We are of the opinion that
all documents and related things that reflect on the life of Christ
are part and parcel of the 'Holy Grail'
The Scrolls and The Grail
by Robert Bruce Baird
DEAD SEA SCROLLS: - Dr
Norman Golb is a top scholar who makes a plea for the
de-politicization of the Dead Sea Scrolls. His plea is not related
to the current argument that Palestine will own or control the
Scrolls but to the Generals and politicians who piecemeal and with
apparent deceit are doling out access to these important documents
for the examination of scholars. The original involvement of the
Catholic scholars and the Scrolls being housed in a Museum named for
the Rockefellers is of more concern to me. The management of the
life of Jesus and his brother James ('the Righteous) who led the
group at Qumran that some are calling Essenes is why the concern
exists for myself and others who know the ways of the Christologists.
They have blamed the Jews for 'killing our Saviour'.
The documents discovered at
Dag (or Nag) Hammadi in the same decade were fully translated by
1971 and they are of equal if not greater insight. The life of Jesus
as a 'Therapeutae' or Gnostic with a 'Source' of learning in a large
family of adepts is contrary to all sorts of proselytes and his
involvement of an equal partner and wife puts a lie to a lot of
'only begotten' or other Divine appellations sought by the Popes who
have claimed to be the only representatives of the Lord on Earth.
This 'Source' is described correctly by Barrett as the very Grail
that the Dag Hammadi scrolls represent from the verbal tradition or
Qabala. If you consider that there was no name or actual Christians
at the time of Jesus we will be starting at a fair beginning. The
Copper Scrolls that made coded references to the site of Solomon's
treasure were found here as well. That is of import to our
continuing effort to know what trade and designs exist (ed) in the
Templar to Benjaminite or Merovingian lineage. It is more important
to start with this 'Source' as many Biblical scholars are calling
it. They call it this rather than a pagan tradition of Bardic and
nature worshippers or Phoenicians, as the Father of Biblical
Archaeology assures us that even the Bible itself should be seen as
being. We are of the opinion that all documents and related things
that reflect on the life of Christ are part and parcel of the 'Holy
Grail'; and the churchians were crusading and killing to get them
and control the truth that might upset their marketing and other
plans. Thus we should provide a little proof of the actual religions
and politics of the time that Jesus was alive upon this earth.
"The Bible imagines the
religion of ancient Israel as purely monotheistic. And doubtless
there were Israelites, particularly those associated with the
Jerusalem Temple, who were strict monotheists. But the
archaeological evidence (and the Bible, too, if you read it closely
enough) suggests that the monotheism of many Israelites was far from
pure. For them, Yahweh (the name of the Israelite god) was not the
only divinity. Some Israelites believed that Yahweh had a female
consort. And many Israelite invoked the divinity with the help of
images {Remember Onias' Temple in Egypt and the archaeology of the
sacrificing of Ibises practiced by Moses and later Jews.},
particularly figurines. I call this Israelite religion pagan Yahwism.
The archaeological evidence
we will look at comes mostly from Judah in what is known in
archaeological terms as the Assyrian period, the span from 721 B.C.E.,
when the Assyrians destroyed the northern kingdom of Israel, until
586 B.C.E., when the Babylonians conquered Jerusalem, destroyed the
Temple and brought an end to the Davidic dynasty in Judah. This
period, to put it into perspective, is several centuries after King
Solomon built the Jerusalem Temple {Actually done by an architect
Mason from Tyre named Hiram but not the King of that name and time.}
in about 950 B.C.E. So the archaeological evidence we are about to
discuss documents a level of Israelite paganism long after Solomon
built an exclusive home for Israel's god. {The Incas and other used
such techniques of social management rather than garrison armies in
occupied territories.}
While Yahweh was the god of
the Israelites, other nations had their own national gods. The chief
god of the Phoenicians was Ba'al. For the Philistines, the chief god
was at first Dagon {As noted earlier we suggested a
Berber/Phoenician connection to Philistine. This Dagon is almost the
same as the Dogon of West Africa who are early observers of Sirius
the Dog Star. This is a Berber influence to be sure.} and later also
Ba'al {He could mention Bel in Mesopotamia is the same as Ba'al but
he is just developing the extensive similarity of the actual worship
of people with different names within a gradually degrading or
devolving 'Brotherhood'. We can't expect all of these things to be
integrated all at once, can we?}(Judges 16:23; 2 Kings 1:2). For the
Ammonites it was Milkom. For the Moabites {In Deuteronomy 23 you
will see prejudice and hatred excluding them from the 'House of the
Lord', 'Yes, even unto the tenth generation' along with 'bastards’
and 'he who is wounded in the stones'.}, Chemosh. For the Edomites,
Qos. And for the Israelites and Judahites -- Yahweh. Except for the
Edomite god Qos, who appears only in the archaeological record, all
of these gods are mentioned in the Bible (1 Kings 11:5, 7, 33).
