Theos-Talk Archives (January 2005 Message tt01110)

Dear Cass,Dallas and all.
One the things I like about the way HPB writes is it gets you looking
more deeply and broadly rather than narrowing down into
oversimplification.

I learn so much from reading Isis unveiled, many people complain that
HPB's writings are too scattered and go off on too many tangents but I
personally think this was an actual teaching mechanism she used to
broaden and deepen our exploration and to try and open up the linear
western mindset that is conditioned into needing beginnings and
endings absolute answers.  

A couple of good quotes I came across:

[A student] is at perfect liberty, and often quite justified from the
standpoint of appearances—to suspect his Guru of being "a fraud" . . .
the greater, the sincerer his indignation—whether expressed in words
or boiling in his heart—the more fit he is, the better qualified to
become an adept. He is free to [use] . . . the most abusive words and
expressions regarding his guru's actions and orders, provided . . . he
resists all and every temptation; rejects every allurement, and proves
that nothing, not even the promise of . . . his future adeptship . . .
is able to make him deviate from the path of truth and honesty.
(Mahatma Letters, chronological no. 74)

The "Doctrine of the Eye" is for the crowd, the "Doctrine of the
Heart," for the elect. The first repeat in pride: "Behold, I know,"
the last, they who in humbleness have garnered, low confess, "thus
have I heard." . . .

Be humble, if thou wouldst attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when
Wisdom thou hast mastered. Be like the Ocean which receives all
streams and rivers. The Ocean's mighty calm remains unmoved; it feels
them not. (Voice of the Silence)

To me these type of statements show what a balancing act it is to try
and attain to Wisdom and give us the freedom to explore without
falling into the trap of blind belief.

Cheers 

Perry

PS.
Thanks Dallas for all the compilations of quotes I find these are helpful.


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, "W.Dallas TenBroeck"
<dalval14@e...> wrote:
> Jan 31 2005
> 
> Dear Friends:
> 
> Re: An "Historical" Jesus
> 
> Perhaps that which THEOSOPHY says concerning Jesus will be of interest:
> 
> 
> WAS JESUS A REAL PERSON?
> 
> 
> An impression seem to have arisen that H.P.B. denied that Jesus ever
lived
> at all. 
> 
> My understanding is that she never said that but only denied the
historicity
> of the Gospel's "Jesus," -- i.e., a "Jesus," as portrayed in the four
> Gospels, she says is a fabrication, a concoction. 
> 
> She brings forward esoteric teachings to show that the Gospel
account is an
> historizing of the zodiacal signs and cycles of the most ancient
> philosophers, under which they concealed some of their Cosmogonical
facts as
> myths, and she adds there indeed lived a great reformer, the Adept
Jesus. 
> 
> Let me offer some notes made in the course of studying ISIS UNVEILED
and The
> SECRET DOCTRINE. 
>  
> ISIS UNVEILED II 132 and 133 :- 
> 
> Whether Jesus belonged to the sect of the Nazarenes or Essenes is
difficult
> to establish but Jesus preached the philosophy of Sakyamuni, the
Buddha. 
> 
> While Nazars of olden time were the Chaldean Kabalists, the Essenes
were the
> converts of Buddhist missionaries who had overrun the Middle East, 
Egypt,
> Greece and even Judea at one time, since the reign of king Asoka
[Glos. pp.
> 55-6], a zealous Buddhist, who sent out missionary Buddhist monks
far and
> wide -- even as far as Ireland it is rumored. 
> 
> The Essenes [Glos. p. 115] were Buddhists, and have the honour of the
> Nazarene reformer, Jesus, as a pupil, yet, the latter is found
disagreeing
> with his early teachers on questions of formal observance. "He cannot
> strictly be called a Nazar, or a nazaria of the older sect. What
Jesus was,
> may be found in the Codex Nazaraeus, in the unjust accusations of the
> Bardesanian Gnostics." (we must note this hint and inquire into the
Codex
> and accounts of Bardesanian Gnostics). [Glos. pp. 226, 129, 50]
>  
> What does the Codex Nazareus [Glos., p. 86] say ? "Jesu is Nebu,
the false
> Messiah, the destroyer of the old orthodox religion." It is further
said in
> ISIS UNVEILED : He is the founder of the sect of the new nazars -- a
> follower of the Buddhist doctrine. Nebu is from naba, meaning
inspiration in
> Hebrew, and Nebo is god of wisdom. "But Nebo is also Mercury, and
Mercury is
> Buddha [Wisdom] in the Hindu monogram of planets. Moreover, we find the
> Talmudists holding that Jesus was inspired by the genius of Mercury
[Bodha
> - Wisdom. Glos. p. 226]."
