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December 14th, 2001
Received by H.R.
Cuenca, Ecuador.
Dear H___, in my last message I spoke of
Jesus’ separation from his family. I indicated that the reason
for this had been the difference between Jesus and Joseph’s
points of view as to the role of the future Messiah. Today I would
like to go a little deeper into the subject.
I have pointed out that in a message from Jesus’ mother Mary,
as received through Dr. Samuels, that you have been given valuable
information about this. This is true. However I want to correct
some parts in this message which do not express the reality very
accurately.
The message
goes:
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“He began to be more and more different;
he spoke more and more of God and His Love which, he pointed
out to us, was proven by our Scriptures, and by the time he
was twenty, wondered if it could be him. This we did not understand.
We thought we brought into the world a typical pious Jew of
the Chassidic sect — people who had let themselves be
butchered rather than do violence to their religious beliefs.
Our other children, like Judah and Jacob, were more given
to throwing out the Romans; they were very patriotic, as were
many of the young boys of this area.”
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The passage suggests that Jesus only found out when he was twenty
years of age that he would possibly be the Messiah, and that his
family did not understand this. This is not correct. After the events
of Bethlehem and of the visit of the Wise Men from the east, this
statement seems strange.
Joseph and Mary knew that Jesus would be the Messiah, but what
they were incapable of understanding was his attitude.
According to Joseph, Jesus should have taken an interest in politics,
since the Messiah — for him and for almost all Jews —
was to be largely a political figure, also a spiritual figure, of
course. Would he not deliver his people from the Roman yoke? Would
he not lead his people to the summit of power, extending a Kingdom
of perfect justice over all the earth, with the Jews as the ruling
nation? Everybody knew that, and it seemed that the only man not
informed of this was the Messiah himself. Therefore it was necessary
that Jesus should begin to establish bonds with the groups in which
he would have to find his backing, such as the militant extremists,
the priesthood, the aristocracy, etc.
However Joseph's son did not do anything of the like. He sought
solitude, withdrawing ever more from his own family, and he spoke
of his personal relationship to God. He even said that he spoke
with the Heavenly Father. Well for Joseph that did not sound bad
at all, because the prophets also did that, and the Messiah surely
had to have a very special connection to the Creator. But Jesus went
beyond that. He claimed that all people had the same possibility
of establishing this personal bond with God, and that God would
fill their souls with His own Substance of Love.
That really was dangerous. Joseph understood the implications of
his son's ideas very well. They meant that for religion, the Temple
was no longer necessary, and the priesthood was no longer necessary.
And with this kind of teaching, he would never obtain the backing
of the religious class, and without their support, his mission was
condemned to fail.
Joseph's fears had a very real foundation. And finally, this dread
amongst clergymen would be one of the main reasons for their signing
the Galilean prophet's death warrant. And he explained it clearly
to his son, and Jesus agreed. He needed time to think and thus he
said he would leave their home in order to meditate in other surroundings
on the nature of his future mission. Joseph understood him and he
gave him his blessing. However, deep inside, the fear for his son
began to erode his soul.
Should we blame Joseph for his lack of understanding? I don't think
so. He thought as most of the Jews thought, and the walls of his
beliefs and convictions covered his view beyond these poorly established
limitations. Joseph visualized himself as a privileged person, not
only as the Messiah's father, but also as a Hebrew. All Hebrews
would be people of the first class, the rulers of the earth, administering
and judging over the common populace, that is to say, over the rest
of humanity.
You remember what the great Lebanese poet Khalil Gibran wrote:
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“Three days afterwards I visited Jerusalem
and heard of all that had come to pass. And I also heard that
Judas had flung himself from the summit of the High Rock.
I have pondered long since that day, and
I understand Judas. He fulfilled his little life, which hovered
like a mist on this land and enslaved by the Romans, while
the great prophet was ascending the heights.
One man longed for a kingdom in which he
was to be a prince.
Another man desired a kingdom in which all
men shall be princes.”
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We all were caught up in the narrowness of our
mentality.
And Jesus was right. He still needed more time. He had to become
even more filled with the Love of God in order to resist the fierce
storms which would come over his life.
Later on he often used the example of becoming filled with Love,
such as in the instance of the lamps filled with oil, so that they
could light the way, and also in some comparisons not retained in
the Bible. He used to talk about the two buckets, one empty and
the other one filled with water. When a strong wind came, the empty
bucket was tossed to and fro by the fury of the weather, until it
finally broke in a thousand pieces, while the full bucket stayed
firm and stable in its place. He spoke of the two ships, where one
of them capsized amidst the terrible waves, and sank into the abyss
of the ocean, while the other one, because of the weight of its
load or ballast, stayed firm, plowing the stormy sea in stable course,
and reaching unharmed the safety of the harbor.
Man must fill their souls with things which really have weight.
Only in that way can they master the hard times in their lives.
And what weighs most in all eternity, is the Corner Stone of all
existence, the Love of our Father in Heaven.
So he taught us.
It is enough for today. I will leave you now, and I hope that tomorrow
we’ll meet again.
With all my love,
I am Judas,
your brother in the spirit
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