Graham Lloyd M. - Deceptions and Myths of the Bible

The true origins of the stories of Adam
and Eve, Noah's flood, the tower of Babel,
Moses and Mount Sinai, the prophets,
the judges and kings, and the story of
Christ will shock and amaze the faithful,
atheists, and agnostics alike!

LLOYD M. GRAHAM

Copyright 1975, 2012 by Lloyd Graham

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The Bible is the Book of the Church... The
Jewish Church stands behind the Old Testament.
The Christian Church stands behind the New
Testament.

The Bible in the Making,
J. Patterson Smyth, B. D. Lift. D., D.C.L

And behind the Church stands the priesthood.
L.G.

I s the Holy Bible holy? Is it the word of God? And can it be disproved?

There is nothing holy about the Bible, nor is it the word of God. It was not written by God-inspired saints, but by power-seeking priests. Who but priests consider sin the paramount issue? Who but priests write volumes of religious rites and rituals? No one, but for these priestly scribes sin and rituals were imperatives: their purpose was to found on them an awe-inspiring religion. By this intellectual tyranny they sought to gain control, and they achieved it. By 400 B.C. they were the masters of ancient Israel. For so great a project they needed a theme, a framework, and this they found in the Creation lore of more knowledgeable races. This they commandeered and pervertedthe natural to the supernatural, and truth to error. The Bible is, we assert, but priest-perverted cosmology.

The process began with the very first chapterthe worlds creation. This first was not the original first; it is priestly cosmology substituted centuries later and for a priestly purpose. The original first was written by the same hand as the second. To scholars its author is known as the Jhwhist, a by no means pious mythologist. He was the Hebrew Homer, and as with the Greek, his God was never meant to be worshiped. His characters, including God, are personifications, and through them he tells us plainly the true nature of Causation: fratricidal Cain, drunken Noah, dishonest Jacob and murderous Joshua and Moses. His account of Creation was, no doubt, of like nature mythic but true. This would not serve the priestly purpose and so it was removed, and the supernaturalistic and fiatic version known as the Priestly put in its place. Here the personifications became the realities and their meaning lost.

The prerequisite of a priesthood is a divine Avenger with man as a sinner and hence dependent on priests for salvation. To this end the process was continued: first, the semimythic Elohist, rewriting and holifying the Jhwhists characters, and finally the Priest declaring a personal God created the world in six days and by saying Let it be. This God-concept of the priestly mind is the cornerstone of the Bible, and if it be false, everything based upon it is also false.

Literally, the priestly account of Creation is but kindergarten cosmology, yet we have accepted it for two thousand years. This is because Western man is incapable of abstract thought. All the metaphysical and cosmological knowledge Western man has, came to him from the East. The ancient Orientals were capable of such thought but not Western man, and this includes the Jews. In his metaphysical incompetency Western man puts the stamp of his own ego on everything, including the Creator. Now blinded by his own error, he cannot see that it is only that part of the race incapable of abstract thought that believes in his anthropomorphic creation. That part of him called Christian could not even create a God or religion for itself; it had to borrow these from the Middle Eastern Jews. And what did they know about other worlds and galaxies? They did not even know this world is round. How then could their cosmology be right?

In spite of their pretended intimacy with the Creator, the Jews never had great knowledge of things cosmic and metaphysical; they were but plagiarists culling mythic artifacts they did not understand. In their day the wisdom-knowledge was lost and so they were but epigoniststhe unworthy descendants of the mighty Homer, their own included. This brings us to another point that must be understooda prereligious age of enlightenment, and the loss of its knowledge.

Time was when man knew vastly more about Causation and Creation than he does todaythe Mythopoeic Age. We call its enlightened ones Initiates and their knowledge, The Ancient Wisdom. With reason uncorrupted by false theologies they were able to study Reality and thus arrive at Truth. But due to a change in the cyclic law that knowledge was lost; priests took the place of the Initiates and religion of metaphysics. This was wisdoms Gotterdammerung and likewise of spiritual man. We had entered a period of materialism and hence spiritual blindnessthe Kaliyuga of the Hindus. Here we became the children of darkness and children of darkness we still are concerning Causation and Creation.

Acceptance of this depends upon our knowledge of the law of cycles, and particularly that cycle known as The Precession of the Equinoxesa matter of some twenty-five thousand years. This is divided into two equal and opposite halves. See diagram. So opposite and different are they we might call the one the Zodiacal Day, the other the Zodiacal Night. The latter began about six thousand years ago when the zodiacal hand entered Taurus, and the nether hand, the real indicator, entered Scorpio. The lower half is the materialistic part and we are in it; at the very nadir in factVirgo-Leo. Oddly enough, it was when we reached this material nadir that we discovered the true nature of matteratomic energy. This could happen only in an age dedicated to matter. But lacking the wisdom-knowledge we cannot see that material progress implies its spiritual oppositeyou cannot serve two masters. This is the fact proud, materialistic Western man must learn, particularly in things religious. In these he believes what he believes only because he is ignorant of the cosmic facts of life. As the Bible is a product of this same dark age, its authors were also ignorant of them.

From this we see that the Bibles theology and cosmology are not necessarily true, but only what the children of darkness believed was true. We should also see that the religions based on its so-called truth are not eternal verities, but only period pieces. They are of and for the Arian and Piscean cycles, and as these are now past their products must go with them. We are entering a new age, the so-called Aquarian, though even this is wrong, and for it we need a new cosmology, a new philosophy, and above all else a new dimension of consciousnesscosmic consciousness to wisely handle cosmic energy. This comes only with knowledge of those