In Jesus and the Essenes, that name does more than describe salt.
Jesus and the Essenes
For this page I drew on Dolores Cannon’s Jesus and the Essenes (1992).
In that book she records sessions with a subject who described life in the Qumran Essene community in the years around Jesus, including daily detail, landscape, and how that community spoke about places like the Sea of Death.
Jesus and the Essenes is one of the books I use when I follow Akashic / regression memory instead: naming, memorial meaning, and shore detail (pitch, tar, Sodom and Gomorrah) as they were held in that account.
You can find the book in my library: Jesus and the Essenes (also listed under Books about Atlantis).
In Jesus and the Essenes, that smell is part of what makes the place peculiar, next to the memorial of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Why is the Dead Sea called the Sea of Death?In the Essene-linked account in Jesus and the Essenes, it is called the Sea of Death because Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed on these shores, and the name is kept to remind us of that.
What does Sodom and Gomorrah have to do with the Dead Sea?In Jesus and the Essenes, the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah is located on these shores and given as the reason for the name Sea of Death.
Jesus and the Essenes
From Jesus and the Essenes
Daniel: We hoped that as Jesus had gained a great victory for humanity, there would be a period of great Light immediately.
Jesus was misunderstood, I think.
The book was authored by Jesus ben Sirach (also called Yeshua ben Eleazar ben Sira), a Jewish scribe and sage living in Jerusalem.
The speaker asserts that Christianity is centered on sun worship, with Jesus symbolizing intellectual and spiritual enlightenment.
Jesus is a symbolic representation of the sun, symbolizing intellectual and spiritual enlightenment."
Speaker: "The Bible says Jesus said, 'You have eyes that do not see, and you listen with your ears, but you do not hear, and with your heart, you do not get the sense of it.' This reflects how people reject truth and persecute those who educate, just as Jesus was persecuted."
Speaker: "Jesus said, 'Forgive them, father, for they know not what they do.' This applies today.
The speakers discuss how Jesus’ teachings were misinterpreted due to translation errors, shifting focus from empowerment to obedience.
Paul Wallace: "Jesus’ first sermon, according to the Gospel of Matthew, is, 'Repent, for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.' People interpret repent as stopping bad behavior and fear of divine judgment.
Paul Wallace: "In the Gospel of Thomas and Matthew, Jesus says, 'The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.' This means the cosmic realm is inside you.
The New Testament story of Jesus is an encoded metaphor, not history, akin to Aesop’s Fables, which teach moral lessons through symbolic stories.
Like the tortoise and hare story teaching humility over arrogance, the Jesus narrative encodes philosophical truths.
Jesus’s teaching, “by their fruits you shall know them,” emphasizes evaluating people by actions, not words.
Jesus embodies the sun in Christian narratives, with symbols like the crown of thorns representing solar rays, as seen on the Statue of Liberty.
Scriptural phrases like “the son of righteousness will arise” (Malachi 4:2) and “God is a consuming fire” (Deuteronomy, Hebrews) equate Jesus with the sun, residing in the heavens and bringing light and truth.
This mirrors Christian teachings of Jesus sacrificing his life, as the sun’s energy depletion ensures earthly existence.
These reflect the 12 zodiac signs or months, with Jesus’s 12 apostles symbolizing this cycle.
Biblical stories of Jesus teaching in the temple at 12 reflect the sun’s peak in the heavenly temple.
The Last Supper painting depicts Jesus with 12 apostles in four groups, symbolizing the 12 zodiac signs or months divided into the four seasons, reinforcing the solar narrative.
Jesus’s death at Golgotha, the “place of the skull,” symbolizes rejecting truth in one’s mind, accompanied by regret and fear.
This myth connects to biblical references, like women weeping for Tamuz (Damuzi) in Ezekiel 8 and the three-day motif in Jonah and Jesus’s resurrection narratives.
"In not understanding Jesus in the full capacity of his expression, then many people who purport to understand him or purport to believe in him actually have no understanding of the fact that he was presenting both a male and a female aspect in the Mary of the Magdalene."
