WHO WAS "JESUS"? The purpose of this chapter is to share with the reader some of the self-knowledge established by the author on the "Man called Jesus." It is included in this material because of the profound impact this Celestial Guest made on Biological Evolution. Also, because of the gross misrepresentation and false teaching of education and religion regarding the life, purpose and teaching of the greatest Celestial Son ever to grace the magnetosphere of a form world. Few there are who realize the magnitude of the brilliance, glory and Celestial greatness of this Creator Son who walked the land of Shan and shared His glory, His knowledge and His blood with the ungrateful "Children of the lie." This Man called "Jesus" was the Creator of our universe and is now the Supreme Sovereign over that which He has Created. He is Michael, number 611,121 of the Order of Michaels from the Super Universes. These Descending Sons of the Paradise Universes are commissioned by the Eternal Sons to Create new universes as the electromagnetic conditions are readied. Michael Created the local universe about four hundred billion years ago, and recently (1,900 years ago) completed His final initiation, which required experience on a form world as a co-Creating mortal Man, and became the Supreme Sovereign Authority with absolute adjudication over that which He had Created. The Creation and history of this universe, called Nebadon, is a fascinating story, however, because of the theme of this limited volume, our interest and space deal very briefly with the seventh and final initiation of Michael as mortal Man on Earth and also of His Special Assignment as the Christ for the Picean Age. The Sovereign of a universe has reached the ultimate as a knowledgeable, just and efficient administrator; but, a Supreme Sovereign must also he capable of ruling with absolute fairness, mercy and understanding. Thus, the purpose of the seven initiations, is to take the Mind of the Creator Son into the depths of feeling, suffering and humiliation with the creatures He has Created into life and individualized into Motion. Experience converts knowledge into wisdom. Understanding that wisdom brings peace, "the peace that passeth all understanding." The name Immanuel, which means, "God among us," was given to Michael by Archangel Gabriel, for His final initiation. This is also the name of Michael's Cosmic brother, who was the Sovereign pro tem of Nebadon during the period of time Michael was engaged in the seven initiations. Each mission occurred about one hundred million years apart, which consumed about one billion years in all. This shows that Michael departed from the Salvington dispatch grid on His first initiation approximately the same time that the planet 606 of Santania was completing its present physical size, shape and form. Just a little over thirty five thousand years ago, a special message was broadcast over the mind-gravity circuits of Nebadon that Michael had selected planet 606 of Santania as the location for his final initiation. The Earth was chosen by Michael shortly after He had learned that Adam and Eve had defaulted on their covenant. Thus, for more than thirty five thousand years, all that has transpired on the troubled, but honored planet Shan, has been constantly monitored and publicized throughout the universe. IMMANUEL THE CHRIST Again, the purpose for including the material on the Christ in this segment is because of the tremendous flood of false teachings and orchestrated lies perpetrated by modern-day religions in regard to the true identity of the Christ and the real purpose of this great Avatar of the Age. Since the betrayal of Caligastia and the default of Adam and Eve, religion has been the dominant instrument used by the adversary for social control of the masses. Under the false and cunning pretense of religious creeds, through higher education and manipulated governments, this heinous mental slavery has now forced every facet of our culture right to the brink of collapse. The accumulation of all of these negative, false and confusing thought patterns that have been embedded in the seedbed of the "children of time," civilization after civilization, are now being used by the adversary to bring about and manipulate the devastating storms, floods, earthquakes, diseases, wars, crimes and the complete breakdown of moral and spiritual values-values that are absolutely necessary in order to sustain Human life on a form world. The name "Jesus" was given to Immanuel near the close of His assignment as the Christ, in a manner quite contrary to that being taught today by the orthodox religions The records in the scripts place the time of the incident two days before He was to be turned over to the courts. He had just finished a discourse to a small group of people who had gathered to hear Hun, when a man named Saul approached Him and said, 'You are preaching heresy; and