The Real Historical Jesus Part 1

The Real Historical Jesus Part 1
From Where Were You Before the Tree of Life? Vol 1
By Peter Farley www.4truthseekers.org

What is important to understand here is that both the Romans and the
Jews were waiting for the return of the space-gods of legend, much as
some are waiting for the return of Christ around the beginning of this
new millennium. Both groups were preparing societies, land, and temples
to be the site of the arrival. The Romans rebuilt the Temple of Zeus at
Baalbek as a landing place and called it the Temple of Jupiter. They
removed obelisks from Egypt in 30 BC, and set them up all over Rome to
draw in the energies of the gods, and then dominated all of the Middle
East around Israel by conquering the whole system that Alexander the
Great had once set up. And, though it might seem that this was an
end-of-the-millennium thing, neither the Roman nor the Jewish calendar
of the time reflected the end of a millennium.

As a priest of Jupiter, Julius Caesar claimed lineage from the gods,
and he declared that the Hebrew Calendar, which began in 3760 BC had
come to an end. Once he had attained control of Rome, Caesar abolished
the lunar-based Etruscan calendar, and he set up the solar-based Julian
calendar in 45 BC, announcing that the new 'chosen' people were the
Romans. Both were surprised by the birth of 'a savior' in the year
7 BC.

The Palestine of the time had three provinces-Galilee and Judea, with
Samaria in between. Herod was appointed King of Judea. There were heavy
taxes, crucifixion, torture, and a high rate of Jewish suicide. The
Jews were desperate for their Messiah-but there was no thought of
this messiah being divine.

Plans for the ultimate battle against Rome with the Messiah in command
have been found among the Dead Sea Scrolls. And, as such, Palestine was
an occupied country, ruled by a puppet monarchy backed by a highly
organized and ruthless military occupational force. An underground
guerrilla movement was heavily involved in fighting the oppressors. The
messiah many of them expected would be a military leader to lead this
ultimate battle plan. Armageddon was to take place at Megiddo as a war
between the "Children of Light and the Sons of Darkness"-the
Jewish righteous underground led by the messiah, against the legions of
Rome. What the people wanted was a forceful liberator to secure their
freedom from the Roman overlords.
For Jesus contemporaries no Messiah would ever have been regarded as
divine-Christ is Greek for 'the anointed one' as in the anointing
of a king. David was the Messiah and the Christ, and every subsequent
Jewish king of the House of David was known by the same appellation.

The Essene Branch
Much as many would like to deny or suppress it, Jesus was born and
raised an Essene. Therefore, it will be necessary for us now to take a
look at the Essenes in order to better understand Jesus' background
and his upbringing.

The Essenes were a Jewish religious brotherhood, one of three main
philosophical Jewish sects of the time, the other two being the
Pharisees and the Sadducees. The Sadducees were the small group of
wealthy land-owners who collaborated with the Romans. The Pharisees
were a progressive group who introduced much reform and were passively
opposed to Rome. The Essenes are striking in the absence of their
mention from the Bible for they were as influential and as important as
the Sadducees and the Pharisees. They repudiated conventional Judaism
in favor of a form of Gnostic dualism, and were the most esteemed
healers in the Holy Land at the time. The biblical character, Samson,
who would not cut his hair, was a Nazarite Essene. The word Essene
comes from the Greek 'essenoi' meaning something secret or
mystic-in the healing arts as well.

They were organized on a communal basis and practiced strict
asceticism. The order existed in Palestine and Syria from the 2nd
century BC to the 2nd century AD. Its chief settlements were on the
shores of the Dead Sea. The Essenes are not mentioned in the Bible and
neither are they mentioned in rabbinical literature. For a great period
of time, the information had regarding them came largely confined to
the writings of Philo Judaeus, a Hellenistic Jewish scholar and
philosopher of Alexandria; the Roman historian Pliny the Elder; and the
Jewish historian Flavius Josephus, whose first hand account spoke of
the Essenes' art of healing and knowledge of medicine, said to have
come from the ancients.

Their fundamental teachings were love of God, love of virtue, and love
of one's fellow humans. Their fundamental belief was that the
universe contained the two cardinal spirits of Light and Darkness.
'Light' represented truth and righteousness, and 'Darkness'
depicted perversion and evil. The balance of one against the other in
the cosmos was settled by celestial movement, and people were
individually apportioned with degrees of each spirit as defined by
their planetary circumstances of birth. Significantly, this cosmic
battle between light and darkness was thus perpetuated within humankind
and between one person and another; some containing, as we have learned
from the story of Enjliou and Callia's dysfunctional Creation,
proportionally more Light, others proportionally less Light. By
tradition, the Spirit of Darkness was identified with Belial
(worthless); whose children worshipped other gods than Jehovah.