Some born-again Christians reject metaphysical ideas, misunderstanding the teachings of Jesus.
Political alterations to Jesus' words have obscured their original meaning.
Jesus represented a balance of male and female energies, alongside Mary Magdalene, his chief disciple.
It draws directly from the Torah text, without reference to later Christian ideas like Jesus as a "second Adam."
I know it's a big—we could talk an hour about what I'm gonna ask you now—but what about Jesus?
Who was Jesus?
So who was Jesus, in your expert—from your point of view?
So Jesus could be—I prefer "could be" because I haven't the truth—could be the son of one of them, the one who was prophesied before by Isaiah and so on.
And if Jesus is a son of Gabriel and Mary, Jesus could be one of them.
Later, maybe Jesus can help.
But Jesus sounds like that.
Because Jesus is clearly different from Yahweh, that is presented as father of Jesus—as a godfather.
On the contrary, Jesus tells us a new message—a message which is completely different from the message narrated in the Old Testament.
But without the Old Testament, Jesus could not exist.
And—and I suppose in the narrative as I understand it—which is limited—uh, you know, in reading Bohm and in reading McGilchrist, my spirit leapt and was aligned very much to the way that I understood—um—the teachings of Jesus—uh, certainly not maybe conventional religious teaching; I'm sure—I mean, I don't regard myself as a conventional religious person.
But you know, the Holy Spirit is in a sense where Jesus says that he leaves.
And so I think none of what you're saying really rocks my world, to be honest, as a person who follows in the way of Jesus.
I don't see that anything you're saying really rocks my world because—um—I walk in the spirit of Jesus, of that risenness.
And isn't that what Jesus really gave?
And so in a sense, to me, that's—that is—that is actually what the Holy Spirit is—you know, Jesus talked about the Holy Spirit as the helper who would come, and he will only come because I have to leave you.
Uh, one pertains to—um—Jesus's miracles, and the second pertains to Immanuel Velikovsky.
So the first question I wanted to ask is—um—the so—these miracles that we know from Jesus—you know, like splitting the water and the fish and—uh—I don't know, turning something into wine and stuff like that—do you think he had like high-tech gadgets that he used to do that, or do you think it was—did you—do you think it came from a—uh—maybe like a—uh—like a telepathic or telekinetic or something like that—you know, from—from the mind?
And the first question: the miracles of Jesus—in one of—of my Italian books, I examined some of these miracles, and they didn't were miracles—because—um—Jesus speaks to his—to his servants—to his apostles—to his servants—and excuses us—so Jesus at one point says to the apostles: is it possible that I have to explain everything to you?
We have only transcriptions belonging to a time after the life of Jesus.
And each of these forms of Christianity told that they had the true verbs—the true phrases of Jesus.
I suppose the most controversial thing that you're saying really is that God, as we are taught to understand God—I don't know, personally speaking I'm not a Christian I don't belong to any of the mainstream religions I don't have strong religious views I have had experiences that I would describe as spiritual but I'm not a Christian but I have an idea of what Christians think God is and what Christians think God is is a man often with a beard who is the father of Jesus Christ somehow and is alone, he is one God, and if I understand you correctly you're saying there's no basis for that in the Bible?
This brings to mind the biblical passage that says: “And unless those days were shortened, no flesh be saved: but for the elect’s sake those days shall be shortened.” Jesus.
“Rahman IS LOVE, GOD IS LOVE, JESUS IS LORD AND THE MISSION IS FOR HUMANITY “
Methuselah is also briefly mentioned in 1 Chronicles 1:3 as part of a genealogical list and in Luke 3:37 in the New Testament, tracing the ancestry of Jesus back to Adam.
And when I noticed a movement at the end of my bed, Jesus was standing there.
They were telling… Why do you believe you saw Jesus at that moment?
I always felt Jesus was my friend.
I could hear messages like I heard Jesus's voice that day.
I truly believe that Jesus healed my body that day.
But you go back to the beginning of Christian history and there were plenty of really central church fathers who said the Yahweh stories and Elohim stories cannot be understood as God's stories because they are morally incompatible with the teachings of Jesus.
