[Please excuse the language of the time & place (i.e. early 20th Century Britain). We are not interested in Aryan superiority, so-called. We are interested in Sumerian survivals. After devoting several pages to descriptions of the Bel-Fires in Northern Europe, Waddell turns to the subject of John the Baptist, and there are a few things of importance in the narrative, concerning our Thesis.]
"In the Christian period, this pagan Bel-Fire festival of the Summer Solstice was early adjusted to Christianity by the Roman Church, for proselytizing purposes, making St. John the Baptist ~~ who, we shall see, is represented in art as carrying the Fire Cross, whose priestly father offered simple fire-incense offerings in the temple (Luke 1:9), and who 'came to bear witness of THE LIGHT' (John 1:7) ~~ the patron saint of the old pagan Bel-Fire festival and transferred the Bel-fire activities to the eve of St. John's Day, the 24th of June, when they are still, or were until lately, celebrated in many parts of England, as well as in Brittany and Spain, also former colonies of the Phoenicians.
"This fact of the association of the Bel-fire rites with John the Baptist suggests that the latter, who bears an Aryan Gentile and non-Hebrew name, was himself an Aryan Gentile and of the Fire-cross cult; and this seems supported by many other facts, presuming Gothic affinity, which require mention here. His initiatory rite of baptism is wholly unknown in Judaism,(1)whereas it is a part of the ancient ritual of the Sumerian and Aryan Vedic and Eddic Gothic Sun-Cult, wherein Baptism is called by the Goths SKIRI (or the 'Scouring') which is radically identical with the name 'Sakhar' applied to it by the Sumerians.(2) [Wad. Note: The founder of the First Sumerian Dynasty about 3100 B.C., who uses the Swastika and figures himself as a Fire-Priest, often regards his presentation of a 'font pan' or 'font of the Abyss' [ABZU-BANDA], [cf. The bowl used in The Necronomicon, the AGA - MASS - SARRATU, and GIBIL, in the Conjuration of the Fire-God.] to different temples which he erected. Sargon I, about 2800 B.C., as high-priest who uses the Swastika, describes himself as "water - libator" and devotes NU-IZ-SIR (= 'NAZIR') of God~~ 'the Sakhar [or Baptist] Lord.' And John-the-Baptist was also a 'Nazir' or consecrated devotee [Luke 1:15, and cf. Num. 6:2f.](3) And John-the Baptist is called 'Skiri-Jon' by the Christian Goths of Iceland and Scandinavia; and 'Purification by Water' day was officially called in Scotland, down to the reign of James VI, 'Skiri - Thurisday'.(4) Moreover, the father of John the Baptist was a Fire-Priest (he offered simple fire incense in the temple 'in the course of ABIA'(Luke 1:15.) AB, the 5th Month of the Syrio - Chaldean calendar, was devoted to the worship of Bel the Fire-God, and was called by the Sumerians 'Month of Bil, or Gibil', or 'month of making Bil-Fire'.)(5), and presumably a Gentile, and his name 'Zacharias', which has no meaning in Hebrew, is apparently the Sumer title of Sakhar 'Baptist', with the personal affix AS or 'one', corresponding to the English '-ist'.
"The presence of Gentile Sun-Priests in the temple on Mt. Moriah at Jerusalem is explained by the fact that, besides the name 'Moriah' ~~ which is recognized as meaning 'Mount of the Morias or Amorites' ~~ that temple, long before the occupation of Jerusalem by David and its re-building by Solomon, was a famous ancient Sun-Temple of the Hittites or Morites. Ezekiel says, 'Jerusalem, thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite' (Ezek. 16:3 and 45). And Jerusalem, the 'IRUSLM' of the Hebrews, was already 'a holy city' under that non-Hebrew name, and called by its Hittite King about 1375 B.C. (i.e., over three centuries before the time of David), in his still existing original official letters, 'the city of the Land of URUSALIM, the CITY OF THE TEMPLE OF THE SUN-GOD NIN-IB-US-U' (Amarna Letters found in Akhnaten's archives.) ~~ where in the latter part of the name (IB-U-SU) appears now to disclose the title of the pre-Israelite inhabitants of Jerusalem, the 'IBUS' of the Old Testament Hebrew, the 'Jebus-ites' of our English translation. (Similarly in the other Amarna reference to this temple, the word read 'Nin-Ib'(6) is followed by 'BUZ'. 'IB' and 'NIN-IB' are defined as the Sun-God URAS. 'IB' also means 'enclosure,' 'temple', and 'seer' or 'priest'. IB-U-SU thus would mean 'Temple Priest of Winged Sun.' 'IB-US' is also defined as IB 'thresher of corn' and the Jebusite King had his threshing floor on Mt. Moriah (2 Sam 24:16, etc.). The Hittite (or Jebusite) King of Jerusalem, who is regarded as a kinsman of the Aryan Kassi princes of Babylonia, (Kassi princes were staying with him and he defended them.) bore the Gentile name of ERIKHI or URUKHI-MA, disclosed as Sumer source of Greek 'Eros, Sanskrit and Latin VIR, Gothic VER, Anglo-Saxon WERE and English 'Hero',) and was obviously a Sun-Fire worshipper. In his official letters to Akhnaten, to whom he was at the time tributary, he addressed that Sun-Worshipping Pharaoh, who, it will be remembered, called himself 'son of the Sun' as 'My Sun, the great Bil-Fire Torch.'