>  
> Jesus preached the philosophy of Buddha--Sakhyamuni. He belonged to
one of
> these sects who were cursed by the Sanhendrin and was secretly
persecuted by
> the orthodox.
>  
> Both in the KEY TO THEOSOPHY and ISIS UNVEILED we see parallels drawn
> between the two great Reformer--Teachers : Jesus and Gautama
Buddha. [see
> ISIS UNVEILED II p. 133] It is said that both of them had the same
> motive: 1. to reform the current popular Jewish religion, and, 2.
> teaching pure Ethics, the true teaching having been concealed as an
> exclusive property of certain esoteric sects.
>  
> 
> ISIS UNVEILED II 135 :- Jesus is there said to be over 40 years of
age,
> according to Kabalists, when he arrived at Jerusalem.
> 
> I U II p. 136 and 137 -- an account is given of how Iranaeus
> manipulated the Gospels to make it appear that 
> 
> (a) Jesus did not belong to the sect of Nazarenes, the school of
> John the Baptist, and 
> 
> (b) that his appellation Nazarene is derived from the fact that his
> father's residence was at Nazareth, and not because he belonged to
the sect
> of Nazarenes.
> 
> 
> I U II p. 127	We are given a clue that Jesus was a true Nazarene.
> With ideas of reform, we must not look for evidence in the Gospels,
which
> are fabrications, but seek in the true original Christianity -- the
remnants
> of the Gnostics. H P B writs: "Thus, if we take into account all
that is
> puzzling and incomprehensible in the four Gospels, revised and
corrected as
> they now stand, we shall easily see for ourselves that the true,
original
> Christianity, such as was preached by Jesus, is to be found in the
so-called
> Syrian heresies. Only from them can we extract any clear notions
about what
> was primitive Christianity".
> 
>  
> ISIS UNVEILED II p. 144.	Jesus belonged to and received initiation
> from Nazarenes in the desert and separated himself from them and
became an
> independent wandering Nazaria -- a travelling therapeutae, a healer.
>  
> Here we see parallel between Gautama Buddha and Jesus. The former
received
> initiation from Brahmin Initiates and learnt all from them, and
seeing that
> the great life-giving truths were withheld by this proud and
exclusive caste
> from the masses, he separated himself from his teachers and began
preaching
> pure ethics and the non-violent life to despised out-castes, servants,
> villagers, and pariahs.
> 
>  
> I U II p. 144	"Both Jesus and St. John the Baptist preached the
> end of the Age ; which proves their knowledge of the secret
computation of
> the priests and Kabalists, who with the chief of the Essene communities
> alone had the secret of the duration of the cycles. The latter were
> kabalists and theurgists." We are told that the meaning of the
division of
> time into ages is esoteric, and Buddhistic. The uninitiated Christians
> never understood this, and accepted the words of Jesus literally,
believing
> the world would end abruptly.
> 
>  
> ISIS UNVEILED II p. 145 : Virtues such as renunciation, charity,
> non-violence, etc., taught by Jesus were practiced by both Essenes and
> Nazarenes. Christ was a teacher of `metempsychoses' or reincarnation --
> repeating the Essenean teachings. The Essenes were Pythagoreans in
their
> doctrines and habits. Jesus spoke in parables and metaphors that can be
> traced to the Essenes and Nazarenes.  