The Spirit of Light was symbolized by the seven-branched candlestick,
the Menorah. In the time of the Davidic kings, the Zadokite priest was
considered the foremost proponent of the Light.
Gnosticism itself is often thought to have stemmed from the Essene
tradition because of the similarity. The basic Gnostic belief was that
there are two principles: that of good and that of evil. A balance must
be struck between these forces; and the balance is in the hands of the
Gnostic-the Knower-partly because nobody else can tell whether an
action is for the eventual good of the individual or the community.
This secret knowledge comes through the mystical insight which the
Gnostics attained.

Important features of the Essene community were the communal sharing of
property, distributed according to need; strict observance of the
Sabbath; and scrupulous cleanliness, which involved washing in cold
water and wearing white garments. Prohibited were swearing, taking
oaths (other than oaths of membership in the Essenian order), animal
sacrifice, the making of weapons, and participation in trade or
commerce. The order drew its recruits either from children it had
adopted or from the ranks of those who had renounced material things. A
probation of three years was required before the novice could take the
oath of full membership, which demanded complete obedience and secrecy.
Breaking the oath was punishable by expulsion. Because of the
continuance of the binding requirement that no food should be eaten
that was ceremonially unclean, this penalty was often equivalent to
death by starvation. As a society, the Essenes were the first to
condemn slavery as a violation of human fellowship. It is reported that
they bought and freed slaves owned by others. The Essenes lived in
small communities of their own. Their industries were farming and
handicrafts.

After 1947 new light was thrown upon the Essenes by the Dead Sea
Scrolls found at Khirbat Qumrân, the site of an Essene community until
the 1st century AD. Among the scrolls is a Manual of Discipline which
can be associated with the Essene pattern of life as known from Greek
and Latin sources. Among the ancient books found at Qumran are some of
the oldest writings ever found-pre-dating anything from which the
traditional Bible was translated.

Of particular interest are certain Biblical commentaries compiled by
the Scribes in such a way as to relate the Old Testament texts to the
historical events of their own time. The technique applied to link the
Old Testament writings with the New Testament era was based on the use
of 'eschatological knowledge', a form of coded representation that
used traditional words and passages to which were attributed special
meanings relevant to contemporary understanding. These meanings were
only meant to be understood by those who knew the code.

The use of coded radio broadcasts to send messages to the French
Resistance in Occupied France during World War II is a similar idea. In
this case, the Essene Scribes used messages with "dual layers of
meaning"-an evangelical meaning on the surface, and the political
information beneath-so that their Roman oppressors would not
understand. Much of the translation of this coded system was initially
conducted by Barbara Thiering at Sydney University from about 1967 on.
It is described in her book, Jesus, the Man, as well as in Laurence
Gardner's Bloodline of the Holy Grail.

The Essenes were trained in the use of this allegorical code which
occurs in the Gospel texts in particular relation to those parables
heralded by the words 'for those who have the ears to hear,'
signifying a message for those initiates who needed to know and who
understood the code. On a higher level though, it also refers to those
who could ascend dimensionally in order to be able to receive the
wisdom of the sound-encoded words and messages in such texts as the
Emerald Tablets of Thoth.

The codeword for Rome was "Babylon," while the phrase 'the Word
of God' is said to have signified Jesus. This symbolism remained
fairly constant -as in the case of Jesus himself, and established
from the very outset in the Gospel of John:

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God . . . And
the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory.
(John 1:1, 14)

Whenever the phrase 'the Word of God' is used (with or without a
capital "W"), it meant that Jesus was either present or was the
subject of the narrative-as in Luke 5:1 when 'the Word of God'
stood by the lake. Other such code words and their meanings necessary
for us to understand here are:

'the lion' which stands for the Roman Emperor,
'The Way' was the doctrinal theme of the Essene community,
'Children of Light' were those who followed the Way,
'The many' was the head of the community,
'The poor' were those initiated into higher echelons of the
community,
'the crowd' was the regional governor,
'the multitude' was the governing council.
'the Children' were the novices in the Essene sect,
'lepers' were those who were uninitiated,
'the blind' were people not party to the Way,
'healing the blind or a leper ' meant converting them,
'raised from the dead' meant released from excommunication,
'the unclean' were uncircumcised gentiles,
'the sick' were those in public or clerical disgrace,

Clouds, sheep, fishes, loaves, ravens, doves, and camels all had
similar coded meanings. A fisher of men then becomes a leader, much as
were the Fisher Kings of Grail lore later on.

