Ever since publishing an
authentic historical chronology of christianity, the Grimoire
was flooded with letters asking for greater detail. Although we
could not present the full history, here is a condensed form
that should nonetheless suffice. Also beware that christianity has been trying
to suppress the real history. Christianity has been spreading
disinformation.
King Herod, who started the mission, was not even jewish. He
came from Idumea, of a mixed Semitic race. He converted to a
form of Judaism that suited him and proceeded to impose it on
the world. Judea was a small country. Its only product was
religion. Outside of it, living more comfortably than in the
homeland, were hundreds of thousands of jews. This was known as
the Diaspora. Jews in the Diaspora were often wealthy and had no
desire to live in Judea.
Jews felt a sense of unity and purpose under Herod. He needed
money for his projects (he restored Jerusalem).
Hillel the Great, coming from Babylonian judaism, taught a
personal and ethical renewal, expressed through baptism. The
idea of a new covenant began to be formed, a covenant of choice
and initiation, not birth. There would be a new Israel, a new
Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
Hillel contributed the ideas, but menahem the Diaspora Essene
played a more active part. Diaspora Essenes did not espouse the
unworldliness and strict views of palestinian Essenes. Manahem
founded the Magians. They moved into the position of advisors to
Herod. They became the “Isaac” (patriarch) of the new Israel.
Hillel was “Abraham” (Pope).
Menahem conceived the idea of a thousand-year empire of the jews.
It was believed that Herod came into power in the 3,900th year
from creation, and they also believed that the world was to
last, in all, for 4,900 years. Herod would usher in the last
period of history, when the new Israel would spread over the
world to become the kingdom of the jews, the greatest empire yet
known.
Herod’s associations with the Essenes meant that he had to take
into account their long-standing support of the David family.
The royal family had lost the throne in the fifth century BC.
But a party of loyalists had dreamed of their restoration.
Herod agreed that a David could have power in the empire, but
only as a subordinate to himself. The center of power would be
Jerusalem and the east, but the David could be patriarch in the
less important west, including Rome. There would be a triarchy.
The descendant of David who was willing to cooperate with
Herod’s plans at this time was a man called Heli. He would have
a grandson... Jesus. He was descended from Nathan, a younger son
of David.
For purposes of government and taxation, they divided the whole
known world into ten provinces; two in the homeland, and eight
outside. Each province would, from the start, contain 6,000
members, making 60,000 in all. When these members would multiply
by the tenfold, the total membership would be 600,000 men, the
number of the original Israel. Thus, the new world would fulfill
the pattern of the old, but renew judaism by adapting it to the
contemporary world.
Herod’s scheme of initiation into a new form of Judaism was
immensely successful. Wealthy jews of the Diaspora had no
objection to paying money for membership. A half-shekel fee,
about a day’s income, was a small price to pay for being
pleasing to god and being saved in the final judgement. This
also took the place of animal sacrifices required by the law of
Moses. 70 years later, Jesus took the strongest objection to
selling salvation for money. From that point on, there would be
no initiation fees, only freewill gifts. For this and for other
protests against the Herodian system, he was expelled from the
mission. Herod’s foundations for a new religious system was to
go through many stages before it evolved into something he would
scarcely recognize... the christian church.
To Herod, the return of the Essene priests to Jerusalem would
mean the return of a culture that was alien to most people, and
it would bring out the old conservatives who opposed him. The
Essenes withdrew from Herod, teaching their followers in the
Diaspora that it was not god’s plan that a Herod should rule
when the kingdom came. The king must be of the ancient line of
David. Heli would have that position if the kingdom came in his
time. After him would be his son, Joseph. And, when Joseph had a
son, he would be successor to the throne of jewish caesar. In
March 7 BC Jesus was born to Joseph and Mary. But he was born in
an ambiguity that was to affect him the whole of his life.
For the Essenes, celibacy was the highest way of life. Marriage
and sex were unholy. But they recognized that without sex the
race would not continue. There was a long betrothal period of
several years, then a ceremony that permitted sex. After
pregnancy went into the third month, a second marriage made the
bond permanent. Divorce was forbidden. Mary conceived during the
betrothal period, before the first wedding took place. Joseph
had committed a breach of the rules. The options were either to
class the child as illegitimate and to bring it up as an orphan,
or to recognize the child as a descendant of King David. Levites
advised Joseph to recognize the child and go ahead with the
first wedding as if it were the second.
A view taken by more eastern elements, including the Pharisees,
was that Jesus was an extranuptual child, and could not inherit.
Jesus was born a kilometer south of the Qumran plateau, not in
Bethlehem.
Jesus was conceived and born during the reign of the high priest
Simon Boethus. The Boethusian party represented one of the two
major points of view on ritual and moral questions that split
judaism at the time. The Boethusians took a stricter view on
sexual morality, and for them, Jesus was an extranuptual child,
equivalent to an orphan.
The Magians, Diaspora Essenes with the liberal outlook, accepted
jesus and wanted to protect him. Herod was in no mood for an
heir not of his choosing to survive, especially since the Davids
had turned against him. He was told that Jesus was in the
literal Bethlehem, not in the location coded as “Bethlehem”.
