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Writing is not really my call. I only went into it because one cannot continue repeating the same teachings over a lifetime. After having scribbled little graphs for years and repeated the same basic Gnostic principles in the context of my practice, I decided to write a simple and practical synthesis of the essential teachings of the Tradition. This is how my first work, I Am That I Am, was born. Then the Manifestation book imposed itself. I believed that I would laying down the principles of manifestation in the physical world. Instead, I manifested my Higher Self, that is to say Archangel Michael, in the physical realm. As for the Kiss for Lucifer, it is the result of my planetary work of transmutation and the mirror of my relationships with the Mother, the Dragon and Lucifer. For me, writing and studying are but the emanations of the actions of my Consciousness on the planetary and cosmic planes. They are pretexts utilized by my Higher Self so that my human consciousness can work in harmony with my Presence, focused on a specific subject, on a geographical area, or on socio-political or cosmic events according to the divine calendar. As a consequence, I not only have the opportunity and the joy to work actively, consciously, and in synchronicity with my Higher Self, but I can also transmit the human and tri-dimensional standpoint to the Spiritual Hierarchies. From the third dimension in which I have been immersed, I cooperate in the reparation of the cosmic fabric and the fabrication of space-time loops. The reparation of the cosmic fabric occurs through the resolution of conflicts that have emerged in the cosmic and terrestrial Consciousnesses of the race in the course of history. Each individual, at one’s own level, can and do contribute to this task. Each soul sways around (without consciousness) or functions in awareness in a specific frequential space, the limits of which correspond to the levels of frequencies that this soul can reach. We know that any emitted thought triggers a wrinkle in the universal fabric. Fortunately, the amplitude of the impact is proportionate to the capacities of the emitter. And at this point in history, very few human beings can efficiently affect the spacio-temporal weaving of the cosmic meta-organism in the body of which the human race is evolving. Thank you, we have enough chaos! At the age of 15, I realize that the Christian religion in which I had been raised was neither worse nor better than another one, but surely not the truth. I then made a pact with what I naively called God at that time: “I want to serve you. As for the moment, I do not know very much, at least I am not aware of any religion that could satisfy my human fellows’ needs. As long as the group to which I belong does not hurt anyone, I will be patient. And I will choose a direction as soon as I am ready.” Before 16, I had read all the religious books that I was aware of, without internet and being cut off from the world. I started with the Bible using three different versions, the Koran, the Mormon book, excerpts of the Vedas and of the Bhagavad-Gita, and finally Max Hendel’s Cosmology. Also contributing to my eye-opening were excerpts of the Livre d’Or des Papes (A Secret Life of The Popes) that I found very amusing, and a series of books about mental power by Dale Carnegie. Connecting myself with the aspect of my soul which was the Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, I cultivated the power of will (although I have never had to do very much in this regard), decision-making, organization, and the habit of doing several things at once. I also practiced control of my thoughts and emotions. This training enabled me to move rapidly, as a teenager, beyond the astral and mental planes. Concomitantly, the reading of Homeopathic treatises confirmed my understanding about energies as well as the relationship between one’s emotional state and illness. Yahweh’s ferocity, the inconsistencies of the ‘chosen people’ as well as the flagrant contradictions of the Bible caused me to quit all organized religion some years later I then decided to read as little as possible in order to intentionally clear my brain of my education, and later to be able to approach the study of spirituality through direct communication with God and my intuition. Then, to the great displeasure of my Presence, I decided to join the Rosicrucian and Martinist Orders. My Higher Self, aware of my stubbornness, declared: “Go, and remember. You will learn how much you already know.” I spent a very short time with these groups. Mostly, I learned about astral battles, magic and the human ego. I read as little as possible until I had written my first book. It includes very few quotes as I wrote it on the basis of personal experience and intuition. Before publishing it and in order to cope with my lack of self-confidence, I bought one of Alice Bailey’s books that confirmed the existence of the Alta Major. Then I finally started to read again but still carefully chose books that were a reflection of my lifestyle, almost foreign to the intellectualism of the universities. Years later, because researching amuses me and in an attempt to reach a broader public, here I am writing in a format that is closer to a conventional and scholarly one. But the more I proceed, the more I abhor the technique of filling the text with quotes selected from other books, that are rarely the source and are mostly the thoughts of others. The official media and governmental versions of history are truly a joke as no one can say or prove what is really happening behind the backs of the masses. Without forgetting that even if all men were honest and straightforward, humans exist and function simultaneously in several planes. Consequently, even if a human being is practically cleansed from his subconscious complications and is fundamentally honest, s/he still runs the risk of having to play a pre-determined role from which he will not be able to depart and which will determine his behavior without his knowledge. How then can one imagine discovering the truth about such controversial subjects as the Knights Templar and, in particular, Jesus? This is the statement made by Geza Vermes, emeritus professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford University. He is the author of approximately thirty books on the subject, the last one being The Authentic Gospel of Jesus. “As for the date of his birth, ‘this is not truly a historical problem’ writes one of the greatest living experts on antiquity…the general chronological context is clearly defined. He was crucified under Pontius Pilate, the profect of Judae from 26 to 36 CE, his public ministry is said to have taken place shortly after the fifteenth year of Tiberius (28-29 CE) when John the Baptist inaugurated his crusade on repentance…he was fairly young when he died. Luke reports that he was approximately thirty years old…Jesus in his Jewish context, Geza Vermes 3. … Let us begin then by selecting a few non-controversial facts concerning Jesus’ life and activity, and endeavor to build on these foundations.”
Jesus was born in Nazareth. The precise birth date of Jesus is unknown. It happened under the reign of Augustus, probably around the 750th year of Rome, that is to say, several years before the era that all civilized people date from the day of his birth. He stepped out of the ordinary. He did better than the people around him. His father Joseph and his mother Mary were people from a mediocre condition, living from their craft. Except something sordid and repulsive that Islam has brought with itself on all the territory of the Holy Land, the town of Nazareth has not change since the time of Jesus. He probably learnt how to read and write using the oriental method. Jesus » P 122 et 130 Renan, Vie de Jésus
Reading those declarations, it just seems that we are dreaming! Not only are the Gospels still THE source, but as is the case for Mister Renan, the writer exerts his right to his famous ‘romanticism’! Hundreds if not thousands of books have been written under the presumption of the existence of a historical Jesus. The world in which we exist is continually recreated by our beliefs and thoughts. Are the readers finally ready to get rid of history as it has been imposed on them for centuries? Or are they going to fall again into the trap of a new version of history as proposed by the media? The nations with a Christian majority now have three alternatives: - To continue on the path set approximately 1500 years ago and walk toward inevitable self-destruction. Because, the Infinite Consciousness and the soul-group will not allow such a farce to continue. - To accept a remodeled version of the dawn of Christianity, more fashionable and supposedly more esoteric, proposed by the manipulators of history, thus starting up the game again. - To make the decision to do a complete turn and give the soul-group an opportunity to build a new future. This author does not claim that the Christian religion is the most important one but has made a decision to limit the subject of this volume. Have Islam, Indian and Chinese Buddhism offered to their disciples any spiritual and material doctrines that are wiser and more adapted to the building of a decent future? The state of their countries and of the many faithful are flagrant proofs of the failure of those non-Christian philosophies.
JESUS IN HISTORYThere are a growing number of books discussing the historicity of the character named Jesus. Alvar Ellegard, a contemporary scholar from Sweden, summarized the situation in his books, One Hundred Years Before Christ. Ellevard, after studying six texts that are contemporary to the writings of Paul (The Pastor of Hermas, Didachẽ, the teachings of the Apostles, the First Epistle of Clemens Romanus (1 Clement), the Letter of Barnabas, the Letter to the Hebrews and John’s Revelations) concludes: “ The most natural interpretation of what they say, and do not say, about the earthly Jesus, is that it was not a contemporary that now appeared to them as raised to Heaven, but rather, as seems definitely to be the case in Paul and in 1Clement, a figure of the distant past. We therefore now have an explanation of the remarkable lack of information about the historical, earthly Jesus, not only in Paul, but in all the earliest Christian texts outside the Gospels and Acts. Jesus’ death, burial and rising are ‘according to the scriptures’ and there is no indication that they were looked upon as recent events at the time when the apostles had seen Jesus in Heaven.” p. 68 ALVAR He adds very explicitly: “ At no place does any of them {the Apostles} assert or imply that he had seen Jesus in the flesh, or that their visions occurred in connection with the death and the resurrection.” ALVAR
The writer (who prefers to stay anonymous) of the website Bible.chez.tiscali.fr, mentions about thirty writers of the first century, all mutes in regard to Jesus: “Among the writers and historians of the first century who keep a complete silence about Jesus, we will cite: Valerius Maximus (14 BC-37 CE), Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2 BC-66 CE), Pliny the Elder (23-79 CE), Perce (34-62 CE), Lucain (39-65 CE), Dion Chrisostome (40-117 CE), Stace (40-96 CE), Plutarch (45-125 CE), Silius Italicus (25-100 CE), Martial (65-95 CE), Q. Horatius Flaccus (70-100 CE), Petrone (died in 65 CE), Quintillien (65-97 CE), Juvenal (55-140 CE), Apulee (died in 170 CE), Cassius, Pausanias, Justus of Tiberius)”
PHILO OF ALEXANDRIABorn about twenty years before the first century (20 BC-50 CE)), he lived and wrote during the time period that covers the history of Jesus. His family, of a sacerdotal lineage, was one of the most powerful in the Jewish colony of Alexandria. He first received a Jewish education, then Greek. Philo of Alexandria stayed attached to his roots and thought that the mosaic culture had influenced the Greek philosophers. Deeply in harmony with Plato, whose style he even borrowed, he interpreted the Bible in an allegorical form and tried to reveal the complementarity between the Bible and the Platonian thought. Among others, Philo wrote Quod omnis probus liber sit (That every good man is free) about the Essenes, as well as a commentary of Genesis and of the Mosaic Law. In 39 CE, he conducted the embassy to the emperor Caius Caligula to protest against the introduction of the statues of the emperor in the synagogues. With Aristobule, he was one of the main representatives of the Judeo-Alexandrian School. He is said to have influenced the Jewish gnosis, Saint Paul’s philosophy, Saint John who wrote the Apocalypse and, finally, the Christian Church Fathers. He proposed a doctrine about the ‘Verb’ and the ‘Logos’ that is similar to the one proposed in the Gospel of John (presumed date, 95 CE). If the Verb is the Christ and Christ his contemporary, why is not Philo mentioning him in his philosophy? Whether or not he approved Jesus of Nazareth as a candidate for the title of Messiah, Philo should at least mention the presence of this character in the religious life of this time. He does not. “Why is he not making the slightest allusion to the Apostles, to the divine Galilean or to the crucifixion?” The answer is simple. “Because Jesus’ biography was invented after the first century and because no one was more informed about the subject than Philo.” Michel Coquet, Lumieres de la Grande Loge Blanche.
These are the most commonly mentioned writers to prove the terrestrial existence of Jesus: PLINY THE YOUNGER, ww.biblioquest.org/Lyon_Eglise-Histoire_martyrs.html Proconsul of Gaul (61-62 to 114). He was the nephew of Pliny the Elder and a high government official under the Roman Emperor Trajan, He left an abundant Correspondence, which style reflects the hypocritical relationships with the Emperor. This is an excerpt of a letter that he addressed to the Emperor Trajan around the year 112: “During the proceedings, the accusation taking diverse forms, several cases were presented. An anonymous list was deposed, containing many names. The rites practiced in the group mentioned by Pline the Youth most probably identify the Qumran community more than the Christians. The Jews of Qumran did believe in the concept of Messiah or Christ. Moreover, this letter is said to be a forgery composed centuries later by Girardo de Verona, a known counterfeiter.” SUETONEThe secretary of Emperor Domitian, at the end of the first century, speaking about the Emperor Claudio, said that in 41, he chased the Jews of Rome because they were causing disorders.
FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS Born in the year 37, Governor of Galilee, he lived in Cana where Jesus is supposed to have performed one of his most famous miracles. He wrote Antiquities of the Jews, which covered the entire history of Israel from the creation of the world until 64 CE. Flavius Josephus, who cultivated the art of details in his twenty volumes, only mentioned Jesus twice. This is the first quote: “Now, there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man, for he was a doer of wonderful works; a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews, and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ; and when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day, as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him; and the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day." (Antiquities of the Jews, Book IXVIII, Chap. iii, sec. 3) First, it is surprising for a Jewish writer to use the term Messiah. Origen (185-254), who later cites Flavius Josephus, ignored these few lines. However, Eusebius of Cesarea (265-340) introduces them in his Ecclesiastical History. Eusebius is regarded as one of the Church Fathers and a historian. But he is also close to Emperor Constantine and wrote one of his biographies. Eusebius’ objectivity is then doubtful. TACITUS This historian and politician, who originated from Gaul (?55-120), wrote several works among which are The Annals. He did not speak about Jesus but described the fire that occurred in Rome in the year 64. He alleges/said that Nero violently hunted the Christians after making them responsible for the fire in question. In fact, this paragraph is attributed to a certain Pogge, a pontifical secretary, who said he received this information from an anonymous monk in 1429 who had visited Rome as a pilgrim. The quote was probably extracted from an eleventh century manuscript. With this testimony about the martyrdom of Peter, Pogge was trying to demonstrate the primacy of the Papacy over the Church of Constantinople. In conclusion, “the existence of the passage in Tacitus concerning the name of Christ was obviously unknown to the Christian Fathers, and therefore non extant. The allusion in Josephus’s history is manifestly interpolated between the two calamities that befell the Jews. Besides which Photius states explicitly that Josephus made no mention of Jesus Christ. Another Jewish historian, Justus of Tiberias, ‘does not make the least mention of the appearance of Christ, not saying anything whatever of his miracles’. Philo, who was an Essene, born in the year 20 BC, and who lived to the year 50 AD, knew nothing of Jesus or his work. The Mishna, a collection of writings ranging from 400 BC to AC 200, which were edited by Rabbi Jehuda, AD 219, at Tiberias, beside the Sea of Gallilee, contains no allusion to the gospel Jesus or his works, his life or his death.” Historical Jesus, Gerald Massey.
