By Alvin Boyd Kuhn
Hugely stimulated via the paintings of Gerald Massey and Godfrey Higgins, Kuhn contended that the Bible derived its origins from different Pagan religions and lots more and plenty of Christian historical past was once pre-extant as Egyptian mythology. He additionally proposed that the Bible used to be symbolic and didn't depict actual occasions, and argued that the leaders of the church began to misread the bible on the finish of the 3rd century. Many authors together with Tom Harpur and John G. Jackson have been prompted by way of the works of Kuhn. Harpur even devoted his best-selling 2004 booklet, "The Pagan Christ" to Kuhn, calling him "a guy of titanic studying or even better braveness" and "one of the one maximum geniuses of the 20th century" [who] "towers notably others of contemporary reminiscence in mind and his realizing of the world's religions." Harpur notes that Kuhn gave approximately 2,000 public lectures which have been long, particular and well-attended, yet means that Kuhn's self-publishing could have led to a scarcity of consciousness to his paintings.
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But the loss of vital premises of understanding blinded following ages to the fruitless enterprise. the lower man to the god value of spiritual culture, and theology and philosophy now go abegging for recognition, bereft of their former kingly renown. And now their continued abeyance threatens civilization itself. No age calls so piteously for the certain knowledge of the science of the soul, since to soul alone can be attached the anchor for all shifting human values. Without the scientific grounding of an inner principle in man which is itself a portion of Eternal Durability, and which will carry the values built up in life to endless perpetuity, lac]^ stability Such a and prime human philosophy must forever utility.
To attain the goal, the prize of the high calling of God in crown the of illumination, glorious intelligence. Life's school Christly issues no diploma of graduation without attainment, for the at some time graduation We have here the ground for the only sane acceptance of the ancient scriptures as books of accredited wisdom. We are neither is the attainment. asked to believe them inscribed by the finger of omnipotent Deity, nor them to the undeveloped brains of primitives. They can be seen as the products of the sage wisdom garnered by generations forced to attribute of men who had finally risen to clear understanding.
Little wonder, then, that a literature scanned with such a blighting spirit never yielded its buried light. Supercilious contempt blinded the eyes of inquiry and closed the mind to all discovery. Obdurately refusing to admit the possibility of the presence of knowledge, no amount of search would reveal it. All the surer was inquiry doomed to failure in this field, when been the most exalted genius the world ever appearance of that at pains to disguise the outward It was only when at last the arcane knew had knowledge.
