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So much for organized Religion and sometimes I am skeptical about it. All the laws it seems are made by man, eg. Ecumenical council, celibacy, Council of Trent, etc. Maybe and always at the back of my mind, that I can just accept our galaxy the milky way as insignificant among the billions and billions of galaxies in our universe and that is controlled by one Supreme Being.

About 500 BC, a wealthy merchant named Hesus brought Hindu religious books to Europe. He then founded a religion bearing his name HESUSISM, which means "the religion of Hesus".

In 48 AD, Apollonius of Tyana came back from his second trip to Singapoor, or Singapore (meaning The Land Of Tigers), bringing with him Hindu religious books. The combined philosophical ideas from the Library of Alexandria and Hindu religious books lead to the worship of the Hindu god Krishna (Kristos in Greek, Christ in English), creating Christosism.

These two very similar religions used various texts written by religious leaders during the time of Emperor Constantine I. He ordered the bishops of these two very similar religions to convene in 325 AD (the First Ecumenical Council in Nicaea) to select texts to be used by followers of both religions. The results were; the Christian bible, and the Nicaean Creed, and the new deity Jesus Christ.

In ancient times Jews participated in other religious rites, not only in Christianity.

Excerpts from the messages of Pontius Pilate and Urban VIII in the 1892 book ANTIQUITY UNVEILED.

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"MY GREETING TO YOU IS THIS:---I was appointed Procurator of Judea in the commencement of the reign of Octavius Augustus. At that time the Jewish nation was a turbulent state. Many man were brought before me on all kinds of charges, for these Jews were the most bitter sectarian bigots in regard to their religious views that I have ever met with as a mortal or spirit. There never was brought before me such a man or so-called God as the present Christian system claims. There was a Jesus Onanias who was tried before me for highway robbery and was crucified by my soldiers; but of the now renowned Jesus I know nothing whatever."As I hope for a happy spirit life, I can say I know nothing of any person, Jew or Gentile, of any Jesus, except the one mentioned in this communication. I am Pontius Pilate" --- Pontius Pilate (12 BC - 38 AD)

MESSAGE OF POPE URBAN VIII

From the 1892 book, ANTIQUITY UNVEILED 

"GOOD DAY, MY SON: -- I was known when here as Urban VIII and I want to say this; that as a Pope and having been fully educated in Catholicism, I am able to give facts in regard to the mingling of paganism and Christianity. As Pope, I took from the Pantheon at Rome 450,000 pounds of bronzes to decorate St. Peter's at Rome; and the bronzes were used with little, if any, alteration in their ornamental designs. There you may see the gods of antiquity converted into the Christian saints. Let those who have charge of that edifice deny this, if they can. To my certain knowledge, most of the churches in Rome were built on the ruins of heathen temples and of the material of the latter. Christianity has borrowed everything from paganism; and there is no Catholic priest who holds any office of consequence in the Catholic Church who does not know the common identity of a ceremony of the Eleusinian mysteries in Greece and the Lord's Supper. They will not admit this as mortals, but there will come a time to them in the spirit life when remorse for their untruthfulness will lash them into giving the truth. 'Why', ask these milk and water people, 'do you so roughly attack Christianity?' Because it claims for itself divine powers, and it has none. There is only one religion, and that is the religion of reason. There never was a spirit on this planet that in the end will possess any more power than another. So they can rely that each one will get their just deserts exactly. You can make the road long and tedious, or you can have the light. It is for you to choose, both in the mortal and spirit life. I will close by saying, I hope for the success of truth and the banishment of error." ---- Pope Urban VIII

Also, in this book there is a message from Akiba, a 1st Century rabbi, where he said that he looked for Moses in the spirit life but was disappointed because he found that Moses never lived. One message reveals the origins of the gospels in the Christian bible,(1) the written work of Apollonius (Paulus in Latin) of Tyana became the Gospel of St. Paul, (2) translation of the work of Apollonius into Latin by Marcion became the Gospel of St. Mark, (3) commentaries by satirist Lucian became the Gospel of St. Luke. To convert the Armenians to Christianity, the church added the Armenian Book of Matheiou to the bible and it became the Gospel of Matthew.

In 1997 during a Nile River cruise I came to the conclusion that Moses never lived after seeing the quality of the stonework inside the pyramid open to the public. There is no way humans can achieve that degree of perfection, even with all the power tools and computers today.

The layout of the altars of Christian churches, main altar and two side altars, and the rows of columns is the same as that of the temples of the ancient Egyptian religion.





Apollonius of Tyana ( Paulus in Latin) --- teacher, healer, adviser to three Roman emperors, medium, miracle worker. His written work became the Epistles of St. Paul.


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Ancient voices from the spirit realm disclose the most startling revelations, proving Christianity to be of heathen origins. Anitiquity Unveiled comprises a series of remarkable communications from ancient and modern spirits bearing on Oriental religions and their relation to Christiantity. Contents include: Apollonius the Nazarene; Apollonius of Tyana; Damis, the Pupil of Apollonius; Plotinus; Pope Gregory VII; Cyrillus Luchar, a Greek Patriarch; Julius Lucius Florus, a Roman Historian; Gregory, Bishop of Constantinople; Albertus Magnus; Socrates Sholasticus, an Ecclesiastical Historian, etc.
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The accompanying engraving represents Apollonius of Tyana, who proves to be the Jesus Christ of the Christian Scriptures. It may be interesting to the reader to be informed how the oil painting from which the engraving was taken came into existence.
In 1874, the owner of the painting on his travels visited the late N.B. Starr, well known as a wonderfully inspired medium, through whom were painted very remarkable spirit portraits, and requested Mr. Starr to execute for him any portrait he felt impressed to paint. He could do nothing in his normal condition in the way of producing them, but while in an unconscious trance condition, with eyes closed, the colors were mixed and applied to the canvass in a masterly manner and with great rapidity.When the painting was received, on the lower edge of the canvas was found this inscription; - "The Nazarene, by Raphael. N.M. Starr, Medium." Nothing was thought of the inscription until about eight years after, when several of the ancient spirits, Strabo and others, in giving their communication ( a full account of which will be found in the body of the work), alluded to the painting, saying that it represented Apollonius as near as it was possible on the earth plane.



The painting as a work of art is a most marvelous production Especially is this so from the fact that it was accomplished in four or five sittings of an hour each, through one who never received instruction in the art. Such an undertaking, in the hands of an accomplished artist unaided by spirit power, would require months to finish; even then it is doubtful if the remarkable effect portrayed in this spirit portrait could be produced by mortal hand unaided. Such, briefly, are the circumstances connected with the history of the portrait of Apollonius.



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PREFACE, 3 

INTRODUCTORY, 11

APOLLONIUS, THE NAZARENE, THE JESUS OF THE CHRISTIANS, 14

APOLLONIUS OF TYANA, the Nazarene.-Born A. D. 2, died A. D. 99 -His history and teachings appropriated to formulate Christianity- The original gospels of the New Testament brought from India, 17

DAMIS, the pupil of Apollonius.-The Epistles of Timothy written to Damis-India the source of Christianity, 35

DEVA BODHISATOUA, a Buddhist Prophet.-The original gospels as understood by the Hindoos-Received from spirit sources through Bodhisatoua as a medium, 48

PLOTINUS.-The testimony of Ulphilas, Apollonius, Vespasian, Deva Bodhisatoua and others confirrned-The scriptures of Buddhism and their relation to Christianity, 57

POPE GREGORY VII.-HIS reason for destroying the library of the Palatine Apollo-The manuscripts contained therein would prove the non -existence of Jesus Christ, 59

EUTHALIUS, a Greek Theologian.-The teachings of Apolionius of Tyana mutilated to make good the Christian scheme-Euthalius substitutes Paul and the Christ idea for Apollonius and Chrishna in these writings-The Acts of the Apostles, Pauline and Catholic epistles divided by him into verses, 61

POTAMON, the great Alexandrian Reformer.-His attempt to purify the existing religions leads to exile-The Eclectic School of Philosophy- The teachings of Potamon drawn upon to fabricate Christianity, 64

VESPASIAN, a Roman Emperor.-No such person among the Jews as Jesus of Nazareth-The books of the Jews-Disease produced by spirits- Apollonius a great medium, 79

FELIX, Procurator Of Judea.-Alcibides, an Egyptian priest and not Paul, as recorded in Acts, arraigned before Felix, 82

PLINY THE YOUNGER.-His letter to Trajan referred to the Essenes and not to the Christians-The word Christians a forgery, 87

ORIGEN.-Christianity and Paganism identical-The narratives relating to the person Jesus Christ derived from the Greek and Egyptian god 89

FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, a Jewish Historian.-The reference to Jesus of Nazareth fraudulently interpolated by some Christian copier of his history- No such person as Jesus of Nazareth existed in the time of Josephus, 91

FLAVIUS PHILOSTRATUS, biographer of Apollonius of Tyana.- The non-existence of the Christian religion in his day- Apollonius worshiped in Rome as the saviour of men-Every effort made by Popes and Emperors to destroy the history of Apollonius, 94

COSMAS INDICOPLEUSTES, the great Antiquarian.-The symbols or keys of the Christian religion found on the Adulian marble- Fraudulent plates being manufactured by excavators to support the Old Testament, 100

JEAN JACQUES BARTHELEMY, a French Scholar.-The modern Christian religion under the form of symbolic worship written upon all the temples and tombs of antiquity, 101

HENRY SALT, an eminent English Traveller.-All historic religions have their origin in the Sun-Blinded by Christianity while on earth, 104

M. SERVILLIUS NONIANUS, a Roman Consul.-The Christian Jesus none other than the Chrishna of the Hindoos--No Christians nor Christianity in the time of Nero, A. D. 45 to 68, 108

