THE VATICAN AND THE CULT OF AKHENATON AND THE DARK SIDE OF THE SUN

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Truth and Oblivion
The Pagan Origins of the Bible
The Pagan Origins of Christ and Christianity
Atonism and Judeo-Christianity
Paul - Servant of Aton
The Broken Kings (and the Solar Theology)
Akhenaton's New World Order
The Missing Capstone
The Atonists and their God
The Bible- Chronicle of the Atonists The Bible - Book of the Pharaohs
The Exiled Atonists Divide
The Scarlet Thread
Myth-Mongers Exposed
Atonism and Judaism
The Real Jews
Did the Biblical "Israel" Exist?
Servants of the Servants of God
New Covenants and Empires
The Luciferians
Atonism and Freemasonry Four Faces, One Head
Red Shields and Red Carpets
Knights of the Temple of Sol
Conclusion

Interview with Jeff Rense
Interview with Henrik Palmgren
Source & Reading List
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The Irish Origins of Civilization

(Volume Two)

Akhenaton, the Cult of Aton, and the Dark Side of the Sun

(Polemical Investigations into the Extermination of Druidry and the Rise of Judeo-Christianity)


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...why is the term "light" so frequently used and preferred throughout the Christian scriptures, to denote the spiritual condition of man? Why are nations, whose minds are cultivated and stored with knowledge, said to be "enlightened?"...simply because all knowledge was once supposed to be imparted by the God of the sun through its descending rays of light. Hence light and knowledge are now synonymous terms

Kersey Graves
(Bible of Bibles, 1863 AD)



Truth and Oblivion

The creed which a fanatical sect produced...has shown a great power over the minds of men throughout these twenty-five centuries...Why it was born at that particular moment, or ever, is something that no one can explain - Douglas Reed (Controversy of Zion)

A short time ago, historically speaking, a worldwide cataclysm precipitated the fall of advanced pre-diluvian civilizations. Supposedly, mighty continents sank beneath towering waves, were swallowed by the gaping earth, or were simply obliterated from the face of existing landmasses by ferocious natural forces. By colossal error and folly, the scattered remnants of these pre-diluvian civilizations have since been taken for the nascent ones of the so-called "historical" period that ostensibly commenced approximately 8,000 years ago, during the early Neolithic epoch. Although the earliest of the world's Mesolithic and Megalithic sites have proven to be more sophisticated in design and construction than those of later date, most people continue to accept the unsustainable fiction concerning the world of the past. Ancient man was primitive and modern man is civilized. This is what most people accept and believe. It is, however, one of the most egregious fallacies conceivable.

...in mind you are all young; there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age - (words of an Egyptian priest to Solon, the father of Plato)

A second cataclysmic wave, so to speak, has likewise swept from the Earth the august Druidic colleges that operated throughout the world restoring, for the good of all, the elements of technology from a devastated bygone age - the age of the gods. These colleges and their creators are equally lost, equally buried, and equally forgotten. In the place of these sanctums of knowledge and culture there eventually arose institutions and teachings that sought not to improve and enlighten but to confuse and mislead. They were the creations of virtueless men. These men eventually erected empires upon sites where the Druid Elders - the Servants of Truth - had once given instruction concerning the workings of mind and soul, world and cosmos. It might be said that history is the story of the conflict between the Servants of Truth and the virtueless ones, between magicians and sorcerers. The obliteration of the gnosis of the primordial caste of Elders was a man-made holocaust largely unknown to us today. It is this calamity that has damaged and oppressed the peoples of the world more than any series of natural disasters, terrible as they might have been. To these Elders of old, a twisted and darkened mind was a horror worse to behold than a broken, lightless world.

The state of learning on the continent of Europe at that time, wherever the influence of the Roman Church was dominant, was at a very low state or non-existent. It was only in the monastic establishments maintained at different points on the continent by the monks of the Irish Church that learned men were to be found. There were practically no learned men in the Roman Church at that time. Even a century later when the Emperor Charlemagne espoused the cause of the Roman Church, he had to get Irish schoolmen for instructors to teach in the palace school which he established - Conor MacDari (The Bible: An Irish Book)

Regardless of the effort and zeal, we can hardly prove to everyone's satisfaction that Judeo-Christianity has its roots in Irish Druidism, and in what came before.

We cannot prove that Christianity's founders decided to destroy all trace of their new religion's esoteric Irish origins, even if this should be our strongest held belief. Too little is known of these austere founders of official Christianity, these ruthless autocrats who galvanized their crumbling empires and waning control through the instigation of a corrupt solar theology. The Roman Emperor Constantine, the founder of Christianity who intolerantly sent hundreds to their deaths as heretics and non-believers, was himself not baptized until after his death. Yes, the Machiavellian architects of Judeo-Christianity perished ages ago and so we are unable to prove whether they were truly god-inspired or not. We can merely examine and scrutinize their actions, and those of the men who succeeded them and acted in their name.


It is from such rational scrutiny that we can base our judgments. We can heed the advice of the Christ, as recorded in the Book of Matthew, while noting the passage's Druidic imagery:

Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit; but a corrupt tree bringeth forth evil fruit. A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them - (Matt 7:15-20)

An analysis of the depraved behavior, sadistic edicts, dubious morality, and dark spiritual disposition of the first Christian emperors and patriarchs, and of their agents, should leave a sane man in no doubt as to the origin of the physical and spiritual chaos that has reigned upon this planet from the advent of Judeo-Christianity. In a world order created, managed, and governed by the mentally and emotionally deranged, truth, and men of truth, cannot thrive. They can barely survive. Should such Servants of Truth endeavor to guide civilizations, educate their fellows, and erect honest colleges and churches, they will be hindered and undermined by their arch-rivals. This urge to obstruct and deny the Truth is the distinguishing mindset and drive of all those who secretly consider their own existence threatened by reason and truth, and of men within whom virtue has not found a home. What we cannot so easily conceive of is the ecstatic glee felt by the unsane after their successful annihilation of their despised rivals, the Servants of Truth. In their ending, in their humiliation and loss, in the misrepresentation of their message, and in the distortion of their sublime gnosis, lies the sanctimonious hubris and elevation to power of the depraved.

The Gods have proclaimed Christ to have been most pious, but the Christians are a confused and vicious sect - Porphyry (Neoplatonic philosopher, 3rd century BC)

The Church burned enormous amounts of literature. In 391 Christians burned down one of the world's greatest libraries in Alexandria, said to have housed 700,000 rolls. All the books of the Gnostic Basilides, Porphyry's 36 volumes, papyrus rolls of 27 schools of the Mysteries, and 270,000 ancient documents gathered by Ptolemy Philadelphus were burned. Ancient academies of learning were closed. Education for anyone outside of the Church came to an end - Helen Ellerbe (The Dark Side of Christian History)

Every science was regarded as an outcast, an enemy. Every fact held the creed of the church in scorn. Investigators were enemies in disguise. Thinkers were traitors, and the church exerted its vast power for centuries to prevent the intellectual progress of man. There was no liberty, no education, no philosophy, no science; nothing but credulity, ignorance, and superstition. The world was really under the control of Satan and his agents. The church, for the purpose of increasing her power, exhausted every means to convince the people of the existence of witches, devils, and fiends. In this way the church had every enemy within her power. She simply had to charge him with being a wizard, of holding communication with devils, and the ignorant mob was ready to tear him to pieces - Robert Green Ingersoll (The Great Infidels, 1881)

The mad men of the past are no more, but their legacy of chaos and lies remain. And so, we must resolve and dedicate ourselves to the study of their legacy if we are to come upon the truths that affronted their natures and suffered desecration under their unworthy hands. Amid the wreckage of their making let us attempt to salvage the few remaining gems of truth that have not perished, that they may again illuminate the minds of the sane.

When we contemplate the mysteries of time and history, we see how everything that exists came into being for a reason. It is only intellectual lethargy, and the passage of time, that allows fallacies to appear before us in the guise of facts. Indeed, all that is required for a historical lie to be accepted as historical truth is the passage of historical time. This particular phenomenon has been, and continues to be, on the minds of the world's most devious mythmongers who seek to further the deceptive industry of their predecessors. Those who have arranged the subject of history, so that men see what they are meant to see and so they know only that which they are meant to know, are profoundly aware of how the simple passage of time aids them in their heinous work. As the arch-perjurer of the fifteenth century, Geraldus Cambrensis, haughtily wrote:

People of today laugh at these things because they know the facts, but people of future generations will not know and therefore they will accept them as true history - (The Conquest of Ireland)

Author Tony Bushby, musing on the origins of Christianity, wrote in his fine book The Bible Fraud, the following most appropriate passage:

The scriptural and historical data...shows that the New Testament was never an authentic record, but was, in its entirety, a corpus of corrupted documents specifically constructed to induce a particular belief

Given that Bushby's denotation includes the Old Testament, we believe we can offer the reader a clear explanation as to what this "particular belief" is. In our work, we have gone a long way to uncover the reason for the composition of the Old and New Testaments and we have gained for ourselves, if for no one else, a solid understanding concerning the identity of its authors and their true purpose and agenda. We admire and commend the work of other scholars who have delved into the "Bloodline of Jesus" question and who have quested, like Indiana Jones, for the whereabouts and identity of the "Ark of the Covenant," the "Holy Grail" or "Golden Fleece," the "Elixir of Life," or "Shroud of Jesus," etc. We accolade those authors who have labored to prove that the bible's Jesus Christ lived during an earlier time than has been stipulated and who have shown that there is nothing unique whatsoever about either Judaism or Christianity, and nothing unique either about their god or the rituals practiced in his name.

O You, the Great God, whose name is unknown - (From Hymn to Amun Ra, 2350 BC)

Thou art the one, the God from the very beginnings of time, the heir of immortality, self-produced and self-born; thou didst create the earth and make man - (Egyptian Book of the Dead, 2,600 BC)

Homage to thee, O Amen-Ra, Lord of Thebes, Thou Joy, the ornament of the gods! All men lift up their faces to gaze upon him. Thou art the Lord, inspiring awe, crushing those who would revolt against thee. Thou art the King of all the gods. Thou art the great god, the Living One. Thou art beloved for thy words, Which are the satisfaction of the gods. Thou art the King of heaven, thou didst make the stars - (From Hymn to Amen Ra)

When you dawn, their eyes observe you, As your rays light the whole earth, Every heart acclaims your sight, When you are risen as their lord - (Egyptian "Short Hymn to the Aten")

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The Pagan Origins of the Bible

That the New Testament analysis as we know it only began in the nineteenth century reflects the almost superstitious reluctance to examine the original texts that came out of the Church’s age-long prohibition on Bible reading for the masses. For centuries only priests read the Scriptures - in fact, in most cases they had the monopoly of literacy - Picket and Prince (Templar Revelation)

The religions of Christianity and Judaism originate from the same source, and that source is Egypt. Egyptian culture and religion had its source also, and that source is Ireland. Ireland's Druidic and proto-Druidic traditions, likewise, had their source in the pre-diluvian civilizations of Atlantis and Lemuria. These facts will come as something of a shock to the majority of those readers who have received their education from conventional sources and who have tended to blithely accept on faith all that pours forth from the mouths and pens of the so-called "historians" and "experts" who believe themselves informed about the world of the past.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults - Fredrick Nietzsche

Everything supernatural the presbyters wrote about their developing god could be traced to earlier religious beliefs - Tony Bushby (Bible Fraud)

Thankfully, the insinuation that Christianity has little to do with the land and traditions of Egypt is being refuted by many perspicacious researchers. As the Jewish scriptures recorded, and as the accounts of the early life of Jesus admit, Egypt did play a part in the birth of Judeo-Christianity. The "magi" came to visit the new born sun king from Egypt and, according to the scriptures, the young Jesus and his family allegedly took refuge there. What is more, Christianity began in Egypt. The Egyptians were the first and largest contingent of converts to the religion they most likely regarded as just another one of the many solar churches in Alexandria, Heliopolis, and elsewhere.

Christianity was first preached in Egypt by the Evangelist Mark about thirty years after the Crucifixion. He had sailed with Barnabas to Cyprus (Acts xv. 39), and thence probably went on to Alexandria. There he appointed, as the first of a succession of bishops, Ananiah, a Jew - Samuel Sharpe (Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity, 1863)

The Egyptian roots of Judeo-Christianity have been known for some time to the great scholars and investigators, those mavericks who sensed that there was more to the story than the bible's tangled and sordid accounts lead readers to believe.

As Karl Luckert points out, modern commentators, while acknowledging that this concept of Jesus’s continued spiritual presence is not Jewish, do not provide any ideas as to its true context and background. So where did this idea come from? Luckert’s erudite analysis shows conclusively that the twin concepts of Jesus’ unique Resurrection and his continued presence can be traced without a shadow of doubt to Egyptian theology - John M. Robinson (Pagan Christs)

When quiet was re-established in Egypt by the Roman armies, after more than sixty years of civil troubles, it was found to be no longer the same country that it had been...It was during these years of civil trouble and political agitation that Christianity, or at least a form of religion which called itself Christian, spread over the whole of Egypt. That large class of the population which a few years before formed the priesthood of the old temples, were now Christian monks - Samuel Sharpe (Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity)

Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from Egypt. Pagan Rome, ever since the union of the two countries under Augustus, except when interrupted by the rebellions, had been eagerly copying the superstitions of Egypt, and Christian Rome still followed the same course - ibid

Fortunately the bible, like any book, will reveal its secrets, but only to those skeptical and persistent enough to follow the twists and turns in its convoluted text in order to ascertain what is true and what is false. Academics concede that the bible's text is full of "pious fraud." They admit that there are two gods being spoken of in the opening books and that as time went by these two gods (Elohim and Jehovah) became fused into one, known henceforth as the "Lord God." They concede that there are errors, fictions, and skewed facts and that there are stories concerning people who never lived. They freely admit that there are plagiarisms and renditions of pagan myths and legends, and that the very gospels were not written by those four "saints" after whom they are named. Yes, a lot of things have been conceded since bible study began in earnest a mere 100 years ago. And a lot has had to be conceded given the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Gnostic Gospels, texts from within Christianity that contradict some of the most revered but falsely authenticated tropes of the official testaments.

The Dead Sea Scrolls made no mention of Jesus Christ or the early Christian church. At the time of their discovery…It has long been known that there was information in the Dead Sea Scrolls damning to Christian beliefs and the church’s high-level involvement with interpreting the Scrolls fostered a grave element of suspicion. Since the Scrolls were found some six decades ago, close associates of the Vatican were placed in dominant positions in every phase of the investigation and translations of the Scrolls. The priests regulated the flow of information and controlled its release - Tony Bushby (The Bible Fraud)

The Druids - The oldest priestarchy on earth, from the oldest civilization on earth. Egyptian religion and Judeo-Christianity were plagiarizations and corruptions of the Druidic Mystery School Gnosis



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Despite these relatively important concessions we are still in need of revelations concerning the actual origins of it all. Scholars have been correct to sense that the source of Judeo-Christianity lies in the Egypt of over 32 pharaonic dynasties with traditions stretching back to the remotest periods. Yet these same minds cannot accept that the theology and traditions of predynastic Egypt could have been transplanted there from elsewhere. Sadly, the connections between Egypt and the more ancient land of Ireland have barely been broached. Those few revisionists who offered proofs of the connection are all but forgotten.

The monuments prove that, quite early in the Dynastic Period, there was known and worshipped in Lower Egypt another form of the Sun-god who was called RA. Of his origin and early history nothing is known, and the meaning of his name has not yet been satisfactorily explained. It does not seem to be Egyptian - E. A. Wallis Budge (Tutankhamen: Amenism, Atenism and Egyptian Monotheism, 1923)

The centre of the cult of Ra in Egypt was Anu, or Heliopolis, and the city must have been inhabited by a cosmopolitan population (who were chiefly worshippers of the sun) from time immemorial. All the caravans from Arabia and Syria halted there, whether outward or homeward bound, and men of many nations and tongues must have exchanged ideas there as well as commodities - ibid

As we have said, oblivion has been the fated destination of any skeptical scholar, historian, or writer with the effrontery to go against convention and question the barrage of spurious conjecture that would have the world accept the uniqueness of Jesus, the divinity of the Church, the veracity of the gospels, or beloved notions concerning the exodus, diaspora, and the East to West dispersion of cultural elements. The suppression of those few researchers and scholars who sought to expose the truth about the "greatest story ever told" serves as one more important clue for the investigator on the trail of the criminals responsible for the deliberate and outright obliteration of Druidry. No text was to survive that recorded and revealed the truth and no human voice was to speak and proclaim it. Yet skepticism is a correct attitude to adopt when we are asked to believe that the elements of civilization migrated from East to West, or that a small and insignificant group of vagabond exiles from one of the oldest and greatest civilizations on earth were chosen by god to be the spiritual fathers of the world. And skepticism is certainly appropriate when we are told by its representatives that we must either conform to the tenets and dogmas of the Judeo-Christian religion or suffer eternal damnation. If we are so inclined, we might exchange our precious skepticism for something greater yet. We might exchange it for a true understanding of mankind's past and might choose knowledge as our salvation instead of the jaded cynicism so pervasive in today's world. We might certainly question this phantasmagoric religion of desert wastelands, this revelation to shepherds and wanderers that has dominated the world now for 2,500 years. We might be compelled to discover if, like the scarecrow at the horizon, it is what it appears to be. We might be compelled to re-categorize the bible's literature and theology now that we have known Kafka, Dostoevsky, Hesse, and Cervantes. We might be able to judge well the logic, perspicacity, and even the sanity of its authors now that we have benefited from our introductions to de Sade, Joyce, and Lovecraft.

At least, we may inquire why is it that this touted but misnamed "Judeo-Christian" religion, that all men are expected to respect and trust if not follow, does not speak in detail concerning the dynamics of man's psyche as do the writings of Plato, Aristotle, and Lucretius? And why do we find it full of animosity for what man is? Why is it so full of conflict, superstition, adversity, and rivalry? Why do we learn such terrible things about man and the world from its pages, while from a Homer, a Shakespeare, or a Lawrence, we learn so much that is great and sublime? Why is the gamut of human emotion so limited and paltry in this book meant to reflect man as he lives and is? And why do we not laugh when we read these scriptures of Christianity? Why does it state that one small "chosen" coterie will enjoy dominion over all other nations and peoples? Why does this book of Jews and Christians not contain treatises from masters of astronomy or geometry, or of husbandry, pyramid-building, and navigation? And why is it so difficult to place the authors who have contributed to it, those Solomons, Isaiahs, and Jeremiahs? Why, in this most patristic book of pages do we not encounter hymns to the earth and goddess as we do in Lao Tzu or Chuang Tzu? And why nothing concerning the spiritual significance of animals that we find in the lore of so many antique nations? Why is Earth deemed so lowly in this lauded book? We do not find it so in the works of Wordsworth, Bronte, or Hardy. And why the talk of bad angels and infernal pits of fire and brimstone? Why plagues and famines unleashed upon the unsuspecting? Why a god so wrathful and jealous and so bent on retribution and destruction? Were we psychologists we might be motivated to ask whether the bible's strange chapters and verses reflect man as he truly is, or whether they reflect how man and his world were perceived by its few psychically demented authors obsessed on emphasizing and broadcasting their own superiority and prowess. Might we not tend to agree with Nietzsche's contention that it is the desire of Christians to see the world as ugly and bad that has made it ugly and bad? In any case, a great deal may hang upon the answers to our disquieting questions.

In no land or literature has the mythical mode of representation been perverted and reduced to driveling foolishness more fatally than in some of the Hebrew legends - Gerald Massey (Ancient Egypt - Light of the World, 1907)

And so it has been for the better part of 2000 years the Old Testament was the sole record of the Mesopotamian patriarchal era. There was no way for anyone to know if it was fact or fiction…it was taken on board for history - Laurence Gardner

...its chronology is unreliable, chimerical, and incorrect; its history contradictory and incredible; its philosophy fallacious; its logic unsound; its cosmology foolish and absurd, its astronomy fragmentary and childish; its religion pagan-derived, its morals defective, sometimes selfish, often extravagant, and in some cases pernicious...It is often dark, ambiguous, and mysterious, as well as contradictory, not only in its lessons on morality, but in its account of the simplest occurrences, this rendering it comparatively worthless as a moral guide - Kersey Graves (Bible of Bibles, 1863 AD)

The extent of Christian stupidity and of Christian ignorance would have been the most unaccountable of all the phenomena of the universe, if its own history had not supplied the account. Men have been trained to prefer ignorance to learning, and have chosen to be driven mad and wild by faith, rather than to be instructed, enlightened and improved by reason and philosophy - Rev. Robert Taylor (Devil's Pulpit, 1830 AD)

If and when we consider the events that have transpired under the auspices of this religion, or the crimes that have been committed in the name of its god (the genocide, subjugation, sadistic inquisitions, repression of natural instincts, suppression of women, sequestering of knowledge, reticence to disclose origins, negation and despiritualization of nature, and so on), we might find within us a very strong drive to uncover the truth that has eluded so many. But even if we begin as skeptics, we can pose a few basic questions of importance before the world even though we swear to trust only in ourselves to find the answers. Our first question goes something like this - Is Judeo-Christianity a creation of man or god? Our second must be - Are those architects of its official dogma interested in knowing god or in controlling the minds of men? Is theirs the business of enlightenment or enslavement? And for our third question - Is the bible about reason or belief, truth or falsehood, clarity or confusion?

For it is written, I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to nothing the understanding of the prudent....Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this world? But God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty; And base things of the world, and things which are despised, hath God chosen - (I Corinthians 1:10 & 27, 28)

No one will become generous and worthy from Christianity for it does not promote wisdom and learning and the Pagan writings that promote fortitude, prudence, and justice are ascribed to Satan and those who worship Satan - Flavius Claudius Julianus (the Roman Emperor Julian, 331-363 AD)

Although we are afforded few reliable answers to our questions from official sources we can, perhaps, at least assure ourselves as to the veracity of that which is within the covers of the perplexing tome. Faith might lend us this certainty but for the fact that we are apostles of reason not faith. And as such we are quite without choice in the matter. We must discover, as we would with a Manu, a Mohammad, or a Joseph Smith, whether the verse and substance is true and decent and whether, in the end, it is the artifice of fools or sages, men or god. Our few humble questions have been posed and we care not to whom we turn for our answers. We want to hear all the voices and opinions, for we are free in our minds and without prejudice. We listen to all with diplomatic attentiveness and give to all their due. All the while we obey but one law: we make up our own minds, else our efforts be wasted.

Where there is doubt, there is freedom - Taoist motto

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The Hierarchy of Aton

At the close of the ‘Great Hymn to the Aten’ it says, “There is no one who knows you, except your son, Akhenaton” - Lorraine Evans (Kingdom of the Ark)

The bible is a compilation of numerous occidental and oriental pagan doctrines. Its compilation was commissioned by the chiefs of the Solar Cult (Atonists) situated in Tanis, Alexandria, Jerusalem, and Rome, in order to galvanize their empire and maintain control over the minds of the mass of illiterate and superstition-ridden human beings under their dominion. Dominion over men and the world was what it was all about, and little has changed when it comes to this agenda.

Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are harsh. For it is commendable if a man bears up under pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God…But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God - (Peter 2:18-21)

Masters, provide your slaves with what is right and fair, because you know that you also have a Master in heaven - (Colossians 4:1)

One of the pernicious ideologies promoted and broadcast by the church, and by the bible, concerns the phenomenon of hierarchy. Hierarchy replaced holarchy as an metaphysical paradigm and world view after the advent of orthodox Christianity. Along with its erroneous concepts regarding selfhood, it was this modification of metaphysics that separated Christianity from its Druidic origins. In the Christian universe a man is assigned his role and place from the outset. He is a sinner and worthy of death. Above him reigns an imperious god and his chosen ministers. Below his level dwells Satan and the fires of hell. If a man should wish to ascend toward godhead, he must follow the guidelines set down by his masters. He must conform and believe what he is told by those who know what is best for his soul. He must combat the sin of self-will and obey without question all he is told. After all, his instruction comes directly from god who speaks only through his most trusted ministers. In this way a man is kept in his place, within his designated station. His rebellious drives are placated by endless future promises forever unfulfilled. The most fantastic and yet psychically tranquilizing of these promises concerns a man's fate in the afterlife. If he performs his duties well in this life he may inherit good things after he dies. His sins will be forgiven and his soul will be at rest for eternity. If he rebels and does not perform his assigned tasks he will perish and be eternally damned. Promises were the business of the Church, and they still are. In this regard nothing has changed. They were in fashion then and they are in fashion now. It is by way of this reward contract that the church has slowly but effectively molded men into obedient slaves. This crafty tactic has even served to quell the Spirit of Rebellion in many men. Yes, one cannot think of a more successful stratagem than the promise.

I will reveal to you the hidden Treasures, the Riches kept in secret, that you may know that I am the Lord - (Isaiah 45:3)

In private, to his disciples, he revealed everything - (Mark 4:34)

Sadly and astonishingly, prominent and inquiring men have also seen fit to submit their reason to this promise of "secret" knowledge transmitted privately. Indeed, there is no secret society of importance operating anywhere in the world that does not employ this very ruse to ensure loyalty and obedience from its selected members and initiates. It is obviously a major turn-on for certain people to consider themselves privy to an arcane tradition lauded from the heights by so august and powerful a quorum. As the feudal barons garnered assistance in times of war from their knights and serfs by promises of land and loot, so have the religious quorum seduced men by the lure of sequestered wisdom. Promises of this kind have, however, served a greater purpose than to merely ensure conformity and obedience. The promise of secret knowledge plays to the vanity of men, the very vanity that Ecclesiastes so adamantly warns mankind against. The promise becomes a lure and source of obsession. Under the spell of the promise men will eagerly construct and endorse the obscene hierarchy. They will do so because they secretly desire rank within that hierarchy. The vast majority of men seek to lord it over those below them. And once this seniority is bestowed, protected, and ensured, the vanity of "little men" is swiftly satiated. One may not be pharaoh over the whole game, but being made the lord over one small square on the board, so to speak, provides quite enough ego satisfaction for the power-gorged man in this world. The masters of men’s minds bet on their puppet’s vanity being their best ally. They bet well.

Behold! The Secrets of Yahweh our God: those things revealed to us and our descendants for ever - (Deuteronomy 29:29)

You have revealed to me the secret and hidden things of Your Wisdom - (Psalms 51:6)

Jesus said: "It is only to those who are worthy that I reveal my mysteries" - (Gospel of Thomas)

There was always an exoteric portion given out to the world, to the uninitiated, and an esoteric portion reserved for the initiates, and revealed only in degrees, accordingly as the candidate demonstrated his fitness to receive, conceal and rightly use the knowledge so imparted. Few professed Christians are aware, perhaps, that such was the case with Christianity during the early centuries - Dr. Lawrence Buck (Mystic Masonry)

You have heard as much of the Mystery as we are allowed to speak openly in the ears of all: the rest will be communicated to you in private, and that you must retain within yourself…our Mysteries are not to be made known to strangers - Saint Gregory (Bishop of Constantinople 540-604)

Every time that you find in our books a tale, the reality of which seems impossible, a story that is repugnant to both reason and common sense, then be sure that the tale contains a profound allegory veiling a deeply mysterious truth…and the greater the absurdity of the letter, the deeper the wisdom of spirit - Rabbi Moses Maimonides

Whoever shall find out the true sense of the Book of Genesis ought to take care not to divulge it…If a person should discover the true meaning of it by himself, or by the aid of another, then he ought to be silent, or if he speaks he ought to speak of it obscurely, in an enigmatical manner, as I do myself - ibid

The mysteries of the Faith are not to be divulged to all...It is requisite to hide in a mystery the wisdom spoken - Clement of Alexandria (Second Century Grecian Christian theologian)

The man who, consciously or unconsciously, chases the lure of the promise soon begins to entertain the false notion that his enlightenment lies outside his own keep. As a subservient fragment within the hierarchical structure, it is his masters above his level who possess the keys to his salvation. It is they, the elevated elites, those closer to god, who will bestow his rewards. This kind of egregious anti-human manipulation, and deliberate liberty taken with man's natural curiosity and passion for truth and meaning, is among the most heinous of the many crimes that can be laid before the doors of religion, the Judeo-Christian door in particular.

