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It should also be remembered that Jesus' family were members of the Essenes, a Christian mystery school that taught a more metaphysical approach to Christianity than we have now, one that included the same influences Jesus would have been journeying to learn. It should also be mentioned that Mary Magdalen, who is still considered as Jesus' wife by many in the Languedoc area of France today, was said to be a priestess from a Nubian mystery school unrelated to the Judeo-Christian faiths.
They were not limited to a single religion, but studied all of them in order to extract the great scientific principles. They considered each religion to be a different stage of a single revelation. They accorded great importance to the teachings of the ancient Chaldeans, of Zoroaster, of Hermes Trismegiste, to the secret instructions of Moses and of one of the founding Masters of their order who had transmitted techniques similar to those of Buddhism, as well as to the revelation of Enoch.
They possessed a living science of all of these revelations.
Thus, they knew how to communicate with angelic beings and had solved the question of the origin of evil on the earth.
The Essenes considered themselves the guardians of the Divine Teaching. They had in their possession a great number of very ancient manuscripts, some of them going back to the dawn of time. A large portion of the School members spent their time decoding them, translating them into several languages, and reproducing them, in order to perpetuate and preserve this advanced knowledge. They considered this work to be a sacred task.
The Essenes considered their Brotherhood-Sisterhood as the presence on earth of the Teaching of the sons and daughters of God. They were the light which shines in the darkness and which invites the darkness to change itself into light. Thus, for them, when a candidate asked to be admitted to their School, it meant that, within him, a whole process of awakening of the soul was set in motion. Such a soul was ready to climb the stairs of the sacred temple of humanity.
The Essenes differentiated between the souls which were sleeping, drowsy, and awakened. Their task was to help, to comfort, and to relieve the sleeping souls, to try to awaken the drowsy souls, and to welcome and guide the awakened souls. Only the souls considered as awakened could be initiated into the mysteries of the Brotherhood-Sisterhood. Then began for them a path of evolution that could not stop anymore through the cycle of their incarnations.
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Originally posted by lonewolf19792000
reply to post by Ittabena
Mary Magdalena was one of the Apostles. She and Mary the mother of Jesus were both present at Pentecost and recieved the Holy Spirit. She was not the wife of Jesus, the Lamb could not be defiled by a woman or he would not have been pure.
The original twelve disciples/apostles are listed in Matthew 10:2-4, “These are the names of the twelve apostles: first, Simon (who is called Peter) and his brother Andrew; James son of Zebedee, and his brother John; Philip and Bartholomew; Thomas and Matthew the tax collector; James son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus; Simon the Zealot and Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Him.” The Bible also lists the twelve disciples/apostles in Mark 3:16-19 and Luke 6:13-16. A comparison of the three passages shows a couple of minor differences in the names. It seems that Thaddaeus was also known as “Judas, son of James” (Luke 6:16) and Lebbaeus (Matthew 10:3). Simon the Zealot was also known as Simon the Canaanite (Mark 3:18). Judas Iscariot, who betrayed Jesus, was replaced in the twelve apostles by Matthias (see Acts 1:20-26). Some Bible teachers view Matthias as an “invalid” apostle and believe that Paul was God's choice to replace Judas Iscariot as the twelfth apostle.
Originally posted by boymonkey74
Also can you prove he had never been with a woman? we only here what he did after he hit his 30's, maybe those scripture's what they have not used in the bible and have kept from the public because they are deemed sensitive have the fella rocking out all over Bethlehem
That is not magic, its called miracles and to date not one person who wasn't filled with the Holy Spirit has been able to raise the dead, or heal the blind and deaf or even resurrect his own body. Have you known of any sorcerers who could raise themselves from the dead and be completely healed? No you do not. Magic is what witches who serve demons do and not a one of them is able to raise the dead or even heal.
You should stop playing those dungeons and dragons games, they will rot your brain. By the way you have commited blasphemy of the Holy Spirit, and there can be no forgiveness for that not in this life or the next. Don;t know what that means? Look it up and see the penalty youre going to pay.
Originally posted by darkredfish
reply to post by boymonkey74
Lol D&D was WAAAY before my time.
Originally posted by boymonkey74
Originally posted by darkredfish
reply to post by boymonkey74
Lol D&D was WAAAY before my time.
Don't make me feel old
But why did he say it rot's the brain? its a great way to socialise with mate's, I play with a group of people everynow and then and one is a teacher at a primary school and she's made a school freindly version and its a hit with the Kids.
It has helped a few Kids who were very shy and brought them outa their shell.
If Jesus couldn't be 'defiled" by a woman, why then did he choose to come through the birth canal of Mary's vagina, after having spent 10 months in her uterus? What about all the curd, caul, imbilical fliud and bloody discharge, that didn't defile him?
Originally posted by jheated5
Technically he'd be a Warlock.....
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The word "witch" seems to denote etymologically "one that knows." it is historically both masculine and feminine; indeed the Anglo-Saxon form wicca, to which the English word is to be traced, is masculine alone. "Wizard" is given as masculine for witch, but it has in reality no connection with it.
Originally posted by kinglizard
So Jesus was just an advancement on the Wiccan belief? Meaning all wiccans should follow Jesus?
Originally posted by nixie_nox
reply to post by MamaJ
No, what your grandmother did is called voodoo.