Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [224]
This book is quite obviously fiction, such that it was not included in the canon, snipped to reduce the roles of the gods Mary and Joseph. Also omitted are the tales depicting Jesus as a vicious boy and frightening sorcerer who changes other boys into kids, i.e., baby goats, so he can be their "shepherd," and strikes dead a Jewish boy who destroyed the young "savior's" fish pools because they had been built on the sabbath.
The Gospel of Luke
We have already seen that the Gospel of Luke was based on Marcion's gospel, with interpolations to historicize and Judaize it. In addition, the entire story of Jesus's entry into Jerusalem at Luke 19:29-48 is missing from Marcion; as demonstrated, this story is a part of the ancient mythos. The writers of Luke also interpolated the Masonic phrases regarding Jesus being "the head cornerstone the builders rejected" at 20:9-18, verses not found in Marcion. Furthermore, a number of passages were added "to fulfill prophecy."
Luke was not only interpolated but also expurgated to remove hints of the brotherhood. For example, at Luke 24, the "two men in dazzling apparel" were originally said to be "those in white clothing," i.e., monks or priests of the solar cult, or "Brotherhood of the Sun."
The Life of Apollonius
Accounts of the life of the Greek/Samaritan Nazarene/ Therapeut/Gnostic miracleworker Apollonius (c. 2 BCE-c 102 CE) purportedly existed during the second century, prior to Philostratus's composition in 210 at the request of Empress Julia Domna. One or more of these accounts was used in the creation of the New Testament narrative, as alleged by a number of accusers, including Hierocles, the pro-consul under Diocletian (284-305), who wrote the "Philalethes" (303) exposing the Apollonius-Jesus connection. It should be noted that Philostratus's account makes no mention of any Jesus Christ, not even as a rival to Apollonius, who purportedly lived precisely at the time alleged of Jesus.
Other Texts
Other texts originally non-Christian but later Christianized include the Apocalypse of Adam and the Paraphrase of Shem, as well as the Apocryphon of John, as Barnstone states:
The Apocnphon of John (here called The Secret Books of John) was "originally composed as a non-Christian text" whose Christian thrust was added by a later Christian editor.32
The historicizers also used the works of Josephus and the teachings of the Gnostics Menander, Saturninus and Carpocrates, as well as those of the Neoplatonist Ammonius Saccas and others already mentioned.
In this mythmaking effort and religious conspiracy, hundreds of new texts were created, and these compositions produced turmoil among the warring priesthoods. The books of the NT, in fact, reveal how the warring factions developed and were counteracted. For example, in the synoptic gospels is the synthesis between the solar gods of the East and the West. The Gospel of John was compiled to debunk the second century Gnostics and to correct the errors of the other gospels revealed by Pagan critics. The Epistles of John served to excoriate those who claimed Christ never existed. In Acts, the battle between Simon Peter and Simon Magus represents the break between the Roman and Syrian Gnostic churches. Indeed, the confusion and fighting over Christ's life and doctrine within the Church has existed because the Christian plagiarists over the centuries were attempting to amalgamate and fuse practically every myth, fairytale, legend, doctrine or bit of wisdom they could pilfer from the innumerable different mystery religions and philosophies that existed at the time. In doing so, they forged, interpolated,