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0 “The Jesus Legacy,” By Amunhotep El Bey 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS COVER……………………………………………………………………………………………0 TABLE OF CONTENTS………………………………………………………………………….1 TABLE OF AUTHORITIES……………………………………………………………………2-3 OTHER AUTHORITIES………………………………………………………………………….4 ABOUT THE AUTHOR………………………………………………………………………….5 DEDICATION…………………………………………………………………………………….6 PREFACE……………………………………………………………………………………….7-8 ARGUMENT (Point I)………………………………………………………………………...9-10 ARGUMENT (Point II)………………………………………………………………………11-12 ARGUMENT (Point III)……………………………………………………………………..13-15 ARGUMENT (Point IV)……………………………………………………………………..16-22 CONCLUSION (Point I)………………………………………………………………………...10 CONCLUSION (Point II)………………………………………………………………………..12 CONCLUSION (Point III)……………………………………………………………………….15 CONCLUSION (POINT IV)…………………………………………………………………….22 2 TABLEOF AUTHORITIES BOOKS PAGE The Celestial Ship of the North, By E. Valentia Straiton………………………………………………………………10, 11, 19, 20 A Book of the Beginnings, By Gerald Massey………………………………………………………………………………..11 Isis Unveiled, By H.P. Blavatsky…………………………………………………………………………....13, 20 The Outline of history, By H. G. Wells……………………………………………………………………………….13, 19 The Hiram Key, By Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas………………………………………………………13 The Head of God, By Keith Laider…………………………………………………………………………………..13 The Natural Genesis, By Gerald Massey……………………………………………………………………………16-17 Ancient Egypt, the light of the World, By Gerald Massey……………………………………………………………………………14, 21 Jesus, Last of the Pharaohs, By Ralph Ellis……………………………………………………………………………19, 20, 21 Jesus in the House of the Pharaohs, By Ahmed Osman………………………………………………………………………………..19 The World’s Sixteen crucified Saviors, By Kersey Graves, foreword by Acharya S……………………………………………………...20 The Secret doctrine, By H. P. Blavatsky……………………………………………………………………………….20 Out of Egypt, By Ahmed Osman………………………………………………………………………………..17 Moses and Akhenaton: The Secret History of Egypt at the Time of the Exodus, By Ahmed Osman………………………………………………………………………………..10 3 Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity, By Dr. Samuel C. Sharpe………………………………………………………………………...16 Ancient Egyptians wrote the Bible, By Dr. Kwame Nantambu………………………………………………………………………..18 4 OTHER AUTHORITIES PAGE Philo……………………………………………………………………………………………...11 King Solomon (Pharaoh Amenhotep, III)………………………………………………………..13 Cyril...............................................................................................................................................13 Kenneth Burke…………………………………………………………………………………...11 Robert McKee……………………………………………………………………………………11 Records…………………………………………………………………………………………..17 An Encyclopedia of Archetypal Symbolism..................................................................................19 John 19:34………………………………………………………………………………………..20 John 19:39………………………………………………………………………………………..21 British Museum Dictionary of Ancient Egypt, I Shaw…………………………………………..21 http://www.guardians.net/hawass/buildtomb.htm...........................................................................9 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axPXeODGqEE.......................................................................9 http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids.......................................................9 http://www.ancientegyptonline.co.uk/pyramidtext.html...............................................................18 http://yeyeolade.wordpress.com/2007/04/09/black-people-wrote-the-bible/................................18 Cambridge Encyclopedia………………………………………………………………………...13 Nana Banchie Darkwah………………………………………………………………………….18 H.M. Maulana...............................................................................................................................18 http://www.gnosis.org/ecclesia/homily_Trinity.htm.....................................................................19 www.egyptianmyths.net/isis.htm...................................................................................................19 5 ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amunhotep El Bey is an honorary 33◦ degree Mason, comedian, philosopher, metaphysician, screenwriter, author, poet, historian, and a legal genius. I was born and raised in Fort pierce, Florida, by my grandparents, Leroy Chavis and Lorene Chavis. I come from a middle class black family. I am the son of a master mechanic, as a father, and RN, as a mother. I went through life almost perfect as a young child, but as I grew older I got in trouble like almost everyone else did and grew stronger from all of my experiences. I taped into something great and the very same life experiences and blood within me support this book. 6 DEDICATION I dedicate this book to all truth seekers and to all of the disenfranchised pharaohs’ of Ancient Egypt. 