It is necessary that a man be taught by a Prophet of God, for they clearly see the Light, and can reveal the Path to Paradise - (Gospel of Barnabas)

Look for your Shepherd, for He will give you everlasting rest; for he who comes to end the era is close at hand. Be ready for the rewards of the Kingdom; the Eternal Light which will shine on you for evermore. Flee from the shadow of this world, and receive the joy and Splendor...Receive the gift that the Lord offers you and be joyful...Arise, stand up, and see all those who have been sealed at the Lord's feast. Those who have departed from the shadow of this age have received Shining robes from the Lord - (2 Esdras, or 4 Ezra 2:34-39)

We speak of God's hidden mysteries: the Secret Wisdom - (1 Corinthians 2:7)

Now I will show you new things, hidden things, unknown to you - (Isaiah 48:6)

I will reveal to you the great Mysteries of which you do not know - (Jeremiah 33:2)

I will give unto them the Mystery of my Father in secret - (Gnosis of the Light - Codex Brucianus)

The king (Constantine the Great) was the senior Christian convert. His station, as the artwork frequently depicted, was above everyone else and just below god. He was at the pinnacle and was god’s first agent upon earth after Christ. Indeed, the title “king” (like the title "lord") has often been used as an epithet for Christ. Many Jews certainly thought of Jesus as a Messiah (savior king) and Christians respond to these political terms without too much consideration as to what they imply subtextually.

You are right in saying I am a king. In fact, for this reason I was born, and for this I came into the world to testify to the Truth. Everyone on the side of truth listens to me - (John 18:37)

…all kings of Judea were called ‘God’ by the people - Tony Bushby (The Bible Fraud)

Yes, anything but teach men to understand that wisdom comes from their own hearts and minds during the life of experience into which they have been born. Anything but turn a man on to the journey of self-discovery as was taught by true instructors during the most ancient of days. In this regard, we cannot but think of the remonstrations contained in the Book of Matthew:

Constantine - "The Great" Crowned as emperor in England, in the year 306 AD, he made Christianity the official religion of Rome after a mystical vision. He murdered his wife and eldest son the same year he convened the Council of Nicea. Throughout his life he was head of the Sol Invicta Cult that, like Atonism, believed the Emperor to be a incarnation of the Sun.


Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You close the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to - (Matt 23)

The Imitatio Christi will forever have this disadvantage: we worship a man as a divine model, embodying the deepest meaning of life, and then out of sheer imitation we forget to make real the profound meaning present in ourselves - Carl Gustav Jung

According to Bishop Epiphanius, the Krist is the spiritual self within each person - Tony Bushby (The Bible Fraud)

The Egyptians had no vicarious atonement, no imputed righteousness, no second-hand salvation. No initiate in the Osirian mysteries could possibly have rested his hope of reaching heaven on the Galilean line of glory. His was the more crucial way of Amenta...to tread with the guidance of the word, that step by step and act by act he must himself make true - Gerald Massey (Ancient Egypt - Light of the World, 1907)

The Egyptians, Babylonians, Greeks and Romans, had no word in their language for sin: the Israelites introduced both the word and the concept into the stream of Western civilization and by doing so diverted it - Leonard Schlain (The Alphabet Versus the Goddess)

Along with the kind of mind manipulation outlined here, the authors of religion made sure to bamboozle their minions with drama and imagery designed to coerce the imagination into working overtime in their favor. The Judeo-Christian texts are full of bombastic sense-entertaining motifs.

There came thundering and lightening, and a cloud upon the mountain of God, and a great Voice like trumpets blasting, so that all the people in the camp trembled - (Exodus 19:16)

The sound, like trumpets, grew louder; when Moses spoke, God answered him with a Voice like thunder - (Exodus 19:19)

Indeed there were secrets behind Christianity, reserved for the initiated. There were dangerous yet empowering truths in store for those who had made the grade. And there still are. One of the most important and extraordinary of these secrets concerns the Astro-Theological interpretation of the scriptures. Astrology (and its kindred meta-sciences of Numerology and Sacred Geometry, etc) was the heuristic device revealed to the initiates enabling them to decode convoluted scriptures impenetrable to laymen. And more; it was the sacred principles of Druidry that were to be studied by the senior Templars, Masons, Cardinals, Priests, and Kabalists of old.

The Baptism of Constantine, by Raphael. Notice the Pharaonic pose of the "Christian" Emperor


The wisdom of old, the myths, parables, and dark sayings that were preserved, have been presented to us dreadfully deformed in the course of being converted into history - Alfred Churchward (The Origin and Evolution of Religion)

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun - Thomas Paine

Ammonius Saccas (a Greek philosopher, founder of the Neoplatonic School) taught that Christianity and Paganism, when rightly understood, differ in no essential points, but had a common origin, and are really one and the same religion - Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb (Aryan Sun Myths)

...this whole affair of which we speak and preach, and which is called Gospel, has no reference at all to any person that ever existed, or events that ever occurred upon earth, but it is astronomical - Rev. Robert Taylor (The Devil's Pulpit)

...in the ancient Mystery dramas the central character was ever the Sun-god the role being enacted by the candidate for initiation in person. He went through the several initiations as himself the type and representative of the solar divinity in the field of human experience - Alvin Boyd Kuhn (The Great Myth of the Sun-Gods)

The Egyptian Book of the Dead, which is traced back to 4,260 BC, years before the writing of the New Testament, has its foundation in the lore of the heavens, and in poetical imagery follows the path of the Sun through the different signs of the zodiac. Many phrases, many headings of the chapters of the New Testament are similar to those in the Book of the Dead - Gerald Massey (Ancient Egypt: Light of the World)

…in treating of these starry groupings and pictures we are dealing with something very different from the inventions of paganism and mythology - with something as sacred in origin, as venerable in age and as edifying in import as anything known to man. Corrupt religion and classic fable have interfered to obscure and pervert their meaning, and scientific self-will has crowded them with impertinent and unmeaning additions; but in reality they constitute the primeval Bible - Joseph A. Seiss (Gospel of the Stars)

The four principal festivals of the solar worship celebrated in the northern hemisphere were the spring or vernal equinox, the summer solstice, the autumnal equinox, and the winter solstice. Their observance can be traced to the remotest period of history or tradition and belongs to every nation and every wide-spread religion of which we have any knowledge - Alexander Del Mar

Only minds completely crazed or fatally confused by the current Christomania would suppose that the details of the story, which is as old at least as the Cult of Ptah in Memphis, were derived from the "historic" version that was canonized at last as Christian...The repetition of this as Christian legend in the Gospels is no mere replica of "heathen" sentiments, images, types and phrases. it is a reproduction of the Egyptian astronomical mythology and eschatology in the disguise of pretended history - Gerald Massey (Ancient Egypt - Light of the World, 1907)

Thankfully, there have been those down through time, as well as at the time, who knew that the bible was a concoction of ancient solar theocracy and that it did not depict actual events.

But few could openly rival or contradict the autocratic dynasties of Alexandria, Athens, Rome, and the Orient who possessed the power to dictate just what would be accepted as history and gospel and what would not. Few could stand up, or speak up, against the Roman emperors who did not tolerate dissent and who punished those rebels who would not submit to their rule. Being written in Latin also ensured that few people were able to understand the bible's texts or make up their own minds about its strange content. Additionally, most of the people of the world, being illiterate, could not care less whether the bible was based on fact or not, and the very few literate readers knew full well what the consequences were if they offered refutations or contradicted the almighty emperor and his appointed bishops. The memory of the fate of the great Giordano Bruno would be enough to quell most dissent. The situation was no different during the time of the despot King James Stuart. People accepted his "Authorized" version simply because he had authorized it. That version of the bible, and only that version, would be considered right. There was no debate about the matter.

Astrology and Astro-Theology. The heuristic devices used by the elites to decode the Bible's strange and convoluted scriptures


You either accepted it or could prepare to be garroted, incarcerated, or burned at the stake as a heretic. The bible was the word of god and god, to all intents and purposes, was the king.

With his instruction now fulfilled, Emperor Constantine decreed that the new writings be thereafter called the ‘words of God’ and be attached…to copies of the Hebrew Old Testament. Emperor Vespasian, in the First Century, had proclaimed the entire Jewish territory the personal property of the Roman Emperors, and his decision was officially ratified by the Senate. In effect, all later Emperors were in control of the Jewish religion…Emperor Constantine effectively attempted to amalgamate the earlier Jewish religion with his new cult. By legal inheritance, he was also. After Eusebius had finished drawing upon the large array of presbyter’s texts, Constantine then ordered them destroyed by fire and ‘any man found concealing one should be stricken off from his shoulders (beheaded) - Tony Bushby (The Bible Fraud)

...in the church I desire to speak five words with my mind so that I may instruct others also, rather than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue - (1 Corinthians 14:19)

It is not very difficult for a rational person to see that there is something distasteful and wholly suspect about the majority of the sordid stories in the bible. If it were not for the indoctrination which begins during our earliest years we would regard the bible as a book to be avoided rather than lauded. If it were not because of the existential ennui that leaves a man open to manipulation we would regard the god of the Testaments as a most deplorable creature. We would regard the bible in the same way we do the Maya Popul Vuh, the Norse Eddas, or the Aryan Shastras and Vedas, as a book with interesting aspects not to be wholly believed or used to condemn other human beings to eternal damnation. Without brainwashing the bible would be avoided by literate men and hardly considered a manual for right living. No, the bible would be seen for what it is - the bizarre creation of the deranged. It might even be given an "X" rating and kept well out of the way of youngsters who would find all they require for right living in Plato, Aristotle, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Rand, or in the myths and legends of their ancestors. In our opinion, this mythic archive contains all that a man or woman needs for moral rectitude and spiritual maturation. If there is value in the bible it exists only in the proof that its text offers us concerning the depth of human idiocy and depravity. As a catalog of man's inhumanity and perversity the bible serves the student well. As William Blake affirmed, its proverbs are not of heaven but of hell.

Both read the Bible day and night, but I read black where you read white - William Blake

He that reads ecclesiastical history, reads nothing but roguery and folly of bishops and churchmen - Grotius (Epistle 22)

In no land or literature has the mythical mode of representation been perverted and reduced to driveling foolishness more fatally than in some of the Hebrew legends - Gerald Massey

Of all the evils which escaped from Pandora's Box, the institution of priesthoods was the worst. Priests have been the curse of the world...Look at China, the festival of Juggernaut, the Crusades, the massacres of St. Bartholomew, of the Mexicans, and of the Peruvians, the fires of the Inquisition, of Mary, Cranmer, Calvin...look every where and you will see the priests reeking with gore. They have converted, and are converting, populous and happy nations into deserts, and have made our beautiful world into a slaughter-house drenched with blood and tears - Godfrey Higgins (Celtic Druids)

I believe it because it is absurd - (declaration on Christianity from Church Father Tertullian)

Towards the end of his life…St. Augustine confessed that Christianity was ‘a religion of threats and bribes unworthy of wise men’ - Tony Bushby (Bible Fraud)

I never reason on religion. None but the disciples of devils reason. It's dangerous to reason on religion - Rev. Moody (American Clergyman)

The man who does finally discover how he has been misled into believing the bible to be a history and biography, rather than a solar theology, is very likely to turn off altogether and give matters of religion no more consideration. This has been the way chosen by the majority of professed agnostics and atheists in the world. However this is, in our opinion, not a constructive or rational decision since there is only partial wisdom to be had in finding out how one has been duped. True wisdom comes when we discover the underlying reasons for any deception and when we find out what it was within us that needed to believe such fictions. Moreover, there is a duty to prevent the entrapment of other human beings, particularly those coming into the world after us, who are sure to be likewise duped and waylaid if they are not forewarned. Freedom tastes all the better when we know that is shared by our fellow brothers and sisters of the world. We are motivated to our work when we see a world still harboring liars in robes of black who, knowing full well the errors within their bible, deny reason, and continue year after year to consciously mislead their congregations while thinking only of their personal material status. We see these creatures who have placed their loyalty to Mammon, and who are deaf to humanity's cries for true spiritual enrichment.

Many historians have been puzzled as to why Western "European" man has had such an obsessive fascination with the convoluted nonsense of the bible. Why was this tome taken to heart by Westerners who had their own rich ancestral traditions? Certainly, force was involved, but the main reason for its acceptance is a carefully guarded secret. The bible stories were accepted throughout the occident because they were born there. Travesties they may be, but the ancestral brain remembers and is subconsciously familiar with the underlying truths contained in the bible's lamentably fragmented and convoluted texts.

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Behind the apparent nonsense and contradictions, the protestations and dubious morality tales, lies the great tale - that of the stars, the heavens, and the wisdom therein. The words of Scottish Rite Freemason Albert Pike make the situation clear:

Masonry, like all the religions, all Mysteries, Hermeticism, and Alchemy, conceals its secrets from all except the Adepts and Sages, or the Elect, and uses false explanations and misinterpretations of its symbols to mislead those who deserve to be mislead; to conceal the Truth, which it calls Light, from them, and to draw them away from it...The Teachers, even of Christianity, are, in general, the most ignorant of the true meaning of that which they teach. There is no book of which so little is known as the Bible...Masonry jealously conceals its secrets, and intentionally leads conceited interpreters astray - Albert Pike (Morals and Dogma, 1871)

The Bible is comprehensible only to initiates of the Mysteries, asserts Mason Albert Pike


Many people have chosen to believe the incomprehensible gobbledygook of the bible simply indicates its scribes and editors were not, in fact, guilty of any conscious manipulation of history or theology. If they had wanted to create a religion to manipulate the entire world then surely they would have compiled a more consistent and realistic tome. In other words, they would have done a better job. We submit, however, that it is foolhardy to believe that the bible's utter incoherence and fantastic collection of scientific, philosophical, and theological errors, is proof of innocence on behalf of its composers and compilers. The various biblical councils could certainly have fashioned for themselves and their flock a book of sublime rationality such as would have impressed the Grecian philosophers. But this was not their aim and the inconsistencies and absurdities were purposely left in for a very important reason. A rational book, understood by all, would need no interpreters whereas a mythical compendium would require it. The clerics, bishops, cardinals, priests, and curates of the past, and the hysterical, verbose, and ludicrous evangelists and pastors who preach today, would hardly be required if the chapters, verses, and words of the bible made sense. They were not intended to make rational sense. They were chosen, entered, and espoused because they stimulate the mythic sensibility and ancestral consciousness. They stir the imagination and limbic centers of the brain, and mollify the needs and cravings of the many rather than sharpen the logic of the independent thinker. The world's masses require myths, and subconsciously rely upon them in order to feel secure. Believing these myths allows a man to feel part, rather than apart, of the collective. Men require things to believe in, and to have faith in. They are largely unaware of how these needs make them victims of manipulation. Where belief is operating, sanity and reason are often in abeyance, and the masters of the game, the "Scribes and Pharisees" so to speak, know this only too well. The early potentates never expected an independent and critical class to rise during their own time, or at any other time. They were concerned with duping the mass, the rank and file, and those illiterate hordes who could not work out the bible's meaning for themselves and who would not be permitted to do so. Humanity inherited the Cult of the Priest and has been under the power of these blackguards for thousands of years. For their special self-appointed duty of pontificating upon the "mysteries" of the bible they live in luxury and are awarded all sorts of titles and social privileges. Indeed, it is this special overclass that molds and controls the societies of the world. The god of these duplicitous and profoundly sadistic men did not write his own biography or record his own activities. He had secretaries, public relations officers, image consultants, and make-over artists to do it for him. He was made in the image of those with cruelty in their hearts and world dominion on their minds. The world's cultures were filled with gods and goddesses some of which were of a very pure and lofty nature. Some are immensely ancient and deeply revered. The god of Judeo-Christianity had to stand out. He had to be properly shaped to suit a practical and political end. If Jehovah could be made to thunder and flash, and if his countenance was stern, angry, and vengeful, as opposed to gentle, loving, and forgiving, then men would fear him. Even very rebellious and iconoclastic men would harbor fear in his presence. And if men could be trained to fear and obey their brooding heavenly "Lord" and "Master" they could soon be trained to fear and obey their earthly lords. It seemed a feasible and relatively simple ploy. It was an attractive notion to the emperors and princes who commanded their mythmongers to script "Lord God" as a most intolerant, hot-tempered sort ready to damn to perdition those who showed the least sign of contempt or self will. The scribes did their work well. Their travesty of theology sent men into a maze of conflicts and confusion. In their hellish vats fear was mixed with love and forgiveness with vengeance. On their canvases heaven was contrasted with hell, and beauty with corruption. The human reason was gradually but expertly subverted.

For all who fear My Name, the Sun of Righteousness shall shine with healing in its rays - (Malachi 4:2)

The Lord spoke unto me saying...This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the nations that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee - (Deuteronomy 2:25)

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Solar Theology Reborn

Charles Francois Dupuis, in his Origin of Worship, one of the most elaborate and remarkable works on mythology ever penned, shows that nearly all the religions of the world, including Christianity, were derived largely from solar worship - John E. Remsberg (The Christ)

The adoration of the sun was one of the earliest and most natural forms of religious expression. Complex modern theologies are merely involvements and amplifications of this simple aboriginal belief - Manly Palmer Hall

The bible is a mysterious document indeed. Few seem to know what it is really meant to be about. Each interpreter and scholar asserts a different point of view, and one theory often contradicts another. One thing is clear; Judeo-Christian doctrines are the basis of some of the vilest and most horrific acts of indecency, aggression, and criminality imaginable. Our understanding of the bible is made a great deal easier when we finally realize that what it contains is not history. The tales and legends in the bible that have been put before the public as a people's history is anything but a history in the true sense of the word. This does not invalidate the content, it merely puts it in the correct context so that greater sense may be gleaned from it. Throughout the ancient tales there are many repetitive motifs. One of the most repetitive refrains concerns the building of a new world over the ashes of the old. In the various accounts we find evidence of guilt and, of course, fear of the Lord. There is also a fear of the world. There is a certain terror of extinction coupled with a fervent desire to build a better world than that which existed in the past when men disobeyed god and endured enormous suffering as a result. And so, in the various morality tales of the Old and New Testaments, we receive an emphasis on obedience and right living, and on the consequences for disobedience and sinfulness. The stories that came down embodying such warnings were embellished over and over again to further highlight the theme of virtue. This embellishment was the important thing and not the factuality or historical relevance. So today, when clerics, pastors, priests, and duplicitous "experts" seek to convince us as to the veracity of such fables, we must counter with facts, and with the evidence now coming forth from writers and researchers equipped with enough logic and perspicacity to put us in the know.

When one begins to describe historical developments within the regions of South Syria on the basis of archaeological data, one finds a very different picture of Palestine's past than in many books of biblical archaeology. The sketch of ancient Israel that comes from a harmonizing of archaeology with the biblical story is not congruent with the Bible's view - Thomas L. Thompson (The Mythic Past: Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel)

We also have to recognize that most of our Bible stories are neither whole nor original compositions. They were not put together as narrative accounts of the past, but as collections of fragmented traditions that survived the past...When we start with Israel...we need to recognize that our understanding of Israel as a people and as a nation is unrelated to any known historical Israel - ibid

Without a detailed and independent understanding of the historical contexts in which a story once had its relevance, our ability to distinguish historical writing from fiction is fragile at best. Nowhere do the narratives directly reflect the world of old Israel that they tried to revive and preserve. The biblical traditions reflect but incoherent, part fictive, remnants of a past that those who came to see themselves as the survivors of the destruction were able to put together and give meaning to in the radically new worlds in which they lived - ibid

We continue to assert that Judeo-Christianity is nothing more or less than a corruption of ancient solar theology. It has its roots in ancient astrology. The bible is a book of Astro-Theology. This Gnosis was in the keeping of the most ancient Druids but it later came into the keeping of those men who sought total control over the post-diluvian world reborn from the waters of chaos.

It is beyond question that the great ancient design of the zodiac is a wondrously conceived graph aimed to depict the structure of the Logos, the pattern or creative evolution, the essential constitution of the universe and the course of the current of life in the cosmos, and by analogy in man the microcosmic replica of the macrocosm…The uranograph, or chart of the skies, was incontestably the first of all Bibles, pictorially edited…it can be affirmed that all Bibles are but amplifications and elaborations of the original volume of ideography that was first written on the open slate of the sky, then charted in the zodiac and the planispheres carved on the ceilings of ancient temples and later transferred to earth and inscribed in scrolls, tablets and parchments. Man, adjured the old Scriptures, was to fashion his new body of spiritual glory "after the pattern of the heavens," the frame of the heavenly or zodiacal man, the primal Adam - Alvin Boyd Kuhn

The proof for our contention, that the bible is a remnant and rescripting of solar theocracy, is hidden in plain sight.


The Temple of Solomon (Sun and Moon) - a key motif in Masonic and Judaic Ritual. Tradition suggestively states that it was erected by a Phoenician known as Hiram Abiff. Polymath and master of the High Arts, Abiff is a fictive rendition of a Druid Magi
After all, there is a good reason why the word soul is a derivative of the word sol, meaning "sun," and why the name of the first king of the Israelites just happened to be Saul (Sol), and why the famed Temple of "Solomon" was named after an all-knowing king of the Jews whose name just happened to connote the sun and the moon.

From the very inauguration of Christianity, the movement and position of the sun of god has been of paramount importance. It was on June 21 - the day of the summer solstice - that a total of 2,048 presbyters, deacons, sub-deacons, acolytes, and exorcists gathered at Nicea to decide what Christianity really was, what it would be, and what writings were to be used and who was to be its god. The tyrant Constantine commissioned this council and he imperiously presided over it throughout its duration.


Learned philosophers, writers, mathematicians and scientists filled the great library where the first translation of the Pentateuch (from Hebrew to Greek) the Septuagint (Latin for “the seventy”) was written - by seventy-two Jewish scholars imprisoned in a monastery under the instructions of the king - Maurice Cotterell (Jesus, King Arthur and the Journey of the Grail)

The Church - which began its career by destroying, distorting and denying the pagan sources from which it sprang; whose bishops and other ecclesiastics assassinated each other in their theological rancour "of wild beasts," which encouraged the wicked folly of the Crusades...and the shameful murders of the Manicheans, the Albigenses, and the Huguenots; which burned at the stake thousands and thousands of poor "witches" and "heretics," which has hardly ever spoken a generous word in favor or defense of the animals; which in modern times has supported vivisection as against the latter, Capitalism and Commercialism as against the poorer classes of mankind; and whose priests in the forms of its various sects, Greek or Catholic, Lutheran or Protestant, have in these last days rushed forth to urge the nations to slaughter each other with every diabolical device of Science, and to glorify the war-cry of Patriotism in defiance of the principle of universal Brotherhood - such a Church can hardly claim to have established the angelic character of its mission among mankind! - Edward Carpenter (Pagan and Christian Creeds, 1920)

Nowhere is Christianity less attractive…and less authoritative, than in the councils of the church…The degeneracy is rapid from the Council of Nicea (325 AD) to the first of Ephesus (431 AD), where each party came determined to use every means of haste, maneuver, court, influence, bribery, to crush his adversary - Dean Milman (The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire)

The Emperor then instructed Bishop Eusebius to compile a uniform collection of new writings ‘bound together as one’…Eusebius was to arrange for the production of ‘fifty sumptuous copies…to be written on parchment in a legible manner, and in a convenient portable form, by professional scribes thoroughly accomplished in their art’…’Make them to astonish,’ said Emperor Constantine…This was the first mention of finished copies of a Christian New Testament in the history of mankind...With his instruction now fulfilled, Emperor Constantine decreed that the new writings be thereafter called the ‘words of God’ and be attached…to copies of the Hebrew Old Testament. Emperor Vespasian, in the First Century, had proclaimed the entire Jewish territory the personal property of the Roman Emperors, and his decision was officially ratified by the Senate. In effect, all later Emperors were in control of the Jewish religion…Emperor Constantine effectively attempted to amalgamate the earlier Jewish religion with his new cult. By legal inheritance, he was also the messiah. After Eusebius had finished drawing upon the large array of presbyter’s texts, Constantine then ordered them destroyed by fire and ‘any man found concealing one should be stricken off from his shoulders (beheaded) - Tony Bushby (The Bible Fraud)

Throughout his life Constantine had been the chief of the Sol Invicta Cult. Like the Atonists of Egypt, the members of this order believed that the emperor was a living incarnation of the sun.

Constantine had been reared on the pagan religious belief of the Sol Invicta cult which identified the emperor as the incarnation of the Sun god...Initially, Constantine was a devout pagan - Michael Howard (Occult Conspiracy)

Prior to his conversion, Constantine’s favorite god, as reflected by his coins, was Sol, the sun god. Constantine continued to depict Sol on coins as late as 324A.D. The most common variety of coin showing Sol was a bronze follis, with Sol standing and a dedicatory inscription Soli Invicto comiti -“To the Invincible Sun, companion.” Constantine probably minted hundreds of thousands of coins for Sol after his “conversion” to Christianity… In the decade after the Mulvian Bridge victory, even gold coins, in which emperors usually took the most interest, still depicted Sol – Stanley A. Hudson (Tracing the Spread of Christianity Through Coins)

So it was neither an accident nor mere coincidence that Emperor Constantine planned his great Council of Nicea for the inauguration of a new state religion on the day when the sun reaches its highest position in the sky, a day venerated by sun-worshippers, solar cults, and priests, from the dawn of recorded time.

Since the building of Constantinople, and the removal of the seat of government to that city, no political quarrel separated Rome from Egypt. Pagan Rome, ever since the union of the two countries under Augustus, except when interrupted by the rebellions, had been eagerly copying the superstitions of Egypt, and Christian Rome still followed the same course - Samuel Sharpe (Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity)

And what does the sun do that is so vitally important? It gives off its own life force to ensure the survival of the Earth and all that exists upon it. It shines down its light to give forth this life. In the psyche of men, light has become the prime metaphor for knowledge and understanding as well as the symbol for sacrifice, renewal, and perfection.

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Man awakes from the darkness of sleep in the morning at the first beams of light and he likewise arises ("Aries") to higher knowledge by way of the light. Men of knowledge were men of light. Their emblem was the sun. Their fellows were a brotherhood of light, and enlightenment was what they brought forth after their own awakenings. Light dispels the darkness synonymous with ignorance and debauch. And so light, like a weapon of sorts, is something to be respected and used aright. Its users and wielders, the Apollonian begetters and bestowers of light, were known in occult circles as "Lucifers." They were the sons of the golden morning or dawning, the sons of the sun - the Princes of Light. The earliest brotherhoods of the sun were to be found in Ireland and Egypt. The temples of Heliopolis, Giza, Memphis, and Thebes, were established largely by the priests of Amen Ra, one of Egypt's oldest gods and later, during the 18th dynasty, many were re-dedicated to the god Aton (or Aten). Aton's symbol was the sun disk with 14 emanating rays.