Throughout his life, the question of Jesus’s legitimacy was
determined according to which high priest was in power. If it
was a member of the Boethus or Caiaphas family, he could not
succeed, and his brother James, born in AD 1, was the heir. But
if it was a member of the Annas family, Jesus was the potential
king.
Herod died in March 4 BC. Archelas and Antipas were both
candidates for the throne, but Archelas was named. Nine years of
hostility followed. Joseph, the father of Jesus, was an Essene
and was for peace. But as a David, he could not stand by and let
his land disintegrate. Rome required the whole of the jewish
people to swear an oath of loyalty to Caesar, and 6,000
Pharisees refused. This was the real beginning of zealotry.
Joseph joined the protest, allying himself with the Therapeutae,
the Egyptian ascetics who now controlled Qumran. The head was
Theudas. When Judas the Galilean took over with a far more
extreme militancy, Joseph left to join the peace party that was
formed under Ananus. The dating that the whole world now uses
was conceived near the shores of the Dead Sea to inaugurate a
1,000-year religious kingdom under the sons of Joseph.
Judas the Galilean held a doctrine similar to the Pharisees.
They believed in the survival after death, and this inspired
them to be prepared to die for the cause, expecting a glorious
resurrection.
In AD 6, Archelas was dismissed, and Judea was ruled by Roman
procurators. Quirinius, governor of Syria, was sent to oversee
the change. Judea’s uprising was promptly put down by the
Romans. Immediately after, the peace party swept into power,
with Ananus as high priest, trusted by the Romans to encourage
peaceful cooperation. Jesus was now officially declared
legitimate.
In AD 17, Eleazar Annas, the son of Ananas, had become high
priest. The Roman governor was on the verge of replacing him,
who in turn would be succeeded a year later by Caiaphas. The
mood of the country was once again turning in an eastern
direction.
Joseph was drawn into the militarism, and wanted jesus to become
an initiate of the militarist party, but Jesus refused. He had
sided with the views of the Annas family... peace with Rome and
acceptance of Gentiles. In that year Heli died and Joseph became
the David. But with the ascesion of Caiaphas, a Pharisee in
sympathy with Boethusian views, returned Jesus back to shameful
status, and James was crown prince.
In AD 23 Joseph died. Judas Iscariot had become successor of
Judas the Galilean. As a zealot leader, he was called “satan”.
Mary acknowledged him as superior in the present regime. Jesus
now felt the full force of his rejection.
John the Baptist, a monastic Essene, tried to reform the
nationalists on the question of militarism. He taught that the
destruction of Romans should be left in the hands of heaven.
Heaven would send its angelic hosts to destroy the Sons of
Darkness, leaving behind only those who had become initiated.
The rise of John coincided with the arrival of pontius Pilate,
and of Agrippa Herod who was to become king of the jews. Under
John, party groupings emerged as the Hebrews and the Hellenists.
The Hebrews had an eastern orientation and did not accept Jesus.
The Hebrews included John the Baptist, Caiaphas, and James - the
brother of Jesus. The Hellenists spoke Greek in their services
and allowed women into forms of ministry. To them, Jesus was
legitimate. Magians and Therapeutae were with them. The tetrarch
Antipas condemned the baptist for his morals and sided with
Manassah.
By AD 29 both the peace Hellenists and the war Hellenists had
been repelled by the priestly arrogance of the Baptist. In the
guise of reform, he had been attempting to restore ritualness
and exclusiveness of the old Essenes.
Diaspora Essenes were accustomed to letting laymen perform
levitical functions. The party that formed in opposition to the
Baptist was called “The 12 Apostles”. It was a countergovernment
of the potential empire, each of its members representing a
province. The six real leaders were Judas Iscariot, Simon the
Zealot, Theudas, Jacob of Alphaeus, Thomas, and Matthew. The two
candidates for Pope were Simon Magus (for war) and Jonathan
Annas (for peace). Simon was the head of the Magians/Samaritans.
As a Samaritan, he had no loyalty to Jerusalem, and saw judaism
in northern terms... Diaspora oriented. He always had zealot
views. In the final state of the parties, in AD 50, he was the
head of the eastern factions, and the bitter enemy of the
christians who had separated from the peace Hellenists. Simon
was the Antichrist, conducting a rival campaign for the hearts
of Gentiles. Simon Magus accepted Jesus as the true David.
Jonathan Annas agreed with Jesus in all respects but one. He
insisted that only men born out of the tribe of Levi could be
priests. His priestliness and pomposity led a division in his
following. The christians emerged from the peace Hellenists as
laymen who did not need a priest as a leader. Jesus could occupy
all three leadership roles. Jesus consistently challenged Annas
for his position of priest. Annas immediately became Pope after
the fall of the Baptist.
Judas Iscariot made Jesus an offer. “If you accept me as priest
and pope, I will make you king.” Jesus refused, declaring
support for Annas.
Simon Magus became Pope in succession to Annas. While Simon was
Pope, Jesus had no alternative but to act as king whom Simon
would bring in when he gained power both as Pope and as Pontifex
Maximus. During the next two years, Jesus would fall out with
all factions.
