The Disciples Ate Jesus
In March I was involved in a discussion about the christian religious belief system, when I stumbled upon an amazing discovery that has been in biblical text all along, but which has been somewhat misleadingly taught to and by many, I would say more from ignorance of traditional teachings than from deliberately masking truth, although a little of both are involved.
So moved by this "revelation," I was lead to comprehensively document it as follows, based on my personally attained knowledge and understanding of history and ancient theology...
The Gospel According to Sister Cyber © March 29, 2010
The Disciples Ate Jesus
Chapter 1: Christians celebrating Easter
Easter is fast approaching; it's only a few short days away, on April 4th, the first Sunday, when followers of the christian religious belief system customarily carry out the traditional cannibalistic ritual practice of eating flesh and drinking blood. It is a time when many christians celebrate what they were taught to believe about the idea that a man called Jesus was raised from the dead after being crucified.
The fable of the resurrection of the man called Jesus is the foundational core of the christian religious belief system, but there are some issues.
~ For one, all of the tales that were told about the empty tomb or the resurrection appearance are different from each other.
~ The early christians readily admitted that the only witnesses were the disciples of the man called jesus (Acts 10:41)
~ Early christians also made no bones about the fact that christian belief depends on a tall tale and the shaky testimonies (1 corinthians 1:18-24, john 20:29)
There are also other things to be considered.
~ It is traced to many eyewitnesses. For instance, paul purported more than 515 eyewitnesses (1 corinthians 15:3-8)
~ The tales are embarrassing, considering, for example, the divergent stories, plus women as witnesses.
The name Easter, which is used in English-speakiong and German-speaking countries, is taken from the pre-christian (pagan) Spring festival for Eostur, the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of the Dawn, and is celebrated on or after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox.
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Chapter 2: Jesus left the tomb
Spiritus recently pointed out just the other day in another Discussion that, "There is no evidence that he rose."
How could that be? Because his disciples ate the evidence.
It was rumored for maybe 50 years or more after his death that his followers stole his body from the tomb, but when I first recently really began thinking about the story, I imagined that what may have happened was that it was really Mary Magdalene and those who accompanied her who rolled the stone away, found him to be alive, cleaned and dressed his wounds with their healing herbs and spices to speed his healing process, after which Jesus made a b-line into a new day to go into hiding until he was well. Perhaps Mary Magdalene caught up with him later and they settled down to a quiet life together as a family, pursuant to the texts of the Gnostic gospel stories.
Remember, Mary Magdalene was prominently well-known for her close relationship with Jesus. She loved him. If I loved anyone as much as she loved the man called Jesus, I could see myself tending to his or her speedy recovery and helping them escape from people who wanted to see them dead. And with my imagination, like Mary, I could cover it up by making up a story that they received angelic revelations that made them understand that Jesus had been raised from the dead. Yeah, riiight.... More like he was raised by them to his feet so he could get on his way while it was still early in the day. The women made up a tale of Jesus' resurrection and told the other disciples, and they began to tell others, who told others, who told others and so on and so forth, but the tale was convincing because after all, in that era, the idea of angels and demons taking visible and/or physical form and interacting with the people was not at all unusual. For example, Mary and Joseph, Jesus' parents, were supposed to have received angelic messages as did many others, and when it comes to demons, heck, they ran rampant in the land. In fact, it is recorded that Mary Magdalene came into his life with seven demons and he was casting them out left, right and center since then.
I would have no guilt living with that lie, as long as I could rest assured that my friend whom I loved dearly was alive and safe, and soon to be healed after helping him out of the tomb as he was fitting to skip town (again, for he was known to be a Traveling Man...). Yes, I could live with that lie, couldn't you? Just think about your wife, your husband, your child, your pastor ~ whomever is nearest and dearest to your heart.
But then later on further thought it occurred to me that since it was Sunday morning, a day and a half (36 hours) later, suppose Mary Magdalene and the others really did find the stone rolled away by the time that they got to the tomb and yes, the body was gone too...? In this scenario, I would think that they would be nervous of being accused of having something to do with it, so they made up the story to tell out of fear, while what REALLY happened was that late at night, the (non-jewish) disciples who took him at his word went to the tomb and cleaned and seasoned Jesus with the spices. It lines up that the spices would be seasoning for the bloody drinks to give the blood a delightful flavor maybe sort of like a Bloody Mary even, as well as seasonings/spices for the body which they ate together after "preparing" it (over the grill like you would cook any other meat). And then, with bellies full, they sat back and remembered him, and had a literal feeling that Jesus was within them... because he really was!!!
Wow.
There is written evidence that they obeyed Jesus: "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live ; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." (Galations 2:20)
Shortly later I began rethinking even more because it occurred to me that Jesus could not have been sacrificed and eaten at the tomb site after all, considering that most of the disciples were seriously devout Jews who observed the sabbath law. Besides, more than Jews followed him and I would imagine there to be at least some level of unease, commotion and activity in the area with the Roman soldiers on alert for any trouble from his grieving non-jewish followers who did not observe the sabbath and may have still been out and about throughout the night.
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Chapter 3: Jesus was a Master healer of the Human body
Reviewing the biblical story with clear understanding, this is what I discovered a few days ago. Now, this may look lengthy but it's well worth the read when you finally come to realize what's been in the new testament all along and what's been left out. If you can sit and read one same book for hours upon hours, day after day, year after year, then reading this short artlice should be like a drop in a bucket
According to what is written about the man called Jesus, he was a Master healer when he came back into town returning from his travels; he was walking on water, spitting on dirt to make clay, rubbing it into the eyes of the blind and their sight returned, raising the dead and performing all sorts of miracles of which he is said to have learned under the study of the doctors and wise men of the lands he visited during his young adult years when he disappears from biblical texts. But that portion of the supposed history of the man called Jesus got missing from the bible as the christian religious belief system knows it today.
He was a Master when it came to the Human body. Just as he knew the healing properties that were in that particular type of soil he mixed with spit and turned into clay to heal the blind man, he knew what would be necessary to preserve his own body and how to bring about immediate and complete healing of his own wounds. When I consider this, the term, "Physician, heal thyself" really presents a challenge for each of us.
In my Martial Art style, we stress to our students the importance of knowing the Human anatomy, and understanding how to break a body down and put it back together, like a doctor. With certain knowledge of the mechanics of the Human body, you can break a person down in no time flat and with very-little effort if you understand what to do and if you strike with speed and accuracy, which creates power. We learn where pressure points are located, universal weak areas on every body, "danger zones" *whistles* and we teach and learn where vital organs are located, where major arties and blood vessels run throughout the body that when cut or sliced, could cause a person to bleed to death, not just so that our students will know how to strike a person to cause maximum damage, but most especially so that they will be aware of what parts of their own body they need to guard and protect in self-defense.
With that in mind, early in my Martial Arts training, I learned to "Make Pain My Friend
I believe that the man called Jesus did too. About 34 years ago, around the time when my youngest brother and I were exploring biorythms, is when I began to learn how the physical body can be influenced and controlled by the mind and will. As a Martial Artist, I have learned controlled breathing techniques used to create different effects on the body. Along with controlled breathing, concentrated focus is applied ~ one consciously directs the body's energy (Chi) and is thus able to manipulate the body's natural actions and reactions. Through this means, the heartbeat rate can be self-slowed, body temperature can be self-regulated, one could appear to be... dead... and yet be conscious, aware and able to hear and think. In a superconscious state, I believe is where a higher level of self-healing may occur, as the man called Jesus undoubtedly knew as well.
As a Reiki Master, the man called Jesus understood how the physical body can be influenced and controlled by the mind and will, and by using breathing techniques along with concentrated focus, he consciously directed his body's energy (Chi) and manipulated his body's natural actions and reactions to what it was undergoing. I am fairly certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that by the time he dropped his head and his body went limp, he was in a superconscious state. It goes to say that in the process, his heartbeat rate was tremendously slowed and his body temperature and pace of breathing was so regulated until he appeared to be... dead... but yet he was conscious, aware, able to hear and think.
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Chapter 4: Jesus commanded his disciples to eat his flesh and drink his blood
Before you read this, bear in mind that the following text from the 6th chapter of the gospel according to john transpired before the Passover feast known as "the last supper" ~ waaaay before:
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
On a re-read of that verse, two important things he said there jumped out at me. The first to catch my eye was "son of man" and the next was "Verily, verily."
1. "Son of man" is who he referred to himself as ~ not son of god, ever. HE knew who he was.
2. When the man called Jesus said anywhere, "Verily" it meant "Truly." It meant that he was about to say something important. When, however, you see "Verily, verily," whatever came behind that was to be paid undivided attention to. A modern-day translation of "Verily, verily" might be something like, "Listen up for your own good, I kid you not, or you may face consequences..." Whatever followed "Verily, verily" was sure to be seriously profound and taken literally.
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
*recovers*
You should be aware that in the verses prior to that, he had been addressing the crowd in parable mode, but then, you see he cut to the chase and made himself verily, verily crystal clear.
Again, what strikes me is that he said all that BEFORE the "last supper." Long before. Of how much time elapsed between the two events, I am uncertain. The Passover incident was merely a reminder and a full practice-run for the disciples of what they were expected by him to do: eat his flesh and drink his blood.
So, it is obvious that he concisely made himself perfectly clear and we do especially get this point when we continue in our reading...:
60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?
61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
Well yes, wouldn't *you* be offended at first if you were just informed that you were required to eat your loved one and drink their blood?
(Commercial break: "So You've Decided To Eat Your Loved Ones"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwAxZRjWN6s&feature=player_embedded)
62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
63 It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Note that there, again, he referred to himself as the son of man (not son of god). That portion of the 6th chapter of john contains popularly misinterpreted text that clearly requires no special interpretation in the first place. Here is what I mean: "What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?" The question is obviously referring to his predetermined plan to appear to the disciples in astral form, which I will give a little more detail about in Chapter 10. "It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." As I said earlier, he understood the mechanics of the Human body and he knew the process involved in deliberate Out Of Body Experiences (explained in Chapter 10).
