A More Historical Crucifixion
Echo2002
As with the rest of the Christian Bible, the stories of the
crucifixion rest in confusion and purposeful corruption. For example,
in John’s gospel the Crucifixion happened on the day before Passover;
in Mark, Luke and Matthew, it happened on the day after. Although it
seems that the Sanhedrin meets at night to judge Jesus, the Sanhedrin
was expressly forbidden at the time to meet at night or on the
Passover. Also contrary to what is said in the Bible, the Sanhedrin
was able to pass death sentences on Jewish citizens. There was also no
known custom of freeing a prisoner at that time of year to celebrate
anything. Thus the offer to liberate Jesus or Barabbas is pure
fiction. Who wrote these gospels? Who was responsible for the changes?
Many of us have memories of being a party to such thing in past lives
and do not always feel happy about what it was we have done, but now
it’s time to set the record straight.
So much of Christianity and its belief in a divine Savior rests on the
event of the Crucifixion, and much of the blame for this event has
been shifted away from the Romans, the powerful oppressors of the
time, and put squarely on the Jews. As long as the Romans were in
power, nothing could have been written to anger them or the
retribution would have been swift and merciless. This is one of the
reasons for the writers of the day using the Essene coded word system
as elaborated upon in Volume 2. During war, secrecy is needed, and
have no doubts, the ‘Holy Land’ was at war at that time, not only with
the Romans, but with itself as well.
The power of the Unseen God was throughout the land and everyone
wanted to be the chosen group to control it. Preparations were being
made for the coming of the two messiahs and, as many of us are
experiencing right now, there was an air that things would soon
change. There was also the fact that those writing for a Greek, Roman,
or Arabic audience all had a different agenda to fulfill. The early
Christian authors wanted to separate themselves from the Jewish masses
and old Jewish traditions - they were now ‘Christians’.
Remember that these four gospels were chosen for the final version of
the Bible to the exclusion of so many others. They were chosen by a
Rome-centered church, and approved through various councils at a time
when Rome wanted to usurp the power base of Lucifer in Yahweh from the
Jews and center it squarely in the new Christian religion
headquartered in Rome. This Roman orthodoxy rests essentially on the
books of the New Testament.
It was for this reason that as Christianity grew and spread, Jesus
became less and less a Jew, and more and more a Christian. Therefore
it was all right to blame the Jews. As Gardner says,
“Everything in the Bible says that Jesus was the King of the Jews.
“And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews?” Jesus response
correctly translated is: “Thou hast spoken correctly.” The Gospels
were composed for a Greco-Roman audience, and the role of the Romans
in Jesus’ trial and execution had to be whitewashed and presented as
sympathetically as possible.”
Crucifixion was an execution reserved specifically and exclusively for
enemies of Rome, just as Spartacus and his rebellious slaves were an
enemy of Rome and had therefore been crucified. If Jesus was
crucified, it means he cannot have been as apolitical as the Gospels
seek to make him out. In fact, only the fourth gospel, that of John,
seems to have been based on any kind of actual eye-witness account of
the Crucifixion. And contrary to most Christians’ assumptions, none of
the Gospels were written by the Apostles themselves.
The events on the Cross certainly have their oddities. For instance,
no sooner does Jesus inhale the vinegar on the sponge (what should
have for all intent and purpose been a restorative) than he gives up
the ghost. This would lead one to suspect that what was on the sponge
was more likely some kind of drug to make it appear as though he had
died, rather than any kind of restorative.
The events that happened after the Crucifixion were also odd.
According to Roman law of the time, a crucified man was denied all
burial, yet in the Bible, Pilate is quick to give his body over to
Joseph of Arimathea for exactly that purpose. This clearly signifies
to many researchers that there was evidence of some sort of collusion.
In the original Gospel of Mark written in Greek, Joseph asks for what
is correctly translated as the “living body” of Jesus. Pilate,
however, grants him what he believes to be the “dead body” of Jesus.
Although mentioned by the Bishop of Antioch as early as AD180, a
surviving copy of the Gospel of Peter was only first located in a
valley of the upper Nile in 1886. The fact that in it, Joseph of
Arimathea turns out to be a close friend of Pontius Pilate may suggest
why it had not been ‘found’ before then. If this is true, it also
points to the likelihood of a fraudulent Crucifixion.
The tomb in which Jesus was buried, according to The Gospel of Peter,
lay in a place called “the Garden of Joseph,” which would correctly
attribute the burial tomb as belonging to Joseph of Arimathea. The
Gospel also interprets Jesus’ last words on the cross as the
particularly striking, “My power, my power, why hast thou forsaken
me?”
It is no wonder then that modern authorities agree that Jesus, quite
unabashedly, modeled and perhaps even contrived his life in accordance
with the prophecies heralding the coming of a Messiah, and this
included the crucifixion.
In The Heresiarchs of the Gnostic Writings, Basilides, an Alexandrian
scholar writing between AD 120 and 130, claimed that the Crucifixion
was a fraud, that Jesus did not die on the cross, and that a
substitute - Simon of Cyrene - took his place. As late as the seventh
century the Koran also maintained precisely the same argument.
