Who is this King of Glory? - The Masonic Trowel

1 WHO IS this king OF glory ? Get any book for free on: 1 Who is this king of glory ? A Critical Study of the Christos-Messiah Tradition By Alvin Boyd Kuhn Get any book for free on: WHO IS this king OF glory ? Get any book for free on: 2 Who is this king of glory ? A Critical Study of the Christos-Messiah Tradition "What profit hath not that fable of Christ brought us!" --Pope Leo X Alvin Boyd Kuhn WHO IS this king OF glory ? Get any book for free on: 3To THE MANY THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS WHO ARE EARNESTLY STRIVING TO RESTORE THE ANCIENT ESOTERIC INTERPRETATION OF THE SCRIPTURES OF THE WORLD this WORK IS SINCERELY DEDICATED CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ix I. FAITH WEDS FOLLY 1 II. MYTH TRUER THAN HISTORY 14 III.

2 TRUTH WEARS A MASK 48 IV. WISDOM HAUNTS THE COUNTRYSIDE 80 V. FANCY S FABRIC TURNS INTO HISTORY 90 VI. CANONIZED ROMANTICISM 129 VII. THROES OF A BAD CONSCIENCE 169 VIII. SUBLIME MYTH MAKES GROTESQUE HISTORY 181 IX. FAITH S ODD WONDERLAND 226 X. COSMIC MAJESTY WITH LOCAL ITEMS 248 XI. STAGGERING TRUTH ON EGYPT S WALLS 257 XII. THE SHOUT OF PAUL S SILENCE 276 WHO IS this king OF glory ? Get any book for free on: 4 XIII. ROBBING PAUL TO PAY PETER 301 XIV. A QUEEN DETHRONED 312 XV. A STAR--AND LUNA 332 XVI. AN EPOCHAL DISCOVERY 372 XVII. TRUTH EXORCISES DEMONIAC OBSESSIONS 388 XVIII. THE ANOINTING OF MAN 401 XIX. LOST CYCLES OF THE SUN 419 XX. TWELVE LAMPS OF DEITY 432 XXI. ORION AND HIS DOG 457 XXII. OUR DAY-STAR RISES 469 INDEX 487 WHO IS this king OF glory ?

3 Get any book for free on: 5 INTRODUCTION The pick that struck the Rosetta Stone in the loamy soil of the Nile delta in 1796 also struck a mighty blow at historical Christianity. For it released the voice of a long-voiceless past to refute nearly every one of Christianity s historical claims with a withering negative. The cryptic literature of old Egypt, sealed in silence when Christianity took its rise, but haunting it like a taunting specter after the third century, now stalks forth like a living ghost out of the tomb to point its long finger of accusation at a faith that has too long thriven on falsity. For that literature now rises out of oblivion to proclaim the true source of every doctrine of Christianity as Egyptian, the product and heritage of a remote past.

4 The translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Pyramid Texts, and the Book of Thoth lays on the table the irrefutable data which show that, far from being the first gleam of true light in a world previously benighted in heathenism, Christianity was but a poor and crippled orphan, appearing--after the third century--without evidence of its true parentage and sadly belying in its outward form the semblance of its real ancestral lineage. The books of old Egypt now unroll the sagas of wisdom which announce the inexorable truth that not a single doctrine, rite, tenet or usage in Christianity was a new contribution to world religion, but that every article and practice of that faith was a disfigured copy of ancient Egyptian systematism. Christianity, it proclaims, not only did not register a single advance in any line of wisdom or truth, but deplorably vitiated and disfigured the beautiful structure of religion which it ignorantly adopted and so wretchedly purveyed as its own alleged new creation.

5 The shadow that pursued the faith with the semblance of outward similarity for sixteen centuries, now resolves into the substance of veridical proof of original identity. The entire body of Christian doctrinism is now seen to be nothing but revamped and terribly mutilated Egyptianism. Through the chance stroke of a trench-digger s pick Christianity is brought to book to face its Nemesis. The heathen parentage that it strove so desperately to deny and the marks of which it so sedulously endeavored to obliterate in the early centuries now ix rises from the dead past to charge its ungenerous offspring with faithlessness and deceit. And Christianity, as Edward Carpenter so frankly asserts, must now acknowledge its parentage in a pagan past or, failing to do so, must perish.

