Putin, Paul, and the 250,000 Sheep

The image above is not that of Sorcha Faal, but of Annie Besant (1847-1933), a remarkable pioneer feminist. What is now called “feminism” should not be confused with the true feminism of earlier times. Annie Besant was “proud of being Irish and supported the cause of Irish self-rule throughout her adult life,” an intimate friend of George Bernard Shaw, a prolific writer and a powerful orator. She was also an early leader of the Theosophical movement. (“Annie Besant,” Wikipedia, October 13, 2007. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_Besant)

In “Russia Counters Western Sacrifice To Gods Of War” (http://www.whatdoesitmean.com/index1040.htm), Sorcha Faal reports “a stunning esoteric move meant to counter the massive sacrifice to the Gods of War by the Western Powers.” Vladimir Putin has awarded Russia's top honor to a lowly shepherd, to thwart an occult blood sacrifice of 250,000 sheep. Ms. Faal also notes incidentally “the brutality inflicted upon mankind by the Roman Catholic Church and the Western Powers established under the false Christian doctrine of the usurper Paul.”

In her younger days, Annie Besant had protested against “Christian bigotry” which had “robbed me of my little child.” However Besant was nowise an atheist. On the contrary, anyone who has read her books knows Besant was profoundly well-read on spiritual matters. Edward Bouverie Pusey, leader of the Catholic wing of the Church of England, even warned Annie Besant that she had read too many books. (Wikipedia reference, op. cit.)

Apropos of Sorcha Faal's claim that St. Paul was a “usurper,” Annie Besant, in “Esoteric Christianity” (first published in 1901, ninth printing 1975, Theosophical Publishing House), shows that St. Paul represents a hidden, esoteric Christianity. St. Paul is therefore not a “usurper,” but in fact represents a deeper, truer Christianity.

Besant relies heavily on the ante-Nicene fathers to support her claim. In the time between the death of Jesus and the imposition of conformity by the Roman Emperor Constantine in 325 A.D., there was not a definite “approved” Christianity. The writings of the ante-Nicene fathers contain important amplifications on what Christianity actually is. Subsequent to the imposition of conformity in 325 A.D., Christianity was “dumbed down” for the masses. Christianity was vulgarized, but not by St. Paul. Christianity, after the Council of Niceae, descended into “so-called simplicity, so that the most ignorant might be able to grasp it.” (Besant, op. cit.)

“[W]e have S. Paul providing for the transmission of the unwritten teaching, himself initiating S. Timothy, and instructing S. Timothy to initiate others in his turn, who should again hand it on to yet others.” (Ibid.) Anyone who has studied spiritual matters knows how the deeper truths are never explicitly written, but are passed along orally. “Secret things are entrusted to speech, not to writing, as is the case with God.” (Ibid.)

“The first witnesses are those called the Apostolic Fathers, the disciples of the Apostles; but very little of their writings, and that disputed, remains.” (Ibid.) The Constantine Conformity suppressed all variant interpretations. (Besant recommends Clarke's Ante-Nicene Library, “a most useful compendium of Christian antiquity.”)

According to Besant, S. Clement of Alexandria and his pupil Origen are “the two writers of the second and third centuries who tell us most about the Mysteries in the Early Church.” (Ibid.)

Origen, “born about A.D. 185,” is “perhaps, the most learned of the Fathers, and a man of the rarest moral beauty.” (Ibid.)

St. Clement calls the common faith “the foundation, and sometimes milk.” On that foundation, the edifice was to be raised, “and the food of men was to succeed that of babes.” (Ibid.)

Origen “takes much pains to show that the Jewish and Christian scriptures have hidden meanings, veiled under stories the outer meaning of which repels them as absurd...” (Ibid.)

By the time of the fall of the Roman empire, even Christians “were caught up in the whirlpool of selfish warring interests. We still find scattered references to special knowledge imparted to the leaders and teachers of the Church, knowledge of the heavenly hierarchies, instructions given by angels, and so on. But the lack of suitable pupils caused the Mysteries to be withdrawn as an institution publicly known to exist, and teaching was given more and more secretly to those rarer and rarer souls, who by learning, purity and devotion showed themselves capable of receiving it.” (Ibid.)

In a chapter called “The Historical Christ,” Besant has Jesus born in Palestine in 105 B.C. His parents “were well-born though poor...” This could explain why the search for an historical Jesus has had difficulties: the search is looking in the wrong time-frame and ought to focus 100 years earlier.

The story of Jesus being born in a stable is a misunderstanding. “It is significantly said by some of the early Christian writers that Jesus was 'born in a cave' – the 'stable' of the gospel narrative; the 'Cave of Initiation' is a well-known ancient phrase...” (Ibid.)

Authorship of the Acts of the Apostles is attributed to the author of the Gospel of Luke by ancient Church tradition, who is a “fellow worker” of St. Paul. (Oxford Companion To The Bible, edited by Bruce M. Metzger and Michael D. Coogan). This means the author of Acts would have been an initiate close to St. Paul, if not a student of St. Paul. In Acts, “God” is “not far from each one of us, for 'In him we live and move and have our being.'” (17: 27-28). A simplified, “dumbed down” Christianity, conceives “God” as an old man with a beard. Subsequent to the Constantine Conformity, “as Christian teachers lost touch with spiritual truths, and they reflected their own increasing intolerance and harshness on the pure and loving Father of the teachings of the Christ, they represented Him as angry with man, and the Christ was made to save man from the wrath of God instead of from the bondage of evil.” (Besant, op. cit.) It is not St. Paul who is the “usurper,” but anthropomorphizing tendencies of vulgarized Christianity.

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