PTOLEMY PHILADELPHUS.-The Alexandrian Library-Where the principal parts of the creeds and tenets of all religious systems were obtained, . 109

PONTIUS PILATE, Procurator of Judea.-He knew nothing of the Jesus of the Christians-Jesus Onanias a robber; tried before him and crucified by the Roman soldiers-- This testimony positively corroborated in our own times, 112

CYRILLUS LUCHAR, a Greek Patriarch.-The Alexandrian manuscript-The infamy of Christianity-Millions of ruined souls in the after-life because of its teachings-- Christianity not from the Jews but from the Greeks, 114

QUINTILLIAN.-Denies the existence of Jesus Christ-The cross has been the symbol of various religions ever since the days of Rameses II of Egypt, 118

JULIUS LUCIUS FLORUS, a Roman Historian.-The spirit of progress buried beneath Christianity-Jesus and his so-called apostles not known in Rome A. D. 125, 120

URBAN VIII, a Roman Pontiff.-Facts in regard to the mingling of Paganism and Christianity-The bronze decorations of St. Peter's at Rome-- Where obtained, 122

AQUILA, a Cappadocian Philosopher.-Neither Jew Nor Christian- Not the translator of the Greek version of the Old Testament as recorded in history, 123

SYMMACHUS, a Grecian Statesman.-The Christian religion a duplication of the Eleusinian mysteries, 124

POMPONIUS MELA, a Roman Geographer.-No Christians at Antioch A. D. 54- The goddess Diana worshiped, 126

CARDINAL STEFANO BORGIA.-Christianity cannot stand the blazing light of the original writings of the Latin Fathers if placed in the hands of scholars and free thinkers, 128

CARACALLA, bishop of Nicomedia.-The Council of Nice-All works pertaining to the mythological origin of Christianity to be destroyed- Bibliomancy, 129

HEGESIPPUS, a Greek Theologian.-The attempt to make a new religion out of the old religions--The struggle between learned scholars and pagan priests, 131

ULPHILAS, a Catholic Bishop.-The source of the Codex Argenteus-The Brahminical gospels of Apollonius translated from the Samaritan tongue in the Fourth Century-The names changed to suit his Christian employers, 133

ABGARUS, a Grecian Priest.-The famous letter to Jesus Christ a forgery by Christian writers-He corresponded with Jesus Malathiel, a Jewish priest-Eusebius responsible for the circulation of this falsehood, 135

GREGORY, bishop of Constantinople.-Destruction of many valuable books-Jesus interpolated for Apollonius in history- Eusebius spent his whole life in mutilating and destroying everything that militated against Christianity 138

EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA -An unwilling witness--The power of truth-All Epistles and Gospels in reality the creation of Christian priests-Justin Martyr the forger of the passage in Josephus in relation to Jesus Christ-Eusebins admits copying it- Dr. Lardner's arraignment of Eusebius- What Gibbons thinks of Eusebius, 141

ALCIPHRON, a Greek, Writer.-The story of the "Wise Men of the East," a theological legend brought from India by the Gymnosophists, 150

SIR THOMAS BODLEY, founder of the Bodleian library.-The Anti-Nicene library-Collection of manuscripts against the Council of Nice-Missing leaves of the Cambridge manuscript, 152

MARCION, the Father of Christianity.- The Pauline Epistles appropriated by Marcion -He changes them-The description of Paul interpolated to disguise the identity of their author, Apollonius of Tyana, 154

LUCIAN, a Greek Satirist.-The insignificant measures used to formulate the Christian Gospels- The St. Luke of the Gospels-- Apollonius the Apollos of the Greels-- The original works of Lucian mutilated -Who St. Paul and St. Mark were, 157

CONSTANTINUS POGONATUS.- The sixth council of Constantinople A. D. 680-Prometheus of the Greeks adopted to represent Jesus Christ-Lamb worship changed to man worship- Lamb worship a relic of paganism-The edict prohibiting the worship of the lamb on the cross, 160

CONSTANTINE THE GREAT.- Fettered by the truth - The Buddhistic gospels mingled with the teachings of Potamon, 162

EPAPHRODITUS, a Latin Grammarian.-Josephus a member of the Ancient Order of the Initiated-Why Josephus did not mention Apollonius in his history, 163

F. NIGIDIUS F FIGULUS. - Connection of astrology with Christianity, 166

VELLIUS PATERCULUS.- The Signs of the Zodiac the key to all religions, 167

GREGORY, bishop of Neo-Caesarea.- Apollonius worshiped in the Temple of Apollo-- Valuable manuscripts destroyed by Eusebius, 169

UMMIRIUS QUADRATUS, Governor of Syria.- The feast of the unleavened bread a blood purifying ceremony- The carefully concealed secrets of the Essenes-- Travels in India, 170

C. CORNELIUS TACITUS, a Roman Historian.- The Essenian Brotherhood-Spirit manifestations-- Never heard of the Christian Jesus nor of Christianity, 173

MANETHO, an Egyptian Priest.- The god Osiris of the Egyptians-Materialization as understood by the ancients- The Sun personified, the revered saviour of all nations, 175

VARRO, a Roman Writer.-The celebrated literature of the ancients destroyed by the Christian hierarchy- His "Key to Ancient Religions" destroyed by order of Constantine the Great, 177

IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH, Patriarch of the Essenes.- Apollonius of Tyana investigated the religion of the Essenes-- The sacred writings of the Essenes blended with those Apollonius received from India, 179

TITUS LIVIUS, a Roman Historian.-The birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as portrayed in the annual passage of the Sun through the

constellations of the Zodiac, 181

Q. VERANIUS.-The God of the Britons identical with the God of the Christians- The idea of being saved by a man born of a virgin, established among barbarous people centuries before the Christian era, 183

PORPHYRY, a so-called Heathen Philosopher.-None of the early Christian Fathers, so-called,-were Christians in reality-The gods of all religions have arisen out of astronomy and astrology, 185

MARCANTONIO: DEDOMIS, a Heresiarch.- The old Roman gods, re-chiselled by the sculptors, are the Apostles of the Christian religion- The vestments of the Roman Catholic priesthood copied from the priests of Apollo, 187

SEJANUS, the favorite of Tiberius.-New light on the story of the crucifixion-The obliterated portion of the Alexandrian Codex 189

ALOYSIUS LILIUS, an Italian Savant.- The connection of the life of the so-called Jesus Christ with the gods of antiquity- The doctrines of the Christian Trinity based on the Pagan Trinity, 191

POMPAEIUS SATURNINUS.-The secret meeting of the Sons of the Sun or the Initiated -Ancient Spiritualism, 193

CARRA.- The inscriptions on the Adulian Marble relate to the life and miracles of Apollonius of Tyana, 195

CLEMENT ALEXANDRINUS.-His writings mutilated by Eusebius - interesting revelations concerning the Christian cross- The Council of Alexandria, 197

HERMOGENES, the Essenian rival of St. Paul. - Astronomy the key to the Book of Revelation - To understand the symbolism of Christianity read the stars, 200

JEAN SYLVAIN BAILLY.-What can be found at Ancient Tyre - An important book, 203

CARDINAL CAESAR BARONIUS, Librarian of the Vatican.-The Hindoo god Chrishna, in reality the Christ of the Christians - Sworn to eternal secrecy, 205

RUFUS QUINTIUS CURTIUS.- The Jewish legends borrowed from Persian mythologies- The breast plate of Josephus, 207

M. ATILIUS REGULUS. - The Greek and Roman religions copies of the Egyptian religion of Osiris or the sun personified, 210

ROBERT II, of France.- The Great Infinite has marked out no set of religious rules for men to be governed by- The effect of too much religious belief- All pictures of Jesus Christ copies of those of Apollonius of Tyana, 212

PYTHAGORAS, the Samian Sage.- The god principal within us- In ancient times all sages were mediums- The effects of erroneous religious teaching of children almost ineradicable, 214

AMMONIUS SACCAS, the pupil of Potamon.- The Book of Revelation written under spirit control by Apollonius- Christianity known under the name of Gnosticism, 218

GALERIUS, a Roman Emperor.- Why Diocletian issued his famous edict against the Christians, 222

GEORGE DEYVERDUN.- The Last Supper taken from the Elusinian Mysteries--(Gibbons' book, "AENEAS, The Lawgiver of the Eleusinian Mysteries," destroyed by the clergy, 225

HEINRICH E. G. PAULUS.- The Gospel of St. Matthew - A remarkable communication, 226

SIGEBERT HAVERCAMP.- The writings of Damis in existence as late as the Eighteenth Century, 230

CHARLES DE BROSSES.- The worship of the Fetish gods.-Christianity a mixture of all preceding religions, 232

CHRISTIAN THOMASIUS, Jurist and Philosopber. - Luther knew that Jesus Christ was a myth but dared not acknowledge it- The-true cause of Materialism in Germany, 235

SATURNINUS, the Essenian Philosopher.- The founder of Gnosticism- The story of Jesus of Nazareth, and the Christian Scriptures the mixed systems of Brahmanic, Buddhistic, Jewish, Essenian and Gnostic teachings- Apollonius heals by the laying on of hands, 237

CARDINAL ROBERT BELLARME. - Compelled to testify by the disappointed hopes of millions who believed and trusted in Christianity - Refers to the portrait of Apollonius-- All should know who the real Jesus was, 242

HORMISDAS, a Roman Catholic Pontiff.- Destruction of the Pauline Epistles-Eusebius a scoundrel - Jesus Christ worshiped in the form of a lamb -- Romanism is Paganism changed into Christianity, 244