INTERPRETATION OF THE GOSPELSExcept for those who, out of need, still accept the blinders imposed by religions, it is no longer necessary to demonstrate the vulnerability of the Bible and the Gospels. A number of books included in the biblical canon have real value in terms of mystical study in their allegorical context, prophetic or esoteric. However, because of the amount of information now accessible to the public, it is increasingly more difficult to continue to venerate the Bible as the word of God. Not only are the texts integrated in the Bible canon far from standing as historical testimony, but they were chosen and adapted in order to corroborate, first, the Judaic faith, and then the Christian religion that emerged step-by-step during the first three centuries after Jesus. (It becomes difficult to express such dating if one attempts not to mention Jesus anymore!) This is the comment made by Robert Adams in an article published in “New Dawn Magazine,” (# 71, March 2002): ”If we examine the oldest known Bible to date, the "Sinai Bible" housed in the British Museum, we find a staggering 14,800 differences from today’s Bible and yet it still remains the word of God?” and “The oldest text of the Old Testament that survived, before the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls" was said to be the Bodleian Codex (Oxford), which was dated to circa 1100 AD. In an attempt by the church to remove damaging Rabbinic information about Jesus Christ from the face of the earth, the Inquisition burnt 12,000 volumes of the Talmud.” The Biblical Gospels can indeed be interpreted in order to erase the contradictions. For example, it is easy to explain and decrypt their text by using symbolic language, the secret codes of the first Christians, or the astrological connotations. The books and articles of numerous scholars using these methods appear to be perfectly plausible and even appealing. As an example, let us read the explanation offered by Laurence Gardner during a lecture about the crucifixion myth. (This author does not share his interpretation): As for Jesus' death on the Cross, it is perfectly plain this was spiritual death, not physical death, as determined by the three-day rule that everybody in the first century reading this would have understood. In civil and legal terms, Jesus was already dead when he was placed on the Cross. He was denounced, scourged, prepared for death by decree. Today, we call this "excommunication". For three days Jesus would have been nominally sick, with absolute death coming on the fourth day. On that day he would be entombed, buried alive; but during the first three days he could be raised or resurrected. In fact, he predicted that he would. Raisings and resurrections (apart from the fact that Jesus once flouted the rule, and that was a miracle!) could only be performed by the High Priest or by the Father of the Community. The High Priest at that time was Joseph Caiaphas, the very man who condemned Jesus; therefore the raising had to be performed by the patriarchal Father. There are Gospel accounts of Jesus talking to the Father from the Cross, culminating in "Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit", and at that time we know from the listings that the appointed Father was the Magian apostle Simon Zelotes.
The context of an excommunication is plausible and gives to the audience the impression of finally participating in the arcanes of the mystery schools. However, Gardner does not say precisely what Jesus he is referring to. If this is Ben Pandira’s story, then such a scene is possible and Jesus was in fact put to death. (We will present Pandira later on). If we are speaking about the initiation called crucifixion, it does not have to occur on the physical plane and its deep significance is completely dodged in this interpretation of the life of a supposed Master or Christ. The Bible will always have its place among the religious books, because it holds, as a watermark, the imprint of the Tradition and the expression of a part of the soul-group. But why would one try to perpetuate the belief in the character of Jesus? The Bible as well as any religious volume should be scrutinized separately according to its historical context and to the author’s personality and purpose. For instance, it seems obvious that some chapters of the Apocalypse can be read and deciphered under the angle of astronomy. Saint John’s capacity to travel beyond time cannot be ignored in order to understand the whole message. The writers whose need to deny the existence of a God and the innate link between humans and the spiritual world push Cartesianism and materialism to the utmost. They are forgetting that for the one who has neither spiritual vision nor the capacity to exist beyond matter, the physical world is a prison where the only exit is the mental and its circumvolutions.
JESUS AND JOHN THE BAPTIST THE JOHANNITES After the passage to the Pisces Era, an abundance of sects appeared, often as a reaction to the growing tyranny and hypocrisy of the Jewish priesthood associated with the Sadducees and the descendants of the Maccabees Kings. Sadducees neglected the practice of rites for a more literal interpretation of the Scriptures. More than a battle between the Roman Empire and the Jewish people, a deep dissension was agitating the Jews one against the other. One
of these groups, the Johannites or Mandeans, close to the Chaldean gnosis,
claimed that their church was founded by John the Baptist who was their
true prophet. "...During the
first three centuries A.D., there were certain Mandaean or Johannite
sects, especially in the region of the Tigris-Euphrates basin, who honored
John [the Baptist], not Jesus, as their prophet. Indeed, one of these
sects still exists. According to its thinking, John was 'the true
prophet', while Jesus was 'a rebel, a heretic, who led men astray,
betrayed secret doctrines.'" This is not surprising. If we accept the testimony of the Gospels, we learn that confusion certainly reigned between the characters of the Baptist and of Jesus. These are the words put into Jesus mouth: “When Jesus came into the coasts of Caesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, saying: ‘Whom do men say that I the Son of Man am? And they said: ‘Some say that thou art John the Baptist, some Elias, and others, Jeremias or one of the prophets.’” Mathew 16: 13-15. Were the Johannites a Christian sect among many others or were they, as suggested by some writers the holders of the secret doctrine emanating from Egypt, Chaldea and ultimately from the Serpents of Wisdom? This is the claim made by HP Blavatsky in a dissertation devoted to the Knights Templar and to modern Freemasonry. The Johannites would have been the secret and true initiators of Hughes de Payens and thus of the Templar Order. “The Temple was the last European secret organization which, as a body, had in its possession some of the mysteries of the East. Founded in 1118 by the Knights Hugh de Payens and de Saint Omer, nominally for the protection of the pilgrims, its true aim was the restoration of the primitive secret worship. The true version of the history of Jesus, and the early Christianity was imparted to Hughes de Payens, by the Grand Pontiff of the Order of the Temple (of the Nasarene or Johanite sect), one name Theocletes {sixieme et direct successor de Jean le Baptiste] after which it was learned by some Knights in Palestime, from the higher and more intellectual members of the St John sect, who were initiated into its mysteries.” H. P. Blavatsky, Isis II, 8, 380-1 This is quite a reasonable hypothesis owing to the following facts: - During their trial, the Knights Templar were accused of denying Christ and of spitting on the Cross. - Until 1737, date at which the Great Lodge of Scotland adopted Saint Andrew as their patron, the patron saint of the Templars and of the Masons was John the Baptist. This would tend to confirm the affirmations of Blavatsky and the modern Johannites. According to Mackenzie, Saint John the Baptist was the “esteemed one of the patron saint of Masonry and in fact, the chief one. The grand Lodge of England was revived on Saint John’s day, 24th June 1717, and the annual festival was held on that day until 1727 when it was held on Saint John the Evangelist’s day, 27th December. Also, the festival of the Baptist was celebrated by the Grand Lodge of Scotland until 1737, when the annual election was changed to Saint Andrew’s day.” MACKENZIE RMC We have already mentioned the hypothesis expressed by Morton Smith (Jesus the Magician). Jesus would have existed, but his talents as a healer and as an exorcist would be imputable, not to his quality as Son of God or as a Messiah but to his knowledge of magic. Such a character looks like Ben Pandira who would have used the magical technique of stealing the spirit of a powerful soul and constraining it to serve him. Jesus would have had imprisoned the powerful soul of Saint John the Baptist who, as a reminder, was decapitated. See chapter … CAPUT
THE FACETS OF THE TERRESTRIAL JESUSIMMANUELThe Mandeans, a group of Gnostic Christians, still exist in southern Iraq. Their main ritual is baptism practiced several times a year. This is one of their legends:
"The Mandaeans tell of the
founding of Jerusalem by a powerful female Goddess named Ru Ha. She is
viewed by them as evil. Ru Ha controls the Seven Planets. They say that Ru
Ha worked evil on the Earth through several chosen men. These are Abraham,
Moses, David and his son Solomon. Her greatest evil, however, was realized
through one final man. At her temple in Jerusalem, a young priestess was
chosen to bear a special offspring. Her name was Miriam. We call her Mary.
She brought forth the 'child of Ru Ha', the 'Imunel' (Immanuel) and he
called himself, Jesus. He was baptized by John and taught much by him. He
turned from John's teachings and led the people astray, the Mandaeans
claim. The Mandaeans say that Mary is a 'Daughter of the Moses' and that
this Moses dwelt on Mt. Sinai."
THE CHARACTERS OF THE TALMUDThe Talmud is a compilation of documents, commentaries and discussions on the Judaic laws. The Mishnah is the text while the commentaries are called the Gemara. The word ‘Talmud’ most frequently refers to the commentaries alone. There are two Talmuds, a Palestinian Talmud of Jerusalem and the Babylonian Talmud. The laws or Mishnah are common to the two versions, while the commentaries diverge because they are from a different origin. Because of the persecution against the Jews, the text of the Talmud was altered after 1631. At this date, a group of Elders met in Poland and decided to suppress in the new editions all mention of the name of Jesus. It is said that this name was sometimes replaced by the expression “Such a one”. However, copies of the original texts still exist in some Europeans libraries as well as at Oxford University. The Babylonian Talmud cites a famous healer, Yeshua Ben Pantera, one of the names attributed to Jesus. Joshua Ben Pantera, pupil of Joshua Ben Perachia, was born in the fourth year of the reign of the Jewish king, Alexander Jannaeus, notwithstanding the assertions of his followers that “he was born in the reign of Herod.” Ben Pandira may have been born about the year 120 BC. He was executed when he was fifty or sixty years old. It is said that this event took place during the year 3671 of King Jannaeus, that is to say, 90 BC. We will summarize by saying that the birth of Ben Pandira antedates by one century that of Jesus of the Gospels. This is the excerpt of the Talmud that is the most frequently quoted about Jesus, a comment extracted from Sanhedrin 43a and earlier than the second century:
“And it is tradition: on the eve of Passover they hang Jeshu {the Nazarene}. And the crier went forth before him forty days (saying), {Jeshu the Nazarene} goeth forth to be stoned, because he has practiced magic and deceived and led Israel astray. Anyone who knoweth aught in his favor, let him come and declare concerning him. And they found naught in his favor. And they hang him on the eve of Passover. Ulla said, « would it be supposed that {Jeshu the Nazarene) a revolutionary, had aught in his favor ? He was a deceiver and the Merciful (i.e. God) hath said (Deut. XIII,8) ‘ Thou shalt not spare, neither shalt thou conceal him’. But this was different with {Jeshu the Nazarene} for his was near the kingdom. “It happened with R. Elazar ben Damah, whom a serpent bit, that Jacob, a man of Kefar Soma, came to heal him in the name of Yeshua Ben Pantera.” Rabbis generally do not confuse Ben Pandira with the Jesus of the Gospels, because they know that the character of the Bible is a fictional one. Until the fourth century, “when the Christians trace his pedigree, by the hand of Epiphanius, they are forced to derive their Jesus from Pandira. Epiphanius gives the genealogy of the Canonical Jesus in this wise: Jacob, called Pandira, Mary, Joseph-Cleopas, Jesus.” MASSEY Ben Stada or Ben Pantira was accused of being a sorcerer. Educated by the Egyptian masters, he utilized knowledge and magic to accomplish the miracles that originated his fame as well as the jealousy of the rabbis. The legend says that he hid a magical formula on his thigh in order to remember it. “If one writes on his flesh, he is culpable; he who scratches a mark on his flesh. It was taught, R. Eliezar said to the sages: but did not Ben Stada bring forth witchcraft from Egypt by means of scratches upon his flesh? he was a fool, answered they, proof cannot be adduced from fools. {Was he then the son of Stada: surely he was the son of Pandira ? said H. Hisda: the husband was Stada, the paramour was Pandira}.” Shabbath 104 b. “And thus, they did to Ben Stada in Lydda, and they hang him on the even of Passover See MOREY PAGE 6. Ben Pandira’s story is cited repeatedly by authors and on a number of internet sites. Published in 1860 by Eliphas Levi in the History of Magic, the legend was quoted by Blavatsky in Isis Unveiled, published in 1877, and by Kenneth Mackenzie in his Royal Masonic Cyclopedia (1877):
“A young virgin of Nazareth, named Miriam, who had been betrothed to a youth of her tribe named Jochanan, was one day surprised and outraged by a certain man, Pandira, or Panther, who introduced himself into the chamber in the garments and under the name, of Jochanan, the latter being made acquainted with the misfortune, quitted her without compromising her, she being in fact innocent. The result was that she gave birth to a son who received the very ordinary Jewish name of Joshua, or Jesus in the Greco-Aramaic dialect. This child was adopted by a Rabbi named Joseph, who carried him into Egypt, where he was initiated into the occult sciences, and the priests of Osiris, regarding him as the long-promised incarnation of Horus, expected by the Adepts, finally consecrated him Sovereign Pontiff of the universal religion.” MacKenzie
