Bennoah1@airmail.netLet us begin with two questions.
Answer for yourself: Why is it important that we have a correct grasp and understanding of how the Ancients viewed and understood their Sun-gods and in so doing then do we find the hidden secret behind the "Jesus Story" that we have heard and read our whole lives?
Simply said we have not been taught the truth concerning how the Ancients understood the "Sun" let alone their representative Sun-gods. So the answer to the above questions is "yes" on both accounts; by correctly understanding how the Ancients viewed what is today termed "Sun worship" we can come to see just whom this "Jesus Christ" truly was before Rome will take this spiritual concept of "the Christ" and put "flesh" on it and create a historical "Jesus" of Nazareth for the world. This might might seem to be an over simplification but you will better understand when finishing this article and as your studies into Gnosticism and Astronomy increase. I strongly suggest that all readers of Bet Emet consume this article and begin your own personal study in these areas to verify what I have discovered over my years of study and humbly attempt to lay out for the reader in this article.
In order to understand accurately how the Ancient viewed their "Sun-gods" and the importance of possessing such knowledge and its implications to how we should correctly approach the "New Testament Jesus" we have to begin at the beginning and we must develop a realization of the spiritual nature of our universe. The Spiritual Masters and Ancients Priests of Egypt saw the universe, as a whole, as a spiritually living being, a living organism which we might call a complete system. To them the Universe was a picture of "the" One supreme God. Let it suffice to say that our solar system is one small living part of that being Whom we call typically call "God" today, as a cell is one small living part of a larger organism.
The center of our solar system is, of course, the Sun. What is often overlooked by modern man is the fact that the Sun is more than the physical center of our solar system; to the Ancient Priests of Egypt and subsequent nations who learned from them as well as their own observations and reasonings the Sun was the spiritual center of the solar system as well. This explains why so much of the Egyptian religion and understandings of God, the Creator, was based upon observations and measurements of the visible Cosmos. If this is a new idea to the reader then I suggest you begin a study of Egypt and their "sacred geometry" and you will quickly see the point beyond any doubt for them "so as above so below" is reflected not only in their architecture but their religious writings as well.
Now I want you to think at what I will say next. All life on the planet Earth is derived from, dependent upon, and expresses the sun's ENERGY. The Sun was a picture of the Energy form which all life forms was nurtured. The Ancients understood this God, the Creator, as the sum of all energy which is expressed in the living, ordered, and conscious universe. The totality of the Egyptian civilization was built upon a complete and precise understanding of universal laws. This profound understanding manifested itself in a consistent, coherent and inter-related system where art, science, philosophy and religion were intertwined, and were employed simultaneously in a single organic Unity. This "Unity" was for them the manifestation of God, the Creator. As you can see they understood that God isn't a supernatural entity apart from the material universe and us. The Egyptians regarded the universe as a conscious act of creation by the One Great God. The fundamental doctrine connected with this One Great God was the unity of the Deity. This One God was never represented contrary to what you might think when looking at pictures of the multiple "gods" and "goddesses". When you study you see the genius of their understanding of this One Great Unity, the God. These "representations" of this One Great God, this "Unity", were but reflections of Him; more like His "attributes". It is the functions and attributes of this One Great God and his domain that were represented. Once a reference was made to His functions/attributes, He became a distinguishable agent; reflecting this particular function/attribute, and its influence on the world which included the highest of His creations...mankind. His various functions and attributes as the Creator, Healer, and the like, were called the neteroo (singular: neter in the masculine form and netert in the feminine form). As such, an Egyptian neter/netert was not a ‘god/goddess’ but the personification of a function/attribute of the One God. To call these Spiritual Masters of Egypt "pagans" and "polytheists" shows one's complete ignorance of the Egyptian religion but this has been done by Christians writers for centuries and goes on today. Of course in so branding these Ancients worshippers of the One Great God and Unity have been severely stigmatized and in so doing no one, especially a Christian, will have a desire to look toward "pagan" Egypt and Egyptian religion, or that is at least the hoped for result for it you do and seriously "crack the egg shell" of Egyptian religion and see these understanding of God and the very depth of their knowledge of this God then chill bumps will rule your body as you drift into deeper understandings of this God and Creator then you ever dreamed possible.
