Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [129]
Massey elucidates:
And from the mount called Olivet, Jesus vanished into heavenOlivet being a typical Mount of the equinox from which the solar god ascended.''`'
The ascension is significant, as without it much of the purpose for the Christian religion crumbles. Yet, as Graham remarks:
The ascension of Christ is a very important part of Christian doctrine; it implies immortality, triumph over death, a heaven world beyond, and a possible Second Coming. Why then did Matthew and John ignore it? Luke mentions it only in one little verse of nineteen words, a sort of postscript not found in some manuscripts. And someone added to Mark a mere reference to it with the telltale little sign 1.100
Like so many other biblical tales, the accounts of the ascension are contradictory, with Luke placing it three days after and Acts 40 days after the resurrection. These discrepancies are explainable not as history but within the mythos, representing the lunar resurrection at the autumnal equinox and the solar at the vernal equinox.
Many other elements, such as the flight into Egypt, the woman at the well, the pool of Bethesda, the cursing of the fig tree, the reapers of the harvest, Salome and the "Dance of the Seven Veils," the two sisters Mary and Martha, the Marys as mother of Jesus, the palms in Jerusalem, the purple robe, and the seven fishers in the boat are also found in other mythologies. The pool of Bethesda, for example, represents one of the mysteries of the secret societies and mystery schools.
Conclusion
It has been calculated that aside from the 40 days in the wilderness, everything related in the New Testament about what Jesus said and did could have taken place within a period of three weeks. The gospel story, then, hardly constitutes a "biography" of any historical value about the life of one of the world's purported great movers and shakers. What it does record is a "history" of the development of religious ideas and how they are usurped and passed along from one culture to another. The gospel is also reflective of a concerted effort to unify the Roman world under one state religion, drawing upon the multitudes of sects and cults that existed at the time. Most of all, however, the story records the movements of planetary bodies and the forces of nature in a mythos that, when restored to its original, noncarnalized, non-historicized grandeur, portrays the cosmos in a manner not only illuminating but also entertaining.
1. Walker, WEMS, 186.
2. Stone, 221-5.
3. Hazelrigg, 33.
4. Walker, WEMS, 292.
5. A. Churchward, 315.
6. Walker, WDSSO, 337.
7. Walker, WEMS, 815.
8. Walker, WEMS, 108.
9. Walker, WEMS, 291.
10. Walker, WEMS, 541.
11. Hazelrigg, 35.
12. Pike, 497.
13. Pike, 494.
14. Walker, WEMS, 905.
15. Stone, 209.
16. Walker, WDSSO, 387.
17. Wheless, 72.
18. Walker, WEMS, 292.
19. Jackson, 123.
20. Higgins, 1, 255, 511.
21. Doane, 18-9-.-
22. Massey, HJMC, 185.
23. Hazelrigg, 35-36.
24. Graham, 234-5.
25. Pike, 455.
26. Doane, 364.
27. Walker, WEMS, 10.
28. Walker, WEMS, 1026.
29. Walker, WEMS, 970-1.
30. Massey, HJMC, 27.
31. Massey, GHC.
32. Massey, HJMC, 28.
33. Jackson, 206.
34. Jackson, 206.
35. Massey, HJMC, 41.
36. Walker, WEMS, 435.
37. Doane, 172.
38. Walker, WDSSO, 75.
39. Higgins, 11, 96.
40. Walker, WEMS, 749.
41. Higgins, 11, 95.
42. Higgins, 1, 560.
43. Doane, 140.
44. Massey, HJMC, 58.
45. Higgins, I, 648.
46. A. Churchward, 387-9.
47. Doane, 175.
48. Leedom, 125.
49. Walker, WEMS, 464.
50. Walker, WEMS, 614.
51. Walker, WDSSO, 88-9.
52. Walker, WEMS, 496.
53. Walker, WEMS, 615.
54. Walker, WDSSO, 105.
55. Massey, HJMC, 63.
56. Massey, HJMC, 78.
57. Massey, HJMC, 121.
58. Walker, WEMS, 68.
59. Massey, HJMC, 123-7.
60. Massey, HJMC, 123-7.