“Historical Jesus research is becoming something of a scholarly bad joke. There were always historians who said it could not be done because of historical problems. There were always theologians who said it should not be done because of theological objections. And there were always scholars who said
former when they meant latter.” (1) These words from De Paul University’s John Dominic Crossan might not make headline news but they are important insights to ‘historical problems’ and ‘theological objections’ which still cause war and conflict or prejudices to present day. Those things are stuff of headlines still emanating from land so full of holes due to things like Holy of Holies in that disgusting Holy Land! We must discover why little is done to elucidate arts of social engineers known as ‘experts’ in history, theology and journalism. Pardon my passion – but it disturbs me greatly to see all human and other sentient life so enslaved by this Holy conflagration. We can be so much more – if we would DO as Jesus and other desposyni did. There are despots in these groups of Merovingian or family of Jesus however. 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.
Jesus may have been a zealot seeking to establish a country or kingdom like David (his ancestor) or he may have harkened back to a time when Brotherhood existed, as most Cynics really saw must happen. Seneca and all other rich or poor Cynics clearly saw man must think and learn for himself, or else things would continue to grow ever more class and racially differentiated. I think Jesus had Gnostic training of ecumenism and was not into Kingdom of Israel zealotry as much as he was against Rome and Empire in general, even if he was a zealot at some point in his life. I also think Plato was no where near as elitist or Fascist as his succeeding philosophic school up to Hegel and Fukayama today have become. In fact I think Plato would have preferred universal education and enablement of citizens as foundation for his Republic. But let’s be real! Even today it is hard to find interested and open-minded ‘thinkers’.”
