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BET EMET MINISTRIES
Hebrew For "The House Of Truth"
Craig M. Lyons Ms.D, D.D., M.Div.
Greetings...from one "truth seeker" to another.
I want to personally thank you for requesting our CD, the collection of our studies at Bet Emet Ministries into the origins of Christianity and the hidden truths behind "the Christ" which are not taught today but have been with mankind since the beginning of time. I wish to personally thank your for your support of our ministry and your prayers for our endeavors in trying to restore this hidden wisdom to mankind which has been deprived from us today by Christian censorship down through Church History.
I know this amount of information and knowledge can be overwhelming at times but remember this is a collection of my studies into the origins of Christianity and "the Christ" totaling almost twenty years. What you must keep in focus in such a study is that when ALL of the present knowledge is sifted looking for truth using as unbiased "scientific method" as possible then we find that down through history the spiritual masters of our race have understood "this Christ" that dwells within us as the manifestation of God and Creator in 2 basic ways:
Over time we find that from these above two methods of interpretation of God and His Christ, His Divine Mind "within us", all of which were allegorical for Divine Metaphysical concepts, that there developed a 3rd interpretation of "the Christ" at the hands of Rome during the 2nd through the 5th century:
No matter how far you go back in time and no matter in what nation you look you find that the first, and in my opinion, the most correct understanding of God and His relationship to "matter", ie., mankind, is found with ancient Egypt and the nations that learned of the Creator from them. It is here we find "the Mystical Krst/Karest/Christ" and the "Mythical Krst/Karest/Christ" and when correctly understood and this Ancient Spiritual Wisdom correctly interpreted, once these "keys" are restored, one comes to see that these most ancient religious beliefs and understandings of the Divine and the Deific Mind of the Universe as taught by ancient Egypt, the fathers of the later Jewish nation, hold the greatest understanding and secrets of "God" Deific that exist on our planet even yet today. Opinions on Egypt are divided today but there are scholars emerging today that challenge the current mistaken understanding of Egypt expressed by such current voices as Mark Lerher and Z. Hawass and these modern scholars are restoring the greatness and understanding of Egypt as the world's first monotheistic nation which we see when correctly these "keys" to the understanding the Ancient concepts of God and the Egyptian "Karast" and "Christ" are restored. This ancient Egyptian "Krst" we call "the Christ" today and this "Divine Spiritual Allegory" is the prototype for all later "Christ stories" and "Sungod stories" which are only "allegorical" for the indwelling God and Divine Mind (Christ) within the whole of humanity awaiting "awakening from the dead". Thus the first Bible of mankind was called the Egyptian Book of the Dead; mankind being dead to his true Self and Divinity. You will come to see in time that all of these prior Spiritual Allegories of the Decent of the Soul, the Deific Mind of God into "matter/flesh" were in 2nd through the 5th century "radically reinterpreted" by Rome into a supposed "literal-historical" personage called "Jesus" and to which Rome attached the supposed "only way of Salvation" for mankind and then created a Sacred Book we call the Bible to espouse their false concepts and altered Spiritual Wisdom of the ancients.
Well, we begin our study of this story of the Divine "Krst in mankind" over 15,000 years ago and archeology today is overturning the erroneous understandings we have inherited handed down from that time and and erroneous religious beliefs today which are largely due to Roman religious "reinterpretation" of this Ancient Divine Wisdom and their censorship of this prior "Spiritual Truth" down through church history. It even exists today but is weakening in this Information Age which is beginning to shine the "light of truth" upon the religious deception of Rome over the last 1,800 years. As your studies grow in these areas and as you begin the studies of our Websites you will see progressively why such studies and undeniable facts and information challenge to our very core our traditional Christian dogmas and "religious beliefs". The light of truth once again shines and the student can now see how these Ancient Spiritual Fathers understood God and His Cosmos and His Christ for over 10,000 years in an unbroken succession of "beliefs" and then knowing this then contrast it with Rome's "radical reinterpretation" of it all aided by the burning of all of the world's major libraries to cover up their deception. You will, now being equipped with the "first Divine Truth" see for yourself how what we have been taught today about the "historical Christ" and the "historical Jesus" from Rome with their Second New Testament cannot hold up to scrutiny in light of the prior unbroken understanding of the nation's "Christ Stories" which parallel our "Jesus Story"; all of these stories again now being seen as they were understood by all....Divine Allegories never taken by anyone to be "historical" and "literal". They described "mankind's condition" that is unique not to one but to all of humanity. This limitation of the Divine Mind and "Christ" to but one person is the great Roman lie to which they tied the whole of salvation of mankind and of course in so doing made sure that such salvation only comes through the doors of the Roman Church. Through fear, ignorance, and a complete "radical reinterpretation" of the ancient Spiritual Wisdom the mind-control of humanity under the influence of Rome was now complete.
