For over sixteen centuries, the Christian Church has been preaching its
religion to the world. Yet when we consider the horrible events that have
occurred among professedly Christian peoples during the recent world
holocaust, resulting in the death of a significant portion of the world's
population, we must conclude that there is something radically wrong with
a religion, which, after having been preached and practiced for so many
centuries, has led its followers to such a terrible state of affairs,
involving the conversion of this planet into one vast slaughter-house,
drenched in human blood, resulting from the mass murder of Christians of
one nation by fellow-Christians of another, each being urged on and
blessed by their own priests.
And such a condition has prevailed in Christiandom ever since the
Christian religion was first created, organized and established in the
year 325 A.D. by pagan Roman churchmen convening at the Council of Nicea.
This council was presided over by the arch-murderer Constantine, Emperor
of Rome, who had assassinated, in cold blood, a dozen of his near
relatives, including his own wife.
And the history of Christianity has been no more honorable than its
origin; for ever since Constantine first established it as the state
religion of Rome, it has been responsible for the death of over fifty
million innocent people, under the charge that they were "heretics,"
because they refused to accept the unreasonable dogmas of the church
--including about three million women who were burnt alive as "witches" in
comparatively recent times, by men who called themselves priests of the
Christian religion.
What would the founder of Christianity, the gentle Nazarene and Prince of
Peace, think of the crimes that have been perpetrated down through the
centuries, in his name, by a church which professes to be his earthly
representative -- the Church Militant! What would he think of the rotting
corpses of over fifty million of his dearly loved brothers and sisters,
who were put to death by this same church because they refused to accept
its falsehoods and instead preferred to follow Truth, of which he was the
great exponent?
And could a church whose Inguisition has left such a black record behind
it be expected to offer us a written document (The New Testament) that
could be accepted on face value as the authentic words of a man who taught
peace, forgiveness and kindness, rather than bloody murder? And might it
not be possible that not only the teachings but also the life history, and
EVEN THE NAME, of the Nazarene, could, during the course of centuries,
have been altered by the ecclesiastical scribes of the Church of Rome in
the interests of its dogmas and ambitions for temporal power?
Also might not the original Nazarene, the peaceful Essene, whose goodness
and pacifism extended not only to humanity but to the animal world as
well, have been transformed, by Constantine's henchmen, the pagan-Roman
priests who became the Nicean Church Fathers, into another man -- called
"Jesus Christ" -- more acceptable to their emperor? THAT THIS WAS THE CASE
is the object of the following pages, devoted to the life and teachings of
this unknown man, to prove.
Two thousand years ago a great teacher of humanity appeared in the world.
He was a philosopher, a social leader, a moral teacher, a religious
reformer and a healer. From one end of the Roman empire to the other,
wherever he went, divine honors were bestowed on him -- by all, from slave
to emperor. He was undoubtedly the greatest man of his age; and his date
of birth (4 B.C.) and period of activity coincided exactly with those of
the Christian messiah, except that APOLLONIUS'S life of incessant labor in
behalf of humanity extended for over a century, during which time he
preserved his health of body and brilliance of mind unimpaired by the
passage of time. He was a supreme exemplar of human perfection --
physically, mentally and spiritually. Oven seventeen temples were erected
in honor of him in various parts of the Roman Empire. His name was
APOLLONIUS OF TYANA.
No more courageous humanitarian and social revolutionist has ever come to
this world to help the human race and redeem it from suffering. Alone and
single-handed, he defied the bloodiest tyrants who ever sat on the Roman
throne -- Nero and his more terrible successor, Domitian. Apollonius
fearlessly traveled from one end of the Roman Empire to the other,
inciting revolutions against the despots, and establishing communistic
communities among his followers, who bore the name of Essenes, early
Christians. And not content with such activities in the Roman provinces,
he bravely entered Rome itself, after all philosophers had been expelled
from the city under penalty of death by the cruel Domitian; there he
openly denounced the tyrant, for which he was arrested and thrown into a
dungeon, awaiting certain death which however, due to his brilliant speech
in self-defense and his extraordinary powers of mind, he averted, securing
his liberty.