Other texts say that Joshua would have accomplished these miracles because he would have stolen the Sacred Name from the Jewish priests, that is to say that he would have known the true pronunciation of the Divine Name. This would explain their unnecessary hatred. It is also said that Mary was not raped but would have had a lover. It is easy to imagine the calumnies produced along the years by a people who have rejected those who presented themselves as their Messiah. Whatever the truth is, we praise the courage of this family and of this man because, at this time, such a situation was certainly difficult to endure! With regard to the jealousy of the priests and the Jews, as well as the diverse gossips that might have been invented about Joshua’s power as a magician, it is a reminder of the narrowness of human intelligence and religion, whether Christian or Jewish! BEN PANDIRA ACCORDING TO ELIPHAS LEVI It is important to come back to Eliphas Levi’s text for two reasons: First, the amateurs of sensationalism generally omit mentioning the real feelings of Eliphas Levi about this matter. And also because this story is connected to the Knights Templar and to the Stuarts. Let us start with the quote excerpted from the History of Magic: “A young girl of Nazareth named Myriam, betrothed to a young man of her own tribe, named Jochanan, was surprised by a certain Pandira, or Panther, who entered her chamber in the garb and under the name of her lover, and by force fulfilled his desires. (A story that reminds us of King David!). Jochanan, becoming acquainted with her misfortune, left her without compromising her because as a fact she was innocent. And the girl was delivered of a son, who received the name of Joshua or Jesus. The infant was adopted by a Rabbi named Joseph, who carried him into Egypt, where he was initiated into the secret sciences, and the priests of Osiris, recognizing that he was the true reincarnation of Horus so long promised to the adepts, consecrated him sovereign pontiff of the universal religion. Joshua and Joseph returned to Judea, where the knowledge and virtue of the young man excited very soon the envy and hatred of the priests…” p. 210
The source of this tale, according to Eliphas Levi is “in the Sepher Toldos Jeshu.” Eliphas Levi adds: “It is inaccurate to call it a tradition; more properly, it is a lying invention.” And he adds: “We will not proceed further with a fiction so distressing to the hearts of Christians; let it suffice to say that the Johannites went so far as to make St. John the Evangelist responsible for this spurious tradition and that they attributed to the apostle in question the foundation of their church.” p. 210
The polemic about Ben Pandira is still open and there are numerous unanswered questions. What are the true sources? Who was his father? Why was he recognized by the Egyptian priests as the true incarnation of Horus? In any case, if this child received the teachings of the Mysteries and the honors of the magicians, he belonged, without any doubt, to the small terrestrial family of the Initiates. But, we are still far from a Jesus, King and anointed…. We find the name of Ben Pandira in Dragon Legacy with a comment from Nicholas de Vere, still obsessed with blood consumption: “Jesus’ surname is Ben Panther, meaning the Leopard, which is the totem steed of both Bacchus and Diana, and is repeated in the arms of the House of Plantagenet as three (originally one) heraldic leopards « Or » on a field of « Gules » (QUESTIONS FOR DONNA) or three golden leopards on a field of blood. The archaic spelling for Leopard is Libard and this night-stalking animal is renown for drinking the blood of its victims. Here again is a variant of the word Libare and quite a pertinent one at that, as again blood becomes a Libation associated with Christ, the son of the Libard.” p, 169
THE CASE of ISSA During his travels in India in the year 1880, Nicolas Notovitch “met Buddhist monks who aroused [his] curiosity.” (LA VIE INCONNUE DE JESUS CHRIST, 17) This motivated him, as soon as 1887, to travel to Tibet to search for manuscripts ”existing in the archives in Lassa, and having to do with the life of Jesus Christ and to the Western Nations.” (p 10). From this journey, Nicolas brought back the story of Issa, “who sojourned six years among the Buddhists in India where the principle of monotheism was still very pure. He left India at the age of 26. While returning home he traveled to Afghanistan, in Persia, in Greece and in Egypt. He was thirty years old when he returned in Palestine.” INTRODUCTION A LA VIE INCONNUE DE JESUS CHRIST 7, rédigée par Les Editions Basileus. This is the testimony given to Nicolas Notovitch by a Lama: ”Issa is a great prophet, one of the first after the twenty-two Buddhas; he is greater than any Dalai-Lama because he is a part of the spirituality of our Lord. He is the one who instructed you, who, in the womb of God, brought back the frivolous souls. His name and his actions were recorded in our sacred scriptures, and when reading about his grand existence in the midst of lost people, we cry on the horrible sin of the pagans who have assassinated after putting him to death.” IDEM, p. 47
QUMRAM THEORY- SELF GLORIFICATION HYMN
« I sit in Heaven I shall be reckoned with the angels/gods”
This is a controversial yet fascinating hypothesis, according to which a messianic figure had lived a hundred years before the presumed time for the life of Jesus. This theory is based on a series of verses of the Dead Sea Scrolls that allow us to draw a portrait of a hero whose merits gave him the right to be sitting next to the angels or next to the gods (Elim), depending on the translation. The translations are slightly different according to the personalities of the scholars and the comments abound. We choose to work with the study of Israel Knohl in his work, The Messiah before Jesus. The first text is commonly identified as the Self Glorification Hymn. It is associated with two texts extracted from a second hymn in which the members of the sect are invited to praise God: « This first hymn, the Self Glorification Hymn, is followed in all four of its manuscripts by a second hymn that calls on the community to thank God for his mercies. In these psalms the writer expresses gratitude to God for redeeming him from sin and bringing him close to His presence. The writer portrays himself as the head of a community of believers and many scholars consequently believe that the scroll was written by the ‘teacher of righteousness’, the founder and original leader of the Qumram sect. » Messiah Secret, 13 (Two fragments of 4QHe).
“Who has been despised like [me? And who] has been rejected {of men] like me? [and who] compares to m[e enduring] evil? Who is like me among the angels? (elim) [I] am the beloved of the king, a companion of the ho[ly ones] none can compare for I [ with gold <I> will cro[wn”
There is another version of this text, found on another fragment of the Scrolls (4Q491): For] ever a throne of power in the angelic council. No king of you will sit therein. I sit [ ] in heaven, and none [ ] I shall be reckoned with the angels, my dwelling is in the holy council. [ ] desire is not in the flesh [for] everything precious to me is in the glory of the holy hab[itation].” Who could cut off my words? And who could measure the flow of my speech? Who can associate with me and thus compare with my judgements? Fo]r I am reckoned with the angels, and my glory with the sons of the king.”
The author of the Self Glorification Hymn shows enormous self-confidence. The words utilized to describe his heightened position next to the gods are probably quoted from Exodus 15, 11 « Who is like unto thee, O Lord, among the gods ? » Is he comparing himself to God ? On the other hand, the writer describes himself as a victim, rejected, despised and ‘enduring evil’. Is he appropriating the messianic prophecy of Isaiah 53 : « He is despised and rejected of men A man of sorrow, and acquainted with grief Surely, he has borne our griefs Stricken, smitten of God and afflicted But he was wounded for our transgressions.
The members of the community, or at least a part of it, probably considered the author of the Self Glorification Hymn as the Messiah and thought that the time of redemption, peace and blessings, had arrived for the Jewish people. But several years later, during the rebellion against the Romans, their hero was killed. Several hypotheses have been suggested. The hero would be:
Let us come back to the first proposition:
In the same way that their inimical brothers of the Jewish community, the members of the Essene sect were impregnated with messianic concepts and prophecies, inherited from the elders. They were expecting the Nasi or Messiah ‘destined to rule over all nations’ after a battle against the gentiles. « With your scepter may you devastate the land and by the breath of your lips may you kill the wicked one… ». The last battle between the just, the Essenes or Sons of the Light, against the Romans, or Sons of the Darkness, is described at length in the War Scroll that was discovered among the Dead Sea Scrolls. In the Essenes’ mind, the power to overcome was assuredly Rome, impersonated by Caesar Augustus, whose code name amidst the sect was “King of Kittim.” page 9 King Herod had at his court a group of private counselors that he called ‘his Beloved’. One of them is cited in the rabbinic texts, called ‘Menahem the Essene’. Acknowledged for his wisdom, the latter had disciples and was respected by his community. Menahem would have entertained a courtesan/friendly relationship with Rome, while secretly hating the invader, thus reproducing the typical behavior of the Qumram sect. All members were recommended to keep a humble and servile attitude in front of the ‘masters’ while OOOO…. An « everlasting hatred for the men of perdition in spirit of secrecy » PAGE 57 In the ancient texts, the « Mishna mentions five pairs of religious leaders who succeeded one another during the period from the Hasmonean rebellion (167 BC) to the time of Herod. Hillel and Menahem were named as the pair active in the time of Herod. » 58 Hillel led the Pharisees while Menahem was the head of the desert community. Hillel and Menahem both held important positions and entertained a high opinion about themselves. But competition aroused when Menahem, after an intense spiritual experience, started to express his messianic ambition and divine status in the audacious self-glorification. Not only did Menahem claim that he had a ‘seat next to God’ but he had overcome the vicissitudes of the physical plane. Menahem had already gathered a group of rebels, one hundred and sixty armed disciples. When he finally introduced himself as a messianic figure, he was rejected by the Jewish people led by Hillel, as well as by a portion of the Essene community. The story of his excommunication is found in the ancient texts (note the similarity with Gardner’s interpretation – page …) When the Jewish community rebelled against Herod, Menahem was probably among the leaders. Although his name is not mentioned, Josephus cites, among the chiefs of the rebellion, the ‘friends of the King’. It is admitted/believed that Menahem was killed a little later in another uprising against Rome. THE PARACLETE These words are attributed to Jesus: “And I will pray to the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may abide with you forever. Even the Spirit of Truth; whom the world cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him, for he dwelleth with you and shall be in you.” John 14, 16 The term translated as Comforter is Paraclete. « in ancient translations of the Bible, the word Paraclete and the verbs connected with it served as a translation for the Hebrew verb nahem (to comfort) and the nouns menahem, menahemim (comforter, comforters). » page 69. Jesus calls the Paraclete the ‘Spirit of Truth’ which was « A central concept in the theology of the people of Qumram. It represented the positive pole in the Qumram dualistic vision of light and darkness, truth and falsehood. A number of scholars have consequently thought that the figure of the Paraclete in John is bound up with the Dead Sea Scrolls philosophy. » page 70 Knohl then says that « the idea that the name of the Messiah is ‘Menahem’ is documented in rabbinic literature. The tradition of the Paraclete in the Gospel of John represents a Christian manifestation of this convention. » 70-71 Jesus, or at least the text of the Gospel, would then inform us of a tradition known by the Jewish people, the existence of a lineage of redeemers from which he was a part.
JESUS, THE SON OF MAN In the Self Glorification Hymn, the author declares that he sits on the ‘throne of power’ ‘next to the king’ or ‘next to God’. He is the King’s friend. King Solomon was named Yedidya, that is to say, God’s friend, and was portrayed as sitting on ‘God’s throne’. A similar concept is found in the Book of Daniel (7:9-14), when the prophet evokes the ‘son of man’ who is invited to stand next to the Ancient of Days in order to receive ‘an everlasting dominion, glory and a kingdom’. “I saw One like the Son of Man, coming with the clouds of Heaven, he was brought near before him”. A similar expression is utilized by the Archangel Gabriel in his announcement to Mary: « He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Most High/Highest » Luke 1, 32-35 The concept of divine filiation associated with royalty is not new as kings and emperors have claimed such kinship with God. The title “Son of the Most High” was applied to Emperor Augustus (Page 96-99). During his reign, Augustus was represented sitting amongst the gods. He was assigned/conferred a divine nature, ‘fusing the earth with the Kingdom of Heaven’. Consequently, the Christian Gospels again dispel an adaptation of ancient texts. The Romans and the Jews are not even the authors of this concept, which is as old as the world.. In ancient Egypt, Iu or Atum was also the ‘Son of Man’. (MASSEY) On the inner planes, there is only one Son of the Divine, God’s direct creation, which brings us back to the theme of Royal Lineage.
