Bennoah1@airmail.netWe live in a day where the inrush of information from modern scholarship as well as the evidences unearthed from archeology over the last two hundred years, and especially the last 50 years, is proving beyond a doubt that modern Christianity has never known the inner meaning of its own Bible let alone the Divine Truths that lay behind Christianity's erroneous interpretation of "the Christ". I know, some will think that such a statement is ludicrous but I assure you had you been equipped with the knowledge about the subjects of which I speak and teach then you would known for certain that such a bold assertion can be made and supported beyond any doubt in today's world. It is a sobering thought indeed to come finally to the realization through years of serious study that you, as a typical Christian, have never correctly understood or comprehended the true Divine message of the Bible as these stories we cherish in our Bibles were in the beginning originally understood by its writers and earliest audiences. It is my hope that these thought provoking articles and information provided by Bet Emet Ministries will help awaken the minds of the readers in order that they may perceive, maybe for the first time in their lives, the recondite and hidden sense in the Scriptures that they read and which has been misinterpreted by mainline Christianity over the last 1,700 years.
Once you, the reader, see of which I speak concerning the total gross misinterpretation by Christianity of its own "Christ" then your mind should speculate and wonder as to how completely the true significance of other fundamental religious dogmas and doctrines in Orthodox Christianity has so likewise been so terribly misconstrued by mainline Christianity as well. The truth of this revelation, once your studies advance and you come to see the scope of what I speak is almost too overwhelming to deal with. The full impact of this gross distortion of Divine truth should make us reel when we consider the general implications of such a revelation, in particular to the ludicrousness of a situation involving nearly half the world which mistakenly and ignorantly boasts its superiority because of the religious exclusiveness of Christian doctrine, when the reality is that they are unknowingly utterly ignorant of the meaning of the Book which for sixteen centuries has stood as Christianity's spiritual light and guide. The spectacle of civilizations on both continents that have been dominated for over 1,700 years by a book to which its hidden Divine message concerning its "Christ" has never been correctly taught or interpreted should hit the mind of a "thinking believer" like a mack truck. How orthodox Christianity and its exegesis and interpretation of its own Scriptures over the last 1,700 or so years has missed the true meaning of these Sacred Writings is almost beyond comprehension; especially in light of the fact that at the time of such Christian exegesis untold numbers of Ancient Spiritual Masters promoted alongside this emerging Roman Christianity the accurate exegesis of Ancient Divine Revelation from nation to nation. How this Christian Bible and its orthodox exegesis of the Divine Ancient Scriptures that spread from Rome and its conquered territories could wield the influence that it has in light of the fact that it was never basically understood correctly by such Roman promoters literally takes the breath away from one who senses the awesome impact upon world history by such error. It is time that the ship be "righted" and these false renderings and teachings about Christianity's own Scriptures be exposed for what they truly are; baseless lies and falsehoods intended to deceive and lead astray others from the Ancient Divine Spiritual Wisdom handed down through the ages. Ancient religions like Egyptian Religion, Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Judaism, and even Gnostic Christianity safeguarded for thousands of years these Spiritual Truths in Ancient Scripture and did so through the agency of sacred myth, allegory, legend, and metaphors and in so doing mankind had access to the hidden Metaphysical Truths behind these Divine Teachings and their "Christs"'; that is until the rise of the mighty Roman Empire who brings a world-wide "reinterpretation" of all Religion in its world domination which would last for centuries. It is time to expose these false renderings of Christianity about its own Scriptures and restore the priceless wisdom so long obscured by the Roman forgery mill and we do so by thought provoking articles that expose such corrupt exegesis.
