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2000 YEARS AGO...
You might say Jesus Christ was born, but actually that would not be true.
For in history, besides the gospels which were written much later, there are
no historical records of the birth or existence of Jesus Christ there is no
clear date or record of his birth or death.
I believe that Jesus Christ is the most important event because of my
belief... yet, when compared to the events of those times, our perspective
changes.
Why do we associate year one with Jesus Christ?
...........................
At that moment of history there are three very important events that most of us have forgotten or just never knew.
1. A child is born between a Roman God and an Egyptian Goddess.
2. There is a world war and its final battles are in Israel against the Jews.
3. Three rulers of two empires are killed.
Roman God Julius Caesar is murdered, Cleopatra the Goddess and Queen of Egypt commits suicide, and their 17 year old son, a Pharaoh, is killed.
Egyptians. This young boy was the eldest son of Cleopatra VII, and Julius Caesar. He was declared by Julius Caesar to be the next in line as emperor of Rome. As a child, he ruled jointly with his mother Cleopatra VII from September 2, 44 BC to August, 30 BC, when he was allegedly killed by Octavian, who would become the Roman emperor following the murder of Julius Caesar.
This child's birth would be the cause of these extraordinary events...
The assassination of his own father Julius Caesar in 44BC.
The marriage of Mark Anthony a human with Cleopatra VII ,Pharaoh God Queen.
A Roman civil war that would become a World War stretching from Greece, through old Persian empire, Egypt and ending in Israel.
The suicide of his own mother, goddess of the Egyptians, and a Macedonian Greek Queen.
Finally 100 or so years after his birth the destruction of the temple in Jerusalem and the Jewish dispersal from the promised land.
These very important events would have never occurred were it not for the birth of this child. What happened to this child ?
It is told by the Romans that won this world war, that he was killed. Yet, there are accounts that the child was taken to India as his mother Cleopatra had ordered.
The murder, suicides of individuals that would have been seen as Gods to the people of the world would certainly affect things.
Somewhere from the supposed death of this child in 30 BC to the final battles for Israel in 135 AD, we will see the Jewish temple destroyed, Israelites sold into slavery and dispersed throughout the Roman empire... here is the life of Jesus Christ and his Apostles.
For the peoples of Israel these times must have been of biblical proportions. All major world religions would have seen this as a great message of some sort. The most secretive cults of the Roman Rulers, the Egyptian Priests, Zoroastrian Magi of Persia, the Cynics, Pythagorean, Stoics and so on...these events would certainly affect all religions.
The Egyptians... had lost their God Pharaoh... and the Jewish people had lost their promised land.
Certainly we should mention this history when we discuss Jesus Christ. These historical events when placed in context with the life and teaching of Jesus Christ make for a story that strangely fits history unlike any story ever heard before. Here is a story that to be told properly, must start with creation.
So, once upon a time.....
The Genome project tells us, that about 100 thousand years ago there was a group of about 10 thousand humans that lived in Africa. In Sudan near the headwaters of the Nile river, just South of where Egypt is today. They can tell from genetic markers that they migrated east from there and became the eastern races.
So in this little story of mine... Adam and Eave lived in this perfect land
we will call Eden. It was never too cold, good water, and it had plenty of
food just waiting to be plucked from the trees. No need for clothes, no need
for work, it was a good time.
They grew and multiplied. Over time many would leave Eden and go east. These
people that left suffered the consequences of leaving Eden. They had to wear
clothes to protect themselves from the cold. They made tools to work the
land and have dominion over the beasts. Life was a bit more difficult for
them, but they prospered as well.
They worked in communities, they had language, and could talk to each other.
They stood upright on two legs. They could out run all the other beasts and
could travel to far off places.
They were the cleverest of all the creatures on earth, yet, they were scared
and superstitious. They had different characters. Some would bully, some
were meek, and others were curious and would examine things. Those that
looked at the stars would learn when to expect the seasons and could predict
when the times of hunger and cold would come. The stars would not only tell
them when to plant but also answer their superstitions.
They would study the motion of the heavens. They would keep their knowledge
secret and pass it on from generation to generation. They discovered that
knowing when the seasons would come to plant would feed the people. They
alone with there knowledge could calm the fear of starvation. They would
gain the trust of the people. These early mathematicians and astronomers
were the only ones that understood what
the stars would say. With these secrets they would govern the meek, scared,
superstitious and the bullies.
Their secret knowledge would make them very special people. They would
become like God’s to all the others.
In the first 100 thousand years of the life of these humans, the special
people had learned not only how to read the stars, know the seasons and
plant the plants, but had learned that they could create a "reality" for the
people they fed.
You see even though we know we come from something in the past we can only
remember the past we personally live. When each of us is born we start
afresh… we have no idea who we are or where we came from. You can tell us
any past or reality you wish and if you are convincing we will believe that
reality.
