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Sometimes it is better to read one's conclusion before one reads the evidence for them. Let me say from my heart that I believe every Christian wants to know the truth about the Jewish Jesus. Without a doubt this is unquestionable. However, as you can see, because of the corruption of the oral traditions as held about Jesus by his earliest Gentile followers, what we have inherited today is anything but the truth. Today we are the beneficiaries of the sciences of Archeology, Anthropology, Astronomy, Astrology; beneficiaries of increased knowledge of Biblical History, Biblical Language, Biblical Culture, etc. We live with the added knowledge contributed by the discoveries made available by the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library whose secrets have been available for over 50 years at present. We must not live in ignorance of such momentous advancements in knowledge if we want to know the "truth" about this man from Galilee.
After the destruction of the Temple in 70 C.E., and with the vacuum created by the dispersion of the Jewish nation, the ordained authorities for the Jesus Movement were scattered and almost ceased to exist. In this wake of the absence of Jewish authority for a Gentile mission would surface a Gentile Movement which no longer paid regards to its "mother church." Unbridled, the Gentiles and anti-Semitism, mixed with improper understanding of the Jewish doctrines associated with Jesus, would culminate in a Gentile Church which would revert back to its pagan heritage. Along with that will come the corruption of the oral traditions and this will unfortunately be recorded finally in documents which today are sadly accepted as "infallible, inerrant, and inspired." Such documents you now have seen are a mixture of truth and the error of Sun Worship personified in the life of a Jewish Rabbi named Yeshua.
According to the Bible, Mankind was created in the image of God.
This poses a very interesting question as to the descriptive "appearance
of God." If we are, indeed, fashioned in the image of God, does this
mean 
therefore,
that God is Man, or does He (God) have the appearance of Man? Now, if we
envision God in the likeness of Man, does this include human frailties?
We, as humans, are depended upon the universe for our survival. We cannot
exist without: Fire, Earth, Air, and Water. Primitive man understood this
as the first "Trinity" where Earth, Air, and Water were "All
in All" within Fire as symbolized by the Sun. Again, like before we
find that the Ancients personified the forces of nature as shown by this
sculpture from India as we find these three forces in the form of a "man."
Since Mankind was made in the "image of God" is it possible that the Creator God could be likewise dependent upon these same elements? These verses are unequivocal and clear. And according to these verses, Mankind "looks" like God and have the "characteristics" of God Almighty. Mankind has His image.
If we look up the word "image" in theAmerican Heritage Dictionary we find:
1. A reproduction of the form of a person or an object, especially a sculptured likeness
2. Physics, an optically formed duplicate, counterpart, or other representative reproduction of an object, especially an optical reproduction of an object formed by a lens or mirror
3. One that closely or exactly resembles another, a double
Mankind has God's likeness.
If we look up the word "likeness" in the American Heritage Dictionary we find:
1. The state, QUALITY, or fact of being like; resemblance
2. An imitate appearance; a semblance
3. A pictorial, graphic, or sculptured representation of something, an image
If we attempt to further our understanding by identifying synonyms: likeness, similarity, similitude, resemblance, analogy, affinity. These nouns denote agreement or conformity, as in character, NATURE, or appearance between persons of things. Likeness implies close agreement.
I am not making a play on words. These definitions get to the heart of what the Biblical verses in Genesis actually means:
Gen 1:26-27 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. 27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. (KJV)
The two words, Image and Likeness, define not only appearance but even the Nature and Quality of the Creation (Image).
Can you imagine the Creator God being subject to the same needs, weaknesses, and limitations that we endure? I most certainly cannot.
Some say that Man's likeness to God refers to the spirit and not to the flesh. The English word Spirit is derived from the Latin, spiritus, which means breath or to breathe, the act of inhaling and exhaling. So what are we saying, that God breathes as we do? Again, we are making God dependent upon a product of His creation, that is to say air, which is the vital constituent of human respiration?
Let us define the word spiritual:
The word spiritual seems to indicate that which is unseen and immaterial, unearthly, that which relates to our soul, and what is Soul?
