2016 Reprint of 1944 Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Kuhn was an American Theosophist and a proponent of the Christ myth theory. Highly influenced by the work of Gerald Massey and Godfrey Higgins, Kuhn contended that the Bible derived its origins from other Pagan religions and much of Christian history was pre-extant as Egyptian mythology. He also proposed that the Bible was symbolic and did not depict real events, and argued tha