What you don’t know

So I’m having a conversation on facebook last night about Christianity and the early church.  I offer that “True” Christianity is different from what we have to day.  I also offer the suggestion of reading The Hiram Key by Robert Lomas & Chris Knight.  A gentleman (I’ll call him Mark Den), proceeds to counter me.  Not sure what his position was; except that I didn’t know what I was talking about because he has “half a library” of books on the topic.  He then proceeded to suggest a writer to me that would make me “better off” than what I was recommending to him, which he hadn’t read.   How often is it that we think we know so much about something, when in reality we haven’t even come close to ascertaining its true nature.  The person upon whose facebook page, was commenting on the subject equally.  I posted a link for everyone to check out (the same one above).  What Mark Den doesn’t realize is that trying to understand any religion without taking into account its esoteric history and esoteric symbolism is like trying to study it in a vacuum.  The information that most scholars provide in their books doesn’t take this into account because usually they don’t know anything about the deeper side, they deem it as unimportant  or insignificant.  Anyway, I tried to be as pleasant as possible.

It must be remember that Jesus was a Hebrew not a Roman.  His church beginnings and teachings have their origin with the Hebrew’s Canaanite religion and not Roman’s Mithra religion.  The Mithra part, which is what we are practicing today, was superimposed upon the Canaanite story.  Now if you don’t know this and you are writing a book about early church development, you are completely way off. Here’s an example of esoteric history that is important to early church development.

Basically, not only is Jesus NOT a name (its a title), there were two Messiahs.  Jewish law required it. Heck, Hebrew law, Canaanite Law, Egyptian Law and Sumerian Law required it!  This is the reason that in Freemasonry, reverence is paid to two pillars:  Boaz and Jachin. 

From Robert Lomas’ website:

“The early Jerusalem Church established by Jesus and James seemed to have died out almost completely with the destruction of the Temple in 70 AD and so in order to attempt to recreate the thinking of those Church founders we went back to investigate the origins of religion in the land of Sumer. Here we found precursors of the Old Testament Creation myths and the story of the origins of Moses but most importantly we found the first references to the Pillar as a link between man and God. Tracing this myth down through Egypt we found that it formed part of the creation myth of the Two Lands of Egypt and was used as part of the kingmaking ritual of Egypt in ensure the stability of the Kingdom under the lintel of God.

From the story of Abraham we found that he had arrived in Egypt during the time of the Hyksos invasion, when Egypt's original kings were confined as puppet rulers in Thebes. Looking closely at Egyptian records, Masonic ritual and legend, and the Book of Genesis we found the very odd story of the resurgence of the New Kingdom, when the Hyksos were driven out of Egypt and the Theban Kings restored. We also found that the origins of the story of Hiram Abif, the hero of the main Masonic myth, could be explained by the circumstances of the death of Seqeuenre Tao II. Here, we believe, was the origin of the Masonic living resurrection story which the Knights Templar had rediscovered from the Qumran Scrolls.

We could now easily trace the story of the two pillars down through the line of Moses via Gideon, Abimelech and Samson to the establishment of Boaz and Jachin outside the original Temple of Solomon.

By studying the writings of Ezekiel we found how the Egyptian king making rituals of the line of David had been fully converted to the service of Yahweh, by the Jews during the Babylonian Captivity. From Ezekiel's writings about the building of a spiritual temple we discovered the main preoccupation of the Essenes, who founded the Qumran Community, even their name, in Arabic Qumran, translated as the people of the two pillars and the arch. The concept of the two pillars of the Jewish faith, the Kingly Messiah (Mispat) of the line of David and the Priestly Messiah (Tsedeq) of the line of Levi working together to support the lintel of Yahweh to ensure the establishment of the Kingdom of God (Shalom) in Israel became very clear.

Using this knowledge we were able to reconstruct the period of Jesus' attempt to establish an independent Jewish state as the Kingly Pillar to John the Baptist's Priestly Pillar. After the execution of John, Jesus took on both roles and but met with opposition from his brother James. We rebuilt their story from Jewish sources as far as the crucifixion of Jesus and the speech of James immediately afterwards.

At this point Paul attempted to take over the followers of Jesus and James to found his own religion based largely on the mystery cult of Mithra but drawing on some of the spiritual heritage of James and his followers. The strong opposition of James to the Macabees lead to his killing when he, like his brother before him, tried to take control of the Temple. The resultant uprising ended with the destruction of the Herod's Temple and the eventual wiping out of the Qumran based Judaism at Masada. The 'Assumption of Moses' gave clear instructions that the most important scrolls and tithed treasure of the group were to buried under the Temple. The Copper scroll gave an inventory of what was buried where, it was made of copper so that it could be cleansed before handling by a priest when the treasures were recovered at some future date. With the destruction of the followers of James there was nobody left to contradict the misinterpretations of Paul. “

Conclusion: 

There’s a lot of stuff we don’t know.  Sometimes we stand on our opinions as if their built on rocks, but this is a fallacy because opinions are built upon sand.  When someone is offering assistance, we sometimes think that they are trying to hurt us and not help us.  We argue them up and down about how right we are; meanwhile the foundation of our opinion is collapsing because new facts are constantly being discovered.  If we listen to each other, we might just learn something.