The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God?

Jesus meets his death alongside two thieves, one of whom ascends with him to heaven, whilst the other goes to hell. A comparable mythical motif is found in the Mysteries. A common icon pictures two torchbearers either side of Mithras. One of these figures has his torch pointing upwards, symbolizing the ascent to heaven, and the other has his torch

In the Mysteries of Dionysus, a large bearded mask representing the godman was hung on a wooden pole (see pictures 6 to 8).[202] Like Jesus, who at his crucifixion is given a crown of thorns, Dionysus was given a crown of ivy. Just as Jesus is dressed up in purple robes when he is ridiculed by the Roman soldiers, so Dionysus was also dressed in pur

In the Acts of the Apostles, Peter does not say that Jesus was crucified, but 'hung on a tree',[198] as does St Paul in his Letter to the Galatians.[199] The Church father Firmicus Maternus tells us that in the Mysteries of Attis a youthful image of the godman was tied to a pine tree[200] Adonis was known as 'He on the tree'.[

It was the custom of the Jews to expose on a stake the bodies of those that they had stoned to death, as a warning to others.[

Jesus is generally believed to have been crucified on a cross, but the word translated by 'cross' in the New Testament has a general meaning of a 'stake'.

Under Athenian law the penalty for this 'crime' was death, unless the defendant offered an alternative penalty acceptable to the judges. Like Pilate, who offers to set Jesus free because it is a custom to release one prisoner at the Passover, the Athenian authorities hoped that Socrates would escape death on a technicality by paying a fine and goin

Many of the great philosophers of the Mystery tradition were also 'just men' who suffered an unjust death at the hands of tyrannical authorities. One such is Socrates who, like Jesus, was accused of heresy.

The image of the godman and his 12 disciples encodes such teachings from sacred geometry.

Pythagoreans, who were renowned in the ancient world for their knowledge of mathematics, conceived of God as a perfect sphere.[122] The ancients discovered that if a sphere is surrounded by others of exactly the same dimensions, so that all the spheres are in contact with each other, the central sphere will be surrounded by exactly 12 others.[