The teaching of Jesus was about tolerance, peace and
love. Yet Christianity itself has a
reputation of bigotry, intolerance, force, violence and even hatred. His teachings like; "Turn the other
cheek", "love your enemies" and "resist not evil" as
well as his behaviour in allowing himself to be betrayed, whipped and crucified
doesn't fit in with the behaviour of the Christian church. His teachings seemed to be masochistic.
To quote the King James Bible.
In Matthew chapter 5 verse 38
Ye have heard that it hath been said. And eye for a eye a tooth for a tooth:
But I say unto you.
That ye resist not evil: but whosoever she smite thee on the right
cheek, turn to him the other also.
And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy
coat, let him have thy cloak also.
And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him
twain.
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow
of thee and not turn not thou away.
Ye have heard that it hath been said. Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine
enemy.
But I say unto you.
Love your enemies, bless them that hate you, and pray for them which
despitefully use you, and persecute you:
That ye many be the children of your Father which is in
heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth
the rain on the just and on the unjust.
We can see the same ideas in
Luke chapter 6 verse 27
But I say unto you which hear, Love your enemies, do good to
them which hate you.
Bless them that curse you and pray for them which
despitefully use you.
And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also
the other; and him that taketh away thy cloak forbid not to take away thy coat
also.
Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that
taketh away thy goods ask them not again
And as ye would that man should
do to you, do also to them likewise
For if ye love them which love you, what thanks have ye for
sinners also, love those that love them.
And if ye do good to them which do good to you, what thank
have ye? For sinners also do even the same.
And if ye lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what
thank ye? For sinners also lend to sinners, to receive much gain.
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend hoping for
nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of
the highest: For he is kind unto the
unthankful and to the evil.
Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father is merciful.
Judge not and ye shall not be judged: condemn not and ye shall not be
condemned: forgive, and ye shall be
forgiven.
Many Christians do not like these teaching and prefer to
ignore them but Jesus not only taught this, he also practiced it. Jesus allowed himself to betrayed by his
disciple Judas, even though he knew what Judas was doing. He didn’t try to defend himself from
accusations made by the Pharisees, either.
He also didn’t cooperate with Pilate’s attempts to get him released.
In the end, he voluntary allowed himself to be mocked and
beaten and then whipped, tortured and crucified by the Roman soldiers. So why was Jesus behaving in this way? After all, he comes across as a total wimp,
because he never attempted to stand up for himself. You could even accuse him of masochism. For this reason many Christians do not like
the extreme "meek and mild" image that Jesus presents to the world.
Scholars, points out that the story of Jesus is not original
or unique because many other pagan gods like Osiris, Orpheus, Dionysus,
Bacchus, Mithras, Odin, Bader, Loki and Pan also had similar histories. The story of a god-man who performed miracles
like healing the sick, then was condemned to death and crucified, but returned
from the dead, was commonplace in many pre-Christian religions. These gods died on trees or stakes and some
like Dionysus and Jesus died on crosses.
Most of these stories come from Mystery Plays but
unfortunately much of the knowledge of these plays were destroyed by Christians
and Moslems. So today we don't know a
lot about what the Mysteries were, but if we look at the behaviour Jesus and
other sacrificial Gods we can get an idea of what they might be about.
What Christians claim is that Jesus in the Bible sacrificed
himself to the Father God for the sin of mankind. They also claim that God was angry with mankind
and Jesus sacrificed himself to appease the anger of his father. This is, in spite of the fact that Jesus
claimed that the Father God was a loving God.
In other sacrificial gods all the sins of mankind are accepted by the
saviour god who then is abused, punished and put to death. So he becomes the scapegoat for the sins of
the community.
Now in all Mystery religions there is an outer and inner
mystery, where all knowledge of the inner mysteries is unknown except of an
initiated few. In the earlier Mystery
plays the saviour god sacrificed themselves to The Great Mother. For instance, in the Nordic mythology, Loki,
one of their oldest Gods, was sacrificed to the Goddess Skadi. While even in the Jesus story, his
crucifixion is witnessed by the three Marys.
Who probably represented in earlier times the Triple Goddesses.
Jesus is also called a king and this may be about a very
ancient tradition where the king is sacrifice.
It seems in the matriarchal past only queens could rule but she had
consort kings. These were mostly young
men, and if the queen grew tired of him then he was sacrificed for the
fertility of the land.
