Title: Christianity
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2Historical Christ
- Christianity Egyptologist Massey others
revealed that at Council of Bishops at Nicea in
325 CE at the behest of Emperor Constantine,
Xianity was fully synthesized from Egyptian
religion and from prevailing 15 pagan gods and
various Alexandrian schools (also Buddhism
Krishna cult), and life of seer Apollonius, and
blended with heroes of ancient world as a
'religious-communal soul' of the time. Christ
was a sacrificial cultural hero, Christianity the
state religion. Mythical Christ was made human by
Paul. One wonders if Krishna, Rama, Moses,
Zoroaster etc. were ever historical figures or
thus made out as religious allegories! - As Hesus (Hebrew Joshua) Kristos based on
the also-crucified Apollonius of Tyana (2 CE-99
CE), neo-Pythgorean medium/ magician, who
travelled across Caucasius (Hindu-kush) mountains
to India, learning Gospels from Brahmins of
Kashmir, infusing their rites into Magian
observances. The true historical Christ- the
Christ portrait is based on a bust of his! - In India Ancient records at Buddhist Hemis
monastery in Ladakh reveal Jesus spent the lost
years between the ages of 13 and 29 in India
studying the Divine Word, Jainism, Vedas
Buddhism at Lanka, Jagannath, Benaras, Nepal
Kashmir, returning to Jerusalem after preaching
to Zoroastrians en route (See Lost Years of
Jesus by E.C. Prophet, Jesus Lived in India by
H. Kersten). Though Word appears as Vak in
Vedas, Jesus preached to lower classes the easy
yoga, denouncing Vedas its Trimurti, inviting
wrath of Brahmins. - His Death Research reveals that surviving the
Cross, Jesus was tended by Joseph of Arimathea,
Nicodemus and fellow Essenes. He returned to
Kashmir with his mother Mary, wife Mary Magdalene
Apostle Thomas (all died in India) 16 yrs.
later, preaching to lower castes upto ripe old
age (grave of Yuz Asaf in Srinagar is his?). In
Nath Namavali, Isha Nath is taught yoga by
Chetan Nath. Bhavishya Puran also mentions his
Kashmir sojourn.
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6The 8 petal Astral, Ashta-dal-kanwal, Mahar Lok
is the Womb of Shakti. It is also the Equator
of Brahmand, and hence the Christ plane as
well. The deity here is Durga-Kali, or Mary who
presides over the triple worlds Bhu, Bhuvah
Swah, and comprises the limit of the Microcosm
during Kali-yuga. She is Turiya- fourth to the
trinity 65 or 10004 or FatherSonHoly
Spirit, 5 petal Son- the same as Yama- Dark
Lord of Death (the Black Hole, with the Central
Sun on the obverse), being Christ, her son!
Christ has been thus made Anti-Christ in
Christian theology- i.e. Son is thus same as
the Sun of all Pagan religions, whom
Christianity claims to supercede!!! In Sant-Mat,
however, Christ the Liberator is above the
Equator of the entire Macrocosm, which is
Maha-Sunn or Bhav-sagar- Ocean of the World
located in Paar-Brahm, i.e. only Perfect Sadhus,
Sants and Param Sants qualify for this
designation.
7The Christ Myth
- Today, views about Christ fall into three basic
categories First and foremost, many believe the
Bible to be infallible, the word of God, telling
us that Jesus was God himself, incarnated as
God's son on earth, born of a virgin, who
performed miracles, was crucified, dead for three
days then came back to life and returned to
heaven. The second view is that Jesus was not
divine, but was a prophet, a fabulous man who
taught morality through parables, and gathered a
great following. According to this view he may or
may not have been crucified, but his followers
went on to build a religion and a church based on
his teachings. The basis for this belief is,
typically, that millions of people have believed
in him for 2,000 years, so he must have existed.