They found that if they kept the truth of history secret, they could then
create almost any reality and pass that on as truth... even a lie would
become truth and then defended. Imagine that your parents never told you
Santa Clause was not true, and made certain you were always fooled. Just
like children we want to keep believing.
Well...
those that knew this trick would be the most powerful of all... they would
hold the truth of the past secret and would keep it to themselves. They
would create an illusion of reality for the others, a reality tailored to
make them willing servants and slaves. Entire civilizations could be put in
their hands. They would keep their civilizations in an illusion. Like Plato
explains in his allegory of the cave, we would become so trusted in our
illusion that we would kill any one that would bring us the truth.
These select wise men knew they themselves were only a belief that was
connected only by the corruptive power that their unique knowledge gave
them. They would be very cautious as to whom they would tell the truth to.
They went further east to settle the other lands. They would settle the rivers to the east. The people from the land of Eden would call themselves Egyptians and their river the Nile. Further east they would give themselves names, like the Babylonians of the Tigris and Euphrates.
They would
make a calendar of the cosmos and make Gods from the celestial bodies. The
calendar would be the bond that united this family of special people, that
knew the truth. A calendar that had some 26,000 years that repeated on the
anniversary of the first observations. Divided into 12 parts of a zodiac to
be 2166 years. 26,000 years that marked the complete precession of the
stars. The wobble of the earth only they knew, God/Stars they believed
controlled them.
They would continue to go east, to create more civilizations. The Chinese,
the Indians of India and the Indians of America. No mater where these wise
men would go they would take their knowledge given to them by the ancients.
They would govern their peoples as slaves and their people would love them
as Gods.
They would prosper from the ignorance of others. They knew they only had
this power because of the ignorance they could enforce. They must enforce
ignorance, or they would loose all power, the truth would be their enemy.
The most
powerful of them were from the river from where all humans had come, the
Nile, in Egypt. They were the Egyptian Pharaohs. The High Priest-Pharaoh
would be created in the image of his particular reality and given to the
slaves for them to live in his reality and to worship him. Time would begin
with the Pharaohs reign. Then the slaves would be told a great mythical
heroic reality. The slaves would love the greatness of the Pharaoh and call
him God. They would till the soil for him and they would fight battles
against other rulers from far off lands.
Although these Pharaohs were Gods to the others... they knew that they did
not create themselves.
The
Pharaohs had their own belief, secret beliefs. To them order was life and
chaos was what opposed life. They believed the greatest and most heroic of
them were the personification of order and must surely be touched by the
Gods.
They would look at the cosmos, the earth and nature and they saw a great
ordered system. Before this ordered system existed there must have been
chaos. Then it must follow that order came from chaos... and order then must
be their God. This could only mean one thing, that they the wisest, the most
knowing creators, managers of slaves and civilizations … the rulers of this
order must be the Heroes that God had chosen from this chaos to do Gods work
and they alone were descended from the Creator God. They must be one and the
same with God.
The
greatest of them even given birth by God. The fathers of heroes must have
been Gods and not mortals. A virgin birth of course. There fathers were
certainly Gods that came down and mated with women.
This meant that in this order that the creator had made, God had put all the
other people on earth to serve them.
The Mammoth dies
About 13 thousand years ago something occurred that would change everything.
In North America the Mammoth and the Saber Tooth tiger disappear. From 100
thousand years ago, polar ice shows a steady cooling down of the
temperatures of earth and when the earth is at its coldest... there is rapid
warming.
At this point in our history we had moved all over the planet, but we had not yet formed the great civilizations. The wise men ruled small kingdom's.
A cataclysm
occurred, maybe an asteroid, but a great and instant ice age came, a great
catastrophe, a mass genetic extermination.
The universe, the very stars that the first peoples had gazed upon would
come to give them a great nudge. A great cold would come for many years.
Only the wisest and the strongest would survive. Those who were bold would
travel great distances in search for the life force, the one object they
knew gave life, the Sun.
For all the years they had gone to where the Sun rose in the east, now they
would return and follow to where it would set in the west.
The peoples of Eden that had gone to the east 100 thousand years ago, now,
began to return west and south, from where they came. Only the strongest and
most clever would return. They would come back with new points of views,
languages and discoveries to enrich the lands of the Chinese, and the
Indians of India.
They would come south to Babylon. They were almost as a spirit of transformation. Languages would change, new areas of the world would grow in population. A genetic change…. new transformed genes would come back and mix with the ones that stayed home 90 thousand years ago. The survivors of the 90 thousand year road to the east would return to the west, they would be a new and transformed human.
With the migrations came a mindset of freedom. Living with the harshness of nature for so many years, had made their minds independent of slavery. They were not the soft slave minds of Egypt or Babylon.
