ROYAL PATRONAGE OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY ? ANGLICAN AND EPISCOPALIAN SUPPORT OF THE 'JESUS SEMINAR' GROUP'S BORG AND CROSSIN

March 30, 2003

--- Bhakti Ananda Goswami <bhakti.eohn

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ROYAL PATRONAGE OF THE THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY

> ? ANGLICAN AND EPISCOPALIAN SUPPORT OF THE 'JESUS

> SEMINAR' GROUP'S BORG AND CROSSIN

>

> THE BELOW IS ABOUT OCCULT THEOSOPHY AND MASONRY IN

> THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, THE AMERICAN EPISCOPAL

> CHURCH, AND HOW THESE ARE BACKING THE

> DE-CONSTRUCTIONIST 'GERMAN HIGHER CRITICISM'

> RELATED SCHOOL OF THE "JESUS SEMINAR" GROUP, AND THE

> ANTI-JUDEO-CATHOLIC CAMPAIGN OF MARCUS BORG AND J.D.

> CROSSIN.

>

> FOR DECADES I HAVE SAID THAT THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

> AND ITS AMERICAN OFF-SPRING, THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH,

> WERE ESOTERICALLY INVOLVED IN SPREADING THEOSOPHICAL

> AND MASONIC TEACHINGS IN AMERICA AND AROUND THE

> WORLD. I REPORTED THAT AT THE 'JESUS SEMINAR'

> 'JESUS AT 2000' CONFERENCE IN OREGON USA, I

> PERSONALLY WITNESSED MARCUS BORG, JOHN CROSSIN AND

> OTHER 'JESUS SEMINAR' LEADERS AND MEMBERS PROMOTING

> THEOSOPHICAL AND MASONIC-RELATED NEO-GNOSTIC NEW AGE

> TEACHINGS UNDER THE GUISE OF SO-CALLED 'HISTORICAL

> JESUS RESEARCH'. THE 'BACK-ROOM' AND OFF-THE-RECORD

> CONVERSATION OF THE 'SCHOLARS' AND 'RELIGIOUS

> LEADERS' AT THIS EVENT WAS PURELY 'NEW AGE' AND

> INCLUDED CREDULOUS SPECULATION ABOUT JESUS BEING

> BURIED IN INDIA (THE AHMADDIYA MUSLIM FRAUD), JESUS

> VISITING TIBET (NICHOLAS NOTOVITCH), JESUS BEING A

> THERAVADIN BUDDHIST (KERSTEN AND GRUBER), JESUS

> BEING A 'ESSENE' OF THE (BOGUS MODERN) ESSENE CULT

> (SZEKELY), JESUS BEING A SUFI (SUFI AND EGYPTIAN

> MASONRY), JESUS BEING A HINDU MONIST (BESANT'S

> THEOSOPHY), JESUS BEING A WOMAN, OR GAY, JESUS BEING

> A TANTRIC SOCIAL ANARCHIST WHO WOULD MARRY HIS GAY

> DISCIPLES, JESUS BEING THE LOVER OF MARY MAGDALENE,

> AD NAUSEAM. IT WAS BASICALLY OK TO SAY ANYTHING

> ABOUT JESUS AS LONG AS IT WAS NEW AGE, AN ESOTERIC

> TEACHING, AND NOT ANY KIND OF TRADITIONAL

> JUDEO-CATHOLIC 'DOCTRINE' REGARDING A TRANSCENDENT

> PERSONAL GOD OR A PERSONAL INCARNATING SAVIOR. IN

> FACT, JESUS WAS PORTRAYED AS A TEACHER OF HINDU

> IMPERSONALISM OR BUDDHIST VOIDISM BY ALL THE 'JESUS

> SEMINAR' MEMBERS THAT I HEARD SPEAK. BORG ET AL

> OUT-RIGHT DENIED THE EXISTENCE OF ANY TRANSCENDENT

> OR PERSONAL GOD, OR UNSEEN SPIRITUAL REALM AND

> MIRACLES, AND REDUCED JESUS TO A PUPPET MOUTH-PIECE

> FOR THEIR OWN SOCIAL AGENDA. THE WHOLE CONFERENCE

> WAS MOSTLY AN INTELLECTUAL ORGY OF

> ANTI-JUDEO-CATHOLICISM FOCUSED ON DECONSTRUCTING

> CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHRISTIANITY AS A POLITICALLY

> MOTIVATED INVENTION OF PAUL AND HIS CO-CONSPIRATORS.

