Gnostic Christian Teaching of Gospel of Judas (26) Kalki Gaur
© 2006 Copyrights Author Kalki Gaur, “Da Vinci Code and Gospel of Judas as Clash of Civilizations.”

(1) New Creation Story in Gospel of Judas.

The Gospel of Judas' text begins: “The secret account of the revelation that Jesus spoke in conversation with Judas Iscariot.” The text of the Gospel of Judas also offers a new creation story, depicting the evil world as the product of a bloodthirsty, foolish lower deity, rather than the higher, true God. This duality is the Gospel of Judas was never be accepted by Orthodox Christianity. The Gospel of Judas contains a radically different creation story, with the world created by Angels.

(2) Freedom from Mortal body.

The Gospel of Judas: “The secret account of the revelation that Jesus spoke in conversation with Judas Iscariot.” Jesus tells Judas: “You will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the man that clothes me.” The statement meant Jesus needed to be freed from his human body and wanted this to be done by a friend rather than an enemy. So Jesus asks Judas, who is his friend, to sell him out, to betray him. It’s treason to the general public, but between Jesus and Judas it’s not treachery. In another section, Jesus singles Judas out for special status, telling him: Step away from the others and I shall tell you the mysteries of the kingdom. Look, you have been told everything. Lift up your eyes and look at the cloud and the light within it and the stars surrounding it. The star that leads the way is your star.

(3) God became man in Jesus Christ.

The Gospel of Judas and other Gnostic Scriptures challenge the central Christian notion that God became man in Jesus Christ. The books like The Da Vinci Code and Holy Blood, Holy Grail show that secularists find more plausible than the central Christian notion that God became man in Jesus Christ.

(4) Special Mystical Knowledge Gives Salvation

Salvation comes through special knowledge imparted by Christ. The Gospel of Judas could revolutionize people's understanding of early Christianity. The Catholic Church of today rejects the Gospel of Judas, just as it did in the early centuries of Christianity. These Gospel of Judas and other Gnostic Gospels emphasize knowledge that initiates have and others do not. The main reason is that the text of the Gospel of Judas asserts that salvation comes through special knowledge imparted by Christ to select people during his time on earth. The reclaimed Gospel of Judas ''turn everything on its head. Many Christians have been promoting rediscovered early gospels that say salvation is based in knowledge, rather than on the death and resurrection of Christ, as ''spirituality for the 21st century. The Gnostic Gospels do not involve knowledge in the modern sense, but complicated mythology and metaphysics.

Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism believe that salvation comes through the death and resurrection of Jesus. ''Jesus made a wide-open gift of salvation to humanity. In Catholicism, Orthodoxy and Evangelicalism Salvation comes through faith. The Pharisees went to Judas and told him “although you are evil in this place, you are Jesus' true disciple.” And Judas answered them as Pharisees wanted him to. And Judas received the money. And he surrendered Jesus. This is the end of the Gospel of Judas. Without Judas's help, Jesus would not have been crucified and God's plan to redeem mankind would not have been fulfilled, the Gospel of Judas suggests.

(5) Gospel of Mary Magdalene.

The Gospel of Mary Magdalene responds to a debate about female leadership in the Church. The Gospel of Thomas responds to certain questions about the nature of the Kingdom of Heaven. So in question of reliability of talking about Jesus' life, some of Gnostic Gospels don't have very much to offer. In terms of reconstructing second century Christianity, Gnostic Gospels are very vital. Gospel of Judas describes a very central part of Jesus' life and death, so this is likely to set off a real re-think about Catholic and Orthodox Christianity by laity. The Gospel of Judas is going to set off a real re-think in terms of how Christians understand Jesus' life. The Jesus that comes out of the Gospel of Judas can't really be reconciled with the Jesus of the Canonical four Gospels. Either one or other of them must be a distortion of reality.

(6) Jesus Forgave Judas.

That Jesus would have forgiven Judas is certain, because the heart of Jesus is of forgiveness, of mercy for everyone. Jesus forgave Peter who had also denied him. Jesus was certainly ready to forgive Judas. According to Catholic scriptures and tradition, Judas went out and hanged himself that doesn't mean Judas went to Hell either. Catholic tradition suggests that one of the few people that Church think may be in Hell would be Judas.

(7) Judas was the Chief Apostle of Jesus.

The Gospel of Judas says that, far from being Jesus' enemy, Judas was his Chief Apostle - who betrayed Jesus to the authorities at the actual request of his master in order to fulfill a divine ordinance for the salvation of the world. Judas, alone of the disciples, understood the true significance of Jesus' teachings - because Jesus told him, “You will exceed all of them, Jesus tells the main man in the key passage in the text, for you will sacrifice the man that clothed me.” Thus Apostle Judas, the individual whose name has entered the English language as a synonym for traitor, for selling his master for 30 pieces of silver, the amount for which the law of Moses specified an Israelite could buy or sell a slave, was the Secret Hero of early Christianity and Chief Apostle, instead of being the big villain. The authors of Gospel of Judas believe that Judas the Betrayer was fully informed of these things and that he alone, knowing the truth as no others did, fulfilled the secret of betrayal that confused all things, both in heaven and on earth.

(8) Resurrection Not Mentioned

Gospel of Judas does not mention Resurrection. How is it different and what does Jesus say about Judas in the Gospel of Judas? First of all, Judas and Jesus are meeting in some nether land possibly after the Resurrection. There's no direct mention of the Resurrection. Judas is a different kind of character. He's the person who is asked to make the ultimate sacrifice. And that sacrifice is to sacrifice the life of Jesus in order that Jesus may attain eternity and immortality. And Judas is the one who enables all of us to help find that inner spark within ourselves. The Gospel of Judas Iscariot is actually a very reverent document coming from approximately the 2nd century, well after the four gospels accepted as the canonical gospels were actually written. One can’t really know 100 percent that the Gospel of Judas is Judas' account. We know that a writer in the 2nd century told this story, which is the story of the encounter between Judas Iscariot and Jesus some time after the Resurrection. Judas is actually Jesus' best friend. Judas is the one who enables Jesus to fulfill his mission, to die and to release that inner spark within himself and within all of us that is the divine. And that is the concept of this absolutely rare 2nd-century document, which is just coming to light.

(9) An Abrupt End:

The Gospel of Judas ends abruptly. They [the arresting party] approached Judas and said to him, 'What are you doing here? You are Jesus' disciple.' Judas answered them as they wished. And he received some money and handed him over to them. No mention is made of the Crucifixion or Resurrection. Scholars hope one thing may prove true: The new version of the story could help mend fences between Christians and Jews. For centuries, Judas has symbolized Jews' rejection of Jesus. That has been the elephant in the room. The Judas story has been the basis for an enormous amount of anti-Semitism.

(10) Canaanites

The Gospel of Judas text was the work of a sect called the Canaanites who were so determined to accentuate the positive that they saw Cain (the Old Testament's first murderer) as a hero too. Some academics suggest that Bishop Irenaeus took as his source Justin Martyr which would date the Gospel of Judas 120AD. The Cainaanites were part of a movement known as the Gnostics, a sect often described as Christian heresy but which was a syncretistic tendency that picked-and-mixed elements from many different religions. What was common to Gnostic or Cainaanites was the notion that salvation was to be achieved by the acquisition of secret or arcane knowledge (gnosis in Greek). The Gospel of Judas suits their purposes admirably. The spiritualism of Gnostics or Cainaanites is very useful for the modern society. The modern world is not big on salvation - though our obsession with personal fulfillment is an attenuated version of the notion - but we are still terribly keen on secrets. The persistence of Gnosticism through the centuries is testimony to that, surfacing in everything from medieval heresies to modern romanticism - it is there in William Blake, in theosophy, Aleister Crowley, Jung and most recently in the work of Philip Pullman. Gnostics wrote Gospel of Judas. Gnostics, the group of people that their enemies called Gnostics, those who know. It's alleged that the Canaanites were - a group called the Canaanites - were the authors of this particular document. But as to who exactly wrote it, we don't really know. We can only look at the theology and the doctrine and project back from that to the sort of community that would've used it.

(11) Judas is Highest Apostle Not Peter

What is in this lost gospel about Judas and what does it say about Judas Iscariot? Jesus in this account instructs Judas to betray him, it is implied in some words in the actual canonical New Testament, but in the Gospel of Judas, it is quite explicit. Jesus is asking Judas to make the ultimate sacrifice, to sacrifice himself and to enable Jesus to fulfill his mission on Earth. Judas is actually in a totally revised relationship to Jesus. Judas is Jesus' favorite disciple and Judas is the person who enables Jesus to reach the heavens, and Judas himself is a star in the sky, according to the words of Jesus. This is not the Judas Iscariot that we know from the Bible. In the Bible, Judas betrays Jesus, but the Gospel of Judas tells a different story –the Apostle Judas' version of what happened. A new Apostle Judas emerges from rediscovered Manuscript offers new view on Jesus and Apostle Judas, in the Judas gospel. The New Testament includes only four gospels – Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

(12) Judas Will Exceed All of Them

“The star that leads the way is your star, Jesus said to Judas. You will exceed all of them for you will have sacrificed the man that clothes me.” Commentary: Meaning you will turn me over to the Romans, and they will crucify me and my spirit will move from the body my soul. What he means, as the scholars interpret it, is the soul of Jesus will be liberated from the body that entraps him. His soul is now liberated to come to heaven. The Gospel of Judas presents a lost version of the last days of Jesus, using dramatic recreations to portray and clarify the complex story of intrigue and politics of the earliest days of Christianity. The gospel reframes Judas as the disciple closest to Jesus, who committed his act of betrayal at Jesus' behest. The Gospel of Judas turns Judas' act of betrayal into an act of obedience.'' Judas kiss was no betrayal, the lost gospel reveals. Judas was not a traitor but a close friend of Jesus who was only doing his bidding when he turned him in with a kiss, a newly translated ancient document unveiled in the US suggests.

(13) Sacrifice the Man Who Clothes Me

Jesus said to Judas: You will exceed all of them (the other disciples) for you will sacrifice the man who clothes me.

Commentary: The gospel suggests that Judas was a trapped spirit. And salvation comes when we escape the materiality of our existence and Judas is the one who makes it possible for him to escape by allowing for his body to be killed. The key passage comes when Jesus tells Judas: You will exceed all of them, for you will sacrifice the man that clothed me. Scholars said this indicates that Judas would help liberate the spiritual self by helping Jesus get rid of his body. Garcia said the codex enhances our knowledge of the history and theological viewpoints of the early Christian period.

(14) Salvation Via Secret Mystic Knowledge

The Gospel of Judas belonged to Gnostics, who believed that the way to salvation was through secret knowledge given by Jesus to his inner circle. The author of the gospel of Judas believed that Judas Iscariot alone understood the true significance of Christ's teachings. Judas is actually in a totally revised relationship to Jesus. He is Jesus' favorite disciple, he is the person who enables Jesus to reach the heavens, and he himself is a star in the sky, according to the words of Jesus. First of all, Judas and Jesus are meeting in some nether land possibly after the Resurrection. There's no direct mention of the Resurrection. Judas is a different kind of character. He's the person who is asked to make the ultimate sacrifice. And that sacrifice is to sacrifice the life of Jesus in order that Jesus may attain eternity and immortality. And Judas is the one who enables all of us to help find that inner spark within ourselves. I think that the gospel of Judas Iscariot is actually a very reverent document coming from approximately the 2nd century -- well after the four gospels accepted as the canonical gospels were actually written. We don't really know 100 percent that it's Judas' account. We know that a writer in the 2nd century told this story, which is the story of the encounter between Judas Iscariot and Jesus some time after the Resurrection. Judas is actually Jesus' best friend. Judas is the one who enables Jesus to fulfill his mission -- to die and to release that inner spark within himself and within all of us that is the divine. And that is the concept of this absolutely rare 2nd-century document, which is just coming to light.

(15) Christianity of Gospel of Judas is Different Christianity

The Gospel of Judas contains a radically different creation story, with the world created by angels. In several places in the text Judas singled out for special treatment by Jesus: “Step away from the others and I shall tell you the secret of the kingdom. It is possible for you to reach it but you will grieve a great deal. Look, you have been told everything. Lift up your eyes and look at the cloud and the light within it and the stars surrounding it. The star that leads the way is your star.” If Gnostics could acquire the same secret knowledge given by Jesus to his inner circle, they would be saved too. What was common to Gnostic or Canaanites was the notion that salvation was to be achieved by the acquisition of secret or arcane knowledge (gnosis in Greek).

