zeus and Jezeus,
which signify, one, the Supreme Being, and the other, the Divine Essence. These
names, moreover, were common not only amongst the Jews, but throughout the
East." (Ibid., p. 301.)
(62)
Jacolliot, p. 282.
(62a)
The "Word" is a very ancient concept and does not
originate with Christianity. The term "Logos" is Greek, and it is obvious that
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."
(63)
Taylor, The Diegesis, pp. 192-4. Taylor
indicates that the following stanza is found in "Potter's beautiful translation"
of Aeschylsus's play: "Lo, streaming from the fatal tree, His
all-atoning blood! Is this the Infinite? 'Tis he - Prometheus, and a God! Well
might the sun in darkness hide, And veil his glories in, When God, the great
Prometheus, died, For man, the creature's sin." However, this stanza apparently
does not appear in modern translations, including Potter's. It is well-known
that the Christians mutilated or destroyed virtually all of the works of ancient
Greek and Roman authors, such that we might suspect this stanza has either been
removed or obfuscated through mistranslation. On the other hand, it may be a
mistake on Taylor's part or a result of his ambiguous language preceding the
passage, or he may have been thinking of another "Prometheus Bound" written
after the Christian era, perhaps by Milton. Taylor was in prison when he wrote
The Diegesis, thereby having difficulty accessing books, so he is to be
excused for errors that invariably creep into anyone's work.
(64)
"To get rid of the damning fact that there is no
historical basis for their theological fictions, the Christian priesthood have
been guilty of the heinous crime of destroying nearly all traces of the
concurrent history of the first two centuries of the Christian era. What little
of it they have permitted to come down to us, they have so altered and changed,
as to destroy its historical value." (JM Roberts, Esq.) "In some of the ancient
Egyptian temples the Christian iconoclasts, when tired of hacking and hewing at
the symbolic figures incised in the chambers of imagery, and defacing the most
prominent features of the monuments, found they could not dig out the
hieroglyphics, and took to covering them over with plaster; and this plaster,
intended to hide the meaning and stop the mouth of the stone word, has served to
preserve the ancient writings as fresh in hue and sharp in outline as when they
were first cut and colored. In a similar manner the temple of ancient religion
was invaded and possession gradually gained by connivance of Roman power; and
that enduring fortress, not built but quarried out of sold rock, was stuccoed
all over the front and made white a-while with its look of brand-newness, and
reopened under the sign of another name - that of the carnalized Christ."
(Massey, MC)
(65)
Wheless, p. 147.
(66)
Ibid., p. 144.
(67)
Mangasarian: "The idea of a Son of God is as old as the
oldest cult. The sun is the son of heaven in all primitive faiths. The physical
sun becomes in the course of evolution, the Son of Righteousness, or the Son of
God, and heaven is personified as the Father on High. The halo around the head
of Jesus, the horns of the older deities, the rays of light radiating from the
heads of Hindu and Pagan gods are incontrovertible evidence that all gods were
at one time - the sun in heaven."
(68)
Jordan Maxwell, The Book Your Church Doesn't Want
You to Read, Pagan and Christian Creeds, by Carpenter, The
Diegesis by Taylor. See also Massey, Churchward, Hotema, Graves, et al.
(69)
The logical question arises: Why, if Jesus is a
historical character, are there are presently two dates for both Christmas and
Easter? This purportedly well-known character, who set the world on fire, has no
birthdate whatsoever, and the "historical" references and genealogies found in
the gospel accounts differ from each other. The gospels are not history at all
but a retelling of the Mythos. The historical Jesus is a phantom. "These, which
cannot both be historical, are based on the two birthdays of the double Horus in
Egypt." (Massey, as related by Jackson) In addition, early Christian "doctors"
were constantly contradicting themselves as to when exactly "the Lord" died or
"ascended to heaven" after "he" was resurrected. Two of the most powerful early
bishops, Irenaeus and Papias opined that Christ lived to be very old, "flatly
denying as 'heresy' the Gospel stories as to his crucifixion at about thirty
years of age." (Wheless)
(70)
See above. In "The Truth about Jesus, M. Mangasarian
states: "The selection of the twenty-fifth of December as his birthday is not
only an arbitrary one, but that date, having been from time immemorial dedicated
to the Sun, the inference is that the Son of God and the Sun of heaven enjoying
the same birthday, were at one time identical beings. The fact that Jesus' death
was accompanied with the darkening of the Sun, and that the date of his
resurrection is also associated with the position of the Sun at the time of the
vernal equinox, is a further intimation that we have in the story of the birth,
death, and resurrection of Jesus, an ancient and nearly universal Sun-myth,
instead of verifiable historical events."
(71)
Many of the sungods, including Horus, Buddha and
Krishna, are depicted with haloes, hundreds to thousands of years before it
became fashionable in Christianity.
