18 Mar 2008 @ 23:07, by Jennifer Sanfilippo
He was not supposed to die so young. His mission was to teach and guide the people who had fallen under the control of a cruel and brutal invading power and a priesthood that had become corrupted and no longer served the people, but only their own wealth and ambitions.
He was supposed to teach His people how to become spiritually free, and survive the brutality of their daily existence.
He was supposed to stay alive and continue to teach. Quietly teaching and guiding His people day to day, year by year, until He had reached all that He could after a life time of teaching.
He was supposed to grow old while quietly continuing to teach. To stay alive as long as possible without drawing attention to Himself. But He could not do this.
He did not try to fight against the foreign power that occupied His homeland. He knew they were too powerful. It was the corrupt priesthood of His own faith that He could not abide.
These priests who charged sums of money for the smallest of requests from their followers angered Him greatly. His people were in such misery and poverty from the domination of the foreign government, that the temple priests should have given comfort and aid freely. But they did not. They used the example of the foreign government and demanded what little resources the people had left for their own gains and profit.
They became angry towards Him because He criticized and condemned them in public. But, it was when He started to perform the rituals and give spiritual aid and comfort that the priests could no longer stand by and watch. He was cutting into their profits.
He was not supposed to die yet. He was weary. Life in His homeland was so bitterly hard and cruel, He could not take it anymore. His teachings were some help and comfort to some of His people. But many just did not understand what He was teaching. The people looked to Him for salvation from their toil, and He was trying to get them to see that all they had to do was to look inward, and they would find all that they needed.
He became so tired, He was giving up. He tried so hard to help, but He could not go on.
There were others before and after Him who had the same Mission.
The one known as Thoth, who tried to help his people in the same way, in Egypt, two thousand years earlier. And Thoth tried for the same reason, a corrupt priesthood that had grown rich and powerful at the expense of the people. He also failed. And He was deified as well.
Another Egyptian, the Pharaoh Ankhenaten came with the same mission. Historians have called him the first "mono-theist", because he decreed that his people were to honor only one god, Aten, the Sun God. This was done, not to become a 'one god' religion, but to break the stranglehold the great number of priests and their multitude of temples to so many Egyptian Gods & Goddesses had over the people. Every prayer, every wish, every hope, every favor, that the people had, had to be approved by and money payed to the priests. It was the priests who sent the prayers to the gods. So, if you wanted the gods to hear your prayers, you had to pay the priests first.
Ankhenaten built a new capitol, Amarna, that had a temple to his one god, Aten. This basically put all the priests out of business, and their power over the daily lives of the people removed. But Ankhenaten did not live long enough for his efforts to take hold. After his death, the priests regained their power, everybody returned to Thebes and all its temples, and the priests did their best to remove Ankhenaten from history.
And as another great enlightened soul tried to do in Italy in the 1300's. She was called Aradia, also known as La Bella Pellegrina, "The Beautiful Pilgrim". The Vatican came after Her quickly and She had to flee Her beloved homeland. The Church did not catch Her, but She was never heard from again. And few remember Her name.
So, He gave up. He was not supposed to die so young. He was deified. And the things done in His name ever since have horrified Him. He can't wait to return, and set things right.
And His long wait, and Aradia's, and Thoth's, and Ankhenaten's, is almost over...
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