The Pagan Christ by Harpur Tom

Author:Harpur, Tom [Harpur, Tom]
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: book, REL000000
ISBN: 9780887621956
Publisher: Thomas Allen and Son
Published: 2011-09-18T16:00:00+00:00

My own view, expressed in newspaper columns at the time, was that both sides in this ongoing debate should be aware of the salient truth about all ancient bibles and sacred texts insisted upon by Higgins, Massey, Kuhn, Northrop Frye, Joseph Campbell, and numerous others. These texts were never intended as history in the first place. They are almost purely allegorical, and their true meaning is to be sought beneath the surface. For example, the constant references to the various captivities of the Jews throughout the artificially constructed “history” of the Old Testament should be understood as the real “captivity” of the human soul in matter. The theme is really that of incarnation once again.

The following familiar Old Testament stories show that we need to look beneath the surface to know why they were told in the first place:

1. The crossing of the Red Sea is, according to the allegorical or symbolic meaning, really the entrance into matter. Water always stands for matter in the esoteric wisdom. The well-known story of the forty years the Jews spent wandering in the wilderness was a mythical construct that was symbolic of the soul’s life in the body during its earthly sojourn. This insight is true of the Gospels also, as our exploration will show shortly.

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