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Did Jesus ever live? - by Betty Martin
The Crucifixion
Attributed to Nivardus of Milan
Ottonian, Fleury, France, about 1000 - 1025
Tempera colors, gold, silver, and ink on parchment
9 1/8 x 7 1/16 in. MS. LUDWIG V 1, FOL. 2V
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Did Jesus ever live?
Sir John Wilkinson pointed out that 'the first cross found in Egypt belonging
to the Christians is not the cross which we know from the Gospel, but the Crux
Ansata, the Ankh-sign of life.'(1) The supposed emblem and proof of 'a crucified
Christ is purely Egyptian, and has no relation, either direct, or typical, to
crucifixion, which has been all along ignorantly assumed to give its
significance to the cross. The Ankh-sign proves the Christians to have belonged
to the Osirian religion originally, the Christ of which was Horus, the Christ
who was continued by the Gnostics.'(2)
Ancient Rome had ridiculed the first Christians because 'of their ignorance
of the past and the true nature of their religious symbols, which they had come
by they knew not how, nor when.'(3) It took seven centuries from the supposed
birth of Jesus till the Council of Trullo 'to transform the typical and
mythological cross (once and for all) into an historical one.'(4) And it was not
till the Nineteenth Century that the first scholars started doubting the notion
of an historical Jesus. And not until 1834 that Rochette 'conclusively showed
that the most ancient images of the Virgin and Christ were of Gnostic
fabrication; and that the Gnostic Christ was not an historical personage.'(5)
I understand that churches still cling to an historical Christ, but I am
shocked to see that even open minded people in the spiritual west, people
publishing at World Mysteries for example, still accept a Christ of history. It
was about time they understood that no such person ever lived and that the
Gospel is but 'a vehicle for alchemy.'
(See
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/scholars.html
for instance.)
Footnotes:
(1) Wilkinson
(2) Massey
(3) Ibid.
(4) Ibid.
(5) Rochette
Subject Related Books
http://www.jesusneverexisted.com/book.html
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas (Paperback)
by Elaine Pagels (Author)
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