Being born into Christianity we inherited a "Literalistic" interpretation of almost everything we read in the Bible never knowing without serious study that this book was at best as an allegory placed in the historical development of the Jewish people (the biological children of Egypt). We, not knowing this, read this book with "literal glasses" never realizing that what we were reading were at best "blurred" religious concepts of the Ancients which they never interpreted "literally" but only "allegorically" or "metaphorically" but yet even at that when understood as "allegories" they expressed a "literal" Divine Truth which has come to be almost burred beyond recognition today in this "literalistic" understanding which is forced upon the texts; a radical "reinterpretation" enforced by Rome between the 2nd and the 5th centuries. Once the texts were "doctored" then almost all hope and "keys" to the proper interpretation of this Ancient Spiritual Wisdom was lost to the "average" person. We must never forget that when told through the medium of legend and myth the identities of many of the characters of which we read were but anthropomorphic vehicles designed to express such Heavenly truths and were to be understood not as if "real people" or "historical characters". In other words these "gods" and "goddesses" and "godmen" were never real but expression of the "godman" in each of us when we come to understand that man truly is the "Temple of God" or the "Temple of the Holy Spirit". We are the Divine Himself trapped in matter through the Descent of the Soul from Heaven to matter....flesh. These concepts began with Egypt as did most of what we have hear taught in our churches today in one way or the other although most often than not they have lost their original understanding as taught by the Ancients who first gave mankind these Divine messages and truths. We have lost so much through the "literalization" of these Divine Allegories and Myths. That is why I present in Bet Emet the beginning studies and websites with a "literalistic" method of interpretation as that is where we both began our pilgrimage to God in our birth faith of Christianity. We must have a point of reference to where we are "at" in our lives at present. In so doing I chose to use this inherited "literalistic" method of interpretation to help the "babes in Christ" grow to see at first, for example, the beauty of Judaism as the legacy of Egypt since it is the best and truest expression of these Ancient religious beliefs and revelation of these Ancient Spiritual Masters that we have existing today in the world in my opinion. In this way we contrast the Hebrew "texts" with the forgery of them later in the Greek and later English translations of our Bibles done so in order to give a "literalist" view to this previous existing Divine Spiritual Allegories. In this way we can begin to see how our Christian Texts are "forged" in "very important places" and this purposeful mistranslation, misquotation, and pure invention of "Scripture" was done on purpose to distort the previous Divine Allegories and make it appear as if they were "historically" interpreted previously which our and your study will show you that they were not; not until the 2nd through the 5 century when Rome became the "forgery mill". There is no "literal" "godman" in Judaism unlike Christianity; their hoped for Messiah was only a "human being" anointed by God for a special task and he never appeared according to Judaism. Therefore there exists in Judaism no threat of idolatry unlike what we innocently inherited with our Roman Christianity and Protestantism and their "literalistic" and "historical" interpretation of this prior Spiritual Religious Allegory of the ancients. This enforced "literalism" of these Divine Concepts by Rome over this 300 year period of early Christian history is to be understood not as a blessing but as a curse when your depth of study advances to see the "Gnostic Christ" within which by the way modern scholarship teaches us today was the earliest understanding of "the Christ" or "God within mankind" as held by both Jewish and non-Jewish Gnostic Christians in the early Church. Let us not be so naive to not know that winners of wars write history from "their view" and that this has been done by Rome and the world fed "their book"...the New Testament which an insightful reader would notice the blending of both the "Gnostic Christ within" and the later created "historical Christ without". Rome should have done a better job editing it as they left trace evidences as to their forgery in the very texts they "doctored" over the early centuries. Archeology and the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls testifies to this Greek forgery in the beginning and the later incorporation of it into the Rome Bibles to which Rome only continued to contribute in their anti-Jewish and antinomian "reinterpretation" of this Ancient Spiritual Wisdom which was built upon God's Order and Laws of the Cosmos which promote and maintain harmony between Heaven and Earth (mankind).
