Subject: “This myth of Jesus has served us well!” Pope Leo X
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 17:02:51 -0800
“This myth of Jesus has served us well!” Pope Leo X
In the early sixteenth century, Pope Leo X is on record as declaring: “It has served us well, this myth of Christ.”
Why would he say such a thing. I could see him thinking it but to come out and say it! It would be like G.W. saying: “This myth of democracy has served us well.”Was the story of Jesus of Nazareth a myth?
In the earliest contacts with the Cassiopaeans we began to ask questions about Jesus. This was, in a sense, a form of a “challenge” or a “test,” from our perspective. It was only later, after much research and work in many areas, I realized that this really wasn’t much of a “test!” There are endless variations of material delivered from all sorts of sources identifying themselves as Jesus, Ashtar, Lord Sananda, and who knows else! Some of them claim to be Jesus, some of them claim to have genetically engineered Jesus, some of them claim to have “projected” the Jesus story into history, and on and on and on!
Nevertheless, this was what we did, and the answers we received were sometimes quite in line with modern scholarship and theological opinion; sometimes they dovetailed with more “esoteric” sources from other “psychic channels,” and in startling and outstanding ways, some of the answers were completely different from anything we had ever encountered. It was on all of these points that we were challenged to do original research, and I hope to shed some light on the matter here.
It seems that to the “easy believer” everything is possible and they have no problems accepting the word of this or that person or teacher or text that something is so. However, to a person who has studied the varied and often conflicting material and is in search of facts, there are a host of problems with this story of Jesus.
The biggest problem consists in the fact that it is easy to fabricate texts and documents out of nothing. Falsification and counterfeiting are as old as the hills. J.-K. Huysmans wrote in Las-bas,
“If there was a historical Jesus, he left little or no impression on his contemporaries. No literate person of his own time mentioned him in any known writing. The Gospels were not written in his own time, nor were they written by anyone who ever saw him in the flesh. The names of the apostles attached to these books were fraudulent. The books were composed after the establishment of the church, some as late as the 2nd century AD or later… Most scholars believe the earliest book of the New Testament was I Thessalonians, written perhaps in 51 AD by Paul, who never saw Jesus in person and knew no details of his life story.” [Walker; 1996]