Post by Malcolm on Aug 9, 2013 1:04:42 GMT -5
The Book of Revelation was purchased from the Sybil of Tarquin, the Herophile, Oracle or as she was sometimes called, a WITCH !!!
The book was known as "THE MYSTERIES OF OSIRIS AND ISIS". and was very popular with the Roman People who practically demanded that the Senate purchase it from the Sybil.
The Sybil offered the Senate 9 volumes at a cost. They refused, so the Sybil burned three of the volumes in front of the Senate. She offered the rest at the same cost. The Senate still refused, so the Sybil burned three more volumes. The Senate then purchased the last three volumes at the original cost.
Many of the verses are still word for word the same in Revelation as they were in the Egyptian Mysteries.
Bushby - The Crucifixion of Truth, Page 44:
"Today the Book of Revelation is the last book of the Christian New Testament and is portrayed as the record of a supernatural experience that supposedly happened to apostle John.
That strange codex was originally in apoccalyptic prophecy, a psychic 'end times' prediction, and is seen in retrospect by some to have predicted the fall of the Roman Empire in 476. Its very existence today provides new evidence to support the claim in this author's earlier book, The Bible Fraud, that the New Testament is a premeditated deception and falsely represented by the church.
The entire substance of the canonical Book of Revelation was in existence and used by Roman religionists centuries before the commencement of the Christian era. Like the primary version of the writing that later became the Gospel of John, the Book of Revelation never originally recorded the name of Jesus Christ nor any personages known in the Christian story today.
To confirm the forgery assertion, the 'Before Christ' version of the Sibylline prophecy (Book No.2) is reproduced in its pristine simplicity in the Genizah at the end of this book, thus allowing direct comparison between its re-edited counterpart in the New Testament.
Comparisons between the Sybil's writing and the canonical Book of Revelation reveal the first six verses in today's Revelation are fabric and justifications and the Sibyl's narratives began at verse number seven in the first chapter (Revelation 1:7. The later additions were intermingled in various positions throughout her flowing prose and the restructured forgery is now official to Christianity.
The Book of Revelation had a unique history. It was not in Bibles of Eastern Churches for more than 1,500 years and was incorporated into those Bibles less than four centuries ago, around the same time Christian reformer and Minister, Martin Luther (1483-1546), called it 'a book of straw'.
It was the most controversial book in the ancient church and was proclaimed fictitious by many early presbyters. Hippolytus (170 - 236) of Rome rejected Revelation and the Bishop of Alexandria, Dionysius (d.c.264), denounced it as 'being without sense or reason, a forgery by Cerinthus'.
No one called Bishop Dionysius a heretic, but if he lived today and said the same words he would be quickly excommunicated. Bishop Eusebius confirmed Dionysious's findings: "But Cerinthus, by means of a revelation which he pretended was written by a great man, falsely pretended to wonderful things.'. (Ecclesiastical History iii, 28), also Catholic Encyclopaedia.)
St.Jerome (Sophronius Eusebius Heironymus, 347 - 420) seriously questioned the authorship and authenticity of the Book of Revelation and described it as 'unintelligible nonsense'. For some reason, the church originally prohibited the publication of St.Jerome's 'genuine' works but during the Reformation they came into the possession of humanitarian and biblical scholar Desiderus Erasmus (1466? - 1536).
After translation, Erasmus published Jerome's revealing writings and, to the embarrassment of the church hierarchy, they were openly read to the general public. The church of Rome was so angry at the exposure that it declared Erasmus, auctor damnatus, a damned author and publicly defamed him.
Johann Mosheim (1694-1755), the great Christian historian, recorded in his version of Ecclesiastical History ( not to be confused with Bishop Eusebius' earlier writing of the same name) that the essence of the Book of Revelation was pre-Christian and the early church fell into the 'pernicious error of 'deeming it not only lawful, but also commendable to deceive and lie'.
He observed:
'This vice early spread among the churchmen. Of this no-one will doubt who calls to mind the numerous forgeries of books under the names of eminent, men, the Sibylline verses, and I know now what besides, a large mass of which appeared in this age (fourth century) and subsequently.'