it is strange to me listening from the onset. It appears most stupid and your spirit seems greatly confused." After correcting Saul, the Master continued, "Verily I say to you, Saul, you are persecuting me, as well as my disciples, because of my teaching, but you will change your mind, my friend. From now on you shall be named Paul and travel in all directions, and you shall have to suffer greatly for having called my teaching 'heresy and my spirit confused. You will heap upon your back a great, great burden, for in your lack of understanding and foolish-ness, you will misunderstand my teachings, and therefore, teach falsely. Your speech will be confused, and the people all over the world will be in bondage to your false word, and slaves unto it and will worship the doctrine of lies which you will put forth into them. Ye will not even be in the knowledge of that which you do, but in the ending ye shall be required to rectify that which you shall perpetrate m this. 'You will place the entire land of the Greek in bondage to an evil cult with your false teachings, thus you will call me in their language 'the anointed.' It will be the fault of your ignorance that they will call me JESUS CHRIST, which means 'the anointed.' My name is Immanuel, 'God among us' and ye shall be responsible for thousands of generations to he in false knowledge. "Further, it will rest on thy back, in thy ignorance, that the wondrous name of JESUS will be used falsely and in that name, Human blood will be shed, so much will be shed that it cannot be contained in all the now existing containers. So be it, Paul, for it shall come to pass." When the true identity of the Christ is discussed in the seminars, the question is often asked, "Why do Ascended Masters, Spiritual Guides and Cosmic Helpers who communicate with people on the planet, still call Him Jesus? One reason is, because of the widespread teaching, the people would not recognize or accept the story of Christ without the name of Jesus. So, they just go along with the accepted name. Another explanation is due to the many personalities involving this Descending Creator Son. The Celestials probably think that it would be more confusing to explain the names and assignments of the different personality extensions of this Great Being than to just use the accepted name. Also, the answer that usually draws a longer discussion, is that most beings in the Higher Realms realize that the people em-bodied on the Earth at this time, have the name JESUS so deeply embedded in their seedbed as the Christ, the Redeemer or the Savior of all mankind, that they could not comprehend the new information without a major change in their belief system. Therefore, in regard to symbols, they go along with what is acceptable to the recipient's belief patterns that he has established during his lifestream and with his outer consciousness. But, when it comes to the truth of a concept, the genuine guides, teachers or special helpers are constantly radiating Ideas of Reality and Truth into the noetic atmosphere of the brain, which is the individual's Mind-consciousness. However, the recipient still has to make the choice as to whether he is going to go along with the old false, confusing facts of life implanted in his seedbed, or if he is willing to go within and rely on his own ability to draw on this fertile force field of Truth. The guides, teachers or guardians cannot influence or persuade a person in any way whatsoever in the choosing. All Truth is em-bedded in the Color Bands of the Causal Body. But, we have closed the door to this tremendous storehouse of all knowledge by accepting outside programming. Each person must make the choice to draw on this source of Truth for his daily thinking or to just go along with the limited and controlled thought patterns that are automatically firing from the belief system. How to balance the thought patterns in the seedbed that are blocking the remembrance of this Truth and actually draw on this vast field of all knowledge, is discussed later on in the book. The point here is that a person can not recall the Truth in the Color Bands of his Causal Body if he has contrary thought patterns stored in his seedbed. "As ye sow, so shall ye reap." The word Christ means crystal clear knowledge, the Kristos, the KNOWINGNESS of Solar Reality on the physical plane, the Seven Color Bands of the Causal Body in action on a form world. The Personality of The Christ is an Avatar, Sage or Master who brings the Cosmic knowledge of KNOWING into the physical plane. The Christ Consciousness is Solar reality, which is physical perfection in the third dimension. The energy of KNOWING has been referred to as the Great Comforter, or the Holy Spirit. During the long struggle of Solar Evolution, when the planet Earth, for the second time, was scheduled to be destroyed, lord Krishna, God-Parent of the third Solar System in our Galaxy, answered