{"title":"Alvin Boyd Kuhn","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"who-is-this-king-of-glory-a-critical-study-of-the-christos-messiah-tradition-paperback","title":"Who is this King of Glory?: A Critical Study of the Christos-Messiah Tradition - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe pick that struck the Rosetta Stone in the loamy soil of the Nile delta in 1796 also struck a mighty blow at historical Christianity. For it released the voice of a long-voiceless past to refute nearly every one of Christianity's historical claims with a withering negative. The cryptic literature of old Egypt, sealed in silence when Christianity took its rise, but haunting it like a taunting specter after the third century, now stalks forth like a living ghost out of the tomb to point its long finger of accusation at a faith that has too long thriven on falsity. For that literature now rises out of oblivion to proclaim the true source of every doctrine of Christianity as Egyptian, the product and heritage of a remote past. The translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, the Pyramid Texts, and the Book of Thoth lays on the table the irrefutable data which show that, far from being the first gleam of true light in a world previously benighted in heathenism, Christianity was but a poor and crippled orphan, appearing--after the third century-without evidence of its true parentage and sadly belying in its outward form the semblance of its real ancestral lineage. The books of old Egypt now unroll the sagas of wisdom which announce the inexorable truth that not a single doctrine, rite, tenet or usage in Christianity was a new contribution to world religion, but that every article and practice of that faith was a disfigured copy of ancient Egyptian systematism. Christianity, it proclaims, not only did not register a single advance in any line of wisdom or truth, but deplorably vitiated and disfigured the beautiful structure of religion which it ignorantly adopted and so wretchedly purveyed as its own alleged new creation. The shadow that pursued the faith with the semblance of outward similarity for sixteen centuries, now resolves into the substance of veridical proof of original identity. The entire body of Christian doctrinism is now seen to be nothing but revamped and terribly mutilated Egyptianism. - Taken from the preface\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367063584991,"sku":"9781461190363","price":22.79,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/IxT7VfuXwQ9781461190363.webp?v=1789102292"},{"product_id":"who-is-this-king-of-glory-a-critical-study-of-the-christos-messiah-tradition-hardcover","title":"Who is This King of Glory?: A Critical Study of the Christos-Messiah Tradition - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book reveals that much of Christianity and its beliefs had originated in ancient Egypt rather than the Middle East. The author presents us with how, where and why many spiritual Egyptian beliefs were adopted into Christian form and accepted as \"history\", as opposed to being carried over in their original mythological form. Kuhn states, \"The gospels are not and never were histories. They are now proven to have been cryptic dramas of the spiritual evolution of humanity and of the history of the human soul in its earthly tabernacle of flesh.\" For Christianity to be expressed in the way it was first intended, as experienced during the first two centuries of its existence, one must first acknowledge its pagan roots. This is too much of a leap for most people, but they have not read this book. The author reveals how things were altered in the third century by the existing priesthood and why.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51367742341343,"sku":"9781585095803","price":59.35,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/ODCNTic2Wu9781585095803.webp?v=1789113412"},{"product_id":"esoteric-structure-of-the-alphabet-paperback","title":"Esoteric Structure of the Alphabet - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e2015 Reprint Edition. Full Facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Originally published without date by The Academy Press, the book was written as an effort to uncover a sort of \"crypticism\" that lay behind the letters of the English alphabet, ostensibly hidden there by \"Sages\" to \"safeguard precious cosmic and anthropogenic truth from desecration by the 'rabble.'