Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [109]
Higgins explains that John "the Forerunner" represents the six-month cycle from the winter solstice to the summer, decoding the mysterious passage at John 3:30:
Jesus came to his exaltation or glory on the 25th of March, the Vernal equinox. At that moment his cousin John was at the Autumnal equinox: as Jesus ascended John descended. John makes the Baptist say, chapter iii, ver. 30, He must increase, but I must decrease. . . . How can any one doubt that what was admitted by the fathers was true-that Christians had an esoteric and an exoteric religion?43
In other words, the fathers knew-have continued to knowwhat it is they truly represent, yet they have conspired to deceive the people.
Hazelrigg elaborates upon the passage, also demonstrating the complexity of the mythos:
The Baptism came at the thirtieth year, or after the Sun's passage through the thirty degrees of Capricorn and coincident with his entry into Aquarius, the Water Bearer, who is John the Baptist. The assertion of John (iii. 30) that "He (the infant Jesus) must increase, but I must decrease," corresponds with the fact that John's nativity was June 24th, when the Sun has reached its highest altitude and it declination begins to decrease; that of Jesus was December 25th, when the Sun accomplishes that first degree of its ascending arc, and is thence led up into the wilderness (winter).44
And Higgins relates:
... the Baptist was Elias, that is, in plain Greek, the sun-'HXioq (Helios... Now John the Baptist or the Prophet, Regenerator by means of water, who was also a revived Elias, was the immediate forerunner of Jesus-in almost every respect an exact copy of Bala-rama, the forerunner of Cristna. And John the Baptist, or Saviour of men by means of water, was the Oannes or Avatar of Pisces.45
The carnalized and Judaized John the Baptist was a "Nazarene" or Nazarite, which is to say that he was a member of a "brotherhood of the sun." As Hazelrigg says, "He was a Nazarite; and it is a curious and striking circumstance that the fountain of Aenon, where he baptized, was sacred to the sun."46
Andrew
Purportedly a fisherman from Bethesda, the apostle Andrew was said to have been crucified at Patras, Greece, in an apparent Paschal sacrifice: ". . . the springtime sacrifice of Jesus was emulated by other heroes, such as Andrew, Philip, or Peter."47
"Andrew" was in a reality a local god of Patras, in all probability ritually sacrificed as a sacred king on a periodic basis. Concerning Andrew, Walker states:
From Greek andros, "man" or "virility," a title of the solar god of Patras, in Achaea, where the apostle Andrew was supposed to have been crucified after founding the Byzantine papacy. St. Andrew's legend was invented to counter Rome's claim to primacy through its own legend of St. Peter. . . . Patras, the site of Andrew's alleged martyrdom, was an old shrine of the phallicsolar father-god variously called Pater, Petra, or Peter, whose name has the same basic meaning as Andrew.48
Hazelrigg elaborates on Andrew's astrological nature:
The Sun as St. Andrew is the genius who presides over the autumn quarter that begins with the solar "crossification" into Libra; hence Paul's reference to his crucifixion in Romans, vi. 6. This is why St. Andrew is ever depicted as an old man holding at his back a saltier cross, goeniometer, indicative of this orbital angle in the Sun's passage over the equator.49
In the Egyptian version of the mythos Andrew is equivalent to Hapi or Shu, one of the brothers of Horus.
Philip
The apostle Philip was born in Bethesda and was a follower of John the Baptist,