What is universe and what is cosmology

c2) Political Religion

Human civilization grew up from its cradle to adulthood under the rule of monocracy. All past kings and emperors were autocrats or monocrats but not all monocracies or dictatorships are repressive and bad. In fact, great historic feasts have been achieved by great kings and great emperors who are praised and proudly remembered in each country. On the other hand, Hitler is a known and scorned dictator, yet he was elected and empowered by a modern democratic system. Saddam Hussein, who is presently on trial for crime against humanity, also claims to have been elected by the similar system. It's not the formality or mode of a political system that gives memorable leaderships, good or bad, it's the quality of leadership that brings to the nation praise or scorn. It's also the misbelieve of people and the misuse of political system by ambitious and demented men that usually bring the nation and the world at large human atrocities. Since the prehistoric time, humans have been worshipping gods or spirits under all kinds of different religions. But of all religions, only the monotheistic God (one God religion) of Roman Catholic has been the single biggest dictator or autocrat ruler there could possibly be. Even its church is today still the only remaining true monocracy on earth, not only in its religious belief, but also in its mode of electing a Pope. The Christian God is described as the Maker, the Father, the Almighty, the Lord, the Mater, the Supreme Being, or anything one can think of an absolute super super autocratic authority. He must be feared or loved or whatever the priests make Him to be. Believers must kneel and beg or pray for His mercy and forgiveness. Since there is nothing greater, He has been therefore the biggest dictator there could possibly be! Yet, no one has ever shown or proved what He is, or complained about His dictatorship! However, history describes that such a monotheistic religion was a direct political creation dated back to the 4th century by Roman emperor Constantine I... So, let us look into that historic background...

According to history, the Roman Empire had already fallen into disorder on and off since middle of the 1st century AD, but during 3rd century the imperial control collapsed into a whole century of anarchy (AD 193~286), and the Roman society went into a total confusion after seemingly endless time of lawless and dangerous social chaos and also hopeless moral deterioration, especially towards the end of the 3rd century. Then in 296 AD soldier Diocletian was supported by his troop and friends to claim the crown as emperor. Diocletian barely managed to refound the Roman State. He divided the Empire into Western and Eastern Roma Empires, each with an emperor and a deputy emperor. He then shared half of the empire with his friend Maximian who had been his trusted comrade, and proceed with the help of his supporters to restore orders in that vast and troubled empire. During those long centuries of anarchic conditions, the new belief of Christianity was growing from the East into the West towards Rome, while the Empire predominantly worshipped Pagan religion. Because in ancient societies religion played a vital role in the rule of the land, the difference between the monotheistic Christian God and the Pagan plural gods further added conflicting chaos to the already anarchic havoc of the empire, especially as the invading belief was a foreign cult trying to take over the traditional Pagan belief. Diocletian tried to clean up Christianity with extreme measures, such as putting Christians in the Colosseum to be killed, but it was too late. He did not succeed in annihilating Christianity, instead, he had only caused the Christian martyrdom to blaze forth, and made it more resolute (Note:- Suicidal passions can and do inflame into great blaze, as we are often reminded of, or witness at times).

However, Diocletian and his successor emperor Constantine both were forced to accept that imperial affairs could not function at all unless their imperial subjects were made to worship gods in a manageable way. At that time Pagan religion, a polytheistic religion (believing in multiple gods) was the predominant religious belief.. Paganism in fact by then had already far reaching and deeply rooted tradition passed down from distant Roman history (as can be evidenced by their place of worship, the magnificent Pantheon, which still stands in Rome today), but at this time it had begun to collapse into chaos and corruption in Rome. Despite Diocletian's great efforts to reorganize and inject new life into Pagan religion, and his brutal persecution of the Christians, but his efforts were infertile. It was impossible to re-energize and revitalize an old religious belief already out of control, while a new religion was rising to take place. The fact is in most ancient societies religion was everything. Rulers were said to be empowered, supported or directly sent by God or Gods, and therefore imperial authorities were in fact heaven's will. Now, the anarchic Roman Empire had conflicting gods, and it was getting worse. Something urgent had to be done. So, a few years later, Diocletian's successor emperor Constantine completely reverted the whole efforts made by Diocletian. Constantine decided that the only way to revert the chaos was to change polytheism to monotheism, although his own actions were extremely self conflicting. He was probably influenced by Christians during his childhood in the Eastern provinces where he grew up and where Christianity was expanding. Also during the great persecution of Christians by Diocletian, he was probably approached and convinced by desperate Christian relatives from his mother's side of the family.

Anyway, after a century of anarchy, added by religious turmoil and Diocletian's unsuccessful attempt to eliminate the spreading Christianity, it's not difficult to imagine the problem. Constantine eventually decided that the new Christian belief could be the solution to the conflicting situation. In fact, he decided to amalgamate the two beliefs into one, and to change the polytheistic Paganism which had been the empire's long traditional belief. Only once he had started, there was no way to return. Anyhow, he took some of the most controversial actions recorded in history. He claimed to be ordained to rule by both the Pagan Sun God and the Christian God. While he kept his life long official title as the Supreme Priest of the Pagan God, he also officially converted himself into Christian. Yet, it was also he who had instituted Christian worships into Roman Empire, and built Christian churches by looting from Pagan temples. He then gave the Christian church special privileges and authority, which would later evolve to become more powerful than European monarchs. He claimed to have been "sent by God (Christian) to suppress the impiety". Yet he would use the age old and deeply rooted Pagan traditions and convert them into the new Christianity in syncretism. For instance, the great festivities of December 25th, which traditionally celebrated the birthday of Pagan sun god Mithra, was officially adopted into Christianity, and renamed "Christmas", the birthday of Jesus. So, whatever he could not remove from Pagan worship, it would later be converted into Christian worship. In fact what he had done was to simply kept the essence and core of Pagan worship and gave them the new identity of Christianity. In that way he unified the two conflicting worships into Christianity and allowed Paganism to remain in the heart of the worship, yet in meantime, to disappear mysteriously.

In that conflicting time, Constantine relocate his imperial seat and himself to the safety of the more Christian but far away Eastern Empire's Byzantium, where he began to build his new capital and renamed it Constantinople (originally belonged to ancient Greece, today it is Istanbul of Turkey), leaving Rome, or the Western Roman Empire in its wake of slow but thorough redefinition of religious conversion. As once he embarked on the road of such massive change, there was no way for him to return, and since ancient rulers were supposed to be given power by gods, divine will was the major source of authority that an emperor depended upon to rule, the conversion must have been more difficult and complex than words could explain, as a result much historical details of such conversion have become obscured today. Emperor Constantine on the one hand claimed to be a Christian, and on the other retained his title as "Pontifex Maximus", which was the High Priest of the Pagan religion, which is still used in Christianity today. Also after he was baptized as a Christian, he changed the Christian observance of Sabbath day, or Saturday (One of Ten Commandments), into the Pagan day of sun worship, namely Sunday (Pagans worshipped sun), which is also still being observed today as a "holy day". He also replaced the Christian worship of "Passover" with Pagan "Easter", which too is still observed today. But, outwardly he promoted Christianity. In his last years of life, he stepped up the efforts. Many Pagan temples were emptied, or destroyed, or replaced with Christian churches. Constantine therefore single handedly and forcibly merged the two religions and called it Christianity. He then empowered Christian church such privileges and authorities that would later enable the church to evolve into an absolute political power, and ruled above all European monarchs with its own army and navy. In fact the whole Europeans civilization was put into a Dark Age that lasted until the Renaissance. None believers were called heretics. Only 400 years ago heretics were still burnt alive in public.