Again, for the last time let us understand the word "soul" as taken from the American Heritage Dictionary:
Soul:
Take note that the definition of the word, soul, goes to our actions, our thoughts, our emotions. Should we conclude that our emotional makeup is an accurate reflection of God's demeanor? Could God be subject to the same emotional hang-ups as we?
Not only we, but primitive man struggled with understanding what it meant to be "created in the Image of God." Mankind knew he possessed a spirit, which was corruptible. But can God, a Spirit Himself, be corruptible as Man? Surely not. Thus you can see that early Mankind was struggling to understand, what it meant to be created in the Image of God. As you can see I could go on for hundreds of pages, trying to explain with accuracy, in what manner Mankind, was created in the Image of God, and not come to a definitive solution; that is, if we try to make our conclusions agree with traditional Western religious precepts. We must never forget the Bible was not written with a Western mind-set!
As with many of our commonly accepted religious concepts in Christianity, our traditional beliefs and understandings of being created in the Image of God are in error. Being created in the Image of God does not mean what most of us have believed throughout our lives. When the Ancients wrote that we were created in God's Image, they were propounding a hypotheses based on human correlations to the Cosmos. Correlations that are Exact to the smallest detail.
The Ancients discovered undeniable correlations between the biology of the human species and the movements of celestial bodies within the stellar and solar universe. Correlations proportionately related in Time (duration) and Chronology (sequence) of Time. These correlations exist between the human species and the total universe, inclusive of the Solar System, and of the Solar System to the expanded universe (infinity).
What is said next is very important for you to understand. The Ancients saw the universe and their immediate environment as well as the capacities embodied within their own intellect as the most trustworthy representations of the Creator God.
The Cosmos was undoubtedly His Handiwork, and we, the Human creation was likewise the Handiwork of the Almighty. In consequence, when our fathers discovered that they were indeed biologically and chronologically correlated to the Cosmos, they transposed this knowledge to the written word and language as.....We (humanly) are created in the Image and the Likeness of God. One of the most noticeable correlations involves the life and light cycles of the female species of mankind to the moon. The Ancients discovered that the life (menstrual) cycle of the woman ran 28 days in correspondence with the light (phase) cycle of the moon, which also runs at 28 days intervals. They notices likewise that the phases of the woman's cycle and the moon's cycle were relational. They reasoned: "The New Moon begins in darkness and waxes to its's Fullness at 14 days (midway through the cycle of light). When the moon reaches it's fullness, after 14 days of growth (waxing), it then commences to discharge it's light so that by the end of the 28 day period all light has been shed (flushed) from it's celestial body. The life (menses) cycle of the woman of the species likewise begins in darkness (undeveloped). At the beginning of the cycle (out of darkness, undeveloped) the egg begins to grow within the ovary until it reaches maturity (fullness) at 14 days, at which point it (the egg) is released and flows toward the uterus from whence it shall be discharged (shed) from the body. If the egg is fertilized, it shall be discharged after an appointed time (280 days, the natural period of human gestation) as a new individual. If the egg is not fertilized, it shall be discharged in one tenth of the appointed time (28 days, the nature period of human menstruation) as the dead remains of a once fertile germ of life (light)" (Jabbar, The Astrological Foundation of the Christ Myth, 1995, p. 7-8).
The Ancients studies ever further into the relational parallels between the human species and the Solar System which they understood as the Handiwork of the Creator God. You can now see that in many ways early Mankind saw themselves "in the stars" and interpreted this as how they were, in many ways, created in the Image of God (the universe being a symbol of God to them). Within the chronology of the Solar System, they found analogies, than can only be described as astounding and categorically conclusive in proving the correlative link between humanity (the microcosm) and the universe (the macrocosm).
