00:22:30.800And Ahriman, the evil deity, with respect to what periods they're going to rule this world for until the end of time, until the apocalypse.
00:31:16.380and you are rewarded based on the righteousness
00:31:19.020of those in your bloodline who came before you.
00:31:21.720The god of the Torah, of the books of Moses, does not judge people based on their individual
00:31:30.180conscience, and he punishes people for misdeeds that are not their own.
00:31:34.020So the core of all Zoroastrianism, the core of, well, frankly, both Zoroastrianism and
00:31:40.780Mithraism of ancient Iranian religion in general is the idea of personal responsibility,
00:31:45.840individual conscience, free will. And so I think this is another core idea of Christianity that
00:31:56.520emerges from out of the Persian influence on Judaism, beginning with Cyrus the Great.
00:32:04.920Wow, very interesting. So one of our members asked, so Michael Feldman is asking,
00:32:10.420is Cyrus's grave maintained or did Islamists destroy it? So, um, after like, like during the
00:32:17.5201979 Islamic revolution, in fact, the Islamic ayatollahs started making calls and demands
00:32:25.040for the destruction of the tomb of Cyrus the Great. However, um, local Iranians, when they
00:32:31.880found out what the, um, Muslim clerics were planning on doing, local Iranians went to the
00:32:38.520tomb of Cyrus the Great. They surrounded it, made like a human wall, and they prevented the Islamists
00:32:44.360and jihadis from destroying the tomb of Cyrus the Great. However, the tomb is currently in
00:32:53.120disrepair. The Islamic Republic does nothing to maintain it. They're basically hoping that just
00:32:58.800through just ignoring it, that the tomb will eventually just go into ruin.
00:33:08.520But many local Iranians, like many Iranians who are local to the area, they try to maintain the tomb of Cyrus the Great using their own funds and their own resources.
00:33:22.760Actually, I can show you what the tomb of Cyrus the Great looks like.
00:33:34.980I've actually been to the tomb of Cyrus the Great.
00:33:36.920Yep. I was there when I visited Iran. You know, when I was younger, I visited and, you know, I was, you know, blessed. I was blessed to have the opportunity to visit the tomb of Cyrus the Great. So here, I'll show you what it looks like. There you go.
00:33:55.600So that is the tomb of Cyrus the Great. And every, you know, every major Iranian celebration, you know, non-Islamic, right? Every major Iranian celebration, Iranians will go to the tomb of Cyrus the Great and they will celebrate there.
00:34:14.280So even though the tomb is literally in a state of disrepair, it's in the desert, there's like nothing like guys, this should be like, this could be the biggest tourist attraction in the world, right in the world. And yet it is in a state of disrepair. There's nothing around. It is just, you know, the worst tourist attraction. Why? Because the Islamic regime hates everything that symbolizes pre-Islamic Iran.
00:34:44.160and because cyrus the great was a austrian and he was the founder of the persian empire um the
00:34:49.840islamic republic hates him because you know he has nothing to do with islam and um one of the
00:34:55.520reasons that we iranians are proud of our identity is because of cyrus the great the founder of the
00:35:02.080persian empire so yeah and you know it's really interesting one of one of the chants you know
00:35:07.840that iranians make is that um we're not descended from arabs we're descended from cyrus the great
00:35:14.160We are the children of Cyrus the Great. And so, yeah, this is the tomb of Cyrus the Great.
00:35:22.240And, you know, this should be like, there's so much that could be done with this. And yet
00:35:29.880the Islamic regime is just ignoring it. They don't maintain it. It's in a state of disrepair.
00:35:35.280And as you can see, like, there's literally nothing around, right? Like, you just see,
00:35:38.820like a few like trees, right? Like you just see like some random bushes, right? And then, you
00:35:45.320know, it's just desert. Like you would think that the tomb of the founder of the Persian empire
00:35:52.580would be well maintained. You know, there would be like a whole, maybe like theme park around it,
00:35:58.740or, you know, museums, historical artifacts, something, absolutely nothing. It's just this.
00:36:05.020And yeah, I mean, this is what Islamic colonizers do, right? Like they constantly try to destroy
00:36:13.020and erase the history of civilizations that existed prior to Islam. And for the person in
00:36:24.000the chat who says they're under sanctions, how do you expect them to maintain? You're an idiot.
00:36:29.980The sanctions have nothing to do with maintaining historical sites.
00:36:35.040The sanctions have to do with, you know, not allowing the Islamic Republic to have access to military weapons.
00:36:42.740So stop being an apologist for Islamic terrorists.
00:36:47.400And yeah, maybe open, you know, maybe take some time to listen to actual Iranians when we're talking about our history.
00:36:54.660and don't try to iransplain our country to us especially when we're talking about how
00:37:01.380islamic terrorists are trying to erase and destroy our identity i'm glad that there are
00:37:08.200sanctions on the islamic republic all right let's get back to the show
00:37:12.980i should have started out asking if uh are any of these things these items written in your
00:37:23.060books and which books uh would you recommend people definitely check out because i'd like to
00:37:29.000do some further digging myself and i've went on amazon it seems like you have like six or seven
00:37:33.320different books on amazon if i'm not mistaken that's right that's right there are two books
00:37:37.000that focus primarily on uh iran um and one of them the one that's most relevant to this discussion
00:37:43.640is iranian leviathan um so to the person who said that um the person who said in the comments
00:37:51.760$7,000 daily. Actually, I'm worth way more than that. So I actually get $7,000 per second. So
00:38:01.420every second that I'm live streaming, I get $7,000 from Mossad. Thank you very much. Do not
00:38:08.740discount my worth. I'm worth way more than $7,000 a day. Which is subtitled A Monumental History
00:38:15.680of Mithra's Abode, where I'm arguing that Mithraism is the red thread through all of Iranian
00:38:21.600history, all the way even through the Islamic conquest and into quote-unquote Islamic mysticism.