The moment you leave Yahweh untranslated and go and read those stories, you will start evaluating the moral behavior of that entity and there's no way you will conclude that theos—about whom Jesus taught—had anything to do with the Yahweh of those old stories.
And it's a bit of a smoking gun that in all the gospels and New Testament, neither Jesus nor anyone who writes for him ever uses the word Yahweh as a word for God.
And there are plenty of places where Jesus distances himself from Yahweh.
If Jesus had been a worshiper of Yahweh, then Christians today would be Yahwists, all following Yahwist law.
If Jesus had been a Yahwist, the Jerusalem Council could not have come to the decision it did in Acts 15, which was to say, "We're not building Christianity on faith in Yahweh's laws or the stories surrounding him."
So really it's a story of discontinuity between these experiences of violent colonization by entities including Yahweh and what Jesus was teaching about.
Jesus uses that word.
If you want to get an idea of the range of stories that surrounded what happened to Jesus before, during and after the cross, you have to go to the forbidden books to realize there were a number of ideas about that.
Between that and the time of Jesus, there were other writings that were added that sort of were a bridge between that thinking and international thought or Greek thought as it was known.
Does that sound anything like the character of God as Jesus portrays God?
So how is it that for the best part of 2000 years, Christianity has run with the idea that the Yahweh character in the Hebrew scriptures is a portrayal of God, and that that is the God that Jesus worshiped?
Now let's be honest: does that sound anything like the character of God as Jesus describes God in the Gospels?
That is nothing like the qualities of God revealed by Jesus and those who wrote for him in the New Testament.
And how is it that Christianity, for the best part of 2000 years, has run with the idea that the Yahweh character of the Hebrew scriptures is a portrayal of God, and that that is the God that Jesus worshiped?
And that Yahweh was not a portrayal of God and was certainly not the God whom Jesus called Father.
By the time Jesus came on the scene, Yahweh was being used as the holy name for God; it was the name for the Jewish God.
And yet, when you read the teaching of Jesus in the Gospels and referred to in the New Testament, Jesus never once uses the name Yahweh, and neither does anyone who writes for him.
In fact, Jesus distances himself from the Yahweh character.
Here Jesus is addressing the leaders of the Jewish people.
Jesus answered: "If God were your father, you would love me, since I have my origin in God and have come from him.
On another occasion, Jesus completely mocks the idea that Yahweh could be considered any kind of father.
Now, "father" was the language that Jesus used to address God.
And Jesus addresses Theos as "Abba," as Father.
Here Jesus is describing a scenario that was very familiar to his Jewish hearers.
And Jesus in Matthew 7 and Luke 11 says: "What kind of father would treat his children like that?" He makes a mockery of the Yahweh stories as if they were depictions of the God whom he called Father.
Now, when Jesus spoke disparagingly of Yahweh, he was speaking in the tradition of ancient Judaism.
So when Jesus speaks slightingly of Yahweh and rejects his laws, he is speaking in the tradition of primitive Judaism.
Yet in the early church, it was unclear whether Jesus really had repudiated the laws of Yahweh.
It took a while for the idea to bed down that Jesus really had rejected Yahwism and repudiated Yahweh's laws.
Jesus said: "Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the law of the prophets.
But then there's another time frame: "until everything has been fulfilled." And the apostolic writers are very clear that Jesus came to fulfill the law—that means to complete it, and that means completed action.
But you can see why there was a little bit of ambiguity there and why it took a while for the apostolic leaders and the early church fathers to work out that Jesus really had repudiated the law.
Now there are many occasions when this seemed to be the implication, because Jesus was saying: "Moses said this, but I say this.
Could Jesus really be saying that the moment was coming when we can completely forget about Yahweh and all his laws and move on to something better?
Because many people from outside of Judaism, outside of the Jewish faith, were following Jesus, and the apostles had to get their heads around what this meant.
And they came to a decision at the end of this council, chaired by Jesus's brother James.
They could only have reached that conclusion if they'd been absolutely clear that Jesus had put clear blue water between what he was on about and what Yahwism was all about.