I use the "literal" method of interpretation in reaching the student "in the beginning" of our studies with the knowledge he needs concerning such areas of study found in the early websites which deal with Judaism vs Christianity, the Covenant of Noah, the Biblical Pattern of Worship as best expressed today for the non-Jew again as found in Judaism which is without the taint of idolatry, the adulteration and corruption of Christian Scriptures, both the Old and New Testaments, the Roman Re-interpreted Paul Problem, issues of the Messiah and Messianism as viewed from Judaism vs Christianity, Messianic prophecies, Daniel's 70 weeks prophecy, the Essenes and their corruption of the Hebrew Scriptures when they translated them into the Greek LXX, and finally the introduction of sunworship as applied to the Christian Jesus and his depiction in our New Testament. All of these sites are approached with a "literal" view in order to contrast the current understanding and teaching of them as viewed from the Christian viewpoint vs the contrasting points of view as we look at what exists concerning these same "religious views" and "religious beliefs" outside of the Christian viewpoint and how they were viewed before this Roman "literal reinterpretation"; in particular when looking at Judaism and literal sun worship. In so doing we see the contrasts as well as parallels that bring into question the validity and reliability of what we have received as Christian truth through "church tradition" and "Christian doctrine" and "Christian theology" concerning these above issues. This is done to make you THINK! I truly believe that if God is not the author of confusion then this expose has to be blamed on man...ie, primarily Rome and their replacement religion of Christianity of the 2nd through the 5th century, which took the place of Biblical Judaism for both the Jew and the non-Jew. Of great importance is the contrast of the "literal understanding" of the Sungods and Sunworship with the Christian Jesus. This is done to show the reader that there is very little if any difference between the Sungods of the Ancients, their stories, their lives, and their sayings and the Roman presentation of Jesus. We will come to see that unlike before, when these Sungods were NEVER understood as if "literal-historical" people that Rome will through their "reinterpretation" of this Ancient Spiritual Wisdom completely "reinterpret" these Sungods as personification of the Descent of the Soul into mankind into a supposed "historical-literal" Savior (Jesus) to which the Salvation of the whole human race depends. Now you see how this "literal" interpretation must be used first to see and expose such plagiarism and the deception to which we have fallen as Christians who are taught since childhood to believe in one book "only"; the book that Rome forced upon the world at the point of a sword.
That is quite a study in itself; one which exposes the crafty manipulation of ancient Spiritual Texts and their later forgery and sad "reinterpretation" that allowed Rome to deceive millions and millions down through history. Such mind-control has never been found to this extent in the history of this planet and it passes for "Orthodoxy" Sunday after Sunday and few if any ever find the clarity of vision to even question it.