In March AD 33, just before the crucifixion, Jesus entered the
second marriage with Mary Magdeline, who belonged to the eastern
party. There had been a 3-year trial marriage. Mary had
conceived in December AD 32.
The year before that, Jesus allowed Gentile laymen to serve the
bread at communion, where the congregation were ordinary
Gentiles who thought of themselves as christians, not jews.
After the ceremony in the evening, he acted like a full priest,
displacing Annas. He was claiming that there was no difference
between himself and a man born into the tribe of Levi. According
to this view, he could rise as far as being high priest and
Pope. He was claiming the status a David never could hold.
Every year the Atonement had to be performed only by a high
priest. Jesus came in the vestments of the high priest and
performed the ceremony. He did this in the Diaspora, making it
as holy as any land, making the jewish priesthood unnecessary.
He was attacked and his regalia was removed. Simon Magus reduced
him back to his place.
During a protest about Pilate’s spending money from the sacred
treasury, Roman soldiers dressed in jewish garments mixed with
the crowd and bludgeoned them indiscriminately. The three zealot
leaders, Simon Magus, Judas iscariot, and Theudas led the
uprising. When the protest failed, they escaped, but had to go
into hiding. Theudas had killed a Roman soldier. Pilate’s orders
were to find them.
Jonathan Annas, the Pope of peace, returned to power. Simon was
excommunicated, as was fitting a deposed Pope. Jesus had no need
to hide, as he was not in the riot. The tetrarch Antipas gained
the upper hand over Agrippa, and ordered that Simon should have
the excommunication rescinded. He ordered that this be performed
by a subordinate of Simon. If Jesus chose to support Simon, he
could act in this role. But he did not support him politically,
for Simon was a zealot. Yet his personal support was stronger,
and he carried out the release, which was from the point of view
of the Romans, associating him with a criminal.
In March AD 33 the seasonal council of leaders was to be held to
observe passover and associated days. The wanted men were
prepared to come to Qumran. Annas and Caiaphas would not give
them away. All were united by the purpose to defend judaism. If
one broke ranks, all would be in danger.
The Baptist’s prophesies had failed a few years before, but he
had also predicted a restoration of the high priest. The most
likely date would be the equinox, March 20. If westernized
members were right, it should come on Thursday at midnight.
Simon would be vulnerable at that hour, as would Jesus, for he
had claimed to be high priest.
Judas was rival to Simon and bitterly antagonistic to jesus for
his claim to be high priest, as well as his opposition to ritual
law. Agrippa has reinstated himself in Pilate’s favor, and hated
Simon for betraying him to Flaccus. Judas went to Annas and
offered to betray Jesus. This meant a union between the
Hellenist parties.
After the supper, Judas sent a messenger to Jerusalem to offer
Pilate a bribe, informing him of the whereabouts and asking for
pardon in return.
The expected heavenly intervention did not come. The western
version of the prophesy was wrong. Jesus was seized and arrested
by Annas. His brother James automatically became the David.
Magus was also arrested. Jesus was brought before Caiaphas and
condemned.
When Pilate came the situation changed. He demanded to see all
three Zealots. Pilate suspended judgement for Jesus, for he was
unconvinced that he had as much guilt as the others. Antipas
then offered a higher bribe than Agrippa and Judas had done.
Pilate changed the verdict for Theudas, who was an old man.
Judas thus lost the protected status with Annas. He was
condemned to be crucified alongside Simon, to be executed for
zealotry. Pilate asked the jewish priests if they wanted Jesus
put to death. The decision was left to Annas, who made his
choice to be rid of the troublesome rebel.
The crosses were made from wooden poles used to erect tents for
visiting villagers to Qumran. The crucifixion took place outside
the monastery gates on the edges of the pilgrim camp. Jesus was
not on the middle cross, but on the western of the three. The
main subject was Simon. After six hours on the cross, Jesus
drank poison and slumped as if dead.
The tetrarch asked Pilate to change the method of execution to
burial alive. They were crucified according to Roman law, but if
Pilate wanted to get back to Jerusalem he could hand them over
to Jewish law. “Men should not hang on stakes overnight”.
The three were rescued... Theudas had Jesus treated for the
poison, and Jesus lived to at least the age of 70. He had
divorced and married Lydia, for which he was accused of
polygamy. He had three children. Judas, however, was given no
mercy for his betrayal and was thrown from a cliff. The timing
of this occasion added to the belief of a heavenly intervention.
The followers who were simple-minded and who required stories
were given legend.. the more sophisticated members of the
mission knew better.
This article will end at the crucifixion. There are an equal
amount of interesting events beyond this point. The schisms that
followed shaped the various forms of christianity. It is a
religion of excuses and error (not a single prophesy came
true... the world was supposed to end in the year 1,000 AD). Now
you have the real meaning of “judea-christian”.
Life is far more rewarding without pious myth, even if you are
simple-minded. If you are in a dark phase of life, do not fall
victim to the false messages of religion that seek to wrongly
fill your void. The right kind of mental therapy can liberate
you. Religion is a candybar Sure, it will give you energy... but
it’s not a real meal.
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