6 The entire Christian Bible, creation legend, descent into and exodus from "Egypt," ark and flood allegory, Israelite "history," Hebrew prophecy and poetry, Gospels, Epistles and Revelation imagery, all are now proven to have been the transmission of ancient Egypt s scrolls and papyri into the hands of later generations which knew neither their true origin nor their fathomless meaning. Long after Egypt s voice, expressed through the inscribed hieroglyphics, was hushed in silence, the perpetuated relics of Hamitic wisdom, with their cryptic message utterly lost, were brought forth and presented to the world by parties of ignorant zealots as a new body of truth. The only new thing about it was the pitiable exegesis that inspired and accompanied the reissuance.

7 But the sheer fact that even amid the murks of ignorance and superstition the mere ghost, shell, husk and shadow of Egypt s wisdom inspired religious piety to extremes of faith and zealotry is singular attestation of its original power and majesty. Only by acknowledging and regaining its parenthood in that sublime pagan source will Christianity rise at last to its true nobility and splendor. WHO IS this king OF glory ? Get any book for free on: 6 There can be no question of this necessity on its part. Almost alone one significant item enforces it. From the scrolls of papyri five thousand to ten thousand years old there comes stalking forth to view the whole story of an Egyptian Jesus raising from the dead an Egyptian Lazarus at an Egyptian Bethany, with two Egyptian Maries present, the non-historical prototype of the incident related (only) in John s Gospel.

8 From the walls of the temple of Luxor, carved there at a date at least 1700 years , there faces Christianity a group of four scenes that spell the non-historicity of four episodes purveyed as history in the Gospel s recital of the Christ nativity: the angel s pronouncement to the shepherds tending their flocks by night in the fields; the annunciation of the angel to the virgin; the adoration of the infant by three Magi; and the nativity scene itself. Egypt had used the symbol of a star rising in the east as the portent of coming deity for millennia anterior to the Christian era. Egypt had knelt at the shrine of the Madonna and child, Isis and Horus, for long centuries before a historical Mary lifted a historical Jesus in her arms. Egypt had from remote times x adored a Christ who had raised the dead and healed the lame, halt, blind, paralytic, leprous and all afflicted, who had restored speech to the dumb, exorcized demons from the possessed, dispersed his enemies with a word or look, wrestled with his Satan adversary, overcome all temptation and performed the works of his heavenly Father to the victorious end.

9 Egypt had long known a Jesus, Iusa, who had been born amid celestial portents of an immaculate parenthood, circumcised, baptized, tempted, glorified on the mount, persecuted, arrested, tried, condemned, crucified, buried, resurrected and elevated to heaven. Egypt had listened to the Sermon on the Mount and the Sayings of Iusa for ages. Egypt had known a Jesus who long antedated the Gospel Messiah and who presents to the student some one hundred and eighty items of identity, similarity and correspondence in word, deed and function with his later copy. But Egypt s Christ was not a living person. It would have been equally fatal to Christianity if he had been. But the fact of his non-historicity rises now out of the past that Christianity thought it had sealed in oblivion forever, to strike the death-knell of a false and spurious religion.

10 The Gospels "life" of Jesus turns out to be nothing but the garbled and fragmentary copy of an Egyptian prototype who never lived, but was a purely typal dramatic figure, portraying the divinity in man. With this one revelation of lost truth the structure of historical Christianity topples to the ground. It must be replaced by a purely spiritual Christianity. In the splendid light of ancient Egypt Occidental religion can now find its way from Medieval darkness to sunlit truth. The Dark Ages can be brought to their dismal end at last. The ineptitude of scholarly acumen in the face of the mountainous evidence supplied by the study of comparative religion, especially since the recovery of Chaldean and Egyptian antiquities, surpasses all belief and flouts all conscience.