00:38:29.220So in this book, Iranian Leviathan, I go on at length about the creation of Judaism as we know
00:38:35.880it. And I argue that Judaism, as opposed to ancient Israelite religion, Judaism is an Iranian
00:38:42.800creation. The kind of Judaism that then develops into Christianity is already a creation of the
00:38:49.440Achaemenid priestly and royal elite beginning about, you know, 530s, 550s to 530s AD. I mean,
00:38:58.920I'm sorry, BC. About 500 years before Christ, the Achaemenid royal and priestly elite, the Magi,
00:39:08.100three of whom wind up at the birth of Jesus. Guys, okay, so, okay, wait, I have to make a note of
00:39:15.060this. I have to make a note of this because in my earlier live stream today, someone asked me to
00:39:21.960make a video, um, or do a live stream about how the three wise men who visited Jesus Christ when
00:39:29.780he was born were Zoroastrian. And I was like, yeah, sure. I was like, I'll look into it. And
00:39:34.420then now he just mentioned this. So, okay, let me just like write this down and I need to do like
00:39:39.300a timestamp. So 13, 19. All right. Okay. So this way, like I won't, I won't forget. And I can like
00:39:45.940refer back to this when I make my video. Nice wig. Thank you. Yeah. I mean, my wig is really,
00:39:52.540really nice. Yeah. Maybe, maybe I'll wear my blonde wig tomorrow. Sorry. I just, the trolls
00:40:02.440are so funny. They, they have like nothing to come up with. So they're like nice wig. So, okay.
00:40:07.040sure. I mean, if that's the best, you can pull on it. I don't know. There you go. I don't know.
00:40:15.300What am I supposed to do? Anyways. Let me fix my thing now. Okay. So yeah. All right. Okay. So I
00:40:26.960have it at 1319. All right. So now I know where to go to talk, to get information about the three
00:40:33.740wise then. I'm going to go back. In Leviathan, I go on at length about the creation of Judaism as
00:40:39.380we know it. And I argue that Judaism, as opposed to ancient Israelite religion, Judaism is an
00:40:46.480Iranian creation. The kind of Judaism that then develops into Christianity is already a creation
00:40:53.000of the Achaemenid priestly and royal elite beginning about, you know, 530s, 550s to 530s
00:41:01.600A.D. I mean, I'm sorry, B.C. About 500 years before Christ, the Achaemenid royal and priestly
00:41:10.380elite, the Magi, three of whom wind up at the birth of Jesus, the Magi together with
00:41:17.160the royal family of the Achaemenids basically reshape Judaism radically at the same time as
00:41:27.300they integrate the babylonian jews into the administrative and economic structure of the
00:41:32.900persian empire so there's a full treatment of that subject in this book gotta get it definitely get
00:41:38.580the book go down in the description make sure you guys get his uh his material and uh do you have um
00:41:43.860is any of this stuff ebook too yeah i think uh i think almost all of my books are available in an
00:41:51.060ebook kindle format and iranian leviathan definitely is awesome awesome okay make sure
00:41:56.820you guys check that out i'm definitely going to do that and show him some love so we can have him
00:41:59.900back on the show um so jason this this notion and i don't want to get lost in the apocalypse but
00:42:07.240it fascinates me right now it's something i definitely want to look into because
00:42:11.560there are what are called preterist and this is a theological movement of course within christendom
00:42:17.080and there are what called full preterist now anyone who watches my show knows there that's
00:42:22.420such a minor. Why do you bring them up all the time? Guys, this was my deconstruction from
00:42:27.100Christianity. So I kind of bring up what's relevant to me. I was looking at the New Testament
00:42:32.580and over and over and over, I would find these places which gave these time statements
00:42:37.080that the end was supposed to happen like soon. I mean, the resurrection from the dead,
00:42:43.700the apocalypse, the whole nine. And the way that we as full preterist defended Jesus is we said,
00:42:50.040well, it did happen. It just, it didn't happen the way that everybody was thinking it was supposed
00:42:54.540to happen. There was no earth consuming fire. It was the temple. The resurrection from the dead
00:43:02.060was most likely spiritual, even though there's some that literally believe like all the saints
00:43:06.560were physically resurrected and somehow gathered into the sky. They're more fundamentalist than
00:43:11.260anyone I know. We took more of a spiritual approach to try and get around that. And
00:43:15.880and everything we did we try to say well he said it was supposed to happen soon
00:43:19.480we believe it did happen soon uh so we try to find a way around it this apocalypse this this
00:43:26.100this end of time end of history notion that it shouldn't be interpreted that way right wouldn't
00:43:33.480you correctly say that it would be like this is supposed to be the actual end or yes that's right
00:43:38.920and it's an it's an entirely iranian idea this idea does not appear in any culture anywhere
00:43:45.260in world history before it appears in the teachings of Zarathustra at least about 600 BC
00:43:53.300in Iran. And it's the idea of, as you put it, a world-consuming fire. It's called fresh guard
00:44:01.920in Persian, which means, you know, Persian is related to the European languages. There's a
00:44:07.440language family called Indo-European or the Aryan languages. And so Persian is not at all related
00:44:13.400to arabic grammatically or to any of the semitic languages like hebrew persian is like a european
00:44:18.520language and so fresh that that part is definitely true yeah you can hear the word fresh in it
00:44:25.880fresh fresh god uh it means the freshening of the world the refreshing of the world
00:44:32.120and now chemical fire that consumes the whole earth and transmutes it into a perfected form
00:44:38.600namely the kingdom of God. That is a Zoroastrian idea that is from at least 600 BC and it's what
