It is our purpose to present the evidences showing that a system of
Astral worship, which we designate as Jewish Christianity, was in
existence more than two centuries and a half before the institution of
its modern form. In verification of this assertion we must find the
initial point of our inquiry in ancient history, which teaches that in
the division of the Grecian Empire among his generals, after the death
of Alexander the Great, who died 332 years before the beginning of our
era, the governorship of Egypt and adjacent provinces was secured by
Ptolemy Lagus, or Soter, who, having subsequently suppressed a revolt
in Judea, removed from that country a large body of its inhabitants to
people the new city of Alexandria, which had been laid out by order of
and named after the great Conqueror.

The Egyptian version of the Gospel story, being more appropriate to the
Nile Valley than to the region from whence they came, the Greek
colonists of Alexandria adopted it, but preferring to pay homage to
Serapis, one of the ninth incarnations of God Sol, which they imported
from Pontus, a Greek province of Asia Minor, they erected to his
worship that celebrated temple known as the Grand Serapium; and,
transferring the culture and refinement of Greece to the new city, it
became, under the Ptolemian dynasty, a great seat of learning; the arts
and sciences flourished, an immense library was collected, the various
forms of Astral worship were represented and schools for the
dissemination of the several phases of Grecian philosophy and Oriental
Gnosticism were founded.

Such being the environment of the Jewish residents of Alexandria, they
soon acquired the vernacular and adopted the religion of the Greeks,
who, having ever attached to their incarnate saviours the title
signifying the Christ, or the anointed, were known as Christians.