JESUS IN THE KORAN “In Srinagar, capital of Cashmere, everyone knows the Rozabal, the mausoleum of the Muslim Saint, Yuz Asaf. But, who is aware that, for more than a century a mad rumor goes around the planet: Yuz Asaf would not be anyone else, but …. Jesus. Is there not in a corner of the Rozabal, a stone imprinted with a foot pierced with a hole ? And did not Yuz Asaf arrive in Cashmere two thousand years ago, introducing himself as the son of a virgin? » Frederic Lewino, Le Point, Sept 2005. Because
of the present tension between Christianity and Islam, it seems preferable
to quote the Koran instead of interpreting it. What does the Koran say
about Jesus? Mohammed, who often quoted the Bible or ‘The Book’ and
the Torah, cites Jesus ninety-three times. Jesus or Issa, ‘Son of Mary’,
is one of the six great prophets together with Adam, Abraham, Noah and
Moses. Jesus, Mohammed and Moses distinguished themselves because they
each ‘brought the word under the form of a book.’ Mohammed seems to
find common ground and communication with the Christians, introducing
Jesus as Al Masih or the Messiah. But he becomes hostile toward them when
he tackles the concepts of the divinity of Jesus and the Trinity. JESUS’ BIRTH
“She placed
a screen (to screen herself) from them; then We sent her our angel, and he
appeared before her as a man in all respects. In Sourate 3, 45-47, Mohammed goes back to the theme of the miraculous conception of Jesus, a decision made by Allah. Jesus, says Allah, will be ‘part of the righteous.’ » We learn that Jesus, also named Hissa, is El Masih or the Messiah. “When the angels said: O Marium, surely Allah gives you good news with a Word from Him (of one) whose name is the '. Messiah (Al Masih), Issa son of Marium, worthy of regard in this world and the hereafter and of those who are made near (to Allah). "He shall speak to the people in
childhood and in maturity. And he shall be (of the company) of the
righteous." When the community discovers that Mary is pregnant, she is accused of sin. From her womb, Jesus defends her, already demonstrating exceptional capacities: SOURATE 19 29-33 “But she
pointed to the babe. They said: "How can we talk to one who is a
child in the cradle?" "So peace is on me the day I
was born, the day that I die, and the day that I shall be raised up to
life (again)"! If Issa is still introduced as the ‘Son of Mary’, the Koran does not mention any human father but only Allah’s intervention: “And Mary the daughter of 'Imran, who guarded her chastity; and We breathed into (her body) of Our spirit; (66,12) And (remember) her who guarded her chastity: We breathed into her of Our spirit, and We made her and her son a sign for all peoples” (21:91) « There is disagreement over the manner of this breathing. There is the saying of Wahb that Gabriel breathed into her breast and it reached her womb. Another version is that he breathed into the hem of her garment and she conceived. Al Saddi said, ‘He took hold of her sleeve and breathed into her side, and it entered her breast and she conceived.’ Then Mary’s sister, the wife of Zechariah, came to visit and help her and while she was assisting her she knew that Mary was pregnant, and Mary mentioned her state to her. The wife of Zechariah said : ‘ I find the child in my womb worshipping the one which is in yours’. Ibn Abbas said: ‘the breathing was into the opening of her garment.’ It is also said : ‘We (Allah) created whatever appears in it (the womb).’ htt www the good-way.com
A PROPHET AND A MESSENGER Jesus’ birth and life have made him an exceptional being, approved by Allah, but Christians must not mistaken, Jesus is only a messenger : “O People of the Book! Commit no excesses in your religion: Nor say of Allah aught but the truth. Christ Jesus the son of Mary was (no more than) a messenger of Allah, and His Word, which He bestowed on Mary, and a spirit proceeding from Him: so believe in Allah and His messengers. Say not "Trinity" : desist: it will be better for you: for Allah is one Allah: Glory be to Him: (far exalted is He) above having a son. To Him belong all things in the heavens and on earth. And enough is Allah as a Disposer of affairs” (4 :171) Mohammed vigorously denies Jesus’ divinity. Although he calls Jesus the Messiah, the Prophet insists on Allah’s Omnipotence. « To Allah belongeth the dominion of the heavens and the earth, and all that is between.” “In blasphemy indeed are those that say that Allah is Christ the son of Mary. Say: ‘Who then hath the least power against Allah, if His will were to destroy Christ the son of Mary, his mother, and all every - one that is on the earth? He createth what He pleaseth. For Allah hath power over all things’." (5:17) Those who diminish Allah in favor of Jesus and say ‘Allah is one of three in a Trinity’ are ‘miscreants’ and infidels, vowed to God’s wrath. “They do blaspheme who say: "Allah is Christ the son of Mary." But said Christ: "O Children of Israel! worship Allah, my Lord and your Lord." Whoever joins other gods with Allah,- Allah will forbid him the garden, and the Fire will be his abode. There will for the wrong-doers be no one to help. They do blaspheme who say: Allah is one of three in a Trinity: for there is no god except One Allah. If they desist not from their word (of blasphemy), verily a grievous penalty will befall the blasphemers among them.” (5:72-73) THE DEATH OF JESUS Mohammed flares up against the sons of Israel who have received a sign of the Presence of Allah, and still turn away from God (4 :154-158). For instance, even after God’s brilliant (dazzling) demonstration of power facing the Pharaoh and on the Sinai, the people dared to worship the golden calf. The Prophet curses the Sons of Israel because they attempted to kill the Christ. Not only, said he, “they kill him not, nor crucified him”:
“That they rejected Faith; that they uttered against Mary a grave false charge; That they said (in boast), "We killed Christ Jesus the son of Mary, the Messenger of Allah";- but they killed him not, nor crucified him, but so it was made to appear to them, and those who differ therein are full of doubts, with no (certain) knowledge, but only conjecture to follow, for of a surety they killed him not:- Nay, Allah raised him up unto Himself; and Allah is Exalted in Power, Wise;”
What is the meaning of Allah’s words? How did God raise Jesus to Himself? How will He ‘Take thee and raise thee (I am causing you to ascend) to Myself and clear thee (of the falsehoods) of those who blaspheme’? (3:55). Did God, in his wisdom and power, protect his Son’s life and spare him? For some, these verses are the proof of Jesus’ ascension, a concept cherished (treasured) by both Christians and New Agers. But, in the Muslim faith, the soul only rests next to God, waiting for the time of the Judgment. The Jews did not crucify the condemned but hung them on a tree or wood, as was the case for Ben Pandira. Depending on the translations of the Koran, one could also believe that Jesus was replaced by someone else (volunteer or forced?). The Koran, because of its style, impassionate and already fanatical, its often incoherent information, gives in fact more enigmas and questions to debate. The statements of the Muslim Prophet and of the Tibetans have provided the grounds for the persistent rumours about the life and death of Jesus in India, Tibet and elsewhere. The faith in Jesus’ sacrifice is the basis of the Christian religion. It is also a normal consequence of the Jewish egregore. The Jewish religion emerged during the Era of the Ram, which became the scapegoat. Although the practice of animal and human sacrifice had existed for a long period of time and affected many civilizations, the Jewish people have specifically agreed, as a group, to take upon themselves the role of the scapegoat and of the victim, which led to ongoing Diaspora and to the tragic episode of the Second World War. « In the rejection of the Christ, as the Messiah, the Jewish race has remained symbolically and practically in the sign Aries, the Scapegoat « Bailey, Reappearance of the Christ, 81
If the Jewish religion was, in fact, right in its choice of refusing the Roman Catholic faith and its messiah, it has still neglected to open up its mind and heart to the new perspectives that were anchored on the earth with the Pisces Era and the successive visits of the Masters of Wisdom. When Ben Pandira, among the Adepts of his time, showed them an opening toward the Gnosis and toward a merging of the past with the present, the Jewish people chose to reject the change and to kill the one that they labelled heretical.
CALENDARS - SOLAR VS. MOON The teachings and critics promulgated in the Dead Sea Scrolls are mostly the testament of the mysterious Teacher of Righteousness. He might have appeared around 98 BC. “ In the age of wrath, three hundred and ninety years after (God) had given them into the hand of King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, he visited them…(Damascus Rule, col 1) Dead Sea Scrolls, The Untold Story. The Master lists repetitively the faults and flaws of the Jewish priesthood and insists on the necessity of separating from it. The Essenes were not Christian but were a community stemmed from the Jewish people who respected the Mosaic Law. They lived a very strict separation from the impure world and thought that, ”The corruption in the Temple resulted from impure association with women.” Charlesworth, 26. This detail in their doctrine removes all possibility of an association with the Jesus of the Gospels by the Essenes. The Essenes also distinguished themselves from the traditional Jewish faith and from the Jesus of the Gospels because of their decision to abandon the moon calendar commonly used in the orient and by the Jews. The Qumran community utilized a solar calendar. “The Qumran Scrolls disclose that a solar calendar, divergent from the lunar calendar of the Temple, was not fiction or some distant ideal, as many had suspected on the basis of 1 Enoch and Jubilees; It was actually followed by the Essenes.” “The Qumran covenanters did not reckon the beginning of the day from sunset, as is Jewish custom, but rather from sunrise.” CHARLESWORTH 29 and notes 277-279, S. Talmon, King Cult and Calendar in Ancient Israel : Collected Essays. Why did the members of the Qumran community decide to return to the solar calendar? Were they closer to the concept of the Solar God? Had they been influenced by the Gnosis or even by the Mithraic cult? Or were they visited by one of the Masters, ambassador of the Solar Hierarchy?
ANOTHER MESSIAH…. To perpetuate the questions…“In AD 35 or early in 36, there occurred an uprising in Samaria, led by a Samaritan Messiah. This uprising was ruthlessly suppressed and any Samaritans, including the leaders, were exterminated in the process.” Messianic Legacy, p.70
JESUS, BORN OF A VIRGIN OR OF A PROSTITUTE?Jesus was not indeed the only one born of a virgin. With time, all Messiahs, Avatars or even philosophers acquired a similar biography. “India has known a number of Avatars or Divine Messengers who incarnated by divine conception; two of them bore the name of ‘Krishna’ or ‘Krishna the Savior’. And Krishna was brought to the world by a virgin named ‘Devaki’, who was called, because of her purity, the mother of God.” Spencer Lewis, Vie Mystique de Jésus. Plato or Aristocles, born approximately in 427 BC in Athens, suppositley was born from the rape of a pure virgin named Perictione. But it is also said that he was born of a pure virgin named Perictione. It is also believed that his father had a dream in which he was urged/exhorted not to touch his wife until the birth of a child who would be conceived by God. Zoroaster, founder of Manicheism, as well as Buddha, did not escape the tradition as both were said to be the fruit of a virginal birth. In the myths or sacred tales, Pythagoras was conceived the day on which the Holy Spirit appeared to this mother. “His foster father was also informed through a vision that his wife was going to give birth to a divinely conceived son who would bless humankind.” In addition, all the women mentioned in the genealogy of Jesus written by Matthew - Tamar, Ruth, Rehab and Bathsheba, are either prostitutes or illegitimate relationships. What does it mean? It is necessary to say that, at the time of the Old Testament, the laws in effect in regard to marriage, widows, sexuality, and especially the law of ….???? often forced the women into desperate situations. Women were reduced to utilizing the law in their own way, not only to have an acceptable existence but also to protect their descendants. According to Genesis 38, Tamar, whose two first husbands died, used a subterfuge in order to have a child in the family of Judah. Under the disguise of a prostitute, she slept with her father-in-law. Rahab, the Moabite prostitute, welcomed the Israelite spies in her home and helped them in the destruction of the town of Jericho (Joshua 11). Her assistance opened the way of Israel into the promised land. Following the good advice of her mother, Ruth, daughter of Canaan, offered herself to the rich Boaz (Ruth 3 and 4) who exerted on her his right of cohabitation. Ruth and Boaz were blessed because their genes entered into history. Ruth gave birth to Obed, whose grandson was David. (Ruth 4:17). King David noticed the beauty of Bathsheba, married to Uriah the Hittite. The King seduced her in the absence of her husband and gave her a child. Then David sent Uriah to the front line in order to get rid of him. Should we question the high morality of the Davidic lineage or the curious way in which destiny organized the necessary circumstances for the birth of a messiah? In their fertility rites, the King or the High Priest had intercourse, at a specific date, with a priestess, eventually a virgin. Their offspring was considered a sacred child or an exceptional soul who would choose this peculiar way to incarnate. Was Mary a sacred prostitute who was only obeying an exhortation from Archangel Gabriel and who rejoined the Priest Zechariah in his bed? According to Gardner, ”the answer is in the Hebrew word almah wrongly translated as virgin (Virgo in Latin), thinking that this word meant virgo intacta, that is to say a woman who has never had sexual relationships. We have already said that almah simply means young woman.” GRAAL, pp. 49-50 Gardner then says that Mary and Joseph, because they were of a dynastic lineage, would have had to submit to very precise rules about marriage and sexual intercourse, in order for the child to be conceived and born at a specific date. “The spouses can only have sexual intercourse during the first two weeks of December, in order for the child to be born during the month of September of the next year.” The couple Joseph-Mary having failed, “the High Priest Ebyatar (the one called Archangel Gabriel) gave permission to Joseph to save face, giving her the authorization to give birth … on the first of March, seven years earlier than we generally believe.” As all suppositions are allowed, Mary could have also given birth, by chance, at the time of the winter solstice, in other words, for Christmas. In this case, the mistake of the spouses would have been rewarded because Jesus would have been born at the required time for a solar hero, and we would not have to accuse the emperor Constantine of changing the date of Jesus’ birth in 325. The Priests bore and perpetuated the name of the creator of their lineage. Thus, the High Priest of the lineage of Melchizedek, created by the Archangel Michael, bore the name of Michael, as mentioned/evoked in the Book of Enoch. “The Essenes gave to their religious dignitaries the names of the angels cited in the Old Testament; the Zadokite High Priest (independently of his exact name) was the Archangel Michael and the one who belonged to the Ebyatar family was the Archangel Gabriel.” Can we conclude that the traditional account of the annunciation to Mary by the Archangel Gabriel is only a metaphor for the intervention of the High Priest Gabriel in the birth? Once more, this would mean that Mary, dedicated to service in the Temple, would have been chosen to be impregnated by the Levite Gabriel. Then, when the child was conceived, it was entrusted to an older man, Joseph, who took charge of the sacred offspring.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE VIRGO THE NURTURING MOTHEROn the Zodiac in Dendera, Egypt, the
sign of the Virgo is represented by the Goddess Isis who holds an ear of
wheat in her hand. Isis and her sister, Nephthys, shed sacred tears
represented by the hieroglyph “The 19th century Masonic scholar John W. Simmons (…) pointed out that this hieroglyphic is linked with the Egyptian baptism, with the notion of shedding celestial dew on the head of the neophyte.” WASHINGTON p.183 The Great Mother or celestial Virgin Mother, being also the Sea (In French, Mother = Mere, Sea=Mer), the Primordial Waters, is the dispenser of the element water. Water is a blessing of heaven that nourishes the earth and allows, among other things, the growth of the wheat. Isis, as well as her Christian sister Mary, nourishes the divine child. They both hold the ear of wheat or corn as a sign of the abundance offered to humankind. The Mother dispenses the celestial blessings. The constellation of the Virgo is surrounded by three major stars, all three beneficial: - Arcturus or Alpha Bootes, or AlSimak in Arabic, signifies ‘the one raised on high’. It brings fame, reknown and prosperity. - Regulus, Alpha Leonis, ‘small king’ gives the idea of ambition for power and leadership. - Spica, Alpha Virginis, allows progress, promotion and fame. It symbolizes the ‘ear of wheat’ held by the Virgo, the generosity of the germinal power of nature’ as well as ‘growth, nourishment and wealth.’ WASHINGTON, p. 256 These blessings can only be manifested by the existence and intervention of the feminine power, the Great Mother. The creative power of Spirit or Father pours forth into the womb of the Mother (Materia Prima). The Mother nurtures it, makes the seeds germinate, gives birth, and then nurtures the fruit of her womb, whether that be the human race or the celestial child. This is the meaning of Isis as well as all other feminine figures, including Astarte, Inanna, and finally Mary. These immutable symbols of the tradition - the water, the wheat or corn, the bread - connected to the Mother have been utilized throughout the centuries in their Christian representations of the Mother. Therefore, Mary is indeed the successor of her illustrious sisters. In astrology, the master of the Virgo is the planet Mercury/Hermes/Thoth. Thoth is the great communicator who brought wisdom to the human race. He is the intermediary between Heaven and Earth because he initiated, through his presence on this planet, the Lineage of the Dragons and the Mystery Schools of Wisdom. Thoth holds the Caduceus, the wings of which symbolize Heaven, Spirit, and the Serpents, Matter, seeded by the Lineage of the Dragons. Mercury and then Thoth are the direct offspring of the Archangel Michael whose emanation is the Dragon who brought the Vital Fire to the Earth. Only through Mercury’s presence and the understanding of what he is, as well as the integration of his frequency, is the awakening and arousal of the Serpents along the spinal column allowed. Mercury, the element of transmutation in the alchemical process, must be associated with Isis/Mary in order for the metamorphosis to take place. Mary cannot stay a virgin because the feminine element must welcome in its womb the masculine element, the Divine Spirit, under the charming power of Mercury. As a conclusion, a note from Blavatsky: “The mother of Mercury (Budha, Thot Hermes, etc.) was Maia, the mother of Buddha (Gautama), also Maya, and the mother of Jesus, likewise Maya (illusion, for Mary is Mare, the Sea, the great illusion symbolically), yet these three characters have no connection…supposedly”. SDI,XXXII
THE MOTHER AND THE CONCEPT OF TIME In the Kabbalah, the last Sephira, the one that represents the earthly domain, is called Malkuth or Maya. Maya is the illusion, the illusion in which the human being evolves. The worst illusion imposed by life in the body is the notion of time, imprinted in the human consciousness by the energies of Saturn (Lead). In the magic of creation, the vital force that emanates from the celestial Father passes through Vulcan, then through the Sun, then it is manifested by the Taurus (Taurus constellation). The Sun visits the constellation of the Taurus during the month of May or month of Mary, the Mother. Illusion. The Mother/Mary/Maya/Isis/Ast then becomes the accomplice in the spell that is affecting the human consciousness. This explains why, ”The goddess Isis was symbol of both past and future, because she had knowledge of the secrets of time. Isis represented total consciousness, or those things which have been brought into the light of day, for contemplation by the observing mind: this probably explains why the ancient builders oriented so many of their temples to her major star Spica, at sunrise rather than at sunset.” p.168 We now understand why, “On the first day of May, the Roman flamen Volcanalis (priest of Vulcan) sacrificed to her {Maia}. This linked with the magic of the name Maius, which eventually became the fifth month of our calendar, May” p.165 The illusion of time separates the human being from the rest of the universe. He is isolated until he understands, then dissolves the spell and becomes multi-dimensional. This is the only way for true access to the domain of Spirit or Heavenly Realm. This is only possible by the intervention of Mercury, master of the Virgo (in astrology), the god of the mind and agent of the alchemical transmutation.
