And in the Gnostic corner, dressed in white�
L M Leteane | Thursday October 23, 2014 16:33
The first clue is that James was a confirmed vegetarian – just as was John the Baptist although this was evidently later obscured to ‘locusts and wild honey’. (Matthew 3:4) Jesus appears to confirm this when he said “John came neither eating nor drinking and they said “he has a demon”; the ‘son of man’ came eating and drinking and they say “Behold, a gluttonous man and a drunkard”. (Matthew 11:18-19)” What this means, when duly decoded, is that before he became a Master, a Saviour, Jesus ate meat and drank wine whereas John had never. Logically, if James the Just was a vegetarian, and John the Baptist’s diet did not include meat, Jesus was likely to be the same. In any case, true Gnostic Masters are always vegetarian.
If so, why did Jesus – after three days – feed four thousand followers with just two fish and five loaves? (Matthew 15:32-38; 16:5-12). As with Gnostic terms like ‘resurrection’ and ‘casting out demons’, this was evidently misunderstood by later writers, and I explained the real meanings in prior articles. What we must understand is that, just as philologists have determined, with the possible exception of John’s gospel (explained below), the Synoptic Gospels (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John) were not written by the original disciples but a century later – after Jews were all but exterminated in AD 70 by Roman forces and few, if any, eyewitnesses remained.
In all likelihood, the five loaves and two fish represented the Seven Heavens whose doors are opened, one after the other, to the chela (initiated disciple) under the guidance of a Saviour.
Upon initiation, each and every chela is given his or her own ‘keys’ to the Seven Heavens – no matter the number initiated, and it is as food to the hungry Soul. However, as Jesus explained, no one is initiated unless the Father sees it fit. (John 6:44) These ‘lost sheep’ are instinctively drawn to the Saviour (John 10:25-27) and not a single one will be left behind. (John 10:28-29). Paul, on the other hand (see Galatians 2:7-9 and 1 Corinthians 9: 20-27), in direct contrast to Jesus and James the Just, used any means to draw everyone into his Church (note: ‘Gentile’ was a convenient code to refer to ‘outsiders’(the uninitiated) and ‘House of Israel’ meant ‘insiders’ (the initiated) – hence Jesus’ ‘uncharacteristic’ remarks in Matthew 15:24. Like all Gnostics, James and John viewed this world as ‘tainted’; that it is a testing ground from which one is to be saved.
They, like Jesus, expect the chela to remain unstained by the world (James 4:4, 1 John 4:4-6). James also subtly contrasted with Paul in that he emphasised doing (works) as opposed to Paul’s over-emphasis on belief alone.
What clues do we have that John was Gnostic? John is the only Gospel to speak of the Word in a way that it should be understood. Does the “The Word” in John 1 refer to a ‘holy book’? Does it refer to words that God uttered, His “unfailing words of advice and promise”? No. That is a bad translation. As Albert Einstein showed, everything in the universe – even matter – is just one entity: energy (the power to ‘do’ and ‘be’) and it can neither be created nor destroyed. Logically, then, it has neither beginning nor end. Energy if often seen as a wave motion; if motionless it is not energy – and waves are understood mainly in terms of ‘Sound’ and ‘Light’.
A few weeks ago, I explained how ‘Sound’ as in Plato’s Logos (Music of the Spheres), Guru Nanak’s Shabd (Audible Life Stream) , Buddha’s sacred ‘Ohm’ sound, Kabir Sahib’s Bang-I-Asmani (Sound from Heaven), etc. is the fabric, the substance, of everything while ‘the Light’ is Life (i.e. the sentience,, the self-awareness that makes up, and is, Life), as graphically exemplified by ‘brain waves’. Using the etymology-unlocking power of Setswana, I also explained how ‘Logos’ (akin to loga in Setswana: ‘[that which] weaves (i.e. seamlessly connects) everything’ – as in ‘logic’) was deliberately mistranslated to lo-hoko (Setswana: ‘the word’). Similarly, “the Light that is the Life of men” was changed to “the life (of Jesus) was the light of men”. An elegant thread spoken of by all Saviours was thus obscured to Christians.
By deliberately mistranslating the Greek term as, the plan was to conceal Jesus’ Gnostic teachings, along with ‘occult’ terms like ‘halo’ (Matt. 6:9), ‘Third Eye’ (Matt. 6:9; correctly called “Single Eye” in the King James Version), ‘Silver Cord’ (Matt. 19:23-4 : which must be unlike a kamal – Semitic for ‘thick rope’ – if the chela is to be able to thread it through The Eye when the time comes, and so on. But, as Setswana (a revealing protolanguage) shows, ocula (Latin: “of the Eye”) is of the same root as okola, okomela, ogle, goggle, etc. – reference to the Single Eye (the Door to Heaven) that peeps into what most do not see (i.e. into the Astral World, the first of Seven Invisible Heavens).
Another sign of tampering with the Gospels is that John 18:10 is the only one to identify Peter as the ‘hot-tempered one’ who cut off a protagonist’s ear (compare with Matthew 26:51, Mark 14:47, Luke 22:50), and also as the disciple who was intensely jealous of Mary Magdalene (John 21:20-23), ‘the disciple that Jesus loved’ (closely read John 19:25-27) – something only Gnostic Apocrypha like the Gospel of Phillip and the Gospel of Mary Magdalene reveal.
Last week, I spoke of simran, the secret name(s) that a chela is to repeat in meditation once initiated into the Path. Ultimately, Peter was the ‘[Black] Stone’ who wanted to bask as long as possible in the worldly glory he imagined that a Messiah will attract (Matt. 16:20-23) whereas John’s White Stone (Rev. 2:17) was, like simran, a name known only to, and reserved solely for, the chela.
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