May I introduce to you, from the Royal house of David, The Grand Master.
How many times have you heard someone call Jesus "The Master"?
How many times is this description of Jesus used in the King
James Bible? This isn't coincidence and it isn't just a play on words.
Jesus was "The Grand Master" in the Royal line
of David, just as Moses and Aaron, Solomon, Hiram and Seqenenre Tao II.
Seqenenre was one of Gods 'Caretakers' of the Word. The Word was
God and the 'Word' in Greek is 'Christ', who is the Son. The ancient
religions believed that if a mortal man knew the names of the Gods,
he could effectively control them. Just as Thoth,
the Christ knows all the names.
The term esoteric simply means: "designed for or understood by the specially initiated alone". "Relating to knowledge that is restricted to a small group". Those who seek the name of God and are worthy will receive it, but as history has taught us, these are only a few.
Mysteries (ancient rituals); Secret rites and ceremonies connected with various religious worships of ancient Greece and Rome. These rites and ceremonies were known to, and practiced by, congregations of men and women who had been duly initiated; no other persons were allowed to participate. The origin and purpose of the mysteries are unknown. The theory that the mysteries concealed deep truths and remnants of a primitive revelation too profound for the popular mind is no longer believed, but undoubtedly the sacred rituals brought to the initiates secret religious doctrines, which in many instances were concerned with the continuance of life beyond the grave. The mysteries consisted of purifications, sacrificial offerings, processions, songs, dances, and dramatic performances. Often the birth, suffering, death, and resurrection of a god were enacted in dramatic form. The aim of the mysteries seems to have been twofold, namely, to give comfort and moral instruction for life on earth, and to inspire hope for life after death... from.. Mysteries (ancient rituals)
Notable among the phases of the spread of the work of the Rosicrucians to other lands was the establishment of two branches known as the Essenes and the Therapeuti. The Essenes constituted that branch which went into Palestine and adopted a distinct name in order to veil its preliminary work while the Therapeuti was a similar branch established for the same purpose in Greece.
In Palestine the Essenes established a community of members and associate members at Galilee where they had many homes in this non-Jewish, Gentile part of the country, and built their principal monastery and temple on the top of Mount Carmel where Elijah, as one of the descendants of the Great White Brotherhood, had previously established a retreat and had taught many of the mysteries of the Brotherhood.
Just before the Christian period, the Great White Brotherhood had also established a new monastery and temple and other structures for a great central point of their activities at Heliopolis, and the temple here was known as the Temple of Helios, or sometimes called "the Temple of the Sun." The intercourse between the temple at Heliopolis and the one on top of Mount Carmel was intimate and frequent, and many of the philosophers who journeyed from European points to Egypt to study spent some of their time at Mount Carmel. Just about the time of the birth of Jesus the great library and archivist records maintained at Heliopolis were transferred to Mount Carmel, and the Essene Brotherhood in Palestine together with other branches of the Great White Brotherhood were preparing for the coming of the great Avatar who was to be the reincarnation of Zoroaster, a famous Avatar of the Brotherhood in centuries past.
The birth of Jesus in a family of Gentiles living in the Essene community at Galilee fulfilled the expectations of the Brotherhood, and from this time on the outer and inner activities of the Brotherhood became centered around the ministry of the great Master Jesus. The details of the birth, preparation, ministry, and culminating events of the Master Jesus are all set forth in a separate volume entitled The Mystical Life of Jesus wherein are given details from the records of the Essenes and the Great White Brotherhood and which have never been published before. Therefore, I will not take space in the present record to recite these many and important matters.
At the close of the life of Jesus the Christ, the disciples of Jesus and the high officers
of the Great White Brotherhood planned to carry on the new cycle of illumination and
revelation of doctrines as presented by him, and an outer congregation or public movement
was established known as the Christine Church. This movement gradually evolved into a
more or less independent public organization. While it was sponsored by the Great White
Brotherhood, and all of the principal workers like unto the original Apostles were men chosen
from the Essene Gentile community at Galilee, the Great White Brotherhood did not
establish the Christine Church as a part of its activities, because it was interested in
the work of all religious movements in all lands, and did not become a part of any of them.
The Mystical Life of Jesus, by H. Spencer Lewis, Ph.D.
Several hundred years after the foundation of the Christine Church, and while it was being actively promulgated by the representatives of the Great White Brotherhood in those lands where the doctrines and teachings would do the utmost good, the Supreme Temple and monastery, as well as the library and archivist records, were transferred from Mount Carmel to new structures built in an isolated section of Tibet where the Headquarters of the Great Masters of the organization was maintained for some time.
During the time of the organization of the Christine movement, and throughout all the centuries thereafter, the inner circle of the Great White Brotherhood continued to function as a nonsectarian, nonreligious school of mystical, occult, and scientific teachings. All of the outer activities such as the Essene movement, the Christine movement, and similar bodies in various lands, represented the outer congregation of the Great White Brotherhood while the secret schools and temples with their high priests and instructors and large membership of students represented the inner congregation. {a bit of one-upmanship, there, concealing the rivalry between these "occult" religions and the Christians}
All through the ages up to the present time the Great White Brotherhood has continued to function in this dual manner. It was during the period of contentions and strife which the Christine movement faced, that the Great White Brotherhood found it advisable to establish another organization composed almost exclusively of men, and called the Militia Crucifera Evangelica. Its purpose was to protect the cross as a mystical symbol, against its misuse by those who attempted to carry on crusades of persecution against others who would not accept a sectarian interpretation of the symbolism of the ancient emblem. It was in the foundation of this Militia that we find the origin of all the militant organizations which became defenders of the faith in later years. It is notable, however, that the Militia Crucifera Evangelica never became an active body of prosecutors or crusaders, but merely of silent defenders who were pledged never to unsheathe the sword except in absolute defense. ... see Akhenaten
Tunic Displays the Magical Numbers 3-4-5Every Building erected by the Freemasons that contains secret
knowledge is built on these dimensions. The overall result is the
building is in perfect harmony and that noise in the form of Music
and Singing is vibrated at the perfect pitch.