"The Israelite occupation of the Sun-Temple and its court on Mt. Moriah,(7) from about 1012 B.C. onwards, was evidently only a joint one, shared with the Jebusites, Hittites and Amorites of Palestine and their descendants.(8) Shortly before his death about 1015 B.C., King David, we are told, purchased from the Jebusite king of Jerusalem, Araunah(whose name is in series with that of Urukhi and 'Uriah the Hittite'), a site on 'the threshing place' of that king, 'where the angel of the Lord was,' in order to build there an altar. (2 Sam 24:16-24. The Revised Version translates the text literally as 'all this did Araunah the king give unto the king.') That spot was thus outside the Jebusite temple itself, as sacrificial altars were in the open air. It is noteworthy that 'the angel of the Lord' was already there before David obtained a part of the site; for it is significant that the 'Sun-God' Nin-Ib, is otherwise styled 'Tás', i.e., the Hitto-Sumerian archangel of God and the 'Tascia' of the Briton coins and monuments, as we have seen. We thus have confirmation through the Old Testament tradition of the existence of this pre-Israelitic Temple Aryan Archangel of God on Mt. Moriah, as recorded in the original contemporary letters of its pre-Israelitic king. And David's great fear of that angel (1 Chr. 20:15-30,) is explained by the latter being the Hittite tutelary of Jerusalem and Palestine which David had invaded.
"The Temple which Solomon began to build on Mt. Moriah about 1012 B.C., and which was built mainly through the agency of Phoenicians from Tyre, was presumably merely the rebuilding of the old Hittite Bil or Bel Shrine, and continued to be shared by the Jebusites, of whom we are informed that 'the children of Judah could not drive them out but the Jebusites dwell with the children of Judah at Jerusalem unto this day' (Josh. 15:63; Judg.. 1:21) ~~ i.e., until the date of compiling the Old Testament, about the 6th Century B.C.
"The Solomon Temple had for its porch the characteristic Phoenician pillars of the Bel Sun Temple, it was consecrated by 'Fire from Heaven,' (2 Chr. 8:1), it contained images of the Sun, (2 Chr. 14:5; 34:4, 7; Revised Version), and of Sun-Horses (2 K 23:11), and it and its court continued to be used, more or less, for Sun and Bel worship down to the period of its destruction about 580 B.C.
"[Solomon worshipped 'BAAL' (1 K 11:5) as well as IAHVH ~~ and 'Baal' is used in the Old Testament occasionally as a title of IAHVH or JEHOVAH (Hosea 2:16; Jer. 31, 32.) He set in the porch the two colossal pillars of the Phoenician Bel Temples under their Phoenician names, and supposed to represent the Phoenician Deity (1 K 7:21. These two pillars are described by Herodotus, II.44. They bore the Phoenician names of 'Buz-Iakin' [Boaz-Jachin]. About this time 'the children of Israel served Baal;' (Judg. 2:11-13) and fifty years later a successor, Ahab, 'served Baal and worshipped him' (1 K 16:31), so that there were only 'seven thousand in Israel, all the knees of which have not bowed unto Baal.' (1 K 19:18). Twenty years later, Ahaz, with his High-Priest Urijah, placed an altar of Baal of Phoenician pattern in the temple and erected 'Baal altars in every corner of Jerusalem' (2 Chr. 28:24; 2 K. 16). Two centuries later, Manasseh placed Baal altars and vessels for Baal worship inside the Temple; (2 Chr. 33:3; 2 K 21:3; 23:4); and Bel and Sun-worship were still practised in the Temple and its courts about the time of its destruction by Nebuchadnezzar, about 580 B.C., as recorded by Ezekiel.]
"The Sun-Worship in the temple, as described by Ezekiel, is especially significant. He refers to a non-Judaist image at 'the door of the gate of the inner court where was the seat of the image which provokest to jealousy' (Ezek. 8:3, etc),(9) and he calls it by the name used by the later Phoenicians for their image of Melqart and Reshef (Tasia) [This 'Salmu', properly Sumerian 'Salam', is especially applied to Sun-God.](10) He further says: 'In the Inner Court of the Lord's House, at the door of the Temple of the Lord, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men with their backs to the temple of the Lord and their faces to the east and they worshipped the sun towards the east' (Ezek. 8:16). (See footnote 10 below.) And here it is important to note that the sacred place of the Sun-worshippers was in the court inside the porch, on the flat top of the sacred mount of their ancestors, and outside the Jewish sanctuary containing the tabernacle and ark, which for them was defiled by its bloodshed meat offerings.
"Similarly, in the New Temple, rebuilt by the Sun-worshipping Cyrus the Medo-Persian, as 'the house of the God of Heaven,' and begun about 535 B.C. (Ezra 1:2, etc.; 6:4, etc.) ~~ for which services he was affiliated to IAHVH as 'the Messiah' or 'the Lord's Anointed' (Is. 45; and cf. 44:28.) ~~ Bel Worship appears also to have been practiced, more or less (Ezra 9:1, etc.) about 450 B.C. (Hosea 2:16, etc., 14:3; and later books Amos to Malachi.) Antiochus I, about 250 B.C., set up an altar to Jupiter (1 Macc.1:23, etc., and Josephus, ANT. 12:7:6.)(11) And significantly in Herod's new Temple, which was still in course of building when Christ began his ministry (John 2:20. It was not completed till 62-64 A.D.), there was an outer court inside the walls of the 'temple' enclosure, called 'the Gentile's Court,' thus recognizing the right of access for Gentiles (fire worshippers?) to a part of the Summit of the Sacred Mount of their Aryan ancestors. This Outer Court was presumably the part of the 'Temple' in which the father of John the Baptist performed his 'course of Abia,' and the part frequented by Christ.
