Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [140]
Hazelrigg explains the meaning within the mythos of the nativity and the rest of the sacred king drama:
The Nativity, the Betrayal, the Crucifixion, and the Resurrection are but quarterly stages in the mystic journey, expressed as a geometrical ration in natural physics-ever the same whether applied to the four quarters of the day, the four lunar phases, the four cardinal points or seasons in the solar revolution ... 61
The Sabbath
The Sabbath predates the Jewish religion and is found in the Middle East and India, where it signified the seventh-day rest of the Goddess Durga.62 Ignorant of its origins, the various Christian sects have been squabbling for centuries as to when the Sabbath should be observed, as ordained by the Jewish god Yahweh. The "purists" feel that Sabbath is to be observed on Saturday, rather than the "Pagan" day of Sunday adopted by the "corrupt" Catholic Church; however, Saturday is also a "Pagan" day, named for "Saturn." As Doane relates:
The planet Saturn very early became the chief deity of Semitic religion. Moses consecrated the number seven to him . . . "The Seventh day was sacred to Saturn throughout the east." . . . 'Saturn's day was made sacred to God, and the planet is now called cochab shabbath, 'The Sabbath Star.' The sanctification of the Sabbath is clearly connected with the word Shabua or Sheba, i.e., seven."63
The Second Coming/Day of Judgment
Although billions of people over the centuries have been waiting endlessly for the Second Coming of Jesus, believing that it is a very unusual event, the "second coming" has been expected of numerous savior-gods, including Krishna, Buddha, Bacchus, Quetzalcoatl and others around the world. The same can be said of the end of the world, the millennium and the Day of Judgment. Of the Day of Judgment, Doane relates: "Prof. Carpenter, referring to the Egyptian Bible-which is by far the most ancient of all holy books-says: `In the "Book of Dead," there are used the very phrases we find in the New Testament, in connection with the day of judgment. m64 The "Second Coming," in fact, is the return of the sun in a new precessional age.
The Seventy/Seventy-Two
The number of disciples is represented variously in the gospels, from 12 to 70 to 72. This numerical trio can be explained by the mythos and not as history. To begin with, "72" was often rounded off to 70, so the two numbers are interchangeable. Tradition holds that there are 72 names of God,65 which is appropriate, since 72 is yet another sacred number, the reason why there are also 72 nations in the 10th chapter of Genesis. Like Jesus, Confucius (61h century BCE) had 72 initiated disciples.66 Furthermore, the 72 are the same accomplices of Set who plotted the death of Osiris.
The 72 actually represent the decans or dodecani, divisions of the zodiacal circle into 5° each, also considered constellations. In addition, it takes 72 years for the precession of the equinoxes to move one degree. As noted, the story of Jacob's Ladder with 72 ascending and descending angels is actually a reflection of the zodiac and the angles of the decans. Furthermore, the magical pentagram or pentacle is made from the division of the decans. Regarding the pentacle, the number 72 and the legendary 72 translators of the Hebrew bible into Greek, Walker says:
To draw a pentacle, one divides a circle into five arcs of seventytwo degrees each. Seventy-two is the prime magic number ... So magical was 72 that one of the most durable myths about the origin of the Bible called it the Book of the Seventy-Two (Septuagint), claiming that it had been translated from Hebrew to Greek in the third century B.C. by seventy-two scholars simultaneously, and that each version was precisely the same as all seventy-one others. This silly story was an article of Christian faith throughout