By Ron McVan
"There is no death of anyone, but only in appearance, even as there is no birth of any, save only in seeming. The change from being to becoming seems to be birth, and the change from becoming to being seems to be death, but in reality no one is ever born, nor does one ever die. It is simply a being visible and then invisible; the former through the density of matter, and the latter because of the subtlety of being----being which is ever the same, its only change being motion and rest. For being has this necessary peculiarity, that its change is brought about by nothing external to itself; but whole becomes parts and parts become whole in the oneness of the all." ......................PLATO
For too long this world has concerned itself with human spiritual adepts whom it has aggrandized into often exaggerated and unrealistic proportions. Every representative of divine truth and wisdom, without exception, are at best, enlightened messengers and teachers of varying degrees and abilities. Yet do they remain bound to the many human frailties and limitations of the human body, and as such, should certainly never qualify as divine gods and be worshiped as such by man here on earth.
Through the course of history it is proven that people in general tend to unquestionably flow with the herd mentality and have not the slightest clue as to what is genuine truth and what is not, what is real spirituality and what is not. Nor do they care to invest any serious personal effort upon which to base their convictions. Why should they exert themselves? The churches are already built and established, and millions of people cannot be wrong, least of all their parents and grandparents. And of course, how dare anyone think of questioning the absolute, supreme authority of the church! Haven't you learned anything yet? The clergy are wiser than you and have all the right answers for everything! If they tell you the world is only 6,000 years old, then by God, you better not question that, or you just might burn forever in hell with the rest of the heathens and heretics!
"There is a difference between the miracle healings before Christ, and those of today. Anyone who is miraculously healed nowadays is convinced that Jesus, Mary or at least a Christian saint had something to do with it. In The time of Epidarus there were no Christian figures to whom one could turn for help. So who or what brought about the healing? It is clear that Christian belief is not necessary for a spontaneous and miraculous healing to occur. I the time of Epidarus people believed in Apollo and Asclepius, and they were still cured." .........................Eric Von Daniken
Some of the greatest spiritual sages who have walked this earth, whether born wealthy or poor, have consciously chosen to pass through history unaffected by worldly temptations. Genuine gnostic teachers are not here to become lucrative Hollywood-style personalities, like so many modern-day self-centered, vain and power hungry evangelists. What the gnostic sage pursues is a selfless, unwavering life mission to elevate the thinking of mankind by giving us a true conception of our position in life and the universe and its higher dimensions. It is the message that matters above all, not building opulent temples to the sky, but whether the adept passes through this life as a teacher of great distinction or as a seemingly aimless drifter, he simply follows his spiritual calling.
There is immense wealth and power in the organized religion business, as one can easily observe by the collective thousands of illustrious and imposing temples, churches and cathedrals that span the globe. And no one knows this better than the gangs and governments who invent and manipulate organized religions. If we are ever to shatter the heavy iron chains of man's incommensurable ignorance then the mind must be free to differentiate between reality and fiction and get at the truth in its purest essence. As Seneca told the Romans more than 2,200 years ago, "The world would rather cling to a wrong idea than accept a new truth."
The first century of our era was a tumultuous time concerning the powers of the Church and State. The Roman Empire was fast losing its grip on the state cults and national religious institutions. It was evident that if Rome intended to continue wielding religious authority and control then it would have to establish a major religion, a universal church, aristocratic in structure and autocratic in power which would best consolidate the existing religions, while at the same time diffuse the ardent and independent spirit of the free-thinking populace. The word 'catholic', it is interesting to note, means "universal", and world domination and power has forever been the aim of the Vatican. 'Universalism' was one of the many tools of the tyrant to achieve such ends and still remains so today.
In the Greek Cappadocian city of Tyana on the 16th day of February 2, C.E. there was born a child named Apollonious. It was soon to become apparent that he was not just any ordinary child but one of exceptional gifts and mental power. At the youthful age of 14 he had so out-distanced his teachers that he was sent away to complete his education; at age 16 he attended the Temple of Aegae. In this same year he had taken the Pythagorean Vows and had already gained reputation by performing remarkable miracles. Apollonius was known to have a striking physical presence and countenance as he grew into manhood.
Like Pythagoras, Apollonius traveled extensively in his youthful years, making pilgrimages to the many religious temples and mystery schools. When upon his travels he would often be accompanied by his close disciples, one of whom was named Lucius. Depending on the language, the name Lucius is pronounced Lucas or Luke. Luke (lucious) was the transcriber of the life of Apollonius, as indicated by Damas, who was the most beloved disciple of Apollonius.
