=========================================== More About The Bible Myths And Religious Doctrine -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "The whole religious complexion of the modern world is due to the absence from Jerusalem of a lunatic asylum." Henry H Ellis (1859-1939) -------------------------------------------------------------------------- It is generally taken for granted that the Bible is the basis of Christian doctrine in Western Society. And, just like society which is evil and corrupt, the Bible is a compilation which also contains evil distortion and corruption. Just read the war-mongering and bloodthirty passages of the Old Testiment if you do not believe that this is so! For example, Jehova is said to have killed 50,070 as well as Uzzah for looking into the Ark of the Covenant. No wonder it lost favor afterwards. The various versions of the Bible have layers and layers of additions and corrections and they have been preverted throughout the ages in order serve the function of the church. The Jews have re-written their version to prsent themselves in the most favorable light in spite of the facts, and the Catholic Church rewrote its version to give it the power and authority which it did not really have or deserve. Throughout the Bible text the word 'GOD' has been substituted for GODDESS, the Divine Mother. And the extant codices which differ from one another and from the King James version of the 17th Century are thre for all to examine. There are many examples of plagiarism and perversion throughout the bible and those who are interested should seek literature out and find more examples that than the ones given in the last article and the ones below. * An Egyptian Hymn to Isis has been copied directly into the Bible as Psalm 89.14. * The Isis cult was absorbed the the 4th century into the Madonna cult of the so-called Christians, and in fact, all the pictures of Madonna and child are pictures of Isis and her son, Horus. Many of the sayings and parables have been lifted from elsewhere. * The Lord's Prayer is a collection of saying from the Talmud and many other prayers are derivation from earlier Egyptian prayers to Osiris. * From the cult of Osiris come the 23rd Psalm - The Lord is my shepard, I shall not want... * The Sermon on the mount has no original material and this may shock some people. It was made up of fragments from Psalms, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, The Secrets of Enoch and the Sherome Esreh. This Sermon was unknown to the oldest Gospel, the apocryphal Gospel of Mark. * The Wisdom of Jesus after the Resurrection, is a direct copy of the speech of Eugnostos the Blessed which was written centuries before. * Even the Golden Rule as contained in Leviticus, 19-18 comes from an Akkadian maxim. It is a proverb of Maat, the Mother of Justice in the Egyptian Middle Kingdom, and in Greek doctrine, it is the law of hte Goddess, Dike. Immediately when one confronts the Christian church with evidence of Interpolation, perversion, corruption and palgiarism, the same old rhetoric is used like the one the Catholic Church used when one of its dogmas was questioned: "How, if these verses were an interpolation, could the Holy Spirit who guides and directs the Church, have allowed her to regard this lofty affirmation of the Trinity as authentic, and permitted its insertion in the official edition of the Sacred Books?" As late as 1897 the Congregation of the Index with the approval of Pope Leo XIII forbad any further research into the origin of the text dealing with the Trinity. The Church not only forbad research but also reading of the Bible by Laymen. From earliest times and throughout the Middle Ages possesion of a Bible written in the venacular was a crime, punishable by burning at the stake! To stop people thinking for themselves the church went further. As literacy grew, it forbad its clergy from reading newspapers and periodicals in 1854. It condemned socialism, rational thought, civil liberties, freedom of speech and of the press and the other religions. Of course, during the period of reformation, which generally began with Martin Luther's objection to the excesses of the Church (and mind you he called the Vatican the seat of the Antichrist) there was more bible reading, because the bible was then more available and, of course, far more scepticism of its authenticity was created. This was especially so as Luther compared the Greek and Latin gospels and found, like others before him and others since, many manipulated and purposful