> DISDAIN FOR THE GOD OF THE OLD TESTAMENT AND JEWS

> WAS PROMINENT, AS PARTICIPANTS BARELY SUCCEEDED AT

> MASKING OUT-RIGHT ANTI-SEMITISM AND HOSTILITY TO

> BIBLICAL MONOTHEISM.

>

> THEOSOPHY / ESOTERIC ATHEISM AS 'HIGHER WISDOM'

> PERVADED THE WHOLE THING AND OOZED FROM IT DESPITE

> THE PARTICIPANTS' ATTEMPTS TO PORTRAY THEMSELVES AS

> 'OBJECTIVE' RESEARCHISTS. RADICAL FEMINISM AND

> FEMINIST 'THEOLOGY' AND HATRED OF IMAGINED

> MONOTHEISTIC PATRIARCHY WAS THE UNDERLYING CURRENT

> OF THE EVENT. I WAITED THROUGH THE WHOLE THING TO

> HEAR ONE WORD ABOUT JESUS CHRIST THE GREAT PHYSICIAN

> RELATIVE TO THE HEALING SERAPH CULT AMONG THE JEWS

> AND ASCLEPIUS AMONG THE GREEKS (BALADEVA AS THE AYUR

> VEDIC CARAKA) , AND THE SUBJECT WAS NEVER TREATED

> ONCE ! SO OBVIOUSLY THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT INTERESTED

> IN THE REAL GENEALOGY OF JESUS CHRIST, WHO LIKE THE

> PLATONIC ASCLEPIUS WAS WORSHIPED AS THE SON OF GOD

> (HELI-OS / ELI-YAHU) 'TRUE GOD AND TRUE MAN'. THEY

> ARE ONLY INTERESTED IN THE JESUS OF THEIR OWN

> INVENTION, THE ONE OF THEIR FRAUDULENT 'SEARCH FOR

> THE HISTORICAL JESUS' THAT THEY CAN PRESS INTO THE

> SERVICE OF THEIR OWN ANTI-JUDEO-CATHOLIC

> SOCIO-POLITICAL AGENDA. THE SEMINAR WAS BILLED AS

> THE TOP EXPOSITION OF THE MOST RECENT FINDINGS

> REGARDING THE 'HISTORICAL JESUS'. TO OMIT ANY

> DISCUSSION OF ASCLEPIUS IN THE MATTER OF THE

> GENEALOGY OF JESUS IS AN INEXCUSABLE AND ASTOUNDING

> OMISSION. EITHER THE WHOLE 'JESUS SEMINAR'

> DISCIPLINE HAS UTTERLY FAILED TO SERIOUSLY LOOK AT

> THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT AREA OF EVIDENCE FOR THE

> GENEALOGY OF JESUS WORSHIP, OR THE JESUS SEMINAR

> MEMBERS WELL KNOW ABOUT THE ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF

> EVIDENCE FOR THE JESUS-ASCLEPIUS-CARAKA CONNECTION,

> AND THEY ARE PURPOSELY HIDING AND OBSCURING IT.

> ASCLEPIUS MUST BE THE STARTING PLACE FOR ANY SERIOUS

> DISCUSSION OF THE GENEALOGY OF THE WORSHIP OF JESUS

> CHRIST. HERE IS THE MOST CONCISE COLLECTION OF

> LITERARY AND INSCRIPTIONAL EVIDENCE REGARDING

> ASCLEPIUS (BUT NONE OF HIS CONNECTIONS) AVAILABLE.

