EQUINOCTIAL CHRISTOLATRY PT. 1: TRUE GNOSIS, THE BOOK OF REVELATION, SERAPIS, JESUS, SECRET WISDOM!
THE NATURAL GENESIS AND TYPOLOGY OF EQUINOCTIAL CHRISTOLATRY. WHEN Herodotus visited Egypt and recognized the African originals of the Greek deities, he makes the sage remark that his countrymen, in their ignorance of the beginnings, counted the birth of their gods from the time when they first acquired a knowledge of them.1 So was it with the “primitive Christians,” in their ignorance of the natural genesis and past history of Christolatry. They consisted of the knowing and the simple. The knowing ones kept back the esoteric interpretation of the mythos, to let the untutored belief in the real history take root. The simple ones, like Bunyan, “fell suddenly into an allegory about the journey and the way to glory,” which allegory they were led to believe was purely matter of fact. The writer of the Ignatian Epistle to the Philadelphians represents their position. He observes:—“I have heard some say, ‘Unless I find it in the ancient writings (the originals or archives) I will not believe it to be written in the gospel.’ And when I said to them: ‘It is written!’ they replied to me ‘It is found written before;’ ” in what they called the uncorrupted originals, which Ignatius denounces as corrupt copies of his original gospel. …
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