In the Nag Hammadi scroll, The Second Treatise of the Great Seth, one
of the so-called Gnostic Gospels composed for an Egyptian audience
rather than a Roman one, it explains that there was a substitution
made for at least one of the three victims of the Crucifixion. With
regard to this substitution it mentions Simon the Cyrene as the
substitute. It also mentions that Jesus did not die on the Cross as
presumed, so the substitution apparently succeeded. Jesus is then
quoted as saying after the event, “As for my death - which was real
enough to them - it was real to them because of their own
incomprehension and blindness. . . And I was laughing at their
ignorance.”
How did this entire pretense come about? The first aspect we need to
look at is the location of the crucifixion and the burial.
While commonly accepted in modern times as being a public affair, the
crucifixion actually took place in private - onlookers being obliged
to watch “from afar off,” making the possibility of a substitution
even greater. Matthew, Mark, and John say it took place at Golgotha,
Luke says it was Calvary - both words deriving their names from the
word for “skull.” There is also no mention of any hill in any of the
four Gospels. According to John 19:41, the location was a garden in
which there was a private sepulcher identified as being owned by
Joseph of Arimathea (Matthew 27:59-60). Thus instead of having a grand
event as the movies have incorrectly portrayed, the crucifixion was a
small-scale affair on what were privately controlled lands.
Because Jesus was an Essene, the burial should have been at a place
called ‘the Bosom of Abraham’ in Qumran - south of the Vestry where
there was a cemetery garden. Revelation 11:8: And their dead bodies
shall lie in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called
Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.” This states that
Jesus was crucified in ‘the great city which spiritually is called
Sodom and Egypt’. This positively identifies the location as Qumran,
designated as ‘Egypt’ by the ascetic order of the Egyptian
Therapeutate, and also geographically associated with the Old
Testament city of Sodom that had once been located not far away.
The second aspect we need to look at is the identity of the other two
‘thieves’ crucified with Jesus, for much of the truth about the
crucifixion is covered up by giving very few details about them. Both,
it turns out, were leaders of the Zealot revolt against Pontius
Pilate. The first was Simon, known as Zelotes, also as Simon Kananites
- the fanatic. He was, however, best known as Simon Magus, head of the
Samaritan Magi and the greatest magician of his day. Some accounts
tell how Simon was actually able to levitate himself above the Roman
Forum. Not only was he a great magician, but he was also a faithful
friend of Jesus and a member of the priesthood of the Essene
Community. His role in the community had been that of ceremonial
‘Father’ until he was later defrocked for his part in the Zealot
revolution. He is the Simon at whose house Mary anoints Jesus’ head.
The other ‘thief’ might have been Thaddeus, also a leader of the
Zealot revolution. He was a deputy to ‘the Father’ and thus a
ceremonial devotional ‘son’ of the Father in the Essene tradition. The
expression bar (son) and abba (father) give us a clue as to who he
might have been in terms of the Bible—bar-abba—Barabbas. In the Bible
he is described as ‘a notable prisoner’ and ‘one who committed murder
in the insurrection’. When given the choice between releasing Jesus or
Barabbas, the crowd “cried out all at once, saying, Away with this
man, and release unto us Barabbas” (Luke 23:18). And Pilate releases
Barabbas.
It may have been Thaddeus who was released, but also in custody was
Judas Sicariote (Judas Iscariote), under whom the Dead Sea Scrolls
were produced in his role as Chief of the Scribes. He too, was a
Zealot leader, and warlord of Qumran. The Romans nicknamed him Judas
Sicarius - the Assassin (a sica was a deadly, curved dagger). This
became corrupted to Sicariote, and then to ‘Iscariot’ - the Biblical
betrayer of Jesus.
So it was that Jesus, Thaddeus, and (possibly) even Judas Sicariote
were led to ‘the place of the skull’ for crucifixion.
The third aspect we need to know here is the true identity of Joseph
of Arimathea. Joseph of Arimathea was ‘an honorable counselor’,
meaning a member of the Sanhedrin (Mark 15:43). He was also a disciple
of Jesus, “but secretly, for fear of the Jews” (John 19:38). That he
was the one who asked for the body of Jesus seemed to come as no
surprise to either Pontius Pilate or to Jesus’ mother, Mary, and Mary
Magdalene. They all went along happily with his arrangements,
accepting his authority without comment or demur. Thus this person was
both important and well-known. The title Arimathea is in fact a
descriptive title, derived from the Hebrew ‘ram-’ or ‘rama-’ (meaning
height or top) and the Greek word ‘theo-’ (of God) - thus meaning
“highest of God.”
The patriarchal title of being a ‘Joseph’ was always applied to the
next in succession to the heir of the Davidic kingly line. Jesus’
father was a Joseph, and Jesus was heir to the throne of David. In
this respect, with Jesus regarded as the ‘David’ in line of
succession, then his eldest brother James would have been the
designated ‘Joseph’, he being recognized as successor at the time.