I thank thee, O Lord, for Thou, for Thou hast Enlightened me through Thy Truth. In Thy marvelous Mysteries...Thou hast granted me Knowledge - (Dead Sea Scrolls, The Hymns)

Krist is the glorious intelligence which the Persians call Mithras…his residence is the sun - Manichean Passage (Third Century Christian Sect)

His disciples said to Him: "Master, reveal to us the Mystery of the Light of Thy Father, since we have heard You say: 'There is still a Fire-baptism - the baptism of the Holy Spirit of Light...Tell us, therefore, the Mystery, so that we may inherit the Kingdom of Your Father - (The Pistis Sophia)

The bible's texts are replete with references to light, the sun, and the zodiac. The twelve signs of the zodiac are situated around the ecliptic, the heavenly “road” through which the sun (the light) passes during the days of a year. The word for god (deus, dios, dio, etc), gives us our English term day. This is the reason why the many cardinals in Rome (those surrounding the father pope) wear bright crimson garments. They represent the constellations receiving the luster and effulgence of the solar father. Terms of respect such as Dona or Don, meaning "mistress" or "mister," also derive from Adon or Aton, the sun god. Some biblical books contain passages that are obviously about the physical sun whilst others are more oblique. With the cultivation of a little symbolic literacy we can begin to comprehend what is really being referred to in even the most abstruse passages.

From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day. Then Peter took him, and began to rebuke him, saying, Be it far from thee, Lord: this shall not be unto thee. But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men - (Matthew 16: 21-23)

And Moses rose up early in the morning, and builded an altar under the hill, and twelve pillars, according to the twelve tribes of Israel - (Exodus 24)

And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness (brightness) - (Exodus 24-10)

The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came, and tempting desired him that he would show them a sign from heaven. He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the sky is red. And in the morning: It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times - (Matt 16:1-3)

My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill. He fenced it, cleared it of stone, and he planted it with grapevines. He built a watchtower on it and carved out a press. He waited: expecting grapes from it - (Isaiah 5)

I, Esdras, saw upon the Mount Sion a great people whom I could not number, and they all praised the Lord with songs. And in the midst of them there was a young man of high stature, taller than all the rest, and upon every one of their heads he set crowns...It is the Son of God - (Book of Esdras)

…The outer darkness is a great serpent, the tail of which is in its mouth, and it is outside the whole world, and surroundeth the whole world: in it there are many places of punishment, and it containeth twelve halls wherein severe punishment is inflicted. In each hall is a governor differing from that of his neighbor - Egyptian Passage (from E. A. Wallis Budge The Gods of the Egyptians, Vol. 1)

O, ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times? - (Matt 16:3)

As for references to light, here are a few examples adding considerable proof to our over-arching theme. The reader is encouraged to find others just like these and to finally decide whether or not it is a solar theology or a biographical record of the deeds of historical entities.

Yahweh placed his Hand on me; then I looked and saw a great Spirit from the north; a great cloud surrounded by Light and flashing Fire...I was what looked like Fire - a radiant disc of Light - (Ezekiel 1:3-28)

For all who fear My Name, the Sun of Righteousness shall shine with healing in its rays - (Malachi 4:2)

In Thy Light we see the Light - (Psalms 36:9)

God is Light - (1 John 1:5)

Send forth Thy Light and Thy Truth to be my guide - (Psalms 43:3)

He makes the breath His messenger and flames of fire his ministers - (Psalms 104:4)

The people who walked in darkness have seen a great Light - (Isaiah 9:2)

Be ready to receive the rewards of My Kingdom; the perpetual Light which will shine in you for ever and ever - (2 Esdras or 4 Ezra 2:35)

The world's Luciferian enclaves, the meritocratic masonic secret societies, also make frequent use of the symbol of the sun and the metaphor of light as knowledge. They honor and observe the days of ritual importance on the solar calendar, hold secret meetings on specific dates, and pass on their arcane teachings in private convocations. Illustrious masonic initiates refer to themselves as "Princes of the Light." Both they and their lodges are, in our estimation, corrupt replications of the sun temples of the ancient world. Their choice of symbolism (both Druidic and Egyptian) leaves us with no doubt of this. As a result of their peculiar theological disposition masons generally allow all the world religions to play a part within their lodges. The three main religions are revered and regarded as equals. We say, naturally this is the case. It occurs because these masonic insiders know what laymen are not supposed to know, namely that religion is a solar theology and that the Sun Cult's chief hierophant and tutelary icon was not Moses, David, or Solomon, but Akhenaton - the Aton worshipping Pharaoh of Light (or "Lucifer").

Those born of Truth spring from the fountain of Light...All the children of Righteousness are ruled by the Prince of Light and walk in his ways - (Dead Sea Scrolls)

If thine eye be single, your whole body will be filled with Light - (Matthew 6:22)

There is no night there; no need for lamps or sunlight, for the Lord God is their Light - (Rev 22:5)

He is my Sun, and His rays have lifted me up; His Light has dispelled all darkness from my face - (Odes of Solomon, 15:12)

O alone-begotten of Light, I praise Thee; O Light unengendered, I praise Thee...O Gnosis of Light surpassing all knowledge, I praise Thee...O thou pure Light, surpassing all purity, I praise Thee...O thou only all-prefect Light, I praise Thee - (Gnosis of the Light: Codex Brucianus)

Christianity and Judaism are not, however, the only religions sworn to the adoration of light. This motif can be found existing the world over, from Ireland to Egypt to India. Almost every religious text contains solar leitmotifs. It was nothing new to Christianity.

The Persian sun-god Mithras bore the name of “Azon-Nakis” or “Lord of the Sun” - William Tyler Alcott (Sun Lore of All Ages)

Brahman is the light of the sun - (Vajasanayi Samhita)

First was Brahman born in the East. From the horizon the Gracious One appears in splendor; He illumines the forms of this world, the deepest, the highest, He is the cradle of what is and is not Father of the luminaries, begetter of the treasure, He entered many-formed into the spaces of the air. They glorify him with hymns of praise, Making the youth that is Brahman increase by Brahman. Brahman brought forth the gods, Brahman created the world - (Shatapatha Brahmana)

We have risen out of darkness, seeing the highest Light around us, going to the Sun,, the God among gods, the highest Light - (Hindu Rig Veda)

The Holy Fire shines forth with Heavenly Light, by His power He makes all things manifest - ibid

Holy Light! Illuminate the way for us - (Hindu Isa Upanishad)

I see the splendor of Your infinite beauty which illumines the whole universe...How difficult Thou art to see! But I see Thee; as Fire, as the Sun, blinding, immeasurable - (Hindu Bhagavad-Gita)

...the worship of Buddha is everywhere to be found...the king who rises in light and ascends the sky - Godfrey Higgins (Anacalypsis, 1833)

Thou shinest there with Thy beams, O Thou great God. Osiris, the eternal Prince - (Egyptian Book of the Dead)

I have come to give Light in the darkness...I have opened the way - ibid

May the God of Light open His arms to me - ibid

Suddenly everything opened before me in a flash, and I beheld a limitless vision. Everything became Light, serene and joyful, and I was filled with Love from the vision...From this Light the Holy Word entered into nature, and pure Fire shot up from the moist nature into the height...That Light is I - the Divine Mind - your God - (Poimandres: The Corpus Hermeticum)

I shall reveal Righteousness so that you may be perfected and see the Light - (Zoroastrian Yasna 30:1)

I, Ahura Mazda, the Creator, will make his soul see the Joy of Paradise: boundless Light, unearned Felicity, and Eternal Bliss - (Zoroastrian Tahmuras Fragments)

First will appear, swifter than lightening, the Luminous Splendor of the colorless Light of Emptiness, which will surround you on all sides - (Tibetan Bardo Thodoi)

Believe then, in God and His Messenger, and in the Light which we have sent down (Moslem Koran 64:8)

The kindled Fire of God will raise up the hearts of men. It will enclose them on every side with great strength - (Koran 104:6-9)

And let us remember that Constantine changed the day of worship from what it had been before his time. Let's not forget which day of the week Christians were told to gather in their temples and churches to praise their gods of light - Sunday!

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The Pagan Origins of Christ and Christianity

(Part One)



Jesus Christ - The Star

There was no Jesus of Nazareth - Albert Schweitzer (The Quest for the Historical Jesus, 1906)

When Christianity preached Jesus as God, it preached the most familiar name of its own deity to Druidism; and in the ancient British tongue 'Jesus' has never assumed its Greek, Latin, or Hebrew form, but remains the pure Druidic 'Yesu' - Fredrick Haberman (Tracing Our Ancestors)

The term "Christian" appears only three times in the New Testament's convoluted scriptures. It appears twice in Acts and once in I Peter, although the entries in Acts may not be original. They may have been added by editors at a later date. Worse than this, the word "Christian" can not be found in Christian literature composed in the first one hundred years after the supposed crucifixion of Jesus. The term is found only in literature of pagan authorship. On almost every occasion the term is used to describe degenerate sects who have disturbed society by violent and illegal acts. The first pagan author to mention the term was Suetonius. After him it appeared in a letter of an Adrian around the year 117 AD. Spelled "Chrestian" it again turned up in the work of Justin Martyr between 147 and 161 AD. As we can see these brief entries do not provide enough information to verify that the term signified the followers of the biblical Jesus.

The term Krist (or Karast) was a title commonly bestowed by the Essenes to denote one of their excellent or special initiates who had passed through extraordinary trials and who held high status and rank. It was not a personal name. The Essenes are known to have referred to themselves as "the Elect" or as "Sons of Light." Masters of high caliber were known as the "Star." This is clearly an astrological title. Paintings have been discovered of priests with star-shaped diadems upon their foreheads. The very word minister contains the syllables for moon (min) and star (ster). We can perhaps understand now why the Vatican did not want the Dead Sea Scrolls, and other presumably Essenic scriptures, to be found, translated, published, and commonly read. The Vatican did not want any record or mention of lineages of "Christed" men. They wished the world to believe their Jesus to be unique in every way. The literature and traditions that contradicted this policy were to be sequestered or destroyed. Cults or sects that preached the contrary were to be condemned and persecuted as heretics. Interestingly, this word simply meant "those who choose."

I am the root and offspring of David, and the bright morning star - (Rev 22:16)

A star shall come forth out of Jacob, and a scepter shall arose out of Israel - (Numbers 24:17)

...the Egyptian Karast (Krst) is the original Christ, and that the Egyptian mysteries were continued by the Gnostics and Christianized in Rome - Gerald Massey (Ancient Egypt: Light of the World, 1907)

…the Egyptian karast was the pre-Christian Christ, and the pictures in the Roman Catacombs preserve the proof. The passing of the karast into the Christ is depicted in the Gnostic iconography. It is in the form of a child bound up in the swathing of a diminutive Egyptian mummy, with the halo and cross of the four quarters round its head, which show its solar origin - ibid

The title "Star" is significant given how many starry symbols we see today on state regalia. We see stars on flags, medals, and corporate logos. They are frequently used as symbols for political organizations and churches. We even find stars as emblems on hellish machines of war. They appear on the American one-dollar bill and above the head of the dollar's apparently “Judaic” eagle. Newspapers and businesses utilize the title, and media celebrities have even been given the term to emphasize their iconic status and claim to fame.

When found in a text, the star determined (or indicated to the reader) that the group of hieroglyphs associated with it was related to spiritual matters. It was related to the heavens, to invisible energies (which the Greeks called “aetheric”) - David Ovason (Secret Architecture of Our Nation's Capitol)

Evidently, the star that was of concern to the Essenes and to the descendants of the Cult of Aton, was the sun itself and not just any old star in the over-crowded heavens. The Commander, the David, the Krist, the Lucifer, or Messiah, was not only the "Star," he was the Sun - the Prince of Light.

The personality of Jesus Christ, as known to modern Christians, is based on several Messianic rebel figures of the “Holy Land,” but particularly on Simon Magus, Judas the Galilean, and Yeshua Ben Panthera, none of whom had anything to do with literally being from God. The Semitic sect known as the Essenes, anointed their leaders who were known henceforth as “The Star.” - Tony Bushby (The Bible Fraud)

Perhaps the earliest use of the title "Jesus Christ" was in prehistoric Ireland where the high Magi (Druids) venerated their sun king Iesa Crios (also rendered as Yesa, Yesu, Jesu, Esu, Esa, Issu, etc).

Hebrew was never spoken by the Aramaic people of Syria, the so-called Jews, or by the people of any other countries. It was used by the ancient Irish priesthood of Iesa, precisely as Latin is today used in the Roman Church to impress the multitude - Conor Mac Dari

In the Egyptian language the word “Christ” denoted one who was "anointed." In ancient times there was a process or ritual known as Horasis. During this rite the male's entire body was regarded as a phallus and anointed accordingly. This practice originated from the Druids who would anoint the trunk of a specially prepared oak tree with oil. We note a similar practice among the Egyptians, whose ithyphallic obelisk symbolized the ancient earth god Geb. And we find the practice among the Hindus, whose erect "lingam" stone symbolized the ancient god Shiva, or Pashupati. The very word Messiah comes from the Hebrew Mashiach (Egyptians Messeh) which means "anointed." It specifically referred to the oil that was processed from the fat of the Nile crocodiles that were sacred to the Egyptian god Sobek.

The most ancient dated Christian inscription (Oct. 1, 318 A.D.) runs "The Lord and Saviour Jesus the Good" - Chrestos, not Christos. This was the legend over the door of a Marcionite Church, and the Marcionites were Anti-Jewish Gnostics, and did not confound their Chrestos with the Jewish Christos (Messiah) - Meade (Did Jesus Live 100 BC?)


Sobek (or Sobek Ra): Crocodile god worshipped at Thebes. Like Christ and the pharaoh, he represented the merging of the four elements


It is important to note that the format of the name ‘Jesus Christ’ was not cemented down until the time of the Reformation (14th-17th Centuries), for in earlier times it had several renditions such as Yeshoua Krst and Yeshu Kristos - Tony Bushby (The Bible Fraud)

The term Chrestos (Christ) was familiar and precious to both heathen and Hebrew devotees centuries before the alleged nativity at Bethlehem - J. P. Mendum (Revelations of the Anti-Christ, 1879)

The word Chrestos has been found engraved on Greek monuments erected before the Christian era. Dr. Clarke in his travels...found an inscription behind a sacred altar...with Chrestos and a bleeding or wounded heart at the top, and Eros at the bottom...The sacred heart is found on an Indian monument of Bal-ii an incarnation of Vishnu, with a wound in his side - ibid

After a long and bitter debate, a vote was finally taken and it was with a majority show of hands that Judas Khrestus and Rabbi Jesus both became god - 161 votes to 157. A new god was proclaimed and ‘officially’ ratified by Emperor Constantine - Tony Bushby

Origen, Epiphanius and Julian the Emperor all clearly reveal that John the Baptist, Judas and Jesus’ cousin, was a “Krist” figure, but made no references to Jesus himself attaining that status. Bishop Theodoret, writing in the Fifth Century, provided further conformation that Jesus was not one of the “krist” personalities although many others of his time were…The son of Poseidon and Meduse was called Khryst and the priests of Apollo were known as Khyrstes. In fact, the word Kristo and its derivations, Krst, Krist, Kristo, Khryst, and Krish-na, all appeared in every ancient religious system and showed the original Kristo concept was believed to be the personal and invisible mediator and guide between God and everything spiritual in man. The Krist concept has been an ancient religious tradition continually suppressed by the Catholic church through the centuries - Tony Bushby (The Bible Fraud)

It was Rudolf Bultmann, the German Biblical scholar, who cited certain passages in the Gospels...as
interpolations of Sophia herself, put into the mouth of Christ - Caitlin Matthews (Sophia: Goddess of Wisdom)

The holy anointing of the elected and purified master was commonly carried out by women, that is, by ordained female archimandrites or priestesses who represented the power, force, and intelligence of nature. They were embodiments of the Earth and Sky goddesses. The reverence for and incorporation of the goddess principle, and of nature religion, was Druidic in origin. These principles and observances were eventually expunged from Christian theology that is patristic and androcentric in complexion. Aversion to the spiritual authority of the female, and antipathy toward the feminine principle, was the reason why the Christian Fathers made sure to denigrate Mary Magdalene, the priestess who anointed Jesus with costly spikenard, and whom some researchers believe to have been his consort. The important matter, however, is not that she was a physical wife to the man Jesus but that she was a symbolic representation of the Christed man’s feminine aspect. The biblical Mary is an analog to Danu, Brigit, Isis, Nuith, and Ma'at, to Demeter, Hera, Persephone, and Eve. Like the moon in the heavens and the night sky around the Earth, the feminine Anima both mirrors and embraces the masculine Animus.

It is said of Mary and the women around Jesus that they "ministered unto him of their substance" - Picket and Prince (The Templar Revelation)

If the rite of sacrament of chrism was superior to that of baptism, then this implies that Mary's authority was actually greater than John the Baptist's - ibid

Anointing was an ancient custom throughout the East, by pouring aromatic oils on persons as a token of honor…it was also employed in consecrating priests, prophets, and kings, and the places and instruments appointed for worship - (New American Cyclopedia)

In ancient Palestine tradition it would seem kings, political and military chiefs, village heads and, in fact, any claimants to high office, were anointed and hence called the “anointed ones”…some…after anointing, then became called “lord…” - Tony Bushby

Jewish author and historian Hyam Maccoby states that the term Messiah referred to the seed and house of David. It is believed that the name Moses may also be related to the term messeh, to the crocodile-god Sobek and the house of the pharaoh. After all, as the story goes, Moses was found on the river, the domain of the crocodile god Sobek. In the Osirian tradition of Egypt, he who arose from the waters of the Nile had, so to speak, been born again into illumination and mastery. He was, at that point, a high priest capable of initiating others into the mysteries he himself had mastered. The mythic trope was preserved in priestly ritual. It is not that Moses was physically found on the waters by a princess. Osiris was rescued from death by Isis and Moses was, likewise, rescued by the pharaoh’s daughter. It is the ritual and symbolic elements that are important and not the alleged historical actuality. The point that requires stressing concerns the connection between the Jewish "House of David" (or Judah, or Yahud) and the Egyptian House of the Pharaohs.

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Jesus - The Light of the World

As late as the fifth and sixth centuries, the words "Our Lord, the Sun" were used by the Christians in their prayers. This same phrase was also used in the liturgy until altered later into "Our Lord, the God" - Bozena Brydlova (Io Unveiled)

In our estimation the term "Jesus" was, in fact, not a name but a title. It was a title given to the highest initiate of the Solar Cult in Egypt, although its actual origins lie in Ireland. A "Jesus Christ" was a high ranking priest of the temples of the sun. He was a priest of Aton, the sun god worshipped at cities of Heliopolis, Avaris, Tanis, Amarna, and Alexandria. The title was transferable and did not specify a single unique god-inspired savior. It was similar to the titles "pharaoh," "sera," "king" and "pope," adopted by any number of incarnate individuals.

…the evangelists did not need to draw their material from books alone." There was a large mass of oral tradition and legend floating about which they could each utilize according to their pleasure - G. R. S. Meade (The Present Position of the Synoptical Problem)

Our revelations on how the "Christ" concept can be traced back to the Solar Cult of Aton are not contrived, irreverent, or hairbrained. Our theories follow on from those of great savants who labored to enlighten mankind. We seek in earnest to carry on the work of Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Gerald Massey, Kersey Graves, Rev. Taylor, and other forgotten teachers, and lay bare the true roots of the Judeo-Christian religion.

Jesus - is a deified personification of the glorified type of the great Hierophants of the Temples, and his story, as told in the New Testament, is an allegory, assuredly containing profound esoteric truths, but still an allegory...Every act of the Jesus of the New Testament, every word attributed to him, every event related of him during the three years of the mission he is said to have accomplished, rests on the programme of the Cycle of Initiation, a cycle founded on the Precession of the Equinoxes and the Signs of the Zodiac - Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky (Collected Writings, and The New Testament Commentaries)

The "Christ" is a rendition of the sun king, a sacred archetypal principle revered by the priests of the Solar Cult in Egypt. The stereotypical “Christ” was a figure who personified the physical sun, and his "biography" was simply a re-scripting in anthropomorphic terms of the annual behavior of the physical sun as it passes through the twelve signs of the zodiac.

On its journey, the sun encounters other luminaries and stars and must pass through constellations and houses. This personification of heavenly bodies began in Ireland with the Druids. It was a subject taught throughout the world by masters in the many Druidic colleges that were destroyed by the Romans and founders of Christianity. To the Druids there was nothing secretive about the sun king and his message of light and love. The son of god - the metaphorical "Light of the World" - is the sun of god, the actual light of the world.



This is not as heretical as it may first sound for when we do our homework and open our eyes we will discover that the elites within Judeo-Christianity know this fact all too well. Their predecessors are the ones who decided, as many other pagan peoples had already done, to personify the sun as a man born at the winter solstice.

...the very basis of mythology lies in the idolatrous worship of the solar great father, and the lunar great mother, who were the first objects of worship, who were the first objects of worship that the history of the race records - William Tyler Olcott (Sun Lore of All Ages)

...Sun worship, symbolically speaking, lies at the heart of the great festivals which the Christian church celebrates today, and these relics of heathen religion, through the medium of their sacred rites, curiously enough blended with practices and beliefs utterly antagonistic to the spirit that prompted them - ibid

Every detail of the Sun myth is worked into the record of the Galilean teacher - Richard A. Proctor (Astronomer)

The Prince of rays and beams of Light, who, having revealed Himself, gives Life to all men…Who, though ancient in years, shines forth in the form of one who is young…the God-Prince who hath been Prince from the time that He came into being…the Lord of Life, who giveth unto whom He pleases…the Lord of Delight, whose Name is sweet and beloved - (From The Book of the Dead of Nesi-Khonsu)

...In my Celtic Druids I have shewn that the worship of Buddha is everywhere to be found - in Wales, Scotland, and Ireland. Hu, the great God of the Welsh, is called Buddwas; and they call their God Budd, the God of victory, the king who rises in light and ascends the sky - Godfrey Higgins (Anacalypsis, 1833)

…King of Heaven, prince of Creation, sun of the eastern sky who appeared both to the dead in Hades and to the mortals upon earth he, the only true Helios, arose for us out of the highest summits of Heaven - Melito of Sardis (Second Century Theologian)

Thou shinest there with Thy beams, O Thou great God, Osiris the eternal Prince - (Book of the Dead)

The Christian religion is a parody on the worship of the Sun, in which they put a man whom they call Christ, in the place of the Sun, and pay him the same adoration which was originally paid to the Sun - Thomas Paine

The divine title "Lord", in the New Testament, is translated from the Greek "Kuros," which is the Persian name for the sun; God is "Gad," an Ammonian name for the sun; Jehovah by translation and declension, become Jupiter, which, according to Macrobius, is "the sun itself." Deity is from the Latin "Deus," which is traceable to "dies," a day - a period of time measured by the sun; Jesus is from "Jes"...which means "the one great fire from the sun," and Christ is derived from "Chris," a Chaldean term for the sun - Kersey Graves (Bible of Bibles, 1863 AD)

It is important to realize that the many references in the epistles to the "death" or "rising" of Christ are not, in themselves, references to physical events on earth or in history. They...are part of the myth of the Son; they relate to the activities of this divinity in the supernatural realm. For all its jarring incongruity with our modern outlook, not to mention centuries of tradition about a Gospel Jesus, this is a view that would have been perfectly at home in the philosophical and mythical thinking of the time. It was, in fact, a view shared by a whole range of pagan salvation cults - Earl Doherty (The Jesus Puzzle)

Just outside Rome there was an underground temple of the Persian God Mithra...Well, at midnight, the first minute of December the 25th, you would have seen that temple all lit up with candles, and priests in white garments at the altar, and boys burning incense, exactly as you will see in a Roman Catholic church at midnight on December 24th in our time. And the worshippers of Mithra would have told you that Mithra was a good God who had come from heaven to be born as a man and redeem men from their sins; and he was born in a dark cave or stable on December 25th - John G. Jackson (Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth)

Mithra, a Persian sun-god, was virgin born, in a cave, on December 25th. His earliest worshippers were shepherds, and he was accompanied by 12 companions. The Mithraists kept the Sabbath holy day and celebrated the Eucharist by eating wafers embellished with a cross - John G. Jackson (Pagan Origins of the Christ Myth)

Whether Jesus lived or not, we may conclude with certainty that Christianity is of pagan origin. December the 25th is celebrated as the birthday of Jesus Christ. This date is an approximation of the Winter Solstice, and the birthday of several pagan sun-gods. Its pagan derivation is beyond all dispute - John G. Jackson (Pagan Origins of the Jesus Myth)

There is no doubt that we have before us in the Vedic Agni Cult the original source of all the stories of the birth of the Fire-Gods and Sun-Gods. These gods usually enter life in darkness and confinement. Thus the Cretan Zeus was born in a cavern, Mithras, Dionysus and Hermes in a gloomy grotto, Horus in the “stable” of the holy cow - Jesus too was born at dead of night in a lowly “stable” at Bethlehem - Arthur Dewes (The Christ Myth)

The Church abandoned the idea of the birthday of Jesus coinciding with the day of the heliacal rising of Sirius in 7 BC for a symbolic rebirth of the sun in winter. The July birthday would have shown all too clearly the connection between Christianity and the original Osiris religion of Egypt. For this was the start of the Sothic year and for millennia the basis of the Egyptian Calendar - Adrian G. Gilbert (Magi: The Search for a Secret Tradition)

But there was a diversity of opinion amongst the Christian Fathers as to whether Jesus the Christ was born in the winter solstice or in the vernal equinox. It was held by some that the 25 of March was the natal day. Others maintained that this was the day of the incarnation. According to Clement of Alexandria the birth of Jesus took place upon the 25 of March. But in Rome the festival of Lady Day was celebrated on the 25 of March in commemoration of the miraculous conception in the womb of the virgin, which virgin gives birth to the child at Christmas, nine months afterward. According to the gospel of James (Ch. 18) it was in the equinox, and consequently not at Christmas, that the virgin birth took place...when it was officially set by decree of Pope Julius in the year 345 A.D., it was placed on December 25 expressly to match the astronomical date of the birth of Mithra and Dionysus in the Mystery cults! It was the pagans who set the date for Christmas! - Gerald Massey (Ancient Egypt: Light of the World)

An observation of the prevalence of solar imagery in the secular world provides both "enlightenment" and evidence to substantially support our argument for the Atonist control of the world. We encourage a close analysis of solar and stellar symbolism in advertising and ad copy, and suggest that we educate ourselves to observe the manner in which light and its analogues are employed by the media.



Daystar
one of the premier Christian Evangelist Television Networks and Corporations, operating throughout the United States of America. Their choice of logo and name is more than suggestive The Word Network
a major mainstream Evangelical television network again prominently featuring the symbol of the sun.
thewordnetwork.org/ Gospel Net
a major Christian website featuring the online Bible. The above image can be found on their homepage, gospelnet.com




The Planet Earth, the Zodiacal Ecliptic and Celestial Equator (The Real Cross)
(For a full explanation of this symbolism, refer to the dvd - Astro-Theology)




The Sun, the Eye and the Crescent Moon




From - http://www.biblefamilytree.com/

From: http://www.christianitytoday.com/


Henceforth the sun was to be the sole source of life, both giver and taker - F. L. Kenett and C. D. Noblecour (Ancient Egypt: The New Kingdom and the Amarna Period)


The greatest of Jewish scholars, those who have thoroughly analyzed the ancient Jewish scriptures and who have expert knowledge concerning the origins of Christianity, understand Christianity to be akin to the mystery religions of the ancient pagan world and to the Gnostic traditions that orthodox Judaism ostensibly frowns upon. It was these pagan mystery traditions that advocated sun-gods, dying saviors, and divine salvation, and not Judaism. These facts have been guilefully obscured by latter-day elites within the Roman Catholic (and Protestant) churches who have a great deal to lose should the pagan roots of their "heavenly" Jesus be revealed.