Much of the historical details during the transformation of Paganism to Christianity had been obscured since the days of Emperor Constantine. Something secret or unspeakable have had come to pass during those days that defies logics, for instance, Jesus was trial, judged, condemned for blasphemy against God and put to death under Roman imperial law for claiming to be the Son of God. Of course God never agreed, so in fact Jesus' crime of blasphemy still stands today. And yet it turned out that in the end Jesus became the official idol of worship of the Roman Empire as their Son of God, and Paganism simply mysteriously disappeared in name although the Biblical story of Jesus coincides with the description of life story of Mithras, the Pagan sun god... In fact, in recent years a great deal of new information have come to the surface that portray Jesus as none other than one of the ancient mythological gods similar to those in Egypt, Greece, Persia and India. All of such descriptions are historical records, which without doubt will continue to come to light from Indian and Middle Eastern histories, despite the recent collective efforts to prove that Jesus and Christian Bible are real... So, the mystery is getting more intriguing and attracting more attention each day... So, please read on.... In the following paragraphs I shall try to relate the history in some details...

Note:- As already said, much of history and background of the rise of Christianity had been obscured or disputed. Yet in view of the extent of mystery and deliberation, it is quite obvious. However today, it is only possible to put together the bits and pieces of historical information in order to understand the true picture. Constantine's withdrawal to Byzantium was for reasons as described above and not for strategic purpose, as some scholars portray it to be, because Rome in those years was still in chaotic shape and to build a second Rome in Byzantium was a huge project, which Rome could ill afford after centuries of chaos and anarchic conditions. Constantine had to loot from Pagan temples to pay for some constructions of Constantinople. Besides, there was no urgency or immediate strategic compulsion at the time to move the Roman capital, especially to a conquered hostile land that had different language and culture. Constantine was a ruthless emperor and his time was incredibly treacherous, cruel and dangerous.

In ancient times winners of wars would usually claim to be supported or inspired by Gods. Divine power was therefore the super natural force that was effectively used to rule the simple minded common folks and also energized many wars and conquests through out history, even in this modern age of science, soldiers would be charged up with prayers and priestly sermons before going to battle. This is the secret that hugely differentiate the use of religion in the West and in the East... In those long days of strife and chaos, which had led to total anarchy in Roman Empire during the early centuries, all the more the imperial authority had to depend on divine power. This was what eventually made church more powerful than monarchs. Although religion helped to conquer, it also forced Europe into more than 1500 years of darkened and oppressed civilization. Military conquests, religious wars and religious injustices during the medieval Dark Ages cost untold loss of life and sufferings...

Let's look quickly into the time of Emperor Constantine. It was said that Constantine claimed to have two godly visions, the first one was a Pagan vision, which occurred when he was a votary (devoted worshiper) of the Sun God at the Pagan Grand Temple of the Sun. In fact he proclaimed the Sun as his Comrade, for which he cast his commitment to the "Invincible Sun" in his nation wide coinage and devoted himself to that cult. So his claim and his image became a permanent record, because once those coins were issued, they went through the entire empire, which covered a huge area from Europe, Middle East, all the ways to Africa. And yet at the same time he claimed to have become a Christian. In fact he claimed to have also a Christian vision. The Christian vision was said to have occurred during battle with his brother-in-law Maxentius. Constantine claimed that he saw a cross in the sky (see picture below, the light reflections of stars or cosmic objects.).. [Note:- Another version written by Christian apologist Lactantius described that the vision was a dream. Lactantius was the teacher of Constantine's eldest son Crispus. One more version described that he saw in sky a Christian monogram with words on it]... He then painted the shields of his troops with a Christian monogram and won the battle (the image on the lower right is almost a Christian monogram). So he claimed to have a special relationship with the Christian God, who had sent him "to suppress the impiety". Thus both claims of support from Pagan and from Christian Gods were to become records of history. Amazing!

Yet those were the days. In early history, references to multiple gods were not uncommon. It would appear gods were jealous of each other, as the Ten Commandment stipulates " You shall not have other gods before me... for I, the lord your God, am a jealous God...". Such statement clearly shows that Jewish God admitted there were more gods than one. That was obvious, because Moses had just led the Jews out of Egypt where only multiple gods were worshipped. But this God was not yet Christian God. This was just the God of Judaism because the Jews never took up the worship of Christianity, not even today. In Moses days, heaven and earth was crowded with all sorts of gods. History shows that only some 1700 years later, Emperor Constantine made this Jewish God also Roman Christian God, and then slowly all other gods were made to disappear in the Christian universe. The enforcement of this single God would become so strong and oppressive that drove the entire European civilization into darkness, called the Dark Age, that lasted well over one millennium in total.

At the time of Constantine, Roman Empire having undergone a century of anarchy, was very treacherous indeed. Because traditionally, the Roman worship was Paganism, now the invasion of the new cult of Christianity from the eastern region added more havoc to the anarchic conditions. In that havoc some of the most strange things happened that would be completely obscured by history till this day. Firstly, neither in the records of civil history nor in religious history God had ever agreed or accepted that Jesus was his son. In fact, Jesus was condemned to death because of such blasphemous claims, yet without God's permission Jesus was worshipped as God's only son. This would mean that not only the crime of blasphemy was never exonerated, but it has been passed onto all followers. There seems to be a serious conflict somewhere. Secondly, the Biblical story of Jesus' life was in fact also the life story of Mithra, the very idol of Sun God, worshipped by the Roman Pagans at the time. How did Roman imperial power manage to succeed enforcing the change from the idol of Mithra to the idol of Jesus, and from a polytheistic religion to a monotheistic religion, and yet keeping the same essential contents or the same story for both religions and both idols of worship? Was that why oppressive Dark Age had resulted. However, we will come back to this later. Now let me continue with Roman history.

A soldier of humble origin, Diocletian, supported by his close friends and troops, rose to power and proclaimed himself emperor. Emperor Diocletian barely refounded the scattered empire. He split the empire into West and East Empires, and made his trusted friend and colleague Maximian as the emperor of Eastern Empire. He also created a joint emperor or deputy emperor in both Eastern and Western empire, and therefore shared power with his comrades... Any way, according to some sources Diocletian had decided that it was impossible to rule unless the invading Christianity was eradicated, especially since Christianity was a foreign cult. So he inflicted dreadful persecutions on the Christians in his attempt to wipe them out, but he failed. He had only succeeded in inflaming resistance and created waves of Christian martyrs (a phenomenon often occurs when religions are threatened). However, Diocletian was smart. He knew things were getting out of hand and decided to retire. So he built himself a nice palace and abdicated to live in peace. He also advised and forced his close comrade Maximian to abdicate with him, but Maximian restored his title briefly to make his own son Maxentius deputy emperor. It's a long story. The following shows briefly what the time was like.