Today we have the same type of situation using slang meanings for
countless words such as screws, fences, sharks, angels, bulls, bears,
and stars, and none of them would be taken literally in the context of
its slang usage. Some of these coded words were actually titles: The
doctrine of the Essene community was "the Light," represented by a
triarchy. The Priest, the King, and the Prophet became then 'the
Power', 'the Kingdom', and 'the Glory'. In the clerical
patriarchy, 'the Father' was supreme; his two immediate deputies
were designated as his 'Son' and his 'Spirit'.

Within the Essene community in Qumran, there was strict observance of
ritual and tradition. The symbolic representative of the Spirit of
Darkness in the community was the Chief of Scribes whose role was to
provide a formal opposition within the hierarchical structure, and to
test the initiates. He held the Hebrew title 'Satan' (Accuser), the
equivalent of which in Greek is 'diabolos' (Aggressor), commonly
called 'devil.' This led to the idea of the Devil's Advocate who
probed the background of potential candidates for canonization in the
Roman Catholic Church. Satan the opposer is, of course, based on
Lucifer.

It was within this strict observance of traditional Essene roles and
the secrecy surrounding their community that Jesus was born in 7 BC,
not in the year 0 as is commonly believed. It is also with the violent
and rebellious times of political and religious oppression that he was
born also-a ready solution to an old problem.

Jesus
Much like Quetzalcoatl, Moses, and many of the other historical figures
we have studied so far, there is Jesus the man, and there is also Jesus
the legend. It is a historical fact that in the two thousand years
since his birth, the truth surrounding his birth, his life, and his
death, has been edited, enhanced, censored and fabricated by its
promoters. At various councils in succeeding centuries, the Bible was
edited and knocked into shape according to the views of bishops and
monarchs -especially the Roman Emperor Constantine, one of the
institution-builders of the Roman Catholic Church. That process of
creative interpretation and manipulation still goes on today. The Roman
Catholic Church and the Vatican are heavily invested in keeping certain
information from the public, and so have been at the forefront of
archeological digs that may turn up information embarrassing to their
position and their role. This has been especially true of the Dead Sea
Scrolls, where it has taken almost 50 years for realistic
interpretations of some of the scrolls to be released. That
Vatican-controlled researchers were in charge of the process says
enough. Jesus' very connection with the Essenes and to Qumran has
been totally eradicated from the Bible-the absence of such a major
influence being suspicious in and of itself.
In one of the few passages written by Pliny the Younger (62-113 CE)
that mentions the word Christians, it is believed that the word had
been changed from 'Essenes' who Pliny wrote about often.
St. Augustine (354-430), admitted, "I should not believe in the truth
of the Gospels unless the authority of the Catholic Church forced me to
do so."

Also not mentioned in the Gospels is any word about the Zealots (the
Jewish resistance movement of the time), one researcher suggesting that
this fact must surely be indicative of a relationship between Jesus and
these patriots which the Evangelists preferred not to disclose. The two
men who were crucified with Jesus are explicitly described as
lestai-the appellation by which the Zealots were known to the Romans.

According to Elaine Pagels, attributing a specific writing to a
specific apostle may also bear a symbolic meaning.

"The title of the Gospel of Mary suggests that its revelation came
from a direct, intimate communication with the Savior. The hint of an
erotic relationship between him and Mary Magdalene may indicate claims
to mystical communion; throughout history, mystics of many traditions
have chosen sexual metaphors to describe their experiences. The titles
of the Gospel of Thomas and the book of Thomas the Contender
(attributed to Jesus' "twin brother") may suggest that "you,
the reader, are Jesus' twin brother." Whoever comes to understand
these books discovers, like Thomas, that Jesus is his "twin," his
spiritual "other self" (The idea of Jesus and Lucifer as the two
different gods of duality).

Birth and Early Years
One thing that is historically evident from the information available
is that the Church has gone to great lengths to acquire and conceal or
to destroy all other records of Jesus' life that do not confirm their
own version of the story from the very earliest of times right up till
recent decades. What has been left is often the product of confusing
translations, many words from the ancient texts having had several
different meanings or denotations. It is a common practice today in
public relations that when a situation cannot be covered up, the best
solution is to flood the information available with many different and
varying opinions to 'murky the water' so to speak-to confuse the
issue so that no one knows what is right, or what is wrong.

For instance, only two of the gospels speak of Jesus' origins and
birth at all, Matthew and Luke. According to Matthew, Jesus was of
aristocratic stock, descended from David via Solomon. According to
Luke, what we get in Jesus is the poor carpenter's son. Luke says he
was visited by shepherds on his birth; Matthew, by kings. Luke says
Jesus lived in Nazareth and his parents had traveled to Bethlehem for
him to be born in a census which history says never happened.
In addition, not a few people have noticed the irreconcilability of the
December birthdate with the circumstances of the birth which could not
have taken place in the winter, with "shepherds tending their
flock," etc. ben Yehoshua relates the origins of the January 6th
date: "Originally the eastern Christians believed that [Jesus] was
born on 6 January . . . Osiris-Aion was said to be born of the virgin
Isis on the 6th January and this explains the earlier date for
Christmas."

