THE ORIGIN OF CHRISTMAS
By Truman Cash -- 1996
Have you ever wondered where our Christmas traditions came from? Why do we celebrate Christmas on December 25th every year? Why do we cut down evergreen trees and decorate them? Is this really the birth date of a man/god called Jesus Christ? Read on ye innocent lambs--you will be most amazed when you discover what we have not been told.
He was the "Light of the World", the Savior of mankind, the Son of God whose mother, some believed, was a mortal virgin. His birth, celebrated on the 25th of December, was attended by shepherds and by Magi bringing gifts. He healed the sick, raised the dead, cast out demons, caused the blind to see and the lame to walk. At his Last Supper his twelve disciples shared a sacramental meal of bread and wine--the wine representing the Savior's blood and the bread his body. Upon his death he was placed in a stone tomb where he was resurrected and then ascended to heaven. His symbol was the cross.
Am I describing the Savior known as Jesus Christ? Absolutely not. This was Mithra, the God of War!
Mithraism was a men-only secret society religion with Masonic overtones. There were at least seven levels of initiation and seven sacraments including baptism and the eucharist. In one rite the initiates were placed in a trench under a grate where a live bull was sacrificed ("Taurobolium"), so that they would be literally "washed in the blood". The Mithraic symbol of the cross was branded on the initiates forehead. The word "mithra" meant "covenant".
Those who were faithful to Mithra went to Heaven, while the unfaithful and wicked were destroyed in the final holocaust. Like most Sun God religions, Mithraists celebrated the rebirth of the sun right after the winter solstice on the first day that daylight begins to increase--December 25th.
So did the Mithraists adopt the sacraments and teachings of Jesus Christ from Christians? Not hardly.
The worship of Mithra began centuries--and perhaps millennia--before the purported birth of Jesus Christ. We can trace the origin of Mithra back to at least 1400 B.C. when the war-like, nomadic Aryans had invaded what is now India and Iran. The Aryan Sun God was Mitra.
In India the Aryan religion eventually developed into Hinduism and then the splinter group, Buddhism. In Iran the religion of Zoroastrianism developed in which Mithra was the Sun God, "Lord of Light", who became the Son of God. The God of the Zoroastrians was Ahura Mazda, depicted as a bearded man who flew around in a winged disk, like the Assyrian "God" Ashur, the "All-Seeing", and the Egyptian "God" Ra.
Historians are not certain when the prophet Zoroaster (Zarathustra) started the Persian religion, but it was at least 5 1/2 centuries before Christ. In this apocalyptic, monotheistic religion Zoroaster prophesied that there would appear three Messiahs, each one born of a virgin. Zoroastrianism was a dualistic, Heaven/Hell, good vs. evil religion in which Ahriman was the head devil, the equivalent of the Christian Satan.
Mithraism and Zoroastrianism were syncretized (merged), and Mithra became the good "angel" who saved mankind from the Great Serpent of Darkness, Ahriman. (The name Ahriman and the name of the country of Iran were both taken from the root word "Aryan".) This belief paralleled the Egyptian belief that the Sun God/Son of God Ra defeated the great serpent Apepi (Apophis).
Mithra was depicted as a man wearing Iranian garb with a Phrygian cap, sacrificing a bull. (Phrygia was located in the northwest quadrant of Turkey, and the Phrygian cap was later adopted as the rallying symbol of the Illuminati and the French Revolutionists.)
Mithraism spread from Persia to Phrygia to the Greek world, but didn't really become widespread until 67 B.C. when it was introduced into the Roman Empire. It then grew rapidly and became very popular with Roman soldiers, statesmen, peasants, and even some emperors like Nero, Julian, and Commodus. Eventually Mithraism was practiced in cave temples from Scotland to the Far East and was even more popular than Christianity.
Mithra's cave-temple on Vatican Hill was seized by Christians in 376 A.D. The Christians gradually appropriated Mithraic sacraments and holidays ("Holy Days") including Easter, and Mithra's high priest's title of Pater Patrum became "Papa" and then "Pope". Due to the widespread influence of Sun God religions like Mithraism, the Christians changed the Sabbath from Saturn Day to Sun Day.
Another very popular Phrygian mystery religion that greatly influenced Christianity was the Attis/Cybele cult, which did not exclude women. Cybele was just another one of the many names of the "Queen of Heaven", the Goddess Ishtar, Isis, Ashtoreth, Ioanna, Aphrodite, Venus, Mari-Anna, etc., who was one of Ra's ET cohorts. The Roman Church appropriated the pagan Goddess image by deifying Mary, and beginning in the 12th Century A.D. the iconography in Gothic Churches even depicted the Mother Mary with a crown as the "Queen of Heaven".
