Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00860)

Friends,

An article says: 

"The annual festival of Christmas is celebrated all over Christendom on the 25th of December. On this day, Jesus of Nazareth is said to have been born in Bethlehem, near Jerusalem. The four Gospels give each an account of his birth, his baptism, his preaching, his trial, crucifixion, resurrection and ascension to heaven. Yet, there are no historical records to authenticate the Gospel story of Jesus. Classical writers, historians and philosophers of the early centuries of the Christian era, who lived at the time when the Gospel account is said to have taken place, and some of whose works exist to this day, make no mention of Jesus. Owing to lack of historical evidence, modern biblical research, too, fails to throw any light on the vexed question."

This is in "The Teosophical Movement" magazine, India, December 2004. The article goes on: 
"Nevertheless, Theosophy shows that an Initiate, a great reformer and teacher called Jehoshua, did arise among the Jews between 103 B.C. to 76 B.C. He was the type from whom the evangelists created the "historical Jesus." He was initiated in Egypt and recognized no Jehovah of orthodox Jews except the "Father in Heaven" with whom he communed, as every Initiate communes with his Divine Self in Yogic contemplation. He was accused by the Jewish orthodoxy of stealing the Mysteries of their temple and teaching the multitude. He was tried, stoned and allowed to die on a cross."

See more at 

http://www.teosofia.com/Mumbai/7502christmas.html

Best regards,  Carlos. 


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