A church reference expressed apprehension because Revelation 'abounds in passages which bear no specific Christian character and the priesthood 'often wondered about it'. Interestingly the Vatican Bible, believed to be the third oldest in the world, does not contain the Book of Revelation; however, the Sinai and Alexandria Bibles, do, being the oldest and second oldest bibles currently known.
Clearly, the original author of the Book of Revelation, the Cumaean Sibyl, was always the highly regarded clairvoyant of the Roman Catholic Church. Even today she can be seen magnificently portrayed by Michelangelo in a prime central position among the great patriarchs of the Bible stories depicted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican itself.
A total of 278 verses of the Sibyl's predictions are also found in the Old Testament books of Exodus, Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and Zechariah, indicating the high value placed upon her psychic forecasts by Old Testament authors. The knowledge of later restructuring of the Sibyl of Tarquin's original oracle into a canonical church writing led to the conclusion that the Book of Revelation in the New Testament is as worthless as an unsigned painting."
Previously I have referred to Tony Bushby's research wherein he discovered that Revelation was originally The Mysteries of Osiris and Isis.
It is interesting therefore to look at Massey's take on the matter from what he found one hundred years ago.
This is the beginning of Book XI in his "Ancient Egypt - Light of The World"
ANCIENT EGYPT- THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD by Gerald Massey
BOOK XI
EGYPTIAN WISDOM IN THE REVELATION OF JOHN THE DIVINE .
THE process of making Scripture history from the Egypto-gnostic remains, without the gnosis or science of the ancient wisdom, may be seen approaching its climax in the Book of Revelation attributed to John the divine.
It has been commonly assumed that this book constituted an historic link between the Old Testament and the New; but the Sarkolatrae, or worshippers of the word made flesh in one historic form of personality, the carnalizers of the Egypto-gnostic Christ, have never yet discovered what the revelation was intended to reveal. It has been taken as a supplement to the Gospels as if the history of Jesus had been continued into the wedded life after the marriage of the bride with the lamb, and that they dwelt together ever after in that new Jerusalem which came “down out of heaven” “as a bride adorned for her husband,” when the tabernacle of God which was to dwell with man took the place of the old Jerusalem that was destroyed by the Romans.
The present contention is that the book is and always has been inexplicable because it was based upon the symbolism of the Egyptian astronomical mythology without the gnosis, or “meaning which hath wisdom,” that is absolutely necessary for an explanation of its subject-matter; and because the débris of the ancient wisdom has been turned to account as data for pre-Christian prophecy that was supposed to have had its fulfilment in Christian history.
For example, the lamb alone has power to open the book of seven seals. His power comprised the powers of the “seven spirits of God”, the primordial seven. And, as represented astronomically, when the vernal equinox passed from the sign of Taurus into the sign of Aries the son of God was imaged as a lamb, instead of the earlier calf or still earlier lion; thenceforth his was the power and the glory and the majesty, and his the book of life then newly-opened, in the cycle of precession for another 2,155 years.
But in the Book of Revelation the drama of the mysteries has been mistaken for human history, and a mythical catastrophe for the actual ending of the world. The book as it stands has no intrinsic value and very little meaning until the fragments of ancient lore have been collated, correlated, and compared with the original mythos and eschatology of Egypt.
To some extent we are now able to identify the wisdom of Egypt in the Book of Revelation and to “make sense” of the apocalyptic visions, so long and so erroneously assumed to have been unveiled to a Christian named John in the isle of Patmos, for the first time since the ancient astronomy was made nonsense of in the futile and fatuous attempt to turn the hidden wisdom into prophecy intended to prove the truth of a spurious history.
The apocalypse of John might be described as “scenes and characters from the mysteries of Taht-Aan”, who was literally Aan=John, the divine penman. This was the sacred scribe to whom the 36,000 books or papyrus-rolls were attributed by tradition. In short, Taht-Aan was the pre-Christian John the divine. His typical bird, the ibis, is still known in Egypt by the name of John. His other zootype, the kaf-ape, is Aan by name. The name of Aani signifies the saluter.
