and an agitator of the lower
orders; to the pagans, he was a magician who through sham miracles and
with subversive words had incited the people to rebellion, and as a
leader of a gang of desperate men had attempted to seize the royal crown
of Judaea, as others had done before and after him. The non-Christian
writers referred to Jesus as a wizard, a demagogue, and a rebel.

We are fortunate, at this date, to have brought to our attention a
masterful work by Dr. Robert Eisler, a work which will be as
revolutionary to the study of Christianity as was Darwin's "Origin of
the Species" in the realms of science; and, similarly, the former work
will be the basis upon which much progress will be made in a great
field. Dr. Eisler unfolds a great mass of hitherto unknown information
concerning the life, the actual appearance, and the doings of Jesus. He
definitely establishes the proof of Jesus' actual existence, and makes
clear many hitherto obscure utterances and deeds of this Prophet.

The descriptions which follow are based on the material in this work of
Dr. Eisler, "The Messiah Jesus."

In the complete statement of Josephus on Pilate's governorship, we find,
"At that time there appeared a certain man of magical power, if it is
permissible to call him a man, whom certain Greeks call a Son of God,
but his disciples, the True Prophet, said to raise the dead, and heal
all diseases. His nature and his form were human; a man of simple
appearance, mature age, small in stature, three cubits high,
_hunchbacked_, with a long face, long nose, and meeting eyebrows, so
that they who see him might be affrighted, with scanty hair but with a
parting in the middle of his head, after the manner of the Nazarites,
and with an undeveloped beard. Only in semblance was he superhuman for
he gave some astonishing and spectacular exhibitions. But again, if I
look at his commonplace physique, I, for one, cannot call him an angel.
And everything whatsoever he wrought through some invisible power, he
wrought through some word and a command. Some said of him, 'Our first
law giver is risen again, and displays many healings and magic arts.
Others said, 'He is sent from God.' Howbeit in many things he disobeyed
the law and kept not the Sabbath according to our fathers' custom.

"And many of the multitude followed after him and accepted his
teachings, and many souls were excited, thinking that thereby the Jewish
tribes might be freed from Roman hands. B