mistranslations which gave the church spurious scriptural authority. Many researchers and scholars throughout the ages have concluded that the Bible is a garbled jumble of borrowed texts and perverted Epistles and Gospels which did not represent the Truth. a) Richard Simon in his 17th century Critical History of teh Old Testament caem to his conclusion and in particular, to the conslusion that Moses did not write the Pentateuch. b) Doctor Alex Geddes in the 18th Century came to the same conclusion. c) The Lux Mundi of 1889 admitted that the Bible is a confused mass of myths, legned and garbled history often contradicting provable facts. Another author admitted that the Gospels cannot be taken as literal Truth but only as romantic symbolism. As has often been stated, many orthodox theologians ahve no idea of the meaning of the myths in the Bible because they do not study the myths and legends of other cultures. They simply condemn them. The church destroyed not only the books and libraries which contained them, but the people themselves. The Bible is Not Unique It is a compilation of many myths coming from many parts of the world. All the cultures of the world share the same fables of creation, of the flood, of a magic garden, of the Tree of Life, or its primal couple, or the wise serpent, or the Heaven piercing Tower (of Babel), of divided waters, of a chosen race, or virgin mothers, or saviors, etc. Scholarly research has shown that both tests of the Bible are quite recent and relatively corrupt derivations from the world-wise cycle of Gnostic truism which has been labelled archetypal myths. Who can take the God of the Bible seriously? He is a blood-thirsty, war monger who urges people to wage merciless war. We see in the Bible the adoption of distorted myths attached to every saviour God of all Cultures. Adonis, (Dionysus) Adonis was born of a consecrated Temple Maiden, like Mary, and eaten in the form of bread. He partook of a Resurrection on the third day of his death etc. Adonis too was born in a sacred cave in Bethlehem and like Jesus and Attis, was sacrificed at the Spring Equinox, (the 21st of March) and rose again from the dead on the third day. Attis and Jesus were also said to be born of a virgin birth as were many others. How many people know that Attis was associated in those ancient days by Gnostics, and others, with the Christ spirit as were many others? The Church later made the exclusive association of Jesus and the Christ energy to suit its purpose. The Church did not choose the dates for the Crucifixion of Jesus and his ressurection (easter) until the 7th century. Attis The culture of Attis strongly influenced early Christians. But the story and symbolism have been reduced to virtually useless myth: He was the Sone of the Goddess Nana (another aspect of the Great Goddess, the Divine Celestral Mother) who was also a virgin. She concieved Him by eating an almond and he was slain in order to bring salvation to mankind. His body was eaten by worshippers in the form of bread and he resurrected as the most high God. This Passion of Attis was celebrated at the Spring Equinox and His birth was on the 25th of December, around the time of the Winter Solstice. So you see Christianity claimed the same dates for the conception and birth of Jesus. When quarrels ensued between the plagiarizers and those who knew the significance of the myths and the plagiarism that the Christian Church was engaged in, the Christians declare that: "The devil established pagan mysteries in imitation of Christianity before there was a christianity." This was actually quite ridiculous. Attis cult members eventually lost the battle, as did the followers of Adonis, Mithra, Apollo, Orpheus, Tammuz, Osiris, Hermes, and others who were all inter-related aspects of the Christ essence. The so-called Christian Church took over. The 25th of March was made the day of the Enunciation by the Church, and of course, the 25th of December was made Christmas Day. But these dates were not accepted by the Church until 656 AD. The day of Attis's death was known as Black Friday or the Day of Blood, for then the God Attis died and was buried and then descended into the underworld and on the third day he rose again from the dead. And this was Sunday, the Day of Joy. So you see, the Rites of Easter have arisen freom the mysteries of Attis. Like the risen Christ, Attis arose when the sun made the day longer than the night for the first time in the new cycle. Attis in the myth, is the God of vegetation and came from the Phrygian