Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus Page #6
on a real flesh and blood man,
but instead, the development
of the religious movement
around the idea of a man.
There isn't even an actual
physical description
of what Jesus looked like
anywhere in the Gospels.
The presentation of the Jesus
character is somewhat of a composite
of many messianic leaders of the time.
Many messianic leaders of the time,
most or all of them came to a bad end.
Usually by crucifiction,
because crucifiction was
the Roman punishment
for seditious activity.
And the penny dropped.
The penny dropped that Jesus,
as a human being, never existed.
In all of this,
we're dealing with literature.
We're not dealing with history.
So, the answer is:
no, there is no history
to this character Jesus,
it's entirely a literary creation.
What the Romans did was they saw the
Jews reliance and belief in prophecy.
So, they said ok, they want a prophet,
let's give them one.
It seems that in the construction of
the literary character Jesus Christ,
the Roman authors borrowed religious
concepts not only from Judaism,
but also from other gods and
religions that they knew.
Some scholars have noticed
the similarities between
the ancient pagan mysteries.
PAGAN PARALELS:
PAGAN PARALELS:
In ancient mythology,
we find this whole strain of thought
called solar mythology.
Many gods start taking on solar
attributes because as agricultural
communities become more important,
the sun becomes the big focus,
but most obvious reasons
are planting and harvesting.
The sun is then personified.
So, now we have a male sun god.
APOLLO - SUN OF GOD
Becomes a religion in
many parts of the world.
KRISHNA - SUN GOD
Christianity usurped a tremendous
amount of sun worship.
Some of us are saying that this was
a sun god turned into a Jewish man.
This December 25th birthday was,
in fact, the Winter Solstice.
This is really, in fact,
the birth of the god of light.
December 25th, actually,
is the end of a three-day period
when the sun stands still.
The sun appears to be dying...
as the days become shorter...
and the sun is reborn at that point.
BIRTH OF THE SUN
Across the ancient world,
there was this form of experiental
and phylosofical spirituality in these
mystery cults, or mystery schools.
And at the center of these schools,
you would find a mythos.
(? ) Which was an initiating myth,
a symbolic myth which would help people
who were going through
the initiating process
(?) come to this spiritual awakening,
this knowledge, this ??? Gnosis.
And what you see in these myths
is the elements that will
later become the Jesus story.
Let's ask the question:
is Jesus developed
from pre-existing literary characters?
Jesus has certain episodes in his
so-called life and each one of them
can be traced to a prior
representation of that time.
If you look at the elements which
school myths, you find the story of
a dying and ressurecting son of God,
who's born of a virgin,
has 12 disciples,
turns water into wine in a wedding,
brings a new religion of love,
provocation by the authorities,
is put to death,
sometimes by crucifiction.
And then, if you want to commune with
the God-man, you take bread and wine.
Ant then you can come to eternal life.
Well, all of this is,
of course, Christianity.
EASTER:
Easter itself is a long pre-Christian
celebration of the ressurection
of Spring from the death of Winter.
This is an ancient xamanic rite,
you'll find all over the world,
that you go through a ritual death.
Where you get reborn,
but you reborn as an awake being.
So, you died just to your lower nature
and woken up to your higher nature.
OLD TESTAMENT PARALLELS
You can find them in the Old Testament,
in the Jewish mythology as well,
it isn't just pagan parallels.
I mean, the New Testament...
For example, the ascension...
we have an ascension
with the Old Testament figure of Elijah.
And it's a very dramatic ascension.
Elisha/Elijah cycle.
These are two Jewish prophets.
One followed on from the other,
which have many of the story
elements found in Jesus.
For example, there is a
multiplication of food miracle;
there is a raising of the dead miracle;
there is a water miracle;
there is, ultimately,
an ascension to heaven miracle.
Is this fulfillment? Or is this,
simply, copying of a useful theme?
You can see where they just use Old
Testament characters and scriptures
as a blueprint to create this new one.
A lot of the ethics of
Christianity actually were around
before Christianity. "Do unto others
as you have them do unto you",
is, in fact, from the Old Testament.
Jesus didn't make that up.
Many of the other aspects
of Christian ethics,
many things which we
might want to applaude,
as very good aspects of
Christian ethics, can be found in
the Stoic phylosophy in Rome.
Which, by the way,
is exactly the phylosofical and ethical
school promoted by the Flavians.
There is little that is
original about Jesus.
If one separates from his words
advice that was in the interest
of the Roman imperial family,
all that you have left are
snippets of widely known phylosophies,
truisms
and concepts that came directly
from prior Hebraic literature.
The reason I'm now convinced
there's no historical Jesus,
which seems a real...
like oh...
to people who are not familiar with
the idea, is a combination of things.
First of all, there's no
evidence for an historical man
which stands up to proper scrutiny.
Secondly is the story of
Jesus is full of these motifs
which come from the pagan mysteries.
And the third reason is because
in the early Christian movement,
(? ) there's these two types of Christians,
circa by the 2nd century.
(?) Which I think ??? Gnostics and Literalists.
What marks out the Literalists,
who will become the Roman Empire...
the Roman Catholic Church,
is that they've got an historical man.
What marks out the Gnostics,
is that they see it allegorically
(?) and a great heresy is the Christ in coming in the flesh.
Now, the winners write history...
and the history books have been
written by the Literalists.
And all of the tradition about
the Romans trying to torture
and supress Christians,
these traditions are correct.
They definitely persecuted the
messianic, militaristic Christians
and they certainly would have
frown on the Gnostic independent
thinking Christians,
but the Roman, pacifistic
"giving to Caesar what is Caesar's"
Christians,
that group would have been promoted.
Which makes it perfect for the Roman
empire and it's a fascist empire.
It's got a very simple message:
"Just believe this.
You don't have to transform and you
have to go through the authorities,
through the bishops,
through the State, ultimately. "
It's the perfect thing for them to
pick out. And that's what they do.
Our scholars agree that the Gospels
are complex literary creations,
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