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The Way of Jesus the Nazarean The Orthodox Suppression of Original Christianity
Bible "We have proved again and again, the writings are not the production of Christ or of His apostles, but a compilation of rumors and beliefs, made, long after their departure, by some obscure semi-Jews, not in harmony even with one another, and published by them under the name of the apostles, or of those considered the followers of the apostles, so as to give the appearance of apostolic authority to all these blunders and falsehoods." (Faustus, Contra Faustus Manicheun) Fundamental Christians teach that the Bible is without error and written by God himself, through Moses and the Prophets. Our purpose in exposing the contradictions in a supposedly perfect text is to pave the way for acceptance of truer Gnostic texts.
FROM CHRISHNA TO CHRIST Apollonius introduced these doctrines among the Essenes; and those who accepted and followed the teachings of Chrishna which he brought from India became known as Chrishnaists or Christians. The doctrines of Chrishna, which were the foundation of Brahmanism, which religion Chrishna originated, were expressed in the sacred book of the Hindus, the "Bhagavad Gita" or the Song Celestial. They included belief in an immanent deity who dwells within all living creatures, plant, animal and human, and who suffers when they suffer and has joy when they are joyful. This pantheistic conception of God led to the doctrine of reverence for all life or universal compassion, which led to the practice of harmlessness and non-violence to any living creature, which meant vegetarianism and pacifism.
This philosophical and humane conception of God and the humanitarian practices
that follow from this conception stands in sharp contrast with the later
anthropopmorphic personal gods of the Jews and Christians, who were conceived as
having a human form and, in the form of Jehovah, to have human passions,
including baser ones of revengefulness, jealousy, etc. Also, being conceived as
a being apart from his creations - animals and human beings - whom he fashioned
from the "dust of the earth," he is not the indwelling deity of
Brahmanism. The man-god of Judaism and Christianity gave man mastery over the
lower animals and not only did not forbid him to kill and eat them, but
encouraged and insisted on such killing in sacrifice to him in the form of burnt
offerings. And, in the Old Testament, he also encouraged warfare and murder of
those who refused to accept him and who worshipped other gods. In his book, Lillie shows that Essenism, or Original Christianity, represented an occidental version of Buddhism, and that this was the origin of Christianity, the Christian gospels having been originally Hindu gospels devoted to the life and teachings of Chrishna and Buddha, the name Chrishna being changed to Cristos or Christ, with the name Jesus added, it is claimed, that two centuries before the present era, Buddhist missionaries introduced these teachings into Palestine and appeared in Egypt within two generations of the time of Alexander the Great. This led to a mystic movement among the Jews, who took up these teachings as they were brought to them by the martyred Jehoshua Ben Pandira, historical founder of the Essene sect among the Jews, who studied in Egypt, where he derived his doctrines which were opposed and persecuted by the orthodox rabbis. In Egypt, those who accepted these Buddhist doctrines were known as Therapeuts; in Palestine, Nazarites or Nazarenes. They were also called Essenes. The Pythagorean Greeks affiliated themselves with this movement, as also did the Levitical Hebrews; and all followed Pythagoras as their leader. Thus, when Apollonius of Tyana appeared among them, fresh from his studies in the Himalayas under his Buddhist master, teaching doctrines that were a synthesis of Buddhist and Pythagorean teachings, he was enthusiastically received by the Essenes and hailed as the long-awaited Teacher of Righteousness and their leader.
APOLLONIUS THE NAZARENE (MYSTERY MAN OF THE BIBLE)
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