> Asclepius: Collection and Interpretation of the

> Testimonies/Volumes I and II in One

> by Emma J. Edelstein, Ludwig Edelstein

> (Contributor), Gary Ferngren (Introduction)

>

> a.. Paperback: 747 pages ; Dimensions (in inches):

> 2.01 x 9.97 x 7.03

> a.. Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; Reprint

> edition (February 1998)

> a.. ISBN: 0801857694

>

> Ingram

> Legendary ancient Greek physician and healer god

> Asclepius was considered the foremost antagonist of

> Christ. Providing an overview of all facets of the

> Asclepius phenomenon, this work, first published in

> two volumes in 1945, comprises a unique collection

> of the literary references and inscriptions in

> ancient texts to Asclepius, his life, his deeds,

> cult, temples--with extended analysis thereof.

>

> IN EITHER CASE, THEY ARE DOING A GREAT DISSERVICE TO

> HUMANITY BY PROMOTING THEIR NON-ASCLEPIUS OR

> ANTI-ASCLEPIUS CENSORIOUS NON-SENSE AS THE TRUTH

> ABOUT THE 'HISTORICAL JESUS'. I SEARCHED BORG'S

> EGROUP SITE FOR REFERENCES TO ANY SERIOUS DISCUSSION

> ABOUT ASCLEPIUS AND THERE WAS NONE ! THEN WHEN I

> TRIED TO RAISE THE ISSUE OF ASCLEPIUS IN BORG'S

> 'JESUS SEMINAR' 'SEARCH FOR THE HISTORICAL JESUS'

> EGROUP, I WAS BANNED !!! WHAT ARE THEY AFRAID OF?

> THE TRUTH IS WHAT THEY ARE AFRAID OF. THEY REFUSE

> TO EVEN ADMIT THE EVIDENCE INTO THEIR COURT !!! AT

> THE END OF THEIR 'JESUS AT 2000' UNIVERSITY

> CONFERENCE, I STOOD UP AND CHALLENGED THEM ALL WITH

> A SERIES OF QUESTIONS, WHICH NONE OF THEM COULD OR

> WOULD ADDRESS. HOWEVER, AFTERWARDS THE GREAT

> HISTORIAN OF RELIGION HUSTON SMITH CAME UP TO ME AND

> GAVE ME A HUG AND EXPRESSED INTEREST IN MY

> QUESTIONS. I GAVE HIM SOME NOTES ON MY RESEARCH,

> AND LATER RECEIVED A NICE PERSONAL LETTER FROM HIM,

> IN WHICH HE EXPRESSED APPRECIATION FOR MY IDEAS.

>

> OF COURSE WHEN I REPORTED TO MY CONTACTS THAT THE

> 'JESUS AT 2000' UNIVERSITY SEMINAR WAS JUST ANOTHER

> EXERCISE IN COVERED THEOSOPHY, PEOPLE FOUND IT HARD

> TO BELIEVE. AT GREAT COST, THE SEMINAR WAS CARRIED

> LIVE BY SATELLITE TO COLLEGE AND UNIVERSITY CAMPUSES

> ALL OVER THE USA. THIS ENORMOUSLY EXPENSIVE

> COVERAGE WAS SPONSORED BY THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH !

> THE UNIVERSITY RECEIVED A LARGE ENDOWMENT FOR A

> CHAIR FOR BORG TO HEADQUARTER HIS 'SEARCH FOR THE

> HISTORICAL JESUS' MISSION, DISGUISED AS REAL

> OBJECTIVE SCHOLARSHIP, AT THE UNIVERSITY THERE. SO

> LIKE THE ROYAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THEOSOPHY (SEE

> BELOW) AND THE UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS HIJACKED BY

> THEOSOPHY IN CALIFORNIA AND AUSTRALIA AND

> GOD-KNOWS-ELSEWHERE, NOW OREGON HAS ITS OWN COVERED

> THEOSOPHICAL PROPAGANDA DEPARTMENT OPERATING OUT OF

> A MAJOR UNIVERSITY. THEOSOPHY BY ANY OTHER NAME IS

> STILL THEOSOPHY. WHAT ASTOUNDS ME IS THAT ANY

> UNIVERSITY CAN ALLOW THE TEACHING OF H.P.