If this life story is starting to sound somewhat familiar, it should, because it was from the real life personage of Apollonius that the fictional Jesus was so craft-fully created. To this day there has yet to be produced one single shred of sound, historical evidence that a real life man named Jesus, the Christ, ever existed. All of Rome knew of Apollonius, and had another miracle worker existed at that time period, it would have been duly noted and recorded. The Roman emperors sought out such people of miraculous reputation. Apollonius was consulted by not less than five emperors, namely: Nero, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian and Nerva. The prototype from which the Jesus figure was created was taken directly from the personage of Apollonius. Although Apollonius would not have approved, the Romans built a temple to him and even Emperors worshipped him as a god.
It was in the year 325 C.E. that the Jesus figure was officiated at and by the Nicaean Council, and precisely at this time that Christianity was officially created and established by the Empire of Rome. Between the time of the first century and the year 325, it was known as "the time of the coming of the Christ"--Christ, which is a title meaning "the anointed". For the first three centuries there was only talk of a "coming of a Christ". The name and purported exploits of a so-called 'Jesus' had not been determined until the Council of Nicea. After the establishment of the Nicaean dogma, Christian philosophy was studied chiefly in the School of Origen at Alexandria.
The religion of Christianity is almost a carbon copy of 16 former religions already quite ancient at that time. Primarily, it was the Celtic sun God Iesa (Latinized Jesu) that was adopted by the Roman Church at Nicaea. At this Council, representatives from all parts of the Roman Empire are said to have met at the command of the Emperor Constantine to formulate a Church policy, a unified creed and to establish a worship which would bring all of the people under one spiritual head. The real kicker was the formula that they devised for the Christian conception of Jesus Christ which described him as the one and only Son of God, and at the same time the God Absolute incarnate himself. The adoption of such measures would at once increase the power of the Church, as well as to insure the devotion and veneration of the populace to the Pope as well as the Emperor to whom they attributed divine power. The consummation of this policy was expected to be of great benefit to both Church and State, and enable the Emperor to fuse together into a unified whole the various peoples of the different countries and cultures which would comprise the Empire.
After this Council, the first act of the Church Fathers was to burn all writings they could find, especially those of the first three hundred years of the Common Era which revered Apollonius as the spiritual leader of the first century. The upstart Christianity began to teach that it was an entirely new and divine doctrine, Judaism a corrupt form of religion, the revelation of an inferior being, and paganism the work of evil spirits. It was for this reason as well, that ancient libraries were ordered to be burned, including the famous and irreplaceable Library at Alexandria. It was later revealed that the chief librarian at Alexandria at that time had been warned of the plot and secretly removed some of the most valued writings and sent them to Arabia for safe-keeping. Recently in the 20th century, when the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered, the Israeli government immediately took possession of them in order to whisk them away from the eyes of the world for obvious reasons.
The early 4th century book entitled "The Life Of Apollonius" by historian Philostratus, would not surface again until 1501 C.E. The first English translation did not become available until the year 1680. Thirteen years later, the English Charles Blaunt translation was condemned by the Church and further publication was prohibited. In 1809 Edward Berwick made a new English translation of the volume, whereupon the Church confiscated and burned the book so fast that by 1907 no copies were to be found.
It was not until 1582 that Pope Gregory XIII devised the "New Style" calendar, adopted by England and America in 1752. The Gregorian calendar officially imposed the political and social domination the "Christian Era", designating the formulated birth of Jesus at year 1 A.D. Anno Domini, the 'Year of Our Lord'. Short and simple, Christianity is a religion designed by the controlling elite, for the express purpose of total world manipulation of the masses. And any and all religious institutions over the ages which in any way conflicted with this idea were to be destroyed. For this reason, the mystery cults were suppressed, and initiation into the ancient or esoteric Mysteries were forbidden, so that no religious establishment, worship or practice could exist which would draw and hold men to it other than the Roman State Church. Pagans became the primary target, being that their free-thinking minds would yield no adherence to a mere political and idolatrous church, whose doctrines were, in the main, intended for the uninstructed multitude. Such minds could not be dominated by a political or mercenary priesthood. Even scholars within the Christian Church such as St. Thomas demonstrated that he was not to be bound by the ignorance of Churchianity when he stated "The highest knowledge of God is intuitive: this is attained only in the hereafter and endures forever; it yields supreme happiness and is the supreme goal of human striving. They are most like God who know God as God knows himself."
Religion for Apollonius was not of faith only, it was a science. For him, the show of things were but ever changing appearances; cults and rites, religions and faiths, were all one to him, provided the right spirits were behind them. Apollonious had declared Pythagoras to be the "world-savior", while Philostratus gives this title to Apollonius himself.
