EASTER week is Christianity’s “Jesus week,” and now the secular media-mob have been waging an unprecedented, virulent assault on Christian beliefs. We decided to enter the fray as peace-makers instead.
The cover of NEWSWEEK (April 4th) is emblazoned “The Decline and Fall of Christian America.”
As a result, that runner-up news magazine was forced to disable comments on Jon Meacham’s lead article.
“The End of Christian America” received over 5,000 comments, blogger Kurt Soller reported, “making the site wobbly.”
(See Colleen Raezler’s column For the media, it’s un-Holy Week if you want all the bloody details.)
Outrage: “God Is Back”
It is true that Theosophy’s H. P. Blavatsky, took no prisoners attacking the faults of what she called “Churchianity.” But she always sided with the “true Christians,” whose “faith in their respective churches is pure and sincere.”
Elevate to Christos
The difference between Christian theology and Theosophy,” she wrote, is that the “former enforces belief in the Descent of the Spiritual Ego into the Lower Self,” and Theosophy “inculcates the necessity of endeavouring to elevate oneself to the Christos, or Buddhi state.” (Key to Theosophy)
This will not be a scholarly tome or an historical argument. We have too little time and space. (But for an important study, please be sure to read David Pratt’s impeccably researched Who Was the Real Jesus?)
H. P. Blavatsky
The rest of this article is entirely in the words of Blavatsky, (with emphasis added), from Isis Unveiled, her first major work — subtitled “A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology.”
From Chapter III, Isis Unveiled
(Vol. 2, p. 123)
The motive of Jesus was evidently like that of Gautama-Buddha, to benefit humanity at large by producing a religious reform which should give it a religion of pure ethics—the true knowledge of God and nature having remained until then solely in the hands of the esoteric sects, and their adepts.
Sakyamuni
Gautama
When we use the term Buddhists, we do not mean to imply by it either the exoteric Buddhism instituted by the followers of Gautama-Buddha, nor the modern Buddhistic religion, but the secret philosophy of Sakyamuni, which in its essence is certainly identical with the ancient wisdom-religion of the sanctuary, the pre-Vedic Brahmanism.
Perfected Living Masters
Thus, in common with Pythagoras and other hierophant reformers, Jesus divided his teachings into exoteric and esoteric.
Pythagoras
Except a handful of self-styled Christians who subsequently won the day, all the civilized portion of the Pagans who knew of Jesus honored him as a philosopher, an adept whom they placed on the same level with Pythagoras and Apollonius.
Whence such a veneration on their part for a man, were he simply, as represented by the Synoptics, a poor, unknown Jewish carpenter from Nazareth? As an incarnated God there is no single record of him on this earth capable of withstanding the critical examination of science…
Apollonius
As one of the greatest reformers, an inveterate enemy of every theological dogmatism, a persecutor of bigotry, a teacher of one of the most sublime codes of ethics, Jesus is one of the grandest and most clearly-defined figures on the panorama of human history.
We see that the Golden Rule was not original with Jesus — that its birth-place was India. … the doctrines of Manu and Gautama harmonized exactly with his own philosophy.
Christ Not a Person
With the Christians, Christ is another name for Jesus. The philosophy of the Gnostics, the initiates, and hierophants understood it otherwise. The word Christos, (Christos), like all Greek words, must be sought in its philological origin — the Sanskrit.
Krishna
God-like beings as Gautama-Buddha, Jesus, Tissoo, Christna, and a few others had united themselves with their spirits permanently — hence, they became gods on earth.
Others, such as Moses, Pythagoras, Apollonius, Plotinus, Confucius, Plato, Iamblichus, and some Christian saints, having at intervals been so united, have taken rank in history as demi-gods and leaders of mankind.
When unburdened of their terrestrial tabernacles, their freed souls, henceforth united forever with their spirits, rejoin the whole shining host, which is bound together in one spiritual solidarity of thought and deed, and called “the anointed.”
Hence, the meaning of the Gnostics, who, by saying that “Christos” suffered spiritually for humanity, implied that his Divine Spirit suffered mostly.
From The Preface to Part II – Isis Unveiled
[Vol. 2, Page iii-iv]
WERE it possible, we would keep this work out of the hands of many Christians whom its perusal would not benefit, and for whom it was not written.
We allude to those whose faith in their respective churches is pure and sincere, and those whose sinless lives reflect the glorious example of that Prophet of Nazareth, by whose mouth the spirit of truth spake loudly to humanity.
Such there have been at all times. History preserves the names of many as heroes, philosophers, philanthropists, martyrs, and holy men and women — but how many more have lived and died, unknown but to their intimate acquaintance, unblessed but by their humble beneficiaries!
These have ennobled Christianity, but would have shed the same lustre upon any other faith they might have professed — for they were higher than their creed.
The Virtues
And yet, in comparison with the millions who have been accounted Christians, such have always formed a small minority. They are to be found at this day, in pulpit and pew, in palace and cottage — but the increasing materialism, worldliness and hypocrisy are fast diminishing their proportionate number.
Their charity, and simple, child-like faith in the infallibility of their Bible, their dogmas, and their clergy, bring into full activity all the virtues that are implanted in our common nature.
