Catholicism and the Pharonic
religion
The History of Mary and Jesus
Have you ever thought of why one religion has so many diverse forms
and indeed why one section can claim all others to be heretics
whilst they themselves are referred to as the Antichrist? It is
very complicated but the reasons are embedded deep in the annals of
history and go much further back than the time of the historical
birth of Christ.
Indeed it is an anathema that such diversity has caused hatred and
wars for centuries since the time of Martin Luther’s Reformation in
1517.
In reality this great schism is very easy to comprehend if we are
able to understand the real ways in which the two branches of
seemingly the same faith were formed. However, it is essential to
have an open mind and allow one’s self the ability to examine ideas
and processes of thought that may in many ways be disturbing to
traditional Christians of whatever branch of the faith.
It is essential to for us to accept that we are entering a new age
of reason and many things will be made known to those who are able
to open their minds and become in tuned to a process of
enlightenment that will make all things clear. It will enable us to
see that all sections of the church have their place and the
different beliefs and modes of worship are neither right nor wrong,
merely different ways of experiencing and achieving the love of
God. Indeed the process of divine enlightenment will come in many
ways as the new age of Aquarius replaces the Piscean age.
This does not mean the Christ will be replaced, merely perceived in
a different way, in the same way that the Ancient Egyptians changed
their perception of God as the Zodiacal ages changed.
We must appreciate that Protestants and Catholics are worshipping
the same God but merely appreciate different methods of
understanding Him and drawing near to Him. In reality it depends
upon aesthetic preference, which is merely a biological factor
within each one of us, which I will deal with at a later
stage.
The reality of the situation was that Jesus did not actually come
into the world to create a church, he came to show mankind the way
to God through love. His simple message was ‘Love God, love
yourself, love your neighbour and love your enemy; then the Kingdom
of heaven will be on Earth’.
The first faction amongst the followers of Jesus developed shortly
after his death and resurrection and three ideas concerning Jesus
evolved and I will deal with those in turn.
The belief centered on Jesus and his teaching that was accepted by
Peter and Jesus half brother James was established at the council
of Jerusalem held by the majority of the Apostles and elders of the
embryonic church. Peter was the established leader of this group
for Jesus had told him that he would be the rock on which I will
build my church. Unto you the keys of Heaven will be given, whom
you say will enter will enter and whom you say will not, will
not’.
This is a clear statement of the supremacy of Peter made by Jesus
himself on the grounds that Peter actually recognized Our Lord for
what He was. When Jesus said to His disciples ‘Who am I’, Peter
boldly replied ‘You are the son of the Living God, the Christ’.
Consequently this was how the followers of Jesus who accepted the
teaching of Peter and the Council regarded Jesus. Jesus was the Son
of God, the Christ.
The second faction was centered round the teaching of St Thomas in
Egypt. He too wrote a Gospel but this was rejected by the Catholic
Church as heresy. For in many ways it denounced the divinity of
Jesus. St. Thomas preached that Jesus was the means by which we
come to know God. He was the living word of God and to know Him was
to enable the light of God which shines within each one of us to
shine and through this is brought about our comprehension of God.
Hence, according to St. Thomas, we merely know God and come to Him
through Jesus.
The third faction was based on the preaching of St. Paul. He is
considered an honorary apostle for he was not one of the original
twelve disciples. After the death of Jesus, when the Holy Spirit
inspired the Disciples to preach to the people and thousands were
converted. Paul, who was at that time called Saul, considered the
Christians such a threat to the Jewish Faith, that he determined to
wipe them out. Saul’s famous conversion to Christ on the road to
Damascus and his change of name to Paul is legendry. A brilliant
light in the midst of which he saw the risen Christ asking him why
he was persecuting Him blinded him. The blinded Saul was led away
to Damascus and taken to the house of Ananias who restored his
sight after three days and initiated the name change.
Paul was fired with the zeal of instant conversion and determined
to preach the gospel of the risen Lord Jesus throughout the Roman
Empire. He was perhaps the greatest preacher of all time and
managed to undertake three great missionary journeys round Asia
Minor including Cyprus, Malta and Rome where he was finally
executed. As a Roman Citizen he suffered the merciful death of
beheading. However, what Paul taught about Jesus was somewhat
different to the view taken by the Gnostic Church of St. Thomas and
also different to the orthodox view held by Peter and the Council
of Jerusalem. However, though the Acts of the Apostles points out
these differences, it is at pains to include reconciliation between
Peter and Paul.