They would come south to the lands that would one day be Macedonia, Assyria, and Greece and build empires. Babylon and its slavery would not be for them.
The Floods
Ice Age would end… and if God is the Alpha and Omega, it would be God that did all this. This Ice age would not end calmly or without greater effect. Global warming... rapid global warming.
As the temperatures warmed. The ice began to melt the seas would began to swell, great floods would come, many would die as most all lived along the rivers and seas.
The world would warm up like it had not done in 100 thousand years, and it would stay warm. The peoples that had migrated, found their lands more plentiful, shorter winters and longer growing seasons...populations grew dramatically it the northern climates that were once cold and barren.
100 thousand years of migration, harsh conditions, devastating floods change into warm and calm forests in Europe. Populations grow on the northern outskirts of the established Egyptians and Babylonians.
It is now possibly 6000 years before Christ, this remnant of survivors would
be those that would start our civilization.
From this transformation comes humans and not wizards, not a Gods, but
humans with a new belief. The adversity of the events of that journey to and
from the East thousands of years ago, was now in this mans collective
memory. He believed that stars were not what made us who we were, but that
there was something internal that connected us to the Alpha and Omega… to
God, a living God that spoke to us. A living God that was both suffering as
well as love. A God not to be understood but to be obeyed.
For this man there could be but one God, and in Babylon, the Gods of Babylon
could not serve him, they were no longer his Gods. This man is the man
inside Zarathustra and inside Abraham.
For the people that lived near Mount Ararat where Noah is said to have
landed, in time become believers of one God Ahuramazda (Ahura - lord,
Mazda- wisdom) , and their prophet Zarathustra. These are the people that
will become the Hyskos, Hurrians, from Mitanni, who later become the
Persians and the Hebrew.
Abraham comes from the city of Ur in Babylon. The father of the Hebrew
people and the future of a nation.
The Bible will tell us that this is now the tenth generation after the
flood. The people of Abraham go through a journey from Babylon through the
lands of the Hurrians, Hyskos, and Mitanni and then west to Egypt where this
story began. The sons of Abraham have a God, known as YHWH. The lands of
Mitanni from where the tribes of Abraham have come to Egypt from, had named
God, Ahuramazda.
In Egypt they will meet the illusionists and masters of Kingdom of Egypt. The line of wise men known as the Pharaohs now come face to face with their past. The mind of Abraham, touches the minds of the Egyptians. These people who believe independently, would come to teach the great Egyptians.
Exodus
Archaeology tells us that about 3800 years ago Semitic people from the lands
of Mitanni settle in the lands of the Nile Delta. It is unknown if they are
in Egypt by conquest or by choice as slaves. They are known as the Hyskos,
or “the foreign rulers”. At some point during this period the Pharaoh
removes these people from the delta region, but history can not say where
they went. These peoples... they have infected the land of the Pharaohs. So
infected is Egypt, that one of its Pharaohs Amenhotep IV, tries to convert
the Egyptian religion and all its Priests to the belief in one God. This
will not do.
There are no other archeological or historical events that parallel the biblical events of the Exodus like this one. Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell both believe that the reign Amenhotep IV, is the most likely time for the Exodus story.
Remember these Egyptian Pharaohs are the greatest of all masters. They have for thousands of years perfected the control of how reality is perceived by their slaves. In this world reality, religion, and history is invented for the working class through propaganda for the benefit of the priests and the Pharaohs.
Is not the following story a possibility?
The Pharaoh Tut-moses removes the Hyskos from his land and most cleverly
places them next to Egypt in Canaan. To do this he gives them new and
extraordinary reality. These peoples, these slaves that believe in one God
the sons of Abraham they that have infected the land of the Pharaohs, will
be given a make over of biblical proportions.
Thousands are sent into the desert, lead by Moses and his priests. For 40
years they are forced to wander a desert. They are walked in circles and in
starvation. The most perfect form of brain washing and mind control will
occur. A generation passes and a new history is given to them to be
believed. They are resettled at the very border of Egypt, to be governed by
Kings they believe to be their own. Told that they had been given this land
by God.
They will protect that land unlike any slave, for they believe they are
free. The truth will be kept from them and they will fight all invaders that
come for the rich lands of the Nile and of Egypt.
A little side note …. Why didn’t anyone never ask... “why did the Pharaoh
not go get his slaves back?” They could have
said at some point in the hundreds of years… “lets go get the slaves we lost
so many years ago.” ,"we can’t let that Moses get away with that!" There
should be some sort of sentiments there, a few wars at least. But nothing …
no problems. Plus, there is no sea between Egypt and Israel you can walk
there.
None the less the Israelites certainly do a lot of fighting. The Bible is
full of wars.
