Chapter Xiv. The Saviors' Kingdoms Not : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 94 CHAPTER XIV. THE SAVIORS' KINGDOMS NOT OF THIS WORLD. RETIREMENT AND FORTY DAYS' FASTING. CHRIST taught, "My kingdom is not of this world." And we find that most of the other Saviors virtually and practically taught...
Chapter Xxxviii. A Historical View : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 370 CHAPTER XXXVIII. A HISTORICAL VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST A MOST fatal distrust is thrown upon the miraculous portions of the history of Jesus Christ, as found in his Gospel narratives, by the discovery...
Chapter Xliv. The Moral Lessons Of Religious : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 424 CHAPTER XLIV. THE MORAL LESSONS OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY. 1. THE most important lesson deducible from all the religious systems, commemorated in history, and noticed in this work, is, that all religious conceptions, whether...
Chapter Xxvii. The Sacrament Or Eucharist : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 200 CHAPTER XXVII. THE SACRAMENT OR EUCHARIST OF HEATHEN ORIGIN At the feast of the Passover, Christ is represented, while distributing bread to his disciples, to have said, "Take, eat; this is my body" (Matt. xxvi. 26);...
Chapter Xxxiv. The Three Pillars Of The Christi : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 312 CHAPTER XXXIV. THE THREE PILLARS OF THE CHRISTIAN FAITH--MIRACLES, PROPHECIES, AND PRECEPTS. WHEN Christians are asked for the proof of the divinity of Jesus Christ, they point to his miracles and precepts...
Chapter Xliii. Conversion, Repentance : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 413 CHAPTER XLIII. CONVERSION, REPENTANCE, AND "GETTING RELIGION" OF HEATHEN ORIGIN THEIR NUMEROUS EVILS AND ABSURDITIES OF all the follies ever enacted or exhibited under the sun, and of all the ignorance of history, science...
Chapter Xl. A Metonymic View Of The Divinity : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 390 CHAPTER XL. A METONYMIC VIEW OF THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST IF Jesus Christ were truly God, or if there existed such a coequal and co-essential oneness between the Father and the Son that they constituted but one being...
Chapter Xxi. The Atonement Its Oriental : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 156 CHAPTER XXI. THE ATONEMENT--ITS ORIENTAL OR HEATHEN ORIGIN THERE were various practices in vogue amongst the orientalists, which originated with the design of appeasing the anger and propitiating the favor of a presumed...
Chapter Xli. The Precepts And Practical Life : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 393 CHAPTER XLI. THE PRECEPTS AND PRACTICAL LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST. HIS TWO HUNDRED ERRORS THE exaltation of men to the character and homage of divine beings has always had the effect to draw a vail over their errors...
Title Page : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], THE WORLD'S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS OR CONTAINING NEW, STARTLING, AND EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS IN RELIGIOUS HISTORY, WHICH DISCLOSE THE ORIENTAL ORIGIN OF ALL THE DOCTRINES, PRINCIPLES, PRECEPTS, AND MIRACLES OF THE CHRISTI...
Chapter Xi. Christ's Genealogy : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 79 CHAPTER XI. CHRIST'S GENEALOGY. IN order to exalt the dignity and character of the Christian Messiah still higher than a mere claim for a divine origin "paternally" would have the effect to do, two of his assumed to be...
Explanation : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 11 EXPLANATION "THE WORLD'S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS." What an imposing title for a book! What startling developments of religious history it implies! Is it founded on fact or on fiction? If it has a basis of truth, where w...
Chapter Xxxix. The Scriptural View Of Christ's : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 376 CHAPTER XXXIX. THE SCRIPTURAL VIEW OF CHRIST'S DIVINITY THE monstrous scientific paradox (as coming ages will regard it) comprehended in the conception of an almighty, omnipresent, and infinite Being, "the Cre...
Chapter Xxvi. Origin Of Baptism : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 192 CHAPTER XXVI. ORIGIN OF BAPTISM BY WATER, FIRE, BLOOD, AND THE HOLY GHOST BAPTISM, in some of its various forms, is a very ancient rite, and was extensively practiced in several oriental countries. It was administered...
Chapter Iii. Prophecies : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 38 CHAPTER III. PROPHECIES BY THE FIGURE OF A SERPENT. THE SEED OF THE WOMAN BRUISING THE SERPENT'S HEAD. "AND I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed. It shall bruise thy head, and thou...
Chapter Xxxii. Three Hundred And Forty Six : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 256 CHAPTER XXXII. THREE HUNDRED AND FORTY-SIX STRIKING ANALOGIES BETWEEN CHRIST AND CHRISHNA THEIR MIRACULOUS HISTORY AND LEADING PRINCIPLES 1. The advent of each Savior was miraculously foretold by prophets. 2. The fallen...
Chapter Xxii. The Holy Ghost Of Oriental Origin : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 165 CHAPTER XXII. THE HOLY GHOST OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN OF all the weird, fanciful, and fabulous stories appertaining to the Gods and other spiritual entities of the olden times, whose capricious adventures we find so profusely...
