“To show furthermore that the “ghosts” had been all the time under the strictest “test conditions”, as the modern spiritualists would express it, the author of the Gospel adds: “But what they had wrote was found perfectly to agree, the one not containing one letter more or less than the other.”
This news spread in all the synagogues, the Gospel goes on to state, that Pilate went to the temple as advised by Nicodemus and assembled the Jews together. At this historical interview, Caiaphas and Annas are made to declare that their Scriptures testify “that He (Jesus) is the Son of God and the Lord and King of Israel” (!) and close the confession with the following memorable words: “And so it appears that Jesus, whom we crucified, is Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and true and Almighty God. Amen.” (!)
Notwithstanding such a crushing confession for themselves, and the recognition of Jesus as the Almighty God himself, the “Lord God of Israel”, neither the high priest, nor his father-in-law, nor any of the elders, nor Pilate, who wrote those accounts, nor any of the Jews of Jerusalem, who were at all prominent, became Christians. Comments are unnecessary.
This Gospel closes with the words: “In the name of the Holy Trinity [of which Nicodemus could know nothing yet] thus ends the Acts of our Saviour Jesus Christ, which the emperor Theodosius the Great, found at Jerusalem in the hall of Pontius Pilate among the public records”; and which history purports to have been written in Hebrew by Nicodemus, “the things being acted in the nineteenth year of Tiberius Caesar, emperor of the Romans, and in the seventeenth year of the government of Herod, the son of Herod, king of Galilee, on the eighth before the calends of April, etc., etc.”
It is the most barefaced imposture that was perpetrated after the era of pious forgeries opened with the first bishop of Rome, whoever he may have been. The clumsy forger seems to have neither known nor heard that the dogma of the Trinity was not propounded until 325 years later than this pretended date. Neither the Old nor the New Testament contains the word Trinity, nor anything that affords the slightest pretext for this doctrine (see page 177 of this volume, “Christ’s descent into Hell”).
No explanation can palliate the putting forth of this spurious gospel as a divine revelation, for it was known from the first as a premeditated imposture. If the gospel itself has been declared apocryphal, nevertheless every one of the dogmas contained in it was and is still enforced upon the Christian world. And even the fact that itself is now repudiated, is no merit, for the Church was shamed and forced into it.
And so we are perfectly warranted in repeating the amended Credo of Robert Taylor, which is substantially that of the Christians:
“I believe in Zeus, the Father Almighty, and in his son, Iasios Christ our Lord, who was conceived of the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Elektra, smitten with a thunderbolt, dead and buried, He descended into Hell, rose again and ascended up on high, and will return to judge the living and the dead. I believe in the Holy Nous, in the Holy circle of Great Gods, in the Community of Divinities, in the expiation of sins, the immortality of the Soul, and the Life Everlasting.””
H. P. Blavatsky
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