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In 1829 Rev. Taylor
adeptly made the case that the entire Gospel story was already in existence
long before the beginning of the Common Era and was probably composed by
the monks at Alexandria called "Therapeuts"
in Greek and "Essenes" in Egyptian, both names meaning "healers."
This theory has stemmed in part from the statement of early church father
Eusebius, who, in a rare moment of seeming honesty, "admitted .
. . that the canonical Christian gospels and epistles were the ancient writings
of the Essenes or Therapeutae reproduced in the name of Jesus."
Taylor also opines that "the travelling Egyptian Therapeuts brought
the whole story from India to their monasteries in Egypt, where, some time
after the commencement of the Roman monarchy, it was transmuted in Christianity."
In addition, Wheless evinces that one can find much of the fable of "Jesus
Christ" in the Book of Enoch, which predated the supposed advent of
the Jewish master by hundreds of years. According to Massey, it was the
"pagan" Gnostics - who included members of the Essene/Therapeut
and Nazarene brotherhoods, among others - who actually carried to Rome the
esoteric (gnostic) texts containing the Mythos, upon which the numerous
gospels, including the canonical four, were based. Wheless says, "Obviously,
the Gospels and other New Testament booklets, written in Greek and quoting
300 times the Greek Septuagint, and several Greek Pagan authors, as Aratus,
and Cleanthes, were written, not by illiterate Jewish peasants, but by Greek-speaking
ex-Pagan Fathers and priests far from the Holy Land of the Jews."Mead
averred, "We thus conclude that the autographs of our four Gospels
were most probably written in Egypt, in the reign of Hadrian." |
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The Christ of the gospels is
in no sense an historical personage or a supreme model of humanity, a
hero who strove, and suffered, and failed to save the world by his death.
It is impossible to establish the existence of an historical character
even as an impostor. For such an one the two witnesses, astronomical mythology
and gnosticism, completely prove an alibi. The Christ is a popular lay-figure
that never lived, and a lay-figure of Pagan origin; a lay-figure that
was once the Ram and afterwards the Fish; a lay-figure that in human form
was the portrait and image of a dozen different gods.
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