The Dimensions of the Building are contained in a right angle
triangle and are as follows:
Outside Base line to the centre of the building - 3 Cubits
Centre of the Building floor to top of building - 4 Cubits
Top of Building to outside base line - 5 Cubits
This makes a triangle of the proportion 3-4-5
These Numbers represent the steps Freemasons take to acquire
this knowledge 3-5-7 (3+4) taken from
Jesus was a Mason
I, Ezra, saw on Mount Zion a great
multitude, which I could not number, and they all were praising the Lord with
songs. In their midst was a young man of great stature,
taller than any of the others, and on the head of each of
them he placed a crown, but he was more exalted than they.
And I was held spellbound. Then I asked an angel, Who
are these, my lord?' He answered and said to me,
'These are they who have put off mortal
clothing and have put on the immortal, and they have confessed
the name of God; now they are being crowned, and receive palms.
Then I said to the angel, 'Who is that young man who
places crowns on them and puts palms in their hands'?' He answered
and said to me, 'He is the Son of God,
whom they confessed in the world. So I began to praise
those who had. stood valiantly for the name of the Lord.
Then the angel said to me, Go, tell my people how great and many
are the wonders of the Lord God which you have seen.''- 4 Ezra 2:4
And whosoever is delivered from the predicted evil shall
see My wonders. For My son, the Messiah, shall be revealed,
together with those who are with him, and shall gladden the
survivors four hundred years. And it shall be, after
those years, that My son, the Messiah, shall die, and all
in whom there is human breath.
Then shall the world be turned into the primeval silence seven
days, as it was at the first beginnings... "- 4 Ezra 7:27-3O
...The author of 4 Ezra unmistakably refers to the Messiah.. when he puts words in the mouth of God to the effect that after four hundred years ( counted from when? ) My son the Messiah shall die. ( Evidence from ancient manuscripts says this date is 2012.) -Raphael Patai, The Messiah Texts
The man we call Jesus was what God called, a 'Son of Light' or knowledge, but he was not the only 'Son Of God'; Through the very early ages, even before Abraham, there were 'other sons' beginning with Adam. Therefore there is no disrespect for Christianity or any other religion here, only a growing frustration with the abundent lack of tolerance some religious groups have with other people, other religions and other beliefs that do not agree with theirs and the apparent disinterest of any of these groups to study ancient teachings or other religious writings. The World has gone to war many times because of these disagreements. We must come together, for the sake of all. Understanding the history and origin of organized religion is the key.
Jesus the High Priest and the references of Josephus
Decended from David, Jesus' contemporaries would never reguard any Messiah as divine. The Greek word for Messiah is Christ or Christos. The term wheather in Hebrew or Greek - meant simply "the annointed one" and generally referred to a king. Thus in the old testament when David was anointed king he became explicitly a "Messiah" or a "Christ". Every subsequent Jewish king of the House of David was known by the same appellation. Even during the Roman occupation of Judaea, the Roman appointed High Priest was known as Messiah or 'Priest Christ'.
He was called Jesus the Messiah or translated in Greek 'Jesus the Christ'. Only later was this designation contracted to "Jesus Christ". It is a purely fictional title distorted into a proper name. The High Priest or governor was also called 'Jesus'.
From the books of
Flavius Josephus;
This site has a search
engine, in it there are 27 references to 'Jesus'. Each is a High
Priest or the leader of a group. The name 'Jesus' has been
highlighted here in blue. The mention of 'high priests' here
is also important, because Joseph and Jesus were high priests.
You will also see the name Zacharias who is John's father.
We feel that one of these legendary piece makers and freedom fighters is the real Jesus who is also called Christ. These references all say his name was Jesus but we feel this is a title the leader or high priest took. One person called Jesus was the leader of a criminal gang so this person can't be the real 'savoir' who is also called a priest and 'messiah'. The mention of the Zealots below seems to be the closest we can come to identifing the Real Jesus. He allowed some of them into the 'brotherhood'. He says he prefers death rather than living under the Romans and the suicides at Masada by this distinct group of Essenes in 72A.D. confirm this choice.
From Josephus; "They also chose other generals for Idumea; Jesus, the son of Sapphias, one of the high priests; and Eleazar, the son of Ananias, the high priest; they also enjoined Niger, the then governor of Idumea, (32) who was of a family that belonged to Perea, beyond Jordan, and was thence called the Peraite, that he should be obedient to those fore-named commanders. see.. Josephus 2,20
Another comparison of Jewish works..the comment is of particular signifiance. On Jesus by Josephus. "The 'Testimonium Flavianum' above, providing some evidence for its presence in the Antiquities before its Christian reworking."
And we find this, "There is a tradition (in a Barraitha): They hanged Yeshu on the Sabbath of the Passover. But for forty days before that a herald went in front of him (crying), "Yeshu is to be stoned because he practiced sorcery and seduced Israel and lead them away from God. Anyone who can provide evidence on his behalf should come forward to defend him." When, however, nothing favorable about him was found, he was hanged on the Sabbath of the Passover. If you have read our "Forbidden series," you know that the God Isreal worshiped was a false god.
Antiquities of the Jews; Son of Sapphias; "The principal instigator of the mob was
Jesus son of Sapphias, the chief magistrate of Tiberias, an unprincipled
man who had an instinct for introducing disorder into matters of
consequence, and who exceeded all others in the fomenting of
sedition and revolution.
Taking a copy of the laws of Moses into his hands, he now stepped
into the midst of the people and said: 'Fellow citizens! If you
cannot for your own sakes bring yourselves to condemn Josephus,
then have regard for the laws of your country, which your
commander-in-chief intended to betray -- and for their sakes
hate the crime and bring this insolent criminal to his just
punishment!"
"When he had said this and the crowd had loudly applauded him, he took some soldiers and hurried to the house I was lodging in with the intent to kill me at once."