Emperor Constantine was the emperor who had caused all the change of worship referred to above. Constantine was the eldest son of Deputy Emperor Constantius and his first wife Helena. Let's go over the story quickly. History relates that Constantius divorced Helena to marry emperor Maximian's step daughter Theordora. Maximian (a trusted personal friend of Emperor Diocretian) then helped Constantius to become a deputy emperor. Upon Constantius' death, his son Constantine also married one of Maximian's daughter Fausta as his second wife and so Maximiam legitimated and recognized Constantine's claim to succeed his father's title ( in those days titles were not hereditary). Thus both father Constantius and son Constantine were sons-in-law of Maximian. They were both made deputy emperors by Maximiam.. Maximian's own son Maxentius was also supported by Maximian to become a deputy emperor. However, here history became largely obscured, because later some strong disagreements aroused that caused young Maxentius to reject his own retired father. Old man Maximian then went to join son-in-law Constantine, who had by then become powerful. But somehow two men also turned against each other, so strongly that Maximian was killed or ordered by Constantine to commit suicide. Thus Constantine killed his father-in-law who not only put him and his own father in power, but also made them emperors and close relatives... Then the two brothers-in-law Maxentius and Constantine ended up in battles, this was when Constantine had the highly aclaimed Christian vision and Maxentius was killed in defeat... Then later on, Constantine had his wife Fausta, sister of Maxentius, also slain. And again, in another part of the story, emperor Constantine's sister Constantia was married to Lichinius, also a deputy emperor, who was also killed by Constantine in battle, aided by Constantine's son Crispus.

Constatine I had 4 sons, Crispus, Constantius (Junior), Constantine (Junior) and Constans. For some reason Constantine had his own eldest son Crispus, by his first wife, also slain. By that time Crispus was already made a deputy emperor and had won some important battles for his father. After killing Crispus, Constantine promoted his 3rd son Constantine (Junior), who later succeeded his father as emperor Constantine II. As soon as Constantine II ascended the throne he tried to control his own bother Constans who refused. So the two brother also ended up in battle, in which Constantine II was killed. To cut the story short, after Constantine's death, the rest of his 4 sons eventually were all killed in power struggles... Since Constantine's wife, all his children and relatives were killed in that historic time when religious belief was a vital ingredient in the rule of land, and Paganism and Christianity were locked in battle for survival. It would appear that nothing else could have caused the terrible bloodshed between family members, and it's reasonable to deduce that Constantine's decisions to replace Paganism with Christianity had brought the family nothing but a colossal tragic fate... Anyway, after Christianity became well established, Constantine was hailed as Constantine, the Great, and his mother, who was hinter reason behind Constantine's actions, was made Saint Helen in Christianity.

As already said, a great deal of historical account regarding Constantine's decision to kill his father-in-law Maximian, his own wife and his first born son Crispus had been obscured. Normally it would be difficult to imagine why Constantine should kill his own wife, son, his closest family with such extreme loyal family bond and such most trusted political allies who had already put him in power, and would continue to help his rule of the empire. It's even more unusual, especially Maximian not only had put Constantine but also his father both in the throne and gave them his daughters. And Crispus also had won a few important battles for his father. Therefore, the reason was clearly not political or personal but it had to do with something totally confusing but extreme that was going on at the time, something that had to do with the pro and anti forces during the conversion of religions. All these tragic records of history high lighted the unnatural birth of Christianity and intrigues about the existence of Jesus. But this is not all, Christianity went on to become the ruling absolute political power in Europe, and despite the unforgettable Dark Age, it had conquered the mind and heart of Europe till today.

Imagine such was the time and birth of Christianity, and such was the man, Constantine I, who had single handedly installed Christianity to power, then gave it authority and special privileges. These privileges would later evolve to rule above all authorities of European monarchs and plunged Europe into centuries of Dark Age. How can such a killer of own wife, son and the close relatives who had helped him to success be truly religious? This was a ruler who believed in nothing. He did not believe even the fatherly senior emperor who had made his father and himself emperor, gave them his daughters. He also did not believe his wife, his eldest son, his brothers-in-law both from his wife's side and his sister's side. Because if he could believe, he would not have killed each and every one of them. And how could he possibly have been inspired with two godly visions, one by Pagan plural gods and the other by the singular Christian God? Especially he had already committed himself for good as Sun god's comrade by casting it on his coinage. These two sets of Gods could never have both existed in any same reality. But, this is the same religion that relentlessly wants to conquer the rest of mankind...

The mystery deepens when some historical facts are brought in for examination. Firstly, on March 7th 321 AD, shortly before killing his wife and eldest son, Constantine the Great ( although nothing great about this person at all ) proclaimed a new law that would change the Christian observance of Sabbath, which was originally Saturday ( the day of Saturn or the 7th day ) to Sunday ( the day of Sun or the 1st day ), which was the day of worship in Pagan religion. Secondly, 4 years later in 325 AD, still under the reign of Constantine (who died in May 337 AD ), the original Christian Feast of Passover was officially replaced by Pagan festival of Easter, which was a ritual worship of Sun goddess. Thirdly, after he had converted to Christianity he continued to hold the title "Pontifex Maximus", which was the office or title for High Priest in Paganism. Fourthly, in AD 350 Constantine officially adopted Pagan Sun God Mithra's birthday Dec 25th to be the birthday of Jesus. All above practices are still observed by the Christians today. Fifthly, after Constantine had claimed to be a Christian, he cast the coin with inscription "Sol Invicto Comiti", meaning "I am committed to the Invincible Sun". But there are lots more, which I shall relate later on...

These records reveal that Constantine's conversion from Paganism to Christianity involved huge contradictions. In fact, it turned out to be a syncretism of the two worships, just as Paganism whose main god, the Sun god or Mithra, was evolved directly from the ancient Persian or Iranian god Mithras. By combining the two worships and adopting the ritual feasts of Paganism, Constantine had merely change the name from Paganism to Christianity, thereby affording Paganism to disappear mysteriously from history. Perhaps because of the tragic conflict and bloodshed in Constantine's family, he and his mother Helen had become so hardened that they decided to merge the two religions and call the product Christianity. Such would be the need in a time of violent confusion and anarchy during the 2nd to 4tth century, and in a society where religious forces regulated and governed human actions. But why Jesus, the human figure, had so many similarities with the descriptions of ancient pure mythological deities? And how did he evolve to become the center of worship, since he was judged and punished for claiming to be Son of God, and God had never agreed. There seems to be total lack of authentic historical explanation describing the transformation...