Matthew says the family lived in Bethlehem in a house and was fairly
well-to-do, and that they had to flee to Egypt to escape Herod's
persecution, moving to Nazareth upon their return. Unfortunately, the
term 'Nazarene' was sectarian, coming from the word 'Nozrim'
-Keepers of the Covenant-referring to the Essene community. John
the Baptist and Jesus' brother James were also Nazarites. Paul was
brought up as a leader of the sect of Nazarenes. The town of Nazareth
does not appear on any of the contemporary maps, books, or texts from
that era, either Roman or Judean. St Paul does not mention Nazareth,
nor is it mentioned in the Talmud.

A version of Flavius Josephus's work in Old Russian differs from
others in that it portrays Jesus as "human," as an apolitical
revolutionary, and as a "king who did not reign." He is also said
to have had a "line in the middle of his head in the manner of the
Nazireans."

Nobody remembered what Jesus looked like. Citing Isaiah, one wing of
Christian opinion argued that he had chosen 'a mean and ugly human
form'.

The word 'Christ' comes from the Greek, Christos meaning
'King', and shall not be used in this text except where quoted.

Similarly the word for carpenter, 'naggar' could also be translated
as 'scholar' or 'teacher' -the Greek 'ho tekton' defined
them as men with skills, masters of what they did. One translation that
shall prove interesting later relates to 'a master of the craft',
as would be applied to modern Freemasonry. There is also no basis for
the birth in a stable, however, mangers were often used as substitute
sleeping arrangements inside a building.

The Gnostic scripture, The Secret Book According to John, tells the
story of Jesus birth in the higher dimensions from 'the great
invisible virgin spirit' and how this related to the entirety (Soul):
"They stood at rest and glorified the invisible spirit and the
Barbelo, for because of the Barbelo they had come to exist. And the
holy spirit perfected the divine self-originate, the offspring of
itself and the Barbelo, so as to make the offspring stand at rest
before the great invisible virgin spirit. The divine self-originate,
the anointed (Christ), who glorified the spirit with a great voice, was
shown forth by forethought. And the invisible virgin spirit established
the self-originate as true god over the entirety, and subordinated to
it (the self-originate) all authority and the truth that was in it (the
spirit), so that it might know about the entirety: which is called by a
name that is superior to every name, for that name will be uttered to
those who are worthy of it."
At Psalms 72:17, we read, "May his name endure for ever, his fame
continue as long as the sun," and at Malachi 1:11 states, "For from
the rising of the sun to its setting my name is great among the
nations."

The risen Christ explains to Peter that those who "name themselves
bishop, and also deacon, as if they had received their authority from
God, "are, in reality, "waterless canals." (Apocalypse of Peter
79.24-30, in NHL 343) Although they "do not understand mystery,"
they "boast that the mystery of truth belongs to them alone."
(ibid. 76.27-34, in NHL342.) The author accuses them of having
misinterpreted the apostle's teaching, and thus having set up "an
imitation church" in place of the true Christian "brotherhood."
(ibid. 78.31-79.10, in NHL 343)

The Nine say that Mary and Joseph had seven other male and three female
children besides Jesus, and that Mary was implanted by the Hoova
through artificial insemination. But this is not true. They admit that
Jesus was birthed from a very high dimension, and unfortunately this
means that the records of his origins are not even available to them at
their level of understanding and existence.
One thing is clear from the Qumran Scrolls is that the Community (the
Essenes at Qumran) lived in expectation of two important Messiahs. One
would be of the priestly caste, whom they called the "teacher of
Righteousness;" the other would be a prince of the line of David-a
warrior who would restore the kingdom to his people.
Jesus says: "If spirit came into being because of the body, it is a
wonder of wonders. Indeed, I am amazed at how this great wealth (the
spirit) has made its home in this poverty (body)." (Gospel of Thomas,
38.33-39.2, In NHL 121)

Peter Moon describes a meeting in one of his books with a woman named
Anna who was able to astral travel and see her past lives, as many of
us can. She remembers being a rebel astrologer in the days of the
Essenes when the group was looking for a woman to bear 'Christ',
and she was one of the candidates.

