Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [137]
The logia are in fact repetitions of the sayings of Horus, as the Word, or lu-em-hept, 3,000 years before the Christian version.39 As Massey states:
The "sayings" were common property in the mysteries ages before they were ever written down.... The "logia" in the twentyfifth chapter of Matthew reproduce not only the sayings, but also the scenery of the Last Judgment in the Great Hall of Justice, represented in the [Egyptian] Book of the Dead.40
Just as the gospel writers and church fathers claimed the logia or "oracles" were recorded by Matthew, so were the sayings of Osiris recorded by the scribe Taht-Matiu. In addition, the logia are those of Dionysus, serving as part of "the mysteries" found at Samothrace, for one.
Some of the sayings constitute the famous "Sermon on the Mount," also not original with Christ. As noted, Horus delivered a Sermon on the Mount, and there is within the Egyptian Hermetic or Trismesgistic tradition a discourse called "The Secret Sermon on the Mount."41 The Egyptian Sermon sayings also found their way into the Old Testament. As Robertson says, "As for the Sermon on the Mount, of which so much is made, it is no more than a patchwork of utterances found in the Old Testament."42 Carpenter elaborates:
The "Sermon on the Mount" which, with the "Lord's Prayer" embedded in it, forms the great and accepted repository of "Christian" teaching and piety, is well known to be a collection of sayings from pre-Christian writings, including the Psalms, Isaiah, Ecclesiasticus, the Secrets of Enoch, the Shemonehesreh (a book of Hebrew prayers), and others ... 43
Potter adds:
Among the words of Jesus, you will recognize that much of the "Sermon on the Mount," especially the fifth chapter of Matthew, also the thirteenth of Mark and its parallels in the other gospels, sometimes called "The Little Apocalypse," seem almost verbatim quotations from the Books of Enoch, the Book of Jubilees, and the Testament of the Twelve Patriarchs.44
A number of the elements or beatitudes of the Sermon are found in the doctrines of the pre-Christian Nazarenes, such as "Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven." As Massey states:
And these, for example, are amongst the "sayings" in the Book of the Nazarenes. "Blessed are the peacemakers, the just, and `faithful.'" "Feed the hungry; give drink to the thirsty; clothe the naked." "When thou makest a gift, seek no witness whereof, to mar thy bounty. Let thy right hand be ignorant of the gifts of the left." Such were common to all the Gnostic Scriptures, going back to the Egyptian.
The sayings of the Lord were pre-historic, as the sayings of David (who was an earlier Christ), the sayings of Horus the Lord, of Elija the Lord, of Mana the Lord, of Christ the Lord, as the divine directions conveyed by the ancient teachings. As the "Sayings of the Lord" they were collected in Aramaic to become the nuclei of the earliest Christian gospel according to Matthew. So says Papias. At a later date they were put forth as the original revelation of a personal teacher, and were made the foundation of the historical fiction concocted in the four gospels that were canonized at last.
No matter who the plagiarist may be, the teaching now held to be divine was drawn from older human sources, and palmed off under false pretenses. . . . Nothing new remained to be inculcated by the Gospel of the new teacher, who is merely made to repeat the old sayings with a pretentious air of supernatural authority; the result being that the true sayings of old are, of necessity, conveyed to later times in a delusive manner. . . . The most important proclamations assigned to Jesus turned out to be false. The kingdom of God was not at hand; the world was not nearing its end; the catastrophe foretold