More historical knowledge .. Reincarnation is the ancient belief of how the circumstances of our lives are often governed by the karma (both good and bad) of lives we have lived in the past. Bad karma committed in previous lives which are not overcome, means the same negative circumstances will confront the person over and over again in future lives until they are overcome. In this sense, karma can be viewed as memory. Bad karma is overcome with good karma - good deeds which pay the karmic debt owned from previous lives. When a persons amount of good karma becomes greater than their bad karma, then the circumstances in their life become favorable. Reincarnation IS karma and it is the goal of every person to overcome the cycle of birth and rebirth in order to attain enlightenment or at-one-ment with God which leads to receiving permanent membership in heaven. So the process of reincarnation means people face the same circumstances from one life to the next. This is why some scholars believe Horus to be a previous incarnation of Jesus because their lifetime circumstances were so similar and synchronistic. Jesus was referred to as the chief cornerstone (or capstone) - a reference to the top stone of an Egyptian pyramid. The chief cornerstone of the pyramid is same symbol for Horus, the Egyptian god and savior. Like the Egyptian pharoah, Jesus was called a shepherd who rules the nations with a staff. Horus was a popular Egyptian god who was the son of Osiris and Isis. Osiris and Horus were both solar deities. Osiris was the setting sun, Horus the rising sun. Jesus is the rising Son and the morning star. The pharoah was considered to be an incarnation of Horus (also known as Amen-Ra, the sun god). In the same way, Jesus is considered to be the incarnation of his heavenly Father. Horus was the lamb of God who took away the sins of the world. Horus had an adversary named Set. Jesus adversary was Satan. The story of Horus can be found in The Egyptian Book of the Dead (also known as the Papyrus of Ani) written over 3,000 years before the birth of Christ. 1. Identical Life Experiences 1.It is written that both Horus and Jesus existed before their incarnations. 2.Horus was born of the virgin Isis on December 25th in a cave/manger. 3.Horus birth was announced by a star in the East and attended by three wise men. 4.The infant Horus was carried out of Egypt to escape the wrath of Typhon. The infant Jesus was carried into Egypt to escape the wrath of Herod. Concerning the infant Jesus, the New Testament states the following prophecy: Out of Egypt have I called my son. (Matthew 2:15) 5.He was a child teacher in the temple and was baptized by Anup the Baptizer when he was thirty years old. 6.He had twelve disciples and performed miracles such as feeding bread to the multitude and walking on water. 7.He raised one man, El-Azar-us, from the dead. 8.He transfigured on a mount. 9.He also had titles such as the way, the truth, the light, the Messiah, Gods anointed Son, the Son of Man, the good shepherd, the lamb of God, the Word, the Morning Star, the light of the world. 10.He was the Fisher, and was associated with the lamb, lion and fish (Ichthys). 11.Horuss personal epithet was Iusa, the ever-becoming son of Ptah, the Father. 12.Horus was called KRST, or Anointed One. 13.He was crucified, buried in a tomb and resurrected. 14.The adoration of the Virgin and Child is connected with both the adoration of Isis and the infant Horus and the adoration of Mary and infant Jesus. In the catacombs at Rome are pictures of the baby Horus being held by the virgin mother Isis, the original Madonna and Child. 15.Concerning the writing of the Gnostics, C. W. King, a noted English author, says: To this period belongs a beautiful sard in my collection, representing Serapis,...whilst before him stands Isis, holding in one hand the sistrum, in the other a wheatsheaf, with the legend: Immaculate is our lady Isis, the very term applied afterwards to that personage who succeeded to her form, her symbols, rites, and ceremonies (Gnostics and Their Remains, p. 71). 16.Osiris, Isis, and Horus are the principal trinity of the Egyptian religions. God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit is the Christian trinity. Dr. Inman affirms the Egyptian roots of the Christian trinity The Christian trinity is of Egyptian origin, and is as surely a pagan doctrine as the belief in heaven and hell, the existence of a devil, of archangels, angels, spirits and saints, martyrs and virgins, intercessors in heaven, gods and demigods, and other forms of faith which deface the greater part of modern religions (Ancient Pagan and Modem Christian Symbolism, p. 13). 17.Dr. Draper says: For thirty centuries the Egyptians had been familiar with the conception of a triune God. There was hardly a city of any note without its particular triads. Here it was Amum, Maut, and Khonso; there Osiris, Isis, and Horus (Intellectual Development, Vol. I, p. 191). 18.Dr. Draper stated: Views of the Trinity, in accordance with Egyptian tradition, were established. Not only was the adoration of Isis under a new name restored, but even her image standing on the crescent moon reappeared. The well-known effigy of that goddess, with the infant Horus in her arms, has descended to our days in the beautiful artistic creations of the Madonna and Child. (Conflict, p. 48). 19.Mrs. Besant believes that Christianity has its main roots in Egypt: It grew out of Egypt; its gospels came from thence [Alexandria]; its ceremonies were learned there; its Virgin is Isis; its Christ, Osiris and Horus. 20.There are two stories connected with Horus that is analogous to stories found in the Old Testament. The hiding of the infant Horus in a marsh by his mother undoubtedly parallels the story of the hiding of the infant Moses in a marsh by his mother. When Horus died, Isis implored Ra, the sun, to restore him to life. Ra stopped his ship in mid-heaven and sent down Thoth, the moon, to bring him back to life. The stopping of the sun and moon by Isis recalls the myth of the stopping of the sun and moon by Joshua.
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