Helena Blavatsky was all over it and.. actually says some interesting stuff. i was kind of, um, not well disposed toward her but having read this after a random google search felt a tinge of being overly judgemental. some very interesting points of view and pieces of information in hereLouis Ganeval, Jésus devant l'histoire n'a jamais vécu, has been the first, even before Georges Ory, to assume that Chrestianity preceded Christianity
https://universaltheosophy.com/hpb/the- ... e-gospels/new terms such as Chréstianoï and Chréstodoulos “a follower or servant of Chrestos”—were coined out of the old material. This is shown by Philo Judæus, a monotheist, assuredly, using already the same term for monotheistic purposes. For he speaks of θεόχρηστος (théochréstos) “God-declared,” or one who is declared by god, and of λόγια θεόχρηστα (logia théochrésta) “sayings delivered by God”—which proves that he wrote at a time (between the first century B.C., and the first A.D.) when neither Christians nor Chréstians were yet known under these names, but still called themselves the Nazarenes. The notable difference between the two words χράω—”consulting or obtaining response from a god or oracle” (χρεω being the Ionic earlier form of it), and χριω (chrio) “to rub, to anoint” (from which the name Christos), has not prevented the ecclesiastical adoption and coinage from Philo’s expression θεόχρηστος of that other term θεόχριστος “anointed by God.” Thus the quiet substitution of the letter, ι for η for dogmatic purposes, was achieved in the easiest way, as we now see.
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