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Jesus
was Caesar: The Julian Origin of Christianity
by Francesco
Carotta ISBN: 9059113969 Could
Jesus Christ actually be the 'living' ghost of the most famous
Roman of them all? This book reveals the possibility that the
Jesus of the Gospel stories is derived from Divus Julius, the
deified Julius Caesar! It is truly a very strange idea, but do not dismiss
it too quickly.
For one thing, the
true facts of Julius Caesar do not fit the common perceptions we
have of him. In our minds
we see him as a conquering general
and a dictator. But this is very incomplete. A more accurate understanding must take
into account such things as the clementia Caesaris, the
unexpected political philosophy (and so similar to the
philosophy of forgiveness of Jesus, too), of the clement, forgiving
Julius Caesar, or the astounding fact that Julius Caesar was Pontifex Maximus,
the highest priest of Rome! This is truly one of the
most disconcerting facts about him, that the very foundation of
his political career was not
his military accomplishments (which came later) but his religious authority!
read
here...
It is the existence of such strange but verifiable details
of Julius Caesar's life that indicate we do not know the real
Caesar. He was far more complex than we realize, and therefore
it is probable that we also do not realize how he was perceived
by the peoples of the empire.
Indeed, the more informed we
become about the real Julius Caesar, the more convinced we will
be that it is he who is the initial seed of the mythical "Jesus Christ". This is
the conclusion one reaches when one reads of the discoveries made by Francesco Carotta.
He demonstrates that details described in the gospels are echoes
of noteworthy events in the life of Caesar. read
here...
Download
excerpts in ebook (chm) form. (not easily viewable on
Macintosh, sorry)
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