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From: "CyberDude" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Jesus Christ is a Myth
Date: Tuesday, August 22, 2000 3:24 AM
It is evident that there was no single historical person upon whom the Christian
religion was founded, and that "Jesus Christ" is a compilation of legends,
heroes, gods and godmen. There is not adequate room here to go into detail about
each god or godman that contributed to the formation of the Jesus character;
suffice it to say that there is plenty of documentation to show that this issue
is not a question of "faith" or "belief." The truth is that during the era this
character supposedly lived there was an extensive library at Alexandria and an
incredibly nimble brotherhood network that stretched from Europe to China, and
this information network had access to numerous manuscripts that told the same
narrative portrayed in the New Testament with different place names and
ethnicity for the characters. In actuality, the legend of Jesus nearly
identically parallels the story of Krishna, for example, even in detail, as was
presented by noted mythologist and scholar Gerald Massey over 100 years ago, as
well as by Rev. Robert Taylor 160 years ago, among others. The Krishna tale as
told in the Hindu Vedas has been dated to at least as far back as 1400 B.C.E.
The same can be said of the well-woven Horus mythos, which also is practically
identical, in detail, to the Jesus story, but which predates the Christian
version by thousands of years.
The Jesus story incorporated elements from the tales of other deities recorded
in this widespread area, such as many of the following world saviors and "sons
of God," most or all of whom predate the Christian myth, and a number of whom
were crucified or executed.
Adad of Assyria
Adonis, Apollo, Heracles ("Hercules") and Zeus of Greece
Alcides of Thebes
Attis of Phrygia
Baal of Phoenicia
Bali of Afghanistan
Beddru of Japan
Buddha of India
Crite of Chaldea
Deva Tat of Siam
Hesus of the Druids
Horus, Osiris, and Serapis of Egypt, whose long-haired, bearded appearance was
adopted for the Christ character
Indra of Tibet/India
Jao of Nepal
Krishna of India
Mikado of the Sintoos
Mithra of Persia
Odin of the Scandinavians
Prometheus of Caucasus/Greece
Quetzalcoatl of Mexico
Salivahana of Bermuda
Tammuz of Syria (who was, in a typical mythmaking move, later turned into the
disciple Thomas)
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 Major Players
Buddha
Although most people think of Buddha as being one person who lived around 500
B.C.E., the character commonly portrayed as Buddha can also be demonstrated to
be a compilation of godmen, legends and sayings of various holy men both
preceding and succeeding the period attributed to the Buddha.
The Buddha character has the following in common with the Christ figure:
Buddha was born of the virgin Maya, who was considered the "Queen of Heaven."
He was of royal descent.
He crushed a serpent's head.
He performed miracles and wonders, healed the sick, fed 500 men from a "small
basket of cakes," and walked on water.
He abolished idolatry, was a "sower of the word," and preached "the
establishment of a kingdom of righteousness."
He taught chastity, temperance, tolerance, compassion, love, and the equality of
all.
He was transfigured on a mount.
Sakya Buddha was crucified in a sin-atonement, suffered for three days in hell,
and was resurrected.
He ascended to Nirvana or "heaven."
Buddha was considered the "Good Shepherd", the "Carpenter", the "Infinite and
Everlasting.
He was called the "Savior of the World" and the "Light of the World."
Horus of Egypt
The stories of Jesus and Horus are very similar, with Horus even contributing
the name of Jesus Christ. Horus and his once-and-future Father, Osiris, are
frequently interchangeable in the mythos ("I and my Father are one"). The
legends of Horus go back thousands of years, and he shares the following in
common with Jesus:
Horus was born of the virgin Isis-Meri on December 25th in a cave/manger, with
his birth being announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men.
He was a child teacher in the Temple and was baptized when he was 30 years old.
Horus was also baptized by "Anup the Baptizer," who becomes "John the Baptist."
He had 12 disciples.
He performed miracles and raised one man, El-Azar-us, from the dead.
He walked on water.
Horus was transfigured on the Mount.
He was crucified, buried in a tomb and resurrected.
He was also the "Way, the Truth, the Light, the Messiah, God's Anointed Son, the
Son of Man, the Good Shepherd, the Lamb of God, the Word" etc.
He was "the Fisher," and was associated with the Lamb, Lion and Fish
("Ichthys").