Central to their complete understanding of the universe, was the knowledge that man was made in the image of God, and as such, man represented the created image of all creation. Accordingly, Egyptian symbolism and all measures were therefore simultaneously scaled to man, to the earth, to the solar system, and ultimately to the universe.
The Egyptian thinking that the One God can be represented through his functions/attributes has its equivalence in mankind. Each one of us have various functions and attributes. A person can be a scientist in a laboratory or a mechanic in a garage, a father or mother to their children, a husband or a wife, a player on his team, ... etc. This person does not have multiple personalities, but multiple functions/attributes. Egyptians recognized the universal validity of this kind of thinking, and applied it to all the levels of the hierarchically organized world. Even though it may appear complex at first sight, it is both coherent and consistent with experience. This was the essence of the Egyptian philosophy. It is a real philosophy based on organized, systematic, self-consistent and coherent principles.
Modern science uses terminology which is comparable with the Egyptian thinking of neteroo (gods). We speak of the four force fields of the universe - the weak force, the strong force, gravity, and electromagnetism (and perhaps a fifth, if there is a fifth). These forces have to be subordinate, since they all came from somewhere. The ultimate thing is God. the One. As such, it might be said that the Egyptian neteroo (gods) represent what we today would consider scientific theories that are continually refined, the way Newtonian physics moves toward quantum physics. This is very important for the Ancients "theorized" that Energy/Spirit became "matter" in the visible world, the invisible became visible. Today with the aid of Albert Einstein and others who are proponents of quantum physics we have proved that the "invisible world of energy" (God) becomes matter (the visible cosmos and mankind). They were right tens of thousands of years ago and these ideas are expressed in their religious writings as explained in the examples of these "neteroo". Neteroo is the ancient Egyptian word for Gods, which when literally translated, means Natures. As stated contrary to popular belief, the Egyptians did not believe in many different Gods and Goddesses. The 'gods and goddesses' in their ancient myths were actually the 'natures' of 'The One & All' or Creator God or Goddess. They were but "representations" of the many sides and actions of this "Cosmic Unity"; representations which were described anthropomorphically through the medium of personification. These "representations" were given lives in the form of beings, both human, animal, half human and half animal, but again these were but representations of Cosmic forces and powers at work in the visible world.
Answer for yourself: Would these "representations" of God and His workings in his "Cosmic garden", as expressed through symbols, legends, metaphors, and myths be much, much later be mistaken by subsequent nations for "literal" heroes and heroines and were they taught to those not possessing the correct "interpretative keys" of the Egyptian "neteroo" as literal historical persons in other religions? Do we find this in Christianity with the "Jesus Story"? THIS IS THE BIGGEST QUESTION THAT YOU WILL EVERY HAVE TO ANSWER; THE ANSWER TO WHICH IS NOT EASY TO DISCERN SOME 2000 YEARS REMOVED FROM THE CREATION OF THIS "JESUS STORY".
Answer for yourself: Could this explain why there is no existing unforged or tamped evidence that exists today for a historical Jesus outside of one book, given to us by Rome and not the Jews, that is filled with contradictory accounts of him and his life?
Answer for yourself: Could this explain why we cannot find one shred of legitimate historical evidence anywhere that the Jesus Story originated as the biography of a historical man named Jesus?
Answer for yourself: Can these much earlier representations of this One Great Invisible God, explain why that outside of this one demonstratively forged book, the Roman Bible and the New Testament, that there exists not one piece of unforged or unadulterated evidence for the historical existence of this man from Galilee because "the Christ" is to be understood ONLY as a representation of a spiritual reality that resides inside every man and woman and not "externally"?
