Gerald Massey's Lectures [FACSIMILE] (Paperback)

~ (Author) "IN presenting my readers with some of the data which show that much of the Christian History was pre-extant as Egyptian Mythology, I have to..." (more)
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The Historical (Jewish) Jesus and the Mythical (Egyptian) Christ; Paul as a Gnostic Opponent, not the Apostle of Historic Christianity; The Logia of the Lord; or the Pre-Christian Sayings ascribed to Jesus the Christ; Gnostic and Historic Christianity; The Hebrew and other Creations fundamentally explained; The Devil of Darkness; or Evil in the Light of Evolution; Luniolatry; Ancient and Modern; Man in search of his Soul, during Fifty Thousand Years, and how he found it; The Seven Souls of Man, and their Culmination in the Christ; and The Coming Religion. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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• Paperback: 287 pages
• Publisher: A & B Book Dist Inc; Facsimile of 1900 ed edition (December 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1881316203
• ISBN-13: 978-1881316206
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,332,078 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent work on mythology, March 17, 1999

By	Casca (Darwin) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Gerald Massey's Lectures (Paperback)

This book is a distillation of Massey's ideas.It is a good introduction, as his main works such as "Ancient Egypt, the Light of the World", are massive tomes.Massey was a pioneer in giving a coherent interpretation of ancient mythology.He shows how the teachings of Christianity originated in ancient Egypt.Horus, the Egyptian saviour,was the prototype for Christ.He shows how the story of Christ is a retelling of the story of Horus.The parallels are so obvious once they have been explained.Massey relates how many of the alleged sayings of Christ first appeared in other places such as the Talmud, and ancient Egypt.The works of Massey go a long way in explaining the true origins of Christianity.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Stretch in Parts, but interesting, April 10, 2003

By	Andre M. "brnn64" (Mt. Pleasant, SC United States) - See all my reviews (TOP 500 REVIEWER)

This is a good collection of essays by the early Egyptologist Gerald Massey. Much of it deals with the more negative aspects of Christianity, particularly its effects on the poor, and it's ties with Egyptology. Personaly, I've always felt that the Horus/Jesus connection was somewhat of a stretch, but this is balanced out by some commentary that's worth reading, even if you don't agree with it.