After seeing these things we move to a deeper understanding of "the Christ" when we look at Gnostic Christianity and their "Gnostic Christ"; the "Christ Within" which I believe to be not only the same understanding of "God Within" mankind as taught by these Ancients but the correct interpretation of "the Christ" as first held by the earliest followers of "the Christ" before he was "literalized", "carnalized", and "historicized" by Rome after the Jewish War of 70 A.D. It is here we vindicate the Paul which Rome previously mischaracterized. We vindicate the "real Gnostic Paul" now understanding that our previous attack upon him was due to Paul's presentation by Christianity as promoting a "historical and fleshly" Christ which in reality he did not. Now the real Paul can be seen and his 7 authentic epistles understood correctly and his religious views concerning "the Christ within" be exalted and promoted and given credit where credit is due but laurels to Paul can ONLY come after you have come to see the big difference between an "internalized Christ" and an "external Christ" made by Rome's forgery of his epistles and letters long after his death. We help contrast this "Roman reinterpretation" of Gnosticism and the Gnostic Paul with the earlier "Romanized Paul". This is why I take great pains to contrast the Hebrew Scriptures and religious teachings vs the "Roman Pauline Christology and theology" that we have inherited in our forged Christian Bibles and New Testaments.Let us not forget that the Roman New Testament is a "second edition" and "re-editing" of the prior Gnostic New Testament that NEVER taught a "literal-historical Christ". As I show you these earlier Gnostic Christians taught this same Ancient Spiritual Wisdom inherited since Ancient Egypt. Rome has done Paul a great disservice and dishonored his ministry and name for almost 2000 years presently and few know it due to their lack of study in these critical areas concerning the "Mystical Christ" and the "Gnostic Christ" within. It is in these studies we contrast the "literal interpretation" of "the Christ" (our first studies on this CD) with the "allegorical" interpretation of the Christ which we show goes back to the beginning of time as delineated on our Egypt Christian website as well as the Marcion New Testament Gnostic website. It is here that I expose the fallacy of the "literal" interpretation of "the Christ" and the deceptions behind the "historical Jesus" as a literary creation of Rome when they "carnalized the Christ within" over the 2nd through the 5th century of the emerging Gentile Church. It is here we don't hold back and with prior conditioning of the student and reader by study of the earlier websites I expose the sad facts that an unbiased study of History will show you that there is not a shred of legitimate historical evidence or any untampered or unforged evidence anywhere that the "Jesus Story" as we received it by Rome in their "book/Bible" originated as the biography of a man named Jesus, and quite a lot of evidence that it did not. Outside of this one forged book, the Roman Bible and the New Testament, there exists not one piece of unforged or unadulterated evidence for the historical existence of this man from Galilee. I go on to show the reader that an unbiased through study of Comparative Religion and Comparative Mythology will reveal to you that the basic plot of the Jesus Story, from beginning to end, including the motif of a crucified savior, already existed in many other religions thousands of years prior to the alleged time of Jesus and if you continue such dedicated studies into the Astronomy and Solar Mythology websites you will find that beyond any doubt the "Jesus Story" is nothing more than an allegory for what would naturally be the oldest and most important story humans would notice and write down, that of the annual passage of the seasons of the year and the path of the Sun through the celestial sphere and the 12 Houses of the Zodiac during the year. Personification of the Sun through the sky, the Equinoxes and Solstices, (symbolic of the Divine Living Energy of the Cosmos that the Ancients called "God"), as found in the story of ancient solar and lunar gods, follow in chronological procession through the year, the exact chronology of the "Jesus Story" when personified from Matthew chapter 1 through Matthew 28. Here you see for yourself that again our "Jesus Story" is nothing more than the personification of God's Sun, a symbol of Himself that ancient religions understood was symbolic for a Living Intelligent Energy which is this Cosmos itself.
For an educated man or woman to believe that all of this knowledge and evidence is but "coincidence" and there yet exits a "literal-historical" Jesus to which mankind's salvation depends stretches belief beyond limits of sanity. Besides any serious study of Egypt will show you that this "Jesus Story" existed on 2 levels: the Mystical and the Mythical and did so as far back as 10,000 B.C.E. Only later will Rome come and reinterpret these Divine Truths and forge them into a Historical time line with a fictitious person and in so doing destroy the Ancient truths and Divine Revelation given the Ancients who first developed these "religious doctrines" in the first place. So when you see this, and I mean all of this, then there is no room for a "Historical Jesus". Sad but true. Yet to teach these truths of ethics and morality that is found in the "mind of Christ" to the Gentiles due to the preconditioning of a Jesus-centric faith into which we are born it is necessary to teach through the vehicle of this "Jesus" as our example of the "indwelling Christ" and in so doing slowly begin to widen the scope of the