ORIGINS OF THE CHRISTMAS TREE

By Howard Nema

The Christmas Tree has nothing to do with Jesus Christ.  It is a Pagan tradition.   In fact, Christmas Day, December 25 has nothing at all to do with celebrating the day of Jesus’ birth, but rather celebrating the pagan winter solstice.   Jesus was not born on December 25.  All evidence suggests Jesus was born in April, or at the latest June.

The earliest mention of December 25 as Jesus’ birthday comes from a mid-fourth-century Roman almanac that lists the death dates of various Christian bishops and martyrs.

The first date listed, December 25, is marked: natus Christus in Betleem Judeae: “Christ was born in Bethlehem of Judea.”

Around 400 C.E., Augustine of Hippo mentions a local dissident Christian group, the Donatists, who apparently kept Christmas festivals on December 25, but refused to celebrate the Epiphany on January 6, regarding it as an innovation.

Since the Donatist group only emerged during the persecution under Diocletian in 312 C.E. and then remained stubbornly attached to the practices of that moment in time, they seem to represent an older North African Christian tradition.

In the East, January 6 was at first not associated with the magi alone, but with the Christmas story as a whole.

So, almost 300 years after Jesus was born, we finally find people observing his birth in mid-winter.  The origins of Christmas is  borrowed from pagan celebrations.

The Romans had their mid-winter Saturnalia festival in late December; barbarian peoples of northern and western Europe had holidays at similar times.

In 274 C.E., the Roman emperor Aurelian established a feast of the birth of Sol Invictus (the Unconquered Sun), on December 25. Christmas, the argument goes, is really a spin-off from these pagan solar festivals.

According to this theory, early Christians deliberately chose these dates to encourage the spread of Christmas and Christianity throughout the Roman world.

If Christmas looked like a pagan holiday, more pagans would be open to both the holiday and the God whose birth it celebrated.

In fact, the Roman Catholic Church, who have long been infiltrated by Luciferians are behind this deception, one of many that have hoodwinked society since ancient times.    In later years, other Christian denominations filed suit completing the deception we know today as “Christmas”.

According to esoteric philosophy, the name “Lucifer” is an ancient term for Venus, the morning and evening star – the “elder sister” of our Earth.

The New Age philosophy incorporates  Paganism, Theosophy and Satanism.    This is the intended and ongoing course promoted by the elite secret societies to this day.

As Satanist Aleister Crowley proclaimed, “Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.”

Indeed.

This reasoning has been heavily promoted in pop culture by Hollywood and all forms of mainstream media.

Evidence of this reality can be seen in the demoralization and decay of society via liberalism and the “free love” and drug counter-culture of the 1960’s.

As today’s New Age mass media manipulation of society continues to serve the Pagan Luciferian cause, Jews, gentiles and Christians alike are willingly drawn into the fold, like sheep to the slaughter.

The following article was first published by the Russian newspaper “Novoye Vremya”.

The article was translated into English and published by Helena P. Blavatsky, in the March 1891 edition of her magazine “Lucifer“, pages 62-63:

[2] As in the case of many other such customs, even dogmas, borrowed and preserved without the least acknowledgement. If the source is now confessed, it is because in the face of research and discovery it can no longer be helped. (Note by H.P.B.)