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Restatement: resurrection, reincarnation, and the 16 savior-gods
The inner-workings of the long-ago ancient world is often shrouded in mystery, and so what can we say, with some confidence, that we actually know about that primordial time?
To begin, we can assert, with more than a little assurance, that the dysfunctional ego readily oppressed, brutalized, and, if opportunity allowed, otherwise subjugated its neighbors, just as it does today. As the great psychologists have pointed out, we enjoy technological advancement today but, in terms of psychological orientation, we’re still running around as primitives in loin cloths. Just look at the news today which profusely speaks of a lack of authentic progress on the spiritual level.
Fake news is still with us. Prevarication, propaganda, and power-plays are all still with us. Egos strutting on a world stage, posturing importance, is still very much with us, just as they loved to do it in the days of Naram-Sin of Akkad.
We know that 16 times in history, in various cultures and societies, ruthless dictator-potentates concocted “savior-god” schemes to control their unruly citizenry.
Further, we know that, in a survey of 30 of the most prominent art extravaganzas of history that, each and every one of them, was employed, not as “art for art’s sake” but, as hoodwinking effort to beguile and bedazzle the masses.
All of this might lead one to reasonably suggest that the “death-resurrection” motif regarding so-called “savior gods” was not conjured by pious minds having prayerfully discerned the mind of God in an effort to make plain how the divine economy truly operates. Hardly. These were dark and ruthless power-and-control contrivances, foisted upon superstitious and fearful minds, apprehensive of retribution and punitive action from on-high.
We also know that the Great Despotic Ecclesia, as a matter of policy, in an effort to create a “universal church,” thought nothing of opportunistically adopting-and-reformulating the local myths of the uneducated and hapless.
On the Word Gems pages devoted to “Bible”, “Jesus Christ”, and “God” we find ample evidence – rather, the lack of it – in support of the non-historicity of popular conceptions of the alleged deeds attributed to Jesus of Nazareth. Are we to remain confident in the notion that the Great Despotic Ecclesia, with so much power over people at stake, was immune from employing “fake news”, forged documents, and general prevatication, to achieve its ends?
The canonical gospels were produced many decades after the times and activities of which they report. These were not written by eye-witnesses. And they speak of “death-and-resurrection” of one more “savior-god” of history. Is this mere coincidence? Is this an isolated proposition? Or are we viewing one more hijacking of an old and tired theme, one successfully employed, for thousands of years, to bamboozle a populace?
The canonical-gospel writers used the word “resurrection.” But there is no “rising” and “resurgence” because there is no death. No one dies. No one has ever died. The term “resurrection” issued as “editorial comment,” the product of uneducated, superstitious, cultish, and fearful minds.
The 16 “savior-gods” of history presented themselves not so much as a resurrected version of the dead king but a reincarnated king – one who had come back to keep the plebs in line. It was just one more power-play scheme in an endless iteration of such.
Look at what the Great Despotic Ecclesia has done in the last 2000 years. Look at all of the bloodshed in service of its goal to achieve a worldwide iron-fist control over the fearful hearts of humankind.
Editor’s note: I recently had lunch with an old college mate whom I’d not seen in 50 years, and we began to talk of these things. He pointed out that, when the early Spanish conquerors invaded the New World, these more-than brutal oppressors came with strengthened hand. Dear Mother Cult had ruled that the expendable natives of these gold-bearing new lands were not really human at all, just indigenous fauna, like the monkey or lizard, and therefore one should not hesitate to kill and butcher them, as whim or necessity might warrant. With this Machiavellian mindset leading the Church, are we to suppose it so unlikely for it to have also crafted an entire pageantry, a full "cosmogony," of “savior myths” to further its bloody intentions of world domination - just as the Naram-Sins did it in earlier times?
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more than drinking the koolaid
The long reach of cultism encompasses much more than crackpot churches. The root idea of cult offers the sense of "cut." This core concept of "cut" leads us to images of refinement and refashioning and, by extension, development, control, pattern, order, and system.
Cultism as systemization finds a ready home in religion and philosophy which seek to regulate and redistill the patterning and ordering of ideas. However, in a larger sense, the spirit of cultism extends to every facet of society. We find it scheming and sedulously at work in politics, academia, family, corporations, entertainment, science, artistry – anywhere power might be gained by capturing credulous and fear-based minds.
See the “cultism” page for a full discussion.
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As we look at all the evidence, we find it reasonable to conclude that the most recent “resurrection” theme is just a warmed-over concoction of the more usual “death-and-reincarnation.”
Editor’s note: On the “Reincarnation” page see the recent history of this enslaving concept, conjured as a form of class warfare and oppression, especially of women.
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