"I was wholly insensible of this, having fallen asleep from fatigue. But Simon, who was entrusted with guarding my person and had alone remained with me, seeing the onrushing citizens, awoke me and told me of the danger, and urged me to die honorably as a general, by my own hand, before my enemies arrived to force me to it or to kill me themselves."
At the age of 29, with no leadership or military experience , Josephus took command of the Jewish forces in Galilee. Or he tried to: the local politicians who had spent their lives building a power base there resented the intrusion of the haughty Jerusalemite. Josephus found himself battling his own countrymen more than the Romans. see more on Josephus
"Now John irritated a great many,
...as did also one Jesus, the
son of Sapphias, who was then governor of Tiberias".
War book 2, chapter 21.
....."their leader was one whose name
was Jesus, the son of Shaphat,
the principal head of a band of robbers".
War book 3, chapter 9.
..... "The best esteemed also of the high priests, Jesus the son of
Gamalas",...
war book 4, chapter 3.
"THE IDUMEANS BEING SENT FOR BY THE ZEALOTS, CAME IMMEDIATELY
TO JERUSALEM; AND WHEN THEY WERE EXCLUDED OUT OF THE CITY, THEY
LAY ALL NIGHT THERE. JESUS ONE OF
THE HIGH PRIESTS MAKES A
SPEECH TO THEM; AND SIMON THE IDUMEAN MAKES A REPLY TO IT".
These leaders were Eleazar, the son of Simon, who seemed
the most plausible man of them all, both in considering what
was fit to be done, and in the execution of what he had
determined upon, and Zacharias, the son of Phalek; both of whom
derived their families from the priests.
Accordingly, Jesus, the eldest of the high priests next to
Artanus, stood upon the tower that was over against them, and
said thus: "Many troubles indeed, and those of various kinds,
have fallen upon this city, yet in none of them have I so much
wondered at her fortune as now, when you are come to assist
wicked men, and this after a manner very extraordinary; for I
see that you are come to support the vilest of men against us,
and this with so great alacrity, as you could hardly put on
the like, in case our metropolis had called you to her
assistance against barbarians".
" As for myself, indeed, I should have
preferred peace with them before death; but now we have
once made war upon them, and fought with them, I prefer death,
with reputation, before living in captivity under them.
Thus spake Jesus; yet did not
the multitude of the Idumeans give any attention to what he said,
but were in a rage, because they did not meet with a ready entrance into the city.
War book 4, chapter 4
"I should not mistake if I said that the death of Ananus was the beginning of the destruction of the city, and that from this very day may be dated the overthrow of her wall, and the ruin of her affairs, whereon they saw their high priest, and the procurer of their preservation, slain in the midst of their city. He was on other accounts also a venerable, and a very just man; and besides the grandeur of that nobility, and dignity, and honor of which he was possessed, he had been a lover of a kind of parity, even with regard to the meanest of the people; he was a prodigious lover of liberty, and an admirer of a democracy in government; and did ever prefer the public welfare before his own advantage, and preferred peace above all things; for he was thoroughly sensible that the Romans were not to be conquered. He also foresaw that of necessity a war would follow, and that unless the Jews made up matters with them very dexterously, they would be destroyed; to say all in a word, if Ananus had survived, they had certainly compounded matters; for he was a shrewd man in speaking and persuading the people, and had already gotten the mastery of those that opposed his designs, or were for the war.
Jesus bar Ananus cried "woe, woe to Jerusalem" before the destruction of the Holy City. At the festivals, his cries were the loudest. Four years before the war began, while as yet the city was in the greatest peace and prosperity, this melancholy manic traversed the streets with the repeated cry "woe, woe - A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegroom.. ." Thus he continued for 7 years and 5 months prophesying the catastrophy to come. Jesus bar Ananus was killed by a stone from a catapult. With the last cry of "Woe to Jerusalem and woe to myself also", a stone from the Roman engines smote him and killed him immediately. His voice was but the renewed echo of the voice of Jewish prophecy and a solemn prophetic fulfillment of the words of Jesus. [306, 309] ..see Annas This Annas does not appear to be the same Annas who Jesus was taken before the night he was arrested, but if it was the arrest was politically motivated.
This page also speeks about Caiaphas. With a slightly different spelling we get 'Cleophas'. We found this person to be the brother of Joseph and Jesus's step-father. "The office was given to Joseph, also called Caiphus about 25, who continued until 35 or 36. Annus was regarded as being high priest jure divino, having authority in spiritual matters, while Caiphas was the pontiff recognized by the government. Annas was virtually high priest while Caiphus held the office."
This further links Jesus, Annas, Joseph's brother Cleophas and John
and it shows how the Roman authorities controlled things. It also
confirms our claim that Joseph, Jesus and John were high priests because
of their royal bloodline. Symeon, Jesus' younger cousin takes the office
after James is killed.
"Annas was deprived of the royal
priesthood by Roman authority. While Annas was actually deposed, he had gained
such a foothold while in office that he continued to be the power in Israel, even
though his son-in-law, Caiaphas, was the legal high priest. He was regarded as
the real high priest by the stricter Jews and the people regarded him as God's
high priest. Annas was likely the richest man in Israel, controlling all the temple
traffic (money-changers, etc.). Besides Caiaphas, five of his sons and one of his
grandsons occupied the office of the high priest, so that Annas remained the
power behind the throne until the revolt of 66. The John mentioned in Acts 4
was Anna's son and was high priest in AD 36".
An important
explanation is that Cleophas is the Aramaic form of Alphaeus. There were 5 brothers
Jude, Jose( Josephus) Simeon, Matthew and James. Thomas and Jesus are their stepbrothers.
The connections are found on
Death of the disciples
It seems the war was started after
James,
was killed, and we have a seperate page on
John the Babtist?
We think this story is about the 'real' Jesus's family. You will notice it says he admires democracy
in government and he is a lover of liberty and did prefer public welfare.