Note: Many early historical religious deities had profound similarities, for instance, Apollo, Hercules, Zeus, Prometheus of Greece, Buddha, Krishna (or Christna), Indra of India, Hesus of Druids, Horus, Osiris of Egypt, Tammuz of Syria, and many more, especially Mithra of Persia, the bull slaying soldiers' god. Some of these mythological gods were born of Virgin Mother, in a stable and witnessed by 3 wise men or Magi from the East on Dec 25th. Some of these deities died or crucified on the Cross and resurrected from dead then ascended to Heaven. Some of them had 12 disciples and had a Last Supper. Many were born to be the Messiah. They are more or less all called the Teacher, the Master, the Truth, the Lord, the Light, the Life, the Saviour, the Shepherd, the Redeemer, and the Son of God. Many of them were seen to have walked on water and performed miracles. Most of them have something to do with the Cross, etc, etc... There are also parallel stories of Christmas and Easter...

[Note:- In recent years many scholars and historians have become interested in digging out the early Christian history and development. As a result more and more revelations are coming forth from the Indian and Middle Eastern historical sources, but it's barely the very beginning of such intriguing discoveries and revelations. They are becoming more and more fascinating each day because of their great influence to the past and present human belief. Meanwhile there are also great efforts using modern science trying to sustain the histories of those supernatural beliefs...

However, there is nothing "Holly" or "Devine" or "Godly" about the "Cross". In the simple science of mutual induction between electricity and magnetism, if an electric charge is set to motion or accelerate, it will induce a magnetic moment at 90º. As the motion continues, then magnetic moment will also induce back an electric charge also at 90º. The repeat of electromagnetic induction always at 90º forms Cross of light. This principle is used to drive an electric motor by giving it electric current, which produces turning moment of magnetic force. This is called the Lenz Law. The solar system is an electric system (atoms contain electrons and protons), which produces a slowly rotating magnetic field. When viewed from earth this rotating magnetic field may appear as a Cross of light, or a 6 spike star, or a 12 equal division called the "Zodiac". It all depends the angle of reflection and atmospheric interference. The light of the Cross is more concentrated, therefore stronger. Many ancient mythological religions worshipped the Cross, and the Zodiac symbolized the 12 disciples. Such religions were mainly sun worshippers, and in time the homage evolved slightly in different cultures.

However as religion was a deeply rooted force that once controlled the early human mind, in fact it had once become the rule of land, it is not surprising and quite understandable that in ancient Rome a political religion related to the worship of sun or Paganism would be needed to centralized the various traditions and cults in that vast empire... But Roman empire was dead and buried long ago and we are now living in space age. In fact, humans are traveling in the heavens these days. In my mind religions are fine and belief in after life is welcome, the danger arises only when a religious energy is used for political ends and turns into a relentless ideological or military force. Such religion then tries to control the mind of believers by controlling the appointment of leading priests. Because the practice of repeated Sunday congregation, and the conducted or guided prayers are extremely powerful psychological tools and influence on the mass. For instance, in time of national crisis, say in times of war, a priest may conduct a mass prayer for peace, and hence restrain emotion and actions. Alternatively, the same priest may guide you to pray for courage, or promise of everlasting life, or sing a marching hymn, which would lead you to fight and die. It all depends on what the priest might do, and who controls the priest, or how willing a priest wants to be controlled.

All of this is because conducted mass meetings or guided prayers is a powerful and persuasive psychological tool, and a trained priest knows how to use it. After 2000 years of preaching experiences, there are naturally plenty of ways, techniques, references and records for use to train a priest. And a trained priest knows exactly how to use them to preach and guide a congregation. Human emotions and passions are infectious, contagious and transferable, Hitler used to work himself up to a screaming pitch and listeners followed him to make many wars (now scientists have found that even chimps can do that). Even church followers are initiated into faithful memberships by sworn oath and by ritual of baptism, naturally such requirements for a priesthood would be much more strict, stringent and binding. In the recent years some over 200 priests had been condemned with sexual offense. They had all been fined with money but not dismissed... In fact, no priests had ever gone to jail in the entire history. There is an enormous amount of tightly controlled secrets involved. That's why after centuries or millenniums of years, the masses of believers, even scholars, are still unaware of the proper history and development of their churches, or of what they are told to believe?

There has been a big fight going on historically between religious authorities and national authorities for the appointment of priests or the control of the organization, resulting in many religious sets breaking away from control of Vatican. A foreign controlled congregation could act as political Trojan Horse, especially when followers are initiated by sworn oath or baptism. One and a half centuries ago, a Christian revolt lasted 16 years and cost millions of Chinese lives... The influence of a congregation makes it difficult not to join mass action, especially for inexperienced youthful believers. When a super natural belief takes hold of the human mind, the result is always extreme passion and fanaticism. Because there is no logic in belief, therefore anything is possible! In some churches, during mass praying sections, followers are repeatedly excited and induced to tears. They would cry out loud together in emotions for their Lord and Master. In extreme cases, now and then a whole congregation would commit mass suicide. This is because conducted or guided prayer is such a massive, infectious and persuasive force in the sub-conscience. It is something to watch out in the age of nuclear weapons.

However, not all religions practice guided prayers or conducted belief. The Chinese ancestral worship and the Chinese version of Buddhism are individually and privately motivated spiritual beliefs. Through personal meditation or ancestral love and family education they search to reach inner harmony with divine nature, or peace and perfection of ones own soul. Believers are not congregated in weekly meetings. There are no priests to guide your prayers or your belief. And they had never been used by politicians for power politics, riots, mass demonstrations or wars, at least never in China. When there is no party politics to grab power or no leaders to arouse mass emotions, how can there be unrests and bloodshed? When religions teach search for inner perfection, how can a society not be peaceful and harmonious? Although the Chinese had never conquered any lands, they also had never conquered themselves through irrational beliefs. Theirs is the age old legacy of ancestral worship, Chinese Buddhism and Confucian philosophy.

[Note:- It is a pity, recently a couple of politicians in Taiwan have taken up new influences and strange motivations, as a result, there is not a single day of peace and harmony in that island these days. It appears that those totally irresponsible politicians are leading or forcing not only the gentle natured, tradition loving, wonderful people of Taiwan to a disastrous future, but also to the politicians' own personal tragedy. Towards the end of Feb 2007 Taiwan people woke up one morning to find that their school text book of Chinese history has been altered without prior and proper permission from the people. The present leader in Taiwan is so blinded by record breaking corruptions before the whole world that he cannot see straight any more. Perhaps he thinks his foreign friends could help him, but he is about to get a huge surprise soon. Even the oldest and biggest crooks in Taiwan are beginning to realize that. There is not a slightest doubt about it!.. ]

There is also a common stem that comes from the mythological worship of the Sun's daily setting and rising, as the cross symbolizes the sun (hence crucifixion on cross, resurrection), the 12 Zodiacal Mansions (12 disciples or followers), the Ecliptic and Celestial Equator (also the Cross), the Light, Truth (righteousness) and the life giver (depiction of Sun), the Son (Sun) of God, the Virgin (symbol of purity, un-worldliness, the original or ancient beginning of the Zodiac, Virgo), the walking on water (Sun's reflection or rays over water), Dec 25th (3 days after Winter Solstice gives new Sun), Mar 21st (Spring Equinox or Easter gives Resurrection), etc, etc.. These phenomena all describe the Sun. Many scholars and historians maintain that Jesus, the man, never existed. He is but a concocted mythological existence (or an improved version of ) just like many of the mythological deities created in various ancient cultures. It makes good sense, if one examines the strong and numerous similarities between the different deities as well as the mythological details of their birth and life against the actual historical records of Jesus. It's also quite impossible that Jesus, the human, should have similar legendary story as those mythological deities that predated Jesus by many centuries. The life story of Jesus is practically the same as the legendary sun god Mithra who was the most popular Pagan sun god of Roman Empire at the time of conversion to Christianity.