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Christian Gnostic Gospel of Apostle Judas Iscariot (25) Kalki Gaur
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(1) EARTHLY MINISTRY OF JESUS: The secret account of the revelation that Jesus spoke in conversation with Judas Iscariot three days before Jesus celebrated Passover. The Earthly Ministry of Jesus. When Jesus appeared on earth, he performed miracles and great wonders for the salvation of humanity. And since some walked in the way of righteousness while others walked in their transgressions, the twelve disciples were called. Jesus began to speak with them about the mysteries beyond the world and what would take place at the end. Often Jesus did not appear to his disciples as himself, but Jesus was found among 12 disciples as a child.”

(Gospel of Thomas) - Commentary: Child is a spiritual father of a man, as the soul of a child not adulterated by material world as much as that of a man. A spiritual man maintains the childlike non-attachment to the material world.

(2) SCENE 1, JESUS DIALOGUES WITH HIS DISCIPLE:

The prayer of Thanksgiving or the Eucharist. One day Jesus was with his disciples in Judea, and he found them gathered together and seated in pious observance. When he approached his disciples, gathered together and seated and offering a prayer of thanksgiving over the bread, he laughed. The disciples said to Jesus, “Master, why are you laughing at our prayer of Thanksgiving? We have done what is right.” Jesus answered and said to them, “I am not laughing at you. You are not doing this because of your own will but because it is through this that your god will be praised.” The 12 disciples said, “Master, you are the son of our God.” Jesus said to them, “How do you know me? Truly I say to you, no generation of the people that are among you will know me.”

Gospel of Judas - Commentary: The religious rituals useful to please (or praise) the demigods or angels. One may know the body of the master by material senses, but to know the real one inside the master require spiritual insight.

(3) THE DISCIPLES BECOME ANGRY:

When his disciples heard this, they started getting angry and infuriated and began blaspheming against him in their hearts. When Jesus observed their lack of understanding, he said to them, “Why has this agitation led you to anger? Your god, who is within you, has provoked you to anger within your souls. Let any one of you who is strong enough among human beings, to bring out the perfect human and stand before my face.” They all said, “We have the strength.” But their spirits did not dare to stand before him, except for Judas Iscariot. Judas was able to stand before him, but he could not look him in the eyes, and he turned his face away. Judas said to Judas, “I know who you are and where you have come from. You are from the immortal realm of Barbelo. And I am not worthy to utter the name of the one who has sent you.

Gospel of Judas - Commentary: There is a spiritual realm of Barbelo. Only a strong human being can bring out the perfect human inside him.

(4) JESUS SPEAKS TO JUDAS PRIVATELY:

Knowing that Judas was reflecting upon something that was exalted, Jesus said to him, “Step away from the others and I shall tell you the mysteries of the kingdom. It is possible for you to reach it, but you will grieve a great deal. For someone else will replace you, in order that the twelve disciples may again come to completion with their God.” Judas said to Judas, “When will you tell me these things, and when will the great day of light dawn for the generation?” But when Judas said this, Jesus left him.

(5) SCENE 2, JESUS APPEARS TO THE DISCIPLES AGAIN:

The next morning, after this happened, Jesus appeared to his disciples again. The disciples said to Jesus, “Master, where did you go and what did you do when you left us?” Jesus said to them, “I went to another great and holy generation.” His disciples said to Jesus, “Lord, what is the great generation that is superior to us and holier than us, that is not now in these realms?” When Jesus heard this, he laughed and said to them, “Why are you thinking in your hearts about the strong and holy generation? Truly I say to you, no one born of this Aeon (eternal realm or higher spiritual planets) will see that generation, and no host of angels of the stars will rule over that generation, and no person of mortal birth can associate with it, because that generation does not come from which has become. The generation of people among you from the generation of humanity power, which the other powers by which you rule.” When his disciples heard this, they each were troubled in spirit. They could not say a word.

Gospel of Judas - Commentary: There is a strong and holy generation, and no one born now in the generation of humanity will see any person from that holy and strong generation. No angel or demigod will rule over that great holy generation. No person of mortal birth can associate with that strong and holy generation.

(6) THE DISCIPLES SEE THE TEMPLE AND DISCUSS IT:

Another day Jesus came up to them. They said to Jesus, “Master, we have seen you in a vision, for we have had great dreams night.” Jesus said, “Why have you, when you have gone into hiding?” The disciples said, “We have seen a great house with a large altar in it, and twelve men they are the priests, we would say and a name; and a crowd of people is waiting at that altar, until the priests and receive the offerings. But we kept waiting.” Jesus said, “What are the priests like?” Disciples said, “Some two weeks; some sacrifice their own children, others their wives, in praise and humility with each other; some sleep with men; some are involved in slaughter; some commit a multitude of sins and deeds of lawlessness. And the men who stand before the altar invoke your name, and in all the deeds of their deficiency, the sacrifices are brought to completion.” After disciples said this, they were quiet, for they were troubled.

Gospel of Judas -Commentary: Gnostics believe that the Priests should have personal piety before the Sacrament would become effective. Catholic Church and Orthodox Church believed that Sacrament would have the potency even when the priests lack personal piety and may commit multitude of sins and deeds of lawlessness.

(7) JESUS OFFERS AN ALLEGORICAL VISION OF THE TEMPLE:

Jesus said to them, “Why are you troubled? Truly I say to you, all the priests who stand before that altar invoke my name. Again I say to you, my name has been written on this of the generations of the stars through the human generations. And they have planted trees without fruit, in my name, in a shameful manner.” Jesus said to them, “Those you have seen receiving the offerings at the altar that is who you are. That is the god you serve, and you are those twelve men you have seen. The cattle you have seen brought for sacrifice are the many people you lead astray before that altar. The Angel will stand and make use of my name in this way, and generations of the pious will remain loyal to him. After this another man will stand there from the fornicators, and another will stand there from the slayers of children, and another from those who sleep with men, and those who abstain, and the rest of the people of pollution and lawlessness and error, and those who say, ‘We are like angels’; they are the stars that bring everything to its conclusion. For to the human generations it has been said, ‘Look, God has received your sacrifice from the hands of a priest,’ that is, a minister of error. But it is the Lord, the Lord of the universe, who commands, ‘On the last day they will be put to shame.’” Jesus said to them, “Stop sacrificing, which you have over the altar, since they are over your stars and your angels and have already come to their conclusion there. So let them be ensnared before you, and let them go generations. A baker cannot feed all creation under heaven, and to them and to us. Jesus said to them, “Stop struggling with me. Each of you has his own star, and everybody in who has come spring for the tree of this Aeon (eternal realm) for a time but he has come to water God’s paradise, and the generation that will last, because he will not defile the walk of life of that generation, but for all eternity.”

Gospel of Judas Commentary. The sacrifices that you make to the priests may help you please only the demigods. Any priest that claims to be like angels or demigods is a minister or error. Every one has his own spiritual destiny and must find his own path of salvation. By rituals and sacrifices you gain the favors of demigods or angles only and you water the tree for this Aeon (eternal realm) for a time.

(8) JUDAS ASKS JESUS ABOUT THAT GENERATION AND HUMAN GENERATIONS:

Judas said to Jesus, “Rabbi, what kind of fruit does this generation produce?” Jesus said, “The souls of every human generation will die. When these people, however, have completed the time of the kingdom and the spirit leaves them, their bodies will die but their souls will be alive, and they will be taken up.” Judas said, “And what will the rest of the human generations do?” Jesus said, “It is impossible to sow seed on rock and harvest its fruit. This is also the way the defiled generation and corruptible Sophia the hand that has created mortal people, so that their souls go up to the eternal realms above. Truly I say to you, angel power will be able to see that these to whom holy generations.” After Jesus said this, he departed.

Gospel of Judas -Commentary: People go to heaven and spend their time in heaven and the time depends on their actions and deeds. However, after the exhaustion of their time at heaven their spirit leaves them and their body in heaven dies. Just as it is impossible to sow seed on rock and harvest the fruit of the seed, similarly defiled generation cannot go to the heaven. The corruptible demigoddess Sophia has created the mortal people. The demigods and angle power will be able to see these souls that go to higher heavens.

(9) SCENE 3: JUDAS RECOUNTS A VISION AND JESUS RESPONDS:

Judas said, “Master, as you have listened to all of them, now also listen to me. For I have seen a great vision.” When Jesus heard this, he laughed and said to him, “You thirteenth spirit, why do you try so hard? But speak up, and I shall bear with you.” Judas said to Jesus, “In the vision I saw myself as the twelve disciples were stoning me and persecuting me severely. And I also came to the place where after you, I saw a house, and my eyes could not comprehend its size. Great people were surrounding it, and that house had a roof of greenery, and in the middle of the house was a crowd, saying, ‘Master, take me in along with these people.’” Jesus answered and said, “Judas, your star has led you astray.” Jesus continued, “No person of mortal birth is worthy to enter the house you have seen, for that place is reserved for the holy. Neither the sun nor the moon will rule there, nor the day, but the holy will abide there always, in the eternal realm with the holy angels. Look, I have explained to you the mysteries of the kingdom and I have taught you about the error of the stars; and send it on the twelve Aeon (eternal realm).”

Gospel of Judas -Commentary: The Higher Heaven is a place reserved for the holy. That higher Heaven is lit neither by the light of the sun nor moon and it has neither days nor night, and once you attain that higher heaven, you live there for eternity along with holy angels.

(10) JUDAS ASKS ABOUT HIS OWN FATE:

Judas said, “Master, could it be that my seed is under the control of the rulers?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Come, that I but that you will grieve much when you see the kingdom and all its generation.” When Judas heard this, Judas said to Jesus, “What good is it that I have received it? For you have set me apart for that generation.” Jesus answered and said, “You will become the thirteenth, and you will be cursed by the other generations and you will come to rule over them. In the last days they will curse your ascent to the holy generation.”

(11) JESUS TEACHES JUDAS ABOUT COSMOLOGY: THE SPIRIT AND THE SELF-GENERATED:

Jesus said, “Come that I may teach you about secrets no person has ever seen. For there exists a great and boundless realm, whose extent no generation of angels has seen, in which there is a great invisible Spirit, which no eye of an angel has ever seen, no thought of the heart has ever comprehended, and it was never called by any name. And a luminous cloud appeared there. Jesus said, ‘Let an angel come into being as my attendant.’ “A great angel, the enlightened divine Self-Generated, emerged from the cloud. Because of him, four other angels came into being from another cloud, and they became attendants for the angelic Self-Generated. The Self-Generated said, ‘Let come into being,’ and it came into being. And he created the first luminary to reign over him. He said, ‘Let angels come into being to serve him,’ and myriads without number came into being. He said, ‘Let an enlightened Aeon (eternal realm) come into being,’ and he came into being. He created the second luminary to reign over him, together with myriads of angels without number, to offer service. That is how he created the rest of the enlightened Aeon (eternal realm). He made them reign over them, and he created for them myriads of angels without number, to assist them.

(Gospel of Judas) – Almighty God is a great invisible Spirit, which no angel or demigod has ever seen, which is incomprehensible by any mind or heart, and which is not called by any name. The angels or demigods served Jesus. The great-angel the enlightened divine Self-Generated manifested on its own. The Great Angel, who was a Self-Generated as well as Enlightened created other Angels or Demigods.

(12) ADAMAS AND THE LUMINARIES:

“Adamas was in the first luminous cloud that no angel has ever seen among all those called ‘God.’ He that had the image and after the likeness of this angel, he made the incorruptible generation of Seth appear the twelve the twenty-four. He made seventy-two (72) luminaries appear in the incorruptible generation, in accordance with the will of the Spirit. The seventy-two (72) luminaries themselves made three hundred sixty luminaries appear in the incorruptible generation, in accordance with the will of the Spirit, that their number should be five for each. “The twelve (12) Aeon (eternal realm) of the twelve (12) luminaries constitute their father, with six (6) heavens for each Aeon (eternal realm), so that there are seventy-two (72) heavens for the seventy-two (72) luminaries, and for each of them five (5) firmaments, for a total of three hundred sixty (360) firmaments. They were given authority and a great host of angels without number, for glory and adoration, and after that also virgin spirits, for glory and adoration of all the Aeon (eternal realm) and the heavens and their firmaments.

(Gospel of Judas) – Commentary: Jesus introduced the concept of “Adamas” as senior god. Jesus introduced the concept of demigods of generation of “Seth” the demigod of Pharaoh’s religion. Luminaries are the self-illuminating beings.