This is the character personalized in John. Speaking of the angel, he says: “And when I saw him I fell at his feet as one dead”. “And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel”. To salute was a primitive mode of worshipping; hence the ape, Aan, was an ideographic figure of the saluter.
The object of the present section, then, is to show that the matter of “revelation” was derived from the Egyptian astronomical mythology and eschatology, and that the Jesus of this book is one with Iu, the su or son of Atum-Ra, who was portrayed as the divine man and bringer of peace to earth a many thousand years ago. The prototype of Patmos is to be seen in the Ritual (ch. 175). John is in the isle of Patmos, “for the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus”. He writes of the god who died and is alive again, saying, “Behold he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him” “and they which pierced him” are to mourn (I. 7).
To see how ancient this is, let us turn to the 175th chapter of the Ritual of the Resurrection. It is “the chapter of not dying a second death”. The divine sufferer is thus addressed: “Decree this, O Tum, that if I behold thy face I shall not be pained by thy sufferings”. This Tum decrees. The great gods have given him the supremacy, and he will reign “on his throne in the isle of flame for eternities of eternities” (Naville, Rit., ch. 175)."
It is interesting to see that Massey equated John with Aani. There is more confirmation in this identification from the historian Manetho who listed the Pharaoh Khyan (Biblical CAIN), as Yan or Yanni. (aka in Greek - Yannis). The 'Kh' is aspirated and so would have sounded like Yan. But what I find even more interesting is that in Taht-Aan, we actually have the source of the God Name 'Tatanen' (final 'n' is the genitive), and this name, like Cain and Abel has found its way into Irish Legend as 'Dedanaan'.
"In the first place, the subject of Revelation was not derived from the canonical gospels. The fundamental matter existed ages on ages earlier. The cult of the lamb and the bride is at least as old in the astronomical mythology as the time when the vernal equinox entered the sign of Aries, and the lamb of Sebek succeeded the calf of Horus on the mount as the type of sacrifice in the cult of the Sebek-heteps in Egypt (Nat. Genesis). The doctrinal teaching of the mysteries is also partially apparent in Revelation and in the other writings ascribed to “John”.
A fragment of the genuine pre-Christian gnosis previously cited is retained almost intact in the First Epistle of John, who says of Jesus the Christ, “This is He that came by water and blood, not in the water only, but with the water and with the blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the Truth, for there are Three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the Water and the Blood; and the three agree in one” (1 John 5, 6, 7, 8).
After the poor pitiful apologetics of the Patristic obfuscators in this, as in a myriad instances, it is a comfort to touch the truth upon Egyptian ground. Horus came by water, as the child of the mother and bringer of food, when he was represented by the papyrus-shoot, or by Ichthus, the fish of the inundation. He also came by blood as the incarnate mortal child of Isis. Lastly, in his second advent, Horus or Iusa came in the spirit as the only-begotten son of Atum-Ra, the holy spirit, who was the father of spirits in the Egyptian eschatology.
In Revelation it is said, “Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life” (Rev. II. 10). The crown of Horus was the crown of life that was the gift of his father Tum. Horus was lord of the diadem. Through him the deceased is made master of the double crown. The Son of Man has on his head a golden crown (Rev. XIV. 14).
The double crown worn by Horus of the kingly countenance is magnified into many crowns upon the head of the Logos or “word of God” in Revelation (XIX. 12). It was Atum who conferred the crown of triumph on the faithful followers of that example which was set before them by his son. “Thy father Tum hath prepared for thee this beautiful crown of triumph, the living diadem which the gods love, that thou mayst live for ever” (ch. 19, Renouf). Deceased, in presence of the great cycle of the gods, is the “great one who seeketh the crown” (ch. 133). “He followeth Shu and calleth for the crown” (ch. 131). “He arriveth at the Aged one, at the confines of the mount of glory, and the crown awaiteth him. The Osiris raiseth it up” (ch. 131). This crown of life was always in view, not only to the mind’s eye; it was also figured as an object-picture to the climbers up the mount of glory.
Probably our Corona Borealis is an extant representative of the ancient constellation that was imaged as the crown, which, when figured in the stars that never set, was a likeness of the eternal diadem that was conferred on those who had attained the mount of glory.