As the Ancients looked to the stars in hopes of "uncovering more knowledge of God" they took notice that the Sun passed yearly through the twelve constellations of the Zodiac. The Zodiac is a system of astronomical symbols and emblems employed for the purpose of teaching and illustrating two great truths:
This might surprise you but these two doctrines were originally taught in all the ancient Mysteries of the Gentiles in the beginning, but over time degenerated into a corrupt system of Solar Worship. The Sun, originally intended as a symbol only of the true God, was in time confounded with the person of God Himself, and thus itself worshipped as a god (Brown, Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy, Kessinger Pub. Co., p. 16-17). Over time, as in Greece and India, so also in ancient Egypt, the "symbols for God" became in the popular mind actual gods, and the people degenerated into gross idolatry" (Brown, Stellar Theology and Masonic Astronomy, Kessinger Pub. Co., p. 19).
Rom 1:20-25 20 For the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even his eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse: 21 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 And changed the glory of the incorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things. 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonor their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. (KJV)
Through the benefit of Archeology we know for a fact that the ancient Mysteries of the Gentiles originally taught the unity of God, and that their moral code was both pure and exalted, but over time, as stated, these ancient Mysteries became corrupt in their turn. Their crowning secret knowledge was the existence of the ONE and ONLY God and they "represented Him" through various symbols (i.e., Sun) which were later to be "personified, glorified, and deified." Originally the Sun was only a symbol of the great Creator, and not itself a divine being. Again, as you have seen the Sun becomes the "Son" and we as followers of Jesus have inherited a religious belief system that equates the two as "one" thus making such ones "idolators."
As said earlier, primitive man interpreted his life as seen in the stars. In fact the whole of the "life-cycle" of Mankind could be understood by him by the pattern of the Cosmos. The problem is when these simple "understandings" degenerated over time into false beliefs that contradicted the Revelation from God as well as His Word do we have problems. Many of these degenerated and subsequent evolutions of Gentile "Solar Myths" and their "interpretations" have found their way into your "inspired and infallible New Testament." The Gentile writers of the New Testament have written into the life of a Jewish Rabbi named Jesus many of these "degenerated Solar Myths" which often are deceptive and misleading to those wishing to know the truth about this man and his message. It is these "Solar Cycles" which were written into the accounts of Jesus' life by Gentile reactors and editors of the New Testament which not only confuse the truth but often mask it from the reader.
I wish to share some closing thoughts.
Throughout the whole of the legends we have seen, Christ Jesus is the toiling Sun (being made equal with God) laboring for the benefit of others, not his own, and doing hard service for a mean and cruel generation. Watch his sun-like career of brilliant conquest, checked with intervals of storm, and declining to a death clouded with sorrow and derision. He is in constant company with twelve apostles, the twelve signs of the zodiac. The number twelve appears in many Sun-Myths. It refers to the twelve hours of the day or night, or the twelve moons of the lunar year (Cox, Aryan Mythology, vol. i. p. 165; Bonwick, Egyptian Belief, p. 175). Osiris, the Egyptian Savior, had twelve apostles (Bonwick, Egyptian Belief, p. 175). In all religions of antiquity the number twelve, which applies to the twelve signs of the zodiac, are reproduced in all kinds and sorts of forms. For instance, such are the twelve great gods; the twelve apostles or Osiris; the twelve apostles of Jesus; the twelve sons of Jacob; the twelve tribes; the twelve altars of James; the twelve labors of Mars; the twelve brothers of Arvaux; the twelve gods Consents; the twelve governors in the Manichean System; the adectyas of the East Indies; the twelve asses of the Scandinavians; the city of the twelve gates in the Apocalypse; the twelve wards of the city; the twelve sacred cushions, on which the Creator sits in the cosmogony of the Japanese; the twelve precious stones of the rational, or the ornament worn by the high priest of the Jews, etc. (Dupuis, Origin of Religious Belief, pp. 39-40).