(13) THE COSMOS, CHAOS, & UNDERWORLD:

“The multitude of those immortals is called the cosmos that is, perdition by the Father and the seventy-two (72) Luminaries who are with the Self-Generated and his seventy-two (72) Aeon (eternal realm). In him the first human appeared with his incorruptible powers. And the Aeon that appeared with his generation, the aeon in whom are the cloud of knowledge and the angel, is called “El.” Aeon after that said, ‘Let twelve (12) angels come into being to rule over chaos and the underworld.’ And look, from the cloud there appeared an angel whose face flashed with fire and whose appearance was defiled with blood. His name was “Nebro,” which means ‘Rebel’; others call him “Yaldabaoth.” Another angel, Saklas, also came from the cloud. So Nebro created six angels as well as “Saklas” to be assistants, and these produced twelve angels in the heavens, with each one receiving a portion in the heavens.

(Gospel of Judas) – Commentary: Jesus introduced the concept of demigods “Nebro,” “Yaldabaoh” and “Saklas.”

(14) THE RULERS AND ANGELS:

“The twelve rulers spoke with the twelve angels: ‘Let each of you and let them generation angels’: The first is Seth, who is called Christ. The second is Harmathoth, who is. The third is Galila. The fourth is Yobel. The fifth is Adonaios. These are the five who ruled over the underworld, and first of all over chaos.

(Gospel of Judas) – Commentary: Jesus introduced the concepts of “Seth,” “Christ,” “Harmaloth,” “Galia,” “Yobel,” and “Adonaios.”

(15) THE CREATION OF HUMANITY:

“Then Saklas said to his angels, ‘Let us create a human being after the likeness and after the image.’ They fashioned Adam and his wife Eve, who is called, in the cloud, Zoe. For by this name all the generations seek the man, and each of them calls the woman by these names. Now, Sakla did not command except the generations this. And the ruler said to Adam, ‘You shall live long, with your children.”

(Gospel of Judas) –Commentary: Demigod Saklas and his wife Eve or Zoe created man and woman. Almighty God did not create man and woman.

(16) JUDAS ASKS ABOUT THE DESTINY OF ADAM AND HUMANITY:

Judas said to Jesus, “What is the long duration of time that the human being will live?” Jesus said, “Why are you wondering about this, that Adam, with his generation, has lived his span of life in the place where he has received his kingdom, with longevity with his ruler?” Judas said to Jesus, “Does the human spirit die?” Jesus said, “This is why God ordered Michael to give the spirits of people to them as a loan, so that they might offer service, but the Great One ordered Gabriel to grant spirits to the great generation with no ruler over it that is, the spirit and the soul, therefore, the rest of the souls.

(Gospel of Judas) – Commentary: God ordered demigod Michael to give spirits to people as a loan so that man and woman might offer service. But the Great One ordered demigod Gabriel to grant spirits to the great generation with no ruler over it, that is Spirit and the Soul.

(17) JESUS DISCUSSES THE DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED WITH JUDAS AND OTHERS:

Light around let spirit that is within you dwells in this flesh among the generations of angels. But God caused knowledge to be given to Adam and those with him, so that the kings of chaos and the underworld might not lord it over them.” Judas said to Jesus, “So what will those generations do?” Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, for all of them the stars bring matters to completion. When Saklas completes the span of time assigned for him, their first star will appear with the generations, and they will finish what they said they would do. Then they will fornicate in my name and slay their children and they will and my name, and he will your star over the thirteenth aeon.” After that Jesus laughed. Judas said, “Master, why are you laughing at us?” Jesus answered and said, “I am not laughing at you] but at the error of the stars, because these six stars wander about with these five combatants, and they all will be destroyed along with their creatures.”

(Gospel of Judas) – Commentary: God caused the knowledge, which demigods had withheld from man and woman to be imparted to them through the allegorical intermediacy of snake in the Garden of Eden, so that the demigods of the underworld may not lord over man and woman. With the knowledge that snake allegedly imparted to the man and woman in the Garden of Eden, mankind would not have known how to differentiate the right action from the wrong action, and would have been at the mercy of the kings of chaos and the underworld and they priests over lands.

(18) JESUS SPEAKS OF THOSE WHO ARE BAPTIZED, AND JUDAS’S BETRAYAL:

Judas said to Jesus, “Look, what will those who have been baptized in your name do?” Jesus said, “Truly I say to you, this baptism my name to me. Truly I say to you, Judas, those who offer sacrifices to Saklas God everything that is evil. But you will exceed all of them, for you will sacrifice the man that clothes me. Already your horn has been raised, your wrath has been kindled, your star has shown brightly, and your heart has. “Truly your last become, grieve the ruler, since he will be destroyed. And then the image of the great generation of Adam will be exalted, for prior to heaven, earth, and the angels, that generation, which is from the eternal realms, exists. Look, you have been told everything. Lift up your eyes and look at the cloud and the light within it and the stars surrounding it. The star that leads the way is your star.” Judas lifted up his eyes and saw the luminous cloud, and he entered it. Those standing on the ground heard a voice coming from the cloud.

(19) CONCLUSION: JUDAS BETRAYS JESUS: Their high priests murmured because he had gone into the guest room for his prayer. But some Jewish scribes were there watching carefully in order to arrest Judas during the prayer, for these Jewish scribes were afraid of the people, since Judas was regarded by all as a prophet. The Jewish scribes approached Judas and said to him, “What are you doing here? You are Jesus’ disciple.” Judas answered them as they wished. And he received some money they handed him over. The Gospel of Judas- Ends.

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(1) Homo Religious- Religionswissenschaft

The history of the mankind has shown pervasive influences of religion, and thus the study of the “True Science of Religion” or to identify the “True Religion” or “Real Truth” or “True Absolute God” involving the attempt to study religion’s origins and its myriads forms, has become increasingly important in modern times. Beyond the historical basis of religion lies the task of seeing the entirety of human religious experience from a unified or systematic point of view. The student of religion attempts to understand the structure, nature and dynamics of religious experience as well as the variety of beliefs and practices of homo-religious the religious-man.

(2) Role of Junior Gods in Religions

One, the gods play a very subsidiary role, in most phases of Theravada Buddhism or Hinayana Buddhism of Sri Lanka, Thailand, Myanmar-Burma. The gods play more important role in most phases of Mahayana Buddhism of China, Korea, Japan and Vietnam. The gods play very important role in Vedic Hinduism and deity worshipping Hinduism. The gods play a very subsidiary role in Hindu Upanishads, Yoga Tantra. Second, the belief in the lordship of Christ in the early Christian Church has to be seen in the context of the belief in the Creator and of the sacramental life of the Christian community. Some ideologies, such as Marxism, Maoism and Fascism have analogies to religion. German-American theologian Paul Tillich (1886-1965) defined religion in terms of man’s ultimate concern, would count Marxism, Maoism and Fascism as proper study of religion. Tillich incidentally calls them “quasi-religions.”

(3) Early Greco-Roman attempts to Study Older Greek Roman Religion

Greek poet Hesiod (flourished c. 500 BC) in “Theogony” put together the genealogies of the gods. The rise of speculative philosophy among the Ionian philosophers (e.g. Thales, Heracleitus and Anaximander) led to more critical and rationalistic treatment of gods. Thus Thales (6th century BC) and Heracleitus (flourished c. 500 BC) considered water and fire respectively, to be the first substance, out of which everything else is made. Aristotle reported in 4th century BC that Thales believed that everything was filled with the gods. Anaximander (6th century BC) called the primary substance the infinite (apei-ron). In these various schemes of religious beliefs, there is a unitary something that transcends the many clashing forces in the world, transcending even the gods. Heralcleitus refers to the controlling principle as Logos or reason. Xenophanes (6th-5th century BC) directly assailed the traditional mythology as immoral, out of his concern to express a monotheistic religion. Poet Theagenes (6th century BC) allegorized the gods, treating gods as standing for natural and psychological forces. Herodotus (5th century BC) identified foreign deities with Greek deities, identified Egyptian god Amon with Greek god Zeus. This kind of syncretism was widely employed in the merging of Greek and Roman culture in the Roman Empire and identified Greek god Zeus as Roman god Jupiter. Sophist Protagoras (c. 481-411 BC) was driven away from Athens because of his questioning the existence of the Greek gods. Plato was strongly critical of older poet’s (e.g. Homer’s) account of the gods. Plato substituted a form of belief in a single creator, the Demiurge or supreme craftsman. Aristotle advocated in conception of a supreme intelligence that is the unmoved mover. Aristotle combined in his account of the genesis of gods coming from the observation of cosmic order, stellar beauty and from dreams. The Stoics opted for a form of naturalistic monotheism. Euhemerism by Euhemerus (c. 330 BC -c.260 BC) argued that gods are divinized men. Greeks made man Heracles into god Heracles. Much of the skepticism about gods in the ancient world was concerned with the older traditional religions of Greeks and Romans.

(4) Hylozoistic Pantheism of Thales Anaximander & Anaximenes

The first philosophers of Greece, all of whom were 6th-century-BC Ionians, and their pantheism was related almost exclusively to philosophic speculation, were hylozoistic, finding matter and life inseparable. Thales identified water as the elements of reality. Anaximander identified as the element of reality boundless infinite. Anaximenes identified air as the element of reality. These elements of reality were presumed to have the motive force of living things and to be a kind of life, a position now known as Hylozoistic Pantheism.

(5) Eleaticism of Xenophanes & Parmenides

Xenophanes, the rhapsodist moved from the gods and goddesses of Homer and Hesiod to a unitary principle of the divine. Xenophanes believed that God is the supreme power of the universe, ruling all things by the power of his mind. Unmoved, unmoving and unitary, God perceives governs and apparently contains and embraces all things in the universe. Xenophanes provides an instance of monistic pantheism, as in this view the Absolute God is united with a changing world, while the reality of neither is attenuated. This paradox encouraged Parmenides to accept the changeless Absolute, eliminating change and motion from the world. Reality for Parmenides became a unitary indivisible everlasting motionless whole. This position is basically that of absolutist monistic pantheism in that it views the world as real but changeless. Insofar as the change and variety of the world are only apparent, Parmenides also approaches Acosmic Pantheism.

(6) Heracleitus - Anaxagoras

Heracleitus stressed the role of change as the basic reality. Gautam Buddha had also stressed the role of change as the basic reality. Fire, the basic element of Heracleitus, is also the universal Logos or reason controlling all things, and fire not only has a life of its own but exercises control to the boundaries of the universe as well. Everything is either on the way from or to fire, this basic element fire is actually or incipiently everywhere. Since the divine works here from within the universe, indeed from within a single but basic aspect of it through fire, the Heracleitus system is an instance of Immanentistic Pantheism. Anaxagoras held Nous (or Mind) to be the principle of order for all things as well as the principle of their movement. Nous (Mind) is finest and purest of things and is diffused throughout the universe. Anaxagoras system is also Immanentistic Pantheism.

(7) Plato’s Dualism - Aristotle

Plato recognized an absolute and eternal God, existing in changeless perfection in relation to the world of forms, along with a World Soul, which contained and animated the world and was as divine as a changing thing could be. Although the material can be variously interpreted, Panentheists hold that Plato adopted a dual principle of the divine, uniting both being and becoming, absoluteness and relativity, permanence and change in a single context. To be sure, Plato envisioned the categories of absoluteness as situated in one deity and those of relativity in another; but the separation seems not to have pleased Plato. Plato invoked the analogy of a circular motion, which combines the change with the retention of the fixed center, Plato explained how God could exemplify both absoluteness and change. Plato may be viewed as Quasi-Panentheist. Aristotle with his exclusivist transcendent God, exemplifying only the categories of absoluteness anticipated the absolute God of Classical Theism, existing above and beyond the world.

(8) Stoicism

Stoics accepted the decision of Heracleitus that an indwelling fire is the principal element entering into all transformations and is also the principal of reason, the Logos, ordering as well as animating all things. Stoics believed that there is a World Soul, which is diffused throughout the world and penetrates it in every part. The Stoic World-Soul is more like the Nous (Mind) of the Anaxagoras. The Stoics were Materialists, and their diffuse World Soul is thus, and extended form of subtle matter. That everything is determined by the universal reason is an unvarying theme in Stoicism. Stoic pantheism despite its Immanentism, stresses the categories of absoluteness rather than those of relativity in the relations holding between God and the world. Catholic Scholasticism with its doctrine of a separate and absolute God was the sterile achievement of the decadent Medieval thought that stifled Medieval philosophy to its core.

