Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [136]
The Holy Land
Rather than being a designation of a particular place on Earth, the "Holy Land" is the direction of east, "the place of coming forth," where the sun god Horus appears.34
Ichthys, The Fish
As we have seen, Jesus is the solar avatar of the Age of Pisces, the Fishes. Dujardin relates the origin of the Fish and its identification with Jesus:
This title [Ichthus, the Fish] was a survival of the primitive cults of the time when the gods had the form of animals . . . The following facts are significant: (1) Jesus is actually called the Fish, Ichthus. (2) He is represented in the form of a fish in the Catacombs. (3) Tertullian calls him "our fish." (4) Heretical sects worshipped him as "the serpent," into which animal Jahvehism transformed the primitive fish-god ... (5) The cult of the fish is attested by the story of the loaves and fishes in the Gospels.... The patriarch Joshua, who was plainly an ancient god of Palestine and bore the same name as the god of Christianity, is called the son of Nun, which signifies "son of the fish."35
Augustine said of Jesus, "he is a fish of the living water,"36 to which Massey might remark, "as was said of Horus."
The Lamb of God
As we have seen, a number of godmen around the world have been considered the "Lamb of God." This ubiquitous designation is not reflective of hordes of historical saviors but is another aspect of the mythos, dealing with the sun in the Age of Aries. As noted, during the Age of Taurus, the Bull motif was everpresent, while in Aries it was the Lamb: "Afterward the Ram or Lamb became an object of adoration, when, in his turn, he opened the equinox, to deliver the world from the wintry reign of darkness and evil."37
When the sun was in Taurus, the bull was sacrificed, and in Aries, it was the lamb or ram. Christianity was created as the sun moved into Pisces, hence the fish symbol and the fisherman motif. Yet, the old title of "Lamb of God" remained attached to Christ, and at Easter orthodox Christians still slaughter lambs, in holding with the ancient Pagan rituals. The slaughter of fish, apparently, is not bloody enough for blood-atonement purposes. Since the symbol of the coming Age of Aquarius is a "man carrying a pitcher of water" (Lk. 22:10), we certainly hope religionists will not begin to sacrifice bottled water deliverers or waiters.
The Logia (Sayings), Sermon on the Mount, Beatitudes and Parables
Over the millennia much has been made of the "Sayings" or Logia of Jesus, also known as the "Sayings of the Savior," "Sayings of the Sage" ("Logoi Sophon"), the "Gnomologue," the "Oracles of Jesus/the Savior," the "Hebrew Oracles," the "Oracles of Matthew," which are one of the two main subdivisions of the gospels, the other being the narrative. The sayings or logia constituted one of the many shared texts used separately by the evangelists in the creation of the gospels. This logia collection was eventually publicized as the "Gospel of Q," or just plain "Q," for "Quelle" in German, meaning "source." Q scholarship reveals the logia themselves are composed of three separate texts, Q', Q2 and Q3. Recognizing that virtually the entire gospel story is mythical, Q scholarship attempts to find the "real" Jesus in a handful of sayings represented by Q'. It should be noted that the initial logia, constituting Q1, do not have any Jewish affiliation except the word Solomon, and that Q2 and Q3 only mention the Pharisees and not Sadducees.
In finding a "historical Jesus" in Q', historicizers are thus left with a "man" who was "was first remembered as a Cynic sage and only later imagined as a prophet who uttered apocalyptic warnings."38 However, in reducing Jesus to a handful of logia we are left with nearly verbatim sayings from manuscripts preceding the Christian era, demonstrating that this Q Jesus already existed, non-historically and mystically for centuries