"There is not a conception associated with Christ that is not
    common to some or all of the Savior cults of antiquity. The title
    Savior was given in Judaism to Yahweh; among the Greeks to Zeus,
    Heilos, Artemis, Dionysus, Hercales, the Dioscurui, Ceybele and
    Aesculapius. It is the essential conception of Osiris. So, too, 
Osiris
    taketh away sin, is the judge of the dead and of the last 
judgment.
    Dionysus, the Lord of the UnderWorld and primarily a god of 
feasting
    ('the Son of Man commeth eating and drinking'), comes to be 
conceived
    as the Soul of the World and the inspirer of chastity and self
    purification. [J. M. Robertson may be referring to Attis here.] 
From the
    Mysteries of Dionysus and Isis comes the proclamation of the easy
    'yoke'. Christ not only works the Dionysiac miracle, but calls 
himself
    the 'true vine.'"

        "Like Christ, and like Adonis and Attis, Osiris and 
Dionysus also
    suffer and die and rise again. To become one with them is the 
mystical
    passion of their worshippers. They are all alike in that their
    mysteries give immortality. From Mithraism Christ takes the 
symbolic
    keys of heaven and hell and assumes the function of the 
virgin-born
    Saoshyant, the destroyer of the Evil One. Like Mithra, 
Merodach, and
    the Egyptian Khousu, he is the Mediator; like Khousu, Horus and
    Merodach, he is one of a trinity, like Horus he is grouped with a
    Divine Mother; like Khousu he is joined to the Logos; and like 
Merodach
    he is associated with the Holy Spirit, one of whose symbols is 
fire."

        "In fundamentals, therefore, Christism is but paganism 
reshaped. It
    is only the economic and doctrinal evolution of the system--the 
first
    determined by Jewish practice and Roman environment, the second 
by Greek
    thought--that constitutes new phenomena in religious history." 
_Pagan_
    _Christs_ by J.M. Robertson pages 52,53

        No religion develops in a vacuum. All religions are 
influenced not
    only by it's predecessors but by the contemporaries of the time 
also.
    Such is the nature of Christism yesterday and today.

        Now about Jesus the man, did he exist? I think not. All the
    teaching of Jesus can be attributed to other sources and 
grafted over
    the Gospel myth. Nothing he said was substantially different in 
any way
    from previous sayings. Jesus was not a man but a contrived myth.

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