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Presently, Qadosh: The Johannite Tradition is being offered in the Internet Edition Version 4.4. Part Five of Qadosh: The Johannite Tradition is in progress. This is called La Voie Lactée (The Milky Way): The Way of the Stars.
With the exception of two segments (the one preceding the current offering, and the one following it), we will be finishing the online publication of Qadosh: the Johannite Tradition this season.
The present offering is a transcription of the original manuscript notes we took down in 1997, when this book was first written. We were going to publish a rather large work on the subject of the Nusairis, but time and resources, as well as research dictates that we create it as a stand-alone book, to be offered sometime in the future.
We have enjoyed writing Qadosh, but it has been a long eight years worth of work. We only hope that it has earned its place in the hearts and minds of those it has been intended to inform.
We cannot say when the remainder of Book Three shall commence, but with the present essay, and those slated for 01 May, we consider this work to be finished.
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11 March 2005 c.e.
Twin Cedars Lodge.
"It is clear that by the time of his triumphal entry into Jerusalem Jesus had recruited a following. But this following would have been composed of two quite distinct elements ~~~ whose interests were not precisely the same. On the one hand, there would have been a small nucleus of 'initiates' ~~ immediate family, other members of the nobility, wealthy and influential supporters, whose primary objective was to see their candidate installed on the throne. On the other hand, there would have been a much larger entourage of 'common people' ~~ the 'rank and file' of the movement, whose primary objective was to see the message, and the promise it contained, fulfilled. It is important to recognize the distinction between these two factions. Their political objective ~~ to establish Jesus on the throne ~~ would have been the same. But their motivations would have been essentially different.
"When the enterprise failed, as it obviously did, the uneasy alliance between these two factions ~~ 'adherents of the message' and adherents of the family ~~ would seem to have collapsed. Confronted by debacle and the threat of imminent annihilation, the family would have placed a priority on the single factor that, from time immemorial, has been of paramount importance to noble and royal families ~~ preservation of the bloodline at all costs, if necessary in exile. For the 'adherents of the message,' however, the family's future would have been of secondary consequence. Their primary objective would have been perpetuation and dissemination of the message.
"Christianity, as it evolves through its early centuries and eventually comes down to us today, is a product of the 'adherents of the message.'"<1>
"Quantum nobis prodest haec fabula Christi!" ~~ Pope Leo X.<2>
"It's good to be the king!!" ~~ Mel Brooks, History of the World, Pt. I.
"...she [Miss Jessie L. Weston] returned to the Hammer thesis of continuity between third-century Gnosticism (she decided, for obscure reasons, in favour of a sect called the Naassenes), and the Templars. Had the Templars come into contact with a survival of the Naassene tradition during their crusading service in the East, she asked? It seemed to her exceedingly probable. If this had been so, it would explain the 'puzzling connection' of the Templars with the Knights of the Grail and it would also explain the doom which fell upon the Templar Order. By a further jump in the argument, which is particularly hard to follow<3>, she purported to see that Templar knowledge of Grail secrets made them into no ordinary heretics but into the possessors of a doctrine which criticized Christianity<4> in such a fundamental and radical way that at the time of the Templar trial the existence of the Grail heresy had to be hushed up so as not to imperil the very survival of the Christian faith." <5>
"Consider of this..." ~~ Baphomet XI°.
"Most ancient, pagan, Mesopotamian Urfa had worshipped gods of the sun and moon and stars, a faith that survived in the surrounding countryside until the Middle Ages, when the Crusaders found a remnant priesthood still at their rituals in ancient ruined temples. The cult had come to Urfa [Turkey] and at neighboring cities from southern Mesopotamia." ~~ John Romer, TESTAMENT.
<F2>c.1513-1521e.v. This was Giovanni de Medici, who, among other things, pronounced judgment against Johann Reuchlin. Back
<F3>...but...read this part of the Present Work, and it will be seen that it is hard for the author quoted above, and not for the serious but unbiased scholar.Back
<F4>I.e. Orthodox post-council Catholic Christianity and its derivatives. Back
< F5>Peter Partner, THE MURDERED MAGICIANS, p. 168. Back
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