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The Jesus Mysteries: Was The Original Jesus A Pagan God? Paperback – 3 April 2000
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This groundbreaking book looks at one of the greatest cover-ups in history and dares to think the unthinkable about Christianity – that it was in fact a Jewish Mystery School modelled on the ancient Pagan Mysteries.
The myth of Dionysus bears startling resemblances to the the story of Jesus Christ. It compares with the biblical story in the following ways:
• Dionysus is God made flesh and is hailed as the ‘Saviour of Mankind’ and the ‘Son of God’
• His father is God and and his mother is a mortal virgin who afterwards becomes worshipped as the ‘Mother of God’
• He is born in a cowshed
• He drives out demons, turns water into wine and and raises people from the dead
• He rides triumphantly into town while people wave palms to honour him
The date revered by the first Christians as Jesus’ birthday was originally that of Dionysus, also the three day Spring Festival of Dionysus celebrating his death and resurrection coincides with the Christian festival of Easter. The last Supper and the Eucharist are also parallel Dionysian rites.
This is not common knowledge as the story was a closely guarded secret of the Pagan mysteries. Secondly the evidence of Christianity’s pagan roots were systematically covered up the Roman Church.
- Print length442 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarpercollins Pub Ltd
- Publication date3 April 2000
- Dimensions11.1 x 2.82 x 17.8 cm
- ISBN-100722536771
- ISBN-13978-0722536773
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‘Rarely have the roots of Christianity been disentangled to such disturbing effect. I shall never be able to read the gospels in the same way again.’
ROGER BOULTON, presenter of Radio 4’s The Sunday Programme
‘A provocative, exciting and challenging book.’
The Rt Revd JOHN SHELBY SPONG, Bishop of Newark
From the Back Cover
• What if Thousands of years before Christianity Pagans had also worshipped a Son of God?
• What if this Pagan saviour was also born of a virgin on the 25th of December before three Shepherds, turned water into wine, died and resurrected at Easter, and offered his body and blood as a Holy Communion?
• What if these Pagan myths had been rewritten as the gospel of Jesus Christ?
• What if there were absolutely no evidence for the existence of an historical Jesus?
• What if the earliest Christians knew that the Jesus story was a myth?
• What if the truth has been kept from us by the greatest cover-up in history?
Drawing on the cutting edge of modern scholarship, this astonishing book will change everything you ever thought you ever thought you knew about Christianity.
'Book of the Year'
FIONA PITT-KEIGHLEY, 'Daily Telegraph'
About the Author
Timothy Freke is an authority on world spirituality. He’s travelled extensively and received instruction from masters in many different traditions. As well as teaching, he has also worked as a bereavement counsellor at his own centre in Somerset. He worked with Alan Aeira on the famous documentary on the Kogi people of Colombia. His books include Jesus and The Goddess, The Jesus Mysteries and Principles of Native American Spirituality.
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- Publisher : Harpercollins Pub Ltd (3 April 2000)
- Language : English
- Paperback : 442 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0722536771
- ISBN-13 : 978-0722536773
- Dimensions : 11.1 x 2.82 x 17.8 cm
- Best Sellers Rank: 202,484 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- 83 in Religious Nature & Existence of God
- 547 in Religious Studies History
- 2,211 in Religious History of Christianity
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Tim is an internationally respected authority on world spirituality. He is the author of over thirty books that have established his reputation as a scholar and free-thinker. He became well known for his groundbreaking work on Christian Gnosticism with his close friend Peter Gandy, including The Jesus Mysteries, which was a top 10 best-seller in the UK and USA, and a 'Book of the Year' in the UK Daily Telegraph.
In his latest book, The Mystery Experience, Tim presents a revolutionary approach to spirituality. He creates a new language of awakening, which makes profound ideas simpler to understand, so it's easier to experience a real transformation of consciousness.
Tim runs Mystery Experience Retreats throughout the world in which he guides people directly to an experience of oneness and all-embracing love that naturally arises in the ‘deep awake’ state.
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Tim Freke is a pioneering philosopher whose bestselling books, inspirational talks, and life-changing retreats have touched the hearts and minds of hundreds of thousands of people worldwide.
He is the author of 35 books, translated into more than 15 languages, including 'The Jesus Mysteries', which was a top 6 Amazon Bestseller and Daily Telegraph 'Book of the Year'.
In his latest books 'Deep Awake' and 'Soul Story', Tim offers a revolutionary approach to awakening for the 21st century and a visionary new understanding of the nature of reality.
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Tim Freke makes it clear at the beginning of the book that its aim was not so much a single minded attack on christianity (and reitereates this at various points in the book) but to offer a different path, an alternate way of lookin at and dealing with its legacy, which no doubt the church will ignore and its proponents will decry as some of the books critics have tried, which some of the negative comments here are proof of, falling back on very weak arguments that the writer is not enough of a scholar or lacks the academic pedigree to be taken seriously or that the secondary literature on the subject he refers to is too obscure and hard to find. Really? That's the best they came up with?
Just read the book and judge for yourself and no, he's no Dan Brown, thank unconscious field, he makes a very convincing case and offers a glimpse to a different path of spirituality which I can recommend and read some of his other work, especially The Mystery Experience.
What I will say is that after reading this book you will be left with a profound sense that we have lost so much rich culture and that many of the traditions and sayings (from Seventh Heaven to the number of the beast) are actually drawn from a completely different way of viewing the christian myths.







