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(Including interpretations of the sayings of Jesus). The reason why I am including the sayings of Jesus at the back of this book is most 'Westerners' are more familiar with him than the Buddha or Krishna, although I will cover them also. This book is about there being no 'time' so why dwell too much in such an idea? I commence this after much painful experience chasing spiritual phantoms and fighting illusory battles, of ideas and opinions. Time itself is an illusion and doesn't exist really. It is all a dream of the concept "God". So in this dream everything is really happening at the same time, it is just the play of consciousness that gives the illusion of progression and time. It is like lives, they are like a cartwheel and the lives are the spokes. Consciousness is the hub, and we concentrate consciousness on one spoke at a time, hence lives, but they all happen at once! However because consciousness has become associated with the illusion it has to free itself with free will. This entails taking responsibility for our actions , as if we were making things happen. It is said that we see our future life before taking birth, so everything that is going to happen has happened or rather is happening. So at birth a veil is drawn over our consciousness, so to speak and then we have to literally, "Act out ", the drama, as if we are making decisions , that effect a really non-existent future. So in fact when we ponder over a decision and then make it, that was the decision we had already made anyway. There was just the illusion that we were making it, so that we could take responsibility for it and learn. Learn what? Learn that we are part of a dream! So the illusion of experiencing causes pain and eventually the "Consciousness Realises this and wakes up------Liberated". However it is real enough whilst you are in it. The question is 'Who are you'? and what is this 'I'? So as time itself doesn't really exist one has to set a goal and live and work the best as one can in the present, for that is what we really have.....Tony O'Clery.
APPENDIX I. INTRODUCTION It seems
to me that the Essenic influence has been overlooked in favour of a Judaic
standard, with regard to Jesus. Josephus
does say that there were about 4,000 Essenes, and perhaps seven thousand
Pharisees and a few thousand Sadducees. Josephus also claims to have lived with
the Essenes so would have a personal understanding of what they believed. This
is besides the general population of course. Pliny, Philo and many others wrote
about the Essenes as well. The
Catholic Encyclopedia now recognises a debt to the Essenes, since the Dead Sea
Scrolls. If Jesus
came from an Essenic background then he wouldn't have been either Pharisaic or
Sadducean. He would have had a broader belief system with other influences from
mystery groups in Egypt, India, Egypt, and of course Persia. The claims
to be' Son of God', or only begotten, come from the later Christians. St
Augustine is quoted as saying that which is now called Christian has always
existed, since the beginning of time. In fact they also had an installation in
Egypt at Heliopolis, probably harking back beyond Akhenaten, the Monotheist.
They also had contact with other groups around the world and as far away as
India. Which isn’t surprising for the Buddhists were in Alexandria. I don't
understand why the Pharisees would have been persecuting the Essenes and
Christians but it is not hard to see how the Herodian Sadducees would be, as
they were persecuting all the groups. Was Paul
working for the Temple Police? It is mentioned in the Scrolls that the Teacher
of Righteousness was killed by the wicked Priest, this would fit in with the
fact the Sadducees regarded the prophets as heretics. Although this was up to a
hundred years before Jesus. However the Essenes believed their teacher would
reincarnate again. Perhaps we
should look more to Mt Karmel and Egypt for an idea of what Jeshua believed and
came out of. I have never presumed he was a member of a regular Jewish sect.
Galilee was even full of Greek settlements at this time as well...This is
presuming that Jeshua really existed and I believe that he did. Why? Well apart
from the billions that believe the same, there are writings
from near the time of Jesus. Notably Josephus, Pliny, some other Roman
Historians, the Gospels and the Talmud. Most of this evidence is believed to be
in the Vatican Library today. MARY
THE MAGDALENE---------TEACHER AND ‘BISHOP’. Mary
was obviously very close to Jesus, and this was not only due to the fact that
she was the sister of Martha and Lazarus, who Jesus knew very well. She was
apparently a ‘Courtesan’ with the Roman occupation and ran into trouble with
the Sadducees over this. She was the woman saved by Jesus from being stoned as
an adulteress. Jesus also cured her of the seven deadly spirits or vices. She
apparently was ‘born again’ and became a devoted follower, never leaving his
side. From her appearance she seem to be of Greek and Hebrew ancestry and in all
likelihood was originally a follower of the Essenes. As was Jesus and his family
also. The Essenes were much more eclectic and very different from the Sadducees
and Pharisees. They also had no discrimination against women. So women could
rise and be Elders and Teachers in the Church just as much as men. So as it is
obvious, from the naming of a Gospel after her, Mary was a leader or
‘Bishop’ in the Early Church. There isn’t much description of Jesus and
the Renunciant Essenes but there is a description of his brother James, which is
in the introduction, and he definately was a mystical type. Mary no doubt was of
the same group as James and his brother Simon. There is much talk of Jesus and
Mary having a sexual relationship, but this is unlikely considering their
renunciant state. As far as kissing her on the mouth in front of the disciples,
many family members do this and too much shouldn’t be read in to it. More than
likely they are referring to the Essenic custom of kissing on the cheek. More
important is the fact she was at the crucifixion and the first to see Jesus on
his reappearance, from the tomb. When
Saul of Tarsus took over the guiding of the Gentile Church there were some great
changes. The Jerusalem and original Church was still very Essenic but St Paul
wasn’t. This was because he wasn’t an Essene but a Pharisee, and this would
account, perhaps if it is true, for the lack of woman Teachers or Rebbes. The
course of the Church continued in this fashion until it was established by
Constantine. The original Essenic Christians of Mary, James, Simon and the
original apostles split into different groups. Generally becoming known as
Nazorites, Gnostics and eventually some became Sufis and
mystics. Considering
this, it is the present Church that could be considered ‘heretical’ BY SOME,
for not
following the teachings of Jesus and having female Rebbes, Teachers or Priests. http://www.geocities.com/aoclery/Jesusbook/GospelofThomas.htm
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