por Luis Bravo Villarán (31/10/2007) – Leer al final del artículo de García
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Por Alan García Pérez. Presidente de la República (de “El Comercio” 25/10/2007)
El reclamo por la titulación de la vivienda es muy grande. Cada peruano sabe que con una propiedad legalizada, vendible, hipotecable o transmisible por herencia puede mejorar su situación. Pero el Perú como conjunto tiene el mismo problema y no lo sabe. Muchos de sus bienes no se pueden poner en valor, ni vender, ni se puede invertir en ellos, ni generar empleos con ellos.
Hay millones de hectáreas para madera que están ociosas, otros millones de hectáreas que las comunidades y asociaciones no han cultivado ni cultivarán, además cientos de depósitos minerales que no se pueden trabajar y millones de hectáreas de mar a los que no entran jamás la maricultura ni la producción. Los ríos que bajan a uno y otro lado de la cordillera son una fortuna que se va al mar sin producir energía eléctrica. Hay, además, millones de trabajadores que no existen, aunque hagan labores, pues su trabajo no les sirve para tener seguro social o una pensión más adelante, porque no aportan lo que podrían aportar multiplicando el ahorro nacional.
Así pues, hay muchos recursos sin uso que no son transables, que no reciben inversión y que no generan trabajo. Y todo ello por el tabú de ideologías superadas, por ociosidad, por indolencia o por la ley del perro del hortelano que reza: "Si no lo hago yo que no lo haga nadie".
El primer recurso es la Amazonía. Tiene 63 millones de hectáreas y lluvia abundante. En ella, se puede hacer forestación maderera especialmente en los 8 millones de hectáreas destruidas, pero para eso se necesita propiedad, es decir un terreno seguro sobre 5.000, 10.000 o 20.000 hectáreas, pues en menos terreno no hay inversión formal de largo plazo y de alta tecnología.
Ahora solo existen las concesiones que dependen de la voluntad del Gobierno y del funcionario que puede modificarlas. Por eso nadie invierte ni crea un puesto de trabajo por cada dos hectáreas como debería ser; ni hay elaboración de la madera y exportación de muebles. En su mayoría, esas concesiones rapiña solo han servido para sacar la madera más fina, deforestar y abandonar el terreno.
Por el contrario, la propiedad formal por grandes empresas colectivas como los fondos de pensiones permitiría hacer inversiones de largo plazo desde la siembra hasta la cosecha años después.
Los que se oponen dicen que no se puede dar propiedad en la Amazonía (¿y por que sí en la costa y en la sierra?). Dicen también que dar propiedad de grandes lotes daría ganancia a grandes empresas, claro, pero también crearía cientos de miles de empleos formales para peruanos que viven en las zonas más pobres. Es el perro del hortelano.
Respetemos los bosques vírgenes y nativos, pero comencemos por los 8 millones de hectáreas que han sido convertidos en desiertos y destruidos en los últimos años por las concesiones rapiña, la coca y la tala salvaje. Allí podrán generarse un millón de empleos y además trabajos en la elaboración de muebles.
Es una vergüenza que Chile exporte US$2.000 millones en madera sin tener una hectárea de Amazonía, Uruguay US$1.000 millones, Brasil US$8.000 millones y que el Perú apenas exporte US$200 millones.
Un segundo tema demuestra lo mismo, es la tierra. Para que haya inversión se necesita propiedad segura, pero hemos caído en el engaño de entregar pequeños lotes de terreno a familias pobres que no tienen un centavo para invertir, entonces aparte de la tierra, deberán pedirle al Estado para fertilizantes, semillas, tecnología de riego y además precios protegidos. Este modelo minifundista y sin tecnología es un círculo vicioso de miseria, debemos impulsar la mediana propiedad, la clase media de la agricultura que sabe conseguir recursos, buscar mercados y puede crear trabajo formal.
¿Pero qué es lo que observamos en el país? Cuando uno ve una playa muy bella, alguien ya la denunció hace muchos años y no ha puesto un centavo de inversión para hacer en ella un balneario y pasará decenios más sin valor. Así están todos los cerros que rodean lima, donde la inversión podría hacer milagros. Así están todas la canteras y calizas de cemento denunciadas pero no trabajadas.
Además existen verdaderas comunidades campesinas, pero también comunidades artificiales, que tienen 200 mil hectáreas en el papel pero solo utilizan agrícolamente 10 mil hectáreas y las otras son propiedad ociosa, de 'mano muerta', mientras sus habitantes viven en la extrema pobreza y esperando que el Estado les lleve toda la ayuda en vez de poner en valor sus cerros y tierras, alquilándolas, transándolas porque si son improductivas para ellos, sí serían productivas con un alto nivel de inversión o de conocimientos que traiga un nuevo comprador.
Pero la demagogia y el engaño dicen que esas tierras no pueden tocarse porque son objetos sagrados y que esa organización comunal es la organización original del Perú, sin saber que fue una creación del virrey Toledo para arrinconar a los indígenas en las tierras no productivas.