> BLAVATSKY'S FRAUDULENT 'MAHATMAS' AS FACT IN THEIR

> CURRICULUM. TEACHING RELIGION OR ABOUT REAL

> RELIGIONS IS NOT THE SAME AS PRESENTING THE CREATION

> OF A RELIGIOUS CON-ARTIST AS SOMETHING AUTHENTIC AND

> WORTHY OF STUDY AS AUTHENTIC !

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> THE PAPER TRAIL / MONEY AND PROMOTION CONNECTIONS

> BETWEEN THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH SUPPORT OF BORG AND

> CROSSIN ET AL AND THE ANGLICAN CHURCH (CHURCH OF

> ENGLAND), WHOSE HEAD IS THE BRITISH ROYALTY, IS

> OBVIOUS. SO FOR ALL THOSE WHO FIND IT HARD TO

> BELIEVE MY ASSERTIONS THAT THERE IS A THEOSOPHICAL

> CONNECTION TO THE BRITISH ROYALS AND THEREFORE THE

> CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH, PLEASE

> CONSIDER THE BELOW.

>

> THE DEPARTMENT OF THEOSOPHY WAS FOUNDED AT THE

> UNIVERSITY IN 1901. BELOW ARE THE CONNECTIONS

> BETWEEN THE BRITISH ROYALTY AND THE UNIVERSITY OF

> LONDON. THE DEPARTMENT OF THEOSOPHY THERE IS

> ASSOCIATED WITH THE ACTUAL THEOSOPHICAL SOCIETY,

> ANNIE BESANT'S BRANCH, WITH ITS AFFILIATIONS IN

> INDIA AND AUSTRALIA. REMEMBER THAT THE BRITISH

> ROYAL CROWN IS ALSO THE HEAD OF THE ANGLICAN CHURCH

> OF ENGLAND, AND THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN AMERICA IS

> MERELY AMERICAN ANGLICANISM. IT IS THE EPISCOPAL

> CHURCH THAT HAS GIVEN BACKING TO BORG AND HIS

> 'HISTORICAL JESUS' ANTI-JEWISH AND ANTI-CATHOLIC

> CAMPAIGN TO DECONSTRUCT AND DESTROY THE 'PATRIARCHAL

> RELIGION' OF BIBLICAL MONOTHEISM.

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> BORG'S THOUGHT WAS FORMED BY SO-CALLED 'GERMAN

> HIGHER CRITICISM'. HIS WIFE IS AN EPISCOPAL

> 'PRIEST' (WHY NOT A PRIESTESS?). IN THE BELOW

> LINK,( WHICH SUMMARIZES HIS JOURNEY TO THE 'TRUTH'

> ABOUT 'THE HISTORICAL JESUS'), WHERE IS THERE ANY

> MENTION OF ASCLEPIUS-CARAKA THE GREAT PHYSICIAN AND

> SON OF GOD ELI-YAHU / HELIOS ? ASCLEPIUS MUST BE

> THE STARTING PLACE FOR ANY SERIOUS DISCUSSION OF THE

> GENEALOGY OF THE WORSHIP OF JESUS CHRIST.

> Asclepius: Collection and Interpretation of the

> Testimonies/Volumes I and II in One

> by Emma J. Edelstein, Ludwig Edelstein

> (Contributor), Gary Ferngren (Introduction)

>

> a.. Paperback: 747 pages ; Dimensions (in inches):

> 2.01 x 9.97 x 7.03

> a.. Publisher: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr; Reprint

> edition (February 1998)

> a.. ISBN: 0801857694

>

> Ingram

> Legendary ancient Greek physician and healer god

> Asclepius was considered the foremost antagonist of

> Christ. Providing an overview of all facets of the

> Asclepius phenomenon, this work, first published in

> two volumes in 1945, comprises a unique collection

> of the literary references and inscriptions in

> ancient texts to Asclepius, his life, his deeds,

> cult, temples--with extended analysis thereof.