But being the son of God, the miracles, death and
resurrection- thats just a bit much for anyone
with a healthy stripe of skepticism. - The third view is that the Jesus story is pure
myth. It is extrapolated from and built upon the
many "son of God, born of virgin, savior messiah"
myths that existed in the civilized world 2,000
to 5,000 years ago. The storyline was familiar to
the early converts, making it easy for church
leaders to sell them on it. But it was only a
myth, with no historical record to support it. - Many aspects of the gospel story about Jesus
Christ, and of Christian tradition in general,
represent motifs from older astrotheology and
solar mythology, reflecting legends and myths
regarding the sun gods of antiquity. From a wide
variety of sources, it is clear that identifying
and equating Christ with the sun began in ancient
times and has continued abundantly over the many
centuries since then. The exploration of Christ
as a solar figure includes a study of ancient sun
worship not only in the Pagan world but also in
Israel, as exhibited by the solar nature of
Jesuss purported Father, the Israelite god
Yahweh.
8The Christ Myth
- The Savior was born and died for our sins. Could
all the contradictions and anachronisms in the
Bible, lack of historical data, absent
archeological evidence, Church Fathers silence
and even the Gnostic Scriptures be in reality
pointing to a mythic godman, a patchwork hero
with a thousand theologies? Is there really any
first century proof indicating there was
historically anyone close to a first century
Galilean Rabbi? - Orthodoxy has gone through, in the last 2,000
years, even to this day, to erase any connections
of the similarity between Egyptian and Christian
spirituality. Sorting through available
historical and archaeological data, the early
Christian history is proved to be largely
mythical. Christianity on the exoteric side, and
Gnosticism on the esoteric side, were already
mature long before the birth of Jesus Christ in
the manifestations and theologies of Horus,
Osiris, Isis, Shu, Anubis, Ra and other saviour
deities. Gnostic Hermetic ideals existed hundreds
of years before Christianity. - The parallels exist between Jesus and Horus, and
other Egyptian Savior gods revered for thousands
of years before birth of Christ. Horus and
various Egyptian terms appear in Christian
Gnostic texts, as well as the Valentinian
Creation narrative. Goddess Isis and her cult was
called Mary thousands of years before the virgin.
The Gospel of John directly borrowed from several
Egyptian writings. - When Osiriss cult disappeared before the
religion of the Christ, many Egyptians found that
the moral system of the old cult and that of the
new religion were so similar, and the promises of
resurrection and immortality in each so much
alike, that they transferred their allegiance
from Osiris to Jesus of Nazareth without
difficulty. Moreover, Isis and the child Horus
were straightway identified with Mary the Virgin
and her Son.
9Christian Texts
- The Old Testament comprises 46 books, many of
them historical, concerning the development of
Jews from a barbaric state indulging in bloody
sacrifices to acceptance of a nobler conception
of the divine, taking inspiration from the
Zoroastrians. It Psalms, akin to Sama Veda and
Gathas, are a mix of the earlier militant to
the noble. - The New Testament written in Ephesus,
Alexandria around 100 CE, it consists of 27
documents 4 Gospels Acts containing life and
ethical (though not much of spiritual science)
teachings of Christ, 21 Letters, dogmatic
epistles of the early Church and a book of
Revelation. - Non-Canonical Books The apocryphal scriptures
of Jews such as the spiritual Book of Wisdom are
accepted by Catholics others such as gospels of
Mary, Peter, James and stories of Jesuss life
etc. present intellect of the early Church.
Literature of the early Fathers such as Clement
of Alexandria, Irenaeus contain Christian
metaphysics. - Oral tradition early Fathers considerable
oral tradition- teachings by word of mouth-
existed as writings of early Fathers like Justin
Martyr, Ignatius quoting Jesus show. Writings of
early Fathers like Clement of Alexandria,
Tertullian, Origen present fundamental positions
of the Xian tradition. - Division between exoteric esoteric teachings
existed (as with Jews). Bible contains teachings
in parables, not casting pearls before swine,
but Christ taught the Apostles things of kingdom
of God for 11 years (40 days?) after
resurrection. Converts were led through stages
hearers, catechumens, baptism receivers- full
members.