APPIAN, a Roman Historian.- His writings destroyed by the Christians- The Hindoo Chrishna changed into the Greek Christos, 246

JOHN FIDENZA, St. Bonaventura.-The doctrines of Apollonius in the hands of the Maronite Priests on Mt. Lebanon, Syria, 250

ANNIUS OF VITERBO, a learned Dominican Friar - Startling revelations-The manuscripts saved from the Alexandrian library- The key to the old Egyptian manuscripts found at the entrance of the ancient temple of Apollo at Rome, 252

MIZRAIM, the Chaldaic king of Egypt.- The worship of the Egyptians- The signs of the Zodiac- New facts in history- Mizraim the name of a king and not the name of a country as claimed by historians, 256

EUXENUS, a Pythagorean Philosopher.- The teacher of Apollonius-Explains the seven Pythagorean principles as taught in his day, 264

JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT, Prime Minister of France.- The inscription on the marble throne at Adulis, referred to Apollonius of Tyana 'The Armenians fire worshipers,- The ancient Egyptian virgin Isis identical with the Christian Virgin Mary, 269

GODFREY ARNOLD, a German Mystic.- The communication of Euthalius confirmed, 272

AUGUST VON SCHLEGEL, a German Philologist.- The Tamil language more ancient than the Sanscrit-The Tamil idea of the Trinity, 274

BODHISHORMAH, a Buddhist Priest.- The books of the New Testament from St. John to Revelations parodied from the versions of Bodhisatoua - The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and Luke derived from ancient Gymnosophic religions, 276

SERVIUS SULPICUS GALBA, a Roman Emperor.- Who the Jesus of Nazareth was that created such confusion at Jerusalem, A. D. 34-35, 280

JUNIANUS JUSTINUS, a Latin Historian.-More works mutilated by Christian writers- Hesus Christos changed to Jesus Christ in the days of Eusebius, 285

PLOTINA POMPEIA, wife of the Emperor Trajan.- The famous letter of Pliny the Younger to Trajan- What the light of truth reveals- Ancient copies still in existence fraudulently interpolated in order to manufacture proof of the existence of the Christians at an early period - The worship of Apollonius at Rome- The historical proofs of the existence of Jesus disappear under the light of these communications, 290

FACILIEDAS. King of Abyssinia. - Some interesting testimony in regard to evolution, 294

FATHER AMIOT, a French Jesuit. - Christianity cannot stand before unbiased thought and reason - All deistical ideas inconsistent with the laws of life and organization of matter, 295

CHARLES FRANCIS ALTER.- Interesting philological discoveries- The mystic symbols of the school of Ammonius Saccas, 297

HERENNIUS, a contemporary of Plotinus.- The first writing or tablets of man's history were found in Ethiopia - Christianity contains all the ceremonies of the ancient pagans combined with a god that never existed - Plans for the formation of the highest and noblest system of religion ever known overthrown by Constantine the Great, 300

AMELIUS, a disciple of Plotinus.- Why Eclecticism was checked in its infancy- Pagan priests preferred to see their ceremonies continued through the Catholic church rather than have them become obsolete, 302

STRABO, Historian and Geographer.- " If the records of the past had been allowed to stand there would be no Christianity to-day"- Confirmatory proof that the portrait of the Nazarene is a true representation of Apollonius, 306

PHRAOTES, King of Taxila.-The visit of Apollonius to India- Receives the sacred Testament of The Mountain of Light Circle from Iarchus- Light upon the Book of Matthew- Millions of spirits would rather cease to exist than that these revelations should come to Mankind, 311

JOHN FREDERICK GRONOVIUS, Critic of the Seventeenth Cen tury.- The works of Pliny, Livy and Sallust, very much changed in order to conceal the real origin of Christianity- Confirmatory proof in regard to the forgery of Pliny's letter, 315

ABULPHARAGIUS, bishop of Guba.- Christianity essentially the Sun Worship taught at Babylon by Zoroaster- The Jesuits supporting the opposition to the truth as revealed from the spirit world, 317

MINUCIUS FELIX, a Montanist Patriarch.- Where civilization originated- Christianity an outgrowth of Buddhism- Sun Worship and Egyptian Osirianisin one and-the same thing, 319

GRIESBACH.-Zodiacal interpretation of all religions- The five ancient Testaments- The incorrect translation of the Greek statement, 321

HAICO, the great Armenian King.- The Jewish legend of the Tower of Babel disposed of in an effective manner- The Old Testament belonged to the Armenian people and not to the Jews- The secret chambers of the Pyramids of Ethiopia, 324

MONTANUS, the Phrygian Ecstatic. - The teachings of Montanism- Their books the canons of Buddhism- Materialization in ancient times, 330

AKIBA, a Jewish Rabbi.- Chronological forgeries resorted to in order to make the Jewish religion appear ancient, 333

LUCIUS APPULEIUS, a Satirist.- The difference between the teachings of Apollonius and Potamon- The Greek and Egyptian divinities identical with older gods, 338

M. COCCEIUS NERVA, Emperor of Rome.- Fifteen other gods besides the Hindoo Saviour Christos worshiped at Rome- History of them all based upon a god-begotten virgin-born man who was to die to save the world, 341

HERODES AGRIPPA II, King of Judea.- The true version of the trial of Paul before Agrippa as given in Acts, 344

RABBA JOSEPH.- The writings of Gamaliel tampered with by Christians, 349

MOSES MAIMONDES.- The Augian Codex- Absolute proof that Apollonius of Tyana was St. Paul, 355

PROCOPIUS, the Secretary of Belisarius.- Eusebius changes the Hindoo Chrishna into the Jew Jesus Christ- Julian the Apostate did not recant upon his death-bed, 358

EUNOMIUS, the great Arian leader.- Whence came the name Jesus Christ- Why the Council of Nice was convened- The attempt of the Emperor Constantine to blend the prevailing heathen religions, 364

CARNEADES. a Greek Philosopher.- Christosism converted into Christianity in the Fourth Century- The philosophy of Plato a combination of the doctrines concerning Christos and Prometheus, 376

SOTION, the teacher of Seneca.- Diana of the Ephesians supposed to be the virgin mother of the sun god Christos in the time of Sotion- A fatal mistake, 379

SEPTIMUS GETA, a Roman Emperor.- Rivalry existing between the followers of Christos and the worshipers of Apollo, 383

JACOB JOSEPH VON GORRES.- The plagiaristic nature of the Scriptures- No Hebrew literature until after the Babylonish captivity- The ancient Jewish history taken from the writings of Zoroaster, 387

FREDERICH GESENIUS.- The Hebrew languages derived from the ancient Chaldean tongue- Etymology of the name Moses- The scribe Ezra revises the account of Daniel, 390

ST. CHRYSOSTOM, a Christian Father.- All systems of religion amount to misunderstood spirit control- The important document contained in the Ambrosian Library, 394

ANANIAS, a Jewish High-priest.- Apollonius and not Christ accused before Felix--: - The only Christ preached in Judea was the Christos of Apollonius, 400

CHARLES MARTEL, King of France.- The worshipers of Jupiter, Hesus and Christos, 409

RADBOD, King of Friesland.- Similarity between Christosism and Hesusism, 410

WINIFRED OR ST. BONIFACE.- Not a Catholic Christian but a priest of Christos--- The books rejected at the Council of Nice, 411

LUCIUS OF CYRENE, the Secretary of Damis.- The Apocalypse written by Apollonius, 420

SEVERUS, Patriarch of Antioch.- The Monophysites- The attempt to make Hesus Christos a Jew, 424

AGABUS.- The folly of religion as a means to spirit happiness- Mediums used to propagate the Apollonian system of religion, 425

JOHN BIDDLE, an English Theologian.- The persecutions ordered by the Christian churches responsible for the overthrow of their power- Persecuted for denying the truth of the Trinity, 427

ST. FRANCIS DE SALES, a Bishop of Geneva.- A defiant spirit- All proof in the hands of the Catholic church- The priests have hidden their tracks well- His challenge accepted, 429

SILAS OR SILVANUS, a Disciple of Apollonius of Tyana.- Interesting facts concerning the systems of Apollonius and Chrestus- New light on the Scriptures- Marcion and Lucian appropriated the theological labors of Apollonius, 430

FRUMEMTIUS, an Abyssinian Bishop.- The Ethiopic version of Christosism- The founders of Christianity claim the solar Christos of Frumemtius to be identical with their Jesus Christ, 439

CHRESTUS, the rival of Apollonius.- The subject of the disputed passage in Suetonius, not Jesus Christ but Chrestus- The teachings of Chrestus, 441

ARONAMAR.- The difficulties attending spirit intercourse- The Council of Nabopolassar- The first Talmud- No Targums of the books of Daniel, Ezran and Nehemiah- Targums of those books would have shown their Chaldean origin, 454

ST. DECLAN, an ancient Sun Worshiper.- St. Patrick a sun worshiper- The round towers of Ireland- The literature of the Druids destroyed, 457

LEONARDI BRUNI, Papal Secretary.- The forgeries in the secret archives of the Vatican- Mutilations by Eusebius-- The destruction of documents by Popes Celestine and Gregory, 461

ST. DOMINIC DE GUZMAN.- The Catholicism of spirit life- The persecution of the Albigenses, 474

LOUIS THE PIOUS, King of France.- The mystic teachings of Dionysius the Areopagite- Jupiterean-Christosism, 475

CELESTINE III, a Roman Pontiff.- Suppressed manuscripts- What can be found in the library at Florence, 485

JOHN ASSER, Abbot of Sherburn.- The manuscripts of Alfred the Great- Fourteen crucified saviours- Jesus and Hesus preached alternately, 487