the call from Sanat Kumara to visit the Earth and radiate His powerful energy of KNOWING into the consciousness of the withered Souls of the dying fourth Root Race. Because of the brilliant radiance of Lord Krishna's powerful Heart Flame, He was given the Title of The Christ. Thus Lord Krishna became the first Christ to the troubled planet 606 of Santania. THE BIRTH OF IMMANUEL The birth of Immanuel on the Earth was no different than any other biological birth on the planet except for the manner in which the Soul Seed was transplanted into the Mind gravity chamber of Mary, the pre-selected_mother. It was transplanted by a special emissary selected by Archangel Gabriel, but not of the Order of Life Designers who normally perform this function in Biological Evolution on the decimal planets of the local System. This unique assignment was carried out by Rasiel, who was the Guardian Angel of the secret. The Soul Seed contained the magnificent design of a perfect specimen suitable for the assignment. This mental image was impressed with the electronic key-Dote, assigned to the Personality of the Creator Son number 611,121 in the Order of Michaels, under the name of Esu Immanuel. When Joseph, the husband of Mary, was told by Gabriel of the Celestial insemination, he was greatly disturbed. But, after the inner remembrance of his agreement, stimulated by Gabriel, Joseph graciously accepted the honor of his mission. The other eight children of the Joseph family were born through normal transplantation of the incoming Soul Seed through the reproductive organs of the parents. On a form world, in the normal birth procedure of an incoming Human Being, the Soul Seed, after the Personality has been granted the privilege of embodiment by the Karmic Board, is projected into the atmosphere and breathed in by the designated male parent. After it has made its way to the reproductive organs, the Seed is then injected into the reproductive organs of the potential mother, where the physical body of the new life is formed out of the substance of the mother and in the exact.. design of the electronic keynote impressed in the mental image within the Soul Seed. This action is carried out by the involuntary function of the mother's Mind and the Body Elemental of the incoming entity. A Soul Seed is an electromagnetic impulse that contains the mental image of all that that life is to be during an embodiment on a form world. During each step of development, the mental Idea is divided into two opposite conditions and impressed into the 'vacuum chamber of a light wave, where each growth ring is formed into matter. The great mystery of Creation lies in the drama of the Idea within the Soul Seed, being played out in the vacuum cube of the light wave, under the direction of the Soul's identifying electronic keynote. The birth and childhood of Immanuel is a fascinating story and is often discussed in detail at the seminars, however, only a few instances will be mentioned here in order to provide the reader with information on a few misrepresented events upon which he may contemplate and thereby establish his own self-knowledge. Every religion that claims this mortal Man, "Jesus Christ," as its God, King or Savior, has its own perverted version of the birth, life, death and ascension of this Creator Son who donned the robe of mortality, walked the Earth, and experienced compassion, pity, tragedy, rejection, fear, violence, parental duty and finally "death," all for the fulfillment of His own initiation--not to die for someone else's sins, or to redeem another's misused life force energy, or to save a "lost Soul." The earthly assignment as the Christ, that He accepted was a very noble one, and He fulfilled it to the letter, but, it was rejected, perverted and grossly misrepresented. The purpose of Immanuel '5 life as the Christ for the Picean Age was to appear on Earth, through biological birth as a mortal son, to teach the theme for the new age, known as the Sixth Ray. The Sixth Ray was to be the Age of Preparation. Its purpose was to prepare the inhabitants of the planet for the great move into the Golden Age. Although Immanuel '5 assignment as the Christ was greatly hampered by the dark forces of the Adversary', His experiences as a mortal creature on planet 606 of Santanla was a glorious victory for His seventh initiation. Immanuel was born in Bethlehem of Judea at noon, August 21, 7 B.C. He was the first son of Joseph and Mary' of Nazareth in Galilee. The boy was registered in the Temple on the eighth day, which was the custom, under the name of Joshua Ben Joseph. Because of a decree issued by Herod, which called for the death of all boy babies under two years of age, Joseph and Mary', with their one year and ten months old son' fled by night to Egypt, where they would be out of the jurisdiction of the decree. The decree resulted in the innocent death of sixteen male children in