10Christian Mysticism
- Christian Mysticism continued by lineage after
Jesus through the Apostles Peter, James, John
and Paul. St. Paul, the Apostle passed on the
baton to St. Timothy. St. Clement (d 220), and
his pupil, Origen (d 251) continued the Platonic
tradition of Alexandria. Plotinus (d 270), St.
Anthony (b 250) and Benedict of Nursia (b 480)
contributed to the early Christian monasticism.
St. Augustine (d 430), Bernard of Clairvaux (d
1153), St. Dominic (d 1221) in Spain, St.
Francis (d 1226) of Assisi, Italy, St. Thomas
Aquinas (d 1274), Dominican Thomas Aquinas (d
1274), Tauler (d 1361), Meister Eckhart (d
1327), Hery Suso (d 1366), Thomas a Kempis (d
1471) of Germany, Carmelites St. Teresa of Avila
(d 1582) St. John of the Cross (d 1591) of
Spain, Henry More (d 1687), St. Martin (d 1803)
have been some of well-known Christian mystics. - Christian mystics carved out a path of 'direct
experience' for themselves, often at loggerheads
with the formal Church and its dogma. Christian
mysticism was essentially founded by Dionysius,
the so-called Areopagite, a Syrian in the
pre-Christian era from ancient Syrian thought,
earlier Egyptian, expounded by St. Paul, also a
Syrian, in the latter half of the 5th cent. It
blended together thoughts from East- India,
Persia, Mesopotamia and West- Platonist Greece,
Judaism, Christianity etc. and absorbed the 1st
cent. CE Hermeticism, based on worship of
Egyptian Thoth or Greek Hermes, Neoplatonism
giving a mystic interpretation of Plato's
teachings in 2nd to 6th cents., Neopythagoreanism
(to which Apollonius of Tyana belonged)- an
attempt to introduce a religious element into
pagan philosophy, blending Stoicism and Ascetism
of the Essenes in place of arid formalism and
Manichaeism, in turn, influenced by
Zoroastrianism of the 3rd cent. CE God was now
seen in opposition to the world created by
anti-God, Jehovah.
11Christian Church
- The Churches These are mainly divided into
Roman Catholic (has great similarities with
Tibetian Buddhism), Western Protestant/Anglican
Eastern Orthodox/Assyrian. - The Christian Era was the arbitrary creation of
Dionysius Exiguus ('the small'). Likewise, the
date of Christmas (even earlier celebrated as the
'Feast of Nativity', 3 days after the Solar
solstice of winter) commemorating his birth, with
New Year's day or Yule 6 days later- then
Epiphany (the manifestation of divinity at
Baptism) after another 6 days. The Bright Star
of Bethlehem, witnessed at the time of his birth
(in 6 BCE), represents the inner Pole Star. - The Festivals The 2 weeks of Lent (remembering
Christs 40 days' fast in the wilderness),
followed by the Easter tragedy- crucifixion and
resurrection (already based on goddess Estarte,
when Sun comes to life after being buried)- the
vernal equinox and rise of the Virgin
constellation above the horizon, when he enters
Jerusalem on 2 asses (Sun and Moon). - The Spirituality of Christ being 'born in us
anew in surrender to the divinity within' giving
way to dogma, the Church eventually became the
'Mother' in place of the 'Holy Spirit' (the true
bread wine and flesh blood, for Jesus was
'Word-made-flesh') and its seven Sacraments
(Baptism, Confirmation, Penance, Marriage,
Ordination, Last Anointing Mass), ritualistic
instruments through which Jesus' divine life
could become available to its followers. - Baptism in the 'Holy Word' or the 'Christ
Power as practiced by the Gnostics, was
supplanted by a mere faith in the 'Holy Bible',
the 'Church' and its bishops. The Church became a
power centre in itself- with power quickly
supplanting piety! - Christian doctrines Christ as soul in man,
Son of God. The unity of Trinity of Father, Son
Holy Ghost. 7 Spirits before the Throne- gods
of the elements. Lower gods Archangels Angels.