Joseph and Mary were both members of this Essene community-Joseph, a
'scholar' of the temple. This Community observed some highly
regulated disciplines in relation to dynastic betrothal and matrimony.
Therefore, once Mary became 'espoused' in contractual wedlock to
Joseph, she afterwards was referred to as his 'wife.' The original
Hebrew word, 'almah,' that has incorrectly been translated as
'virgin,' actually means 'young maiden.' The Hebrew word for
virgin is "bethulah." The Greek 'virgo' means unmarried not
virgin, unless accompanied by intacta (virgo intacta).

Mary was already Joseph's wife, so how could she be a virgin? But she
still could be a 'young maiden' going through a probationary period
of spousal during which sexual relations were forbidden by the
community's matrimonial discipline. An old monastic complex that
stood on the outskirts of the Qumran Community had among its buildings
a house where Essene children were born out of wedlock. The Community
referred to this house as 'Bethlehem of Judea' (See Barbara
Thiering Jesus the Man Ch. 9, pp 50-2). If anything, Jesus was born
before his mother had served the statutory probationary period as a
married woman of the dynastic hierarchy applicable to the Messianic
lines of King David and Zadok the Priest.
The Essenes preserved the names of the angels within their hierarchy of
the members of the priesthood within the community. Thus the Zadok
priest was termed 'archangel Michael,' and others the 'archangel
Gabriel', and so on. It was through the mediation of the priest whose
title was 'Gabriel' that the early pregnancy of Mary was accepted.
The bride was still considered an 'almah' until the ritual Second
Marriage which took place at three months time into the first
pregnancy.

Mary gave birth at the wrong time. Sunday March 1, 7 BC. The
expression "conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost' means the birth
was approved by the priest who bore the title Gabriel.
The Gospel of Philip, a text found amongst those at Nag Hammadi states,
"Some say Mary conceived by the Holy Spirit. They are wrong. They do
not know what they are saying." The Gospel of James among the same
findings says that Mary was a sacred Temple nun, therefore considered a
'holy virgin' (preparing herself for the ultimate
'hierogamous').

His parents did not call him Immanu-El ('with us is god'), but
Yehoshua (Jehovah saves). Jesus actually had three brothers and four
sisters, but he was the firstborn. The second birth, in what would have
been equivalent to 0 AD, was that of Jesus' brother James, known as
James the Just.

The Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ, which dates from no later
than the second century and possibly before-portrays Jesus as a
brilliant but eminently human child. All too human perhaps-for he is
portrayed as violent and unruly, prone to shocking displays of temper
and a rather irresponsible exercise of his powers. Indeed, on one
occasion he strikes dead another child who offends him. A similar fate
is visited upon an autocratic mentor.

One strange incident that is related in this gospel is that when Jesus
was circumcised, his foreskin is said to have been appropriated by an
unidentified old woman who preserved it in an alabaster box used for
oil of spikenard. "This is the alabaster box (from) which Mary the
sinner procured and poured forth the ointment on the head and feet of
our Lord Jesus Christ." If this is true, it seems evident here that
the anointing had been foreseen and prepared for long in advance of its
actual occurrence. And the whole incident implies a connection-albeit
an obscure and convoluted one-between the Magdalen and Jesus'
family long before Jesus embarked on his mission at the age of thirty.

The act of circumcision is all the more strange when its origins are
not made clear. Among other reasons, including purportedly serving to
make men more docile and socially acceptable, circumcision was said to
be done in imitation of the female's menstrual blood, "being
performed on boys at the age when girl's first 'bled', and even
being described among some peoples as 'man's menstruation.'
For such the essence (essene-ce) of the God that Jesus was supposed to
have been, there are so many very human things about him. Circumcision,
you see, was also meant to keep the penis clean exactly for the express
purpose of not carrying infection during intercourse.

At the age of 14, and within a year of his manhood, Jesus is supposed
to have begun a long journey in which he went to the Himalayas, and
spent a long time in Egypt, learning the ancient mysteries. It is said
that he and John the Baptist spent time together in Egypt. Some say he
even went to Japan. All we need to know and confirm here is that Jesus
DID study the ancient mystery in Egypt.

Prof. Fida Hassnain, a Kashmiri historian, in A Search for Historical
Jesus from Buddhist, Islamic and Sanskrit Sources, reports that
according to the chronicles he found from Persia, India and Tibet, and
stemming from these early days when he is supposed to have been out of
Palestine learning, that Jesus was 'a world teacher'. It is said he
became monopolized by the Christian Church, to the exclusion of all the
other faiths which had adopted "St. Issa" as a saint and a prophet.
However, none of this is true.