Speaking of the Sun in allegorical terms, "During the course of his life's journey across the sky as seen daily he is called "The God of Earthly Blessing," "The Savior through whom a new life springs," "The Preserver," "the Redeemer," etc. Almost at his birth the Serpent of darkness attempts to destroy him. Temptations to sloth and luxury are offered him in vain. He has his work to do, and nothing can stay him from doing it, as nothing can arrest the Sun in his journey through the heavens. Like all other solar heroes, he has his faithful women who love him, and the Marys and Martha here play the part. Of his toils it is scarcely necessary to speak in detail. But a thousand variations on the story of the great conflict which all the Sun-gods wage against the demon of darkness. He astonishes his tutor when sent to school. This we might expect to be the case, when an incomparable and incommunicable wisdom is the heritage of the Sun. He also represents the wisdom and beneficence of the bright Being who brings life and light to men. As the Sun wakens the earth to life when the winter is done, so Chrishna, Buddha, Horus, AEsculapius, and Christ Jesus were raisers of the dead. When the leaves fell and withered on the approach of winter, the "daughter of the earth" would be spoken of as dying or dead, and, as no other power than that of the Sun can recall vegetation to life, this child of earth would be represented as buried in a sleep from which the touch of the Sun alone could rouse her" (Doane,Bible Myths, p. 498).
Christ Jesus as portrayed in the Gentile New Testament, then, is the Sun, in his short career and early death. He is the child of the Dawn, whose soft, violet hues tint the clouds of early mornings; his father being the Sky, the "Heavenly Father," who has looked down with love upon the Dawn, and overshadowed her. When his career on earth is ended, and he expires, the loving mother, who parted from him in the morning of his life, is at his side, looking on the death of the Son whom she cannot save from the doom which is on him, while her tears fall on his body like rain at sundown. From her he is parted at the beginning of his course; to her he is united at its close. But Christ Jesus, like Chrishna, Buddha, Osiris, Horus, Mithras, Apollo, Attys, and others, rises again, and thus the myth takes us a step beyond the legend of Serpedon and others, which stop at the end of the eastward journey, when the night is done.
According to the Christian calendar, the birthday of John the Baptist is on the day of the summer solstice, when the sun begins to decrease. How true to nature then are the words attributed to him in the fourth Gospel, when he says that he must decrease, and Jesus increase.
John 3:30 30 He must increase, but I must decrease. (KJV)
Answer for yourself: Is this a coincidence?
Among the ancient Teutonic nations, fires were lighted, on the tops of hills, on the 24th of June, in honor of the Wending Sun. This custom is still kept up in Southern Germany and the Scotch highlands, and it is the day selected by the Roman Catholic Church to celebrate the nativity of John the Baptist (Mallet, Northern Antiquities, p. 505).
Mosehim, the church historian, speaking of the uncertainty of the time when Christ Jesus was born, say:
These sacred legends abound with such expressions as can have no possible or conceivable application to any other than to the "God of day." He is "light to lighten the Gentiles, and to be the glory (or brightness) of his people."
Notice the similarity with Luke 2:32:
He is come "a light into the world, that whosoever believeth in him should not abide in darkness"...John 12:46...
He is "the light of the world"...John 9:5:...
He "is light, and in him no darkness is"... I Jn. 1:5....
"All are agreed," says Cicero, "that Apollo is none other than the Sun, because the attributes which are commonly ascribed to Apollo do so wonderfully agree thereto."
Just so surely as Apollo is the Sun, so is the Lord Christ Jesus as depicted in the New Testament is the Sun. That which is so conclusive respecting the Pagan deities, applies also to to the God of the Christians; but, like the Psalmist of old, they cry, "Touch not my Christ..."
Many Christian writers of antiquity, as well as today, have seen that the history of their Lord and Savior is simply the history of the Sun, but they either say nothing, or, like some, claim that the Sun is a "type" of the true Sun of Righteousness. Mr Lundy, with whom I strongly disagree says, in his Monumental Christianity:
"Is there no bright Sun of Righteousness, no personal and loving Son of God, of whom the material Sun has been the type and symbol, in all ages and among all nations? What power is it that comes from the Sun to give light and heat to all created things? If the symbolical Sun leads such a great earthly and heavenly flock, what must be said to the "true" and only begotten Son of God? If Apollo was adopted by early Christian art as a type of the Good Shepherd of the New Testament, then this interpretation of the Sun-god among all nations must be the solution of the universal mythos, or what other solution can it have? To what other historical personage but Christ can it apply? If this mythos has no spiritual meaning, then all religion becomes mere idolatry, or the worship of material things" (Lundy, Monumental Christianity, p. 117).
