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January 25th, 2002
Received by H.R.
Cuenca, Ecuador.
Hello my brother. I see that you are somewhat
worried.
H.R.: Not really worried, but a little confused. The
day before yesterday and yesterday I tried to receive your message,
but without the least success. I prepared myself, I reserved a good
time for you, at noon, when I was not sleepy, I even had the impression
that you would speak on "hate that becomes compassion in the
beyond," or something like that, but when I really tried to
receive, there was nothing, only silence. I don't understand this.
Well, my dear friend, although you thought that you were in a good
condition, it was not so. This is why I did not try to convey a
message. And in fact, today you are better, but still, your condition
does not permit me to transmit a message such as I had intended.
I wanted to talk about natural love and its purification. However,
today is not the appropriate day for doing so. However, I will communicate
another message.
We have often been in touch. I have delivered almost a hundred
messages through you, and you should already know me better. Although
you don't receive anything on a given day, I am always with you.
I don't want you to feel forgotten or abandoned. If I do not come,
it is because it does not make sense trying to communicate. Of course,
I can always present myself and say: “Hello, my friend, how
are you?" And later we may talk about banalities, but this
does not make sense either, and in the first place, it is not gratifying.
So, if you are not able to contact me one day, you know that something
is wrong with your condition. And then it is your turn to help the
situation.
H.R.: Lately, I have dedicated a lot of time to assign
dates to the messages received by James Padgett. Is that the cause?
No, it is not. In the last days, some kind of "negativity"
has taken possession of you. And this is fatal for your spirituality.
You are in a phase of transition. You have some knowledge, you have
some faith, but you are still dragging heavy ballast. You continue
being "very inflammable", you continue being very negative
on occasions, you live in a sway of emotions. Spiritual stability
does not come overnight. It is a process that takes some time. And
I am aware of that, I am not reproaching you, I am informing you.
Be aware of what is happening with you, only so you may speed up
the process leading to more stability. But that is enough now on
that subject.
I will not talk about natural love and its purification, I will
not talk about the loss of rapport between the Celestial spirits
and Mr. Padgett, on which you have already received some impressions,
but we will deal with a biblical topic.
You have read the New Testament, and you know how the different
gospels relate Jesus' life. In several parts they contradict each
other, in other parts they agree with each other, there is no uniform
chronology, what one gospel puts into one year, the other one distributes
over three years, etc. In short, in the religious teachings, at
school, they taught you that the gospels are not simply “biographies”
of Jesus, but free stories, narrating Jesus' story from the point
of view of a given author, with omissions and invented adornments.
But later, when you found some spiritualistic writings, such as
The Urantia Book, you saw that the story of Jesus' life therein
continues to some extent along the lines of the gospels, they are
almost like "harmonies", combinations of the four canonical
stories. Also in the messages received through Mr. Padgett and Dr.
Samuels you found some things, which you held for simple fantasies,
such as the murder of the children of Bethlehem, the “Wise
Men”, etc.
I tell you that a good part of the stories contained in the gospels
have a valid historical core, which later on was mystified and exalted.
Nevertheless, you should not be surprised, when our story also corroborates
many events as narrated in the Bible.
What the original evangelists wrote were not biographies, but collections
of sayings and deeds, without chronological order. Later on, these
writings were edited, in order to compose something like a "novel"
about Jesus' life.
The ignorance of Jesus' true life was enormous, even a few decades
after his death. A large percentage of the eye-witnesses suffered
violent deaths, opening up the way to a great variety of fantastic
interpolations — and opportune ones for the prevalent teaching
of the epoch. There was not even agreement on Jesus' life span.
You know a famous ancient writing, which contradicts what the gospels
tell of Jesus' age. I want you to write down it here.
H.R.: Are you referring to Irenaeus?
Yes.
H.R.: Irenaeus claimed that Jesus lived until
his old age.
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"Being thirty years old when He
came to be baptized, and then possessing the full age of a
Master, He came to Jerusalem, so that He might be properly
acknowledged by all as a Master. For He did not seem one thing
while He was another, as those affirm who describe Him as
being man only in appearance; but what He was, that He also
appeared to be. Being a Master, therefore, He also possessed
the age of a Master, not despising or evading any condition
of humanity, nor setting aside in Himself that law which He
had appointed for the human race, but sanctifying every age,
by that period corresponding to it which belonged to Himself.
For He came to save all through means of Himself — all,
I say, who through Him are born again to God — infants,
and children, and boys, and youths, and old men. He therefore
passed through every age, becoming an infant for infants,
thus sanctifying infants; a child for children, thus sanctifying
those who are of this age, being at the same time made to
them an example of piety, righteousness, and submission; a
youth for youths, becoming an example to youths, and thus
sanctifying them for the Lord. So likewise He was an old man
for old men, that He might be a perfect Master for all, not
merely as respects the setting forth of the truth, but also
as regards age, sanctifying at the same time the aged also,
and becoming an example to them likewise. Then, at last, He
came on to death itself, that He might be "the first-born
from the dead, that in all things He might have the pre-eminence,"
the Prince of life, existing before all, and going before
all."
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Very well. An old man in that time was a man of fifty years or more
of age. Irenaeus claims, then, that Jesus was not crucified at an
age of thirty-odd years, but much later. He wrote this work approximately
150 years after the Master’s death. Do you find this surprising?
If you now go to write an historical account, for example on somebody
who lived 150 years ago, during the revolutions of the year 1848
in Europe, or about the gold rush of 1849 in the United States,
or about the devastating war of Paraguay against Argentina, Uruguay
and Brazil, how much of objectivity will be in this? Nothing! The
world has changed so much that you can no longer think and feel
as people thought and felt in that time.
I admit that changes happened slower in antiquity, but on the other
hand, there was not the great wealth of documentory material that you
may now have recourse to.
That is all for today. I hope you recover your balance soon, because
I would like to deliver messages of a somewhat greater depth. But
through what I have written today, at least you may understand the
reason for the contradictory stories, of a Jesus who survived crucifixion
and exiled himself in Kashmir, living there a long life full with
teachings until his natural death, or of a Jesus who taught during
decades in Palestine as a respected master, the Jesus who was murdered
after a ministry of one year, or that one who preached during three
years, or that one who was never crucified, because people took
Simon of Cyrene for him and nailed him on the wood, while Jesus
went away laughing...
The soul condition is not something fixed, but you have to work
on it constantly. I will help you, but you have to do the work yourself.
Have a nice day. With all my love,
Judas of Kerioth
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