Revelations of Truth
(This is an excerpt from a University Of Metaphysical Sciences course at www.umsonline.org, please feel free to visit the school website)
We come to some understanding that Truth
is eternal. Revelations of Truth from different religions are as circulating
loops with repeating themes. Many scholars agree that Egypt was the precognitor
of Israel’s “mystery” religions.
Savior Gods are one such repeating theme.
Marduk or Tammuz, the Babylonian God, was to come to earth as a savior.
Saoshyant was the savior of the Persian religion. Krishna in India had
the same role as savior. The Egyptians as early as 2,200 B.C., proclaimed
Osiris as savior described as the “shepherd of his people who shall
gather together his scattered flocks and in whom there is no sin.”
Most often these were dying gods who had originally signified the annual
death and revival of vegetation with the seasons. Like the withering vegetation,
they disappeared into the underworld when they died, then when the onset
of summer was signaled at the spring equinox, the god was born again to
fertilize the crops and stimulate the reproductive cycle. See U.M.S. Symbols
and Colors course.
There are religious texts written before
the earliest parts of the Old Testament. The Rig Veda dates from before
1,000 B.C., possibly as early as 1,500 B.C., making it older than the
surmised Old Testament sources. Likewise, the Hindu Upanishads date from
sometime between 1,400 and 800 B.C., again as old as the Old Testament
sources. The Hindu scriptures are a vast body of literature, which include
such epic poems as the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, including the Bhagavad-Gita
as a later insertion. The collection and writing of the Hindu scriptures
continued well into the Christian era, about 500 A.D., giving them a span
that is much longer than the Bible writings. Often the messages are the
same.