region of Central Turkey. He was known as the Son of Zeus, the leader of the Pantheon and this myth has been traced to the 12th century BC. The day of Attis' death was also th eday of his cyclic reconception. Symbolically, Attis represented a rejuvenation of spirit, but this became corrupted into a rejuvination of earth and a cyclic salvation of crops, important to those who depended on the production of crops. Zeus was the Godforce essence and was the Father of Orpheus, Apollo, Dionysus (Adonis), Hermes, Osiris, Isis, Horus, MOses and Jesus, as well as Mithra, Tammuz and Attis. Adonis (Dionysus) was equivalent to Tammuz. Hence what we truly have is the same energy with differnt names. These are all representatives of the Christ Energy. Of course knowledge of these connections had been destroyed by the vandalism of the Church. However, little traces remain. In the Siena cathedral Hermes Trismegitos is revered as the contemporary (and brother in essence) of Moses. Horus is represented there also. What? you will exclaim, in a catholic cathedral? What did the ancients know that has been kept from us? Did they know that Moses was the incarnation of Horus? Yes! They knew it was all the same essence, just as they knew that all those I have named above were 'brothers in Christ' and of the same essence. Hermes was the light of the world as was Dionysus, Mithra, and Jesus, and Apollo (who became canonized as St Benedict under his title as Benedictus) and all the others, and they knew that Zeus was their Father. When this is realized the patterns of the Archetypal myths all begin to make sense do they not? Who Was Zeus? He was the Divine father of Dionysus who was the Divine father of Orpheus. Zeus was none other than an aspect of the Masculine energy of the Godforce. Do you see how this early knowledge of inter-connected Divine Beings was perverted into myths which still had some basis in spiritual terms and were further distorted an applied directly to the sacrifice of Jesus and his resurrection? * Osiris was decribed as the Good Shepard. * Mithra was described as the Light of the World. * Dionysus was described as the King of Kings, and God of Gods. * Vishnu and Mithra were both the Son of Man and the Messianic Energy. * These were all described as Saviours of the World. These labels are quite familiar - for the church plagiarized them and misued them to discribe Jesus ONLY. Plagiarism knew no bounds. The miracles supposedly performed by Jesus also have many precedences. * The Dionysian Rite practised at Sidon in Alexandria gave us wine from water - the very miracle that Jesus performed at Cana. * The priestesses at Nineveh cured the blind by applying their spittle to the eyes. * The Goddess Demeter, a form of the Great Mother, multiplied loaves and fishes, healed the sick, raised the dead and performed exocisms. * In the Magic Papyri anointed ones walk on water. But of course when these things were pointed out to the oppressing, plagiarizing, so-called Christians who controlled the church, they insisted that the older deities and their miracles were invented by the devil before hand in order to belittle their forthcoming doctrines of faith. By the time the so-called christians took control, thre were many sources which conflicted with what the church wanted to teach. And so it was, that by the year 450 AD, some 200 different Gospels revered by the Church of the Diocese of Bishop Theodore of Cyrrhus were distroyed except for the four Canonical ones. There were many versions of the Gospels. In fact one of them stated that Jesus was not crucified but that Simon of Cyrene actually took his place. It is interesting that Jesus directed those who saw him after his resurrection to touch him not. Now if he was physically resurrected, there would be no reason for him to say this. If he was an Ethereal being, he would ask not to be touched for it would reveal the nature of the ethereal body. This revelation of being ethereal would then blow away forever the myth of the Physical body's resurrection. The Gnostics vehmently claimed that there was no resurrection of the flesh and the Church of course had to go directly against them and silence them. Gnostics called the literal view of the resurrection the 'faith of fools'. Nothing in the myth created around Jesus occurred by acident. The evil force driving these so-called Christians minions made sure that every detail of a formal sacrifical tradition (which they labelled as Pagan later) was included in the myth. Even Palm Sunday was copied from the Procession