Chapter Xxxi. Christianity Derived From Heathen : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 235 CHAPTER XXXI. CHRISTIANITY DERIVED FROM HEATHEN AND ORIENTAL SYSTEMS. MORE than twenty thousand sermons are preached in the Christian pulpits, on every recurring Sabbath, to convince the people that the religi...
Chapter Xlii. Christ As A Spiritual Medium : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 410 CHAPTER XLII. CHRIST AS A SPIRITUAL MEDIUM THERE are many incidents related in the life of Christ, which, when critically examined, furnish abundant evidence that he was what is now known as a spiritual medium. He...
Chapter Xlv. Conclusion And Review : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 427 CHAPTER XLV. CONCLUSION AND REVIEW IN writing the concluding chapter of this work, the author deems it proper to re-state some points, and elaborate others, and anticipate some objections to some of the positions advanced...
Chapter Xvii. The Aphanasia, Or Darkness : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 134 CHAPTER XVII. THE APHANASIA, OR DARKNESS AT THE CRUCIFIXION. 1. MATTHEW tells us (xxvii. 31) that when Christ was crucified, there was darkness all over the land for three hours, and "the earth did quake, and the rocks...
Chapter Xviii. Descent Of The Saviors Into Hell : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 140 CHAPTER XVII. DESCENT OF THE SAVIORS INTO HELL. THE next most important event in the histories of the Saviors after their crucifixion, and the act of giving up the ghost, is that of their descent into the infernal regions...
Address To The Clergy : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 18 ADDRESS TO THE CLERGY FRIENDS and brethren--teachers of the Christian faith: Will you believe us when we tell you the divine claims of your religion are gone--all swept away by the "logic of history," and nullified by...
Chapter Ii. Messianic Prophecies : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 34 CHAPTER II. MESSIANIC PROPHECIES. NEARLY all religious history is prophetic of the coming of Saviors, Messiahs, Redeemers, and virgin-born Gods. Most religious countries, and more than a score of religious systems, had...
Chapter Xii. The World's Saviors Saved : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 83 CHAPTER XII. THE WORLD'S SAVIORS SAVED FROM DESTRUCTION IN INFANCY. OF course such an extraordinary circumstance as the birth of a God into the world must be marked with unusual incidents and great eclat. This was first...
Chapter Iv. Miraculous And Immaculate Concepti : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 43 CHAPTER IV. MIRACULOUS AND IMMACULATE CONCEPTION OF THE GODS. THE ancients very naturally concluded that an offspring of God (a son of God) should have a purer, higher and holier maternal origin than is incident to the lot...
Chapter Xx. Reappearance And Ascensi : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 152 CHAPTER XX. REAPPEARANCE AND ASCENSION OF THE SAVIORS. MANY cases are related by their respective sacred narratives of the ancient Saviors, and other beings possessing the form of man, and previously recognized as men...
Chapter Xxv. Absolution, And The Confessi : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 189 CHAPTER XXV. ABSOLUTION, AND THE CONFESSION OF SINS, OF HEATHEN ORIGIN SOME Christian writers have labored to make it appear that this is exclusively a Christian doctrine, while others have labored as hard to get it out...
Chapter Xxiv. The Trinity Very Anciently : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 184 CHAPTER XXIV. THE TRINITY VERY ANCIENTLY A CURRENT HEATHEN DOCTRINE "THERE are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost, and these three are one." (1 John v. 7.) This text, which evidently...
Chapter Xxxvi. Philosophical Absurdities : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 362 CHAPTER XXXVI. PHILOSOPHICAL ABSURDITIES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE INCARNATION. THERE is a philosophical principle underlying the doctrine of the Divine Incarnation, whose logical deductions completely overthrow...
Chapter Xxxiii. Apollonius, Osiris, Magus : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 300 CHAPTER XXXIII. APOLLONIUS, OSIRIS, MAGUS, ETC.--GODS MIRACULOUS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF OTHER GODS AND DEMI-GODS OF ANTIQUITY THE age in which Christ flourished, as before remarked, was pre-eminently an age of miracle...
Chapter Vii. Angels, Shepherds, And Magi : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 63 CHAPTER VII. ANGELS, SHEPHERDS AND MAGI VISIT THE INFANT SAVIORS. IN an age when Gods and men were on the most familiar terms, and when the character of one furnished a transcript for the other, and when each consented...
Chapter Xxxvii. Physiological Absurdities : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 366 CHAPTER XXXVII. PHYSIOLOGICAL ABSURDITIES OF THE DOCTRINE OF THE DIVINE INCARNATION. THERE is also a physiological principle (discovered by the author) comprised in the doctrine of the Divine Incarnation fatal in its...
Chapter Xxix. How Men, Including Jesus Christ : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 206 CHAPTER XXIX. HOW MEN, INCLUDING JESUS CHRIST, CAME TO BE WORSHIPPED AS GODS JESUS CHRIST A DEMIGOD, ACCORDING TO CHRISTIAN WRITERS IT is truly surprising to observe the damaging concessions of some of the early Christi...
