I had a real dream. Dressed in a white robe, I was wandering around the imperial city of Byzantium. Constantine the Great appeared to me. Master of the Roman empire, he built his new capital at the gates of Asia. It is said that he allowed the rise of Christianity. But which one? And how did he do it?
During my travels on the timeline, I land this time in the beautiful and great city of Byzantium. I chose the date of this time travel: 329 of the common era, under the reign of the emperor Constantine. I landed in a grove some distance from the city centre, on a hill. It takes just a few steps to reach the first houses. People are already crowding around me. And as I cross the cobblestones of the high street, this is what I wanted to see. The crowd of walkers moves away to let the imperial procession pass. I see the emperor dressed in purple and gold, sitting on a quadriga and blessing the people who throw him! deafening hail.
What a contrast with the ridiculous and degrading parade of the next day! But patience. Even if there is no time in the astral, tomorrow is another day yet. Let us stay in the moment.
Constantine is not only the first character of the greatest empire, a living god faces me. I am before him, yet I am invisible. My body is made spectral in every age that is not mine. My time travel is in the astral, another plane of reality that remains imperceptible to the living around me, well anchored in their fourth century — for them the eleventh century AUC. Ab Urbe Condita, ie from the founding of the city (of Rome).
Moved by the superhuman allure of this great man, I take altitude and sit on a cloud, away from the noisy crowd.
Constantine I, alias Constantine the Great, was Roman emperor from 306 to 337 AD. Realizing that the Roman Empire was too large for one man to rule adequately, Emperor Diocletian (284-305 AD) divided the empire into two, creating a tetrarchy or four-party government. While he was running the east from Nicomédie as “August” with Galerius as “Caesar”, Maximian and Constance Chlore were running the west. Constantine’s son, Constantine, would one day defeat all the pretenders to the throne and reunify the divided empire, leaving old Rome for a new eastern capital, which would one day bear its name, Constantinople. (world history)
Constantine I is considered the most important of the Roman emperors after Caesar and Augustus however. If Suetonius does not speak of it in his Life of the twelve Caesars, this gap is justified. Major reason: Constantine was born two centuries after Suetonius. And then Constantine is not a Caesar, he never wore the title. He thinks himself greater. Julius Caesar inspired terror to his people, Constantine strives to inspire love… for his own profit.
Rome is no longer in Rome. The times are not the same. Since Caesar, everything has changed. In my cloud, the great figure I contemplate is the opposite of the warrior brutality of the hero of the Gallic Wars, far from the contempt that Caesar showed to the Senate and the people of Rome by ordering his legions to cross the Rubicon. O scandal! Violation of taboo, Caesar entered the city followed by his troops in arms!
Victor of the usurper Maxentius and savior of Rome, Constantine could have been content to be the warlord who restored the divided empire. He thinks of himself as the one god. A god who protects. A god of love.
His main title of glory is to have exploded the popularity of Christianity by naming it state religion. It is very right, but there is a hiatus: of which Christianity are we talking?
After the advent of his Christianity, all other gods are abandoned, denied, humiliated, their relics and statues broken, their names shamed, their memory erased, their worship buried. Guess what new god replaces them? Jesus? Hey no. That’s where it gets tough.
There is not only a donkey named Martin, and that’s where the problem is. It is not just Jesus who is called Kristos. My cloud is fading and so is my memory. It’s high time to leave my roost.
I wanted to see the Galata Bridge, but it will take a few centuries. The Golden Horn is not what it will be, we cross it in a boat. It’s a Litter Horn, this vidoir for the sewers that smells of mud and worse. The Christian basilica of Hagia Sophia is already coming out of the ground, but its splendour is yet to come. Pearl of the future Istanbul, Sultanahmet the Blue Mosquesee next pix will be built in the 17th century. Without knowing how, I am on the edge of the Bosphorus and night already falls. I will come back tomorrow.
Christianity has existed since the earliest antiquity, long before the advent of a man named Jesus, whose historical existence is subject to serious reservations. There were indeed an impressive number of prophets dressed in the title of Kristos, or Christus. Mention Orpheus, Apollo, Prometheus, Lugh, Mithra, or the time of the pseudo-Jesus, Apollonius of Tyane. Each of them bore the title of Christ and was honored accordingly. They all became the central figure of a religion or cult.
There are two Christianisms: the Catholic, Protestant and Orthodox Christianity on one side, and the Celts on the other. The first, the only one that is agreed to call Christianity, would be better named neo-Christianism. And the second, much earlier, would then be the proto-Christianity, that of Mithra which the Celts call Aesus. Name which sounds like Jesus…
These two Christianisms have common points, but also a major difference, because they work in opposite directions. The proto-Christianity of the Celts aims at the awakening of its followers, the neo-Christianism puts his own to sleep.