64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
It now lines up and makes sense when you see clearly how this piece fits into the age-old puzzle. After coming to understand that in order to receive what the man called Jesus had to offer, they would have to first eat his flesh and drink his blood, many *would* opt out of that plan, leave and stop following him. It weeded out the superficial and thin-skinned disciples from his die-hard friends-to-the-end, as it is written that after he said that, the number of disciples he wound up talking to had diminished to 12 when he started with "many" (hundreds). It was those remaining ones who sacrificed him, ate his flesh, drank his blood and "acted with power" when the pentecost occured, who indeed are as alive today as he is through biblical text of the new testament and who will live as long as those texts are referenced by the masses.
68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
PETER proclaimed that the people thought he was the son of god, even though the man called jesus never said that, only referring to himself ever as the son of MAN.
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Chapter 5: Jesus layed down his life for his friends
It comes to mind that john 15:13-14 offers yet an other piece to snap into the puzzle: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you."
Do you know what that means?
That he layed down his life for his friends and that he verily, verily had a command for them, which we now understand was to eat his flesh and drink his blood.
But why would he be so willing to lay down his life for them in such a sacrifice? Well, think about it. The man called Jesus had become so popular and drew such a large gathering of people that him gaining so many followers seriously threatened the religious government and the control Roman rule imposed on the masses, which set the authorities loose on him, hot on his tail to try and persecute him.
If you follow the story in the bible, he said that when things were beginning to come to a head and shortly after that, the authorities started seeking out him and his friends ~ the disciples, to arrest and persecute them for being guilty by association. He even foretold them that THAT would happen when he told them it would get to the point when they would deny hanging out with or even knowing him. The story goes that after the Passover meal when Jesus reminded them at the mock-rehearsal of what they were to do with his body, that he gave them advance warning that that would happen, and that when it did, his followers would deny knowing him, just to spare their own lives.
Remember, too, that he was considered to be a man of great compassion, and with the knowledge that his demise was eminently getting ready to pop off, it makes sense that it pained him to know that before it was all over, his dear friends might even suffer the consequence of death on his account, so he became the ultimate sacrifice to save them from that fate, when he turned himself in by allowing the Roman soldierss to arrest him in the garden of gethsemane. And as we now understand what the texts have been saying all along, he sacrificed his life to save his friends, who ate his flesh and drank his blood to honor his command, so that Jesus could be living within them and they would live forever (through their regularly recalled stories). Those of the christian religious belief system still carry out the cannibalistic ritual practice to this day, especially during their annual celebration of Easter.
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Chapter 6: The last supper before The Last Supper
Fast-forward to the Passover meal popularly called "the last supper," when the man called jesus used the bread and wine in a dress rehearsal to remind his disciples in a very real way of what they were to do to him ~ eat him up and drink his blood. The mind-blower is that at the meal, he blessed the matzah (unleavened bread) in an unusual way, calling it his body and breaking it for his disciples to share, and then he blessed the chalice of wine in an equally unsettling manner ~ he called it his blood. It was a practice session with impact for when they actually shared in the REAL Last Supper ~ the literal feast on his body to honor what their master verily, verily charged unto them days before the Passover.
Imagine, if you will, being a fly on the wall "in the upper room" over 2,000 years and a decade ago, where the man called jesus assumed the seat at the head of the table and observed with his disciples the high holy jewish ceremonies in remembrance of the tale of how death passed over the homes of their ancestors because they splashed the required sacrificial blood on the doorposts.
Are you there?
Having been married to an Israelite who followed the religious belief system of Judaism, to help set the scene for those unfamiliar with the practices of traditional Jewish custom, I can tell you that the Seder (passover meal) is not a celebration; it is an observance, and it's supposed to be an extremely solemn event. In addition to eating matzah and drinking wine, it is common tradition for whole horseradish (root) to be eaten, to remind them of the bitter times of their forefathers and to literally bring tears to their eyes, for the shedding of tears is an important element in the observance of passover.
The tears they shed at the table together that evening were undoubtedly full of emotion; not so much for the past of passover because I am sure that they were crying about the events that were to unfold in their very-near future.
Suffice it to say that during the non-celebratory observance they had gathered for, there was no laughing, joking, goofing around or spreading of good cheer going on that night at the dinner table "in the upper room" at all.
Do you see it more clearly in the moment yet?
I am sure it was very quiet as they took their seats at the table after the ne essary preparations and waited for their master to bless the Seder according to custom.
Remember and bear in mind, that the setting of the passover observance was used by him to be a solemn reminder to his disciples and he called the matzah his flesh as he broke it and told them to eat it as such. The wine, he described as his blood and told them to drink it as such.
Zero in on that image with me because I can just see his serious facial expression as he spoke and made meaningful eye contact with each of them, then watched each bite of bread and each sip of wine from the chalice that they shared the wine from.
Consider the story of how they ran out of wine at that rich guy's wedding reception he was at and how he miraculously turned the water in barrels into the best wine they had consumed all night. With that idea in mind, being the miracle worker who he was, I can reasonably imagine beyond a shadow of a doubt that his blessing of the meal actually had a powerful psychological impact on the disciples, and more especially an eerie effect on the matzah and wine jesus passed around, so that each bite, chew and swallow of the bread in their mouths had the distinct flavor, quality and texture of cooked meat as they consumed it during the sacred meal, and that the wine they drank from the chalice had also mysteriously taken on the aroma, taste and consistency of blood.
If you are still that fly on the wall, flutter with me over to the middle of the table and land right in the center so you can see everyone's face up close.
Can you imagine the initial response and recovery after the first bite and that first sip, by each disciple who realized that what it tasted like they were eating and drinking was definitely not what they thought they knew they put in their mouth was supposed to taste or feel like?
There they were, eating the meaty "bread" and drinking the bloody "wine" while watching each other weep in a true display of the emotion of the occasion as they prepared themselves in mind and body when it hit home that they were really going to be eating jesus soon whenever his sacrifice was to be made.
Today is Easter Sunday, and it just occurred me to add that as they ate and drank, the euphoric effects of the blood-wine may have caused them to "have a foretaste" or sampling of th epower he claimed to be embodied in his flesh and blood, which I imagine was in no way an undesireable feeling for them to have experienced, and probably had them looking forward to the sacrifice.
He knew he was going to be in big trouble in a matter of hours ~ very soon. He used the Seder as an opportunity to prepare them by going through the motions, of what was to actually take place within a few days.
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Chapter 7: The Roman crucifixion scene
Fast-forward to the Roman crucifixion scene. The Romans killed jesus, not the jews. Cruel and ruthless imperialists crucified anyone who rebelled against their rule. Crucifixion was meant to be death by asphixiation. Christianity grew out of judaism, but was developed in the Roman world and implemented as the state religion, so bear in mind that christians and jews were both being wiped out by the Romans. The canonical gospels offer stories of what the first eyewitnesses actually saw, and they do all agree that the man called jesus hung on a cross and female disciples were there; Mary Magdalene is named constantly in each (Mark 15:37-41, Matthew 27:50-56, Luke 23:46-49, John 19:25-30). It is very important that you understand that he was not on the cross long enough to die ~ only three hours, an insignificant fraction of the amount of time that death by crucifixion took. Death by Roman crucifixion was meant to be a painful and prolonged form of state-sanctioned execution that was reserved for thieves and rebels. Therefore, it is highly likely that he was very-much alive when they put him in the tomb. It is absolutely probable that the man called jesus was not dead when he was put into the tomb, and I'll tell you why.
Remember, two other criminals hung with him on that same day and they were both very alive when they were taken down from their respective crosses. So what makes you think that a Master healer of the Human body and reknown performer of many great and spectacular miracles could not bear in his mind and body far beyond what those two ordinary criminals did? Also important to note is that the Roman soldiers only considered breaking his legs at the end of the day, but they didn't break them. They broke the legs of the other two criminals who were hung with him on the same day, didn't they? Do you know why? Because they were alive TOO! Again, I point out that death by crucifixion was A PROLONGED PROCESS, and it being the eve of the sabbath, their legs were broken as the Roman soldiers' cruel means to ensure that they would not be able to escape from where their bodies were buried, and thus would slowly starve or bleed to death while abandoned in their graves.
Jesus' legs were not broken because the Roman soldiers THOUGHT he was dead because he appeared to them to be dead due to his superconscious state, but they, too, missed the mark in their assumption. All the Roman soldier did to him was stab him in the side with his dagger. Big deal. The text says when he was stabbed, blood and water (they apparently did not know the scientific term is "plasma," which is a clear fluid in our blood) came out.
I thought it would make sense to bring to your attention that generally speaking, there are a whole bunch of people (and you may even know one or two or perhaps be one yourself) who are walking around today with scars from stab wounds that were inflicted on them in their past, even in their sides. So it is very, verily reasonable to say that it was not a stab that killed him at all.
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Chapter 8: The tomb site
Some Jewish leaders approached Pilate and requested special permission to take his body down and bury it, and Pilate agreed. Because it was the eve of the sabbath (meaning that work had to stop), Jesus was placed in a tomb quickly and without the usual preparation of the body.
The body of the man called Jesus was hastily placed in a tomb that was owned by Joseph of Arimathea on the eve of the sabbath (Mark 15:42-47, Matthew 27:57-61, Luke 23:50-56, John 19:38-42). Mark said that Joseph was a member of the Sanhedrin ~ the Jewish assembly composed of the high priest and other leading priests and Sadducees. Luke went along with that, but all Matthew said was that Joseph was a rich man. Both Luke and John reported that he was a disciple of Jesus.