The loss of this Divine "gnosis" and Spiritual knowledge at the hands of Rome is easily traceable through the developments of history to its observable causes. It came as a result of the decay of esoteric study from the third century forward, and the accompanying ignorance as to the specialized methodology employed by the Ancients in crafting their Sacred Writings and Scriptures. In archaic times knowledge was put forth in unusual and idiosyncratic language. It was not written in plain terms as we might expect today but rather in the form of Spiritual Mysteries concerning the Creator and the Soul that lays hidden behind metaphor, simile, allegory, legend, and myth. Basically such hidden knowledge was crouched behind symbols and pictures to which only the initiated into such symbology was aware. To the common man the symbols sufficed and he received a superficial meaning that might not be "literally true" but behind such symbols lie the "hidden Metaphysical truths" had he dared to look and inquire. There would be others however who were drawn to this hidden Spiritual Knowledge and access was granted to those who demonstrated the character and desire for such Spiritual Enlightenment. This hidden knowledge of the Divine Realm was represented in a form that would both conceal and reveal its meaning, for it was meant to be grasped by one group of people, the initiated, and missed by another, the uninstructed which possessed not the "keys" to unlock these hidden Spiritual mysteries. Therefore over time, especially coinciding with the rise of the Roman Empire, this deep Spiritual Knowledge of the Divine Realm was lost to all but a few since it was characterized by cryptic symbolism, the interpretation of which was dependent upon the possession of certain "keys" for its accurate interpretation. This hidden Metaphysical understanding and knowledge of God and Cosmology was elaborated into myth, allegory, parable, fable, legend, astrological depiction and even numerological figurations. With each generation fewer still were capable of discerning this "hidden gnosis" behind these simple stories and myths that will later find their way into Christianity's sacred book called "the Bible" today. What was once understood only as allegory, religious myth, fable, legend, and astrological depictions of the Descent of the Soul would over time be "carnalized" and "literalized" by Rome to such an extent that lost for centuries would be this Spiritual Wisdom. It would have remained so had it not been for the tireless efforts of modern scholarship and archeology in these last two centuries. Today we are without an excuse to continue our ride into religious darkness produced by Roman and Protestant exegesis of their own Scriptures.
Answer for yourself: Have you ever noticed that Paul declared, in the book of Galatians, that the Abraham story in the Old Testament is only an allegory?
Gal 4:22-24 22 For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. 23 But he who was of the bondwoman was born after the flesh; but he of the freewoman was by promise. 24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, (KJV)
Answer for yourself: Are "Isaac" and "Jacob" real people? Has the centuries of war and hostility between the Jewish people and the Arabic people been over an allegory? How much more do we read in our Old and New Testaments which we are taught to believe is "historical-literal" when in fact it is but "allegory" that lays behind such Scriptures? That should give you a long pause to wonder and consider what other things, stories, and derived religious doctrines from them which we read in our Bibles are but allegories and pictures of "hidden Spiritual Truths" which go unnoticed and are sadly passed off today to us a "historical" and interpreted erroneously as "literal truth". I hope you are sensitive enough to see that this goes to the very heart and core of major Christian Doctrine upon which we are taught depends our "Eternal Life"!
Answer for yourself: But does it? What if we got it wrong and don't know because we lack the "keys" to uncover what lies behind the stories and passages we read in our Bibles? What if "the Christ" is not actually a historical person who lived in the first century and the accounts of his life are not "historical" but mistaken interpretations of others not possessing the "keys" to Ancient Spiritual Divine allegories? Is it possible to study to the point to obtain the "keys" to unlock the "Jesus Story" and solve the riddle of Jesus Christ which has existed in the world for the last two thousand years?
Answer for yourself: Are you aware that in the beginning of Christianity the most intelligent parties in the Christian Church for some two and a half centuries took the entire Bible as allegory and did not approach its reading as if were "literal history"? Take a second and let that sink in; read it again!!!
Answer for yourself: What did these earliest Christians, before the rise of Roman Christianity, believe about this "Jesus Christ" THEN? Are you aware that the name "Jesus Christ" can be found to exist in Ancient Egypt over 10,000 years B.C.E.? What does this do to our supposed "literal-historical" understanding of "Jesus Christ" in the first century? Could it be that those who received the teachings about this "Jesus Christ" down through the earliest centuries likewise had lost the "gnosis" and the "keys" concerning how to understand the Divine Allegories concerning the Divine Concept of "the Christ"? Could they has mistakenly believed in a "historical person" for their salvation when the truth of the matter the whole story and "life of Jesus Christ" was understood by the Ancients as a religious myth depicting the "Descent of the Soul" into flesh/matte? Was the "Jesus Story" intended to by our example for the Spiritual development of the Soul within each of us? Was this our "pattern" for our own Soul's spiritual maturation which was later grossly misinterpreted by Rome? Does this "pattern" for the Soul's Descent into the flesh of mankind and its spiritual maturity explain why the "Jesus Story" is the same story as those of the Sungods? Yes it does.?