Faith and Immortality
We have personally known such God-fearing priests and clergymen, and we have always avoided debate with them, lest we might be guilty of the cruelty of hurting their feelings — nor would we rob a single layman of his blind confidence, if it alone made possible for him holy living and serene dying.
An analysis of religious beliefs in general, this volume is in particular directed against theological Christianity, the chief opponent of free thought.
[Isis Unveiled] contains not one word against the pure teachings of Jesus, but unsparingly denounces their debasement into pernicious ecclesiastical systems that are ruinous to man’s faith in his immortality and his God, and subversive of all moral restraint.
Jesus of The Future
His age may, with every day, be receding farther and farther back into the gloomy and hazy mists of the past — and his theology — based on human fancy and supported by untenable dogmas [theology] must with every day lose more of its unmerited prestige …
Alone the grand figure of the philosopher and moral reformer instead of growing paler will become with every century more pronounced and more clearly defined.
It will reign supreme and universal only on that day when the whole of humanity recognizes but one father — the UNKNOWN ONE above — and one brother — the whole of mankind below.
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Sacred Tribe of Heroes
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Upon reading H.P.Blavatskys materials one thing struck me, the idea of saying to much so that what is written unleashes “opposing forces”. She and her teachers were well aware of humans groves or what we can call the Conditioned Mind.
Personally I tend to think that HPB could of said much more about the historical Jesus but chose not to due to letting loose even more “opposing forces”.
I read a book called The Bible Fraud by Tony Busby which gives a clear history of who the real Jesus was and how the myth of Jesus per the New testament came about and I recommend that text to anyone who wants further investigative data.
Basically the Romans needed a religion for the masses in order to unite their territories. The roaming presberters were brought together, their texts were confisicated, and Esibus (sp?) was assigned the task of writing a fantastic text to begin the new religion, and thus the Roman Catholic Church was born.
Every comment about Jesus by HPB is also confirmed in the above mentioned text.
The difficulty with all this is that it is emotionally difficult to find that texts such as the Gospels are so full of half truths and even lies….when a person is given testimony, that is, told to believe as a child by preachers and authorities that the Christian Bible is true.
Unconditioning the mind is extremely difficult. It was for me ! Our human nature seems to abhor a vacum and when cherished beliefs get blown up where does that leave a person?
I realized that vacum within myself and when a relative once said to me, “Well if my spouse left me at least I would have God”, I came to a fuller understanding of our our human need to have some beliefs to hold on to. Thus I even came to understand how some theosophical students would and still do…christianize theosophy…the same holds true for Masonry…it is being christianized as well in many areas.
It appears to me that our karma, including how we as humans think and our cherished beliefs and reliance on authorities does not change as quickly as we might wish for. The fabricated Jesus and the Roman Catholic creeds will take many more generations to die out.
Theosophy and Buddhism in general teach both self responsibilty and demand free thinking and questioning…..that is not an easy thing to do for most.
I have come to the conclusion that serious theosophical students are advancing ahead of their race and perhaps even in our future lives we may have some kind of “conditioned and fabricated lies” to deal with.
Gary Barnhart
The Historical Jesus of the Future
To lend a critical perspective of the literal, literary, and theological Jesus is very important, as it unlocks the mystery of Christ, which interpretation has been, for the most part, left to dogmatic Church ideology. The mistake that the Roman and Reformed Church’s have made was in making the character Jesus Christ fit into a historical time frame with out any actual evidence of the fact. A direct cognitive disconnect for any thinking person and a must challenged blind spot for the most faithful to get beyond as a faith based dogma has become the norm for a “believer” to be delivered, only to be saved from one form of slavery to another. Without the actual historical evidence needed, one is indeed holding the bag for an outside agency to provide the basis for what a person must believe without really knowing (Blind Faith).
The Gnostics had a different idea, but as we know they were derided by the Orthodox Patristic Clergy and censored. I think the Church will one day, in all honesty, have to incorporate the new findings of the Nag Hammadi and Dead Sea Scrolls texts into their canon, as well as, any new findings as yet to be excavated and unearth. A revelation of the truest kind and the only way to secure the future of Christianity as a True Religion that people can freely experience and except, based not only on faith but on intelligent inquiry and expression, one that makes “faith the substance of things hope for”. Its’ the multi colored array given by the lost texts along with the Canonical that makes Christianity what it really is supposed to be, a composition of many peoples experience of the divine Christos. One of which they related their faith by the myths and tales of their own time and perspective. This inclusion ultimately unifying and harmonizing all the different sects of the Christian movement, weaving a tapestry with a wide range of expression for understanding a very important teaching, from which a faith rich in truth cannot be denied.
Jesus and his tribe! See previous article Sacred Tribe of Heroes:
“For there is indeed in the terrestrial abode the sacred tribe of heroes who pay attention to mankind, and who are able to give them assistance even in the smallest concerns. . . . This heroic tribe is, as it were, a colony from the gods established here in order that this terrene abode may not be left destitute of a better nature.”
http://theosophywatch.com/2008/11/17/sacred-tribe-heroes/
Reading this was like having a long, cool, drink, of water in a desert…so satisfying to hear these particular unvarnished truths over and over in as many ways as possible, we are so inundated with “gloss”…I am grateful, thank you….and it’s great to know that when I am still here doing my best to work it out, Jesus will still be on the Mainline!