Ophir - just wonder what religious persuasion you own up to not that it really matters.
"Jesus is an indisputable fact in recorded history,"
Where is it in recorded history?Fair dinkum anyone who can put two words together & compare the Old & new Testaments can work out that the Jesus of the Bible was never an historical person. Blind faith lives on - remeber the stop loss!
Surely you jest.Flavius Jopheus the foremost historian of his time (circa 2020 yrs ago) wrote of 13 Jesus's but never mentions Jesus the Christ - wonder why - never did his homework? Couldn't read the weetbix cards?
http://www.blavatskyarchives.com/jesuschrist.htm
Did Jesus Exist and Who Is the Christ?
Recommended Books on Jesus Including Titles That Question the Existence of an Historical Jesus as Given in the Gospels and Books about the Mythical, Mystical and Cosmic Christ
"...Jesus Christ, i.e., the Man-God of the Christians copied from the Avat?ras of every country, from the Hindu Krishna as well as the Egyptian Horus, was never a historical person. He is a deified personification of the glorified type of the great Hierophants of the Temples, and his story, as told in the New Testament, is an allegory, assuredly containing profound esoteric truths, but still an allegory. Every act of the Jesus of the New Testament, every word attributed to him, every event related of him during the three years of the mission he is said to have accomplished, rests on the programme of the Cycle of Initiation, a cycle founded on the Precession of the Equinoxes and the Signs of the Zodiac...."
"The legend of which I speak is founded....on the existence of a personage called Jehoshua (from which Jesus has been made) born at L?d or Lydda about 120 years before the modern era....In spite of all the desperate research made during long centuries, if we set aside the testimony of the 'Evangelists,' i.e., unknown men whose identity has never been established, and that of the Fathers of the Church, interested fanatics, neither history, nor profane tradition, neither official documents, nor the contemporaries of the soidisant drama, are able to provide one single serious proof of the historical and real existence, not only of the Man-God but even of him called Jesus of Nazareth, from the year 1 to the year 33. All is darkness and silence....The biography of Jesus was invented after the first century...." H.P. Blavatsky
"...'The coming of Christ,' means the presence of CHRISTOS in a regenerated world, and not at all the actual coming in body of 'Christ' Jesus....Christ -- the true esoteric SAVIOR -- is no man, but the DIVINE PRINCIPLE in every human being. He who strives to resurrect the Spirit crucified in him by his own terrestrial passions, and buried deep in the 'sepulcher' of his sinful flesh; he who has the strength to roll back the stone of matter from the door of his own inner sanctuary, he has the risen Christ in him...."
"The 'Christ principle,' the awakened and glorified Spirit of Truth, being universal and eternal, the true Christos cannot be monopolized by any one person....We may learn from the Gospel according to Luke, that the 'worthy' were those who had been initiated into the mysteries of the Gnosis, and who were 'accounted worthy' to attain that 'resurrection from the dead' in this life....In other words, they were the great adepts of whatever religion; and the words apply to all those who, without being Initiates, strive and succeed, through personal efforts to live the life and to attain the naturally ensuing spiritual illumination in blending their personality -- (the 'Son') with (the 'Father,') their individual divine Spirit, the God within them. This 'resurrection' can never be monopolized by the Christians, but is the spiritual birth-right of every human being endowed with soul and spirit, whatever his religion may be. Such individual is a Christ-man. On the other hand, those who choose to ignore the Christ (principle) within themselves, must die unregenerate heathens -- baptism, sacraments, lip-prayers, and belief in dogmas notwithstanding.... He who finds Christos within himself and recognizes the latter as his only 'way,' becomes a follower and an Apostle of Christ, though he may have never been baptized, nor even have met a 'Christian,' still less call himself one." H.P. Blavatsky
