Theos-Talk Archives (April 1999 Message tt00074)

In a message dated 4/6/99 3:03:35 AM, you wrote:

<<In fact, outside of the New
Testament, there is not a shred of evidence that Jesus ever existed.>>

Not *quite* true but darn close.  The Jews do record a Rabbi Yeshua around 
100 BC in several of their texts, for example the Sepher Toledoth Jeshu and a 
few Talmud texts.  I have copies of these I made while in Divinity School for 
a paper if anyone is interested.  Just very brief mentions of this 
trouble-making rabbi.  

Blavatsky referred to these early Jewish records (beats me where exactly, but 
a search of volume 15 of BCW will certainly turn it up) and her co-worker 
G.R.S. Mead took up a massive and well-documented study of the topic in his 
book, DID JESUS LIVE 100 B.C.?  It is good reading, and gives excellent 
arguments that there was some person quite like Jesus who was put to death 
around 86 or 83 BCE under the Palestinian governor Alexander Jannaeus.  I buy 
the argument, and nothing I learned in 3 years of Divnity school could 
overturn it.  The Christian scholars make guesses to date the texts of the 
New Testament, based on scanty and self-contradictory historical references 
like the slaughter of the innocents by Herod (actually a persecution of 
initiates in the Mystery religions).  Of course this changes the whole way we 
look at the Bible, making it written even longer after the death of Jesus, 
and thus even more inaccurate. 

In my humble opinion, the parables and teachings recorded in the New 
Testament, garbled and materialized as they are, point to the real existence 
of one or more Initiates in Syria around 100 BC.  Sad though to see what 
became of Their church.  

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