Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [135]
The descent into hell by the savior is a common occurrence within many mythologies, found in the stories of Adonis, Bacchus, Balder, Hercules, Horus, Jesus, Krishna, Mercury, Osiris, Quetzalcoatl and Zoroaster.25 This part of the mythos represents the sun entering into the womb of darkness, nightly and seasonally. The sun, of course, is the only expert on hell who has returned to tell about it; hence, it is the sun who is the immortal authority on the afterlife. Graves relates the meaning of hell within the mythos:
The word astronomers use to indicate the sun in its high point of ascension is perihelion. Now you may notice there is a Hell in this word (peri-hel-ion); at least it can be traced to Hell, or Hell to it. Helion, the last part of this word was pronounced by the Greeks Elios, and is synonymous with Acheron, which is generally translated Hell. So that we have "peri," which means around, about, and "helion," Hell-that is, the sun roundabout Hell.26
Basically, the concepts of eternal heaven and hell have been utilized to suit the needs of the manipulating priests, who sell their wares by means of greed for heaven and fear of hell. As Doane says:
Heaven was born of the sky, and nurtured by cunning priests, who made man a coward and a slave. Hell was built by priests, and nurtured by the fears and servile fancies of man during the ages when dungeons of torture were a recognized part of every government, and when God was supposed to be an infinite tyrant, with infinite resources of vengeance.27
The Holy Ghost
In many cultures, the Holy Ghost was considered female, as Sophia, Sapientia, or Hokmah-Wisdom-"but the patriarchy masculinized it."2H As Christ was the sun, the Holy Ghost was also the moon, which was often considered female.29
Although the Holy Ghost is a cherished concept, representing God's very spirit and goodness, Wheless remarks:
The "Holy Ghost" itself, it is claimed by the Bible and the Church, inspired and decreed by positive command all the bloody murders and tortures by the priests from Moses to the last one committed; and the spirit of them lives and is but hibernating to-day. The Holy God of Israel, whose name is Merciful, thus decreed on Sinai: "He that sacrificeth to any gods [elohim], save unto Yahweh only, he shall be utterly destroyed." (Ex. xxii, 20).30
The Holy Grail
The cup or chalice used by Christ in the biblical tale to convey "his blood" was, like so many other "relics," considered to contain magical powers of the highest kind. Thus, the "Holy Grail" became the object of much attention and many bloody "quests" for those seeking such powers. Of course, there was no "real" Grail, but this fact did not stop anyone from either looking for it or claiming they already possessed it. Of the frenzy surrounding the Holy Grail, Walker says:
If the Grail was nothing more than the cup of Christ's blood, then there was no reason for the great Quest at all. The cup of Christ's blood was readily available to all, in every chapel; and even though it was called a holy sacrament, its discovery somehow lacked thrills. As matters turn out, to Christianize the Grail was to neutralize the magnetism of its secret nature.31
Naturally, the Grail myth existed prior to the Christian era. As Walker also relates:
The real origins of the Holy Grail were not Christian but pagan. The Grail was first Christianized in Spain from a sacred tradition of the Moors. Like the Celts' holy Cauldron of Regeneration, which it resembled, the blood-filled vessel was a womb symbol meaning rebirth in the Oriental or Gnostic sense of reincarnation. Its connotation was feminine, not masculine.32
The temple where the Grail was kept was in actuality not localized on Earth but in the heavens, surrounded by the 72 "chapels" or decans of the zodiac. Graham gives the "deep astrological" meaning of the Grail:
The first decanate of Leo is the Crater, or Cup, the solar