Allegory was the standard type of exegesis for over two hundred years concerning the stories in the Old Testament and New Testament which we are taught to understand "literally" today as "historical truths". It appears that in the earliest centuries of emerging Christianity from Judaism the normal exegesis of the New Testament and "the Christ" was not "historical-literal". Again, that should give you cause to think real hard about what we have been taught today to be the "way to Heaven" by a Christianity that changed the whole playing field and "reinterpreted" everything in the 3rd through 5th century.
From many quarters of the religious field, there is resounding today the cry of a new age in Bible interpretation. There are substantial grounds for asserting that we are beholding the dawn of a brilliant new day in scriptural scholarship that does indeed herald the bright promise of a new enlightenment. All down the years there have been men individually or in groups who have spoken out in strong dissent from accepted orthodox codes of interpretation. Even in Christianity itself there arose dissenters, both in the early years and in later times. In the fifth century, Scotus Erigena made a strong case for using the Platonic philosophy as the elucidative key to the scriptures, and the seed he planted has borne fruit. Dionysus the Areopagite sounded a similar note. St. Paul’s contribution is described as a widely variant approach to Bible meaning, stressing subjectivism and pure spirituality rather than the historical element in Christianity. Clement, Origen, and even Augustine emphasized the allegorical nature of the writings and doctrines, taking their cue from the Jewish Philo. Even the climactic reconstruction of Christian systematization by the great Aquinas and the schoolmen in medieval times represented, in many respects, a departure from former codes and standards. Sadly, many of these movements, however, merely exchanged old orthodoxies for new and carried no threat of revolt against fundamental positions or tenets.
It was Philo, in the first century, who brought out prominently the allegorical method in biblical exegesis. He had drawn it from its source in remote Egyptian crypticism. An eminent modern biblical scholar, Robert H. Pfeiffer, in his work, The History of New Testament Times, speaks of “the allegorical interpretation of the Scriptures, used with such amazing virtuosity by Philo.” The early Christian fathers made a valiant attempt to apply the principles of allegorical interpretation to textual exegesis, and in the case of Clement and Origen it was by no means a futile endeavor. “Origen’s allegories,” as the historians refer to the exegetics of this most learned of the early church fathers, still stand as brilliant, illuminating revelations of the Holy Word. But the church successfully warded off whatever disturbing force the effort carried, and the "historical code" and method of interpretation has prevailed down to the present. The life of the Christian system was so powerfully activated by sheer faith that anything like a cold intellectual scholarship, which would subject the scriptures to dialectical criticism, was never able to gain a real hearing. Any such agitation was simply stifled by pietism. As a professor in Columbia University said in 1926, the Christian ecclesiastical power put a clamp upon the thinking mind of Europe for fifteen hundred years.
Now, however, that clamp is pried loose. For perhaps two centuries we have heard the hue and cry of scores of scholars as they have laid violent hands upon those venerable scriptures, to take them apart, study the mechanism of their structure, and discover their innermost motive and meaning. This work by now has progressed to the point where this scholarship puts in jeopardy the basic historicity of the entire scriptural corpus. Scholarly exegetes of the Gospels and the "Jesus Story" are bluntly declaring that the incidents of Gospel narrative can no longer be regarded as actual event, but must be taken as one or another form of literary artistry, legend, poetry, fiction, allegory, or Mystery play. The declaration of one writer as to the miracle of the feeding of five thousand with five loaves and two small fishes—that “whatever else this episode may be, it is assuredly not history”—is applicable to scores of incidents narrated in the Gospels. Under the blows of this sort of textual criticism, delivered with the remorseless power of fact and logic, the long accepted Christian method of historical interpretation of its own Scriptures is fast crumbling.
