In existographies, Timothy Freke (c.1961-) is an English new age type of religio-mythologist noted for his 1999 to present work, with Peter Gandy, on the Christ myth theory.
Overview
In 2012, Freke, in the documentary film Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus, who was one of the featured scholars, along with Dorothy Murdock, among others, arguing that Jesus, who was a Pagan-based, mostly-Egyptian, mythological morph character. [1]
Quotes
The following are noted quotes:
“The Christian myth of the 'return' is a powerful allegory designed to guide us through the stages of initiation which lead to Gnosis. It was created by synthesizing the Jewish myth of Exodus with Pagan myths of the dying and resurrecting Godman Osiris-Dionysus. Originally a simple and abstract myth, it was revised and embellished over the course of the first and second centuries CE to become the most influential myth ever created: the Jesus story.”
— Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy (2001), Jesus and the Lost Goddess [2]
References
1. (a) Heede, Fritz. (2012). Caesar's Messiah: The Roman Conspiracy to Invent Jesus (Ѻ) (about). Publisher.
(b) Freke, Timothy. (2012). “The Jesus Myth – Timothy Freke” (Ѻ), Caesar’s Messiah, Sep 1.
2. Freke, Timothy and Grandy, Peter. (2001). Jesus and the Lost Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians (Osiris, 18+ pgs; quote, pg. 13). Random House.
Further reading
● Freke, Timothy and Gandy, Peter. (1999). The Jesus Mysteries: Was the Original Jesus a Pagan God? (Osiris, 49+ pgs). Ten Speed, 2001.
● Freke, Timothy and Gandy, Peter. (2005). The Laughing Jesus: Religious Lies and Gnostic Wisdom. Ten Speed.
● Freke, Timothy. (2008). The Hermetica: The Lost Wisdom of the Pharaohs. Tarcher.
External links
● The Jesus Mysteries – Wikipedia.
● Tim Freke (about) – TimeFreke.com.