The Marriage
As we have said, Jesus personal life remains hidden from the normal
texts available, and is therefore a constant source of debate.
Nowhere in the Bible does it state that he was unmarried. At that time,
not only was the heir to the Davidic line obliged by law to marry, but
he was also required to sire at least two sons. The Gospel does state
that many of the disciples were married-Peter, for example. And at no
point does Jesus advocate celibacy. As he did not preach it, there is
no reason to suppose he practiced it. Celibacy was condemned and
marriage was almost mandatory. It was obligatory for a Jewish father to
find his son a wife. If celibate, it would have characterized him
greatly in the times. One of the Gospels would have mentioned it, for
it would have been so unusual as to have attracted comment and much
attention. There is no reference to any such celibacy. Jesus' role
as a rabbi would have made marriage virtually certain for Jewish
Mishnaic Law says: "An unmarried man may not be a teacher."

So if he was married, who would have been the most likely candidate?
Most advocates of Jesus having been married point to Mary Magdalen(e).
In fact, the relationship is openly discussed in The Gospel of Philip:

"And the companion of the Saviour is Mary Magdalene. But Christ loved
her more than all the disciples, and used to kiss her often on the
mouth. The rest of the disciples were offended by it and expressed
disapproval. They said unto him, Why do you love her more than all of
us? The Saviour answered and said to them, Why do I not love you like
her? . . . Great is the mystery of marriage-for without it the world
would not have existed. Now the existence of the world depends on man,
and the existence of man on marriage."
Another concept which comes out of Edgar Cayce's Readings is that we,
as individuals, are Israel and that the twelve tribes and what they
represent are all aspects of our spiritual selves. This interpretation
is one which has a dual existence alongside the factual role of the
physical or geographical Israel. Indeed, according to the Readings much
of the Bible can be interpreted either physically, mentally, or
spiritually, and often on all levels at simultaneously. This
three-dimensional theme recurs again and again throughout the Readings
as a symbolic trinity representative of the earth plane.

Magdalen is called his "companion," but this could also be
translated as 'spouse'.

The particular events as described in the Bible which help support the
fact that Jesus was married are first, the marriage feast at Cana. The
feast was not the ceremony of the marriage itself, but the sacred meal
that precedes the betrothal. The custom was for there to be a formal
host; he would be in full charge as the ruler of the feast. Secondary
authority rested only in the bridegroom and his mother -and this is
entirely relevant for, when the matter of the Communion wine arose,
Jesus' mother said to the servants (John 2:5), 'Whatsoever he saith
to you, do it'. No invited guests would have had any such right of
command. It is plain therefore that Jesus and the bridegroom were one
and the same.

It is, in fact, curious that his mother was at the wedding in Cana, and
that he was specifically "called" to it though he had not started
his ministry. The wedding is a lavish affair, very costly, but who the
bride and groom were seems to remain anonymous. Mary acts like she is
in charge. Why should two guests at the wedding take on the catering?
The statement, "The governor of the feast called the bridegroom . . .
but thou hast kept the good wine until now," seems to be directly
talking to Jesus described as the bridegroom (John 2:9-10).

Mary Magdalen was from Migdal or Migdala in Galilee. Her roles in the
events of the Bible seem deliberately obscured for some reason. She is
hardly mentioned in Mark and Matthew, except as a follower. In Luke she
appears quite early while Jesus is preaching in Galilee, and it would
seem thus that she accompanies him from Galilee to Judea. In those
times, it would have been unthinkable for an unmarried woman to travel
unaccompanied -even more so to travel unaccompanied with a religious
teacher and his entourage. Magdalen is not, at any point in the
Gospels, said to be a prostitute. She is, however, said to have
supported Jesus and his disciples with their financial resources,
indicating that she must have been fairly wealthy.

The second incident that suggests Jesus being married is the anointing
of his head at Simon's house by Mary of Bethany (Matthew 26:6-7 and
Mark 14:3)-the oil containing his foreskin appropriated by the
unidentified old woman. Not only did she anoint his head, but she also
anointed his feet, and wiped them afterwards with her hair. Two and a
half years earlier, she had performed this same ritual of foot
anointing three months after the Cana wedding feast.
This is an allusion to the ancient rite by which a royal bride prepared
her bridegroom's table. To perform the rite with spikenard was the
express privilege of a Messianic bride, and was performed solely at the
First Marriage and Second Marriage ceremonies. Only as a full wife of
Jesus, and as a priestess in her own right, could Mary have anointed
both his head and his feet with the sacred ointment.

Spikenard is the name of the fragrant, sweet-smelling ointment
compounded from the nard plant, which in those days grew only in the
Himalayan Mountains at heights of around 15,000 ft. and was extremely
expensive in those days. It is the plant that Gilgamesh finds and then
loses.

