The Great Cover Up [of reincarnation] - Emperor Justinian understood its inherent political danger

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The Great Cover Up (Except from Chapter 1)

 

(P.12) Our new account of the origins of Christianity only seemed

improbable because it contradicted the received view. As we pushed

further with our research, the traditional picture began to

completely unravel all around us. We found ourselves embroiled in a

world of schism and power struggles, of forged documents and false

identities, of letters that had been edited and added to, and of the

wholesale destruction of historical evidence. (P.13) We focused

forensically on the few facts we could be confident of, as if we were

detectives on the verge of cracking a sensational 'whodunnit', or

perhaps more accurately as if we were uncovering an ancient and

unacknowledged miscarriage of justice. For, time and again, when we

critically examined what genuine evidence remained, we found that the

history of Christianity bequeathed to us by the Roman Church was a

gross distortion of the truth. Actually the evidence completely

endorsed the Jesus Mysteries Thesis! It was becoming increasingly

obvious that we had been deliberately deceived, that the Gnostics

were indeed the original Christians, and that their anarchic

mysticism had been hijacked by an authoritarian institution which had

created from it a dogmatic religion - and then brutally enforced the

greatest cover-up in history.

 

One of the major players in this cover-up operation was a character

called Eusebius who, at the beginning of the fourth century, compiled

from legends, fabrications and his own imagination the only early

history of Christianity that still exists today. All subsequent

histories have been forced to base themselves on Eusebius' dubious

claims, because there has been little other information to draw on.

All those with a different perspective on Christianity were branded

as heretics and eradicated. In this way falsehoods compiled in the

fourth century have come down to us as established facts.

 

Eusebius was employed by the Roman Emperor Constantine, who made

Christianity the state religion of the Empire and gave Literalist

Christianity the power it needed to begin the final eradication of

Paganism and Gnosticism. Constantine wanted 'one God, one religion'

to consolidate his claim of 'one Empire, one Emperor'. He oversaw the

creation of the Nicene creed - the article of faith repeated in

churches to this day - and Christians who refused to assent to this

creed were banished from the Empire or otherwise silenced.

 

(P.14) This 'Christian' Emperor then returned home from Nicaea and

had his wife suffocated and his son murdered. He deliberately

remained unbaptized until his deathbed so that he could continue his

atrocities and still receive forgiveness of sins and a guaranteed

place in heaven by being baptized at the last moment. Although he had

his 'spin doctor' Eusebius compose a suitably obsequious biography

for him, he was actually a monster - just like many Roman Emperors

before him. Is it really at all surprising that a 'history' of the

origins of Christianity created by an employee in the service of a

Roman tyrant should turn out to be a pack of lies?

 

The Jesus Mysteries

Was the Original Jesus A Pagan God?

Chapter 1 - p.12-14

Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy

Element (imprint of HarperCollins'Publishers')

77-85 Fulham Palace Road

Hammersmith, London W6 8JB

ISBN-13 978-0-7225-3677-3

ISBN-10 0-7225-3677-1

 

 

" Many scholars recognize that the New Testament we have today is a

copy of a copy of a copy and that no reliable manuscript is dated

before the third century. The doctrine of reincarnation echos

throughout the teachings of Christ, but the purity of Christ's

teachings, about the soul being part of God, has been diluted by the

copiers and the translators.

 

History recordes that the early Christine church believed in

Reincarnation and of the souls journey back to oneness with God.

 

Pope Arrested for Believing in Reincarnation

 

Pope Vigilius was a vicar during the reign of Emperor Justinian in

the sixth century AD. Justinian and Vigilius disagreed on whether or

not the doctrine of reincarnation should be condemned as heresy or

allowed to be taught in the church.

 

Origin's writings were considered heresy by important cardinals in

the sixth century. Origen's teachings had been considered as profound

spiritual wisdom for three centuries. Origen lived around 250 AD and

wrote about the pre-existence of the soul and in reincarnation. He

taught that the soul's very source was God and that the soul's was

traveling back to oneness with God via Reincarnation.

 

Emperor Justinian wanted Origen's writings and teachings to be

condemned and destroyed but Pope Vigilius refused to sign a papal

decree condemning Origen's teachings on reincarnation. As a result of

his disobedience, the Emperor had the Pope arrested and put into

jail. In 543, Justinian convoked the Fifth General Council of the

Church and told the Pope he would sign into doctrine whatever the

council decided. On the way there, under guard, the Pope escaped to

avoid being forced to condemn Origen's writings. The Emperor commanded

the council to continue despite the Pope's refusal to attend.

 

There was a logical reason why the Emperor was opposed to the concept

that all of mankind originally came from God and was returing to God

via the cucle of birth and death. Justinian had been convinced by

high ranking cardinals that it was not in the interest of the empire

to allow Origen's writings to continue to be copied and distributed.

A powerful group of Cardinal's and Bishop's explained that if every

soul had once pre-existed with God, then Christ wasn't anything

special to have come from God. These Cardinals convinced the Emperor

that if people realized they were the children of God they might begin

to believe they no longer needed an Emperor, or to pay taxes, or to

obey the Holy Church. But since they reasoned that only Christ had

come from God but God made brand new souls at the time of conception

and only the Holy Church could bring these souls to God. Without the

protection of the Empire or the guidance of the church, all people

would be doomed to be forever cut off from God in Hell. This doctrine

was very acceptabloe to the Emperor. Once Justinian understood the

political danger inherent in Origen's teachings, the rest was simply

an Emperor doing what was in his best interest.

 

The council, as instructed by the Emperor, produced fourteen new

anathemas and the very first one condemned reincarnation and the

concept that souls pre-existed with God.

 

If anyone asserts the fabulous preexistence of souls, and shall

assert the monstrous restoration which follows from it: let him be

anathema.

 

The Pope never signed the order, so technically it was never legal,

but the Pope's signature was not needed. "

 

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