> 
> 
> ISIS UNVEILED II p.147 :	Like Pythagorean-Essenean methods
> Jesus divided his teachings into the exoteric and the esoteric, and
divided
> his followers into "neophytes," "brethren" and the "perfect." "But his
> career at least as a public Rabbi, was of a too short duration
tallow him to
> establish a regular school of his own ; and with the exception,
perhaps, of
> John, it does not seem that he had initiated any other apostle."
> 
>  
> I U II p. 148 : Sadducees (Zadokites) accused and crucified Jesus
> for practicing the magic of Egyptians.
> 
> I U II p. 150 : Here Jesus is shown to be a real historical
> character, a great reformer. 
> 
> "All this points to the fact, that except a handful of self-styled
> Christians who subsequently won the day, all the civilized portion
of the
> pagan world who knew of Jesus honoured him as a philosopher an adept
whom
> they placed on the same level with Pythagoras and Apollonius. Whence
such a
> veneration on their part for a man, were he simply, as represented
by the
> Synoptics, a poor, unknown Jewish carpenter from Nazareth ? As an
incarnated
> God there is no single record of him on this earth capable of
withstanding
> the critical examination of science ; as one of the greatest
reformers, an
> inveterate enemy of every theological dogmatism, a persecutor of
bigotry, a
> teacher of one of the most sublime codes of ethics, Jesus is one of the
> grandest and most clearly-defined figures on the panorama of human
> history...."
>  
> I U II p. 152 : Early Nazarenes believed Jesus to have been
> over-shadowed by the Divine and that its influence waned when he was
on the
> cross.
> 
> 'THEOSOPHIST' for March 1883, has an article on the "Real Jesus."
There it
> states that Jesus was never a historical personage but a myth built
on the
> historical Jeshu of Lydda -- a Jewish Adept who lived from 120 to 70
B C,
> and that the real founder of Christianity was St. Paul.
>  
> Jesus was also known as Ben Panthera [also PANDERA] (son of
Panthera) [Glos.
> p 248, 
> I U II p. 201, H P B Articles III 173].
> 
> For the origin of the non-existent Jesus of the Gospels we must turn to
> accounts of the Gnostic sect of Marcion.
> [ Glos. p. 207]
> 
> 
> In I U II p. 137 we are told, "To assure ourselves that Jesus
was a
> true Nazarene-- albeit with ideas of a new reform--we must not
search for
> the proof in the translated Gospels, but in such original versions
as are
> accessible...Thus, if we take into account all that is puzzling and
> incomprehensible in the four Gospels, revised and corrected as they now
> stand, we shall easily see for ourselves that the true, original
> Christianity, such as was preached by Jesus, is to be found only in the
> so-called Syrian heresies. Only from them can we extract any clear
notions
> about what was primitive Christianity."
> 
>  
> Who were the Syrian Gnostics ? They are early sects founded by
Marcion and
> Bardesanes. Hence it would be highly profitable to study whatever is
> available of these two sects and their philosophy. C. W. King recalls
> (GNOSTICS AND THEIR REMAINS) that according to tradition they were of
> Persian origin and Magians by religious training. In I U II 157-60 and
> 161-164 and in the Glossary more information is available.
> 
> 
> Hers is a brief summary of these references :
> 
>  
> Gnostic doctrines held that Christ did not and cannot ever die but
only the
> bodily form which he had occupied died. 
> 
> But the Church regards this as a heresy. [Dictionary says: "heresy" is
> questioning Church dogmas.]
> 
> Gnostics taught the doctrine of Maya--Illusion, of the Real and the
Unreal,
> as Buddhists and Vedantins do. 
> 
> Orthodox Christians called the Gnostics 'Illusionists' for believing
that
> Christ did not and never could die. 
> 
> Gnosis was an off-shoot of Buddhism and held the same metaphysical
ideas.
> They made a clear distinction between Christos and the illusionary
Jesus. 