Reincarnation (Elias-John the Baptist). Karma (as
you sow).
12Christian Symbolism
- The Holy Bible comprises the Judaic Old
Testament and the later New Testament, which
contains the (fourth) gospel of St. John
containing teachings akin to Sant-Mat,
interpreting 'Christ' as the incarnate
non-dualistic, spiritual Word or Naam of God. - The 10 Commandments contained in the Ark
(same as 5510 Sunnas), move from Judaic laws
and commandments to love and surrender
(especially in St. Matthew). - The Cross/Crucifix Miraculized in Christianity,
it has various pre-Christian- Egyptian and Judaic
forms. To the Gnostics, Cross symbolizes crossing
of Spirit Matter to create the dualistic
universe, or the initiate being reborn after his
crucifixion on the 'Tree of Life'. - Christ crucified- the ideal in it, man arises
triumphant, having crucified the lower self on
the cross of Matter. Matter has been made the
servant of the spirit, and body has been redeemed
by making it the subject of the spirit. In the
Mysteries, every human spirit re-treads the path,
and in his turn, becomes a Christ, first
crucified, and then triumphant. - The Holy Trinity Christ Power, the
liberator is above Brahmandic Ashta-dal-kanwal
8 equator (Asura, Mahadeva) of Brahmand, while
anti-Christ (Sura, Deva) is Matter born of
astral light (Big Bang) that keeps the spirit
in bondage of Chaurasi. The Xian Trinity is
Indra-Yama-Vairochan. Christ, son of Mary is
Yama or Kartikeya/Indra- son of Parvati-Kali, and
thus a pagan anti-Christ! Correctly, Christ is
Brahma, the 2nd of Tridevas. - Christ In Sant-Mat Mahasunna, the Cosmic
equator is the Christ plane. The Trinity is
beyond the Gunas 1. Sat Purush Father 2. Sat
Guru (the living perfect Master on earth) Son
3. Sat-Naam Holy Spirit or Mother,
Creative Power of Cosmos. Here Christ is a
Param Sant/Sant or at least a Superior grade
Sadhu (at Bhawar-gupha).
13The Tree, Rose, Cross Symbolism
14- The Cross is in fact a pre-Christian Symbol. The
Latin Cross is an opened-up cube, which is but
Shiva-linga or Stone of Kaaba, while the Greek
Cross is that of the neophytes, Chrest. - The Latin Cross is an unequal cross is cross
with one arm lengthened so that the body of the
man crucified thereupon may be represented. - Crucifix is the cross including a corpus
emphasizing Christ's suffering and sacrifice. It
symbolizes Gods great sacrifice, an offer of
salvation to all of humanity and the promise of
resurrection and victory over death. - Carrying the Cross to Jerusalem symbolizes The
taking over of the Sanchit- Storehouse karma of
others by the Master and negating the same in the
Mansarovar- fountainhead of the Water of Life. - As a representation of the Trinity, the sections
3,4 5 represent the Three Persons of the
Trinity section 2 is the erstwhile Eastern
Star or Ashta-dal-kanwal, the Turiya (fourth)
and the longer, lower section signifies the
Physical plane.
Crucifix- the Symbolism
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The Cross 1 2 3 4 5
Symbolism 1 Guda chakra Ajna chakra Left arm Right arm Hriday chakra
Symbolism 2 Lower 5 chakras of manifestation Crown- Sahasraar (lower) OVERSOUL Left eye Right eye 3rd Eye (Bridge of nose) SOUL
Symbolism 3 (Southern Cross) Physical plane Ashta-dal- kanwal 8 Hell 4 Heaven 6 Inter- mediate (7th chakra)
Symbolism 4 (True, Northern Cross) Ashta-dal- kanwal 8 Shakti 12 Shankar Vishnu Brahma
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