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As many of our readers have come to know, Bet Emet Ministries has been an "evolving" study over the last twenty years since dedicating myself to coming to the correct understanding and interpretation of the "Jesus Story". Following Seminary, what had once seemed to me to be a simple story worthy of belief in the New Testament from the perspective of the pew, was shown to be nothing of the sort. In fact, in Seminary it became evident that it was a collection of jumbled and conflicting texts in Hebrew, Greek, and English, which when compared with teach other, contradicted it each other in so many ways that a Divine hand behind them stretched believability to the max. Surely, I reasoned, that God, if the author of such writings Christian texts, could have agreed with Himself. Surely, if God was behind the writing of this New Testament. The disagreements between these New Testament texts are astounding. Mill, in 1707 C.E. listed over 30,000 and today estimates of textual differences in the New Testament exceed 400,000. What I mention is not simply copyist errors and omissions; rather I was introduced to a new world of conflicting theologies and beliefs depending upon which manuscripts you choose to include in your "Bible". The Jews had theirs, Catholicism, and Protestantism had theirs. Even other ancient nations like Egypt had theirs. Central to all of these texts and all of these Bibles since the beginning of time is the idea of Divinity mediating with material existence through "the Krst/Christ" or whatever each nation called Divine Mind that "fell" and "incarnated" into physical existence and "matter" and exits as Consciousness. The stories of this creation, Divine consciousness, and mankind's awareness and existence of it were told since the beginning of time and from ever nation to nation down through history. Being born in America we grow up with the "Judeo-Christian" story of this same ancient creation account along with stories to help man understand that behind all that his senses can see and experience that there exists is a God, a Creator and Ultimate Origin and His Krst/Christ. What concerned me was that my "religious belief" was centered and was founded upon certain "texts" that I was told to trust for my understanding of this God and His outreach to me. But, seeing the unreliability of these texts in Christianity alone, I had to wonder, as studies advanced, why my Christian texts and Scriptures deviated so drastically, not only from each other, but the earlier Hebrew Scriptures and and later use in the New Testament in "key" theological positions regarding, for example, the Jewish Messiah as well as "the Christ" (termed Jesus) in the New Testament. When this awareness of the textual problems in Christianity is factored in to other religious studies like comparative religions, gnosticism, hermeticism, astronomy, ancient Egyptian religion, etc., a blind man can could see that in the 2nd through the 5th centuries a concerted effort was made to "change the Krst/Christ" story that had been held sacred since the beginning of time. I wanted to know why, the greatest and most ancient story ever to mankind, the story of God's Krst/Christ, was so distorted and corrupted and given different meanings in the 2nd through the 5th century from what it had been understood by the whole of mankind for over ten thousand years.
Matt 16:13-14 13 When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea Philippi, He asked His disciples, saying, "Who do men say that I, the Son of Man, am?" And, question 2… Matt 16:14-16 15 He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Little did I know at that time that my life would become dedicated to finding the answer to this question. That was twenty years ago and my personal studies would become the foundation for Bet Emet Ministries to help others wade through all of the conflicting theologies and find the answer to the greatest question that life will ever pose to them.
If this CD is to prosper you then you need to accept the following axiom:
"A Christian's religious belief system, when tested and exposed to contradictory facts from Biblical languages, unbiased Biblical history, Biblical culture, Archeology, Gnosticism, Egyptian Religion, and Astronomy, must in the Spirit of Truth and Repentance be flexible enough to change....that is, if "truth" is your goal"...Craig M. Lyons Ms.D., D.D., M.Div. The only religion that God ever gave mankind is Truth!