Jesus' cry from the cross is also open to a pagan interpretation. Both the version of Mark 'eloi eloi!' and that of Matthew, 'eli eli!' are translated as 'My God! My God!' (why has thou forsaken me)...But in Aramaic "My God' should have been ilahi. Desmond Stewart suggests that the word was, in fact, Helios - the name of the sun god - Picket and Prince (Templar Revelation)

Bearing these statements in mind we can see why the search within Judaism for the roots of Christianity has been so relatively unproductive. The various remarkable idioms of the Christian religion are kindred to the great mystery religions of which the modern man sadly remembers little. The power executives behind religion and government do not want the ordinary person to know about the myriad crucified saviors of antiquity or of the myriad other virgin births and wounded and dying martyr-heroes who performed miracles and came for a season only to depart in some kind of fantastic and dramatic manner. No, we are not instructed in the history of the world's antique theologies and interest in paganism is generally taboo for "good Christians." But gods and saviors, like ordinary men and women, have dates of birth and a lineage. They do not come out of nowhere and their history can be traced. The investigation properly proceeds only when we are dedicated to being objective and honest and when we avoid being blinded or compromised by obsessive allegiances and narrow prejudices.

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The Problem of Jesus and Christ

The Jesus mediated to us by the Church is not the true Jesus. That is an artificial construction, assembled from true and false fragments of his biography, from authentic and invalid statements, and based on a great deal of inventiveness on the part of the Christian writers - Gruber and Kersten (The Original Jesus)

A major controversy surrounds the question of Jesus' physical existence. One cannot find substantial proof for the existence of this most important man. This fact alone calls for an attitude of suspicion and skepticism when it comes to the teachings of Christianity.

Justus of Tiberias, a native of Galilee, wrote a history covering the period in which Jesus is said to have lived, but does not in any instance call the name of the Christ - John G. Jackson (Pagan Origins of the Jesus Myth)

Marcion was the most active and influential Christian teacher in the first half of the second century AD...We do not find in Marcion's gospel any reference to Jesus having lived, suffered and died at the time of Pontius Pilate - Ahmed Osman (Christianity: An Egyptian Religion)

...the Jesus of the Fourth Gospel and the Jesus of the synoptics - Matt, Mark, and Luke - are very different Jesuses - R. Joseph Hoffmann (Jesus in History and Myth)

Moreover, a great deal of trouble has been caused within theological circles, as well as in the secular domain, simply due to confusion over the difference between the physical Jesus (a supposed historical personality) and the preternatural Christ figure. In most minds the two are fused as one and this presumptuous blending, together with the plethora of other factual inconsistencies between the two entities, has lead the Christian and non-Christian masses to see one where the other should be, and to think of one in terms of the other.

The attributes of the spiritual Christ have been transferred and transposed to the physical personality while the attributes of the supposed physical Jesus have been carried over to the phantasmagoria of the Christ. We have been conditioned to treat these two very different entities as one and the same. Nevertheless, they are not the same. In short, the story of the man Jesus is quite a different story than that of the Christ. This fact cannot be overstressed. The schism between orthodox Jews and Gentile Christians is a symptom of this blurring. Rabbinical tradition accepts the physical Jesus and his role as Messiah but not a supernatural Christ. The Pauline version of Christianity as encapsulated in the New Testament augments the spiritually perfected God-Man sent from heaven to save souls.


The various Jewish sects generally accept a Messianic figure; a teacher, or specially endowed rabbi who will arrive to correctly explain the torah and guide them. This teacher or rabbi is sent by god but he is not a divine or supernatural entity in the same way as the Pauline Christ. The many sects (Nazarene Church, Jerusalem Church, Essenes, Ebionites, Zealots, Sadducees, Pharisees, etc, etc,) did not agree among themselves about the identity of their icon, nor did they have consensus over the historical timing of his supposed existence. The Vatican has augmented and benefited from these discrepancies and has conspired to prevent many seminal Jewish texts and scriptures (like the Dead Sea Scrolls, Nag Hammadi Library, Gospel of Thomas, etc,) from being translated, published, and made publicly available, in case they proffer forth information that compromises the official dogmas of the Vatican.

...the Jesus of history is a living figure, who lived, who moved through life, who died...the Jesus of theology is god...and there isn't really a lot of connection between these two figures. And if we try to connect these two figures we either create bad history, or bad theology - Michael Baigent (The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail)

…the Jesus painted by Paul is not a man, but a purely divine personality, a heavenly spirit without flesh and blood, and unindividual super-human phantom. He is the “Son of God” made manifest by Paul; the Messiah foretold by the Jewish Apocalyptics; the pre-existing “Son of Man” of Daniel and his followers; the spiritual “ideal Man” as he appeared in the minds of the Jews influenced by Platonic ideas…he is the “great man” of the Indian legends, who was supposed to have appeared also in Buddha and in other Redeemer figures - the Purusha of the Vedic Brahmins, the Manda…and Hibil Ziwa of the Mandaic religion influenced by Indian ideas, the tribe-god of syncretised Judaism - Arthur Dewes (The Christ Myth)

The Christians say the Christos came once in a single character in history, Jesus of Judea, saying nothing about his coming to Everyman at all times. They present to the world the Only-Begotten Son of the Father, confusing in one historical figure two distinct characters of ancient philosophy, the Logos and the Christos, and making both historical in a human being born of woman. Suffice it to say that neither character was historical in the ancient systems - Alvin Boyd Kuhn (Great Myth of the Sun Gods)

In 1415, the Church of Rome took an extraordinary step to destroy all knowledge of two Second Century Jewish books that it said contained ‘the true name of Jesus Christ.’ The Antipope Benedict XIII first singled out for condemnation a secret Latin treatise called ‘Mar Yesu’ and then issued instructions to destroy all copies of the Book of Elxai. No editions of these writings now publicly exist, but church archives recorded that they were once in popular circulation and known to the early presbyters…The Rabbinic fraternity once held the destroyed manuscripts with great reverence for they were comprehensive original records reporting the ‘Life of Rabbi Jesus.' - Tony Bushby (The Bible Fraud)

The search for proofs concerning the historical existence of an all too physical Jesus has been the monomania of several modern scholars, of both the orthodox and revisionist persuasion. British-Israelites, such as Fredrick Haberman and E. Raymond Capt, have assured the world that Jesus and his coterie arrived in England with the Roman trader Joseph of Arimathea in the years following the supposed crucifixion. Those who have deciphered Templar and Gnostic documents believe that Jesus survived his crucifixion and that he and his wife Mary Magdalene traveled to England by way of France. Author Tony Bushby trails his "Yeshua ben Panthera" to Wales by way of Rome, while author Ralph Ellis believes him to have been Jesus Gamala, a descendant of Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. We are quite bemused with the efforts of writers such as these to prove the existence of the world's most elusive man. Perhaps, such authors have an agenda that transcends mere maverick investigation or academic inquiry. After all, the Machiavellian intelligentsia behind Judeo-Christianity have always been most aggravated by the exposure of their fraudulence and connivance and by the dearth of biographical information confirming the existence of their iconic savior. Since the most erudite scholars in the world, down through the ages, have demolished all possible arguments for the physical existence of Jesus, as the bible has portrayed him, it would be most gratifying if apparently "independent" and "objective" researchers from the secular world were to come up trumps. The Church that could never loudly proclaim ecco homo and would still be the chief beneficiary if Jesus' existence were proven and broadcast from the rooftops by some suitably wily, but apparently unaffiliated, bible detective. The Church has already long been proven fraudulent in the matter of Jesus' existence. But it would profit immeasurably if its egregious lies were shown to be of lesser infraction. If Jesus was not the man they described at least he existed. At least their chief protagonist lived and breathed. Shakespeare's "Hamlet" without its sweet prince would still merit more readers than a New Testament without its Jesus. As a character Jesus "rocks!" And the Church knows this only too well. The Church that seeks to thrive and have a future will settle to accept a Jesus brought back to them by the inquisitive maverick. Indeed, innumerable bishops and clergymen already have.

The celebrated passage in Josephus concerning Christ being set aside as an acknowledged forgery, what remains of external evidence as to his existence? Absolutely nothing - J. P. Mendum (Revelations of the Anti-Christ, 1879)

Whatever the truth, and whatever the motives of the Church's executive, the physical Jesus can have existed but once and meeting him would have been a historical event, pure and simple. A spiritual Christ, on the other hand, as revered by St. Paul and the New Testament's authors can be encountered and experienced at any time by any person (believer and non-believer) at any location of the world. If we are led to confuse the two we are condemned to position our physical Jesus (or at least his attributes) wherever and whenever the spiritual Christ is said to have appeared. The truth falls by the wayside while the spiritual gets confused with the physical and the theological with the historical.

I conferred not with flesh and blood - (Galatians 1:16)

...no evidence exists to support the view that the four Christian gospels give an historical account of the life, suffering and death of a physical Jesus. According to the Gospels, nobody saw Jesus, they only saw Christ, which means his spiritual not physical element - Ahmed Osman (Christianity: An Ancient Egyptian Religion)

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The "Dead Sea Scrolls"

Alas, the scrolls make no mention of the Nazarene Teacher by name - R. Joseph Hoffmann (Jesus in History and Myth)

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls did not prove to be the major threat to the Church as some scholars were predicting. They were discovered in 1947 and yet the Vatican is still going strong. This is because they contained little that was stunningly controversial.

They merely demonstrated that Paul's Christ was not the unique being Christians had been led to believe. He was not a god but a rebel Messiah, and one of many. Indeed, the Scrolls showed that Jesus was not favored by most Jews and that even within his own community he was a scandal. The authors of the Scrolls would not have tolerated Paul's Jesus and would have been as likely to ostracize or kill Jesus as the Herodians or Romans. What the Scrolls controversially showed was that Jesus the man, and Christ the god, were hardly the same entity. They also provided intriguing evidence to show that "Jesus" did not live when the New Testament's accounts say he did.


Recent discoveries by revisionist historians have proven to be far more controversial and revealing, and therefore possibly more threatening to the status quo, than anything the Scrolls have to offer. The Egyptian revisionist historian Ahmed Osman traces the gospel Jesus back hundreds of years prior to the official dates given for his life. During his researches into the Dead Sea Scrolls and other taboo documents, Osman discovered that the Essenes (presumed to be the composers of the scrolls) did not speak of Jesus at all, nor of the places, events, and characters that are found in the codified New Testament.

As the scrolls came from the Holy Land and covered the period before and after the years when Jesus is generally accepted to have lived, it was widely hoped that they would provide firsthand evidence to support the gospel stories and shed new light on Jewish and Christian history. Far from confirming accepted ideas about the origins of orthodox Christianity, however, the texts contradict them - Ahmed Osman (Christianity: An Egyptian Religion)

The Dead Sea Scrolls made no mention of Jesus Christ or the early Christian church. At the time of their discovery…It has long been known that there was information in the Dead Sea Scrolls damning to Christian beliefs and the church’s high-level involvement with interpreting the Scrolls fostered a grave element of suspicion. Since the Scrolls were found some six decades ago, close associates of the Vatican were placed in dominant positions in every phase of the investigation and translations of the Scrolls. The priests regulated the flow of information and controlled its release - Tony Bushby (Bible Fraud)

…the Qumran writings have no literary parallel to the synoptic Gospels, nor do the Essenes seem to have shown any interest in recording events in such narrative form. For them the experience of their forefathers chronicled in the Bible was all the history they needed; their own situation was but a repetition of what had gone before - R. Joseph Hoffmann (Jesus in History and Myth)

Osman discovered that the Essenes (who may not have been a "Jewish" sect at all) believed their "Teacher" to have lived at least one thousand years earlier and that he was probably the same person mentioned in the Old Testament under the name of Joshua, the Son of Nun (from Naue, meaning "of great strength or courage"). The later Joshua, mentioned in the Dead Sea Scrolls as the "Teacher of Righteousness" to the Essenes (more correctly the Zealots), was considered a reincarnation of the original Joshua from the time of Moses. He was considered the Messiah who would live a sorrowful life and die as a martyr.

Scholars disagree as to which group really lived at Qumran where the Dead Sea Scrolls were presumably composed. Some believe the Essenes to be the authors while others believe the Zealots were responsible. The difference is important since the Zealots were part of the Zadokite Order that dated back to the time of Solomon. We refer the interested reader to the following books on the subject: Understanding the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Hershel Shanks; The Riddle of the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Barbara Thiering; and Dead Sea Scrolls Deception, by Baigent and Leigh. Most scholars regard the Essenes as a Jewish breakaway sect even though a close inspection of their writings indicates that they had little in common with any Jewish group. Their teachings and ways may have been emulated by those we now refer to as "Jews" and "Christians" but their own identity may have been quite different from those Sadducees who frequented the Jerusalem Temple and the many Pharisaic synagogues of Palestine and Judea.

The earlier Joshua (Son of Nun) took over the leadership of the Israelites after Moses died and was one of the “Davids,” that is, a commander of the Israelites (Atonists). There were commanders both before and after his time. For instance, Benjamin of the House of Judah (Yahud) was known as a "Light-Bearer" or a "Lucifer" that is, again, a reference to a commander or high priest of the sun. The Masonic Order, that employs a welter of Egyptian symbolism, utilizes titles of this very kind to distinguish its members and chiefs.

While Moses lived, Joshua's star burned less brightly. It was only after the death of the Prophet of the Exodus that this other great figure of the desert wandering came into his own, and proved himself no less favored of God, or less gifted as a leader of men - John Allegro (The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth)

Moses's commission to Joshua, signified by the laying on of hands...was confirmed by Yahweh himself - ibid

And he (Moses) called to him Joshua, son of Nun, a man approved of by the Lord, that he might be the minister of the people, and of the Tabernacle - (The Damascus Document, An Qumran Text, presumably composed either by the Essenes or the Zealots)

Joshua said to the children of Israel "Come close and hear the Word of Yahweh your God; thus you will know that a living god is among you - (Joshua 3: 9-10)

Clearly then, if this Joshua was a direct descendant of Moses, it is probable that he too was of Egyptian heritage. We might inquire then whether this is the secret that the Christian hierarchs wished to conceal and that motivated their burning of libraries, the persecutions, and the suppression of the Dead Sea Scrolls and other Gnostic and Apocryphal texts? Is their Jesus a sanitized concoction created to edify Romans and other Western peoples? Is he a made-to-order figure, a persona for a powerful world-dominating religion? And were the persecutions and desecrations perpetrated to prevent those who knew and taught the truth from contradicting the fables of Rome? It would certainly seem so. We know that the Christian hierarchy desired humanity to regard their Jesus as a unique being. Their stereotype should not be linked to any previous archetype. He was to be the stand alone savior with no connection to previous pagan heroes or sun-gods. The ties that linked their concoction to previous figures were to be well severed. Nevertheless, a close study of Christian and Judaic symbolism reveals the truth.

The belief in the end, the eschatology of the East Iranian Spitama Zarathustra, which was linked with the belief in a coming world saviour, has been described by H. S. Nyberg (Die Religionen des Alten Orientst, Vol. 34). It subsequently penetrated into Judaism shortly before the time of Jesus and fully determined his message - Hans F. K. Günther (The Religious Attitudes of the Indo-Europeans)

...it is highly probable that the New Testament contains NO book directly composed by anyone who had personal contact with the living Jesus (Paul certainly did not) - R. A. Anderson (Church of God, or Temple of Satan)

The Jesus of Nazareth who came forward publicly as the Messiah, who preached the ethic of the Kingdom of God, who founded the Kingdom of Heaven upon earth, and died to give his work its final consecration, never had any existence. He is a figure designed by rationalism, endowed with life by liberalism and clothed by modern theology in a historical garb - Dr. Albert Schweitzer (The Quest for the Historical Jesus)

…if Jesus lived, suffered and died during the period of Roman rule in Palestine, why did not his name appear in the writings of three distinguished contemporary authors of that time - Philo Judaeus, Justus of Tiberias and Flavius Josephus? - Moustafa Gadalla (Historical Deception)

Two-thousand years ago, at the time Jesus is said to have lived, Palestine was part of the Roman Empire. Yet no contemporary record exists that bears witness, directly, or indirectly, to the physical appearance of Jesus. Even more surprising is the absence of any reference to Jesus in the writings of Jewish authors living at the time in Jerusalem or Alexandria, although we know from Talmudic writings that the Jews did know of Jesus, even if they refused to accept either that he was the Messiah (Christ) or that he was descended from the House of David - Ahmed Osman

…while it is certain that his disciples have claimed that he appeared to them at this time, not a shred of evidence exists to support the orthodox view that this was the historical Jesus, while, disturbing as the thought may be, substantial evidence - from the Bible itself and the teachings of the early Church Fathers as well as Egyptian history - points to his having lived, suffered and died many centuries earlier - ibid

Only two of the four gospel authors, Matthew and Luke, refer to the birth of Jesus, but their accounts do not agree. Matthew places his birth firmly in the time of Herod…this means that he was born before 4 BC, the date of Herod’s death…Luke goes on to tell the familiar Christmas story of the birth of Jesus in a Bethlehem stable because there was no room at the inn - and contradicts both Matthew and his own earlier account by placing these events a decade after the death of Herod the Great - ibid

None of the appearances of Jesus reported in these writings represents a historical physical appearance; he always appears to his disciples as a spiritual being...Characters of the New Testament gospels, such as Joseph husband of Mary, Joseph of Arimathea, John the Baptist, Caiaphas the high priest of Jerusalem, King Herod and Pontius Pilate the Roman governor of Palestine, are not found in the gospels of Nag Hammadi - Ahmed Osman (Christianity: An Ancient Egyptian Religion)

The silence of so early a writer as Justin in regard to the Apostles is remarkable. If Peter had figured so prominently in Apostolic times, and had founded a church at Rome, he certainly deserved more notice from Justin - J. P. Mendum (Revelations of the Anti-Christ, 1879)

The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls presented a considerable threat to the Christian hierarchs since these expunged and taboo testaments, together with others found in the Dead Sea region, did contradict dogmas accepted for centuries. Consequently, the translation and subsequent publication of the various scrolls was impeded and delayed. Translators even found themselves personally compromised and demoted. The Scrolls allegedly revealed that the breakaway group of Jews, known as the "Essenes," wanted nothing to do with the orthodox teachings of the Sadducees and Pharisees in Judea and Palestine whom they believed to be thoroughly corrupt and evil. The major spiritual guide and leader of the Essenes was known not as Jesus but as the "Teacher of Righteousness." He had suffered arrest, punishment, and execution due to the accusation of a rival known as the "Evil Priest." The story of the Essenes and their beliefs is a long one and cannot be told here. We can but know that the "Teacher of Righteousness" (probably either Joshua, the son of Nun, or John the Baptist) bore an uncanny resemblance to the New Testament Jesus and is considered by many researchers of the Scrolls to definitely be the man later known as Jesus. The problem for biblical scholars was the fact that this Essenic teacher lived years before Jesus is said to have walked abroad preaching in the Holy Land. The scrolls of the Essenes reveal that passages from the gospels are duplicates of those referring to this "Teacher of Righteousness" who lived centuries before. Although the resemblances are striking, however, it does not mean that the two men were one and the same. It merely suggests that they were cut from the same rock or, in other words, that they were adepts from the same college or mystery school. It can also mean that they were two stereotypes based on an earlier archetype; just two more solar heroes from a long, long line.

John the Baptist was a leader of the Essenes. He is believed to have lived at Qumran, and he may have been the person referred to in the Dead Sea Scrolls as the “Teacher of Righteousness.” This would have made him the rival of the person called the “Wicked Priest,” that some believe was Jesus. The main enemies of the Essenes, the Roman procurators and Herodian Governors of Judea and Jerusalem, worked closely with the elite Jewish priestarchy known as the "Sadducees." Many scholars, possibly erroneously, consider the Essenes to have been Jewish hardliners (of a Pharisaic tradition) who regarded the Sadducees to be traitors, despising the fact that they and the Roman oligarchs had close social and economic ties. In any case, the Sadducee-Roman connection has rarely been investigated by modern authors. It was the Sadducees who believed and taught that Moses had received two laws from Jehovah, one written and one oral, that is one open and one secret. A most intriguing and suggestive fact about the Essenes is that they arranged their order according to an ancient Druidic astrological scheme. They had three elders attended by twelve assistants. Perhaps this arrangement was just one more feature appropriated and adapted by the Christians who appear to have closely emulated the Essenes.

So we see that even within the ranks massive editing occurred. The Church actively suppressed what the Essenes alleged in their written works, namely, that Jesus had physically existed earlier than the accepted gospels indicated. This testimony was not to be officially credited or respected. No, the Holy Roman Empire, the Church of Constantine, would have none of this particular "heresy." The Essene "Teacher of Righteousness" was a Jewish savior or wise man who merely resembled Christianity's official savior. But this likeness was apparently enough for the Church's machinery of deception to spring into action. These insidious and in some cases blatant "in-house" cover-ups are begrudgingly accepted today by most interested parties, both Christian and Jewish, and many are the books that go into the subject.

There is another major difference between the philosophy of the Essenes and the Catholicism of Rome. This concerns the feminine divine principle. Paul's concoction, a Roman hybrid, did not bother much with the female or feminine. God was male, and so were the Messiah and Christ. Any woman who attempted to preach to males was to be executed as a heretic. The Alexandrian scholar Hypatia had been torn to pieces for taking this very liberty. Nevertheless, it appears that the feminine principle was esteemed and revered by early Essenes. This was certainly another reason why the Essenic philosophy was not to be included in the Roman dogma. In the Dead Sea Scrolls, texts honoring the feminine Sophia were discovered. These passages clearly emphasize that Judaism, as well as Christianity, has pagan roots, and reveal that Christianity has little to do with the teachings of the Essenes after all.

Eve said, Adam, live! Rise up on the earth! Immediately her word became a deed. For when Adam rose up, immediately he opened his eyes. When he saw her, he said, 'You will be called "the mother of all things" because you are the one who gave me life - (On the Origin of the World)

It is probable that the later concocted story of Jesus, found in the Acts, the Epistles, and the Gospels, was a plagiarization of earlier Essenic works. This theory is strengthened considerably when we understand that the Essene authors, living on site in Palestine, never mentioned any of the places, events or characters that we find in the New Testament.

…remarkably, in them we find no mention of the places or characters familiar from the gospel stories - Bethlehem, Nazareth, Jerusalem, King Herod, and John the Baptist, for example - Ahmed Osman (Christianity: An Egyptian Religion)

In light of this, our point is self-evident. What kind of suppression, deception, and manipulation of facts has occurred when it comes to the pagan origins of Jesus given what occurred over substantially less controversial matters and revelations? The case of the Essenes and their "Teacher" is an excellent acid test when it comes to estimating the machinations of the Vatican and their coteries within Christianity and Judaism. Keeping in mind how ruthlessly and thoroughly the ensconced officialdom culled itself of renegade sects (Essenes, Bogomils, Cathars, Mandeans, and Gnostics, etc), is an excellent mental exercise for the revisionist.

The death sentence is a necessary and efficacious means for the Church to attain its end when rebels act against it and disturbers of the ecclesiastical unity, especially obstinate heretics and heresiarchs, cannot be restrained by any other penalty from continuing to derange the ecclesiastical order and impelling others to all sorts of crime...When the perversity of one or several is calculated to bring about the ruin of its children it is bound effectively to remove it, in such a wise that if there be no other remedy for saving its people it can and must put these wicked men to death - Pope Leo XIII

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The Case of the Gnostics

Archaeological discoveries such as the Nag Hammadi texts and the Dead Sea Scrolls have revealed much more about the time and culture in which Jesus lived - and suddenly it seems that many of the aspects of Christianity that used to be considered unique were no such thing. Even the most well-worn familiar Christian concepts can now be seen as having had a completely different meaning in the context of first-century Palestine - Picket and Prince (Templar Revelation)

Before the discovery of the so-called "Nag Hammadi Library" (of 52 ancient scrolls) we knew next to nothing about the Gnostics, the mysterious Gentile Christian sects that also wrote of a Jesus living centuries before the official dates. Almost all that was known about them was gleaned from the writings of their detractors and suppressors, men such as the Bishop Irenaeus of Lyon. Gnostics did not attribute much meaning to a physical Jesus even though they did believe in one. For the majority of the Gnostics it was Jesus' divine presence that was important. And this is most significant since this was also the mindset of the Solar Cult members of ancient Egypt. The interest of the Gnostics was on the archetypal rather than stereotypical level. Jesus was a symbol of what all men can and must become. Their Jesus was a spiritual model and not a physical being whose earthly lifestyle mattered. Naturally, this was heresy, and the dogmatists set out to annihilate the Gnostics. The great Gnostic masters, men like Valentinus and Basilides, were persecuted and exiled. Purges of Gnostic sects continued up until the Middle Ages while the misinterpretation and suppression of their teachings continues to this very day. The Church did not want the teachings of the Gnostics to be studied. They knew only too well that Gnosticism was nothing more or less than Egyptian religion. It was the faint echo of the theologies of Egypt mixed with many other religious and spiritual traditions commonly found in Hellenistic Alexandria long after the great dynasties had passed into oblivion. They do not want it known that the Gnostics themselves were a later offshoot of the more ancient Solar and Lunar Cults that had their roots in the Stellar Cults of Egypt and Ireland. And they did not want it known how the Gnosticism of the Egyptians had influenced their religion and bible.

...it was founded on a union between Greek, Egyptian, and Jewish opinions, it probably took its rise in Heliopolis, which was the most celebrated school before the building of Alexandria...afterwards it spread from Alexandria to all the countries where Greek was spoken - Samuel Sharpe (Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity, 1863)

These speculative and mystical opinions, which show themselves among the Christians in the form of Gnosticism, and among the Jews and Greek Pagans in the more modified form of New Platonism, took their rise in the School of Heliopolis, where the opinions of Jews, Greeks, and Egyptians had freely mingled - ibid

The most ancient dated Christian inscription (Oct. 1, 318 A.D.) runs "The Lord and Savior Jesus the Good" - Chrestos, not Christos. This was the legend over the door of a Marcionite Church, and the Marcionites were Anti-Jewish Gnostics, and did not confound their Chrestos with the Jewish Christos (Messiah) - G. R. S. Meade (Did Jesus Live 100 BC?)