Proto-Christianity is usually referred to as the generic name of mystery and savior cults. And Christs cults sounds better! But this title is squatted by Jesus the improbable, whose first name is only pronounced after this title, as if it were his last name. He should be called Ieschoua Bar Iosip. Jesus son of Joseph … Or of Gabriel?
Chrism is a symbol, or rather a sign that neo-Christianism always associates with Jesus. It is a counter-truth and a reprehensible abuse. Just as the title of Christus does not belong to the only Jesus whose historical existence is nothing less than proven, so the chrism is much earlier.
Let’s look at the chrism. Up, the P which does not mean Pax but indicates the north Pole. To be convinced, one only has to look at the foot of the P. There is a very large and clearly legible letter S which indicates the South, of course. I do not know if the priests dared to say that it was the S of Sanctus Christus… They are not close to another buffoonery.
Actually, this X is a cross. And this cross is perpendicular to the foot of the P, like on a weather vane, as you can see in the picture. This cross, like the Celtic cross, does not speak of the crucified one, but of the four rivers of Hyperborea, which separate the four island-continents. The vertical axis of the letter P is the North Pole. This sign does not mean Pax Christi, nor the first two letters of the Greek word kristos; it is not a monogram but a rebus. The axis indicates the location of Hyperborea, whose name literally means: above the north pole.
Each one his beliefs, and the sacred cows will be well guarded. We ancestors have bought it all. They swallowed snakes with the ease of a snake charmer. It was without the web, without the worldwide dissemination of all the texts formerly locked in libraries strictly protected by the Holy See. Let’s not forget that until the invention of typography around 1440, all writings were copied by copyists. Monks, most often. They copied in their convent what the superior told them to copy, omitting and adding what he told them. The control of the Catholic church has been almost total for all this time.
If God exists, atheism must be less insulting for him than religion.
Eric Junod, theologian, co-directed L’Anthologie des théologiens de l’Antiquité in 2017. He tells us about the one who is considered the father of exegesis, the pioneer of critical study of texts: Origen, whose life is a novel…
Origen comments on Christian texts, of course, but they have nothing to do with Jesus.
Origen is the first theologian to comment on Scripture; and he will comment not only on one or two books, but almost all of them. He devoted his life to it, writes Junod. In doing so, Origen invented a tradition of interpreting texts. “His influence will be considerable. Even if they do not always agree with him, the authors who come after him will be completely determined by his interpretation. Whether they like it or not, they will always position themselves in relation to him,” continues the professor. This Christian who was probably born in Alexandria around 185 has thus truly “opened ways that others exploit, sometimes without even being aware that they are indebted to him”.
“The theologians prior to this time will then all be judged in the light of the standards established at Nicaea”. From 20 May to 25 July 325, in Nicaea, city of Bithynia, the emperor Constantine convokes the first universal ecumenical council. What the honorable professor of theology Eric Junod fails to specify about this first council is that the Christ being prayed to was the emperor Constantine himself, and not a stranger named Jesus.
Emperor Constantine 306-337 after his victory at the Battle of Milvian Bridge on Maxentius in 312 AUC 1065, ab urbe condita, after the founding of Rome completely changed the face of the Roman Empire. Following his victory, he affixed to the shield of his legionnaires his new symbol, the chrism, consisting of the two Greek letters Khi (X) and Rho (P), the initials of the word Christos, meaning “anointed of God”, “who received the holy anointing from God”. Subsequently, the chrism became the symbol of the Roman legions.
In 3131066 AUC Constantine promulgated the Edict of Milan, allowing freedom of worship to all citizens of the Empire. Our Christians, the enemies of the Empire, can now freely practice their assemblies and the translations of the Septuagint into Latin are multiplying. Constantine, by advocating concord in the Empire around the one god, thus silenced all seditions. In 3211074 AUC Constantine imposes the Sunday rest, under the name of “Venerable Day of the Sun”.
Sol Invictus was therefore still the cult of the Empire…” (J-Cl Picard, loc.cit)
The contradictory exegesis presented here is due in large part to the extensive research carried out by a renowned scholar, a specialist in Christian apocryphal literature. Member of the C.N.R.S – E.P.H.E., La Sorbonne 5th section, Jean-Claude PICARD (1943-1996) died prematurely following a painful illness.
The texts in italics are from his “Critical History of Roman Christianity” (source)http://srg.hereses.chez-alice.fr/.
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