> 
> Christos was for them what it is for Theosophists -- the Higher
Manas, Ego,
> Son of the Universal Mind, MANASA-PUTRA, the Vedic VISWAKARMAN, who
> sacrificed himself to himself [his Higher Self to serve the Lower
Self, and
> thus to redeem the worlds].	[S D II 167]
> 
> Christos or Christ--Krishna is explained as: "…the incarnating Egos
have
> taken upon themselves, voluntarily and knowingly, the burden of all the
> future personalities. Thence it is easy to see that it is neither
Mr. A nor
> Mr. B, nor any of the personalities that periodically clothe the
> Self-sacrificing Ego, which are real sufferers, but verily the innocent
> Christos in us." Transactions of Blavatsky Lodge, p. 68. [ BCW Vol. X
> ]
> 
> 
> VICARIOUS ATONEMENT
> 
> The Church dogma of Vicarious Atonement arose from the
mystico-metaphysical
> doctrine that Jesus died on the cross to save the world. This
imposed as
> dogma and enforced by the Church is productive of immorality
(another can be
> made to take our blame) and this is the source of much evil in society. 
> 
> 
> THE FIRST SON OF GOD
> 
> Gnostics held the old theosophical doctrine that described Christ as the
> LOGOS, the first emanation from the invisible ABSOLUTE [the God-Head]
> manifesting itself as tangible in Spirit. It is the same as the
Greek Logos,
> the Hebrew Messiah, the Latin Verbum, the Hindu Viraj -- they are viewed
> metaphysically as "collective entities, flames detached from the one
eternal
> centre of Light." (I U 1 p. 59).
> 
> 
> "Thus Christos, as a unity, is but an abstraction : a general idea
> representing the collective aggregation of the numberless
spirit-entities,
> which are the direct emanations of the infinite, invisible,
incomprehensible
> FIRST CAUSE--the individual spirits of men." (I U II p. 159) 
> 
> 
> In the majority of mankind this Christos [the HIGHER SELF] is
latent. It
> only overshadows the mortal, (which are its radiations [Rays] on
earth, but
> also, actively manifesting in such god-like figures as the Buddha,
Jesus,
> Krishna, etc., because all these succeeded earlier in uniting themselves
> permanently with their divine prototype, their "Father in Heaven." 
> 
> Gnostic sects held this view of Christ, and of the perfectibility of all
> men, which the ambitious, ignorant Church Fathers sought to destroy and
> declared, as "pre-existence" to be anathema.
> 
>     
> Marcion, [Glos p. 207] one of the prominent Gnostics, wrote "Antithesis"
> challenging the Church corruptions of the pure philosophy regarding
the true
> nature of the Christos, and the Church responded with its
"Refutations" --
> full of lies and falsehoods -- Tertulian and Epiphanius, also early
Church
> Fathers, excelling in the art of falsification. The Church destroyed
most of
> the works of the Gnostics, yet preserved a record of their doctrines
in the
> "Refutations."
>  
> Marcion recognised no other Gospel than a few Epistles of Paul. He
rejected
> totally the anthropomorphism of the Old Testament and drew a clear
line of
> demarcation between old Judaism and the new "Christianity." 
> 
> He looked on Jesus as neither a king, nor a Messiah of the Jews, nor
a "son
> of David." He declared that he was "… a divine being sent to revel
to man a
> spiritual religion, and a God of goodness and grace hitherto
unknown"	( I
> U II p. 162). 
> 
> Jesus ignored Jehovah and preached against the religion of the
Siniatic god.
> 
> 
> The Marcionites showed that the Church made a great blunder in
identifying
> Jehovah as the "Father in Heaven" of Jesus. 
> 
> Marcion said that the mission of Jesus was to terminate the concept of
> Jehovah being the Lord-God of the Israelites, and, instead, to
establish a
> pure spiritual religion, a universal faith based on unadulterated
Truth. The
> Universal Wisdom-Religion he desired to establish, he had learned at the
> feet of the Gurus in the Himalayas, not on mount Sinai. Marcion
shows the
> contradictory character of Jehovah and denies any relationship to Jesus,
> hence the so-called Messianic prophecies of the Old Testament are
done away
> with.
>  
> I U II p. 164 shows a set of tables that compare the teachings of
> Manu, Buddha and Jesus and thus demonstrate them to be identical. 
> 
> In summation, we could observe that the amount of evidence brought
forward
> is overwhelming.
> 
> 
> One might repeat: Theosophy, is not a creed or dogma invented by
> theologians, by fallible men, but ANCIENT and UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE. 