(71a)
Jordan Maxwell, "The Naked Truth."
(72)
Mangasarian: "Like the dogmas of the Trinity, the virgin
birth, and the resurrection, the sign of the cross or the cross as an emblem or
a symbol was borrowed from the more ancient faiths of Asia." Walker: "Early
Christians even repudiated the cross because it was pagan. . . . Early images of
Jesus represented him not on a cross, but in the guise of the Osirian or
Hermetic 'Good Shepherd,' carrying a lamb." In Christianity, the original
occupant of the cross was a lamb, not a man. The man hanging on the cross did
not occur until the 7th cent. C.E. "The stave, stake, prop or stay of the
suffering sun was the Stauros, which was primarily a stake for supporting,
shaped as a cross." (Massey, MC) This image can be found in crosses that have a
circle on them. Taylor: "On a Phoenician medal found in the ruins of Citium, and
engraved in Dr. Clarke's Travels, and proved by him to be Phoenician, are
inscribed not only the cross, but the rosary, or string of beads, attached to
it, together with the identical Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of
the world." Graves: ". . . the consecrated twenty-fifth of March is also
the day marked in our calendars as the date of the conception and annunciation
of the Blessed Virgin Mary." March 25th was considered the end of the sun's
passing through the vernal equinox, when the sun was "resurrected," i.e., the
day was now longer than the night.
(73)
"The picture of the New Beginning commonly presented is
Rembrandt-like in tone. The whole world around Judea lay in the shadow of outer
darkness, when suddenly there was a great light seen at the centre of all, and
the face of the startled universe was illuminated by an apparition of the
child-Christ lying in the lap of Mary. Such was the dawn of Christianity, in
which the Light of the World had come to it at last! That explanation is
beautifully simple for the simple-minded; but the picture is purely false - or,
in sterner words, it is entirely false." (Massey, G&HC) Jacolliot: "We have
repudiated Greek and Roman mythologies with disdain. Why, then, admit with
respect the mythology of the Jews? Ought the miracles of Jehovah to impress us
more that those of Jupiter? . . . I have much more respect for the Greek Jupiter
[Zeus] than for the God of Moses; for if he gives some examples not of the
purest morality, at least he does not flood his altar with streams of human
blood."
(74)
As it had with so many preceding purveyors of wisdom and
ideologies, the Church ripped off both Aristotle and Plato, presenting their
known accomplishments in philosophy. The "Logos" is pure Platonism, which
refined the "Word" aspect of the extant Mythos, the Logos in Greece being
Hermes, who is also found in Egypt as the "Trismegistus." Cardinal Palavicino is
quoted as saying, "Without Aristotle we should be without many Articles of
Faith." It is amusing to consider that the omniscient "Lord," who came to
deliver a "New Dispensation," needed the writings of Aristotle to determine
doctrine for his Church.
(74a)
As concerns the "Jesus Lived in India" theory by
Kersten, et al., it is claimed that in Kashmir is a tomb of a traveling prophet
named "Yuz Asaf," which is an Arab name that some have attempted to link to
"Jesus." Notovich claimed to have found a text in Tibet about the "Life of Saint
Issa." It is also claimed that the tombs of "Moses" and "Thomas" are in India.
And there are several places where the "Virgin Mary" purportedly rested and/or
died. It should be noted that there were innumerable "traveling prophets"
throughout the ancient world, all spouting the same parables and platitudes and
doing the standard bag of magic tricks, as do the countless Indian yogis of
today. It is difficult to believe that the Indians or Tibetans would be very
impressed by such stories, since they have had numerous miraculous godmen of
their own. It has also been claimed by the Athenians that the olive tree alive
today on the Acropolis was miraculously planted by the goddess Athena, an act
for which she was honored by having that city-state named after her; and, there
are numberless "footprints" of this Buddha and that throughout Buddhist
countries. In addition, in the Notovich text concerning the "Life of Saint
Issa," which is of late date, it says at the very beginning, "This is what is
related on this subject by the merchants who have come from Israel," thus
demonstrating both that it is not an eyewitness account of a visit by the Jewish
godman and that there was an extensive trading and brotherhood network which
would readily allow for such stories to spread. Again, all around the globe are
stories of where this god or that set foot, did miracles, was born or died. This
is standard in the world of mythmaking, and it is not an indication or evidence
of historicity.
(75)
The Egyptian Book of the Dead by Massey, pp.
1-2. Morals and Dogma of Freemasonry, p. 78. Taylor: "'. . . Chrishna
in Irish means the Sun.'"