Adam and Eave
The influence Egyptians had on the belief of the Israelites must have been significant. Both history and the Bible show people that lived in peace next to each other for hundreds of years. No mountains to separate them, no walls, no fortifications between these two peoples.
The creation story of the Hebrew God is very similar to the Egyptian creation story. In the Egyptian story, God comes from chaos and creates the earth the sky and the night and the animals.
The Egyptian story has Osyris and Isis instead of Adam and Eve… and have
Osyris being killed by his brother Set for the cause of violence. We have
the story of Cane killing Able … and Cane the bad son going to the East…
This would work nicely if you wanted to have a people hate people coming
from the east.…for they are the sons of Cain. Especially if all your enemies
are from the east like the Babylonians and Assyrians.
The Egyptian belief is that these original peoples are Gods and in Genesis
they are Humans. In the Egyptian story God creates the heavens and the earth
but they are Gods.
In the Bible, God creates the heavens, the earth, and creates man and woman
in his image. Then he is done on the seventh day. But wait, he actually has
made a mistake.
As an afterthought a working class is created for he forgot there was no one to do the work.
Genesis 2:5 "And every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew: for the LORD God had not caused it to rain upon the earth, and there was not a man to till the ground"
He now creates Adam and Eave to till the earth and work the garden. I would suppose Adam and Eave are made to serve the Man and Woman created in Gods image during first the 7 days of creation. Obviously if you are made in Gods image you don't till the earth.
The parallels between the Egyptian religion and the old testament are quite numerous, to the extent of archeologists finding Biblical verses in Egyptian temples.
No need to go further into this aspect, as I only want to give a short
history from a different perspective.
Babylon and Persia
The Babylonians conquer Egypt in 605BC. They discover they can not control
Egypt with the Israelites there. They would forever fight for the land that
God had given them. They can control the slaves of Egypt for they know they
are slaves… but the Israelites believe they are free and will fight for
their land that God gave them.
Solution …in 586 BC they are moved to Babylon and worked as slaves where
they can keep an eye on them. They take all the Kings family, Priests and
inteligencia that controlled the Israelites to Babylon.
539 BC, the Persians, conquer Babylon. The Persians that believe in one God,
Ahuramazda the people and lands of civilization of Mitanni, where the
Semitic peoples of the Hyskos
had come from. The land that is next to Mount Ararat where Noah's ship
landed. Where Abrahams people came through on their way to Egypt.
It is now 500 years before Christ. The Persians now rule over Babylon to the
south, and Egypt to the West... and they permit the Israelites to return to
their promised land. Why would the Persians allow the Israelites to return
to Israel… Why?
Because they felt they could rule the lands better with them back in control of the Israelites that were still in Judea. More importantly they can have Judea control Egypt. The Priests and Kings of the Israelites have lived in Babylonian captivity for over 50 years. In a sense the Kings and priests of the Jews have been liberated. Those who return to control the land of Israel are the Pharisees and well connected to the peoples back in Persia and the former Babylon. This is the best way for the Persians to control the new lands of both Egypt and Babylon.
Of course the Greeks and Macedonians, who the arch enemies of the Persians, hate this.
The Israelites that were taken to Babylon were not just any Israelites, they
are the ones that knew the truth. They would have been in fact part of the
Egyptian upper class. The wise people that ruled the "reality" they had been
given to all slaves. By now the Israelites had been in Babylon for 50 years
and are well established. About 10% come back to take their kingdom and to
once again control the nation of Israel.
Pause for a moment and feel the times these were. It is 500 BC, Greece is a
people that comes in and out of Persian control. Macedonia, where Alexander
the Great would come from, were barbarians. Rome has just been founded. 150
years later Aristotle will come from Persia to teach. Pythagoras would go to
Egypt to learn the mysteries and mathematics.
Only a few Greeks had some rudimentary form of democracy. To not be a slave meant you were not part of civilization and your children would starve from time to time. To be a slave meant you would worship your master. People wanted to be slaves, this is why Moses has a hard time keeping the Israelites from going back to Egypt.
Few could read, and less studied. The a few scholars would study in secret
societies. Even Aristotle disapproved with writing because it made for poor
memory.
You simply believed what you were told, and that is how you were governed,
through your hunger and ignorance.
Secret societies, and priesthoods would be careful who they told. The
Druids, the Magi, the Pythagoreans, the cult of Dionysus, Mithraism, and so
on.
With the Pharisees put in place in Israel, the Persians could now rule Egypt
and have a military force to protect it… the Israelites. The slaves in Egypt
would be ruled by the priest hood and the Pharaoh, and the Israelites would
defend the border once again all governed secretively from the top.