James was then the Crown Prince as such - ‘the Divine Highness’, the
Joseph Rama-theo, or Joseph of Arimathea. The identity of Joseph of
Arimathea then was Jesus’ own brother, James, also known as James the
Just.
It would therefore come as no surprise that James should take charge
of the body and burial arrangements for Jesus. It would also make
sense of why Pilate would let him take the body, and why the women
should let him organize all the arrangements. One of the caves found
at Qumran was in fact the sepulcher of Joseph, the Crown Prince. It
was sited directly opposite ‘the Bosom of Abraham’, and
coincidentally, a large stone had been rolled across the entrance to
seal the cave from rainfall.
Crucifixion was a very painful death, a process that normally lasted
for days. The legs of the man being crucified would eventually be
broken so that he would suffocate by falling forward, the weight of
his body crushing his lungs and killing him. No one should have died
within the course of a day or less such as Jesus appeared to do. When
Jesus’ side was pierced, the fact that he bled (identified as blood
and water) was held to indicate that he was dead. In reality, however,
vascular bleeding indicates that the body is still alive, not dead.
That remarkable restorative potion given to Jesus that made him ‘give
up the Ghost’ was said to be “vinegar mingled with gall.” Otherwise,
it was soured wine mixed with snake venom. Dependent on the
proportions of each, such a mixture could either induce
unconsciousness or even cause death. However, in this case, it was not
a cup full that Jesus took, just a spongeful. Under the direction of
someone practiced in the healing and magical arts such as Simon Magus,
the magician, this could have made death seem only apparent. Flavius
Josephus gives us a first-hand account and described the Essene’s art
of healing and medicine which he says they had got from the ancients.
In his role as the deposed but still venerated Father priest of
Qumran, this might also make sense of Jesus’ supposed last words. In a
true ‘leap of faith’, Jesus said to his trusted ally after taking the
potion, ‘Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit’.
Joseph was already negotiating for the body to be removed and put into
his sepulcher before the Sabbath fell. Pilate, for his part, was
amazed at how quickly Jesus had died. To speed up matters further,
Joseph is said to have quoted to Pilate a Jewish rule that a body
should not be left to hang out in any wise, “but thou shalt bury him
that day.” Pilate thus sanctioned the change in tradition and returned
to Jerusalem leaving ‘Joseph’ in control. Jesus, or his substitute,
had therefore only been on the cross for less than half a day. And
those with the greatest healing knowledge in the land, Jesus’ own
people, the Essenes, were then waiting in the wings to administer the
venom’s antidote once the body had been removed to be prepared for its
burial.
Nicodemus arrives then bringing with him ‘a mixture of myrrh and
aloes, about a hundred pound weight’. Myrrh is a sedative and healing
compound, while aloes is a purgative - probably the best thing to
purge the snake venom from Jesus’ or the Cyrene’s body.
Two gospels say this crucifixion took place at different hours - one
says the third hour, the other the sixth hour. This anomaly occurs
because Mark’s Gospel relies on Hellenistic reckoning, and John’s
Gospel uses Hebrew time. The result of the time change was, as Mark
15:33 describes, “When the sixth hour was come, there was a darkness
over the whole land until the ninth hour.” These three hours of
darkness were symbolic, in name only, the end of the fifth hour thus
being followed immediately by the ninth hour. This left three hours
for Simon Magus to do his restorative work, administer the medications
to Jesus, set the bones of the Cyrene as they were broken, and
dispense justice to Judas, all before the Sabbath began.
The Resurrection
Once again, it is only Matthew who talks of an angel of the Lord
coming to roll away the stone in front of Jesus’ tomb. The others say
the stone was already gone when the women arrived. There are also many
other discrepancies in the different versions of the events at the
holy sepulcher. The only common denominator is that the body of Jesus
was gone.
Mary Magdalene sees Jesus but thinks him to be the gardener. He says
“Touch me not.” All of these versions differ.
Concerning the angel who moved the stone, Matthew reads, ‘His
countenance was like lightening. And his raiment ‘white as snow’.
Simon (Magus) Zelotes was politically nicknamed ‘Lightning’; his
vestment was white as is the typical Essene clothing, and in terms of
a priestly rank he was indeed an ‘angel’.
Thaddeus also says, “There was a great earthquake and an angel
appeared.” Thaddeus himself was politically nicknamed ‘Earthquake’,
just as Simon was termed ‘Lightening’. Thus it could well have been
Simon and Thaddeus who were the two angels Mary encountered, and by
her reaction, it is evident that both Mary and the disciples were not
a party to these seemingly spurious events.
The Gospel of Mary (Magdalen) confirms that for a short time after
Jesus had been ‘raised from the dead’, some of the Apostles knew
nothing about it, and went on believing that Jesus had been crucified.
By not dying, however, Jesus held his mission together and stopped his
disciples from scattering in fear and dismay as they would have done
had he been killed. Had he died, Jesus’ cause would have died with
him.
from Where Were You Before The Tree of Life? Vol. 3
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