It is
> the cumulative testimony of an innumerable, endless series of Seers.
[S D
> I 272-3] It is not a religion, not a creed, nor does it have
dogmas. It is
> not built on anything but that ancient foundation upon which every
one of
> the religions of the world have been based.
> 
> Concerning the Knowers of the Wisdom of the Universe, We find H P B
wrote:  
> 
> "Their spiritual visions, real explorations by, and through,
physical and
> spiritual senses untrammeled by blind flesh, were systematically
checked and
> compared one with the other, and their nature sifted. All that was not
> corroborated by unanimous and collective experience was rejected,
while that
> only was recorded as established truth which, in various ages, under
> different climes, and throughout an untold series of incessant
observations,
> was found to agree and receive constantly further corroboration."
[Key, p.
> 85]
> 
> 
> "Let no man set up a popery instead of Theosophy, as this would be
suicidal
> and has ever ended most fatally" has been the plea of H.P.B. to
students.(
> "Five Messages to American Theosophists" from H. P. Blavatsky. First
> Message, 1888 ). 
> 
>  
> Students are invited to seek for and make their own in-depth study
for of
> all the keys H.P.B. gives out in her books: ISIS UNVEILED, SECRET
DOCTRINE,
> and other of her numerous articles pertaining to the roots of
Christianity,
> the pagan origins of Church rituals and dogmas ; of those Keys, we might
> mention: the Anthropological, Mystical, Historical, Astrological,
> Astronomical, Metaphysical, Cosmogonical, Psychical, Physiological,
> Numerical, Ethnological Keys she has furnished in respect to both
Old and
> New Testaments, especially, the Book of Genesis, the Gospels and the
> Revelations, and some Kabalistic texts.
> 
> -----------------------------------------------------
> 
> [from vol II, 151-53 of Isis Unveiled.] 
> 
> 
> "Epiphanius brings it as an idolatrous charge against the
Carpocratians that
> "they kept painted portraits, and even gold and silver images, and
in other
> materials, which they pretended to be portraits of Jesus, and made
by Pilate
> after the likeness of Christ. . . . These they keep in secret,
along with
> Pythagoras, Plato, and Aristotle, and setting them all up together, they
> worship and offer sacrifices unto them after the Gentiles' fashion."
> 
> What would the pious Epiphanius say were he to resuscitate and step
into St.
> Peter's Cathedral at Rome! Ambrosius seems also very desperate at
the idea
> — that some persons fully credited the statement of Lampridius that
> Alexander Severus had in his private chapel an image of Christ among
other
> great philosophers. "That the Pagans should have preserved the
likeness of
> Christ," he exclaims, "but the disciples have neglected to do so, is a
> notion the mind shudders to entertain, much less to believe."
> 
> All this points undeniably to the fact, that except a handful of
self-styled
> Christians who subsequently won the day, all the civilized portion
of the
> Pagans who knew of Jesus honored him as a philosopher, an adept whom
they
> placed on the same level with Pythagoras and Apollonius. Whence such a
> veneration on their part for a man, were he simply, as represented
by the
> Synoptics, a poor, unknown Jewish carpenter from Nazareth?  
> 
> As an incarnated God there is no single record of him on this earth
capable
> of withstanding the critical examination of science; as one of the
greatest
> reformers, an inveterate enemy of every theological dogmatism, a
persecutor
> of bigotry, a teacher of one of the most sublime codes of ethics,
Jesus is
> one of the grandest and most clearly-defined figures on the panorama of
> human history.  
> 
> His age may, with every day, be receding farther and farther back
into the
> gloomy and hazy mists of the past; and his theology — based on human
fancy
> and supported by untenable dogmas may, nay, must with every day lose
more of
> its unmerited prestige; alone the grand figure of the philosopher
and moral
> reformer instead of growing paler will become with every century more
> pronounced and more clearly defined. It will reign supreme and
universal
> only on that day when the whole of humanity recognizes but one
father — the
> UNKNOWN ONE above — and one brother — the whole of mankind below.