INNOCENT III, Pope of Rome.- An unwilling witness- The mutilation of the Alexandrian manuscript- The missing leaves - The psychology of spirits used to lead mortals astray, 490

ALBERTUS MAGNUS.- Astrology furnishes the key to show who the real Jesus was - A pathetic statement, 498

SOCRATES SCHOLASTICUS, an Ecclesiastical Historian.- The communion service taken from the Eleusinian mysteries-- Bacchus the god of wine, Ceres the god of corn- Where proof of the truth of these communications can be found, 500

GABINUS, Roman Governor of Judea.- History of the Jews a mixture of the traditions of the Chaldeans and Armenians- Abraham a Chaldean, 503

APIANUS.- The teachings of spirits in the Sixteenth Century- A pupil of Paracelsus, 505

MARCELLINUS.- The doctrines of the Trinity-State policy, not religious impulse caused Constantine to adopt Hesus Christos -Relation of Gymnosophism and Eclecticism to Christianity, 507

LACTANTIUS.- The doctrine of the Trinity in existence in India 1600 years before the Christian era- An important communication showing the identity of Christianity and paganism, 513

HERMES, an Apostolic Father.- His suffering in spirit life- The Greek myth Prometheus the prototype of the Christian Jesus - The honor of the founders of Christianity impeached, 515

IAMBLICUS, a Syrian Philosopher.- The Sun the central object of the Christian theology- The concealed key, 517

BELZONI.- Symbols of the Christian religion found on the Tombs of Ancient Thebes, 518

AMMONIUS THE PERIPATETIC, an Alexandrian Philosopher.- Religious symbols- History of Jesus a re-deification of older gods, 520

ANASTASIUS, Librarian of the Vatican.- No evidence to show that Jesus Christ ever existed- The pictures of Jesus taken from those of Apollonius- The Christian religion the out growth of the teachings of the Alexandrian schools, 522

JONATHAN BEN UZZIEL, one of the Writers of the Targums.- Moses a creation of Jewish priests- The legends and traditions of the Jewish people extend no further than Ezra the Scribe- Jewish and Chaldean history identical- Every man and woman their own redeemer, 524

SAADIAS-GAON.-The Jews bad no history as a people anterior to 450 B. C., 526

ARNOLD, Abbot of Citeaux.-The persecutor of the Albigenses- Terrible remorse of a spirit, 527

JOHN BAINBRIDGE, an English Astronomer.- The significance of the astronomical and astrological signs, 529

CHARLES HARDWICK, an English Theologian.-India not the mother of civilization nor the originator of all religions, 530

MESROP OR MESROB, an Armenian Theologian.-The Testament of Apollonius of Tyana=The Coptic or Egyptian version of

the Scriptures-Apolionius worshiped as a god, 533

PAULINUS, Archbishop of York.- His mutilation of the Scriptures - In spirit life be finds Jesus Christ to be Apollonius of Tyana- He copied after Eusebius, 543

ST. GERMAIN.- The original gospels written in the Syriac- Hebraic tongue-Copied into the Armenian tongue by Moses Chorensis- The Maronite monks of Mount Lebanon have valuable manuscripts in their possession, 545

MONTACUTE.-The Druid worship of the God Hesus prevailed as late as the Fourteenth Century, 547

FRANCIS ANTHONY FLEMMING, a Roman Catholic Priest.- St. Patrick not a Christian but a Druid-priest, 550

JACOB CAPO, an Architect.- The stones of pagan temples converted into Christian churches- The statue of Hesus of the Celtic Druids mounted in a church at Florence- The statues of Jesus and his twelve Apostles are pagan gods re-carved and modified to suit Christian requirements, 552

J. S. SEMLER.- Dying gods of virgins born, a mythical idea 15,000 years old- Corroborative evidence to be found in the encyclopedias of the Chinese and Japanese nations, 553

CARDINAL SANCTA DE CAPO.- Interesting account of the original gospels-When the first bible was printed all marginal notes on manuscript were dropped except those manufactured bv the priests- The Samaritan copy of Ignatius of Antioch, 556

POPE NICHOLAS IV.- The difficulty of communicating in the English tongue- The opposition of spirits, - The twelve apostles of St. Peter's in Rome copied from the twelve gods transported from Olympus to Rome in the days of the Emperor Hadrian- Terrible conflict in spirit life, 562

ZOROASTER.-Startling disclosures- The Jewish Book of Daniel contains the actual earthly experiences of Zoroaster- Zoroaster, not Daniel thrust into the lion's den- His works appropriated by the Jews- The Book of Revelation and the Book of Daniel open up the secrets of antiquity when properly interpreted and understood- A description of the ancient religions- Confounded in history with the elder Zoroaster- The disputed question "Who was the Darius mentioned in the Book of Daniel," settled at last- Corrections made in history, 565

Apollonius of Tyana The Real Jesus

• Apollonius of Tyana  Born February 16, 2 AD in Tyana, Cappadoccia, Greece..
• Original founder of true Essene Christianity, whose precepts originate in Buddhist India and China(Himalayas).

• Replaced by Yeshai Beth Halachmee (pseudo-crucified Essene of 4 BC), Jehoshua Ben Pandira (the Jesus of 100 BC) and

Christna (the Avatar of 3000 BC ) by the priests of Constantine at the Council of Nicaea in 325 AD.

• The New Testament is a distorted account of his life and teachings.

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Apollonius of Tyanawas the awe and wonder of his time - Apollonius of Tyana -the true Christ of the first century AD. Apolonius was born of wealthy parents in the Greek town of Tyana, Greece, and his birth was miraculously announced to his mother by an archangel. He was an attractive and precocious child and was sent to reside at the temple of Aescalupius in Tarsus at age twelve, where he was initiated by the priests and where he excelled in religious and philosophical learning and debate, and even performing healing miracles. At the age of sixteen he adopted the pythagorian philosophy and lifestyle of abstaining from animal food, wine, and women, living only on fruits and herbs, maintaining five years of silence, praying to the sun three times a day, dressing only in white linen(non-animal fabric), going barefoot, and never cutting his hair or beard.

He believed in the immortality of the soul, in metempsychosis, and in a supreme deity ruling lesser deities. He also wrote books on astrology. Before starting his public mission he gave away his riches to his relatives with the aim of seeking only knowledge and wisdom.

His mission began by going to Antioch where he taught certain disciples, as well as learning the mysteries of that city's temple, Apollo Daphne. He also traveled to India and Egypt, bringing back with him the doctrines of Krishna and Buddha, which then became the foundations of the Christian religion. As a Roman citizen, he traveled freely within the Roman empire acquiring the reputation of a social and political reformer. He was fearless and spoke out against the tyranny of Nero and Domititian for which he was jailed but later released. His most recounted incident was at the court before emperor Domitian, where he disappeared into thin air before they could lay any kind of charge on him.

Wherever he went he attracted large crowds and held them spellbound by his words and deeds. Kings, rulers, and common folk constantly sought him for advice and he gave freely. He travelled the world and always stood his ground and was regarded by many as a god in the flesh. He compiled the epistles, and retired to the isle of Patmos where he wrote the book of Revelation. Little is known about his death, but it is thought he lived past the the age of 100, and shortly thereafter ascended to the inner earth paradise.

-Temples and statues were built in his honor, and for the first three centuries AD he was regarded as a demi-god and saint. The popularity of Apollonius' teachings became a threat to the decaying Roman Empire, so in 325 AD, At the Council of Nicaea, emperor Constantine and his bishops devised the New Christianity which would turn attention away from Apollonius, to a Judean carpenter by the name of Jesus. All records of Apollonius and his Essene Christianity were destroyed and this meant burning the libraries, including the most famous one at Alexandria. The mobs who enforced the new changes met stiff resistance from the people, and some fifty million were eventually killed or martyred in the process.Important changes in the biblical texts occurred ever since then, such as the removal of the doctrines of reincarnation [Soul embodiments], astrology, and vegetarianism; to be replaced by their opposites -a mortal soul, a hellfire for diviners, and permission for meat-eating and wine drinking.  http://www.librarising.com/spirituality/apollo.html

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Re-Print of  1892 A Very Rare Book NOT AVAILABLE--BEING REPUBLISHEDANTIQUITY   UNVEILED:  Ancient Voices From The Spirit Realms 639 Pages 2 Volumes ISBN 0-7873-0729-7 GO TO   BOOK STORE ISBN 0-7873-0729-7 First Published 1892 Oriental Publishing Co. Philadelphia This volume contains a wonderful treasury of knowledge and explains how the life and teachings of Apollonius of Tyana were appropriated, upon  which to construct Christianity, the name of Jesus being used in place of Apollonius to hide the truth READ CONTENTS PAGE BELOW 159  IMPORTANT ENTRIES

VERY RARE BOOK  Re Printed ANTIQUITY UNVEILED: ANCIENT VOICES FROM THE SPIRIT REALMS by JONATHAN M. ROBERTS (1892)  Ancient voices from the spirit realm disclose the most startling revelations, proving Christianity to be of heathen origins. Anitiquity Unveiled comprises a series of remarkable communications from ancient and modern spirits bearing on Oriental religions and their relation to Christiantity. Contents include: Apollonius the Nazarene; Apollonius of Tyana; Damis, the Pupil of Apollonius; Plotinus; Pope Gregory VII; Cyrillus Luchar, a Greek Patriarch; Julius Lucius Florus, a Roman Historian; Gregory, Bishop of Constantinople; Albertus Magnus; Socrates Sholasticus, an Ecclesiastical Historian, etc. 639 pages in Two Volumes  APOLLONIUS of TYANA  --                     APOLLONIUS, THE NAZARENE The accompanying engraving represents Apollonius of Tyana, who proves to be the Jesus Christ of the Christian Scriptures.  It may be interesting to the reader to be informed how the oil painting from which the engraving was taken came into existence. In 1874, the owner of the painting on his travels visited the late N.B. Starr, well known as a wonderfully inspired medium, through whom were painted very remarkable spirit portraits, and requested Mr. Starr to execute for him any portrait he felt impressed to paint.  He could do nothing in his normal condition in the way of producing them, but while in an unconscious trance condition, with eyes closed, the colors were mixed and applied to the canvass in a masterly manner and with great rapidity.When the painting was received, on the lower edge of the canvas was found this inscription; - "The Nazarene, by Raphael. N.M. Starr, Medium."   Nothing was thought of the inscription until about eight years after, when several of the ancient spirits, Strabo and others, in giving their communication ( a full account of which will be found in  the body of the work), alluded to the painting, saying that it represented Apollonius as near as it was possible on the earth plane. The painting as a work of art is a most marvelous production  Especially is this so from the fact that it was accomplished in four or five sittings of an hour each,  through one who never received instruction in the art.  Such an undertaking, in the hands of an accomplished artist unaided by spirit power, would require months to finish; even then it is doubtful if the remarkable effect portrayed in this spirit portrait could be produced by mortal hand unaided. Such, briefly, are the circumstances connected with the history of  the portrait of Apollonius.