But they were clear: Jesus had fulfilled—put an end to—the era of Yahweh.
Acts 15 is a very clear repudiation of Yahweh's law, because the apostles understood: Jesus never spoke in Yahweh's name; he never used the name Yahweh.
But Jesus is now saying: my God and Father—what I'm talking about—is something new to you.
John 14:8: Philip said to Jesus, "Lord, show us the Father, and then we should be satisfied." Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and still you do not know me?
Of course, this echoes what Jesus had told the Jewish leaders in John 8, where he said: "You don't know me and you don't know my Father." So there is a dis-equation of Yahweh and the Father of Jesus.
Early church fathers regarded Stoicism and Plato in particular as a useful preparation for Jesus.
Justin Martyr put it very clearly: he said that the Yahwist laws and the prophetic tradition of Judaism was the preparation for the Jewish people for what Jesus was on about.
And that he had been prepared for Jesus through Stoicism and through being a student of Plato.
And I think if the early church had followed the logic of Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Clement of Alexandria, Origen, and Marcion, we would have had an Old Testament of Plato and a New Testament of Jesus in the apostolic writings.
The problem with gluing them together is that it sends the signal that this God whom we call Yahweh is the same God whom Jesus worshiped and taught about.
When I go to the teachings of Jesus, I see a great difference.
Yahweh was all about: "You worship me and nobody else because I'm a jealous God." And Jesus said: "I didn't come to be served; I came to help you."
Yahweh believes that he can micromanage us to the point of telling us what we can eat and not eat, whereas in the Gospel of Mark, Jesus declares all foods clean.
Yahweh is unforgiving and will not be reasoned with, and Jesus says: "Your sins are forgiven."
Now contrast that with what Jesus says, because in his first message that he toured with for a year—according to the Gospel of Matthew—Jesus not only encourages us to use our own minds, but he says: "Go beyond the mind"—the root meaning says this: "go beyond the mind because the whole cosmic realm is available to you." That's the Kingdom of Heaven: the whole cosmic realm is available to you.
And Jesus here is saying: "Explore what's possible.
In my book The Eden Conspiracy, I show how Yahwism and what Jesus was on about are two completely different things.
Jesus didn't teach Yahwism; he didn't talk about Yahweh; and he certainly didn't worship him.
And Jesus wanted us to know what it is to be free from that kind of tyrannical leadership, free from that kind of colonization, enjoying our own power and our own ability to explore the cosmos and what that might mean for you and me.
Yahweh came for slaves; Jesus came to set the prisoners free, so that you and I could have a better human experience.
If you're a Jesus fan, you want to know this stuff.
I think that's what the second coming really means: the awakening, the discovery of the real message of Jesus.
Religion corrupts and weaponizes Jesus.
When you go to Jesus himself, you just don't see that same character that religion paints.
There's no question in my mind that there's more to the story than we've been told by Christianity with Jesus and Mary.
Just like Yeshua represents the Shiva principle—the divine masculine—Mary would serve as the Shakti.
Jesus probably did have a child.
There's no question what Jesus's soteriology was.
Jesus is explicit about this, which in a nutshell is…
I don't think this is the God that Jesus revealed.
One of the things I did was start to read, because I saw how much religion corrupts and weaponizes Jesus.
When you go to Jesus himself, you just don't see that same character that religion paints.
So I thought, let me just study the teachings of Jesus in isolation.
Let's say you gave these four gospels to a remote desert tribe on an island who's never heard of Christianity, translated into their language, and said, "Hey, read these four gospels about this man named Jesus.
Are they going to come away with the mainstream Christian creeds that are believed and practiced by 99.9% of Christians today, such as: to be saved, you must confess Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, and his sacrifice will wipe away your sins so you won't go to hell when you die?
They would absolutely never come away with such a conclusion, because Jesus never said any such thing.
When you look for these common Christian axioms—which all really come from Paul, not Jesus—you don't find them in Jesus's mouth.
