Get the previously offered Introduction page here.
Presently, Qadosh: The Johannite Tradition is being offered in the Internet Edition Version 4.3. Part Five of Qadosh: The Johannite Tradition is in progress. This is called La Voie Lactée (The Milky Way): The Way of the Stars.
The present offering includes a survey of some of the early accounts of the Nusairi and related sects of Northern Syria, from Ancient Times to the end of the 18th Century.
FIRST, though, we have to say: Exactly five years ago we published the first three segments of Qadosh: The Johannite Tradition to the web. Now we are beginning to wrap it up. It has been a long ride, and now prints to well over a ream of paper. Book Two, Part Five will be very large. Be prepared, stock up on inkjet cartridges (because this book must be in print!).
We have, in the past five years of our research, found amazing corroborations for our original thesis, written out in the pre-internet days (for us) of 1997. It is truly amazing! And it is truly amazing how nobody else (except those who rip our ideas, in which case those people do not count as anything other than low-lifes)....... has caught on to what has always been available to the interested scholar. Ah, no interested scholars? Well that should change, as it did when we started putting up the Mandaean, Yezidi, and Isma'ili sections.
Here we go presenting a survey of the travellers and writers who have, since the days of Pliny, written of the Nusairi. Future versions may include earlier materials as well. Following the Bibliography of Dussaud, we have managed to find things which even the learned scholar missed.
And, we have found things that got left on the cutting room floor, when Messrs. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln published Holy Blood, Holy Grail. Well that's better for us!
So, then, get ready to enjoy the new PDF file format version of Qadosh. We are going to keep the Grey pages for download links, but eventually that is all we are going to be offering, complete with the donation links...
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17 January 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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