Most of the recorded wonder-doings of Apollonius are cases of prophecy or foreseeing, of seeing at a distance and seeing the past, of seeing or hearing in vision, of healing the sick or curing cases of obsession or possession. Like all the great indigenous pagan folk religions the object of its worship is always said to have been the "Sun", that is to say, the lord of our world and its sister worlds, whose glorious symbol is the orb of light and giver of all life. The concept of crucifixion and the cross as spiritual symbol is as ancient as mankind. It was used in oldest Egypt as Crux Ansanta and as the Tau in China; also very common among the Chaldeans, the Phoenicians, Peruvians, Mexicans and many others. Even the Norse god Wotan centuries before the Christ era, crucified himself upon a tree and was pierced in his side by a lance. It all has relation to the 12 plus 1 concept of the zodiac which is the sun and the twelve planets. Symbolically this becomes the son of god crucified upon the wheel of the zodiac. 'Jesus and the twelve disciples' representing the sun and the twelve planets. 'Hecules and his twelve labors'. 'King Arthur and his twelve knights'. 'Robinhood and his twelve merry men', the list goes on and on. Most everyone should know by now that no savior was born on December 25th. That particular day of pagan tradition was officiated at the Council of Nicea as the birth date of Christ as it had important numerical value being the long celebrated festival day that marked the Winter Solstice and therefore holy to the Sun God----especially the savior god Mithra from which Christianity itself evolved. Tacitus referred to Christianity as a "pernicious superstition" notable for its 'hatred of the human race'; Suetonious also called it a 'mischievous superstition'; and though Pliny, after a conscientious investigation, concluded that its adherents were not monsters, he agreed that it was a 'depraved and extravagant superstition'. If the pagan mysteries were extracted from the Christian bible it would be a most insignificant and useless book to say the least.
Apollonius lived to the ripe age of 98 years old and was a man of strong physique and health. The most distinguished of his followers was Musonius, who was considered the greatest philosopher of the time after the Tyanian. Unlike his fictional counterpart, Apollonious prided himself on courage, and though not a violent or hostile man, he represented Nature's Law as God's Law and would not be one to preach the emasculating, philosophical pablem of "turn the other cheek" "meekness" and "love thine enemies". Upon hearing the news that Titus had conquered Jerusalem in battle, Apollonius immediately sent Titus a high letter of praise, to which Titus replied to the respected sage, "I have conquered Jerusalem, but thou hast conquered me."
In his travels Apollonius made a special point to spend a night in the tomb of Achilles to hold communion with this legendary warrior spirit. He also restored and erected a statue and chapel to Palamedes, the hero of the Trojan War. When visiting Thermopylae, the famous battle site of Leonidas and the 300 Spartans, Apollonius overheard his followers discussing which mountain was the highest in Greece. He called them to himself and said, "This is the highest mountain in Greece; for those who died here elevated it even above Olympus."
The warm and fuzzy maxim "Peace on Earth--Good Will Towards Men" has to be one of the most glaring and bare-faced falsehoods ever concocted and uttered by the Christian Church. They certainly expected too much when they supposed that a fiction, which was believed in an ignorant age, would, also, continue to be believed in an enlightened one. There was never a holocaust that could even begin to compare to the 1,000 dread black years of indiscriminate torture and death known as the "Christian Inquisition". There has been more blood spilled in the name of religion than in all the secular wars of history. Literally, rivers of blood have been shed in the name of Jesus, motivated by an insatiable lust for power and world domination. Yet, not one drop of blood was known to be shed in the name of the real-life spiritual wonder-worker, Apollonius. As the learned John Stuart Mill once stated: "Whatever power such a being may have over me, there is one thing which he shall not do; he shall not compel me to worship him. I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a being can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go." The authority of the Church over the mind of man has gradually weakened and the individual now has more freedom to assert his intellectual and spiritual independence. Reason supplanted authority in philosophy, and the belief began to prevail that truth is something to be won by free and impartial inquiry instead of being decreed by authority.
"The law obliges us to die for liberty, and Nature ordains that we should die for our parents, our friends or our children. All men are bound by these duties. But a higher duty is laid upon the sage; he must die for his principles and the truth he holds dearer than life. It is not the law that lays this choice upon him, it is not Nature; it is the strength and courage of his own soul. Though fire or sword threaten him, it will not overcome his resolution or force from him the slightest falsehood; but he will guard the secrets of others' lives and all that has been entrusted to his honor, as religiously as the secrets of initiation. .......................Apollonius
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