Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [111]
However, the zodiacal designations of the apostles vary from source to source as they are associated with different signs, and Judas the Betrayer, of course, was not included in Christian iconography but was replaced in the story by Matthias and in the zodiac by Jude/Judas Thaddeus, who evidently also at one point symbolized Scorpio. This confusion reveals the state of affairs when the different factions of the unifying brotherhood were being incorporated and doctrine was being violently debated. Of course, exoterically the zodiacal origin of these biblical characters was eventually severed, yet it continued esoterically, variants and all. Regardless of how they were designated, the apostles and other disciples named herein were not real people. As Wheless says:
. . . [T]he Holy Twelve had no existence in the flesh, but their "cue" being taken from Old Testament legends, they were mere names-dramatis personae-mask of the play-of "tradition," such as Shakespeare and all playwrights and fiction-writers create for the actors of their plays and works of admitted fiction.56
Indeed, they were part of the ubiquitous mythos and ritual enacted in many cultures long prior to the Christian era, constituting what later became the gospel story.
1. Walker, WEMS, 48.
2. Wells, DIE, 122.
3. Eusebius, 77.
4. Massey, HJMC, 162.
5. Anderson, 18.
6. Higgins, I, 781-2.
7."The Other Jesus" website.
8. Walker, WEMS, 787. (Emphasis added.)
9. Robertson, 133.
10. Massey, HJMC, 144.
11. Walker, WDSSO, 397.
12. Higgins, I, 645.
13. Walker, WEMS, 79.
14. Walker, WEMS, 789.
15. Doane, 399.
16. Blavatsky, /U, II, 24fn.
17. Walker, WEMS, 483.
18. Walker, WEMS, 481.
19. Massey, Lectures on the Moon.
20. Massey, HJMC, 157-8.
21. Walker, WEMS, 467-8.
22. Carpenter, 51.
23. Graham, 318.
24. Walker, WEMS, 995.
25. Higgins, I, 663-4.
26. Higgins, I, 596.
27. Higgins, I, 808.
28. HIggins, I, 657-8.
29. Higgins, I, 755.
30. Funk & Wagnall's.
31. Graham, 292.
32. Waite, 105.
33. Holley, 40.
34. home.pacbell.net/gailk/iasius.html
35. Doane, 375.
36. Walker, WEMS, 745-8.
37. Higgins, 589.
38. Walker, WDSSO, 286.
39. Jackson, 185.
40. Massey, HJMC, 119.
41. Massey, Lectures on the Moon.
42. Massey, HJMC, 123.
43. Higgins, 1, 647.
44. Hazelrigg, 119-20.
45. Higgins, I, 655-6.
46. Higgins, II, 66.
47. Walker, WDSSO, 153.
48. Walker, WEMS, 32.
49. Flazelrigg, 24-5.
50. Funk & Wagnall's.
51. Walker, WEMS, 92.
52. Massey, HJMC, viii.
53. Massey, HJMC, 147.
54. Higgins, I, 658.
55. Higgins, II, 137.
56. Wheless, 127.
The Gospel Story
In addition to the "lives" of Christ and the twelve, virtually the entire gospel story can be found in older mythologies as part of the ancient mythos revolving around the celestial bodies and movements. Many of these elements have already been discussed, and a thorough exploration would require another volume, but we can examine a number of such aspects of the Christian tale and doctrine in greater detail, beginning with the creation of the universe and the all-important fall that requires the saving grace of Jesus.
Genesis
It has long been known that the story of cosmic origins as found in the Judeo-Christian bible is a lift from more ancient versions, especially those of Egypt and Babylon. The tale can also be found in China, Japan, India, Scandinavia, and the British and Irish isles, to name a few. Obviously, then, no one culture has a lock on "God" or creation-a fact that cannot be emphasized enough. Nor has the biblical story ever been adequate to explain truly the origins of the cosmos; in fact, it is merely a mythologized, simplified explanation filtered through and for finite minds. Of the biblical Genesis, Walker says, "However absurd, these myths still maintain a hold on vast numbers of people deliberately kept in ignorance