Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [195]
The Essenians were called physicians of the soul or Therapeutae; being resident of both Judaea and Egypt, they probably spoke or had their sacred books in Chaldee. They were Pythagoreans, as is proved by all their forms, ceremonies, and doctrines, and they called themselves sons of Jesse . . . If the Pythagoreans or Coenobitae, as they were called by Jamblicus, were Buddhists, the Essenians were Buddhists. The Essenians ... lived in Egypt on the lake of Parembole or Maria, in monasteries. These are the very places in which we formerly found the Gymnosophists or Samaneans or Buddhist priests to have lived, which Gymnosophists are placed also by Ptolemy in North-eastern India. 17
And Doane states:
. . . Dean Milman was convinced that the Therapeuts sprung from the "contemplative and indolent fraternities" of India-18
Higgins continues:
If the opinion be well founded, that their Scriptures were the originals of the Gospel histories, then it will follow almost certainly, that they must have been the same as the Samaneans or Gymnosophists of Porphyry and Clemen Alexandrinus, and their books, which they were bound by such solemn oaths to keep secret, must have been the Vedas of India; or some Indian books containing the mythoses of Moses and Jesus Christ ... 19
Of the gospel account, Taylor states that "the travelling Egyptian Therapeuts brought the whole story from India to their monasteries in Egypt, where, some time after the commencement of the Roman monarchy, it was transmuted in Christianity."1° These books were from either the northeast of India or the coast of Malabar, or both, and were evidently first taken to Antioch and then to Egypt, by Apollonius, Marcion and/or others.
Like their eastern counterparts, the Therapeutan brotherhood had a savior-god and the attendant sayings and mysteries long before the Christian era. The Therapeuts were also followers of Serapis, "the peculiar god of the Christians," who had been created specifically to roll into one the various savior cults, thus providing the doctors with practice for their greatest creation. This savior-god of the brotherhood network extending from Britain to India was variously named IE, IES, leud, Judas, Joshua, Jason, lesous, lesios, lasios, or other variant, which, again, represented a secret spell. Walker relates that "lasus signified a healer or Therapeuta, as the Greeks called the Essenes, whose cult groups always included a man with the title of Christos."21 Here again is the pre-existence of the words "Jesus" and "Christ" that Eusebius was forced to admit in the face of charges that Christ was a fictional character.
As stated, the early Gnostic Therapeuts were attempting to create a new "religion" that incorporated the teachings of virtually all the religions, cults, philosophies and mysteries then known, first setting about to record in writing the ubiquitous "Sayings of the Savior," or Logia Iesou, which had been orally transmitted for centuries and millennia. These texts constituted the earliest "Christian" writings, and were non-historicizing and nonJudaizing, consolidating sayings from India, Persia, Syria, Judea, Greece, Egypt, etc. The Therapeuts' original Gnostic-"Christian" efforts emanated out of the Antiochan branch of the brotherhood network; hence, that was where the first Christians were thus called. The Gnostic-Christian effort was, as noted, eventually taken over by the Alexandrian school.
The Alexandrian Jews
In the centuries before the Christian era, many Jews and other Israelites had migrated to Egypt, and by the third century BCE there was already a large Jewish community at Alexandria. As confirmed by Apion, the Alexandrian Jews were "from Syria," i.e., they were Antiochans, Galileans, Samaritans and Zadokites/ Sadducees, the latter of whom, as Levites, transcended nationality and developed