THE SOLAR MYTHMiTHRAS, TYPICAL EMANATION OF THE SOLAR ARCHETYPE In the cradle of Christianity and at the time of its incubation and birth, the most prominent cult was Mithraism. This tradition became a danger for the new ideology and only disappeared when its practice was forbidden in a decree imposed in 390 by the emperor Theodosius (Flavius Theodosius). After condemning Aryanism which was a Christian ideology, Theodosius prohibited the practice of all non-Christian cults throughout the empire. The masculine god Mithras represented the fire element, pure and active. He is light and heat. The god Mithra, as all androgynous divinities had a feminine counterpart, who was both his mother and his wife, and was associated with earth, water, matter and passivity. Although women were not admitted into the practice of mysteries and initiations, they could vow their bodies to the god through abstinence. (Delightful! Either virgin, prostitute or abstinent!) “Even if certain roman emperors did honor Mithras, such as Julien the apostate, Christians, having acquired a position of influence among the governing and financial powers, did their best in order to slow down the implantation of the new religion. In spite of persecutions, the cult to Mithra grew so much that Renan could write: ‘If Christianity was stopped in its growth by some mortal battle, the world would have been mithraic.’ And in fact, contrarily to the Christian religion that carried oriental concepts more similar to the foreigner and to the slaves from Asia, the cult to Mithra brought a vision of the world, a symbolism and an eschatology that were completely in conformity with the gnosis and with the primitive Indo-European mythology.” Louis Charles Prat. The origin of the Mithraic cult is uncertain. “According to Plutarch (46-after 120 CE), mithraism began among the pirates in Cilicia, the province bordering on the south-eastern coast of Asia Minor.” These pirates who, among others, submitted the town of Pompei, “offered strange rites of their own at Olympus, and celebrated there certain secret rites, among which those of Mithras continue to the present time.” ULANSEY. Plutarch’s Lives, trans. Bernadette Perrin, Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1968, vol. 5, pp 173-75). As for the pirates, they would have been influenced by the soldiers of Mithidates Eupator’s armies. In the Indo-European culture, Mitra appears in the Rig Veda or Veda of the Hymns. Mithra, whose name means contract, is presented as the one who “makes men pay their debts. This is the surname of the god Brahma. In Sanskrit, Mitra, as a common name in the masculine form, means the ‘friend’, and in the neutral, the ‘contract’, the ‘covenant’, ‘friendship’. Mitra is then the god of contracts, of order and harmony. ‘God of the spirit, he exerts the royal function, because he is the king of our world that he did not create.” PRAT. During the pre-Zoroastrian period, Mithra was also sometimes confused with Ahura-Mazda, god of the Light. In the Brahman Vedic tradition, Mitra, god of spirit, a deva, incarnates “the juridical-sacerdotal aspect of the divinity, benevolent, luminous, close to the earth and to men.” While Varuna, god of the soul, or asura/ahura, incarnates the magical, violent, terrible, dark aspect. Mithra and Varuna are both the guarantors of cosmic order but in a different manner. Because of his sense of justice and his benevolence toward humans, Mithra negotiates and proposes deals. He then represents the divinity, which establishes order through knowledge and communication, while Varuna or Varouna, imposes cosmic orders through power.
HISTORICAL PATH “In 1907, a large number of clay tablets were found in the palace archives of Boghazkoy, the capital of the ancient Hittites in the north of the Anatolian plateau. These tablets contain the first recorded mention of the name ‘mithra’ who, together with the Lord of Heaven, is invoked as the protector of a treaty between the Hatti (= Hittites) and their neighbors, the Mitanni. The date of the treaty is somewhere in the fourteenth century BC.” The Hittite Empire spread from Mesopotamia, to Syria, to Palestine. The Hittites were present from the seventeenth to the thirteenth centuries BC. They invaded Babylon in 1695 BC. In the Indus Valley (modern Pakistan), there still exist the ruins of an advanced civilization, namely, the city of Mohenjo-Dajo, dated from the third millennium BC. This latter is said to have survived until approximately 1800 BC. The Rig Veda, in which Mitra is mentioned, would have been written between 1500 and 1200 BC. The cult to Mitra or, more exactly, this denomination to the divinity, appeared simultaneously in the Indus Valley where the Aryan race was rooted, and in Mesopotamia, then in Russia and in Iran. The Persians, who appeared next to the Medes around the 9th century BC, invaded Iranian soil. The Medes having made an alliance with Babylon, the Mithraic cult was influenced by the Sumerian religion. Then Zoroaster or Zarathustra (who lived approximately 660-583 BC) received visions from Ahura-Mazda. Slowly but surely, he imposed cosmic vision. Ahura-Mazda is the supreme god, next to whom the angels and archangels appear. Zarathustra is ”the inventor of the angels and archangels.” Two of his archangels take over the roles of Mithra and Varuna, respectively Vohu Manah and Asha. Still, one of the angels bears the name Mithra. Mithra is sometimes reduced to a warrior angel, similar to an aspect of the Christian Archangel Michael. Then, at the turn of the fifth century, Mithra is ”back to his role of second major god, equal to Ahura-Mazda.” In the fourth century, He comes back strongly, under the Persian kings. Then the Greek armies penetrated the lands influenced by Mithra. The soldiers, as later the Roman armies, adopted and then imported the Mithraic cult, which was in return impacted by Greek thought. The Greeks set a Phrygian hat on the head of the god, similar to the one used by their hero Perseus. This cap of Hades makes its bearer invisible, as Perseus was when he fought the Medusa and decapitated her. During the second century BC, Apollo was associated with Mithra. During the Roman era, he ”was no more represented as the second major god, but as a secondary god, an archangel,” opposed to Arihman, the evil. He then became the ”Savior, the son of our Father, sent to earth to save humankind,” ready to be compared or replaced by the new Christian god. In the Roman iconography, Ahura-Mazda is replaced by Saturn, surrounded by Atlas and the three Parques (Ex-triple goddess Anâhitâ). ”Saturn creates his clone Jupiter (Mithra) to whom he entrusts his absolute arm, the lightning.” PRAT. Zoroaster forbade all bloody sacrifices. It is said that originally, Mithras himself refused to participate in the sacrifices, specifically in the murder of Soma/Haoma, whose blood (or juice of the plant that bears the same name) is a source of immortality. Soma is both the semen of the Bull fertilizing the earth and the milk of the sacred celestial cow. Mithra finally accepted participating in the sacrifice of Soma because, like the other gods, he wanted to know immortality. Throughout time, Soma’s myth disappeared but, if one holds to a basic interpretation, it was replaced with the sacrifice of the bull which brings immortality or resurrection.
THE CULT The Mithraic cult was closer to the primordial Tradition than the new Christian religion, as it was marked by the oriental culture. It is a purely dualistic philosophy in which two worlds are co-existent, the perfect and divine one of Spirit opposed to the realm of matter, momentarily at the mercy of the forces of darkness. There is no religious text on which one can base an analysis of this ideology. The information is deducted by the examination of the low-relieves, paintings and diverse representations of religious art disseminated on the ancient cult. In the Mazdean tradition, Ahura-Mazda is the cosmic God, out of men’s reach, represented in the human world by Mithras. This second god, the Rex Mundi, or World King, is the Sun, Sol Invictus, but also Sator, the Sower and Soter ‘the Savior’. His function is to assist two under-gods or archangels, Arhiman or Angra Maïniu and Spenta Maïniu. PRAT. The latter stayed faithful to God while Arhiman commited the sin of pride. Mithras was miraculously born on December 25th. He is the light bringer (Genitot luminis) emerging from a rock (Petra genitrix). It is sometimes said that he was born from a virgin. As soon as he was born, he held the globe in his hand (just like the child on the lap of the Virgin). With the other hand, he touched the zodiac. As as adult, he threw an arrow to a rock out of which sprang miraculous or celestial water. It is the Water that brings Life or Water of Life. He is the intermediary between Ahura-Mazda and men. In some versions of his history, the two are One or confused. During his terrestrial course, Mithra battles the evil and, in his Roman version, sacrifices the bull. When his mission is completed, he celebrates his departure for heaven with a sacred meal. The meal is partaken with the god Sol or with the initiates. The faithful probably consume the flesh and blood of the bull, as well as the flesh from other animals, and fruits. “However, if no bull was available or if the animal was too costly, one either had to be content with the flesh of other animals, or else with bread and fish as substitutes for meat, and wine for blood. ‘That bread and water were used in the mysteries by initiates of Mithras, that we know or we can get to know’, writes Justin, one of the early Church Fathers.(…) According to Tertullian, the meal in the Mithras cult was a ‘devilish imitation of the Eucharist’.”. “Justin records that on the occasion of the meal the participants used certain formulae comparable with the ritual of the Eucharist, and in this connection, mention may be made of a medieval text, published by Cumont : ‘He who will not eat of my body and drink of my blood, so that he will be made one with me and I with him, the same shall not know salvation.” These are the words attributed to the Christ and reported in the Gospel of John (6, 53), ” Verily, verily, I say unto you; Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.”
Mithraism, more of a gnosis than a religion, was welcomed by those seeking knowledge and initiation. During the Roman period, the Mithraic cult was practiced in small groups and in crypts or caves. The zodiac was often represented in the deep end or back of the cave with, at the ‘east, a cubic stone’. Before entering the sacred place, the participants would purify themselves with holy water. The members, bounded by secrecy, received seven initiations that would connect them with the seven planets. Mackenzie proposes twelve degrees then probably twelve initiations “correspondent with the signs of the zodiac”. RMC 487. An analysis of the symbols represented on the low-relieves, evidences once more the knowledge of the ancients of astronomy, solar cycles and the precession of the equinoxes. Among the adepts of the cult of Mithras, there were many soldiers. Two reasons for that: Mithras was not only a warrior but also deus invictus, the invincible god. He is also the protector. Finally, after the third initiation (Miles) through which the candidate is familiar with the energy of the planet Mars, the soldier makes vows of service and humility. As his god has accepted fighting against the forces of darkness, the initiate battles the enemy in discipline.
THE BULL During the first initiation, Corax or the Crow, the participant comes in contact with the energy of the planet Mercury. This is the reason why the crow is represented with the Caduceus, symbol of Mercury. According to the most common interpretation, the crow, normally associated with Apollo, sends a message from Apollo to Mithras, asking him to proceed to the sacrifice. The God Sol often appears next to Mithras, with whom he made a pact. But the two divinities are also confused. For instance, Mithras is Sol Invictus. However, Mercury is more than a messenger. He is also Thoth-Hermes, the master of wisdom who has brought the Emerald Tablets. He is the materialization of the principle ‘As above, so below’. The wings represent Heaven or Spirit while the Serpents incarnate matter. Through the application of the hermetic principle, the candidate practices the perfection of Self in the company of the planet Mercury and of his mind aspect. He is then capable of opening the channels of energy on both sides of the spinal column. This achievement will allow him to meet Apollo-Mithras or the Solar Soul. The sun and the moon are both represented above Mithras. It was believed that the role of the lunar goddess was to purify the semen of the bull and to make it blossom through the dew that springs out at night.
It is important to notice that although there is an Iranian/Persian legend in which a bull is put to death, “there is no evidence that the Iranian god Mithra ever had anything to do with killing a bull.” ULANSEY, 8. There is no proof that the Iranian god Mithras has anything to do with the sacrifice of a bull. Because of the circumvolutions of the history of the god, in the Iranian legend, Arhiman, the dark god or cosmic power of evil, kills the bull. Although the Mithraic cult has kept a character of secrecy and intitiation, the similarities between the Messiah Jesus and the god Mithras are obvious. Following are some details confirming the common origin of the two gods:
The cult to Mithra became so popular and spread so quickly that it became a threat for the new Christian religion. The Roman emperors adored the divinity of their choice (Apollo, Cybele, Serapis, Isis). In 307, Emperor Diocletian declared Sol Invictus/Mithra the protector of the empire and installed Mithraism as the state religion. Christianity was finally imposed by Emperor Constantine, probably as a political tool of syncretism. A number of the Mithraic traditions were incorporated into the new Christian faith, especially the birth of the Savior in a cave, the doctrine of resurrection, and the return of the Son of God at the conclusion of an apocalyptic period. Even Sunday, the day of the Sun, became holy and the day of rest in the new religion. Constantine enforced his ideas in the form of laws and councils, the most famous being the Council of Nicea (325 CE). It is still a belief that Constantine continued to use a pagan language. In any case, he kept until his death the Pontifex Maximus or Sovereign Pontiff of the Roman faith. As a conclusion to this section, we will mention that the Saint Peter Church in the Vatican is built on a site that was dedicated to Mithras, who was born out of a sacred rock/Petra/Peter.
