isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iii (religious sects)

"Our Nazarene sect is known to have existed some 150 years B.C., and to have lived on the banks of the Jordan, and on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea, according to Pliny and Josephus. But in King's Gnostics, we find quoted another statement by Josephus from verse 13, which says that the Essenes [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iii (religious sects)

"At Byblos, the neophytes as well as the hierophants were, after participating in the Mysteries, obliged to fast and remain in solitude for some time. There was strict fasting and preparation before as well as after the Bacchic, Adonian, and Eleusinian orgies; and Herodotus hints, with fear and veneration about the LAKE of Bacchus, in [...]

isis unveiled, vol 2: chapter iii (religious sects)

"To assure ourselves that Jesus was a true Nazarene - albeit with ideas of a new reform - we must not search for the proof in the translated Gospels, but in such original versions as are accessible. Tischendorf, in his translation from the Greek of Luke iv, 34, has it "Iesou Nazarene"; and in the [...]