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	The Jesus Mysteries - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The authors suggest that a number of pagan mystery religions, such as those of Osiris, Dionysus, Attis, and Mithras, were all manifestations of a single cult of a dying and rising "godman" myth, whom they call Osiris-Dionysus.
		The authors also assert that Jesus did not really exist, but was instead a syncretic re-interpretation of the fundamental pagan "godman" by the Gnostics, who were the original sect of Christianity as a consequence.
		Freke and Gandy base the Jesus Mysteries thesis partly on a series of parallels between the biography of Osiris-Dionysus and the biography of Jesus drawn from the four canonical gospels.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jesus_Mysteries (1463 words)

	Chapter Summaries of The Jesus Mysteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jesus' miracles (turning water into wine, healing the sick and raising the dead, and so on) had also been performed by the godmen years before the Jesus story is supposed to have happened.
		The Pagan and Gnostic Mysteries taught that the aim of the Mysteries was to liberate the spirit, not to remain in moral servitude.
		In Gnostic myth Jesus is the godman and Mary Magdalene represents the goddess.
	www.egodeath.com /jesusmysterieschapsumm.htm (8390 words)

	The Jesus Mysteries: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Christianity is an abrahamic religion based on the life, teachings, death by crucifixion, and resurrection of jesus of nazareth as described in the...
		Mithras was the central savior god of mithraism, a syncretic hellenismhellenistic mystery religion of male initiates that developed in the eastern mediterranean...
		Jesus, in the bible called jesus the nazarene and known among christians as jesus christ, is the central figure in christianity and is considered an...
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/t/th/the_jesus_mysteries.htm (1308 words)

	Crucifixion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In such a case, after the scourging at the stake, the criminal was made to carry a gibbet, formed of two transverse bars of wood, to the place of execution, and he was then fastened to it by iron nails driven through the outstretched arms and through the ankles.
		Since at least the mid-1800s, a group of Catholic flagellants in New Mexico called Hermanos de Luz ("Brothers of Light") have annually conducted reenactments of Jesus Christ's crucifixion during Holy Week, where a penitent is tied—but not nailed—to a cross.
		Jesus of Nazareth: The most well known victim of crucifixion in history, Jesus was condemned to crucifixion (circa AD 33) by Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, at the instigation of the Jewish leaders who were scandalized by his claim to being the Messiah and his disdain for their religious traditions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Crucifixion (3547 words)

	Entheogenists and the Jesus Figure (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Jesus Mysteries has one page that is essentially about entheogens -- it is an opening or hook to which an entheogen theory can be connected.
		Jesus is a magic figurine that nearly everyone finds useful and wants to control, to get his magic power on their side.
		Reducing Jesus to a pure myth doesn't seem to the entheogenists to help their cause as much as making a moral ally out of the alleged Historical Jesus, including revealing that Jesus is pro-entheogen.
	www.egodeath.com /EntheogenistsJesusFigure.htm (6626 words)

	Jesus Mysteries by Freke and Gandy, 1999
		The gospel story of Jesus is not the biography of an historical Messiah.
		The Jesus story is a synthesis of the Jewish myth of the Messiah Joshua (in Greek Jesus) with these Pagan myths of the dying and resurrecting Godman.
		According to the original Gnostic Christians, the Jesus story is a perennial myth with the power to impart the mystical experience of Gnosis, which can transform each one of us into a Christ, not merely a history of events that happened to someone else two thousand years ago.
	www.vexen.co.uk /books/jesusmysteries.html (1149 words)

	The Jesus Mysteries (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Perhaps initiates of the Jewish Mysteries had adapted the potent symbolism of the Osiris-Dionysus myths into a myth of their own, the hero of which was the Jewish dying and ~surreeting godman Jesus.
		The Jesus story does have all the hallmarks of a myth, so could it be that that is exactly what it is? After all, no one has read the newly discovered Gnostic gospels and taken their fantastic stories as literally true; they are readily seen as myths.
		Unlike the various Pagan Mystery godmen, Jesus is traditionally viewed as an historical rather than a mythical figure, literally a man who was an incarnation of God, who suffered, died and resurrected to bring salvation to all humankind.
	www.pufoin.com /pufoin_perspective/jesus_mysteries.php (10259 words)

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		Mystery religions, moreover, as indicated by their very name, were secretive societies, especially early on when they were in disfavor.
		The events in the life of Jesus were confirmable because they were recorded within a generation of their occurrence (not hundreds of years later, as was often true of the mysteries).
		The Christian “mystery” is for all the people of God to know after it has been revealed by God to the prophets or apostles, not just for a select few as in the mystery religions and Gnosticism.
	www.equip.org /free/DM815.htm (2384 words)