THE INTERVENTION OF SAUL OF TARSUS The most efficient tool utilized by the invisible lodges in order to pilot in a precise direction is, without any doubt, the human ego. Saul of Tarsus or the Apostle Paul was one of the volunteers who served the Lodge and the Group Consciousness. He was one of the best promoters of the spiritual and ideological curve taken by humankind during the first two centuries. The traits of his personality, his pronounced ego, his need to take extreme positions, to impose his ideas and to be a leader, were very useful to the invisible Masters. Saul of Tarsus was at first violently opposed to the Christians whom he persecuted until his revelation of the Christ. As this event occurred after the resurrection of ‘Jesus’, Paul never had a direct contact in the flesh with his Messiah. This could explain why he does not speak about a terrestrial Jesus in his writings, but about a spiritual and resurrected Christ. “Other early Christian texts, such as the epistle to the Corinthians attributed to Clement, as well as the epistle to Barnabas, etc., reflect the same omission. In fact, there is not the slightest hint of the man Jesus to suggest that any of these writers ever knew him ‘in the flesh’.” SUN GODS, 405. Paul, who claimed to be Jewish, lived in the town of Tarsus in Silicia which was founded, according to the legend, by Perseus. It was a major center of devotion to Mithras. Interested in the religious life and philosophies, Saul of Tarsus could not have ignored the cult of Mithras and its dogmas. His way of presenting arguments for the Christ is very revealing. Paul was expecting a Messiah, but not necessarily a Christ-made-flesh. Did he recognize in one of the Messiah candidates the Savior and Reformer to which he aspired? Or was he really affected by his vision, which would have led him to follow and then to lead the new ideology that had sprouted in the group consciousness, the belief translated by the need of a new religion, the thirst to believe in a Messiah and a Redeemer? The Groups and so-called heretical sects proliferated, struggling with the necessity of carrying on the Mosaic law, the possibility of a virgin birth or the incarnation of a god. The Nazareans and the Ebonites are among the best known. The Essenes (sometimes mistaken for the Nazareans), or the Therapeuths, also assimilated into a branch of the Essenes and mentioned by Philo of Alexandria, had developed their own ideology based on the presence of the Teacher of Righteousness. Because of the Diaspora, the Jews were more and more impregnated by the philosophy of the Greeks. Paul only had to adjust himself in order to impose his concept of the divinity and of faith. He proposed his enflamed vision as well as the title of Christ. But who was his Christ? The one who probably existed in the flesh, Ben Pandira, the Teacher of Righteousness? Or even more, an Egregore that had manifested at the turn of the Fish Era? The epistles of Paul, as they were delivered to us by the manipulators of faith and by time, are again very ambiguous. The desire of the Fathers of the Church to demonstrate that the messianic prophecies had been accomplished in the character of Jesus led to many contradictions. One of the most discussed verses of the Scriptures is Chapter 15 of the Epistle to the Corinthians: “But now is Christ risen from the dead, and become the first fruits of them that slept” (21,22) If the author speaks about resurrection, this text implies a death of the flesh. Paul had also said, (I Cor 15, 3-4): “For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures; and that he was buried, and that he rose again the third day according to the scriptures.”
The important point is not then to argue about texts that are neither originals nor the Word of God, but to notice a continuity in the archetypes that haunt history and humankind’s subconscious mind. Saul of Tarsus gathered the Judaic concept of the Messiah and the theme of the sacrificed King that existed in a number of cultures. The sacrifice and the king’s blood not only appeased the gods but also fertilized the soil and the nation. This is the ideology that is expressed in the Epistle to the Corinthians. In this text, Saul of Tarsus adheres to the ideology according to which the Messiah is, by essence, the “suffering servant of God,” mentioned in the Psalms and by the prophet Isaiah (Chapter 53, 7).
PROPHETS VERSUS LEVITES
Two parallel battles have perpetuated throughout human history. One opposes human organized religion with the Occult Wisdom brought by the Dragons. Then, for about one thousand years, the Sun and the Moon have collided under the traits of Christianity and Islam. We will see later the connection between those two enduring enmities. In the context of the Old Testament, religion is represented by the Levites, while the Wise Men are the Prophets. Throughout the story, the prophets have cursed the priests. What is the meaning of this relationship?
« The Bible, from Genesis to Revelations, is but a series of historical records of the great struggle between white and black Magic, between the Adepts of the right path, the Prophets, and those of the left, the Levites, the clergy of the brutal masses. Even the students of occultism, though some of them have more archaic MSS and direct teaching to rely upon, find it difficult to draw a line of demarcation between the Sodales of the Right Path and those of the Left. The great schism that arose between the sons of the Fourth Race, as soon as the first Temples and Halls of Initiation had been erected under the guidance of the ‘Sons of God’ is allegorized in the Sons of Jacob.” SD II 211 Sod means religious Mystery. Cicero mentions the sod, as constituting a portion of the Idean Mysteries. "The members of the Priest-Colleges were called Sodales," says Dunlap, quoting Freud's "Latin Lexicon," iv. 448. Let us see who the Levites are:
Jacob has 12 sons Levi
Moses is commonly presented by the Cabbalists as the Hierophant, the Chief of the Mysteries or Sod. All the descendants of Levi are priests, Levites. Aaron was the first high Priest of Kohain Gadol. He received the privilege of offering the sacrifices to God and blessing the people. This is the specific role of his direct descendant or Kohanim/Cohen. They offer the Korbanot (Singular Korban). (Book of Numbers 3:1-4) This term that means sacrifice implies by its root this idea of ‘coming next to’ or ‘to attract next to God’. Bear in mind that in the biblical drama, Aaron is Moses’ spokesperson in front of the Pharaoh. He is also the one who incites the people to sculpt and adore a golden calf while his brother met YHWH on the fiery mountain (Montagne ardente). God of the Old Testament is certainly not the God nor the Infinite Consciousness, but at a symbolic level, we can say that Aaron offers a material representation of a god while Moses meets Spirit, manifested in the form of fire. Moses is a prophet who communicates directly with YHWH and comes back transformed, while Aaron sets himself at the level of the masses and offers to them a god that is easy to reach. The fact that the Aaronic lineage offers the sacrifices could be apprehended as an honor. But the necessity to perpetuate the sacrifice is a permanent reminder of the inability of the people and of the priest to come close to the divine (divinity) without intermediary, without sacrifice. In fact, the Kohanim bear the mark of the enduring malediction of the soul that has lost the key, while the prophet has kept a natural and magical contact with God. What are the main differences between Prophets and Levites?
THE ROLE OF THE PROPHET - To unify: the prophet is naturally connected to the Divine. He communicates with the spiritual worlds and the divinity. He is a channel and a messenger who establishes the communication between the less gifted and God. When he connects the Beings with the Divine, the prophet accomplishes a task of unification of the fabric of the group consciousness in time. A junction is created between the souls and God so that, when the time is right, the Whole and All fuses, merges in an explosion of love. - To heal and complete karmas: the gift of prophecy is in fact the capacity to circulate inter-dimensionally and to transcribe in words the vibratory essence, the result of these travels. The prophet travels freely on the timelines and explores, from his present, the probabilities of the future of planetary, political or religious situations. When he discloses the completion of a situation, the prophet triggers and participates in the closing of a time-loop. - Because of his connection with the Divine, he has the capacity to instill in his visions the point of view of the Divine in the situations that he is exploring. In such a case, he is the messenger, bringer of a warning or an advice. - Each event or series of events connected with each other by a theme/purpose corresponds to a sound or frequency. This vibratory signature engenders successive situations that are subtly connected in a space-time continuum. When those situations are resolved in harmony, the continuum tends toward Unity, then toward the Zero Point, and thus makes a circle. The most important consequence of the Prophet’s work is the healing of Karma. Karma is the result of non-comprehended situations, thus incomplete. The energies are suspended, in a state of unbalance, instability or war. When a situation is understood, integrated and completed, its trajectory comes to an end and its energy reaches a neutral point. While crossing time-space and harmonizing the present and the future, the prophet is the divine instrument of healing and of reunification. Example: The Jewish prophets Moses, Daniel, Hosea and Micah announced the fall of the kingdom of Israel and the destruction of the temple. Concept: Problem to solve - identity of a chosen people focalized around a religion, a territory and a temple. About 2700 years ago, around 772 BC, the Assyrians conquered and destroyed the North Kingdom of Israel. The Babylonians devastated Jerusalem in 586 BC. Although Jerusalem and the temple were rebuilt, the Romans demolished them again in 70 and 135 CE. Does this mean that the prophet or the energy he channeled has the capacity to destroy Jerusalem? Or is his mission, as the messenger of Heaven, directly instructed about the Divine Plan, to scream to anyone ready to listen, the effect of the belief in/of the chosen people on the universal fabric? In so doing, he proposes teamwork in space-time. If the consciousness of the group changes, the energy-weaving relative to the event in question can be re-balanced through the integration of a new comprehension, modified perspectives and feelings of love and peace. The present, tainted with a higher frequency will reach the past, modify it, and induce a new future. The prophet, in the center of the experience, is the antenna anchored in the vortex of the situation in question. He is the spiritual doctor par excellence.
PROBLEMS GENERATED BY THE PRESENCE OF THE PROPHET “The messianic hymns suggest that for a few years the members of the Qumran sect thought that the era of redemption had arrived. They believed that a new age had begun. But the reality proved to be different. Their messianic leader was slain by the Romans. Crisis erupted for the members of the Qumran sect when the events of the year 4 BCE proved to be in total contradiction to their feelings about the coming of the redemption.” The Messiah before Jesus, Israel Knohl, pp. 42-3. The prophet rides space-times. For him, they are undifferentiated. For instance, the author of the Apocalypse had a vision of the fall of the Roman Empire. However, in the context of the Oneness of the Plan (which exists out of time), it was also a vision of God’s final victory. The prophet brings his vision, his point of view (literally) without adjusting himself to the human condition. For him, as he resides close to the Divine, in the Oneness of the Cosmos, the question of time does not exist. But the ordinary tri-dimensional being who receives his message interprets it on the basis of his limited vision. This is the reason why the prophecies seem to be crossing time and to apply indiscriminately to several epochs. The eschatological and messianic prophecies have announced the ‘Kingdom of God’, therefore the apogee, the conclusion of the creation. Consequently, they are in the center of human history and of the beliefs of the group consciousness. These beliefs are imprinted in the cellular memory of human beings because, as a body, humankind stems from and is a part of the Creator or One-Consciousness.
TIME-LOOP DEFINITION From this example, we can define time as the necessary space for the development and achievement of a project/idea launched in the virgin fabric of the universe. Time = consequence of the split/explosion in the virgin space of an idea, of a concept emitted by a Consciousness/Intelligence, successively vehiculed by a frequency, a sound, an energy imprisoned in matter. The information, impressions, geometrical codes sent in the form of Light pierce the Dark Matter and the union of both (Light + Dark Matter) engenders matter. At the precise moment of the emission of a project, it is already completed. But thought/will hits a zone of non-information (Dark Matter). It is the progressive process of integration of the information/codes (creating a progressive mutation) that implies the feeling of time. A time-loop is the completed trajectory of an experience projected into the space-time of a universe X, by an individual, a Consciousness or a group. This experience is generally the manifestation of a belief, of a philosophical or historical concept. Time does not exist as such, but as the consequence of the materialization/coming into matter/densification of this energy or of this concept. An idea launched in space-time by the Creative Intelligence of a universe is immutable because the Creator is also the head of the meta-organism in which and by which it expresses Itself. But within this body, the cells are developing, and will also project out or launch creative commands at their own level. It is then the interaction of the orders/energies projected by the Creator and by the cells that will determine the meanders of a project in space-time.
Example 1: The reign of the Mother Goddess: This vibration has engendered a concept, a belief, that has materialized in the terrestrial realm by the appearance of numerous forms of cults to the Mother. Throughout the earth history, the Mother also incarnated through entities and feminine goddesses. Present in the life of men, she ruled and governed. Then she was challenged by the emergence of the masculine energy and had to be subdued, to be transformed. In the modern time, this feminine energy is returning, taking its power back in order to make peace with the masculine energy. The tension will then cease and a situation of harmony or neutrality will naturally occur. Problem posed: What is the Mother or Feminine Energy? How is this energy/frequency expressing itself as it confronts the masculine energy? How can it vibrate at its maximum power and creative efficiency? A time-loop connects all the feminine goddesses, all the emanations of this concept which have emerged throughout history. When all these sequences of the Mother’s history communicate and merge, as ‘slices of time,’ then the question or original conflict ends. On the universal fabric or weave-tool of materialization, a loop is closed. Example 2: A situation of conflict was started in antiquity with a declaration attributed to Abraham’s God, “the God of Abraham.” Genesis 21, 12-13: “And God says unto Abraham: In all that Sarah hath said unto thee, hearken unto her voice; for in Isaac shall thy seed be called. And also of the son of the bondwoman will I make a nation, because he is thy seed.” Problem set : Is there a legitimate lineage and a secondary one engendered by a slave? Are the power and dignity of Being only offered to the one recognized by an all-powerful God? Or is the expression or definition of God the consequence of a personal feeling of power or lack or power? This conflict between two brothers is an antecedent to a second rivalty, that which erupted between Muslims and Christians (offspring of the Hebrew people or of the religious concept on which the Old Testament is based). These two groups have continually fought for centuries for supremacy and control of the western lands. On the basis of this drama, on a rivalry of blood and power (legitimate heir or the son of the slave, the Self with respect to God), ideologies have been built leading to religious and influence wars, to the crusades, the Jihad and present international challenges. Within a global context, all these events are connected and will be completed when the original concept that triggered them is solved.