That you have none of the pillars of your religion from the mouth of Jesus?" We all know that history over time distorts, corrupts, erases, changes, and adulterates truth, and original texts get changed by scribes in every tradition we know of.
Are we really so sure that Jesus's words, tradition, and ideals didn't get changed by dogmatic men over the centuries?
Hey, I grew up loving Jesus with all my heart, as Christians claim to.
Jesus was the most important thing to me since I can remember.
Jesus was the reason I left religion.
The first YouTube video I made about it was titled "Why I Left Christianity for Jesus," because I didn't believe Christianity was giving me a Christlike version of Jesus.
I get a little frustrated with Christians who try to dismiss this criticism of mine rather than taking it seriously and saying, "Hey, this guy is saying that the true original teachings of Yeshua the Nazarene—Jesus Christ we call him now—were changed and corrupted over time.
What I found is that Jesus taught a very specific soteriology, which is a branch of theology that teaches about how to get saved.
Jesus is explicit about this.
There's no question what Jesus's soteriology was, which in a nutshell is: repent and God forgives you.
Jesus never taught about God needing blood to forgive people.
In fact, Jesus very much condemned the practice of animal sacrifice and famously cleanses the temple, kicks all the animals out of their cages, and says, "Go and learn what this means: I desire mercy, not sacrifice." If you knew what this meant, you wouldn't be condemning the innocent, speaking of the animals.
So Jesus didn't seem very cool with the idea that God needs blood and never taught such a thing.
In fact, if you said what Jesus said in a church Sunday service and preached a sermon about it, the crowd would rise up and point the finger of blasphemy at you.
Clearly, this is what Jesus thought.
But that's what Jesus said.
If you put the words of a Christian pastor in the mouth of Jesus, you have big problems.
Or let's say Paul—Romans 10:9—Paul says if you confess with your mouth and believe in your heart that God raised Jesus from the dead, you will be saved.
Jesus says not everybody who confesses me as Lord will enter my kingdom.
That's the overall message we're trying to get across in the Jesus Way podcast to not just the Christian world, but the world at large.
Because I think the true Jesus—Yeshua the Nazarene, which has a whole other history track we can talk about—is a Jesus that everyone from every religion would totally rock with and say, "I love that kind of savior.
This is kind of how Islam sees Jesus: that he was a messiah who came from God, taught to love God and love neighbor, and got crucified for it.
Amrit: I would love to learn more about Yeshua the Nazarene.
You said this interesting phrase: religion corrupts and weaponizes Jesus.
This is attested to by multiple patristics, early church fathers as early as the 3rd century, who say that the very first Christians were not called Christians—they were called Nazarenes, just like Jesus.
In other words, Yeshua was born into a sect of Essene-type Judaism called Nazarenes.
Jesus is born into the northern tribe and comes out of the Galilean Nazareth region.
What's interesting is when you study the Nazarenes and especially the Essenes, you see Jesus speaking and preaching multiple known Essene creeds and axioms from the Dead Sea Scrolls.
This Essene-type Judaism was actually what Jesus emerged from, and his sect emerged from.
We have an enormous amount of historical attestation that Jesus did not appoint Peter as his successor, as the Catholic Church wrongly claims.
Jesus appointed his blood brother, James the Just, as his successor of his church, which was called the Ebionim, the poor ones or the poor.
This is why Jesus would say, "If you want to be my disciple, go sell all you possess to the Ebionim, the poor"—which was actually the name of his congregation—and then come follow me.
It was like the initiation into Jesus's movement: "If you want to prove to us that you really mean what you say"—and this is very Essene; the Essenes had multiple initiation rites people had to pass to prove they really wanted to be an Essene.
So it's very Essene of Jesus to do this.
Acts chapter 2 tells us this was the way Jesus's church was operating: living in voluntary poverty or communal living where everyone shared everything.
Jesus is saying you have to play by our rules.
James took over that church for Jesus until almost 70 AD when he gets martyred.
Then James, according to multiple early historical attestations, appointed his brother and Jesus's half-brother Simeon as his successor.