The results of my search for this truth concerning "the Krst/Christ" are most exhaustive and comprehensive and are on various websites but also available on a CD for those wishing to speed up their studies in these important areas. I know this amount of information and knowledge on this CD and Ministry's websites can be overwhelming at times but remember this is a collection of studies into the origins of Christianity that separated from its mothers' faith of Judaism and which has told the world that it is the only way to "Salvation" and all other paths to God guarantee damnation and a burning hell and torture for those who reject the traditional Christian message that "Jesus saves". If Christianity, as its exists today, is to be validated as God' truth then it has to stand up to scrutiny of its beliefs and the texts from which these beliefs are derived. I will let the student decide these issues for himself when he is acquainted with the evidences presented on the CD but he needs more than "belief" in texts that today can be shown to be more than unreliable when examined with a critical and scholarly eye.
There is a proper sequence to the study of this CD. If not followed, then the student could lose way and not come to the truths that he desires and become frustrated and put down this most information concerning his Soul and never take advantage of this opportunity presented him. Therefore, we begin our studies with a "literal" and "historical" study of "Jewish Roots". Along the way we move beyond the "literal" and "historical" understanding of the Christian Bible once seeing that, simply, it is seen in the light and evidence of today to be a pseudo-history at best to which "mystical" and "metaphysical" concepts are inter-dispersed. The "key" to proper understanding is to know "when" and "where" these interpretations change. We end our studies with the goal before us with the "mystical and metaphysical" study of the Divine Sacred Mysteries which is the "hidden knowledge" behind what appears at first glance in our Bibles to be a simple "literal" and "historical" story. Is is here in these beginning websites, when seeing the "literal" and "historical" interpretation of the "Jesus Story" for what it really "is" an and what it is "not" along with personal awareness of the corrupted Hebrew Scriptures on which it is made to stand by Rome during the 2nd through the 5th century, that we can in full confidence move onward to find the truth behind the "Jesus Story".
The Rabbis always taught there are 4 levels of interpretation of Sacred texts. You cannot give a baby what it cannot digest until he grows and matures. The same is applicable to Spiritual food.
Heb 5:12-14 12 For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. 13 For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. 14 But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. (KJV)
Our simple "Jesus Story" suffices for most until the Soul in man cries out for more. There is more, much more! The truth beyond the "simple" lies in "awaking from the dead" whereby we no longer want Spiritual gerbers' food but the "strong meat" for those who desire to come into the "fullness and stature of Christ". This, admittedly, and sadly, is not for everyone at the point in life to which you find yourself possibly today. But if you want "strong meat" and the "Secret to Life" and your "True Self" and "Krst/Christ" then this is the "mystery hidden from the foundation of the world" and it is for you. Your time has come and it is now. Understand that the ancients who handed down to us this Sacred Book, these Hebrew Scriptures, had its origins in ancient Egypt. The Jewish people came out of Egypt where they were born into higher Spiritual Truths than the "simple" stories of our Bibles appear to teach. The Bible, at best, is a pseudo-history to which "encoded" Divine "mysteries" are hidden in symbol and glyph and lie sleeping behind "simple Simon" stories; the "keys" to which are need to open the eyes of the dead. This will become familiar to you as your studies advance.
