Mystics have always drawn the ire of institutionalized religion 1
From: "jagbir singh"
Date: Tue May 9, 2006 9:10 am
Subject: Mystics have always drawn the ire of institutionalized religion
Dear All,
The other day i saw the National Geographic documentary"The Gospel
of Judas.”
"It's a revelation conjuring heated debate: According to a recently
translated ancient text called the Gospel of Judas, the disciple
infamous for betraying Jesus may well have been Christ's most
faithful servant and—because the Savior asked him to—accepted
perpetual disgrace to bring about Jesus' death. Explore the
mysticism of early Gnostic thought expressed in words written on a
1,700-year-old leather-bound papyrus. Hear the interpretations of
four biblical scholars. Follow this fragile document from its
discovery in Egypt to its translation and ultimate presentation to
the world. And share your thoughts on the Gospel of Judas.
Everyone remembers the story of Jesus Christ's close friend, one of
the 12 Apostles, who sold him out for 30 pieces of silver,
identifying him with a kiss. Later, crazed with guilt, Judas hanged
himself. He is the ultimate symbol of treachery. Stockyards call the
goat that leads other animals to slaughter the Judas goat. In
Germany, officials can forbid new parents from choosing the
name Judas. Guides at the historic Coptic Hanging Church in Old
Cairo point out one black column in the church's white colonnades—
Judas, of course. Christianity would not be the same without its
traitor.
There is a sinister backdrop to traditional depictions of Judas. As
Christianity distanced itself from its origins as a Jewish sect,
Christian thinkers found it increasingly convenient to blame the
Jews as a people for the arrest and execution of Christ, and to cast
Judas as the archetypal Jew. The four Gospels, for example, treat
Roman governor Pontius Pilate gently while condemning Judas and the
Jewish high priests.
The"secret account"gives us a very different Judas. In this
version, he is a hero. Unlike the other disciples, he truly
understands Christ's message. In handing Jesus over to the
authorities, he is doing his leader's bidding, knowing full well the
fate he will bring on himself. Jesus warns him: "You will be
cursed.”
This message is startling enough to raise suspicions of fraud,
common with alleged biblical artifacts. For example, an empty
limestone box said to have held the bones of James, brother of
Jesus, attracted massive crowds when it was displayed in 2002—but
soon turned out to be an ingenious fake.
A Gospel of Judas is clearly more enticing than an empty box, but so
far every test confirms its antiquity. The National Geographic
Society, which is helping support the restoration and translation of
the manuscript, commissioned a top carbon-dating laboratory at the
University of Arizona to analyze the papyrus book, or codex,
containing the gospel. Tests on five separate samples from the
papyrus and the leather binding date the codex to sometime between
A.D. 220 and 340. The ink appears to be an ancient recipe—a mix of
iron gall and soot inks. And Coptic scholars say telltale turns of
phrase in the gospel indicate that it was translated from Greek, the
language in which most Christian texts were originally written in
the first and second centuries.”We all feel comfortable
putting this copy in the fourth century," one expert says," and
Kasser is sure enough to devote the end of his life to it.”
A further confirmation comes from the distant past. Around
A.D. 180, Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon in what was then Roman Gaul,
wrote a massive treatise called Against Heresies. The book was a
fierce denunciation of all those whose views about Jesus and his
message differed from those of the mainstream church. Among those he
attacked was a group who revered Judas," the traitor," and had
produced a"fictitious history," which"They style the Gospel
of Judas.”
Decades before the fragile manuscript in Kasser's hands was written,
the angry bishop apparently knew of the original Greek text.
Irenaeus had plenty of heresies to contend with. In the early
centuries of Christianity, what we call the church, operating
through a top-down hierarchy of priests and bishops, was only one of
many groups inspired by Jesus. Biblical scholar Marvin Meyer of
Chapman University, who worked with Kasser to translate the gospel,
sums up the situation as"Christianity trying to find its style.”
For example, a group called the Ebionites maintained that Christians
should obey all Jewish religious laws, while another, the
Marcionites, rejected any connection between the God of the New
Testament and the Jewish God. Some said that Jesus had been wholly
divine, contradicting those who insisted he was completely human.
Yet another sect, the Carpocratians, allegedly indulged in
ritualized spouse swapping. Many of these groups were Gnostics,
followers of the same strain of early Christianity reflected in the
Judas gospel.