In proportion as the historical method of exegesis of Christian Scriptures weaken, the allegorical approach must be reexplored. Truth emanates from the celestial and heavenly world (coming from, or being in the sky or high above) of divine ideation, and, as Plato said, comes forth in ideal forms. Man’s feeble power to discern abstractions limits him to the effort to represent ideal forms by the imagery of concrete structures perceptible to his senses. Man recognizes that in these visible forms perceived by his physical senses that they are but archetypes of a higher presence and existence; they are but a "pattern" made visible by the invisible realm. This is of which Moses spoke when speaking of the "pattern in the Mount". The very core of Egyptian Religion was the concept of: So Above, So Below. Not being able to represent "ideal forms" that exist in invisible realm mankind uses imagery that is perceptible to his 5 senses and therefore he must exotericize all esoteric truths. But this is not without its problems. Having done so, he then faces the fatal risk, especially over a long period of time when the "keys" of interpretation of these "concrete structures perceptible to his senses" can be lost or forgotten and in so doing he falls into the the gross error of mistaking the objective representation for the ideal reality. Lost with this tragic "misunderstanding and misinterpretation" of the "concrete idea" is the "gnosis" and "Spiritual Dynamic" which it was supposed to represent. When spiritual vision is blurred, the human mind sinks into idolatry. This is the real danger that lurks behind Christianity and its "literal-historical" exegesis of its "Christ".
The facts speak for themselves but you must study to find the truth about the earliest centuries of Christianity before the rise of Roman Christianity and its Bishops and Church government that would control this movement with a "iron glove".
The facts of such study show us beyond any doubt that many schools, sects and brotherhoods, both before and after the beginning of the Christian era studied Biblical writings, both Old Testament and New Testament not as if they had been "literal stories" but rather as parables of man's spiritual life and the Spiritual development of his Soul. Behind these stories we read today as if "historical" and "literal" lay a Spiritual "gnosis" and "knowledge" that few Christians have ever heard but that was not the case with the earliest Gnostic Christians for they knew the truth about this Bible and "its Christ"; a truth that was lost when they were killed without mercy by Rome and persecuted almost out of existence while at the same time Rome burned down the libraries of the world to conceal such knowledge which they found necessary if they were to "reinterpret" everything and create a new religion around their aberrant interpretation of God's "Christ".
The School of Alexandria, Egypt, adopted the allegorical interpretation of the Holy Scripture, believing that it hides the truth and at the same time reveals it. It hides the truth from the ignorant, whose eyes are blinded by sin and pride, hence they are prevented from the knowledge of the truth. At the same time it always reveals what is new to the renewed eyes of believers. St. Clement of Alexandria is considered the first Christian theologian (writer) who uses allegorical interpretation, giving a cause of using it in a practical way. He says that the Bible has hidden meanings to incite us to search and discover the words of salvation, which are hidden from those who despise them. The truth is in the pearls which must not be offered to the swines. His disciple, Origen, adds other justifications of using allegorical interpretation to the Scriptures. Nevertheless a vigorous reaction against the Alexandrian allegorism made itself manifest in the fourth and fifth centuries. Its center was Antioch, which concentrated on the literal sense of the holy Scriptures. A theological war is going on for the interpretation of the Christian Scriptures; one which sadly Alexandria would lose.
Answer for yourself: If the "literal-historical" interpretation was not the first "interpretation" of our Bible by earliest Christianity and the "allegorical" interpretation of Ancient Sacred Writings was the standard method of interpretation and exegesis since Ancient Egypt on down until the 3rd century then how reliable should we consider today's "literal" approach to this same Bible and its "reinterpretation" of this Ancient Spiritual Wisdom we have been taught by modern Christianity? Are we to read the stories of this "Jesus Christ" as a literal history of some historical figure as we have been taught or is it just possible that another understanding of "the Christ" is more truthful? What has happened to these Ancient Spiritual Truths since the 3rd through 5th century by an emerging "Literal Roman Catholicism" which rejected the roots of its own mother religion which was taught by Divine anointeds like Moshe, who was raised in the house of the Pharaohs of Egypt as well as the other Prophets of Judaism who wrote and spoke of these Divine mysteries?