In one version of the story Attis was born of Cybele's earthly incarnation, Nana, a virgin. (The name "Nana" was most likely a cognate of the Sumerian "Inanna".) Attis, who was also called "Pappa" in Phrygia, was the Savior of mankind who sacrificed himself by castrating himself under a pine tree and subsequently bleeding to death. He was often depicted wearing a Phrygian cap and, like Jesus, held a shepherd's crook. Like Mithra, Attis was born on December 25th and was conceived on March 25th. The day of Attis' death was Black Friday, and he was resurrected three days later on Sun Day. (As in Mithraism, this holy day later became Easter in Christianity.)
The four-day celebration of Cybele and Attis began on March 22nd wherein Attis was symbolically sacrificed. Eunuch priests carried a pine tree into the temple and bound an effigy of Attis to the tree to insure good crops, good fortune, and the salvation of the people. It appears that in ancient celebrations a living eunuch high priest was actually crucified on a pine tree. In later traditions, however, pine trees were cut down, brought indoors, and decorated with ribbons and violets in memory of Attis. (Sound familiar?) In the annuaI celebration of Attis, initiates actually castrated themselves and offered their severed testicles to Cybele while frenzied eunuch priests slashed themselves with knives and swords.
Like Mithraism, the Attis/Cybele cult used the Taurobolium, and sometimes sacrificed a lamb instead of a bull, so that the initiates would be literally "washed in the blood of the lamb". The ancient Phrygian Attis/Cybele cult was first introduced to the Roman Empire over two hundred years before Christ and eventually became part of the Roman State religion.
Human and animaI sacrifices had been a requirement set by the Ra/lshtar/Thoth ET group thousands of years before this time. Ritual regicide was a common practice in which the king or a substitute king was considered to be a Son of God born of the Virgin Goddess (Queen of Heaven and Earth). The god/kings were then ritually sacrificed--sometimes with a female virgin--to insure good crops, etc., and the god/king was believed to have been resurrected.
The Christian Church gradually adopted and adjusted the liturgies of these "pagan" religions in the first millennium A.D. Ironically, this means that Christianity itself is a pagan religion. Originally, the word "pagan" meant "country dweller", which meant that pagan religions were of the common people as opposed to the religion of the government.
In 325 A.D. at the Council of Nicea, the emperor Constantine ended the persecution of Christians and allowed a standardized (orthodox) version of Christianity to exist along side of the pagan religions. Eventually, however, the Roman Empire adopted Christianity as the official State religion in order to unify the first one-world government. Then an inhumane war was waged against all competitors, which were, of course, the religions of the common people. Most of these "pagan" religions taught the doctrine of reincarnation. However, in 553 A.D. the emperor Justinian outlawed the belief in past lives ("prior existence of souls") and "heretics" were excommunicated, imprisoned, or killed.
We are just now learning from Biblical scholars that the Gospels were not written by anyone who actually knew Jesus of Nazareth. In fact, the Gospels were not even written until at least a generation after the death of Jesus. Not only are there some very suspicious contradictions between the stories of Mark, Matthew, Luke, and John, but it appears that the town of Nazareth didn't even exist until the 3rd century A.D.! Truly, we have been deceived.
Strangely, there are no historical references to Jesus (Yeshua), which were recorded during his lifetime on Earth. One would imagine that a person who could walk on water would get some press; however, this was a common claim of ascetic Buddhist monks. There remains the uncertain possibility that Jesus Christ was entirely mythological.
However, he may have been a historical figure, a revolutionary against the new world order of Rome, possibly descended from King David, campaigning to unite the religion/state of Israel as prophesied. The Roman Empire would have everything to gain by wiping out any evidence of this kind of historical Jesus. The Empire did strike back in their book burning campaign that destroyed most of the "heretical" Gospels that were written after the death of the messiah.
[Note: The original meaning of messiah didn't have the far-reaching connotations that are assigned to this word today, and Christ (Greek "Christos"), which meant "Anointed One," was a title ascribed to other sacrificial Gods such as Adonis, Tammuz, and Osiris, all consorts of the "Queen of Heaven." Anointing originated with Oriental cults wherein phallic symbols were smeared with oil in sacred marriage rites.]