reader's learning and gradually introduce him to these other concepts and origins of the "Mystical and Mythical" Christ and slowly expose the Historical Jesus for what it is; namely, just an ancient Spiritual allegory which was later literalized by forgery of previous ancient religious texts and a drastic "reinterpretation" of this Ancient Spiritual Wisdom as we find in Rome's New Testament in their grand scheme of replacement religion. Sadly Egypt is destroyed today but her children and her truths live among her children, the Jewish nation and Biblical and Rabbinic Judaism. If you want to find the Messiah to come and the "mind of Christ" it is paramount to "unlearn" the errors you have been taught and begin to restore these ancient Divine Truths to their splendor as they once were when the truth was taught about the "Christ Within" by these early Chrestian/Christian Gnostics let alone much earlier in Judaism and ancient Egypt. Only in this way can we see clearly that this Jesus, even in as corrupted view that we received him from Rome, can yet be an "example to be emulated" but for this to happen where God's true salvation message to mankind is no longer connected to some supposed "historical-literal" person who never existed then then we must begin to look into Judaism and into Egyptian religious teachings as they existed before the rise of the Roman Empire. For it is opinion, after all of these years of study, that it is there we find "the mind of Egyptian Karast (Krst)" who is the original Christ, and it is here that we find that the Egyptian mysteries were continued by the Gnostic Christians and the authentic Paul who only wrote 7 epistles and who never taught a "fleshly Jesus Christ". Only when Rome forged the later anti-Gnostic religious writings is Paul given credit for belief in a "historical Christ" which again I and other scholars point out was never his belief nor the belief of any before the early 2nd century with the rise of "some" of the Early Church fathers which received the ancient "oral tradition" to which they begin to give a "drastic" reinterpretation like Ignatius and Justin Martyr and later Irenaeus. But that time it is too late to stop this juggernaut of error we call "literalistic" Roman Christianity and the Dark Ages are the result of such tragic misinterpretation of earlier Divine Wisdom. Only later do we tragically find that these metaphysical concepts revealing God to man, as coming down through recorded history from Egypt, to be destroyed when "literalized", "carnalized", and "Christianized" in Rome.
But some might wonder and ask "where did all this come from originally"? Well I deal with that also in revealing the "Mythical Christ" as taken from Astronomy and Astrology of the Ancients as they read the stars and Heavens and saw within them and the movements of the Cosmos the varied messages of the Creator to mankind as interpreted in the cycles, patterns, the path of the Sun, moon, planets, stars, constellations, risings, settings, eclipses, etc. We will eventually get to the study of the uranograph which is so fascinating. It is all there and the wonder never stops as these Ancient Spiritual Masters saw and understood "Divine Messages" in the Heavens which they brought down to earth and applied to the Soul of mankind and its pilgrimage and development into this "Karastlikeness" or "Christlikeness" which the Creator intended for mankind and his Spiritual Evolution.
All of this might sound impossible to one now who is not well versed in such areas of study mentioned above but believe me these teaching will take your breath away as you see the depth of spirituality of our Ancients compared with the religious fare we are fed today from our Christian pulpits and TV. If you ever wondered "where is the beef" you have found it here I promise you and the recommended book list on Egypt will feed you forever.
In closing it needs to be said that in approaching these sites it is best that you first read the attachment "websites" as I have reworked this presentation and it exists today as a "plan-o-gram" for your studies on the CD from beginning to end. it can be accessed at: http://www.christianjewishbible.netfirms.com Following this "plan-o-gram" will lead you from the beginning of our studies where we contrast various themes of study first using a "literal" hermeneutic in order to see if it can hold up to scholarly scrutiny of such study. Let me tell you right up front that it cannot; in other words what we have been taught in our "literal" and "historical" presentation of the "Jesus Story" cannot hold up to scholarly investigation when comparing many of our inherited Christian ideas and "spiritual concepts" as taken from our Roman Bibles are compared to modern scholarship let alone the pre-existing Hebrew Scriptures which state otherwise which are so tragically and purposefully misrepresented in our Christian Bibles. Let us never forget that our "religious beliefs" are based upon the "texts" and if our "texts" can be shown to be unreliable or forgeries then we have the cause for further study to find the "truth" now realizing maybe for the first time in seeing this information that "we don't have the truth". This is not "news" to the Jews who have for over 2,000 years denied the "literal" and "historical" Jesus as their "Messiah". But is "news" to the Christian Church and only so because we "studied" what was taken for granted by most. We approach many different thematic studies by this approach seeing if what we have told is "true" by our Christian tradition and texts and comparing these "beliefs" with other information that brings it into severe question. When hundreds of such things and "beliefs" which are taken for