Notable among these groups of "allegorists" were also the Essenes, about whom we find a most interesting comment in the Encyclopedia Britannica in the article under their name: "The sacred books were preserved and read with great reverence, though not without an allegorical interpretation." If you have ever studied these Essenes you know that they become the foundation for the later "Messianic Movement" in Israel both during and following the destruction of the Temple. I should think that their interpretation of "the Christ" would be worthy of study; especially in light of their "allegorical interpretation" of sacred Ancient Wisdom and knowledge which finds its origin not in Qumran but again in Egypt. It was in Alexandria, Egypt, where these Essenes called home and it just happened to house the world's largest theological library in the world in that day and time. Rome would later burn it to the ground and destroy over 600,000 irreplaceable tomes and treatises possessing the Spiritual knowledge of mankind since its beginning. A corpus of further evidence and facts could be offered to confirm the claims in this respect if time and space was not at a premium.
Historical and Scriptural analysis reveals to the accomplished student that this esoteric, profound, secret, and hermetic methodology of the Ancient Scriptural books by the Spiritual Sages of the past escaped the understanding of Orthodox Christianity from the 3rd century onward. Factual history teaches us today that Roman Christianity from the third century forward strove to make its conversion of Ancient Religious Myth into "literal" history as believable and credible as possible. In place of this much needed "allegorical interpretation" of these Ancient Scriptural books Christianity has depicted to the unenlightened that the Ancients believed in these Ancient Religious Myths as undeniable and unfabled facts and in so doing made it appear as if those entrusted with these Ancient Spiritual Allegories were grossly ignorant and lacking in intelligence to believe such a thing "literally" in the first place. Yet this is what Rome actually did. How ironic! Rome promoted this false belief about the Ancient exegesis of their own Scriptures and in so doing it has been assumed as taught by the early Latin and Roman Fathers of Christianity that antiquity was so childish as to believe its own myths as "literal stories"! Nothing could be further from the truth. Such a false evaluation of the importance of the Ancient Wisdom Christianity betrays itself and its opinion of ancient intelligence and Spiritual Wisdom. Let it be said now that the Sungods of the various nations along with their various "Christs", as personifications of Divine Conscious Energy which descended into matter (flesh), were never interpreted "literally" by these Ancient Spiritual Masters as we have been taught to do because of Rome's reinterpretation of "the Christ".
The truth of the matter can be easily discerned by any serious attempt to study Gnosticism, Egyptian Religion, and Comparative Religions today. What we find is that these seers and sages of an early age were more deeply instructed in the profound truths of our life than we yet are! What we find upon such an analysis, is that these Spiritual seers and sages committed their wisdom to books, oral traditions and myths under the forms of a disguise. And not in sixteen centuries has the western mind been shrewd enough to penetrate this veil and unmask the marvels of truth and Spiritual knowledge lying beneath their own Biblical stories which are erroneously interpreted as if "literal events in the lives of presumed historical personages". Right here is the problem! This is why Christian theology has failed to discover the Kabbalistic mysteries of Egypt and Judaism that lay behind the meaning of its own doctrinal material. Christian exegesis failed down through history because it approached the Ancient archaic Spiritual Wisdom and Metaphysical Literature with a preconception of its inferiority, which prevented it being valued of any possible merit or Spiritual profoundness. But that was not enough for early "literalistic" Christianity in the early centuries because it labored ceaselessly to reduce the whole body of mystic writings to veritable nonsense, forcing upon the myths and upon their originators an alleged sense that was a dreadful travesty of their true but hidden implications.
The grandiose Ancient Spiritual Wisdom and the knowledge of "the Christ" before its radical "reinterpretation" by Rome which really began in the early 2nd century and which gained momentum through the 3rd and 5th centuries was lost to the world except where secretly guarded and nurtured by secret and underground esoteric movements of one type or another down through time. It was mandatory in order for them to survive the extreme religious persecution of Roman Catholicism. Outside of these "secret movements" the world was deprived of the true light of Divine knowledge intended to help man deal with and conquer life's problems. History has practically discredited this Ancient Divine knowledge since the rise of Orthodox "literal" Christianity; that is up until this century where the advances in modern Biblical scholarship and the dramatic findings of archeology, especially Egyptian archeology, from the last two hundred years which is made public and available to the masses today. Such information today is revealing the traditional Christian exegesis of its own Scriptures as but a bag full of lies and gross misinterpretation of its own Christ. For the most part; such Christian exegesis of its own Scriptures, seen in the light of modern scholarship and the findings of archeology in the last two hundred years, shows itself to be but a wretched caricature of the ideas hidden behind the myths and symbols in the texts.
