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supported a great variety of Eastern and Western gods and new god was proclaimed and "officially" ratified by Constantine goddesses: Jove, Jupiter, Salenus, Baal, Thor, Gade, Apollo, (Acta Concilii Nicaeni, 1618). That purely political act of Juno, Aries, Taurus, Minerva, Rhets, Mithra, Theo, Fragapatti, deification effectively and legally placed Hesus and Krishna Atys, Durga, Indra, Neptune, Vulcan, Kriste, Agni, Croesus, among the Roman gods as one individual composite. That Pelides, Huit, Hermes, Thulis, Thammus, Eguptus, lao, Aph, abstraction lent Earthly existence to amalgamated doctrines for Saturn, Gitchens, Minos, Maximo, Hecla and Phernes ( God's the Empire's new religion; and because there was no letter "J" in Book of Eskra, anon., ch. xlviii, paragraph 36). alphabets until around the ninth century, the name subsequently Up until the First Council of Nicaea, the Roman aristocracy evolved into "Jesus Christ". primarily worshipped two Greek gods—Apollo and Zeus—but the great bulk of common people idolised either Julius Caesar or How the Gospels were created Mithras (the Romanised version of the Persian deity Mithra). Constantine then instructed Eusebius to organise the Caesar was deified by the Roman Senate after his death (15 compilation of a uniform collection of new writings developed March 44 BC) and subsequently venerated as "the Divine Julius". from primary aspects of the religious texts submitted at the The word "Saviour" was affixed to his name, its literal meaning council. His instructions were: eing "one who sows the seed", i.e., he was a phallic god. Julius "Search ye these books, and whatever is good in them, that Caesar was hailed as "God made manifest and universal Saviour retain; but whatsoever is evil, that cast away. What is good in one of human life", and his successor Augustus book, unite ye with that which is good in was called the "ancestral God and Saviour of another book. And whatsoever is thus the whole human race" (Man and his Gods, brought together shall be called The Book of Homer Smith, Little, Brown & Co., Boston, Books. And it shall be the doctrine of my 1952). Emperor Nero (54-68), whose people, which I will recommend unto all original name was Lucius Domitius nations, that there shall be no more war for Ahenobarbus (37-68), was immortalised on religions’ sake." is coins as the "Saviour of mankind" (ibid.). (God's Book of Eskra, op. cit., chapter Ayn The Divine Julius as Roman Saviour and Constantine S xlviii, paragraph 31) "Father of the Empire" was considered "God" intention at Nicaea , a among the Roman rabble for more than 300 Make them to astonish" said Constantine, years. He was the deity in some Western was to create and "the books were written accordingly" resbyters' texts, but was not recognised in an entirely new god (Life of Constantine, vol. iv, pp. 36-39). Eastern or Oriental writings. . 4 Eusebius amalgamated the "legendary tales of Constantine's intention at Nicaea was for his empire all the religious doctrines of the world to create an entirely new god for his who would unite together as one", using the standard god- empire who would unite all religious aa . myths from the presbyters' manuscripts factions under one deity. Presbyters all religious factions as his exemplars. Merging the under one deity. were asked to debate and decide who supernatural "god" stories of Mithra and Krishna with British Culdean beliefs effectively joined the orations of Eastern and Western presbyters together "to form a new universal belief" (ibid.). Constantine believed that the amalgamated collection of myths would unite variant and opposing religious factions under one representative story. their new god would be. Delegates argued among themselves, expressing personal motives for inclusion of articular writings that promoted the finer traits of their own special deity. Throughout the meeting, howling factions were immersed in heated debates, and the names of 53 gods were tabled for discussion. "As yet, no God Eusebius then arranged for scribes to had been selected by the council, and so produce "fifty sumptuous copies ... to be they balloted in order to determine that matter... For one year and written on parchment in a legible manner, and in a convenient five months the balloting lasted..." (God's Book of Eskra, Prof. S. portable form, by professional scribes thoroughly accomplished in L. MacGuire's translation, Salisbury, 1922, chapter xlviii, their art" (ibid.). "These orders," said Eusebius, "were followed paragraphs 36, 41). by the immediate execution of the work itself ... we sent him At the end of that time, Constantine returned to the gathering to [Constantine] magnificently and elaborately bound volumes of discover that the presbyters had not agreed on a new deity but had three-fold and four-fold forms" (Life of Constantine, vol. iv, p. alloted down to a shortlist of five prospects: Caesar, Krishna, 36). They were the "New Testimonies", and this is the first Mithra, Horus and Zeus (Historia Ecclesiastica, Eusebius, c. mention (c. 331) of the New Testament in the historical record. 325). Constantine was the ruling spirit at Nicaea and he With his instructions fulfilled, Constantine then decreed that the ultimately decided upon a new god for them. To involve British New Testimonies would thereafter be called the "word of the factions, he ruled that the name of the great Druid god, Hesus, be Roman Saviour God" (Life of Constantine, vol. iii, p. 29) and joined with the Eastern Saviour-god, Krishna (Krishna is Sanskrit official to all presbyters sermonising in the Roman Empire. He for Christ), and thus Hesus Krishna would be the official name of _ then ordered earlier presbyterial manuscripts and the records of the new Roman god. A vote was taken and it was with a majority the council "burnt" and declared that "any man found concealing show of hands (161 votes to 157) that both divinities became one writings should be stricken off from his shoulders" (beheaded) God. Following longstanding heathen custom, Constantine used (ibid.). As the record shows, presbyterial writings previous to the the official gathering and the Roman apotheosis decree to legally Council of Nicaea no longer exist, except for some fragments that deify two deities as one, and did so by democratic consent. A have survived. new god was proclaimed and "officially" ratified by Constantine (Acta Concilii Nicaeni, 1618). That purely political act of deification effectively and legally placed Hesus and Krishna among the Roman gods as one individual composite. That abstraction lent Earthly existence to amalgamated doctrines for the Empire's new religion; and because there was no letter "J" in alphabets until around the ninth century, the name subsequently evolved into "Jesus Christ". Constantine's was to create an entirely new god for his empire who would unite all religious factions under one deity. JUNE — JULY 2007 NEXUS = 55 intention at Nicaea www.nexusmagazine.com