Secret_History

80 The Secret History of the World
and of the doctrine of probabilities, it is unimpeachable.” [Anacalypsis, Godfrey
Higgins, London, 1836, quoted by Manly P. Hall]
Regarding the above comments by Irenaeus, we notice that he was blaming the
corruption of the work of Jesus on the Gnostics. What seems altogether possible,
considering the revelations of the inner tradition of esoteric Christianity, is that
Irenaeus - and others - completely misunderstood the teachings of the metaphor of
crucifixion which, it is clear, are an alchemical allegory.
Nevertheless, as years passed, this “misunderstanding” became the foundation of
Christianity itself and those who noted its similarity to the Egyptian religion and
other dying god myths assumed the transmission from ancient Egypt as we now
understand it.
The fad for all things “Egyptian” has been with us for a very long time.
Schwaller de Lubicz - the vector of many of these ideas - settled in Egypt in 1938
and for the next 15 years studied the symbolism of the temples, particularly Luxor,
finding what he considered to be proof that the ancient Egyptians were the
ultimate examples of Synarchy, because they were ruled by a group of elite
initiates. He failed to point out that the Egyptian civilization was static and
limited. What’s more, it caved in on itself, and never managed to produce any
significant work of benefit for humanity, as Otto Neugebauer showed conclusively
in his The Exact Sciences in Antiquity, whose evidence we will quote further on in
this volume.
The open-minded thinker ought to really consider the purported mysteries of
Egypt in terms of the fact that they were so ignorant that they devoted a huge
amount of energy to their “cult of the dead”. The whole Egyptian shtick is focused
around preserving dead flesh for future or otherworldly reanimation. The very fact
that there are so many of these dead bodies for Egyptologists to dig up is the
clearest evidence that the Egyptian beliefs were nonsense. So, in that sense,
certainly, Christianity as we know it has adopted the “Egyptian religion” and its
beliefs in physical resurrection.
The whole issue of the excitement over Egyptian civilization is the belief that
they had some mysterious powers because they built the pyramids and we can’t.
And has it never occurred to anybody that the existence of the pyramids in
conjunction with the worship of an elite group of human beings, while everybody
else was wearing loincloths and sweating in the hot sun, might suggest a
relationship between the two? The fact is, the Egyptian civilization seems to have
been the chief example of a vast chasm between the haves and the have-nots, and
they managed to do it longer than anybody else.
In examining the work of Schwaller, we have one of the better examples of the
subtle way the negative occult societies attack those who come to bring light, by
association and co-opting. The tactic is to find a means of subtly allying their
message with that of the truth so as to generate confusion in untrained minds
which would tend, on surface evidence, to accept these actually contrary messages
as similar, at least in intent.
The negative occultists who are promoting the new Control System borrow all
their components from what is of truth, and proceed by the method of imitation.
They literally will ape the expression of positive teachings, and all the more