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

Belief in the Jesus story was originally the first step in Christian spirituality — the Outer Mysteries.

The philosophers of the ancient world were the spiritual masters of the Inner Mysteries. They were mystics and miracle-workers, more comparable to Hindu gurus than dusty academics.

These remarkable men and women held the Mysteries to be the heart and soul of their culture.

Plato comments, 'It looks as if those also who established rites of initiation for us were no fools, but that there is a hidden meaning in their teachings.'[

Justin Martyr found the similarities between Christian and Pagan rites of baptism deeply disturbing. He resorted once again-to the 'diabolical mimicry' argument. Evil demons, he claimed, had instigated a parody of Christian baptism in Pagan rites.

After his death he descends to hell, then on the third day he rises from the dead and ascends to heaven in glory.

It is difficult to believe that something which you have been told is true from childhood could actually be a product of falsification and fantasy.

The ancient philosophers were not so foolish as to believe that the Mystery myths were literally true, but wise enough to recognize that they were an easy introduction to the profound mystical philosophy at the heart of the Mysteries.

He spent 22 years in the temples of Egypt, becoming an initiate of the ancient Egyptian Mysteries.[49] On returning to Greece he began to preach the wisdom he had learned, performing miracles, raising the dead and giving oracles.