I have barely touched the surface here. There are many books on this subject of similarity between Jesus and above said mythological deities, i.e. books like " The Origins of Christianity and quest for Historical Jesus Christ", "Christ conspiracy, the greatest story ever sold", "Suns of God, Krishna, Buddha and Christ unveiled", by Acharyas S. etc,... There are many older book-form encyclopedias and books describing the life of the above mythological deities, also web-sites and web encyclopedias, such as "en.Wikipedia.org", " toolong.com", "truthbeknown.com", to name just a few, but there are lots more. Gradually new publications on history of religions in different ancient cultures are revealing close similarity in their stem and creation. They would undoubtedly change the entire belief in the belief of religious stories in the coming decades. The life stories of all the mentioned historic deities are very interesting. They also show the correlation and evolution of religions in the East, Middle East and Europe..

Now, let's go back to Paganism. The Roman Pagan worship that flourished during the 1st to 5th century in Europe and the whole of Roman Empire was the direct adaptation the Persian (or Iranian) religion. The central figure was the sun god, Mithra. He was the god of heavenly light, all-seeing, the guardian of oath, protector of the righteous in this world and the next. And above all, as arch-foe of the powers of evil and darkness, he slays the sacred bull. Therefore he was also the god of battles or wars, which was probably why emperor Constantine and Crusaders had marked their soldiers' shields with a cross. It also reminds us of the song "Onward Christian soldiers...", the Crusaders, etc... The belief was strengthened by Christian success in Southern America, and other colonies. But the real nature of Mithra was and still is hidden behind the human image of Jesus.

Lef:t- Mithra is seen slaying the bull

The following is the brief account of Mithra's mythological legend. "The similarities between Jesus and Mithras are many. Mithras was born on December 25th of virgin birth, the son of the primary Persian deity, Ahura-Mazda. His birth was witnessed by shepherds and magi. He was reputed to have raised from the dead, healed the sick and cast out demons. He had a Lord's Supper. His day of worship was Sunday. He was killed and resurrected, returned to heaven on the spring equinox after a last meal with his 12 disciples (representing the signs of the zodiac), eating "mizd" - a piece of bread marked with a cross (an almost universal symbol of the sun). The Mithraic cult peaked around the year 300 AD when it became the official religion of the Roman empire. At that time, in every town and city, in every military garrison and outpost from Syria to the Scottish frontier, was to be found a Mithraeum and officiating priests of the cult. This is not to suggest that the Mithraic cult was the only factor in this syncretization, many pagan gods had similar aspects of mythology (e.g. resurrection, virgin mother etc)..."... The above description could easily be from the Internet in the first half of 2006 and before. Now it is advisable for readers to buy one of the many books on Mithra's life. I would recommend one of the books by Acharyas S.

This historic Mithra cult was exclusively for the male, fighters and soldiers, even bandits in secrecy. Females are not allowed. The committed or initiated members must under go various degrees and ordeals of intensive ritual initiation, such as purification, including baptism, according to different levels of ranks. The mark of ranks would be painted on the forehead of the initiated to mark him henceforth as a recruit in the army of Mithra, sworn to combat the enemy or the evil. At the head of each group was a Pater (Father) or a priest, and at each large center or organization was a Pater Patrum, a leader or a bishop. During the rituals of worship the devoted would wear the mark of his rank on the forehead and a cross will be painted on the forehead of the leading priest. The slaying of the bull was a central theme in Pagan chapels, called the "spelaea" (grottoes), which were often caves or underground crypts.

The scene of Mithra slaying bull was the crowning episode in the Mithraic myth and in its rituals. The scene normally included a scorpion attacking the genitals of the bull, a serpent drinking its blood and a dog springing towards the wound in its side. Sun-god raven, lion and ewer were some times added, depicting the attack on the enemy or victim by the allies in coalition, using any means available. And framing the scene was the signs of Zodiac... Although Mathraism was the main worship, it never became officially the cult of Roman Empire, big and small groups were controlled in private hands. The above description fits well the structure of some secret societies and sets. Paganism are still worshipped today by some. It's also obvious that some such secret worships or secret societies and brotherhoods exist today, which are direct legacies of the ancient past, believing that the invincible Sun god would give them powers to conquer and win wars. Emperor Constantine never lost a war, but practically all his conquests and victories were the lives of his relatives and his own family...

Emperor Constantine's blending Paganism with Christianity left many other traces showing that it was no coincidence, nor just a passing event. For instance, in the early images of Jesus and disciples, even the angels, a halo (or Sun) would be seen on their heads, but Jesus alone would have a halo and a cross on his head (the High Priest or leading priest of Paganism worn a cross on his forehead).

Both left and right images show a cross only inside the halo on Jesus' head,

This cross would disappear during Renaissance, roughly sometime in Leonardo da Vinci's life time (1452-1519). On the left is an early painting by Michelangelo (1475-1564), in which a cross was still painted inside the halo on Jesus' head. This picture depicts Jesus as the source of blinding light (the sun) The apostles in front are using their hands to block the blinding light. The halo and the cross were discontinued in Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper" (painted 1495-1498) and Michelangelo's "Creation of Adam" (painted 1508-1512) of the "Sistine Ceiling".

Left: This is Leonardo da Vinci's "Last Supper", painted 1495-98, the image of halo on the head had disappeared. Therefore the practice was ended in da Vinci's life time

Later, after the halos had disappeared, a much more realistic or earthly looking thorn crown (symbolic rays) is often seen in its place. The scorching and blinding power of Light God (Sun) that won wars, made conquests and burned heretics alive had been transformed to be a figure of sympathy. The knife wielding bull slaying image of soldiers' God (Mithra) has become the sacrificial lamb. But not quite! A sacrificial lamb and a Savior would not have allowed such deeds as "Spanish Inquisition", or burning heretics alive, not even Christian Crusades, or in colonial conquests, or wars and conquests of any kind, which have plagued the human world and Christian history for the last two thousand years.... So what is really behind such worship where layers upon layers of undeclared secrets are stacked?...