Introduction : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 13 INTRODUCTION IMPORTANT FACTS CONSTITUTING THE BASIS OF THIS WORK. IGNORANCE of science and ignorance of history are the two great bulwarks of religious error. There is scarcely a tenet of religious faith now propagated...
Chapter Xxiii. The Divine word Of Oriental : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 178 CHAPTER XXIII. THE DIVINE "WORD" OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN THE WORD AS CREATOR, AS SECOND PERSON OF THE TRINITY, AND ITS PRE-EXISTENCE "The Word of Oriental Origin" "IN the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God...
Chapter Xiii. The Saviors Exhibit Early Proofs : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 91 CHAPTER XIII. THE SAVIORS EXHIBIT EARLY PROOFS OF DIVINITY. OF course, all Gods must be heroes--physically or intellectually, or both. The more danger they encounter, and the earlier they manifest a precocious...
Chapter Xxxv. Logical Or Common Sense View : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 354 CHAPTER XXXV. LOGICAL OR COMMON SENSE VIEW OF THE DOCTRINE OF DIVINE INCARNATION. THE incarnation of an infinite God is a shocking absurdity, and an infinite impossibility. We ask in all solemn earnestness, and in the name...
Chapter Xxviii. Anointing With Oil Of Oriental : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 204 CHAPTER XXVIII. ANOINTING WITH OIL OF ORIENTAL ORIGIN THE custom and ceremony of anointing with oil by way of imparting some fancied spiritual power and religious qualification seems to have been extensively practiced by...
Chapter I. Rival Claims Of The Saviors : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 26 p. 27 THE WORLD'S SIXTEEN CRUCIFIED SAVIORS. CHAPTER I. RIVAL CLAIMS OF THE SAVIORS. IT is claimed by the disciples of Jesus Christ, that he was of supernatural and divine origin; that he had a human being for a mother...
Chapter V. Virgin Mothers And Virgin Born Gods : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 53 CHAPTER V. VIRGIN MOTHERS AND VIRGIN-BORN GODS. THE report in authentic history of a case of a virtuous woman giving birth to a child with the usual form, and possessing the usual characteristics of a human being, and who...
Chapter Vi. Stars Point Out The Time : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 58 CHAPTER VI. STARS POINT OUT THE TIME AND THE SAVIORS' BIRTH-PLACE. A PROFUSION of evidence is furnished at every step, along the devious pathway of sacred history, tending to show that all the systems of worship which have...
Notes : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 434 NOTE OF EXPLANATION. IN Chapter XXXI we have traced Christianity to Essenism. This may need a fuller explanation than we have yet devoted to this point, though we have stated several times we consider them essentially one...
Preface : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 3 PREFACE. INVERSELY to the remoteness of time has been man's ascent toward the temple of knowledge. Truth has made its ingress into the human mind in the ratio by which man has attained the capacity to receive and appreciate...
Chapter Xvi. Sixteen Saviors Crucified : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 102 CHAPTER XVI. SIXTEEN SAVIORS CRUCIFIED. "FOR I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified." (1 Cor. ii. 2.) There must have existed a very considerable amount of skepticism...
Chapter Viii. The Twenty Fifth Of December : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 68 CHAPTER VIII. THE TWENTY-FIFTH OF DECEMBER THE BIRTHDAY OF THE GODS. DIVESTED of all explanation, the announcement of the fact that the time of the birth of many of the incarnated Gods and Saviors of antiquity was fixed...
Chapter Ix. Titles Of The Saviors : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 72 CHAPTER IX. TITLES OF THE SAVIORS. THE various deific titles applied to Jesus Christ in the New Testament are regarded by some Christian writers as presumptive evidence of his divinity. But the argument proves too much...
Chapter X. The Saviors Of Royal Descent : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 77 CHAPTER X. THE SAVIORS OF ROYAL DESCENT, BUT HUMBLE BIRTH. WE have the singular coincidence presented in the histories of several of the Saviors of their lineal descent through a line of kings or princes, and yet commencing...
Chapter Xxx. Sacred Cycles Explaining : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 225 CHAPTER XXX. SACRED CYCLES EXPLAINING THE ADVENT OF THE GODS THE MASTER-KEY TO THE DIVINITY OF JESUS CHRIST "Extraordinary Revelations In History And Science" RECENT explorations in the field of oriental sacred history...
Chapter Xix. Resurrection Of The Savior : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 144 CHAPTER XIX. RESURRECTION OF THE SAVIORS WE find presented in the canonized histories of several of the demigod Saviors the following remarkable coincidences appertaining to their death:-- 1. Their resurrecti...
Chapter Xv. The Saviors Were Real Personages : * "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors", by Kersey Graves, [1875], p. 97 CHAPTER XV. THE SAVIORS WERE REAL PERSONAGES. IT is unwarrantably assumed by Christian writers that the incarnated Gods and crucified Saviors of the pagan religions were all either mere fabulous characters, or ordinary...
