“And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.”

This one passage overturns the linchpin of Christianity; that is, the dogmatic insistence that by his crucifixion at Golgotha the man we are now calling Jesus the Christ created a pathway to eternal life. Christianity asserts that in this Jesus was the first person to have ever done so, before which eternal life was non-existent. A little known corollary tenet is that Golgotha was the site of the tomb of Adam, and when the blood of Jesus fell on it, all the generations between Adam and Jesus were also baptized. A very neat story. But it is unlikely that the Romans would have deliberately picked a site sacred to the Jews; and more unlikely they would have let the followers of Jesus pick the site for them. It is simply not plausible that it was an unintended coincidence.

To believe that before the crucifixion at Golgotha the concept of life beyond the grave was unheard of one must abandon knowledge that in all areas of the globe people, beginning with cave dwellers, have been interring the dead with preparation and artifacts for the afterlife. Everywhere this practice is found proves that belief in life beyond the grave is universal. That humankind are naturally immortal in consciousness is a belief that has existed as far back as records, legends and archeological evidence have been preserved or discovered.

The Jewish concept is that life begins with God imbuing the newborn with breath, and ends with God removing the breath. Traditional Jews still maintain this belief in the modern world. Jesus is said to have said that ‘man does not live by bread alone,' but that is a mistranslation. The operational statement was ‘Man does not live by breath alone.' In saying this Jesus was driving a spike directly into the heart of the Jewish religion. This alone was enough for the established religion to seek his demise.

In Egypt we find that the resurrection of the spirit body and the immortality of the soul was a concept that even they had inherited from previous generations. It predates the Christian era by an estimated 4500-5800 years.

Revelations 11:8 contradicts what is taken in modern times as the unassailably accepted belief that the crucifixion at Golgotha was a one time event. It is far too late for modern Christianity to disavow the passage. In particular, the Bible thumping literalists can not say there are any untruths in their text at this late date. So what does this mean? The phrase “…and Egypt , where also our Lord was crucified” means that Jesus was crucified more than once, and one of these was in Egypt . For this to be true, he must have survived the first event. How is this possible?

As the story is told, Joseph and Mary, parents of the babe Jesus, took him almost immediately into Egypt to escape the wrath of King Herod, who certainly wanted him killed. So the bible places Jesus in Egypt as an infant. He is not seen again until an appearance in Israel as a child, where he astounds the rabbis with his erudition. We do not see him again until he is 30 (or so it is written.) The lost years were spent in training at the Mystery School at Giza . The great mystery is called death, and at Giza it was possible to acquire the knowledge to defeat its awesome power.

Many were chosen to come to Giza for training. Jesus is the best known. Candidates for initiation into the great mystery were trained and tested there. It was very rigorous and exacting. As a candidate advanced through the lower degrees of accomplishment tests were given at every stage of development. A student continued in training as long as tests were passed. Upon failure a student was awarded the degree earned from their last examination but then went no further.

The final and ultimate test was a ceremonial crucifixion. Not the bloody mess related in the bible, but an ascension to the highest levels of celestial mentation. In this ceremony, which took place within Cheops, a candidate for initiation, having properly fasted and meditated, was placed upon an altar in the form of a cross. Not the cross of the bible but in the shape of an ‘X', as in Roman numerals, and it was horizontal, like a table, not vertical as is depicted in the bible. The candidate then took their position on the cross/altar, and were attached to the cross with loosely wound sashes. The reason for this is that by definition a sacrifice must be voluntary. Being nailed to a piece of wood is not a sacrifice because it is involuntary. The initiate must be free to escape at any time if they so desire.

The initiate then induces by means of breath control and yogic discipline a self generated catatonic state in which the heart is stopped and breathing ceases. Twelve priests in regalia of the signs of the zodiac then begin to chant words of power (mantrums) which are also pure sound. This creates a resonance within the chamber that further fosters the candidate's conscious exit from the matter world of Time, Space, and Causation. The spirit body then emerges from the physical and begins to ascend higher planes of mentation where it takes instruction from the tutelary spirits which inhabit each realm.

When these experiences are completed, and as the initiate's spirit body descends, marks are placed upon it that reappear in the flesh when the graduate returns to the physical. They are called stigmata. These are taken as proof of the degrees obtained in the astral.

These stigmata become permanent through all subsequent incarnations. If successful, the initiate emerges as an ascended master, having divine knowledge of the infinite, and able to accomplish apparent miracles in the eyes of the common people.

The tradition of the Mystery School at Giza was that its initiates, regardless of the degree, would return to their native lands and teach their peoples such truths as they were capable of understanding. These men and women founded schools of philosophy and gathered qualified students. They were forbidden to reveal the source of their knowledge to the outside world. For this reason many of these graduates were credited as being the originators of the philosophies they espoused. Most of the great minds of antiquity were actually Pyramid initiates.

They taught two kinds of knowledge generally called the inner and outer teachings. The outer teachings (exoteric) were given to lay peoples in order to better their behavior, and if possible to introduce higher concepts of life. Inner teachings (esoteric) were reserved for disciples. One finds in the bible that when the wraith of Jesus the Christ appeared to his disciples post crucifixion, that he took them aside in order to impart his final inner teachings in private. So it is written.

The depiction of the crucifixion given in the bible represents the outer teachings given to a peoples that fully believed in blood sacrifice, and who denied the possibility of afterlife itself ( the Sadducee sect ) If cutting the throat of an ox or a sheep bought favor from Jehovah, why the slaughter of a human is even better. And so the story goes. We do not believe in animal sacrifice now, so why do we believe it ever worked in the distant past? Religions based on a god who demands blood sacrifice for propitiation are among the most primitive. Certainly they are unworthy of influencing the modern world.

If it is taken at face value, the man called Jesus gave his people a demonstration of resurrection ( completely within his ability as a risen master.) But even so, the Sadducees do not accept it as fact. In this a Christian is simply a Jew ( Pharisee sect) who has come to believe in the resurrection of the spirit body and the immortality of the soul, ( linch pins both in Egyptian religion since pre-dynastic times.) Nonetheless as the story has gained prominence, (mainly by a long history of political alliances between church and states that used force of arms and physical torture to further their goals of complete control over a vast spectrum of nationalities,) it has become taken as historical fact. Jesus has become transmogrified from an example of a man who demonstrated resurrection to the cause of resurrection itself. Once this line is crossed a religion becomes a matter of mere worship as the attainment of union with God is relegated to a post mortem event. This is blasphemy of the first rank.

The one tenet of religion that is universally agreed upon is that God can not be limited in any way. We humans may be limited, but our limitations have no power to place limitations on God. As Buddha concluded : If God is, then God can be known.” Organized Christianity has completely extinguished any idea that God can not be known as a matter of direct experience until after death. With no expectation of direct experience in the here and now the probabilities of it happening to an individual are greatly reduced.

The one known as Jesus the Christ ( ‘Christ' is a title of a degree and not a name,) was first crucified in Egypt . The truth of this will be found in the contents of Cheops if, and when, it is ever re-opened. When that finally happens western religion will once again become experiential rather than a matter of mere dogmatic worship which promises a post mortem reward. Until then we are left with the echoes and shadows of reality that passes for Christianity in the modern world. The key lies in Egypt , where also our Lord was crucified.