With the discovery of the Rosetta Stone and its decipherment came the awakening of the dead language of Egypt. Now, for the first time in the last 2,000 years, the paintings inside the Temple, tombs, and Pyramids of Egypt have begun once again to speak their hidden Spiritual Mysteries and in so doing Christianity's interpretation of "its Christ" and many of its major theological doctrines are revealed to be counterfeits and tragic, gross "reinterpretations" and "gross misinterpretations" of the original Divine ideas which were taken from Egyptian religion and assimilated into almost all world religions including Gnostic Christianity in the earliest centuries. A key example of which I speak is the religious dogma concerning the original "Karest/Christ" of Egypt, the prototype for all later "Christs". Egypt, once silenced of her Divine Truths, no longer remains silent and once again shouts God's truths to all who would listen. In the presentation of these Ancient Divine Truths from Egypt gone forever is the mere thought of some "historical-literal" Christ as Rome has so tragically presented; in its place once again is the truth shining in the Egyptian Sun that God placed this "Christ" in all matter; its highest incarnation is in the flesh of each man and woman. No longer is mankind deprived of his/her Divinity and its Spiritual Goal which is their own "Karest-likeness" (Christ-likeness); no longer is "the Christ" to be believed as being limited to but one person who supposedly lived in Palestine some 2,000 years ago but resides in all mankind. Now restored is the "gnosis" that reveals the dynamic Divine Truth that God's Christ resides in each person created in the image of God awaiting mankind's Soul to awaken the indwelling Divineness within himself.
In spite of this increasing information the Bible, still revered as the Word of God, Holy Writ, holds a place of influence only because of the tradition of its sanctity and authority, but the Christianity and its orthodox interpretation of its own Bible and its grip upon the minds of men is seriously weakened today by the onslaughts of a discerning scholarly criticism. To the student enlightened by a true rendering of the meaning of these Ancient Spiritual myths, the fallacy of traditional Christian exegesis of "The Christ" as well as a host of other supposed "Divine doctrines" of Christianity stand naked and exposed to correction today like never before.For the most part such traditional Christian exegesis is today exposed as a gross falsehood once the reader obtains and possesses the "keys" so necessary to properly interpret these Ancient Spiritual myths that line the pages of our Bibles. It is time that we "awaken" to this truth ourselves and study to the point that we see beyond any doubt that traditional historical Christian exegesis of is own Bible is so often nothing but a despicable travesty of Divine Truths once held sacred and hidden behind the mask of personified religious myths.
It is my intent on this website and in the following articles to make evident how utterly Christian exegesis and Scriptural interpretation of "the Christ" as a historical person has so widely missed the import of Christianity's own Scriptures.
Thus the parallels are complete; the Sun was allegorized in myth after myth to serve as a picture for the Soul and the "pattern" of its life-cycle as it descends into matter (mankind...in its birth, life, death, and rebirth in mankind). This Sun, a picture of the Soul, was represented for thousands of years to all of mankind in allegory, metaphor, similes, myths and in legends involving the nations and their allegorized Sungods and their allegorized "Christs".Thus we now understand why we find the name of "Jesus Christ" in Ancient Egypt for the Christ, whether it be the Egyptian Karest, the Babylonian Bel, or the Christian "Jesus Christ" these are all but representations for the "Descent of the Soul" in the matter/flesh of mankind and their personified lives and anthropomorphic representations are but pictures and "concrete examples" of higher Divine ideas that in the visible and physical plane mankind is to follow and emulate according to the "Divine Pattern" for the intended Spiritual development and maturation of his Soul. Now you see to take the whole of this as "literal-historical" completely misses the mark and guarantees we receive not the Spiritual guidance and instruction that the Creation desires for us..