the town of Bethlehem. The parents and children, who had volunteered before embodiment to take part in this event, upon their return to the astral plane, were duly honored and each one advanced in their life journey according to their individual status. The special arrangements for this opportunity to serve was worked out by the Angelic Host of the Temple of the Sacred Heart. After her ascension, Mary, for her role as mother of the Christ, was given the Celestial title of "Mother of the World." She was also assigned to the position of Director of the Temple of the Sacred Heart. It was in this capacity that she gave special assistance to the sixteen mothers who had suffered the loss of their child in the butal plot to kill her son. On one of our seminar tours, I met a woman who had been shown some of her past lives on the Earth. She related that she was one of the mothers who had lost their son when King Herod's decree to kill all male babies under the age of two years, was issued in Bethlehem. In recalling the event, through her tears, she related that all sixteen of the mothers had agreed, before embodiment, to take part m the traumatic event and that Mother Mary' was still giving them special assistance in their personal journey. After the death of Herod, the area under his control was divided into two domains and placed under the reign of his two sons, Antipas and Archelaus. Because Galilee fell under the rulership of Antipas, the less violent of the two brothers, Joseph and Mary' decided that it would be much safer to return to Nazareth rather than to Bethlehem to raise and educate their son. when the family departed from Alexandria to return to their home in Galilee, friends and relatives presented a unique gift to Joshua. Unique indeed for a three and one-half year old child. It was a complete copy of the Greek translation of the "Hebrew" scriptures. By the time he enrolled in the Nazareth school, at the age of six years, Joshua had mastered the Greek translation and had acquired a broad knowledge of the "Hebrew" scriptures. THE DEATH OF JOSEPH Probably the greatest test that Immanuel would experience during His entire incarnation as mortal Man, came when He was fourteen years of age. The Joseph family had expanded to eight children with another expected to arrive soon. The contracting business, which Joseph had developed and still managed, was doing well. Another steady income for the family was the carpenter and repair shop, in which Joseph was a partner. It was located on the edge of town at the great east-west and north-south caravan trade routes, known worldwide as The Crossroads. On September 25, A.D. 9, Joseph was killed by a falling derrick while overseeing a construction project. The building accident that claimed his life happened to be the construction of the governor's mansion for Antipas, the son of King Herod who had sought the death of Joseph's first born son, Mary was devastated, she could not understand why such an overwhelming tragedy should befall the family whose destiny was to raise and educate the "promised child." From the time Joshua was born, Joseph and Mary were well aware that their first born son was a special child and was destined to be a great teacher. Although Mary had been instructed by Gabriel to hold the Immaculate Conception (the act of holding a concept in consciousness until it is materialized) of Immanuel's assignment as the Christ in her outer conscious, she still was not aware of the Creator Son's Celestial Mission as mortal Man. The tragedy of His father's death caused Immacuel great concern about the training and preparation for His Assignment as the Christ. It had always been the family's intentions for the youth to continue his education in the great schools of the synagogue at Jerusalem. However, now these plans would have to be changed. As the first born son, he had been thrust into the responsibility of supporting and managing the household of a large family. At the tender age of fourteen, Joshua Ben Joseph knew that if he was to gain further education and training for his life's work, it would have to be obtained through the actual experience of sup-porting the family and raising and educating his seven brothers and sisters. He realized that the greatest lessons of life, love, wisdom, patience, compassion, fairness and knowledge, must be understood within the Mind and not through the lower vibrations of the senses. After deep contemplation, Immanuel accepted Experience as his greatest teacher. This would be his "higher education." He knew that he would need wisdom as well as knowledge. This extraordinary' youth took over the reigns of his father's business and the tremendous responsibility of his father's family. Only a few months had passed, when his first challenge arrived. On Wednesday evening, April 17, A.D. 9, little Ruth joined the Joseph household with all of the excitement, compassion