If the reader is intrigued at this point then let me recommend a great writer who tells it like it is on a level that all can comprehend. Let me recommend that be become familiar with Moustafa Gadalla as well as all of his books on Egyptian religion for in them you find "Jesus Christ" but not represented as a Christian nor as a "historical personage" but as an Egyptian concept that existed for tens of thousands of years for he is but one of many "neteroo" or representations and working of this One Great God and Unity who works and sustains all matter...including us as His children. I suggest you begin with his book The Egyptian Cosmology, The Absolute Harmony by Moustafa Gadalla.
The cosmological ideas of ancient Egypt were expressed by myth and symbolism, which are a superior means for expressing metaphysical concepts. Understand that these "spiritual concepts" are "literally real" but not necessary "literally historical" as we might expect being programed to think with a Western mindset in this revised Roman empire called America today. Philosophy, mathematics and science are dry subjects with many abstracts. Mythology incorporates philosophical and scientific ideas into a story form, like a sacred drama or mystery plays, which can be easily digested. Pure philosophical and scientific abstracts and terms do not guarantee understanding. Information alone is useless, unless it is transformed into understanding. Well-crafted mythology can achieve understanding of knowledge and it fact it has and this is easy to see and comprehend when studying Egyptian religion and their "neteroos".
Myth is an intentionally chosen means for communicating knowledge. Myth dramatizes cosmic laws, principles, processes, relationships and functions, and expresses them in an easy to understand way. Meaning and the mystic experience are not tied to a literal interpretation of events. A myth has no historical value. Once the inner meanings of the myths have been revealed, they become marvels of simultaneous scientific and philosophical completeness and conciseness. The more they are studied, the richer they become. And, rooted in the myth as it is, the part can never be mistaken for the whole, nor can its functional significance be forgotten or distorted. No where is this more true than when you do such studies into "the Egyptian Karast/Christ" and come to see the "Egyptian Logos" and subsequent "Logos" of successive nations was NEVER to be understood as some historical carnalized and fleshly manifestation to the exclusion of the "Logos" in all of God's children. In simple language the "Logos" or "Christ/Sophia" in each of mankind, both masculine and feminine, is the link and communicative pathway between this "Cosmic Unity and Energy" and matter in which "God" had come to dwell (incarnated). You might have recognized a similar idea here which is very true but not "historical-literal" to the exclusion of all others as has been done in the "Jesus Story".
The Ancients understood that air is to the physical world as God is to the spirit world. God is life, light, time and space, the pattern for all life, that God is the energy of all matter (including flesh), the heart of all that matters, the very essence of all being, the source behind every Sun and star, the source of all light and love, the core of all things, the single point of infinite light and absolute love, and the very life force of the universe. For them no greater symbol could be designated to refer to this God which brings life to all things then the Sun. Naturally, this energy is manifested in other ways as well: the moon, understood by Egypt as symbolic of man's soul and his spiritual transformation in reflecting the light of the Sun (the Sun being symbolic of God and His life). The moon, as it supplies reflected energy from this Sun, is but a reflection of the Sun and in so doing was again but a representation of a reflected source for God and His Life and Energy and in so doing then all mankind was to progressively reflect as well God's image as he progressively reflects more of God in his life as understood in the phases of the moon which mimics increasingly the light and life of the Sun). The soul of man is to spiritually mature and reflect more of God and His will in the world as he chronologically ages and matures whereby he comes to fully manifest, the fullness of God as does the moon when full. Again we see Egypt through the use of "symbol" express a "literal truth" but again man is not a historical "literal moon". You are beginning to see how the Ancient Spiritual Masters used the Sun as a symbolic representation of this One Great God in all of their myths and stories as found in the accounts of Osiris, Hours, and Isis for at the bottom of these myths are the deepest spiritual realities confronting man and his soul let alone his deeds and behaviors in his visible existence.