00:44:47.520you see Jesus quoting when he says, you know, I've come to bring fire upon the earth and so on and so
00:44:55.540forth when he describes this conflagration at the end of history. Interesting because this is what
00:45:05.340I've been going back on now that I've deconstructed is I'm like, hey, well, what if this whole thing's
00:45:11.680wrong? What if I'm wrong about some of this stuff? Or what if I thought wrong? And I'm doing that
00:45:16.620with a lot of different things. And Mithraism, I've heard a lot of scholars try to push that
00:45:22.880down. And they try to equate this, this comparison between Mithraism and Christianity is equal to
00:45:30.080saying Jesus is Horus, and then they throw everything under the bus, say it's all zeitgeist,
00:45:34.420and you're trying to do the zeitgeist movie thing um do you want to take us down the path of uh
00:45:39.700how mithraism not only you you showed that it influenced judaism but how it goes from judaism
00:45:46.740and it influences christianity and in what ways so i mean zoroastrianism uh really you could say
00:45:53.380influenced judaism more although and this is going to get it just for a moment a little bit
00:45:58.500complicated but i refer people to my book although the main ideas that you see in late judaism
00:46:07.220uh have their prototype in zoroastrianism i make a fairly uh rigorous argument in iranian leviathan
00:46:15.380that the people in the persian imperial elite who transformed judaism in that way
00:46:22.180were themselves mithrists like for example cyrus the great um he has a mithraic solar lotus
00:46:30.180engraved on his tomb and to the person who says you know free ballastine and end the occupation
00:46:37.700i agree we need to free ballastine from the arab muslim invaders and send them back to egypt or
00:46:43.540jordan where they belong ballastine is literally the fakest you know country um in the world and
00:46:50.740And I think that both Gaza and Judea and Samaria should go back to Israel and the whole thing should be Israel.
00:46:59.560So, yeah, free Palestine from the Arab Muslim jihadi invaders and they can go back to the Arabian Peninsula where they belong.
00:47:11.020And he left instructions for Mithraic horse sacrifices to take place on a regular basis at his tomb.
00:47:18.240So there's evidence that Cyrus himself was a Mithras and you can also see evidence that Xerxes and subsequent Achaemenid monarchs were Mithras. In any case, although some of these core ideas in late Judaism are Zoroastrian in origin, as Judaism transitions into Christianity, you're dealing with a period in Iranian history where Mithrasim became dominant.
00:47:46.000it became the de facto state religion. In the Achaemenid Empire, in the first Persian Empire,
00:47:52.480Zoroastrianism wasn't the official state religion, but it was kind of the de facto
00:47:56.240religion of Iran. Whereas by the time of Jesus, we're in the Parthian period in Iran.
00:48:03.380The Parthian dynasty were an offshoot of these northern Iranian barbarians who were a lot like
00:48:10.400vikings and they came down and took over the legacy of the persian empire resuscitated iran
00:48:16.640after hundreds of years of greek colonization and these parthians were oh oh i i have a comment
00:48:25.280all right so tfdx says love your hilarious goldie i guess you mean humor i'm i'm hilarious we love
00:48:33.120you so much as a non-persian keep trolling these inbred islamists honestly it's so easy to troll
00:48:38.880them guys like i i try to avoid like i i will generally avoid um responding to like you know
00:48:48.160the the jihadis and the trolls in the chat on my you know main live stream you know the one that i
00:48:54.640do at 12 noon which is much more serious you know focused on islamic terrorism and jihad and politics
00:49:01.200um that one i just kind of ignore them but my evening live streams it's a bit more chill you
00:49:07.440know we're just sort of watching documentaries again like this is someone recommended this
00:49:13.040documentary to me that's why i'm watching it um this has you know it's not a reflection of you
00:49:20.080know what i believe or anything like that especially when it comes to ancient religion
00:49:24.800ancient history i know nothing about that so learning experience for me as well to you know
00:49:30.320see what other people think um so yeah because it's more chill and more casual yeah i have a
00:49:35.760little bit more fun with with the with the jihadis right it's just it's so easy to troll them it's so
00:49:41.680so easy to troll them but i'm i'm glad that you're um enjoying my sense of humor
00:49:47.600so yeah all right thank you for that let's uh let's continue mithrists okay so from about 200
00:49:57.600years before christ about 100 and 180 or so uh before christ you had mithraism become dominant
00:50:05.920in iran and iran starts to fight a series of wars with the roman empire and these wars are not only
00:50:12.800taking place on the battlefield they're also taking place uh you know in the psychological
00:50:17.680realm it's it's a psychological war as much as it's a military confrontation
00:50:22.400and in particular the the iranians had a black ops navy in the mediterranean known as the
00:50:31.100cilician pirates these are the first people to fly the uh skull and the crossbones in history
00:50:38.580and i'll come in a moment to what that symbol means and how it's relevant to christianity
00:50:44.300because the crossbones are the cross are what becomes the cross in christianity at any rate
00:50:50.000Okay, I didn't know that. So I just I just pulled up the Cilician pirates. Here we go, guys. So
00:50:59.440this is interesting. Yeah, learn something new. Okay, so let me pull this up here. We'll learn
00:51:07.040about this together because I've never heard of this before. So the Cilician pirates dominated
00:51:12.940the Mediterranean Sea from the 2nd century BC until their suppression by Pompeii in 67 and 66 BC.