Remember that all this came about because of climate change. That people
began to migrate, only the most clever and strongest would survive. Well
when people that were once free, move like that, they are different and
don’t want to readily join up with other people they don't trust. They would
come and live on the fringes… they would be the barbarians. The people from
the colder north that had migrated south. Macedonia and Villanova would be
the perfect place for them to settle. It is here where now the climate
having warmed up after the flood, their populations stabilize and began to
grow and prosper.
Macedonia
From northern Greece, Macedonia, would come Alexander the Great. In 325 BC
his armies would conquer first the Persians and then the Egyptians.
In Egypt, Alexander fights the Israelites in Palestine, and then enters
Egypt and is welcomed. Now why is that? Why would he fight in Palestine and
then be called God when he enters Egypt? Because Israelites would in fact be
the army that is governing Egypt for the Persians. Egypt had been ruled by
both the Persians, and the "Hyskos". Remember the Hyskos, the "one God",
people from Mitanni, Hebrew people that the Egyptians thought they had dealt
with in Exodus.
The Persians are the people of the profit Zarathustra, of the one God Ahuramazda. The Israelites also believe in one God. To the Egyptian and Greek Religion...there is no greater bad than to ignore all the other Gods.
Alexander the Great, is also polytheistic, he is of the cult of Dionysus. The God's and religious traditions of the Macedonians, the Greeks and the Egyptians are much more akin that those of the Persians and Israelites.
When Alexander enters Egypt he is in fact is liberating them from the Israelites that have been working with the Persians. The Egyptian high priest hood and religion is once whole, for the Greeks have the same Gods of the stars. Of course Alexander is the liberator and the Hero and must be God as well.
From this day, all the Pharaohs, will be Macedonian kings. They will be Greeks until Cleopatra dies, and there are no more Pharaohs. Since all people in Egypt at this time are slaves and know only what they are told, things go back to normal. The Egyptian priesthood will support the new Macedonian rulers.
The Kings of Judea will govern their people and profit from them under the
new Macedonian rule. Pharisees continue to reinforce belief to the
Israelites. The Priests of the Pharaoh continue to reinforce belief to their
slaves in Egypt. The warrior class of the Hebrew once again live in peace
with the slave class of the Egyptians all under the world rule of the
Greeks.
The Macedonians have
done well for themselves.
Villanova
Macedonia is a land to the north of Greece …Villanova is a land to the north of Italy.
Villanova will not do badly either. They are the Etruscans, and they begin to take lands too. They establish Rome in about 500 BC. These Romans are basically Greek in what they believe… same Gods different names, same basic folk. Sort of like England and the United States. The Romans are the young and crazy Americans taking lands from others and advancing the Greek mentality and civilization.
From the time of Alexander the Great in 325 B.C. till about the year 1 all is just fine. The slaves in Egypt are happy because ignorance is bliss. Each time a new Pharaoh comes into power the slaves are told of the miracles he can perform, battles with non existent peoples that he wins. That is what good priests do, they support the Pharaoh. High society lives well, Persian, Greek, and Egyptian upper classes all enjoy the fruits of the labor of slaves... Those who know, ruling those that do not know.
Remember these are Macedonians that control Egypt, not Greeks… Greeks like
democracy. Macedonians have kings. The only thing the slaves of Egypt and of
the old Persian empire need to know is what they are told. The Israelites
need to know only what the Pharisees will tell them.
No one needs to know the truth… its too important of a secret.
Travel is very difficult … news does not travel well… no news papers… very
few can read for that matter… and what you will read will always be the
governments propaganda. In these times people were deep in that very cave
that Plato spoke of... very deep in this cave. Even if someone were to tell
them the truth, they would reject it as heresy and kill him.
These are the waters within which those men from Villanova begin to build
Rome. For the next 200 years they will fight the wars while the Greeks enjoy
the fruits of their new empire.
Philistines, Phoenicians
and Carthaginians
To understand Rome you must understand the "sea peoples". This was a loose alliance of maritime cities that traded all over the Mediterranean. They had made the Mediterranean sea their empire.
The Phoenicians just north of Canaan, the Philistines are at the sea to the west of Canaan and the Carthaginians west of Egypt and in the lands that are now Spain. They traded and sometimes ruled the costal areas from well protected port cities throughout the Mediterranean sea. In the dominance for Italy these would be the people that would give the Romans most of their troubles.
The Israelites were land warriors and the Egyptians as well. The Phoenicians on the other hand were sea warriors. The Phoenician port city of Tyre dates back to 2700 BC. It is believed that these are people founded Carthage.
One of the hardest battles Alexander the Great had fought was against Tyre. A fortified port city with 150 foot walls. In 332 BC with Tyre defeated by Alexander, the Roman conquest of Italy is made possible but not easy. The Carthaginians that control the far western Mediterranean, that have seen Tyre taken by the Greeks will make all efforts to take back the Eastern trading cities they see the Greeks and Romans taking from them.