THE ROLE OF THE LEVITE IN ORGANIZED RELIGION The prophet, or natural bridge toward God, is never absent but often is rejected by human beings because his identity and message are disrupting. The human, being unable to live without a relationship with his Creator, fabricated a system, a substitute that gives him the illusion of communicating with God. This system is religion, constructed on human beliefs, codes and laws imposed by the will of a small group. Ecclesiastical authorities or priests are not gifted with innate powers; they are educated. The priest is brought into a system that distributes honors according to a human code instead of respecting and listening to the Blood and to Spirit’s gifts. Religions have acquired their power by using force - Through the fabrication of dogmas and myths that have anchored an illusion - By usurping authority that only belongs to Spirit. In the modern battle for supremacy, there is no difference between the Christian and the Islamic religions because the Church as well as Mohhamed and his followers have used arms and bloodshed to embed their power. The priests and officials of these religions have created a time matrix that is doomed to failure because it was built outside of the Divine Plan or Divine Matrix. Until the sixth century, the Merovingian descendants of the Dragons ruled according to the ancient occult principles. In spite of their errors, they assumed a role that was in harmony with the Plan. This is the reason why they were supposed to reign by divine right as they held the function of bridge between Heaven and Earth. King Clovis (?466-511), son of Childeric, was one of the most famous Frank kings. He originated a very important turn in history. He publicly and officially denied his origin and consolidated the power of a human religion. At the end of his life, in the context of a difficult battle against the Alamans during which his army was threatened, Clovis agreed to turn to Jesus Christ and implored his help to win the battle. When the enemy turned away, Clovis embraced the Christian faith, finally fulfilling the desire of his wife, Queen Clotilde. Clovis’ baptism took place in Reims. Saint Remi, archbishop in Reims, would have pronounced the following words: “Bow your head, Sicambre, adore what you have burnt and burn what you have adored.” If the Merovingian kings were the Dragons’ heirs, they were also stuck in the darkness of human drama and, therefore, thirsty for power and violence. Far from behaving like Masters of wisdom and compassion, they adopted the level of consciousness of their time. When one knows that Clovis, while embracing the Christian faith, also ensured himself an empire, his religious motivations become derisory or even pure legend.
Does this mean that: - The stories afferent to the Merovingian dynasty are purely mythical? - History was embellished in order to flatter the ego of a people? - The Infinite Consciousness permeates the heart of human beings and utilizes their inner conflicts in order to anchor Its Purpose? - The enfoldment of the Plan involving human beings is affected by their level of consciousness and, thus, God lets go in order for the experience to be complete?
THE MESSIAH AND DANIEL’S PROPHECIES Messianism is the foundation of the biblical tradition. Although the term Messiah is not utilized, this theme is already evident in the narration of Genesis. After the sin of Adam and Eve, God said: “… According to common exoterical interpretation of this verse, since the dawn of mankind, Satan’s lineage and the woman’s descent take positions for their long battle. The woman will bring the Savior and Redeemer. Because of the change of Era, the first century was naturally a messianic time. Thus, the group consciousness, the masses, intuitively felt the energies and reacted by the instinctual search for a messianic figure. Under the Roman yoke, the Jewish people had not only lost their power but were slowly losing their identity. The people were impatiently waiting for a Messiah who would free them and fulfill the prophecies. But most of the Jewish churches, as well as the Qumran community, were still faithful to the law imposed by Yahweh. This is evidenced by Paul’s and John’s words to the Churches of God. “Philo of Alexandria said that it was the symbolic inner meaning of the law that was important. On the other hand, he also insisted that the literal observance should not for that reason be abandoned.” : ALVAR JESUS 100, P 23). The Messiah being the one who accomplishes the law, making it obsolete, this demonstrates that the Jews recognized neither Jesus nor another teacher as the promised Messiah. Interestingly enough, the situation of the Jewish people has not evolved at all - no messiah and still no kingdom. At the moment the author writes this page, the Jewish community has to abandon the symbolic territory of Gaza. As we come close to the end of our known system of living and to the implementation of God’s Kingdom, this proves that the physical land of Palestine is not the Holy Land. The Kingdom connected by the Divine Plan goes beyond the third dimension and the New Jerusalem is a Spiritual Jerusalem, existing and impacting the Earth from the level of Spirit. The term Messiah (Mashiach) comes from the verb “mashach,” meaning to be anointed. The anointment is applied to a being or a space, e.g., a temple. The kings of Israel, Saul, David, the Persian king Cyrus, the priests, were all anointed before starting their terrestrial missions. The expression the “Prince Messiah” utilized by the prophet Daniel is the same as the one used for David, founder of the lineage. According to the Jewish tradition, two Messiahs were announced in the Scriptures, the suffering Messiah (Mashiach Ben Joseph who introduces himself humbly on an ass) and the last Messiah, triumphant Mashiach Ben David. In his vision and prophecies, Daniel came close to the future Messiah who comes from Heaven and whose reign and domination are eternal: “I saw in the night visions, and behold one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages, should serve him. His dominion is everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.” Daniel 7, 13-14 The messianic tradition thus comes from a lineage, but merges, then finds its Essence and synthesis in the Prince Messiah, who completes the Divine Plan at the time fixed/scheduled by the calendar. Daniel had a vision of the Prince Messiah because he belongs to this mysterious and occult family who anchors and protects the Royal Lineage and the Divine Plan. He was a true prophet directly linked to the Celestial Prince with whom he communicated. He is the Messiah’s friend and servant and thus naturally announces his coming. The Prince, when he comes, will start again and utilize his relationship with Daniel in order to complete the time-loop inaugurated by the prophets, leading to the establishment of his Kingdom.
JESUS AND THE LINEAGE – CONCLUSION In the third dimension, human beings have difficulty following and comprehending the divine purpose because their vision is limited to the material world. Whereas, for the one whose vision extends beyond the human limits, the prophecies, the movements of the stars as symbolized by astrology, the political and geopolitical events, the dance of history, all can be explained with very simple, organized and inexorable logic. The authors whose brains and reasoning have been trained to function only in the third dimension cannot reach accurate conclusions because they have closed the access way to the inner planes. All makes sense, precisely and in harmony, as soon as one crosses from one world to the other. “The Egyptian priests had three ways to express their thoughts. The first was clear and simple, the second, symbolic and figurative, the third, sacred and hieroglyphic” Similarly, each person interprets and experiences life according to one’s level of consciousness and multi-dimensional capabilities. A developed level of consciousness implies access to worlds and dimensions that are inaccessible to the masses. - Physical world: the average man only lives at the purely physical level. However, even in this purely physical reality, two realities coexist: the visible one - the illusion that most humans buy as true, and the invisible one - the hidden face of all things, the political lies for instance; in one word, the subconscious reality. - Invisibles planes: the terrestrial world is in fact run from the inner planes by a hierarchy of beings and races imperceptible to the common human senses: ET races, Spiritual Consciousnesses (among which are angels, archangels and Masters who have passed the stage of incarnation). - Divine planes: these realities, having to do with the heart/mind from which God manifests his purpose, are only accessible to the one who has passed the stage of the ego and have proved through his behavior his indefectible and natural attachment to the Divine Plan. The dimensions on which are anchored the divine programs and projects are willingly protected and hidden to all those who are not a part of the projects’ implementation team. Once again, two realities have always co-existed, the illusive physical plane and the spiritual plane, inaccessible to most people and from which all commands are issued. The true mystery schools and the esoteric church are invisible and accessible only to a small portion of the population. As opposed to the exoteric lodges and churches which exist for the intellectual and emotional comfort of humankind. At the turn of the Pisces Era, twelve Masters incarnated, all directly overshadowed by their Creator or Father, the Solar Archangel, Michael. These Masters were the twelve apects of the Monad that was intuited and represented in the Jesus allegory. They lived in Tibet, India, China, Egypt, Peru and Africa. One of them crossed the Mediterranean basin and probably visited the desert community. Because of their kinship with the Archangel, these Masters have crossed into and participated in human history. At the dawn of the Pisces, because of their level of frequency, they played the role of terrestrial receptors and channels for the Christ Consciousness. It is their story that one can find disseminated in the sacred manuscripts of the temples. Their common story constitutes what it called”The Secret Life of Jesus.” One of thesecharacters is known under the name of Saint Issa. This author never tries to receive information, including names, as words and denominations are human illusions and a trap. But while reading Nicolas Notovitch’s book in the Paris subway, she recognized in her heart the Master who incarnated in Tibet. As her whole body shivered, with goose bumps, the subway abruptly stopped because of a power outage. As she was smiling at this coincidence, she raised her head and saw the name of the next station on the wall: Saint Michel/Michael…
ABOUT THE LINEAGE The true lineage is the Esoteric, hidden one. It has been protected from the assaults of the dark human lodge by its silence. (The invisible Dark Lodge knows the developments of the Divine Plan because it participates consciously in it.) At the start of the Fish Era, the focus of human beings was directed toward individuals who made enough noise and miracles to trigger the attention of the faithful and of the authorities. The Royal Lineage is the Lineage of the Dragons and, consequently, of the Serpents of Wisdom. It is easy to grasp that if the Jesus myth was built on a composite character, there is no physical lineage. The only possible one would be Ben Pandira’s descendant, who was, according to Jewish texts, acknowledged by the Egyptian magi as an exceptional being. The Jesus of the first century, the character of the Gospels, is from the lineage of Gabriel, or the son of the High Priest Gabriel. This is what the legend of the Annunciation implies. In this case, the character of Jesus represents the House of the Levites and not the House of Judah. The Jesus of the Gospels is then a fabrication of the Levites, who represent the organized, human, non-inspired religion. If the title “Teacher of Righteousness” was the code name utilized by the Qumran community for the « prototype of the Jesus of the Christians » ALVAR 121, then he is a » priest of the Levi tribe. » IDEM An interesting note: It is said that Archangel Gabriel dictated the Koran to Mohammed. Is the battle now agitating the world between the Moon and the Cross the illustration of the last shakes of the organized religions? Are the Merovingians the descendants of Jesus? Yes, eventually of the magician and initiate who played the role of the suffering Messiah, that is to say, of the hero who served as model and screen for the occult lineage, Jesus Ben Pandira. [This was authenticated during/ by the clairvoyant reading of the author of the two genealogies proposed by Nicholas de Vere and Laurence Gardner. In both cases, the author, while reading, saw the name of Ben Pandira, next to the name Jesus, and this vision stayed on the page respectively for six months and one year. Then these words disappeared.] Spirit then invests Itself in two different ways. Spirit overshadows a physical lineage which plays an important role and is directed in its actions by the Guardians of the Divine Plan. As this lineage is incarnated in the physical world, it is submitted to imperfection. Eventually it will compromise with the Levites or organized religion. When necessary, it acts and attracts attention. But its power is temporary and limited to the physical plane and under the surveillance of the spiritual government. If the physical lineage respects Spirit, which overshadows it, it receives in some ways God’s blessings. The physical lineage of the Merovingians was overshadowed by Archangel Michael until the Revolution of 1789. As of that date, a choice was made by the group consciousness of the French nation. Although this choice was beneficial for the evolution of the French and then the European societies, it has affected the physical Royal Lineage (and the head of the King!). The Hierarchy or invisible planetary government has then reacted and utilized this choice for the growth of the group consciousness and of mankind. It was the right timing for the appearance of the character Napoleon Bonaparte. Born into a modest family of small nobility, Bonaparte could not pretend (at least officially) to belong to the Royal Blood. Although coming from nowhere, as Melchizedek did, he was launched to the highest destiny. Besides his impact on the French nation and system, his vision, philosophy, his capacities and ego, were the tools that were utilized to begin the unification of Europe, the organization of new institutions and of a common economy. This far-reaching plan has been slowly blossoming in the twenty-first century and is one of the projects that the Spiritual Hierarchy observes and leads at the present time. Although he signed a concordat with the pope, Napoleon never gave himself to that official, apostate, human religion. Not only did the Catholic Church have to cohabit with Protestantism, but also the government kept a position of authority over the ecclesiastical hierarchy. Napoleon’s role was to re-establish a country that was miserably divided, impoverished and bathed in the blood of political and religious fratricide battles. The Emperor also showed his independence when he crowned himself. In this symbolic gesture, Napoleon Bonaparte, informed of his role when he was in the Great Pyramid, affirmed his autonomy in front of the world and human religions. Although he allied himself with the human Royal Dynasty when he exhibited the Merovingian bees on his cape and when he married Marie-Louise, daughter of the Austrian emperor, he reiterated his position in front of the Levites. In direct communication with Archangel Michael, he anchored the energy and paved the way for the Occult Lineage, which he obeyed. In 2004, the Royal Lineage was reactivated for the future blessings of the Earth as well as of the human family. The Archangel Michael officially turned again his eyes and attention toward institutional governments and human politics. In 2005, the presence of the Bloodline and its victory over its rivals was anchored, and the Grail codes were dispensed on specific areas of the planet. The meta-organism from which humankind is a part, self-organizes perpetually in order to reach an increased level of consciousness and, ultimately, perfection. The choices made by humans, the cells of this immense body, are taken into account, the data processed, and a solution is brought about to continue the implementation of the Original Plan.
