I now have incredibly good evidence that 2 of Christianity's "sacraments" predate Christ: baptism and the eucharist. You're familiar with my thoughts on baptism. The eucharistic drink was most likely spiked with ergot/LSD and I would imagine that the bread was a way of metering dosage by dipping the bread into the LSD wine. LSD enables the ability to see the aura. The Eleusinian and DIonysian mysteries were about showing the spirit body and its primary anatomical components: the chakras, the serpent, and the pathways through which spirit flows. This is why so many religious depictions have halos. This is why "enlightenment" is the word. This is how people know about the chakras and the serpentine spark of the Divine known as many names including the Holy Spirit. This is where the Caduceus came from.

I agree with all that. The Bible even hints that baptisms predate Christianity. Why was John doing baptisms of water? And I am of the opinion that Dionysus is Jesus. Not that I'll ever be able to prove that, but that's my opinion. Both spiritually and philosophically. I also think Christianity was a philosophy before it became a religion, in the explicit sense that it grew out of a recombination of Greek and Egyptian thinking **_before_** Jesus came onto the scene physically. But I also should clearly state that I do think Jesus physically happened. Are you saying the fire is that halo when in a trance like state?