"The word 'temple' in our English translation of the Bible is used in different senses, and for different words.(12) It is used for the Hebrew words for 'Palace,' 'the House,' 'House of God or of Iahvh,' which variously designated the smallish building in the centre of the great court, enshrining the ark in a dark chamber, surrounded by cells for offices,(13) the storage of vessels, furniture and treasures. It was not a place of worship, in the sense of a meeting-house for worshippers. 'The small size of the Temple proper is accounted for by the fact that the worshippers remained outside, the priests only went within.' (Cambridge Companion to the Bible, 153.) The altars were in the court in the open air. 'In this greater outer court the prophets generally addressed the people, as also did our Lord on many occasions; and even this court is termed "The House of the Lord," and is "The Temple" in the New Testament.' (S. Lee, Hebrew Lexicon, 636, cf. Jer. 26:2 and 2 K 11:13.). It must certainly have been this outer court of 'the Temple' which Christ called 'My Father's House,' from whence he drove out 'the sheep and the oxen, and he poured out the changer's money, and overthrew their tables' (John 2:14-15. The word used in the Greek text here, translated 'temple,' is 'IERON, i.e., 'holy or sacred thing,'(14) and is seldom used for a temple building (cf. Liddell & Scott, 727); whereas in verses 19-20 the word for 'temple' is NAÔS, the classic word for a temple 'building.'); for neither religiously nor philosophically could these have been within the temple-house proper. It was 'in the presence of all his people in the courts of the Lord's house' that David paid his vows (Ps. 116:19): 'For a day in Thy Courts is better than a thousand' (Ps. 84:10). And it is to be noted that the gateway on the North side, i.e., where the non-Judaist Phoenician 'image of jealousy' was formerly located ~~ was called 'the Gate of Sparks,' and it had an upper chamber. This was possibly where the father of John the Baptist performed his fire-offering course in 'the Month of making Bel-Fire'; and the simple burning of incense is repeatedly referred to in the O.T. as the usual form of Bel-Worship.(15)
"The Cross-sceptre or staff traditionally carried by John the Baptist was also an especial emblem of the 'Sun-God' Nin-Ib of Jerusalem. As 'son of God' that 'Sun-god' is given in the Sumerian the synonym of 'God of the Cross X' wherein that cross in the form of St. George's Red Cross is defined as 'Wood-Sceptre,' also 'Fire' and 'Fire-God' under the name of BAR or MAS (i.e., the English 'Bar' and 'Mace',) [BAR == GI.BIL. or 'Great Fire God'; also BARU,(16) a priest, thus defining the Sumerian Priest as 'the Carrier of the Bar or Wood-Cross.'] There were thus very real, although forgotten, historical reasons for the crusaders seeing visions of st. George's red cross upon the battlements of JERUSALEM beckoning them on to rescue this old ancestral Aryan shrine from the Saracens. Indeed, it now appears as if the numerous commands by Christ to his hearers and disciples, each to 'take up his Cross and follow Me' (Matt. 16:24, etc. The word used here for cross is STAUROS(17); usually employed in Classic Greek for a stave, or wooden bolt, cognate with Gothic STAFR, or staff; Sanskrit STAVARA, 'firm.'(18) It seems cognate with the Akkad word for this X Sign, SADADU, defined as 'the Wood of the Winged God, the Light Red Cross.') Were references to the visible, Fiery Red Cross sceptre-symbol of the Sun-Cult of the One Father God of the Hittite temple of Jerusalem, the symbol carried by John the Baptist who baptized Christ, and not an anticipation of the CRUCIFIX (the same Greek word STAUROS is used for the Crucifix in the New Testament.). And Christ baptized 'with Fire.' (Matt. 3:11.)
"This now suggests that not only the Cross-carrying John the Baptist and his father, the Fire-priest Zacharias, but also Christ of Galilee of the Gentiles, were Gentiles of the Aryan religion of the One and Only Father-God with his symbol of the Sun-Cross, and its associated rite of Baptism, and whose ancient Aryan shrine was at Jerusalem. This appears to explain the anti-Judaist teaching of Christ and John the Baptist, and why Christ and the father of John, as well as his earlier priestly namesake, were slain by the Jewish priests (Matt. 23:25; 2 Chr. 24:20).(19) It also seems to explain the visit of 'the wise men from the East' to Jerusalem, at the Nativity of our Lord. The persons generally called 'wise men from the East' were, we find, as corrected in the Revised Version of the New Testament, 'MAGI' (Matt 2:1), a term solely used for the priests of the Sun and Fire cult; and this name is obviously derived from the Sumerian MA, as 'bearer of the Ma or W Cross.' Moreover, the related words translated in our English version 'from the East' occur in the original Greek text as 'from ANATOLIA' ( (ARO ANATOLON. Yet Anatol, literally 'Rising Up,' especially of Sun, is used sometimes poetically for 'East'.) ~~ Anatolia being the middle part of Asia Minor, including Cappadocia, the old homeland of the Hittites and their Sun-Cult, and the traditional home of St. George and his Red Cross.