The following black and white graphic shows the inside of Pantheon now standing in Rome. Pagan religion flourished in the first 5 centuries CE all over Europe and through out the Roman Empire. The Roman Pantheon was built between 27 BC and 128 AD and was the main place of worship for Paganism. The main body of the temple is a drum shape on top, which is a dome depicting the sun. At the center of the dome is a round hole, called the "eye" or "Oculus", as shown on the right.. Sunshine could come through this oculus to be worshipped (seen on the left), but also could the rains.

Left:- Graphic showing the eye or oculus of the dome at the Pagan temple, Pantheon, in Rome. Sun light is coming through it at an angle.

However, this hole or the eye would be capped by a tower like building on all later Cathedral or church domes, which serves to stop the rains from pouring through, but it also serves to conceal the oculus when viewed from outside or at a distance. Thus all churches and cathedrals with a dome are in fact structurally Pantheon like buildings capped with a tower, which conceals the oculus, while the sun shine can still come through.



On the right:- Graphs showing domes of St. Paul Cathedral London and St. Peter Basilica in Rome. Their domes are capped with a tower like super structure.

The Pantheon in Rome was the first building with a dome that would become churches, even parliamentary buildings all over the world, symbolize a structure of power and authority (the Sun), and not the pitifully crucified sacrificial lamb...

The following photos shows how the oculus of St. Peter Basilica, Rome, looks like, when viewing from inside the Cathedral.

Left:- The eye or oculus of the dome at St. Peter Basilica in Rome.

Click here to see enlarged picture. ....

Therefore all this type of Cathedral or church with a dome capped by a super structure all over the world, in effect, conceals a Pagan temple within it. Even the Gothic style churches or Cathedrals with sharp structures pointing skywards symbolize rising sun rays from the building. All these above show emperor Constantine had effectively taken practically all the essential worship of Paganism and called it Christianity, which would pass on until today.. That's why he retained his office of "Pontifex Maximus", the High Priest of Paganism, even while he claimed to be a Christian. This further indicates why the story of Jesus is practically the story of Pagan god Mithra. And why Mithra's birthday (Dec 25th) was officially adopted to become the Nativity of Jesus, the Christmas, and why the Jewish Passover was changed (in Constantine's life time, decreed at the Nicaeaen council of 325 AD) to be the Easter, because history records that spring festivals in honour of Pagan fertility goddesses and the events associated with them were celebrated at the time of Easter...  And the story of the Bible was written, telling the same single story as the mythological tale of Pagan Sun God, Mithra, who is seen slaying the sacred bull above...

However, the entire secret behind lies in the true identity and influence of Constantine's birth mother, Saint Helen, or Helena, who was a Jew, which would have made Constantine half a Jew, that would explain quite a few mysteries. The story was extremely intriguing and highly obscured, but let's make it brief... To start with, after a whole century of anarchy, and in the confusion, the power of Roman Empire fell into the hands of four soldiers and close friends who conspired to assassin their military boss to acquire power under the leadership of Diocletian and Maximian. Historically Diocletian is credited with the terrible persecution of Jews by throwing the Christian Jews to the lions in Colosseum. So naturally his deputy Maximian had helped. During this period Constantine's father Constantius divorced Helena to marry Maximian's daughter Theordora in order to reinforce power. This indicates that Maximian was instrumental to the divorce Helena. Then, unexpectedly Constantius scored a big military success in Britain by putting down the Saxon pirate Carausius and became a power to be reckoned with. But soon Constantius died in Britain and his power was passed to son Constantine. However Constantine's succession of power was only legitimized with the help from Maximian who also gave Constantine with his daughter Fausta in marriage. However when Constantine gained power over Roman Empire, a series of most unusual things began too happen, indicating that influence had come from his mother Helena.

Firstly Diocletian stopped persecution of Jews and was forced to retire, as otherwise an Emperor would never retire. He also made Maximian to retire with him, but Maximian did reinstall himself briefly just to make his own son Maxentius a Deputy Emperor. Maxentius then disagreed with his father and went to war with Constantine. In this battle the Cross was first established as the Christian symbol. It was Helena who was said to have found in Jerusalem the remnant of the Cross upon which Jesus was crucified, yet from Vedic India to Middle East many ancient Gods were crucified on the Cross as well. Eventually Maximian, Maxentius and Fausta, together with other relatives, even Constantine's own son Crispus, were all killed by Constantine. How could such an extreme fate have taken place? Behind the huge tragic intrigue appears to lie causes, which included:- 1) the tumulus and anarchic conditions of Roman Empire at the time, 2) the extreme persecution of Jews, 3) the divorce of Jewish Helena, 4) the marriage of Maxentius' daughter Fausta, 5) the consequential violence between relatives of divorced and replaced marriages, 6) the sudden rise to power and absolute military rule of a Roman Emperor with a controversial birth identity and past, 7) the violent disputes caused by changing Roman tradition of religious beliefs, and above all, 8) the will, hatred and final revenge of a divorced mother. However, because Constantine was also half a Roman (from his father's side) as well, so he retained his identity of Roman Pagan high priesthood, "Pontifex Maximus" or just Pontiff till the end of his life. The net result of all was a family blood bath the merger of two religious identities by force. The controversial momentum continued to cause the collapse of Roman Empire as well as other long term consequences.

Left:- Another example of a Dome, looking from inside the Cathedral. Such type of Oculus is always covered by a super structure and could easily be built without, but then the connection with Pagan sun worship would be lost.

These churches are indeed enormous and magnificent historic monuments. Some of them took more than half a millennium to build and complete. These tremendous churches are also the monuments and relics of untold human efforts of the entire countries and people of Europe during those long centuries of absolute rule under religious canon. In fact, only a few short decades ago, in the 20th century, people in Germany were still paying the Church Tax (Kirchen Steuer) from their incomes. Of course, no ordinary person brought up and baptized since childhood would want to run the risk of being excommunicated by the authorities of the Almighty God. Imagine the riches and the powerful hold on people religion once had, which have become the memory of the past.!

Having observed hitherto the history of early Christianity, we have enough information to make a small summary at this junction. Firstly, after conversion to Christianity emperor Constantine still retained his title and office of Pontifex Maximus, the High Priest of Pagan worship. This title was used in Pagan worship centuries before Christianity (since the Republican days). Yet even today the church still call the priest as "Father" (a Pagan legacy, originally "Pater") and the present day Pope as Pontifex or Pontiff or Pontifex Maxmus (Supreme Pontiff), which is exactly the same as was in Pagan Worship. Secondly, in 325 AD under Constantine's reign (he died in 337 AD) the Christian Sabbath day (Saturday, the original 7th day of Creation, the day of worship, as in Christian Ten Commandment) was officially changed to Sunday (the original 1st day of Creation, or the Sun's day, which was Pagans' day of worshipping the sun). Thirdly, same year 325 AD, the Christian or Jewish festivity of Passover was officially replaced by Pagan worship of Easter. Fourthly, as seen above, the halo and cross on Jesus' head disappeared only during Renaissance (see above). Fifthly, in 350 AD Sun god Mithra's birthday was officially adopted as Jesus' birthday, the Christmas. Sixthly, Jesus' life story is equivalent to Mithra's life story, i.e. born of virgin mother, born in stable, witnessed by 3 wise men of the East, 12 disciples, Last Supper, crucifixion, resurrection, etc., etc.. Seventhly, Pagan baptism, including drawing a watery cross on the forehead was adopted. Eighthly, the Cathedrals concealed a Pagan temple within... These are the main historical facts, which show that they are no coincidences, nor pure accidents, but deliberate official acts, intended to retain Pagan worship, even to replace Christian worship with Pagan worship, even centuries after conversion to Christianity. Such official decreed have been passed down the years ever since the Roman time, showing that the title and structural office of Supreme Pontiff and priests, the main substance (the Biblical life story), the format of worship, the religious festivities, the image itself, even the temple of worship all retain the essence of Paganism. Practically all the Pagan essence are kept intact except the name.