The Romans are an association of farmers and traders trying to control of lands for personal gain. They have a republic where individuals can rise according to their value. These men that came from Villanova, begin to attack their neighbors and steadily take over the Italian Peninsula. The costal cities were controlled by these sea peoples is a problem. The defeat of Tyre by Alexander the Great opens the way for Rome to take these costal areas. They will begin to gain processions in Europe, Macedon, Persia, and finally the Carthaginians.
212 BC Syracuse or Sicily, once a Carthaginian strong hold, falls to Rome
197 BC Macedon the former home of Alexander the Great becomes a Roman province.
190 BC The Seleucid empire which were the Greek rulers of Persia is defeated by the Romans.
The Carthaginians almost ended Rome. Under Hannibal in about 200 BC they invade Rome by taking troops and elephants from Spain and coming into Rome from the Alps.
Finally in 146 BC the Romans sack and completely destroy the city Of Carthage.
This frees Rome. It's now very battle hardened armies have only themselves to fight for control of the known world. Egypt is a land they can take... but control is a separate issue.
Rome has become more powerful than the Greek empire and its problems are now internal ... who will govern Rome. A family feud of Global proportions.
Soon, Persia, and Egypt, and Judea will have a new master. As you can see we
are now getting closer to year one.
Julius Caesar
This world we know today, the way we understand Christianity strangely pivots on this mans actions.
100 years after the Roman defeat of Carthage. Rome has consolidated territories in Spain, England, and Gaul. By the time of Julius Caesar they control Egypt, Persia, and Greek Macedonia. They effectively rule western civilization.
Having fought their way from Villanova 500 years ago and now with an army and no one to fight, they begin to fight amongst themselves for power.
In 50BC Julius Caesar is heading to Rome to end a civil war. He has won the world and now comes to take Rome itself. He represents a democratic power base and comes to fight Pompey who represents established wealthy families that wish an end to the republic.
The underling cause of this civil war is the class struggle between established wealthy families and a growing citizen class. The two factions are called Optimates and Populares .
Optimates... Were dedicated to keep power in the hands of noble families and wished to put an end to the republic and were headed by Pompey.
Populares... Are a roman aristocracy that relies on citizen and popular support for political power, the spread of democracy if you will, and for whom Caesar stands.
As Caesar inters Rome, Pompey, the Senators that are with him and their armies sail to Epirus. Epirus is where the oldest Hellenic oracle is, where Alexander the Greats' mother came from. A region that Aristotle considered to have been the most ancient part of Greece and where the Hellenes originated.
Stop and think about this for one moment... These men have gone to the most holy ground they know to fight the last battle of a long civil war.
To the Roman religion these must be extremely sacred grounds.
Here in 48BC Caesar wins his battle with Pompey. Caesar is now appointed dictator, with Mark Anthony as his Master of the Horse.
Pompey and his remaining forces go to Egypt where there is an ongoing civil war between Cleopatra VII and her brother Ptolemy XIII. He seeks protection from Ptolemy XIII, but is murdered instead.
Caesar comes to Egypt to deal with Pompey's remaining forces. He sides with Cleopatra in the civil war and defeats her rival Ptolemy XIII. He then installs Cleopatra as Queen, and has a child with her. Born in 47 BC one year after his battle with Pompey back in Epirus.
That moved quickly... barely meet the girl and have a child and not get married? They are Gods, who would marry them?
He has just beat the wealthy establishment of Rome. He has won battles, but has not taken control of the economies that these wealthy families control. He must pay his soldiers, and keep the economy going. Cleopatra is the wealthiest person in the world. She is the Nile river and the source of grain for his troops and people.
With this child and alliance he can pay his troops. But, with his new family his child will be the next ruler of Rome. The Roman senate will fear a dictator and the end of their usefulness.
Caesar is declared "Pontifex Maximus" for life, making him the administrator of jus divinum or divine law.
This family is now the law of two religions, the Roman and the Egyptian, and this child will inherit the known world as a God.
February 15, 44 BCE Caesar is made Dictator in Perpetuum and is promptly assassinated on March 15, by a group of senators.
Cleopatra
At the time of the assassination of Julius Caesar, Cleopatra had lived for two years in Rome, from the summer of 46 BC, with their son Caesarean. They would leave immediately after the death of Caesar for Egypt. Back in Rome Mark Anthony, Caesars second in command will try to restore order. He will join with Octavian the adopted son of Caesar, and he will marry his sister Octavia. People married and had children to build alliances of power.
October of 41 BC Mark Anthony meets with Cleopatra in Tarsus (please note Tarsus is where Paul is from), he has children with her. Then in September of 40 BC he marries Octavian's sister and leaves her pregnant and returns to Egypt, to get support from Cleopatra in his battle his battle with is brother in law Octavian.
