Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [110]
Bartholomew
Bartholomew is the "ploughman" in Hebrew. He was supposed to be a native of Galilee, and legend said that he went to India, Armenia, Mesopotamia, Ethiopia and Persia. Like the other disciples, however, Bartholomew is a mythical character, no doubt found in the aforementioned places. As Walker relates:
Pseudo-saint based on a sacred king's title: Bar-Tholomeus, "son of Ptolemy." He was inserted into the Gospels as an apostle, but hagiographers gave him a different origin. He was called a son of "Prince Ptolemeus," crucified in Armenia, and flayed like the satyr Marsyas. . . An alternative history made Bartholomew a missionary to India, where he overthrew the idols of the oddly non-Indian deities Astarte and Baal-Berith. With many miracles, Bartholomew converted the king of that country to Christianity, but the king's brother was unaccountably permitted to crucify, flay, and behead the saint afterward.51
James the Brother
James, "brother of Jesus" and "brother of the Lord," is equivalent in the Egyptian version of the mythos to Amset, brother of Osiris and brother of the Lord.52 As Massey says:
James is also identified with the carpenter in the gospels . . . This is the character of Amset . . . the carpenter. Amset as devourer of impurity denotes the great purifier, and James has the traditional reputation of having been a great purifier.53
James is also the same word as Jacob, the supplanter, the title of Set, as in Am-set, the "brother" of Horus.
James the Greater and John the Evangelist, the Sons of Thunder
The brothers James and John are called "Boanerges," the "sons of Thunder," a mythical designation. The lightning and thunderbolts of Lord Zeus were called "Brontes" and "Arges," a role held by the brothers in Luke: "And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord, wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them ..."
As noted, John, the beloved of Christ, also is a rehash of Arjuna, the beloved disciple of Krishna: "In the Tibetan language John is called Argiun. This is Arjoon, (Ar-John,) the coadjutor of Cristna."54 In addition, as Arjuna was the cousin of Krishna, so was John the cousin of Christ.55
Mark
Although many people think Mark was one of Jesus's original 12 disciples, he was not, and his main purpose was to serve as Peter's scribe. As one of the four evangelists, Mark represents one of the cardinal points of the zodiac, as is admitted by Irenaeus. The evangelists are depicted in Christian cathedrals as the four creatures of the apocalypse: the man, ox, lion and eagle, which, again, stand for the four cardinal points, or Aquarius, Taurus, Leo and Scorpio. In this cardinal designation Mark represents the summer, or Leo.
Luke
Luke also is not one of "the twelve" but attached himself to Paul. He was a "physician," that is, a Therapeut, as were all the "doctors" of the Church. Luke was said to have traveled to Greece, Macedonia, Jerusalem and Rome as a companion of Paul, yet "scholars doubt the strong connection between Luke and Paul." As ben Yehoshua says:
We must also doubt the story of Luke "the good healer" who was supposed to be a friend of Paul. The original Greek for "Luke" is "Lykos" which was another name for Apollo, the god of healing.
Thus, Luke is yet another tutelary god whose name was used in order to include the people and priesthood of a particular culture in the "universal," i.e., Catholic, church.
Thaddeus/Jude and Simon the Zealot/Canaanite
Thaddeus is also called "Jude son of James" and sometimes Lebbaeus, although these associations are made simply because the gospel lists of the disciples contradict each other. Jude and Simon share a feast day on 10/28. Simon preached in Egypt and