00:51:22.960Because there were notorious pirate strongholds in Cilicia. Where is Cilicia? Okay, there we go.
00:51:31.060That red part, I guess, is where Cilicia was. On the southern coast of Asia Minor, modern-day
00:51:36.220Turkey, the term Cilician was long used to generically refer
00:51:44.020to any pirates in the Mediterranean. Wow, that's that's
00:51:49.240new to me. I've never heard of the term Cilician. So that's
00:51:52.900really interesting. Okay, cool. You know, you learn something new
00:51:55.740every day. No, no, no, I don't know. Cilician wasn't a Persian
00:52:01.180proxy. Were they? Is that what he said?
00:52:06.220they dominated the mediterranean seaway where were they from
00:59:10.820the warrior caste, which is red, and the farmers or agriculturalists, which are green, represented
00:59:19.960by the green color. And you see this color scheme on the flags of all the countries that were once
00:59:25.600Mithraic, that were once within the sphere of Iranian civilization. Iran, Tajikistan, the Kurds
00:59:32.460in Iraq and Syria Bulgaria also and I think that even the Italian color scheme
00:59:42.780of red white and green is a legacy of the dominance of Mithraism in the Roman
00:59:49.740Empire Mithra was also worshipped in the form of an evergreen tree the the
00:59:57.460Iranians, the Iranians represented truth as a sarv or cypress, a form of evergreen most prevalent
01:00:05.840throughout Iran. And they would take an evergreen tree together with its roots and offer gifts to
01:00:14.540the tree. And so the evergreen tree is also another symbol of Mithraism. Amanita muscaria
01:00:22.380mushrooms which are red and white in their pattern uh grow around evergreen trees and
01:00:30.380the amanita muscaria mushroom was used to spike wine that was uh that was part of a communion
01:00:38.460ceremony celebrated by mithras so the mithras before christians had a communion uh celebration
01:00:45.260where they drank wine spiked with amanita uh mushrooms to induce kind of you know transcendental
01:00:51.180estate in some cases an out-of-body experience and um i don't know about you guys but that sounds
01:00:59.500pretty fun i should i should send like i should take a clip of this part and send it to my parents
01:01:06.940and be like why don't we drink wine spiked with mushrooms on yalda night and i'll see what my
01:01:13.740parents say. I'll see what my parents say. In those communion ceremonies, they ate wafers,
01:01:21.880circular wafers of bread inscribed by a cross. Okay, so this is centuries before Christianity.
01:01:28.120Oh no. Now, let me tell you what the cross stands for. So I had mentioned the skull and the cross
01:01:34.140bones, the flag of the Cilician pirates who were a black ops navy of Iran, working in the
01:01:39.520Mediterranean to spread Mithraism into the port cities of the Roman Empire. The cross on the
01:01:44.900skull and crossbones, which is also the cross on the communion wafer that these people ate,
01:01:49.540the cross symbolizes the crossing of the celestial equator by the ecliptic of the zodiac.
01:01:58.800So, you know, in astrology, you have the equator of the earth extended out into the star globe,
01:02:05.340And then at an angle to that, it's crossed by the zodiac, by the circle of the zodiacal constellations.
01:02:13.920And it forms an X like this, separated by 23 degrees.
01:02:19.600And the reason that there's a skull over it in the Jolly Roger is because this astrological realm governed by the planets and the zodiac is a realm of death.
01:02:32.820And so that skull represents Kronos, to put it in Greek terminology, or Saturn in Roman terminology, the god of time.
01:02:41.380Guys, I'm completely, I just want to say, I'm completely out of my element here.
01:02:46.800Again, like my expertise is, you know, Islamic terrorism, jihad, Middle Eastern politics, and of course, modern day Iranian history, probably going to like maybe the last 150 years.
