The Buddhist Essene Gospel
of Jesus
from
the back cover
So the
man John explains, "There
was a man, one sent from
God, whose name was John:
This man came for a witness,
to bear witness concerning
the Light, that all might
believe thru him."
(Jn.1:6-8)
"I
baptize with water; but in
the midst of you there has
stood one whom you do not
know. While you have the
Light,
believe in the Light, that
you may become Sons of the
Light."
(Jn.1:27, 12:36)
Josephus says John lived on
carob,
eating neither bread of any
kind
nor the flesh of animals,
beside refusing
wine and intoxicating
beverages.
But
the Gospels now read he ate
“locusts and wild honey.”
The Locust tree and fruit
are carob,
otherwise known as “
St. John’s
Bread” or food,
because Luke (
7:33
) says
he ate no bread.
However, the words “wild
honey” the Hebrew scholars
in the Soncino Chumash
translate as “fruits that
exude sweet juices”,
such as “dates and figs”.
But the place where John was
at the
Jordan
crossing at
BETh ANIA (
Bethany
)
means garden of the figs.
MShIkHA
means Messiah of the Jews,
Christ or Anointed,
but the same word means
Measured, or better
understood
as the Exemplar that
Christians must measure up
to.
The
Heavenly
City
is
measured “according to the
measure of man, which is an
angel.”
Thus,
we have the Angel-Messiah
that Justin Martyr wrote
about, which manifested with
the illumination of John and
his disciples on the
Jordan.
He was
not the Messiah that the
Jews looked for,
and he frankly told them
just that,
but he did have a Measure or
Exemplar
which his disciples must
comply with.
So it is
the Spiritual Presence of
Jesus
in John’s flesh that the
disciples followed
seeking to find out “from
whence” he was.
The
Gospel, originally, "God
Spell" means unfoldment of
the Gnosis or Holy Spirit.
The Nag
Hammadi editor James
Robinson clearly shows
that the Desert Fathers of
Christianity came from the
Gnostic First Christians who
in turn had been Essenes.
Eusebius,
the father of Church
history, wrote:
"Those ancient Therapeutae
were Christians, and that
their ancient writings were
our gospels and epistles."
Bishop
Epiphanius said of the
Essenes: "They who believe
on Christ were called
Jessaei (Essenes) before
they were called Christians.
These derived their
constitution from the
signification of the name
Jesus, which in Hebrew
signifies the same as
Therapeutae, that is a
savior or physician."
Clement of
Alexandria
tells
us: "After the resurrection
the Lord delivered the
Gnosis to James the Just and
John and Peter: they
delivered it to the other
apostles." The Gnostics were
the "First Christians of
Saint
John
",
otherwise known as the
Nazarenes.
As Elaine
Pagels writes in The Gnostic
Gospels,
“Some scholars have
suggested that if the names
were
changed the `living Buddha’
appropriately says what the
Gospel of Thomas attributes
to the living Jesus.”
Jesus and
the Buddha identify in being
the
"true Light that enlightens
every man". (Jn.1:9)
"I am the Light of the
world," said Jesus,
while those looking at John
were told, "I am not the
Christ"
Product Details:
ISBN: 0972587705
Format: Paperback, 112pp
Pub. Date: October 2004
Publisher: Paradisian
price:
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