7 PREFACE This book is actually a brief, which gives me the freedom to be creative and aggressive with my points. Over the last two thousand years, people have been searching for the historical existence/evidence of Jesus and other major biblical characters (Moses, David, Solomon, and etc). All these efforts have been fruitless because most people have accepted the biblical stories as historical events and went out searching for the evidence to support their pre-determined conclusions. However, common sense suggests the exact opposite direction in our search for the historical Jesus and other Biblical characters. We should investigate what the historical evidence says about the biblical events and not the other way around. Most scholars have now accepted the fact that the Bible is a blend of history and mythology, shaped by political and religious disputes of ancient times. The pivotal dispute in the Bible is the Exodus. As a result of the Exodus, the Bible Tarnished the image of ancient Egypt and set in motion the ongoing blood feud in the Middle East. The thesis points of this book do not discuss new discoveries, but bring to light evidence, which have been ignored by many Egyptologists because of the risk of contradicting popular religions and especially the true origin of the Jesus Legacy, which was a legacy of the Pharaohs of Ancient Egypt. It is not the intention of this book to contend the religious interpretations of the life and teachings of Jesus that developed subsequently. POINT I WHETHER THE PHARAOHS PAID THEIR WORKFORCE. POINT II WHETHER MYTHOLOGY GAVE BIRTH TO THEOLOGY. POINT III WHETHER THE TRINITY IS EGYPTIAN IN ORIGIN. POINT IV WHETHER THE SON OF GOD/MESSIAH CONCEPT IS EGYPTIAN IN ORIGIN. Let us examine the powerful evidence. Let us discover the truth. Love and respect for Jesus the man should not change. His message and achievements should be carried on. 8 Let us open our minds and review the available evidence, because the truth is a composite of different and complementary pieces of a puzzle. Let us put the pieces of the puzzle together. 9 ARGUMENT (POINT I) WHETHER THE PHARAOHS PAID THEIR WORKFORCE I started off first with this point because Ancient Egypt and her Pharaohs have been tarnished by the slavery which supposedly caused the Exodus in the Bible. As a result of the slavery, you can’t mention Ancient Egypt or her Pharaohs without putting a bad taste in most peoples’ mouth. Did the Pharaohs enslave anyone? Well, let’s take a look at the evidence. The Ancient Egyptians left a written record, hieroglyphics, and you will never find any mention of any Hebrews/Jews being in slavery. You can search Egypt from top to bottom and you still won’t find any mention of enslavement anywhere. The fact that the Ancient Egyptians didn’t mention any enslavement anywhere should be sufficient evidence to conclude that there were never any Hebrews/Jews in slavery in ancient Egypt. According to, “The Tombs of the Pyramid builders” (see http://www.guardians.net/hawass/buildtomb.htm ); every worker was paid and given food and shelter by the Pharaoh. The workers even had job titles. The workers even called themselves friends of Khufu. Pharaoh Khufu ordered the construction of The Great Pyramid. Furthermore, Dr. Zahi Hawass, a respected and renowned archeologists and head of the Supreme Council of Egyptian Antiquities, produced a video proving that the Pharaohs didn’t enslave their workers: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=axPXeODGqEE I provided the video because the cliché is, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” I like to say a picture refutes a thousand lies. Additionally, according to the Harvard Magazine slaves did not build the pyramids. Archaeologist Mark Lehner, digging deeper, discovers a city of privileged workers (see http://harvardmagazine.com/2003/07/who-built-the-pyramids). Lastly, it is generally accepted by most people that Pharaoh Ramses, II, better known as Ramses the Great, was the Pharaoh during the Exodus story in the Bible. Hollywood even made a movie, “The 10 Commandments,” reflecting Ramses the Great as the Pharaoh of the Exodus. The problem with making Ramses the Great the Exodus Pharaoh is that Ramses the Great and his army never drowned in the Red sea when Moses allegedly parted it. In fact, Ramses the Great lived a very long time and his body was mummified and is still currently on display. Keep in mind, that the Pharaoh was the ruler of the world at that point in time. If the Pharaoh and his army drowned in the Red Sea someone would have recorded it outside of the Bible. 10 Scholars associate Pharaoh Akhenaton with Moses of the Bible because of the strong similarities between the biblical Moses and the said Pharaoh. Let’s take a look at some of these similarities: Akhenaton ushered in a one God concept and so did Moses; Akhenaton
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