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Subject: Post 208 A: On Christmas and Christians


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Date Posted: 22:54:49 12/23/07 Sun
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Post 208 A: On Christmas and Christians.
This was close to forty years after the crucifixion of Jesus. In the writings of the 2nd-century Palestinian chronicler Hegesippus, we read that Vespasian commanded 'the family of David to be sought, that no one might be left amoung the Jews who was of the royal stock'. In one way or another, therefore, the family of David was known to be extant at that time in AD 70...

Africanus related that, even before Vespasian, during the lifetime of Jesus, Herod-Antipas (son of Herod the Great) had ordered the destruction of all aristocratic genealogies. But, Africanus continues,'A few careful people had private records of their own...and took a pride in preserving the memory of their aristocratic origin. These included the people...known as Desposyni because of their relationship to the Saviour's family'...

Succeeding Vespasian was his son Titus, whose brother Domitian followed in AD 81. Domitian detested the Christians even more that his father had done,...

"Hegesippus reported in his Hypomnenata (Memoirs) that Domitian ordered the excution of all the Desposyni inheritors of Jesus. But, although many were seized, some were released and 'on their release they became leaders of the churches, both because they had borne testimony and because they were of the Lord's family...

Given that so many books were excluded from the New Testament when selection was made at the Council of Carthage in AD 397, it is quite remarkable that, of all books, St John's Apocalypse escaped close scrutiny at that time. The Church has done its best to put people off this book ever since by propaganda from the 1662 Congregation for the emblematic of disaster. The fact is, however, that John's writing (esoteric as it is in some respects) is precisely what its title conveys. It is a 'revelation'.
--In considering John's account of the Magdalene flight into exile, it is appropriate to recognize that prior to discussing the Imperial persecution of 'her seed, which keep the commandments of God, and have the testimony of Jesus Christ', he relates that she was pregnant when she fled: 'And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered'. ...

Genesis 3:16 relates that the pains of pregnancy and childbirth were a punishment by God for the fact that Eve had sinned. Consequently, the bishops maintain that the woman of The Revelation 'must have been a sinner'!...

In the medieval tridition of France and Flanders, the Mary Magdalene was traditionally known as Notre Dame de Lumiere (Our Lady of Light). In this regard, she was associated with the ultimate wisdom of Sophia, and was sometimes portrayed in early and medieval times wearing Sophia's halo of twelve stars, as referred to by John in the book of The Revelation. A good example is the famous Black Madonna statue at Verviers, near Liege....

Black Madonna veneration emanated in AD 44 from Ferrieres in the Languedoc region of Provence." excerpts from the book 'The Magdalene Legacy' by Sir Laurence Gardner, pages 22-25.

I thought I would let Sir Laurence tell it, rather than attempt it myself. He does it so much better than I ever could. However he still has not gotten comfortable with the idea of accepting us, the Perrieur; Perrier; Puryear, as part of the bloodline of the Holy Grail. He does give us a slight "allusion" in the use of the name "Ferrieres". I still can't figure out if we're being protected, or slighted. After all Akhenaten's pharaonic name was Neferkheperure, as in Neferkhe-perure. It was not neferkhesinclair or even Neferkhestewart. Oh well!

Here's hoping that one day Sir Laurence and the rest of the world will see the light.
To you and yours, I wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
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