"Jesus was also joined with him; and although he was inferior to him upon the comparison, he was superior to the rest; and I cannot but think that it was because God had doomed this city to destruction, as a polluted city, and was resolved to purge his sanctuary by fire, that he cut off these their great defenders and well-wishers, while those that a little before had worn the sacred garments, and had presided over the public worship; and had been esteemed venerable by those that dwelt on the whole habitable earth when they came into our city, were cast out naked, and seen to be the food of dogs and wild beasts. And I cannot but imagine that virtue itself groaned at these men's case, and lamented that she was here so terribly conquered by wickedness. And this at last was the end of Ananus and Jesus." War book 4, chapter 5.
Ananus; Josephus' Antiquities of the Jews 20:9:1
And now Caesar, upon hearing the death of Festus, sent Albinus
into Judea, as procurator. But the king deprived
Joseph of the high priesthood, and bestowed the succession to
that dignity on the son of Ananus, who was also himself called Ananus. Now the
report goes that this eldest Ananus proved a most fortunate man;
for he had five sons who had all performed the office of a high
priest to God, and who had himself enjoyed that dignity a long
time formerly, which had never happened to any other of our high priests.
The most reliable account of James' death can be found in
Josephus' Antiquities. In the year 62 CE, the High Priest Ananus,
took advantage of a power vacuum in the Roman procuratorship
and had James convicted by the Sanhedrin and stoned to death.
see The Death of James
Backed up by
The Death of James
The traditions narrated by Clement of Alexandria and Hegesippus already show signs of legendary development but agree with Josephus' accounts on the major points.
The historical evidence is strong that James' was succeeded by another relative of Jesus, his cousin Symeon; showing that the Jerusalem Church worked on a dynastic principle.
The death of James was the first major blow to the real Jerusalem Church.
...Some also there were who, watching a proper opportunity when they might quietly get away, fled to the Romans, of whom were thezz, high priests Joseph and Jesus, and of the sons of high priests three, whose father was Ishmael, who was beheaded in Cyrene, and four sons of Matthias, as also one son of the other Matthias, who ran away after his father's death, and whose father was slain by Simon the son of Gioras, with three of his sons, as I have already related; many also of the other nobility went over to the Romans, together with the high priests.. War Book 6, chapter 2
Besides these, a few days after that feast, on the one and twentieth day of the month Artemisius, [Jyar,] a certain prodigious and incredible phenomenon appeared: I suppose the account of it would seem to be a fable, were it not related by those that saw it, and were not the events that followed it of so considerable a nature as to deserve such signals; for, before sun-setting, chariots and troops of soldiers in their armor were seen running about among the clouds, and surrounding of cities. Moreover, at that feast which we call Pentecost, as the priests were going by night into the inner [court of the temple,] as their custom was, to perform their sacred ministrations, they said that, in the first place, they felt a quaking, and heard a great noise, and after that they heard a sound as of a great multitude, saying, "Let us remove hence."
Was this the day attributed to the resurrection? "A few days after the Passover feast".
But, what is still more terrible, there was one Jesus, the son of Ananus, a plebeian and a husbandman, who, four years before the war began, and at a time when the city was in very great peace and prosperity, came to that feast whereon it is our custom for every one to make tabernacles to God in the temple, began on a sudden to cry aloud, "A voice from the east, a voice from the west, a voice from the four winds, a voice against Jerusalem and the holy house, a voice against the bridegrooms and the brides, and a voice against this whole people!" This was his cry, as he went about by day and by night, in all the lanes of the city.
However, certain of the most eminent among the populace had great indignation at this dire cry of his, and took up the man, and gave him a great number of severe stripes; yet did not he either say any thing for himself, or any thing peculiar to those that chastised him, but still went on with the same words which he cried before. Hereupon our rulers, supposing, as the case proved to be, that this was a sort of divine fury in the man, brought him to the Roman procurator, where he was whipped till his bones were laid bare; yet he did not make any supplication for himself, nor shed any tears, but turning his voice to the most lamentable tone possible , at every stroke of the whip his answer was, "Woe, woe to Jerusalem!" And when Albinus (for he was then our procurator) asked him, Who he was? and whence he came? and why he uttered such words? he made no manner of reply to what he said, but still did not leave off his melancholy ditty, till Albinus took him to be a madman, and dismissed him.
Now, during all the time that passed before the war began, this man did not go near any of the citizens, nor was seen by them while he said so; but he every day uttered these lamentable words, as if it were his premeditated vow, "Woe, woe to Jerusalem!" Nor did he give ill words to any of those that beat him every day, nor good words to those that gave him food; but this was his reply to all men, and indeed no other than a melancholy presage of what was to come. This cry of his was the loudest at the festivals; and he continued this ditty for seven years and five months, without growing hoarse, or being tired therewith, until the very time that he saw his presage in earnest fulfilled in our siege, when it ceased; for as he was going round upon the wall, he cried out with his utmost force, "Woe, woe to the city again, and to the people, and to the holy house!" And just as he added at the last, "Woe, woe to myself also!" there came a stone out of one of the engines, and smote him, and killed him immediately; and as he was uttering the very same presages he gave up the ghost.
An opposition priest...But now at this time it was that one of the priests, the son of Thebuthus, whose name was Jesus, upon his having security given him, by the oath of Caesar, that he should be preserved, upon condition that he should deliver to him certain of the precious things that had been reposited in the temple ... War book 6, chapter 8.
We connect these dots and the Sir Names of Jesus and his immediate family on the disciples ...also speaks of a certain other well-known Palestinian Christian as "a cousin of the Lord", who is also called 'Jesus'. Our point made! ( John )(4.22.4)
The real Mission
The Lesser Mysteries of the Ancients were steps leading up to the Greater Mysteries revealed by the Christ. This was understood by members of pre-Christian brotherhoods knowingly , they worked toward the coming of the 'Light of the World' who was to take flesh and dwell among men." Please see Pythagoras
Preparation for the sublime events had been in the making for thousands of years. Among those specially dedicated to this task were The Shepherd Kings of Egypt.
