AM-130 GNOSTICS (6)

Now we come to the birth do Christianity itself. How did this happen? We should now all be appraised of the fact that in 76 BCE, the World Teacher made an appearance here on Earth and primarily taught his disciples, but also had contact with a larger audience. Alas, the masses soon forgot about this event. They forget that an amazing avatar had walked amongst them. This, however, was not the case for the gnostics, who were a knowledge order that had been instituted by Christ/Maitreya himself. They remembered this matchless teacher, who had revealed to them the unity and divinity of all life.

This got the gnostics thinking. Why not revive the memory of this remarkable being and spread this message of love in a manner that would be easily assimilated by the  general populous. This populous was still mired in hopelessness and superstition. Why not give them a super-hero, by depicting a character that lived a perfect life and then went on to suffer a terrible fate. Through the telling of such a story, the gnostics hoped to inspire people to live a better life; giving them food for thought.

This was not a new idea. These gnostics lived in Alexandria and there were stories in Egyptian mythology that were symbolic of Humanity’s path through the 4th Kingdom of Nature. Along came a Jewish gnostic called Mathew, who rewrote this Egyptian narrative, ingeniously, into a new novel. His style of presentation used the tried and tested device of presenting esoteric symbols as a historical person. The format he used was to describe, in a short life, the five stages humanity passes through as it traverses the 4th Kingdom of Nature on its way to the 5th Kingdom. What were Matthew’s sources? There were, in fact, three sources and an event that Matthew had witnessed himself. This event had been the crucifixion of a local Jewish radical, called Jesus Barabbas. The local Roman governor at the time, Pontius Pilate ordered this execution. Jesus, the son of Abbas, hence the name Bar Abbas, was born in 4 BCE and was a real firebrand. He also happened to be a disciple of John the Baptist. Remember him? Well, John was born 4 years earlier, in 8 BCE. He was a politician, a raving fanatic and a card-carrying agitator.

That gave us the historical focus, Jesus Barabbas. What about the three sources? The first was an Egyptian story of a man crucified on the eternal revolving wheel of existence. The second source was two hundred years’ worth of gnostic writings containing a range of esoteric symbology. An example of which we have discussed in some detail, namely that of the trinity, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. We know this equates to the three triads that anchor our monad into the Cosmic Physical Plane. The third and final source was the traditions that had been preserved in the World Teacher’s life. These included his sayings and parables. Matthew worked all these sources into a rough draft of a gospel. This served as a template that was taken up by about 50 other monks in Alexandria, in the forties CE. The reason they did this was that Matthew’s original gospel had proved a great hit and like the Marvel comic franchise, when you have a hit you milk it for all it is worth.

It deserves to be pointed out that the Alexandrian gnostics had never thought of their gospels as ever revealing the life of the World Teacher himself. This would not have been permitted under their esoteric code. If you are interested, Laurency says that the most authentic gospel goes under the name of the Gospel of St. John. Apparently, this uses, in a very free manner, notes that were left by one of Christ/Maitreya’s disciples. Laurency says these notes were especially featured in the 17th chapter of this gospel, if you are so inclined to review them. 

What happened next? Innumerable copies were made by admirers of these literary masterpieces, according to Laurency. They were disseminated widely around the Roman world. The impact of these writings had surpassed all exceptions of their authors. A religious mass movement sprung up as a result. So widespread and fervent was this movement that it threatened the very existence of the Roman state. What does any existing order do when it is threatened? It first tried to challenge it legitimately and when that failed, it resorted to brutal suppression. That, clearly, did not work either. The doctrine promulgated through the gospel narratives had, simply, got too large a following. 

Remember, we were at the end of a Zodiacal epoch. There was a general economic and political decline in the Roman world. Little resistance could be effectively mounted against these new ideas and they eventually became a mainstream phenomenon, aided and abetted by some shrewd political calculations from the emperor of the time. We are looking at you, Constantine! He saw the value of designating a state religion, rather than having the diffuse forms of pagan worship that had characterised the religious practices that had prevailed in the Empire, up until this time.

In about 300 BCE, the bishops of this newly minted state religion realised that they needed to coalesce the disparate gospels circulating, over 150 of them, into an authoritative and uniform doctrine.  Out of all this vast array of gospels, four were alighted upon as being the most realistic and mutually harmonious. These four gospels were elaborated upon and mixed in with a smattering of kabbalistic letters. This amalgamation went through several drafts, resulting in passages being omitted or added as was seen to be prudent. On the orders of Constantine, a bishop called Eusebius was commissioned to create the New Testament, which was accepted at the first Nicene ecumenical council in 325 BCE. Laurency points out wryly that at this ecumenical council, of all the participants, only two were fully literate, Constantine and Eusebius! Although four gospels were chosen, the others continued to circulate and it was only, as late as the 16th Century, that the final canon is listed in the Bible today, was formally accepted. 

The net result of all these tampering was that the gospels of the New Testament are by no mean historical but are just fanciful fictions. There are reams of events and saying attributed to Jeshu and Christ that both, simply, could not have said, nor could the gnostic authors have ever written them.

The gnostic authors could not have imagined how their novel about a fictitious character called Jesus, would turn into a system of control that would heap misery on the planet and result in the deaths of at least 50 million individuals. Their intention had been to reform the world and give the masses a message that was simply conveyed. They never imagined that what they had written would be marketed, after extensive editing, as the word of God. Their symbolic sayings were interpreted literally by the spiritually illiterate. Laurency points out that it was the black priesthood from Atlantis that took over this region and drowned humanity in blood. He also points out that it is irrelevant if Christ ever preached the Sermon on the Mount. If he had, it never would have been reported by a gnostic. The author of the gospels put forward what they thought was the mission statement of the World Teacher and set it in the context of a sermon on a hill.

There was another major mistake the gospel authors made. They presented the parables that the World Teacher spoke to the masses, as though they were what he said to his disciples. In the gospels it says, “without a parable, he spake not to them”. This means there was no straight-talking to the masses, it was always in the form of a story. It also says in the gospels that “unto you is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them, it is not given”. This says it all. No mention was made to the masses about the transition from the 4th to the 5th Kingdom. The gospels make no mention of what you would find in the 5th Kingdom either.

The gospels portray the disciples as illiterate people, in the main. This could not be further from the truth. They were not in the same league as the “masses”. These were highly evolved monads that were handpicked by Jeshu to serve the needs of the World Teacher. There was one author in the New Testament that ended up being the most influential in the formation of what later became the Christian church. That person was Saul, the Gnostician, otherwise known as St. Paul. We will start the next presentation by looking at what he said, where he said it and how this went on to distort the teachings of Christ/Maitreya.