The great difference between Paul’s teaching and the teachings of
the other two aspects of the faith is that Paul to Jesus is quite
literally God incarnate. Though Jesus has the dual nature of Man
and God, he is consubstantial and co-eternal with the Father.
Indeed the words of Jesus ‘I and the father are one; no comes to
the Father except through me’ are perhaps the foundation of this
belief, though we can not of course ignore the vision that Paul had
on the Damascus road!
Throughout its early life the church flourished through persecution
from Rome and also of course the Jews. Both the emperors Nero and
Diocletian stressed their divine status and persecuted the
Christians with a vengeance. They were put to death most horribly
in the arenas of Rome in ways so horrible that it should have made
many renounce their faith. However the strength of belief was so
great that it only made the numbers grow. The Christians believed
that through their martyr’s death they would be in glory with
Jesus. By the early 4th Century, the Emperor Constantine had
embraced the faith of his wife Helen and Christianity as the
official religion of the Empire. It was Constantine the Great who
established the Church of Rome, the Roman Catholic Church, however
he was horrified to discover schism within the church and ordered
all the Bishops to attend a council at Nicene. There they were to
establish a code of common beliefs that would be the statement of
faith to which the entire church would adhere.
That proved impossible for they could not agree on the nature of
Christ.
Constantine had been brought up as a worshipper of Sol Victor (Ra)
and Isis, had no problem in recognizing the almost identical nature
of Osiris and Jesus. Isis had exactly the same role as the Virgin
Mary and Horus was the same as the Holy Spirit. Even the Holy
Eucharist was the same meal of bread eaten by the Priests of Osiris
to enable God to dwell within them. The similarities were too much
of a coincidence and the rites and ceremonies of the two faiths
could easily be combined to encourage everyone to adopt the new
state religion. Even the date of Christmas, which no one seemed to
know, was assimilated to the festival of Sol Victor. How easy to
recognize the birth of the Son of God as the rising sun! The
Bishops found it quite impossible to formulate a creed and so
Constantine himself formulated what is now known as the Nicene
Creed which even today is stated by the faithful everytime the
Eucharist is celebrated.
Constantine found himself in absolute agreement with the views of
St. Paul and the Pauline Bishops had no hesitation in accepting the
new code of beliefs. However others left the Council and went their
own way as schisms of the church. Thus was formed the Roman
Catholic Church. It was based almost exclusively on the conviction
of Paul that Jesus was God Incarnate. The ideas of Constantine
linked not only the sacred rites and rituals to the old faith of
Isis and Sol Victor, but also the esoteric beliefs of the two cults
in the way in which God is perceived. Just as Ra was God of Gods
and Light of Light, begotten not made, so was Jesus who was
consubstantial with the Father, the essence of supreme,
transcendent light. Isis was the holy mother of God and Queen of
Heaven so then Mary had to take her place.
Constantine wasted no time in building beautiful churches and
basilicas, filling them with outward and visible signs that would
lead the people to believe in Jesus and thus enter the Kingdom of
Heaven. The linking of the Church and State was also a very clever
idea for it meant that the Emperor, divinely anointed by the
church, was the chosen vessel of God in the same way as the
Egyptian Pharaoh who was reborn as the living Horus. Thus the
Christian Emperor became a living Messiah, the anointed one of God,
created by the Pontiffix Maximus, the great bridge between Earth
and Heaven, the Pope. Thus simultaneously was elevated the status
of the Emperor and the Pope as head of the church.
All the beauty, pomp and mystery of the cult of Isis were
superimposed upon Constantine’s Church and above all the status of
Mary’ the Mother of God was augmented to the same status of Sacred
Isis the great universal mother suckling the infant Horus. The
Madonna and child so perfectly replaces Isis that her departure was
hardly noticed! The cult of Mary was strengthened with the doctrine
of the Immaculate Conception which stated that it was not merely
the birth of Jesus that was brought into effect by the intervention
of the Holy Spirit, but also that of Mary as well. In many ways she
was the female aspect of God. She became the mother of all
Christians and as our mother could intercede with the Father for
us. Thus the Ancient Cult of Isis and the newly formed Church of
Rome had as their supreme link the Person of Our Lady, the Blessed
Virgin Mary, the Mother of God and Queen of Heaven.
Twelve Hundred years later, it was the trappings of majesty and
pomp that the church had assimilated to itself, together with the
aspects of the faith that were linked to older religions that were
condemned by the fathers of the Reformation.