	The Virgin Birth and Childhood Mysteries of Jesus
		The Marcan Jesus that was known to his followers during the middle-to-late first-century (before the gospels of Matthew, Luke, and John) shared none of the attributes of the time-honored moral-savior deities of Dionysus or Herakles.
		Quite contrary to the Hellenized Jesus "there is nothing in the Jewish sacred books to suggest that the Messiah or anyone else was, or was to be, born of a virgin."[10] Jesus had been thoroughly rejected by the Jews who had decided that he was not the messiah that would usher in the new Kingdom.
		Jesus is referring to the hard times that may befall those who choose to serve God for the path to the Kingdom of God is narrow indeed.
	www.infidels.org /library/modern/james_still/virgin_birth.html (5255 words)

	The Jesus Mysteries - SkepticWiki (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The Jesus Mysteries is a book by Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy arguing that "the Jesus story was not a biography at all but a consciously crafted vehicle for encoded spiritual teachings by Jewish Gnostics.
		Like Jesus, in many of his myths the Pagan godman is born of a mortal virgin mother.
		In Alexandria, Aion is born of the virgin Kore.
	www.skepticwiki.org /wiki/index.php/The_Jesus_Mysteries (3402 words)

	What is true in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code? The Christ myth. Is Is the Bible God's word? Did Jesus ever live?
		Jesus did not claim to be the messiah or to be divine.
		Jesus was crucified for providing ergot-bread directly to everyone for free, undermining the artificial scarcity of hallucinogens under the controlling power of the priests.
		The stature of Jesus was enhanced by introducting a questionable lineage of both Joseph and Maria to the house of David, in spite of the fact that Jesus was supposed to be a virgin birth.
	www.xs4all.nl /~wichm/christmyth.html (7153 words)

	Fictionwise eBooks: The Jesus Mysteries: Was the Original Jesus a Pagan God? by Timothy Freke
		The supernatural story of Jesus is not the history of a miraculous Messiah, but a carefully crafted spiritual allegory designed to guide initiates on a journey of mystical discovery.
		In this ancient sanctuary Pagan congregations once glorified a Pagan redeemer who, like Jesus, was said to have ascended to heaven and to have promised to come again at the end of time to judge the quick and the dead.
		We have become convinced that the story of Jesus is not the biography of a historical Messiah, but a myth based on perennial Pagan stories.
	www.fictionwise.com /ebooks/eBook5531.htm (990 words)

	The Jesus Mysteries
		Therefore, the story of Jesus is a consciously crafted vehicle for encoded spiritual teachings created by Jewish Gnostics.
		We are unaware of this, they claim, because the Roman Catholic Church destroyed evidence of the connection between Christianity and the pagan mysteries.
		They make their case by offering an examination of mystery religions, especially Greek, pointing out the many parallels between them and what they see as the Gospels message about Jesus.
	www.evolvefish.com /fish/product906.html (298 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God?: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Even the teachings of Jesus on love, moral purity, humility and poverty were not wholly original; while Christian beliefs on heaven and hell (and the Catholic Church's purgatory) owe far more to Paganism than they do to the Judaism from which Christianity grew.
		The date revered by the first Christians as Jesus' birthday was originally that of Dionysus, also the three day Spring Festival of Dionysus celebrating his death and resurrection coincides with the Christian festival of Easter.
		They provide a convincing argument that Jesus and the myths surrounding him are comparable to the myths of the mystery cults of the dying and reborn pagan man-gods.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0722536771 (1627 words)

	Amazon.ca: Jesus Mysteries: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Mystery rites and religion have existed since the earliest times in history; their history being longer than Christianity itself.
		The central theme to all their stories was a son of God coming to earth, to learn, teach, and grow before being crucified on a cross of matter, and returning to the place from whence he came.
		This was also the central mystery in all cases: we are to realise that we too descended from another place and that we are to learn, grow and teach before we return there.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0722536771 (723 words)

	The Jesus Mysteries: A Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The authors first discuss these Mystery gods and then point out the incredible similarities between their mythic stories and the life of Jesus as reported in the Gospels.
		Then the authors say that the Romans were well known for their record keeping; however, aside from what is found in the Bible, there is no contemporary evidence that a man named Jesus lived and did the things said about him in the kerygma, the earliest message of Jesus.
		Their successors lost the skill of the inner mysteries and clung on to the factual historical Jesus.
	www.geomancy.org /ezines/ezine_14/sig.html (2381 words)