The peculiarities of the Gnostics very much show themselves in the attempt to explain the origin of evil...They held the Eastern opinion of two equal and co-eternal Beings, the one the author of good, and the other of evil; that between these two there was an unceasing warfare, as between light and darkness, life and death, spirit and matter...The Gnostics held that matter was essentially evil, and consequently that God could not be its author. Even the Apocryphal Wisdom of Solomon says that God did not create death. The Supreme God and the Creator of the World were with the Gnostics two different Beings, and the latter was looked upon as the God of the Jews and the author of the Mosaic law. In this scheme, the Being with whom men have chiefly to do, either in this world or in the next, is the Creator of the World, the author of evil; and we see its connection with the old Egyptian opinions - Samuel Sharpe (Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity, 1863)

The branches of the Christian Church founded around the Mediterranean by Paul were created on the informal lines favored by the Gnostics…rather than the rigid demarcation into an authoritarian priesthood and obedient laity favored by the Jerusalem apostles - Ahmed Osman (Christianity: An Egyptian Religion)

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 - Acharya S (The Origins of Christianity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus Christ)

I could keep on all day, and all night, or give a dozen lectures, without exhausting my evidence that the Canonical Gospels are only a later literalised réchauffé of the Egyptian writings; the representations in the Mysteries, and the oral teachings of the Gnostics which passed out of Egypt into Greece and Rome - Gerald Massey (Lectures, 1900)

...every trait and feature which go to make up the Christ as Divinity, and every event or circumstance taken to establish the human personality were pre-extant, and pre-applied to the Egyptian and Gnostic Christ, who never could become flesh - ibid

The ancient Persians believed, that the Supreme Being was surrounded with angels, or what they called Aeons or Emanations, from the divine substance. This was also the opinion of the Manicheans, and of almost all the Gnostic sects of Christians - Godfrey Higgins (Anacalypsis, Vol. 1, 1833)

Students have been impressed with the evident resemblance of the Apocalypse to Gnostic literature, and one writer has ventured the opinion that it could have been written only by a Platonist versed in Mystery and Magian symbology - Alvin Boyd Kuhn (The Lost Light: An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures)

...there was that other Gospel, so prominently referred to and detested by the orthodox parties, The Gospel of the Egyptians. The fine Gnostic Christians had of course their own wonderful Gospel, the Pistis Sophia, which traces to Egyptian backgrounds beyond all question. The voices of the old Egyptian gods speak volubly in such documents in the hands of early Christians - Alvin Boyd Kuhn (Shadow of the Third Century: A Revaluation of Christianity)

...Frederick D. Kershner, who, in his book Pioneers of Christian Thought says that "the Gnostics were the founders of Christian theology in the full sense of the word - ibid

One of the most interesting and puzzling Gnostic sects with a deep connection to Egypt were the Mandeans. Their existence was brought to light when Jesuit missionaries discovered remnants of their cult still existing in modern day Iraq. The Mandeans said that they were descendants of the church of John the Baptist and that they did not accept the Jesus of the official Church. They considered Jesus a "lying Messiah." This attitude was also found among the Essenes of Qumran who referred, in their texts, to John as the "Teacher of Righteousness" and Jesus as the "Wicked Priest." The Mandeans referred to themselves as "St. John's Christians." Their chiefs or priests were known as "Nasoreans." The Moslems knew them as the "Sabeans," a word that means "of the stars" or "heavens." The Mandeans declared themselves descendants of the Egyptians and their master to have come from Alexandria in Egypt. Naturally, the existence and teachings of these Gnostic Mandeans has been obscured by the hegemonic forces from Rome and London. The Iraqi Mandeans are now practically extinct.

Until recently academics thought that the Mandean's denial that they came from a breakaway Jewish sect was untrue, but now it is recognized that they have no Judaic roots. For although their writings do include the names of Old Testament characters, they are genuinely ignorant of Jewish customs and ritual observances...One thing that has always puzzled scholars about the Mandeans is their insistence that they originally came from Egypt - Picket and Prince (Templar Revelation)

A 3rd century Persian teacher, known as Manes, who said that Christianity had got things wrong and he was here to put it right, attempted to revive these old ways. Regardless of the Christian attempts to kill off Manichaeism it survived until the 13th Century. He is said to have revived Ophiolatreia (serpent worship), where he taught that Christ was an incarnation of the 'great serpent' - Philip Gardner (Secrets of the Serpent)

So again we repeat; what kind of suppression would be expected from these orthodox hierarchs toward their absolute ideological rivals given that this was the level of suppression leveled against those Christian enclaves technically within their camp? Gnostics, whose only "crime" involved a non-literal interpretation of scripture, suffered unbearable tortures. They were barbarically massacred because they chose to interpret bible's passages allegorically, because they incorporated the feminine principle, and because they had a different take on the ancestry and identity of Jesus. We might speculate that it was because they followed in the tradition of the ancients and decided to interpret scripture Astro-Theologically that the fearsome retribution of Rome rained down upon them. In relation to "Gnostic" sects, it is this author's belief that the Church instigated the famous "Albigensian Crusade" to annihilate the Cathars ("Pure Ones") of Southern France chiefly because that sect, as well as others such as the Bogomils, were returning to Druidic ways. This has never been stated in so many words by writers on the Cathars but it is a self-evident fact given that women were returned to positions of authority, that nature was venerated, that the sect adopted an optimistic attitude toward existence, and that rigid hierarchies were abolished. The Druids had once been strong in the very region where the Cathars had situated themselves, and so it is not surprising that elements of their ancient religion permeated this ostensibly Christian movement. Unfortunately the Cathars, like so many other Gnostic sects, paid a heavy price for their theological heresy and effrontery.

In 1139 the Church began calling councils to condemn the Cathars and all who supported them. By 1179 Alexander III proclaimed a crusade against these enemies of the Church promising two years' indulgence, or freedom from punishment for sins, to all who would take up arms, and eternal salvation for any who would die...The savagery of the thirty-year-long attack decimated Langedoc. At the Cathedral of St. Nazair alone 12,000 people were killed. Bishop Folque of Toulouse put to death 10,000. When the crusaders fell upon the town of Beziers and the commanding legate, Arnaud, was asked how to distinguish Catholic from Cathar, he replied: "Kill them all, for God knows his own!" Not a child was spared...The Albigensian crusade killed an estimated one million people, not only Cathars but much of the population of southern France - Helen Ellerbe (The Dark Side of Christian History)

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The Criminals and Their Crimes
It should never be forgotten that the power of the priest rests solely on the credence of the people. The people cry out for a savior, for certainty of heaven, for an exemption from the terrors of hell. Hence Priestcraft can neither do without hell nor purgatory. Take away both, or either, and its power is gone - M. F. Cusack (The Black Pope: A History of the Jesuits)
Gregory of Nazianzus, writing to Saint Jerome, says: "A little jargon is all that is necessary to impose on the people. The less they comprehend the more they admire" - Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb (Aryan Sun Myths, 1899)

One thing is certain: there really is no end to the guile of the church fathers, bishops, and potentates, when it comes to mythmongering. It is fortunate that their egregious industry has been constantly and brilliantly exposed by scholars throughout the ages. For centuries, prominent biblical scholars have demonstrated that the four gospel accounts do not reference events that occurred historically.
The gospels are all priestly forgeries over a century after their pretended dates - Joseph Wheless (Forgery in Christianity)

How do we know that the Gospel story is true? Because it confirms the prophecies of the Old Testament. But how do we know the Old Testament prophecies are true? Because they are confirmed by the Gospel story. Evidence, so called, is bounced back and forth between the testaments like a tennis ball; and no other evidence is given us. The two testaments form a double mirror, each reflecting the other but neither the world outside - Northrop Frye (The Great Code)

Church propaganda ensures that most people remain unaware of this fact. We can surmise, however, that those same forces insisting the Jesus story be accepted as it was written in the gospels would sooner admit to it being a concoction than they would admit it to be Egyptian or Irish in origin. That its true origins have barely been admitted or explored is to us the central issue. We note with reluctance how so many scholars continually avoid looking to Egypt and Ireland for the origins of the Jesus story. We note how Ireland's contribution is especially downplayed. Authors compile their books on culture and civilization and frequently omit Ireland as if its role was of no significance whatsoever. Book after book is composed by perplexed scholars who are forced to accept, by the dearth of references on Jesus from early Christian sects and by the contradictions between the official accounts, that the story of Jesus just could not be based on actual events. It is anything but a biography, lacking the essential minutiae and nuance that are customary when descriptions are made of a living person's life. It is certainly not a valid recollection of his colleagues since their accounts are contradictory over essentials that should merit neither doubt nor discrepancy.

It is strange that no source outside the...gospels...knows this same sequence of events, even in outline...If the passion story were well known, it seems likely that others would have referred to it, at least in outline - Robert Funk (Honest to Jesus)


The story of Jesus - from two sources - partly Astro-Theological, partly biographical...but of whom?


The story of the Resurrection of Christ is a pitiful muddle. Each of the four Evangelists is at loggerheads with the rest, and all of them with Paul, the earliest writer - J. P. Mendum (Revelations of the Anti-Christ, 1879)

Matthew lists twenty-eight generations from David to Jesus, while Luke tabulates forty-three. According to John Jesus visited Jerusalem at least four times, but the Synoptics (Mark, Luke and Matthew) assure us that he journeyed to that city only once. As to the length of Jesus’ ministry the Synoptics say one year, but John says at least 3 years. From the Synoptical account, we gather that the savior carried out his work chiefly in Galilee. But John informs us that Judea was the principle theatre of the ministry of Christ - John G. Jackson (Pagan Origins of the Jesus Myth)

Suspicion over the legitimacy of the Jesus story arises when we consider how bizarre it is that such a disjointed and contradictory bibelot should have ever risen to prominence. Given the egregious lack of detail concerning its central protagonist, and the inherent contradictions of the so-called eye witnesses, and given the fact that dozens of other mythic or heroic characters existed with far greater fame, we muse at this insignificant anomaly and wonder how and why it warranted serious attention from intellectually endowed people. Our statement becomes even more pertinent when it is realized just how little attention was originally given to the existence of Jesus by historians and philosophers who lived during the period in which he is believed to have lived and worked. Of the two early Christian traditions (Jerusalem and Galilean) only one mentioned his death at all and, despite the various accounts given by these two traditions, scholars are perplexed to find that dozens of other Christian sects had nothing to report of any significance concerning Jesus. If he had truly lived, then how can only two out of dozens of Christian sects have had the facts about his existence? And how could these two traditions differ on so many key events? Moreover, how could these two traditions come to prominence hundreds of years after the events they relate? If this Jesus was really the son of god - the Christ - how come he made such a insignificant impact on the prominent intellectuals and historians of his time? Why do the major historians and intellectuals of his time not mention Jesus or any of the events that occurred because of him, in their works? Why do recently discovered scriptures (the Gnostic Gospels and Dead Sea Scrolls, etc), as well as various Apocryphal works, not corroborate the bible's key accounts? Why were such texts considered uncanonical?

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 - Tony Bushby (The Bible Fraud)

...a most charming political fiction, dreamed up for excellent purposes in the garb of history, and adopted to the gross conceptions of a rude, sensual, unlearned and credulous people - Dr. Geddes (on the early books of the Bible)

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Forgers, Plagiarists, Corruptors
There are many errors in the Bible. The learned know it; and the unlearned better not know it - William Penn
Let us continue to read from the works of master revisionists who have taken on the task of bringing the facts of the Judeo-Christian religion before the world. Let us note that although these writers came from Islamic, Jewish, and Christian backgrounds they did not allow limited allegiances to hinder them in their searches and revelations. Concerning the bizarre Book of Genesis, that has caused so much dissent among the genders, author Laurence Gardner writes:
…the opening verses of Genesis were composed in the sixth century BC, roughly 1400 years after the time of Abraham, 2000 years after Noah and 3500 years after the Mesopotamian flood - (Genesis of the Grail Kings)

On the New Testament, Gardner writes:

When the criteria for Gospel selection were determined at the Council of Carthage in AD 397, it was first stipulated that the authorized New Testament Gospels must be written in the names of the original twelve apostles. Matthew was, of course, an apostle, as was John, but neither Luke nor Mark were named in the original twelve. Thomas, on the other hand, was one of the original apostles and yet the Gospel in his name was excluded - (Genesis of the Grail Kings)

Concerning the origin of the Old Testament, Egyptian author Moustafa Gadalla, the man who has revealed Tutankhamun to be the prototype for the Christian Jesus Christ, writes:

Our standard translations of the Old Testament are based on the Massoretic Hebrew text, that came into existence in the ninth or tenth centuries A.D. This text was originated in the second century A.D. after a council had been assembled in Jamnia…in A.D.70. At Jamnia the council agreed to the form and content of the Old Testament - (Historical Deception)

In a letter by an unknown author about 100 BC, Ptolemy II, the King of Egypt (285-247 BC), ordered a Greek translation of the Bible. The High Priest of Jerusalem sent seventy-two elders to Alexandria, six scholars from each of the twelve tribes of Israel, together with an official copy of the Pentateuch. They worked for seventy-two days to produce the final copy of the Pentateuch in Greek. Later, the other books of the Old Testament were also translated into Greek by other scholars and the whole work became known as the Septuagint, that means “The Seventy.” The Greek text was adopted as the Bible of the early Church, but was abandoned in favor of the Hebrew Masoretic text - ibid

From Jesus in History and Myth, by R. Joseph Hoffman and Gerald A. Larue, we learn about the contradictions and differences that exist between the four gospel accounts.

Everyone knows that the four canonical gospels unambiguously attest that Jesus lived and died in Pontius Pilate's Palestine. Four gospels sound impressive, but this is not multiple testimony, as these works are not independent of each other. For instance, Matthew and Luke take a substantial portion of their material verbatim from Mark, and much of their remaining material is drawn either from another common source (not extant) or taken by Luke directly from Matthew. As for the fourth gospel, it on the one hand markedly fails to substantiate many elements of the story told by the other three, and on the other has been shown to have reworked source material that resembled theirs. Furthermore, it is now widely admitted that all four are the work of unknown authors - their titles "according to Matthew," etc, resulted from what F. W. Beare has called "second-century guesses" - authors not personally acquainted with Jesus who were writing between forty and eighty years after his supposed lifetime. Much in these gospels is mere legend, the mutually exclusive virgin-birth stories of Matthew and Luke being but a particularly striking example.

These gospels were written after Palestinian Christianity had been destroyed or dispersed in the Jewish War with Rome that had culminated in the destruction of Jerusalem in A.D. 70 and had occasioned a serious break in continuity that made it very difficult for Christian writers of later date, including the evangelists, to have reliable knowledge of what had been going on in Palestine in the first half of the century. It is thus not surprising that the author of the gospel of Luke, who is also the author of the Acts of the Apostles, is in complete confusion over the chronology of events that we know (from independent sources) occurred there at that time.

From The Christ Myth, by the great scholar Arthur Dewes, we discover how the scriptures were falsely dated:

Of the works of the Old Testament neither the Psalms, nor the proverbs, nor the so-called Preacher, nor the Book of Wisdom, can be connected with the historical kings David or Solomon, whose names they bear, and the prophet Daniel is just such a fictitious personality as the Enoch and the Ezra of the Apocalypses known under their names.

…the so-called Five Books of Moses are the literary product of an age much later than the one in which Moses is supposed to have lived.

From the work of Elmer H. Gruber, the scholar who has expertly revealed the innumerable similarities between Jesus and the Indian Buddha, we read about the destruction of scriptures that contradicted the agenda of the hierarchs:

During the early period of the Christian movement the multitude of often contradictory texts was so great that the young Church saw only one way of preserving the faith from splitting into numerous sects: assembling a canon of writings and destroying rejected apocryphal (hidden) texts - (The Original Jesus)

Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky also spoke of the fear that prompted the early Christian hierarchs to eradicate the evidence that revealed the pagan elements of their religion:

Every event in the life of Jesus, from his virgin birth to his final crucifixion and resurrection, had been copied from the stories of the pagan gods. Every dogma and ritual in the Christian Church had its pagan counterpart. These facts were known to the entire pagan world and as the Church continued to borrow from the pagans in an ever-increasing measure, it became more and more difficult for her to maintain her claim of uniqueness. So long as pagan schools existed, the Church could not without contradiction represent herself as the sole repository of knowledge. So long as pagan books existed, the Bible would not be accepted as the only revelation of God. So long as pagan philosophers lived and taught, the dogmatic assertions of the Church Fathers would be questioned. There was but one course for the Church - to destroy all the evidences of her plagiarisms by wiping out the pagan schools, the pagan records, even the pagan philosophers themselves - (Isis Unveiled)

From the relatively recent and exemplary writings of Egyptian revisionist Ahmed Osman, the investigator who discovered the probable identities of the biblical Joseph, David, and Solomon, we learn about the Gnostic refutation of the Judaic Old Testament stories, and the infamous Council of Loadicia. It was at this Council that Constantine ordered the testaments combined in one book, thus ensuring the common roots of Christianity and Judaism were forever acknowledged.

In Alexandria, which had become the center for Greek culture and philosophy, it was Valentinus, the prominent Gnostic leader, who led the assault upon the text of the Old Testament in the second century AD, claiming that certain parts of the Pentateuch and the Prophets were not authentic, while the great Ptolemy, the astrologer and geographer of Italian origin, raised the basic question of the origin of the Pentateuch…Ptolemy concluded that the five books of the Pentateuch attributed to Moses could not possible have come from this single author, but must have been compiled by Moses from three sources - God, Moses himself and the Elders. However, with the acceptance of Christianity in AD 313 by Constantine the Great, who made it the official religion of the Roman Empire, and the decision of the Christian Council of Loadicia in 363 to include the Old Testament books (the Greek Text) in the Christian canon, belief in the divine inspiration and authorship of the Scriptures finally made the Bible the only acceptable historical source up to the end of the Middle Ages - (The Hebrew Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt)

Benedict Spinoza (1632-1677) who was a follower of Hobbes, also entirely rejected the Mosaic authorship of the Pentateuch, insisting that the books from Genesis to Kings II were the work of Ezra, the scribe and Hebrew scholar who lived during the fifth century BC. A year after Spinoza’s death came a further assault from Richard Simon, the French priest and biblical critic, who declared in his book, Histoire critique du Vieux Testament, that the Pentateuch was the result of a long process of compilation and redaction of annals by a guild of “public scribes.” A few months after the book was published the French Jansenists ordered it to be destroyed - ibid

Osman covers the intriguing first references to the religion of Christianity and to Christ, and to the pre-Christian Therapeutae of Egypt upon whose teachings Christianity was apparently heavily based:

The first references to Christianity in Roman writings are found in the works of the historians Suetonius and Tacitus, and Pliny the Younger, who were friends and held posts under Roman emperors. The earliest was by Suetonius, who was born around AD 69, served as secretary to Hadrian, the fourteenth emperor (AD 117-138 AD), and thus had access to the imperial archives. His major historical work, the Lives of the Caesars, published about AD 120, gave accounts of the reign of Julius Caesar and the 11 emperors who followed him. The mention of Christ occurs in the twenty-fifth chapter were the author is discussing events in the reign of Claudius (AD 41-54), who had succeeded as the fourth emperor after the assassination of Caligula. Suetonius makes a brief mention of riots that took place in Rome in AD 49: “As the Jews, at the instigation of Chrestus, were constantly causing riots, he (Claudius) drove them out of Rome.” In the light of gospels, this is a surprisingly early date, given the slow nature of travel at that time...Chrestus, a common name in Rome, must have been substituted for the Greek Christus, because the two names were pronounced alike and Suetonius thought - wrongly - that someone called Christ was in Rome at the time, instigating the riots - (Christianity: An Egyptian Religion)

By the first half of the first century AD, the Therapeutae had also spread far and wide. Philo, whose brother was head of the Jewish community in Alexandria, visited Rome during the brief reign of Caligula (AD 37-41) to protest at the emperor’s order that the Jews should place his image in their temple and worship it. It was at this early date, on his return from Rome, that - according to Eusebius…one of the early church fathers…Philo set down his most important work, The Contemplative Life, in which he described the Therapeutae as “citizens of heaven and of the universe, and truly acceptable to the father and creator of the world.” He also recorded that the Therapeutae were “to be found throughout each of the districts and nomes, and particularly around Alexandria.” Eusebius identified the Therapeutae as the earliest Christian church in Egypt - ibid

From the pen of the mighty Kersey Graves we read of the industry that manufactured the so-called "word of god:"

The Gospels and Epistles thus voted into favor were not arranged together in the form of an authentic Bible until...the Council of Laodicea in the year 353. After this, council after council was called to vote in or vote out some of the books adopted by previous councils, and to settle some important church dogmas. The first council voted the Acts of the Apostles and Revelations out of the Bible...but the second council, which met in 363, voted them in again. Another council, which met in 406, voted them, with several other books, out of the Bible again. And thus were books and dogmas voted in and voted out of "the infallible and inspired word of god," and altered and corrected, time after time and century after century, by twenty-four different councils, composed by bigoted bishops and clergymen, so quarrelsome and belligerent that they resorted to fisticuffs fighting in several of the councils - (Bible of Bibles, 1863 AD)

The version of the Old Testament made under Ptolemy Philadelphus, 287 BC, - the most reliable version extant - the Bishop Usher pronounces a spurious copy, full of interpolations, additions, and alterations. He says, "The translators of the Septuagint added to, and took from, and changed at pleasure," and Saint Jerome says that Origen did the same thing with the "New Testament." Bishop Marsh testifies, in like manner, that Origen, who first collected the Bible books together, confessed that he made many alterations in them before they fell into the hands of the Council of Nice. Dr. Bentley admits that the best copy of the New Testament contains hundreds of irreparable omissions, errors, and mistakes. The Rev. Dr. Whitby says, "Many corruptions and interpolations were made almost in the apostolic age." Dupin says, "Several authors took the liberty to add, retrench, correct divers things"...We are told that Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, made countless numbers of alterations in the Bible of the sixth century for the purpose of making them suit his Church. Eusebius says he found so much proof that the Gospel of Matthew had been altered and corrupted, that he rejected it as being unworthy of confidence. Victor Wilson informs us that a general alteration of the Gospels took place at Constantinople in the year 506, by order of the Emperor Anastasius. St. Jerome complains that in his time many alterations had been made in the Bible...Scaliger testifies that the clergy and the churches put into their scriptures whatever they thought would serve their purpose. Michaelis says, "They thrust in and thrust out as best suits fancy." - ibid

From the same author we read about the vagueness and contradictoriness of the accounts of this holiest of scriptures:

There is one text in Galatians (3:20) which, Christian writers inform us, has received no less than two hundred and forty interpretations at different times by different writers; that is, two hundred and forty guesses have been made at the meaning of this one text - (Bible of Bibles)

The Roman-Catholic Bible differs essentially from that of the Protestants, having fourteen more books. The Bible of the Greek Church differs from both. The Campbellites have a translation of their own. The Samaritan Bible contains only the five books of Moses. The Unitarians, having found 24,000 errors in the popular translation, made another translation containing still many thousands errors. The American Christian Union, having found many thousands of errors in the King James Translation, are now engaged in a new translation. How many more are we to have, god only knows. Martin Luther condemned eleven books of the Bible...and thus made a Bible for himself. Paul's Epistles to the Hebrews he denounced in strong terms...Dr. Lardner and John Calvin each condemned five or six books, and had a Bible peculiar to themselves. Grotius places the heel of condemnation on several books of the Bible. Bishop Baxter voted down eight books as uninspired, and unworthy of confidence. Swedenborg accepted only the Four Gospels and Revelation as inspired. The German Fathers rejected the Gospel of Matthew...The Bible of the learned Christian writer Evanson did not contain either Matthew, Mark, or John. The Unitarian Bible does not contain Hebrews, James, Jude, or Revelation. The Catholics denounce the Protestant Bible, and the Protestants condemn the Catholic Bible, as being full or errors - ibid

In his book, Christianity: An Egyptian Religion, Ahmed Osman goes on to reveal the spuriousness of Paul's Damascus vision that caused him to cease persecuting Christians and join their number as a champion of Christ:

This account (of his conversion on the road to Damascus) is not mentioned by Paul in any of the letters he wrote - more than a century earlier than the appearance of the New Testament gospels - to the communities he had converted to Christianity. Instead, in his letter to the Galatians, without making it clear where he had his spiritual encounter with Jesus, he goes on to stress that his teaching owed nothing to any man, including the Jerusalem apostles.

In the same book, Osman puzzles over the dearth of information on Jesus in the works of contemporary historians, and comments upon the discoveries made by the great British politician, historian, and Greek scholar Enoch Powell:

…if the Jesus of the Gospels lived, suffered and died during the period of Roman rule over Palestine, it is curious that his name does not appear in the writings of three distinguished contemporary authors - Philo Judaeus, Justus of Tiberius and Flavius Josephus.

Enoch Powell, the British politician and Greek scholar, who translated the Greek text of Matthew’s gospel, noted that it had been subjected to substantial “doctoring” even before the end of the first century AD…The New Catholic Encyclopedia…concedes that most “of the biblical writings underwent considerable re-editing and interpolation before final publication." Thus the authorship was much more of a group activity than was once thought.

Osman reveals how the bible's mythmongers concocted accounts concerning the seniority of Peter:

The Greek originals of the text of Paul's letters...show that he never used the name "Peter" but referred to the leader of the Jerusalem apostles as Kepha, or Cephas, the Aramaic word meaning "dome." The name "Cephas" was also used as a synonym for Simon in John's gospel account of how Simon was renamed...The more liberal use of "Peter" in the Book of Acts is clearly the work of a later copyist, seeking to support the false view that Peter rather than Paul should be looked upon as the founder of modern Christianity, and also trying to make sense of chronologies that did not match.

From author Maurice Cotterell's book Jesus, King Arthur and the Journey of the Grail, we learn about the guile of Constantine and his all-important relocation of the Christian capital from Rome to Byzantium in the East. Byzantium was the earlier name for the city of Constantinople that became the capital in 330 AD.

Persecution of Christians prevailed from the date of the Crucifixion until the reign of Constantine the Great (AD 285-337) in Rome. In AD 306 he succeeded his father as joint Roman emperor, in York, England. In AD 312, during a victorious battle outside Rome, he saw a vision of the cross-of-Christ on the face of the sun which inspired his conversion to Christianity. A year later he issued his 'Edict of Tolerance,' extending religious tolerance to all faiths...in AD 324 he became the first Christian emperor to rule the whole of the Roman Empire…In AD 330 the capital of the Roman Empire was transferred to Byzantium - modern Istanbul - by Constantine the Great who renamed it Constantinople, the capital of the Byzantine Empire.

From historian Arthur Kemp's masterpiece March of the Titans we find out about the Donation of Constantine, the scandalous forgery upon which Christianity was founded, and about the earliest translations and compilations of the books of the bible:

The Emperor Constantine lived between 208 to 337 AD. After his vision he went on to issue the Edict of Milan, in 313 AD, which legalized Christianity throughout the Empire. Shortly thereafter, it became the fastest spreading religion. Constantine’s conversion to Christianity is still shrouded in mystery and led to the most famous forgery in European history, that which became known as the Donation of Constantine. This document purports to be a signed document by Constantine and its principal feature is to grant the bishop of Rome - the Pope - temporal authority over the city of Rome and the entire Roman Empire. Although there are many glaring factual errors in the text of the document, which by themselves show the document to be a forgery, the Donation of Constantine was accepted as genuine until the 15th Century, and was used by the Catholic Church to claim political power in not only the Roman Empire but also, ultimately, in all nominally Christian lands. Eventually, the Donation of Constantine was rejected as false - but by then the Church had established itself in almost all of Europe, its power founded on a forgery.

The books now contained in the Old Testament were largely oral before 300 BC, although some had been written down by Jewish rabbis. Through contact with the Jews in Ptolemaic Egypt, King Ptolemy II Philadelphus (285-246 BC) is credited with ordering the translation of the Jewish religious books into Greek. The Christian version of the Old Testament was only established as a comprehensive work by the scribe Origen around 250 AD, and up until that time only loose translations of the Ptolemaic Greek work formed the basis of Christian teaching.

From the fine book, The Thousand-Year Elven Holocaust, by Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg, we find out how the hierarchs of Rome connived, by way of the Donation, to award themselves power over the world.