If you're a Jesus fan, you want to know this stuff—that Jesus had a half-brother, the son of his uncle Clopas, who then most likely married Mary after Joseph died, and they had a child together, Simeon.
This guy lived to be 120 years old and was running the Nazarene church of Jesus and James at that age.
This is the half-brother of Jesus.
There was way more enlightenment in Jesus's DNA than just went to Jesus.
It's the big scandal at the heart of Christianity that the first Christians were Jewish Christian Nazarenes who did not believe Jesus was God who incarnated like a Greek demigod like Apollo or Perseus.
Jesus is listed in the Bible, in the New Testament, as Jesus the Nazarene.
Aaron: If I had to bet, yeah, I think Jesus probably did have a child.
Let's check it out." They were stunned because all the bone boxes in the ossuary had the exact names of Jesus's family and his brothers as listed in the Gospels.
It has one for Yeshua ben Yosef (Jesus, son of Joseph), Mary of Magdala, and then their child—I think it was Joshua or Jacob, something with a J.
It lists Jesus's brothers.
Everything honed in on this being a legitimate first-century bone box with all these names of the Jesus family.
Again, that tomb showed that if this was the legitimate family tomb of the Jesus dynasty, it shows that they did have a child, Mary and Jesus.
That implies that the narrative between Mary and Jesus is very different then as well.
There's early fragments of texts like the Gospel of Jesus's Wife, which talks about Mary being Jesus's wife.
Scholars study these things because they care what the earliest attestations say about Jesus, even if conflicting.
They say what people were saying about Jesus and his family.
The earliest attestations, like in the Gospel of Jesus's Wife and the Gospel of Mary, clearly show them as husband and wife.
Mary's the only disciple who came to Jesus's crucifixion.
Yet there's Mary, Jesus's mother, and one of Jesus's brothers in one of the gospels.
Mary's there at the tomb when Jesus resurrects; in Mark, she's the first to see the empty tomb.
Why was this woman hanging around Jesus so much in the first century?
If she's not Jesus's wife, people would have at least suspected and asked questions.
But if she was so open about always being with Jesus at every meeting, every event, pre-death, post-death, she probably was his wife.
If you're going to sell the idea that Jesus was born of a virgin and was himself a virgin, never sexually tainted, you have to get her out of there as fast as possible and obfuscate her.
One way they did that was by making her the woman that Jesus saves in John chapter 8.
It's a bummer because I love that passage; it's one of the best Jesus passages: "Let he who is without sin cast the first stone." It was added in the third century.
There's evidence that the very first gospel written in Hebrew, the Hebrew Gospel of Matthew, had a passage like this that one of the church fathers writes about: Jesus saves a woman from persecution.
But the point is that Christianity said, "That woman caught in adultery was Mary." Mary was a prostitute that Jesus saved.
Can you imagine Jesus marrying a prostitute?
No Christian is going to want to believe that Jesus married a prostitute.
Tabor talks a lot about this in his book, The Jesus Dynasty.
There's no question in my mind that there's more to the story than we've been told by Christianity with Jesus and Mary.
If you get rid of the virgin birth and so forth, it makes no sense to posit that she wasn't romantically involved with Yeshua.
That patriarchal belief system about the feminine being inherently dangerous has largely led to the covering up of Mary and Jesus clearly having a sexual relationship and producing children like every other normal human being.
These are the things that make Jesus better and more inspiring, not less.
I want a Jesus like that—a real person who grapples with the human experience and meets us in the dirt, eyeball to eyeball, saying, "I understand your temptation.
I understand your pain." The inspiring thing is that Jesus did experience all that and transcended it through his God consciousness and devotion to God.
You don't have to live in blindness to that truth anymore because Jesus showed the way and taught how to do it.
This is why in our podcast we stress that it is the teachings of Jesus that matter most, not beliefs about him or doctrines and theologies about his metaphysical nature.
Would any Christian deny that Jesus already showed us the perfect way to God and his teachings are that way?
You're going to burn in hell if you don't confess Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior.
I really think that's a message Jesus would find reprehensible if he were alive today and found out what became of his teachings.
