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It is important in our study to remember what we have learned so far. Let us summarize.
Egypt looked at the Heavens and saw Divine order, patterns, and cycles. This was the only picture of the Creator God that they had besides Nature and in their observations of the Heavens they recognized and understood God was speaking over and over a Divine Message to them. The Egyptian Priests observed with great diligence the Heavens for thousands of years and in so doing came to clearly understand God and the this Divine Message and related concepts: "As above so beneath." Observing these Divine Laws, patterns, and cycles these Egyptian Priests saw God speaking to them over and over again "birth, life, death, and rebirth." There was a Divine Order to this cycle of "birth, live, death, rebirth." The Egyptian Priests observed this not only in the Heavens with the cycle and path of the Sun, but the stars and constellations as well. They also understood that the movement of the Sun, moon, and stars affected Nature and thereby the same Divine order, patterns, and cycles were repeated by God all around them as seen in the changing of the seasons with the vernal equinox, summer solstice, autumn equinox, and winter solstice. They understood this cycle as an unending and unchanging message from God: "birth, life, death, and rebirth." Truly "as above so beneath." In these changes of the seasons, as seen previously in Heaven above by the movement and path of the Sun, which was a representation to these Egyptian Priests of God and His Divine gift of life to mankind, God was speaking to them of "birth, life, death, and rebirth" through the repetition of these Divine Laws of the Cosmos. Later as their knowledge grew they recognized that these very same Divine Laws operated in their own bodies as well. The Egyptian Priests knew then that they were therefore created in the image of God and understood as well that they were responsible as well to the Creator to live according to these Divine Laws of Order of Heaven and Nature that operated both outside them and within their own bodies as well.
To better explain to the common man these simple yet profound truths and message of God the Egyptian Priests created "myths" and "allegories" to transmit such Priestly knowledge to the people. The various aspects and attributes of the Creator were personified in both human and animal forms that related such concepts on a lower level to the common man. In so doing these stories and allegories were simplified whereby the people could understand, but on a lower level, this Divine Message of God. As long as these "myths" and "stories" were left as allegory and metaphor then God and His Divine Message was left intact and remained pure.
However over time these "myths" got a life of their own and what was once a metaphor or allegory in myth form became literalized and was taught as if the character or representation of these truths were "real." In so doing these allegorical attributes of the incorporeal God became literalized as real people. Osiris, instead of being a personification of the cycle of "birth, live, death, and rebirth" that followed these Divine Laws (with accountability to God after death at the judgment) later receives a life of his own by being "literalized" as if a real personage. Over time these simple "myths" and "allegories" become literalized as real beings and worship is now given to them; not the incorporeal God who gets lost in all this errant theology as it evolves and becomes so immense. The simple monotheistic faith of Egypt now becomes complicated and develops into an almost unbelievably elaborate religious belief system as man creates a very complicated and conflicting spin-off religious synthesis that replaces the simple understanding of God that Egypt, who coined such beliefs in the first place, had concerning God.
Osiris is our case in point. From a simple "allegory" or "myth" comes a complex and often conflicting theology that become the very foundation, in one way or the other, of every successive Gentile nation and their later religious beliefs. Judeo-Christianity is not immune to this sickness. Our focal point is the Essenes of Alexandria, Egypt, as well as Palestine which will later assimilate the Osiris Pattern and apply it to their "angel messiah." In so doing they Essenes lay the groundwork for applying such religious beliefs not only to their Teacher of Righteousness who they declared "God in human form" but gave life to these concepts in Palestine as well. This is idolatry. It would be only a short time before these Essenes would likewise apply this same "Osiris" religious pattern to a crucified Jesus.
Out task is to examine not only the Osiris Myth in order to fully understand it in all of its ramifications both in the Heavens (solar, lunar, equinoxes, solstices, etc.) but in Nature as well (flooding of the Nile and its recession as related to celestial events, etc.) and then look for the parallels of the Osiris Myth in the depiction of the Jesus of the New Testament. Only in separating out Osiris and Horus, his son, from the historical Jesus can we hope to find truth concerning Jesus. Only in so doing and ferreting out these Osiris-Horus patterns from the Jesus stories in the New Testament can we hope to narrow down what might be possible truths concerning the Jesus of the New Testament. Let us not forget that this New Testament is an Essene literary production which is later "finished off" by Rome, who like their Essene predecessors, were involved in Sun Worship as well.
In order to make accurate comparisons and trace the theological evolution of the Essene "Godman concept" and their theology surrounding him it is necessary to acquaint ourselves with the fundamental tenants of such "Astro-Theology" and the religious beliefs which existed and which influenced these Essenes while in Egypt. Only when you have become familiar with each individual religious tenant connected with the "Cosmic Godman Redeemer" taken from the Osiris Myth and how such "beliefs" began and their origin [personification of forces and events in the heavens and nature] can one fully understand and recognize them accurately as they were later written and altered and subsequently applied to the Essene "angel messiah/godman" and later to Jesus in the New Testament.
So now we begin this task in earnest with the hope that when we are finished we can see more clearly whom the Jesus of the New Testament actually was and if his message was in all actuality a return to the simple "gospel" of Egypt which sadly today is long lost to the world. Jesus, like many of the prophets before him, called Israel back to this simple message of God once taught by the Egyptian Priests but the real message of Jesus today is not heard today by the vast majority of people who consider themselves "followers of Jesus." Jesus taught a message of repentance back toward this Divine Order of God's Laws as Moses had taught before him. Roman theology has replace the message of Jesus with a substitute consisting of accepting the adapted Osiris theology as applied to him. Study of the Osiris Myth will reveal this substitution to you beyond any doubt.
I will promise you two things if you undertake this study: Sadness and anger by what you will find that will convince you just how far you have strayed from the simple message of Jesus, the Jews and Egypt along with joy at recovering these Divine Truths once held sacred by the Ancients, Egypt, the Jewish Nation, and Jesus.
To say that you will be surprised by what you will uncover is an understatement and I only hope you have the hunger, patience, and diligence for such a study. Let us begin at the beginning with the first godman....Osiris.
Craig Lyons M.Div.