granted by most because they are "in our Christian Bible" are shown to be purposeful forgeries, purposeful mistranslations, purposeful misquotations, and pure Scriptural inventions when compared with the previous Hebrew Scriptures, then our "Literal" and "Historical Jesus", Rome's only way for man's salvation, fades into the background of a list of Roman deceptions too long to enumerate in this one article. But the "good news" and "great news" is that now our minds are open to consider these "higher truths" the eclipse Rome's perverted "gospel" and we begin to look for the first time at what really "lies behind our Jesus Story" which we can no longer believe to be limited to but one person or be "literal" or "historical". Now we find the highest Spiritual Truth ever given mankind that is hidden even in the teachings of this Jewish Christ. Here we find the "mystical" and later "mythological" and "metaphysical" interpretation of these Ancient Spiritual Wisdoms and their "Mystical Christs" that only dwell within mankind awaiting awakening. This is the only God man ever knew which Rome sent far into the heavens and in so doing separated mankind from God when the ancients always knew man and God are "ONE". This is the best way in my opinion to approach these varied subjects in order where you move from our inherited supposed "historical" view of "Christ Jesus" to the truer "Mystical Christ" and finally to the "Mythical Christ/Metaphysical Christ" which lives "in you" and in so doing keep an organized pattern of such study in order that the study does not get "lost" in such great amounts of information. Understand that this Spiritual deception of mankind by Rome did not occur overnight; it took centuries and no full disclosure of such deception and apostasy from Divine Truth and restoration of Divine Truth can be handled in just a few articles. This restoration of mankind to its True Self and Divinity by which he discovers that he is the incarnation of God's Divine Mind and "Christ" is the goal or all our studies and it can be accomplished quite easily if you do as I recommend and take these studies in order. We begin with a false premise of "literal" and "historical" and proving it a fallacy then we move to the "Mystical", "Mythological" and "Metaphysical" where the Divine Truth of God and man shines like the dawning Sun. It will only require your desire and time to accomplish these studies in full. This is the greatest truth mankind has ever lost and the hope of mankind's future. It is time for the truth and as a retired Pastor with no ambition for a big ministry but for "truth" then this is my gift to those who want to worship God in "Spirit" and in "Truth" the way it is supposed to be done and was done by the ancients who shame our Christian expression of our faith today. We have a lot of "unlearning" to do and a lot of "correct instruction" to comprehend if you want these truths to become alive in your life so lets begin.
Also attached in our websites is our "recommended book list" which you can find at: recommended_books This "recommended book list" shows you where you can go to examine these findings for yourself and I recommend many good books which I own and have devoured over these last 20 years. I have tried to acquire each of these books in my personal library and from them gleamed these hidden truths which I give you in these websites. I leave you with my blessings and again thank you for your gift and support of our small and humble attempt to restore the truth concerning God and His Christ in mankind to the world as He was first revealed to mankind in the beginning of recorded history before greed, ambition, antisemitism, and the agendas of men and religious politics robbed us of such wonderful truths concerning "the Christ within", our True Being!
Now when you get the CD there are several websites "listed". Open one at a time in the "order" given on the "website" attachment and follow the flow of "thought" from beginning to end to keep your study on track and organized. Remember we begin with a "literal" approach because that is what we are taught in Christianity as children and grow up with that mindset. Only by disproving that the "literal" and "historical" approach to the "Jesus Christ" is a falsehood can we ever hope of breaking down in our minds the walls of resistance and erroneously instruction we have most likely received our whole lives. Only then can we be objective as to the truth behind the "Mystical" and "Mythological" and "Metaphysical" truths that lie behind the texts of our Bible and New Testament which were never meant to be interpreted as if "literal" in the ways they have due to Rome's efforts. As you get to the later websites then the Divine Truths of such an interpretation of "the Christ" only as "Mystical" and "Mythological" and "Metaphysical" can be appreciated and seen for the Divine Truths that they always have held for mankind. After each "site" is opened "in order" then look for an "index" file. We are not looking for an "index.hmp" or an "index with a red logo that has a red 'IM' on it". We are looking for just a plain "index" with a logo on the left of it that is like so many other "logos" or "articles" in the same website as grouped together. Just "click" on this "index" and it opens to the "home page" of the website which is placed on the Internet. From this "index" most if not all the websites on the CD will go to a "second page" that follows the "introduction". It if from this "second page" that you will find your highway to other articles in each websites. The journey to truth is not short but remember that "Truth is the highest Religion ever given man by God". Now the rest is up to you. Enjoy.