With proper study whereby you recover the "keys" necessary for correct interpretation of our Bible the reader will be able to pick up his Bible and casually read the texts and realize that often the actors are not old kings, priests and warriors; but rather they are but pictures of the "one actor" who is presented to the reader as the anthropomorphic representation of the "Divine human soul" within himself and few of us are aware of this since at the present most of us lack such eye-opening study and are conditioned by being reared as traditional "literalists" by modern Christianity. The Bible is the drama not only of an Ancient Israel who interpreted this Divine God and His mediator, "the Christ/Messiah". It is your drama. Such Divine Truth cannot be apprehended in its full force and applicability until every reader discerns himself to be the central figure in this story of "the Christ"! The Bible is about the mystery of human life. Instead of relating to the incidents of a remote epoch in temporal history, it deals with the reality of the living present in the life of every Soul on earth. How widely it has been wrenched away from this primary applicability and turned over into the realm of inconsequential personal or national history, will perhaps be vividly seen as the original significance is brought to light. A new revival of human enlightenment may be the happy consequence of the rehabilitation of the structural integrity of the Bibles of antiquity. This is my hope for all truth-seekers.
It is confidently believed that these articles on this website will go far to vindicate my above statements. These forthcoming articles should demonstrate that much of the Biblical passages we read, in particular those concerning "Jesus Christ" were but Ancient Myths and Divine Allegories which today, and for the last 1,700 years of so, have been passed off to the unsuspecting and unenlightened as assumed "historical " narratives when it fact they were never intended to be so understood. It is hoped that these articles awaken the reader to "think" for himself and in so doing reveal to him the the unsuspected profoundness and zenith of the real message of our Bibles for the first time in his life; that message being the "Descent of the Soul as personified in anthropomorphic language in a "representative life" which we recognize as the "Jesus Story" today. Every nation has had their "Jesus Story"; only the names were changed owing to different cultures and different languages. These articles have be ability to bring to the reader a new recognition that the Bible is a collection of ancient texts embodying a far more important wisdom and data that just a historical narrative of Israel. As enlightenment grows from article to article it is hoped that you begin to appreciate the Bible as it was intended by those who wrote these sacred passages thousands of years ago. It is hoped that you, after reading and seeing the evidences for yourself that you can read and understand the Bible in a more glorious spiritual sense than the Church of today has known. It is hoped that the reader will embrace this new-found Spiritual enlightenment and knowledge of "the Christ" and in so doing awaken to his real condition before God and this new awareness can be for him a life-changing experience and liberation into the design that God originally intended for him.
Let us close with some reflection as we read these passages now no longer thinking a "historical Jesus Christ" but let us interpret them as they were 2,000 years ago and think of the "indwelling Christ" asleep in the lives of those who know not this Divine Mystery and whose lives lack the righteousness that this Christ can bring:
Col 1:26-27 26 Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations, but now is made manifest to his saints: 27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory: (KJV)
Gal 4:19 19 My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you, (KJV)
Col 4:3 3 Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds: (KJV)
Eph 3:4 4 Whereby, when ye read, ye may understand my knowledge in the mystery of Christ) (KJV)
1 Cor 2:7 7 But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory: (KJV)
1 Tim 3:16 16 And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh (the Soul's decent into matter), justified in the Spirit (lived righteously...achieving Christ-likeness), seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory (the Soul's return to God when our task is finished in this world) (KJV)
You just read the "pattern" for the birth, life, death, and rebirth of the Soul, the "Descent of the Soul" into matter in the form of "the Christ". This is not intended to be understood as if a historical person. This "Divine Pattern" was witnessed in the Heavens above, in Mother Nature below and these immutable Laws of the Cosmos spoke to the Ancient Spiritual Masters that God, who is the same yesterday, today and forever, is doing the same things in mankind. This "Christ Story" the Ancients symbolized by the Sun and its path through the Heavens and whose story they told through the birth, life, death, and rebirth of this Sungods and their "Christs". This is our "Jesus Story".
In the next article I will go into more detail concerning how the Ancients understood and taught this "Descent of the Soul" into matter and how they "personified" it and represented this Divine Metaphysical reality through the symbolism of their Sungods and "Christs".
Let us contiue the study in the next article in this series.