"According to the Damascus Document, God raised up
the Righteous Teacher 390 years after the exile in order to
restore Israel from its period of disobedience.
This would be achieved through a
faithful remnant to whom God had revealed his purposes.
The majority of Israel will continue to disobey the law, but
the Teacher will - through the priests and Levites who left their
roles in the Jerusalem Temple and its establishment -
restore the true sons of Zadok, the elect of
Israel. The Damascus Document builds on the imagery of
Yahweh's instruction to Moses at Beer (Num 21:18): the well from
which they are to draw is the law; the stave is the
interpreter of the law, and the nobles of the people are the
faithful remnant (CD 7)."
- Howard C. Kee, "Membership in the Covenant People at
Qumran and in the Teaching of Jesus" in Jesus and the
Dead Sea Scrolls (James H. Charlesworth, Ed. - 1992), p. 109
"...The Righteous Teacher was powerful and created a new
means of interpreting scripture (the Old Testament or Hebrew
Scriptures) because he claimed to have received a special
revelation ([Habakkuk Pesher] lQpHab 7).
This unique revelation empowered him and his followers to contend
that God had disclosed all the mysteries in the words of the
prophet to him and to him alone."
- James H. Charlesworth, "Jesus as 'Son' and the
Righteous Teacher as 'Gardener'" in Jesus and the
Dead Sea Scrolls (1992), p. 144
The writings of
Josephus
sited above, tell a different story that the commonly excepted view. The
name 'Jesus' is derived from the Greek interpretation of
'Yehoshua'. Yehoshua is a 'secret name', a coded name, we will show you why. The Gnostics and the
Essenes kept many secrets about their
beloved Yehoshua, but these secrets became heresy according to the church.
The
Romans beginning with Paul slaughtered many Essenes and
Gnostics to 'keep them quite'.
Jesus' given name has been interupted as 'Yosha ben Joseph', meaning, son of
Joseph. Another name was Yehoshua , meaning 'Yahweh delivers'. This was not his real name.
James was also called 'Jesus' because he was the High Priest, heir
to the throne as king or govenor and a 'Son of God' and
the leader of the true Jewish Church at the time.
As we have proven, there was more than one man called 'Jesus'.
It was said, the real Jesus had been driven out of Judea in his
early youth because of his initiation into the
secret wisdom of Israel. During his stay in Egypt he had
augmented this knowledge through his initiation into the Egyptian
Mysteries. This initiation had proved to him that the secret
wisdom of the Jews and the Egyptians was identical. As Eliphas,
Lévi says:
"He had divined the occult theology of Israel, compared it
with the wisdom of Egypt, and found thereby the reason for a
universal synthesis.".. we found this at
.. GREAT THEOSOPHISTS Jesus, the Christ
written in 1936.
The
Gospel of Matthew says that he remained in Egypt until after the
death of Herod, so that the prophecy might be fulfilled:
"Out of Egypt have I called my son." The Sepher Toldos Jeshu
reports that he returned to Judea after King Janneus had ceased
his persecution of the Initiates. But the Jews, knowing of his
experiences, complained bitterly against him, declaring that he
had discovered the secrets of their Temple and was
profaning them by giving them out to the common people. Jesus,
however, was not disturbed by these accusations, and so,
according to the Gospel of Matthew.
When the Hyksos were expelled from Egypt in 1550 BC., they were chased across the desert all the way to Palistine and into Judaea and centered their work near Salem, which later became Jerusalem. In Salem, before his entry into Egypt, Abraham was initiated into the Christic Mysteries by the High Priest Melchizedek; in Jerusalem, Jesus Christ, High Priest after the order of Melchizedek, gave His Mysteries of the Dispensation that opened with His coming. Both occasions were celebrated by partaking of bread and wine , symbols of mystical processes involved in 'Rites of Initiation'. The priesthood Jesus was a member of also is stated clearly in the book of Matthew as well as his title of 'Master'. Reference of Jesus the High Priest, Hebrews 4:14 thru 8:2.
Jesus' true position as a Teacher and Savior of humanity can never be fully appreciated without an understanding of the doctrine of Avatars. An Avatar is one who through his own efforts continued for many ages has finally reached the place where reincarnation is no longer a Karmic necessity. He has gained the right to freedom from rebirth, but deliberately chooses to return to earth for the benefit of suffering humanity. As Krishna says in the Bhagavad-Gita:
Our research has concluded that the city of the Nazerene was in fact in Egypt.
This was the site of the ancient 'mystery schools'.
Located somewhere close to Alexanderia. The early gnostics were also called Carpocratians.
Other groups included sects that faned out to France, India, and
Germany. There was an ancient Jewish religion which was very
mystical, high and noble. It was a very evolved form of religion,
rooted in respect and care for all of creation. This ancient
Jewish religion was both very esoteric -- as evidenced by its
Kaballah mysticism -- and yet very practical, as evidenced by
its emphasis on daily lifestyle disciplines, ecology and
communal economics. It was also VERY VEGETARIAN: not only was
animal sacrifice forbidden, but so was the eating of animal
flesh absolutely condemned. War and slavery had no part in this nonviolent religion.
Women were the equals to men; women were
entitled -- in fact, encouraged-- to participate in the
Priesthood. This Priesthood -- called "The Priesthood of Melki
Zadek" -- was governed by God via good angels and the divinely
inspired BOOK OF THE ETERNAL COVENANT. Their original founder
was Enoch; later, Moses led a major remanifestation of their
movement. THIS ENLIGHTENED ANCIENT JEWISH RELIGION WAS KNOWN AS
"ESSENE NAZARENE JUDAISM".
