Today we started by watching a short film about the origins of Christianity. The revelations that the three kings was a reference to the three stars pointing to the star of the east on the 25th December and the same virgin birth, twelve disciples and the cross story that date back far into the past long before the reputed time of Jesus. Even the Egyptian god Horus was born of a virgin all linked to the worship of the sun.
"Stories from the life of Horus had been circulating for centuries before Jesus birth (circa 4 to 7 BC). If any copying occurred by the writers of the Egyptian or Christian religions, it was the followers of Jesus who incorporated into his biography the myths and legends of Horus, not vice-versa.
Author and theologian Tom Harpur studied the works of three authors who have written about ancient Egyptian religion: Godfrey Higgins (1771-1834), Gerald Massey (1828-1907) and Alvin Boyd Kuhn (1880-1963). Harpur incorporated some of their findings into his book "Pagan Christ." He argued that all of the essential ideas of both Judaism and Christianity came primarily from Egyptian religion. "[Author Gerald] Massey discovered nearly two hundred instances of immediate correspondence between the mythical Egyptian material and the allegedly historical Christian writings about Jesus. Horus indeed was the archetypal Pagan Christ."
We went on to discuss many other ideas as to the right way to live including discussing "The tribe" where Bruce learned that suffering was caused through desire. Then further discussion on the permanence of the ego and the realization of the Self.