01:03:02.820Um, but, uh, yeah, this is, this is interesting. This is, um, interesting. And I'm, I'm kind of
01:03:10.200glad that I'm doing a live stream so I can, um, get your reactions as well and, and read your
01:03:17.540comments because I don't know if I buy everything he's saying, like, I'm not buying everything he's
01:03:25.820selling, but it's very interesting. At the very least, it's interesting, um, to hear what he has
01:03:32.560to say i don't know why someone said there's no planets there are totally there are totally
01:03:36.720planets so um this this skull and crossbones theory is very interesting i'm gonna have to
01:03:42.800look into i mean i don't know if i'll look into it because there's nothing to do with modern day
01:03:47.520politics really but it's interesting so i'm in death and mithra is supposed to stand outside
01:03:55.840of the star globe and shift the entire sphere of the heavens changing one
01:04:04.280astrological age into another okay so in those images of Mithra slaying the bull
01:04:11.000which you saw in all of the Mithraic temples of the Roman Empire the Mithraeums
01:04:16.080there's an image of a Mithra slaying a bull and that symbolizes the death of
01:04:23.740the age of taurus and the rise of the age of aries the age of the warrior okay so it's a simple
01:04:33.020guys i'm in aries by the way just wanted to let you know so yeah i'm in aries of mithra turning
01:04:39.580the entire star globe in order to shift the astrological age from taurus into aries and
01:04:46.460the deeper metaphysical and ethical significance of that is that it's an overcoming of fate because
01:04:52.140of course throughout the classical world the stars and planets were seen as the governors of fate
01:04:59.180and so mithra identifying with mithra who stands outside the star globe and can
01:05:05.420shift the entire heavens is a is an emblem of the human will to self-determination
01:05:11.900and being able to break out of stellar fate and become the master of your own destiny
01:05:16.700this is fascinating i i um never thought about it like that in fact i didn't know this much
01:05:24.760about all this stuff uh the skull and crossbones the whole nine that's really interesting stuff
01:05:30.880and i wonder being that they utilize that on water as well um we see jesus of course come on
01:05:38.060the scene making fissures of men there's just kind of uh sea stuff going on a lot and it's funny
01:05:43.020because now get this yeah yeah the vesica pisces the vesica pisces symbol right you're familiar
01:05:51.080the christian fish quote unquote yeah yeah yeah okay so if this bull slaying is a symbol of the
01:05:59.020transition between the age of taurus and the age of aries it's not going to be relevant anymore to
01:06:05.800the time of christ mithraism was an astrological religion at the time of christ you're making a
01:06:11.360transition into the astrological age of pisces and so the mithras would have needed a new symbol
01:06:17.380and so i suggest an iranian leviathan that these two circles that intersect each other
01:06:23.880where their intersection is forms the vesica right which can be stylized as a fish it is a
01:06:30.920symbol of mithra because the two spheres are ahura mazda and ahriman the good and the evil
01:06:37.180deity and mithra is the mediator the intersection between the two of them and it's also a fish
01:06:44.040symbol which is appropriate to the coming astrological age of pisces so i think that
01:06:48.440you know this was a symbol that the mithras were adopting uh when the uh taurus into aries
01:06:56.000symbology had become no longer relevant and it was adopted from there into christianity
01:07:01.800I also think that when Jesus, long before he's crucified, says things like, you know, anyone who wants to follow me has to abandon their mother and their father, and they have to bear their cross as I do, is not referring to the cross that people were executed on.
01:07:21.800He's referring to the cross of the celestial equator and the ecliptic of the zodiac.
01:07:27.620he's talking guys keep in mind this guy he's not he's not a historian he's a philosopher so
01:07:34.580you know we're dealing with the arts and humanities right now so I just want to put
01:07:40.280it out there um he's a philosopher he's not like a historian or anything like that um
01:07:47.200and I mean I don't even know if I I don't know if I believe his skull and crossbones theory
01:07:52.800because I just, I looked it up right now. Again, like totally out of my element here,
01:07:58.720totally out of my element. This has nothing to do with, nothing to do with, you know,
01:08:04.340modern Middle Eastern politics or Islamic, you know, terrorism or, you know, anything like that.
01:08:11.000It's, I mean, it's interesting. It's interesting, but yeah, let me, let me share this. Let me share
01:08:18.560this here. Um, so here's what I found about the, the skull and crossbones theory. Like I just did
01:08:30.480it. I did a quick, uh, a quick AI search. I just put skull and crossbones Cilicians. And apparently
01:08:38.060so this, it says the Cilician pirates are linked in some alternative historical accounts to using
01:08:46.780a skull and crossbones banner, but this claim is associated with a specific, less mainstream
01:08:52.360theory about the origins of the symbol and Mithraism. The widely accepted historical origin
01:09:00.660of the skull and crossbones flag is with Caribbean pirates during the late 17th and 18th centuries,
01:09:07.860such as Calico Jack, Brackham, Samuel Bellamy, and Edward, England.
01:09:15.000One specific source suggests that the form of Mithraism
01:09:18.820practiced by the Cilician pirates used a skull and crossbones banner.
01:09:25.140The theory posits that the symbol was part of their specific initiation rites
01:09:29.340before being introduced into the Roman Empire.
01:09:32.240However, this is not a mainstream historical consensus.
