Post by Malcolm on Jul 14, 2013 17:08:44 GMT -5
Tony Bushby in his "The Bible Fraud" page 68 wrote - "A Christian layman, when talking to author and translator of the New Testament, Mr. Hugh Schonfield, made the following comment:
'If you can get around Jesus cursing the fig tree, you will have done us a great service.'
Here are the relevant verses in the King James Version of the New Testament followed by Gerald Massey's explanation.
Matthew 21:17 And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.
Matthew 21:18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
Matthew 21:19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
Matthew 21:20 And when the disciples saw [it], they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!
Massey - 'Ancient Egypt' -
"Immediately following this clearing out of the temple it is said that Jesus hungered - and seeing a fig-tree by the wayside he came to it and found nothing thereon. He is described as coming to the fig-tree hungry, when figs were not in season, and because there was no fruit upon it he sterilized it for ever, "and immediately the fig-tree withered away" (Matt. XXI. 19).
This is in the character of Horus the avenger, who comes to the fig-tree in the Aarru-garden and says, "I am Amsu-Horus, the avenger of his father the Good Being.
I carry out for my father the overthrowal of all his enemies," including the fig-tree, as it is rendered in the Gospels. In the Ritual the cedar is quoted in the place of the sycamore-fig. The speaker, in addressing the keeper of the twenty-first gate, says, "Thou keepest the secrets of the Avenging God (Har-Tema) who causes the Shennu-tree to bear no fruit" (Rit., ch. 145)."
".....the fig-tree as now traced was the sycamore-fig of Egypt. This was the tree of Hathor in the Aarru-paradise. Moreover, the goddess Iusaas, (Isis), the consort of Atum-Ra and mother of the coming son, Iusa, or Iu-em-hetep, was a form of the cow-headed or cow-eared Hathor, lady of the sycamore-tree in the temple of the sun at Annu.
Doubtless one cause of the curse pronounced upon the tree was on account of its being the tree of Hathor, the goddess of fecundity.
No better or more beautiful description of Hathor in the tree could be found than the one in the "Wisdom of Jesus". This Jesus, as Iu the son of Atum, was brought forth by Hathor-Iusaas from the tree. As Wisdom, she identifies herself with the tree of knowledge.
The paen of her exultation might be called the hymn of Hathor. Hathor was the Egyptian goddess of love, though the love first personated by her was not the sexual passion. ........ Hathor is the habitation (from hat, the abode), one primitive form of which was the tree, and hence the tree of dawn was a typical abode of the young god born of her, or from her sycamore as the branch of endless years.
"I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress-tree upon the mountains of Hermon. I was exalted like a palm-tree in En-gaddi, and as a rose-plant in Jericho, as a fair olive-tree in a pleasant field, and grew up as a plane-tree by the water. As the vine brought forth pleasant savour, and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches. I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and holy hope; I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my children which are named of him. Come unto me, all ye that be desirous of me, and fill yourselves with my fruits. For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance than the honeycomb.
They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty". ("The Wisdom of Jesus", ch. 24, 13-21, translated in the time of Euergetes.) The woman who offers the fruit of the tree of knowledge in this book of the secret doctrine is in one form the goddess Hathor, and if the Hebrew version of the tree of knowledge had been true, this would be the song of the siren tempting her lovers to perdition.
The tree of knowledge being the sycamore-fig tree of Hathor the goddess of love, we see in that fact the raison-d'être of its being degraded by the Semitic bigots and turned into the tree of temptation and the cause of the fabled fall. Very proper physiological knowledge was also taught by means of the fable, but the primary motive for the perversion of the tree was the religious hatred of the motherhood by those who exalted the fatherhood as unique and alone.
Precisely the same spirit is shown in the cursing of the fig-tree, which is the sycamore-fig, in the Gospels. "If ye had faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye would say unto this sycamore tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea" (Luke, 17:6).
Cursing and casting out the sycamore-fig was damning the tree of the woman, the emerald sycamore of the lovely Hathor, and also the sycamore of Nut, whether in the Old Testament or the New. And this was a mode of destroying "the works of the female" (Gospel of the Egyptians)."
Note: The King James Version does not read Sycamore but Sycamine Tree (Luke 17:6). In the Good News Version it has been changed to a Mulberry Tree.
'If you can get around Jesus cursing the fig tree, you will have done us a great service.'