The book was known as "THE MYSTERIES OF OSIRIS AND ISIS". and was very popular with the Roman People who practically demanded that the Senate purchase it from the Sybil.
The Sybil offered the Senate 9 volumes at a cost. They refused, so the Sybil burned three of the volumes in front of the Senate. She offered the rest at the same cost. The Senate still refused, so the Sybil burned three more volumes. The Senate then purchased the last three volumes at the original cost.
Many of the verses are still word for word the same in Revelation as they were in the Egyptian Mysteries.
Bushby - The Crucifixion of Truth, Page 44:
"Today the Book of Revelation is the last book of the Christian New Testament and is portrayed as the record of a supernatural experience that supposedly happened to apostle John.
That strange codex was originally in apoccalyptic prophecy, a psychic 'end times' prediction, and is seen in retrospect by some to have predicted the fall of the Roman Empire in 476. Its very existence today provides new evidence to support the claim in this author's earlier book, The Bible Fraud, that the New Testament is a premeditated deception and falsely represented by the church.
The entire substance of the canonical Book of Revelation was in existence and used by Roman religionists centuries before the commencement of the Christian era. Like the primary version of the writing that later became the Gospel of John, the Book of Revelation never originally recorded the name of Jesus Christ nor any personages known in the Christian story today.
To confirm the forgery assertion, the 'Before Christ' version of the Sibylline prophecy (Book No.2) is reproduced in its pristine simplicity in the Genizah at the end of this book, thus allowing direct comparison between its re-edited counterpart in the New Testament.
Comparisons between the Sybil's writing and the canonical Book of Revelation reveal the first six verses in today's Revelation are fabric and justifications and the Sibyl's narratives began at verse number seven in the first chapter (Revelation 1:7. The later additions were intermingled in various positions throughout her flowing prose and the restructured forgery is now official to Christianity.
The Book of Revelation had a unique history. It was not in Bibles of Eastern Churches for more than 1,500 years and was incorporated into those Bibles less than four centuries ago, around the same time Christian reformer and Minister, Martin Luther (1483-1546), called it 'a book of straw'.
It was the most controversial book in the ancient church and was proclaimed fictitious by many early presbyters. Hippolytus (170 - 236) of Rome rejected Revelation and the Bishop of Alexandria, Dionysius (d.c.264), denounced it as 'being without sense or reason, a forgery by Cerinthus'.
No one called Bishop Dionysius a heretic, but if he lived today and said the same words he would be quickly excommunicated. Bishop Eusebius confirmed Dionysious's findings: "But Cerinthus, by means of a revelation which he pretended was written by a great man, falsely pretended to wonderful things.'. (Ecclesiastical History iii, 28), also Catholic Encyclopaedia.)
St.Jerome (Sophronius Eusebius Heironymus, 347 - 420) seriously questioned the authorship and authenticity of the Book of Revelation and described it as 'unintelligible nonsense'. For some reason, the church originally prohibited the publication of St.Jerome's 'genuine' works but during the Reformation they came into the possession of humanitarian and biblical scholar Desiderus Erasmus (1466? - 1536).
After translation, Erasmus published Jerome's revealing writings and, to the embarrassment of the church hierarchy, they were openly read to the general public. The church of Rome was so angry at the exposure that it declared Erasmus, auctor damnatus, a damned author and publicly defamed him.
Johann Mosheim (1694-1755), the great Christian historian, recorded in his version of Ecclesiastical History ( not to be confused with Bishop Eusebius' earlier writing of the same name) that the essence of the Book of Revelation was pre-Christian and the early church fell into the 'pernicious error of 'deeming it not only lawful, but also commendable to deceive and lie'.
He observed:
'This vice early spread among the churchmen. Of this no-one will doubt who calls to mind the numerous forgeries of books under the names of eminent, men, the Sibylline verses, and I know now what besides, a large mass of which appeared in this age (fourth century) and subsequently.'
A church reference expressed apprehension because Revelation 'abounds in passages which bear no specific Christian character and the priesthood 'often wondered about it'. Interestingly the Vatican Bible, believed to be the third oldest in the world, does not contain the Book of Revelation; however, the Sinai and Alexandria Bibles, do, being the oldest and second oldest bibles currently known.