01:09:37.320I wonder like where that you know specific source comes from I mean it probably comes from this guy
01:09:48.240himself like he's probably the one who said that the skull and crossbones originated with the
01:09:54.500Cilicians and then maybe he's the source himself I don't know but yeah again this is this this
01:10:01.060documentary is or you know this this podcast is purely for entertainment purposes i do not um
01:10:08.260i don't endorse it in any way shape or form this is just me watching it and you know getting a
01:10:15.540different perspective i guess so i mean it is interesting it is interesting regardless i don't
01:10:20.980know if i believe everything he says but it's interesting bearing uh time and depth in the
01:10:27.780way that he does it's an initiatic phrase i could also see why a i guess you'd call it a modern
01:10:36.340doctrine being created during an age like this because as you pointed out the the circles that
01:10:43.060go together and you have the mediator in the middle i although i am just going to point out he
01:10:49.460it's like it's starting to get almost into like conspiracy theory land and i just i have zero
01:10:57.760tolerance for like conspiracy theories or anything like that so i mean this is sort of getting there
01:11:04.460but then like once in a while he'll say something that is accurate and that is you know historically
01:11:09.560correct so i'm like you know i'm kind of like on the edge right now like it's it's kind of getting
01:11:15.180to conspiracy theory but it's not there yet so like it's it's entertaining at the very least
01:11:21.120you could see a doctrine called the trinity arising out of some type of symbol like that
01:11:27.160and foreign to any previous age i mean not saying there wasn't probably dualistic concepts of
01:11:32.900yahweh okay where there's a yahweh and there's a yahweh but i've never noticed a yahweh yahweh
01:11:38.400and a yahweh and notice there's trinity now wouldn't you agree that they've got this probably
01:11:42.900from somewhere like that or absolutely the case you look to have a trinitarian theology you first
01:11:49.780need a dualistic theology which was zoroastrianism and mithraism is the trinitarian response to
01:11:57.300zoroastrian dualism sorry guys your comments in the youtube chat are so funny someone wrote
01:12:11.860kamala harris loves venn diagrams i have no idea
01:12:18.260why what i don't even understand it's just so funny oh my gosh and then that just you know is
01:12:27.620adopted lock stock and barrel by christians i love this this is wonderful and by the way
01:12:34.340if anybody's watching i have uh all sorts of diseases no i'm just kidding i'm super sick
01:12:39.700with like type a um uh flu man i can't even think clear but um we talked about this and and wanting
01:12:47.860to do this show and i said look let's talk a little bit if possible while we get into the
01:12:52.960mithraism on your personal take on jesus and the historicity if there was one um and you know
01:13:02.240whether you believe there is one or isn't that's not what myth vision's about we're not a mythicist
01:13:07.880program like you have to not believe in jesus but we do love asking the question and who is this guy
01:13:14.800if there was one and and and things around him you brought up an interesting thing maybe we can
01:13:20.380head that way in some point with uh apollonius atiana but maybe we deal with jesus and build
01:13:26.580up to that i don't know i'll go into it right now uh look mithra is the god of life apollonius
01:13:34.560uh is it comes from the root apollo which which was a solar deity also right and apollo and mithra
01:13:43.460were often analogized with one another you know the the greeks the greeks and the romans had a
01:13:49.240lot of religious syncretism they would analogize their gods with one another like for example they
01:13:54.060saw um the egyptian poth as hermes or you know uh aphrodite became venus you know so these gods
01:14:03.200were analogized. And often Mithra was analogized with Apollo. So Apollonius by itself is a kind of
01:14:12.400Mithraic name. Okay. And this Apollonius of Tiana figure who Philostratus writes about
01:14:20.740has the same birth date as Jesus. He is a teacher from Syria. Tiana is a place in Syria. He was
01:14:31.580sometimes referred to simply as the Tianan and he will go around to different parts of the Roman
01:14:39.400world and preach a mystical religion in the language of the local community and in terms
01:14:46.920of symbols that they would understand and one of the places where he went was Judea okay he went
01:14:54.880roman palestine and he taught there allegedly in hebrew and aramaic okay and using symbols and
01:15:05.840myths that i mean i like the fact that he said roman palestine right because um every single
01:15:13.440historian knows i mean he's not a historian he's a philosopher but by him saying roman palestine
01:15:21.760um right there he's debunking you know the the fake palestinian narrative about oh the land
01:15:28.080belonged to the palestinians right like no um it was you know the the word palestine
01:15:34.320comes from the romans it was roman palestine right so um yeah but you'll you'll never see
01:15:41.040you'll never see um you know the the pro-palestine people um repeat that part of history right
01:15:48.000because that's kind of the part of history they just kind of want to forget. But yeah, Roman
01:15:51.560Palestine, because that's what the Romans called it. Would have been familiar to the Jews in order
01:15:57.600to present his esoteric doctrine. And guess what? He winds up being condemned to crucifixion as a
01:16:04.080result of this. Okay. So his birth date matches Jesus. The content of his teaching on a lot of
01:16:12.380points overlaps with the esoteric doctrine of Christianity. And then he winds up being condemned
01:16:19.100to crucifixion after performing a whole bunch of miracles in Roman Palestine, which include
01:16:24.760resurrecting somebody from the dead. Does he actually get crucified? Now, I know he lived
01:16:30.260during the same time as... He escapes crucifixion. And he escapes... Now, what's interesting is what
01:16:35.040happens after he escapes crucifixion, because there are Eastern legends that are believed by
01:16:40.700many Muslims about how Jesus escaped death on the cross and went through
01:16:46.200Persia and wound up in northern India where he settled down in Kashmir and
01:16:50.780where to this day some claim that his tomb is in Kashmir. And this is the story
01:16:55.940that Philostratus tells us about Apollonius of Tiana, that he goes through
01:16:59.820the Persian Empire, he deals with the Magi for a while, has debates with them
01:17:04.040in their fire temples and ultimately settles down in northern India and lives
01:17:07.940to a ripe old age and is buried there.
01:17:12.100Now, the interesting thing about Apollonius of Tiana
01:17:16.020is that he was a widely revered figure
01:24:26.980He turned off all the fires of the Mithraic fire temples.
01:24:30.500And did God knows what to their libraries.
01:24:32.680because we have very little Mithraic literature from Parthia and Iran.
