Tuesday, 7 July 2015

Jesus, or the Christ figure, was, according to the Gospels, a magician and healer who brought a message of the Apocalypse. It was, for him and his followers, the end of days. He required his followers to reject their families and the temporal. Husbands rejected wives and children. They no longer looked after them. Given this, it is strange that Christian churches, whatever creed, propagate marriage as an essential part of Christianity.

Jesus followed John the Baptist. There appears to have been established an organisation in parts of Lebanon, Syria and Anatolia that concerned itself with John's message. Christians used that organisation to spread their own message.

Like many preachers of the time his  message was supported by widows or bored rich women. In fact, women were central to the message. Jesus would instruct 500 men at a time in the secret knowledge of his cult and send them out to preach and gain converts. Women could also be disciples, as clearly was Mary Magdalen. The Jesus cult was specifically Jewish. He had no interest in the gentiles-calling them dogs. The essential idea was for his disciples to obtain inner and outer perfection for the coming end-perfection of thought and action.

As so much of his career was spent on healing, was Jesus establishing a medical school? Were his followers taught medicine as well as the nature of god?

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