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Jordan Maxwell, in a Best of Jordan Maxwell compilation, argues that church art is solar and that Jesus came late among gods who die and return. Rays behind a holy head, later called a crown of thorns, mean the old divinities are the sun. He lists thirty seven figures, many virgin born and followed by twelve. Mithra, the unconquered sun, dies in a northern winter and lives in spring, and the same title is handed to Mesoamerican cults, Native teachings, and rulers of states. Verses in Luke and Malachi about wings become beams, which is why Jesus hangs among stars and why Egyptian rays were copied onto him. Paul, Apollos, and Peter in Corinth are rival solar loyalties, Apollos being a sun name on a cathedral. Krishna is India’s crucified Christ, other rescuers die on a cross earlier, and Egypt used that sign a thousand years before. The monstrance and the cry that he is risen are bows to morning. The cross is the year’s bars between the seasons, and Christianity remains, he says, a Roman cult of the sun.
Key points
- Maxwell reads halos and spiked crowns as solar rays and treats ancient gods as the sun in person.
- His count of thirty seven earlier figures shares a virgin mother, twelve followers, and a death followed by a return.
- Mithra’s winter vanishing and spring return are the pattern he then finds in Luke’s wings and in Malachi’s rising light.
- A split in Corinth among Paul, Apollos, and Peter is taken to show that some early believers followed a different solar god.
- Krishna, Egypt’s cross, and priestly clothing are his exhibits for crucifixion imagery older than the church.
- Sunday food, the monstrance, and the cry of rising are the daily sun, and the cross is a diagram of the four seasons.
Short quotes
Everywhere you see gods of the ancient world, they always represented the sun.
Jordan Maxwell, Sun gods before Jesus
His first move is to make the old gods solar figures rather than separate powers behind the sky. Watch at 1:41
The pagan sun god Mithra, also known as the invincible sun because the sun always comes back from winter.
Jordan Maxwell, Sun gods before Jesus
Mithra supplies the winter pattern, a sun that seems to perish and is praised because it returns. Watch at 3:50
It's in the book of Malachi 4:2 that the son of righteousness will rise with healing in his wings.
Jordan Maxwell, Sun gods before Jesus
A line about righteousness rising with wings is folded into the same solar body later painted on Jesus. Watch at 11:21
However, there were other saviors and messiahs who also died on a cross.
Jordan Maxwell, Sun gods before Jesus
Death on a cross, he says, was already told of other saviors long before the gospels. Watch at 16:12
A thousand years before Christianity, the Egyptians worshiped and used the cross.
Jordan Maxwell, Sun gods before Jesus
Egypt’s earlier use of the emblem is his case that the church inherited a much older sign. Watch at 20:10
Always the idea is the sun is rising and that's why it's your savior because it is rising.
Jordan Maxwell, Sun gods before Jesus
Rising, for him, is only what the morning sun does, and that motion is why it is called a rescuer. Watch at 26:56
Video by Best Of Jordan Maxwell. Watch on YouTube.