(9) Plotinus

Plotinus system consists of the One – the absolute God who is the supreme power of the system- the intermediate Nous (Mind) and the World Soul with the world as its internal content. Plotinus World-Soul follows the Platonic model. Plotinus system really blends pantheism with Classical Theism, since the categories of absoluteness apply to the One, and the relativistic categories apply to the World Soul. The Doctrine of Emanation, whereby the power of One God comes into the World, bridges the gap between absoluteness and relativity. For Plotinus as for Classical Theism, there is immanent in man an image of the divine, which serves to relate man to God, just as divine spark serves to relate man to God in Stoic pantheism. Plotinus is a system of emanationistic pantheism or Neoplatonic pantheism.

(10) Hegelian dialectic in Philosophy of Religion

Philosopher Immanuel Kant’s criticized traditional Christian natural theology and appeared to rob religion of its basis in reason and to make religion an adjunct to morality. German philosopher Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834) in “On Religion: Speeches to its Cultured Despisers” attempted to carve out a separate territory for religious experience. Philosopher G.W.F. Hegel argued, religion arises as the relation between man and the Absolute (the spiritual reality that undergirds and includes the whole universe), in which the truth is expressed symbolically and so conveyed personally and emotionally to the individual. As the same truth is known at a higher abstract level in philosophy, the philosopher is better qualified than the priest to interpret the Scripture as well the concept of God. The Hegelian account of religion was worked out in the context of the dialectical view of history, according to which opposites united in a synthesis, which in turn produced its opposite, and so on. Hegel was the philosophical father of the Christian Reformation. In Hegelian dialectics: Jesus as thesis, Paul as antithesis, and early Christianity as the synthesis, the latter becoming a new thesis that would elicit a new antithesis, Protestantism. Clash Inside Religions is a clash of prophetic religion versus mystical religion. John Oman (1860-1939) argued that prophetic religions had a higher conception of the supernatural than the mystical religion. Hegel and Kant believed that mystical religions have a higher conception of the supernatural than the prophetic religions. Idealist G.W.F. Hegel held that the Absolute Spirit fulfills itself, or realizes itself, in the history of the world.

(11) Religion in Essence and Manifestation

Phenomenologist G. van der Leeuw cauterized material of religious life under following headings: (1) the object of religion, or that which evokes the religious response; (2) three subject of religion, the sacred man, the sacred community and the sacred within man or the soul; (3) object and subject in their reciprocal operation both as regards outward reaction and inward action; (4) the world, ways to the world and goals of the world; and (5) forms, which must take into account religions and its founders of religions. He classified religions according to 12 forms: (1) Religion of strain and form such a forms of religion in ancient Greece; (2) Religion of Infinity and Asceticism as Indian religions; (3) Religion of Nothingness and Compassion as Buddhism; (4) Religion of Will and of Obedience as Judaism; (5) Religion of Majesty and Humility as Islam; (6) Religion of Love as Christianity; (7) Religions of remoteness and flight as that of ancient China and 18th-century deism; (8) Religion of Struggle as Zoroastrianism; (9) Religion of Mysticism; (10) Religion of Theism; (11) Religion of Syncretism and Missions; and (12) Religion of Revivals and Reformations.

(12) The Sun Gods

Pharaoh Akhenaton’s solar monotheism (circa 1350 BC). The solar religion and a divine kingdom that was determined by sun, was promoted by the state, concerned with the sun god Re (Atum-Re, Amon-Re, Chum-Re), the sun falcon Horus, the scarab Chepre. The Egyptian sun religion reached by way of Meroe ( a sun god sanctuary until the 6th Century AD), the Upper Nile. In Ethiopia sun god worshipped as Hego religion in Kefa and the sun kings in Limmu and Jukun in Nigeria. The sun religion culminated in the religion of Mithra of Persian and Roman Empire. God Mithra was transported by Roman legionnaires to West Europe and became the Unconquerable Sun of the Roman military emperors. In Japan, the Imperial deity in state Shinto religion is Amaterasu, the sun goddess. In Indonesia, the sun god replaced the deity of heaven as a partner of the earth. In Peru, the reigning deity is Inti the sun incarnate as the oldest son of the Creator god. The Sun was worshipped as the highest deity as Helios in Greece, Sol in Rome, Mithra in Persia, Surya Savitr Mitra in Hinduism, Utu in Sumer, Shamash in Babylon. Sun as the female goddess worshipped as Amaterasu in Japan, Shams in Arabia, Shaph of ancient Ugarit, Arinna of Hitttites, female sun goddess of Germans, and Taimyr Samoyed of Siberia.

(13) Religion of Egyptian Pharaohs

Before Ist dynasty (circa 3100 BC-2890 BC) god Horus (sky god) was the presiding deity of Egypt. During Ist dynasty under the priesthood of Heliopolis, sun god Re was identified with god Atum. When Memphis became an imperial city, Re-Atum was brought into relationship with its god Ptah (the creator, Pitah is a Hindi term for Father) and subsequently with god Osiris (Asura) a fertility god who was also regarded as a god of the dead. God Osiris (Asura) was equated with the life-giving waters of the Nile. With the advent of Persian sovereignty in Mesopotamia, in the religion founded by Zoroaster (circa 7th century BC) the ultimate ground of the universe was reduced to a single supreme deity, Ahura Mazda (Asura Maha) and Magi priests led Zoroastrian religion.

(14) Levite-Aaronite Priestly Revolution of Moses

After Christianity became the legal religion of the Roman Empire after AD 313, it borrowed from Jews the concept of an organized priesthood, because Jews had hijacked the leadership of the Early Christian Church after Jews had murdered leading Apostles and leaders of the Early Christian Church. The Jewish priesthood had been centralized in the Temple at Jerusalem since the 10th century BC, for over 1000 years, before the Temple at Jerusalem destroyed by Romans in AD 70, just 8 years after Chief Rabbi of Jews in Jerusalem had stoned to death Apostle James the Just the brother of Jesus of Nazareth and his entire congregation in Jerusalem in 62 AD. After the 7th century BC, when worship was concentrated in Jerusalem, the capital of Judaism, the Jewish priesthood was restricted to the Levitical House of Aaron, the brother of Prophet Moses, the 13th –century-BC lawgiver. Before 7th century BC, the Jewish priesthood was drawn from other lines of descent, such as those of David, Nathan, Micah and Abinadab, the royal prophetic and priestly families. Levites were not earlier members of the sacerdotal tribes and it was a coup-de-etat by the Levites in 7th Century BC. It was not until after the Exile of Jews to Babylon in 586 BC, when the priestly code was drawn up, that the distinction between priests and Levites became absolute. The priesthood after 586 BC was confined exclusively to those claiming succession from Aaron, in spite of Zadokites (Sadducees) claming priestly descent from Eleazar as an everlasting covenant. The oracle given by the Jewish priests as the inspired word of the Law, called the Torah. After the fall of Jerusalem in AD 72, gave a new emphasis to an interpretation of the Torah. The privileges of Aaron-Levites are questioned by rabbinical authorities, the non-priestly Torah scholars and religious leaders, Zadokites (Sadducees) and Pharisees. The Sadducees (Zadokites) exercised considerable influence in the Jewish Sanhedrin (supreme Rabbinic court). Sadducees were the conservative class of the Jewish religious aristocracy, favored accommodation to Greek culture. Sadducees maintained the importance of the letter of the Written Law over against the oral tradition of the rival Pharisees.

4(8) Patriarchal Iconoclast Monotheism God Yahweh

(15) Jewish Priestly Revolution in Christianity

The Jewish leaders of the Early Christian Church led by Sadducees converted to Christianity engineered the coup in the 325 Council ordered by Emperor Constantine to monopolize over Christian clergy positions to the detriment of gentile Clergy, women clergy and Pharisees clergy to replicate the coup Levites of Aaron descent accomplished in the 7th Century BC, around 1000 years ago. Zadokites (Sadducees) conspired with Emperor Constantine and imposed Old Testament and imposed Jewish concept of organized priesthood on the lines of Roman Empire to impose by sword the written word of Old Testament over Christian laity even when it opposed the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and 12 Apostles and other leaders of Christianity. Jews took over the leadership of Christian Church after 325 AD and used sword to maintain the Jewish leadership of the Christian Clergy and to impose the word of Jewish Old Testament over Christianity to profit by Jewish control over the property of Orthodox Church and Catholic Church. The Jewish leadership of Orthodox and Catholic church conspired with the Damascus Jews and Jewish leadership of the Mecca’s Islam to impose Islam over the Gnostic Christian Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Algeria and Tunisia to profit Damascus Jews by the loot of the property of Gnostic Christian Egypt and Christian Mediterranean Africa in 7th Century.

(16) Desert Fathers of Christianity

The first Christian hermits of the Egyptian desert (circa AD 250-500) Anthony of Egypt, Paul of Thebes, Pachomius of the Thebaid and others were referred to as the “Desert Fathers,” and they presaged later monistic institutions and were the inceptors of cenobitism, literally lying, that is eating, sleeping and living together. The early hermits, mostly native Egyptian Coptic and Gnostic peasants were inspired by the example of famous recluses and these recluses had borrowed Hindu traditions of Sants that abandon material possessions.

(17) Ancient Greek & Roman Religions

By the time of the establishment of the Roman Empire, Zeus became Jupiter and Aphrodite became Venus. Influential in the Greece were mystery religions, such as those of Isis, Cybele, Mithra and Demeter, which catered more to the personal concerns with salvation than did the official and civic religions. Up to emperor Julian in mid-4th century pagan Hindu gods dominated Roman Empire.

(18) Didache – Teachings of the Twelve Apostles- Eucratites

Early Judaism and Early Christianity believed in the religious dualism not in monotheism. Dualistic doctrine also found in the Didache, a Jewish-Christian work of the early 2nd century AD better known as the “Teachings of the Twelve Apostles”. It stated, that of the two roads on which a man may walk, the Good Road and the Bad Road, the Road of Life and that of Road of Death, with the God leaving the choice of road to man’s free will. Early Judaism and Early Christianity accepted Hindu conception that man is free to choose either the path of eternal life or path of death. Those that choose Road of Death transmigrate life after death in the material world and can never become immortal or overcome the unending cycle of life and death. The Jewish rabbinic concept of struggle between good and evil inclinations (Yetzer) within a man, borrowed from Hindu concept of three modes of material nature.

(19) Eucratites- Docetism

The 2ND-Century Judaizing sect of Eucratites believed in dualism and influenced many tendencies in later Judaism.

Jewish Hellenistic philosopher Philo of Alexandria (1st Century AD) was dualistic in its doctrine about the universe and man and had implicitly rejected biblical monotheism. Docetism in 2nd Century believed in the doctrine that Jesus Christ being divine did not suffer and die. Docetism doctrine held that matter is essentially evil and that the soul is a pre-existent substance.

(20) Marcion – Saturninus- Manichaeism

For Marcion, the god Yahweh of Old Testament is an inferior harsh creator demiurge, Yahweh is author of the world and man. Yahweh is nonetheless completely distinct from the supreme divinity. For Saturninus (or Satornil) of Antioch, the founder of 2nd-Century Syrian Gnostic group connected with Simon Magus argued that Yahweh the god of the Old Testament is only one of the Angels one of the junior demigods, the martial angel demigod of the Judaic nation. Satornil Doctrine believed that a primordial accident caused a wave of Pneuma (Spirit) to land in the inferior darkness, where it is said to have remained prisoner and now continues its existence in those who, characterized by the presence in them of this superior element, will later be conducted back to their heavenly origin by a messenger coming from above, such as Jesus or Mani or Krisnna or Zoroaster. “The Song of the Pearl” in the Gnostic Acts of Thomas, and “Psalm of the Naassenes Ophite” there occurs a concept of a “Savior or Messenger to be saved from prison of darkness.” This basic con cept was fully developed only in Manichaeism. The Gnostic Dualist view survived in the late antiquity and into the Middle Ages in the East among Mandaeans, Yazidis and in Shiite branch of Sufism. The Gnostic Dualist view survived in the late antiquity and into the Middle Ages in the West among the Bogomils and Cathars and is still present today in modern theosophy.

