Carrying The Cross Of A False Belief
‘The devout Christians Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy are the authors of ‘The Jesus Mysteries – Was the Original Jesus a Pagan God?’* It came about because the Jesus tale no longer made any sense to them. That’s why, the same as many others in our world, they went on a quest of finding the truth about Jesus. In the chapter ‘The Missing Man’ from page 162 to 194 they are telling us about their meticulous research into the background of the story. In the end they could come to no other conclusion than that Jesus had never existed.
‘Even though the Romans had been most copious record keepers, no trace could be found that a man by the name of Jesus had ever lived in the whole of the Roman empire. Such events used to draw big crowds and if someone as well known and popular as Jesus, according to the Gospels, had been sentenced to death by crucifixion, there most certainly would have been a record of this. One of Rome’s punishments was the painful and visible death by crucifixion. In the age of Roman domination, the Romans were the only ones who crucified. By the time method of torture and putting someone to death had become a staple of the Roman Empire, its justice system had also employed strangling and stoning, burning and even boiling in oil as methods.
‘For a long time and for wise higher reasons God’s humankind was not allowed to get access to the wisdom and truth that was hiding behind the surface words of the Jesus legend. However, with the passing of time it is becoming increasingly clear that the whole human race is God’s chosen people, that each one of us is a beloved child of the Earth and that we also are half human and half God, just like the legendary holy man. The whole of humankind is in this together. We, individually and collectively, are rowing the same boat back home into the conscious awareness of God’s true nature and our own. God is as much part of us as we are part of God. God is in everything, therefore also in each one of us. All powers and characteristics that are in God are also in every one of us, the very best as well as the worst.
‘Unbeknown to us for a long time, the figure of the Master Jesus has always represented a symbol for humankind’s higher evolved Christ or God nature. The characteristics of this aspect of our being at first are in a slumbering state. However, when the time is right for this to happen because through attending to our earthly lessons we have evolved sufficiently, they begin to wake up. The birth of the child in the stable of Jerusalem is a metaphor for this phase of our spiritual development. *
‘Having become aware of these things, ever more of those in the ranks and files of our churches are feeling motivated to bring forth and develop their own Christ nature by unselfishly working for the benefit of the whole of humankind rather than feeding the insatiable coffers of our already immensely rich organisations. We are convinced that the more handing out to the poor instead of taking from them is carried out in our world, the more speedily peace will reign.
‘We believe there is no point in apologising for what happened in the past. It is likely that every one of the more advanced souls who are presently are spending another lifetime on the Earth did take part, at the giving as well as the receiving end, of the events of times gone by. The only sensible thing to do, in our view, is to forgive ourselves as much as everybody else and then move on. How could one person’s apology ever hope to make good the suffering that was caused by a deception, the greatest one ever, now that it’s becoming ever clearer that our church has been guilty of carrying the cross of a false belief and defended it, by fair means and foul, for around two thousand years?
‘It makes us shudder to think that the yoke of the Karma that was thus created by individuals as well as the whole of our organisation can only be redeemed by us. But it comforts us to know, and we hope that you will be able to share this, that the truth behind the surface words of the Jesus legend is something much more beautiful and magical than anyone could ever have imagined. Most important of all is that at last it provides our religion with a solid foundation that really has been built on God’s sacred wisdom and truth. What could be more precious? Sharing this with you is what we would like to offer you in place of an apology.’ End of the statement.
There are many experienced souls in our midst who, in the course of countless lifetimes must have taken part in the atrocities that human beings have always been so good at handing out to each other in the name of God. It is true that many times we are sure to have found ourselves at their giving end of such experiences and, on probably just as many occasions, the receiving end. This applies as much to those who are working for our churches, as its followers and other ordinary folks. And if you are one of these old souls, you will understand what I am talking about and your inner guidance will be reacting to it with a strong feeling of: ‘This is true!’
Isn’t it the highest time that everybody takes the cross off Jesus’ shoulders and that we carry it ourselves? The Karma we have created in previous lifetimes through our lower earthly self’s thinking and behaviour patterns, that’s the cross all of us have to bear. * The drives and urges of this part of our being need to be given up and, metaphorically speaking, nailed to the cross of our earthly consciousness. Through slowly and painfully bleeding to death, the divine spark within wakes up and the birth of our Christ nature begins. In the course of growing from infancy into adulthood, our inner spirit self slowly but surely grows wings.
This comes about quite naturally, a bit more each time we rise above the desires as well as the fears and anxieties of our easily frightened earthly self and overcome the characteristics of our lower nature, for example greed and avarice, jealousy and hatred, powerseeking and selfishness. As time passes by, through the suffering we endure together with our Highest God or Christ Self, we not only save and redeem ourselves, but also evolve into a spiritual Master and a Christed one in our own right.
If my own life is anything to go by, it can be an exceedingly painful and longwinded process which is symbolised by the child in the manger, Jesus being nailed to the cross and dying. The three nights he spends in the tomb is a metaphor for the lifetimes each one of us has to spend in earthly life without any kind of nourishment from the light of God’s wisdom and truth. Jesus spending forty days and nights in the desert * is an allegory that describes this phase of our earthly education. The esoteric meaning of the number forty is an indefinite time.
Holding tightly onto outdated beliefs is the cross Christians throughout our world are carrying, deprived of any chance of redemption. Should its leaders refuse to adjust to the inflow of this kind of knowledge into the consciousness of our world and tell the truth about Jesus, the likelihood is that with this it will be signing its own death warrant. But if it willingly changes, there would still be a good chance that at last it becomes a truly catholic, i.e. Universal religion of our world. For this to happen it would have to evolve into a belief system that no longer seeks to dominate and exploit people’s souls and funds, but opens its inner and outer doors to everybody. Irrespective of what anyone’s beliefs may have been in the past, all who are ready for prayer and worship of the Divine Trinity, the Great Father/Mother of all life and their only born Son/Daughter, the Universal Christ will be made welcome, for in truth:
There is only one religion, the religion of love.
There is only one country, the whole of Mother Earth.
There is only one race and chosen people, the whole of humankind.
There is only one gender, who is androgynous, whole and holy.
There is only one language, the language of the heart.
And there is only one God, the God of love,
The Great Father/Mother of all life
And the Universal Christ, their only born Son/Daughter.
They are the Holy Trinity, who is
Omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient.
* Recommended Reading:
• ‘The Symbolism Of The Cross’
• ‘Nailing The Lower Self To The Cross’
• ‘The Flowering Of The Rose On The Cross’
• ‘The Cross Of Life’
• ‘The Cross Of Earthly Life’
• ‘Nailing The Small Earthly Self To The Cross’
• ‘The Cross We Bear’
• ‘Away In A Manger’
• ‘We Three Kings Of Orient Are’
• ‘Jesus In the Desert’
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