"It is noteworthy that the traditional place to which the infant Christ was carried in the flight to Egypt was the great temple of the Sun at Heliopolis, or 'the House of the Phoenix (21) ~~ the resurrecting Sun-Bird of the Phoenicians and the Ancient Egyptians, to the north of Cairo (Herodotus II-73). And there, to the present day, is 'the Virgin's Tree' and 'the Virgin's Well,' where, by the tradition of the Copts, one of the oldest sects of the early Christians, the Virgin and Child with Joseph rested in Egypt. (The ancient Sycamore(22) is about 250 years old, and replaced a former old sacred tree, and was railed in by the late Empress Eugenie at the opening of the Suez Canal. The Phoenix sun-bird was supposed to connect Christ with the Aryan Sun-Cult.
"Racially, also, we are informed that the Virgin Mary was 'the cousin of Elizabeth (Luke 1:36), the mother of John the Baptist,(23)' and that Elizabeth was 'of the daughters of Aaron.' (Luke 1:15). Now 'Aaron,' latterly used as a generic term for the priesthood in Jerusalem, is shown by leading biblical authorities to have been 'a name extremely probably absent altogether from the earliest document of the Hextateuch in its original form, and apparently introduced by the editor/scribes later. This raises the possibility that the name AHRN, as 'Aaron' is spelt in the old Hebrew, is really derived from the name of 'ARAUNAH,' the Jebusite king and evidently priest-king of the Sun-Temple at Jerusalem; for the Hittite kings were usually priest-kings, and the title IBUS or 'Jebusite,' we have seen, implied priesthood. That name, commonly rendered 'Araunah,' is spelt in the old Hebrew variously as ARUNH, AURNH, ARNIH, and ARNN. The statement, therefore, that Elizabeth was 'of the daughters of Aaron,' might mean that she was a descendant of Araunah, the Hittite, or Jebusite priest-king of Jerusalem, and that her cousin Mary, the mother of Christ, was also in the royal line of descent from the pre-Israelitic Aryan King of Jerusalem.(24) Such a descent would account for the repeated references to the Jewish fears that Christ claimed a temporal kingship as King of the Jews (? JEBUS) in Jerusalem. (The references to Jewish rites of circumcision, etc., in regard to Christ are not necessarily historical but possibly additions of later Jewish convert copyists for proselytizing purposes. They do not appear in Mark, the earliest and most authentic of the gospels.(25) The Davidic genealogy also, which differs widely in its two versions in Matthew and Luke, refers only to Joseph, who is represented as not being the father of our Lord.)
"The location of the holy family in Nazareth of 'Galilee of the Gentiles' is also suggestive of Gentile and Hittite relationship. Nazareth is near and almost overlooked by the mount, the scene of 'the Sermon on the Mount,' which is still called, from its double peak, 'the Horns of the Hittites.'(26) Gentilic Galilee was the scene of most of Christ's preaching. Here he selected his disciples, most of whom, besides Bartholomew, we shall find bear Aryan Gentile names, as did John the Baptist, and his father Zacharias, the Bel-Fire Priest."
2. ANACALYPSIS, by Godfrey Higgins. Several Cites, mentioned in the subdivisions, below.
"JOHANNITE TESTIMONIA."
Godfrey Higgins was a bit out to lunch, some might say, when he penned this work, but it is a major contribution to the science of comparative religion. And, there are things in this work which we shall never find anywhere else. Higgins was an Initiate, therefore he wrote his material for the Initiated. In the selections which follow, we have pulled out of his work all of the pertinent references to Johannite Theology, particularly that which corresponds with the Templar Legend, and that which corresponds to the theory of renewed Avatars. Higgins does go overboard in trying to make everything Western originate in India, which is not exactly the case. One must read the first Volume of the Present Series, RITAT-1, in order to see where Mother India fits into the equation.
A. I ANAC: X.IV.8.
"With respect to the Oannes,
several persons make two of them, and Berosus says that there
were other animals similar to Oannes, of whom he promises to give
an account in his second book. These would most likely have been
shewn to be renewed incarnations, but the book does not now exist.
Has it been purposely destroyed? I suspect the Johns, or
Oanneses, are like the Merus, the Buddhas, the
Manwantaras, the Soleimans, & c. They are renewed
incarnations, and the name was given after death, and sometimes
during life, to any person whom the priests thought proper to
designate as the guardian genius of the age."
I ANAC: X.IV. 13.
"The Baptist and the author of the Apocalypse were called John, or Joannes, or Iwannhv. Bryant says (Vol II, p. 293), 'This name, which we render John, I have shewn to be no other than IONA. It signifies a dove; but means likewise an oracular person: by whom the voice of the Most High is made known and His Will explained.' (27) That is, a resoul or prophet. This was the Jonas sent to the Ninevites as noticed before.
"In Berosus and other authors the being, half-man, half-fish, called Oannes, is said to have come out of the Erythraean Sea, and to have taught the Babylonians all kinds of useful knowledge. This is clearly the fish Avatar of India, whether or not it be the Ioannes or Jonas I leave to the reader. I apprehend it is the same as the DAGUN of Pegu and the fish sign of the Zodiac. Very little is known about it, but it exactly answers the description of an Avatar. The extraordinary number of extraordinary circumstances detailed above will compel my reader, I think, to believe, that the incarnation of the fishes was once, if it be not yet, among the secret doctrines of the Vatican. I beg those who doubt, to tell me why the fishes tied by the tails are to be seen on the Italian monuments, of the meaning of which none of the priests could or would give me any information.
"Jonah 'a dove' was an appellation deemed applicable to one sent on a divine mission; and hence, among others, John the Baptist had his name.