It (the "Donation of Constantine") purported to recognize the Roman Popes as Christ’s representatives on Earth and to donate to Pope Sylvester and the Roman Church all those Imperial powers formerly invested in the Throne of Byzantium. The Donation, the Church claimed, was written in the 4th Century at the insistence of the Emperor Constantine The Church claimed Constantine was so grateful for having been cured of leprosy by Pope Sylvester that he gave to the Church the entire power and wealth of the unified Roman Empire, including the right to crown and dethrone kings...Supposedly written before 337 AD - the year of Constantine’s death - the Donation of Constantine didn’t make an appearance on the stage of European history until four-hundred years later. So far-reaching are the powers bestowed upon the Church by this document, one would have thought that it would have been made public at the time of its bestowal, not centuries later - Prince Nicholas de Vere von Drakenberg (The Thousand-Year Elven Holocaust)
No monarch ruling today and no government under the monarch or instituted in their name would enjoy their position if the Church, empowered by the Donation of Constantine, had not given them permission to rule in the first place…the Donation of Constantine is a complete and utter fraud. The Church was never given any temporal powers at all, let alone the right to found dynasties, crown kings or institute governments. The Donation of Constantine was a lie from beginning to end and has been known to be a fake since Lorenzo Valla applied the methods of historical criticism during the Renaissance - ibid
The fraudulent imperial power of the Vatican to create kings by “coronation” - derived from this faked 8th Century Donation of Constantine - was later adopted by the Archbishops of the Church of England with the complicity of the Tudors, who were Catholics themselves...When he split with Rome, Henry VIII still retained and later ratified and re-established in the Anglo-Catholic Church of England the fraudulent right of the Church’s clergy to create by coronation a succession of British monarchs. This is an illegal act - ibid
Because the Donation was a fraud and because no subsequent priest of any Catholic denomination ever had the right to crown kings, Britain has had no legally reigning monarch for 900 years. As a consequence of this, all the laws passed by these monarchs were and are illegal and worthless, and all the governmental agencies set up by or derived from these monarchs or their laws are also illegal and worthless up to the present day - ibid
From the writings of Ralph Ellis, the investigator who (following on from Sigmund Freud, Immanuel Velikovsky, Donald MacKenzie, and Comyns Beaumont) discovered the true origins of the Israelite "slaves" in Egypt, we find out how the Gospel of Luke was put together and how the books of the bible were selected:

Tradition ascribes authorship of the Torah or Pentateuch - from Genesis to the end of Deuteronomy - to Moses, although no such claim is made in the text - (Jesus: Last of the Pharaohs)

The first “New Testament” consisting only of Luke’s Gospel and heavily edited versions of ten of Saul’s (Paul’s) epistles, was collated in the second century by Marcion. Subsequently, the mainstream Christian Church asserted the authority of all four Gospels and 13 Pauline Epistles in their entirety. This established the framework of what ultimately became the Christian canon. It was not until AD 325 at the council of Nicea, convened by the Roman emperor Constantine I, that a consensus as to the content of the Bible began to emerge. This was ratified in AD 367, and the 27 books of the New Testament were eventually canonized by Athanasius of Alexandria. Acceptance of the Christian Scripture followed in the Western Churches - ibid

The Jewish Bible, known to Christians as the Old Testament, consists of 39 books, mostly written in Hebrew, although a few were written in Aramaic, between 1000 BC and AD 100. The Christian Bible includes these Jewish books of the Old Testament, plus the 27 books of the New Testament, the latter written mostly in Greek - ibid

Early copies of some individual books of the Old Testament, in Hebrew and dating from the sixth century AD, were discovered stored in the Cairo synagogue during the late nineteenth century. The earliest complete Hebrew manuscript still in existence, the Aleppo Codex, dates from the first half of the tenth century AD, more than a thousand years after the last books of the Old Testament were written and perhaps two thousand years after the earliest. The standard Hebrew Bible today is based on a manuscript dating from AD 1088 that is now in the St Petersburg Library - ibid

The Acts of the Apostles do not contain reliable information of St. Paul. It contradicts Paul's own statements. So writes Martin Debelius, the Professor of Theology at Heidelberg:

The information about Paul as it is presented in the Acts of the Apostles is not reliable since it is not autobiographical; and if it contradicts plain statements in the letters (of Paul) it has to take second place - (Paul)

Author Earl Doherty comments on the findings and conclusions made by the assembly of over 200 scholars involved with the "Jesus Seminar," founded in 1985. At this event, that occurs twice a year, bible experts decide which passages and accounts concerning Jesus can be scientifically ratified as authentic.

The Jesus Seminar has rejected as inauthentic some three quarters of the sayings attributed to him in the Gospels...Many of the elements in the Gospel story have been rejected by modern critical scholarship as unhistorical...the Gospels are unreliable as an historical record, or as providing any basis for supporting the historicity of Jesus - (The Jesus Puzzle)

Christian tradition for the better part of two millennia has regarded the four Gospels as independent accounts of the events of Jesus' life and death, by persons in the know providing a fourfold witness to those events. Most Christians today still believe that. But New Testament scholars know better, and they've known it for almost two centuries - ibid

Nowhere in all of his seven letters, written around the year 107 while he was being brought to Rome for execution, does Ignatius quote a single teaching of Jesus, nor a miracle, nor any detail of the passion under Pilate...four different Christian writers over a period of some 40 years, ranging from Alexandria to Antioch to Asia Minor to Rome, show no knowledge of written Gospels - and this up to a period of some 60 years after the standard dating of Mark...Though the Fathers are beginning to draw on sayings and maxims which they attribute to Jesus, their abysmal ignorance of the basic content of the Gospels, especially in regard to the passion, would suggest that such documents and their dissemination are a late phenomenon - ibid

Arthur Dewes addresses similar concerns in his writings:

References to words and events from the life of Jesus are so isolated in the Pauline writings that we are entitled to and forced to raise the question as to each such reference, whether it is not the reflection of an later age, or an age which already placed confidence in the Gospel literature, that brought Jesus' authority into the text...And the critical theologians are convinced that the writings of the New Testament are worked over to such a great extent, rectified to accord with the Church, and in many places interpolated. But when someone else brings this to publicity, and dares to doubt the authenticity of a passage, they immediately raise a great outcry, and accuse him of willfully misinterpreting the text - (The Christ Myth)

..the Pauline epistles were as yet completely unknown in the first century AD, that in particular the existence of the Epistle to the Romans is not testified to before the middle of the second century, must speak seriously against Paul's authorship, and is evidence that those epistles cannot be accepted as the primary source of the Pauline doctrines - ibid

...the two epistles to the Thessalonians, that to the Ephesians, as well as to the so-called pastoral epistles (to Timothy, Titus, and Philemon), are considered by the overwhelming majority of theologians to be forgeries - ibid

Bible historian Burton L. Mack concludes that the gospels are certainly not first hand eyewitness accounts of the life of Jesus. In his book, Who Wrote the New Testament, he writes:

The writings in the New Testament were not written by eyewitnesses of an overpowering divine appearance in the midst of human history...the Christian Bible turns out to be a masterpiece of invention...To be quite frank about it, the Bible is the product of very energetic and successful mythmaking on the part of those early Christians - Burton L. Mack (Who Wrote the New Testament)

The jailed and persecuted master scholar of biblical times and writings, the Reverend Robert Taylor addressed the identity of Yahweh and the late dates of the Christian scriptures:

There is not preserved nor is there existent in the world a single original book or manuscript of Hebrew or Christian scriptures containing the inspired word of Yahweh. The most ancient manuscripts of the Hebrew texts date only from the eighth century of the era of Christ: while the Christian books, said to have been written by the direct inspiration of the Holy Ghost within the first century of the era, all, all are lost and the oldest copies bear the masks of the fourth century - (The Devil's Pulpit)

The archaeologist and historian Thomas L. Thompson, the man who has exposed the non-existence of Israel, underlines the manner in which the history of the world has been deliberately skewed by those wishing us to blindly accept the religious dogmas and fictions of their manufacture:

As a whole, we historians have not done very well in using Biblical stories to write our history with. If one feels bound to understand the history of Israel as a revision of the Bible's traditions, one must admit the near total lack of warrant that these stories have for being accepted as historical - Thomas L. Thompson (The Mythic Past, Biblical Archaeology and the Myth of Israel)

In a rare and exemplary revisionist work on the bible, author J. P. Mendum comments on the origins of the denigrating term "Anti-Christ," and emphasizes the duplicity of the clerics who thought of nothing other than their own empowerment:

Those initiated into the sacred mysteries knew the Gospel stories were false, but considered it necessary to keep up the imposition for the purposes of propagandism. But while this transition of faith was going on, some of the more conscientious teachers began to tell the people that the Jesus Christ they were worshipping was not a historical personage. This was regarded by the conservative priests as a dangerous disclosure, and so John denounces the innovators as liars and Anti-Christs, knowing that he himself and his fellow priests were the pious liars and that the Anti-Christs were telling the truth…Error prevailed, and the mythical Christ became the historical Jesus - (Revelations of the Anti-Christ, 1879)

...when the mass of Christian converts had accepted the Gospel stories concerning the incarnate Deity as fact: when, in short, the Gospels became paramount authority, and the maintenance of a historical Christ imperative, then it became necessary to bring forth something besides Jewish and Pagan prophecies to prove his existence...But alas! it was not to be found - ibid

Mr. Mendum goes on to address the spuriousness of the tale concerning the persecution of Christians by Nero, the Emperor despised by the "Jews."

The story of Nero's persecution of Christians is doubted by Gibbon; and now a well-known writer in the Edinburg Review proposes to prove the "Annals" of Tacitus, from whence the story emanates, were forged by one Poggio Bracciolinni, who died in 1459, having for forty years been apostolic secretary to seven successive popes - ibid

From the writings of Tony Bushby, the investigator who (following on from Gerald Massey, Alvin Boyd Kuhn, Madame Helena Blavatsky, Valentia Straiton, Arthur Dyott Thompson, and others) has proven the Hebrew alphabet to be Egyptian in origin, we read about the lost originals upon which the bible is meant to be based and about the duplicity of the bible's compilers:

…the ‘original’ Greek text was not written until around the mid-Fourth Century and was a revised edition of writings compiled decades earlier in Aramaic and Hebrew. Those earlier documents no longer exist and the Bibles we have today are five linguistic removes from the first Bibles written. What was written in the ‘original originals’ is quite unknown - (Bible Fraud)

There was never any recorded form of ordination from a supernatural Jesus Christ or Simon of Petra (Simon Peter) to the presbyters. They appointed themselves and continually restructured their own writings to further appeal to the rabble without understanding the meaning of what they were compiling - ibid

The resurrection verses in today’s Bibles are now universally acknowledged as flagrant forgeries and are now known to have been added to the earliest story some time later, perhaps as late as the Fourth Century or even into the early decades of the Fifth Century…More importantly, none of the early presbyters including Irenaeus, Clement of Alexandria, Tertullian, Ammonius Saccas, Origen, and Eusebius, showed any knowledge of these verses - ibid

Church experts admit to no evidence of the existence of the Gospels for at least a century after the time it is said Jesus Christ was born in a manger. The most ancient literature fails to show any trace of acquaintance with, nor the use of, the Gospels we know today. It is not possible to find in any writings compiled between the beginning of the First Century and the middle of the Second Century, any reference to Jesus Christ or the Gospels - ibid

Tony Bushby deals with the authorship of the so-called "Authorized" King James Version of the bible, and the role played by Rosicrucian occultist and pederast Sir Francis Bacon, one of the main brains behind England's Tudor Dynasty:

It was the ‘wisest fool in Christendom’ who authorized the translation and publication of the first Protestant version of the Bible into English. He came to the English throne in 1603 and quickly became unpopular because of ‘his disgusting personal habits and his unsavory character.’ He pretended to be a scholar in theology and philosophy, but his learning was shallow and superficial. He wallowed in filth, moral and physical, but was endowed with a share of cunning that his associates called ‘a kind of crooked wisdom.’ For his new edition of the Bible he issued a set of personal ‘Rules’ the translators were to follow and ordered revisions to proceed, although he never contributed a farthing to its cost. Work began in early 1607…the translators handed over the reviser’s manuscripts of what is now called the King James Bible to King James for his final personal approval. ‘It was self-evident that James was not competent to check their work and edit it, so he passed the manuscripts to the greatest genius of all time…Sir Francis Bacon - Tony Bushby (The Bible Fraud)

Bushby goes on to report on the manner in which the clerics kept the bible from their parishioners, and how they maintained their monopoly on knowledge:

Even in England until a late date...the Bible was kept exclusively for the clergy. John Wycliff translated a part of the Bible and was persecuted by the clergy, and his life was in danger afterwards. In 1378, he was brought to trial. One of the charges brought against him was that he made the Bible more "common and more open to lay men and women than it was wont to be"...When Wycliffe died in 1384, a monk denounced him and said that he was "the idol of heretics, the image of hypocrites, the restorer of schisms, the storehouse of lies, the sink of flattery." And all this was because he helped to give the laity an English version of the Bible - (Bible Fraud)

The great Conor MacDari, who was one of the first investigators to make the case for the Irish origins of civilization, also addressed the appearance of the bible in England:

The first complete English version of the Bible was published on the basis of Tyndale's translation and appeared in England in 1535, one year before Tyndale's death. So it was at a very late date that the English people were given the Bible. Tyndale had to flee from England and, after traveling about from place to place on the continent of Europe, he was arrested in Antwerp where, after one year of imprisonment, he was strangled to death in his cell. It was only in 1538 that, in response to the clamor of the people for the Bible, King Henry VIII issued a command to all ministers to place "one boke of the whole Bible, in Englyshe, sett up in summe convenynent place within the churches that ye have cure of, whereat your parishoners may most commodiously resort to the same and rede it." This Bible was chained to a block or other fixture so that no one could carry it away. The clergy opposed every effort of the people to obtain access to the Bible and it was only after a great struggle that the King James, or Revised Version, was prepared and given to them. In those days very few of the common people had any leisure time and only very few could read - (The Bible: An Irish Book, 1923)

British-Israelite author and expert on the "Celts," Fredrick Haberman, confirms the late date of bible authorship, and emphasizes the Phoenician origins of the Hebrews:

Neither the Phoenician nor the Aramaic possessed any vowels, therefore the pronunciations differed according to locality and age. The vowel signs of the Hebrew manuscripts were introduced by Jewish scholars between the fifth and ninth centuries AD. None of the manuscripts from which our Bible was translated are older than the fourth century - (Tracing our Ancestors)

As our scholars have failed to see the difference between Israel and the Jews, they have completely confused the issue; and when they speak of ancient Hebrew they mean Phoenician. "The oldest Hebrew manuscript dates from AD 489, is a roll and was found in the Karaite Synagogue in the Crimea." The Targums version of the Old Testament does not date any earlier than the Babylonian captivity of the Jews, and it was written in the Aramaic Chaldee language, and even of that version there is not BC in existence. So when our scholars speak of the ancient Hebrew of the Israelites they mean Phoenician evidently, for they never have seen it written on a scroll, only on the Siloam inscription, the Moabite stone, and the Phoenician engravings of the East, the Mediterranean, Southern Russia, and Europe, particularly in Britain - ibid

If lack of space did not prohibit it, we could site innumerable critiques from the works of hundreds of other authors, from men of learning and science, to further illustrate the duplicity and egregious fraudulence of the founders of Judeo-Christianity.

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Charlemagne the Great
It would certainly entail the composition of many volumes to recount the manner in which Judeo-Christianity arose to bring ruin to the world and to the minds of men.


Charlemagne (742-814): the Merovingian and Carolingian Emperor, close friend of Popes, the hammer of the Saxons, he butchered any who would not convert to Christianity
Fortunately, the object of such industry may be grasped by a brief overview of the mentality and behavior of Christianity's champion Emperor Carolus Magnus, the king of the Franks, who was crowned Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo III. Such an examination suffices to frame the whole frightful picture. Author Michael Howard, in his excellent book Occult Conspiracy reveals that Charles "the Great" (Charlemagne) was a key member of the French Masonic and Rosicrucian lodges.

The Emperor Charlemagne for the Holy Roman Empire, who was an early patron of the masons who built the Gothic cathedrals, is said to have founded a Rosicrucian lodge at Toulouse in the ninth century CE. In 898 CE a second lodge was established in France and in the year 1000 a group of heretical Roman Catholic monks founded the first Rosicrucian college which flourished in secret from the eleventh to the sixteenth centuries.

In his masterly work, March of the Titans, historian Arthur Kemp details the diabolical manner in which Charlemagne and his henchmen supplanted the natural religion of the ancients and imposed their masonic theology upon the world:


In 768, Charlemagne started a 32 year long campaign of what can only be described as genocidal evangelism against the Saxons under his control in western Germany. The campaign started with the cutting down of the Saxon’s most sacred tree, their version of the World Tree…In 772, at Quierzy, he issued a proclamation that he would kill every Saxon who refused to accept Jesus Christ, and from that time on he kept a special detachment of Christian priests who doubled as executioners, and in every Saxon village in which they stopped, these priests would execute anybody who refused to be baptized. Then in 782, at Verden, Charlemagne carried out the act for which he is most notoriously associated - he ordered the beheading of 4,500 Saxons in one day who had made the error of being caught practicing paganism after they had agreed to be Christians. His onsite biographer, the monk Einhard, records that after these beheadings: “the king went into winter camp, and there celebrated mass as usual…”
The only significant group…left in Europe who were not…Christians by the year 1000AD were to be found in the Baltic and Eastern European regions. To destroy this last bastion of paganism the Church employed the service of some of the most fanatic Christians of all - The Teutonic Knights…originally a religious military order founded during the Crusades, being first established in Palestine in 1190…The Teutonic Knights jumped at the chance, and by using violence and mass murder, soon became known as effective Christianizers...This genocidal evangelism soon became the sole obsession of the Teutonic Knights - by 1226 the order had set up permanent settlements in north eastern Europe…In 1525, the order’s Grand Master Albrecht of Hohenzollern became a Protestant and dissolved the order.
Expert on Astro-Theology, the Reverend Robert Taylor, a man who languished in English prisons for exposing the Egyptian origins of Christianity, wrote of Charlemagne's religious zeal and savage bloodlust:

Charlemagne required every male subject of the Holy Roman Empire above the age of twelve to renew his oath of allegiance and swear to be not only a good subject but also a good Christian. To refuse baptism and to retract after baptism were crimes punishable with death. It was indeed fearful danger and death, by torture, rack and fire, to show faintest the symptoms of doubt of the faith of Christian religion and of the Holy Church - (The Devil's Pulpit)

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Rule of the Unsane

...there were no religious wars in the ancient world before monotheism - Leonard Schlain (The Alphabet Versus the Goddess)

When that Christian emperor, Constantine, had murdered his wife, son, nephew, and several other relatives, he raised his hands toward heaven, and exclaimed, "The blood of Christ cleanseth from all sin." Here is an example of the pernicious and demoralizing effect of the Christian doctrines of atonement and forgiveness - Kersey Graves (Bible of Bibles)

As we have stated previously, it takes an irrational mind out of rapport with the physical world of reality to confuse myths and fables with reality. The Constantines and Justinians, the Augustines and Aquinases of the world, inhabit their own irrational and deranged fantasy worlds. In such places, devoid of sanity and sense, all manner of pseudo-realities can take birth. Sadly, phantasmagorias tend to spread like an epidemic, and to get transplanted into other malignant hearts and minds. A close study of pathology and of megalomania reveals the age-old conflict between mind and nature or reality. Mind may perceive reality, but may not be reality. The very phrase "mind over matter" suggests a power struggle and, indeed, the force men take for god does seek to exert its influence over the material world and to fashion matter into its own image. This same god, the inflation of the human Ego-Ideal, does exert and wield its influence through the minds of the men it has possessed. It will exalt those who lend themselves to its desire and will humiliate those who resist and seek to remain rational and independent. The collectivism pervading the religious world, together with the penchant for belief in absurdity, is but an outward symptom a psychopathic temperament. Sadly, in our world, it is not the most rational and sane who rise to the top to guide and inspire us, but the most irrational and unsane.

Innocent VIII (1484-92), Sixtus’ successor, was a priest with a known illegitimate child...He spent considerable effort furthering the career of his disreputable son, Franceschetto. This lewd youth roamed the streets of Rome at night with a clutch of thugs, gang-raping women, including nuns. He also invaded the houses of private citizens to rob and terrorize them, confident that his family name made him immune from the law. In 1486, Innocent arranged Franceschetto’s wedding to an heir of the Medici family and celebrated it in the Vatican with a party so lavish that he had to mortgage the papal tiara to pay for it…To raise money for his ongoing extravagances, Innocent established a papal bureau that dispensed favors at inflated prices. He allowed murderers to buy pardons and walk free. When outraged reformers objected, one cardinal defended the practice on the ground that “the Lord desireth not the death of the sinner but rather that he live and pay." - Leonard Schlain (The Alphabet Versus the Goddess)

In the meeting (Calvinist Revival Meeting, circa 1800), which followed in 1801, twenty thousand men, women and children assembled outdoors and listened to the doctrine of hellfire and eternal damnation for the unrepentant; almost immediately excitement broke out. Some ran about shrieking in agony or rolled on the ground for hours at a time, others rushed into the surrounding forest crying ‘Lost! Lost!’ at the full pitch of their voices. Convulsive jerking movements began amongst many and spread like a contagion throughout the congregation and elsewhere. Groups of men and women went through the process known as “treeing the devil,” where they crawled around on all fours barking and snarling at each other for long periods of time. Another phenomenon was the so-called ‘frog-hopping’ when both men and women occupied themselves by frenziedly leap-frogging over each other. As might be expected many in the final phases of the meeting went into trance or had visual hallucinations and ended up taking part in sexual excesses - J. A. C. Brown (Techniques of Persuasion)

In eighteenth century France, in a convent…one nun began to mew like a cat until presently the whole community was mewing day after day until stopped by the threats of the local militia; and the biting mania which spread thought the convents of Germany, Holland, and Italy. In the latter case, powerful excitement manifested itself not only in biting but in indecent exposure, tearing the hair out by the roots, and group howling and gnashing of teeth - J. A. C. Brown (Techniques of Persuasion)

When my heart is cold and I cannot pray as I should I scourge myself with the thought of the impiety and ingratitude of my enemies, the Pope and his accomplices and vermin…so that my heart swells with righteousness and hatred and I can say with warmth and vehemence: “Holy be Thy Name, Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done!” And the hotter I grow the more ardent do my prayers become - Martin Luther (Founder of Protestantism, 16th Century)

Meanwhile my sins were being multiplied and my concubine being torn from my side as a hindrance to my marriage, my heart which clave unto her was torn and wounded and bleeding…To Thee be praise, glory to Thee, Fountain of Mercies. I was becoming more miserable and Thou nearer - St. Augustine of Hippo (Fourth Century Christian Theologian)

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The Pagan Origins of Christ and Christianity

(Part Two)



The New Testament and the Story of Jesus

It has always been an unfailing source of astonishment to the historical investigator of Christian beginnings, that there is not one 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 marvelous story recounted by the Gospel writers. The very existence of Jesus seems unknown - G. R. S. Meade (Did Jesus Live 100 BC?)

The majority of modern writers on Jesus, such as Dominic Crossan, Elaine Pagels, Barbara Thiering, Brian McLaren, James Tabor, Earl Doherty, Bart Ehrman, Tony Bushby, and many others, continue to seek his origins in Jewish culture. They take their lead from Paul, the chief biographer of Jesus. From Paul we learn of the humble origins of the strange son of a carpenter from Nazareth who frequented and preached in Jerusalem, Caesarea, and Galilee, and whose Jewish disciples spread his word far and wide. A few authors have dismissed this Jewish ancestry as well as the existence of a Jesus. Some have located his origins in remoter periods, noting his similarity to the Mosaic Joshua, the Mandean John the Baptist, and even to pagan heroes and deities. Thanks to more iconoclastic and penetrating writers, however, we get nearer the truth concerning Jesus and his teachings. Authors such as Moustafa Gadalla, Ahmed Osman, Laurence Gardner, and Ralph Ellis, provide us with controversial propositions and theories contradicting, and even demolishing, the bland conventional fare of those who hesitate to venture beyond the established spiel concerning the enigmatic "savior" of mankind. Our own researches compel us to concur with the theories offered by these revisionists who dramatically reveal the Egyptian origins of the Israelites and who show where the Pharisaic theology really came from.

Investigations into the beginnings of religion have accumulated steadily throughout the past half-century. It is only by great efforts of censorship, by sectarian education of an elaborately protected sort...that ignorance about them is maintained - H. G. Wells (The Fate of Homo Sapiens)

In truth, the New Testament is a fairly crude blending of traditions concerning pagan god-men. These traditions are numerous and they vary in complexion. As time has elapsed, researchers have become aware of the many inconsistencies that exist between the four main gospel accounts and also between the other books of the New Testament. Upon close inspection, it appears that the Epistles and the Gospels do not agree with one another in several key areas pertaining to the life of Jesus. Indeed, scholars like Earl Doherty wonder how the Epistles ever came to be included along with the Acts of Paul and four Gospels since the picture they each conjure of the savior differ so greatly. Doherty reminds us of the many varying traditions that were synthesized by the Gospel authors and he emphasizes the two main traditions that matter most from a biblical point of view - The "Galilean" and the "Jerusalem." From a fusion of these two main traditions came the Pauline story of the life of Jesus Christ. The Gospel of Mark, that was the outcome and synthesis of the Galilean tradition, was the basis of the other three accounts, those of Matthew, Luke, and John. Some scholars believe these three were fairly direct copies of the older Gospel of Mark. According to Doherty, the Galilean tradition was:

...a Jewish preaching movement centered in Galilee...The itinerant prophets of this new "counter-culture" announced the coming of the kingdom of God and anticipated the arrival of a heavenly figure called the Son of Man who would judge the world - (The Jesus Puzzle)

Originally, the so-called "Jerusalem" tradition of Christianity (pre-Gospel era) was a distinct movement and interpretation. Doherty writes that it:

...came to life in numerous places across the eastern half of the Roman empire, expressing a great variety of ideas. It too was a preaching movement, built on the Jewish base but combining Jewish and pagan traditions. It was conducted by apostles who might roam far afield to deliver their message and establish communities of believers

So, it was from this early "Jerusalem Church" that the pagan ideas were in evidence in Christianity. Since these pagan elements remained authors, such as Doherty, might conclude that it was this Church that influenced Paul and the Gentile believers of later years. Since the New Testament was composed centuries after the savior was allegedly alive, we can see how important it was for these pagan elements to remain. Without them Christianity would, conceivably, never have coalesced and would have had a far weaker influence on Western peoples. It would have remained a belief system of small Eastern sects and would not have constellated into a homogenous doctrine despite its enigmatic central heroic figure. This Jerusalem Church had Gentile converts and its version of religion was already being accepted by Westerners who formed their own communities, such as the Gnostics.

