Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [105]
Thomas is called Didymus, a name that "comes from the Greek word Didymos, the Greek equivalent of the Roman Gemini, the zodiacal twins."23 "Thomas" itself also means "twin" in Aramaic/Syriac. Hence, Didymus Thomas is a redundancy that is not the name of any disciple but a rehash of the ancient story of the twin god. In fact, Thomas is also called "Judas Thomas," Judas likewise meaning "twin." As Walker says, "Judas and Jesus seem to have been traditional names taken by victims in whom the god Tammuz was incarnate,"24 referring to the sacred king ritual enacted in Judea, as well as many other places.
It is said that "Thomas" preached to the Parthians and Persians, but what is being conveyed is that these groups were followers of Tammuz or Dumuzi, as was his Sumerian name. Although it was alleged that Thomas's tomb was in Edessa, tradition also claims that he died near Madras, India, where two of his tombs are still shown. This tale comes from the fact that when Portuguese Christian missionaries arrived in southern India they found a sect who worshipped a god named "Thomas" and whose religion was nearly identical to Christianity. So disturbed were the Christian missionaries that they created elaborate stories to explain the presence of the "St. Thomas Christians," claiming that the apostles Thomas and/or Bartholomew had at some point traveled to India, preached and died there.
The one aspect that truly perplexed the Christians, however, was that Christ was not the object of adoration in this sect. It was thus determined that this strange sect was heretical yet Christian, even though Christ was not its god. The reality is that these Indian "Christians" were worshipping Tamus or Tammuz, the sacrificed savior-god long prior to the Christian era.25 This Indian Tamus/Thomas sect evidently had a gospel written in ancient Chaldee, or proto-Hebrew, which identifies the partial origins of the gospel tale as being the "promontory of Tamus . . . in India, near to the settlement of St. Thomas Christians of Malabar,"26 rather than the other way around. In fact, these "St. Thomas Christians" of "Core-mandir-la" were Indian Nazarene- Carmelites,27 as were the Nazarenes of St. John, or Mandaeans. Of the Nazarenes, Higgins further asserts:
. . . these Mandaites or Nazareens or Disciples of St. John, are found in central India, and they are certainly not disciples of the Western Jesus of Nazareth. . . . all Gnosticism came originally from India ... the Mandaites or Nazareens are no other than the sect of Gnostics, and the extreme East the place of their birth.28
There are also traces of Tammuz/Thomas worship in China, where he was apparently considered to be an incarnation of Buddha.-19
Paul the Apostle
In the gospel tale, Paul is not one of "the twelve" but the most influential convert after Jesus's death. Paul acted as a missionary and pastor, and had "an unshakable determination to collect money from his largely Gentile churches and to deliver the collection himself to the Jewish Christian Church in Jerusalem."30
Even though Paul claims in Acts, "My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and at Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews," like Jesus and the twelve he does not appear in any historical record, although some of the events in his life were fairly significant. For example, there is no mention in Josephus or anyone else of the "two hundred soldiers with seventy horsemen and two hundred spearmen" who allegedly went "as far as Caesarea" to bring Paul before the governor Felix. As Graham relates, the historian Seneca was "the brother of Gallio, proconsul of Achaia at precisely the time Paul is said to have preached there. While he