Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [206]
Regarding the compilation of the Bible and the creation of Christianity, Roberts says:
Every rational person might have known that the writings of the New Testament were the works of a man or a school of men who sought to blend such portions of the preceding creeds, doctrines, ceremonies, practices and religious formulas into a single religion, that would serve to harmonize and united mankind in one common effort to advance the welfare of all.... The religious systems of China, India, Persia, Egypt, Greece, Rome, Palestine, and even the Druidical system of Northern and Western Europe, were largely drawn from to make up the Eclectic system of religion ... 14
Walker states:
Far-Eastern traditions were utilized too. The Roman empire was well aware of the teachings and myths of Buddhism. Buddha images in classic Greek style were made in Pakistan and Afghanistan in the first century A.D. Buddhist ideas like the "footprints of Buddha" appeared among Christians. Bishop Sulpicus of Jerusalem reported that, as in India, "In the dust where Christ trod the marks of His step can still be seen, and the earth still bears the print of His feet." Buddhist metaphors and phrasing also appeared in the Gospels. Jesus's formula, "Dearly Beloved," was the conventional way for Tantric deities to address their teachings to Devi, their Goddess. 15
And Wheless relates:
Cardinal Newman . . . says that Milman arrays facts "admitted on all hands," to wit: "that the doctrine of the Logos is Platonic; that of the Incarnation Indian; that of a divine Kingdom Judaic; that of angels and demons (and a Mediator) Persian; that the connection of sin with the body is Gnostic; the idea of a new birth Chinese and Eleusinian; that of sacramental virtue Pythagorean; that of Trinity common to East and West; and that of the rites of baptism and sacrifice equally ubiquitous"!16
During the centuries after the purported advent of the Christian savior, at least 21 councils were convened to establish Church policy and doctrine, many of which were, as noted, bloody melees. It was a long, slow process that eventually unified the numerous warring factions to a large extent. The following is a partial list of the various religions, cults, sects, secret societies and mystery schools that contributed to the formation of the state religion called Christianity:
1. Buddhist/Gymnosophic/Sufic
2. Cabirian / Phrygian / Syrian
3. Dionysian/ Bacchanal/ Orphist/ Samothracian
4. Druidic/Gallic/Teutonic
5. Egyptian/ African
6. Essene/Nazarene/Nazarite/Ebionite/Therapeut
7. Greek/Eleusinian
8. Indian/ Brahmanical
9. Mandaean/Manichaean
10. Marcionite/Valentinian
11. Mithraic/Zoroastrian
12. Neoplatonist/Stoic/Cynic/Eclectic/Peripatetic
13. Phoenician/ Canaanite/ Israelite/ Samaritan
14. Yahwhist/ Kabbalist/ Pharisaic
15. Roman/Etruscan
16. Samanean/Magusean/Sampsaean
17. Sethian/Ophite
18. Zealot/Zadokite/Sadducean
In addition to these groups, many of which obviously overlap, are not a few other branches and even more esoteric designations such as the "Followers of the Eight-Pointed Red Cross," the "Sons of the Sun," the "Order of the Black Hand," the "Order of the Red Hand," and the famed "Order