James this may help you see concerning the coming of Christ in the myth. Mark I addressed to you because most here read your posts.
The Christian religion was not founded on a man, but on a divinity; that is, a mythical character. So
far from being derived from the model man, the typical Christ was made up from the features of
various Gods, after a fashion somewhat like those "pictorial averages" pourtrayed by Mr. Galton, in
which the traits of several persons are photographed and fused in a portrait of a dozen different
persons, merged into one that is not anybody. And as fast as the composite Christ falls to pieces,
each feature is claimed, each character is gathered up by the original owner, as with the grasp of
gravitation.
It is not I that deny the divinity of Jesus the Christ; I assert it! He never was, and never could be, any
other than a divinity; that is, a character non-human, and entirely mythical, who had been the pagan
divinity of various pagan myths, that had been pagan during thousands of years before our Era.
Nothing is more certain, according to honest evidence, than that the Christian scheme of redemption
is founded on a fable misinterpreted; that the prophecy of fulfillment was solely astronomical, and the
Coming One as the Christ who came in the end of an age, or of the world, was but a metaphorical figure, a type of time, from the first, which never could take form in historic
personality, any more than Time in Person could come out of a clock-case when the hour strikes; that no Jesus could become a Nazarene by being born at, or taken to, Nazareth; and that the history in our Gospels is from beginning to end the identifiable story of the Sun-God, and the Gnostic Christ who never could be made flesh. When we did not know the one it was possible to believe the other; but when once we truly know, then the false belief is no longer possible.
The mythical Messiah was Horus in the Osirian Mythos; Har-Khuti in the Sut-Typhonian; Khunsu in
that of Amen-Ra; Iu in the cult of Atum-Ra; and the Christ of the Gospels is an amalgam of all these characters.
The Christ is the Good Shepherd!
So was Horus.
Christ is the Lamb of God!
So was Horus.
Christ is the Bread of Life!
So was Horus.
Christ is the Truth and the Life!
So was Horus.
Christ is the Fan-bearer!
So was Horus.
Christ is the Lord!
So was Horus.
Christ is the Way and the Door of Life!
Horus was the path by which they travelled out of the Sepulchre. He is the God whose name is
written with the hieroglyphic sign of the Road or Way.
Jesus is he that should come; and Iu, the root of the name in Egyptian, means "to come." Iu-em-hept, as the Su, the Son of Atum, or of Ptah, was the "Ever-Coming One," who is always pourtrayed as the marching youngster, in the act and attitude of coming. Horus included both sexes. The Child (or
the soul) is of either sex, and potentially, of both. Hence the hermaphrodital Deity; and Jesus, in Revelation, is the Young Man who has the female paps.
Iu-em-hept signifies he who comes with peace. This is the character in which Jesus is announced by
the Angels! And when Jesus comes to his disciples after the resurrection it is as the bringer of peace.
"Learn of me and ye shall find rest," says the Christ. Khunsu-Nefer-Hept is the Good Rest, Peace in
Person! The Egyptian Jesus, Iu-em-Hept, was the second Atum; Paul's Jesus is the second Adam.
In one rendition of John's Gospel, instead of the "only-begotten Son of God," a variant reading gives
the "only-begotten God," which has been declared an impossible rendering. But the "only-begotten
God" was an especial type in Egyptian Mythology, and the phrase re-identifies the divinity whose
emblem is the beetle. Hor-Apollo says, "To denote the only-begotten or a father, the Egyptians
delineate a scarab‘us! |