"Anna, or the year, was the mother of Maria or Maera, or Mara, all of whom (as I have shewn or shall shew hereafter) were the same, and MAIA was the first month of the year, on which, in very ancient times, began both the year and the Cycle of IHSov or 608. There was also a certain Anna who was supernaturally pregnant (like the wife of Abraham, who was sometimes called maria and Isha, but commonly Sarah or Sarai or Sara-Iswati) in her old age; and she was delivered of a son whose name was John, Joanes, or Johna, or Jana, or Oanes. He was born at the Midsummer solstice, exactly six months before the son of Maria. Thus he might be said, astrologically, as Matthew makes him say, to be decreasing when the son of Maria was increasing. He prepared the way for the son of Maria ~~ as the prophet said, he was the voice of one crying in the wilderness. Was he a previous Avatar, as the learned divine Parkhurst would say, sent as a type or a symbol?
"Jesus came to his exaltation or glory on the 25th of March, the Vernal Equinox. At that moment his cousin John was at the Autumnal Equinox: as Jesus ascended, John descended. The equinoxes and solstices equally marked the births and deaths of John the Baptist, and of Jesus. John makes the Baptist say, chapter 3, verse 30, He must increase, but I must decrease. As Michaelis has justly observed, this is sufficiently mystical. How can anyone doubt, that what was admitted by the fathers was true ~~ that the Christians had an Esoteric and an Exoteric religion?
"On the mystical nature of the
name John I am not singular in my opinion. Mr. Bryant, in another
place says (ANAL. ANC. MYTH. VOL.
II., pp. 291, 293), 'The ancient and true name of the dove
was, as I have shewn, IONAH, and IONAS. It was a very sacred
emblem, and seems to have been at one time almost universally
received. For, not only the MITZRAIM, and the rest of the line of
HAM, esteemed it in this light: but it was admitted as an
hieroglyphic among the Hebrews: and the mystic dove was regarded
as a symbol from the days of Noah, by all those who were of the
Church of God. The prophet who was sent upon an embassy to the
Ninevites, is styled IONAS: a title probably bestowed upon him as
a messenger of the Deity. The great Patriarch who preached
righteousness to the Antediluvians, is, by Berosus and Abydenus,
styled OAN and OANNES, which is the same as Jonah. The author of
the Apocalypse is denominated in the like manner: whom the Greeks
style Iwannhv, Joannes. And when the great forerunner of
our Saviour was to be named, his father industriously called him Iwannhv for the
same reason. (The name was imposed antecedent to his birth.) The
circumstances, with which the imposition of this name was
attended, are remarkable; and the whole process, as described by
the Evangelist, well worth our notice. Luke 1:59, etc. ~~ "And
it came to pass that on the eighth day," etc.'"
I ANAC. X.IV. 14.
"Vallancey says that IANN is
the same as Baal. In Galois, JON, the Lord, God, the First Cause.
In Basque, JANNA, JON, JONA, JAIN, JAINCOA, JAUNQOICOA, GOD AND
LORD, MASTER. The Scandinavians call the Sun John, for which it
indicates that the father of the year, as well as of the sky (heaven)
and the earth. One of the inscriptions of Grüter
shows that the Trojans adored the same Star with the name of Jona.
(Jamieson's Hermes Scythicus, p. 60.) In Persian the sun is
called JAWNAH. All these names bear an obvious connexion with the
JANUS of the Etruscans, who is considered to be like the Supreme
God, and whom the Salient Poems call the God of Gods (Creuzer.
Symb. P. 507, in Ausz.) It is said once again the reconciliation
of these denominations of the Arab Janab, Majesty, power; and of
the Persian JAUAN, a chief."
D. I ANAC. X.IV. 17.
"I will here shortly notice another personage, called John, who is very problematical, and has been the object of much inquiry, and of whom we shall say more presently.
"Dr. Hakewell, in his ingenious "Apologie for the Power and Providence of God," cites good authorities to shew, what cannot but seem passing strange, that the wandering Jew was in the thirteenth century entitled Johannes Butta Deus, which I doubt not to be a piece of crusading erudition brought from the country of the Drusian and Assassin Curds.(28)
"Again, 'The fable of the Wandering Jew is, that Jesus said to the man who reviled him when on the Cross, Thou shalt remain till I come.'
"Again, 'I may farther observe, in conclusion of this topic, that the title Johannes Butta means the same as Presbyter Johannes Asiaticus, a sort of hierarch, who was looked up to with singular awe in the 12th and 13th Centuries, and who was probably the same personage as the Senex de Montanis, whose Lieutenant was found in Phoenicia by the leaders of the Third Crusade, and who was a Curd, or Cordivian. When the Portuguese had visited the dominions of the King or Negus of the Abyssines in Meroetic Aethiopia, they pronounced that he was Presbyter Johannes, but they, as well as Mr. Bruce, assure us that the Abyssinian Kings give themselves out for an hybrid race of Jews, and display a long pedigree of their lineal descent from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba: which explains the reason why the Portuguese thought the Abyssinian kingdom was that of Prester John or the Wandering Jew. The prophecies above-cited would naturally lead the inquisitive to seek for two Prester Johns, the one beyond the rivers of Egypt, and the other beyond the rivers of Assyria.'
"Again, 'The Ionian expulsion was the same as the Iacchic Egression: and even now, when the causes of their connexion have been long forgotten, the name IÄCCH is identified with John, or Johan, and is said to be a diminutive thereof, though it be of exactly the same length.' Here we find the name John connected with, or the same as, Bacchus, the reason of this we shall discover in a future book....