"Gnosis means 'knowledge' in Greek," Meyer explains. The
Gnostics"believed that there is an ultimate source of goodness,
which they thought of as the divine mind, outside the physical
universe. Humans carry a spark of that divine power, but they are
cut off by the material world all around them"—a flawed world, as
the Gnostics saw it, the work of an inferior creator rather than the
ultimate God.
While Christians like Irenaeus stressed that only Jesus, the son of
God, was simultaneously human and divine, the Gnostics proposed that
ordinary people could be connected to God. Salvation lay in
awakening that divine spark within the human spirit and reconnecting
with the divine mind. Doing so required the guidance of a teacher,
and that, according to the Gnostics, was Christ's role. Those who
grasped his message could become as divine as Christ himself.
Hence Irenaeus's hostility.”These people were mystics," says
Meyer.”Mystics have always drawn the ire of institutionalized
religion. Mystics, after all, hear the voice of God from within and
don't need a priest to intercede for them.” "
http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/gospel/feature.html
This National Geographic documentary must be viewed by all who wish
to understand how it was possible for the apostles themselves to
demonize and rule as heretical those with knowledge far superior to
their own. Judas and Mary Magdalene bore the brunt of their petty
jealousies since Jesus revealed and confided in both secrets not
available to the rest. Judas was chosen to receive knowledge about
His Kingdom since he knew the true nature of God Almighty and the
Savior better.
Eventually the powerful priesthood took over the atruth' was
organized and only four of the original 30 gospels were accepted. It
is just like WCASY accepting the subtle system, and editing out all
other esoteric knowledge of our Divine Mother who clearly claimed
that She is the Devi of the Shri Lalita Sahasranama:
"The saints were respected, I am telling you in India, real saints
were respected and they made different observations. Now when I
read, say Adi Shankaracharya, I am amazed how he knows so many
things about Me. He knows how My knee looks like, he knows how many
lines I have on My back, how many. I mean it is very amazing how
this man knows everything about Me. That means through his
meditative power he could envisage Me. He never saw Me. The
description and everything is so clear cut.
Now if you say the Thousand Names of the Goddess, thousand names of
the Goddess are so precise, I mean you can verify them in Me. I am
just like that. Whatever it is good or bad, whatever is said about
Me is there, is a fact; and it is the Knowledge of these people is
most remarkable. How did they know that a Goddess is like that?
Certain of My things which I also don't know but they are there, and
they have described. Very surprising. So their meditative power in
India was great.”
The Messiah-Paraclete-Ruh-Devi
Navaratri Puja, Cabella, Italy — Sep. 27, 1992
WCASY and management SYs have done nothing to uphold this Truth,
even though they know full well that www.adishakti.org is about the
esoteric nature of the Devi, and gives irrefutable evidence.*** But
that would erode their own power and prestige. That is why they
insist that knowledge of external rituals and worship are absolutely
necessary, in direct contrast to the views of the mystics.
Mystics have always drawn the ire of institutionalized religion and
WACSY now wants to silence/demonize those who claim it is not only
possible to hear the voice but also witness God within themselves.
And the fact that you don't need a priest or leader or anyone else
for the matter to intercede for or guide threatens their hold over
ordinary SYs. Any loss of the ritualistic sacred cows cannot be
tolerated as it will end the control this powerful priesthood has on
the organization. That is why they are busy planting trees without
fruit, in Shri Mataji's name, in a shameful manner. Their very
survival depends on the 'death' of the mystics. In blunter language,
their own survival is at stake and not the salvation of humanity.
This is my message to WCASY, management and subtle system SYs who
have edited out the Savior's Divine Message of the Last Judgment and
the Kingdom of God within:
"In the very first scene Jesus laughs at the disciples for praying
to"your god," meaning the disastrous god who created the world. He
compares the disciples to a priest in the temple (almost certainly a
reference to the mainstream church), whom he calls"A minister of
error"planting"trees without fruit, in my name, in a shameful
manner.” "
We should not overlook the fact that Jesus was not only laughing at
ordinary devotees and their ignorance but also mocked their leaders
who preached such shallow knowledge, i.e., the apostles themselves.
After 2000 years it is déjâ vu all over again.
jagbir
*** Amma's devotees have since hijacked the 1000 Names for their guru while our leaders twiddled their thumbs over numerous brainstorming sessions. i don't think our 'postles' have the power, confidence or valour to reclaim Her names back. It is far easier to edit/organize the Truth .................. and demonize mystics by branding their father as"A possessed false guru.” It is indeed déjâ vu all over again.
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