(21) Jewish god Yahweh Is a personal tribal god Not an Almighty God

In monotheist Judaism God is encountered as a person, there lies a sense of some mysterious, all-encompassing reality by which man is also in some way addressed and which Jewish man or prophet may also venture to address in return. Moses wished to see god Yahweh. The god of Jews who was so strange and elusive as somehow found to be a god who talked to Moses and with whom Moses and other Jews could talk. Doctrine of Monotheism cannot explain that how in the first place, a monotheist god reality as remote and as mysterious as the monotheist god of Judaism, the wholly other, can be known at all. And secondly, how that monotheist god can be spoken of in precise and intimate way and encountered as a person. Judaism is not a monotheist religion as Yahweh is a personal god that Moses could talk and listen to. The personal god Yahweh unlike monotheist god lurks in the background, behind the Jewish creation stories, behind the patriarchal prophetic narratives, like that of Jacob at Bethel (Gen. 28) or wrestling with his strange visitor at Penuel (Gen. 32); and behind the high moments of prophesy, like Isaiah’s famous vision in the Temple (Isa. 6), and of moving religious experience in the Psalms, in the Book of Job, and with remarkable explicitness in the story of Moses at the burning bush (Ex. 3), the Jewish god Yahweh is the personal god of Hindus, totally unlike the impersonal monotheist god. The Jewish scriptures explicitly proved that either the Judaic conception of monotheism is false or Judaism is not a monotheist religion. The concept of Satan or Belian detracts Judaism from absolute monotheism.

(22) Jewish First Book of Enoch rejected Monotheism

Jews believed in god that could marry. Obviously those Jewish gods cannot be called monotheist gods. Jews believed like Hindus that gods could marry daughters of men and have children and interact with men. In the First Book of Enoch (c. 1st Century) certain Angels are said to have fallen as a consequence of their wedding with the daughters of men. These Angels, it is held, taught mankind the malevolent arts of magic, seduction, and violence together with such elements of culture as the use of metals and writing.

(23) Jewish Manual of Discipline rejected Monotheism

Jewish scriptures accepted Hindu conception of god as personal god. Judaism believed in god as a person, similar to Hindu concept of God. The Angel of Darkness (or Spirit of Error) and the Prince of Lights (or Spirit of Truth) are two gods similar to Hindu gods. Judaism believed like Hindus that there are two types of people, Daivi mentality (children of righteousness) and Asuri mentality (children of darkness). Judaism believed like Hindus that there are two types of gods: Devas (Spirit of Truth or Prince of Light) and Asura (Angel of Darkness or Spirit of Error). Judaism has an undeniable tendency towards dualistic taught in the First Book of Enoch. There is explicit dualism in the “Manual of Discipline,” one of the Qumran texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls, and a polarity is explicitly displayed in a passage that asserts of Jewish God Yahweh that “Yahweh created man to have dominion over the world and made for him two spirits, so that he may walk by them until the time of Yahweh’s visitation. These two spirits are the Spirits of Truth and the Spirit of Error. In the dwelling of light are the origins of the Spirit of Truth, and from a spring of darkness are the origins of the Spirit of Error. In the hand of the Prince of Lights is dominion over all the children of Righteousness, and in the ways of light they walk. In the hand of the Angel of Darkness is all dominion over the Children of Error, and in the ways of darkness they walk.” The context of this passage in Qamran texts of “Manual of Discipline” is completely polytheistic. There is clear doctrine of Dualism is the two sources mentioned in the Qumran texts, the Bright Source and the Dark Source. These are clearly dualistic principles in ontological sense of the term Dualism, and represent Polarities in spiritual orientation, similar to what we find in Hindu scriptures.

(24) God Baal & Yahweh were Storm gods

Just as the early gods of the Vedas represented natural forces, so the Canaanite deities known as Baal and the Hebrew Yahweh both began as storm gods. God Baal developed into a Lord of nature presiding with his consort Goddess Astarte over the major fertility religion of the Middle East. Pantheistic Purusa triumphed in India. The theistic Yahweh triumphed in the Middle East over Baal and evolved into a Lord of history presiding first over his chosen people Jews and then over world history by implanting Jews as leaders of Christianity and Islam. The requirement that Yahweh be judge of history implied that Yahweh’s natural place was outside and above the world and Yahweh thus became the transcendent deity. This monotheist trend rejected the historical syncretistic Judaism. Prophets Hosea, Amos and Elijah wanted to introduce love and concern in Judaism, as did Jesus and Apostles. The transcendent Yahweh fitted more naturally into the categories of absoluteness. The Jews that took over early Christian Church introduced the concept of transcendent absolute god in the doctrines of Classical Theism and rejected the immanent god that Jesus and apostles preached.

(25) Faulty concept of Monotheism

The present day monotheism accepts the existence of three monotheist gods, three monotheist true scriptures and three monotheist religions, so even today they accept Trinitarian monotheism and it so happened in 2000 years. Even hardcore monotheist accepts that there are presently three monotheist religions in the world, namely, Judaism, Catholicism and Islam. Monotheism cannot explain which one of the three monotheist gods, namely Yahweh, Holy Trinity and Allah is more powerful and superior to other two. If Monotheist Yahweh, Holy Trinity or Allah could accept the other two monotheist gods as gods, then why it should not also accept other gods of Hindus, Buddhists and Zoroastrians as gods also. The doctrine of Monotheism does not rule out the possibility that there could be infinite Monotheist religions, infinite monotheist scriptures and infinite monotheist gods, such as Judaism and Islam, Yahweh and Allah, Torah and Koran, and every one of these monotheist religions could claim that their monotheist religion is the only true religion and all other monotheist religions are false and that their monotheist god is a true god and all other monotheist gods are false gods or no gods at all. Then consequently, god is regarded as the one and only creator and only god. Monotheist Religions all worship personal god that is exclusive to them, and there cannot be three personal exclusive god in Middle East and all cannot claim to be monotheist religions and their religion only could claim to be true. To win the argument of victory of monotheism the three rival monotheist religions should go to war and destroy the other two monotheist religions and the winner only could claim to be the true monotheism.

(26) Uncontested God can be a Local god

Universal monotheism implies not only faith in a single creative gold but also faith in a god who is the uncontested master of history. It is wrong to believe that Monotheism is a later development in the history of religions than polytheism. It is not the oneness of god that counts in monotheism but its uniqueness. One god of monotheism is affirmed in Monotheism as an expression of divine might and power. The weakness of monotheism cannot answer the question regarding the origin of Evil or origin of Devil in a Universe under the government of one god. Monotheist religions falsely proclaim that monotheism is a self-evident axiom. Monotheism is the belief, in the existence of one god or that God is One. For monotheism there are two basically different realities: God and the Universe. The god of Monotheism, in Judaism and Islam is a personal god. Monotheistic conviction results in the rejection of all other belief systems as false religions and this rejection partly explains the exceptionally aggressive intolerant stance of the monotheistic religions in the history of the world. Monotheism’s depiction of all other religions as idolatry has often served to justify the destructive and fanatical action of the religion considered to be only true religion. The monotheistic conception of god differs essentially only in one respect from that of other religions: in the belief that god is one and absolutely unique.

(27) Faulty Exclusive Monotheism

For exclusive monotheism only one god exists, other gods simply do not exist at all or at most they are false gods or demons. While in the Jewish Old Testament the other gods in most cases are still characterized as false gods, in later Judaism and Islam, monotheism argued that their god is on and only god and other gods are not considered to exist at all. Christianity does not believe in the Judaic and Islamic conception of god as exclusive monotheism. Judaism of Old Testament does not believe in the exclusive monotheism of later Judaism. For Islamic Monotheism Allah is the only god and Judaic Yahweh is a false god or not a god at all. For Jewish monotheism Yahweh is the only god and Islamic Allah is no god at all and at best a false god. For Christian monotheism Jewish god Yahweh as Islamic Allah are not gods at all and at best false gods. For Muslims that do not accept that Mohammed is the only prophet, and who believe that there could be other prophets there Allah is not the true god or at best a false god. For monotheist Wahhabi Islam Shiite Islam is a false religion. For monotheist Islam Judaism as well as Christianity is a false religion. For Muslim believers of Allah, the Yahweh and Holy Trinity are false gods of false religion and Jewish Old Testament and Christian Old Testament are false scriptures. Only one religion out of three supposedly Monotheist religions, namely, Judaism, Catholicism and Islam, only one monotheist religion could be called a true religion and other two rejected as false religions. Out of two monotheist religions, namely, Wahhabi Sunnism and Shiites Islam only one religion could be called True Religion and other condemned as false religion. For Jews of later Judaism the god of Old Testament is a false god. For Jews god of New Testament is a false god. For Jews Allah is a false god. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to identify, which two religions of the three monotheist religions, namely, Judaism, Catholicism and Islam, are false religions. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to identify, which two gods our of the three monotheist gods, namely Yahweh, Holy Trinity, are false or not true gods or not gods at all. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to identify, which one sect out of two Islamic sects, namely Sunni Islam or Shiite Islam is a false religion. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to identify, which two Christian sects out of three Christian sects – Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism and Protestantism – are false religions. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to identify, which sect of Judaism out of numerous Judaic sects is a true religion and which ones of Judaic sects are false religions. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to identify, why Devil or Evil could take birth in a universe under management of one god. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism is a false doctrine as it fails to define the exact power of monotheist Devil compared to monotheist God. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to explain why it accepts the concept of monotheist Devil as immortal divine being while it rejected all other gods. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to explain why Islamic Holy Koran cannot undergo periodic changes as happens in other monotheist religions such as Judaism and Catholicism. The uncompromising monotheism of Islam showed itself to be vulnerable, in the doctrine of Koran as uncreated and coeval with Allah himself.

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Gospel of Judas tells Zeus Yahweh Didn’t Know Absolute God Par-Brahman (21) Kalki Gaur
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(1) Ignorance of Jewish Greek Egyptian Roman Gods about Absolute God

Kena Upanishad in the third section explains by an allegory that whosoever has whatsoever any power, success all that is due to the Supreme Brahman the Unknowable Almighty God. If any one becomes arrogant is wrong. Vedic God Zeus Jupiter Apollo Yahweh Didn’t Know Supreme Absolute God Brahman- Kena Upanishad

(2) Gods Became Arrogant

Brahman it is said conquered (once) for the gods and the gods gloried in that conquest of Brahman. Devas thought that indeed was their victory and their indeed was that greatness. (KENA-3-1)

The incomprehensible Supreme is higher than all gods, and is the source of victory for the gods and defeat for the Anti-Religious forces. Brahman as the supreme Isvara vanquishes the enemies of the world and restores stability to it. Upanishad by this allegory is supplanting the Vedic gods-Devas by the one Supreme Brahman.

The power of the Self (Brahman) had verily won the battle for the Devas-gods. But the Devas-gods thought that it was their strength and boasted of it, but they declared, "we have won the battle, it is our glory."

(3) Brahman Manifested Before Gods

(Brahman) indeed knew this (conceit of theirs). He appeared before them. The Supreme by His power appeared before the Devas. They did not know what spirit it was. (KENA-3-2)

Just to make them understand the truth, the Self manifested itself and appeared before them as God ( as a venerable Being, the like of which they had never seen before). They did not know Him, nor the extent of His power.



(4) Brahman Humbled Agni God of Fire

Gods (Devas) said to god of Fire Agni, "Find this out, what this spirit is." "Yes" (said god Agni). (Kena-3-3).

God (Agni) hastened towards him and that Being said to god Agni, "Who are you?" God Agni replied, "I am god Agni indeed." (Kena-3-4).

That being again asked god Agni, "What power is there in you?" God Agni replied, "I can burn everything whatever there is on earth." (Kena-3-5).

That Being placed (a blade of) grass before god Agni saying, "Burn this." Agni went towards the blade of grass with all speed but could not burn it. Agni returned then and said to other Devas, "I have not been able to find out what this Spirit Being is." (Kena-3-6)

(5) Brahman Humbled Vaayu God of Air

Then gods ( Devas) they said to god of air VAAYU DEVA (Air), " O Vayu find this out-What this spirit is." "Yes" (said god of air Vayu). (Kena-3-7).

God of air Vaayu Deva hastened towards that Being. The Being said to god of air Vayu deva, "Who are you?" God of air Vayu Deva replied, "I am Vaayu god of air indeed, I am Maatarisvan." (Kena-3-8).

That Being asked god of air Vayu), "What power is there in you?" The god of air Vayu Deva replied, " I can blow off everything whatever there is on earth." (Kena-3-9).

That Being placed before god of air Vayu Deva a blade of grass saying, "Blow it off." The god of air Vayu Deva went towards it with all speed but could not blow it off. God of air Vayu Deva returned back to other gods and said, " I have not been able to find out what this Spirit Being is." (Kena-3-10).