I came to point to the one God, not to become the one God and be worshiped as a deity." It would make Jesus throw up in his mouth.
Do you see there being metaphysically Christ consciousness, and then Jesus being an embodiment, an avatar, solely of Christ consciousness?
We actually just recorded a podcast called "What is Christ Consciousness?" It will be coming out next week on The Jesus Way.
When we call Jesus the Christ, metaphysically, we're saying the man Jesus is our best example or embodiment of the Christ principle—the closest place to go to look, learn, and study what the Christ looks like in living demonstration: Jesus Yeshua the Nazarene.
It's not a title of deity because Yeshua was a real person like us.
The Law of One says that Yeshua's soul chose the path of martyrdom because he wanted to go into this fallen world of the first century and act as a catalyst to change it—it was so broken and lost with the temple sacrifice system, the temple cult running everything.
Jesus wanted to do something drastic to shake it up: "I'll go give my life." I think it's worth considering that Jesus's true mission and purpose might have been very different than what religion has sold us.
Because you can't find anywhere in Jesus's mouth: "I'm going to die for your sins." Then what was his real message or purpose?
Jesus preaches about the kingdom of heaven coming now—it's already here and at hand, but we must live and demonstrate it.
Right there, Jesus is trying to be the model, which is the Christ.
Aaron: The fact that Mary was likely Jesus's partner—Yeshua the person—just like Yeshua represents the Christ principle in that he embodied it closest, we could consider the Shiva principle, the divine masculine.
On this topic of Jesus, the last chapter is titled "Jesus and the Three Beliefs." I go through Jesus's temptation in the wilderness—the 40 days—and show how each of the three temptations of Satan is a perfect representation of the three beliefs, one by one.
Jesus transcends them in similar ways I teach in the book.
The first temptation: "If you are the son of God, command these stones to become bread to satiate your hunger." The devil is asking Jesus to prove he's not lacking.
Prove you're not starving." Jesus responds: "Man does not live by physical bread alone, but by the bread of God." He appeals to the higher dimension.
Jesus quotes scripture to transcend it.
The third: He takes him to the top of the temple and tempts Jesus to throw himself off: "If you are the son of God, prove it by throwing yourself off and saving yourself.
Doesn't scripture say he'll take his angels' charge concerning you?" Jesus says: "It is written: you shall not put the Lord your God to the test." Again, he appeals to higher truth.
At some point, Jesus—because in India there's awareness around Issa the Messiah—yet it doesn't seem widely received that Jesus was in India.
Jesus might have been in Egypt.
They call it the lost years of Jesus.
There's a good book called Jesus in India where the author did a lifetime's worth of research, traveling to the East, searching regions with legends of Jesus, and finds a stunning amount of evidence.
He goes to a Tibetan monastery in China and talks to a lama who mentions something about Jesus or Issa.
If anyone's interested in the missing years, read it—it smacks of the Yeshua we know: the brash, Pharisee-opposing rabbi preacher calling out hypocrisy, stirring crowds.
That's exactly how I'd expect Yeshua to behave if traveling and studying other traditions.
It makes you wonder if that's what Jesus meant in the synoptics: "Birds have nests and foxes have holes, but the son of man has nowhere to lay his head." Sounds like a guy kicked out of a lot of clubs.
Jesus seems more Aquarian in energy than Piscean, which is the fish symbol his followers ended up with.
Jesus has this rebellious energy for the truth.
With the work you're doing—The Jesus Way, The Three Beliefs of Ego, championing this—you've come up against theologians quite a bit.
Jesus said: "You're going to be persecuted for my sake." When I was a Christian, I was never persecuted.
Jesus said his way is archetypally controversial.
Jesus said this brings conflicts, and you'll be persecuted if really following his teachings.
That comes up often from people in comments: "What I love about you guys is you embody these teachings." Even before The Jesus Way, on my YouTube videos, I hear: "I love Aaron because he's so embodied." As grateful as I am, my question is: how could you possibly know that?
This is an incredible conversation with Aaron—covering Mary Magdalene, Jesus's lost years, the wilderness, the three beliefs.