In a nut shell, we can now deduce from above historical facts that although Roman Pagan religion had quietly and mysteriously slipped out of history, it was in fact deliberately rearranged to live in concealment within the newly adopted Christianity. The decision to amalgamate the two worships probably served the purpose during Constantine's time. Firstly, the Roman Empire had previously conquered huge territories not too long ago under Pagan belief (27 BC - 193 AD), it was necessary to maintain the momentum and influence. Secondly, because of the earlier 500 years of long striving political life under the Roman Republic (509 BC -27 AD), it was more than difficult for emperors to consolidate imperial rule (Emperor Nero, Empire Domiitianus and Emperor Commodus were all killed). After 192 AD the empire plunged into civil wars and anarchy. By the time of Emperor Diocletian (284 AD) the empire had been undergoing one whole century of anarchy and violent chaos. The conditions were so violent and senseless that emperor Constantine would go to war with close relatives and kill his own wife and son. The resultant imposition of changes into such conditions was to be expected and hardly a big deal. Thirdly, ancient Roman emperor's power and authorities depended essentially on Divine favours or divine support. Two sets of gods would crash into each other violently. It was probably for those reasons that emperor Diocletian decided to divide the Empire into East and West to accommodate two conflicting religions in two domains. Why else should he cut up a perfectly working empire in two parts? He then tried to remove the Christians and Jews from the Western empire by his famous persecution of the Christians, but for some mysterious reasons he got cold feet, and ended up making his close friend and collaborator Maximian to retire with him. It is also understandable that in those chaotic conditions Emperor Constantine tried to represent both sets of gods by having both Pagan and Christian divine visions in which both sides of gods bestowed him with divine favours and authorities. However, this man who was hailed as Constantine the Great had created an impossible muddle that would later plunge the entire European civilization into centuries of Dark Age.

Note: Vital historical information had been purposely obscured. For instance,

(1), How and under what circumstances did new Christianity spread from conquered Israel to Roma Empire, the land of conquerors? Especially since the Jews did not even want the new Christianity for themselves, because the Jews preferred to stick to their own worship of Judaism, then and even now.

(2), Why didn't the Jews worship Jesus who is said by the Jews to be the only Son of God, the most divine, next only to God?. Indeed why didn't Christianity become the national worship of Jewish people, instead they worshipped Judaism. Didn't they believe in Jesus' claim?

(3), Who was responsible and how was it organized to spread the worship from Jerusalem to Rome, when it could not even gather force in Israel. So, was it an intended invasion or was it a natural occurrence?

(4) If it was a natural development, then how did a brand new religion get to adopt or coincide with the very old and well known story of Pagan god Mithra?

(5), In the 4th century Roman Empire, Pagan worship was at its most powerful historic height through out the entire empire, how was it possible for any new worship to spread in that ancient society predominated by religion, and upon which even imperial authorities depended?

(6), Above all, how could the Romans possibly worship the human person, Jesus, and his belief that were condemned by the Roman authorities for the crime of blasphemy and executed him with two other criminals. The Romans knew not only that Jesus was just an ordinary man, they had prosecuted, investigated and condemned him, and historically God has never come to the condemned Jesus' rescue and the verdict was never disputed.

(7), If God never agreed that Jesus was his son, by what measure and process was the condemned Jesus elevated to the very apex and focus of worship?

(8), How could the biblical story of Jesus coincide with that of Pagan sun god Mithra so closely, without being questioned or objected by Roman religious groups or authorities?

(9), Judging from the extreme cruelty with which Roman authorities persecuted the early Christians, the Romans were clearly in charge, how and why then was the invasion of a brand new foreign religion unsupported by great traditions tolerated by the Romans in the first place?

(10), How could any nation, or any deeply religious community betray its millennium belief and traditions of polytheism (multi-gods) in exchange for monotheism (single God) in a space of few years?

(11), How did two religions with almost same story, and same mode of execution but fundamentally different and incompatible in names and in nature (one was monotheistic and another was polytheistic) managed to coexist in the same space and time, even for just a short while?

(12), Was the insurgence of new religious belief partially or wholly responsible for the chaos and anarchic conditions in Roman Empire from 1st to 4th century AD?

(13), How and why did emperor Diocletian fail in his plan and attempt to clean up Christians, and was even reduced to abdicate instead?

(14), What were the true reasons behind those utterly inhuman and abnormal killings, even wars, between those close relatives and loving members within the family of emperor Constantine?...

(15), History shows that religion was the cause of European Dark Age, the Crusading wars, the burning of heretics, the Spanish Inquisition, etc., etc... In fact, religion suppressed the normal growth of European civilization for about one and half millennium. Injustice had been done in vast scale. People had suffered. Lives had been lost. Huge human resources had been forcibly collected to build and glorify the church (only a few years ago church tax were still prevalent in some European countries). Why then is it still so vehemently supported to spread through out the world even today, and still with such interests and control in worldly politics?

These and many other vital historical details could not have been lost or destroyed, but no one endeavored or dared to investigate for all those centuries. Don't you think it's about time someone should at least be curious or talk about it?.. And what could the final outcome and future of supernatural belief be, in an age of rapid advance for rationality, logics, science, nuclear energy, space technology and cosmological know-how?

It would appear that even Constantine's declared commitment to two sets of gods could not work for long, eventually there could only be one set of god. So, strong and urgent action had to be taken. And the monotheistic god was preferred in those conditions. So the Roman emperor simply amalgamated the two worships into one, and then promoted the resultant amalgamation as Christianity to keep the growing invasion of Christians happy, and then rearranged the substance, which included centuries of ongoing Pagan traditions and festivities as well as the deeply rooted life story of mythological deity Mithra to allow continuation of the Pagans worship, as it would be impossible to remove and cancel the deep traditions suddenly and totally. This of course was contradictory, but it had to do. However an extremely strong hand was needed to make it work. So he had to compensate the strong contradictions in the new religion by given the church supreme powers, in order to forcibly dictate over any dissents or heretics (which was probably the reasons behind the killings in Emperor Constantine's family). Such extraordinary power would eventually evolve to rule above European monarchs and empower the church to take extreme actions, including burning heretics alive, that lasted some 1500 years. Such measures and energy would forcibly compress religion and politics into a powerful union, and propel Christianity into unusual orbital heights. So even today the contradictory characteristics of two religions are deeply entrenched. This is also one of the three time bombs explained in this page ...

