Post by Malcolm on Jun 12, 2014 19:38:47 GMT -5
Can there be anything in the Bible that didn't come out of Ancient Egyptian Belief? There is at least one incredible statement that I haven't yet found in Egyptian texts and no doubt for good reason for Egyptians loved their families. I refer to Luke 14:26 which requires a Christian to hate their mothers, fathers, brothers and sisters. This verse is sheer madness and that tells us much about the crazed monks who concocted and plagiarised the ancient scripts to satisfy some inner loathing of themselves. Such hatred of family can only be cultured through a lifetime of separation from Love of all humanity never mind one's own flesh and kin.
We must therefore be thankful that what goodness has been reproduced in the stolen stories counteracts the evil that lives on in the Bible.
Some stories just don't make sense to the modern mind and one had to know the old rituals to understand why they came about. Washing the feet is such an example.
Once again it was Massey who found and recognised the ritual whence came the tale.
"Massey:
"One of the most striking of the various episodes in the Gospel narrative is that scene at the Last Supper in which Jesus washes the feet of the disciples, compared with “the washing” that is performed by the Great One in the Ritual. In the Gospel Judas is waiting to betray his master. Jesus says to the betrayer, “That thou doest, do quickly”.
Now it should be borne in mind that the Ritual, as it comes to us, consists to a large extent of allusions to the matter that was made out more fully in performing the drama of the mysteries. Washing the feet was one of the mysteries pertaining to the funeral of Osiris, when the feet of the disciples or followers of Horus were washed. It was one of the funeral ceremonies.
As it is said in the Ritual (ch. 172), “Thou washest thy feet in silver basins made by the skilful artificer Ptah-Sekari”. This was preparatory to the funeral feast, as is shown by the context (ch. 172). In the Gospel (John XIII.) the funeral feast becomes the “Last Supper” when Jesus “riseth from supper and layeth aside his garments; and he took a towel and girded himself. Then he poureth water into a basin and began to wash the disciples feet”.
And here is a passage of three lines, called the chapter by which the person is not devoured by the serpent in Amenta. “O Shu, here is Tattu, and conversely, under the hair of Hathor. They scent Osiris. Here is the one who is to devour me. They wait apart. The serpent Seksek passeth over me. Here are wormwood bruised and reeds. Osiris is he who prayeth that he may be buried. The eyes of the great one are bent down, and he doeth for thee the work of washing, marking out what is conformable to law and balancing the issues” (Rit., ch. 35, Renouf).
This brief excerpt contains the situation and character of the great one, who with eyes bent down in his humility does “the work of washing”, and explains why this ceremony has to be performed by him in person. The “washer” is he who is in presence of the one who waits to betray him, devour him, or compass his destruction, and he beseeches a speedy burial. Osiris in this scene is a form of the typical “lowly one” who had been in type as such for ages previously. But the most arresting fact of all is hidden in the words “O Shu, here is Tattu (the place of re-establishing) under the wig (or hair) of Hatho”, the goddess of dawn, one of whose names is Meri. And it is here, beneath the hair of Hathor-Meri, they perfume and anoint Osiris for his burial.
This when written out as “history” contains the anointing and perfuming of the feet of Jesus by Mary, who wiped them with her hair (Luke VII. 38) The two bathings of the feet are separate items in the Gospels, whereas both occur in this one short chapter of the Ritual in which Osiris is anointed for his burial, and at the same time he does for others the work of washing and purifying, “marking out what is conformable to law and balancing the issues”.