of Palms which glorified the sacred King in Ancient Babylon. The oldest Gospels contradict one another and we know from research that the various codices still in existence are different from one another. It is interesting to note that the Epistles of Paul were collected by the Gnostic teacher, Marcion, who was later excommunicated as a heretic for denying that the scriptures were mystical allegories. He knew they were forged concoctions. Tammuz At the time of the created myth of Jesus, Tammuz (Thomas), also called the Only Begotten Son, was a Christos or Sacred King, who was sacrificed annually in smybolism in the Temple at Jerusalem. He was dedicated to the Goddess, Ishtar or Mari, the Queen of Heaven and he was the Hebrew version of Dionysus (Adonis). Tammuz was equivalent to Osiris and to the Sumerian Savior God, Damu. Each year on the Day of Atonement, He was sacrificed in the form of a lamb. Hence all these, like Jesus, were the manifestations of the same energy. But the Church sought exclusivity. So you see that the myth that was eventually formulated around Jesus was one which was fairly widespred at the time. Dionysus Dionysus, otherwise known as Bacchus, Adonis and Pan, was not only known as the Wine God (as a corruption) but he was also known as the Liberator. He was the son of Zeus whom is identified as the Father energy. Hence he was the son who would rescue the Mother. Ontologically he had quite a great deal of significance before the church destroyed the writings relating to, and the implication of, this being. Dionysus was of such importance that he was represented, in fact, on one side of a coin the other side of which showed Jehovah, the one who took over the whole show. Dionysys was the God Eventually displaced by the Demigod Jehovah in Jerusalem. The Savior myth had grown around Dionysus and he too was eaten after sacrifice in the form of bread and wine which represented his flesh and blood. And this was the classical Dionysus sacrament at Eleusis. Dionysus is said to have later reincarnated as Orpheus. He was also known as the King of Kings, The God Begotten, the Virgin Born, the Anointed one, the Christo, At Eleusis, Dionysis was represented as the Holy Child in a manger. Apart from thse various Saviors the Virgin Birth was also attributed to Zoroaster, Sargon, Persius, Jason, Miletus, Minos, Asclepias, Zeus, and Plato. Much of the Old Testament was plagiarized also. It is generally conded by scholars who have researched the Old Testament that the Pentateuch, supposedly written by Moses, was written by the priest, Ezra, much, much later. Moses The Moses myth is really a reproduction of: a) the Hindu myth when Kali gave birth to the Sun God and placed him in a basket of rushes on the Ganges. b) The same myth reproduced for Sargon, the King of Akkad in the 3rd millenium BC. King Sargon was a son of a virgin bride of God, set afloat on the river and was rescued by the Divine midwife. He then spent a period of exile in the wilderness where he was tempted by evil spirits and later elevated to the throne. The fatherless hero born of waters was a universal image of the Savior King and has been repeated in the myths of Persius, Horus, Jason, Oedipus, Joshua, and Jesus. c) An Egyptian Model: The miracles attributed to Moses have been derived from Egyptian myths for there is an Egyptian model for the myth of Moses in Heracles of Canopus. d) Other stories: The parting of the Waters was attributed to both Kali crossing the Ganges and Isis. Mother Rhea had struck water from a rock. She had also given Law Tables on a Holy Mountain. The TEN COMMANDMENTS which were supposedly given to Moses were copied from: i) the Canaanite god Baal-Berith, 'God of the Covenant'. ii) the Commandments of the Buddhist Decalogue. iii) Zoroaster who had also recieved the Law from Ahura Mazda from the mountain top. iv) King Hammurabi who recieved the Laws from the Babylonian God from a mountain top also. The basis of the Moses myth was also the expulsion of Jews from Egypt during an outbreak of pestilence. Other sources (Choeremen, Manetho, Lysimachus, Tacitus) say that the oracles blamed the infection on foreign workers who called the children of Isreal and the offenders were evicted from Egypt and sent into the desert. This is very different to what has been written in the Old Testiment. The Jews claim they are the Chosen race of God. The True Jews, and not all born into the Jewish race are True Jews, in fact were the chosen race of the demigod Jehovah (JHWH, Yaldabaoth). According to the Roman Historian