Gerald Massey, James as Jesus and the Indian author of Mark

Revised 10-08-2014

Have you ever heard of Gerald Massey? He was something of an odd character, an early Santos Bonacci, but I like him. Massey was an officer in the American Civil War and afterward became an "Egyptologist," or something of the sort. Apparently, he learned hieroglyphics and spent a lot of time ciphering the Egyptian myths. I read reams of Massey's stuff on the internet and thought of him when a friend mentioned astro-theology, which was Massey's "bag."

Massey correlated much of the Bible to the very ancient myths of Egypt he believed the biblical scriptures came from. The Egyptian myths were certainly existing statements of truth well known to the authors of the Bible. I think, though, that both were trying to explain the higher level of truth, and the authors of the Bible just borrowed heavily from the myths.

What I do get from Massey is that the ancient people delved much deeper into the truth than their texts can convey. The ancients were conscious of Jesus not as a person other than themselves but as the principle of their relationship with God. That relationship is a principle of man which cannot become a separate man but is each and every man--every one of us!

Massey "got it." He wanted to help others get it also, and of course the church with its organic ignorance of the literal-historical view opposed him. He tried to find like-minded company among the occultists, but he obviously was not on the same UFO-theosophy wavelength as they.

Thank you, faithful Gerald. You just kept plugging away at it--trying to enlighten others through education . . . just as we just keep plugging away at it.

Speaking of anonymous ancients who "got it," I think that "Holy James," the guy who wrote the Book of Jacob ("James" to us, as 'Jacob' is its Hebrew form), understood that his inner "brother" was the Messiah. There was a whole community of Jews--the likes of Paul--who "got it" and understood that the Messiah is us in right relationship with God. The literal-historical leaning Jews killed James and as many like-minded to him as they could, of course.

It occurred to me some time ago that a former Indian Therapeut (Buddhist missionary) familiar with Holy James and who also "got it," could have related James' experience with the Literal-Historical Jews as an expression of his own understanding of the Mosaic Jesus, the Messiah in each of us. This would become the Book of Mark, which, according to Christian Lindtner, is actually a heavily Buddhist-influenced text (see The Christian Lindtner Theory). Because the tell-tale second-language characteristics within the Book of Mark support its foreign authorship, I am inclined to agree with Lindtner that Mark was probably a former Indian Buddhist missionary to Palestine who converted to the earlier genuine "mystical" Judaism. Mark was a man who had "seen" Jesus, a Christian of the real order.