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The "Brain dead" nature of your posts is really starting to annoy. Why not find something else to do?
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Good stuff but already covered by Kersey Graves in his 16 Crucified Saviors before Christ.
John G Jackson went over the general idea of this type of the resurrected man/god/vegetation in his Man God and Civilization.
Albert Churchward was the one who pulled out all the stops tying it all together with evolution to Freemasonry saying it all started in Africs with the Pygmy a d their dances. The ancient Egyptians incorporated it all into their spirituality.
For pharaoh Pepi nothing was more important than securing a Pygmy dancer of the God and we see the overall importance of the Bes netjer pervading all levels of AE society.
Simon of Peraea or Simon son of Joseph was a former slave of Herod the Great who rebelled and was killed by the Romans in 4 BC. He has been identified as the messiah of Gabriel's Revelation. He is mentioned by Flavius Josephus.
According to Josephus:
"There was also Simon, who had been a slave of king Herod, but in other respects a comely person, of a tall and robust body; he was one that was much superior to others of his order, and had had great things committed to his care. This man was elevated at the disorderly state of things, and was so bold as to put a diadem on his head, while a certain number of the people stood by him, and by them he was declared to be a king, and he thought himself more worthy of that dignity than any one else." "He burnt down the royal palace at Jericho, and plundered what was left in it. He also set fire to many other of the king's houses in several places of the country, utterly destroyed them, and permitted those that were with him to take what was left in them for a prey. He would have done greater things, but care was taken to repress him immediately. [The commander of Herod's infantry] Gratus joined himself to some Roman soldiers, took the forces he had with him, and met Simon. And after a great and a long fight, no small part of those that had come from Peraea (a disordered body of men, fighting rather in a bold than in a skillful manner) were destroyed. Although Simon had saved himself by flying away through a certain valley, Gratus overtook him, and cut off his head."
A tablet, known as the Gabriel's Revelation or The Jeselsohn Stone, was likely found near the Dead Sea some time around the year 2000. It has been associated with the same community which created the Dead Sea scrolls and mentions Simon. Israel Knohl read the inscription as a command from the angel Gabriel "to rise from the dead within three days". He took this command to be directed at a 1st-century Jewish rebel called Simon, who was killed by the Romans in 4 BC. Knohl believed that the finding "calls for a complete reassessment of all previous scholarship on the subject of messianism, Jewish and Christian alike".[3] In 2009 the National Geographic Channel aired The First Jesus? which addressed the claims and controversy.
Knohl has eventually abandoned this reading, in favor of Ronald Hendel's reading (followed by Qimron & Yuditsky): "By three days the sign". He still maintains the historical background of the inscription to be as mentioned above. He now views Simon's death, according to the inscription, as "an essential part of the redemptive process. The blood of the slain messiah paves the way for the final salvation".
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More than twenty claims of this kind - claims of being invested with divine honor (deified) - have come forward and presented themselves at the bar of the world, with their credentials, to contest the verdict of Christendom, in having proclaimed Jesus Christ, "the only son, and sent of God:" twenty Messiahs, Saviors, and Sons of God, according to history or tradition, have in past times, descended from heaven, and taken upon themselves the form of men, clothing themselves with human flesh, and furnishing incontestable evidence of a divine origin, by various miracles, marvelous works, and superlative virtues
And finally these (more than) twenty Jesus Christs (accepting their character of the name) laid the foundation for the salvation of the world, and ascended back to heaven: Adad of Assyria Adonis, son of the virgin Io of Greece Alcides of Thebes Atys of Phrygia Baal and Taut, "the only Begotten of God," of Phoenicia Bali of Afghanistan Beddru of Japan Buddha Sakia of India Cadmus of Greece Crite of Chaldea Deva Tat, and Sammonocadam of Siam Divine Teacher of Plato Fohi and Tien of China Gentaut and Quexalcote of Mexico Hesus of Eros, and Bremrillah, of the Druids Hil and Feta of the Mandaites Ischy of the Island of Formosa Ixion and Quirnus of Rome Holy One of Xaca Indra of Tibet Jao of Nepal Krishna of Hindostan Mikado of the Sintoos Mohammed, or Mahomet, of Arabia Odin of the Scandinavians Prometheus of Caucasus Salivahana of Bermuda Thammuz of Syria Thor, son of Odin, of the Gauls Universal Monarch of the Sibyls Wittoba of the Bilingonese Xamolxis of Thrace Zoar of the Bonzes Zoroaster and Mithra of Persia Zulis, or Zhule, also Osiris and Orus, of Egypt
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The Essenes, lately the object of so much attention, play a central role in our drama. They were an extraordinary group of Jewish communist-celibates who, in their formative stage about 170 B.C.E., absorbed the metaphysics and the eschatology of the Zoroastrians, and then, some sixty-five years later, by becoming Pythagoreans, incorporated into their system much of the discipline and soteriology of Attis, Dionysus and the mystery-cults of Greece and Asia Minor. Upon all this, they engrafted a Christology which combined a Persian with a Messianic Judaic concept, which, in a period of crisis, they personalized in their martyred Teacher of Righteousness, whom they expected to return upon the clouds about 35-30 B. C., accompanied by myriads of angels to conduct the Last Judgment. If you were to invest study into these areas it would be your conclusion, based on the evidence and facts available for your inspection, that Jesus was an Essene who, convinced that he was himself the incarnate Christ destined to redeem and judge mankind, left the Order of the Essenes (strict Pharisees) for the purpose of creating a mass-movement. The certainty finally emerges that Christianity was a highly composite doctrine which combined many of the age-old religious concepts first developed by Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, India, Buddhists, and Greeks, as well as by Jews, Phrygians, Syrians, and other inhabitants of Asia Minor. It was congenitally related to all of these; and when any of them accepted Christianity, they were simply recovering what was, at least in part, originally their own.
This religious synthesis explains the ease at which Gentile Christianity became a world religion, yet had its roots in a Jewish movement.
THE CORE OF ESSENE TEACHING IN RELATIONSHIP TO SALVATION
Mature Essenism taught the following concepts as synthesized from Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Persians, Buddhists, and Greeks, as well as by Jews, Phrygians, Syrians:
That the human race is divided into two groups which are forever separated, the Elect and the unrighteous, the Children of Light and the Children of Darkness That the former may be redeemed for everlasting glory in heaven, but only through divine intervention; that a god-man (Angel-Messiah) must appear as a human being on earth, and, in fact, had appeared, to bring salvation to humanity
That all of the Elect who accept him and become his disciples will be redeemed; that all others are doomed to super eternally in hell fire
That the Children of Light are made manifest through their celibacy, saintly brotherhood, and communal poverty and equalitarianism
That the god-man is the Soter, i.e., the divine sacrifice who gives his life for many and whose flesh and blood are consumed by his communicants so that they too may become divine and immortal That in his first manifestation the savior proclaims his revelation; that after his death, he returns to the Father for a period while his followers preach his gospel; that before the end of the then existing generation he would certainly return in a grand Parousia to judge all mankind and establish the kingdom of heaven. This was the Essene-Christian faith, which is also the religion of the occident.
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