Copyright © 2008-2010 True Gnostic Church (a non-prophet organization). All rights reserved. Terms and Conditions
A fascinating document in and of itself, the Commentary was written by Azrael, and contains over one hundred entries that provide candid details and background information about people, places, events and concepts mentioned within the Song of God.
# of entries: 104
John the Baptizer: Born in 28 BCE, to Zacharias, a simple priest, John was taught from his youth to love the scriptures. At the age of twelve John had committed his life totally to God, a thing which pleased his father greatly. From the age of twelve, John never cut his hair, and he ate the simplest foods and wore the simplest clothes.
At the age of eighteen, John began preaching in the market places of Jerusalem and throughout the countryside. He publicly denounced the sins of Herod the Great. He condemned the religious leaders of his day for allowing Herod to finance the building of the temple in Jerusalem, proclaiming publicly that Herod was no better than a pig content to wallow in his own dung.
From the beginning, John’s preaching caused an immense sensation. Fearless and resolute, John would thunder his message of redemption. John accused Israel of abandoning God through the love of money and status. He accused religious leaders of pretending to love God while secretly they sought power and prestige. John denounced the rabbis and Pharisees who argued endlessly among themselves over the meaning and intent of scriptures. He upbraided the Sadducees for hypocrisy, and placing the letter of the law above the spirit of the law.
John stated bluntly that all of Israel must repent, that they had to wash themselves and make themselves clean again. This gave birth to the practice of baptism. John declared that to be a truly chosen people, Israel must remove the boundaries which separated the rich from the poor. He demanded that all things within a community should be held in common trust. In short, John’s message to Israel involved the elements of repentance, baptism, devotion to God and communitarianism. Another interesting facet of John’s preaching was his insistence that the messiah was coming, and that God had sent him to prepare the way for the Anointed One. Hence, the urgency of John’s message of repentance and baptism had a powerful effect on the multitudes which came to listen to him. It should prove of interest to the reader that John’s teachings did not please Herod the Great. For John claimed that God had rejected Herod, rejected Jerusalem, rejected the temple, rejected the religious leaders of the day, rejected even Israel itself because of pride and hypocrisy.
King Herod sent a message to John: “Stop your criticism of me, or I will kill your father, Zacharias.” To this threat was added another from the rulers of the temple which accused John of being a false prophet and that if he didn’t stop his criticisms of them, they would likewise kill his father; for John’s father worked in the temple, and the Sadducees had easy access to him. But John couldn’t stop. His devotion to God and his love for Israel would not permit it. And so, Zacharias was murdered at the temple as he was officiating at the altar.
John created a religious sect which came to be known as the Essenes. The word is Adamic and refers to those who desire to heal. John the Baptizer was known among the Essenes as: The Teacher of Righteousness. What might surprise some is the fact that John built a temple in Egypt, in a small city called Elephentine. John died in 34 CE.
Jude: (Yeshua 22:78-85) A six-year-old boy who was a slave in the house of Callistus. He was purchased as a play companion for his master’s son, Julian. Jude was given light duties within the household of Callistus. Jude and Julian became inseparable playmates. They got along so well that they seemed more like brothers than anything else. It must be said about Julian that he looked at Jude as his friend; he never thought of him as a slave.
One day, in a moment of play, the son of Callistus fell off a high wall and suffered a serious head trauma which left him comatose. Callistus unfairly accused Jude of pushing his son off the wall, and Jude was severely beaten. It was clearly the intent of Callistus to kill Jude if his son died. But with the healing of the boy Julian by Yeshua, Callistus was so overwhelmed with gratitude that he gave Jude to Yeshua upon request. From that day, Jude became the son of Yeshua and Mary. Every day before sunrise, Yeshua would sit the boy on his knee to say their morning prayers and to watch the sun come up. Every morning Yeshua and Mary would play with Jude. And every evening Yeshua would entertain his son with stories of God and Heaven and angels.