"Johannes or John was called Xrhjov Iwannhv by Julian. This Xrhjov I believe always means the god or genius of a cycle. This Xrhjov Iwannhv decreased as the IHS Xrhjov increased.
"This Joannes, whom Mr. Bryant identifies with the OANNES of the Assyrians, whom the Portuguese call Presbyter and John, who was descended from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba in Abyssinia, and whom Mr. Maurice has declared to be the fish Avatar of India, and the God Dagon, and who, Nimrod observes, was Johannes Butta Deus, was in reality a renewed incarnation of Buddha; or, perhaps, rather a superstition which took its rise from the half-understood doctrine of the renewal of the Indian incarnations. Jesus is made to declare that Joannes should remain till he came; that is, that, as the fish incarnation, he would remain until the end of the six millenaries, which, as the Equinoctial Incarnation, he would do; for the fish would remain the equinoctial incarnation, or the emblem of it, till the ten less avatars were all finished. This suggests a doubt whether all the Equinoctial Avatars were not Buddhas. Of this Oannes or John Mr. Bryant says, 'Oannes appeared En tw prwtw eniautw, (29) for time commenced from his appearance.(30)
"We are now in the centre of the land of mysticism. Everything is a parable, an enigma, a mystery. What can be more mystical than Matthew's expression, that Jesus should increase and John decrease? What can be more mystical than what we have seen respecting the Joannes, and Butta, and Deus? What more mystical than the expression, that John should stop till Jesus came again in his glory? What more mystical than that the Baptist was Elias, that is, in plain Greek, the Sun ~~ '/Hliov?
"Jonas, the amphibious, was
swallowed, and returned again in three days from the fish. He was
the same person as Hercules, or as Heri-Clo, the Saviour 608,
swallowed at the same time and place with Jonas,, who prophesied
the destruction of Nineveh about the year 600 B.C. This was the
time of the famous central eclipse of Thales, or conjunction of
the Sun and Moon, the time when the Oriental Messiah, Cyrus,(31) was born, he having the solar title, and who
having established the Persian Monarchy at Babylon, restored the
Jews and abolished idolatry. He is still worshipped, under the
name of Jonas, on Mount Libanus, bu the Curds or Culdees formerly
named.(32) He has the same appellation, according to Mr.
Bryant, as the half-man, half-fish, or amphibious being called
OANNES, who appeared for the instruction of mankind, etc.,
according to Sanchuniathon,(33) the same as DAGON, which was the name of the
fish which harboured Jonas, or saved him, and the
meaning of which is Saviour. This Oannes, or Ioannes we find
again after about 600 years, born of an aged woman, called Anna,
the name of the mother of the Italian Janus, miraculously
foretold by the prophet Zacharias, to whom his birth was
announced by an angel. He was the forerunner of Jesus Christ, and
called, as above-mentioned by the celebrated Julian, Xrhjov Iwannhv. He
was by profession a Saviour of Men by means of baptism or
immersion, like Jonas in the water. Jonas was immersed three days
in the ocean for the salvation of the Ninevites, as Jesus
afterward was buried three days for the salvation of the Jews and
of mankind. After this we find another person called IOANNES, a
fisherman, beloved by Jesus, of whom Jesus declared from the
Cross that he should not die till his return. And after this,
another Ioannes, who had revelations from God; and, at last, we
have that Ioannes ordered by Jesus to remain till his return, as
Ioannes, Butta, and Deus, or the Fish, or Oannes God Buddha.(34) ....And John the Baptist, or Saviour of Men
by means of water, was the Oannes or Avatar of Pisces, as Buddha
was of Taurus, and Cristna of Aries; or, according to Mr.
Parkhurst's doctrine, Oannes was the type of the Baptist, if ever
he appeared, and if he did not....the history must have been a
figurative representation of an avatar, foretelling the Baptist."(35)
E. I ANAC. X.IX. 8.
"Long had I despaired of the meaning of the mysterious John, Joannes, Jonas three days buried in a fish, the fish-avatar Vishnu, or Oannes treading on the head of the Serpent ~~ bruising the Serpent's head.... Janus or Jana, Iona or Columba having the same name as Jehovah, li, and of Jove, the Yoni, the opposite of the Linga ~~ the sect of the Jains the successors of Buddha,(36) John the Baptist, John who should live till Jesus came again, Joannes, Butta, Deus, the Prester Johannes, ~~ persons seemingly so difficult to reconcile or account for ~~ when I discovered that the old Sanscrit word for Wisdom or Gnosij was Jnana. This at once lets in a load of light upon us, ~~ gives us a clue to all the mysterious Johns. It is no difficult matter now, to see what was meant by John, thought to be a second Elias, by Baptism communicating the hny, or IUNE or Dove or Divine Wisdom (when the Fire was kindled in the Water) to Jesus, who was also thought to be a second Elias ~~ to Jesus the successor or (as believed by the Jews the) reincarnation of Elias, and also of the h#m(37) MSE or Messiah Moses ~~ to Oannes or Vish-nu treading on the Serpent's head. Hence we may see why the Ras of Abyssinia was called not only Joannes, but also Butta and Deus; he was at once the God, Buddha, and Wisdom. Like the LAMA, or Lamb of Tibet, he was a renewed incarnation of Divine Wisdom. John was the precursor or pre-possessor of Divine Wisdom;(38) the Holy Inspiration was incarnate in him, and he transmitted it to Jesus. It was that inspiration which Moses transmitted to the Saviour Joshua or Jesus, the son of Nave, and which Elias transmitted to Elisha by delivery or investiture of the Pallium, and which Mohammed left with his cloak to Ali. John was an announcer of the Saviour, a preparer of the way, a foreseer or fore-knower; hence he was endowed with Wisdom, and called John.
