Cosmic Myth of the Bible

[LEDO]

Recent interview published in local Aiken Standard (SC)

Local book links Bible stories to astrology
1/18/2010 6:54 PM



By RACHEL JOHNSON
Staff writer

One local resident sought answers to questions that arose in his personal quest for spirituality and recently published a book detailing his search.

Michael Ledo, a Windsor resident, spent more than 10 years wrestling with different ideas and formulating his theories that he has published to share with the world.

"I am expecting this book to fundamentally change how the world looks at religion and the Bible," said Ledo.

The book titled "On Earth as it is in Heaven - The Cosmic Roots of the Bible" explores Ledo's theory that the Bible was created to coordinate with the constellations.

"What if the Old Testament stories were a story book of the constellations created as an astrology guide?" Ledo asked.

His curiosity was sparked years ago while reading 19th century literature on various biblical theories. He felt he discovered that all of the ancient religions shared the common bond of astrology. However, Ledo saw problems with the theories.

"My idea was to separate the lunacy from the facts," he said.

Ledo understands that his book may not be for everyone, due to its subject matter.

"The idea of biblical astrology is not widely accepted. This book may be difficult for a layperson, as few people are familiar with constellation folklore, Bronze Age history and dead languages - especially when you mix them together. ... The book is heavily sourced, mostly for scholars and skeptics," he writes in the book's introduction.

Throughout his research, Ledo made discoveries that surprised him and, he feels, are groundbreaking.

"The Bible stories were not just a haphazard collection of cosmic myths but rather a contiguous story of the constellations. ... I am 100 percent certain that the text was a cosmic myth. This type of coincidence just does not happen," writes Ledo.

The book is available for sale at amazon.com, booksurge.com and locally at Aiken Office Supply, 2560 Whiskey Road.

[chatpilot]

Ledo this is not a unique view and has been presented before. I don't know if you have read the book 'The Christ Conspiracy' by Acharya S. She too links the bible and the Jesus tails to astrology etc. If you have not read it I highly recommend it.

[theVOID]

Ledo this is not a unique view and has been presented before. I don't know if you have read the book 'The Christ Conspiracy' by Acharya S. She too links the bible and the Jesus tails to astrology etc. If you have not read it I highly recommend it.

I have heard some rather scathing denunciations of that book from a multitude of secular and religious scholars, such as renowned egyptologists, greek historians etc, can find a video if you like, it starts off with Zeitgeist's claims in the first 1/3 of the 1st movie and then gets into the sources they use, such as Acharya's book. It would appear that Acharya is very good at misrepresenting her sources

[chatpilot]

I have that book but I don't endorse it. Just stating that she pretty much states the same things about how some of the Christian myths were stolen from pre-christian beliefs based on astrology etc. It's a good read trust me. As with anything you must learn to accept what you can verify and reject the rest. Everyone has some kernel of knowledge to contribute no matter how small or apparently insignificant it might seem. Besides I don't judge anything based on the opinion of so called "experts or scholars" till I have had the opportunity to read it myself. It's like movies for instance, so called movie critics or even your best friend may hate a film and say how it sucks and it's not worth your time. But when you see it you might actually enjoy the film regardless of your friends opinion.

[LEDO]

Ledo this is not a unique view and has been presented before. I don't know if you have read the book 'The Christ Conspiracy' by Acharya S. She too links the bible and the Jesus tails to astrology etc. If you have not read it I highly recommend it.

I have read her nonsense. It is the work of an amateur. She wholesale copies from Gerald Massey and Martin Larson. They wrote before the discovery of the DSS and before carbon dating. She ignores the fact that many of their ideas are incompatible with modern discoveries.

Her views in Biblical astrology are stolen from Massey. Where Masey is correct she is correct. Where Massey is wrong, she is wrong.

My book is light years beyond anything she wrote or anyone else wrote. If you peeked at the introduction and Table of Contents of my book you would know it.

One of the problems of Biblical astrology is the era of its writing. There is no one era which conforms to the astrological settings. Acharya S, like Massey ignores the simple idea, 'what did they believe and when did they believe it."