> 
> In a pretended letter of Lentulus, a senator and a distinguished
historian,
> to the Roman senate, there is a description of the personal
appearance of
> Jesus. The letter itself, written in horrid Latin, is pronounced a
> bare-faced forgery; but we find therein an expression which suggests
many
> thoughts.  
> 
> Albeit a forgery it is evident that whosoever invented it has
nevertheless
> tried to follow tradition as closely as possible. The hair of Jesus is
> represented in it as "wavy and curling . . . flowing down upon his
> shoulders," and as "having a parting in the middle of the head after the
> fashion of the Nazarenes." This last sentence shows:  
> 
> 1. That there was such a tradition, based on the biblical description of
> John the Baptist, the Nazaria, and the custom of this sect. 
> 
> 2. Had Lentulus been the author of this letter, it is difficult to
believe
> that Paul should never have heard of it; and had he known its
contents, he
> would never have pronounced it a shame for men to wear their hair long,*
> thus shaming his Lord and Christ-God.  
> 
> 3. If Jesus did wear his hair long and "parted in the middle of the
> forehead, after the fashion of the Nazarenes (as well as John, the
only one
> of his apostles who followed it), then we have one good reason more
to say
> that Jesus must have belonged to the sect of the Nazarenes, and been
called
> NASARIA for this reason and not because he was an inhabitant of
Nazareth;
> for they never wore their hair long.  
> 
> The Nazarite, who separated himself unto the Lord, allowed "no razor
to come
> upon his head." "He shall be holy and shall let the locks of the
hair of
> his head grow," says Numbers (vi. 5). Samson was a Nazarite, i.e.,
vowed to
> the service of God, and in his hair was his strength. "No razor
shall come
> upon his head; the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb"
(Judges
> xiii. 5 ).  
> 
> But the final and most reasonable conclusion to be inferred from this is
> that Jesus, who was so opposed to all the orthodox Jewish practices,
would
> not have allowed his hair to grow had he not belonged to this sect,
which in
> the days of John the Baptist had already become a heresy in the eyes
of the
> Sanhedrim.  
> 
> The Talmud, speaking of the Nazaria, or the Nazarenes (who had
abandoned the
> world like Hindu yogis or hermits) calls them a sect of physicians, of
> wandering exorcists; as also does Jervis. "They went about the country,
> living on alms and performing cures."† Epiphanius says that the
Nazarenes
> come next in heresy to the Corinthians whether having existed
"before them
> or after them, nevertheless synchronous," and then adds that "all
Christians
> at that time were equally called Nazarenes"!‡ [ from vol II, 151-53 of
> Isis Unveiled.] 
> 
> 
> In the very first remark made by Jesus about John the Baptist, we
find him
> stating that he is "Elias, which was for to come." This assertion,
if it is
> not a later interpolation for the sake of having a prophecy
fulfilled, means
> again that Jesus was a kabalist; unless indeed we have to adopt the
doctrine
> of the French spiritists and suspect him of believing in reïncarnation.
> Except the kabalistic sects of the Essenes, the Nazarenes, the
disciples of
> Simeon Ben Iochaï, and Hillel, neither the orthodox Jews, nor the
Galileans,
> believed or knew anything about the doctrine of permutation. And the
> Sadducees rejected even that of the resurrection.
> 
> "But the author of this restitution is / was Mosah, our master, upon
whom be
> peace! Who was the revolution (transmigration) of Seth and Hebel,
that he
> might cover the nudity of his Father Adam — Primus," says the Kabala.*
> Thus, Jesus hinting that John was the revolutio, or transmigration
of Elias,
> seems to prove beyond any doubt the school to which he belonged.
> 
> Until the present day uninitiated Kabalists and Masons believe
permutation
> to be synonymous with transmigration and metempsychosis. But they
are as
> much mistaken in regard to the doctrine of the true Kabalists as to
that of
> the Buddhists. True, the Sohar says in one place, "All souls are
subject to
> transmigration . . . men do not know the ways of the Holy One,
blessed be
> He; they do not know that they are brought before the tribunal, both
before
> they enter this world and after they quit it," and the Pharisees
also held
> this doctrine, as Josephus shows (Antiquities, xviii. 13).  