Tacitus, the Jews were 'a race detested by the gods.' Tacitus, who has given us much insight into non-christian history, also claims that everything before the exodus was from non-Jewish sources. Many stories of the Old Testament were changed. For Example: * the story that the first born of Egypt were killed by Yahweh who spared the Jewish ones, for the Jews redeemed their sons with the blood of the lamb, was a fabrication. * The Passover myth was an Egyptian custom which had originated in China. Hence, like the Christian Church which re-wrote the New Testament. the Jews re-wrote the Old Testament to create a mythic history for their nation out of customs, sayings and legends borrowed from others and also to self-aggrandize And, as Lactantius, a Father of the church in those formative years admitted, "All religions are based on fear and they resis True Acknowledge and aspirations." Pope Leo the Great endorsed the death penalty for erroneous beliefs in order to defend that which they were trying to do. There is no doubt that the myths created by the church did oppress peopple. The ones around Jehovah were both irrational and vindictive for they punished the whole race for an alleged original sin and that punishment in Hell lasted forever in merciless agnony. The Church ruled with an iron fist and not only did it prevent the peope reading the Bible and endorsed the death penalty for erroneous beliefs, but it also insisted, as it did again during the reformation, that it was the sole interpreter of the scriptures. And of course this, its overt eviliness and exposure of its manipulation of texts and selling of indulgences, eventually led to the breakaway of the Reformation. Mithra The early Christians saw Mithra, the Persian Savior, as a rival who was more successful than the myth they created. Those so-called Christians copied the Mithra religion in great detail. Mithra too was born on December 25th of the virgin birth. His birth was witnessed by Sheppards and by Magi who bought gifs to his sacred birth cave. Mithra had also performed miracles and raised the dead, healed the sick, made the blind see and the lame walk. He has also cast out devils and as Son of Petra Genetrix, he carred the Keys of the Kingdom of Heaven. Mithra ascended to Heaven at the Spring Equinox (Easter), and before returning to Heaven, He celebrated the last supper with his 12 disciples, the 12 signs of the zodiac. In memory of this, his worshippers partook of a sacramental meal of bread marked with a cross. (holy communion). This was one of the seven sacraments and was the model for the Christian sacrament called the Mizd (Missa, Mass). The Mithraic doctrines also had the story of a great flood and that story was based on the Hindu flood of Manu. So you see, the story of the flood went from the Hindu states to Persia to Babylon and into the Old Testament anhd each version contained within it a story of the end of the world which would be by fire, and the story of the battle of the forces of Good and Evil. It is from the Mithra religion that labels such as the 'Savior of the World', and 'Soldier for Christ' were obtained, for Mithra was the supreme patron of the Roman armies. From it, we celebrate Sunday and from it is the claim that the Savior's death was marked by an Eclipse. From the Mithraic religion come the seven sacraments and from it cane the derrivation of the Pope. The Mithraic High Priest title was - Pater Patrum. Mithraism and Manichaean Christianity (Persian Gnosticism) had much in common and that is because they contained the same Gnostic truths. In the Mithraic Festival of the Epiphany, the Magi come to the child Savior with gifts. This was adopted by the Christian Church in 1813 as the Festival of the Epiphany, a long, long time after the birth of Christ. Hermes The Christian Cross was taken from the knowledge of Hermes, who was called the Logos by the Neoplatonists. Hermes was the God within. Until the middle ages, Hermes trismegistos was acknowledged as the one who gave the learning to Moses (Hence his presence in the Siena Cathedral). Hermetic lore gave Arabic numbers and alchemy. In 1460 it was th eCorpus Hemrmeticum that was given to Cosimo de Medici which began the movement called the Renaissance. The writing of Hermes were of Gnostic Truth. Osiris and Horus Osiris, the consort of Isis was also known as a: Son of God, a Light God and, The Lord of Death, He was the Lord of Lords, King of Kings, God of Gods, he was the Resurrection and the Life, The Good Shepard, He was the God/man who suffered