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Much of the life Jesus Christ, as recorded in the New Testament, are nothing more than allegorical representations of the Sun God. Long before Jesus the Ancients formulated their Mythology (Religion), after the Image of Astronomical Phenomena. They saw this as the best way to connect with the Creator God, that is by patterning their religious rituals in accordance with the most visible and observable aspect of God's creation, the Cosmos. Many of the stories and accounts in the life of Jesus in the New Testament are actually various dramas (metaphorical representations) of Solar Mythology. We are presently focusing on the Solar-Lunar aspects of ancient mythology and modern religion. We shall at this point commence a dissection of the New Testament gospels. As done previously, I wish to evaluate the most salient and popular episodes within these scriptures and show their parallel to the lives of the other mythical saviors that we have already discussed. And we will illustrate that much within the Gospels are analogous to Solar Mythology. Let me say this is done only to separate the lies and falsehoods from the truth about Jesus so those who follow him and his example can do so in truth.
First, we have the miraculous conception of a virgin.
Mat 1:18 Now the birth of Jesus Christ was on this wise: When as his mother Mary was espoused to Joseph, before they came together, she was found with child of the Holy Ghost.
Mat 1:19 Then Joseph her husband, being a just man, and not willing to make her a public example, was minded to put her away privily.
Mat 1:20 But while he thought on these things, behold, the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a dream, saying, Joseph, thou son of David, fear not to take unto thee Mary thy wife: for that which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost.
Mat 1:21 And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.
Mat 1:22 Now all this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken of the Lord by the prophet, saying,
Mat 1:23 Behold, a virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a son, and they shall call his name Emmanuel, which being interpreted is, God with us.
The astronomical explanation of the first three points is as follows, The Miraculous Conception, as I explained in a previous article, refers to the Conjugation (Conception) that annually takes place at the vernal equinox. God, the Father, the Sun personified, at this time (the vernal equinox) is joined (the crossing of the celestial equator and the ecliptic of the sun) to commence the Gestation of the Son (Sun) of God (Father Sun), that will be born 280 days later on December 25th.
The ancients felt that an offspring of a god, a son of god, should have a purer maternal origin than mortals, and this was evidence of his supernatural or divine origin. A man, even if he were thought of as a god, had to be born of a woman, and this could not be concealed, but paternal parentage is never so obvious, being known only to the mother, if anyone.
The purity of his maternal parentage required these Gentile Saviors to be born of a pure woman—a maiden. Hence, the Gentile saviours often were born of virgins and this "concept" continued even for the Gentile redactors of the New Testament. Besides normal conception ordinary birth was also too ignominious for a god. It had to be spotless, or immaculate. Jesus Christ in an apocryphal gospel, like Chrishna was born through his mother's side, rather than the impure route. Though not in the canonical works, some of the Christian fathers endorsed this story. I have even read Catholic dogma where it testifies that Jesus was born not through Mary's vagina, the normal birth canal, but through her navel!
Not only saviours but famous men, like Plato, Pythagoras, Alexander, Augustus and others, were thought to have been born miraculously. Plato was born of Paretonia, begotten of Apollo, not Ariston, his father, according to one authority.
The doctrine of immaculate conception is ancient but the manner of the holy conception was different in different countries. Zoroaster was immaculately conceived by a ray from the Divine Reason or Word and this was adopted by medieval artists.
But the idea of being overshadowed by the Holy Ghost seems to have been most current. God, the father of a god was believed to overshadow the mother of a god, to impregnate her. In 550 BC, Pythais, the mother of Pythagoras, conceived by a spectre or ghost of the god Apollo, the Sun-god.
Answer for yourself: Does the ghost of the sun god differ in principle from the Christian Holy Ghost?.
Juno of Rome grew pregnant at the touch of a flower to give birth to Mars. No impregnation could have been purer. So the most immaculate conception of all was that of the god of War! If it sounds absurd, how is it more senseless than conception by a ghost? Botany has shown that, at least, a flower can fertilize other flowers but no science has yet investigated the virility of ghosts.
The Greek Juno, Hera, was immaculately impregnated by the wind to give birth to Vulcan. Here is a close parallel indeed for the word habitually translated as spirit or ghost in the scriptures and continued into the Greek of the New Testament really means breath or wind! So literally the virgin Mary was impregnated by the wind just like Hera. The author of the Perennial Calendar tells us the miraculous conception of Juno Jugulis, the blessed virgin queen of heaven, fell on the second of February, the day of the early Christian festival of the date of the conception of the ever Blessed Virgin Mary.
A Chinese sect worshiped a saviour known as Xaca, who was conceived of his mother, Maia, by a white elephant, which she saw in her sleep, and for greater purity, she brought him forth from one of her sides. In Chinese popular religion, the virgin mother Shing-Mon gave birth to the God Yu from a conception by a water lily. The procreative refinement evinced here is equal to that of Juno. In another story Yu was conceived of a star!
Tamerlane's mother conceived having had sexual intercourse with the god of Day. The mother of Ghengis Khan, being too modest to claim that she was the mother of the son of God, said only that he was the son of the sun.
Osiris of Egypt and even Julius Caesar were immaculately conceived—the latter being the son of the beautiful virgin Cronis Celestine, and begotten by the Father of all Gods, Jupiter. His heir and nephew, Augustus Caesar, was curiously his half brother, as another son of Jove, by whose divine lust he was immaculately conceived in the temple of Apollo.
Both Buddha and Chrishna, of India, were immaculately conceived. The mother of Chrishna was overshadowed by the supreme God, Brahma, and the Holy Ghost was Naraan. Chrishna's mother had given birth seven times previously but remained a virgin. Philostratus, a disciple of Apollonius of Cappadocia, who was contemporary with Jesus Christ , tells that Damis, the mother of Apollonius, gave birth to this god and rival saviour of Jesus Christ, by being overshadowed by the god, Proteus.
Several of the virgin mothers of gods and great men go ten months between conception and delivery.
Plainly the tradition of the miraculous conceptions of gods, sons of gods, saviours and messiahs was prevalent in the world from ancient times on, beginning long before the mother of Jesus was overshadowed by the ghostly representative of the Most High. The belief in immaculate conception extended to every nation in the world. Grote, referring to Greece, declares that the furtive pregnancy of young women, often by a god, is one of the most frequently recurring incidents in the legendary narratives of the country.
Both the prevalence and antiquity of the idea of immaculate conception among the heathen is conceded by earlier Christian writers in their arguments from precedents of the divinity of Christ. St. Augustine, Origen and Lactanius tried to persuade us of the immaculate virginity of the mother of Jesus Christ by the example of similar pagan events. The doctrine of immaculate conception is, then, conceded as long anterior to Christ and therefore not unique in his case.
Answer for yourself: Does this event as depicted in the New Testament now seem "Divine and unique" to you any longer?