Friday, February 24, 2012

Four

Among the jinn there were those that didn't chose sides. For those that didn't, hiding out almost became essential, and for those that did decide they weren't totally on the same page with God(Allah), they ended up enslaved by Solomon.

As I understand it, and some of this [i]is[/i] from angelics I know elsewhere, with the remainder being from various texts, some of the indecisive angels ended up being turned into djinn. Then again, Iblis/Azazel/Lucifer supposedly suffered the same fate, although I don't think of him as being the embodiment of evil that he's typically given "credit" for being. For that matter, his very name means light-bringer, and most of the bad wrap stems from associations with that term being given to a King of Babylon in Isaiah. In Peter, the same name refers to the Morning Star, and in Revelation Jesus refers to himself by the title Morning Star.

How would this be possible? Well, if you believe the Johannites, Jesus was never the messiah and snatched the position away from the person the title should have belonged to, John the Baptist. This would explain accounts of Salome receiving John's head, the fact Herod was scared of John (but never mentions being so of Jesus), and John's repeated uncertainty about Jesus being "The One". It also helps explain why a man supposedly without sin, would need to be baptized by another man. In that time period, receiving baptism was the equivalent of entering into being a follower of that particular leader, which would have Jesus becoming a follower of John. 


But so, if Jesus usurped the position, he could be doing one of at least two things: accosting John's ministry, and his bringing John's flock into being his own or pulling a Sophia-doing something that would seem odd to us (being the bad guy), in order to bring about the maturity of civilization, in order that it might eventually recognize the duality of the divine. While it would be nice to believe the latter, I tend to lean toward it being a case of the former. Based on other information, it seems like Jesus had a political agenda, and needed to reinforce his numbers somehow. This would give a reason for the fish and loaves gathering, which we are given to understand, only included men.

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