The following is an interesting snippit from an article recently posted in Kelvin Currie's Who Else Realizes that Christianity is one of the Largest Cults...Allege Discussion posted on July 29, 2009 at 7:56pm in SPIRITUALITY entitled, "Could Jesus Christ have been eaten?"
(http://www.iseecolor.com/group/spirituality/forum/topics/who-esle-r...):
"It is quite probable that Jesus Christ was eaten by his followers
As we can infer from the biblical texts, the tomb where Christ’s body was stored was not guarded. True, the Gospel according to Matthew claims that in order to prevent the corpse of Jesus Christ from being stolen from the tomb, the next day after the crucifixion chief Jewish priests and Pharisees assembled in front of Pilate and asked him to post a guard to secure the tomb, and when Pilot told them, – ‘You have a guard…’ – they put (their?) guards at the tomb and sealed the stone. (The Gospel according to Matthew, 27, 62-66)
This episode does not seem to be a testimony by some Christ’s contemporary, but it rather looks as a fake, which was grafted into the Gospel by a person who was not familiar with the Jewish religion and culture, because the events took place during the Sabbath, and any work (sealing the tomb and possibly posting the guard or even standing on guard) was then a serious crime against the Jewish religion.
Even the mother of the prophet and his (apparently) girlfriend or wife Mary Magdalene did not dare even to make preparations for the pending burial ceremony – there is little doubt that that nobody guarded the tomb until the Saturday sunset.
Even on the Sunday morning when the two Maries came to the tomb, they found only one man, who tried to convince them that Jesus Christ had resurrected (or two men according to Luke and John). So, most probably none of Christ’s enemies had guarded the tomb at all.
The owner of the tomb, Joseph from Arimathea, apparently was Christ’s disciple, so in fact the followers of the Christian prophet could have done with his corpse whatever they wanted, and they could have eaten the body as well.
If the body of Jesus Christ had actually disappeared during the cannibalistic party of his disciples, it is quite natural that they preserved their secret. The disclosure of such secret would not only have discredited the then still emerging Christianity, but also Jews, who did not tolerate cannibalism, would have executed all the participants of the last feast. Anyway, even if somebody of the initiated had blurted it out, nobody believed him."
The following is from the section entitled The mysticism of the ‘holy’ Grail
"Christians attach great importance to the chalice from which Jesus Christ was drinking during the ‘Last supper’ and into which, according to Robert from Boron, Joseph from Arimathea later collected Christ’s blood.
Christians think that the Grail has various magic powers, and, in order to make use of them, one has to drink from it – thus, in some way one has to drink the true blood of Jesus Christ.
It seems that most probably Joseph had a point in collecting Christ’s blood into a chalice, and that possibly it was used for drinking shortly after Christ’s death, and that the Christian fantasies related to wine-drinking during religious rituals are repetitions of a horrible ceremony that took place almost two thousand years ago."
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Chapter 9: Visits from Jesus
Mary Magdalene found the tomb empty on the first day of the week after the sabbath ended. In Mark, Matthew and Luke, she was with some other women who went to anoint his body (Mark 16:1-8, Matthew 28:1-8, Luke 24:1-11). In John's gospel though, she was alone at the tomb (John 20:1`-2).
In Mark, female disciples found the stone rolled away and they saw a young guy dressed in white who told them that jesus got up and was on his way to Galilee (8:31; 9:9, 10:34, 14:28). The guy told them to report that to the disciples AND PETER and they ran away too shocked to say anything at all to anyone, and that's how Mark ended his story ~ that the women never told anyone about their experience. IN FACT, later editors came along and tacked on the new ending (Mark 16:9-20).
In Matthew's version of the tale, the young guy in white descended from the sky with an earthquake and rolled back the stone before the very eyes of Mary Magdalene and the other women, then he sat on it and invited them to look into the empty tomb, after which he instructed them to go tell the disciples. But contrary to Mark's version, in Matthew's tale the women told the others, who also met the man called jesus along the way when he appeared to them on a mountain in Galilee.
In Luke's tale, Mary Magdalene and at least five other women entered the tomb and were puzzled about the missing body, when two men wearing dazzling apparel appeared and told them that he got up and left, then the women ran off to tell the eleven disciples, who dismissed their story promptly as idle chatter. Luke didn't talk about how Judas Iscariot lynched himself until Acts 1:18, but in his version, note there were only eleven of the twelve when that occurred.
In John's version of the story (20:1-21-25), Mary Magdalene found the tomb empty by herself, and in a tizzy, she ran to tell the other disciples. Then PETER and "the beloved disciple" rushed to the tomb site and saw the burial cloths. While Mary was nearby crying, two guys asked her why she was crying, and then the man called jesus asked her the same thing too, but she had mistaken him to be the gardner until he called her by her name and she recognized his voice. It is then reported that he appeared to the others through a locked door where they were gathered in a room. Thomas missed the event but he saw jesus a week later when he touched his wounds. Finally, John adds to his tale that at the Sea of Tiberas Jesus appeared to seven disciples and after a miraculous catch of fish at the Sea of Galilee, he ate breakfast with them and later Peter redeemed himself after denying Jesus three times, thus he got a chance to prove his love for the man called Jesus.
It is recorded that after the sabbath, Mary Magdalene and the others went to the tomb to clean and anoint his wounds with the healing herbs, rewrap them (and help him on his way while it was still early in the day), and of course, they made up the story that became their popular version of "what happened."
I have a tendency to believe that each of those stories, though conflicting, were actually quite possibly valid, and shows that when jesus left the tomb to wherever he was on his way to, he made stops and visited his friends along the way as described in each differing story, and I also believe he was very much alive and in his physical body, albeit wounded.
So moved by this "revelation," I was lead to comprehensively document it as follows, based on my personally attained knowledge and understanding of history and ancient theology...
The Gospel According to Sister Cyber © March 29, 2010
The Disciples Ate Jesus
Chapter 1: Christians celebrating Easter
Easter is fast approaching; it's only a few short days away, on April 4th, the first Sunday, when followers of the christian religious belief system customarily carry out the traditional cannibalistic ritual practice of eating flesh and drinking blood. It is a time when many christians celebrate what they were taught to believe about the idea that a man called Jesus was raised from the dead after being crucified.
The fable of the resurrection of the man called Jesus is the foundational core of the christian religious belief system, but there are some issues.
~ For one, all of the tales that were told about the empty tomb or the resurrection appearance are different from each other.
~ The early christians readily admitted that the only witnesses were the disciples of the man called jesus (Acts 10:41)
~ Early christians also made no bones about the fact that christian belief depends on a tall tale and the shaky testimonies (1 corinthians 1:18-24, john 20:29)
There are also other things to be considered.
~ It is traced to many eyewitnesses. For instance, paul purported more than 515 eyewitnesses (1 corinthians 15:3-8)
~ The tales are embarrassing, considering, for example, the divergent stories, plus women as witnesses.
The name Easter, which is used in English-speakiong and German-speaking countries, is taken from the pre-christian (pagan) Spring festival for Eostur, the Anglo-Saxon Goddess of the Dawn, and is celebrated on or after the first full moon after the Spring Equinox.
Chapter 2: Jesus left the tomb
Spiritus recently pointed out just the other day in another Discussion that, "There is no evidence that he rose."
How could that be? Because his disciples ate the evidence.
It was rumored for maybe 50 years or more after his death that his followers stole his body from the tomb, but when I first recently really began thinking about the story, I imagined that what may have happened was that it was really Mary Magdalene and those who accompanied her who rolled the stone away, found him to be alive, cleaned and dressed his wounds with their healing herbs and spices to speed his healing process, after which Jesus made a b-line into a new day to go into hiding until he was well. Perhaps Mary Magdalene caught up with him later and they settled down to a quiet life together as a family, pursuant to the texts of the Gnostic gospel stories.
Remember, Mary Magdalene was prominently well-known for her close relationship with Jesus. She loved him. If I loved anyone as much as she loved the man called Jesus, I could see myself tending to his or her speedy recovery and helping them escape from people who wanted to see them dead. And with my imagination, like Mary, I could cover it up by making up a story that they received angelic revelations that made them understand that Jesus had been raised from the dead. Yeah, riiight.... More like he was raised by them to his feet so he could get on his way while it was still early in the day. The women made up a tale of Jesus' resurrection and told the other disciples, and they began to tell others, who told others, who told others and so on and so forth, but the tale was convincing because after all, in that era, the idea of angels and demons taking visible and/or physical form and interacting with the people was not at all unusual. For example, Mary and Joseph, Jesus' parents, were supposed to have received angelic messages as did many others, and when it comes to demons, heck, they ran rampant in the land. In fact, it is recorded that Mary Magdalene came into his life with seven demons and he was casting them out left, right and center since then.
I would have no guilt living with that lie, as long as I could rest assured that my friend whom I loved dearly was alive and safe, and soon to be healed after helping him out of the tomb as he was fitting to skip town (again, for he was known to be a Traveling Man...). Yes, I could live with that lie, couldn't you? Just think about your wife, your husband, your child, your pastor ~ whomever is nearest and dearest to your heart.
But then later on further thought it occurred to me that since it was Sunday morning, a day and a half (36 hours) later, suppose Mary Magdalene and the others really did find the stone rolled away by the time that they got to the tomb and yes, the body was gone too...? In this scenario, I would think that they would be nervous of being accused of having something to do with it, so they made up the story to tell out of fear, while what REALLY happened was that late at night, the (non-jewish) disciples who took him at his word went to the tomb and cleaned and seasoned Jesus with the spices. It lines up that the spices would be seasoning for the bloody drinks to give the blood a delightful flavor maybe sort of like a Bloody Mary even, as well as seasonings/spices for the body which they ate together after "preparing" it (over the grill like you would cook any other meat). And then, with bellies full, they sat back and remembered him, and had a literal feeling that Jesus was within them... because he really was!!!
