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Legends 9
What About Christianity?

As the Piscean age approached, Wise Men again looked at the stars and read that it was time
for the age of the Fish - Pisces. A Wise Man then came from Greece into Egypt and he was
known only as The Teacher of Righteousness. He established two colonies of his followers
in Egypt where they were called Therapeuti. Then he came into Asia Minor to establish
nine more colonies. There they were known as Essenes or Healers. The Essenes
flourished and gained great respect from the people. They were the Wise Men
of the time and countries in which they lived.

The Wise Men had noted that the start of each new age is marked by a flaming star, a
conjunction of three major planets shining in the heavens. This star, viewed through an
acacia bush, was the "burning bush" that lead Moses to know that it was time to institute the
Aries age. And this same star appeared over Bethlehem in 7 B.C., as reckoned by our
present calendar to mark the start of the Piscean age.

Several years later a young man left the Essene colony in Galilee and proceeded over the
River Jordan. His name was John, and he began the Piscean religion. He was the first to
take the people and throw them in the water and catch them back out like fish. And he was
the first to seriously lay down a foundation for the coming of the Piscean Age. But John was
pre-doomed to failure because of his innate weaknesses.

Another young man, Jeshua ben Jusef, a Jew from Nazareth, was sent from the Essene
colony to pick up the work of bringing in the Piscean age. His name translates into our
language as Jesus. In general, the Wise Men accept the Bible story of the spirit of the
First Born, Chiro or Christ, descending upon the man Jesus: taking over his body for
a limited time; his mission and the crucifixion story.

But how do we regard the man, Jesus? Jesus came from a colony of Essenes, or Wise Men,
natural medicine doctors; gathered together a group of twelve men - a significant figure
among the Wise Men; healed the sick; raised the dead; cursed and destroyed the fig tree
when it displeased him; and taught a "secret" religion to his disciples. In short he was
probably one of the greatest Wise Men who ever lived.

His followers showed every evidence of following the Essene tradition; they lived
communally; showed a strong love for each other, a significant mark of the Old Wisdom
Religion; had three degrees in their priesthood - Catecumens, Auditors, and the Faithful;
held themselves apart from the world; and openly called themselves the "Way" - all
indications that Jesus' secret religion was the Way to Perfection of the Wise Men.

All scholars know (and most deplore) the fact that Jesus' beautiful philosophy was
soon changed so much that no modern church in any way practices his teachings.

A peculiar fact then emerges. The Old Wisdom Religion, while it had existed from the very
beginning, was interpreted into the tribal culture of the Semitic people, and became the
Hebrew religion at its beginning in the days of Moses. Thus it was the original Hebrew
religion fitted to its Age.

The Old Wisdom Teachings were then re-interpreted at the beginning of the Piscean Age for
much later civilization, and thus the Old Wisdom Religion was the secret religion taught by
Jesus. Obviously there is no resemblance between the Old Religion and the present day,
religious organizations calling themselves "Christian" - whatever that means.

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