This World War is all about something very personal, a sorted family matter in which the riches people in the world conspire and kill each other to see who will end up with all the loot.
Capturing Jerusalem in 37 BC, Mark Anthony installs Herod as puppet king of Judea. Caesarian, then thirteen years of age, was formally made " King of Kings by Anthony and Cleopatra in 34 BC.
War started in a divided Rome in 31 BC, with Cleopatra backing Mark Anthony. Mark Anthony and Octavian would confront each other in Actium, on the east coast of Greece.
They fight here because these are the front lines between Rome, and what was once the Greek.. empire. Cleopatra who was in fact a Greek Macedonian Queen would be there in person along with Mark Anthony. As the battle goes poorly for Anthony and Cleopatra, they leave the battle return to Egypt.
August 1, 30 BC, Octavian is in Egypt takes the city of Alexandria. First Mark Anthony takes his life and then Cleopatra commits suicide on August 12, 30BC.
History will say that she tried to send Caesarean to India via the Red Sea. Octavian would say he had killed him and "there can not be two Caesars"
Rome will now change from a Republic to an Empire. Gone will be the democratic changes that Julius Caesar had come to Rome to establish 20 years ago. This moment also marks, the end of both the Hellenistic(Greek) Age and the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt.
The Pharaoh Gods of the
Egyptians are gone for ever.
These are the times of Christ
Herod the Great (37 BC to 4 AD) was just previously installed as king by Mark Anthony. His son Herod Antipas will rule from 4AD to 39AD, and would be the ruler during the time of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ.
Octavian would start a family line after his new name Augustus Caesar. A family that would later be the Kings, Kaisers and Czars of our western culture.
The Egyptian priests and Pharisees of the Israelites have new masters. The priest will once again serve who is in power and continue to perpetuate the same religion to the Egyptian slaves as well as to Israelites.
There are three possibilities for the story of Jesus...
1. It is exactly true as written in the Bible. Three wise men (Maggi , Persian Zorrastrian Priests) visited a young boy in a mainger. He was the son of a carpenter and was self taught. The virgin birth son of God, and God. Its a Biblical account that must be taken on faith, and that has no connection to the extreme historical events of the times.
2. It never happened and was invented by Paul and other co-conspirators. Invented to effect change in these troubled times. Paul was a roman citizen, a Jew, and from Tarsus. He would have had cause to do this. As a roman citizen the new political changes would mean he and all citizens would now be subjects of an Empire, the republic was gone. As a Jew his people would soon fight a long war against the Romans. His land of Tarsus, the land of Zarathustra, where Anthony and Cleopatra came together had also been taken by the Romans.
A unique aspect of the words of Jesus, is that they are very similar to those of the religion of Tarsus, of the Persian God Ahuramazda.
3. It is the return Caesarean. The one most likely candidate for the son of God. He would be the son of two Gods that are now dead... Cleopatra and Julius Caesar. The son of God, and God.
Of the three possibilities this is actually the most beautiful and tragic of all. A Pharaoh that has lost his parents, yet forgives those that killed them. A man that has renounced his wealth. Come to love the oppressed. Comes to govern the soul of man... to set us free... to tell all the truth. He is convinced that if all people know the truth, the world will change and will bring a new era. When they are crucifying him he would be in a state of disbelief... that nothing happened...the world did not change.
If in fact Caesarean had escaped, he would have been 17 when he left Egypt. He would have had the best Roman scholars teaching him and would have been educated in the mysteries as a high priest of the Egyptians. He would have also been Macedonian Greek King.
Interestingly, in those times power is all about families and children. The royal family of Cleopatra would have been married with the Jewish Kings to maintain alliances... this child would also be the descendent of King David. That would make his mother Jewish and he would be Jewish as well.
When Herod Antipas becomes king in 4BC, Caesarian would have been 51 years old, just entering into his wisdom. If he was sent to India, he would have found himself at the far end of the old Persian empire. The Persians, that believed in one God. In India, in a nation that had accepted the pacifist philosophies of the Buddha some 400 years earlier.
The questions we have here are...
1. Why the lost years of Jesus Christ? Caesarian has gone into exile.
2. Why no name in a time when names are so important? You may get away with believing in Jesus Christ... but you will be in great trouble if you were to tell people Caesarian was still alive.
3. Why are the Pharisees a danger to Jesus, and is so angry at the temple. The Pharisees are the cause of the problem, they do the brainwashing whether they know it or not.
4. Why no historical dates, when to the Romans and Egyptians dates, their calendar was so important? I have no idea. But to guess... the Romans over the years made sure dates were removed from all manuscripts, or dates were like calculus and not part of common knowledge.
