Jesus Christ, Sun of God: Ancient Cosmology and Early Christian Symbolism

by David Fideler

The early Christian Gnosis did not spring up in isolation, but drew upon earlier sources. In this book, many of these sources are revealed for the first time. Special emphasis is placed on the Hellenistic doctrine of the "Solar Logos" and the early Christian symbolism which depicted Christ as the Spiritual Sun, the illumination source of order, harmony, and spiritual insight. Based on 15 years of research, this is a unique book which throws a penetrating light on the secret traditions of early Christianity. It clearly demonstrates that number is at the heart of being. Jesus Christ, Sun of God , illustrates how the Christian symbolism of the Spiritual Sun is derived from numerical symbolism of the "ancient divinities."

Genres: Religion, Philosophy, Christianity, Gnosticism, Esoterica, Spirituality, Theology

448 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 1993

Reviews

[Michael]

I love this book, haven't finished it. Fideler has done his research and puts his exposition together like a literary connect-the-dots to produce an image of the ancients that shows they were not the simple-minded people they are often depicted as who made up whimsical myths to explain the unkown, but rather, they put a lot of thought into their myths which were intended more as spiritual metaphors and uses of patterns as symbols than scientific explanations. I've read mostly on the Solar Logos in the book, which explains how Jesus was a continuation of an idea long preceeding Christianity, the idea of the Logos, which apparently manifested itself in different forms throughout history, such as Hermes and Apollo.

[James Fxyz · Rating 5 out of 5]

A book that was recommended twice. It was really insightful. I read it from cover to cover and found that it gave me many of those oh so craved epiphanies.

A book that I’ll find myself referencing time and time again.

[Steven · Rating 5 out of 5]

The book presents an expansive exploration of hellenistic symbolism and greek gematria and its influence on early Christian Symbolism. The author makes an argument that Christianity is more properly viewed as Hellenistic religion that emerged as a synthesis of Greek, Egyptian, and Jewish worldviews. He highlights that John describes Jesus as the Logos (John 1:1) and goes on to explain the meaning and gravity of the Logos to the Greek worldview. Additionally, he provides a detailed analysis of the platonic mathematical symbolism behind the story of the 153 fishes (John 21:11).

In this view, Christ is the "new song" of the Greek logos, a unification of Apollo (celestial harmony) and Dionysus (Redemption). He also connects much of the religious symbolism of Jesus to earlier figures, Horus, Thoth-Hermes, Hermes Trismegistus and the Mithras.

The book might be viewed as heretical enough to give heart palpitations to your average church-goer steeped in dogma, but among the more open-minded spiritualist -- both christian and non-christian alike -- it's guaranteed to be a highly rewarding read.

[6'5 & Gifted · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very very very good

[MeiMeiSam]

There is light while there is love of God. God had created the world or the universe with a cosmological spirit inside the physical universe. Unpon seeing a patch of glade by your physical sightedness, it means only the patch is being reflected as an image in your soul or cosmological spirit which resides inside your bodily entity.Once someone is seeing a patch of glade with a certain form of pattern with tiny flowers grown onto it, it is just a reflection of nothing but the image is something else from nowhere to reflect intot he physical brain to be processed by the mean of scientific entity. The scientific entity is of no mean of the actual spiritualism which grants the spirit with an image of the universe.
For example, eevry girls, most of them, love cakes with cream and strawberries. The desire to take some strawberry cakes is resided inside a single girl named Samantha but her playmate, gloria also loves strawberry cakes. So The desire is the same as identified but not one. At least, the desire or samantha is belonged to samantha and that of Gloria is delonged to Gloria. the taste and trend to love strawberry cakes might have been a bit different owing to the identities of two individual persons. But to think into the realm of spiritualism, the desire, before having been transcended intot he world of sorge, it had no differences in the realm of spiritualism. To seek a deeper level into the realm of spiritualism, one processes a versatile characteristics encycling. Samantha is sharing the same characteristics enity with Gloria but in two different bodily enities, the link is just a strawberry cake. There should bring out a problem of increment and decrement in the physical universe that is only an unique spiritualism in control. Jesus ever divided the the five bread and two fish to feed 5000 people and this is due to the cosmological logos to throw out a mean in the spiritualism.
Same indentity nut different in magnitude is due to a transcendence toward the sorge the the link of various levels of astral planes is in control of the whole universe by throwing cycling linksto swing toward the new era. The new era is a new encycling toward the future by conical spatial temporal function which has ceded a certain predicament manipulated by a pattern mathematically in meaning.
In the genetic pool of the Earthly beings, it is manipulated by Oneness located alone at the suprem realm where God is situated. The transcendental numbering system is manipulated by the various realm of supreme.Oneness of God's hand is always controlling the versatile universe by throwing in and out the stuff which are to exist as string functions. To look at a pattern of the versatility of the universe, it is embedded witj many versatilities which are comprising the parts of the universe essential to make up as a whole.

[Darryl Hall · Rating 2 out of 5]

Ok, so I didn't read it word for word but read enough to know he is a little to "new age" in his thinking, but when dealing with the influences of Christianity, he is interesting. His basic premise of living in 'harmony with nature", although a sound premise, he goes a little too far with the spiritual aspects. I debated a three star rating, and maybe should have for all the parts I did find intriguing.

[AK]

i enjoy anything that puts popular thought into perspective...and also, what were the greeks ingesting at eleusis?

[Trevor Luke · Rating 3 out of 5]

An overreaching thesis built on a few threads from the legitimate evidence for the Greco-Roman content in the New Testament.

[Jeremy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Bizarre...but jampacked of strange gematria, astrology, philosophy, theology, geometry all used to explain "God". Good luck on finishing this sucker!

[Dr. Barrett Dylan Brown, Phd · Rating 5 out of 5]

I think this is the k00lest Conceptual interface I have ever experienced (besides Voudoun 777Posession, IFA Divination, and Magick in General), oh yeah & IIbogaine.....

[Mike Ratner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing must-read for anyone interested in the origins of Christianity.

[Gabe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting, though it wanders a little bit into New Age territory.