"Georgius maintains that the Tibetan word, which he renders GNIOS in Latin, and which means Sapientia, is the same as the Gnosij of Greece, and Agnitio in Latin. If the Gn be written as the Hebrew letter was corrupted in Tibet, it will be ( o, the next letter will be y, I or Yod, and both read from Right to Left, OI the Deity of Wisdom.(39) In the same way, the Jnana for Wisdom in the Sanscrit is OANA. Here we have the Oanes. We must not forget that the Pushto or Syriac is the dialect of Tibet, where IE is spelt IO.(40) The Ganesha, God of Wisdom, of India, is Jan-Esa, Jan the Saviour. The Indian Gnia is the object of Wisdom; Gnia in Irish is Wisdom. Gnia is also a tree,, synonymous to Feadh or Ved, also a tree. The Gnia is evidently Gnosis.
"It is a very striking and curious circumstance that in the time of Banier the Christians of St. Thomas....were so clearly known to be the descendants of the Apostle St. Thomas, that they were called the Christians of St. John! .... They are the followers of the Xrhsov or Jnana incarnate, first in the Twins or Tammuz, then in the Bull, then in the Lamb, then in the Pisces or Comasene. They are the Mandaites or Nazoureans of St. John of the East, of the coast of Cali or Core-manda-la. They were the Nazarenes or Nasoureans of Carmel of the Western Syria,(41) and the Christians of St. John.
"'The fanatical votaries of
king Attila the Hun, the Christians of St. Thomas in India, the
Stylite Simeons, the apostate Nestorians, and the personage
called Presbyter Johannes, appear to have been Manichaean
Buddhists. The worship of the cross was coupled with that of the
sword and of fire; the fiery sword being crucifixion.' (Nimrod
Vol. II, p. 502) ... That the sects above named were Manichaean
Buddhists I have little doubt;(42) but they were also Templars and
Rossicrucians [sic] or followers of the eight-point Red Cross, or
Naazir, or Natzir-eans, or followers of the United Red Cross and
Rose of Sharon, all the same under different names(43)
2 ANAC. II.III.9
"It is worthy of observation
that the persons employed by Caesar were the Chaldaeans, and that
these mere fortune-tellers and conjurers, as our priests call
them, were so well informed, that they could fix the time of the
solstice to half an hour ~~ to half past one in the morning. It
is evident these Calidei, or Chaldaeans, or Casi-deans, or
Chasidim, or Mathematici, or Templars, or Rosicrucians, or
Nousareans, or Mandaites, or Iohnites, or Essenians, or
Carmelites, or Freemasons,(44) were then the best calculators and
astronomers in the world."
3. Notes pertaining to the above.
Even though Higgins is best known for his eccentric mish-mash, and hair-brained theories, the Anacalypsis is certainly not without its merits.
The materials we extract are not entirely crazy. In fact, they conceal the truth. We have demonstrated that truth in this work, plentifully.
The Johannite doctrine we have been piecing together, from several sources, is here in Anacalypsis. And, so is the conclusion that ends this part of the work, as well as the conclusion which finishes this work as a whole, and is the central thesis: The GIFT.
What we see here is Higgins suggesting to his European readers that the true Avatar was John or Dositheos, as we call him, and fits in "Jesus Christ" so as to not completely alienate people. It is clear that the place of "Christ" in this story is superfluous, that the real personage of whom "Christ" was a later version, created because people couldn't entirely blot out the memory of the genuine article, is IOANNES, avatar of OANNES, or U-AN or ENKI. This is entirely within reason. The system or doctrine of the Forerunner and the Follower, is demonstrated by the worship of the Morning Star and the Evening Star, and the Christos is the Sun. The Initiate is the Christos, IOANNES being before and behind. All encompassing. This is found in the cultus of Phoenicia, and in the Nusairi sect, as we shall see later on. And, even though Thelema in its 20th Century incarnation, that is in the form established by Crowley, came after Higgins, we can see in the narrative presented here in the Readings, that Liber AL vel Legis presents us with some very important Johannite symbols, namely the Forerunner and Follower, the Equinoxes, Divine Wisdom, etc.
And...Godfrey Higgins is said to have been a Rosicrucian.
FOOTNOTES
1. But see the Mikvah, or ritual cleansing bath.
2. Sakhar, Sakar, is an Aramaic Moon-God.
3. Cf. AASR 23° where the Legenda speaks of the Holy Bath, Holy Water of the Mysteries of Eleusis, and the Jewel is a Thurible, i.e., a bowl for the incense. The 24° is curious, since the 23rd Path on the Tree of Life is Mem, which means Water and represents the Element Water, and the Hanged Man of the Tarot.
4. Is this "Maundy Thursday", the Solemn Feast in the 18°?
5. See the Tables of Months in The Code of the Eternal. [When it is ready.]
6. I.e. Saturn. See The Necronomicon, and The Code of the Eternal. [ditto!]
7. See Book One of The Brethren of the Gift, Chapter entitled "The Wolf Tribe."
8. Which makes perfect sense, since Jerusalem was, since Sumerian times, a Mission Control center, possessing the same significance in the Palestine region that Nippur possessed in Mesopotamia.