Jewish monotheism and ethics were embraced by great numbers of gentiles who joined Jewish synagogues and sects in varying degrees of conversion. One of the features of Christianity was the formation of gentile groups who adopted Jewish ideas and practices, eventually considering themselves the new inheritors of the Jewish God's promise. These mutual crossover influences gave rise to a new faith which was a hybrid of both cultures, and a product which would shape the future of the Western world - Earl Doherty (The Jesus Puzzle)

We would do well to question why Gentiles were so eager to convert to an ostensibly Jewish religion. Why did they not hearken back to the traditions and theologies of Egypt, the greatest and most enlightened civilization other than Greece and Rome? We must address what the Jewish religion had that so bedazzled converts. It is admitted, after all, that Christianity encapsulated many pagan motifs. But so did Egypt. Our question is made more poignant when we realize how much of Christianity turns out to be Egyptian in character. So, again, why was there not an Egyptian revival? Why was Jesus accepted and not Horus, or Osiris, or Serapis? One answer could be that the vast majority of intelligent converts already knew that Christianity was close to Egyptian religion. Unlike people today they would have understood Christianity's doctrine to be nothing more than a rescripting of solar theology from Egypt's many esoteric colleges. We do not see any other reason as to why such conversion would have taken place given that the world's wealthiest and most erudite scholars and dignitaries were reverers of Egyptian occult traditions. After all, the schools, libraries, societies, and learned teachers of Alexandria, the great capital of learning and spirituality, were hardly distant memories to educated peoples of early centuries. Could Jesus have borne such a close resemblance to the gods of Egypt that his repute and status was ensured? Was he put forward as another Adonis, Mithras, or Apollo? Indeed, despite unsustainable refutations, the Pauline Christ's similarity to the pagan gods, particularly those of Egypt, is rather conspicuous. Clearly, the traditions (Galilean and Jerusalem, etc) were synthetic, and so was the figure of Jesus. He too was a composite of many pagan heroes and gods stretching back to antiquity. He was the character scripted by adroit myth makers who knew that the world would accept their literary hero. Man's imagination would be their ally and the promises spoken of by their savior would be perfect incentives. If the world was made a hellish place, and if ordinary men and women were stripped of dignity and rights, the promise of eternal life by way of a glorious, forgiving, miracle-working savior would surely prove attractive. Entire civilizations bowed before Earthly kings and pharaohs and they would likewise bow to a god made flesh who held keys to the kingdom of heaven. Once the idea of such a being and his life were installed in the human mind the fertile imagination would take over and do its work. As time passed, people would not bother to question whether their ideas were based upon facts. And this is what the priests have counted on. A civilization that has not learned to distinguish between an idea of reality and reality itself can be slowly manipulated into believing anything.

Whether Jesus lived or not, we may conclude with certainty that Christianity is of pagan origin. December the 25th is celebrated as the birthday of Jesus Christ. This date is an approximation of the Winter Solstice, and the birthday of several pagan sun-gods. Its pagan derivation is beyond all dispute - John G. Jackson (Pagan Origins of the Jesus Myth)

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What the Scholars Found

The Christian religion depends for the sanction and validity of its beliefs upon the Bible as does the earth upon the sun for its light, heat and life...But of the whole body of Christians who accept it and believe in it, who found their faith upon it, no two sects believe it alike; all the schisms, and heresies, and persecutions, and religious wars, and religious intolerances and bigotries which past history has recorded and current history chronicles, are due alone to the differences of belief engendered by the indubitable inconsistencies and contradictions of the texts of inspired truth of this "Holy Bible, Book Divine..." - Joseph Wheless (Is it God's Word?)

Few people are aware of the lack of success enjoyed by historians and scholars when it comes to historically placing the significant places, events, and characters mentioned throughout the Old and New Testaments. Indeed, it is not in the interests of Jewish or Christian propagandists to let it be commonly known how few and far between are the historical proofs concerning the physical existence of the dramatis personae of the bible. The dearth of evidence has not prevented people from believing that the characters moved abroad in the world, or from believing that the events portrayed took place. Mulling over the problem of corroboration, the Jewish historian, Joseph Meleze Jewski, summarized the dilemma thusly:

We all know how deeply the origins of Israel, from Abraham to Moses, are rooted in the Egyptian past. The long sojourn of the Hebrews in Egypt was the prelude to the three basic events in Judaic history: the Exodus, the giving of the Torah, and the Mosaic covenant. But should a historian attempt to bring the biblical account into correspondence with available historical and archaeological data, he would be hard pressed indeed, since the two are vastly dissimilar. The style and contents of the Pentateuch (the Greek noun for the first five books of the Bible) are not those of the royal hieroglyphs. The Egyptian archives bear no trace of an Abraham or a Moses. Conversely, neither Genesis nor Exodus contains the slightest reference to the great political events studding the remote epoch these books are supposed to treat. Biblical Egypt and Egyptological Egypt have few points in common, and the few they have are debatable ones. The part played by hypotheses and delicate choices is all the more considerable - (The Jews of Egypt: From Rameses II to Emperor Hadrian)

Since this historian's book was published, in 1995, there have been new discoveries to substantially alter this predicament. Brave investigators, not content to go along with the consensus concerning the past, have labored to prove beyond most rational doubt that some of the most important biblical characters had been carefully based on earlier historical personalities. Strangely, the import of these findings has, as yet, not had the impact that it should. The literati of the world are not, it appears, aware of these findings and for the most part it seems that the tide of lies and disinformation concerning Judeo-Christian scriptures and the people and events therein flows on unabated.

To the ordinary public - notwithstanding the immense amount of work which has of late been done on this subject - the connection between Paganism and Christianity still seems rather remote. Indeed the common notion is that Christianity was really a miraculous interposition and that the pagan gods...fled away in dismay before the sign of the Cross, and at the sound of the name of Jesus. Doubtless this was a view much encouraged by the early Church itself - if only to enhance its own authority and importance; yet...it is quite misleading and contrary to fact. The main Christian doctrines and festivals, besides a great mass of affiliated legend and ceremonial, are really quite directly derived from, and related to, preceding Nature worships; and it has only been by a good deal of deliberate mystification and falsification that this derivation has been kept out of sight - Edward Carpenter (Pagan and Christian Creeds, 1920)


Tuthmosis III, warrior king of Egypt - the real King David and father of the biblical Isaac
Nevertheless, when researcher Ahmed Osman declares he has proven the Old Testament character known as "King David" to be none other than the eighteenth dynasty Pharaoh Tuthmosis III; and a succeeding pharaoh, Amenhotep III, to be the “Jewish” King Solomon, one would think the revelations should not only raise the proverbial eye-brow but should cause worldwide discussion. When author Laurence Gardner states that the prophet Enoch was a character based on the Sumerian Enki; and when Tony Bushby declares Roman Emperor Tiberius to be the true father of Jesus, we should take notice. And when revisionist author Moustafa Gadalla labors to prove that Jesus Christ was a character based on Pharaoh Tutankhamen, the world should surely grind to a halt to listen.

We do not pause to listen up and the reasons are many. Nevertheless, the point is noted and accepted that if such scholars can cast doubt upon these characters of the bible, then the way is finally open for a thorough investigation to proceed into every one of the major characters in these "holy books" and into every aspect of their theology.


We are to understand that there is not a lot of authenticity to the characters who appear in the bible. Although newly discovered evidence shows that a few were based upon actual historical personages, many more were pure concoctions. Some were analogues of powerful men who desired to keep their identities hidden from mankind, and some were flagrantly outlandish fictions. Scholars tend to classify them under the term "biblical embroidery". Some were based upon historical savants, while others were the brainchildren of clever duplicitous propagandists. Some were composites of several figures, and some are representatives of psychological "types." More contentiously, others were personifications and analogues of zodiacal phenomena; in other words they were created as fictive renditions of Astrological Archetypes first studied and codified by Druids of ancient Ireland. It is certainly this last thesis that most concerns this writer. However, the other concepts are of great interest and cannot be underestimated. All in all, the way is open for a total overhaul of what we know about the Christian religion and the characters we have accepted as historically legitimate. We can only benefit from such exploration.

At the time of the life or recorded appearance of Jesus of Nazareth, and for some centuries before, the Mediterranean and neighboring world had been the scene of a vast number of pagan creeds and rituals. There were Temples without end dedicated to gods like Apollo or Dionysus among the Greeks, Hercules among the Romans, Mithra among the Persians, Adonis and Attis in Syria and Phrygia, Osiris and Isis and Horus in Egypt, Baal and Astarte among the Babylonians and Carthaginians, and so forth...And an extraordinarily interesting fact, for us, is that notwithstanding great geographical distances and racial differences between the adherents of these various cults, as well as differences in the details of their services, the general outlines of their creeds and ceremonials were - if not identical - so markedly similar as we find them...I may say roughly that of all or nearly all the deities above-mentioned it was said and believed that:

They were born on or very near our Christmas Day
They were born of a Virgin-Mother
And in a Cave or Underground Chamber
They led a life of toil for Mankind
And were called by the names of Light-bringer, Healer, Mediator, Savior, Deliverer
They were however vanquished by the Powers of Darkness
And descended into Hell or the Underworld
They rose again from the dead, and became the pioneers of mankind to the Heavenly world
They founded Communions of Saints, and Churches into which disciples were received by Baptism
And they were commemorated by Eucharistic meals

- Edward Carpenter (Solar Myths and Christian Festivals)

The story of Jesus of Nazareth is so identical with that of Christna in name, origin, office, history, incidents, and death, as to make it manifest that the latter was copied from the earlier almost entire - Hargrave Jennings (The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship, 1874)

Older temples and sacred sites, once dedicated to pre-Christian goddesses, were re-dedicated or replaced with churches for Mary. In Rome on the Esquitine hill the Santa Maria Maggiore replaced Cybele’s temple. Near the Pantheon a church dedicated to Mary adjoined Isis’ sanctuary, while another was built on the site which had been dedicated to Minerva. On the Capitoline in Aracoeli the Santa Maria supplanted a temple of the Phoenician goddess Tanit. In Cyprus, shrines that were Aphrodite’s hallowed ground easily became those of Mary, who to this day is still called Panaghia Aphroditessa - Helen Ellerbe (The Dark Side of Christian History)

Mithras - “…was the “divine son”…As companion in creation and “protector” of this world he kept the universe standing in its struggle against its enemies. At the head of the heavenly host he fought for God, and with his sword of flame he drove the Demons of Darkness in terror back into the shadows...descend upon the earth and in a last fierce struggle overwhelm Ahriman and his hosts, and cast them down into the Nether World. He would then raise the dead in bodily shape, and after a General Judgment of the whole world, in which the wicked should be condemned to the punishments of hell and the good raised to heavenly glory, establish the “millennial Kingdom of Peace.” - Arthur Dewes (The Christ Myth)

Adonis (or Tammuz) of Babylonia was also born of a virgin. He died a cruel death, descended into hell, arose from the tomb and ascended to heaven. In a mid-summer festival, the worshippers of Adonis wept over an effigy of the dead god which was washed with water, anointed with oil and clothed in red robes, amid clouds of incense. On the next day the Resurrection was enacted, after which the crowd shouted: "The Lord has Risen." - ibid

In the sacred books of India it is reported that Krishna was born of the virgin Devaki, that his nativity was heralded by a star, and that though of royal lineage, he was born in a cave...King Kansa sought the life of the Indian Christ by ordering the massacre of all male children born during the same night as was Krishna - ibid

The sun-god Hercules, son of Zeus, and Alcmene, was born, like the other saviors, on the twenty-fifth of December - the triple night, as the Greeks named the winter solstice. At his birth, Zeus, the God of gods, spake from Heaven and said: "This day shall a child be born, of the race of Perseus, who shall be the mightiest of the sons of men." - Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb (Aryan Sun Myths: The Origin of Religion)

The historical view of Jesus’ life is stubbornly maintained in spite of the evidence adduced by comparative Religion and Mythology, which points with steady directness to the fact that the events of the Gospel narrative are matched with surprising fidelity by the antecedent careers of such world saviors as Dionysus, Osiris, Sabazius, Tammuz, Adonis, Atys, Orpheus, Mithras, Zoroaster, Krishna, Bala-Rama, Vyasa, Buddha, Hercules, Sargon, Serapis, Horus, Marduk, Izdubar, Witoba, Apollonius of Tyana, Yehoshua ben Pandira, and even Plato and Pythagoras - Alvin Boyd Kuhn (The Lost Light)

For me, Jesus Christ, that is to say the Man-God of the Christians, copy of the Avatars of all countries, of the Hindu Chrishna as of the Egyptian Horus, was never a historical personage - Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky

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Flavius Josephus

If the silence on Jesus in the earlier works of both Tacitus and Josephus casts doubt on the authenticity of their later references, then we have truly lost every clear non-Christian reference to Jesus as a human being before the latter half of the second century - Earl Doherty (The Jesus Puzzle)

There is not a sentence concerning Jesus in the entire New Testament composed by anyone who ever met the unwilling King of the Jews - Harold Bloom (Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine)

In the year 1850, less than fifty years after questions concerning the historicity of Jesus first arose to perplex thinkers, a book was written in Germany by the Hegelian and biblical scholar Bruno Bauer. In his book entitled Criticism of the Gospel History, Bauer horrified his readers by announcing that, in his opinion, the Gospel of Matthew (at that time considered the earliest Gospel) was composed by a single author during the time of the Roman Emperor Hadrian. Bauer stressed that Jesus of the gospels was a character without historical substance and was the product of a scribe's fertile imagination. For his controversial suppositions and flagrant free-thought, professor Bauer was removed from his privileged position at the University of Bonn. Nevertheless, his iconoclastic book was one of a few that finally compelled rational thinkers to take biblical accounts not as precise historical records but as highly subjective theological renderings of history. This is not to imply that the authors of the New Testament were unscrupulous opportunists. They were not falsifiers of history, they were inventors of it. Ultimately, their concern was not history but mythology, and the world would do well to consider and comprehend the difference between history and mythology. A historical event takes place once at a particular time and at a particular place. A mythological event is not so constrained. It can take place in the same manner anywhere at any time. A myth is beyond time and space. Those who undertook the job of establishing Jesus as monogenes - the only begotten son of god - were mythicists not historians.

I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty…Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death - (Revelations 1:8-18)

The mythmongers responsible for the Christ myth cloaked their character in a veil of history thin enough for the perceptive to see through but thick enough to give most people the impression that Jesus was a real character. The illiterate could not find out for themselves whether the stories they heard recited over and over from the pulpit were coherent and historically legitimate. Their imaginations took over from where the scribe's had left off. Their own minds filled in the background and added color to the parables and far-fetched stories of the nativity, the walking on the waters, the raising of the dead, and the transfiguration, etc.

Most Christians, in the United States and elsewhere, are not theologians and tend to literalize doctrinal metaphors. This is hardly to be deplored and I suspect this was true of the earliest Christians also - Harold Bloom (Jesus and Yahweh: The Names Divine)

By far the greater part of those who embraced the Christian religion in this its infancy being men of mean extraction and wholly illiterate, it could not otherwise happen but that a great scarcity should be experienced in the churches of persons possessing the qualifications requisite for initiating the ignorance and communicating instruction to them with a due degree of readiness and skill - Johann Lorenz von Mosheim (17th Century German Church Historian)

And so it has been for the better part of 2000 years the Old Testament was the sole record of the Mesopotamian patriarchal era. There was no way for anyone to know if it was fact or fiction…it was taken on board for history - Laurence Gardner

The Jewish Haggada, the Halaka, Mishna and Gemara, the Talmud and the Torah, were never taken historically until ignorance in time overtook the Jewish mentality as it had the Christian. The Encyclopedia Britannica in its article on the Essenes says of them that "they preserved in their libraries the writings of the ancients and read them with great reverence, but not without an allegorical interpretation - Alvin Boyd Kuhn (Case of the Missing Messiah)

Outside of the bible, the name of Jesus appears in brief, fragmentary comments and passages from the works of several Roman authors, historians, and chroniclers. The list is as follows:

Suetonius - Lives of the Caesars (120 AD)
Suetonius - Life of Nero (120 AD)
Tacitus - Annals (112 AD)
Pliny the Younger (93 AD)
Lucian of Samosata (165 AD)
Flavius Josephus - Antiquities of the Jews (Bk XX. 94 AD)
Justin Martyr - Dialogue with the Jew Trypho (cf. Eusebius, Church History IV, 187)
Rabbi Abbahu of Caesarea - (270 CE)

It is the account of Jesus that appeared in the writings of Jewish historian Flavius Josephus Piso (whom author Ralph Ellis believes to have been St. Paul of Tarsus) that early Christians and historians habitually accepted as being most legitimate. The passages found in his Antiquities of the Jews were believed to be the strongest independent evidence confirming the historical existence of Jesus. In the fourth chapter of Book 18 of Josephus' massive tome there exists a single brief passage that mentions Jesus. It is this passage that delighted the early Christians whose beliefs were somewhat compromised and threatened by the dearth of independent proof concerning the historicity of Jesus. The passage supposedly composed by Josephus, is as follows::

Now, there was about this time, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works - a teacher of such men as receive truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was the Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the Cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him, for he prepared these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him are not extinct to this day

But to the horror and consternation of Christians all over the world, this passage was, during the sixteenth century, proven to be a blatant forgery. It was worthy of doubt since no contemporary historian, or any coming after who knew Josephus' works, mentioned this passage. This omission was especially startling in the case of the Church Father Origen who wrote many hundred books and covered every aspect of Christian history. In Origen's voluminous work there is no mention of Jesus as a man and no quote from, or reference to, Book Eighteen, Chapter Four, of Josephus. The spurious passage (like another in Book Twenty) was an interpolation and had been inserted into the works of Josephus by a later unnamed "editor" or compiler, no doubt some monk who decided to edit history in order to give Christians "proof" for their Jesus. The passage also mentions that Jesus was accepted as the so-called "Christ." This is also patently spurious since most Jews did not accept Paul's version of Jesus as the "Christ." This concept meant something only to pagans. Additionally, the Romans (like the Egyptians) were already familiar with the term "Chrestus" (meaning "anointed") used for their own gods and emperors. Thus the term "Christ" would not have denoted anything particularly unusual and would actually have offended both the orthodox Jews of Jerusalem and the Nazarene Church (those said to have known the physical rabbi Jesus).

...this celebrated Testimonium Flavianum (The Testimony of Flavius), which characterized Jesus as a man of miracles and a successful teacher, was certainly not written by Josephus - Elmar R. Gruber and Holger Kersten (The Original Jesus)

It is true that we have that famous passage in his “Antiquities “(xviii. iii. 3) which amply and doctrinally confirms the Gospel tradition; but how a so transparent forgery could have escaped detection in even the most uncritical age is a marvel - G. R. S. Meade (Did Jesus Live 100 BC?)

The celebrated passage in Josephus concerning Christ being set aside as an acknowledged forgery, what remains of external evidence as to his existence? Absolutely nothing - J. P. Mendum (Revelations of the Anti-Christ, 1879)

…we are offered two possible dates for the birth of Jesus - before 4 BC, the year of Herod’s death, and AD 6, the year of census. In the next chapter of Luke’s narrative we are offered yet a third when he describes John’s baptism of Christ, which, as all four Gospels record, immediately preceded the start of his mission…As Tiberius became Emperor in AD 14, this would place the baptism of Jesus in AD 29…If he was about 30 in AD 29, he cannot have been born before the end of Herod the Great’s reign in 4 BC, or at the time of the census in AD 6, but during the last year before the end of the pre-Christian era. No doubt it was this account that persuaded the Roman Catholic Church to fix this year as the turning point in world history - the first year of our Lord - Ahmed Osman (Christianity: An Egyptian Religion)

...some writings called Acts of Pilate, which included an account of Jesus of Nazareth, have similarly been exposed as forgeries...We therefore have the situation that, while the account of the life and execution of John the Baptist in Josephus is accepted by scholars as a description of actual historical events, there is nothing to link him with "preparing the way" for Jesus in the accepted sense, and once we remove the insertions made to the Jewish historians' texts, we have no contemporary evidence whatever about his life, suffering and death. No contemporary record, Roman or Jewish testifies to the presence of Jesus in Palestine at the beginning of the first century AD - ibid

The 22 documents in the latter part of the New Testament contain roughly 80,000 words. They are the product of about a dozen different writers, Paul being the most prominent. In them, one encounters over 500 references to the object of all these writers' faith: "Jesus" or "Christ" or a combination of these names, or "the Son" plus a few to "the Lord" meaning Christ...As astonishing as such a silence may seem, an equation such as "Jesus of Nazareth was the Son of God and Messiah" is missing from all the early Christian correspondence. The Jesus of the epistles is not spoken of as a man who had recently lived...Thus, we are left with an entire corpus of early Christian correspondence which gives us no indication that the divine Christ these writers look to for salvation is to be identified with the man Jesus of Nazareth whom the Gospels place in the early first century - Earl Doherty (The Jesus Puzzle)

...Bishop Irenaeus compiled the first list of biblical writings that resemble today's New Testament around 180 C.E. By 393 and 397, Bishop Athanasius had a similar list ratified by the Church councils of Hippo and Carthage. By prohibiting and burning any other writings, the Catholic Church eventually gave the impression that this Bible and its four canonized Gospels represented the only original Christian view. And yet, as late as 450, Theodore of Cyrrhus said that there were at least 200 different gospels circulating in his own diocese. Even the Catholic Encyclopedia now admits that the "idea of a complete and clear-cut canon of the New Testament existing from the beginning...has no foundation in history"...The Catholic Encyclopedia concedes that "In all departments forgery and interpolation as well as ignorance had wrought mischief on a grand scale" - Helen Ellerbe (The Dark Side of Christian History)

Josephus' writings, in this regard, cannot be considered a true and accurate account of Christianity's history. Moreover, this Josephus was in the employ of the Flavian Caesars and was devoted to maintaining their power in Judea. The Flavians, and other Roman patricians (such as the Pisos, Aemili, Claudia, Julia, Manlia, Cornelii, Fabii, Scipiones, Gracchi, etc), despised the religion of the Jews but were clever enough to indulge it for the sake of order. They installed a non-Jewish dynasty to rule the region - the Herodian - and cultivated profitable political affiliations with the powerful and wealthy Sadducees. Their main opposition came from lower class Jews and from the families considered those from whom the famous "Messiah" would arise. The most illustrious of these rebel families was the Maccabees. They were annihilated and basically disappeared from the world stage after the time of Emperor Vespasian. Expert on the subject of Josephus, author Joseph Atwill, explains the status quo of the period and the allegiance of "historian" Josephus:

Rome attempted not to replace the gods of its provinces but to absorb them. By the end of the first century, Rome had accumulated so many foreign gods that virtually every day of the year celebrated some divinity - (Caesar's Messiah)

Roman emperors appointed all the high priests recorded within the New Testament from a restricted circle of families who were allied to Rome - ibid

This certainly tells the rational observer that we cannot be sure of much when it comes to the details and so-called "proofs" of Jesus' physical existence, at least during the times when he is reported to have lived. The evidence is too shaky. It does not mean that he did not live, but it does mean that we have discrepancies with dates. If one unknown or un-named third-century "lone monk" could make such gratuitous additions to a famous historical book, then where are we to draw the line between fact and fiction? Interpreting what is false from what is correct in terms of history becomes a separate discipline altogether, one with which the masses of "believers" in the world will have nothing to do with. In short, what must be extremely suspicious of all that is put in front of us concerning Jesus, the concept of the Christ, and biblical history.

Joseph ben Mattatiah, the priest, or, to use the name he adopted in honour of the Flavian House, Flavius Josephus, was born 37-38 A.D. and survived till at least 100 A.D. His father Matthias was a member of one of the high priestly families, was learned in the Law and held in high repute in Jerusalem. Matthias was thus a contemporary of Pilate, and should therefore have been an eye-witness of those wonderful events in Jerusalem which the Gospel narratives so graphically depict in connection with the death of Jesus; he might even have been expected to have taken part in them; at the very least he could not have failed to have heard of them if they actually occurred in the way in which they are described - G. R. S. Meade (Did Jesus Live 100 BC)

Among the innumerable misfortunes which have befallen...the most fatal in its consequences is the name Judaism....Worse still, the Jews themselves, who have gradually come to call their religion Judaism...Yet, neither in biblical or post-biblical, neither in talmudic, nor in much later times, is the term Judaism ever heard...The Bible speaks of the religion...as "Torah Yahve," the instruction, or the moral law revealed by Yahve...These and other appellations continued for many ages to stand for the religion...to distinguish it from Christianity and Islam, the Jewish philosophers sometimes designate it as faith or belief of the Jews...It was Flavius Josephus, writing for the instruction of Greeks and Romans, who coined the term Judaism, in order to pit it against Hellenism...The Christians eagerly seized upon the name...The Jews themselves, who intensely detested the traitor Josephus, refrained from reading his works...Hence the term Judaism coined by Josephus remained absolutely unknown to them...It was only in comparatively recent times, after the Jews became familiar with modern Christian literature that they began to name their religion Judaism - Rabbi Adolph Moses (Yahvism and Other Discourses, 1903)

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Many Crucified Saviors

The Jesus story incorporated elements from the tales of other deities...most or all of whom predate the Christian myth, and a number of whom were crucified or executed - Acharya S (The Origins of Christianity and the Quest for the Historical Jesus Christ)

A partial, although ultimately unacceptable, answer to the origin of the Jesus story is offered by biblical researcher Earl Doherty. In his book The Jesus Puzzle, that examines the similarities and differences between the Jerusalem and Galilean traditions, he writes of a possible origin to the story of Jesus:

...the Passion narrative as a whole follows a known generic model. That is, there is a type, or genre, of tale found throughout centuries of Jewish writing, both Biblical and apocryphal, which bears a strong resemblance to the story of Mark's Jesus. This tale tells of a righteous individual who is conspired against and falsely accused, who remains obedient to God and puts trust in him, who undergoes trial and suffering, finally to be condemned to death. At the last moment, God intervenes miraculously to rescue the protagonist and he or she is vindicated, shown to have been innocent of the charges. Finally, as a reward for the ordeal, the innocent one is raised and restored to a high position at court or in the community, and the adversaries are discredited. In later versions of the tale, the protagonist actually suffers death, but is exalted in heaven after death.

The author of this passage is convinced that these Jewish tales and legends are the best bet for the origin of the story of Jesus appearing in the Gospel of Mark that was the basis for the Gospels of Luke and Matthew. What he does not state, however, is that these mythic sagas are hardly unique to the Jews. Stories such as those he outlines predate the rise of the Jews by thousands of years, although one would not know this from Doherty's writings or from those authors whose monomania it is to discover the origins of Jesus within the Jewish tradition. The author never reminds his readers that the hero myth that he outlines stretches back to Egypt and is to be found in many other traditions - the Germanic, Indian, Scandinavian, Irish, and so on. The Jesus story is, like most of the bible, an Astro-Theological story first composed by astrologers who noticed the passage of the sun through the heavens. This knowledge is what led the scribe John to alter the dates of Jesus' crucifixion. He contradicts Mark, Luke, and Matthew, and places the crucifixion of Jesus on the eve of the Passover and not one day after it. This mythmaker at least knew the sun's astrological birthday and wanted his character's death and resurrection to correspond to the sun's transition and renewal. Astrology is where we are to look for origins concerning the life and death and rebirth of this character Jesus and not the history of men. Nothing consistent has been found after such a search, and this point alone, in our mind, closes the issue of the historicity of Jesus.