\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376097984735,"sku":"9781614278405","price":12.15,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/OeQL5-bYMQ9781614278405.webp?v=1789214187"},{"product_id":"the-lost-light-an-interpretation-of-ancient-scriptures-paperback","title":"The Lost Light: An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003ePROLOGUE Coming forth in a day when theology has long been discredited - even in its own ecclesiastical household - and religion itself is threatened with obliteration by rampant forces hostile to it, this book aims to rehabilitate theology and to stabilize true religion. It must be said at the very outset and with blunt insistence that it is for religion and not in any way against it. It is written to establish religion again as the cornerstone of human culture, when civilization has largely turned away from it to seek elsewhere the guiding light. It is designed to redeem Divine Theology from her outcast condition and place her again beside Philosophy and Science on the throne in the kingdom of man's mind. It needs sharply to be asseverated that the book is for religion because many will pronounce it the most forthright attack on ecclesiastical doctrinism yet presented. It can hardly be denied that it sweeps away almost the entire body of common acceptance of biblical and theological meaning. But it makes no war on anything in religion save the idiocies and falsities that have crept into the general conception of orthodox belief. Finding the chief enemies of true religion were those within her own gates, the book has had to address itself to the ungenerous task of repudiating the whole untenable structure of accredited interpretation in order to erect on the ground the lovely temple of ancient truth. If theology is to be rescued from its forlorn state of intellectual disrepute into which not its enemies but its friends have precipitated it through an unconscionable perversion of its original significance to gross repulsiveness, the errors and distortions perpetrated upon it by those of its own household must be ruthlessly dismantled. Hence to many the book will seem like a devastating assault on the very citadel of common religious preachment. In the face of all this it must be maintained that the work is written to support and defend religion against all its foes and that it is constructive and not destructive of true religious values at every turn. It was no light or (Page 1) frivolous gesture to affront a settled and rooted growth of beliefs and doctrinal statements that have been cherished for centuries around the hearthstone of Christian culture and become hallowed by age-long acceptance and the strong loves and loyalties inbred in sensitive childhood. But it was seen to be a drastic operation quite necessary to save the organism of religion itself from further decay and menacing death. Excrescences of misconception and superstition had to be heroically cut out of the body of theology and the calcareous incrustations of ignorant interpretation dissolved and carried away by the acid stream of living truth flowing forth, after centuries of suppression, from the mighty scriptures of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376684531935,"sku":"9781461182283","price":26.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/DZRtuKNSWU9781461182283.webp?v=1789221688"},{"product_id":"the-root-of-all-religion-paperback","title":"The Root of all Religion - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e2018 Reprint of 1936 Pamphlet Edition. 36 Pages. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. Alvin Boyd Kuhn (1880 -1963) was an American Theosophist. A publisher who wrote books that he published himself, he lectured and was a proponent of the Christ myth theory. Highly influenced by the work of Gerald Massey and Godfrey Higgins, Kuhn contended that the Bible derived its origins from other Pagan religions and much of Christian history was pre-extant as Egyptian mythology. He also proposed that the Bible was symbolic and did not depict real events and argued that the leaders of the church started to misinterpret the bible at the end of the third century. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376701243615,"sku":"9781684222735","price":13.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/02GozGW-Aq9781684222735.webp?v=1789221731"},{"product_id":"the-lost-light-an-interpretation-of-ancient-scriptures-paperback-1","title":"The Lost Light: An Interpretation of Ancient Scriptures - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e2015 Reprint of the 1940 edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Highly influenced by the work of Gerald Massey and Godfrey Higgins, Kuhn contended that the Bible derived its origins from other Pagan religions and much of Christian history was pre-extant as Egyptian mythology. He also proposed that the Bible was symbolic and did not depict real events, and argued that the leaders of the church started to misinterpret the bible at the end of the third century. Many authors including Tom Harpur and John G. Jackson were influenced by the works of Kuhn. Harpur even dedicated his best-selling 2004 book, \"The Pagan Christ\" to Kuhn, calling him \"a man of immense learning and even greater courage\" and \"one of the single greatest geniuses of the twentieth century\" [who] \"towers above all others of recent memory in intellect and his understanding of the world's religions.\" Harpur notes that Kuhn gave nearly 2,000 public lectures which were lengthy, detailed and well-attended, but suggests that Kuhn's self-publishing may have resulted in a lack of attention to his work.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51376724312287,"sku":"9781614278917","price":34.38,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/mDUEDNr0J9781614278917.webp?v=1789221790"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/alvin-boyd-kuhn.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}