01:24:38.080So this puritanical orthodox monotheist has his sights set on the Eastern Roman Empire.
01:24:47.240And I think what wound up happening is that the Roman elites realized
01:24:52.580that if this guy had done to Mithraism what he did in his own country
01:24:59.300and used, you know, Mithraism in order to re-institutionalize Zoroastrianism,
01:25:08.180in other words, to sort of transform Mithraism back into Zoroastrianism
01:25:15.300through a top-down theocratic totalitarianism,
01:25:19.680he would be able to do the same thing in Rome
01:25:23.320if Mithraism became the dominant religion of the Roman Empire.
01:25:26.800And this would be an absolutely suffocating atmosphere for people who are believers in all of these pagan cults and who generally had a humanistic and cosmopolitan society.
01:25:37.760Okay, so the Roman elite, I think, realized that they needed the functional equivalent of Zoroastrian monotheism in order to defend against Iran.
01:25:51.240And they didn't have any religion like that in Rome.
01:25:54.020so they took judaism which was you know going in a monotheistic direction and which was extremely
01:26:02.260hierarchical and you know uh more totalitarian than any pagan roman religion they took judaism
01:26:08.600and they fused it with elements of the mithraism that was rising to become the de facto religion
01:26:14.060of rome and it's from out of that fusion that christianity emerges so i can see why he said
01:26:21.200this is the most controversial part of his book because I've never heard of this theory.
01:26:26.020I don't believe this whatsoever. And he himself even, I'm not like, I'm not a philosopher. I'm
01:26:33.780not like, you know, an ancient religious, whatever, theologian, historian, whatever.
01:26:40.160But I'm very analytical. And he literally just said earlier on at the beginning of his interview
01:26:49.220that when jesus was born the three wise men who visited jesus were zoroastrians they were persian
01:26:56.820so and now he's literally contradicting what he himself said um
01:27:06.340with this this this story that he made up and i guess now i understand why
01:27:13.060why he is himself admitting that it's controversial I don't even think he I don't actually think he
01:27:20.140himself believes what he's saying I I don't I don't think he believes what he's saying like
01:27:25.600he's he's basically just coming up with a theory right he's like oh maybe this happened but he has
01:27:32.080like nothing to to back it up and again everything that he says um he already he already contradicted
01:27:41.500own theory without even realizing it when he acknowledged and admitted that the three wise men
01:27:48.860who visited jesus christ when he was born were zoroastrian i mean if if this whole thing was
01:27:53.820fake if jesus christ was fake why is he admitting that the three wise men visited jesus christ right
01:28:00.540like that's just that's how i see it so yeah i'm not buying this this theory at all uh in the form
01:28:08.380in which we recognize it today rather than say the gnostic forms that were stamped yeah i was
01:28:14.300gonna say so um someone said there's a reason no historical or religious scholar on the planet
01:28:23.340believes this nonsense yeah i i agree i agree yep doubt by the early church that that brings another
01:28:31.260question so this is second century right what what do you do and like this guy oh my gosh this
01:28:37.260guy so he's not even pushing back he's just like oh okay okay jesus was fake all right let's move
01:28:43.180on right like no pushback no nothing at this point this is pretty much uh someone said it's funny
01:28:49.580yeah like at this point i feel like i'm watching um a comedy like i'm i'm watching a comedy not
01:28:55.740like any sort of documentary so this is literally entertainment purpose like it's just um it's it's
01:29:05.020It's an interesting way to wind down and end my evening, I guess.
01:29:09.080But it's definitely, at this point, it's become a comedy.
01:29:12.580So at least I'm getting a good laugh out of it.
01:39:23.140Um, but like after like, you know, 47 minutes, I mean, I'm, I'm done.
01:39:30.900This is like getting, this is why I focus on, like, I, I like, you know, facts.
01:39:37.600I like debates, you know, I like, you know, modern day politics.
01:39:43.360So, um, all right, here is, here is the video.
01:39:50.000Um, let me, let me bring it up for you guys.
01:39:53.140so because i'm done like i'm i'm getting bored now like it if something if like because you know
01:39:59.460like i said um if i find that like something is getting too much wait why is this like being all
01:40:06.580weird here we go like for me like if something gets too much into like the conspiracy theory
01:40:14.740side of things then like i i literally just lose interest so um why is this being weird here
01:40:23.140Right. Um, so if anyone wants to watch it, it's called Mithras and Jesus. How did Mithras
01:40:29.740influence early Christianity with Dr. Jason Reza Giorgiani? It's on, um, some YouTube channel
01:40:38.200called Myth Vision Podcast. So, um, yeah, you guys can go, uh, check, check it out there,
01:40:47.400But I feel like I need to, like, clear my head and kind of, like, get out of, like, all the, you know, theological conspiracy theories here.
01:41:00.280So I'm going to clear my head with some politics, which is what I like to do.
01:41:10.360So I want to share a few videos with you guys. And I'm going to be speaking a lot more about this tomorrow as well. So tomorrow, my daily live stream at 12 noon, I'm going to focus on, you know, Islamic terrorism and jihad.