In 1945 the Gnostic Gospels (Nag Hammadi Codices) were discovered in Egypt. ("Gnosis" means "knowledge" in the intuitive or spiritual sense.) These 52 texts were not written by anyone who knew Jesus (Yeshua) personally, and they were all written after his lifetime. However, they do contain intriguing conversations of Jesus with his brother James and Mary Magdalene, who claimed that Jesus had given them his esoteric teachings. In the 4th century A.D. the emperor Constantine prohibited Gnostic Christian meetings and ordered their Gospels to be burned, so that "orthodox" Christianity would prevail.
Ironically, Constantine was not even a Christian; he was a Sun God worshipper in the cult of Sol Invictus, which meant "Invincible Sun" and, like the Attis/Cybele cult, was closely aligned with Mithraism. Constantine functioned as the high priest of Sol Invictus his entire life, celebrating the "rebirth of the sun" on December 25th. He even claimed to have had personal visions and messages from the Sun God, which most likely indicates that the Roman Empire--the New Order of the Ages espoused by the poet Virgil--was the brain child of the Ra/lshtar/Thoth ET group.
[Note: The words NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM--"New Order of the Ages"--which appear below the all-seeing eye and pyramid on the Great Seal of the United States, were purportedly inspired by the writings of Virgil. The first Roman emperor, Caesar Augustus, sponsored Virgil in writing THE AENEID, a national epic poem that heralded the beginning of the Roman one-world government.
However, the words ANNUIT COEPTIS NOVUS ORDO SECLORUM were also found on documents of the French Grand Orient Masons and the Illuminati. According to secret society researcher Jordan Maxwell, these documents are still on display in the Louvre and a British museum. To a degree the Illuminati appeared to emulate Mithraism.
The Gnostic Gospels reveal a very different Jesus--a man who lectured on the specifics of reincarnation (some of which was disinformation)--and he frequently alluded to the need to discover the "mysteries". The allusion to the mysteries, though, adds to their authenticity, as mystery religions and secret societies have existed for thousands of years and were ubiquitous during this time period. Even in the New Testament. Jesus told his twelve disciples. "The secret of the kingdom of God has been given to you. But to those on the outside everything is said in parables." (Mark 4:11)
This illustrates a common denominator of mystery religions and secret societies, the two of which fit together like a hand and glove--the outer religion is the glove and the inner secret society is the hand. The inner secrets are concealed under a deceptive facade of insignificant, but appealing rituals, parables, and symbols that are used to keep the common people and lower initiates from discovering the inner secrets and, ultimately, the true purpose of the secret society/religion. The principle of "lesser and greater mysteries" was a prevalent aspect of other mystery religions besides Christianity.
Jesus purportedly said, "Be ye therefore wise as serpents and innocent as doves." (Matthew 10: 16) This is yet another example of a hidden meaning and symbolism that implicates involvement with secret societies and mystery religions.
The serpent is a symbol of the manipulative Pleiadian group of Ra, Ishtar and Thoth and the dove is specifically one of Ishtar's symbols under her Gnostic name Sophia and also as Aphrodite. Also, recall that Moses claimed to possess the serpent staff, which is the Pleiadian symbol.
Given the monopoly that the Ral/shtar/Thoth group has had over the planet's religions, it is entirely possible that a historical Jesus (Yeshua) was being directly manipulated by these ETs. The language and symbols he used indicate that, at the very least, he was influenced indirectly by them--that is, if the Gospels were not a complete fabrication by the Roman Empire. It is also noteworthy that the alleged miracles performed by Jesus were actually possible with ET technology as I have personally observed.
Mithraism, Gnostism, and the Attis/Cybele cult were certainly not the only mystery religions that contributed to our modem celebration of Christmas and to Christianity in general. Both Greek and Egyptian mystery cults such as the Eleusinian. Pythagorean, Orphic. Dionysian, and lsis/Osirian mysteries contributed to Christian philosophy and rituals.
The word "mystery" was derived from "musterion" (secret rite), which evolved from the Greek word "muein", which meant "to keep your mouth shut" in the Greek mystery religions. Initiates were in fact so tight lipped that even today we don't know what occurred during the inner initiation of the Eleusinian Mysteries, which were celebrated annually in Athens and Eleusis long before the birth of Christ.
