#060 Origins of Easter
Q: Why did Buddha break up with Jesus?
A: Jesus could only "arise" every three days.
"Easter celebrations were festivals of spring honoring Eostre, the great mother goddess of the Saxons. This name was fashioned after the ancient word for spring, Eastre. The goddess Ostara was the Norse equivalent whose symbols were the hare and the egg.
In the Mediterranean region, there was a spring celebration centered around the vernal equinox (March 20 or 21) that honored Cybele, the Phrygian goddess of fertility. Cybele’s consort, Attis, was considered born of a virgin and was believed to have died and been resurrected three days later. Attis derived his mythology from even earlier gods, Osiris, Dionysus, and Orpheus, who also were supposed to have been born of a virgin and suffered death and resurrection as long as 500 years b.c.e. The death of Attis was commemorated on a Friday and the resurrection was celebrated three days later on Sunday.
There are other Easter traditions that are pagan in origin. The Easter sunrise service is derived from the ancient pagan practice of welcoming the sun on the morning of the spring equinox, marking the beginning of spring. What we now call Easter lilies were revered by the ancients as symbols of fertility and representative of the male genitalia. The ancient Babylonian religions had rituals involving dyed eggs as did the ancient Egyptians." - Frater Stype
The early christian writers collected many myths popular of their time including spring equinox and resurrection myths, and reworked them to tell a new story. The new myth symbolized Jesus realization of divine nature, and the realization of our own divine nature.
When you extend your awareness past ego centrism to include other beings you rise from spiritual death and are born again as a son or daughter of God. Unfortunately they forgot to tell St. Paul this. St. Paul was not one for irony or subtle philosophy. He was a literalist who never met Jesus, and certainly didn't understand him. St. Paul gave u eXoteric Christianity. Esoteric Christians went into hiding in the egyptian desert. Led be Jesus's brother James, they started the desert fathers tradition and were called the Coptic christians. They chanted the mantra "Maranatha" (very loosely translated as "recieve God").
A: Jesus could only "arise" every three days.
"Easter celebrations were festivals of spring honoring Eostre, the great mother goddess of the Saxons. This name was fashioned after the ancient word for spring, Eastre. The goddess Ostara was the Norse equivalent whose symbols were the hare and the egg.
In the Mediterranean region, there was a spring celebration centered around the vernal equinox (March 20 or 21) that honored Cybele, the Phrygian goddess of fertility. Cybele’s consort, Attis, was considered born of a virgin and was believed to have died and been resurrected three days later. Attis derived his mythology from even earlier gods, Osiris, Dionysus, and Orpheus, who also were supposed to have been born of a virgin and suffered death and resurrection as long as 500 years b.c.e. The death of Attis was commemorated on a Friday and the resurrection was celebrated three days later on Sunday.
There are other Easter traditions that are pagan in origin. The Easter sunrise service is derived from the ancient pagan practice of welcoming the sun on the morning of the spring equinox, marking the beginning of spring. What we now call Easter lilies were revered by the ancients as symbols of fertility and representative of the male genitalia. The ancient Babylonian religions had rituals involving dyed eggs as did the ancient Egyptians." - Frater Stype
The early christian writers collected many myths popular of their time including spring equinox and resurrection myths, and reworked them to tell a new story. The new myth symbolized Jesus realization of divine nature, and the realization of our own divine nature.
When you extend your awareness past ego centrism to include other beings you rise from spiritual death and are born again as a son or daughter of God. Unfortunately they forgot to tell St. Paul this. St. Paul was not one for irony or subtle philosophy. He was a literalist who never met Jesus, and certainly didn't understand him. St. Paul gave u eXoteric Christianity. Esoteric Christians went into hiding in the egyptian desert. Led be Jesus's brother James, they started the desert fathers tradition and were called the Coptic christians. They chanted the mantra "Maranatha" (very loosely translated as "recieve God").