Wow.
There is written evidence that they obeyed Jesus: "I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live ; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me." (Galations 2:20)
Shortly later I began rethinking even more because it occurred to me that Jesus could not have been sacrificed and eaten at the tomb site after all, considering that most of the disciples were seriously devout Jews who observed the sabbath law. Besides, more than Jews followed him and I would imagine there to be at least some level of unease, commotion and activity in the area with the Roman soldiers on alert for any trouble from his grieving non-jewish followers who did not observe the sabbath and may have still been out and about throughout the night.
Chapter 3: Jesus was a Master healer of the Human body
Reviewing the biblical story with clear understanding, this is what I discovered a few days ago. Now, this may look lengthy but it's well worth the read when you finally come to realize what's been in the new testament all along and what's been left out. If you can sit and read one same book for hours upon hours, day after day, year after year, then reading this short artlice should be like a drop in a bucket
According to what is written about the man called Jesus, he was a Master healer when he came back into town returning from his travels; he was walking on water, spitting on dirt to make clay, rubbing it into the eyes of the blind and their sight returned, raising the dead and performing all sorts of miracles of which he is said to have learned under the study of the doctors and wise men of the lands he visited during his young adult years when he disappears from biblical texts. But that portion of the supposed history of the man called Jesus got missing from the bible as the christian religious belief system knows it today.
He was a Master when it came to the Human body. Just as he knew the healing properties that were in that particular type of soil he mixed with spit and turned into clay to heal the blind man, he knew what would be necessary to preserve his own body and how to bring about immediate and complete healing of his own wounds. When I consider this, the term, "Physician, heal thyself" really presents a challenge for each of us.
In my Martial Art style, we stress to our students the importance of knowing the Human anatomy, and understanding how to break a body down and put it back together, like a doctor. With certain knowledge of the mechanics of the Human body, you can break a person down in no time flat and with very-little effort if you understand what to do and if you strike with speed and accuracy, which creates power. We learn where pressure points are located, universal weak areas on every body, "danger zones" *whistles* and we teach and learn where vital organs are located, where major arties and blood vessels run throughout the body that when cut or sliced, could cause a person to bleed to death, not just so that our students will know how to strike a person to cause maximum damage, but most especially so that they will be aware of what parts of their own body they need to guard and protect in self-defense.
With that in mind, early in my Martial Arts training, I learned to "Make Pain My Friend
I believe that the man called Jesus did too. About 34 years ago, around the time when my youngest brother and I were exploring biorythms, is when I began to learn how the physical body can be influenced and controlled by the mind and will. As a Martial Artist, I have learned controlled breathing techniques used to create different effects on the body. Along with controlled breathing, concentrated focus is applied ~ one consciously directs the body's energy (Chi) and is thus able to manipulate the body's natural actions and reactions. Through this means, the heartbeat rate can be self-slowed, body temperature can be self-regulated, one could appear to be... dead... and yet be conscious, aware and able to hear and think. In a superconscious state, I believe is where a higher level of self-healing may occur, as the man called Jesus undoubtedly knew as well.As a Reiki Master, the man called Jesus understood how the physical body can be influenced and controlled by the mind and will, and by using breathing techniques along with concentrated focus, he consciously directed his body's energy (Chi) and manipulated his body's natural actions and reactions to what it was undergoing. I am fairly certain beyond a shadow of a doubt that by the time he dropped his head and his body went limp, he was in a superconscious state. It goes to say that in the process, his heartbeat rate was tremendously slowed and his body temperature and pace of breathing was so regulated until he appeared to be... dead... but yet he was conscious, aware, able to hear and think.
Chapter 4: Jesus commanded his disciples to eat his flesh and drink his blood
Before you read this, bear in mind that the following text from the 6th chapter of the gospel according to john transpired before the Passover feast known as "the last supper" ~ waaaay before:
53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
On a re-read of that verse, two important things he said there jumped out at me. The first to catch my eye was "son of man" and the next was "Verily, verily."
1. "Son of man" is who he referred to himself as ~ not son of god, ever. HE knew who he was.
2. When the man called Jesus said anywhere, "Verily" it meant "Truly." It meant that he was about to say something important. When, however, you see "Verily, verily," whatever came behind that was to be paid undivided attention to. A modern-day translation of "Verily, verily" might be something like, "Listen up for your own good, I kid you not, or you may face consequences..." Whatever followed "Verily, verily" was sure to be seriously profound and taken literally.
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day.
55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.
57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father; so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
*recovers*
You should be aware that in the verses prior to that, he had been addressing the crowd in parable mode, but then, you see he cut to the chase and made himself verily, verily crystal clear.
Again, what strikes me is that he said all that BEFORE the "last supper." Long before. Of how much time elapsed between the two events, I am uncertain. The Passover incident was merely a reminder and a full practice-run for the disciples of what they were expected by him to do: eat his flesh and drink his blood.
So, it is obvious that he concisely made himself perfectly clear and we do especially get this point when we continue in our reading...:
60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is a hard saying; who can hear it?
61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
Well yes, wouldn't *you* be offended at first if you were just informed that you were required to eat your loved one and drink their blood?
(Commercial break: "So You've Decided To Eat Your Loved Ones"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwAxZRjWN6s&feature=player_embedded)
62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?
63 It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
Note that there, again, he referred to himself as the son of man (not son of god). That portion of the 6th chapter of john contains popularly misinterpreted text that clearly requires no special interpretation in the first place. Here is what I mean: "What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before?" The question is obviously referring to his predetermined plan to appear to the disciples in astral form, which I will give a little more detail about in Chapter 10. "It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life." As I said earlier, he understood the mechanics of the Human body and he knew the process involved in deliberate Out Of Body Experiences (explained in Chapter 10).
64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him.
65 And he said, Therefore said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father.
66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
67 Then said Jesus unto the twelve, Will ye also go away?
It now lines up and makes sense when you see clearly how this piece fits into the age-old puzzle. After coming to understand that in order to receive what the man called Jesus had to offer, they would have to first eat his flesh and drink his blood, many *would* opt out of that plan, leave and stop following him. It weeded out the superficial and thin-skinned disciples from his die-hard friends-to-the-end, as it is written that after he said that, the number of disciples he wound up talking to had diminished to 12 when he started with "many" (hundreds). It was those remaining ones who sacrificed him, ate his flesh, drank his blood and "acted with power" when the pentecost occured, who indeed are as alive today as he is through biblical text of the new testament and who will live as long as those texts are referenced by the masses.
68 Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord, to whom shall we go? thou hast the words of eternal life.
69 And we believe and are sure that thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God.
PETER proclaimed that the people thought he was the son of god, even though the man called jesus never said that, only referring to himself ever as the son of MAN.
Chapter 5: Jesus layed down his life for his friends
It comes to mind that john 15:13-14 offers yet an other piece to snap into the puzzle: "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. Ye are my friends, if ye do whatsoever I command you."
Do you know what that means?
That he layed down his life for his friends and that he verily, verily had a command for them, which we now understand was to eat his flesh and drink his blood.
But why would he be so willing to lay down his life for them in such a sacrifice? Well, think about it. The man called Jesus had become so popular and drew such a large gathering of people that him gaining so many followers seriously threatened the religious government and the control Roman rule imposed on the masses, which set the authorities loose on him, hot on his tail to try and persecute him.
If you follow the story in the bible, he said that when things were beginning to come to a head and shortly after that, the authorities started seeking out him and his friends ~ the disciples, to arrest and persecute them for being guilty by association. He even foretold them that THAT would happen when he told them it would get to the point when they would deny hanging out with or even knowing him. The story goes that after the Passover meal when Jesus reminded them at the mock-rehearsal of what they were to do with his body, that he gave them advance warning that that would happen, and that when it did, his followers would deny knowing him, just to spare their own lives.
Remember, too, that he was considered to be a man of great compassion, and with the knowledge that his demise was eminently getting ready to pop off, it makes sense that it pained him to know that before it was all over, his dear friends might even suffer the consequence of death on his account, so he became the ultimate sacrifice to save them from that fate, when he turned himself in by allowing the Roman soldierss to arrest him in the garden of gethsemane. And as we now understand what the texts have been saying all along, he sacrificed his life to save his friends, who ate his flesh and drank his blood to honor his command, so that Jesus could be living within them and they would live forever (through their regularly recalled stories). Those of the christian religious belief system still carry out the cannibalistic ritual practice to this day, especially during their annual celebration of Easter.
Chapter 6: The last supper before The Last Supper
Fast-forward to the Passover meal popularly called "the last supper," when the man called jesus used the bread and wine in a dress rehearsal to remind his disciples in a very real way of what they were to do to him ~ eat him up and drink his blood. The mind-blower is that at the meal, he blessed the matzah (unleavened bread) in an unusual way, calling it his body and breaking it for his disciples to share, and then he blessed the chalice of wine in an equally unsettling manner ~ he called it his blood. It was a practice session with impact for when they actually shared in the REAL Last Supper ~ the literal feast on his body to honor what their master verily, verily charged unto them days before the Passover.
Imagine, if you will, being a fly on the wall "in the upper room" over 2,000 years and a decade ago, where the man called jesus assumed the seat at the head of the table and observed with his disciples the high holy jewish ceremonies in remembrance of the tale of how death passed over the homes of their ancestors because they splashed the required sacrificial blood on the doorposts.
Are you there?
Having been married to an Israelite who followed the religious belief system of Judaism, to help set the scene for those unfamiliar with the practices of traditional Jewish custom, I can tell you that the Seder (passover meal) is not a celebration; it is an observance, and it's supposed to be an extremely solemn event. In addition to eating matzah and drinking wine, it is common tradition for whole horseradish (root) to be eaten, to remind them of the bitter times of their forefathers and to literally bring tears to their eyes, for the shedding of tears is an important element in the observance of passover.