We are likewise in the dark concerning some of the initiation rites of many other mystery religions, since they were only communicated verbally, and it was absolutely forbidden to ever write them down. Even today this is how secret societies keep their real intentions hidden. The "mystery" was the hook that captured the interest and insured the continued participation of initiates.
[Note: The symbol of the rose also meant "keep your mouth shut" and it was also a symbol for resurrection, directly associated with the Ra/Ishtar/Thoth ET group. In Roman celebrations to the Goddess Cybele, her statue was pulled in a cart by lions while her votaries threw roses in the cart. Harpocrates (Horus, the son of Isis & Osiris) was given a rose by Aphrodite/Venus for keeping his mouth shut about her sexual affairs.
The rose was a symbol of the Sumerian Goddess of War, Inanna (lshtar), over 5,000 years ago. Today the "Order of the Rose" is headed by such stellar names as George Bush (The Rose) and Bill Clinton and is one of the pivotal secret societies for the New World Order, engaged in drug smuggling, money laundering, sexual perversions, murder and CIA mind control projects. I mention this because it appears that the Ra/Ishtar/Thoth ET group is alive and well today (since the Eye of Ra is a time travel ship) and are secretly working behind the scenes to bring about another "New Order of the Ages".]
The obvious question to ask here is if these mystery religions and secret societies offered truth and true enlightenment, then why should not everyone know it? Why should it be hidden? Why all the secrecy? And why should truth be only deserving of the "elect"? This oblique approach to truth should throw up a red flag for any discerning truth seeker who inherently knows that truth should be exoteric, not esoteric, in order for all mankind to evolve in a positive direction.
Another common attribute to these mystery religions was the experience of rebirth, or personal resurrection. This was one of the primary goals of mystery religions and even modern secret societies--a personal transformation of consciousness.
There are various ways to accomplish the "born again" experience, and the bottom line is that this type of initiation rite simply triggers past life psychological implants and, in particular, past life religious programming that were installed with drugs and/or psychotronics.
There is nothing very profound about all this--I used to be a born again Christian, so this phenomenon is not unfamiliar to me--and the "born again" initiates usually become quite zealous about their own particular faith after having such an experience. Consequently, at this point they can be easily programmed. The Ra/Ishtar/Thoth ET group is very cognizant of this phenomenon, and they use it to the max to manipulate people.
I discovered the key to understanding this phenomenon while researching past life extra-terrestrial contacts. I discovered that the Ra/Ishtar/Thoth Pleiadian group was directly responsible for creating all these conflicting religions and sinister secret societies. However, these manipulative ETs are very clever at presenting themselves as benevolent beings, and even today people are still being taken in by this illusion. The schism in Christianity between orthodox Christians and gnostic Christians exemplifies the kind of dualistic manipulation that characterizes the Ra/lshtar/Thoth ET group, whose purpose is to create dissension, not harmony.
Ra is the Sun God that was worshipped around the globe for many thousands of years under many different names such as Zeus, Jehovah, Marduk, Ahura Mazda, Jupiter, Ashur, Yahweh, Thor, etc, ad nauseam. His symbol is the point within a circle (the same symbol as the illuminati). You can see this symbol from the air of the Washington Monument, which is an obelisk (a point when viewed from directly above it) inside a circle which is enclosed by the form of an eye. It makes me wonder if this is the origin of the expression "stick a needle in your eye".
I knew Ra personally in one of my past lives as Ramesses II and I can guarantee that Ra was not a benevolent "God" (ET). As was correctly reported in the Old Testament, he was indeed a "jealous god" with a galactic-size ego. He demanded to be worshipped, commanded human and animal sacrifices and he and his cohorts have caused the needless suffering of untold millions of Earth humans. And on every Christmas, the day of the rebirth of the Sun God, we unwittingly honor this warlord of the heavens.
As pharaoh of Egypt I was forced to kneel before the throne of Ra and carried out his commands to the letter. So many people suffered because I didn't stand up against this tyrant. Now, over three thousand years later, I have the opportunity--indeed the obligation--to expose the Sun God and eclipse his power. Yes, I do believe that the truth could indeed set us free.
We now find ourselves trembling on the brink of a new millennium. Will the new one be just another replay of the old ones? Or will we decide to consult our own knowingness and memory and no longer rely on other entities as the source for truth? Will we allow history to repeat itself once again? Or will we consciously create a truly new paradigm shift?
Perhaps it's finally time for us to take the helm and steer a new course into a new era of PEACE. Whatever the case may be, a new day is indeed dawning--let not the Sun God arise on this new horizon.
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