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original one, yet he becomes more zealous than ever in his persecution of the
“Heretics.” Why Because to accept it was equivalent to reading the death
sentence of the established Church. The Gospel according to the Hebrews
was well known to have been the (Page 150) only one accepted for four
centuries by the Jewish Christians, the Nazarenes and the Ebionites. And
neither of the latter accepted the divinity of Christ. [ Isis Unveiled. II, 182-3.]
The Ebionites were the first, the earliest Christians, whose representative was
the Gnostic author of the Clementine Homilies, and as the author of
Supernatural Religion shows, 8 [Op. cit., II, 5] Ebionitic Gnosticism had once
been the purest form of Christianity. They were the pupils and followers of the
early Nazarenes - the kabalistic Gnostics. They believed in the Aeons, as the
Cerinthians did, and that “the world was put together by Angels” (Dhyan
Chohans), as Epiphanius complains (Contra Ebionitas) : “Ebion had the
opinion of the Nazarenes, the form of Cerinthians.” “They decided that Christ
was of the seed of a man,” he laments. [ See also Isis Unveiled, ii. 180, to end
of chapter.] Thus again:
The badge of Dan-Scorpio is death-life, in the symbol
.as crossbones and
skull , . . or life-death . . . the standard of Constantine, the Roman
Emperor. Abel has been shown to be Jesus, and Cain-Vulcain, or Mars,
pierced him. Constantine was the Roman Emperor, whose warlike god was
Mars, and a Roman soldier pierced Jesus on the cross . . . .
But the piercing of Abel was the consummation of his marriage with Cain, and
this was proper under the form of Mars Generator; hence the double glyph,
one of Mars-Generator [Osiris-Sun] and Mars-Destroyer [Mercury the God of
Death in the Egyptian basso-relievo] in one; significant, again, of the primal
idea of the living cosmos, or of birth and death, as necessary to the
continuation of the stream of life. [ Source of Measure, p.299. This “stream of
life” being emblematised in the Philloc basso-relievo just mentioned, by the
water poured in the shape of a Cross on the initiated candidate by Osiris - Life
and the Sun - and Mercury - Death. It was the finale of the rite of Initiation
after the seven and the twelve tortures in the Crypts of Egypt were passed
through successfully.]
To quote once more from Isis Unveiled:
A Latin cross of a perfect Christian shape was found hewn upon the granite
slabs of the Adytum of the Serapeum; and the monks did not fail to claim that
the cross had been hallowed by the Pagans in a “spirit of prophecy.” At least,
Sozomen, with an air of triumph, records the fact. [ Another untrustworthy,
untruthful and ignorant writer, an ecclesiastical historian of the fifth century.
His alleged history of the strife between the Pagans, Neoplatonists, and the
Christians of Alexandria and Constantinople, which extends from the year 324
to 439, dedicated by him to Theodosius, the younger, is full of deliberate
falsifications.] But archaeology and symbolism, those tireless and implacable
enemies of clerical false pretences, have found in the hieroglyphics of the
legend running round the design at least a partial interpretation of its meaning.
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