The tears they shed at the table together that evening were undoubtedly full of emotion; not so much for the past of passover because I am sure that they were crying about the events that were to unfold in their very-near future.
Suffice it to say that during the non-celebratory observance they had gathered for, there was no laughing, joking, goofing around or spreading of good cheer going on that night at the dinner table "in the upper room" at all.
Do you see it more clearly in the moment yet?
I am sure it was very quiet as they took their seats at the table after the ne essary preparations and waited for their master to bless the Seder according to custom.
Remember and bear in mind, that the setting of the passover observance was used by him to be a solemn reminder to his disciples and he called the matzah his flesh as he broke it and told them to eat it as such. The wine, he described as his blood and told them to drink it as such.
Zero in on that image with me because I can just see his serious facial expression as he spoke and made meaningful eye contact with each of them, then watched each bite of bread and each sip of wine from the chalice that they shared the wine from.
Consider the story of how they ran out of wine at that rich guy's wedding reception he was at and how he miraculously turned the water in barrels into the best wine they had consumed all night. With that idea in mind, being the miracle worker who he was, I can reasonably imagine beyond a shadow of a doubt that his blessing of the meal actually had a powerful psychological impact on the disciples, and more especially an eerie effect on the matzah and wine jesus passed around, so that each bite, chew and swallow of the bread in their mouths had the distinct flavor, quality and texture of cooked meat as they consumed it during the sacred meal, and that the wine they drank from the chalice had also mysteriously taken on the aroma, taste and consistency of blood.
If you are still that fly on the wall, flutter with me over to the middle of the table and land right in the center so you can see everyone's face up close.
Can you imagine the initial response and recovery after the first bite and that first sip, by each disciple who realized that what it tasted like they were eating and drinking was definitely not what they thought they knew they put in their mouth was supposed to taste or feel like?
There they were, eating the meaty "bread" and drinking the bloody "wine" while watching each other weep in a true display of the emotion of the occasion as they prepared themselves in mind and body when it hit home that they were really going to be eating jesus soon whenever his sacrifice was to be made.
Today is Easter Sunday, and it just occurred me to add that as they ate and drank, the euphoric effects of the blood-wine may have caused them to "have a foretaste" or sampling of th epower he claimed to be embodied in his flesh and blood, which I imagine was in no way an undesireable feeling for them to have experienced, and probably had them looking forward to the sacrifice.
He knew he was going to be in big trouble in a matter of hours ~ very soon. He used the Seder as an opportunity to prepare them by going through the motions, of what was to actually take place within a few days.
Chapter 7: The Roman crucifixion scene
Fast-forward to the Roman crucifixion scene. The Romans killed jesus, not the jews. Cruel and ruthless imperialists crucified anyone who rebelled against their rule. Crucifixion was meant to be death by asphixiation. Christianity grew out of judaism, but was developed in the Roman world and implemented as the state religion, so bear in mind that christians and jews were both being wiped out by the Romans. The canonical gospels offer stories of what the first eyewitnesses actually saw, and they do all agree that the man called jesus hung on a cross and female disciples were there; Mary Magdalene is named constantly in each (Mark 15:37-41, Matthew 27:50-56, Luke 23:46-49, John 19:25-30). It is very important that you understand that he was not on the cross long enough to die ~ only three hours, an insignificant fraction of the amount of time that death by crucifixion took. Death by Roman crucifixion was meant to be a painful and prolonged form of state-sanctioned execution that was reserved for thieves and rebels. Therefore, it is highly likely that he was very-much alive when they put him in the tomb. It is absolutely probable that the man called jesus was not dead when he was put into the tomb, and I'll tell you why.
Remember, two other criminals hung with him on that same day and they were both very alive when they were taken down from their respective crosses. So what makes you think that a Master healer of the Human body and reknown performer of many great and spectacular miracles could not bear in his mind and body far beyond what those two ordinary criminals did? Also important to note is that the Roman soldiers only considered breaking his legs at the end of the day, but they didn't break them. They broke the legs of the other two criminals who were hung with him on the same day, didn't they? Do you know why? Because they were alive TOO! Again, I point out that death by crucifixion was A PROLONGED PROCESS, and it being the eve of the sabbath, their legs were broken as the Roman soldiers' cruel means to ensure that they would not be able to escape from where their bodies were buried, and thus would slowly starve or bleed to death while abandoned in their graves.
Jesus' legs were not broken because the Roman soldiers THOUGHT he was dead because he appeared to them to be dead due to his superconscious state, but they, too, missed the mark in their assumption. All the Roman soldier did to him was stab him in the side with his dagger. Big deal. The text says when he was stabbed, blood and water (they apparently did not know the scientific term is "plasma," which is a clear fluid in our blood) came out.
I thought it would make sense to bring to your attention that generally speaking, there are a whole bunch of people (and you may even know one or two or perhaps be one yourself) who are walking around today with scars from stab wounds that were inflicted on them in their past, even in their sides. So it is very, verily reasonable to say that it was not a stab that killed him at all.
Chapter 8: The tomb site
Some Jewish leaders approached Pilate and requested special permission to take his body down and bury it, and Pilate agreed. Because it was the eve of the sabbath (meaning that work had to stop), Jesus was placed in a tomb quickly and without the usual preparation of the body.
The body of the man called Jesus was hastily placed in a tomb that was owned by Joseph of Arimathea on the eve of the sabbath (Mark 15:42-47, Matthew 27:57-61, Luke 23:50-56, John 19:38-42). Mark said that Joseph was a member of the Sanhedrin ~ the Jewish assembly composed of the high priest and other leading priests and Sadducees. Luke went along with that, but all Matthew said was that Joseph was a rich man. Both Luke and John reported that he was a disciple of Jesus.
The following is an interesting snippit from an article recently posted in Kelvin Currie's Who Else Realizes that Christianity is one of the Largest Cults...Allege Discussion posted on July 29, 2009 at 7:56pm in SPIRITUALITY entitled, "Could Jesus Christ have been eaten?"
(http://www.iseecolor.com/group/spirituality/forum/topics/who-esle-r...):
"It is quite probable that Jesus Christ was eaten by his followers
As we can infer from the biblical texts, the tomb where Christ’s body was stored was not guarded. True, the Gospel according to Matthew claims that in order to prevent the corpse of Jesus Christ from being stolen from the tomb, the next day after the crucifixion chief Jewish priests and Pharisees assembled in front of Pilate and asked him to post a guard to secure the tomb, and when Pilot told them, – ‘You have a guard…’ – they put (their?) guards at the tomb and sealed the stone. (The Gospel according to Matthew, 27, 62-66)
This episode does not seem to be a testimony by some Christ’s contemporary, but it rather looks as a fake, which was grafted into the Gospel by a person who was not familiar with the Jewish religion and culture, because the events took place during the Sabbath, and any work (sealing the tomb and possibly posting the guard or even standing on guard) was then a serious crime against the Jewish religion.
Even the mother of the prophet and his (apparently) girlfriend or wife Mary Magdalene did not dare even to make preparations for the pending burial ceremony – there is little doubt that that nobody guarded the tomb until the Saturday sunset.
Even on the Sunday morning when the two Maries came to the tomb, they found only one man, who tried to convince them that Jesus Christ had resurrected (or two men according to Luke and John). So, most probably none of Christ’s enemies had guarded the tomb at all.
The owner of the tomb, Joseph from Arimathea, apparently was Christ’s disciple, so in fact the followers of the Christian prophet could have done with his corpse whatever they wanted, and they could have eaten the body as well.
If the body of Jesus Christ had actually disappeared during the cannibalistic party of his disciples, it is quite natural that they preserved their secret. The disclosure of such secret would not only have discredited the then still emerging Christianity, but also Jews, who did not tolerate cannibalism, would have executed all the participants of the last feast. Anyway, even if somebody of the initiated had blurted it out, nobody believed him."
The following is from the section entitled The mysticism of the ‘holy’ Grail
"Christians attach great importance to the chalice from which Jesus Christ was drinking during the ‘Last supper’ and into which, according to Robert from Boron, Joseph from Arimathea later collected Christ’s blood.
Christians think that the Grail has various magic powers, and, in order to make use of them, one has to drink from it – thus, in some way one has to drink the true blood of Jesus Christ.
It seems that most probably Joseph had a point in collecting Christ’s blood into a chalice, and that possibly it was used for drinking shortly after Christ’s death, and that the Christian fantasies related to wine-drinking during religious rituals are repetitions of a horrible ceremony that took place almost two thousand years ago."
Chapter 9: Visits from Jesus
Mary Magdalene found the tomb empty on the first day of the week after the sabbath ended. In Mark, Matthew and Luke, she was with some other women who went to anoint his body (Mark 16:1-8, Matthew 28:1-8, Luke 24:1-11). In John's gospel though, she was alone at the tomb (John 20:1`-2).
In Mark, female disciples found the stone rolled away and they saw a young guy dressed in white who told them that jesus got up and was on his way to Galilee (8:31; 9:9, 10:34, 14:28). The guy told them to report that to the disciples AND PETER and they ran away too shocked to say anything at all to anyone, and that's how Mark ended his story ~ that the women never told anyone about their experience. IN FACT, later editors came along and tacked on the new ending (Mark 16:9-20).
In Matthew's version of the tale, the young guy in white descended from the sky with an earthquake and rolled back the stone before the very eyes of Mary Magdalene and the other women, then he sat on it and invited them to look into the empty tomb, after which he instructed them to go tell the disciples. But contrary to Mark's version, in Matthew's tale the women told the others, who also met the man called jesus along the way when he appeared to them on a mountain in Galilee.
