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In Gnostic texts, the chariot of Ezekiel is the wheel of the zodiac with the 72 decans, representing the "chariot of the Sun." Doresse relates the Gnostic interpretation: "The chariot, we are told, has been taken for a model by the seventy-two gods who govern the seventy-two languages of the peoples."68
Transubstantiation
The doctrine of transubstantiation, found at 1 Corinthians 1012, represents the miraculous transformation of bread and wine into the body and blood of Christ. However, this sort of magical ritual was practiced around the world in a variety of forms eons before the Christian era and is, therefore, in no way original to Christianity:
... the ancient Mexicans, even before the arrival of Christianity, were fully acquainted with the doctrine of transubstantiation and acted upon it in the solemn rites of their religion. They believed that by consecrating bread their priests could turn it into the very body of their god, so that all who thereupon partook of the consecrated bread entered into a mystic communion with the deity by receiving a portion of his divine substance into themselves. The doctrine of transubstantiation, or the magical conversion of bread into flesh, was also familiar with the Aryans of ancient India long before the spread and even the rise of Christianity.69
This practice has been considered barbaric and savage by non-Catholic Christians and other religionists, not to mention ludicrous by nonreligionists. The pre-Christian ancients knew that the transubstantiation was allegorical, not actual: "When we call corn Ceres and wine Bacchus,' says Cicero, 'we use a common figure of speech; but do you imagine that anybody is so insane as to believe that they thing he feeds upon is a god? 70
The Trinity
The trinity or triune deity is yet another aspect of the ubiquitous mythos, found in countless other cultures long prior to the Christian era. Obviously, then, the concept did not originate with Jesus; in fact, it was not adopted into Christianity until the Council of Nicea in 325. Like so many aspects of Christianity, the trinity was originally found in the Egyptian religion. As Churchward says:
Such mysteries as the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Virgin Birth, the Transfiguration on the Mount, the Passion, Death, Burial, Resurrection and Ascension, Transubstantiation and Baptismal Regeneration, were all extant in the mysteries of Amenta with Horus or lu-em-Hotep as the Egyptian Jesus."
Jacolliot notes that the Trinity is also of Indian origin: "The Trinity in Unity, rejected by Moses, became afterwards the foundation of Christian theology, which incontestably acquired it from India."
Over the millennia, the trinity took different forms: all-female, all-male and mixed. The earliest trinities in many places were allfemale. As Walker relates:
From the earliest ages, the concept of the Great Goddess was a trinity and the model for all subsequent trinities, female, male or mixed. . . . Even though Brahmans evolved a male trinity of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva to play these parts [of Creator, Preserver and Destroyer], Tantric scriptures insisted that the Triple Goddess had created these gods in the first place.... The Middle East had many trinities, most originally female. As time went on, one or two members of the triad turned male. The usual pattern was Father-Mother-Son, the Son figure envisioned as a Savior. . . . Among Arabian Christians there was apparently a holy trinity of God, Mary, and Jesus, worshipped as an interchangeable replacement for the Egyptian trinity of Osiris, Isis, and Horus. . . 71
In the solar mythos, the trinity also represents the sun in three stages: Newborn (dawn), mature (full-grown at 12 noon), and "old and dying, at the end of the day (going back to the Father)."73
The trinity is even found in Peru, a fact that prompted the perturbed Rev. Father Acosta to remark:
It is strange that the devil after his manner has brought a Trinity into idolatry, for the three images of the sun called Apomti, Churunti, and Intiquaoqui, signify Father and Lord