From this same Sun the seas absorb, transform, and release that same solar energy; plant life stores the energy in a profoundly altered form; etc. And, most importantly, each and every living human being is a repository for the sun's energy, and is blessed with the capacity for using that energy in a highly complex and creative way. In this way man was understood to be the highest manifestation of the "image of God" in the world since it was given to him to manifest God like no other creation made by this Creator in this visible world. Within the hearts of all mankind was God's home....the soul. The Sun you see was not worshiped as if "God" but was but a picture to all mankind what this God is and has to say in its distribution to mankind of God's love as seen in its light, heat, safety, photosynthesis, and resultant harvests that ensured the food chain and provided the sustenance for man's existence. Primitive mankind saw that the Sun was but a picture of this loving Creator God, Whom shared His Life and Energy with man and this was symbolized best by the energy of the Sun. So you see that this Sun was but a picture of the true energy of the Cosmos whom is this God we speak of today. The Kabbalah, known to Egypt by the way, and quantum physics today teaches us this same principle; namely, that energy can and has become "matter". Within the heart of man is a small Kabbalah or ladder to Heaven as such whereby man was eternally linked with this "Sun" and giver of all life. In such a way the Egyptian priests understood that God comprises all things at all times and lives within us and there was no better way for the Ancients to express this concept than looking to the primary visible energy source above their heads...the Sun.
Archeological history demonstrates for us today that from the earliest times, man has recognized the various sources and centers of this spiritual energy from the Sun, and has expressed this recognition in a process of deification of the natural features of the world and its surroundings (the moon, stars, etc.). But remember these "deific representations" are but pictures of the indescribable and man's finite minds struggle, as they do today to express the inexpressable and the invisible whom we call this Unity, this Energy, this God. For most peoples of history, as you are beginning to see, the Sun has played a major and central role in this process, as it should.
To equate the designation of Jesus, or Yawheh for that matter, as a Sun-god with the idea that his worshippers view him simply as a giver of life and warmth, however, is to seriously misunderstand the matter. As an organism or mankind for that matter absorbs, transforms, and expresses the sun's energy, it partakes of the spiritual essence of the Sun, and moves in the direction of becoming one with that being on a metaphysical plane. Furthermore, just as one kind of plant will share in this process in a way that differs from that of another kind of plant, so the various genetic strains of humanity each have their own way of expressing the sun's energy. The ancient Egyptians, for example, stressed the idea of Majesty, and this theme dominated every aspect of their lives. In contrast to this, the Zoroastrian tradition saw the Sun as man's champion in the struggle against the forces of darkness. For a Christian, the Sun represents a stern but protective father who will save his worshippers if they will only accept him and his ways. Examples could be cited almost endlessly, but the same implicit concept will be found again and again in almost every nation and its history since the beginning of recorded time: the Sun/deity is an all-powerful spiritual being that imposes his will on the people of the world and to whom the world is dependent upon for their very lives.
