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The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors

or Christianity Before Christ

CONTAINING

NEW, STARTLING, AND EXTRAORDINARY REVELATIONS IN RELIGIOUS HISTORY, WHICH DISCLOSE
THE ORIENTAL ORIGIN OF ALL THE DOCTRINES, PRINCIPLES, PRECEPTS, AND MIRACLES OF THE CHRISTIAN NEW TESTAMENT AND FURNISHING A KEY FOR UNLOCKING MANY OF ITS SACRED MYSTERIES,
BESIDES COMPRISING THE HISTORY OF 16 HEATHEN CRUCIFIED GODS

SIXTH EDITION, REVISED AND ENLARGED

NEW YORK PETER ECKLER PUBLISHING COMPANY 1915

Kersey Graves

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*	Preface	Explanation	Introduction	Address to the clergy	Chapter I : Rival claims of the saviors	Chapter II : Messianic prophecies	*
	Chapter III : Prophecies by the figure of a serpent	Chapter IV : Miraculous and immaculate conception of the gods	Chapter V : Virgin mothers and virgin-born gods	Chapter VI : Stars point out the time and the saviors' birth-place	Chapter VII : Angels, shepherds, and magi visit the infant saviors	Chapter VIII : The twenty-fifth of December the birthday of the gods
	Chapter IX : Titles of the saviors	Chapter X : The saviors of royal descent, but humble birth	Chapter XI : Christ's genealogy	Chapter XII : The world's saviors saved from destruction in infancy	Chapter XIII : The saviors exhibit early proofs of divinity	Chapter XIV : The saviors' kingdoms not of this world
	Chapter XV : The saviors are real personages	Chapter XVI : Sixteen saviors crucified	Chapter XVII : The aphanasia, or darkness, at the crucifixion	Chapter XVIII : Descent of the saviors into hell	Chapter XIX : Resurrection of the savior	Chapter XX : Reappearance and ascension of the saviors
	Chapter XXI : The atonement: its oriental or heathen origin	Chapter XXII : The holy ghost of oriental origin	Chapter XXIII : The divine "word" of oriental origin	Chapter XXIV : The trinity very anciently a current heathen doctrine	Chapter XXV : Absolution, or the confession of sins, of heathen origin	Chapter XXVI : Origin of baptism by water, fire, blood, and the holy ghost
	Chapter XXVII : The Sacrament or eucharist of heathen origin	Chapter XXVIII : Anointing with oil of oriental origin	Chapter XXIX : How men, including Jesus Christ, came to be worshipped as gods	Chapter XXX : Sacred cycles explaining the advent of the gods, the master-key to the divinity of Jesus Christ	Chapter XXXI : Christianity derived from heathen and oriental systems	Chapter XXXII : Three hundred and forty-six striking analogies between Christ and Chrishna
	Chapter XXXIII : Appolonius, Osirus, and Magus as gods	Chapter XXXIV : The three pillars of the Christian faith -- miracles, prophecies, and precepts	Chapter XXXV : Logical or common-sense view of the doctrine of divine incarnation	Chapter XXXVI : Phylosophical absurdities of the doctrine of the divine incarnation	Chapter XXXVII : Physiological absurdities of the doctrine of the divine incarnation	Chapter XXXVIII : A historical view of the divinity of Jesus Christ
	Chapter XXXIX : The scriptural view of Christ's divinity	Chapter XL : A Metonymic view of the divinity of Jesus Christ	Chapter XLI : The precepts and practical life of Jesus Christ	Chapter XLII : Christ as a spiritual medium	Chapter XLIII : Conversion, repentance, and "getting religion" of heathen origin	Chapter XLIV : The moral lessons of religious history
	Chapter XLV : Conclusion and review			Note of explanation
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