Why this happened might be because a deposed king may be
angry at his lost of power and status and stir up trouble for the Queen. Or he might be executed because he began to
abuse his power, and tried to undermine or disobey the Queen. So the sacrifice of kings had a long
tradition until with the rise of patriarchy, kings became too powerful to allow
themselves to be sacrificed.
For this reason, the tradition of the sacrificing the king
may have happened as matriarchy was declining.
In a true matriarchal society men would not expect to have any power,
and so a Queen could have many lovers with no fear that these men will want to
take away her powers. As it would have
been unthinkable in those days, that a male could, depose a queen and rule in
her place.
But with the rise of patriarchy, then queens may find
themselves with lovers with strong political ambitions. So the only way to deal with them, was to
have them executed, or threaten them with execution and claim it was a
sacrifice.
This type of sacrifice probably wasn't voluntary, but in the
savoir god tradition it was. It was made
very clear in the Bible that Jesus made no attempt to resist being
crucified. So from this we have to ask
the question how can the voluntary sacrifice of the god-man to the Great
Mother, save us all?
In the past there was once a peaceful and caring matriarchal
age that worshipped the Great Mother. In
this age women ruled society and men never questioned this rule. Then women began to allow men more freedom
but this went too far and men abused this freedom, and ended up taking over and
ruling society through violence. Clearly
if we look at the history of the last four or five thousand years we can see
clearly that men have made a terrible job at ruling the world. Men's answer to all problems has been
aggression and violence, .which has created a world of wars, genocide, poverty,
fear, hatred and suffering.
This was clearly seen two to three thousand years ago at the
time of the saviour gods when there was still knowledge of the ancient
matriarchal past. At that time there
must have been a large number of people who wanted the world to return to
matriarchy and the worship of the Great Mother.
But what was preventing this, was violent and aggressive men.
This means that people who attempted to set up a matriarchal
society of love and harmony, would be quickly conquered by violent men, who were
only interested in loot and enslaving the population. So it would be clear that the cause of all
the wars, violence, poverty and suffering was these selfish and violent
men.
We know from history that the Amazons did for a while
attempt to fight fire with fire and fight back.
But this clearly wasn't the answer because by becoming violent yourself
you become exactly like the people you are fighting against. In other words the only way Amazons could be
free was to become as aggressive, ruthless and violence as the men they
fought. The Amazons failed to stop the
rising tide of patriarchy, probably because women were unable to become as
brutal and ruthless as men.
For this reason some women decided on a different strategy
and attempted to reform these violent men. To do this they gave them a vision
of what a caring and loving world would be like and explaining to them this is
only possible if you are willing to sacrifice yourself to the Great Mother. So
a story was created about a drama of heroic sacrifice, of a God-man sacrificing
himself for the good of the world. To some degree this seems to of been
successful because all over Europe and the Middle East
there were saviour god religions. So it
seems many men were willing to sacrifice themselves to the Goddess in these
Mystery religions.
The reason might be that if men are the natural submissive
sex then men would flock to a religion like this as it would allow them to
express their deeper urges to worship women. Unfortunately, these religions
became victims of their own success, because the violent men who had no
interested in sacrificing themselves, saw these religions as a threat to their
power and set about destroying them.
It is of interest that early Christianity was very popular
among the slaves of the Roman empire . This would make sense as many matriarchal
societies where victims of the conquering Romans, so there would be a tradition
of the worship of the Mother Goddess among the slaves. For this reason they would be very
sympathetic to a saviour god religion like early Christianity.
Attempts by the Roman ruling elite to stamp out these
saviour god religions, was at first was unsuccessful. It seems that both Christianity and the
Egyptian religion of the Goddess Isis and her saviour god Osiris were very
popular among the common people and even the troops of the Roman
Empire .
The ruling elite meanwhile attempted to promote a religion
based on the sun god, and another saviour god Mithras, but this didn't receive
enough support from the people. So in
the end they decided that if you can't beat them join them.
The Roman rulers simply hijacked the Christian religion and
changed it to make it acceptable to them.
They then set about destroying the religion of Isis
and Christian sects like the Egyptian Gnostics that refused follow the type of
Christianity put forward by the Roman elite.
The actual teachings of Jesus like, "loving your neighbour",
"turning the other cheek" was quickly ignored as the Roman rulers and
became more interested in the religion of Judaism and promoted this, rather
than what was taught by the early Christian Church.