Again, there is an order in which this CD is to be "studied and followed". There is a "step-by-step" awareness that must be adhered to if you don't want to get "lost" in such abundance of information. Looking back on my life, I did not always know to follow "the path" from step to step, but sorted it out over the years and when stepping back ever so often to analyze the horizon of my studies. In so doing the "order" became apparent. You are recommended to follow the "path" but if your current studies are at a certain level beyond the "first steps" then by all means begin where you feel comfortable. But it is important that you follow the "evolution" of "thought" as we first must deal with all of what we have been taught in "literal" and "historical" way in order to prove "it is not" and then begin to look at what we do have lying in wait for us behind the hidden mysteries in the "Osiris Story", called today the "Jesus Story". The Spiritual enlightenment you will receive will be the most incredible journey of your life. In fact, your incarnation is purposed in discovering this Divine Truth in this plane of existence. In fact, this knowledge and understanding revealed by the ancients and incorporated on this CD is the sole purpose of our incarnations, to "become the fullness and stature of this Christ" while living in an "animal body". Plato said, "God is a man in an animal body". It is time we find that out. Here is the suggested order for the study of these various websites and the path I would recommend they be studied:
Following this "pattern" of study, the one in which we start out scrutinizing the Old and New Testaments texts "literally" and "historically" as we have been taught since children we, step by step, we eventually come to see that such a "literal" and "historical" interpretation of these Sacred Texts as we have them in the New Testament is foolish let alone unbelievable to a sound mind. We have to examine our inherited "Jesus Story" both "literally" and "historically" because we have been told that we must "believe and be baptized" or be damned. We come to see that God never said that; the religious clerics did. What we do find, however, step by step, is that under the religion of Judeo-Christianity, under the typical "literal" and "historical" understanding of the "Jesus Story", an interpretation that cannot hold up when exposed to many infallible proofs today that prove it faulty, lies a completely different understanding of this "Jesus Story". This "Jesus Story" is the oldest story in the world, told for over 10,000 years or more and never was it "literal" or "historical" and about "another"; it was always about God's child, you and me as we come to know and understand it. On the surface Bet Emet will show the student that the "Jesus Story" cannot be "believed" in such a manner as we have been given it (a lesser mystery), but should be understood on a much deeper level. As our studies continue to advance, we will come to see the "Jesus Story" as a much higher Spiritual revelation given to mankind about his True Self and the God within him. It is this understanding of one's True Self and his inherent Divinity that the ancients connected with man's second birth called being "born again" in our texts. But reading these texts today with Rome's imposed understanding and without the ancient understanding completely nullifies the true meaning of being "born again" as well as our incarnational purpose as your continued studies will reveal. Ironically, the studies on this CD can be compared to the dying and resurrection seen in the "Jesus Story"; revealing what the "Jesus Story" is "not" since being taught as children to approach it as a "literal" and "historical" story of someone else, while at the same time revealing "what it truly is" when understood as did the ancient Spiritual masters "mystically" and "metaphysically". As Christians we inherited this wonderful story built upon 2,000 years of imposed mistranslations and misquotations of the Hebrew Scriptures. It is time to see the truth about Jesus.
What you must keep in focus in such a study is that when ALL of the present knowledge is sifted looking for truth using as unbiased scientific method as possible then we find that down through history the spiritual masters of our race has understood "this Christ" that dwells within us as the manifestation of God in 2 basic ways:
Over time we find that from these above two methods of interpretation of God and His Christ "within us" there developed a 3rd interpretation of "the Christ"
No matter how far you go back in time and no matter in what nation you look you find that the first, and in my opinion the most correct understanding of God and His relationship to "matter", ie, mankind, is found with Egypt and the nations that learned of the Creator from them. It is here we find "the Mystical Christ" and the "Mythical Christ" and when correctly understood these religious beliefs and understandings of the Divine hold the greatest understanding and secrets of the Divine that exist on our planet today. Opinions on Egypt are divided today but there are scholars emerging today that challenge the current understanding of Egypt expressed by such current voices as Mark Lerher and Z. Hawass and these modern scholars are restoring the greatness and understanding of Egypt as the world's first monotheistic nation which we see when correctly understanding their Ancient concepts of God and the Egyptian "Krst/Karast". We call him "the Christ" today. It all began a long time ago, over 10,000 years ago or before, and archeology today is overturning the erroneous understandings we have inherited of that time and beliefs which are largely due to Roman religious censorship down through church history. As your studies grow in these areas you will see why we are challenged to our very core by what these Ancient Spiritual Fathers understood of God and His Cosmos and His Christ in lieu of what we have been taught today about the "historical Christ" and the "historical Jesus" from Rome with their Second New Testament.
