Now when he was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, he answered them and said, “The kingdom of God does not come with observation; nor will they say, ‘See here! or, See there!’ For indeed, the kingdom of God is within you.” Luke 17-20-21 Holman Study Bible New King James Edition
This is a pivotal point. When Jesus walked among us, teaching all of us, including women, he taught us that the Light of God was WITHIN the hearts and minds of humanity. This was a popular and well-received teaching of Jesus, as demonstrated on Palm Sunday. It was so popular, in fact, that it made the religious and political hierarchies of the day nervous.
Jesus walked among humanity in more countries than modern bibles admit.
The book ,The CHRIST of INDIA, The Story of Original Christianity, by Abbot George Burke (also known as Swami Nirmalananda Giri), places those lost years of Jesus in India and Tibet, where he learned more about his Essene roots, which were part of his Jewish faith. Most of his followers, the twelve apostles (some of whom were his cousins) were Essenes.
It is said that Isaiah and John the Baptist were also Masters of the Essenes. Their purpose was to follow a totally esoteric religious philosophy and practice that was derived from the Egyptian Mysteries.
Remember, Joseph, Mary, and Jesus had to flee to Egypt shortly after he was born to avoid the egotistical wrath of King Herod who ordered that all baby boys under the age of two be killed. The family was familiar with the philosophy and practice that was derived from the Egyptian Mysteries.
Also, as the grandson of the Pharoah, Moses had been an initiate of those mysteries. This was nothing new to the Jewish people.
The Egyptian Mysteries originated from the religion of India. Apollonius of Tyana publicly debated the officials of the Egyptian religion who censured him for having studied in India and brought those teachings back to the Mediterranean world.
Abbot Burke says that because of this, the Essenes maintained contact and interchange with India, and is demonstrated by writings in the Zohar, a compilation of ancient Jewish mystical traditions and the major text of the Jewish Kabbalah, tapping into the Vedic religious rites of India.
Jesus was aware of these Jewish and Indian religious Braminical practices which were manifested in several ways with the Essenes:
- They practiced strict non-violence.
- They were absolute vegetarians and would not touch alcohol in any form. Nor would they eat any food cooked by a non-Essene. Edersheim says, “Its adherents would have perished of hunger rather than join in the meals of the outside world.”
- They refused to wear anything of animal origin, such as leather or wool, usually making their clothes of linen.
- They rejected animal sacrifice, insisting that the Torah had not originally ordered animal sacrifice, but that its text had been corrupted in regard to that and many other practices as well.
However, John the Baptist and Jesus elevated the importance of recognizing the Spark of Eternal Universal Life Force Energy WITHIN them, as being ONE with the I AM Presence, regardless of human rules and regulations.
For example, Psalms 50:13 says, “Will I eat the flesh of bulls, or drink the blood of goats?”
Isaiah 1:11 says, “To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? saith the Lord … I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of the goats.”
Jeremiah 7:22 says, “For I spoke not unto your fathers, nor commanded them in the day that I brought them out of the land of Egypt, concerning burnt offerings or sacrifices.”
The quotations from Isaiah and Jeremiah are particularly relevant since they were also themselves Masters of the Essenes, according to Abbot Burke.
Yes, Hosannah to God in the Highest, and Peace to all humanity of good will!
There is much more to explain about the entire life of Jesus, not just those first twelve years of his life, and those three years leading up to his crucifixion.
Jesus lived for eighteen more years in his travels through the ancient lands of ancient Babylon and Mesopotamia, now Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Kashmir, Tibet, and India.
Evidence of the travels of Jesus shows up in several books, including the well-known Islamic book of history, Rauzat-us-Safa in the Persian language, as mentioned in the book , JESUS IN INDIA, by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Admad of Qadian. This book maps Jesus’ travels.
There is a beautiful account of Jesus as a great traveler in the book mentioned above, wearing a woolen scarf on his head and a woolen cloak on his body, and carrying a walking stick in his hand as he went from place to place.
At night he would stay where he was, eating jungle vegetables and drinking jungle water, traversing the land by foot. It is said that his companions bought him a horse for his travel, which he rode for a day. But when he could not feed the horse, he returned it.
Preaching and teaching that the Light of God was WITHIN all humanity, Jesus discovered that there were rumors about him and his mother that simply were not correct. Still, Jesus miraculously healed people and performed other miracles.
It seems people always attack, diminish, or ridicule that which they do not understand, or have been indoctrinated against.
Jesus traveled 450 miles from Jerusalem to Mosul which is another 48 miles, to the frontier of Persia and Herat on the western frontier of Afghanistan, and up to the Khyber Pass on his journey to Kashmir.
This quest of Jesus was so he could find the Lost Sheep of Israel whom King Shalmaneser had taken prisoner. Not all Israelites returned when, according to Ezra 1:1-10-14, Cyrus the Great, King of Persia, and the Achaemenid Empire, said they could return. Not all of the Israelites trusted him after what they had already endured.
Cyrus was the monarch who ended the Babylonian captivity. In the first year of his reign, according to the bible, he was prompted by God to decree that the Temple in Jerusalem should be rebuilt and that Jews who wished to could return to their homeland for this purpose.
Numerous books and documents, including Buddhist documents, place Jesus in these locations. There is more to know than what religious censorship has allowed most of humanity to learn. There are countless similarities between the Buddha and Jesus.
In Nasibain, Afghanistan, the Punjab, Kashmir, and Tibet, Jesus was known as the “travelling prophet,” and “the leader of travelers,” on account of his very long journey. This book says Jesus was called Messiah because he wandered about. He was not merely a traveler, but a “chief of travelers.”
It is interesting to note that in the Encyclopedia of Geography, by James Bryce, F.G.S. (London, 1856), on page 11, it is stated that Afghans trace their genealogy to Saul, the Israelite King, and call themselves the descendants of Israel.
Likewise, in the book, History of Afghanistan, by Col. G. B. Malleson, published in London (1878), on page 39, it is stated that Abdullah Khan of Herat, the French traveler Friar John, and Sir William Jones agree that the Afghan people are descended from the Beni-Israel; they are descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes for whom Jesus was searching.
There is more history of Jesus than most Christian leaders want their populations to know. It is time to climb out from under the rock of adult censorship and discover all of what he has to share with us.
Namaste