As Jude grew to adulthood, he left Mary in Nazareth to become an important member of the church in Jerusalem, teaching and preaching the kingdom of his father. In 63 CE, Jude was made a member of the apostleship, replacing Simon Zealotes who was martyred in Babylon. With the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans in 70 CE, Jude returned for a while to his mother, Mary, in Nazareth. There he continued his close friendship with the son of Suzanne of Jotapata. In 73 CE, Jude went on a mission to Cappadocia where he established many churches. Jude was burned at the stake in 91 CE, in the city of Antioch. Of all the apostles, it was Jude that all the other apostles loved. Jude was considered a saint long before he died.
His ashes were returned secretly to Nazareth where they were buried in a quiet garden grove overlooking the Galilean hillsides. It was said by many, that angels came every year on the anniversary of his death, to attend the grave of Jude. Emmanuel and Sophiel planted a dogwood tree above his grave.
House of El Shalon/El Shaloah (part 4 of 5 - Emmanuelite and Holy Spirit):
The Heavenly
Father is next initiated into the office of the Emmanuelite. This means that he will
have conferred on him the role of Emmanuel. The word ‘Emmanuel’ is Adamic and means:
God with Man. For not only will the spirit children of God go down into mortal life
to begin their process of eternal progression, but the Heavenly Father will also
go into mortality to guide his children and encourage them along the way. While the
Heavenly Father takes upon himself the role of Emmanuel within the House of El Shalon,
the Heavenly Mother is being initiated into the role of the Holy Spirit within the
House of El Shaloah.
The function of the Emmanuel is to walk through the dispensations of mortality and to live the exemplary life of a truly spiritual and holy person. In this world of the First Power, Emmanuel walked through the lives of many of his children as Siddhartha and Yeshua. While the Emmanuel is in the mortal life, his eternal Beloved – as the Holy Spirit – whispers into the hearts and minds of their children, bearing witness to them that the life and teachings of the Emmanuel is the surest way to spiritual fulfillment. The Emmanuel performs his role as divine example in conjunction with the laws of dispensationalism. These dispensations are initiated only after the Holy Spirit, or the Sophiel has introduced the dreaming state to evolutionary man.
The Emmanuel always enters the mortal life in what is referred to as ‘the meridian of time’. This simply means that during each appointed dispensation, the Emmanuel enters in the middle. So if there are seven dispensations then there are seven ‘meridians of time’. However, in this world of the First Power, this practice has not always proved possible. The crucifixion of Yeshua made it necessary to accommodate the extreme harshness found in this particular world; and so the usual practice surrounding the principle of ‘the meridian of time’ had to be adapted. In no world which God has ever made, throughout the endless halls of eternity, has any Emmanuel been killed or murdered. This world alone has that sole distinction.
It is during the mortal life of the Emmanuel that the Heavenly Mother, in her role as the Holy Spirit, whispers into the hearts of mortal children, bearing witness to them of the divine nature of the Emmanuel. This practice was first begun by The One and Areta on the world of Terralee. (In point of fact, they were the arch-type for all the offices found in the Houses of El Shalon and El Shaloah.) In some instances a Heavenly Mother might choose to enter a specific mortality, just to be with her Beloved and to aid him as he sets about fulfilling his divine commission. This tradition first began with Abbahdon and Gaia, and continued in the lives of Yeshua and Mary.
The Emmanuel personifies the divine teachings of the dispensational leaders, becoming in his life the fulfillment of all their counsel and instruction. The Emmanuel and the Holy Spirit work under the direction of the dispensational leaders, for they are Archons, and as such they represent the full authority of the Council of Elohim.
The Emmanuel demonstrates what it means to acquire the will of God while living the mortal life. It is only by embracing the will of God that a person is able to overcome the dictates and limitations imposed upon them through heredity and environment. As in the case of Siddhartha, the Emmanuel was born into a world of lavish privilege, for he was a prince and the son of a king. In the life of Yeshua, the Emmanuel was born into a life of poverty and servitude. By acquiring the will of God, the Emmanuel, as a mortal person, was able to overcome his specific environment. He became a light which shined in the darkness.