Jesus attended the Temple School for boys in Jerusalem when he was 7 years old. Before that the family and alot of 'other Essenes' were in Egypt. We have evidence presented in The Templar Revelation, Lynn Picket and Clive Prince We found information about Mary Magdalene that says she went to Egypt to escape Herod's prosecution. With her traveled her brother Lazeraus, her sister Martha and a 'dark child'. Legends in France say this child was infact the child of Jesus and Mary.
Here the family escaped the prosecution of Harod and sent the boys to school. Jesus attended a school of a very old Nazarene sect called Therapeutae, a far older esoteric healing sect who inhabited part of the Nile Delta near Alexanderia Egypt.
In his De Vita Contemplativa the Alexandrian Philo makes an extremely remarkable description of an ascetic community with which he was familiar and which was settled not far from Alexandria, namely above Lake Mareotis. Philo's intention in this treatise is not to give an idealized account of what he himself describes as âÝï÷ 'åöòèôéëÞ÷ but rather to sketch the way of life of a specific monastic community of Egyptian Jewish ascetics.
At the very beginning of his treatise, Philo notes the substantial contrast between the Therapeutae and another Jewish ascetic sect, the Essenes. The Essenes led a more practical and active life, while the Therapeutae were dedicated to contemplative life. One could observe also other differences between the two ascetic traditions. The Essenes were exclusively male communities while women participated in the communal gatherings of the Therapeutae communities. Although the Essene's highly organized communal life involved great frugality, there is no conclusive evidence that it denied the lawfulness of marriage. The ascetic tradition of the Therapeutae, on the other hand, insisted on absolute sexual abstinence. The Therapeutae did not practice the Essene communistic way of life but lived separately as anchorites. They practiced renunciation of property, living a life of severe discipline, fasting and praying daily according to an established horarium. As regards theological method, they were enthusiasts of the allegorical interpretation of the Old Testament. from .. The Therapeutae of Philo
It is interesting to see how the Areopagite describes this consecration:
The priest stands before the divine altar and chants the invocation for a monk. The person being initiated stands behind the priest and does not kneel on either one or both knees. The divinely scriptures are not put on his head. He simply stands while the priest chants the secret invocation over him. When this is finished, the priest approaches the initiate. First he asks if he will not only renounce his doubleminded way of living, but even refuse every fantasy (which could be a destruction to his way of life). He reminds him of the rules governing a fully perfect life and openly asserts that he must surpass the median way of life. After the initiate has devoutly promised to do all this, the priest makes the sign of the cross on him. He cuts his hair and invokes the three Persons of the divine blessedness. He takes away all his clothes and gives him others. Then together with all the other sacred men present at the ceremony, he gives him the kiss (of peace) and confers on him the right to commune in the divine Mysteries.
This school was founded by
Pythagoras in
532 BC. Sources say that Euclid, in Book X, passed this teaching
on to the Greeks and Egyptians.
Aristotle, (384-322 BCE) used the major
source of Thales's philosophy and science, and identified
Thales
as the first person to investigate the basic principles, the
question of the originating substances of matter and, therefore,
as the founder of the school of natural philosophy.
Proclus recorded that Thales was followed by a great wealth of geometers, most of whom remain as honoured names. They commence with Mamercus, who was a pupil of Thales, and include Hippias of Elis, Pythagoras, Anaxagoras, Eudoxus of Cnidus, Philippus of Mende, Euclid, and Eudemus, a friend of Aristotle, who wrote histories of arithmetic, of astronomy, and of geometry, and many lesser known names. It is possible that writings of Thales were available to some of these men.
Proclus acknowledged Thales as the discoverer of a number of specific theorems (A Commentary on the First Book of Euclid's Elements 65. 8-9; 250. 16-17). This suggests that Eudemus, Proclus's source had before him the written records of Thales's discoveries. How did Thales 'prove' his theorems if not in written words and sketches? The works On the Solstice, On the Equinox, which were attributed to Thales (D.L. I.23), and the 'Nautical Star-guide, to which Simplicius referred, may have been sources for the History of Astronomy of Eudemus (D.L. I.23).
Other philosophers who were credited with written works, who worked on topics similar to those of Thales, and who may have provided material for later writers, are Heraclitus of Ephesus, Anaxagoras of Clazomenae, Alcmaeon, Hippo of Samos, and Hippias of Elis.
The school's creed was "give me a child until the age of seven and he shall be mine for life". This enunciated from the Jesuits some 1500 years earlier. After being schooled in India, from the age of 14 until he was 29, Jesus returned to Egypt to take the 'priesthood' training....
Proof; The Gospel of the Holy Twelve, Lection 8 The Baptism of Iesu Maria The Christ v 7.- The earthly ministry of Iesus, beginning at thirty years of age, complete and continuing till his death at the age of forty-nine, must therefore have lasted much longer than is generally supposed, even eighteen years. During the latter part of it, the Iews who knew him attested that he was then " not fifty years old."
Proof; from The Gospel of the Holy Twelve
The Childhood And Youth Of Iesus the Christ.
Lection 6 - 13. AND in the eighteenth year of his age, Jesus was
espoused unto Miriam,( Mary Magdalene ? ) a virgin of the tribe
of Judah with whom he lived seven years, and she died, for God
took her, that he might go on to the higher things which he had
to do, and to suffer for the sons and daughters of men...
The death of Mary Magdalene was recorded in A.D. 63, she was
60 years old. Was he married twice, or were they married in
Cana when Jesus was 30?...Miriam didn't die, they were only seperated...
We found out why they were seperated for 7 years...see.
The Marriage of Jesus and Mary
and below at Lection 6 15.
Note: On the third page of this series, the middle years of Jesus' life have been discovered and detailed from information we have found from several sources. Jesus was a scholar. see The Initiate
Proof; Lection 6 14.
The Childhood And Youth Of Iesus the Christ.
And Jesus, after that he had finished his study of the law,
went down again into Egypt that he might learn of the wisdom of
the Egyptians, even as Moses did. And going into the desert, he
meditated and fasted and prayed, and obtained the power of the
Holy Name, by which he wrought many miracles.