Clearly, the original author of the Book of Revelation, the Cumaean Sibyl, was always the highly regarded clairvoyant of the Roman Catholic Church. Even today she can be seen magnificently portrayed by Michelangelo in a prime central position among the great patriarchs of the Bible stories depicted on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican itself.
A total of 278 verses of the Sibyl's predictions are also found in the Old Testament books of Exodus, Psalms, Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel and Zechariah, indicating the high value placed upon her psychic forecasts by Old Testament authors. The knowledge of later restructuring of the Sibyl of Tarquin's original oracle into a canonical church writing led to the conclusion that the Book of Revelation in the New Testament is as worthless as an unsigned painting."
Previously I have referred to Tony Bushby's research wherein he discovered that Revelation was originally The Mysteries of Osiris and Isis.
It is interesting therefore to look at Massey's take on the matter from what he found one hundred years ago.
This is the beginning of Book XI in his "Ancient Egypt - Light of The World"
ANCIENT EGYPT- THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD by Gerald Massey
BOOK XI
EGYPTIAN WISDOM IN THE REVELATION OF JOHN THE DIVINE .
THE process of making Scripture history from the Egypto-gnostic remains, without the gnosis or science of the ancient wisdom, may be seen approaching its climax in the Book of Revelation attributed to John the divine.
It has been commonly assumed that this book constituted an historic link between the Old Testament and the New; but the Sarkolatrae, or worshippers of the word made flesh in one historic form of personality, the carnalizers of the Egypto-gnostic Christ, have never yet discovered what the revelation was intended to reveal. It has been taken as a supplement to the Gospels as if the history of Jesus had been continued into the wedded life after the marriage of the bride with the lamb, and that they dwelt together ever after in that new Jerusalem which came “down out of heaven” “as a bride adorned for her husband,” when the tabernacle of God which was to dwell with man took the place of the old Jerusalem that was destroyed by the Romans.
The present contention is that the book is and always has been inexplicable because it was based upon the symbolism of the Egyptian astronomical mythology without the gnosis, or “meaning which hath wisdom,” that is absolutely necessary for an explanation of its subject-matter; and because the débris of the ancient wisdom has been turned to account as data for pre-Christian prophecy that was supposed to have had its fulfilment in Christian history.
For example, the lamb alone has power to open the book of seven seals. His power comprised the powers of the “seven spirits of God”, the primordial seven. And, as represented astronomically, when the vernal equinox passed from the sign of Taurus into the sign of Aries the son of God was imaged as a lamb, instead of the earlier calf or still earlier lion; thenceforth his was the power and the glory and the majesty, and his the book of life then newly-opened, in the cycle of precession for another 2,155 years.
But in the Book of Revelation the drama of the mysteries has been mistaken for human history, and a mythical catastrophe for the actual ending of the world. The book as it stands has no intrinsic value and very little meaning until the fragments of ancient lore have been collated, correlated, and compared with the original mythos and eschatology of Egypt.
To some extent we are now able to identify the wisdom of Egypt in the Book of Revelation and to “make sense” of the apocalyptic visions, so long and so erroneously assumed to have been unveiled to a Christian named John in the isle of Patmos, for the first time since the ancient astronomy was made nonsense of in the futile and fatuous attempt to turn the hidden wisdom into prophecy intended to prove the truth of a spurious history.
The apocalypse of John might be described as “scenes and characters from the mysteries of Taht-Aan”, who was literally Aan=John, the divine penman. This was the sacred scribe to whom the 36,000 books or papyrus-rolls were attributed by tradition. In short, Taht-Aan was the pre-Christian John the divine. His typical bird, the ibis, is still known in Egypt by the name of John. His other zootype, the kaf-ape, is Aan by name. The name of Aani signifies the saluter.
This is the character personalized in John. Speaking of the angel, he says: “And when I saw him I fell at his feet as one dead”. “And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel”. To salute was a primitive mode of worshipping; hence the ape, Aan, was an ideographic figure of the saluter.