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		Miscellaneous groups like the relatives of Jesus and the Jerusalem Pillars, together with various Jewish-Christian sects which later claimed to trace their ancestry back to a primitive community around Jesus in Jerusalem, were fitted into the mosaic in various, sometimes overlapping ways.
		As "proverbs (that) enshrine wisdom, not revelation," the attribution of Q1 to a Jesus is uncharacteristic of the proverb genre and suggests a later development.
		The atmosphere surrounding Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, the details of his arrest and execution, are suspiciously similar to events of the later Jewish War and the fall of Jerusalem in 70.
	pages.ca.inter.net /~oblio/BkrvPric.htm (5158 words)

	Amazon.com: The Jesus Mysteries: Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?: Books: Timothy Freke,Peter Gandy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		In Egypt, where the Mysteries originated, he was known as Osiris, in Greece as Dionysus, in Asia Minor as Attis, in Syria as Adonis, in Italy as Bacchus, in Persia as Mithras.
		But to go further and claim Jesus never existed and is a fictional contruct from pagan myths is to place oneself way out on the fringes of opinion.
		This was the first book I read about the parallels of Jesus and the "Mystery religions" it really opened my eyes and lead me closer to the truth about the deceptions taking place in modern religions.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0609807986?v=glance (2780 words)

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		The Jesus Seminar are quite happy to challenge our most central claim about the Resurrection and there is no doubt that if their misguided researches were to tell them that Jesus was a pagan myth, they would be shouting it from the roof tops (or at least, the cover of Newsweek).
		In fact, the quotations in The Jesus Mysteries are from Ray MacMullen’s Enemies of the Roman Order which is a book that demonstrates that Christian policy was basically identical to pagan policy with regard to the suppression of subversive literature.
		The authors, Peter Gandy and Timothy Freke, present this as evidence that Jesus was derived from the mystery religions.
	www.tektonics.org /books/jesmystrvw.html (2409 words)

	The Official Graham Hancock Website: Forum
		Where today the gathered faithful revere their Lord Jesus Christ, the ancients worshipped another godman who, like Jesus, had been miraculously born on the 25th of December before three shepherds.
		Our conclusion is that the story of Jesus is not the biography of an historical Messiah, but a myth based on perennial Pagan stories.
		There is, after all, a great deal of unsubstantiated nonsense written about the 'real' Jesus, so any revolutionary theory should be approached with a healthy dose of scepticism.
	www.grahamhancock.com /forum/freke_Gandy_jesusMysteries.php (555 words)

	The Jesus Mysteries: Freke and Gandy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		There have been quite a few attempts in the last hundred years to cast doubt on the historical existence of Jesus, but this book goes further than most in seeking to make a link between the Scriptural account of Jesus and the Mystery cults of antiquity.
		However, this evidence is all indirect; the only direct evidence for their theory is the Jesus story itself, and that cannot be adduced in support of the thesis without falling into circularity.
		However, it might become more plausible in a 'weaker' form, if we postulate that there was a historical figure called Jesus on whose life story a number of elements from the Mystery religions were later grafted.
	www.accampbell.uklinux.net /bookreviews/r/freke-gandy.html (441 words)

	Dharmavidya Web: Jesus Mysteries and Da Vinci Code
		This has brought attention to an article in the Observer in 1971 by a theologian called Charles Davis who speculated that the odds are that Jesus was married.
		The mystery of who Jesus really was and what he got up to is endlessly fascinating.
		One of the earliest that I remember well was Holger Kersten's book Jesus Lived in India that was perhaps the first to suggest that Jesus did not die on the cross but had a significant life afterwards that was, necessarily, either in hiding or at least outside of Roman jurisdiction.
	amidatrust.typepad.com /dharmavidya/2006/03/jesus_mysteries.html (342 words)

	Amazon.com: The Jesus Mysteries : Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?: Books: Timothy Freke (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
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		The Jesus Mysteries : Was the "Original Jesus" a Pagan God?
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	THE JESUS MYSTERIES (SOFTBACK) by Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy
		THE JESUS MYSTERIES (SOFTBACK) by Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy
		What if this pagan saviour was also born on the 25th of December before three shepherds, turned water into wine, died and resurrected at Easter, and offered his body and blood as Holy Communion?
		What if the earliest Christians knew that the Jesus story was a myth?
	www.cygnus-books.co.uk /mind_body_spirit_books/jesus_mysteries_soft.htm (162 words)

	Jesus Mysteries - Timothy Freke - Peter Gandy - Microsoft Reader eBook
		Within a few decades, Freke and Gandy argue, we will likewise be amazed that the fabulous story of God incarnate -- who was born of a virgin, who turned water into wine, and who rose from the dead -- could have been interpreted as anything but a profound parable.
		the earliest Gnostic Christians knew that the Jesus story was a myth?
		"Whether you conclude that this book is the most alarming heresy of the millennium or the mother of all revelations, The Jesus Mysteries deserves to be read."
	www.ebookmall.com /ebook/120091-ebook.htm (975 words)

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