![]() Strange enough, although Carotta finally presents to us the historical Jesus in overwhelming grandezza, orthodox scientists, believers and even atheists hate (and fear) this work, which has been available in other languages since 1999, because it is not a theory at all, but a huge cluster of historical, archeological, numismatic, cultural, theological and linguistic facts and accords. The reader will embark on a journey into the Roman womb of Christendom, where astounding parallels between the lives of Jesus Christ and Iulius Caesar are revealed. ![]() This is not some borderline esoteric pap, but a gritty and witty report that never loses its scientific seriousness. "Jesus was Caesar" is a praiseworthy and highly learned work of daring excellence. In the book "Jesus was Caesar" by linguist and philosopher Francesco Carotta, Ethelbert Staufer's findings are anything but a coincidence, rather a logical result from a historical momentum and from cultural-dynamical phenomena, which Carotta reveals in a scientific tour-de-force rollercoaster ride. Soon afterwards the Julian religion was extinct and forgotten. There, in a different cultural context, the story was altered, adapted, incorrectly translated, misinterpretated, supplemented with appropriate passages from the Biblia Iudaica, but nonetheless understood: its core and ethics were preserved, and after the Jewish War Christianity suddenly surfaced and swept into western Rome. A few generations later Caesar's stories, among them Asinius Pollio's "Historiae", were still being told, the god Iulius still being worshipped, especially in the Eastern colonies, where many of his veterans had settled after the Civil War. An improvised funeral service, driven by a wide range of deep emotions from sorrow to love, from remorse to fury, turned into uproar and insurrection, shaped Rome for all times and sealed Caesar's apotheosis to the highest god of the state, Divus Iulius. This ceremony is one of the most important events in the history of mankind, for it decided not only on the fate of the Roman Empire, but the fate of Christianity, Europe and the whole world. In the 1950s the German theologian Ethelbert Staufer discovered that the Christian Easter liturgy isn't based on genuine Christian sources, but on the funeral ceremony and passion of Caius Iulius Caesar, the founder of modern civilization. In the course of history, successful stories have always undergone cultural transformations and adaptations, and poignant historical events have always had far reaching consequences. Are the Gospels a 'mis-telling' of the life of Caesar - from the Rubicon to his assassination - mutated into the narrative of Jesus - from the Jordan to his crucifixion? Is Jesus Christ really the historical manifestation of Divus Julius? Are the Gospels built on the life of Caesar, just as the first Christian churches were built on the foundations of antique temples? Corruptions in the copying of texts, misinterpretations in translations and the transformation of iconography from Roman to Christian have been traced to their origins. Jesus Was Caesar examines these intriguing mirror images. On the one hand, an actual historical figure missing his cult on the other, a cult missing its actual historical figure. ![]() Early historians, however, never mentioned Jesus and even now there is no actual proof of his existence. The cult surrounding Jesus Christ, son of God and originator of Christianity, appeared during the second century. The cult that surrounded him dissolved as Christianity surfaced. Julius Caesar, son of Venus and founder of the Roman Empire, was elevated to status of Imperial God, Divus Julius, after his violent death. So, you don't have to wait for my book to explore this idea. ![]() In another way, it is reassuring that I'm not the only one who has seen the parallels. In a way, that's a bit of a disappointment because I was going to assemble the proofs and make the case. Well, I've discovered that I am not the only one who has come to this idea. I was naturally a bit nonplussed by this because it does sound sort of crazy, right? I didn't start out thinking it, it just emerged of its own by the assembling of the data. I had come to this idea simply by reading numerous perspectives on the history of Caesar. At that meeting, I discussed some ideas I'd been having that I intended to include in the next volume of Secret History, to wit, the growing conviction I felt that Julius Caesar was the figure around whom the Jesus legend was wrapped. In another thread, recently, I spoke about our visit to Croatia and a lunch we had with Croatian members of the forum and FOTCM.
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