Interestingly, while each
nation's chief god had a distinctive name, his consort, the chief
female deity, had the same name in all these cultures: Asherah or
its variants Ashtoreth or Astarte. (As we shall see, this was even
true of Yahweh's consort.)
Not only was the female
consort the same, the various nations used the same cult objects,
the same types if incense altars made of stone and clay, the same
bronze and clay censers, cult stands and incense burners, the same
chalices and goblets and the same bronze and ivory rods adorned with
pomegranates. It was easy to take cult vessels of one deity and
place them in the service of another one--and this was commonly
done. For example, in the ninth-century B.C.E., stela erected by
Mesha, the king of Moab, he describes himself as the 'son of Chemosh,'
and tells how he defeated the Israelites (see also 2 Kings 3:4-27).
He then brags,'(I) took t(he ves)sels of Yahweh, and I hauled them
before the face of Chemosh.'
We sometimes get the
impression that after Solomon built the Temple in Jerusalem, Yahweh
had no other sanctuary in ancient Israel -- but this is not the
case." (1)
It is possible that the
prevalence of the 'one god' was actually a one goddess as we see in
the fact they all worshipped one similarly named(identical
really)goddess. The reality as we see it was almost the same for
Ba'al in this period as well. He goes on to show these multiple and
pantheistic practices seem to disappear when the exiles are returned
from Persia, so maybe Cyrus and Zoroaster were able to convince them
of the error of their ways and we might see what many have pondered
in regards to the magi of Zoroaster being a major influence on
Christianity in the original foundations and not the more
ritualistic Moses. At Qumran many scholars note the people called
themselves 'Covenanters of the Law'. Most of them note this law was
Mosaic but my perception is different and I believe it was a
syncretism akin to Gnosticism and with many adept understandings
such as the healing practices of the Therapeutae. Golb makes it
clear he is on the side of the Qumran library having been a
collection of all the factions of religion and practices in a large
area even beyond Judaea. The Roman practice of destroying all
literature and writing new ones around old beliefs which were in
line with their approaches was the reason for this, and all tribes,
zealots or cults knew it.
The henges of the Emerald
Isles which were once wood as some are seeing today, are in the
Negev and Sinai deserts as well. The 'Bedouin' ('tent dweller')
fiction is not the root as we showed from the scholars of the
excellent book Carthage. The article following the one just quoted
from Biblical Archaeology Review says this:
"Take even a one- or two-day
trip through the Sinai or Negev deserts and you'll come across
scores of them--standing stones erected in a variety of
combinations. These stone installations may help us understand the
very origins of Israelite religion.” (2)
Last year the word about
pre-hieroglyphic alphabets in the Sahara were accompanied by more on
the agricultural savannah people who had henges too. This is where
the Berbers were from and the connection if no simple chance
occurrence. The article goes on to discuss 'fertility triads' and
whenever you see triad or troad (Greek) you are looking at the
central laws of the philosophic Kelts. These parables of process and
moral or spiritual concepts are a wealth of insight to this very
day. The Triune Nature of Man that was plagiarized into the 'Holy
Trinity' and raised to a deity took more of man's self awareness and
divinity away from humanity than any of us can imagine. A central
theme in the Dead Sea Scrolls is said to be very Zoroastrian in
nature (and the Mani attempt to join Christianity and it in one
ecumenical religion that Augustine was a promoter of until bought
out by the Catholics); - it is simply this: 'There are two spirits
'truth and error'. We surely see the real original sin of the
Gnostics who saved the Dag Hammadi Scrolls and gave their lives
protecting the Library of Alexandria in this. These people who were
with the Cathars a millennium later say 'The original sin that
separates us from God - is IGNORANCE!'
Another culture that really
worshipped this goddess at one time is the Greek or Hellenic culture
of Dionysius and Aphrodite as we see a practice that was at work
while Yahweh became the one and sole male god Jehovah and that
development was not mentioned in BAR.
"In Cyprus it appears that
before marriage all women were formerly obliged by custom to
prostitute themselves to strangers at the sanctuary of the goddess,
whether she went by the name of Aphrodite, Astarte, or what not.
Similar customs prevailed in many parts of Western Asia.” (3)
Casting aspersions on great
thinkers like Augustine is easy and I don't want any readers to
think I'm saying these things without basis in fact. We have his own
book to work with in that regard. Here is a little from Augustine’s
autobiography called Confessions.
"As literature, the
Scriptures compared poorly with the polished prose of Cicero and he
thought them fit only for the simple minded." That was when he was a
Manichean before "the mercy of God had saved him from this evil.”
(4)
Robert Bruce Baird is the
author of Diverse Druids, World-Mysteries.com guest 'expert' and
columnist for The ES Press Magazine. His
Collective Works on CD (20 books including an encyclopedia) are
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