"it would be no exaggeration to label the Old
and New Testaments as two different religions."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 335)"Christianity started out in the form of a mystery school during the 1st century ad - as one of many mystery schools which
existed in the ancient world at that time. And, like all mystery schools, Christianity had its Mysteries, which were revealed in gradual stages to its initiates."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 387)
"In
summary, a very strong case can be made that Paul - the man whom many regard as the founder of Christianity - was initiated into secrets which were not fully divulged in his letters, and which have never been spelled
out clearly in Christian texts and rituals."
(When The Gods Came Down pp. 11-12)
"... we are fully entitled to ask whether Paul was an initiate into certain mysteries of Christ - the meaning of which has
never been revealed to the wider congregation of Christians."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 10)
"The Church claims that Jesus Christ was put to death and resurrected to life in his role as Messiah. But this
simply makes no sense... the fundamental idea was that the Messiah should prevail and rule the new Earth."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 345)
"the death of the Messiah belonged to the Beginning of Days, not
to the End of Days. The idea of an execution at the End of Days makes no sense at all, and is completely alien to all the traditions of the ancient world."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 345)
"it is
unthinkable that the Messiah would not be able to fulfil his task until he had first been resurrected to Heaven via a human flesh sacrifice. It is an absurd notion."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 345)
"Jesus Christ could not possibly be the same saviour, or Messiah, as was anticipated in the writings of the Old Testament."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 336; see also p. 346)
"we began to wonder
whether the Old Testament "prophecies" of a suffering Christ-like figure were not actually prophecies of the future at all, but were, on the contrary, mytho-historic references to the "man" who had
ransomed himself in the underworld at the Beginning of Days."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 341)
"the idea that the Old Testament writings were prophecies of a future Christ suffers from all sorts of
problems, and is surely a falsehood."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 345)
"the so-called "prophecies"... had nothing to do with the future sacrifice of Jesus-the-man. On the contrary, they were
mytho-historic accounts of the past suffering of a primeval Christ, who had been attacked in Heaven, and then apparently crucified in the underworld, at the beginning of time."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 346)
"the gospels of the New Testament formed a kind of mystery play surrounding the real identity of Jesus Christ."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 302)
"at an esoteric level, he [Christ] was a primeval god
who had existed from "the beginning", and who had been instrumental in the creation of the Earth - thus becoming "a precious corner stone, a sure foundation"."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 308)
"Jesus Christ had a primeval alter ego, who can only be described as a meteorite-like god. This primeval Christ was "the stone which the builders rejected", which had become the "corner
stone" in the foundations of the Earth."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 312)
"Jesus Christ had a primeval alter ego, who was tortured and pierced in the underworld..."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 301)
"Does it [the gospel account] refer, at a deeper level, to the ransoming of a primeval "mankind" and to the forgiveness of their primeval sins by a primeval Christ?"
(When The Gods Came Down p. 314)
"we naturally begin to wonder whether the gospels might be a coded record of what supposedly happened at the beginning of the world."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 346)
"the New Testament story of Jesus Christ... was written in the form of an ingenious esoteric parable - a parable which only made sense to those who had been initiated into the secrets of the ancient Mysteries."
(Preface to When The Gods Came Down)
"I put it to readers that Jesus-the-man is something of a misfit in what is essentially a mythical, celestial scenario. What we are faced with, in overview, is a
Christ-of-the-Beginning and a Christ-of-the-End, spaced millions or billions of years apart, and making sense as divine opposites, but with Jesus-the-man appearing somewhere in the middle of time, and looking very odd
and distinctly out of place."
(When The Gods Came Down pp. 343-44)
"This leads me to pose a very bold question. Could it be that Jesus-the-man was crucified in Jerusalem two thousand years ago, in order
to re-enact the sacrifice of his primeval alter ego?"
(When The Gods Came Down p. 347)
"the conclusion must be that Jesus-the-man was performing a re-enactment, as an actor in a Passion play - right up to
the point where he entered the tomb."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 348)
"But why did the body of Jesus-the-man then disappear from the tomb?... What man would have dared to amend the script of the play
thus?"
(When The Gods Came Down p. 351)
"it would have taken a very well-informed master of religious scripture and metaphysics to convince the ignorant that it was the End of Days that brought about the
raising of the body, and not vice versa."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 353)
"We can... conclude with reasonable certainty that the story which we have been taught by the Church is only a half-truth. It is
the story of Christ, up to a point, but it is nonetheless a "dumbed down" story..."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 352)
"Christianity, then, almost certainly began as an adaptation of a Passion
play, which was not necessarily a bad thing, because the play related the age-old religious story of the exploded planet in a direct, simple and human-like way. Moreover, the Passion play was a story which could be
understood simultaneously at both exoteric and esoteric levels; it was at one level "dumbed down" for the masses, but at another level it retained a profound appeal for those few who were initiated into the
truth."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 359)
"Few were those who ever discovered the full esoteric truth behind the Christian gospels, and even then they would never have dreamt of putting anything in writing
to challenge the official dogma of the Church."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 360)
"Christ was a meteorite - the Seed of Mankind. Or, more strictly, a whole flood of meteorites. He who has ears to hear, let
him hear."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 306)
"mythically speaking... the body of Christ is still tucked away safely in the heart of the Earth, awaiting an unknown date with destiny."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 353)
"But are we truly aware of exactly what the Second Coming of Christ will entail?"
(When The Gods Came Down p. 321)
"Do Christians truly understand the catastrophic
nature of the End of Days, which they await with such keen anticipation?"
(When The Gods Came Down p. 325)
"we can conclude that the Second Coming of Christ is, in effect, the comet or asteroid which is
at this very moment programmed on a future collision course with the Earth."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 354)
"there is good reason to suspect that the story of John the Baptist - just like the story of
Jesus Christ - had an esoteric and celestial dimension..."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 402)
"It is but a short step to suggest that the baptism of the primeval Anunnaki-gods - a catastrophic baptism - was
the mythical model for the ordinary and mundane baptisms of 1st century Judaea, and indeed for all other real world baptisms."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 317)
"I put it to readers that the Virgin Mary
and the prostitute Mary Magdalene were actually one-and-the-same character. And in the original form of the Christian legends, neither of them was a human being."
(When The Gods Came Down p. 394)
"Jesus
on the cross... An age-old story told in a simple and human-like way, but retaining an esoteric significance for the few who were initiated into the ancient secrets."
(When The Gods Came Down caption to Plate 40)