and died, rose again and reigned eternally in Heaven. His coming was also announced by the Three Wise Men and they are represented by the three stars on Orion's belt which point to Sirius. Sirius is taken to be the Messiah and is a symbol of Hermes. Osiris was also a devoured Host and Communion was taken by eating cakes of wheat, the plant of truth which bestowed a total life to the partaker. From the cult of Osiris comes the 23rd Psalm - 'The Lord is my Shepard, I shall now Want...etc.' The Christian Cross come from his Ankh and the Bishop's Crozier cones from the Osirian Shepard Crook. The Rosary was also copied from Egypt. The True Essence Dionysus, Orpheus, Apollo, Hermes, Horus, and Moses are the same energy (from Zeus). Note that from Osiris (through Isis) Horus was born. Hence Horus was also Osiris the Lord, the Life. And being the same essence as Hermes, Horus was another aspect of the Hermetic Messiah. Moses was the incarnation of Horus, and Elijah was the reincarnation of Hermes. i) Moses who was the same essence as Horus, who was the essence or Osiris, who was also the essence of Tammuz, who was also the essence of Dionysus (Adonis) who was from Zeus, the 'Father Energy', the Masculine Aspect of the Godhead. ii) Elijah who was the essence of Hermes, who was also the essence of Isis was the Feminine Aspect of the Godhead. She was the Mother Energy. Lord Shiva Who was Shiva? Osiris was taken as one of the forms of Shiva in neolithic Egypt. He was none other than the Babaji (holy father) whom Jesus went to see in India. So Jesus went to see the energy of Osiris (the consort of Isis who was the Divine Mother energy). Babaji later reincarnated as King Arthur who was known in Celtic Mythology as the Messiah, the Celtic Zeus. So you see, from an ontological view, when the Essence is recognize, it all makes sense. Osiris was also connected with Hermes who was taken as a contemporary Moses. Moses has connections with Jesus and Jesus has connections with Shiva. Hence Lord Shiva (Babaji) was and is in ontological terms Osiris, Horus, Moses, Zeus. As Moses he accompanied Jesus in Tranfiguration, for he was his 'father' in essence. So ontologically these energies are connected. it was the Church which distorted things and extracted Jesus out of the Divine Hierarchy and made him unique, a one and only, and this or course was quite wrong. The Church points at the Mithraic cults and the Osiris religions and others and says that they are pagan for they are represented by a variety of Beasts. That is due to a misunderstanding of what the beasts represent. Human sacrifice was stopped in the early on by most peoples, except by the Jews who were the last to do so, and it was replaced by animal sacrifice. Symbolically these Saviors like Mithra and Osiris wer made to reincarnate into a variety of beasts. Hence the Apis Bull was said to have died to atone for the sins of Egypt (again a distortion under Jevhoa's rules) and so on. It was symbolism very much like many symbolisms that the Church has retained but given its own exclusive significance. Unfortunately many have been fooled by the gross deceit. It is not unreasonable to suggest that the evil hieracrchy of the developing new Christian movement many hundred of years after the life of Jesus, and against his will, actually created a Myth around him by using all the facets of previous religions that were available and then set about destroying as much of the evidence as possible about these religions, in particular the Orphic, the Mithraic and the Dionysian doctrines. And that in a nutshell is what Christian doctrine and religious doctrine is all about - temporal wealth and power, and metaphysical destruction of Divine Beings. So there were two elements that gave rise to the doctrines that we have today: 1) One was the rebellion of Jehovah to take ocer a particular dimension. This evil demigod rebelled against the Divine Hierarchy and declared himself the one and only God. 2) Secondly, in the last 2000 years in Western Civilization, the evil hierarchy of the Christian movement took over the religious doctrines of other institution and declared them its own with exclusive authority and power to do as it wished. It must not be forgotten that the ones taken over by the new movement had already been taken over and perverted by evil. This is the exact same mechanism which had perverted Manichaeism, Zoroaster's teachings, Buddhism, and Islam, and so on. It is not unique. However I will focus on it as a matter of convenience. Posted: Thursday, May 08, 1997