There are still questions though. For instance, how and when did the mystical legend of Mithra become the story of Jesus? We know that the worship of sun god Mithra was still at its height in the 4th century Roman Empire and Europe. It would be impossible to suddenly change the legendary story of Mithra or the traditional force of Roman Pagan worship at its height. In fact, it would be impossible to alter any deeply rooted super natural belief at its height by shear force or by imperial command. Besides, it happened that even Constantine was unwilling to part from it because he maintained his powerful office and title as Pontifex Maximus. Obviously that had been the main source of his imperial authorities. So, could it be the Christians who had adopted the legends of Mithra in the contents of their religion in order to slip in and promulgate it into Roman society during the period of chaotic anarchy? Or were the Christians forced to adopt the legend of Mithra as the life story of Jesus? Perhaps that was possible at the time since Christianity was in its early sprout, while Pagan worship was far too deeply rooted, and Roman imperial command was too strong to object. That's probably also why the Jews preferred to stick to their worship of Judaism.

So, when and how, and under what circumstances exactly were the Gospels actually written? How could the life story of the man, Jesus, get to tangle, even coincide with that of Pagan sun god Mithra, a typical ancient mythological deity similar to those in Vedic, Greco and Egyptian religions? Since exact historical records had been obscured or destroyed, then did the person Jesus actually exist? If so, then exactly when? And why there are no official records for such an important existence and event in history? And since Jesus was officially condemned to death for blasphemy while claiming to be God's son, and God never came forth to support his claim. In which case, Jesus' crime still stands! Then how, when and why was Jesus elevated to become the central figure of the worship? So many mythological figures and religions with same or similar tales and legends have already faded into the background of history, why alone Jesus persisted with such vigor? Thus layers upon layers of mysteries were stacked up under the extreme oppressive hands of the church, while the religion continue to grow to such colossus status and proportions during the Dark and Medieval ages, while practically all human resources were focused and spent on the church .. At any rate, this was the start of Piscean Age, the age of religion, confusion and intrigues, symbolized by two fishes swimming in opposite directions. I will describe more about this Piscean Age and other ages of Astrology in the page, named The Nuclear Bomb.

Left graph :- The symbol of Piscean Age is two fish swimming in opposite directions.

Meanwhile, nearly two thousand years have nearly passed and billions upon billions of humans have been told, influenced, convinced, and made to believe, to kneel, to pray, to love, to worship, to be baptized and committed or to submit to the super natural lord and master. People have been burnt alive for not believing the exact guide lines the church has laid down. Precious human blood had flown under the swords of warring Christian Crusaders. From time to time in history, extreme believers have committed group or mass suicide... If the Vatican want to continue exerting authorities and influences over its ministers, subjects and followers, and if the church still wants to continue preaching and describing Jesus as a historical figure and not a fabled mythological deity, the it's time both the church and Vatican should reveal some dependable historical details and proofs. It's time the church should at last unveil to the 1.1 billion Catholic believer the mysteries that tangled Jesus to Mithra? After all, the church alone knows all the history because the history has never been disrupted or destroyed, and the records should remain intact in the church hands. Isn't it also about time the church is made accountable for history and human civilization for all its actions and therefore, all the consequences it has caused (including all the wars it started and the European Dark Age)? Besides, this is the 21st century, the age of logics, rationality, science, and in this highly complex and lawful society of ours there are also increasing demands for legal protection against any crimes of fraudulence and deception in many social and economical interactions, especially in the education of the youth....

In any case, the truth of all these vital part of human history will no doubt be unearthed and verified by historians and archeologists someday. Such revelation is bound to accelerate especially when religion begins to loose its power grip and overwhelming authority. At any rate, judging from the timing of history and the strong similarities of mythological details between Mithra and Jesus, the creation of Jesus was clearly deliberate, a coincidence could hardly be possible. Another thing is, judging from the will and efforts of Roman emperors, and of course the church, to conceal and keep alive the Pagan identity, as shown by facts, as well as the many successful religious conquests that followed, and also judging from the very nature and history of the Mithraian religion, plus the persistent nature of any religious energy, a powerful secret cult of Mithra worship should still be alive and well today. Especially because the tradition of the Mithra cult is private and secretive, and the place of worship is a cave or underground crypt, in fact, the whole combined image answers the descriptions of a secret society or brotherhood almost perfectly. It helps to maintain its secrecy, and also serves the purpose as the worship of soldiers' god. With such a powerful and perfectly concealed identity, history and purpose, it's no wonder there has been so much desire of conquest and continued interests in political control. It's no wonder that many subordinate churches freed themselves from centralized control. At any rate, the above historical records show that certain religious institution has definitely a built in duel nature and therefore concealed identity, even motivations since the days of Roman Empire...

(Note:- Leonardo da Vinci is said to have joined a secrete society or secrete cult. He was probably brought into the secrete worship of Mithra, where he was told the truth, which then caused him to leave his message in codes. His enrollment was probably caused by his show of genius in inventing military gadgets that a cult worshiping soldiers' god Mithra would be interested...

Whatever the true background had been, the creation of Christianity by Roman emperor served many purposes. Don't forget the society of the Roman Empire was a blood thirsty and almost inhuman one. Think of the violence of Colosseum! And then that society had already undergone a whole century of lawlessness and anarchy. One whole century of it! Think of how the Empire was split into two and shared by 4 emperors. Think of how Emperor Constantine and his father had married two sisters to get political power, and ended up killing the father-in-law, as well as his own family. In those violent and chaotic conditions, the creation of Christianity probably served to pacify the unstoppable uprising of Jewish martyrdom, which had forced Diocletian to quit and retire. Something extremely urgent had to be done. A new Jewish idol would make great sense, but the story must be conducive to centuries or millenniums of mythological worship across the entire empire. It must also allow the worship of Mithra to be continued without complete and sudden breakdown, otherwise the consequence would be unthinkable! After conferencing with various sectors of power and influence, the birth of Christianity was inevitable. But many believers of tradition could not accept the change. That started the family slaughters...

By giving the new worship a new name and new identity it invigorated new life to the chaotic Roman society. This it did! But it needed absolute authority to carry out the forced change of worship. This eventually developed into an oppressive society and rule, namely the days of European Medieval Dark Age. In the life time of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519), Martin Luther (1483-1546) and Michelangelo (1475-1564), from late 15th to early 16th century, the conflicting Roman legacy of such confusing mixture of Pagan Mithra and Jesus images were still clearly evident in the display of worship in churches, and of course in the minds of the intellectuals. Yet, it was also the time when church oppression reached a peak. A tremendous movement of revolt and reformation led by Martin Luther was started, which forced the final retirement of Pagan Mithra from the scene. That change was said to be reported in Leonardo da Vinci's secret codes (but da Vinci Code's author Dan Brown didn't go far enough, so I now continue from there and explain here the background and the reason for da Vinci's code)