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The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors

The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors

by Kersey Graves

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Author
Graves, Kersey, 1813-1883
Title
The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors; Or, Christianity Before Christ
Credits
Produced by David Widger
Language
English
LoC Class
BL: Philosophy, Psychology, Religion: Religion: General, Miscellaneous and Atheism
Subject
Dying and rising gods -- Comparative studies
Category
Text
eBook-No.
38600
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38600
Release Date
January 17, 2012
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE WORLD'S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS
  2. 2.OR, CHRISTIANITY BEFORE CHRIST
  3. 3.By Kersey Graves
  4. 4.PREFACE.
  5. 5.PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
  6. 6.EXPLANATION
  7. 7.ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY.
  8. 8.THE WORLD'S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS.
  9. 9.CHAPTER I. RIVAL CLAIMS OF THE SAVIORS
  10. 10.CHAPTER II. MESSIANIC PROPHECIES
  11. 11.CHAPTER III. PROPHECIES BY THE FIGURE OF A SERPENT — The Seed of the Woman Bruising the Serpent's Head.
  12. 12.CHAPTER IV. MIRACULOUS AND IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE GODS
  13. 13.CHAPTER V. VIRGIN MOTHERS AND VIRGIN-BORN GODS
  14. 14.CHAPTER VI. STARS POINT OUT THE TIME AND THE SAVIORS' BIRTH-PLACE
  15. 15.CHAPTER VII. ANGELS, SHEPHERDS AND MAGI VISIT THE INFANT SAVIORS
  16. 16.CHAPTER VIII. THE TWENTY-FIFTH OF DECEMBER THE BIRTHDAY OF THE GODS.
  17. 17.CHAPTER IX. TITLES OF THE SAVIORS
  18. 18.CHAPTER X. THE SAVIORS OF ROYAL DESCENT, BUT HUMBLE BIRTH
  19. 19.CHAPTER XI. CHRIST'S GENEALOGY
  20. 20.CHAPTER XII. THE WORLD'S SAVIORS SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION IN INFANCY
  21. 21.SECTION II.—INCREDIBILITY OF THE STORY OF THE MASSACRE OF THE HEBREW INFANTS.
  22. 22.CHAPTER XIII. THE SAVIORS EXHIBIT EARLY PROOFS OF DIVINITY.
  23. 23.CHAPTER XIV. THE SAVIORS; KINGDOMS NOT OF THIS WORLD — Retirement and Forty Days' Fasting.
  24. 24.CHAPTER XV. THE SAVIORS WERE REAL PERSONAGES
  25. 25.CHAPTER XVI. SIXTEEN SAVIORS CRUCIFIED
  26. 26.CHAPTER XVII. THE APHANASIA, OR DARKNESS AT THE CRUCIFIXION.
  27. 27.CHAPTER XVIII. DESCENT OF THE SAVIORS INTO HELL.
  28. 28.CHAPTER XIX. RESURRECTION OF THE SAVIORS
  29. 29.CHAPTER XX. REAPPEARANCE AND ASCENSION OF THE SAVIORS.
  30. 30.CHAPTER XXI. THE ATONEMENT—ITS ORIENTAL OR HEATHEN ORIGIN.
  31. 31.CHAPTER XXII. THE HOLY GHOST OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN
  32. 32.CHAPTER XXIII. THE DIVINE "WORD" OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN. — The Word as Creator, as Second Person of the Trinity, and its Pre-Existence.
  33. 33.CHAPTER XXIV. THE TRINITY VERY ANCIENTLY A CURRENT HEATHEN DOCTRINE
  34. 34.CHAPTER XXV. ABSOLUTION, AND THE CONFESSION OF SINS, OF HEATHEN ORIGIN
  35. 35.CHAPTER XXVI. ORIGIN OF BAPTISM BY WATER, FIRE, BLOOD AND THE HOLY GHOST
  36. 36.CHAPTER XXVII. THE SACRAMENT OR EUCHARIST OF HEATHEN ORIGIN
  37. 37.CHAPTER XXVIII. ANOINTING WITH OIL OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN
  38. 38.CHAPTER XXIX. HOW MEN, INCLUDING JESUS CHRIST, CAME TO BE WORSHIPED AS GODS
  39. 39.CHAPTER XXX. SACRED CYCLES EXPLAINING THE ADVENT OF THE GODS — The Master-Key to the Divinity of Jesus Christ.
  40. 40.CHAPTER XXXI. CHRISTIANITY DERIVED FROM HEATHEN AND ORIENTAL SYSTEMS
  41. 41.CHAPTER XXXII. THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX STRIKING ANALOGIES BETWEEN CHRIST AND CHRISHNA
  42. 42.CHAPTER XXXIII. APOLLONIUS, OSIRIS, MAGUS, ETC.—GODS
  43. 43.CHAPTER XXXIV. THE THREE PILLARS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH—MIRACLES, PROPHECIES, AND PRECEPTS
  44. 44.CHAPTER XXXV. LOGICAL OR COMMON SENSE VIEW OF THE DOCTRINE OF DIVINE INCARNATION
  45. 45.CHAPTER XXXVI. PHILOSOPHICAL ABSURDITIES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE INCARNATION
  46. 46.CHAPTER XXXVII. PHYSIOLOGICAL ABSURDITIES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE INCARNATION
  47. 47.CHAPTER XXXVIII. A HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST.
  48. 48.CHAPTER XXXIX. THE SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF CHRIST'S DIVINITY.
  49. 49.CHAPTER XL. A METONYMIC VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST
  50. 50.CHAPTER XLI. THE PRECEPTS AND PRACTICAL LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST; HIS TWO HUNDRED ERRORS
  51. 51.CHAPTER XLII. CHRIST AS A SPIRITUAL MEDIUM
  52. 52.CHAPTER XLIII. CONVERSION, REPENTANCE, AND "GETTING RELIGION" OF HEATHEN ORIGIN
  53. 53.CHAPTER XLIV. THE MORAL LESSONS OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY.
  54. 54.CHAPTER XLV. CONCLUSION AND REVIEW.
  55. 55.NOTES

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