Being born into Christianity we inherited a "Literalistic" interpretation of almost everything we read in the Bible never knowing without serious study that this book was at best an allegory placed in the historical development of the Jewish people (the biological children of Egypt). We, not knowing this, read this book with "literal glasses" never realizing that what we were reading is at best "blurred" religious concepts of the Ancients which they never interpreted "literally" but only "allegorically" or "metaphorically". Make no mistake about it, these stories, when understood as "allegories", expresses a "literal" Divine Truth that is not about another, but about the person who comes to an awareness of them. We must never forget that when told through the medium of legend and myth the identifies of the characters (Osiris, Horus, Dionysus, Attys, Mithra, Jesus) were but anthropomorphic vehicles designed to express such Heavenly truths and were never to be understood as if "real people" or "historical characters". In other words these "gods" and "goddesses" and "godmen" were never real but expression of the "godman" in each of us when we come to understand that man truly is the "Temple of God" or the "Temple of the Holy Spirit". We are the Divine Himself trapped in matter through the Descent of the Soul from Heaven into material existencer....flesh. These concepts began with Egypt as did most of what we have heard taught in our churches today in one way or the other although, more often than not, they have lost their original understanding and interpretation as taught by the Ancients who first gave mankind these Divine messages and truths. In its place, we have been given a "radical reinterpretation" that has caused us to fail to grow Spiritually in ways our Father intended, all the while looking for a Cosmic-God-man to do for us what we are to do ourselves as we come into the fullness of our true identity as God's Christ through our Earthly experiences. We have lost so much through the "literalization" of these Divine Allegories and Myths. The incarnation of Jesus in a manger is only to show us that Divinity has incarnated into an animal body. This is not another's story; it is our story as the children of God. This principle is applicable to every part of the "Jesus Story". The "Jesus Story" is "our" story.
To see and fully comprehend this beyond any doubt, since having learned so much incorrectly, we must unlearn error by being "retaught". That is why I present the beginning studies and websites with a "literalistic" and "historical" method of interpretation as that is where we both began our pilgrimage to God in our birth faith of Christianity. In so doing I chose to use this method of interpretation to help the "babes in Christ" grow to see at first, for example, the beauty of Judaism as the legacy of Egypt since it is the best and truest expression of these Ancient religious beliefs and revelation of these Ancient Spiritual Masters that we have existing today in the world. There is no "literal" "godman" in Judaism unlike Christianity and therefore no threat of idolatry unlike what we innocently inherited with our Roman Christianity and Protestantism. This "literalism" of these Divine Concepts as confined to but one person as we find in the "Jesus Story" is to be understood not as a blessing but as a curse when your depth of study advances to see the "Gnostic Christ" within which, by the way, modern scholarship teaches us today was the earliest understanding of "the Christ" as held by both Jewish and non-Jewish Gnostic Christians in the early Church before the rise of Roman Christianity. Let us not be so naive to not know that winners of wars write history from "their view" and that this has been done by Rome and the world fed "their book", the New Testament. As your studies advance, the insightful reader will come to notice the blending of both the "Gnostic Christ within" and the "historical Christ without". The "radical reinterpretation" of "the Krst/Christ" has begun. Rome should have done a better job editing and altering these New Testament texts as they left trace evidence "here and there" in these same texts which they corrupted and forged that betrays their untrustworthiness in "key" theological places. Rome forgot to change them all! The insightful reader and scholar comes to see these over time and the dichotomy and tension between "two different Pauls" for example, or the differences between one of the Paul's message and the message of Jesus becomes apparent. One Paul agrees with the message of "the Christ"; the other Paul does not. It is all on the websites. That explains why so much of the Pauline epistles contradict what he has said in other places and people believe Paul to be schizophrenic. Trust me, the real Gnostic Paul had it right! Rome, will not!
