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Roman Catholic tradition teaches that Constantine ordered the shields of his troops to be emblazoned with the monogram—the Greek letters Chi Rho, the first two letters of the word “Christos.” As a result Constantine’s victory over Maxentius at Milvian Bridge came to represent a miraculous triumph of Christianity over paganism. This, then, is the popular Church tradition on the basis of which Constantine is often thought to have ‘converted’ the entire Roman Empire to Christianity. In actual fact, however, Constantine did no such thing. But in order to decide precisely what he did do, we must examine the evidence more closely. In the first place Constantine’s “conversion” does not seem to have been Christian at all but absolutely pagan. He appears to have had some sort of vision in the precincts of a pagan temple to Apollo, either in the Vosges or near Autun. According to a witness accompanying Constantine’s army at the time, the vision was of the sun god—the deity worshiped by certain cults under the name of Mithra or “Sol Invictus,” “the Invincible Sun.” There is evidence that Constantine, just before his vision, had been initiated into a Mithraic or Sol Invictus cult.
In any case the Roman Senate, after the Battle of Milvian Bridge, erected a triumphal arch in the Coliseum. According to the inscription on this arch Constantine’s victory was won “INSTINCTV DIVINITATIS MENTIS MAGNITVDINE” “through instinct and the prompting of the Deity.” But the deity in question was not Jesus. The name of Jesus is not even found on this arch. The deity found on this monument was Apollo Mithra or Sol Invictus, the pagan sun god. We have even shown an actual image of part of this arch of Constantine with the Emperor burning incense and worshiping an idol of the sun god with his generals. Yet this man ruled over the early Church councils that gave us the non-inspired Catholic Trinity Creeds.
Contrary to tradition, Constantine did not make real Christianity the official state religion of Rome. The state religion of Rome under Constantine was, in fact, pagan sun worship; and Constantine, all his life, acted as its chief priest. Indeed, his reign was called a "sun emperor- ship," and Sol Invictus appeared everywhere—including on the imperial banners and the coinage of the realm. His coinage even had his image along side with his solar deity! We have also shown this. He set up idols of himself to be worshipped as the sun god manifest upon the earth.
The image of Constantine as a fervent convert to Christianity is clearly wrong. He helped to invent or adopted a hybrid religion. He himself was not even baptized until 337—when he lay on his deathbed and was apparently too weakened or too apathetic to protest. Nor can he be credited with the Chi Rho monogram. An inscription bearing this monogram was found on a tomb at the completely pagan city of Pompeii dating from two to three centuries before. We have shown originally that it was a symbol for many pagan sun gods. This “XP” is nothing less than a solar Trinity idol. The Chi Rho has the same meaning as the pagan Neolithic three suns/circles icon.
The cult of Mithra was Persian in origin and became popular centuries before Constantine. Although it contained elements of Baal and Astarte worship, it was essentially henotheism. In effect, it pronounced the sun god as the ruler over all other gods. Moreover, it conveniently harmonized Catholicism with the cult of Mithras—which was also prevalent in Rome and the empire at the time. Along with this cult came the Trinity hypothesis in 313 AD it became law also the rejection of Jesus name baptism. For Constantine the cult of Mithra or Sol Invictus was, quite simply, expedient. His primary, indeed obsessive, objective was unity—unity in politics, in religion, and in territory. A cult or universal state religion that included all other mystery cults within it obviously helped to achieve this objective. This is how a pagan solar trinity became “Christianized.”
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