Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [178]
1. Doane, 86-7.
2. Jackson, 143-4.
3. Akerley, 209.
4. Walker, WEMS, 806.
5. Walker, WDSSO, 425.
6. Walker, WDSSO, 173.
7. Walker, WEMS, 142.
8. Potter, 214.
9. Potter, 45.
10. Akerley, 252-3.
11. Walker, WEMS, 793-4.
12. Walker, WEMS, 143.
13. Doane, 47.
14. Akerley, 295.
15. Stone, 189.
16. Stone, 161.
17. Walker, WDSSO, 168.
18. Blavatsky, IU, 11, 58.
19. Allegro, SMC, 25.
20. Walker, WEMS, 796.
21. Walker, WDSSO, 321.
22. Walker, WEMS, 776.
23. Akerley, 300.
24. Walker, WEMS, 146.
25. Walker, WEMS, 184.
26. Walker, WDSSO, 10-11.
27. Walker, WDSSO, 13.
28. Walker, WDSSO, 104.
29. Walker, WDSSO, 101.
30. Walker, WEMS, 823.
31. Walker, WEMS, 820.
32. Walker, WEMS, 822.
33. Massey, HJMC, 81.
34. Walker, WEMS, 825.
35. Walker, WEMS, 842-5.
36. Walker, WEMS, 1058.
37. Walker, WEMS, 1064.
38. Eusebius, 125.
39. Barnstone, 339.
40. Barnstone, 340.
41. Akerley, 73.
42. Leedom, 120.
43. Carpenter, 184-5.
44. Carpenter, 191.
45."The History of Drugs and Man," Anonymous.
46."The History of Drugs and Man," Anonymous.
47."Symbols, Sex and the Stars."
48."Symbols, Sex and the Stars."
49."The History of Drugs and Man," Anonymous.
50. Baigent & Leigh, 61.
Bronze sculpture hidden in the Vatican treasury of the Cock, symbol of St. Peter. Inscription reads "Savior of the World." (Walker, WDSSO)
Christian fresco showing the Amanita muscaria mushroom as the tree of good and evil in the Garden of Eden. (Allegro, SMC')
Essenes, Zealots and Zadokites
It has been established that the Christian religion is astrotheological, reflecting the mythos and ritual found ubiquitously long prior to the Christian era. The question remains as to how the Christian myth was created and by whom. In looking for the originators of Christianity, many people have pointed to the Essenes, the third Jewish sect besides the Pharisees and Sadducees in Jerusalem. Of course, because they cannot accept the nonhistoricity of virtually the entire gospel story and the Christian founder, such evemerists usually make the claim that beneath the countless layers of Pagan mythological lacquer there is yet a great master named Jesus who traveled around Palestine, ostensibly as a teacher of mysteries. The absolute dearth of evidence for such a master and his movement has perplexed researchers to no end, since, according to the gospel tales, not only had Jesus done wondrous works but so had his apostles, gaining fame near and far, and Christian churches with established hierarchies had popped up all over the Mediterranean during the first few decades after "the savior's" death. In their quest for such a leader and his organization, all these seekers have been able to find is mention of the brotherhood of Essenes. Thus, because so little of the "history" presented in the New Testament appears in the historical or archaeological record, historicizing scholars have insisted that the Christians were the Essenes and that Christ must have been an Essene master and "teacher of righteousness" who, like John the Baptist, another purported Essene, went out preaching, baptizing and spreading the word of the Essene doctrine.
Like the mythicists' arguments, the Essene theory of Christian origins is repugnant to fundamentalists, because it posits the preexistence of the Church, which would mean that Jesus was not its founder. The Church, according to such Christians, was not already established at the time of Christ's alleged advent but, under Christ's supernatural power and inspiration, miraculously caught fire and was empowered beyond all expectations, to spring up out of nowhere into a full-fledged movement, with extraordinary influence and, apparently, a good deal of wealth. In swallowing this yarn, then, we are supposed to accept that, within a number