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Many of the concepts contained in the logia/sayings, which are held up by Christian defenders as the core of Jesus's teachings and a reflection of his goodness and compassion, can also be found in the Vedas as spoken by the compassionate Krishna and in the Dhammapada attributed to the equally compassionate Buddha, as well as in the Tao Te Ching of the Chinese sage Lao Tzu (611, century BCE).46

Likewise, a number of Jesus's parables were derived from Buddhism and from the very ancient Indian sect of Jainism, such as those of the prodigal son and the sower.47 As Larson says, "We must thus summarize the basic teachings of Jesus, none of which were original to Him."48

The Logia Iesou constituted the sayings element of the mythos found in mystery schools that could be considered part of a "salvation cult," whose practitioners were "spiritual physicians" in the business of "saving souls." Once the code of secrecy regarding the logia had been broken, numerous books were written containing them. Bishop Papias purportedly published a fivevolume "Exegeses/Expositions on the Sayings of the Lord," thus demonstrating that the sayings were a monolithic body separate from the narrative. It is inexplicable that such a monumental work by an early Christian father was "lost," except that it had to be destroyed because it revealed the Savior as absolutely nonhistorical.

The Lord's Prayer

As concerns the supposed originality of the "Lord's Prayer," which is presented as having come clear out of the blue from the very mouth of the Lord Himself, Wheless says it best:

Like the whole "Sermon on the Mount," the Prayer is a composite of ancient sayings of the Scripture strung together to form it, as the marginal cross-references show throughout.

We might add that the "Scripture" referred to by Wheless is not only from the Old Testament but is part of the ancient mythos/ritual: ". . . the Lord's Prayer was a collection of sayings from the Talmud, many derived from earlier Egyptian prayers to Osiris."49 Walker also relates that the Lord's Prayer was once the Lady's Prayer:

The plea for daily bread incorporated into the Lord's Prayer must have been a plea to the Goddess in earlier times, for she was always the giver of bread, the Grain Mother ... 50

The Logos or Word

Jesus is called the "Word" or, "Logos," which, although it appears mysterious and mystical to the uninitiated, is actually commonplace in Greek parlance, as it has many meanings, including "word," "speech," "rumor" and "reason." The logos is in actuality a primitive concept, reflecting merely the way in which God created the world, i.e., through speech. The Logos concept is not new with Christianity but is applied to a number of older deities in mythologies from the Mediterranean to China. Pike relates:

The Word is also found in the Phoenician Creed. As in all those of Asia, a Word of God, written in starry characters, by the planetary Divinities, and communicated by the Demi-Gods, as a profound mystery, to the higher classes of the human race, to be communicated by them to mankind, created the world.51

Of the Logos-Jesus concept in the Gospel of John, Wheless says:

As there can be no more positive and convincing proof that the Christ was and is a Pagan Myth-the old Greek "Logos" of Heraclitus and the Philosophers revamped by the Greek priest who wrote the first chapter of the "Gospel according to St. John" and worked up into the "Incarnate Son" of the old Hebrew God for Christian consumption as the most sacred Article of the Christian Faith and Theology. . . Thus confessedly [in the Catholic Encyclopedia] is the Divine Revelation of the "Word made flesh" a Pagan-Jewish Myth, and the very Pagan Demiurge is the Christian Christ-"Very God"-and the "Second Person of the Blessed Trinity."52

Lucifer

Although much is made of Lucifer, the "fallen angel," his name only appears translated as such in one verse in the King James bible, at Isaiah 14:12, where he is called