Horus's personal epithet was "Iusa," the "ever-becoming son" of "Ptah," the
"Father."
Horus was called "the KRST," or "Anointed One," long before the Christians
duplicated the story.
In fact, in the catacombs at Rome are pictures of the baby Horus being held by
the virgin mother Isis - the original "Madonna and Child" - and the Vatican
itself is built upon the papacy of Mithra, who shares many qualities with Jesus
and who existed as a deity long before the Jesus character was formalized. The
Christian hierarchy is nearly identical to the Mithraic version it replaced.
Virtually all of the elements of the Catholic ritual, from miter to wafer to
water to altar to doxology, are directly taken from earlier pagan mystery
religions.
Mithra, Sungod of Persia
The story of Mithra precedes the Christian fable by at least 600 years.
According to Wheless, the cult of Mithra was, shortly before the Christian era,
"the most popular and widely spread 'Pagan' religion of the times." Mithra has
the following in common with the Christ character:
Mithra was born of a virgin on December 25th.
He was considered a great traveling teacher and master.
He had 12 companions or disciples.
He performed miracles.
He was buried in a tomb.
After three days he rose again.
His resurrection was celebrated every year.
Mithra was called "the Good Shepherd."
He was considered "the Way, the Truth and the Light, the Redeemer, the Savior,
the Messiah."
He was identified with both the Lion and the Lamb.
His sacred day was Sunday, "the Lord's Day," hundreds of years before the
appearance of Christ.
Mithra had his principal festival on what was later to become Easter, at which
time he was resurrected.
His religion had a Eucharist or "Lord's Supper."
Krishna of India
The similarities between the Christian character and the Indian messiah are
many. Indeed, Massey finds over 100 similarities between the Hindu and Christian
saviors, and Graves, who includes the various noncanonical gospels in his
analysis, lists over 300 likenesses. It should be noted that a common earlier
English spelling of Krishna was "Christna," which reveals its relation to
'"Christ." It should also be noted that, like the Jewish godman, many people
have believed in a historical, carnalized Krishna.
Krishna was born of the Virgin Devaki ("Divine One")
His father was a carpenter.
His birth was attended by angels, wise men and shepherds, and he was presented
with gold, frankincense and myrrh.
He was persecuted by a tyrant who ordered the slaughter of thousands of infants.
He was of royal descent.
He was baptized in the River Ganges.
He worked miracles and wonders.
He raised the dead and healed lepers, the deaf and the blind.
Krishna used parables to teach the people about charity and love.
"He lived poor and he loved the poor."
He was transfigured in front of his disciples.
In some traditions he died on a tree or was crucified between two thieves.
He rose from the dead and ascended to heaven.
Krishna is called the "Shepherd God" and "Lord of lords," and was considered
"the Redeemer, Firstborn, Sin Bearer, Liberator, Universal Word."
He is the second person of the Trinity, and proclaimed himself the
"Resurrection" and the "way to the Father."
He was considered the "Beginning, the Middle and the End," ("Alpha and Omega"),
as well as being omniscient, omnipresent and omnipotent.
His disciples bestowed upon him the title "Jezeus," meaning "pure essence."
Krishna is to return to do battle with the "Prince of Evil," who will desolate
the earth.
Prometheus of Greece
The Greek god Prometheus has been claimed to have come from Egypt, but his drama
took place in the Caucasus mountains. Prometheus shares a number of striking
similarities with the Christ character.
Prometheus descended from heaven as God incarnate as man, to save mankind.
He was crucified, suffered and rose from the dead.
He was called the Logos or Word.
Five centuries before the Christian era, esteemed Greek poet Aeschylus wrote
Prometheus Bound, which, according to Taylor, was presented in the theater in
Athens. Taylor claims that in the play Prometheus is crucified "on a fatal tree"
and the sky goes dark:
"The darkness which closed the scene on the suffering Prometheus, was easily
exhibited on the stage, by putting out the lamps; but when the tragedy was to
become history, and the fiction to be turned into fact, the lamp of day could
not be so easily disposed of. Nor can it be denied that the miraculous darkness
which the Evangelists so solemnly declare to have attended the crucifixion of
Christ, labours under precisely the same fatality of an absolute and total want
of evidence."
