Earth, Wind and Fire
"Jesus said, "Let him who seeks continue seeking until he finds. When he finds, he will become troubled. When he becomes troubled, he will be astonished, and he will rule over the All."--Thomas (2). This pragmatic advice flies in the face of the dogmatic teachings of the Christian church. Jesus is telling us not to just blindly accept what someone tells them, but to seek the truth. So, let us follow what Jesus told us and begin to seek, and what better place is there to start with than the Bible.

There are several layers of understanding contained in the New Testament. The most obvious of which is to take them literally, and some churches do just that. In the gospels Jesus speaks in parables, and many churches have made their living by lending meaning to the parables, but this is mere deception. It is written that the parables were written to serve those who are deaf and blind to the true word of God. And he said unto them: "Unto you it is given to know the mystery of the kingdom of God: but unto them that are without, all these things are done in parables:"--Mark 4:11. In other words the crux of the Jesus' message is not found in the parables. The word without refers to those who have not ventured in or meditated. "That seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest at any time they should be converted, and their sins should be forgiven them."--Mark 4:12. It is never too late to change. This can also be found in Luke and in Matthew: "And he said, Unto you it is given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of God: but to others in parables; that seeing they might not see, and hearing they might not understand."--Luke 8:10. The Bible was written in such a way as to mislead those who study it intellectually, and to guide those who understand it spiritually.

"And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables? "He answered and said unto them, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given."--Matthew 13:10, 11. "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you."--Matthew 7:6. The word pearls means divine wisdom, and swine refer to those driven by the carnal mind. The word carnal comes from being in the flesh or incarnate. "And there was a good way off from them an herd of many swine feeding. So the devils besought him, saying, If thou cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine. And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine: and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters."--Matthew 8:32. Don't try to analyze and figure things out via the intellect for it will always give you reason to reject the truth.

Religion is dogmatic by definition. It never changes. Religion requires blind faith. The very last thing that your priest or minister wants you to do is to question what they preach but that is not what Jesus tells you. "Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened."--Matthew 7:7, 8. Here Jesus is implying that you should question what you are being taught, and if you do so you will find the truth. Jesus is telling you that going to church and reading the Bible is a waste of time. Nothing will happen until you first do what he tells you.

Before we go any further let's get one thing straight, there never was anyone named Jesus Christ. During the lifetime of Jesus you could have climbed the highest tower in Jerusalem and shouted Jesus at the top of your lungs, and kept screaming until you were blue in the face, and no one would have turned around. You see the name Jesus is not Jewish, and did not exist during the first century. There was no letter 'J' until the Middle Ages. If there was such a person his name may have been Yeshua, or Yeshu, or Yeshai, but not Jesus. Jesus comes from the Greek Iesous. Second, Christ is not a name, but a title which came from an unfortunate Greek mistranslation of the Hebrew word messiah which does not have the same meaning. While there were no people named Jesus during the first century there were many people referred to as Christ since it became common to assign that title to the Jewish high priest. However, the word Christ or Christos in the New Testament is not referring to the Jewish messiah, but to the Indian Christos known as Hare Krishna.

You may be surprised to learn that the title messiah was never used in the New Testament. The closest thing to messiah is "The woman saith unto him, I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ: when he is come, he will tell us all things."--John 4:25, which was written during the early to middle second century, but is not mentioned in the Synoptics. In the Old Testament the term is only used twice and that in the apocalyptic Book of Daniel which refers to a period circa the 7th century BC, but was actually composed c 167 BCE, and was actually written about the life of the Persian Zoroaster. "All that is mentioned as having transpired in the Book of Daniel, occurred through myself as a medium, and has no relation whatever to a Jewish Daniel, but solely relates to Zarathustra of the Persians."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', the testimony of Zoroaster. Zarathustra is the real name of Zoroaster.

According to Hilton Hotema the name Jesus has nothing to do with first century Palestine, but comes from the third member of the Druid trinity Hesus, and Christ was derived from the Hindu god Krishna, which in Greek is Christos. So, during the Nicene Council they chose Hesus Christos as the new symbol of their religion. If you check you will find that in the original Bibles commissioned by the Emperor Constantine Jesus Christ is not mentioned even once. All you will find is 'IYXY'. Of course members of the Christian clergy will tell you that this means Jesus Christ, but why didn't they write 'PP' for Pontius Pilate, or 'MM' for Mary Magdalene. It was because even as late as the end of the fourth century the authors of the scriptures were still uncertain as to just who would become their fake god. "In my day the name was Hesu Christos. In the days of Eusebius it was made Jesus Christ."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', testimony of Junianus Justinus, a Latin Historian. To be more accurate, it did not become Jesus Christ until the Middle Ages with the introduction of the letter 'J'.

"The greatest difficulty that I found at Antioch was when we undertook to make Hesus Christos a Jew."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', the testimony of Severus, 5th century Patriarch of Antioch. "...all men knew the story of Jesus Christ was nothing but the old story of Christos or Chrishna of India revived."--J. M. Roberts, 'Antiquity Unveiled', testimony of Caius Valerius Maximianus Galerius, Roman Emperor, 305-311 CE. "...I captured the writings of Zoroaster, and Diocletian submitted them to a comparison with the writings of the Christians. The Christian writings were declared to be fraudulent."--Ibid. The gospels were derived from the Indian writings, and the epistles from Zoroaster.

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