In Luke's tale, Mary Magdalene and at least five other women entered the tomb and were puzzled about the missing body, when two men wearing dazzling apparel appeared and told them that he got up and left, then the women ran off to tell the eleven disciples, who dismissed their story promptly as idle chatter. Luke didn't talk about how Judas Iscariot lynched himself until Acts 1:18, but in his version, note there were only eleven of the twelve when that occurred.
In John's version of the story (20:1-21-25), Mary Magdalene found the tomb empty by herself, and in a tizzy, she ran to tell the other disciples. Then PETER and "the beloved disciple" rushed to the tomb site and saw the burial cloths. While Mary was nearby crying, two guys asked her why she was crying, and then the man called jesus asked her the same thing too, but she had mistaken him to be the gardner until he called her by her name and she recognized his voice. It is then reported that he appeared to the others through a locked door where they were gathered in a room. Thomas missed the event but he saw jesus a week later when he touched his wounds. Finally, John adds to his tale that at the Sea of Tiberas Jesus appeared to seven disciples and after a miraculous catch of fish at the Sea of Galilee, he ate breakfast with them and later Peter redeemed himself after denying Jesus three times, thus he got a chance to prove his love for the man called Jesus.
It is recorded that after the sabbath, Mary Magdalene and the others went to the tomb to clean and anoint his wounds with the healing herbs, rewrap them (and help him on his way while it was still early in the day), and of course, they made up the story that became their popular version of "what happened."
I have a tendency to believe that each of those stories, though conflicting, were actually quite possibly valid, and shows that when jesus left the tomb to wherever he was on his way to, he made stops and visited his friends along the way as described in each differing story, and I also believe he was very much alive and in his physical body, albeit wounded.
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Chapter 10: The Out Of Body Experience
After sufficient recovery, on the third day (Easter Sunday) the man called jesus appeared to his disciples in astral form, as explained below. The body of Jesus was seen appearing real, but different. It had the crucifixion wounds, but could appear suddenly and pass through locked doors. He wasn't a ghost, but he wasn't immediately recognizable either. He was not a zombie or a revived corpse.
I was considering that their sabbath began at sunset (popularly called "good Friday" evening), which is why they hurried to put him in the tomb without preparation, because according to Jewish law, all work was supposed to stop. The sabbath ended 24 hours later (Saturday evening). It also flows with the written story that it was after he had healed sufficiently that on the third day (easter sunday), he appeared to his disciples in astral form, as it is written they perceived it to be his ghost. (See Gaurdian's Out Of Body Experiences, is it Really Possible? Discussion posted on June 8, 2009 at 3:06pm in SPIRITUALITY for more information about this topic: http://www.iseecolor.com/group/spirituality/forum/topics/out-of-bod...)
I am both a spontaneous and a deliberate lucid dreamer ~ someone who can control their dreams with conscious awareness of the body resting in sleep. I have also had numerous experiences with shared dreams, and if you've seen the movies "Nightmare on Elm Street" and/or "Flatliners" you might understand what shared dreams are. Lucid and shared dreams are on the same page as Astral Projection, also known as Out Of Body Experiences (or "OOBEs"), but there are some notions that cause them to be labeled as distinctly separate types of experiences. Nevertheless, both experiences occur when a Human Being is in a superconscious state, either spontaneously under the "proper" conditions, i.e., traumatic shock to the body or mind, unconsciousness, high fever, etc., or it can happen deliberately ~ on purpose with intent. I know that in a lucid dream, I can go anywhere I want with no regard for space or time, and that while I am in that superconscious state, the Natural Laws of earth physics are defiable. For instance, the Natural Law of Gravity has it that in "real life" (such a vague term) or rather, in the physical world and on a material plane, if you fall off a building, it doesn't matter whether you are a good person or a bad person ~ you're gonna hit the ground. However, in a superconscious state, one can not only fly away from the ground, but also perform spectacular feats such as pass right through the ground, through walls, closed and locked doors, ceilings, rooftops, etc. with no harm being done. By the way, that is a good state for introspection, facing fears, resolving personal issues and inner conflicts ~ another topic.
So I said all that (from lucidity to shared dreams to Astral Projection) to point out that it is fairly common knowledge today that a person can, through controlled conscious effort or spontaneously, separate the astral from the physical body and appear in a visible form to others to communicate with them or just observe them. It makes sense that that was what the man called Jesus did when he appeared to his dear friends as a "ghost" on the third day after he left the tomb ~ it was his astral body they were seeing, and which they saw ascend out of their presence in flight as was written in john 6:62 referenced above earlier, "What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? It is the Spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing"
Remember, the man called jesus was compassionate and his friends were grieving, he knew their pain and he wanted them to be comforted. In the tale of him bringing Lazarus back to life, what did he do? "Jesus wept." He felt their pain, and out of his compassion for his (same) mourning friends, just as he brought back their loved one, so his astral appearance to them served to encourage their hearts and give them the hope of seeing him again soon.
There is a "Netiquette" boo-boo of "reading tone into the typed word," like when you imagine someone's written comment was delivered in a particular way to express a certain thing that was not intended to be conveyed by the writer in the first place. It is called "Misinterpretation," and it happens with not only the typed word on the Internet, but with the bible and other revered texts held sacred by followers of various other religious belief systems too. It is not your fault; it is rather, the fall-out from a lack of knowledge that has been masked in misinterpretations and fallible teachings, stolen, lost, hidden and/or otherwise secreted from the masses.
The story goes that his message to them when he projected himself into their presence was, "I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."
And he did just that
He went to set up camp where his final sacrifice of laying down his life for his friends was to take place.
"And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know." The disciples knew where they could find him and met him at the location, when he brought them to where his final sacrifice was made, they ate his flesh and drank his blood at THE LAST Supper.
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Chapter 11: THE LAST SUPPER
What do you make of a god that requires a regular, murderous sacrifice of a blood offering?
In the Jewish law found in Exodus and Leviticus, there were rules for murderous animal sacrifice in the temple, and different animals were used for different purposes. For instance, they might have killed an animal in their herd to atone for wrongdoing or to pray for protection or well-being. What a barbaric SIGHT it must have been! No matter how you cut it, the ritual was a gory mess if you can picture it The priest would slaughter the animal as strictly outlined so it would be kosher for eating, splash its blood on the sides of the alter grill and burn the body on the alter grill so that the fragrant smoke would ascend. What a fragrant smoke the well-seasoned body of Jesus must have made cooking on his alter grill! Eating Jesus and washing down the meat of his flesh with his finely-spiced and seasoned blood might have been the most scrumptious meals the disciples ever shared together. I imagine also that being such a miracle worker, just as he turned a few loaves and fish into enough to feed a multitude, no doubt there was oddly plenty of him to go around for everyone to partake of, have seconds and even have leftovers. My bet would be that it was Joseph of Arimathea who performed the priestly duty of carrying out the customary ceremonies of sacrifice as in accordance with Jewish law of the Torah since he was a member of the Sanhedrin, and therefore likely qualified as a priest. Don't forget that as mentioned earlier, he was also a disciple.
And this lines up, you see, when you consider the methodology of Jewish law and how to offer a pleasing and acceptable sacrifice. Jesus is purported to have sacrificed his life by becoming the ultimate sacrifice, true? As the seriously devout Jews that they were, they would have sacrificed him right-proper and according to the Book, by the letter, wouldn't you agree? After all, they were diligently faithful in observing Jewish law, weren't they?
To my understanding, the murderous offering of blood to their god was required by their law to be unblemished to qualify as a pleasing and acceptable sacrifice. I could believe that he most assuredly had miraculously and completely healed with not even a trace of a scar anywhere on his body, and it was due to the herbal baths he soaked in for three days, combined with the healing properties in what he was consuming during that time, along with his Masterful manipulation of his body's Chi that facilitated his own total and complete healing and recovery.
You know, my friends, cannibalism is not an unusual fact of life for those from some other cultures. For some, live spiders, ants, roaches, bugs and maggots are delicacies, but you would probably perish the thought of letting certain things you are unfamiliar with consuming cross your lips, and that is understandable. That's why he lost "many" disciples and was left with just twelve of them, amen? Americans, with the exception of the likes of Hanibal Lector and others, prefer a Western diet of cooked fish, meats of all sorts of animal species like birds (chicken, turkey, quail, duck...), other animals like cows, goats, buffalo, pig..... Understand that Human Beings are a species of animal and realize that there are some cannibal animal species who also eat their own kind. For example, just the other evening I was watching an Animal Planet episode of "Wierd, True and Freaky" where the Tazmanian Devil eats all the offspring that don't make it to one of her limited-number of nipples as soon as they're born. There are spiders like the Black Widow that consume other Black Widow spiders, there are insects that consume other insects of their kind, snakes that consume other snakes, fish that consume other fish, birds that consume other birds, wild animals that consume other same wild animals, and people who consume other people. And look at the area of the world where all of these events are said to have taken place. It was an area a hop, skip and a jump near where cannibalism is known even to this day to be a part of the people's culture.
In the Bestseller (urban science-fiction?) book entitled Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein (great book!), it was an honor to grok with each other and to be grokked by others. In Mr. Heinlein's invented Martian language, "grok" literally means "to drink" and figuratively means "to understand," "to love," and "to be one with."
I honestly do not imagine that it had to be a gory mess either, although I do admit to being puzzled by the christian's proclaimed desire to be covered with and/or washed in blood.
Does she look clean to you?
In fact, I imagine them being as neat and clean about it as possible so as not to leave any evidence of what they did and in order to lend credence and validity to the story Mary Magdalene and the other women told.
I just got a vision of something that makes all of this even more believable to me. I have a neighbor whose son is my Dojo brother, who every summer roasts a huge pig on his front lawn for the annual Block Party. Also, a biker barmaid I know told me a very funny story a couple of years ago while I was playing pool about when she attended what she refered to as a "redneck wedding" because they roasted a pig during the biker's reception. Anyway, my neighbor prepares the pig by letting it soak in a tub overnight in the seasonings and spices, and then puts it out on the skewer very early to start slow-roasting so that later the neghbors can come by and help themselves to a piece of him. I was tripping when I first moved into the neighborhood and saw this for the first time, and I sort of expressed my newbie-ness by the nervously humorous remarks I made until later, my Dojo brother's dad finally gave me a fork and knife and said, "Go have some."
