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The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors, by Kersey Graves, [1875], at sacred-texts.com


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CONTENTS.

 

PAGE

PREFACE

3

EXPLANATION

11

INTRODUCTION

13

ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY

18


CHAPTER I

 

RIVAL CLAIMS OF THE SAVIORS

27


CHAPTER II

 

MESSIANIC PROPHECIES.

34


CHAPTER III

 

PROPHECIES BY THE FIGURE OF A SERPENT

38


CHAPTER IV

 

MIRACULOUS AND IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE GODS

43


CHAPTER V

 

VIRGIN MOTHERS AND VIRGIN-BORN GODS.

53


CHAPTER VI

 

STARS POINT OUT THE TIME AND THE SAVIORS' BIRTH-PLACE

58


CHAPTER VII

 

ANGELS, SHEPHERDS, AND MAGI VISIT THE INFANT SAVIORS

63


CHAPTER VIII

 

THE TWENTY-FIFTH OF DECEMBER THE BIRTHDAY OF THE GODS

68


CHAPTER IX

 

TITLES OF THE SAVIORS

72

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CHAPTER X

 

THE SAVIORS OF ROYAL DESCENT, BUT HUMBLE BIRTH

77


CHAPTER XI

 

CHRIST'S GENEALOGY

79


CHAPTER XII

 

THE WORLD'S SAVIORS SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION IN INFANCY

83


CHAPTER XIII

 

THE SAVIORS EXHIBIT EARLY PROOFS OF DIVINITY

91


CHAPTER XIV

 

THE SAVIORS' KINGDOMS NOT OF THIS WORLD

94


CHAPTER XV

 

THE SAVIORS ARE REAL PERSONAGES

97


CHAPTER XVI

 

SIXTEEN SAVIORS CRUCIFIED

102


CHAPTER XVII

 

THE APHANASIA, OR DARKNESS, AT THE CRUCIFIXION

134


CHAPTER XVIII

 

DESCENT OF THE SAVIORS INTO HELL

140


CHAPTER XIX

 

RESURRECTION OF THE SAVIORS

144


CHAPTER XX

 

REAPPEARANCE AND ASCENSION OF THE SAVIORS

152


CHAPTER XXI

 

THE ATONEMENT: ITS ORIENTAL OR HEATHEN ORIGIN

156


CHAPTER XXII

 

THE HOLY GHOST OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN

165

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CHAPTER XXIII

 

THE DIVINE "WORD" OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN

178


CHAPTER XXIV

 

THE TRINITY VERY ANCIENTLY A CURRENT HEATHEN DOCTRINE

184


CHAPTER XXV

 

ABSOLUTION, OR THE CONFESSION OF SINS, OF HEATHEN ORIGIN

189


CHAPTER XXVI

 

ORIGIN OF BAPTISM BY WATER, FIRE, BLOOD, AND THE HOLY GHOST

192


CHAPTER XXVII

 

THE SACRAMENT OR EUCHARIST OF HEATHEN ORIGIN

200


CHAPTER XXVIII

 

ANOINTING WITH OIL OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN

204


CHAPTER XXIX

 

HOW MEN, INCLUDING JESUS CHRIST, CAME TO BE WORSHIPPED AS GODS

206


CHAPTER XXX

 

SACRED CYCLES EXPLAINING THE ADVENT OF THE GODS, THE MASTER-KEY TO THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST

225


CHAPTER XXXI

 

CHRISTIANITY DERIVED FROM HEATHEN AND ORIENTAL SYSTEMS

235


CHAPTER XXXII

 

THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX STRIKING ANALOGIES BETWEEN CHRIST AND CHRISHNA

256


CHAPTER XXXIII

 

APOLLONIUS, OSIRIS, AND MAGUS AS GODS

300


CHAPTER XXXIV

 

THE THREE PILLARS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH-MIRACLES, PROPHECIES, AND PRECEPTS

312

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CHAPTER XXXV

 

LOGICAL OR COMMON-SENSE VIEW OF THE DOCTRINE OF DIVINE INCARNATION.

354


CHAPTER XXXVI

 

PHILOSOPHICAL ABSURDITIES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE INCARNATION

362


CHAPTER XXXVII

 

PHYSIOLOGICAL ABSURDITIES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE INCARNATION

366


CHAPTER XXXVIII

 

A HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST

370


CHAPTER XXXIX

 

THE SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF CHRIST'S DIVINITY

376


CHAPTER XL

 

A METONYMIC VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST

390


CHAPTER XLI

 

THE PRECEPTS AND PRACTICAL LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST

393


CHAPTER XLII

 

CHRIST AS A SPIRITUAL MEDIUM

410


CHAPTER XLIII

 

CONVERSION, REPENTANCE, AND "GETTING RELIGION" OF HEATHEN ORIGIN.

413


CHAPTER XLIV

 

THE MORAL LESSONS OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY

424


CHAPTER XLV

 

CONCLUSION AND REVIEW

427

NOTE OF EXPLANATION

434

 


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