>

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> FINALLY, I HEARD BORG AT THE "JESUS AT 2000"

> SEMINAR PREACHING ADVAITI IMPERSONALISM / COVERED

> ATHEISM TO HIS EPISCOPAL AND NEW AGE MONIST GNOSTIC

> 'CHRISTIAN' FAN-CLUB, SO TO READ THE BELOW

> HYPOCRITICAL SERMON FROM HIM, DELIVERED AT A CHURCH,

> IS REALLY UNNERVING. IN TYPICAL TWO-FACED FASHION,

> HE DELIVERS A DEVOTIONAL-SOUNDING HOMILY TO A

> RELIGIOUS CONGREGATION, DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE IS

> THE SAME MAN WHO REPEATEDLY ASSERTED HIS ATHEISM AT

> THE "JESUS AT 2000" UNIVERSITY SEMINAR TO A CROWD OF

> HUNDREDS OF 'HIGHER CRITICISM' SCHOOL RELIGIOUS

> SCHOLARS AND ULTRA LIBERAL EPISCOPAL AND LUTHURAN

> 'PRIESTS', WHO ALSO DENIED THE EXISTENCE OF ANY

> 'GOD' OTHER THAN THEMSELVES.

>

> "I was there exposed to the central claims of modern

> gospel scholarship (mostly German, despite Davies'

> British connections). "

>

http://www.westarinstitute.org/Periodicals/4R_Articles/Borg_bio/borg_bio.html

> ...

> In seminary itself, I had planned to focus on social

> ethics. To my surprise, Jesus moved center stage,

> thanks to a New Testament course my first semester.

> Taught by Welsh scholar W. D. Davies (said to be one

> of the two favorite students of C. H. Dodd, the

> premier British new Testament scholar of this

> century), the course focused on Jesus and the

> synoptic gospels, and I was there exposed to the

> central claims of modern gospel scholarship (mostly

> German, despite Davies' British connections).

>

> The effect was, for me, dramatic. I realized that

> the image of Jesus from my childhood—the popular

> image of Jesus as the divine savior who knew himself

> to be the Son of God and who offered up his life for

> the sins of the world—was not historically true.

> Moreover, I learned that scholars had been saying

> this for almost two hundred years.

>

> This mind-boggling realization was based on the

> understanding of the gospels that has developed

> during the last two centuries. I learned that the

> gospels were neither divine nor particularly

> historical. They were not, as I had thought, "divine

> products" inspired directly by God, whose contents

> therefore were to be "believed." And they were not

> "eyewitness accounts" written by people who knew

> Jesus and who sought to report what they had seen

> and heard. I was fascinated. In spite of the heavy

> workload assigned to Union students in those days, I

> did voluminous amounts of extra reading about the

> quest for the historical Jesus.

>

> From that first semester came some central

> awarenesses about Jesus and the gospels. These

> realizations were, I think, the "common property" of

> most of us doing graduate work in the 1960s. Several

> remain foundational to my work on Jesus, though some

> have fallen away.

>

> The first four realizations were about the gospels:

>

> 1.. The gospels are not primarily history, but

> "proclamation" (kerygma, as we learned to call it).

> 2.. The oldest parts of the gospel tradition are Q

> (a collection of sayings) and Mark (the oldest

> narrative).

> 3.. The gospel of John is highly symbolic and

> essentially not historical.

> 4.. Even the material in the synoptic gospels is

> the product of a long process of development, shaped

> by Christian communities during the time of oral

> transmission, and further redacted by the

> evangelists. Using them as historical sources for

> Jesus is thus difficult.

> The next six realizations were about Jesus himself:

>

> 5.. Most (perhaps all) of the "exalted titles" by

> which Jesus is known In the Christian tradition do

> not go back to Jesus himself. He did not speak of or

> think of himself as "the Son of God," or as "one

> with the Father," or as "the light of the world," or

> as "the way, the truth, and the life," or as "the

> savior of the world." Only two "exalted titles"

> might possibly go back to him: "messiah" (about

> which "cutting edge" scholarly opinion seemed to be

> negative), and "Son of man" (see "9" below).