Tradition holds that Prometheus was crucified on a rock, yet some sources have
opined that legend also held he was crucified on a tree and that Christians
muddled the story and/or mutilated the text, as they did with the works of so
many ancient authors. In any case, the sun hiding in darkness parallels the
Christian fable of the darkness descending when Jesus was crucified. This
remarkable occurrence is not recorded in history but is only explainable within
the Mythos and as part of a recurring play.
The Creation of a Myth
The Christians went on a censorship rampage that led to the virtual illiteracy
of the ancient world and ensured that their secret would be hidden from the
masses64, but the scholars of other schools/sects never gave up their arguments
against the historicizing of a very ancient mythological creature. We have lost
the arguments of these learned dissenters because the Christians destroyed any
traces of their works. Nonetheless, the Christians preserved the contentions of
their detractors through the Christians' own refutations.
For example, early Church Father Tertullian (@ 160-220 C.E.), an "ex-Pagan" and
Bishop of Carthage, ironically admits the true origins of the Christ story and
of all other such godmen by stating in refutation of his critics, "You say we
worship the sun; so do you." Interestingly, a previously strident believer and
defender of the faith, Tertullian later renounced Christianity.
The "Son" of God is the "Sun" of God
The reason why all these narratives are so similar, with a godman who is
crucified and resurrected, who does miracles and has 12 disciples, is that these
stories were based on the movements of the sun through the heavens, an
astrotheological development that can be found throughout the planet because the
sun and the 12 zodiac signs can be observed around the globe. In other words,
Jesus Christ and all the others upon whom this character is predicated are
personifications of the sun, and the Gospel fable is merely a rehash of a
mythological formula (the "Mythos," as mentioned above) revolving around the
movements of the sun through the heavens.
For instance, many of the world's crucified godmen have their traditional
birthday on December 25th ("Christmas"). This is because the ancients recognized
that (from an earthcentric perspective) the sun makes an annual descent
southward until December 21st or 22nd, the winter solstice, when it stops moving
southerly for three days and then starts to move northward again. During this
time, the ancients declared that "God's sun" had "died" for three days and was
"born again" on December 25th. The ancients realized quite abundantly that they
needed the sun to return every day and that they would be in big trouble if the
sun continued to move southward and did not stop and reverse its direction.
Thus, these many different cultures celebrated the "sun of God's" birthday on
December 25th. The following are the characteristics of the "sun of God":
The sun "dies" for three days on December 22nd, the winter solstice, when it
stops in its movement south, to be born again or resurrected on December 25th,
when it resumes its movement north. In some areas, the calendar originally began
in the constellation of Virgo, and the sun would therefore be "born of a
Virgin."
The sun is the "Light of the World."
The sun "cometh on clouds, and every eye shall see him."
The sun rising in the morning is the "Savior of mankind."
The sun wears a corona, "crown of thorns" or halo.
The sun "walks on water."
The sun's "followers," "helpers" or "disciples" are the 12 months and the 12
signs of the zodiac or constellations, through which the sun must pass.
The sun at 12 noon is in the house or temple of the "Most High"; thus, "he"
begins "his Father's work" at "age" 12.
The sun enters into each sign of the zodiac at 30°; hence, the "Sun of God"
begins his ministry at "age" 30.
The sun is hung on a cross or "crucified," which represents its passing through
the equinoxes, the vernal equinox being Easter, at which time it is then
resurrected.
Contrary to popular belief, the ancients were not an ignorant and superstitious
lot who actually believed their deities to be literal characters. Indeed, this
slanderous propaganda has been part of the conspiracy to make the ancients
appear as if they were truly the dark and dumb rabble that was in need of the
"light of Jesus." The reality is that the ancients were no less advanced in
their morals and spiritual practices, and in many cases were far more advanced,
than the Christians in their own supposed morality and ideology, which, in its
very attempt at historicity, is in actuality a degradation of the ancient
Mythos. Indeed, unlike the "superior" Christians, the true intelligentsia
amongst the ancients were well aware that their gods were astronomical and
atmospheric in nature. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle surely knew that Zeus, the
sky god father figure who migrated to Greece from India and/or Egypt, was never
a real person, despite the fact that the Greeks have designated on Crete both a
birth cave and a death cave of Zeus. In addition, all over the world are to be
found sites where this god or that allegedly was born, walked, suffered, died,
etc., a common and unremarkable occurrence that is not monopolized by, and did
not originate with, Christianity.
source: http://www.truthbeknown.com
posted by: Psyberdude
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