Proof; Lection 6 15. And for seven years he conversed with God face to face, and he learned the language of birds and of beasts, and the healing powers of trees, and of herbs, and of flowers, and the hidden secrets of precious stones, and he learned the motions of the Sun and the Moon and the stars, and the powers of the letters, and mysteries of the Square and the Circle and the Transmutation of things, and of forms, and of numbers, and of signs. From thence he returned to Nazareth to visit his parents, and he taught there and in Jerusalem as an accepted Rabbi, even in the temple, none hindering him.
Proof; Lection 6 16. AND after
a time he went into Assyria and India and into
Persia and into the land of the Chaldeans. And he visited their
temples and conversed with their priests, and their wise men
for many years, doing many wonderful works, healing the sick as
he passed through their countries..
from
The Childhood And Youth Of Iesus the Christ.
From age thirteen to age twenty-nine, he was both a student and teacher of Buddhist and Hindu holy men
The story of his journey from Jerusalem to Benares was recorded by Brahman historians
Today they still know him and love him as St. Issa. Their 'buddha'
In 1894 Nicolas Notovitch published a book called The Unknown Life of Christ. He was a Russian doctor who journeyed extensively throughout Afghanistan, India, and Tibet. Notovitch journeyed through the lovely passes of Bolan, over the Punjab, down into the arid rocky land of Ladak, and into the majestic Vale of Kashmir of the Himalayas. During one of his jouneys he was visiting Leh, the capital of Ladak, near where the buddhist convent Himis is. He had an accident that resulted in his leg being broken. This gave him the unscheduled opportunity to stay awhile at the Himis convent.Notovitch learned, while he was there, that there existed ancient records of the life of Jesus Christ. In the course of his visit at the great convent, he located a Tibetan translation of the legend and carefully noted in his carnet de voyage over two hundred verses from the curious document known as "The Life of St. Issa."
He was shown two large yellowed volumes containing the biography of St. Issa. Notovitch enlisted a member of his party to translate the Tibetan volumes while he carefully noted each verse in the back pages of his journal.When he returned to the western world there was much controversy as to the authenticity of the document. He was accused of creating a hoax and was ridiculed as an imposter. In his defense he encouraged a scientific expedition to prove the original tibetan documents existed.
One of his skeptics was Swami Abhedananda. Abhedananda journeyed into the arctic region of the Himalayas, determined to find a copy of the Himis manuscript or to expose the fraud. His book of travels, entitled Kashmir O Tibetti, tells of a visit to the Himis gonpa and includes a Bengali translation of two hundred twenty-four verses essentially the same as the Notovitch text. Abhedananda was thereby convinced of the authenticity of the Issa legend.
In 1925, another Russian named Nicholas Roerich arrived at Himis. Roerich, was a philosopher and a distinguished scientist. He apparently saw the same documents as Notovitch and Abhedananda. And he recorded in his own travel diary the same legend of St. Issa. Speaking of Issa, Roerich quotes legends which have the estimated antiquity of many centuries.
... He passed his time in several ancient cities of India such as Benares. All loved him because Issa dwelt in peace with Vaishas and Shudras whom he instructed and helped. But the Brahmins and Kshatriyas told him that Brahma forbade those to approach who were created out of his womb and feet. The Vaishas were allowed to listen to the Vedas only on holidays and the Shudras were forbidden not only to be present at the reading of the Vedas, but could not even look at them.
Issa said that man had filled the temples with his abominations. In order to pay homage to metals and stones, man sacrificed his fellows in whom dwells a spark of the Supreme Spirit. Man demeans those who labor by the sweat of their brows, in order to gain the good will of the sluggard who sits at the lavishly set board. But they who deprive their brothers of the common blessing shall be themselves stripped of it.Vaishas and Shudras were struck with astonishment and asked what they could perform. Issa bade them "Worship not the idols. Do not consider yourself first. Do not humiliate your neighbor. Help the poor. Sustain the feeble. Do evil to no one. Do not covet that which you do not possess and which is possessed by others."
Many, learning of such words, decided to kill Issa. But Issa, forewarned, departed from this place by night.
Afterward, Issa went into Nepal and into the Himalayan mountains ....
"Well, perform for us a miracle," demanded the servitors of the Temple. Then Issa replied to them: "Miracles made their appearance from the very day when the world was created. He who cannot behold them is deprived of the greatest gift of life. But woe to you, enemies of men, woe unto you, if you await that He should attest his power by miracle."
Issa taught that men should not strive to behold the Eternal Spirit with one's own eyes but to feel it with the heart, and to become a pure and worthy soul....
"Not only shall you not make human offerings, but you must not slaughter animals, because all is given for the use of man. Do not steal the goods of others, because that would be usurpation from your near one. Do not cheat, that you may in turn not be cheated ....
"Beware, ye, who divert men from the true path and who fill the people with superstitions and prejudices, who blind the vision of the seeing ones, and who preach subservience to material things. "...
Then Pilate, ruler of Jerusalem, gave orders to lay hands upon the preacher Issa and to deliver him to the judges, without however, arousing the displeasure of the people.
But Issa taught: "Do not seek straight paths in darkness, possessed by fear. But gather force and support each other. He who supports his neighbor strengthens himself
"I tried to revive the laws of Moses in the hearts of the people. And I say unto you that you do not understand their true meaning because they do not teach revenge but forgiveness. But the meaning of these laws is distorted."
Then the ruler sent to Issa his disguised servants that they should watch his actions and report to him about his words to the people.
"Thou just man, "said the disguised servant of the ruler of Jerusalem approaching Issa, "Teach us, should we fulfill the will of Caesar or await the approaching deliverance?"
But Issa, recognizing the disguised servants, said, "I did not foretell unto you that you would be delivered from Caesar; but I said that the soul which was immersed in sin would be delivered from sin."