Lundy's premise cannot hold up under scrutiny. According to this theory, the whole Pagan religions was typical of Christ and Christianity. Sadly I must agree that today Christianity and Pagan religion of antiquity are basically the same, but again a Jewish Rabbi is the heart and center of such Christianity today and he never believed what current Christians teach and believe because he knew what few of us today know...that the roots of such teachings are heathen and stem from Sun worship and are at their core idolatrous!
If men like Lundy and television evangelists and Gentile Pastors are correct then answer me the biggest question in the world.
Answer for yourself: Why then were not the Pagans the Lord's "chosen" people instead of the children of Israel which rejected and yet reject such "Christian teachings?" THINK!
The early Christians were charged with being a sect of Sun worshippers (Bonwick, Egyptian Belief, p. 283). Mr. King says, in his Gnostics, and their Remains, p. 68: "There can be no doubt that the head of Serapis (Sun god) marked as the face is by the grave and pensive majesty, supplied the first idea for the conventional portraits of the Savior."
Read that again!
The Imperial Russian Collection boasts of a head of Christ Jesus which is said to be very ancient. Mr. King says of it: "It is in reality a head of Serapis, seen in front and crowned in Persia boughs, easily mistaken for thorns, through the bushel on the head leaves no doubt as to the real personage intended" (Ibid. p.137).
Read that again!
Thus we see that the Christians took the paintings and statues of the Sun-gods Serapis and Apollo as models, when they wished to represent their Savior Jesus. Mr. King, speaking of this god, and his worshippers, says:
Read that again!
Again he says:
The early Gentile Christians, or worshippers of the Sun, under the name of "Christ," had, as all Sun worshippers, a peculiar regard to the East, the quarter in which their god arose, to which point they ordinarily directed their prayers (Bell, Pantheon, vol. i. p. 13).
The followers of Mithra always turned towards the East, when they worshipped; the same was done by the Brahmans of the East and the Christians of the West. In the ceremony of baptism, the catechumen was placed with his face to the West, the symbolical representation of the prince of darkness, in opposition to the East, and made to spit towards it at the evil one, and renounce his works.
Tertullian says, that Christians were taken for worshippers of the Sun because they prayed toward the East, after the manner of those who adored the Sun. The Essenes, whom Eusebius calls Christians, always turned to the east to pray. The Essenes met once a week, and spent the night in singing hymns which lasted till sun-rising. As soon as dawn appeared, they retired to their cells, after saluting one another. Pliny says the Christians of Bithynia met before it was light, and sang hymns to Christ, as to a God. After their service they saluted one another. Surely the circumstances of the two classes of people meeting before daylight, is a very remarkable coincidence. It is just what the Persian Magi, who were Sun worshippers, were in the habit of doing.
When a Manichaean Christian came over to the orthodox Christians, he was required to curse his former friends in the following terms:
"I curse Zarades (Zoroaster) who, Manes said, had appeared as a god before his time among the Indians and Persians, and whom he calls the Sun. I curse those who say Christ is the Sun, and who make prayers to the Sun, and who do not pray to the true God, only towards the East, but who turn themselves round, following the motions of the Sun with their innumerable supplications. I curse those person who says Zarades and Budas and Christ and the Sun are all one and the same"
There are not many circumstances more striking than than of Christ
Jesus being originally worshipped under the form of a Lamb, the actual
Lamb of God, which taketh away the sins of the world. It was not until the
Council of Constantinople, called In Trullo, held so late as the year 707,
that pictures of Christ Jesus were ordered to be drawn in the form of a
man. It was ordained that, in the place of the figure of a Lamb, the
symbol
used to that time, the figure of a man nailed to a cross, should in the
future be used. From this decree, the identity of the worship of the
Celestial Lamb and the Christian Savior is certified beyond the
possibility of doubt, and the mode by which the ancient superstitions were
propagated is satisfactorily shown. Nothing can more clearly prove the
general practice than the order of a council to regulate. This decree is
today in the Vatican library. What is even more startling when you come to
know it is that most of the Sun-gods were represented as the "Lamb of
God" as seen in the picture of Chrishna.