(6) Brahman Humbled Indra

The gods Devas said to god Indra (Zeus, Jupiter) "O Maghavan, find this out what this Spirit is." "Yes," said god Indra-Jupiter-Zeush. India-Zeus-Jupiter hastened towards that Spirit Being. But that Spirit Being disappeared from Indra Zeus Jupiter. (Kena-3-11).

(7) Goddess Uma Taught God Indra Zeus

God Indra Zeus began to meditate at that spot. Then manifested the Goddess Uma, the wife of Shiva Dionysus. When in the same region of the sky, he (Indra) came across a lady, most beautiful, Uma, the daughter of Himavat, and said to her, "What is this spirit?"

This legend that UMA, the daughter of the Himalayas revealed the mystic idealism of the Upanishads to the gods in an imaginative expression of the truth that the thought of the Upanishads was developed by the forest dwellers in the mountain fastness of the Himalayas.

Goddess Uma is BAHU-SOBHAMANAM means most beautiful. Uma is the wisdom personified. Wisdom is the most beautiful of all beautiful things. Beauty is the expression of inward purity. Sins leave a scar on the soul or otherwise disfigure it. Uma is the wisdom that dispels Indra's ignorance.

(8) Knowledge of Brahman made Zeus Jupiter Apollo Indra, Agni Vayu Great gods

Kena Upanishad argues that the Knowledge of Brahman is the Ground of Superiority Among gods Devas that made god Indra Zeus the King of gods.

(9) Knowledge of Brahman Gave Victory

Goddess Uma revealed, "This is Brahman, to be sure, and in the victory of Brahman, indeed do you glory thus." Then only did he (Indra) know that it was Brahman. (Kena-4-1)

Uma said to Indra Zeus Jupiter: That (venerable Being) was the Supreme Brahman. It is the power of Brahman, which brought victory to you, and to deva. However, you vainly appropriated the glory to yourselves. On hearing these words of Uma, Indra was convinced that it was (the power) of Brahman (which brought victory to the Deva). (Kena-4-1).

The object of the story is to illustrate the superiority of Brahman to all the manifestations including the divine ones. Brahman here is Isvara or personal God who governs the Universe.

(10).Agni Vayu Indra are superior

Therefore these gods, Agni, Vayu and Indra, surpass greatly other gods. For they it was they that touched Brahman closest. For they indeed for the first time knew (it was) Brahman. (Kena-4-2)

This is how, Agni, Vayu and Indra became the foremost among the Devas. It is only they who came in contact with Brahman, they knew it directly.

(11).Indra is King of Deva

Therefore, god Zeus Indra surpasses greatly over other gods. Zeus-Indra indeed has come into close contact with Brahman. Zeus-Indra indeed for the first time knew that Being Spirit was Brahman. (Kena-4-3).

Of all these gods, the case of god Zeus Indra Jupiter is special, for Zeus Indra not only came in direct contact with Brahman, he realized it intimately.

Of the three gods Mithra-Agni, Vayu and Zeus-Indra, Indra-Zeus obtained the knowledge that it was Brahman through the grace of Goddess Uma. God Zeus Indra learnt through Goddess that Absolute God Brahman is the Supreme Being through whose power alone the Gods enjoy greatness.

Kena Upanishad disagrees with the beliefs of monotheist religions, the religions of Islam and Judaism that Supreme God does not share its powers with any one else. Demi-gods Devas are a spiritual reality and they get their powers from the Supreme God directly and they are subordinate to God.

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(0)(22) Derveni Papyrus of Orphism describes Religion of Gospel of Judas

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(1) Orphism

Orphism believed that man's salvation depended on his knowledge of the truth. The book contains a philosophical treatise on a lost poem describing the birth of the gods and other beliefs focusing on Orpheus, the mythical musician who visited the underworld to reclaim his dead love and enjoyed a strong cult following in the ancient world. Derveni Papyrus is a philosophical treatise on ancient faith that is Europe's oldest surviving manuscript. The Orpheus cult revolved around the soul's fate after death. It raised the notion of a single creator god, as opposed to the multitude of deities the ancient Greeks believed in, and influenced later monotheistic faiths. ''In a way, it was a precursor of Christianity. In about 450 BC

(2) Anaxagoras

Anaxagoras was imprisoned for claiming that the Sun was not a god and that the Moon reflected the Sun's light. As to the structure of matter, Anaxagoras postulated an infinite number of elements, or basic building blocks. He claimed there is a portion of every thing that is of every elemental stuff in every thing, but each is and was most manifestly those things of which there is most in it. However, it was the power of Nous or Mind that not only created the world but also was the driving force in its day-to-day processes. For example, the growth of living things, according to Anaxagoras, depends on the power of mind within the organisms that enables them to extract nourishment from surrounding substances. Aristotle both found much to praise in Anaxagoras' theory of Nous (Mind). Both Plato and Aristotle, however, were critical of the fact that the driving force of the Nous (Mind) as proposed by Anaxagoras was not ethical.

The burnt remains of a 2,400-year-old scroll buried with an ancient Greek nobleman may help unlock the secrets of early monotheistic religion, using new digital technology. A team of U.S., British and Greek experts is working on a new reading of the enigmatic Derveni papyrus, a philosophical treatise on ancient faith that is Europe's oldest surviving manuscript. More than four decades after the papyrus was found in a grave in northern Greece, researchers said Thursday they are close to uncovering new text from the blackened fragments left after the scroll was burned on its owner's funeral pyre. Large sections of the mid-4th century B.C. document, a philosophical treatise on religion written in ancient Greek were read by scholars years ago. But now, archaeologist Polyxeni Veleni believes US imaging and scanning techniques used to decipher the Judas Gospel, which portrays Judas not as a sinister betrayer but as Jesus' confidant, will considerably expand and clarify that text. ''I believe some 10-20 percent of new text will be added, which however will be of crucial importance,'' said Veleni, director of the Thessaloniki Archaeological Museum, where the manuscript is kept. ''This will fill in many gaps. We will get a better understanding of the sequence and the existing text will become more complete,'' Veleni told. The scroll, originally several meters (yards) of papyrus rolled around two wooden runners, was found in 1962. It dates to around 340 B.C., during the reign of Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great. ''It is the oldest surviving book, if you can use that word for a scroll, in Western tradition,'' Veleni said. ''This was a unique find, of exceptional importance.'' Greek philosophy expert Apostolos Pierris said the text may be a century older, ''It was probably written by somebody from the circle of the philosopher Anaxagoras, in the second half of the 5th century B.C.'' Anaxagoras, who lived in ancient Athens, is thought to have been the teacher of Socrates and was accused by his contemporaries of atheism. Last month, experts from Brigham Young University in Utah used multi-spectral digital analysis to create enhanced pictures of the text, which will be studied by Oxford University papyrologist Dirk Obbink and Pierris, and published by the end of 2007. A separate, Greek team is also working to produce a new edition by the end of 2006.

''Scholars were now able to read even the most carbonized sections, as there were pieces that were completely blackened and nobody could make out whether there were letters on them.'' The manuscript was thrown onto the funeral pyre that consumed its owner, and laid with his ashes in the grave. ''The fire actually saved it, as the papyrus would have been rotted away by damp if not burned,'' Greek papyrologist expert George Karamanolis said. The book contains a philosophical treatise on a lost poem describing the birth of the gods and other beliefs focusing on Orpheus, the mythical musician who visited the underworld to reclaim his dead love and enjoyed a strong cult following in the ancient world. Ancient legends tell how Orpheus, who could charm wild beasts with his lyre, met a brutal end at the hands of an outraged band of Thracian women who resented his fidelity to his lost sweetheart, Eurydice, and tore him to shreds and threw the remains into a river. The Orpheus cult revolved around the soul's fate after death. It raised the notion of a single creator god _ as opposed to the multitude of deities the ancient Greeks believed in _ and influenced later monotheistic faiths. ''In a way, it was a precursor of Christianity,'' Pierris said. ''Orphism believed that man's salvation depended on his knowledge of the truth.'' Veleni said the manuscript ''will help show the influence of Orphism on later monotheistic religions.'' The scroll's remains _ about 200 charred scraps are currently kept in the museum's storerooms sandwiched between glass panels. The Derveni grave, about five miles northwest of Thessaloniki, was part of a rich cemetery belonging to the ancient city of Lete. ''It belonged to a very rich man, a Macedonian nobleman, warrior and athlete who had a lot of very important and valuable artifacts in his grave.'' Finds included metal vases, a gold wreath and weapons.

(3) Anaxagoras of Clazomenae

Anaxagoras: Anaxagoras was Born in 499 BC in Clazomenae, 30 km west of Izmir, Lydia (now Turkey), and Died: 428 BC in Lampsacus, Mysia now Turkey. Proclus, the last major Greek philosopher, who lived around 450 AD, described Anaxagoras of Clazomenae. After philosopher Pythagoras, philosopher Anaxagoras of Clazomenae dealt with many questions in geometry. Anaxagoras was an Ionian, born in the neighborhood of Smyrna in what today is Turkey. We know few details of his early life, but certainly he lived the first part of his life in Ionia where he learnt about the new studies that were taking place there in philosophy and the new found enthusiasm for a scientific study of the world. He came from a rich family but he gave up his wealth. As Heath writes “He neglected his possessions, which were considerable, in order to devote himself to science.

Although Ionia had produced philosophers such as Pythagoras, up to the time of Anaxagoras this new study of knowledge had not spread to Athens. Anaxagoras is famed as the first to introduce philosophy to the Athenians when he moved there in about 480 BC. During Anaxagoras’ stay in Athens, Pericles rose to power. Pericles, who was about five years younger than Anaxagoras, was a military and political leader who was successful in both developing democracy and building an empire that made Athens the political and cultural center of Greece. Anaxagoras and Pericles became friends but this friendship had its drawbacks since Pericles' political opponents also set themselves against Anaxagoras. In about 450 BC Anaxagoras was imprisoned for claiming that the Sun was not a god and that the Moon reflected the Sun's light. This seems to have been instigated by opponents of Pericles. Russell writes: The citizens of Athens passed a law permitting impeachment of those who did not practice religion and taught theories about 'the things on high'. Under this law they persecuted Anaxagoras, who was accused of teaching that the sun was a red-hot stone and the moon was earth.

We should examine this teaching of Anaxagoras about the sun more closely for, although it was used as a reason to put him in prison, it is a most remarkable teaching. It was based on his doctrine of "Nous (Mind)" which is translated as "mind" or "reason". Initially "all things were together" and matter was some homogeneous mixture. The Nous (Mind) set up a vortex in this mixture. The rotation began in the center and then gradually spread, taking in wider and wider circles. The first effect was to separate two great masses, one consisting of the rare, hot, dry, called the "aether", the other of the opposite categories and called "air". The aether took the outer, the air the inner place. From the air were next separated clouds, water, earth and stones. The dense, the moist, the dark and cold, and all the heaviest things, collected in the center as a result of the circular motion, and it was from these elements when consolidated that the earth was formed; but after this, in consequence of the violence of the whirling motion, the surrounding fiery aether tore stones away from the earth and kindled them into stars. There are remarkable insights in this description. The idea of differentiation of matter, which plays a large role in modern theories of creation of the solar system, is present. Anaxagoras also shows an understanding of centrifugal force, which again shows the major scientific insights that he possessed.

Anaxagoras proposed that the moon shines by reflected light from the "red-hot stone" which was the sun, the first such recorded claim. Showing great genius he was also then able to take the next step and become the first to explain correctly the reason for eclipses of the sun and moon. His explanation of eclipses of the sun is completely correct but he did spoil his explanation of eclipses of the moon by proposing that in addition to being caused by the shadow of the earth, there were other dark bodies between the earth and the moon, which also caused eclipses of the moon. It is a little unclear why he felt it necessary to postulate the existence of these bodies but it does not detract from this major breakthrough in mathematical astronomy. There is also other evidence to suggest that Anaxagoras had applied geometry to the study of astronomy.

As to the structure of matter, Anaxagoras postulated an infinite number of elements, or basic building blocks. He claimed, there is a portion of every thing that is, of every elemental stuff in every thing, but each is and was most manifestly those things of which there is most in it. However, it was the power of Nous (Mind), or mind, that not only created the world but also was the driving force in its day-to-day processes. For example, the growth of living things, according to Anaxagoras, depends on the power of mind within the organisms that enables them to extract nourishment from surrounding substances.