Two centuries after Domitian, the arch-murderer and degenerate Constantine
sat on the throne of Rome. While former Roman emperors hated Apollonius
because of his revolutionary and "communistic" activities, Constantine
especially hated his Pythagorean teachings -- his strict advocacy of
vegetarianism, abstinence from alcohol and continence. Constantine enjoyed
the red meats, the flowing wines and the beautiful women of his midnight
revels too much to be willing to accept the religion of which Apollonius
was the recognized head -- a religion which he imported from India, based
on the doctrines of Chrishna and Buddha and bearing the name of Essenian
Christosism. It was for this reason that Constantine directed his armies
to exterminate the descendants of Apollonius's Essenian followers, who
were known as Manichaeans.
Finding that the religion of Rome was in a state of advanced decay and was
daily losing hold on the masses, while the cult of Apollonius and the
communistic communities of his Manichaean followers, in spite of the
severest persecution, kept spreading, threatening the vested interests of
Rome, Constantine's henchmen - the pagan priests of the Roman religion -
decided to hold a convention at Nicea in the year 325 A.D., for the
purpose of establishing a new religion. They decided to take over the
popularity enjoyed by the followers of Apollonius, appropriate its
essential doctrines (altering them so that they might be acceptable to
Constantine), and to replace the philosopher Apollonius, whose abstemious
Pythagoreanism was too well known and too much hated by their emperor, by
a super-natural messiah whose teachings would be less radical and more
acceptable to him.
So in place of Apollonius of Tyana, they put their newly created savior,
whom they named "Jesus Christ," who, THEN AND THERE, was first conceived
and created in the minds of Roman priests who were later known as the
Nicean Church Fathers.
As soon as Jesus was put in the place of Apollonius, the task of the Roman
churchmen was TO DESTROY ALL RECORDS concerning Apollonius and his
Essenian Early Christian followers during the first three centuries, so
that the world might forever be kept in darkness concerning this COLLOSAL
DECEPTION, and be made to believe that Jesus and the Christian religion,
which they originated at the BEGINNING OF THE FOURTH CENTURY A.D.,
antedated their creation by three centuries. It was for this reason that
the Alexandrian and other ancient libraries were burnt, so that all books
written during and pertaining to the FIRST THREE CENTURIES OF OUR ERA
MIGHT BE DESTROYED.
And so well did the churchmen succeed in obliterating such records, that,
for nearly two thousand years, the world has been kept in darkness
concerning the fact that Apollonius of Tyana was the recognized world
teacher of the first century, and that during the first three centuries,
before he was created at the Council of Nicea, as an alternative messiah
to Apollonius, no such man as Jesus Christ was known to or mentioned by
ANYONE.
No greater cultural loss ever occurred than happened when the Christian
mob set fire to the books and manuscripts of the Alexandrian Library, in
order to destroy all records of Apollonius of Tyana, so that the world
might forever be ignorant of his existence and of his replacement by the
previously non-existent and unknown Jesus, which occurred at the Council
of Nicea, in the year 325 A.D. But fortunately, a certain book survived -
the FORBIDDEN BOOK - of all books in that great library - that was most
feared. It was "THE LIFE OF APOLLONIUS OF TYANA", by his biographer,
Philostratus. The book was secretly carried to the Near East for safety
and for over a thousand years it was preserved among the Arabians, in
spite of all efforts of the crusaders -- in the interest of the Papacy --
to destroy it.
Somewhat over four centuries ago, this forbidden book was first brought
into Europe from the East; and it was not until 1801 that the first
complete English translation, from the Latin, was made, in spite of the
opposition of the clergy, who, when no longer able to suppress its
publication, succeeded in rendering it oblivious and in maintaining the
same popular ignorance of Apollonius and his historical significance as
existed during the Dark Ages. So well did they succeed, that, though while
after the appearance of Blount's first English translation of
Philostratus's biography of Apollonius at the commencement of the
nineteenth century, his name was on every cultured Englishman's tongue;
today, over a century later, he is almost completely unknown, even in
academic circles, mention of him having been omitted from historical works
and from the educational curricula -- so that, paradoxical though it may
seem, the greatest man of the western world during the past two thousand
years has been completely removed from the pages of history.
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