Apollonius of Tyana, from Tyana in Cappadocia, Asia Minor--  Tyana  still  exists today  in Turkey- -East of the Taurus Mountains & North of Syria Nazarene  Sect of Esseans was never a place until much later  THE JESUS OF THE CHRISTIANS.

ANTIQUITY   UNVEILED 159 MOSTLY ANCIENT SPIRITS THAT PROVED THEIR STATEMENTS <----------open page wide-----------> See Below TABLE  OF CONTENTS  PREFACE,     3 INTRODUCTORY,    11 APOLLONIUS, THE NAZARENE, THE JESUS OF THE CHRISTIANS,    14 APOLLONIUS OF TYANA, the Nazarene.-Born A. D. 2, died A. D. 99 -His history and teachings appropriated to formulate Christianity-  The original  gospels of the New Testament brought from India,    17 DAMIS, the pupil of Apollonius.-The Epistles of Timothy written to Damis-India the source of Christianity,     35 DEVA BODHISATOUA, a Buddhist Prophet.-The original gospels as understood  by the Hindoos-Received from spirit sources through Bodhisatoua as a medium,        48 PLOTINUS.-The testimony of Ulphilas, Apollonius, Vespasian, Deva Bodhisatoua and others confirrned-The scriptures of Buddhism and their relation to Christianity,    57 POPE GREGORY VII.-HIS reason for destroying the library of the Palatine Apollo-The manuscripts contained therein would prove the non -existence of Jesus Christ,     59 EUTHALIUS, a Greek Theologian.-The teachings of Apolionius of Tyana mutilated to make good the Christian scheme-Euthalius substitutes Paul  and the Christ idea for Apollonius and Chrishna in these writings-The Acts of the Apostles, Pauline and Catholic epistles divided by him into verses,     61 POTAMON, the great Alexandrian Reformer.-His attempt to purify the existing religions leads to exile-The Eclectic School of Philosophy- The teachings of Potamon drawn upon to fabricate Christianity,    64 VESPASIAN, a Roman Emperor.-No such person among the Jews as Jesus of Nazareth-The books of the Jews-Disease produced by spirits- Apollonius a great medium,    79 FELIX, Procurator Of Judea.-Alcibides, an Egyptian priest and not Paul, as recorded in Acts, arraigned before Felix,    82 PLINY THE YOUNGER.-His letter to Trajan referred to the Essenes and not to the Christians-The word Christians a forgery,  87 ORIGEN.-Christianity and Paganism identical-The narratives relating to the person Jesus Christ derived from the Greek and Egyptian god    89 FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS, a Jewish Historian.-The reference to Jesus of Nazareth fraudulently interpolated by some Christian copier of his history- No such person as Jesus of Nazareth existed in the time of Josephus,    91 FLAVIUS PHILOSTRATUS, biographer of Apollonius of Tyana.- The non-existence of the Christian religion in his day- Apollonius worshiped in Rome as the  saviour of men-Every effort made by Popes and Emperors to destroy the history of Apollonius,    94 COSMAS INDICOPLEUSTES, the great Antiquarian.-The symbols or keys of the Christian religion found on the Adulian marble- Fraudulent plates being manufactured  by excavators to support the Old Testament,    100 JEAN JACQUES BARTHELEMY, a French Scholar.-The modern Christian religion under the form of symbolic worship written upon all the temples and  tombs of antiquity,    101 HENRY SALT, an eminent English Traveller.-All historic religions have their origin in the Sun-Blinded by Christianity while on earth,    104 M. SERVILLIUS NONIANUS, a Roman Consul.-The Christian Jesus none other than the Chrishna of the Hindoos--No Christians nor Christianity in the time of   Nero, A. D. 45 to 68,    108 PTOLEMY PHILADELPHUS.-The Alexandrian Library-Where the principal parts of the creeds and tenets of all religious systems were obtained, .  109 PONTIUS PILATE, Procurator of Judea.-He knew nothing of the Jesus of the Christians-Jesus Onanias a robber; tried before him and crucified by the Roman soldiers--  This testimony positively corroborated in our own times,    112 CYRILLUS LUCHAR, a Greek Patriarch.-The Alexandrian manuscript-The infamy of Christianity-Millions of ruined souls in the after-life because of its teachings--  Christianity not from the Jews but from the Greeks,    114 QUINTILLIAN.-Denies the existence of Jesus Christ-The cross has been the symbol of various religions ever since the days of Rameses II of Egypt,    118 JULIUS LUCIUS FLORUS, a Roman Historian.-The spirit of progress buried beneath Christianity-Jesus and his so-called apostles not known in Rome A. D. 125,   120 URBAN VIII, a Roman Pontiff.-Facts in regard to the mingling of Paganism and Christianity-The bronze decorations of St. Peter's at Rome-- Where obtained,   122 AQUILA, a Cappadocian Philosopher.-Neither Jew Nor Christian- Not the translator of the Greek version of the Old Testament as recorded in history,   123 SYMMACHUS, a Grecian Statesman.-The Christian religion a duplication of the Eleusinian mysteries,    124 POMPONIUS MELA, a Roman Geographer.-No Christians at Antioch A. D. 54- The goddess Diana worshiped,     126 CARDINAL STEFANO BORGIA.-Christianity cannot stand the blazing light of the original writings of the Latin Fathers if placed in the hands of scholars and  free thinkers,   128 CARACALLA, bishop of Nicomedia.-The Council of Nice-All works pertaining to the mythological origin of Christianity to be destroyed- Bibliomancy,    129 HEGESIPPUS, a Greek Theologian.-The attempt to make a new religion out of the old religions--The struggle between learned scholars and pagan priests,    131 ULPHILAS, a Catholic Bishop.-The source of the Codex Argenteus-The Brahminical gospels of Apollonius translated from the Samaritan tongue in the Fourth  Century-The names changed to suit his Christian employers,    133 ABGARUS, a Grecian Priest.-The famous letter to Jesus Christ a forgery by Christian writers-He corresponded with Jesus Malathiel, a Jewish priest-Eusebius responsible for the circulation of this falsehood,    135 GREGORY, bishop of Constantinople.-Destruction of many valuable books-Jesus interpolated for Apollonius in history- Eusebius spent his whole life in mutilating and destroying everything that militated against Christianity 138 EUSEBIUS OF CAESAREA -An unwilling witness--The power of truth-All Epistles and Gospels in reality the creation of Christian priests-Justin Martyr the forger of  the passage in Josephus in relation to Jesus Christ-Eusebins admits copying it- Dr. Lardner's arraignment of Eusebius- What Gibbons thinks of Eusebius,   141 ALCIPHRON, a Greek, Writer.-The story of the "Wise Men of the East," a theological legend brought from India by the Gymnosophists,    150 SIR THOMAS BODLEY, founder of the Bodleian library.-The Anti-Nicene library-Collection of manuscripts against the Council of Nice-Missing leaves of the Cambridge manuscript, 152 MARCION, the Father of Christianity.- The Pauline Epistles appropriated by Marcion -He changes them-The description of Paul interpolated to disguise the  identity of their author, Apollonius of Tyana,      154 LUCIAN, a Greek Satirist.-The insignificant measures used to formulate the Christian Gospels- The St. Luke of the Gospels-- Apollonius the Apollos of the Greels-- The original works of Lucian mutilated -Who St. Paul and St. Mark were,   157 CONSTANTINUS POGONATUS.- The sixth council of Constantinople A. D. 680-Prometheus of the Greeks adopted to represent Jesus Christ-Lamb worship changed  to man worship- Lamb worship a relic of paganism-The edict prohibiting the worship of the lamb on the cross,     160 CONSTANTINE THE GREAT.- Fettered by the truth - The Buddhistic gospels mingled with the teachings of Potamon,    162 EPAPHRODITUS, a Latin Grammarian.-Josephus a member of the Ancient Order of the Initiated-Why Josephus did not mention Apollonius in his history,   163 F. NIGIDIUS F    FIGULUS. - Connection of astrology with Christianity,      166 VELLIUS PATERCULUS.- The Signs of the Zodiac the key to all religions,     167 GREGORY, bishop of Neo-Caesarea.- Apollonius worshiped in the Temple of Apollo-- Valuable manuscripts destroyed by Eusebius,   169 UMMIRIUS QUADRATUS, Governor of Syria.- The feast of the unleavened bread a blood purifying ceremony- The carefully concealed secrets of the Essenes-- Travels in India, 170 C. CORNELIUS TACITUS, a Roman Historian.- The Essenian Brotherhood-Spirit manifestations-- Never heard of the Christian Jesus nor of Christianity,   173 MANETHO, an Egyptian Priest.- The god Osiris of the Egyptians-Materialization as understood by the ancients- The Sun personified, the revered saviour of all nations,   175 VARRO, a Roman Writer.-The celebrated literature of the ancients destroyed by the Christian hierarchy- His "Key to Ancient Religions" destroyed by order of  Constantine the Great,   177 IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH, Patriarch of the Essenes.- Apollonius of Tyana investigated the religion of the Essenes-- The sacred writings of the Essenes blended with those Apollonius received from India,   179 TITUS LIVIUS,  a Roman Historian.-The birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ as portrayed in the annual passage of the Sun through the  constellations of the Zodiac,   181 Q. VERANIUS.-The God of the Britons identical with the God of the Christians- The idea of being saved by a man born of a virgin, established among barbarous  people centuries before the Christian era,    183 PORPHYRY, a so-called Heathen Philosopher.-None of the early Christian Fathers, so-called,-were Christians in reality-The gods of all religions have arisen out of astronomy and astrology,    185 MARCANTONIO: DEDOMIS, a  Heresiarch.- The old Roman gods, re-chiselled by the sculptors, are the Apostles of the Christian religion- The vestments of the Roman Catholic priesthood copied from the priests of Apollo,    187 SEJANUS, the favorite of Tiberius.-New light on the story of the crucifixion-The obliterated portion of the  Alexandrian Codex    189 ALOYSIUS LILIUS, an Italian Savant.