The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ
CONTAINING NEW, STARTLING, AND EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS IN RELIGIOUS HISTORY, WHICH DISCLOSE THE ORIENTAL ORIGIN OF ALL THE DOCTRINES, PRINCIPLES, PRECEPTS, AND MIRACLES OF THE CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT, AND FURNISHING A KEY FOR UNLOCKING MANY OF ITS SACRED MYSTERIES, BESIDES COMPRISING THE HISTORY OF 16 HEATHEN CRUCIFIED GODS.
INVERSELY to the remoteness of time has been man's ascent toward the temple of knowledge. Truth has made its ingress into the human mind in the ratio by which man has attained the capacity to receive and appreciate it Hence, as we tread back the meandering pathway of human history, every step in the receding process brings us to a lower plane of intelligence and a state of mind more thoroughly encrusted with ignorance and superstition. It is, therefore, no source of surprise to learn, when we take a survey of the world two or three thousand years in the past, that every religious writer of that era committed errors on every subject which employed his pen, involving a scientific principle. Hence, the bible, or sacred book, to which he was a contributor, is now found to bear the marks of human imperfection. For the temple of knowledge was but partially reared, and its chambers but dimly lighted up. The intellectual brain was in a dark, feeble and dormant condition. Hence, the moral and religious feelings were drifted about without a pilot on the turbulent waves of superstition, and finally stranded on the shoals of bigotry. The Christian bible, like other bibles, having been written in an age when science was but budding into life, and philosophy had attained but a feeble growth, should be expected to teach many things incompatible with the principles of modern science. And accordingly it is found to contain, like other bibles, numerous statements so obviously at war with present established scientific truths that almost any school-boy, at the present day, can demonstrate their falsity. Let the unbiased reader examine and compare the oriental and Christian bibles together, and he will note the following facts, viz:—
Kersey Graves
THE WORLD'S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS
OR, CHRISTIANITY BEFORE CHRIST
PREFACE.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
EXPLANATION
ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY.
THE WORLD'S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS.
CHAPTER I. RIVAL CLAIMS OF THE SAVIORS
CHAPTER II. MESSIANIC PROPHECIES
CHAPTER III. PROPHECIES BY THE FIGURE OF A SERPENT
The Seed of the Woman Bruising the Serpent's Head.
CHAPTER IV. MIRACULOUS AND IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE GODS
CHAPTER V. VIRGIN MOTHERS AND VIRGIN-BORN GODS
CHAPTER VI. STARS POINT OUT THE TIME AND THE SAVIORS' BIRTH-PLACE
CHAPTER VII. ANGELS, SHEPHERDS AND MAGI VISIT THE INFANT SAVIORS
CHAPTER VIII. THE TWENTY-FIFTH OF DECEMBER THE BIRTHDAY OF THE GODS.
CHAPTER IX. TITLES OF THE SAVIORS
CHAPTER X. THE SAVIORS OF ROYAL DESCENT, BUT HUMBLE BIRTH
CHAPTER XI. CHRIST'S GENEALOGY
CHAPTER XII. THE WORLD'S SAVIORS SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION IN INFANCY
CHAPTER XIII. THE SAVIORS EXHIBIT EARLY PROOFS OF DIVINITY.
CHAPTER XIV. THE SAVIORS; KINGDOMS NOT OF THIS WORLD
Retirement and Forty Days' Fasting.
CHAPTER XV. THE SAVIORS WERE REAL PERSONAGES
CHAPTER XVI. SIXTEEN SAVIORS CRUCIFIED
CHAPTER XVII. THE APHANASIA, OR DARKNESS AT THE CRUCIFIXION.
CHAPTER XVIII. DESCENT OF THE SAVIORS INTO HELL.
CHAPTER XIX. RESURRECTION OF THE SAVIORS
CHAPTER XX. REAPPEARANCE AND ASCENSION OF THE SAVIORS.
CHAPTER XXI. THE ATONEMENT—ITS ORIENTAL OR HEATHEN ORIGIN.
CHAPTER XXII. THE HOLY GHOST OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN
CHAPTER XXIII. THE DIVINE "WORD" OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN.
CHAPTER XXIV. THE TRINITY VERY ANCIENTLY A CURRENT HEATHEN DOCTRINE
CHAPTER XXV. ABSOLUTION, AND THE CONFESSION OF SINS, OF HEATHEN ORIGIN
CHAPTER XXVI. ORIGIN OF BAPTISM BY WATER, FIRE, BLOOD AND THE HOLY GHOST
CHAPTER XXVII. THE SACRAMENT OR EUCHARIST OF HEATHEN ORIGIN
CHAPTER XXVIII. ANOINTING WITH OIL OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN
CHAPTER XXX. SACRED CYCLES EXPLAINING THE ADVENT OF THE GODS
The Master-Key to the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
CHAPTER XXXI. CHRISTIANITY DERIVED FROM HEATHEN AND ORIENTAL SYSTEMS
CHAPTER XXXIII. APOLLONIUS, OSIRIS, MAGUS, ETC.—GODS
CHAPTER XXXVIII. A HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST.
CHAPTER XXXIX. THE SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF CHRIST'S DIVINITY.
CHAPTER XL. A METONYMIC VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST
CHAPTER XLII. CHRIST AS A SPIRITUAL MEDIUM
CHAPTER XLIV. THE MORAL LESSONS OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY.
CHAPTER XLV. CONCLUSION AND REVIEW.
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