Here are the relevant verses in the King James Version of the New Testament followed by Gerald Massey's explanation.
Matthew 21:17 And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.
Matthew 21:18 Now in the morning as he returned into the city, he hungered.
Matthew 21:19 And when he saw a fig tree in the way, he came to it, and found nothing thereon, but leaves only, and said unto it, Let no fruit grow on thee henceforward for ever. And presently the fig tree withered away.
Matthew 21:20 And when the disciples saw [it], they marvelled, saying, How soon is the fig tree withered away!
Massey - 'Ancient Egypt' -
"Immediately following this clearing out of the temple it is said that Jesus hungered - and seeing a fig-tree by the wayside he came to it and found nothing thereon. He is described as coming to the fig-tree hungry, when figs were not in season, and because there was no fruit upon it he sterilized it for ever, "and immediately the fig-tree withered away" (Matt. XXI. 19).
This is in the character of Horus the avenger, who comes to the fig-tree in the Aarru-garden and says, "I am Amsu-Horus, the avenger of his father the Good Being.
I carry out for my father the overthrowal of all his enemies," including the fig-tree, as it is rendered in the Gospels. In the Ritual the cedar is quoted in the place of the sycamore-fig. The speaker, in addressing the keeper of the twenty-first gate, says, "Thou keepest the secrets of the Avenging God (Har-Tema) who causes the Shennu-tree to bear no fruit" (Rit., ch. 145)."
".....the fig-tree as now traced was the sycamore-fig of Egypt. This was the tree of Hathor in the Aarru-paradise. Moreover, the goddess Iusaas, (Isis), the consort of Atum-Ra and mother of the coming son, Iusa, or Iu-em-hetep, was a form of the cow-headed or cow-eared Hathor, lady of the sycamore-tree in the temple of the sun at Annu.
Doubtless one cause of the curse pronounced upon the tree was on account of its being the tree of Hathor, the goddess of fecundity.
No better or more beautiful description of Hathor in the tree could be found than the one in the "Wisdom of Jesus". This Jesus, as Iu the son of Atum, was brought forth by Hathor-Iusaas from the tree. As Wisdom, she identifies herself with the tree of knowledge.
The paen of her exultation might be called the hymn of Hathor. Hathor was the Egyptian goddess of love, though the love first personated by her was not the sexual passion. ........ Hathor is the habitation (from hat, the abode), one primitive form of which was the tree, and hence the tree of dawn was a typical abode of the young god born of her, or from her sycamore as the branch of endless years.
"I was exalted like a cedar in Libanus, and as a cypress-tree upon the mountains of Hermon. I was exalted like a palm-tree in En-gaddi, and as a rose-plant in Jericho, as a fair olive-tree in a pleasant field, and grew up as a plane-tree by the water. As the vine brought forth pleasant savour, and my flowers are the fruit of honour and riches. I am the mother of fair love, and fear, and knowledge, and holy hope; I therefore, being eternal, am given to all my children which are named of him. Come unto me, all ye that be desirous of me, and fill yourselves with my fruits. For my memorial is sweeter than honey, and mine inheritance than the honeycomb.
They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty". ("The Wisdom of Jesus", ch. 24, 13-21, translated in the time of Euergetes.) The woman who offers the fruit of the tree of knowledge in this book of the secret doctrine is in one form the goddess Hathor, and if the Hebrew version of the tree of knowledge had been true, this would be the song of the siren tempting her lovers to perdition.
The tree of knowledge being the sycamore-fig tree of Hathor the goddess of love, we see in that fact the raison-d'être of its being degraded by the Semitic bigots and turned into the tree of temptation and the cause of the fabled fall. Very proper physiological knowledge was also taught by means of the fable, but the primary motive for the perversion of the tree was the religious hatred of the motherhood by those who exalted the fatherhood as unique and alone.
Precisely the same spirit is shown in the cursing of the fig-tree, which is the sycamore-fig, in the Gospels. "If ye had faith as a grain of mustard-seed, ye would say unto this sycamore tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea" (Luke, 17:6).
Cursing and casting out the sycamore-fig was damning the tree of the woman, the emerald sycamore of the lovely Hathor, and also the sycamore of Nut, whether in the Old Testament or the New. And this was a mode of destroying "the works of the female" (Gospel of the Egyptians)."
Note: The King James Version does not read Sycamore but Sycamine Tree (Luke 17:6). In the Good News Version it has been changed to a Mulberry Tree.