> 
> Also the doctrine of Gilgul, held to the strange theory of the
"Whirling of
> the Soul," which taught that the bodies of Jews buried far away from the
> Holy Land, still preserve a particle of soul which can neither rest
nor quit
> them, until it reaches the soil of the "Promised Land." And this
"whirling"
> process was thought to be accomplished by the soul being conveyed back
> through an actual evolution of species; transmigrating from the minutest
> insect up to the largest animal. But this was an exoteric doctrine. We
> refer the reader to the Kabbala Denudata of Henry Khunrath; his
language,
> however obscure, may yet throw some light upon the subject.
> 
> But this doctrine of permutation, or revolutio, must not be
understood as a
> belief in reïncarnation. That Moses was considered the
transmigration of
> Abel and Seth, does not imply that the kabalists — those who were
initiated
> at least — believed that the identical spirit of either of Adam's sons
> reappeared under the corporeal form of Moses. It only shows what
was the
> mode of expression they used when hinting at one of the profoundest
> mysteries of the Oriental Gnosis, one of the most majestic articles
of faith
> of the Secret Wisdom. It was purposely veiled so as to half conceal and
> half reveal the truth. It implied that Moses, like certain other
god-like
> men, was believed to have reached the highest of all states on
earth: — the
> rarest of all psychological phenomena, the perfect union of the immortal
> spirit with the terrestrial duad had occurred. The trinity was
complete. A
> god was incarnate. But how rare such incarnations!
> 
> That expression, "Ye are gods," which, to our biblical students, is
a mere
> abstraction, has for the kabalists a vital significance.  
> 
> Each immortal spirit that sheds its radiance upon a human being is a
god —
> the Microcosmos of the Macrocosmos, part and parcel of the Unknown
God, the
> First Cause of which it is a direct emanation. It is possessed of
all the
> attributes of its parent source. Among these attributes are
omniscience and
> omnipotence. Endowed with these, but yet unable to fully manifest them
> while in the body, during which time they are obscured, veiled,
limited by
> the capabilities of physical nature, the thus divinely-inhabited man may
> tower far above his kind, evince a god-like wisdom, and display deific
> powers; for while the rest of mortals around him are but overshadowed by
> their divine SELF, with every chance given to them to become immortal
> hereafter, but no other security than their personal efforts to win the
> kingdom of heaven, the so chosen man has already become an immortal
while
> yet on earth. His prize is secured. Henceforth he will live forever in
> eternal life. Not only he may have "dominion" over all the works of
> creation by employing the "excellence" of the NAME (the ineffable
one) but
> be higher in this life, not, as Paul is made to say, "a little lower
than
> the angels."
> 
> The ancients never entertained the sacrilegious thought that such
perfected
> entities were incarnations of the One Supreme and for ever invisible
God.
> No such profanation of the awful Majesty entered into their conceptions.
> [. from vol II, 151-53 of Isis Unveiled.] 
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------
> 
> JESUS and CHRISTIANITY [ Glos. 108, 248 ] (Fragment of Chronology)
> 
> 
> 200 BC	ESSENES Pythagoreans	
> GLOS 115 ISIS I xxx 16 26; II 37
> ISIS II 130 139 145 307 336; SD II 592
> LUCIF 19-377; THY 28-7; TM 26-176-7;
> 
> 200 BC	EPHESUS	COLLEGE OF ESSENES - focus of the 
> Secret Science all the lore of the Tanaim, 
> brought from Chaldea	
> GLOS 27 114; IS I xxx, II 155
> THY 28-7; LUCIF 5-324; 
> 
> 107 BC	PANTHER	Birth of Jesus (Jehoshua)	
> ISIS II 201, GLOS 248,
> or PENDERA (Lydda under reign of Alexander Janneus)
> Jesus was the son of Joseph Panther (tradition 	
> makes him a Roman soldier) and Mary, hence
> Joshua Ben Panther   	
> GLOS 248; HPB ART I 117, III 180-1
> GLOS 109 156-7 194; SD II 504fn   
> 
> 100 BC	INNOCENTS	"The 'Innocents' of Bethlehem and 
> of Lud (or Lydda) who were put to death by 
> Alexander Jannaeus, to the number of several thousands ... 
