Judaism and Christianity stemmed from Egypt’s Messianic concept which meant the gradual coming of the Christ Mind-Soul-Spirit in all human consciousness; i.e. the spiritual evolution of mankind. But when the Messiah was caricatured into the coming of a divine cosmic man-Christ in one human body it became the nucleus for a complex theological superstructure which we are still trying to unravel two thousand years later.
It is on the version of the Messianic mission and the account of the trial, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus that Jews find themselves in conflict with Christians. So little did the later Gospel writers understand the initiatory process that they never perceived they were developing a story of Jesus that included a Rabbi’s (and Arch Druid of Britain) experience in an Egyptian Mystery School. Jewish tradition often asserted that Rabbi Jesus learned ‘magic’ in Egypt. In his book,” The Bible Fraud” Tony Bushby says the kernel of this persistent accusation may perhaps be reduced to the simple historical element that Rabbi Jesus went to Egypt and returned with far wider and more enlightened views than those of the Sanhedren. Bushby believes the reason Jesus stole the Torah was that he said it contained “a very special secret”, probably about reincarnation, which he was going to reveal that secret to the world. He was stoned to death in Lud (London) and the Torah taken from him before he could.
Whatever the historical facts the inconsistencies and contradictions arose long after the events and its now clear that fact and legend have become confused but fortunately we have the myths from all cultures to bring some sanity back to the situation. Most of the problems seem to stem from what was written as allegory that has been taken as literal, historical truth.
The very special secret revealed that the Christ principal, being universal and eternal, is the glorified spirit of truth. The true Christos cannot be monopolized by any one person even in the form of the Pope who calls himself the “Vicar of Christ” or any other state religion. The Christos cannot be confined to any creed or sect because it decides to glorify itself above others. This secret cannot be owned by Christians just because they adopted the generic name of the divine Christos anymore than can Jews who called themselves Israelites.
Originally the name Israel was used to indicate that all were sons and daughters of God’s creative mind and spirit. The word Israel is a compound of three units:
Isis, the Egyptian goddess of Motherhood
Ra, the great Egyptian Father of Spirit
El, the Hebrew word for God
Israel would then read: Mother – Father – God
Hebrews combined the three names to apply to a collective humanity endowed with the divine spark and executed a corporate takeover of divinity. St. Paul declared that merely being born into a Jewish family does not, in itself, make one an Israelite. An Israelite can be from any race that brings spiritual potential to the fore. And Genesis from the first verse to the last has nothing to do with the ‘Chosen People’; it belongs to the world’s history. It is simply a compilation of universal legends of a universal humanity. In fact Genesis is a chip off universal Cosmogony.
The division between Christian and Jew arose when non-Jewish Christians took over what seemed to be a basically Jewish faith and entirely deleted any reference to the Jews being the ‘Chosen Ones’. In this process Christians placed the sole bearer of Messianic power and glory in Jesus Christ. Essentially Christians asked Jews to give up their birthright as God’s ‘Chosen People’ which would have destroyed the structure of Judaism itself.
The irreconcilable barrier between Christian and Jew has been the firm conviction that it was the Jew, Pontius Pilate, who sentenced the Messiah to the Cross. And for Christians to confess to centuries of religious persecution which stemmed from misinterpretations of sacred texts is unimaginable. What the writers of the Bible had meant to be allegory was taken literally. Had Christians respected the concept of the ‘Chosen Ones’ they could have coexisted peacefully in their joint belief in the ‘Coming of the ‘Messiah’. Jews were not concerned that non-Jews embraced much of Judaic Law and Old Testament history but how could they believe in a failed Messiah who did not release them from the Roman yoke?
If Jews embraced the concept of the Christ Spirit in everyone, instead of being the ‘Chosen Ones’, to redeem us from the Adamic curse of sin the Western world would not have been engulfed in rivers of blood. The conflict arose as both religions positioned themselves as the only way to experience God.