That's why we're communal—even back to what you said about Jesus: communal living, give up what you have, come in shared abundance.
I look to Yeshua as the ideal.
At the end of the day, what reaps rewards is Jesus's stuff: judge and you'll be judged; forgive and you'll be forgiven; the measure you give is the measure you get; love your neighbor as yourself.
That's what Jesus's ministry focused on.
They turned Jesus into a battle instrument.
They justified the Crusades, holy wars, inquisitions, burnings under the guise: if you don't believe what we believe, you're denying Jesus, a heretic Jesus will cast to hell.
Jesus, an ardent pacifist who taught enemy love, infinite forgiveness, turning the other cheek, rebuked Peter for the sword, is turned into the greatest military instrument.
It's laughable that this tradition represents Yeshua.
You can't make a military under Jesus's ideology.
If you don't believe in Jesus, you're on that side—we're justified in doing whatever.
The very first known Christian teaching—in the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest Christian Jewish text the Didache, the New Testament under Jesus and James—was the two ways.
You'll know it from Jesus: "Narrow is the way that leads to life and few find it; wide is the road to death and many find it." The two ways: a man can choose the way of life or death, and there's a great difference.
What would a negatively polarized entity—demon—do first if a true godly message from positive polarity comes through a holy person like Yeshua, prophets, Moses?
Then God changed mind with Jesus: love enemies, do no harm.
You've got beautiful people on The Jesus Way illuminating wisdom and insight.
For 2,000 years, Jesus's true teachings—still in the red letters of the canonical gospels, pretty well preserved even in the corrupted Bible—have been forgotten, overlooked, not lived.
Funny to me and colleagues at The Jesus Way—Cam Waters, James, scholars like Dr.
That's what second coming means: awakening to real message of Jesus.
Every tradition: Islam, Judaism—many Jews respect Yeshua but don't believe he was God.
Eastern religions—Buddhism, Hinduism, Daoism—love Jesus.
Problem: Jesus quoted five times saying "You will be judged according to your works.
Never saw irony: no Christian says judged by confessing Jesus as Lord.
Want live God's truth." Often Jesus meeting in NDE, showing life, tour of heaven: "Want another chance go back love neighbor?" With tears: "Yes, Lord.
Thank you." Jesus: "That's my gospel." Sends back.
Jesus's soteriology: judged by works—and you're the one judging yourself.
Exactly Jesus: judge you'll be judged; condemn condemned; forgive forgiven.
That's everything for The Jesus Way: can you love neighbor as yourself?
Saw good one: square image, wide road to destruction—millions walking, "belief in Jesus." Narrow road to life—three people, "following Jesus." That's narrow way: live it, not believe, go church, talk.
This culminated in the baptism in the Jordan, when Christ entered into the body of Jesus of Nazareth.
Jesus of Nazareth learned Mayan language in Tibet.
That phrase of Jesus: “Heli, heli, lamah zabactani” (“lord, lord”, some say, “how have you glorified me”; others say: “lord, lord, why have you abandoned me?”), well, such a phrase is not Hebrew.
(A) In the second of the eruptions, or—as is seen—two thousand—two-two thousand and six [22,006?]—before the Prince of Peace (Jesus), as time is counted now, or light years—day and night years.
In Jewish Midrash, Daniel's lion protector is described as an angel in lion form, echoing resurrection narratives where stones are rolled away by radiant beings (e.g., the angel at Jesus’s tomb).
The New Testament connects Jesus to the lion of Judah, linking him to this celestial lineage.
For the law was given by (Moses?), but grace and truth came by (Jesus Christ?).
The Gospel of John is known for its high theological language and unique style, often emphasizing the divine nature of Jesus ("the Word").
Verses 17-18 shift slightly to introduce Moses and the law, then pivot to Jesus as the bringer of grace and truth, and finally to the idea of the "only begotten Son" revealing God.
Thematic Development: Verse 17 contrasts the law given through Moses with grace and truth through Jesus Christ, a theme that aligns with later Johannine theology but is less explicit in the earlier verses.