Does this mean that Mary of Bethany was his spouse?
Just as Hebrew men who were appointed to various patriarchal positions
took on names that represented their ancestors-such as Isaac, Jacob,
and Joseph-so too were the women styled according to their genealogy
and rank. Their nominal styles included Rachel, Rebecca, and Sarah.
Wives of the Zadok and David male lines held the ranks of Elisheba
(Elizabeth) and Miriam (Mary) respectively. It is also why, in
compliance with this same practice, Jesus' own wife would also have
been Mary. These women had the ceremony of their Second Marriage only
once they were three months pregnant, at which time the bride ceased to
be an almah and became a designated mother.

Sexual relations were permitted only in December: husbands and wives
lived apart for the rest of the year. At the outset of a period of
separation, the wife was classified as a widow (one rank in status
below an almah) and was required to weep for her husband. This is
described in Luke 7:38, when Mary of Bethany, on the first occasion, is
said to have 'stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash
his feet with tears'. Once the period of symbolic widowhood had been
established, and during these lengthy periods of separation, the wife
was given the conventional designation sister, just as the modern nun
might be termed. Many of these titles are indeed carried on
symbolically in the Catholic Church where the women are termed nuns,
sisters, or 'brides of Christ'.

Who was 'Mary of Bethany'? In the Bible she and Martha are only
ever referred to as 'sisters' at the house of Lazarus of Bethany.
Mary's full title was Sister Miriam Magdala - or, as she is better
known, Mary Magdalene.

Gregory I, Bishop of Rome (590-604), and St. Bernard, the Cistercian
Abbot of Clairvaux (1090-1153), both confirmed that Mary of Bethany was
synchronous with Mary Magdalene.

Jesus supported the act: (Mark 14:9) 'Verily I say unto you,
Wheresoever this gospel shall be preached throughout the whole world,
this also that she hath done shall be spoken of for a memorial of
her."

The betrothal communion took place three months before Mary first
anointed Jesus' feet at Simon's house. The rules were strictly
defined. Only as Jesus' bride would Mary have been permitted to
perform this act as laid down by Messianic tradition. With her First
Marriage duly completed in the September, she would also have wept for
her husband (as in Luke 7:38) before they were parted for their
statutory separation. Prior to this, as a betrothed almah, she would
have been classified as a sinner and ranked as a crippled woman. The
couple would not have come together for any physical union until the
following December.

The last event that seems to prove that Jesus was married is the coming
from the house: By the tenets of the Judaic law at the time, a woman
"sitting shivah" would have been strictly forbidden to emerge from
the house except at the express bidding of her husband.
Marrying the Magdalen would also have given Jesus greater rights to the
title of heir to the messianic throne of David. Saul (the Benjamite
line) was the first king of Israel, but was deposed by David of the
Tribe of Judah. David not only deprived the Benjamites of their claim
to the throne but by establishing his capital as Jerusalem, he deprived
them of their rightful inheritance as well.
Jesus might have been looked upon as a usurper, unless, however, he was
married to a Benjamite woman. Tradition states that the Magdalen was of
the Tribe of Benjamin.

The Gospels of Matthew, Mark and John also all cite the Magdalen as
being present at the crucifixion. None of them cites Mary of Bethany.
It is to Mary Magdalen that he first appears at the empty tomb, and it
was to her that Jesus chose to reveal his resurrection.
The significance of Jesus having been married is the question of
whether or not he had any children, thus implanting his genes into the
gene pool of the world. This we shall take up a little later. Why it
has been covered up is because so much of Jesus' divinity rests in
his 'being born of the Virgin Mary' and ascending into heaven after
'being crucified, dead and buried'. The power of the priesthood
comes only from having a divine being that people are willing to
worship and thereby use the services of a priest as an intermediary. We
shall take up this trail also in a later chapter.
"He did have loving physicalness with a woman, but that does not mean
he offspringed children," say the Nine.

The Ministry
One modern expert on the Dead Sea Scrolls believes that the scrolls
"give added ground for believing that many incidents (in the New
Testament) are merely projections into Jesus' own history of what was
expected of the Messiah." In fact, some scholars suggest that Jesus,
familiar as he was with the prophecies of the Patriarchs, actually
scripted his life around these prophecies.
At the time of his father's death in AD 23, the prevailing Zadok
priest was Jesus' own kinsman, John the Baptist. At age 30, Jesus,
following the role we have seen Akhenaton and others set, decided to
create his own organized party of supporters: a party that would not
follow any conventional social policy. In doing this, Jesus became a
threat not only to Herod and his faction (the Herodians), and to the
Romans in general, but also to the sectarian nationalists (the
Pharisees and the Sadducees) who sought Jewish supremacy over the
Gentiles.