I use the "literal" method of interpretation in reaching the student with the knowledge he needs concerning such areas of study found in the early websites which deal with Judaism vs Christianity, the Covenant of Noah, the Biblical Pattern of Worship as best expressed today for the non-Jew again as found in Judaism which is without the taint of idolatry, the adulteration and corruption of Christian Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, Pauline issues, issues of the Messiah and Messianism as viewed from Judaism vs Christianity, Messianic prophecies, Daniel's 70 weeks prophecy, the Essenes and their corruption of the Hebrew Scriptures when they translated them into the Greek LXX, and finally the introduction of sunworship as applied to the Christian Jesus and his depiction in our New Testament. All of the beginning websites are approached with a "literal" view in order to contrast the teachings of Judaism and history, with those of these Roman Christian texts which are made to say otherwise. In so doing we see contrasts as well as parallels that bring into question the validity and reliability of what we have received as Christian truth and texts through "church tradition" and "Christian doctrine" and "Christian theology" concerning these above many issues and dogmas between these two religions. This is done to make you THINK! I truly believe that if God is not the author of confusion then these studies will expose these contradictions to such a degree that mankind has to be blamed for such confusion of these New Testament texts when compared to the Hebrew Scriptures. The blame lays squarely upon Rome and their replacement religion of Christianity which took the place of Biblical Judaism for both the Jew and the non-Jew.
After seeing these things we move to a deeper understanding of "the Christ" when we look at Gnostic Christianity and their "Gnostic Christ"; the "Christ Within" which I believe to be not only the same understanding of "God Within" mankind as taught by these Ancients but the correct interpretation of the Christ as first held by the earliest Gnostic Christian followers of "the Christ" before the Spiritual concept was later "literalized", "carnalized", and "historicized" by Rome after the Jewish War of 70 A.D. It is here we vindicate the true Paul that our previous attacks upon him as the 2nd Paul of Rome's devise seem to some confusing. The Gnostic Paul never taught a "historical and fleshly" Christ that was limited to but one person. Now Paul can be seen and understood correctly and his religious views concerning "the Christ within" be exalted and promoted and given credit where credit is due but laurels to Paul can ONLY come after you have come to see the big difference between an "internalized Christ" and an "external Christ" made by Rome's forgery of his epistles and letters long after his death. This is why I take great pains to contrast the Hebrew Scriptures and religious teachings vs Roman Pauline Christology and theology that we have inherited in our forged Christian Bibles and New Testaments. Rome has done Paul a great disservice and dishonored his ministry and name for almost 2,000 years presently and few know it due to their lack of study in these critical areas concerning the "Mystical Christ" and the "Gnostic Christ" within. It is in these studies we contrast the "literal interpretation" of "the Christ" with the "allegorical" interpretation of the Christ which we show goes back to the beginning of time as delineated on our Egypt Christian website as well as the Marcion New Testament site. It is here that I expose the fallacy of the "literal" interpretation of "the Christ" and the deceptions behind the "historical Jesus" as a literary creation of Rome when they "carnalized the Christ within" over the early centuries of the emerging Gentile Church. It is here we don't hold back and with prior conditioning of the student and reader from his previous study of the introductory websites (textual corruptions) I expose the sad facts that an unbiased study of history will show you that there is not a shred of legitimate historical evidence anywhere that the Jesus Story originated as the biography of a man named Jesus, and quite a lot of evidence that it did not. Outside of this one forged book, the Roman Bible and the New Testament, there exists not one piece of unforged or unadulterated evidence for the historical existence of this man from Galilee. I go on to show the reader that an unbiased through study of Comparative Religion will reveal to you that the basic plot of the "Jesus Story", from beginning to end, including the motif of a crucified savior, already existed in many other religions thousands of years prior to the alleged time of Jesus and if you continue such dedicated studies into Astronomy and Solar Mythology you will find that beyond any doubt the "Jesus Story" is nothing more than an allegory for what would naturally be the oldest and most important story humans would notice and write down, that of the annual passage of the seasons of the year and the path of the Sun through the celestial sphere and the 12 Houses of the Zodiac during the year. Personification of the Sun through the sky as found in the story of ancient solar and lunar gods follow in chronological procession through the year the exact chronology of the "Jesus Story" when personified from Matthew chapter 1 through chapter 28. This is an amazing study to say the least.
For an educated man or woman to believe that the studies included on this CD is but "coincidence" stretches belief beyond limits of sanity. Besides any serious study of Egypt will show you that this "Jesus Story" existed on 2 levels: the Mystical and the Mythical. Only later will Rome come and reinterpret these Divine Truths and forge them into a Historical time line with a fictitious person and in so doing destroy the Ancient truths and Divine Revelation given the Ancients who first developed these "religious doctrines" in the first place. So when you see this, and I mean all of this, then there is no room for a "Historical Jesus". Sad but true.