The promotion of Judaism was the opposite to what many early
Gnostic Christians taught, as they referred to the Jewish Jehovah god as the
Demiurge and claimed he was a evil god whom Jesus came to save humankind from. The original Christian teachings was suppose
to be an attack on the Old Testament and the patriarchal religion of Judaism,
but this was soon changed to endorsing it.
Another big change was that many of the saviour god
religions promoted sexual freedom. We
can see this is the religions of Dionysus and Bacchus where many of the famous
Roman orgies were Bacchus festivals.
Sexual freedom at the time benefited wealthy women. This was because if women had a sexual
licence to have sex with whoever they liked, then no one could say for sure
whom were the fathers of their children and so, men had little idea who were
their sons.
This meant that inheritance of wealth and power could only
come down the female line. Meaning that,
a large amount of wealth and power stayed in the hands of women. It seems that early Christianity was also an
orgiastic religion of free love, before it became a state religion. To promote the power of men, Christianity was
changed to have strict marriage laws where it became a sin to have sex outside
of marriage. The idea being that rich
and powerful men knew whom their sons were and could pass their wealth and
power down the male line, preventing it getting into the hands of women.
Then Christianity as a state religion and later the Moslems
set about destroying all knowledge of the ancient religion of the Great
Mother. With this knowledge finally
forgotten by the common people, they were then able to put forward the idea
that Jesus sacrificed himself to an angry god to appease him. Rather then the idea that all men need to
sacrifice themselves to the Great Mother, and to women, before we can have a
peaceful matriarchal world once again.
Perhaps the mystery religions of the past were a few
thousand years before their time. They
were trying to promote a vision of a peaceful and loving world in a very
violent age. Today in the 21st century
we see in the West at least a different attitude to violent men. It is far less acceptable for Western rulers
to go out and conquer other countries, (though it still goes on, as we saw in
the recent Iraq and Afghanistan
So perhaps the sacrificial/saviour god image within
Christianity acted as a Trojan Horse for the patriarchal age. On the collective unconscious level it
created an archetype that has influenced all men in Christian countries for the
last two thousand years. So that the
idea of voluntary sacrifice has become acceptable to men which is starting to
bear fruit in the last hundred years. It
is interesting that feminism has progressed in Christian countries where men
allow women to demand equal rights. This
is in stark contrast in Islam countries where feminist women are beaten up, put
into jail, and murdered by being stoned and beheaded.
In contrast, we have seen in Christian countries Jesus like
men, in Hippies of the 1960s where men have tried to practise peace and
love. Or ideas of the "new
man" where men stay at home to look after the house and family while his
wife goes out to work. In its more
extreme form, we have the concept of Femdom where women totally dominate
men. So are these men very much in tune
with the archetypal sacrificial/saviour god?
Clearly if all men are strongly influenced by this powerful archetypal
it will save the world from violence, wars and suffering.
Although Christianity has mostly ignored the teachings of
Jesus and have concentrated more on the Old Testament god of judgement and
fear, the symbols of a sacrificial Jesus are seen in all Churches. Also, the Great Mother is represented in
Roman Catholic Churches in the disguise of the Virgin Mary. So even though many Christian priests have
only paid lip-service to the teachings of Jesus and the drama of his betrayal
and crucifixion, this is still taught.
These symbols, dramas and teachings have been unconsciously influencing
men in Christian Counties
So although in the short term the attempt by matriarchal
women to create a submissive saviour god in the past seems like a failure. The popularity of the sacrificial drama of
Jesus Christ has brought about an archetypal change in men, which will allow
men to surrender themselves to women and bring about a new matriarchal age. After all, it is in Christian countries where
we see the rise in feminism during the 20th century and more recently the
beginnings of Female Domination. The
concept of the sacrificial god, does seem to be working on minds of men to
allow themselves to tune into this powerful archetype.
If you want to read more about this go to my other blog. Femdom Christainity
BIBLIOGRAPHY
If you want to read more about this go to my other blog. Femdom Christainity
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Bible – King James version
The Jesus Mysteries – Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy
Jesus and the Goddess – Timothy
Freke and Peter Gandy
The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets – Barbara G.
Walker
When God Was a Woman – Merlin Stone
The Christ Conspiracy – Acharya S.
The White Goddess – Robert Graves
The Golden Bough – Sir James Frazer.
The Great Mother – Erich Neumann