In fact, for all his apparent humility, there is very little to portray
anything faint-hearted or pacifist about Jesus, leaving it to us to
suggest that Jesus was in fact the latter of the two messiahs the
Essenes had been waiting for, 'a prince of the line of David-a
warrior who would restore the kingdom to his people.'
"Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send
peace, but a sword'. (Matthew 10:34) And the Gospels appear to
indicate that his envoys followed blindly in this cause, many of them
carrying swords. Peter had one when Jesus was arrested, and used it to
cut off one of the guard's ears. It is no secret to Bible readers
that the Apostles were armed. At the start of his campaign, Jesus says,
"He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one."
(Luke 22:36)

Jesus is often said to have spoken in the form of 'parables'. These
were frequently political, and were based on actual people and real
situations. Indeed the majority of Jesus' activities were cleverly
disguised, as was the Essene way, so that "those who had the ears to
hear' would understand, whereas others would not.

So it is with the story of the temptation in the desert. Although it is
a story for 'those who have the ears to hear' and can be translated
on that level, as we shall do, it is also an allegory for Lucifer,
Jesus, and all of us about the power of choice-never forgetting that
in all things, the FATHER has given us Free Will.
Adam was given authority over planet Earth, including its creatures and
its elements. "And God blessed them and God said to them, 'Be
fruitful and multiply and fill the earth and subdue it; and rule over
the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky, and over every
living thing that moves on the earth.'" (Genesis 1:28) Adam had
complete power of attorney when he chose to reject God and follow
Satan. Legal ownership of mankind, animals, and the Earth, was then
transferred to Satan.

"Jesus certainly knew Satan had won legal right to the world. When
Satan personally tempted Jesus, displaying at that time his ability to
deceive. The Scriptures say, "And the devil said to Him, "I will
give you all this domain and its glory; for it has been handed over to
me, and I give It to whomever I wish." (Luke 4:6). (Satan is Alive)

In terms of the Essene coded language, it was as Chief of the Scribes
for the Community at the time, that Judas Sicariote (Judas Iscariote)
also held the post of 'the tempter'. It was thus with Judas that
Jesus debated when he was 'led up of the Spirit into the Wilderness
to be tempted of the devil'. Judas was at that time seeking to become
the 'Father' level priest in the place of John the Baptist. The
gist of the negotiation with Jesus was that if Jesus would support
Judas' claim to priestly eminence, he would assist Jesus to become
king. 'All this power I will give thee, and the glory of them: for
that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will give it. If thou
therefore wilt worship me, all shall be thine.'

In the case of the 'miracle' of turning water into wine, the great
significance of Jesus' action was that he took it upon himself to
break with tradition: he abandoned the water entirely and allowed the
'unclean' guests to take the sacred wine, translated in the Bible
as turning 'water into wine'.

The events of Palm Sunday related in the Bible were meant to remind
people of Simon Maccabaeus who delivered Palestine from Syria in the
142 BC Maccabean Revolt. Jesus was not well known at the time, and did
not receive the acclaim he had expected, or hoped for: Matthew 21:10:
"And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying,
Who is this?" Thus he decided to play up his entrance in a form that
had been tradition from the time of Solomon, that Davidic kings all
rode to their coronations on mules, for it had been prophesied in the
Old Testament book of Zecharia (9:9). . 'and riding on an ass'.

Communion with consecrated bread and wine was an age-old Essene
tradition, not a product of later Christianity symbolizing the body and
blood of Jesus. As we have now found out, it was easier to have
communion with or 'commun-icate' with the Lord after partaking of
the particular Bread of Life known as shem-an-na.

The Crucifixion
In a recently channeled message from Sananda (Jesus) on a very popular
website, this being explained a part of hat went on with the
crucifixion of Jesus:

"The crucifixion was not something that happened by accident. The
plan for this event was formulated thousands of years ago during a
period of history known as Atlantis. Over thousands of years the way
for this event was prepared through the focus of the Mystery Schools of
Egypt. These Mystery Schools were founded by wise men that left
Atlantis before the destruction of that continent. The understanding of
how and why to set up this event was given to these wise men by
Melchizedek, a name mentioned in the Christian bible.

"I lived a lifetime as an Atlantean king and was also martyred during
it. I was captured and killed. The person that betrayed my hiding place
was the same being known as Judas during the lifetime as Jesus. In
Atlantis the kings were also priests and holders of great knowledge
including the ability to use energy. Writings left behind tell of the
focus of the Mystery Schools to place and hold the crucifixion event in
the scenario of the earth milestones toward advancement of the current
human race. If these records are found, decoded and given to humanity
rather than kept hidden through the influence of the Catholic Church,
the misinterpretations and outright lies that have been used to control
the masses of Christians believers will be clearly revealed."

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