The worship of the constellation of Aries was the worship of the Sun in his passage through that sign. "That constellation was called by the ancients the Lamb of God. He was also called the Savior, and was said to save mankind from their sins. He was always honored with the appellation of Dominus or Lord. He was called The Lamb of God which taketh away the sins of the world (remember this terminology was long prior to the historical Jesus by thousands of years). The devotees addressed him in their litany, constantly repeating the word, "O Lamb of God, that taketh away the sins of the world, have mercy upon us. Grant us thy peace."
On an ancient medal of the Phenicians this Lamb of God is described with the Cross and the Rosary, which shows that they were both used in his worship long before the historical Jesus.
Yearly the Sun-God, as the zodiacal horse (Aries) was supposed by the Vedic Aryajs to die to save all flesh. Hence the practice of sacrificing horses. The "guarding spirits" of the prince Sakya Buddha sing the following hymn:
"Once when thou was the white horse
In pity for the suffering of man,
Thou didst fly across heaven to the region of the evil demons,
To secure the happiness of mankind.
Persecutions without end,
Revilings and many prisons,
Death and murder;
These hast thou suffered with love and patience
Forgiving thine executioners" (Lillie, Buddha and Early Buddhism, p. 93).
The solar horse, with two serpents upon his head (the Buddhist Aries) is Buddha's symbol, and Aries is the symbol of Christ (Lillie, Buddha and Early Buddhism, p. 110).
Christ Jesus was also symbolized as a fish, and that it is to be seen on all the ancient Christian monuments.
Answer for yourself: But what does the Christian Savior have to do with a fish? Why was he called a "fish"?
It is because the fish was another emblem for the Sun. Abarbanel says:
"The sign of Christ's coming is the junction of Saturn and Jupiter, in the Sign Pisces" (King, Gnostics, and their Remains, p. 138).
Apply the astronomical emblem of Pisces to Jesus, does not seem more
absurd than applying the 
astronomical
emblem of the Lamb. They applied to him the monogram of the Sun, IHS,
[notice the Sun and the Cross] the astronomical and alchemical sign of
Aries, or the ram, or Lamb; and, in short, what was there that was
Heathenish they they have not applied to him?
The preserving god Vishnu, the Sun, was represented as a fish, and so was the Syrian Sun-god Dagon, who was also a Preserver or Savior. The Fish was sacred among many nations of antiquity, and is to be seen on their monuments.
Simply said Constantine was a Sun worshipper before his "conversion" to the Christian faith as well as afterwards as well! These are the facts of history if you care to look.
Constantine, the first Christian emperor, had on his coins the figure of the Sun, with the legend: "To the invincible Sun, my companion and guardian," as being a representation, says Mr. King, "either of the ancient Phoebus, or the new Sun of Righteousness, equally acceptable to both Christian and Gentile, from the double interpretation of which the type was susceptible" (King, Gnostics, p. 49).
The worship of the Sun, under the name Mithra, "long survived in Rome, under the Christian emperors, and, doubtless, much longer in the remoter districts of the semi-independent provinces (Ibid. p. 45).
One only needs to look at early Christian art to know theology.
Christ Jesus is represented with a halo of glory surrounding his head, a
florid complexion, long golden locks of hair, and a flowing robe. Now,
all
Sun-gods, from Chrishna of India to Baldur of Scandinavia, are represented
with a halo of glory surrounding their heads, and the flowing locks of
golden hair, and the flowing robe, are not wanting. But we must not forget
that Jesus's depiction by the Gentile Church is nothing more than the
carrying over of ancient Sun-Myths as seen in this example of Chrisina
with a corresponding halo or Sun-burst 800 years
before Jesus.
