Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [76]
As Wheless states:
All these divine and "revealed" doctrines of the Christian faith we have seen to be originally heathen Zoroastrian mythology, taken over first by the Jews, then boldly plagiarized by the exPagan Christians.107
Other Saviors and Sons of God
Many of the other sons of God, and several "daughters of God" and goddesses such as Diana Soteira as well, share numerous aspects with the Christian savior, such as the following notable examples.
The Arabian Issa purportedly lived around 400 BCE in the western Arabian region of Hijaz, where also existed places called Galilee, Bethsaida and Nazareth, a town that was not founded in Palestine until after "Jesus of Nazareth's" alleged era. The similarities between the Arabian Issa and the Palestinian Jesus are many and profound.
Aesclepius is the great healing god of the Greeks who had long, curly hair, wore robes and did miracles, including raising the dead. Of Aesclepius, Dujardin relates:
The word Soter has not only the meaning of Saviour, but also of Healer; it is the title given to Esculapius . . . it is interesting to realize that the same men who carried to the world the revolutionary message of salvation by union with the god were at the same time an organized group of healers, who day by day earned their living by the practice of healing.108
It has also been demonstrated that the Orphic religion is similar to Christianity. In Jesus Christ: Sun of God, David Fideler relates of the Greek hero/god Orpheus:
Orphism promulgated the idea of eternal life, a concept of "original sin" and purification, the punishment of the wicked in the afterlife, and the allegorical interpretation of myth, which the early church fathers applied to the Christian scriptures. Orpheus was known as the Good Shepherd, and Jesus was frequently represented as Orpheus, playing music and surrounded by animals, a symbol of the Peaceable Kingdom or Golden Age, representing the ever-present harmony of the Logos. Like Orpheus, Jesus descended to Hell as a savior of souls. 109
Indeed, as Werner Keller relates:
In Berlin ... there is a small amulet with a crucified person, the Seven Sisters and the moon which bears the inscription ORPHEUS BAKKIKOS. It has a surprisingly Christian appearance. The same can be said of a representation of the hanging Marsyas in the Capitoline Museum in Rome. 110
Conclusion
It is evident that Jesus Christ is a mythical character based on these various ubiquitous godmen and universal saviors who were part of the ancient world for thousands of years prior to the Christian era. As Massey says:
The same legend was repeated in many lands with a change of name, and at times of sex, for the sufferer, but none of the initiated in the esoteric wisdom ever looked upon the Kamite lusa, a gnostic Horus, Jesus, Tammuz, Krishna, Buddha Witoba, or any other of the many saviours as historic in personality for the simple reason that they had been more truly taught.1 I
The existence and identity of all these mysterious characters who are so identical in their persona and exploits, constituting the universal mythos, have been hidden from the masses as part of the Christ conspiracy.
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2. Graves, WSCS, 36.
3. Higgins, II, 421.
4. Lockhart, 116.
5. Graham, 351.
6. Higgins, 1, 662-9.
7. Walker, WEMS, 1100.
8. Doane, 190-1.
9. Jackson, 67.
10. Walker, WEMS, 77.
11. Robertson, 75-6.
12. Doane, 363.
13. A. Churchward, 334.
14. Doane, 290.
15. Larson, 136; Doane, 147, 290.
16. Doane, 290.
17. Doane, 168.
18. Doane, 291.
19. Doane, 292.
20. Mead, GG, 133.
21. Mead, GG, 133.
22. Doane, 294.
23. Doane, 292.
24. Pike, 290; Higgins, 1, 159, 444.
25. Doane, 293.
26. Doane, 116.
27. Blavatsky, IU111, 209, 537-538.
28. Massey, HJMC, 150.
29. Mead, 134.
30. Doane, 292.
31. Doane, 294.
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