I give a detailed structure of every constellation and its representation. Acharya S does not know what she is writing about. I know, I have challenged her knowledge on her own forum until I was banned from it for pointing out the problems with her plagarism.

I laughed at her book. It makes her and Biblical astrology look stupid.

I have numerous unique ideas in my book about Biblical astrology construction and even how the Bible was formed and when it was written. I also have unique connections with gods and patriarchs. Theses are things you develope when you understand your materiial and not just borrow from other authors.

For instance Acharya S claims Joshua stopping the sun in the sky was the summer solstice. Why? Because Massey said it was. She has no other reasoning for it. The fact it is, it has nothing to do with the summer solstice. What it has to do with is a supernova lighting up the ancient sky, forming a "night time sun." This is recorded both by NASA and in comparative myth. When you spend time to map out the Bible stories across the constellations (another unique thing I did) you know the place in the sky where the events happen. The story of Joshua stopping the sun is at that spot.

You will kick Acharya S to the curb after my book.

[theVOID]

I have that book but I don't endorse it. Just stating that she pretty much states the same things about how some of the Christian myths were stolen from pre-christian beliefs based on astrology etc. It's a good read trust me. As with anything you must learn to accept what you can verify and reject the rest. Everyone has some kernel of knowledge to contribute no matter how small or apparently insignificant it might seem. Besides I don't judge anything based on the opinion of so called "experts or scholars" till I have had the opportunity to read it myself. It's like movies for instance, so called movie critics or even your best friend may hate a film and say how it sucks and it's not worth your time. But when you see it you might actually enjoy the film regardless of your friends opinion.

I don't read non-fiction for non-facts

Richard Carrier said (a lot more humorously) of Archya's book (paraphrased):

"You keep having to go and find the sources used in the book because very few are listed and even less are true and when they listed are it's done in a way that seems almost designed to make them hard to track down... If your reading a book and you have to go through this process to fact check it you might as well write a book yourself about it, you're basically the one who has done all the research"

Oh, and an opinion on a fictional movie is in no way comparable to truth claims made about events in history, as you well know.

Anyway, it seems LEDO is taking a much more intellectually honest approach to the subject, rather than intentionally telling blatant lies about events in ancient ancient religious texts just to support a Astrological hypothesis like that fraud Acharya, that's why I'm going to buy his book

[TruthWorthy]

Cool, we can talk about it when we're done.

[chatpilot]

Okay Ledo, I look forward to the publication of your book and am interested in the subject matter although it is not my strongest suit.

[Oldandeasilyconfused]

I have read her nonsense. It is the work of an amateur.

Unlike yours?

Does that mean you're a trained scholar with some post graduate work under your belt? Looking forward to some peer reviews of your book.

'Myth as history' is one of the more unreliable methods of academic endeavor. That includes using sacred writings of any kind as prime factual sources.

[LEDO]

I have read her nonsense. It is the work of an amateur.

Unlike yours?

Does that mean you're a trained scholar with some post graduate work under your belt? Looking forward to some peer reviews of your book.

'Myth as history' is one of the more unreliable methods of academic endeavor. That includes using sacred writings of any kind as prime factual sources.

Yes, unlike mine. I am perhaps my biggest critic. If a statement made by another author makes no sense because it is historically improbable, I don't include accept it as fact and include it in my book as she does. I also do my own research and disagree much with previous authors. Acharya S makes claims about mid to late second century authorship of the Gospels because Martin Larson wrote about it that way. She totally ignores the Ryland's fragment.

She copies Massey by stating Reuban represents Aquarius because he was the first born and Aquarius was the first month. Yea, right. It is now, but not in 800 BCE when she supposes these texts were written. That calendar didn't come into existance until about 150 BCE or so. Again she doesn't think, she just copies. It could be a coincidence the first born was the first month, or it could be the text wasn't composed to 150 BCE. Or there are a number of other reasons, none of which she supplies, but rather she just traces a statement that is absurdly wrong because another author made it. I don't do that.

I would love to see some peer review on my book too. If I knew one scholar who would agree to read my book and give it an honest review, I would have a copy in the mail tomorrow.

I also agree with your "myth as history" statement whole heartedly.