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE FIRST CENTURY? In the first century, the Earth lived at the turning point of two astrological eras and welcomed the new vibration of the Pisces. At each astrological cycle, the planet receives a confirmation of the primordial energy of the program, of the Divine Plan. The initial Plan moves forward, matures and clears up, while the planet and humankind perceive the Divine Will under a new angle. It is easy to recognize the impact of the astrological eras on the psyche and the religious behavior of mankind. At each change of era, human beings have disguised their gods with the attributes of the ongoing energy. During the Taurus and Ram Eras, the gods had the physical appearance of the symbolic animals of their respective constellations. Although the divinities reflect the characteristics of the ongoing era, the core theme of the Solar God and the main traits of the divinity are unchanged. In the first century, as humankind had evolved a little, we narrowly avoided getting a god that looked like a fish! But the chosen leader, recognized by the creators of the new religion, bears a fish on his head. Although especially appropriate for the Pisces era, this symbol was already present in ancient Egypt, where Horus was portrayed as ICHTHYS. According to the original plan, the human race will reach the Christ Level, a perfect equilibrium between Spirit and Matter. In order to reach this state, impulses of energy carrying the Christ Frequency (not Jesus’ frequency) have been regularly imprinted in the earth’s magnetic field. These systematic re-imprints correspond and are the consequence of the efforts and of the work achieved by the galactic meta-organism in which mankind exists. This High Consciousness progressively organizes and synthesizes the frequencies of a number of planets and constellations. These frequencies are then transmitted to the earth by Spiritual Beings who live on higher dimensions and are called the invisible Hierarchies and Lodges. At the terrestrial level, these impulses are channeled and incarnated in an individual or a group whose level of consciousness is capable of handling the energy. The birth of the Christ Matrix, representing the Son and the Sun, is the miracle that took place at the start of the Pisces Era. For the first time in earth history, the planet was ready to welcome this frequency and to place it in its memories. Humankind, however, was still not ready to take responsibility for the redemption of sins nor to comprehend that sin does not exist. Humankind still needed “Saviors.” As a consequence, the ones who were ready to play the role of saviors appeared, accepted the function, and took on the burden of the immature group consciousness. This is why the new religion could be imposed. The mysteries and the Gnosis still existed, but mostly survived in a decadent form. Mankind still had to sink into ignorance and darkness. Currently, at the end of the Pisces Era, the group consciousness has evolved to the point that a small number are now aware of spiritual and karmic responsibilities. This group does not need a ‘“Savior” and an awakening is on its way. As soon as a large enough number of humans emerge and make themselves known, ready to reject the myth of the unique and universal savior that was imposed/offered, the average consciousness of the earth will make a leap.
THE NAME JESUS Jesus, Yeshua in Hebrew, is the Son of Nun (ןונ). Nun (נ) is also the fourteenth letter of the alphabet, linked to the astrological sign of Scorpio, the latter being on the same energy axis as the sign of the Virgo. The Scorpio energy triggers a transmutation and later a rebirth; this is what happened two thousand years ago. Some writers have concluded that the biblical character of Joshua, who led the Hebraic nation after Moses’ death, is one of the incarnations of Jesus. They use the text according to which Joshua was a ‘perfect man whose name is stem. Where he is, something will germ. He will bear royal insignes, he will seat and rule on a throne’. Joshua appears again in the Qumran Community which had a ‘manuscript of Psalms from Joshua.’ COQUET 177.
“The term of germ is found in certain fragments of the Essene scrolls of Qumram. Read that: This is the covenant of the kingdom and the thousands of Israel.(…) until the coming of the messiah of justice, the stem of David.” The expressions stem, root, offspring are often utilized in the Old Testament. They emphasize the core theme of Sacred Lineage, common to all spiritual traditions. It is also the reflection of the need for descendants, so precious for a human being, shrunk in the physical shell and in search of a sign of immortality.
It is much more reasonable to look for an explanation for the name of Jesus in the characteristics of the Archetype that he represents, which has been crossing human history. “Among other philological fallacies is the current assumption that the Greek name of Іγσοσ was derived from the Hebrew Jehoshua.”MASSEY 15
“Iu” or “Ie” in Egyptian means the Coming One, the duplicator who is of a plural nature.{…} Iu-Hem-Hept, the second Atum, called the Son, the Word, or Logos of God, the Father, was the Coming One. The Hebrew Iaho, the Phoenician, Chaldean, and Gnostic Iαω, the British Iàu, Manx Ie, Delphian Apollo, designated Ie, were forms of this Iu; the ever-coming one, who was personified as the divine child, that is the Su, whence Iusu (Greek, Jesus) is the coming child. Jehoshua and Jesus are two names derived on two different lines from one original root, and the name has to be determined by the nature of the type. The Kamite Iu and Chaldean Iαω-heptakis, gods of the Seven Rays of Lights, were continued as the АΩ, who is Jesus in the book of Revelation.” MAssey 15-16
“…these things says the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God.” Apocalypse 3, 14 “I Am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was and which is to come, the Almighty.” Apocalypse 1, 8. The symbol АΩ, in a composite and associative form, is the union of the Alpha and the Omega. It represents the manifestation and the trajectory followed by the projection of the divine plan in the universal fabric. The Infinite Consciousness exteriorized itself under the form of a trinity (Triangle) of Seven luminous Rays and Seven Creators 3 + 7 = 10, as symbolized by the ten sephiroth of the Tree of Life. The Creation, the Life, was manifested under the form of coded light and sounds. When all the sounds, all the vowels, merge and unite, they become the AMEN. Amen is, of course, to be connected with the Egyptian god Amon or Amun. “The word Amon is broken down to Am-On, two ancient words that mean sun.” Suns of God. The number ten represents the sum or totality of manifestation. The number One, the initiator, the Aleph of the Hebrew alphabet is also the A or introduction of the Amen. “Amen in Revelation is the title of the God ΑΩ, and in Egyptian, both Amen and Iu mean ‘come’ ‘to come’ and ‘the coming one’. Iu was originally written aa and the pyramid or Triangle is aa by name.” MASSEY 16 Ten is also the numerical value of the Hebraic Yod, the letter that initiates the tetragrammaton YHWH. 10 is symbolized by the Tetraktys : God (1) intiates duality (2), thus induces the trinity (3), the latter allowing the material creation (4) – 1 + 2 + 3 +4 = 10, completed manifestation. Jesus is Iesous, Iu, because he is the manifestation of God and of the Creation. The true Jesus is not limited to a character who would have crossed Palestine two thousand years ago, but is a lineage of Masters, the essence of the Solar Monad, materialized, incarnated under many forms at the crucial times for mankind. This is the principle of incarnation of the Avatar, whose Hindu name is Vishnu: “Vishnu is the divine spirit, as an abstract principle, and also as the Preserver and Generator, or giver of life – the third person of the Trimurti (Brahma, Siva, Vishnu). Vishnu is shown under the form of a fish. The theological meaning {of the word fish} is phallic but the metaphysical is divine. Jesus is called ‘the fish’ and so were Vishnu and Bacchus: IH∑, the Savior of Mankind , being but the monogram of the god Bacchus called IxθΥΣ, the fish.” SD II 313
THE WAITING – THE AVATAR CODE Human beings, in synchronicity with the cosmic meta-organism, perceive the existence of cycles and eventually the end of the present cycle. Not only is the belief in a Divine Kingdom and in Messianic Times deeply rooted in human memories, but the passage to the third millenium and the awaiting of the Aquarius Era have moved the consciousnesses. Moreover, the cosmic and planetary vibrations that have bathed the earth during the last three years have triggered the awareness of the possibility of the “end of Times” or end of Time (= end of a time dimension), as well as the advent of a Divine Being whose mission is to introduce an era of peace. This interpretation of the internal movements of our Galaxy is not limited to the Christians or the Jews. In all religions, the coming of the Son of God or direct, in-the-flesh representation of the Divinity, mark the achievement of the time given by God to men for their playtime in matter. THE MESSIAH In each tradition, the attributes of the Messiah are colored by the beliefs of the group. The Hindus call him the Avatar from the Sanscrit word, Avatara, which means descent and which translates as the incarnation of a Celestial Being. In the Vedic philosophy, the three major gods form a Trimuti: Brahma the Creator, Vishnu the Preserver, and Shiva the Destroyer. The Trimurti succeeds to an energy trio, Agni, Vayu and Surya, who represent logically the three primordial fires: Agni, terrestrial fire, or heat Vayu, the wind, the atmosphere or electrical fire Surya, the Sun or pure light There are ten Avatars of Vishnu who incarnate whenever the universal balance is in danger, because of the proliferation of evil. Vishnu has incarnated under the form of a fish, a turtle, and a boar. As Narasimha, he appeared half-man, half-lion. He then disguised himself as a dwarf named Vamana. Under the traits of Parasurama, a Brahmin priest, he was armed with an axe that was offered to him by Shiva. The purpose of his incarnation was to demonstrate the superiority of the Brahmins over the Ksatriyas (the second cast after the Brahmins, the kings and the warriors. According to the Jainists, however, they are supposed to be only farmers and protectors of the cows.) It is said that Gautama Buddha was a Ksatriya. As Jesus was a Levite? The incarnation of Vishnu under the form of Rama is especially interesting because of the similarity of his path with another famous character. Rama, whose story is found in the Ramayana, is the incarnation of the perfect human. He is the perfect son, the ideal king, father and husband. He fights against the demon Ravan who kidnapped this wife. After freeing her, he reigns in perfection for a thousand years. Under the personality of Krishna, the Avatar instructs his disciple and transmits the Bhagavad-Gita. Central character of the Mahabharata, which describes the battle between two families confronted with human vicissitudes of war, love and politics, Krishna behaves like a Don Juan. Vishnu appears then under the traits of Balarama. The future and last Avatar is the Kalki, who has to incarnate at the end of the Kali Yuga (the present cycle) armed with a flaming sword and on a white horse. It is said that he will destroy this world in order to bring the Golden Age. According to the Mahabharata, Balarama and Krishna have succeeded to Rama. But after the rise of Buddhism in India, Balarama was replaced by Buddha. It is said that Gautama Buddha or shakyamuni Budha, founder of Buddhism, affirmed that he was neither God nor his messenger. Debates about his dates of birth and death are ongoing. Was he an ascetic practicing renunciation, begging for his food and devoted to studies, introspection and yoga? Or, was he an Avatar? In the oriental concept, the Avatar of the Aquarius, sometimes called the future Buddha or Maitreya, will rule over the world. He will institute a new society based on love in which death, war and diseases will have disappeared. Let us compare this text with Apocalypse 21,4 “And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying; neither shall there be any more pain, for the former things are passed away.”
SON OF MAN, SON OF GOD The core concept in Jesus’ story is the archetype of the son of God By definition, being pure Spirit, God or the Heart/Mind of the universe cannot incarnate. He/She then expresses Itself through a Son, or image, in the body of the Father or Divinity. The Son reappears regularly and under the appropriate form in order to manifest and anchor God’s Will or Divine Plan. By essence, the Son is anointed, because he is overshadowed by Spirit. This can manifest on the human plane due to special circumstances. The dove can be a sign attesting to the reality of the anointing. The Son is directly overshadowed by the Father. His vital energy is a direct manifestation of the Father. The birth of the Avatar is virginal because he does not need to undergo the human birth process in order to enter the human body. Being the direct and unique manifestation of the Father, all the Son does is an immediate reflection of the Divine Thought or Plan. All which is related to the manifestation of the Plan translates with actions, movements and thoughts in the Son’s life. The Son then receives more than the ”divine anointment bestowed to the king.” (GARDNER) It is His Essence, his unique birth, that grants him the title of Messiah and Monarch. The Monarch is not Christ by state or by spiritual achievement. The only Monarch by Divine Right cannot be merely human. Even if his body is human, his Consciousness, his soul, is one of a Celestial being. This is the character of the Avatar. The anointing of the terrestrial king is an artificial replica of the Son’s inherent overshadowing by the Father. His lineage, if true, grants him a right that was offered by the Dragons in the past, but the king is still human and has then to achieve on his own the Christ state or has to recognize his limitations.
THE SON AS CHRIST A human being reaches the Christ state when he has performed the necessary energy work in order to open his seven main chakras and to balance them in the heart chakra. In order for one to complete this process, the Kundalini Serpent (not just the Kundalini energy) must be fully raised. The balance between the three chakras that hold the energies of matter and the three centers that hold the frequencies of Spirit is the signature of a being in firmt equilibrium between Heaven and Earth. The Avatar, whose Consciousness seats in Spirit and whose Body momentarily experiences matter, is the perfect incarnated picture of the Christ State. The arousal of the Kundalini and the complete development of the chakras imply the concomitant construction of the body of light,i.e. of a distinctive energy structure as well as of a specific vibration of the personal magnetic field. The chakras have become multi-dimensional doorways that open on spacio-temporal corridors and allow a multi-level and conscious communication with the universe. Therefore, the one who has reached such a state can claim the ability to channel the Father’s energies for the benefit of the group and the human meta- organism. This is the goal that is offered to mankind. But, still, in each meta-organism or ‘universe, there can be only one elder son, or direct creation, who himself will engender a family (humankind, for instance) on the basis of this blood and codes. This is the first born, symbolized in all traditions as the eternal prototype that incarnates and comes back regularly so as to anchor a new step/cycle/state of the Divine Plan.
THE SUN AND THE RAYS The three major rays - the red, blue and yellow, correspond to the three numbers - one, two and three. The One is the Father, the two is the Son, and three is the Active Principle or Holy Spirit; or Father, Mother and Son. These three rays also embody the three major divine aspects of Will/Power, Love/Wisdom and Active Knowledge. The organization and materialization of the first three numbers transcribe the universal concept of the Trinity, translated with slight differences in all mythological and religious systems. In the Vedic tradition, for instance, Brahma is the Father, Vishnu is the Preserver and Shiva, the Destroyer. The archetype Jesus represents the Preserver aspect, the universal love or cohesion principle. Its opposite is the destructive agent that brings separation, Lucifer. This concept does not take into account the quality Mother because BEFORE the decision to create, the mother is One, co-existing with the Father. The Universal Consciousness encompasses, in its latent state, the two polarities masculine and feminine. As soon as the act of creation is engaged, the Father and the Mother start temporarily an individual experience (for as long as time exists). Henceforth, the Mother lives next to her Son and escorts him in his mission, which is to incarnate and manifest the Father’s Will.
THE CHRIST STATE ALLOWS RECEPTION OF THE GRAIL CODES In the story of the Gospels, Jesus is acknowledged with the appearance of the dove. “And Jesus, when he was baptized, (…) the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the spirit of God descending like a dove and lighting upon him. And lo, a voice from heaven saying, ‘This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.’” Mathew 4, 16-17. Compared to direct anointment by Spirit descending from heaven, the holy oil utilized by the priests becomes derisory. When one reaches the Christic state, one is anointed by Spirit, which can manifest on the individual’s magnetic field/body as a radiant six-pointed star set on the Ajna. Then, when the initiate receives the celestial Grail, (see Chapter…), he is anointed again by Spirit. The Spirit of God enters the crown chakra and prepares him for a new existence out of the human twelve-dimensional universe.
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