I recall having a wierdly unusual and eerie feeling as I cut into the juicy, aromatic flesh of the slowly-roating hog and putting the meat into my mouth while looking into the empty sockets where it's eyes used to be. I imagine that the initial uneasiness I experienced was similar to how the disciples felt at the last supper before The Last Supper when they took their first bite of jesus' meat-bread and first sip of his blood-wine
Once I tasted him, I said, "DAMN you taste GOOD!
Trust me, that wierd feeling instantly vanished into history when I fixed myself a mouth-watering plate to go
There was no blood-splatering; it was a very neat and tasty pig, and there was enough for everyone to have some and even take some home for later, just like the body and blood of the man called jesus surely was.
And so from that memory, I first imagined that his disciples prepared Jesus' body in a similar fashion, as you would for other meats ~ other types of animal flesh you would normally season with spices to grill outdoors. But it just occurred to me that it makes even more sense for jesus to have prepared himself by soaking in a bath containing certain herbs and spices not only to do them the favor of flavoring his flesh by pre-marinating it, but most especially because of the qualities of the types of herbs and spices that could have been used for the effect they have on those who consume them. For instance, many Shamans (Native American Medicine Men and Medicine Women) consume and/or inhale the somke of certain herbs and things from nature that can facilitate a trance-like state or which may have other specific physical and/or psychological effects on the body and/or mind. I think that that is verily, verily what Jesus didfor extended periods of time throughout each day from the time he left the tomb.
When people think "cannibals," usually a vision that comes to mind is of insane-looking (black) people huddled over a fresh corpse with blood smearing their face and hands, smiling at the camera with raw meat hanging from between their teeth...
Lions and animals in the wild eat like that because it is their nature, but Human Beings are trained to cook their meat and season the animal's body parts well to enhance the flavor. Back then, they ate with their fingers, but I don't believe they used napkins in those days though ~ I think they licked their fingers and wiped their mouths with the back of their hands in a politely descreet kind of way. That reminds me that I shared in either the Rosh Hashanah or Yom Kippur discussions some encounters I had with a little orthodox jewish boy last September when he informed me quite matter-of-factly that they were not allowed to ever cut their meat off of bones with a knife; they have to tear it away from the bone with their fingers or eat the meat right off the bone using their teeth.
Perhaps the linens they brought with them to the tomb were probably used as tablecloths (or groundcloths) to aid in an easy clean-up....
I read a story about a woman who was bleeding to death, and in her weakend state, all she had strength to do was reach up from the ground she lay on and touch the edge of the robes of the man called Jesus as he was walking by, and the story goes that immediately her issue was healed.
If anyone can believe that there was that much power emanating from his clothing, then how much more power might one imagine could be gotten from touching his skin... his flesh.... Not to mention the grokking of it. All that to say that it would make much sense that the disciples may have been convinced (not only because of his command) that the same power he demonstrated in his earthwalk would be fresh, strong and potent in his flesh and blood, and that by consuming him as instructed, they would receive that power by literally having the body and Life Force (blood) of Jesus within them.
This idea lines right up perpendicularly with the story about how all of a sudden a few days after he disappeared from the tomb, the disciples were "acting with power."
Think about it, friends. Remarkably, even in this day and age, christians continue to play out the cannibalistic ritual of eating flesh and drinking blood and the majority of the masses do it without realizing that the disciples quite literally ate Jesus.
From the fourth century on, the one place where most christians felt they encountered jesus was in the bread and wine of their eucharist liturgies. The prayer of the service was directed to the father god, but christians believed that they encountered jesus in the bread and wine, which they understood to be the body and blood of their lord. Reverence for the man called jesus in the eucharist began to grow in the Eastern and Western churches.
So it makes sense that it happened on the day of the pentacostal experience that is repoorted to have occurred, when they began "acting with power" as described in the bible tale. That makes more sense to me than what I was (and what christians abroad are) taught to believe. That's why there is so much confusion that leads to the mix-and-match patching together of text references to try to explain something the references have nothing to do with in the first place. It is learned behavior, and it is confusion arising from incorrect teaching for lack of understanding or deliberate masking of truth by the interpretors. The blind leading the blind.
Nevertheless, you live and you learn, and with all this in mind, a re-read of several texts might begin to make more and more sense if you open your mind to understand with clarity. There is a saying that the truth hurts and also that the truth will make you free, but at the same time, as in Yin and Yang, lies will keep you bound.
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Chapter 12: The secret to eternal life
In the church I used to attend, one of the ritualistic hymns that is sung while communion is being served is "There is a Fountain Filled With Blood"
(Commercial break: "There Is A Fountain Filled With Blood †"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-M9z65mraw&feature=player_embedded)
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Another song that is ritualistically sung after the wafers and grape juice have been consumed by the congregants is:
"There is power, power, wonder-working power in the blood of the lamb...."
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__JlGE-qqkk&feature=player_embedded)
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That kid is talented, eh?
What kind of power was in the blood of the man called Jesus? There are some who might believe that Human Beings have no power within, who feel powerless themselves, who call upon powers from a spirit to enter and work through them of a man who died 2,000 years and a decade ago (necromancy)...
So what power was supposed to have been in the blood of the man called jesus? It occured to me the other day that consuming the flesh and blood of his body as instructed may have been considered a talisman or tool of power for his disciples who partook of him, and that he may have soaked in herbal spices that seasoned his body and blood that gave them a feeling of confidence and power. Follo9wing that thought was the understanding that in consuming him, they were promised that they would live forever.
And that was a true promise, because it is true today, 2,000 years and a decade later.
The following recently came to me as an Ah-Ha! revelation in that flow of thought: "The secret to eternal life is the sure knowledge of death, for without it, man would not strive to leave his mark in the world." My Master Teacher said that to me last year, and he said he'd heard it playing at the end of a movie he saw a very long time ago that just stuck with him, though he could not remember what the movie was or much of what it was about, that one thing he heard at the end of the movie stayed with him. He actually blurted it out like someone just pressed "Play" when I mentioned to him that I was having a discussion on eternal life. Now the saying has stuck with me like goo on a shoe
Anyway, Jesus knew that very same truth in the secret to eternal life.
And he did not lie to those who partook of him, because their lives and their stories also live today in the new testament. They are not forgotten, cannot be as long as those books remain part of the bible and will never be because without them telling their stories about their experiences with the man called Jesus, like the Dead Sea Scrolls, he'd have no mention or fame at all.
Michael Jackson knew the secret to eternal life, too, and he will live forever, won't he? Just as through the new testament and it's teachings (no matter how interpreted) the man called Jesus and his disciples will live forever as he promised them, so will Michael Jackson live forever through his music, which will surely be played for a zillion years to come.
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Chapter 13: World without end, amen
Question: Do you believe that the man called Jesus is going to come back for yu? And if so, do you believe he's coming back for you because you faithfully believed "that a cosmic zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree?"
Do you BELIEVE that??? (!)
Well, you've missed the mark because he was already eaten way back in the day and even symbolically you've missed the mark if you eat wafers and drink grape juice during the cannibalistic ritual of communion, sacrament, eucharist or whatever is the chosen label of your particular brand (denomination) of the christian religious system.
The biblical gospels, Paul and the book of revelation (which, is based on a dream from John, who was exhiled to the no-man's island of Patmos, and who knows what herbs grew there that could have caused John to have such delirious visions!) offers scenarios for an end-time that has remained popular to this day.
"For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever bee with the Lord.
By the way, when referencing biblical texts, I prefer to use the King James Version because it is *THE* closest translation to the English language of the original Hebrew text, and even though it was doctored during the translation to create a loophole for King James, translations that follow are more iffy with differences, deletions, edits that distort the original meaning (like changing one word that will change the the meaning of the original text...). The variations that follow come to resemble the game Telephone, where a group of people sit around a table or in a circle, and someone starts out whispering something into the next person's ear, who passes it down, who passes it down, who passes it down, until finally the last person tells the originator the message they got and it is (severely) distorted and sometimes totally different.
When Paul's original Greek was translated to Latin, the Greek word for "caught up" was translated with the Latin verb, "rapiemur," meaning to be seized, snatched or torn away. The word "rapture" appears nowhere in the bible, but the translation gave rise to the term "rapture" for to represent the idea of a general resurrection of the living. In paul's gospel, rapture is a consoling word for the faithful, though it wouldn't actually be the end-time because many believe a period of tribulation follows the ever-awaited-never-coming event, and then there is the report of a second coming when there would be a final judgment.
It will never happen but be that as it may, playing along, let's imagine that the day and hour arrive and the man who layed down his life for his friends knocks on your door and says it is time to hit the dip, but before you can get caught up to meet him in the air, wafers and grape juice doesn't make the cut, therefore you cannot bounce with him until you eat of a stinky, rotting corpse covered with plump little shiny, white maggots (which, by the way, are an excellent source of protein because they are packed of it from feeding off of meat since hatching and is considered a delicacy in other parts of the world).
***NOTE*** unfortunately, that stipulation may be in one of the books that were left out of the bible along with the Gnostic gospels, the Dead Sea Scrolls and other texts.... Oh well....
But would you do it, or would you opt out to be left behind while others were in a state of "rapture" after consuming their fair share of their last supper...?
Think about it hard and fast kids, because rumor has it that based on the ancient Mayan Calendar, December 21, 2012 appears to some to be the day the world will end... again.
You can even purchase 2012 Survival Kits and items online now. It's bananas! Anyway, running with that idea for this scenario, it could be any time between now and then, if that's what you choose to believe.