Aristotle both found much to praise in Anaxagoras’ theory of Nous (Mind). Both Plato and Aristotle, however, were critical of the fact that the driving force of the Nous (Mind) as proposed by Anaxagoras was not ethical. They wanted Nous (Mind) to always act in the best interests of the world. In fact the Nous (Mind) of Anaxagoras does provide a mechanical explanation of the world after the non-mechanical start when the vortex is produced. It is worth noting that Newton's mechanical universe would have more in common with Anaxagoras’ views than the continuing ethical intelligence proposed by Plato and Aristotle. We can obtain some clues to the mathematics that Anaxagoras studied but, unfortunately, very little remains in the records to allow us to know of definite results which he may have proved. While in prison he tried to solve the problem of squaring the circle that is constructing with ruler and compasses a square with area equal to that of a given circle. This is the first record of this problem being studied and this problem, and other similar problems, was to play a major role in the development of Greek mathematics.

One other intriguing piece of information comes from the writing of Vitruvius, a Roman architect, engineer, and author who lived in the first century BC. He records information about the painting of stage scenes for the plays that were performed in Athens and says that Anaxagoras wrote a treatise on how to paint scenes so that some objects appeared to be in the foreground while other appeared in the background. This fascinating comment must mean that Anaxagoras wrote a treatise on perspective, but sadly no such work survives. Anaxagoras was saved from prison by Pericles but had to leave Athens. He returned to Ionia where he founded a school at Lampsacus. This Greek city on the Asiatic shore of the Hellespont was the place for the worship of Priapus, a god of procreation and fertility. Anaxagoras died there and the anniversary of his death became a holiday for schoolchildren. The best that we can hope to learn of Anaxagoras’ personality is from the story that when once asked what as the point of being born he replied - The investigation of sun. moon, and heaven. Even if this story is fictitious, it is likely to be based on the way that Anaxagoras lived his life and so tells us something of the personality of this remarkable scientist who gave a description of the creation of the solar system that took 2000 years to improve upon.

(4) Quotations by Anaxagoras.

There is no smallest among the small and no largest among the large, But always something still smaller and something still larger. Quoted in E Maor, To Infinity and Beyond: a Cultural History of the Infinite The descent to Hades is the same from every place. Quoted in Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

(5) Derveni Papyrus

The burnt remains of a 2,400-year-old scroll buried with an ancient Greek nobleman may help unlock the secrets of early monotheistic religion, using new digital technology. "I believe some 10-20 percent of new text will be added, which however will be of crucial importance." "This will fill in many gaps. We will get a better understanding of the sequence and the existing text will become more complete," The scroll, originally several yards of papyrus rolled around two wooden runners, was found in 1962. It dates to around 340 B.C., during the reign of Philip II of Macedon, father of Alexander the Great. "It is the oldest surviving book, if you can use that word for a scroll, in Western tradition" This was a unique find, of exceptional importance." "It was probably written by somebody from the circle of the philosopher Anaxagoras, in the second half of the 5th century B.C." Anaxagoras, who lived in ancient Athens, is thought to have been the teacher of Socrates and was accused by his contemporaries of atheism.

Carbonized sections, as there were pieces that were completely blackened and nobody could make out whether there were letters on them. The manuscript was thrown onto the funeral pyre that consumed its owner, and laid with his ashes. "The fire actually saved it, as the papyrus would have been rotted away by damp if not burned."

The book contains a philosophical treatise on a lost poem describing the birth of the gods and other beliefs focusing on Orpheus, the mythical musician who visited the underworld to reclaim his dead love and enjoyed a strong cult following in the ancient world. Ancient legends tell how Orpheus, who could charm wild beasts with his lyre, met a brutal end at the hands of an outraged band of Thracian women who resented his fidelity to his lost sweetheart, Eurydice, and tore him to shreds and threw the remains into a river. The Orpheus cult revolved around the soul's fate after death. It raised the notion of a single creator god — as opposed to the multitude of deities the ancient Greeks believed in — and influenced later monotheistic faiths. Orpheus cult in a way, it was a precursor of Christianity." Orphism believed that man's salvation depended on his knowledge of the truth." Derveni papyrus manuscript will help show the influence of Orphism on later monotheistic religions." The scroll's remains, about 200 charred scraps, are currently kept in the museum's storerooms, and sandwiched between glass panels. The Derveni grave, about five miles northwest of Thessaloniki, was part of a rich cemetery belonging to the ancient city of Lete.

''We were now able to read even the most carbonized sections, as there were pieces that were completely blackened and nobody could make out whether there were letters on them.'' The manuscript was thrown onto the funeral pyre that consumed its owner, and laid with his ashes in the grave. ''The fire actually saved it, as the papyrus would have been rotted away by damp if not burned.'' The book contains a philosophical treatise on a lost poem describing the birth of the gods and other beliefs focusing on Orpheus, the mythical musician who visited the underworld to reclaim his dead love and enjoyed a strong cult following in the ancient world. Ancient legends tell how Orpheus, who could charm wild beasts with his lyre, met a brutal end at the hands of an outraged band of Thracian women who resented his fidelity to his lost sweetheart, Eurydice, and tore him to shreds and threw the remains into a river. The Orpheus cult revolved around the soul's fate after death. It raised the notion of a single creator god, as opposed to the multitude of deities the ancient Greeks believed in and influenced later monotheistic faiths. ''In a way, it was a precursor of Christianity,'' Pierris said. ''Orphism believed that man's salvation depended on his knowledge of the truth.''

Greek philosopher of nature remembered for his cosmology and for his discovery of the true cause of eclipses. He was associated with the Athenian statesman Pericles. About 480 Anaxagoras moved to Athens, then becoming the center of Greek culture, and brought from Ionia the new practice of philosophy and the spirit of scientific inquiry. After 30 years' residence in Athens, he was prosecuted on a charge of impiety for asserting that the Sun is an incandescent stone somewhat larger than the region of the Peloponnese. The attack on him was intended as an indirect blow at Pericles, and, although Pericles managed to save him, Anaxagoras was compelled to leave Athens. He spent his last years in retirement at Lampsacus.

(6) Doctrine of Anaxagoras

Only a few fragments of Anaxagoras' writings have been preserved, and several different interpretations of his work have been made. The basic features, however, are clear. His cosmology grows out of the efforts of earlier Greek thinkers who had tried to explain the physical universe by an assumption of a single fundamental element. Parmenides, however, asserted that such an assumption could not account for movement and change, and, whereas Empedocles sought to resolve this difficulty by positing four basic ingredients, Anaxagoras posited an infinite number. Unlike his predecessors, who had chosen such elements as heat or water as the basic substance, Anaxagoras included those found in living bodies, such as flesh, bone, bark, and leaf. Otherwise, he asked, how could flesh come from what is not flesh? He also accounted for biological changes, in which substances appear under new manifestations: as men eat and drink, flesh, bone, and hair grow. In order to explain the great amount and diversity of change, he said that, "there is a portion of every thing, i.e., of every elemental stuff, in every thing," but "each is and was most manifestly those things of which there is most in it."

The most original aspect of Anaxagoras' system was his doctrine of nous ("mind," or "reason"). The cosmos was formed by mind in two stages: first, by a revolving and mixing process that still continues; and, second, by the development of living things. In the first, all of "the dark" came together to form the night the fluid came together to form the oceans, and so on with other elements. The same process of attraction of "like to like" occurred in the second stage, when flesh and other elements were brought together by mind in large amounts. This stage took place by means of animal and plant seeds inherent in the original mixture. The growth of living things, according to Anaxagoras, depends on the power of mind within the organisms that enables them to extract nourishment from surrounding substances. For this concept of mind, Anaxagoras commented upon by Aristotle. Both Plato and Aristotle, however, objected that his notion of mind did not include a view that mind acts ethically that is acts for the "best interests" of the universe.

Philosopher Anaxagoras (500 BC- 428 BC) argued that change in matter does not occur, even though it appears to. Anaxagoras assumed that all things are made up of an immense number of tiny seeds of different kinds of matter. These seeds never change, but they exist mixed together in different combinations. Apparent changes in matter are simply recombination of the changeless seeds. For these recombination to occur, motion is needed. Anaxagoras believed that a force in the universe called Mind moves the seeds. Anaxagoras was the first Greek philosopher to use Mind to explain the moving force in the world. Anaxagors was born in Asia Minor and taught in Athens for 30 years. His single surviving philosophy book also includes ideas on astronomy, meteorology and biology. Anaxagoras held that an all-pervading Nous (World-Mind) ordered the physical world by combining particles from the undifferentiated mass of the Universe.

(7) Philosopher Socrates (469 BC-399 BC)

Philosopher Socrates (469 BC-399 BC) was born and lived in Athens. Socrates theory of Forms, tried to identify the quality in an object or idea that remains constant and unchangeable. Socrates taught by showing listeners how inadequate their answers were. Athenians were angry because of his unorthodox views on religion. Socrates made enemies among influential Athenians. Socrates was brought to trial, charged with corrupting the young and showing disrespect for religious traditions. Socrates defended himself by stating that clear knowledge of truth is essential for the correct conduct of life. Action equals knowledge. Thus virtue can be taught because correct action involves thought. Socrates implied that rulers should be men who know how to rule, not necessarily those who have been elected. The Athenian jury found Socrates guilty and sentenced him to death. Socrates carried out the sentence by calmly drinking a cup of hemlock poison. Socrates showed people that many things they assumed to be true were false.

(8) Socrates Dialectics.

Socrates believed that the correct method of discovering the common characteristics was by inductive means that is, by reasoning from particular facts to a general idea. This process took the form of dialectic (philosophic) conversation, which became known as Socrates Method, and later on adopted by Philosopher Hegel and became known as Hegelian dialectic. In Socrates dialectic two or more people would begin a definition of some key term, the conversation first showed that their assumptions were different, and then showed that the assumptions were inadequate to claim true knowledge. In this way, Socrates dialectic proceeded from less adequate to more adequate definitions. Dialectic proceeded from less adequate to more adequate definitions. Dialectic progressed from definitions that applied from only a few particular examples to universal definition that applied to all examples. Although, dialectic may often reach no satisfactory conclusion, its goal is always the same – to gain a true and universal definition. Dialectic showed Athenians that many things they assumed to be true were false. Socrates equated virtue with the knowledge of one’s true Self. Socrates looked upon the Soul as the seat of both waking consciousness and moral character and held the universe to be purposely mind-ordered. In 399 BC Socrates was tried for corrupting the morals of the Athenian youth and for religious heresies.

(9) Orphism – Orphic Mysteries

Orphism is a religious cult of ancient Greece, ascribed to Orpheus. The Orphic affirmed the divine origin of the Soul, but also the dual aspect of human nature as good and evil. Orphism believed that through initiation into the Orphic mysteries and through the process of transmigration, the Soul could be liberated from its inheritance of evil and achieves eternal blessedness. Orpheus in Greek mythology was a Thracian musician, son of the muse Calliope by Apollo or by Oeagrus, a king of Thrace. Orpheus married the nymph Eurydice and when he died he descended into the Hades to search for her. Orpheus was allowed to return with Eurydice on condition that he not look back at her, but he disobeyed and lost here forever. Orpheus worshipped Apollo above Dionysus, and Dionysus caused Thracian women to tear him to pieces.

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Gospel of Judas tells Why Were Socrates Jesus Gnostics Murdered for What? (20) Kalki Gaur
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(1) Absolute God Higher than god Zeus Yahweh Apollo - Derveni Papyrus- Anaxagoras

One. The Creator god is a Junior God. Even Zeus and Yahweh did not know the nature of Real Absolute God. Philosophers are better qualified that priests to interpret ancient scriptures and define the concept of God. Socrates was poisoned and Jesus crucified because they made two fundamental challenges to the contemporary religious structure. Firstly, Socrates and Jesus argued that the God that Created the universe, the Creator god is a junior god and much weaker god than the Absolute god of the Universe. Secondly, Socrates and Jesus argued that even God Zeus, Ossir (Asur), Apollo, Mithra and Yahweh did not know the identity of the absolute God Brahman. Thirdly, Socrates and Jesus challenged the competence of the priests and clergy to control the interpretation of the Scripture and interpretation of the conception of God.