Yet to teach these truths of ethics and morality that is found in the "mind of Christ" expressed through Judaism to the Gentiles, and having been preconditioned to a Jesus-centric faith into which we are born, it is necessary to teach through the vehicle of this "literal Jesus" in the beginning of our studies and in so doing slowly begin to widen the scope of the reader's learning and thereby gradually introduce him to these other concepts and origins of the "Mystical and Mythical" Christ. In so doing we slowly expose the Historical Jesus for what he is; namely, just an allegory and personification of the indwelling Christ which was later "literalized" and "historicized". This "radical reinterpretation" of God's Christ was later added to Marcion's First New Testament and forged into Rome's New Testament in their grand scheme of replacement religion. Sadly Egypt is destroyed today but her children and her truths live among her children, the Jewish nation and Biblical and Rabbinic Judaism. For me, if you want to find the Messiah and the mind of such a one like whom this Jesus is for me, an "example to be emulated" for all mankind, then we must begin to look in Judaism and in Egypt for, in my opinion, it is here we find "the mind of Egyptian Karast (Krst)" who is the original Christ. These Egyptian mysteries were continued by the Gnostic Christians and the authentic Paul who only wrote 7 epistles and who never taught a "fleshly Jesus Christ". Only when Rome forged later anti-Gnostic religious writings is Rome's Paul given credit for belief in a "historical Christ" which again I, and other scholars, point out was never his true belief. Only later do we tragically find that these metaphysical concepts revealing God to man, as coming down through recorded history from Egypt, to be destroyed when "literalized", "carnalized", and "Christianized" in Rome's New Testament.
But some might wonder and ask "where did all this come from originally"? Well I deal with that to in revealing the "Mythical Christ" as taken from Astronomy and Astrology of the Ancients as they read the stars and Heavens and saw within them and the movements of the Cosmos the varied messages of the Creator to mankind as interpreted in the cycles, patterns, the path of the Sun, moon, planets, stars, constellations, risings, settings, eclipses, etc. The message of Heaven, the cosmos, came down to Earth. Spiritually insightful people understood it and gave it as best they could to others as they could and would accept it. It is all there and the wonder never stops as these Ancient Spiritual Masters saw and understood "Divine Messages" in the Heavens which they brought down to Earth and applied to the Soul of mankind and its pilgrimage and development into this "Karastlikeness" or "Christlikeness" which the Creator intended. This might sound impossible to one now who is not well versed in such areas of study but believe me these teaching will take your breath away as you see the depth of spirituality of our Ancients compared with the religious fare we are fed today from our Christian pulpits and TV. If you ever wondered "where is the beef" you have found it here I promise you and the recommended book list on Egypt will feed you forever.
In closing, approaching these websites it is best that you first read the attachment "websites" as I have reworked this presentation and it exists today as a "plan-o-gram" for your studies from beginning to end. This is the best way in my opinion to approach these varied subjects in order where you move from the inherited "historical" view of "Christ Jesus" to the the "Mystical Christ" and finally to the "Mythical/Metaphysical Christ" and in so doing keep an organized pattern of study. This is the goal and it can be accomplished quite easily if you do as I recommend. It will only require your desire and time to accomplish.
Also attached is our "recommended book list" to show you where you can go to examine these findings for yourself and I recommend many good books which I own and have devoured over these last 20 years. I leave you with my blessings and again thank you for your gift and support of our small and humble attempt to restore the truth concerning God and His Christ to the world as He was first revealed to mankind in the beginning of time before greed, ambition, antisemitism, and the agenda of men and religious politics robbed us of such wonderful truths concerning "the Christ within". I pray that this CD will not only enlighten you to these higher Spiritual Truths but as well as you to find the fullness and stature of Christ in your own life.