With the understanding of the above it become apparent that there is not a theme within the entire range of religious interest of such importance as the subject of the Sun-gods and their proper interpretation; especially to a Christian today which has grown up with Christian teachings that stress that Christianity is the only way to God and which stresses that way comes only through faith in and acceptance of the religious doctrines and dogmas connected with historicized, carnalized, and literalized "Jesus Christ". The reason why I can say this is having done the studies necessary over these many years I have "cracked the egg" so to speak concerning the secret of the ancient Sun-gods and their hidden mysteries as connected to various religious icons down through history; for example as manifested in such characters as Osiris, Horus, Attis, Dionysus, Mithra, and of course the final expression of the same as found in the New Testament as the "Jesus Christ" of supposed history. It is a shame that we live our whole lives as Christians and followers of "the Christ" never possessing the knowledge behind the concept of true "Jesus Christ" and believe him to have been a "literal" historical person based upon the writings of one book; a book by the way inherited and accepted blindly without on one's part any scholarly study into the origins for such a book and its plagiarism of Ancient Divine concepts which were "reinterpreted" which were but allegories of the Sun and its path through the Zodiac as well as the Heavens and various associated constellations. If you understood the above then you should by now understand how the Ancient related important spiritual concepts concerning the soul of man through the myths of the Sun which were never to understood and interpreted "literally" as if these spiritual concepts had somehow become "carnalized" and had somehow been "incarnated" in but one person to the exclusion of all others in mankind. This "literalization" and "historicization" of prior spiritual concepts will be Rome's doing where they will not only put "flesh" on this "Christ with" and drop this literary creation into a supposed historical timeline of their choosing but in their ignorance of the Hebrew religion they would later write terribly conflicting genealogies which are but an embarrassment to the learned which were added to their forgeries of the life of "Jesus of Nazareth" after in the early 3rd century. Their goal was to create a "literal god-man" which was to be a spiritual representative of their horrific and monestrous Emperors who set on literal thrones and who were already self-confessed "literal gods" and worshipped as "literal god-men" by the fearful masses. The sword of Rome had terrific power for they not only won the wars but rewrote world history along with the worlds understanding of "the Christ" which as been preserved since Ancient Egypt. The world has never suffered such a great loss of knowledge as we have at the hands of Rome.
The matter at hand is the most important issue we deal with in life. I have come to believe that the study and proper interpretation of the Ancients and their understanding of their Sun-gods to be the most important subject that one can study in his search for God. In the study of the Ancients' understanding of the Sun and their fashioning from it their religious legends and myths of the Sun-gods we find the very central thesis of all world religions. If you begin a personal study of the same you will find as I did that this subject, the proper interpretation of the Ancient Sun-gods to be the cardinal principle of all true religion.
In doing such studies over the years it is my conclusion that the world, especially the Christian world, has drifted so far away from its original base that it no longer recognizes the very first and fundamental conception about which it was in the beginning constructed. The myth of the Sun-gods and their proper interpretation is the very heart's core of religion at its best but their misinterpretation its worst and this is sadly to which we have fallen prey today. Sadly we grew up in a country conditioned by the biases of Rome and have been led to completely misinterpret such spiritual concepts of "the Christ" and "logos". Sadly the spirituality of the Ancients who compared the soul within mankind to Gods' Sun and its workings have relegated to the trash heap by branding them with the indelible stain of being "ignorant pagans". If you take the time to look and read these supposed Ancient "pagans" and not what some biased Christian writers have to say about them, who inherit blinding one ignorant tradition after another, and erroneously thinking that they have the "only way" to God, who never realizing that they are quoting a forged and highly unreliable New Testament, then you will find as I did that more often than not these Ancients expressed the most pure and most exalted concepts of the Divine that you have ever read.
It is commonly supposed and usually reinforced by Christianity that religious honors were paid to the Sun as a deity by a few isolated and misquided peoples or sects, such as the Egyptians, the followers in India of Zoroaster and some other African tribes. In correction of this view the real truth of the matter is that the worship of the Sun-god (which I found to be always a religious and spiritual concept and not a historical person but we are not supposed to know that) was quite universal in the ancient world and not isolated to a few "misdirected and ignorant folks". It ranged from China and India to Yucatan and Peru. The Emperor and the Mikado, as well as the Incas, and the Pharaohs were Sun-god figures. It appears upon study that the worship of God, symbolized and represented by the Sun, was almost universal and is to be recognized as the highest embodiment of religious conception in the spiritual history of mankind. For us the negative connotations of the Sun-gods inherited from the Christian perspective predisposes us to approach such a topic with a closed-mind more often than an objective mind when reading or doing such studies into the Ancient Sun-gods. I know from experience that it sure did for me and it was only in continuing such studies and covering related topics did I stumble onto the "keys" that opened the topic anew for me where I saw beyond the inherited negative bias of misdirected Christian writers to see the beauty and glorious truths expressed by the Ancients when they cloaked their hidden wisdom concerning God and knowledge of the Divine behind the veil and myths of their Sun-gods.