Theos-Talk Archives (April 2003 Message tt00115)

Dallas TenBroeck wrote:
> EBIONITES (Heb.). Lit., "the poor"; the earliest sect of Jewish
> Christians, the other being the Nazarenes.
Nazarenes existed before Jesus was supposed to have.

> "We believe that it was the Sadducees and not the Pharisees who
> crucified Jesus.
It is said that one of the people writing under the name of "Paul"
tried to become a Pharisee, and was refused. He got revenge by, when
working on the compilations of the New Testament, changing "Sadducees"
to "Pharisees" in many places. The Pharisees were the school of Hillel,
who believed in the principles that the law was made for humans, and not
humans for the law, a belief which the protagonist of the New Testament
seemed to have, as well.

> then, the Gospels, the life of Jesus of Nazareth? Has it not
> been repeatedly stated that no human, mortal brain could have
> invented the life of the Jewish Reformer, followed by the awful
> drama on Calvary?
And saying it makes it true?

> personifications. One of these is the mystic esoteric name of
> Jehovah--not the present fanciful God of the profane Jews
> ignorant of their own mysteries, the God accepted by the still
> more ignorant Christians--but the compound Jehovah of the pagan
> Initiation.
The idea that the Jews worship a god named Jehovah or Yahweh comes from
Christian sources, notably Martin Luther, not from the Jews. The YHVH
combination is a symbol for the real name of God, not a name in and of
itself. It's sort of the equivalent of saying that Americans go to
people called DRMD's when they get sick, and get their medicines from RX's.

> the hands of the esoteric sects, and their adepts. p. 137 - To
> assure ourselves that Jesus was a true Nazarene --
Note that this conflicts with the statement that the Nazerenes were an
early Christian sect.

Also note that Blavatsky lived in a time when non-Christians were still
put to death for the crime of being who they were.

Bart Lidofsky