9. See Patai, The Hebrew Goddess, pp. 50-52. This 'image' was the Asherah set up by Manasseh.
10. See below, in Book Two, "The Old Battle-Axe"; ...; Albright, Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan, p. 14595, 148-50 and other cites. Frazer, The Burning of Melcarth, in The Golden Bough; as well as its adaptation in Crowley's Golden Twigs; and the 9° & 10° AASR. This is the worship and adoration of the Lord of the Morning Star, the Day-Spring from on High, Ba'al - Shamam. This is, in the Essene Cultus, therefore, it is probably these practices which were preserved by them rather than the strict reactionary Judaism they are alleged to have practiced. The cult survived in isolation after Ezra's Yahweh cult was forced upon the people. One can see today the fierce war being waged between Liberals and Conservatives, the latter being the Yahweh cultus, and the former being the authentic cultus. All your gods are evil and of no use, worship our way because our god knows how to get the job done, is their cry.
11. And... The Hebrew Goddess, by Patai, and The Jesus Scroll by Donovan Joyce, as well as The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth, by J. M. Allegro, one of the original scholars allowed to study and translate the Scrolls, later kicked off the team when he started revealing the truth about the origins of Christianity.
12. As are words such as build, know, thigh, etc.
13. ...and booths for sacred cult prostitutes (Qadeshim).
14. Cf. Hiéron du Val d'Or, in Holy Blood, Holy Grail. In this context, the phrase would mean, "The Holy or Sacred Thing (or Place?) of the valley of gold." That is not insignificant.
15. Kind of goes back in time to Cain and Abel. Even though Incense or Aromatic Oils at least, were a part of the Israelite Cult.
16. According to Sitchin, When Time Began, BARAG.GAL. means Holy of Holies, so, then, a Baru-Priest would be one who attends to the Holy of Holies, in other words, the High Priest. BARAG means "inner sanctum, screened-off place," and GAL means "great, foremost." The Johannite Line, then, is a line of High Priests, entrusted with the true Name of Deity and Its pronunciation, as well as the secrets of the Priesthood. See elsewhere at this url, DuKu and Atonement.
17. Stauros. Cf. The discussion of the realm of the Stauros, or Cosmic Sacrifice in the Valentinian Cosmos, as well as in the Pistis Sophia. It is called the Aeon of Horus. The Aeon of Horus in the Gnostic Schema is the Cross. See Francis Legge, Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity, II-105, for confirmation of this, as well as the sources he quotes, namely, Hippolytus, in his Philosophumena, Book VI, Chap. 31.
18. Cf. Allemanni STAUFER, STAUFEN, STÖFFLER, STIFFLER, HOHENSTAUFEN., the root of which means "towering crag", and a similar meaning is to be found in the Celtic name McCarty.
19. But...see Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Part III.
20. There is no note 20.
21. Cf. above, "The Johannite Legend of the Templars."
22. The Sycamore Tree is sacred to Hathor.
23. Just like the Virgin Elizabeth Tudor, Queen of England and Mother Mary Stuart, Queen of the Scots.
24. Cf. Above, Book One, where the etymology of certain words reveals mysteries pertaining to this locale that the 'believers' consider heretical. Also, cf. Holy Blood, Holy Grail, Chapter 10.
25. Cf. Below, on the "Secret Gospel of Mark" in Qadosh, Book 3.
26. The Horns of Hattin, site of a famous battle in 1187-8, which cost the Crusaders dearly.
27. Cf. Ha-Brachah Dobara, the ABRAHADABRA of Liber AL vel Legis.
28. I.e. Latakia, Syria, where the Nusairi live.
29. I.e., 'In the first year.'
30. Cf., The Code of the Eternal, where Time on Earth begins when Enki establishes Earth Station I at Eridu, 442,973 B.C.E.
31. Cyrus is equivalent to Koresh.
32. Cf. 15°, 16°, 22° AASR.
33. The name Sanchuniathon means, "The God Sakkhun, has given." That is Sakkhun-Yatan, like Jonathan means Yahu-Natan, or Yah has given. Therefore, we see in Sanchuniathon the prototype for all of the Johannite Teachers that have existed during the historical period. What came before is lost to us for the most part, at least, what came in the period between the last names in the Sumerian records of the Enkite Succession and the period of Sanchuniathon.
34. Cf the Therionic Avatars, which are really the Johannite Avatars...
35. Enki Rules the Age of Pisces as he also does the Age of Aquarius. See Sitchin, The 12th Planet.
36. But see RITAT - 1, for the evolution of Indian schools.
37. Should be x#m, M Sh Ch, Messiah, 358 == #xn N Ch Sh, Nachash, Serpent, one of the most important Rosicrucian mysteries.
38. Mañjushri, the Tibetan God of Divine Wisdom. See The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation.
39. Oy Vey!
40. Ahem...well...Godfrey is trying too hard. Writing this book killed him, you know.
41. I.e., Nusairi.
42. The Manichaean Buddhists are a reality, this is so, but let us not confuse them with the Mandaeans or the Nusairi. The Nusairi are from a root tradition that includes the First Christian Church, cast into the desert when James was assassinated with the assistance of Paul. However, there are many other survivals in the mix, including the Borborites, and the various Catharist groups which sprang up in Asia Minor, the Balkans, and southern Europe owe as much of their original inspiration to the Ophites and Nusairi as they owe the followers of Mani. Mani himself was either a Mandaean or an Elkesaite, which was related to the Essene survivors.
43. Compare with what Waddell wrote about the Cross of St. George, and John the Baptist, and the Cross.
44. What? No Illuminati? Perhaps the esteemed Mr. Higgins was an Illuminatus!
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