> 6.. It follows that Jesus message was not about

> himself or the importance of believing in him.

> 7.. Jesus was an eschatological figure. He

> expected "the end of the world" in his own

> generation. This expectation was quite literal,

> involving the coming of the Kingdom of God "in

> power," the gathering of the elect, and judgment.

> This expectation was central, not peripheral, to

> shaping and animating Jesus' ministry and message.

> This point, along with the next three, has fallen

> away as a foundation to my work.

> 8.. His central message was the imminent coming of

> the Kingdom of God, understood eschatologically.

> 9.. Jesus also spoke of "the coming of the Son of

> man," whose advent would be associated with end of

> the world events. Scholars were divided about

> whether he was referring to himself (that is, to his

> own future role), or whether he was speaking about a

> figure other than himself (that is, though he

> expected "the coming of the Son of man," he did not

> identify himself with that figure).

> 10.. Finally, we cannot know much about Jesus. Any

> very specific claim about him is highly problematic.

>

> The news that "the Jesus of history" (as I learned

> to call him) was very different from the Jesus I had

> heard about growing up in the church seemed

> important to me. It also seemed vaguely scandalous,

> and something I shouldn't tell my mother about. But

> I was hooked.

>

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>

> BELOW BORG SPEAKS FLOWERY WORDS OF DEVOTION, WHEN HE

> DOES NOT EVEN BELIEVE IN ANY PERSONAL GOD AND AGREED

> WITH CROSSIN'S STATEMENT THAT "IF JESUS WAS ALIVE

> TODAY HE WOULD MARRY HIS GAY FRIENDS". THE POINT

> BEING THAT BELOW BORG PRAYS TO SOMEONE WHO HE

> CLEARLY HAS REPEATEDLY STATED IS DEAD AND GONE.

> BORG IS A HYPOCRITE OF THE WORST KIND. THROUGHOUT

> THE ENTIRE "JESUS AT 2000" SEMINAR HE ASSERTED THAT

> JESUS WAS A MERE MAN WHO IS DEAD AND GONE. HE

> CHALLENGED THE VERY AUTHENTICITY OF JESUS'S WORSHIP

> AS THE 'LIGHT OF THE WORLD', AND HIS WORSHIPERS

> 'BODY AND BLOOD' ETC. !! YET BELOW HE PRAYS IN THE

> NAME OF THIS SAME THEOLOGICAL JESUS CHRIST THAT HE

> HAS DEVOTED HIMSELF TO DISCREDITING !! THUS BORG

> EMPLOYS TYPICAL THEOSOPHICAL DOUBLE-SPEAK.

>

> http://www.covenantweb.org/sermons/120802.html

>

> Sermon by Dr. Marcus Borg

> Second Sunday in Advent

>

> The Church of the Covenant

> December 8, 2002

>

> Advent: Exile and Return

>

> (Mark 1:1-8)

>

> I bring you greetings from my home parish, Trinity

> Episcopal Cathedral in Portland Oregon, where my

> wife Mary Ann is a priest. I have sometimes joked

> that I’m even married to a priest which was not one

> of my childhood fantasies, but so my life has turned

> out.

>

> I especially appreciate the invitation to preach. I

> don’t get to preach all that often -- maybe 12 or 15

> Sundays a year. I am a lay person after all, and I

> need to warn you that I have been told that my

> sermons often sound like lectures; but then I’ve

> also been told that my lectures often sound like

> sermons. So it kind of all evens out.

>

> I invite you now to join me in a brief moment of

> centering prayer.

>

> Lord Jesus Christ, You are the Light of

> the world. Fill our minds with Your peace

> and our hearts with Your love. In Your

> name O Christ, our body and our blood,

> our life and our nourishment. Amen.

>

> The gospel text this morning is from the first

> chapter of Mark and it in fact consists of the

> opening lines of our earliest gospel. Mark is the

> first gospel to be written so these are the opening

> lines of our earliest story of Jesus.

>

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