Which part of the body would you eat first? Who would like a rib or a breast, or a thigh or a leg? Dark meat or white meat? How about just a finger or a pinky toe?
I am willing to bet my newly acquired Lifetime Membership to The Hong Kong Fooey Film Club and virtual version of the Hong Kong Book of Kong Foo, that those who would be first in line to step up to the plate would be "Fear Factor" fans, and that they would be the ones asking if they could have seconds before being changed in the twinkling of an eye and leaving, or at least take a doggy-bag to go for snacks on the way.
(Commercial break: "Fear Factor - Sunday Kickoff 9/9/07"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0zMyQ2fMNY&feature=player_embedded)
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On Easter Sunday, many will tip into the sanctuary of their 'church homes' or visit a church out of a feeling of obligation, all dressed to impress to sit upon a pew and participate in the modern-day watered-down reenactment of the last supper before The Last Supper.
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Apparently I am not the only person who has received this fascinating revelation of truth. I found the following at http://counter-propaganda.w3.lt/christ/ejesus/enejesus.php on March 10th when while contemplating this topic, I was moved to google, "jeasus was eaten by his disciples":
Could Jesus Christ have been eaten?
May 15, 2006
If we assume that Jesus Christ (his corpse) after the crucifixion was eaten by his followers, we can explain not only the Christian cannibalistic mysticism, but also many other mysteries of Christianity.
The rituals of the Eucharist are similar to the ceremonies of the true cannibals
Non-Christians have always been confused by the rituals that simulate eating the body of Jesus Christ (Joshua from Nazareth, the Christian prophet, worshiped as a god or god’s son) or drinking his blood.
While eating special consecrated wafers or drinking wine, Catholics, the Orthodox and many other Christians imagine that these are the body and blood of their prophet (or god). Most Christians imagine that by doing this they get closer to their god, acquire a kind of divinity themselves, and some of them even fall into ecstasy.
These rituals by their form and meaning remind of the rites of many known cannibalistic cultures – the true cannibals ate people (perhaps they are still doing this in some regions of Africa and Asia) not because they were starving, but because they believed that by eating up a man or a certain part of his body they would overtake his power and courage.
In almost the same way, Christians eat the imaginary body and blood of Jesus Christ not because they are hungry, but because they want to obtain sacredness, unity with Jesus Christ, who has resurrected (as they believe), and to consolidate the Christian solidarity.
It is still not known what actually happened to the body of Jesus Christ
To the fact that the corpse of Jesus Christ disappeared from the tomb where it was left till the end of the Sabbath, Christians refer as a miracle, they present it as the proof of their prophet’s divinity or even his later resurrection. It is a strange argument – apparently, nobody who could not be interested in proving Christ’s divinity guarded the tomb (it will be considered later in this article), so the corpse could have been taken away and transported to another burial place.
Didn’t the scene of the ‘Last supper’ imply an order to eat up Jesus’ body after his death?
The so-called ‘Last supper’, which took place immediately before the Christ’s arrest and crucifixion, is described in several places of the New Testament. During it, Jesus Christ ordered his disciples to eat bread and to drink wine and suggested that these were his body and blood.
The Eucharist has its origins in the ‘Last supper’; however, it looks as if Jesus Christ had in his mind his own true flesh and blood when he spoke about the bread and wine during the ‘Last supper’.
The following thoughts of Jesus Christ are cited in the Gospel according to John:
‘Unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no life in yourselves. The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life <…> For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. <…> This is the bread that came down from heaven…’ (The Gospel according to John, 6, 53-58)
Christian theologians usually interpret this as a metaphor. Such an interpretation corresponds best with the interests of Christianity, but the words by no means sound metaphorically in the original text of the Gospel.
If Jesus Christ perceived his body and blood as a meal that had to be eaten, then it seems that the scene of the ‘Last supper’ – is nothing but the last reminder to the followers about their obligation to eat up their teacher’s body.
It is quite probable that Jesus Christ was eaten by his followers
As we can infer from the biblical texts, the tomb where Christ’s body was stored was not guarded. True, the Gospel according to Matthew claims that in order to prevent the corpse of Jesus Christ from being stolen from the tomb, the next day after the crucifixion chief Jewish priests and Pharisees assembled in front of Pilate and asked him to post a guard to secure the tomb, and when Pilot told them, – ‘You have a guard…’ – they put (their?) guards at the tomb and sealed the stone. (The Gospel according to Matthew, 27, 62-66)
This episode does not seem to be a testimony by some Christ’s contemporary, but it rather looks as a fake, which was grafted into the Gospel by a person who was not familiar with the Jewish religion and culture, because the events took place during the Sabbath, and any work (sealing the tomb and possibly posting the guard or even standing on guard) was then a serious crime against the Jewish religion.
Even the mother of the prophet and his (apparently) girlfriend or wife Mary Magdalene did not dare even to make preparations for the pending burial ceremony – there is little doubt that that nobody guarded the tomb until the Saturday sunset.
Even on the Sunday morning when the two Maries came to the tomb, they found only one man, who tried to convince them that Jesus Christ had resurrected (or two men according to Luke and John). So, most probably none of Christ’s enemies had guarded the tomb at all.
The owner of the tomb, Joseph from Arimathea, apparently was Christ’s disciple, so in fact the followers of the Christian prophet could have done with his corpse whatever they wanted, and they could have eaten the body as well.
If the body of Jesus Christ had actually disappeared during the cannibalistic party of his disciples, it is quite natural that they preserved their secret. The disclosure of such secret would not only have discredited the then still emerging Christianity, but also Jews, who did not tolerate cannibalism, would have executed all the participants of the last feast. Anyway, even if somebody of the initiated had blurted it out, nobody believed him.
Having assumed that Jesus Christ was eaten, many myths and rites of Christianity do not seem strange and mysterious any more
As it was mentioned above, the scene of the ‘Last supper’ acquires sense. Its purpose is to persuade Christ’s disciples that they will have to eat the flesh of their teacher and to drink his blood and to convince the ‘apostles’ that by doing this they will overtake Christ’s divinity.
Then, there appears to be much more sense in many other aspects of Christianity, including the myth about the resurrection of Jesus Christ itself.
The mysticism of the ‘holy’ Grail
Christians attach great importance to the chalice from which Jesus Christ was drinking during the ‘Last supper’ and into which, according to Robert from Boron, Joseph from Arimathea later collected Christ’s blood.
Christians think that the Grail has various magic powers, and, in order to make use of them, one has to drink from it – thus, in some way one has to drink the true blood of Jesus Christ.
It seems that most probably Joseph had a point in collecting Christ’s blood into a chalice, and that possibly it was used for drinking shortly after Christ’s death, and that the Christian fantasies related to wine-drinking during religious rituals are repetitions of a horrible ceremony that took place almost two thousand years ago.
The myth about the Resurrection
Resurrection was invented long before Christians. There had been many religions that had a god who died and resurrected periodically. Various rites of sacrifice were related to the resurrection of one or another god and the offerings – usually domestic animals – were frequently eaten by the participants of the mysteries.
Did not Jesus Christ imagine his death and resurrection in a similar way – that he would resurrect in his disciples who would have eaten his flesh and would have drunk his blood? According to ‘Saint’ John, Jesus Christ explained: ‘The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him’. (The Gospel according to John, 6, 56; italics are mine, G.S.)
The Eucharist
Having assumed that the first Eucharist was not symbolic, but real and took place not before Christ’s death, but on the following night, the ritual itself appears in a completely different light – it is clear now how the rite managed to unite Christians.
After all, nothing has such power of uniting people as a common secret or crime. When people have performed religious rituals that others consider to be inhuman or even criminal, they feel initiated, special different from others.
Even now, the Eucharist remains one of the basic rituals that maintain Christian unity. Eating together the imaginary god’s flesh can be also called ‘communion’ – metaphoric acceptance to the community of the Christians who have already performed the ritual or further acceleration of the sense of being one of the Christians.
Inclination towards passive cannibalism is psychologically possible
It is no secret that Jesus Christ was not a psychically balanced personality. The absence of information about one’s biological father was considered by the ancient Jews to be an irremovable stain, and there is a lot of information in the Bible about the eccentricity of Christ that manifested itself already in his childhood.
Therefore, it is quite possible that Jesus Christ could wish to be eaten. Even nowadays, there are some people who crave to be eaten; even the broad public from time to time is informed of some individual cases of pre-agreed cannibalism – when the ‘victim’ finds their future eater via the Internet or so. It is possible that Jesus Christ also had such a drive.
The Christian cannibalistic mysticism is apparently still encouraging psychological deviations
Various myths about vampirism are widespread among Christians; films about cannibals, blood-suckers and similar heroes are most popular in the places where the Christian culture is dominating. There are so many maniac killers and violent perverts among Christians as nowhere else in the world; again and again in the Christian world there emerge people who want to be eaten.
Are not those cases reverberations of the ‘Last supper’? – Most Christians constantly take part in religious rituals that willy-nilly are associated with cannibalism, so they can traumatise some oversensitive persons for the rest of their lives.
So, there are many serious arguments that support the hypothesis that Jesus Christ was eaten after his crucifixion. If it is proved or at least accepted as a very probable one, much can be understood and explained in the Christian faith, psychology and in the whole Christian culture.
Perhaps it could also be helpful in understanding the inhuman historical cruelty of Christians – in understanding why the millions of decent people who found the Christian ‘communion’ unacceptable were killed in cold blood, tortured to death or burnt alive during the long history of Christianity? -
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Permalink Reply by Daune R. Pierre on -
wow,,i was reading some of this ,,,great article...will get back to it to it soon..alot to take in
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Thanks
I hope you get to read the whole thing. I'm looking forward to knowing your thoughts and feelings on this important subject. -
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