> gave rise to the legend of the 40,000 innocents babes
> murdered 
> by Herod while searching for the infant Jesus. The first is
> a little
> known historical fact, the second a fable, as (shown by
> Renan in 
> his La Vie de Jesus." 
> GLOS 156-7; SD II 504fn GLOS 109, HPB ART
> III 180;
> 
> 100 BC	EBIONITES	"The poor" - many were relations 
> of Jesus Iassou
> GLOS 108 83-4 226 248; ISIS II 127 135
> 201-2
> ISIS II 144 181 304-5; HPB ART III 173 192
> HPB ART I 117; ML 415; LUCIF 19-381
> 
> BC	"SEPHER TOLDOS JESHU"	
> Hebrew text pub. 1681 AD by C. Wagensillius 
> -- in Frankfort & Nuremberg
> 
> "Mary having become the mother of a Son, named
> Jehoshua, and the boy growing up, she entrusted him to the 
> care of Rabbi Elhanan, and the child progressed in
> knowledge, 
> for he was well gifted with spirit and understanding.
> 
> Rabbi Jehoshua, son of Perachiah, continued the education of
> 
> Jehoshua (Jesus) after Elhanan, and initiated him in the
> secret 
> knowledge." but the King, Janneus, having given orders to
> slay 
> all the initiates, Jehosuah Ben Perachiah, fled to
> Alexandria, in 
> Egypt, taking the boy with him. ... Jesus supplemented his 
> initiation in the Jewish Kaballah with an additional
> acquisition 
> of the secret wisdom of Egypt. When the 
> persecution ceased, they both returned to Judea."  	
> ISIS II 201 ISIS II 127fn 135fn 201 304-5 544
> 
> 
> BC	"CODEX NAZAREUS"	Dt.: 1042 AD
> 
> 
> 76 BC	Jesus over 40 years old when first visited Jerusalem
> ISIS II 135 fn
> 
> 
> 63 BC	SECOND TEMPLE taken by Pompey	GLOS 165
> 
> 
> 50 BC	Jesus between 50 and 60 years old when baptized
> ISIS II 135fn
> 
> 
> 30-20 BC Jesus death: "The Talmudic records claim...he was 
> lapidated, and buried under the water at the junction 
> of two streams. "Mishna Sanhedrin," Vol. vi, p. 4
> Talmud of Babylon 43a, 67a ISIS II 255fn
> 
> 
> 
> 1 Cent BC Jesus Is II 94 150 135fn 255, 329 337 455 530; T 295, 346
> v. 24
> 
> Jesus a Buddhist Teacher	.	T 22 v. 28
> Jesus, Philosopher & Reformer	T 50	v. 30
> The Tradition of Issa or Iesus	T 11, 47, v. 7
> [ Glos. Chrestos. 83 ]
> Chrestos - Oracle .	.	[ Glos. 83-4 ]
> Logia - Secret Teachings	[ Matthew ].	[ Glos. 190 ]
> Panther - Father of Jesus.	.	[ Glos. 248 ]
> Jeshu Ben Pandira	.	.	[ Glos. 191 ]
> Lyd, Lud - Birthplace of Jesus	[ Glos. 109, 156 ]
> 
> 30 BC - 45 AD	Philo Judaeus - historian - no record
> of Jesus' work	.	[ Glos. 252-3 ]
> Is II 33 39 84 144 513fn
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Dallas
>  
> ===============================
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Cass S
> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2005 9:13 PM
> To: 
> Subject: Re: Checked by the Master
> 
> 
> Dear P
> 
> Thank you for the referral. I have read the article and I am still
confused
> as the article states that Jesus was an historical figure Regarding
Jesus'
> mission, she writes: 
> 
> The motive of Jesus was evidently like that of Gautama-Buddha, to
benefit
> humanity at large by producing a religious reform which should give it a
> religion of pure ethics . . . 
> 
> Whether or not he was an avatar only Buddha and He will know.
> 
> Cass