Christ Conspiracy_ The Greatest Story Ever Sold - Acharya S [90]
Thus for the gnostic, as for religionists all over the world, the heavenly bodies were imbued with divinity and honoured as angelic bodies.37
The Gnostics also knew the allegorical and astrotheological nature of the "life of Christ," as admitted by Christian father Irenaeus, and which was at the root of their denial of the "historical" Christ. As Graham relates:
Irenaeus said: "The Gnostics truly declared that all the supernatural transactions asserted in the gospels were counterparts of what took place above."38
The astrological imagery was the major difference between Gnosticism and Christianity, and the primary reason the Gnostics were refuted and their texts destroyed or mutilated.
There are many references to astrology in the canonical scriptures that are not as clear as those examined herein. What is clear is that the Hebrews and Christians were no more "astrologyfree" than any of their contemporaries or predecessors, although said predecessors, such as the Chaldeans and Babylonians, were in general far more skilled and gnostic in the astrological arts. Indeed, Karl Anderson, master navigator and author of Astrology in the Old Testament, calls the Bible "that greatest of all astrological works ...";9 Jordan Maxwell concurs:
The bible is nothing more than the greatest astrological, astronomical story ever told. It is pure astrology, based on the zodiac. The fact of the matter is, if you've done your homework, you're going to find out that the Bible is nothing more than astrotheology, the worship of God's heaven.40
Astrology is no more "evil" than are the sky and the heavenly bodies, which biblical writers claimed were divine emanations of the Grand Architect. The vilification of astrology is not merely a sign of ignorance but, by insisting that its adherents were either lacking in wisdom or led astray by the devil, of cultural bigotry, as astrology has been appreciated and utilized in countless cultures around the globe. The ancients were, in fact, constantly reenacting the heavens, a reenactment that was eventually literalized and carnalized as "The Greatest Story Ever Sold."
1. Wheless, FC, 164.
2. Higgins, I, 691.
3. Walker, WEMS, 287.
4. Higgins, 1, 207-8.
5. Higgins, 1, 559.
6. Pike, 266.
7. Higgins, II, 270.
8. Higgins, I, 423; 11, 136.
9. Walker, WEMS, 804.
10. Anderson, 113.
11. Anderson, 20.
12. Wheless, FC, 150-1.
13. Allegro, SMC, 31-5.
14. Walker, WEMS, 401.
15. Anderson, 105.
16. Higgins, I, 85, 593.
17. Jackson, 151; A. Churchward, 348.
18. Higgins, 1, 34.
19. Anderson, 66.
20. Anderson, 66.
21. Doane, 45.
22. Anderson, 66.
23. Webster's.
24. Higgins, 1, 197.
25. Doane, 91.
26. Higgins, I, 370.
27. Higgins, 1, 265.
28. Walker, %EMS, 207.
29. Graham, 256.
30. Larson, 99.
31. Walker, WEMS, 286.
32. Walker, WEMS, 829.
33. Higgins, 1, 197.
34. Walker, WEMS, 217.
35. Sitchin, WTB, 183.
36. Walker, WDSSO, 144.
37. Allegro, DSSCM, 112.
38. Graham, 354.
39. Anderson, 10.
40. "The Naked Truth."
The Grand Architect of the Universe. French manuscript of the 13th Century CE. (Mysteries of the Past.)
Zodiac with 12 signs and four cardinal points. Mosaic from the floor of a synagogue in Bet-Alpha, Galilee, 1-2 centuries BCE-CE. (Sitchin, WTB)
The Son of God is the Sun of God
... there is nothing new under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 1:9)
Over the ages, the ancients did not simply observe the movements of the celestial bodies but personified them and created stories about them that were recreated upon the earth. Out of this polytheistic, astrological atmosphere came the "greatest story ever told," as the gospel tale is, in fact, astrotheological and non-historical, recording the mythos found around the globe for eons. Thus, the Christian religion, created and shored up by forgery,