At this time, an old woman approached the crowd, but was pushed back. Then Issa said, "Reverence Woman, mother of the universe,' in her lies the truth of creation. She is the foundation of all that is good and beautiful. She is the source of life and death. Upon her depends the existence of man, because she is the sustenance of his labors. She gives birth to you in travail, she watches over your growth. Bless her. Honor her. Defend her. Love your wives and honor them, because tomorrow they shall be mothers, and later-progenitors of a whole race. Their love ennobles man, soothes the embittered heart and tames the beast. Wife and mother-they are the adornments of the universe."
"As light divides itself from darkness, so does woman possess the gift to divide in man good intent from the thought of evil. Your best thoughts must belong to woman. Gather from them your moral strength, which you must possess to sustain your near ones. Do not humiliate her, for therein you will humiliate yourselves. And all which you will do to mother, to wife, to widow or to another woman in sorrow-that shall you also do for the Spirit."
So taught Issa; but the ruler Pilate ordered one of his servants to make accusation against him.
Said Issa: "Not far hence is the time when by the Highest Will the people will become purified and united into one family."
And then turning to the ruler, he said, "Why demean thy dignity and teach thy subordinates to live in deceit when even without this thou couldst also have had the means of accusing an innocent one?"
From another version of the legend, Roerich quotes fragments of thought and evidence of the miraculous.
Near Lhasa was a temple of teaching with a wealth of manuscripts. Jesus was to acquaint himself with them. Meng-ste, a great sage of all the East, was in this temple.
Finally Jesus reached a mountain pass and in the chief city of Ladak, Leh, he was joyously accepted by monks and people of the lower class .... And Jesus taught in the monasteries and in the bazaars (the market places); wherever the simple people gathered- -there he taught.
Not far from this place lived a woman whose son had died and she brought him to Jesus. And in the presence of a multitude, Jesus laid his hand on the child, and the child rose healed. And many brought their children and Jesus laid his hands upon them, healing them.
Among the Ladakis, Jesus passed many days, teaching them. And they loved him and when the time of his departure came they sorrowed as children. see The Life of St Issa
The "lost years" evidence due to Notovitch in 1894 of Jesus being in India during his youth, along with its debunkings, are reexamined and the latter are found not to have been scholarly in any sense. Later evidence fully confirming Notovitch's find is presented. The implications that Jesus taught reincarnation and karma, not resurrection, are summarized and found entirely plausible. The ramifications this has for ecumenism with respect to the Eastern religions cannot be overstated, though for Christianity they remain unacceptable. fromOregon State University September, 1994 - Updated September, 2003
It appears that word of the existence at Himis of these one or two manuscripts about Isa's "lost years" has very occasionally been leaked to Western visitors to the region, but only when the lama or monk involved felt the visitor was open minded or receptive and not inclined to take any threatening action against the monastery. If so, it is reasonable to expect that any future attempts by investigators to acquire or read the manuscripts in question at Himis or Marbour monastery will fail if the relevant lama suspects that the investigator or his sponsor in any way holds a non-ecumenical or militantly Christian attitude. As explained by V. R. Gandhi, the causes of this suspicious attitude on the part of custodians of the sacred literature of the East trace back several centuries to the Muslim invaders of India once having destroyed thousands of the Indians' sacred documents, and to early Christian missionaries having acquired and belittled some of their documents.This distrustful attitude persists today, at least at Himis monastery, according to Tibetologists David L. Snellgrove and Tadeusz Skorupski.
In summary, the evidence that Jesus spent many years of his youth in India rests upon strong evidence additional to Notovitch's findings, so that with hindsight, one can see that his original findings should not have been dismissed. With respect to the present study, the main implication from this is that Jesus had likely learned of reincarnation and karma, basic concepts of both Hinduism and Buddhism, during his "lost" years. This raises the likelihood that he therefore taught reincarnation and karma, among many other things, during his Palestinian ministry, but that early Pharisaic converts to Christianity, starting with Paul, had no desire to propagate such teachings. This deserves serious exploration. In that case the underpinnings of Christianity share much more with Hinduism and Buddhism, not to mention the cabalistic branch of Judaism, than has been previously postulated within scholarly ecumenical thought.
Proof; LECTION 6. *13. -Iosephus mentions a section of the Essenes, or Iessenes, who, unlike the great majority of them, lived in "honourable marriage," observing their rules and customs in all other matters, such as abstinence from blood sacrifices, flesh eating, etc. Some consider it most probable, therefore, that at this period Iesus married, according to the usual custom of the Iews, and in his case especially, that he might have full experience of human life, and thus be a perfect Example for all, knowing the joys and sorrows of all,- and that it was just before his further travels preparatory to his entrance into the Ministry that he lost by death the wedded partner of his youth. He was " in all things like as we are, yet without sin"
It was into the ancient and mystical B'nei-Aumen Order of
the Nasaraeans that Yeshu (Jesus) the Messiah was born - as it
is written:
"He shall be called a Nasorene!" (Matthew 2:23).
This Bnei-Aumen Order (also called the "Kingdom of Heaven" in
New Testament writings) was the advanced level of the Nasaraean
Covenant which brought forth the "Chosen Ones" through special
pure and undefiled marriages, and is that advanced level of truth
which Yeshu-Maria have again sought to restore to the earth as
a means of bringing in advanced spiritual souls, incarnate angels
and apostles, who can again bring peace and purity to the
domain of the Earthly Mother.
If you check out Numbers 6: 1, you find Moses giving instructions; "When a man or a woman takes the special vow of a Nazirite, consecrating himself to the Lord in a special way,...." This proves there was a special sect that was Jewish but seperate and reserved for those chosen to fulfill God's priesthood. Numbers 7: 6 - 16 confirms the priesthood duties and obligations. and... " For, lo, thou shalt conceive and bear a son, and no razor shall come on his head, for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb", from Judges 13:2-6, referring to the birth of Samson, who would have also been a student there..
We invite you to start at Hiram Abiff, King of Egypt 1554 BC.
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