• Choose a category
• All
• Classic-Fiction

There is evidence that within some of [the secret) groups, long before Christian times, the "hierophant," or chief high priest and main spokesman for the son of God on Earth, was called by the title "PETR," or "Peter," meaning "the rock." To some, this has seemed too similar to the name Christ is said to have assigned to his strangely named prime disciple, Peter, also said to mean "the Rock," to have been a complete coincidence.?

This PETR was the rock of Vatican Hill upon which was built the Mithraic brotherhood. Walker relates the ultimate purpose of the insertion of the Peter character:

The myth of St. Peter was the slender thread from which hung the whole weighty structure of the Roman papacy. . . . Unfortunately for papal credibility, the so-called Petrine passage was a forgery. It was deliberately inserted into the scripture about the 3r1 century A.D. as a political ploy, to uphold the primacy of the Roman see against rival churches in the east. Various Christian bishropics were engaged in a power struggle in which the chief weapons were bribery, forgery, and intrigue, with elaborate fictions and hoaxes written into sacred books, and the ruthless competition between rival parties for the lucrative position of God's elite. . . . Most early churches put forth spurious claims to foundation by apostles, even though the apostles themselves were no more than the mandatory 'zodiacal twelve" attached to the figure of the sacred king.8

Jesus is made to give the keys of the kingdom to Peter, yet he then turns around and calls Peter "Satan," ironically implying that his church is to be built upon the "rock of Satan." Peter was thus the "gatekeeper" of heaven, likewise a role within the mythos. As Robertson relates: ". . . there is to be noted the remarkable coincidence that in the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Petra is the name of the divine doorkeeper of heaven ..."9 Massey expands upon Peter's role and counterpart in Egyptian mythology:

. . . Kabhsenuf the hawk-headed is, as the name denotes, the refresher of his brethren, and this office is assigned to Peter as feeder of the sheep. It was Peter who rushed into the water to meet Jesus, and in the Ritual-when the dead Osiris has risen and come forth . . . Kabhsenuf wets his limbs in the streams for them to guard Osiris ... 10

"Peter" is not only "the rock" but also "the cock," or penis, as the word is used as slang to this day. As Walker says, "The cock was also a symbol of Saint Peter, whose name also meant a phallus or male principle (pater) and a phallic pillar (petra). Therefore, the cock's image was often placed atop church towers."" Higgins elucidates on the phallic nature of Peter the rock:

On this stone, which was the emblem of the male generative principle, the Linga, Jesus founded his church. This sacred stone is found throughout all the world. In India at every temple. The Jews had it in the stone of Jacob, which he anointed with oil. The Greeks, at Delphi, like Jacob, anointed it with oil. The black stone was in the Caaba, at Mecca, long before the time of Mohammed, and was preserved by him when he destroyed the Dove and the Images. He not only preserved it, but he cause it to be built into the corner of the sacred Caaba, where it is now kissed and adored by all Mohammedans who make the pilgrimage to Mecca.... Mr. Bryant says, "When the worship of the sun was almost universal, this was one name of that deity, even among the Greeks. They called him Petor, and Petros, and his temple was styled Petra." Where the temples had this name ... there was generally a sacred stone which was supposed to have descended from heaven. . . . Mr. Bryant observes, "Pator or Petor, was an Egyptian word; and Moses, speaking of Joseph and the dreams of Pharaoh, more than once makes use of it ..." 12

Furthermore, the veneration of the peter or lingam is reflective of the homoeroticism within the patriarchal cults. So fervent was this lingam-worship that the "cock"