- The connection of the life of the so-called Jesus Christ with the gods of antiquity- The doctrines of the Christian Trinity  based on the Pagan Trinity,   191 POMPAEIUS SATURNINUS.-The secret meeting of the Sons of the Sun or the Initiated -Ancient Spiritualism,   193 CARRA.- The inscriptions on the Adulian Marble relate to the life and miracles of Apollonius of Tyana,    195 CLEMENT ALEXANDRINUS.-His writings mutilated by Eusebius - interesting revelations concerning the Christian cross- The Council of Alexandria,    197 HERMOGENES, the Essenian rival of St. Paul. - Astronomy the key to the Book of Revelation - To understand the symbolism of Christianity read the stars,    200 JEAN SYLVAIN BAILLY.-What can be found at Ancient Tyre - An important book,   203 CARDINAL CAESAR BARONIUS, Librarian of the Vatican.-The Hindoo god Chrishna, in reality the Christ of the Christians - Sworn to eternal secrecy,  205 RUFUS QUINTIUS CURTIUS.- The Jewish legends borrowed from Persian mythologies- The breast plate of Josephus,     207 M. ATILIUS REGULUS. - The Greek and Roman religions copies of the Egyptian religion of Osiris or the sun personified,     210 ROBERT II, of France.- The Great Infinite has marked out no set of religious rules for men to be governed by- The effect of too much religious belief- All pictures  of Jesus Christ copies of those of Apollonius of Tyana,  212 PYTHAGORAS, the Samian Sage.- The god principal within us- In ancient times all sages were mediums- The effects of erroneous religious teaching of children almost ineradicable,  214 AMMONIUS SACCAS, the pupil of Potamon.- The Book of Revelation written under spirit control by Apollonius- Christianity known under the name of Gnosticism,   218 GALERIUS, a Roman Emperor.- Why Diocletian issued his famous edict against the Christians,    222 GEORGE DEYVERDUN.- The Last Supper taken from the Elusinian Mysteries--(Gibbons' book, "AENEAS, The Lawgiver of the Eleusinian Mysteries," destroyed   by the clergy,    225 HEINRICH E. G. PAULUS.-  The Gospel of St. Matthew - A remarkable communication,    226 SIGEBERT HAVERCAMP.- The writings of Damis in existence as late as the Eighteenth Century,    230 CHARLES DE BROSSES.- The worship of the Fetish gods.-Christianity a mixture of all preceding religions,   232 CHRISTIAN THOMASIUS,  Jurist and Philosopber. - Luther knew that Jesus Christ was a myth but dared not acknowledge it- The-true cause of Materialism in Germany,  235 SATURNINUS, the Essenian Philosopher.- The founder of Gnosticism- The story of Jesus of Nazareth, and the Christian Scriptures the mixed systems of Brahmanic, Buddhistic, Jewish, Essenian and Gnostic teachings- Apollonius heals by the laying on of hands,     237 CARDINAL ROBERT BELLARME. - Compelled to testify by the disappointed hopes of millions who believed and trusted in Christianity - Refers to the portrait of Apollonius-- All should know who the real Jesus was,    242 HORMISDAS, a Roman Catholic Pontiff.- Destruction of the Pauline Epistles-Eusebius a scoundrel - Jesus Christ worshiped in the form of a lamb -- Romanism is Paganism changed into Christianity,     244 APPIAN, a Roman Historian.- His writings destroyed by the Christians- The Hindoo Chrishna changed into the Greek Christos,    246 JOHN FIDENZA, St. Bonaventura.-The doctrines of Apollonius in the hands of the Maronite Priests on Mt. Lebanon, Syria,    250 ANNIUS OF VITERBO, a learned Dominican Friar - Startling revelations-The manuscripts saved from the Alexandrian library- The key to the old Egyptian  manuscripts found at the entrance of the ancient temple of Apollo at Rome,    252 MIZRAIM, the Chaldaic king of Egypt.- The worship of the Egyptians- The signs of the Zodiac- New facts in history- Mizraim the name of a king and not the name of a country as claimed by historians,     256 EUXENUS, a Pythagorean Philosopher.- The teacher of Apollonius-Explains the seven Pythagorean principles as taught in his day,   264 JEAN BAPTISTE COLBERT, Prime Minister of France.-  The inscription on the marble throne at Adulis, referred to Apollonius of Tyana 'The Armenians  fire worshipers,- The ancient Egyptian virgin Isis identical with the Christian Virgin Mary,  269 GODFREY ARNOLD, a German Mystic.- The communication of Euthalius confirmed,  272 AUGUST VON SCHLEGEL, a German Philologist.- The Tamil language more ancient than the Sanscrit-The Tamil idea of the Trinity,   274 BODHISHORMAH, a Buddhist Priest.- The books of the New Testament from St. John to Revelations parodied from the versions of Bodhisatoua - The Gospels of Matthew,   Mark and Luke derived from ancient Gymnosophic religions,    276 SERVIUS SULPICUS GALBA, a Roman Emperor.- Who the Jesus of Nazareth was that created such confusion at Jerusalem,  A. D. 34-35,   280 JUNIANUS JUSTINUS, a Latin Historian.-More works mutilated by Christian writers- Hesus Christos changed to Jesus Christ in the days of Eusebius,   285 PLOTINA POMPEIA, wife of the Emperor Trajan.- The famous letter of Pliny the Younger to Trajan- What the light of truth reveals- Ancient copies still in existence fraudulently interpolated in order to manufacture proof of the existence of the Christians at an early period - The worship of Apollonius at Rome- The historical proofs of the existence of Jesus disappear under the light of these communications,    290 FACILIEDAS. King of Abyssinia. - Some interesting testimony in regard to evolution,   294 FATHER AMIOT, a French Jesuit. - Christianity cannot stand before unbiased thought and reason - All deistical ideas inconsistent with the laws of life and organization  of matter,   295 CHARLES FRANCIS ALTER.- Interesting philological discoveries- The mystic symbols of the school of Ammonius Saccas,    297 HERENNIUS, a contemporary of Plotinus.- The first writing or tablets of man's history were found in Ethiopia - Christianity contains all the ceremonies of the ancient pagans  combined with a god that never existed - Plans for the formation of the highest and noblest system of religion ever known overthrown by Constantine the Great,    300 AMELIUS, a disciple of Plotinus.-  Why Eclecticism was checked in its infancy- Pagan priests preferred to see their ceremonies continued through the Catholic church rather than have them become obsolete,   302 STRABO, Historian and Geographer.- " If the records of the past had been allowed to stand there would be no Christianity to-day"-  Confirmatory proof that the portrait of the Nazarene is a true representation of Apollonius,    306 PHRAOTES, King of Taxila.-The visit of Apollonius to India-  Receives the sacred Testament of The Mountain of Light Circle from Iarchus- Light upon the Book of Matthew-  Millions of spirits would rather cease to exist than that these revelations should come to Mankind,      311 JOHN FREDERICK GRONOVIUS, Critic of the Seventeenth Cen tury.- The works of Pliny, Livy and Sallust, very much changed in order to conceal the real origin of  Christianity-   Confirmatory proof in regard to the forgery of Pliny's letter,    315 ABULPHARAGIUS, bishop of Guba.- Christianity essentially the Sun Worship taught at Babylon by Zoroaster- The Jesuits supporting the opposition to the truth as revealed from the spirit world,     317 MINUCIUS FELIX, a Montanist Patriarch.- Where civilization originated- Christianity an outgrowth of Buddhism- Sun Worship and Egyptian Osirianisin one and-the  same thing,     319 GRIESBACH.-Zodiacal interpretation of all religions-  The five ancient Testaments- The incorrect translation of the Greek statement,    321 HAICO, the great Armenian King.- The Jewish legend of the Tower of Babel disposed of in an effective manner- The Old Testament belonged to the Armenian people  and not to the Jews- The secret chambers of the Pyramids of Ethiopia,   324 MONTANUS, the Phrygian Ecstatic. - The teachings of Montanism- Their books the canons of Buddhism- Materialization in ancient times,    330 AKIBA, a Jewish Rabbi.- Chronological forgeries resorted to in order to make the Jewish religion appear ancient,    333 LUCIUS APPULEIUS, a Satirist.- The difference between the teachings of Apollonius and Potamon- The Greek and Egyptian divinities identical with older gods,    338 M. COCCEIUS NERVA, Emperor of Rome.- Fifteen other gods besides the Hindoo Saviour Christos worshiped at Rome-   History of them all based upon a god-begotten  virgin-born man who was to die to save the world,    341 HERODES AGRIPPA II, King of Judea.- The true version of the trial of Paul before Agrippa as given in Acts,    344 RABBA JOSEPH.-  The writings of Gamaliel tampered with by Christians,    349 MOSES MAIMONDES.- The Augian Codex- Absolute proof that Apollonius of Tyana was St. Paul,    355 PROCOPIUS, the Secretary of Belisarius.- Eusebius changes the Hindoo Chrishna into the Jew Jesus Christ- Julian the Apostate did not recant upon his death-bed,     358 EUNOMIUS,  the great Arian leader.- Whence came the name Jesus Christ- Why the Council of Nice was convened- The attempt of the Emperor Constantine to blend  the prevailing heathen religions,    364 CARNEADES.  a Greek Philosopher.- Christosism converted into Christianity in the Fourth Century- The philosophy of Plato a combination of the doctrines concerning  Christos and Prometheus,     376 SOTION,  the teacher of Seneca.- Diana of the Ephesians supposed to be the virgin mother of the sun god Christos in the time of Sotion- A fatal mistake,   379 SEPTIMUS GETA,  a Roman Emperor.- Rivalry existing between the followers of Christos and the worshipers of Apollo,      383 JACOB JOSEPH VON GORRES.- The plagiaristic nature of the Scriptures- No Hebrew literature until after the Babylonish captivity- The ancient Jewish history taken from the writings of Zoroaster,    387 FREDERICH GESENIUS.- The Hebrew languages derived  from the ancient Chaldean tongue- Etymology of the  name Moses- The scribe Ezra revises the account of Daniel,   390 ST. CHRYSOSTOM,  a Christian Father.- All systems of religion amount to misunderstood spirit control- The important document contained in the Ambrosian Library,     394 ANANIAS,  a Jewish High-priest.