01:41:29.700so what don't guys don't ask me about my opinion on religion um
01:41:35.220you know religion is private everyone has their own religion i respect all religions my focus is
01:41:43.300on um modern day islamic terrorism jihad you know freeing um freeing iran from islamic dictators
01:41:51.780so um you know i believe in god and uh you know i have my own religion um but religion is private
01:41:58.820And, you know, I'm not going to opine on, you know, all these various books because it's, you know, it's not my purpose. But anyways, what I will do is I will talk about Islamic terrorism and how we need to stop being worried about being labeled as Islamophobic, right?
01:42:23.940like let's just we need to call it out and it's just getting to a point where it's incredibly
01:42:31.260ridiculous now so let me play a few videos for you guys um I actually just saw just saw a new
01:42:38.640one by News Nation that literally just came out less than an hour ago I want to watch that one as
01:42:42.960well so let's watch this one and then we'll watch that one oh here we go it is time to say something
01:42:49.500that is uncomfortable but true and it needs to be said political islam islam as it is practiced in
01:42:59.480much i like how he says we need to talk about something that's uncomfortable meanwhile i've
01:43:05.540literally been talking about islamic jihad um for i don't know how long now so maybe it's
01:43:11.680uncomfortable for you but it's not uncomfortable for me of the world is not compatible with western
01:43:17.260values. That is not us saying it. That is not some preacher in a mosque in Afghanistan saying it.
01:43:24.520That is an Islamic scholar in Sydney, Australia. We can't take away from the fact, first and
01:43:32.300foremost, that jihad is definitely part of our din. And as Muslims, we should never, ever shy
01:43:38.220away from this seems pretty clear just consider the past 48 hours a muslim killed three americans
01:43:48.940in syria police arrested five muslims for plotting a massacre at a christmas market
01:43:54.940in germany officials in paris canceled a major new year's eve concert due to the threat of muslim
01:44:00.460violence two muslims murdered 15 people at a hanukkah party in australia they gunned them down
01:44:05.740they all have one thing in common, the cause of radical Islam. This hour, Bill O'Reilly on the
01:44:13.020importance of being honest now about what is behind this threat, plus Baia Unger-Sargon on
01:44:19.220whether or not Jews in America are still safe. Can't believe I have to ask that question.
01:44:24.960Mark McKinnon, on the one 2028 candidate every Democrat is rooting against, or at least rooting
01:44:31.820would go away. Our Why It Matters segment is where we start tonight. For a long time, people,
01:44:39.240the media, even people like me, have been bullied into ignoring and speaking about the dangers of
01:44:45.100Islamic terrorism for fear of being called Islamophobic. That stops now. The past 48 hours
01:44:53.240have shown us it is better to be honest than politically correct. The Muslim community must
01:44:58.620hold each other accountable and push out the radicals if they will not they are part of the
01:45:05.660problem we have now seen large mushroom populations in the united kingdom western europe the united
01:45:10.860states and australia who do not share our values and do not want to share our values but anyone who
01:45:18.220calls and also canada let's not forget canada the you know one of the one of the most anti-semitic
01:45:24.460countries in the world. That out is apparently just suffering from Islamophobia. It is their
01:45:29.340fault. A phobia is generally described as an irrational or excessive, unsubstantiated fear.
01:45:36.600That is a phobia of flying because planes generally do not crash. But in 2025, as the
01:45:42.640year comes to a close, we are seeing these fears play out in dangerous ways. It is something we
01:45:47.900been warning about for months mass groups calling for attacks on jews like we've seen in the uk and
01:45:58.700in spain and around most of europe how long do you think it comes here you know we've seen it
01:46:06.540on college campuses and i say this really respectfully um what has happened to your
01:46:11.340country that anti-semitism has spread throughout the united states and europe and it is growing
01:46:17.660like a cancer it is not that there are not any good muslims muslim countries and organizations
01:46:24.860have denounced the shooting but this is a bigger problem this is about an ideological issue there
01:46:33.980are not local and national islamic leaders calling out radicalization in their own communities nobody
01:46:39.980is looking inside and saying we have a problem where is medi hassan and care the council on
01:46:46.220American Islamic relations in Afghanistan. Oops, I missed that. Where are they? Where are
01:46:51.620Mehdi Hassan and the Council on American Islamic Relations? They are part of the problem because
01:46:56.580they are funded by Qatar and they are, their job is to basically destabilize Western society by
01:47:03.980promoting jihad and by attacking anyone who calls it out and speaks out. We're a bunch of big imams
01:47:12.000in New York and in Chicago and in Minneapolis, saying Islam needs to have a reckoning about
01:47:19.020terrorism, about the radicalization inside their own religion. They're silent, crickets.
01:47:26.920Instead, some, some leaders, including Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, perhaps the most vocal
01:47:33.680and prominent Muslim political leader in America blamed the guns for the slaughter of Jews in
01:47:42.640Australia by Muslims. It is a tragedy that this has become a normal occurrence, not just in
01:47:54.440the United States, but now seeing it in Australia, who's worked really hard to create gun prevention
01:48:02.280laws. That is horrifying. We have to admit, honestly, that there is an enormous problem
01:48:14.540around the world and now in Western cultures, in the United States, in Canada, in Australia,
01:48:21.300in Western Europe, with Islamic extremism, Islamic terrorism. Of course, that doesn't
01:48:27.800represent the whole faith. In Australia, they're saying the Bondi Beach Massacre is an isolated
01:48:33.540incident. Hogwash. There is nothing isolated about it. There is nothing surprising about it.
01:48:40.480After October 7th, there were groups of pro-Palestinian protesters chanting on the streets