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February 3rd, 1955
Received by Dr Samuels
Washington D.C.
I am here, Jesus.
I will say no more for the present concerning these Messianic passages,
but will turn to discuss the subject of some of the miracles which are
found in the Old Testament and which were incorporated later into the
New Testament. And the
first is the raising of the woman's son from the dead. And also the
story in which Elisha
in the Book of Kings II feeds one hundred men with only the firstfruits
of some corn and bread, an incident which is just as false as the one
in which I am represented
as having fed five thousand. And again the story of the
angel in Genesis coming to tell Sarah
that she is to have a son in her old age, a story that sounded supernatural
enough to be used in the story of Gabriel
coming to announce to Elizabeth the birth of (John) the Baptist.
In addition, the later New Testament writers turned to Greek mythology or some of their tales regarding my miracles and in that way they read that Poseidon, the god of the sea, walked on the water, which was sufficient for their imagination to have me also walk on the water. And in this way they secured the idea for making my mother a virgin by their reading of the Greek legends that told of a number of goddesses who gave birth to sons although they themselves were virgins, and I can name such instances of Demetrius and Danae who gave birth to Perseus without the benefit of a mate, and several others.
I should also like to call attention to the fact that the
story of the water to wine episode at the
marriage at Cana was a story that was borrowed from the Greek account
of Dionysius of Elis, the god of wine who would make jars of water turn
to wine overnight by putting them into a concealed chamber.
All of these instances of miracles which were attributed to me were not done with any maliciousness of heart, but with the obvious desire to stress my supernatural powers to the point of making me a divinity equal with God, or God, Himself, and this was the result of the stress laid on the desire to institutionalize Christianity instead of keeping love of spirituality, and indicates that those in power wished to keep that power by making the priestly order and functions the dominant part of the religion. In this way, the church eventually fell into the same pit of ambition and worldliness which the church accused the Sadducees and Hebrew religious leaders of, and perpetuated a system entirely man-made, lacking in essentials of spirituality, as the Divine Love of the Father for mankind, which had been my paramount reason for my ministry and the cornerstone of all my teachings.
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