- Apollonius and not Christ accused before Felix--: - The only Christ preached in Judea was the Christos of Apollonius,     400 CHARLES MARTEL, King of France.- The worshipers of Jupiter, Hesus and Christos,   409 RADBOD, King of Friesland.- Similarity  between Christosism and Hesusism,     410 WINIFRED  OR ST. BONIFACE.-  Not a Catholic Christian but a  priest of Christos--- The books rejected at the Council of Nice,     411 LUCIUS OF CYRENE, the Secretary of Damis.- The Apocalypse written by Apollonius,    420 SEVERUS, Patriarch of Antioch.- The Monophysites- The attempt to make Hesus Christos a Jew,    424 AGABUS.-  The folly of religion as a means to spirit happiness- Mediums used to propagate the Apollonian system of religion,      425 JOHN BIDDLE, an English Theologian.- The persecutions ordered by the Christian churches responsible for the overthrow of their power- Persecuted for denying the truth of the Trinity,     427 ST. FRANCIS DE SALES, a Bishop of Geneva.- A defiant spirit- All proof in the hands of the Catholic church- The priests have hidden their tracks well- His challenge accepted,    429 SILAS OR SILVANUS, a Disciple of Apollonius of Tyana.- Interesting facts concerning the systems of Apollonius and Chrestus- New light on the Scriptures- Marcion and Lucian appropriated the theological labors of Apollonius,      430 FRUMEMTIUS, an Abyssinian Bishop.- The Ethiopic version of Christosism- The founders of Christianity claim the solar Christos of Frumemtius to be identical with their Jesus Christ,     439 CHRESTUS, the rival of Apollonius.- The subject of the disputed passage in Suetonius, not Jesus Christ but Chrestus- The teachings of Chrestus,     441 ARONAMAR.- The difficulties attending spirit intercourse- The Council of Nabopolassar- The first Talmud- No Targums of the books of Daniel, Ezran and Nehemiah- Targums of those books would have shown their Chaldean origin,      454 ST. DECLAN, an ancient Sun Worshiper.- St. Patrick a sun worshiper- The round towers of Ireland-   The literature of the Druids destroyed,  457 LEONARDI BRUNI, Papal Secretary.- The forgeries in the secret archives of the Vatican- Mutilations by Eusebius-- The destruction of documents by Popes Celestine and Gregory,     461 ST. DOMINIC DE GUZMAN.- The Catholicism of spirit life- The persecution of the Albigenses,      474 LOUIS THE PIOUS, King of France.- The mystic teachings of Dionysius the Areopagite- Jupiterean-Christosism,    475 CELESTINE III, a Roman Pontiff.- Suppressed manuscripts- What can be found in the library at Florence,     485 JOHN ASSER,  Abbot of Sherburn.- The manuscripts of Alfred the Great- Fourteen crucified saviours- Jesus and Hesus preached alternately,    487 INNOCENT III, Pope of Rome.- An unwilling witness- The mutilation of the Alexandrian manuscript- The missing leaves - The psychology of spirits used to lead mortals  astray,    490 ALBERTUS MAGNUS.- Astrology furnishes the key to show  who the real Jesus was -  A pathetic statement,      498 SOCRATES SCHOLASTICUS,  an Ecclesiastical Historian.- The communion service taken from the Eleusinian mysteries-- Bacchus the god of wine, Ceres the god of  corn- Where proof of the truth of these communications can be found,     500 GABINUS, Roman Governor of Judea.- History of the Jews a mixture of the traditions of the Chaldeans and Armenians-  Abraham  a Chaldean,       503 APIANUS.- The teachings of spirits in the Sixteenth Century- A pupil of Paracelsus,    505 MARCELLINUS.- The doctrines of the Trinity-State policy, not religious impulse caused Constantine to adopt Hesus Christos -Relation of Gymnosophism and Eclecticism  to Christianity,     507 LACTANTIUS.- The doctrine of the Trinity in existence in India 1600 years before the Christian era- An important communication showing the identity of Christianity  and paganism,     513 HERMES, an Apostolic Father.- His suffering in spirit life- The Greek myth Prometheus the prototype of the Christian Jesus - The honor of the founders of Christianity  impeached,     515 IAMBLICUS, a Syrian Philosopher.- The Sun the central object of the Christian theology- The concealed key,    517 BELZONI.-  Symbols of the Christian religion found on the Tombs of Ancient Thebes,     518 AMMONIUS THE PERIPATETIC, an Alexandrian Philosopher.- Religious symbols- History of Jesus a re-deification of older gods,    520 ANASTASIUS, Librarian of the Vatican.- No evidence to show that Jesus Christ ever existed- The pictures of Jesus taken from those of Apollonius- The Christian  religion the out growth of the teachings of the Alexandrian schools,    522 JONATHAN BEN UZZIEL, one of the Writers of the Targums.- Moses a creation of Jewish priests- The legends and traditions of the Jewish people extend no further than Ezra the Scribe- Jewish and Chaldean history identical- Every man and woman their own redeemer,    524 SAADIAS-GAON.-The Jews bad no history as a people anterior to 450 B. C.,     526 ARNOLD, Abbot of Citeaux.-The persecutor of the Albigenses- Terrible remorse of a spirit,     527 JOHN BAINBRIDGE, an English Astronomer.- The significance of the astronomical and astrological signs,   529 CHARLES HARDWICK, an English Theologian.-India not the mother of civilization nor the originator of all religions,     530 MESROP OR MESROB, an Armenian Theologian.-The Testament of Apollonius of Tyana=The Coptic or Egyptian version of the Scriptures-Apolionius worshiped as a god,     533 PAULINUS, Archbishop of York.- His mutilation of the Scriptures - In spirit life be finds Jesus Christ to be Apollonius of Tyana- He copied after Eusebius,    543 ST.  GERMAIN.- The original gospels written in the Syriac- Hebraic tongue-Copied into the Armenian tongue by Moses Chorensis- The Maronite monks of Mount Lebanon have valuable manuscripts in their possession,     545 MONTACUTE.-The Druid worship of the God Hesus prevailed as late as the Fourteenth Century,     547 FRANCIS ANTHONY FLEMMING, a Roman Catholic Priest.- St. Patrick not a Christian but a Druid-priest,    550 JACOB CAPO, an Architect.- The stones of pagan temples converted into Christian churches- The statue of Hesus of the Celtic Druids mounted in a church at Florence-  The statues of Jesus and his twelve Apostles are pagan gods re-carved and modified to suit Christian requirements,    552 J. S. SEMLER.- Dying gods of virgins born, a mythical idea 15,000 years old- Corroborative evidence to be found in the encyclopedias of the Chinese and Japanese nations,  553 CARDINAL SANCTA DE CAPO.- Interesting account of the original gospels-When the first bible was printed all marginal notes on manuscript were dropped except those manufactured bv the priests- The Samaritan copy of Ignatius of Antioch,    556 POPE NICHOLAS IV.- The difficulty of communicating in the English tongue- The opposition of spirits, - The twelve apostles of St. Peter's in Rome copied from the twelve gods transported from Olympus to Rome in the days of the Emperor Hadrian- Terrible conflict in spirit life,    562 ZOROASTER.-Startling disclosures- The Jewish Book of Daniel contains the actual earthly experiences of Zoroaster-  Zoroaster, not Daniel thrust into the lion's den- His works appropriated by the Jews- The Book of Revelation and the Book of Daniel open up the secrets of antiquity when properly interpreted and understood-  A description of the ancient religions- Confounded in history with the elder Zoroaster- The disputed question  "Who was the Darius mentioned in the  Book of Daniel,"  settled at last- Corrections made in history,    565 End of   ANTIQUITY   UNVEILED   Contents See:Encyclopedia Brittannica:   See:Apollonius Of Tyana, a Neo-Pythagorean who became a mythical hero during the time of the Roman Empire.   Empress Julia Domna instructed the writer Philostratus to write a biography of Apollonius, and it is speculated   that her motive for doing so stemmed from her desire to counteract the influence of Christianity on Roman civilization.   The biography portrays a figure............    See: Neo-Pythagoreanism,  With the ascetic sage Apollonius of Tyana, about the middle of the 1st century AD,   a distinct Neo-Pythagorean trend appeared. Apollonius studied the Pythagorean legends of the previous centuries,   created and propagated the ideal of a Pythagorean life--of occult wisdom, purity, universal tolerance, and approximation   to the divine--and.........   from,  See Pythagoreanism. Web Master Note: Researching through the philology of Godfrey Higgins, Anacalypsis 1836 we find that prior to 325 AD Christianity was not as it is known today, infact, it was known as a troublesome heathen religion before this date.  Also, from the Greek word for this heathen belief system it can be seen to translate into the word CHRESTIAN or CRESTIAN, meaning; one who does not like what is good.  'Crestian' was the form used by Romans for addressing slaves, even if a slave earned his freedom.   But the Roman Chuch today has reversed the correct Greek meaning to it's opposite meaning which should apply only to 'Christianity'  and not 'Chrestianity / Crestian'.  And, about the name 'Jesus', the letter 'J' did not arrive in the Hebrew alphabet until circa 600 AD.  Therefore Yesus or Hesus as this God was known, was not the God of the Chrestian / Crestian heathens, but the Infinite God of the Druids and the Phoenicians and other groups knowledgeable in the science of nature and how to live according to the seasons with HIM / HER.   The knowledge of which has been removed by the patrical Romish church. Therefore, the name Jesus did not come into being until after Circa 600 AD.   HESUS KRISTOS was put together by the Council of Bishops at Nicea in 325 AD as a patriarchal system, binding together in sin instead of goodness and 'fear of God'  instead of Love of God, as  many people as possible. Remember, the Bible says; Think not that I have come to bring peace, for I have come with a sword.