The object of the present section, then, is to show that the matter of “revelation” was derived from the Egyptian astronomical mythology and eschatology, and that the Jesus of this book is one with Iu, the su or son of Atum-Ra, who was portrayed as the divine man and bringer of peace to earth a many thousand years ago. The prototype of Patmos is to be seen in the Ritual (ch. 175). John is in the isle of Patmos, “for the Word of God and the testimony of Jesus”. He writes of the god who died and is alive again, saying, “Behold he cometh with clouds; and every eye shall see him” “and they which pierced him” are to mourn (I. 7).
To see how ancient this is, let us turn to the 175th chapter of the Ritual of the Resurrection. It is “the chapter of not dying a second death”. The divine sufferer is thus addressed: “Decree this, O Tum, that if I behold thy face I shall not be pained by thy sufferings”. This Tum decrees. The great gods have given him the supremacy, and he will reign “on his throne in the isle of flame for eternities of eternities” (Naville, Rit., ch. 175)."
It is interesting to see that Massey equated John with Aani. There is more confirmation in this identification from the historian Manetho who listed the Pharaoh Khyan (Biblical CAIN), as Yan or Yanni. (aka in Greek - Yannis). The 'Kh' is aspirated and so would have sounded like Yan. But what I find even more interesting is that in Taht-Aan, we actually have the source of the God Name 'Tatanen' (final 'n' is the genitive), and this name, like Cain and Abel has found its way into Irish Legend as 'Dedanaan'.
"In the first place, the subject of Revelation was not derived from the canonical gospels. The fundamental matter existed ages on ages earlier. The cult of the lamb and the bride is at least as old in the astronomical mythology as the time when the vernal equinox entered the sign of Aries, and the lamb of Sebek succeeded the calf of Horus on the mount as the type of sacrifice in the cult of the Sebek-heteps in Egypt (Nat. Genesis). The doctrinal teaching of the mysteries is also partially apparent in Revelation and in the other writings ascribed to “John”.
A fragment of the genuine pre-Christian gnosis previously cited is retained almost intact in the First Epistle of John, who says of Jesus the Christ, “This is He that came by water and blood, not in the water only, but with the water and with the blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is the Truth, for there are Three who bear witness, the Spirit, and the Water and the Blood; and the three agree in one” (1 John 5, 6, 7, 8).
After the poor pitiful apologetics of the Patristic obfuscators in this, as in a myriad instances, it is a comfort to touch the truth upon Egyptian ground. Horus came by water, as the child of the mother and bringer of food, when he was represented by the papyrus-shoot, or by Ichthus, the fish of the inundation. He also came by blood as the incarnate mortal child of Isis. Lastly, in his second advent, Horus or Iusa came in the spirit as the only-begotten son of Atum-Ra, the holy spirit, who was the father of spirits in the Egyptian eschatology.
In Revelation it is said, “Be thou faithful unto death and I will give thee a crown of life” (Rev. II. 10). The crown of Horus was the crown of life that was the gift of his father Tum. Horus was lord of the diadem. Through him the deceased is made master of the double crown. The Son of Man has on his head a golden crown (Rev. XIV. 14).
The double crown worn by Horus of the kingly countenance is magnified into many crowns upon the head of the Logos or “word of God” in Revelation (XIX. 12). It was Atum who conferred the crown of triumph on the faithful followers of that example which was set before them by his son. “Thy father Tum hath prepared for thee this beautiful crown of triumph, the living diadem which the gods love, that thou mayst live for ever” (ch. 19, Renouf). Deceased, in presence of the great cycle of the gods, is the “great one who seeketh the crown” (ch. 133). “He followeth Shu and calleth for the crown” (ch. 131). “He arriveth at the Aged one, at the confines of the mount of glory, and the crown awaiteth him. The Osiris raiseth it up” (ch. 131). This crown of life was always in view, not only to the mind’s eye; it was also figured as an object-picture to the climbers up the mount of glory.
Probably our Corona Borealis is an extant representative of the ancient constellation that was imaged as the crown, which, when figured in the stars that never set, was a likeness of the eternal diadem that was conferred on those who had attained the mount of glory.