Two. Socrates and Jesus were murdered because they challenged the earlier concept that Creator God is the Supreme God. Socrates and Jesus were murdered because they challenged the earlier concept that even god Zeus, Yahweh, Apollo and Mithra did not know the nature and conception of Almighty Absolute Brahman, the Being that created all these gods. Socrates and Jesus were murdered because they challenged the earlier concept that the Absolute God resides in the heart of every living being as Atma Soul. The Kingdom of God is inside your heart that undermined the income potential of the priests of Athens and Jerusalem, because it would allow people to directly approach the divine without paying gifts to the Temple, Church or Priests. Socrates and Jesus were murdered because they challenged the earlier concept that patriarchal monotheist god Yahweh was in fact junior small gods much inferior to the Absolute God Brahman. Socrates and Jesus were murdered because they challenged the earlier concept that male gods had greater knowledge than female goddess. Both Socrates and Jesus believed that female goddess was more powerful and more knowledgeable. Jesus was murdered because Jesus told Jews that Yahweh was a very junior god and there are gods much higher and much more powerful than god Yahweh. Socrates was murdered because he told them that there was a god much higher and much more powerful than the gods that Athenian worshipped.

(2) Zeus Yahweh Mithra did not know Absolute God Brahman- Kena Upanishad

Socrates and Jesus had borrowed these concepts from Hindu Upanishad Kena Upanishad. Kena Upanishad describes that God Zeus, God Mithra and god Apollo became arrogant and thought that they had the power because of their own merit and that there was no god higher than them. Absolute God emerged in front of them as a Being and asked every one of them to apply all their powers to affect a small blade of grass that he placed in front of these gods. God of fire Mithra Surya Agni could not burn that small blade of grass. The God of Air could not blow away that small blade of grass. The god Zeus even could not see the blade of grass and that being disappeared. Then Goddess emerged and taught God Zeus about the secrets of Absolute God Brahman, who allotted to these gods the powers they claimed they were born with and he could take away these powers whenever he wanted. Kena Upanishad established that Goddess gave the knowledge of Absolute God to the male gods.

(3) Creator God is a Junior God

The concept that Creator God is much junior to other Gods is borrowed from Hindu Puranas. There emerged a rivalry between three highest gods of Hindu Trinity, god Vishnu-the sustainer, god Brahma –the creator and god Shiva – the destroyer. There emerged a Great Shiva Linga that encompassed from one part of the universe to another part, and it was decided that if Creator god Brahma or god of sustainer Vishnu could find either end then he would be recognized as the senior most god of the Trinity. Creator God Brahma faked that he had seen the upper most edge of the Linga and for this one of his five heads cut off by Shiva in anger. It established once for all that the Creator god is junior to other gods. The consistent theme of Jesus of Nazareth and Gnostic Gospel is that the Creator god is a Junior God than to the Superior God that resides in the heart of every man as Kingdom of god resides in the heat of a man.

(4) Socrates Jesus taught higher Almighty Immanent God

Jesus followed the example of Socrates by deciding not to run away from the looming death but to court death gracefully to fully expose the fallacy of the dominant priest class and the fallacy of the dominant religions and gods of their times. Socrates and Jesus were killed because they both had direct understanding of the real higher god than what was known to the ruling priest class of their times. Throughout history rulers used swords to impose their local god as the monotheist iconoclast god to ruthlessly destroy the worship of other gods and goddess. Throughout history philosophers have challenged the claims of iconoclast monotheist religions that its iconoclast monotheist god is the only true god and other gods are either false gods or no gods at all. Throughout history philosophers have claimed that the philosophers are better trained than priests, to interpret Scripture and study Religions and religious doctrines. Socrates was poisoned at the orders of the city of Athens, because he taught them that philosophers better trained to interpret god religion and scriptures. Socrates challenged that gods that Athenian worshipped were not the highest god, and there are higher gods than what Athenians worshipped. Jews murdered Jesus of Nazareth and his brother Apostle James the Just, because Jesus and James claimed that the Jews’ god Yahweh is not the highest god and the iconoclast monotheist belief of Jews that Yahweh is the only true god is wrong and that one can directly reach divine without the intermediacy of the Jewish priests. Orthodox Church and Catholic Church burnt Gnostics, Marcionists and burnt the library of Athens and all ancient knowledge of Greece, Egypt and Rome because it claimed that there are higher gods than what Catholic and Orthodox Church believed in and that one can directly approach the Divine without the intermediacy Christian clergy. Jesus of Nazareth and Apostle James the Just chose to follow the example of Socrates that only by becoming the martyr at the hands of the cruel Clergy that promoted false religion and false gods as the only god of its time could the rule of clergy end in the civilized world. The death of Socrates resulted in the decline of the powerful Athenian clergy and priest class and Athenians came to worship new gods. The Jewish priesthood had been centralized in the Temple at Jerusalem since the 10th century BC, for over 1000 years, before the Temple at Jerusalem destroyed by Romans in AD 70, just 8 years after Chief Rabbi of Jews in Jerusalem had stoned to death Apostle James the Just the brother of Jesus of Nazareth and his entire congregation in Jerusalem in 62 AD. The destruction of Gnostic Church, Gnostic gospels in the Middle East at the hands of the Orthodox and Catholic Church resulted in the eradication of Christianity from Mediterranean North Africa. The Orthodoxy-Catholics Great Schism resulted in the destruction of the Byzantine Eastern Christian Civilization. Murder of Jesus destroyed the political future of Jews in Jerusalem, just as the murder of Socrates sealed the fate of the Athenian priest class. Murder of Gnostic Christians sealed the fate of Christianity in the Mediterranean Africa and Asia Minor. Demonstrations against Da Vinci Code book and movie might also cause grievous damage to Catholic Church, Orthodox Church, Judaism and Wahhabi Islam.

(5) Faulty concept of God in Iconoclast Patriarchal Monotheism

Jesus of Nazareth and apostle James the Just were murdered because they challenged the faulty Judaic claims that their god Yahweh is the only true god and all other gods are either false gods or not god at all. Jesus and James were murdered because their conception of god was just opposite to the Jewish conception of patriarchal monotheism. The present day monotheism accepts the existence of three monotheist gods, three monotheist true scriptures and three monotheist religions, so even today they accept Trinitarian monotheism and it so happened in 2000 years. Even hardcore monotheist accepts that there are presently three monotheist religions in the world, namely, Judaism, Catholicism and Islam. Monotheism cannot explain which one of the three monotheist gods, namely Yahweh, Holy Trinity and Allah is more powerful and superior to other two. If Monotheist Yahweh, Holy Trinity or Allah could accept the other two monotheist gods as gods, then why it should not also accept other gods of Hindus, Buddhists and Zoroastrians as gods also. The doctrine of Monotheism does not rule out the possibility that there could be infinite Monotheist religions, infinite monotheist scriptures and infinite monotheist gods, such as Judaism and Islam, Yahweh and Allah, Torah and Koran, and every one of these monotheist religions could claim that their monotheist religion is the only true religion and all other monotheist religions are false and that their monotheist god is a true god and all other monotheist gods are false gods or no gods at all. Then consequently, god is regarded as the one and only creator and only god. Monotheist Religions all worship personal god that is exclusive to them, and there cannot be three personal exclusive god in Middle East and all cannot claim to be monotheist religions and their religion only could claim to be true. To win the argument of victory of monotheism the three rival monotheist religions should go to war and destroy the other two monotheist religions and the winner only could claim to be the true monotheism.

(6) Socrates and Jesus contested the leadership of the Monotheist god

Universal monotheism implies not only faith in a single creative god but also faith in a god who is the uncontested master of history. It is wrong to believe that Monotheism is a later development in the history of religions than polytheism. It is not the oneness of god that counts in monotheism but its uniqueness. One god of monotheism is affirmed in Monotheism as an expression of divine might and power. The weakness of monotheism cannot answer the question regarding the origin of Evil or origin of Devil in a Universe under the government of one god. Monotheist religions falsely proclaim that monotheism is a self-evident axiom. Monotheism is the belief, in the existence of one god or that God is One. For monotheism there are two basically different realities: God and the Universe. The god of Monotheism, in Judaism and Islam is a personal god. Monotheistic conviction results in the rejection of all other belief systems as false religions and this rejection partly explains the exceptionally aggressive intolerant stance of the monotheistic religions in the history of the world. Monotheism’s depiction of all other religions as idolatry has often served to justify the destructive and fanatical action of the religion considered being only true religion. The monotheistic conception of god differs essentially only in one respect from that of other religions: in the belief that god is one and absolutely unique.

(7) Faulty concept of God in Exclusive Patriarchal Monotheism

Jesus of Nazareth and his twelve apostles rejected the concept of Judaic patriarchal monotheism. For exclusive monotheism only one god exists, other gods simply do not exist at all or at most they are false gods or demons. While in the Jewish Old Testament the other gods in most cases are still characterized as false gods, in later Judaism and Islam, monotheism argued that their god is on and only god and other gods are not considered to exist at all. Christianity does not believe in the Judaic and Islamic conception of god as exclusive monotheism. Judaism of Old Testament does not believe in the exclusive monotheism of later Judaism. For Islamic Monotheism Allah is the only god and Judaic Yahweh is a false god or not a god at all. For Jewish monotheism Yahweh is the only god and Islamic Allah is no god at all and at best a false god. For Christian monotheism Jewish god Yahweh as Islamic Allah are not gods at all and at best false gods. For Muslims that do not accept that Mohammed is the only prophet, and who believe that there could be other prophets there Allah is not the true god or at best a false god. For monotheist Wahhabi Islam Shiite Islam is a false religion. For monotheist Islam Judaism as well as Christianity is a false religion. For Muslim believers of Allah, the Jewish god Yahweh as well as Christian god Holy Trinity is a false god or not god at all and Jewish Old Testament and Christian Old Testament are both false scriptures and imperfect scriptures. Only one religion out of three supposedly Monotheist religions, namely, Judaism, Catholicism and Islam, only one monotheist religion could be called a true religion and other two rejected as false religions. Out of two monotheist religions, namely, Wahhabi Sunnism and Shiites Islam only one religion could be called True Religion and other condemned as false religion. For Jews of later Judaism the god of Old Testament is a false god. For Jews god of New Testament is a false god. For Jews Allah is a false god. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to identify, which two religions of the three monotheist religions, namely, Judaism, Catholicism and Islam, are false religions. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to identify, which two gods our of the three monotheist gods, namely Yahweh, Holy Trinity, are false or not true gods or not gods at all. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to identify, which one sect out of two Islamic sects, namely Sunni Islam or Shiite Islam is a false religion. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to identify, which two Christian sects out of three Christian sects – Orthodoxy, Roman Catholicism and Protestantism – are false religions. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to identify, which sect of Judaism out of numerous Judaic sects is a true religion and which ones of Judaic sects are false religions. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to identify, why Devil or Evil could take birth in a universe under management of one god. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism is a false doctrine as it fails to define the exact power of monotheist Devil compared to monotheist God. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to explain why it accepts the concept of monotheist Devil as immortal divine being while it rejected all other gods. Religious doctrine of exclusive monotheism fails to explain why Islamic Holy Koran cannot undergo periodic changes as happens in other monotheist religions such as Judaism and Catholicism. The uncompromising monotheism of Islam showed itself to be vulnerable, in the doctrine of Holy Koran as uncreated and coeval with Allah himself.

(8) Jewish Priest-Rule concept Adopted by Orthodox Catholic Christianity

Jewish leaders of Christian Church rejected eclectic religion of Jesus and Gnostic Christianity as it harmed the incomes of the Christian clergy by encouraging direct worship of the Divine bypassing the Church and Clergy. The Jewish leaders of the Early Christian Church led by Sadducees converted to Christianity engineered the coup in the 325 Council ordered by Emperor Constantine to monopolize over Christian clergy positions to the detriment of gentile Clergy, women clergy and Pharisees clergy to replicate the coup Levites of Aaron descent accomplished in the 7th Century BC, around 1000 years ago. Zadokites (Sadducees) conspired with Emperor Constantine and imposed Old Testament and imposed Jewish concept of organized priesthood on the lines of Roman Empire to impose by sword the written word of Old Testament over Christian laity even when it opposed the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth and 12 Apostles and other leaders of Christianity. Jews took over the leadership of Christian Church after 325 AD and used sword to maintain the Jewish leadership of the Christian Clergy and to impose the word of Jewish Old Testament over Christianity to profit by Jewish control over the property of Orthodox Church and Catholic Church. The Jewish leadership of Orthodox and Catholic Church conspired with the Damascus Jews and Jewish leadership of the Mecca’s Islam to impose Islam over the Gnostic Christian Syria, Egypt, Lebanon, Libya, Algeria and Tunisia to profit Damascus Jews by the loot of the property of Gnostic Christian Egypt and Christian Mediterranean Africa in 7th Century.

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