(76)
"'Ies,' the Phoenician name of the god Bacchus or the
Sun personified; the etymological meaning of that title being, 'i' the one and
'es' the fire or light; or taken as one word 'ies' the one light. This is none
other than the light of St. John's gospel; and this name is to be found
everywhere on Christian altars, both Protestant and Catholic, thus clearly
showing that the Christian religion is but a modification of Oriental Sun
Worship, attributed to Zoroaster. The same letters IHS, which are in the Greek
text, are read by Christians 'Jes,' and the Roman Christian priesthood added the
terminus 'us'. . ." (Roberts)
(77)
Dujardin says, "The title of Messiah is one that the
Rabbis seldom apply to the Liberator; it is mainly the Christians who state that
the Jews expected 'the Messiah.'"
(78)
The Diegesis, p. 7.
(79)
Introduction to The Egyptian Book of the Dead
by Massey, p. 9.
(80)
Deceptions and Myths of the Bible, by Lloyd
Graham, p. 338.
(81)
Massey, Gnostic and Historic Christianity, p.
3.
(82)
See Walker, Massey, Churchward.
(83)
Ibid.
(84)
See Massey, Churchward and Graham.
(85)
Ibid.
(86)
Massey, Mythical Christ, pp. 3-6 Wheless cites
the Encyclopedia Biblica: "The author of Revelation calls himself John
the Apostle. As he was not John the Apostle, who died perhaps in
Palestine about 66, he was a forger." We would that "died perhaps" is
also accurate, in that John "lived not at all."
.(87)
Jacolliot states that "Zoroaster" is a Persian version
of the more ancient Indian "Zuryastara (who restores the worship of the sun)
from which comes this name of Zoroaster, which is itself but a title assigned to
a political and religious legislator."
(88)
Churchward, 399.
(89)
Ibid., p. 397. There are two astrotheological
interpretations of John-Anup the Baptist, neither of which necessarily precludes
the other, since the Mythos was ever-changing and evolving. As stated above,
John the Baptist was considered the month of Aquarius, the initiation time of
the sun, which was "born" in the previous month. The other interpretation, of
which the Bible and other Christian-Pagan traditions and rituals serve as
evidence, revolves around Saint John's day, June 25th, which would be precisely
the opposite of December 25th; in other words, as the sun is "born again" on
December 25th, the edge of the winter solstice, and its strength continues to
increase, while on June 25th, the edge of the summer solstice, its strength
begins to decrease again. This drama is reflected in the enigmatic statement by
John the Baptist at John 3:30: "He must increase, but I must decrease." This
curious remark only makes sense in astrotheological terms, in the sungod
mythos.
(90)
Walker.
(91)
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(91a)
Hotema, Intro, Egyptian Book of the Dead by
Massey. Like the New Testament, the Old Testament is also filled with sungod
stories, such as the tale of Sampson, or Samson, which means "sun," whose "hair"
(rays) was cut off by Delilah. "Sol-om-on" refers to the sun in three different
languages. In 2 Kings 23:11 is clear evidence of Jewish sunworshipping, as the
king Josiah, "removed the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the
sun. . . " More obscure references such as those referring to "eternal light" or
any variety of names that mean "sun" are found peppered throughout the
Judeo-Christian bible.
(92)
Walker, p. 5. Dujardin: "Many of the old Baals of
Palestine were assimilated by Judaism, which converted them into heroes in the
cause of Jahveh [Yahweh], and in fact many scholars agree that the patriarchs of
the Bible are the ancient gods of Palestine."
(93)
Dujardin and others demonstrate that the Christ drama,
with its obvious Passion play, is indeed a play, with its condensed
time-frame, stage directions and ritualistic lines. The entire gospel story
purports to take place over a period of a few days. In content and form, it is
clearly a sacred king drama, based originally on the sun and other elements such
as fertility rites, that became a ritual practiced yearly or at some other
increment. This sacrificial and/or redemptive drama was acted out in numerous
places over the millennia, long before the Jesus story, in much the same form as
that presented in the gospels. In an imitation of the earlier Mythos, in which
this drama took place in the heavens, with the sun as the sacrificed Son of God,
etc., ancient practitioners would sacrifice a surrogate for the god in order to
ensure fecundity and prosperity. This "victim" of the sacrifice was at times a
human, usually a king or other high official, or an animal or grain offering.
When the surrogate was killed, the blood was sprinkled upon the congregation or
audience of the play, who would cry, "Let his blood be upon us and our
children," a standard play/ritual line that was designed to ensure future
fertility and the continuation of life. Later, wine was substituted for blood.
The Passion only makes sense as part of the Mythos and Ritual. As a historical
tale about foaming-at-the-mouth Jews calling for the blood of the "gentle"
Jesus, it is not only an ugly insult to Jews but a dangerous, unfounded belief
that has led to innumerable pogroms and much prejudice against them for nearly
2,000 years, as they have thus been perceived as rabid, evil "Christkillers." As
Dujardin says, "It is absurd to imagine that the crowd would demand the death of
an innocent man and would wish his blood to be on their heads and those of their
children."
¸ 1998 Acharya S (acharya_s@yahoo.com)
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