Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [101]
As we have seen, the son of God with the twelve disciples is not historical but an old mythological and astrological motif found around the globe for thousands of years and symbolizing the sun and its movements through the heavens, before it was carnalized, Judaized and historicized in the gospel tale of Jesus Christ. In reality, like Jesus, the famous biblical disciples are recorded nowhere in the works of any historian of their time. The only source for the disciples/ apostles is in Christian literature, in which the stories of their "lives" are in fact highly apocryphal, allegorical and, therefore, inadequate as "history" or "biography." Of these various fables regarding the apostles, Walker relates: "Guignebert says `not one of them is true . . . [T]here exists no information really worthy of credence about the life and works of the immediate Apostles of Jesus.'",
As Wells states regarding the gospel tradition of "the twelve":
The twelve disciples are often regarded as guarantors of Jesus' historicity, although we are told nothing of most of them except their names, on which the documents do not even agree completely. In Mk. and Mt. the list of names is also very clumsily worked into the text. All this makes it obvious that the number is an older tradition than the persons; that the idea of the twelve derives not from twelve actual disciples, but from other sources . 2
And ben Yehoshua says:
The first time that twelve apostles are mentioned is in the document known as the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles [Didache]. This document apparently originated as a sectarian Jewish document written in the first century C.E., but it was adopted by Christians who altered it substantially and added Christian ideas to it. In the earliest versions it is clear that the "twelve apostles" are the twelve sons of Jacob representing the twelve tribes of Israel. The Christians later considered the "twelve apostles" to be allegorical disciples of Jesus.
In fact, Eusebius himself gives the origins of "the Twelve" when he says, "At that very time it was true of His apostles that their speech went out to the whole earth, and their words to the ends of the world,"3 an allusion to Psalms 19:4, which, as we have seen, refers to the starry configurations or constellations, whose "voice" or "line" penetrates the earth.
In reality, it is no accident that there are 12 patriarchs, 12 tribes of Israel and 12 disciples, 12 being the number of the astrological signs, as well as the 12 "houses" through which the sun passes each day and the 12 hours of day and night. Indeed, like the 12 Herculean tasks, the 12 "helpers" of Horus, and the 12 "generals" of Ahura-Mazda, Jesus's 12 "disciples" are symbolic for the zodiacal signs and do not depict any literal figures who played out a drama upon the earth circa 30 CE. The twelve disciples are thus the "sun's librarians, the treasure-scribes."
Hazelrigg sums up the gospel tale thus:
. . . the Romans . . . personified our sun, or centre of the solar system, as a living man, and the twelve signs of the zodiac as his twelve disciples; and the ingress of the sun through the different signs, as this man called Son of God, as going about doing his Father's work, or, rather, doing the will of the Father.5
Higgins elucidates upon the zodiacal role of "the twelve" in the mythos:
The number of the twelve apostles, which formed the retinue of Jesus during his mission, is that of the signs, and of the secondary genii, the tutelary gods of the Zodiacal signs which the sun passes through in his annual revolution. It is that of the twelve gods of the Romans, each of whom presided over a month. The Greeks, the Egyptians, the Persians, each had their twelve gods, as the Christian followers of Mithra had their twelve apostles. The chief of the twelve Genii of the annual revolution had the barque and the keys of time, the same as the chief of the secondary gods of the Romans or Janus, after whom St. Peter, Bar-Jona, with his barque and keys, is modclled.6
Peter the Rock
The disciple, apostle and saint Peter, "the Rock"