We must remember that "long, flowing golden locks of hair on these crucified Sun-gods was indicative of the rays of the Sun. Indra, the crucified Sun-god of the Hindus, was represented with golden locks (Cox, Aryan Myths. vol. i. p. 341). Mithras, the Persian Savior, was represented with long flowing locks. Izdubar, the god and hero of the Chaldeans, was represented with long flowing locks of hair (Smith, Chaldean Account of Genesis, p. 193), and so was his counterpart, the Hebrew Sampson. The Sakya-prince (Buddha) is described as an Aryan by Buddhistic tradition; his face was reddish, his hair of light color and curly, his general appearance of great beauty (Bunsen, The Angel-Messiah, p. 15). Serapis has, in some instances, long hair formally turned back, and disposed in ringlets hanging down upon his breast and shoulders like that of a woman. His whole person, too, is always enveloped in drapery reaching to his feet (Knight, Ancient Art and Mythology, p. 104). As for yellow hair, there is no evidence that Greeks have ever commonly possessed it; but no other color would do for a solar hero, and it accordingly characterizes the entire company of them, wherever found (Fiske, Myths and Mythmakers, p. 202). Helios (the Sun) is called by the Greeks the "yellow-haired" (Goldzhier, Hebrew Mythology, p. 137). The Sun's rays is signaled by the flowing golden locks which stream from the head of Kephalos, and fall over the shoulders of Bellerphon (Cox, Aryan Mytho., vol. i. p. 107). Perseus, son of the Virgin Danae, was called the "Golden Child" (Ibid. vol. ii. p. 58). The light of the early morning is not more pure than was the color of his fair cheeks, and the golden locks streamed bright over his shoulders, like the rays of the sun when they rest on the hills at midday (Tales of Ancient Greece, p. 83). The Savior Dionysus wore a long flowing robe, and had long golden hair, which streamed from his head over his shoulders (Cox, Aryan Mythology, vol. ii. p. 293). Ixion was the "Beautiful and Mighty," with holden hair flashing a glory from his head, dazzling as the rays which stream from Helios, when he drove his chariot up the heights of heaven; like the vesture which the Gun-god gave to the wise maiden Medeia, who dwelt in Kolchis (Tales of Ancient Greece, p. 47). Theseus enters the city of Athens, as Christ Jesus is said to have entered Jerusalem, with a long flowing robe, and with his golden hair tied gracefully behind his head (Cox, Aryan Mythology, vol. ii. p. 63).
Thus we see that long locks of golden hair and a flowing robe, are mythological attributes of he Sun. By a process of metaphor, the rays of the Sun were changed into golden hair, into spears and lances, and robes of light.
We see, then, that Christ Jesus, like Christ Buddha, Chrishna, Mithra, Osiris, Horus, Apollo, Hercules and others, is none other than a personification of the Sun as depicted in much of the New Testament, and that the Christians, like their predecessors the Pagans, are really Sun worshippers in many ways. The Sun-Myth has been added to the histories of these personages, in a greater or less degree, just as it has been added to the history of many other real personages. It it be urged that the attribution to Christ Jesus of qualities or powers belonging to the Pagan deities would hardly seem reasonable, the answer must be that nothing is done in his case which has not been done in the case of almost every other member of that great company of the gods. The tendency of myths to reproduce themselves, with differences only of names and local coloring, becomes especially manifest after perusing the legendary histories of the gods of antiquity. It is a fact demonstrated of history, that when one nation of antiquity came in contact with another, they adopted each other's myths without hesitation. After the Jews had been taken captives to Babylon, around the history of their King Solomon accumulated the fables which were related of Persian heroes. When the fame of Cyrus and Alexander became known over the then known world, the popular Sun-Myth was interwoven with their true history. The mythical history of Perseus is, in all essential features, the history of the Attic hero Theseus, and of the Thebian CEdipus, and they all reappear with heightened colors in the myths of Hercules. We have the same thing again in the mythical and religious history of Chrishna; it is, in nearly all its essential features, the history of Buddha, and reappears again, with heightened colors, in the history of Christ Jesus. The myths of Buddha and Jesus differ from the legends of the other virgin-born Saviors only in the fact that in their cases it has gathered round unquestionable historical personages.
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