5. Why would he come to the poor and the disadvantaged? Because this is where the real power of humanity is, the rich do not love people they love material things. The meek will one day inherit the earth, and the truth is what will set that free.
6. How is he able to rally so many followers and so quickly? There are people that do know, important people, maybe John the Baptist. People that would say in private this is the King, this is Caesarian. If this story I'm telling follows, then people at that time believed this boy was the son of two Gods. Especially the Greek populations that Paul was speaking to. For the Greeks believed great hero's came from the Gods. Like, Hercules or Agamemnon, born from Gods… the virgin birth they were very familiar with and could understand.
7. "but, who do you think I am". Why is this question repeated so many times by Jesus Christ? Sounds to me as a form of not answering the question and making you answering it. It would be crucial for nobody to know who he was, they would be sure never to give him his true name and who he truly was. His friends could never say who he really was.
8. How does he know more than the Pharisees? If he was Caesarian, he would have been very well taught in all the mysteries and religion especially his own.
9. Why such an aversion to wealth? His parents would have been killed over money and power. He would know that wealth was not the way to salvation rather it was what opposed salvation. This is the key to saving the world, for him to come to teach those that had killed his family. To forgive them and have a spiritual movement restore the republic. The kingdom of God, his kingdom.
These questions fit too well with this strange interpretation of history.
John starts his testament like this...
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning."
The Word is what is God, as well as Jesus Christ all one in the same. This is a unique change on the Genesis story. It says that Jesus Christ and the words he says were from the beginning and are the same with God. Remember that all religions at that time were secret. We would not know the beliefs of the Egyptians or the Pythagoreans, or any of the many secret cults. We would know only the story line we were told. The words of Jesus are revealing secrets... not to just the privileged or chosen... but to all men and women, even the poor and disadvantaged. To reveal these truths to all mankind would be a most dangerous thing to do.
Look at the thinking of that time from the perspective of this story. Rome had taken control of the Jewish royal family, Even if they knew, the Pharisees could not tell the people that they had worked for the Greek Macedonians for 300 years. If some had known of this they had little choice but to do the Romans bidding.
As for the Romans, like Pontius Pilate, they would believe what Augustus has told them, that he had killed Caesar's son Caesarean. Pontius Pilate would never imagine that this man, that associated himself with the poor and sick, would be the son of Caesar and Cleopatra. Even if it was told to him, he would not believe it, he would expect greatness.
John continues and says.. "then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free."
Free from what, what truth? Free from Rome, that would certainly be a problem for Pilate. Could Jesus Christ be in fact setting in place a peaceful revolution, to liberate first the Jews the warrior class of the Egyptians, and then the entire world from Rome.
To become free , the Jews must be told the truth of who they are. That they are trapped in an illusion of freedom. Their kings and their priests have been working for the other side ever since they left Egypt with Moses. The Pharisees would be the exact impediment to such a thing. For the Pharisees would loose grip if the Jews knew this truth.
To Jesus Christ, it is clear that wealth, and our attachment to material things of our world is a serious problem...
Matthew 19:24
Again I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle
than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
Mark 10:25
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich
man to enter the kingdom of God."
Luke 18:25
Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for
a rich man to enter the kingdom of God."
The Revolt
The Israelites will fight once again. First the great Jewish revolt in 70 AD, Herod's Temple is destroyed on July 30, 70AD. Six hundred thousand people men and women of all ages would pick up arms and stand against Rome. The insurrection finished with the Bar Kokhba's revolt in 135, and the dispersal of Jews throughout the empire.
The enslavement and massacre of a large part of the Jewish population. The loss of the Jewish state. This would be the end of the times of Jesus Christ.
Conclusion
Regardless of how you wish to view these events, the work of Jesus Christ is not finished. The words of Jesus Christ are a blue print for change, that is opposed by lies and what is evil.
Revelation 22
18 For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
19 And if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part out of the book of life, and out of the holy city, and from the things which are written in this book.
This is the end of the Bible, a warning not to change the word. Like a warning that there is a death penalty for those that commit murder. But, people still commit murder. Whether or not we know it, it is still Rome that is in power, and you live in an illusion. In all these years since Jesus Christ would you not think that Rome would have changed your belief just as the Egyptians did to serve them. Your reality is a delicate substance.
It was Rome and its emperor Constantine that gave you the Bible 324 years after Christ. He created a universal Church and a new illusion.
Today, for once in all history, we can actually ... act on the words, "the truth will set you free". Unlike before we can rapidly access information. There is such an excess of material things in the world that its only a matter of time before we turn our attention to more selfless goals.
Testimony is how truth is found in a courtroom. We are responsible to be honest and careful in how we define the truth. We are the jurors of our reality. With a true understanding of who we are and the love of God, our lives will be enriched with love and piece.
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