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Theodosius I founded Catholic Christianity (believers of the Christian Trinity) and it became a successful business.

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Who founded Christianity?

Note: Potamon of the Alexandrian School at the Library of Alexandria.

It is an age-old debate.

Christ? Well, yes. Of course. Obviously.

Note: There was no Jesus Christ!

St Peter? Also yes. Christ built his church upon the rock — so the faithful believe, following the Gospel of St Matthew.

Note: There were no Twelve Apostles.

St Paul? Yes again. In first century Galilee, there were no schools for those who farmed, fished, or worked with their hands. St Peter was a simple worker from an agrarian community, and there is no reason to suppose he could read, write, or speak any language other than his native Aramaic.  By contrast, St Paul was a highly educated and literate intellectual. He was a Roman citizen of Cilicia (south-eastern Turkey), and his native language was Greek — which enabled his letters and public speaking to be understood across the vast reaches of the empire. His indefatigable thinking, preaching, and writing unquestionably defined great swathes of Christianity.

Note: The written work of Apollonius (Paulus in Latin) of Tyana became the Epistles of St. Paul.

Yet in some senses, asking who founded Christianity is a fatuous question. The Greek honorific title Christos (meaning the Annointed One) and the word Christianos (Christian) would have meant nothing to Yeshu’a, which was the Aramaic name Jesus would have answered to. The words were never used in his life time. The first recorded occasion was years later, miles to the north-west in Antioch.

Note: Apollonius of Tyana had a school in Antioch, Syria. He was a medium, teacher, healer, miracle worker, philosopher, adviser to three Roman emperors. He wrote the Book of Revelation in his later years.

Beyond the words, how many of Christianity’s reported 41,000 denominations would they recognise today? Would any of the buildings, activities, liturgies, theologies, vestments, ecstatic glossolalia, and all the rest be familiar?

Whatever the answer, there is, in fact, one more person to add to this list — and he definitely would recognise the 1.5 billion Catholics and Orthodox Christians alive today. He was not a founder of Christianity. But he was definitely one of its most important figures. Ever.

Flavius Theodosius was born in Spain in AD 347, and one of his two most memorable achievements was to be the last man to rule over both the Western and Eastern Roman Empires.

But his truly lasting achievement was perhaps one of the ten decisions that have most shaped the post-Roman world.

Today, the 27th of February, in AD 380, Theodosius proclaimed Christianity as the official religion of the Roman Empire.

It is our desire that all the various nations which are subject to our clemency and moderation should continue in the profession of that religion which was delivered to the Romans by the divine Apostle Peter, as it has been preserved by faithful tradition, and which is now professed by the Pontiff Damasus … . We authorise the followers of this law to assume the title of Catholic Christians. (Theodosius I, Cunctos populos)

At the time, the empire heaved with colourful temples to everything you can think of. Cicero called the Romans “the most religious people” (religiosissima gens), and the sheer variety of popular cults proves it. Worshippers could find everything from traditional Graeco-Roman deities, the Egyptian cults of Isis, Osiris, and Serapis, the ubiquitous near-eastern mystery religions of Mithras, Cybele, and Attis, and hundreds of others — all spiced up with the usual sacrificial fare and traditional temple prostitutes.

But enough was enough. To reinforce the status of Christianity as the sole imperial religion, Theodosius outlawed all pagan practices.

It was a highly controversial move, and he must have been aware of its enormity.

Even the Serb, Emperor Constantine I (AD 305 to 337), had not gone that far.

It is true that Constantine is reported to have fought and won the decisive battle of the Milvian Bridge with the Chi Rho daubed onto his men’s shields. He had apparently seen a vision of the Christian symbol in the sky, along with the Greek words ἐν τούτῳ νίκα (en touto nika, “In this, conquer”), and it had inspired him. Once emperor, in AD 313 he promptly enacted the Edict of Milan to guarantee freedom of religion throughout the empire.

Of the things that are of profit to all mankind, the worship of God ought rightly to be our first and chiefest care. Christians and all others should have freedom to follow the kind of religion they favour. We therefore announce that all who choose Christianity are to be permitted to continue therein, without any let or hindrance, and are not to be in any way troubled or molested. At the same time, all others are to be allowed the free and unrestricted practice of their religions; for it accords with the good order of the realm and the peacefulness of our times that each should have freedom to worship God after his own choice. (Constantine, The Edict of Milan)

Perhaps the drafters of the First Amendment to the American Constitution had this edict in mind, although they expressed their version significantly less eloquently:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.

Constantine did not stop with freeing everyone from religious persecution. In AD 325 he convened, presided over, and paid for the first ecumenical Church council. He held it at Nicaea (modern-day Iznik in Turkey), where it oversaw the resolution of numerous key decisions regarding the early Church and its structure. Yet Constantine did it all while still a pagan and pontifex maximus, or head of Rome’s pagan priesthood — a role he officially retained until his death, even after his personal conversion to Christianity late in life. Theodosius was, unsurprisingly, the first emperor to abandon the priestly title, which in time migrated across to the pope.

                    The empire at the time of Theodosius

Theodosius is perhaps more responsible for the massive spread of Christianity than either St Peter or St Paul, for the simple reason that religions and their denominations benefit from political backing to light the afterburners and tear free from the pack. This should come as no real surprise — it is how human society generally works.

Therefore, when Theodosius adopted Nicene Christianity as the imperial religion in AD 380, he set a precedent whose impact is now felt globally. For as the Roman Empire in the West fell, the monarchs who were to fill the void in Europe for the next millennium and a half largely kept Christianity as their state religion. And when they conquered and colonised, they took their religion with them.

Unlike ancient Rome, we no longer exterminate those who profess other religions.

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SYLVESTER I

Sylvester I was, in fact, the first pope because the were no Twelve Apostles. Christianity created its equivalent to the Twelve Gods of Mt. Olympus.

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St. Sylvester I, also spelled Silvester, (born, Rome [Italy]—died 335, Rome; Western feast day December 31, Eastern feast day January 2), pope from 314 to 335, whose long pontificate saw the beginnings of the Christian Roman Empire.

Little is known about Sylvester’s early life. A presbyter when elected to succeed Pope Miltiades (Melchiades), Sylvester was consecrated on January 31, 314. The most important event of his reign was the Council of Nicaea in May 325, which condemned the Alexandrian Christian priest Arius, founder of Arianism, a heretical doctrine teaching that God the Son (Jesus) was neither equal with God the Father nor eternal. While the Roman emperor Constantine the Great favoured Christianity and was a major controller of its ecclesiastical affairs, neither he nor his immediate successors gave any official recognition to papal primacy over the church. Thus, it was a rare and significant exception when Sylvester was accorded a preeminent role in the Arian crisis. Although invited, he did not attend the Council of Nicaea personally but was represented by two legates, who were treated with great honour and respect yet did not preside at the debates.

According to subsequent legend, Sylvester converted and baptized Constantine, who was the first Roman emperor to become a Christian, and miraculously cured him of leprosy. In return the emperor allegedly gave him the Donatio Constantini (Donation of Constantine), a grant of spiritual supremacy over the Eastern patriarchates and over all matters of faith and worship as well as temporal dominion over Rome and the entire Western world. The Donation is now universally admitted to be an 8th-century forgery, but it was important in the development of the medieval theory of church and state.

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