I hope my positive portrayal of knowledge systems historically represented herein will allow people to understand uses and abuses of life of Jesus by those who continue to empower themselves rather than enable soul ‘within’. Collectively soul of good people can overthrow ‘radical aristocratic’ or Neo-Platonic top-down oligarchy. We must create! What we create is work of Creator.

Leo Strauss and his students still run US policy of our present day. Lincoln was another of ‘beneficent paternalists’ who thought we could not understand what really was best for us. Here are a few words from Thomas J. Di Lorenzo in an article titled ‘Leo Lincoln’. “Lincoln’s cynical political manipulation of religion was perfect Straussian subterfuge. It was perfect propaganda tool for sugarcoating a bloody and imperialistic war of conquest. Little wonder that contemporary Straussian neocons think of Lincoln as ‘the greatest statesman in world history’: He was an extreme nationalist; an enemy of constitutionally limited government and genuine natural rights; a skilled political conniver, manipulator and deceiver; and a phony religionist. Perfect.”

I hope I am not guilty of projecting my own life or beliefs (if I have any) onto Cathari Gnostics and far more ancient peoples of shamanic background, who developed disciplines which Jesus and his kin learned for many millennia. Will HIS – story play a role in ‘his’ – story? I refer to this 5,000 year ‘nightmare’ which Joseph Campbell quotes James Joyce talking about when he did foreword to Marija Gimbutas’ Language of Goddess. The War on Women is a large part of what must be addressed. History is a poor teacher if you do not study to separate motives and means from lives lost in often aggrandized hero worship or cultish national – ‘isms’. I guess it would be hard for me or anyone not to have a bias of some sort but I think I am more ‘open’ than most.

Crossan is a well established or connected academic with a lot of support from top Bible scholars and mainstream theological community. But don’t expect them to start encouraging actual education of what Jesus studied any time soon. I think you will see that I come from Tradition which family of Jesus and Solomon were part of, for a long and illustrious history.

My purpose is not to justify or simply revise our image of ancients and what knowledge has been lost. The peasant or plebe must become aware enough to see we are able to fight City Hall. WE must learn to make history and change ethic of our leaders. If not – history will repeat, like cucumbers on a sour stomach. Thomas Carney or Marshall McLuhan and many others have made it clear that we are ‘managed’; but McLuhan was unable to get truth out when he wrote his books according to his recent biographer who says McLuhan knew secret societies that are ‘behind scenes’ and own media. Plato is just one of many who observed that advent of writing alphabet which Phoenicians gave their colonies or trading partners actually led to a decrease in knowledge and disciplined wisdom. So whether or not Jesus was a writer has little to do with his wisdom. Whether he was a peasant or a prince, he was not going to learn wisdom without effort and introspection. Here is an entry from my Heroes and Villains Volume in an Encyclopedia:

“PLATO: - This man is as important to you as Jesus, and both of them have same legend of Immaculate Conception associated with them. I can prove Greek’s Danaus colonizers are DN or DNN of Homer. They became Semites in Anatolia too; and it is acknowledged that Plato is descendant of Solon. I can show Ptolemy trying to make himself historically part of De Danaan hero family of Hercules through works of Manetho and it may be true – who knows? The study of these two men whose noble lineage seems related through more than just legend of Immaculate Conception; as Moses and Sargon Great (a millennium earlier than Moses/Akhenaten) are related with baby in basket amongst bulrushes, is of utmost importance. History may in fact be most powerful tool to form actions of masses or society as a whole.

Throughout many books I have written about Hyksos Phoenician Kelts or esoteric Mystery Schools associated with them, there is documentation of growth of hierarchy and power or greed. The conflicts may have been part of Jesus story. Who knows if sage or alchemist named Plato really believed everything he wrote. How much was he advised or instructed to write? I am near to certain he knew his Atlantis story was a pure fiction designed to cover up earlier model culture based upon egalitarian ethics with women in an equal if not preferred position. Jesus was probably named after (though his given name Yeshua is not) concept of Brotherhood called Iesa, as linguists can demonstrate.

There certainly was a Brotherhood of Man ethic but it may have never achieved kind of harmony in society which is now necessary to overcome inequities and hierarchial threats posed by excessive Neo-Platonic manipulation. Clearly there were some attempts by wise Solon to protect rights of women and yet by Plato’s time this ethic had not a shred of support left to be seen. Why did this insecure macho ethic evolve in Mediterranean world to this degree? Just five centuries before Plato we see his fellow nobles in Tyre are allowing a favored descendant of Jezebel to found Carthage in 814 BCE. How much can we blame poor Plato for all hierarchy anyway? He just wrote rationale for what all these nobles or elites saw as proper way to structure this society.

If that is true, I have a more than ample mind.

For some reason, certain persons (and you know who you are) are fanatics when it comes to consistency. I don't want to be guilty of dropping names, heaven knows I've dropped everything else, but one such person, who shall remain nameless, lives in my house.

In my past, I've been an advocate of advantages of inconsistency and offered my opinion on subject at irregular intervals.

For an example, I've always believed "variety is spice of life." What would this world be without such diversity?

I think I have God on my side in this. Look at His creations. The genuine proof, in my mind, that God created heavens and earth is in this variety of species.

God did not just create "a bird." God created hundreds of varieties of birds of every color imaginable, as well as other things.

Whatever God has created, He has done so with an infinite number of variations on subject. Certainly, God believes in variety.

Another advantage of inconsistency is it keeps friends and family off-guard and guessing. If I would do same thing over and over, my friends and family would come to a certain level of expectation from me.

What a bore.

However, if I am constantly flip-flopping, nobody knows exactly what I'm going to do next. And for my money (if I had any) I go for zing of flip-flopping.

I would not say this to just anyone, but, chief benefit to flip-flopping is less strain on tiny grey cells. I don't have to remember everything.

Although flip-flopping has many desirable advantages, biggest disadvantage to my inconsistency is Mistress of Parsonage. Some people, as I've mentioned, take a low view of flip-flopping.

Her view, as it turned out, was lowest. I would soon find out just how low.

Recently I treated Gracious Mistress of Parsonage to an early morning repast at Slurp ‘N Burp Café. That is just kind of guy I am.

In retrospect, it was a bad idea. I thought my life was going great. I thought nothing could really be improved in my life, but husband is always last to know certain things.