The idea of a divine generation from a virgin is not only foreign to the OT and to Judaism, but is completely impossible...The idea of the Virgin Birth of the Messiah in particular is foreign to Judaism…It was first added in the transformation to Hellenism, where the idea of the generation of a king or of a hero from a virgin by the godhead was widespread - Rudolf Bultmann (History of the Synoptic Tradition)

Horus, another Egyptian name for the sun, was said to have been born of the immaculate virgin Isis (the Moon), on the twenty-fifth of December. On this day, an effigy of the infant Horus, lying in a manger, was exhibited amid great rejoicings. Being of royal descent, his life was sought by Typhon (darkness or night) and in consequence he was brought up secretly...Like other sun-gods, he was tempted, but was not vanquished...He was called the Royal Good Shepherd, Lord of Life, Only-Begotten, Saviour, the Anointed or the Christ - Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb (Aryan Sun Myths, 1899)

The faith in a Jesus had been for a long time in existence among innumerable Mandaic sects in Asia Minor, which differed in many ways from each other, before this faith obtained a definite shape in the religion of Jesus - Arthur Dewes (The Christ Myth)

...the Canon of the New Testament, is nothing more or less than a copy of the mythological histories of the Hindoo Savior Krishna, and the Buddhist savior Buddha, with a mixture of mythology borrowed from the Persians and other nations - T. W. Doane (Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions)

The traditional history of Christianity is hopelessly inadequate to the facts...The gospel story of Jesus is not the biography of an historical Messiah. It is a Jewish reworking of ancient Pagan myths of the dying and resurrecting Godman Osiris-Dionysus, which had been popular for centuries throughout the ancient Mediterranean - Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy (The Original Jesus)

Only minds completely crazed or fatally confused by the current Christomania would suppose that the details of the story, which is as old at least as the Cult of Ptah in Memphis, were derived from the "historic" version that was canonized at last as Christian...The repetition of this as Christian legend in the Gospels is no mere replica of "heathen" sentiments, images, types and phrases. It is a reproduction of the Egyptian astronomical mythology and eschatology in the disguise of pretended history - Gerald Massey (Ancient Egypt - Light of the World, 1907)

J. H. Breasted, the celebrated Egyptologist, maintains that the law elucidated in Deuteronomy, the fifth book in the Old Testament, is basically a simplified version of Hammurabic Laws, while the proverbs of Solomon and many psalms are based on ancient Egyptian literature - Gruber and Kersten (The Original Jesus)

If writers such as Doherty are that eager to find evidence for a physical personality, perhaps they should examine the character of the Irish sun-king Esus. If not, they may find time profitably spent tracking their "Jewish" sagas back to the life and times of the Buddha. Failing that, they may wish to look to the lives of Lugh, Orpheus, Dionysus, Prometheus, Attis, Mithras, Serapis, Osiris, Horus, Balder, Odin, Rama, Krishna, Quetzalcoatl, or any one of the sixteen or more crucified saviors of old:


Adad (of Assyria)
Adonis
Apollo
Heracles
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
Serapis Indra of (Tibet/India)
Jao of (Nepal)
Krishna (of India)
Mikado (of the Sintoos)
Mithra (of Persia)
Odin (of the Scandinavians)
Prometheus (of Greece)
Quetzalcoatl (of Mexico)
Salivahana (of Bermuda)
Tammuz (of Babylon and Chaldea)
Thor (of the Gauls)
Universal Monarch of the Sibyls
Wittoba (of the Bilingonese)
Xamolxis (of Thrace)
Zarathustra/Zoroaster (of Persia)
Zoar (of the Bonzes)

The Chaldean-Babylonian god Tammuz was referred to as "the only son" or "only begotten one." As for the symbol of the cross, it too was known the world over. Although Christians consider it one of their cardinal symbols, it is hardly unique to their religion.

Not until the eighth century is Christ represented on the Cross to the public eye; but even then it is a Christ free, with eyes open, with arms unbound; living, not dead; majestic, not abject; with no mortal agony on His divine eternal features - F. W. Farrar (Life of Christ in Art)

Many Deities have been crucified. Christ was preceded by Christna, Prometheus, Esculapius, Wittoba, and Buddha. They were all crucified Redeemers long before Jesus of Nazareth was born. They were all sons of virgins - Hargrave Jennings (The Masculine Cross and Ancient Sex Worship, 1874)

When the Christians assaulted the Osirian temple at Alexandria, and with destructive force entered its sacred precincts, they saw a huge cross occupying the marble pavement. Great, too, was the surprise of the Spaniards to find the same emblem in the temples of aboriginal America. The Tau or Cross meets one's view in the ornamental relics of many lands...The Spaniards saw the Indians bowing to the cross in worship. It has been found on the breasts of statuettes from the Indian cemetery of Jingalpa, Nicaragua, of unknown antiquity. Tablets of gypsum, in Mexico, bore it in the form of that cross adopted by the Knights in Malta. The Peruvians and Babylonians had the Maltese cross. The Druids were said to have made their cross of the stem and two branches of the oak. - James Bonwick (Irish Druids and Old Irish Religions, 1894)

Tertullian, a Christian Father of the second and third centuries, writing to the Pagans, says: "The origin of your gods is derived from figures moulded on a cross. All those rows of images on your standards are the appendages of crosses; those hangings on your standards and banners are the robes of crosses...Justin Martyr, in his Dialogue with Trypho, says that there exist not a people, civilized or semi-civilized, who have not offered up prayers in the name of a crucified Saviour to the Father and Creator of all things - Sarah Elizabeth Titcomb (Aryan Sun Myths, 1899)

Two principal pagodas of India - Benares and Mathura - were erected in the forms of vast crosses...In the cave of Elephanta, over the head of the figure represented as destroying the infants, may be seen the mitre, the crosier, and the cross...In earlier versions of Moore's Hindu Pantheon are to be seen representations of Chrisna...with marks of holes in both feet and in others holes in the hands...to the collar hangs the emblem of a heart - ibid

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The Egyptian Connection

Jesus the Nazarene, who practiced magic in Egypt - The Hebrew Talmud (b. Sanh, 107b)

We can see that the main problems concerning Jesus center on the place of his supposed existence, and also on the time of his existence. As we have shown, we cannot in all confidence accept the dates provided primarily by Paul and ratified by the Church. Moreover, what are we to make of the many sects, historians, and scribes who never mention this special being in their works?

One wonders why, if Jesus lived, suffered and died during the period of the Roman rule in Palestine, why did not his name appear in the works of three distinguished contemporary authors of that time - Philo Judaeus, Justus of Tiberius and Flavius Josephus - Moustafa Gadalla

The Talmudic rabbis do not relate Jesus to the time of Herod or Pontius Pilate. Instead they say that a priest named Pinhas killed him. Pinhas was a contemporary of Moses - Moustafa Gadalla

The Jewish holy book, the Talmud, does not refer to Jesus as either a native Galilean or as coming from Nazareth, but it does state dogmatically that he came from Egypt - Picket and Prince (Templar Revelation)

We were particularly astonished to discover that there were already abundant scholastic evidence for Jesus' not being Jewish - and for him actually being of the Egyptian religion - ibid

Our whole culture is unquestionably understood to be Judeo-Christian, but what would it mean if we are right and it should be, in fact, Egypto-Christian instead? - ibid

If Christianity were really an offshoot of the Egyptian religion...then the implications for our whole culture are so basic and enormously far-reaching that they can only be touched on here - ibid


Tutankhamen - "The Living Face of the Sun." Atonist pharaoh of the 18th dynasty. Lord Carnarvon, in charge of his tomb's excavation, was funded by the Rothschild dynasty to which he was personally related
What most Christians and Jews may not be aware of is that there are many candidates for the real Jesus and some lived centuries before the time asserted in the Gospels. Naturally, there is little consensus among modern investigators as to the identity of Jesus. Each declare that he was this or that person, from this or that period in history, either from the accepted periods or from times more remote. It depends upon the individual scholar. Given that such a man existed (and that is neither impossible nor improbable) we find that one of the most logical candidates for the man Jesus is none other than the famed boy-king, Tutankhamen, of the eighteenth dynasty of Egypt. Regardless of the controversiality of this declaration, it stands to reason once the evidence is reviewed.

In this picture we have the Annunciation, the Conception, the Birth, and Adoration, as described in the first and second chapters of Luke's Gospel; and as we have historical assurance that the chapters in Matthew's gospel which contain the miraculous birth are an after addition not in the earliest manuscripts, it seems probable that these two poetical chapters in Luke may be unhistorical and borrowed from the Egyptian accounts of the miraculous births of their kings - Arthur Dewes (The Christ Myth)


The Egyptian revisionist historians Moustafa Gadalla and Ahmed Osman have been revealing facts that dramatically alter what we know about Jesus - the Man. Gadalla and Osman have separately declared in their works that the Old Testament patriarch Abraham, and his descendants, were anything but wandering farmers who just happened to be directed by their god to the houses of the pharaohs. They contend that Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, and Joseph were themselves members of a powerful dynasty of Egyptian pharaohs known as the Hyksos.

Osman declares these Hyksos to be the same people as the Israelites. He argues that the Hyksos Kings of the Egyptian 13th dynasty, who ruled for approximately 300 years, are the ancestors of those referred to as Israelites and Levites. During the eighteenth dynasty, their leader was Pharaoh Akhenaton, who was himself either a physical or ideological descendant of the Hyksos. Author Ralph Ellis insists that Abraham did not come into Egypt from elsewhere. He claims that Abraham was always resident in Egypt and that he was a powerful Hyksos king and rival to the pharaoh of Upper Egypt resident at Thebes. The city of Ur was not in Mesopotamia at all. It was not near the Euphrates and Tigris, as most believe, but on the Nile. All is made clear, regarding Abraham and Sarah's traversal into Egypt, when we realize what biblicists meant by the term "Egypt." As Ralph Ellis so brilliantly points out, the name Egypt was employed by the composers of the Old Testament to denote Thebes in Lower Egypt. This was the city and region controlled by the adversaries of the Hyksos. It was considered a separate region, with different rulers, gods, customs, and politics. So, it was not the country of Egypt that Abraham visited, but Thebes within Egypt.

Official history tells us that the oppressive Hyksos were eventually expelled from the country by the Pharaoh Ahmose I (1575-1550 BC) who led the Egyptian people in rebellion against the tyrannical invader dynasty. However, we believe the upper classes of the Hyksos invaders were not expelled. We believe they maintained senior positions at the pharaoh's court and great temples of the sun at Gizeh, Tanis, Heliopolis, Amarna, Avaris, and Alexandria. The upper strata of the Hyksos people had clearly married in with the native Egyptian line, since even Tuthmosis IV and his son Amenhotep III were of mixed blood. Some Egyptologists believe that Amenhotep III was the father of both Smenkhare and Tutankhamun, and given that this is true, it would have mean that these two Atonist pharaohs were also of mixed blood.

With a similar mindset as Dr. Karl Abraham and Dr. Sigmund Freud, the authors Ahmed Osman and Moustafa Gadalla both insist that the biblical Moses was the Pharaoh Akhenaton and that the expulsion of Moses from Egypt during the later eighteenth dynasty was, in fact, the expulsion of the "broken king" Akhenaton. The scene at Sinai, the subsequent move to Jerusalem, and the eventual splitting of the twelve tribes, were events that occurred not to humble oppressed captives but to an arrogant and wealthy royal clan, followers of a pharaoh considered the father of monotheism. Soon after arrival at Sinai legend has it that Moses died. His place as leader of the Levites (Atonists) was taken by a mysterious man called Joshua. Osman believes this character to have been the true Jesus. If Osman is correct it means that Jesus lived over 1000 years before the official dates given by Paul and by the four spurious gospels. It also means that Jesus was an Egyptian.

Jesus the Nazarene, who practiced magic in Egypt - (Talmud, b. Sanh, 107b)

That a Jesus may have existed in those days is quite probable, for there was no commoner name among the Jews; but to identify the Gospel Jesus with any one of the numerous historical characters of that name is impossible. In the Septuagint Joshua is always rendered Jesus - J. P. Mendum (Revelations of the Anti-Christ, 1879)

Greek translators of the Old Testament did not...use the name Joshua, but Jesus. Thus their account of the conquest of the Promised Land appears in the Book of Jesus. Many early Church Fathers of the second and third centuries AD, too, identified Joshua as Jesus, including Justin Martyr, Irenaeus (Bishop of Leon), Tertullian, Eusebius (Bishop of Caesarea and "the father of Church history), and Origen, the most brilliant theologian of his time - Ahmed Osman (Moses and Akhenaton)

…while it is certain that his disciples have claimed that he appeared to them at this time, not a shred of evidence exists to support the orthodox view that this was the historical Jesus, while, disturbing as the thought may be, substantial evidence - from the Bible itself and the teachings of the early Church Fathers as well as Egyptian history - points to his having lived, suffered and died many centuries earlier - ibid

...some writings called Acts of Pilate, which included an account of Jesus of Nazareth, have similarly been exposed as forgeries...We therefore have the situation that, while the account of the life and execution of in Josephus is accepted by scholars as a description of actual historical events, there is nothing to link him with "preparing the way" for Jesus in the accepted sense, and once we remove the insertions made to the Jewish historians' texts, we have no contemporary evidence whatever about his life, suffering and death. No contemporary record, Roman or Jewish testifies to the presence of Jesus in Palestine at the beginning of the first century AD - ibid

Moses (Akhenaton) who lived in exile in Sinai for several years, went back to Egypt to challenge the authority of the self-appointed pharaoh. He was allowed to leave with the Israelites from Egypt in what is known as the Exodus. After wandering in the desert, Moses died and the Israelites settled in their promised land - ibid

The Talmudic rabbis do not relate Jesus to the time of Herod or Pontius Pilate. Instead they say that a priest named Pinhas killed him. Pinhas was a contemporary of Moses - ibid

Despite the hard work of biblical scholars, historians and archaeologists, no single piece of evidence has been found to support the period of the supposed United Monarchy of David and Solomon. Scholars have been confused by the biblical chronology, which present David and Solomon as having belonged to the period following both the Exodus and the settlement in the “Promised Land”…Many of these biblical events occurred four to five centuries earlier than what the Old Testament would have us believe. Both Tuthmoses III, the historical King David, and his great -grandson Amenhotep III, the Biblical Solomon, belonged to the Egyptian’s Eighteenth Dynasty - ibid

Clearly, this earlier existence of a Jesus character was known to the Palestinian Jews since there was not a writer amongst them, nor amongst the Roman historians for that matter, who mentioned a single word about the Jesus who was eventually accepted by Christians. This can explain why Jews problematically deny that the Christian Jesus was the Christ, and why they do not accept him as being of the House of David. The reason for their denial is because they know what Christians are not supposed to ever know. The Jewish elite know that Jesus lived one hundred centuries earlier. The Jews have allowed their denial of the Christ to stand but have concealed their reasoning from Christians. They also know that Jesus was not a name per se but a title, one used by many leaders of the Egyptian solar church. Allowing readers to believe that it was a personal name compounded the obscuration of the truth. It is even likely that Paul, the employee of the elusive descendants of the Egyptian Levites operating out of Rome, also knew about the story of Joshua. He may have based his Jesus upon Joshua, Moses, Aaron, and other earlier leaders of the Levites. To the hardliner Essene, Joshua was the solar Messiah about to make a physical return. He was to save his devotees not only from the Romans but also from the colluding elitist Sadducees of the evil “Jerusalem Church.” The fact that these Essenes would have had no time for the New Testament Jesus did not prevent Paul from adapting Essenic lore.

Rabbinical Scriptures, which exist from the first five centuries AD, make it clear that the Jews did know Jesus, but did not wish to reveal all they knew about him. His name, Yeshu, the Hebrew form of the Greek Jesus, is found at least twenty times in the Talmud - Ahmed Osman

Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea; And did all eat the same spiritual meat; and all did drink the same spiritual drink; for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ - Paul in Corinthians (speaking cryptically about the earlier Jesus Christ. See Corintians 10:1)

Jesus was a name given...not only to the High Priest of Zechariah and to the successor of Moses, both of whom were said to have led Israel back into its ancient home, both having a decidedly Messianic character - Arthur Dewes (The Christ Myth)

And so, if it be true that Jesus lived at the time of Moses and if, in post-exilic times, he ruled as a king over the Levites and Houses of Israel and Judah, then perhaps we should spend some time examining this era. After all, the "Messiah" of the Jews was considered to be of the Davidic line, a descendant of the House of Judah (Yahud). He was supposed to be the "Lion King," the savior to free his people from oppression.

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Atonism
and the Origins of Judeo-Christianity

Sigmund Freud Analyzes the Past

No consideration, however, will move me to set aside truth in favor of supposed national interests - Sigmund Freud

In 1939, the year before he died, the father of psychoanalysis, Sigmund Freud, published one of his least known and least well-received books, entitled Moses and Monotheism. This book is not only one of a kind but is, in our opinion, one of the most important books ever written. It is not a surprise to us that it was composed by one of the greatest geniuses the world has ever hosted. The book’s main thesis asserts that the famous biblical patriarch, found as a child on the Nile in a basket of reeds, who received the Commandments at the burning bush, who transmitted a new religion of light, and led the “chosen people” out of their captivity, was a chief dignitary, priest, or minister of Pharaoh Akhenaton.

Freud's own history and significance has been widely discussed and there are thousands of volumes published on his remarkable life and work. And yet, few scholars have bothered to consider the significance of his revisionist historical insights. Moreover, it is not by chance that the Freud archives in New York City are off limits to the vast majority of scholars. The executive responsible for Freud's untimely demise have a great deal to lose should his discoveries concerning the origins of Christianity be made known to the world at large.

Sigmund Freud was an expert on history and spent a great deal of time collecting archaeological relics from all over the world. He was an expert on Grecian history and mythology and idiosyncratically named many of his psychological complexes and syndromes after gods and goddesses from his beloved Greece. He was also fascinated with Egypt's past and kept abreast of the many archaeological explorations taking place in that land of mystery and intrigue. The eclectic and brilliant man fully understood that the Jewish people would be extremely loath to accept his controversial theories concerning their origins. Nevertheless, he proceeded bravely with his revisionist analysis of Jewish history. This resilience and commitment proved him to be an ardent servant of humanity and champion of truth. Unlike so many in this world, Dr. Freud was not inhibited by the reactions and diatribes he knew would rain down upon him. There was not a shadowy niche of the human psyche he did not delve into and so, when it came to history, his inquiries were no less discerning.



Sigmund Freud - The Viennese author, historian, and founder of the School of Psychoanalysis, was cold-bloodily murdered for what he knew and wrote about Judaism, Egypt, and secrets of the bible


We consider his findings, on the whole, to be accurate and we intend to carry on his work to uncover the actual origins, not only of the so-called "Jewish" people but, more importantly, of the religion known as Judeo-Christianity. To present our thesis and profess Moses to have been Akhenaton without paying due honor to those who initiated speculations of this kind would be unthinkable. Therefore, we dedicate our research, in part, to Sigmund Freud and his quest for answers in this world of wall-to-wall duplicity and fakery. Taking the lead from his friend Dr. Karl Abraham (who believed as we do that Moses was Akhenaton), Freud long pondered why the Egyptian identity of Moses had been obscured. He said that one could only guess at why there was such reticence on behalf of the majority of historians to accept it. He was puzzled, since it was quite obvious to him that the name "Moses" was Egyptian. Of course, we can hazard a good guess as to why Egyptologists had chosen to gloss over this intriguing anecdote. They could not afford the truth to come out about Moses' actual identity. Had it not been for Freud's tenacious inquisitiveness and, later, that of his friend and student Dr. Immanuel Velikovsky, our attention may never have been drawn to its significance.

...we learn that the Egyptian princess who saved the babe from the waters of the Nile gave him his name, adding the etymological explanation: Because I drew him out of the water. But this explanation is obviously inadequate...it is nonsensical to credit an Egyptian princess with a knowledge of Hebrew etymology, and secondly, that the water from which the child was drawn was probably not the water of the Nile - Sigmund Freud (Moses and Monotheism)

In its original Hebrew, the name Moses is Moshe. As the Egyptian equivalent of the letters "sh" as the simple "s" sound, Moshe would be pronounced Mose in Egyptian, a word which simply means "son." The first Greek translators of the Old Testament certainly interpreted it this way. When the Greeks later occupied Egypt in the fourth century BC, the Egyptian word Mose became Mosis. In the Greek version of the Bible, Moses' name was actually written Mosis, from which we now get the name "Moses" - Graham Philips (Act of God)

Another major question for Freud concerned why the Israelites who (if we are to believe the Old Testament) were slaves in Egypt would suddenly, during their years of alleged oppression, take to the ardent worship of one god. Why would they follow in the footsteps of Akhenaton, the man long considered to be the world's first monotheist? Of this idiosyncrasy Freud critically wrote:

With the Jews the political conditions were most unfavorable for a development away from the idea of an exclusive national God towards that of a universal ruler of the world. Whence, then, did this tiny and impotent nation derive the audacity to pass themselves off as the favorite child of the sovereign Lord? The question of the monotheism among the Jews would thus remain unanswered or else one would have to be content with the current answer that it was the expression of their particular religious genius. We know that genius is incomprehensible and unaccountable and it should therefore not be called upon as an explanation...

Freud was well placed to winkle out answers to this historical conundrum. He saw things psychologically as well as historically and archaeologically. He was the leader of the school of psychoanalysis in Vienna and he possessed a mind highly trained to observe and analyze minutiae. He had trained himself to see that which other people with ordinary minds and partial perception do not see.

Moreover, he also possessed the mental resilience and imagination to draw conclusions from seemingly insignificant details and fragments. It is not a wonder that Freud found Moses (our Akhenaton) fascinating. To so many, Moses was a superlative hero. Indeed, the name Moses means “hero” in ancient Assyrian. And if there was anything that Freud had analyzed it was the hero. He understood that, mythologically speaking, a man becomes a hero after he combats and defeats his first major rival, his own father. After his fell deed, the victorious son gains the supremacy and ends his secondary status tribally. He also gains spiritual status. He is no longer the prince but the king, and he acquires the privileges of his rank. He gains respect and has the pick of the women of the tribe. Despite his physical acquisitions, however, the son must live with the guilt of patricide. He has a guilty conscience for his murderous act and for giving vent to his aggressive and acquisitive instincts. In order to live with these complexes he develops an excuse mechanism, a convenient justification for his violent actions toward the object of his loving and hateful drives.



The Valley of the Kings, where the isolationist Akhenaton preferred to inter his dead family members


This justification is exceedingly important to the guilt-ridden mind. Anyone who reinforces it is considered a friend and ally whereas those who contradict it are dire enemies. The justification may work convincingly if the hero can emphasize the overall tyranny of his father and exaggerate his own lowly birth. If he can demonstrate that his actions were born from a desire to improve his lot and overcome enormous odds then he can be assured the sympathy of others who will identify with him. This identification becomes a key element of the hero's justification complex. And if he succeeds in overcoming the various challenges fate has in store for him, if he rises above every obstacle and follows in the footsteps of his own fathers, he will prove himself fit to rule. As the new king he can demand obedience from underlings and even consider himself a god. In short, he must believe that might is right. Regardless of his successes, however, the solar hero soon develops a new fear. He must accept that others may conspire to do unto him the same things he has done in order to get where he is. His own sons can justifiably covet his power and seek to overthrow him. Therefore, the hero reigns with doubt, fear, and guilt in his heart. Freud laid out his theory on this tribal conflict in his book Totem and Taboo. His theory on the primordial conflict between tribal fathers and sons has its critics, but we feel it is worth bearing in mind as we examine the life of Moses (Akhenaton).

The genius of Freud was to inquire and show, in Moses and Monotheism, how many similarities existed between the monotheistic religion expounded by the biblical patriarch Moses and that of the eighteenth dynasty monarch and Atonist Akhenaton. Freud did not conclude, as we do now, that these two were one and the same man, but he situated Moses in the close circle around the sun-worshipping pharaoh. As we have said, he was curious as to why Egyptologists had not delved more deeply into the etymology of the name "Moses." It is our job to further extrapolate the connections and to emphasize the consequences of this aspect. We can go much further than Freud and drive home the overall significance of the Egyptian origins of the first king of the so-called "chosen people."

They tell you that Moses never lived. I acquiesce. If they tell me that the story that came from Egypt is mythology, I shall not protest; it is mythology. They tell me that the book of Isaiah, as we have it today, is composed of writings of at least three and perhaps four different periods: I knew it before they ever told me, before they knew it - Rabbi Emil Hirsch

The Books of Samuel, Judges and Kings are supposed to cover nearly 1000 years of Jewish history, yet they make no reference to Jahveh’s talks with Moses: they say nothing about the miracles Moses performed in Egypt, his passage to the Red Sea or his wanderings in the Wilderness. Nor do they make any allusions to the stories given in Genesis of Creation, Adam and Eve and the Deluge. Although the names of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses are mentioned a few times, nothing is said about their lives and they are treated as if they were merely obscure, legendary figures - Ernest Busenbark (Symbols, Sex and the Stars)

One of the problems that intrigued Freud was why Moses, an Egyptian prince raised in the houses of the pharaoh, would go on to reinvent himself as the autocratic leader of a ragbag bunch of slaves and foreigners. Why would he wish to know, convert, and lead such a motley bunch?

Why would he be in a position to not only tell them what to do but to bestow upon them an apparently brand new religion? Why would he be in a position to introduce them to Jehovah, their new god? Did they not have a god of their own before Jehovah? And if they did have a previous religion why do we hear so little about it in the bible? Additionally, why would the Israelites be motivated to change their beliefs in such a radical way to please a single man? Naturally, our answer to questions of this kind builds upon the Freudian foundation and continues to undermine the traditional historical version of the life of Moses as well as the identity of his followers. Our theory is that the chosen people themselves were not lower class foreign contingents living miserable lives within the country. They were not slaves or underlings but powerful and wealthy conquerors of Egypt.



The people that "Moses" led out of Egypt were, as Freud and others have speculated, nothing less than a powerful pharaonic dynasty. And more controversially, their leader Moses was none other than Akhenaton, pharaoh of the eighteenth dynasty and true originator of their brand of monotheism.

Akhenaton frequently emphasized that he, and he alone, was the go-between for this new divine life of Egypt. The sole god of Egypt was now mediated through Akhenaton. At the close of the ‘Great Hymn to the Aten’ it says, “There is no one who knows you, except your son, Akhenaton” - Lorraine Evans (Kingdom of the Ark)

…Abraham, Isaac and Jacob were not a family of poor, captive, downtrodden shepherds at all. They were nothing less than the Hyksos, the “Shepherd Kings,” pharaohs of Egypt - Ralph Ellis (Jesus - Last of the Pharaohs)

In spite of the loud and frequent assertions, made by Jews and Christian divines alike, contending that the Jews were the first monotheists, it is a well proven fact that the high initiates of the Memphis priesthood were monotheists long before the Jews ever went to Egypt - Lady Queensborough (Occult Theocracy)

The One God was..."Mentioned in Egypt 2,600 years prior to the Judaic monotheism - Douglas Reed (Controversy of Zion)

I need not point out how wide an area of thought is opened up by the supposition that Moses lived during the Aten heresy. For the question as to what connection there was between the Hebrew monotheism and this earliest known monotheism of the Egyptians will at once present itself to the reader - Arthur Weigall (Archaeologist and key excavator of 18th dynasty tombs. One of the first men to publicly mention the connections between Moses and Akhenaton. Source: Tutankhamun and Other Essays)

The connection between the patriarch Moses and the court of Akhenaton, that Freud proved long ago but which has been deliberately downplayed ever since, opens the way for a truer understanding of history, of Egypt, and of the true origins of Judeo-Christianity. Had Freud penned Moses and Monotheism in his youth, before being confirmed as one of the greatest intellects ever born, we might never have heard of the book. Fortunately, it was composed late in his life and published just before he died. It is a book that helps to expose one of the most important historical deceptions ever conceived. As his research progressed, Freud's perceptive mind understood that the accepted story of monotheism was just that - a story. He understood that this Moses character was not, in fact, its creator and that it existed from the time of Amenhotep III, the father of Akhenaton, and from periods even more remote.

The origin of Egyptian monotheism can be traced back a fair distance with some certainty. In the School of Priests in the Sun Temple at On (Heliopolis) tendencies had for some time been at work developing the idea of a universal god and stressing his ethical aspects - Sigmund Freud

Already under Amenhotep III...the worship of the sun-god was in the ascendant, probably in opposition to the worship of Amon at Thebes - ibid

Thou art the one, the God from the very beginnings of time, the heir of immortality, self-produced and self-born, thou didst create the earth and make man - (From the Egyptian Book of the Dead)

So, monotheism was not the creation of Moses (Akhenaton)