and celebration that a large, saddened, but loving family could offer. Mother Mary marveled at the warmth and compassion of the new head of the household; and the deep concern and able leadership of the young patriarch, greatly consoled her. Because of the tremendous amount of traffic that passed through the caravan crossroads at Nazareth, the story of Joseph's death and the manner in which the carpenter's fourteen year old first born son had taken over the responsibility of supporting and educating the large family, had spread far and wide. Joshua Ben Joseph was known around the world as the wise and skillful "brother-father of Nazareth." After Joseph's death and the arrival of little Ruth, the Nazarene family consisted of nine children, a devoted mother, and a first born son now acting as the head of the household. Following is the chronological order of the rest of the children in the Joseph family: James, the second son was born in the early hours of April 2, 3 B.C. On the night of July 11,2 B.C., Mariam, the first girl in the family was born. The fourth member to join the Nazarene family was Thomas, he arrived Wednesday morning, March16, A.D. I. Joshua Ben's third brother, Simon, was born Friday evening, April 14, of the year A.D. 2. On Thursday night, September 13, of the following year, A.D. 3, Joshua's second sister, Martha, was born. His fourth brother, Jude, made his appearance on Wednesday evening, January 24, A.D. 5. On Sunday night, January 9, A.D. 7, his baby brother, Amos, was born. At the age of 5, after a short illness, Amos died December 3, A.D. 12. THE LORD'S PRAYER As head of the household, the first of the many changes that Joshua Ben made in the family routine was that of the manner in which prayers were recited. while the lad had great respect for his father and mother, he did not approve of their religious practices. All prayers had to be prescribed by the priests in the synagogue and recited by memory. No voluntary, individual or personal prayers were allowed. Contact with God could only be made through the prescribed prayers of the High Priests. This was a part of the rigid control religion had over the people. Late one evening as he sat alone at the large stone table, Joshua wrote the new family prayer. It was neatly scribed with a charcoal stick on a thin cedar board eighteen inches square. The next day, Miriam painted a color border of flowers around the prayer. The family liked it so much that it was hung in a conspicuous place in the home and repeated in unison at the begin-fling of all family meals, meetings and social gatherings. Later in His assignment, Immanuel taught this prayer and its meaning to His apostles. Although it has been altered and mistranslated many times and in many ways, it is still known around the world as the "lord's Prayer." when Joshua attended the synagogue school and learned that girls were not allowed to be educated, he set up a school for girls and conducted classes in his home for his sisters and other girls in the neighborhood. His parents approved and supported the project wholeheartedly. when he became head of the household the classes were still continued. Later on, when it came time for Inaamiel to start His Mission as the Christ, the family responsibilities were turned over to James, who was delighted and honored to continue with the special classes. In the seminars, it is often asked, 'Was "Jesus" a Jew?" The answer is NO. There is no way that 'Immanuel could have been a Jew. The word Jew was not coined on the planet Earth until the latter part of the eithteenth century. The so-called "Hebrews," at that time, were a grand conglomerate of descendants from almost every race, tribe and clan around the known world. Their culture and religion was also an adopted, or stolen, admixture of royal rites, war rituals and family customs that suited their wild and sordid fantasies of greed, lust and violence. The embodiment of Immanuel was selected more for the culture and location of the area rather than the genealogy of His parents. However, Joseph and Mary did come from remarkable stock. Joseph descended from a long lineage of builders, carpenters, masons and smiths; while Mary's ancesters were a long line of unique and strong progenitors of five major nationalities. Palestine was a unique area. All of the ancient trade routes and traveling caravans of the known world intersected at the Crossroads on the west side of Nazareth. As a youth, and in his young adult years, Joshua spent as much time as he could in his father's supply and repair shop at the Crossroads. This was his education. He swapped stories and ideas with people from all walks of life from royality to the working class. As for the genealogy of Joseph and Mary their lineage could be traced back through the Sumerians, Nodites, the ancient blue race and through the Andonites to Andon and Fonta, the first family of Biological Evolution