Este es un caso que se encuentra en todo el Perú, tierras ociosas porque el dueño no tiene formación ni recursos económicos, por tanto su propiedad es aparente. Esa misma tierra vendida en grandes lotes traería tecnología de la que se beneficiaría también el comunero, pero la telaraña ideológica del siglo XIX subsiste como un impedimento. El perro del hortelano.
El tercer tema es el de los recursos mineros en los que el Perú tiene la riqueza más grande del mundo, no solo por la cantidad sino también por la variedad de recursos mineros, o que permite que si un producto baja de precio, se compense con otros productos. Sin embargo, apenas la décima parte de esos recursos está en proceso de explotación, porque aquí todavía discutimos si la técnica minera destruye el medio ambiente, lo que es un tema del siglo pasado, claro que antes lo destruía y los problemas ambientales de hoy son básicamente por las minas de ayer, pero en la actualidad las minas conviven con las ciudades sin que existan problemas y en todo caso eso depende de lo estricto que sea el Estado en la exigencia tecnológica a las empresas mineras y en negociar mayor participación económica y laboral para los departamentos donde estén las minas.
Cuando voy a la ciudad de Ilo y veo su desarrollo urbano, que es el más avanzado del Perú, sé que es producto de la minería y de la pesquería y me duele comparar eso con el pueblo de Ayabaca, que tiene más recursos mineros que la mina de Cuajone en el sur, pero que vive la mayor pobreza. Y es que allí el viejo comunista anticapitalista del siglo XIX se disfrazó de proteccionista en el siglo XX y cambia otra vez de camiseta en el siglo XXI para ser medioambientalista. Pero siempre anticapitalista, contra la inversión, sin explicar cómo, con una agricultura pobre, se podría dar un salto a un mayor desarrollo.
Y contra el petróleo, han creado la figura del nativo selvático 'no conectado'; es decir, desconocido pero presumible, por lo que millones de hectáreas no deben ser exploradas, y el petróleo peruano debe quedarse bajo tierra mientras se paga en el mundo US$90 por cada barril. Es preferible para ellos que el Perú siga importando y empobreciéndose.
Un cuarto tema es el del mar; Japón tiene menos riqueza pesquera pero come cinco veces más pescado por año y por habitante que el Perú, porque ha desarrollado su maricultura. Pero aquí, cada vez que se quiere otorgar un lote de mar para que un inversionista ponga sus jaulas de crianza artificial, aumente la producción y cree trabajo, reaccionan los pescadores artesanales de la caleta cercana, que ven nacer una competencia más moderna y dicen que se está bloqueando su derecho al libre paso, que se contamina el mar y otros invocan lo sagrado del Mar de Grau, en vez de aceptar esta nueva actividad que podría generar cientos de miles de empleos.
Además, el Perú tiene en la cordillera una riqueza enorme por las lluvias que caen sobre ella. Se calcula que anualmente caen 800 mil millones de metros cúbicos en la cordillera que bajan por los ríos hacia el Pacífico y el Atlántico. De lo que va al Pacífico aprovechamos una pequeña cantidad para agricultura y para la generación eléctrica, pero de lo que baja hacia el Atlántico a formar el Amazonas, no aprovechamos prácticamente nada.
¿Cómo aprovecharlo? Ahora que el petróleo aumenta y seguirá aumentando su precio, debemos pensar en la generación eléctrica que es renovable, casi eterna y limpia. Y pensar su uso y su venta en términos continentales. Grandes centrales eléctricas hechas sobre el Marañón y en las caídas del bajo Urubamba, nos permitirán vender energía a Ecuador, Colombia, Chile, Brasil. Pero eso tienen que hacerlo grandes capitales privados o internacionales que necesitan una seguridad de muy largo plazo para invertir miles de millones y para poder recuperar sus inversiones. Pero el perro del hortelano dice: ¿Por qué van a hacer dinero con nuestras caídas de agua? Mejor que lo haga el gobierno regional. Pero no dicen con qué dinero.
Así pues, cualquier peruano que mire a su alrededor verá cuánta riqueza existe que no está puesta en valor.
En quinto lugar, el propio trabajo humano no está puesto en valor para el que trabaja. El trabajo informal que es mayoritario, es un trabajo no incorporado a la economía ni a la legalidad; no tiene seguridad social porque no cotiza, no tiene pensión porque no aporta a ningún sistema, para darle valor a ese trabajo en beneficio a la persona, lo lógico sería un avance progresivo para que los empleados de la microempresa, que son millones, tengan en primer lugar los derechos fundamentales mínimos, seguro de salud, pensión y 8 horas. Es más de lo que hoy tienen. Así se fortalecen la caja de pensiones y el fondo del seguro médico.
Pero a este acceso progresivo se opone la demagogia que dice: "Hay que dar de inmediato todos los derechos a los trabajadores de la microempresa familiar o informal". Pero no saben (o tal vez sí) que lo único que conseguirán es que el microempresario, incapaz de pagar esos costos, cierre la empresa y despida a muchos trabajadores, con lo cual el remedio será peor que la enfermedad.
También hay otros que dicen: "Si no se puede dar de inmediato todas las gratificaciones y 30 días de vacaciones, que el Estado les dé salud total sin que coticen y les dé a todos una pensión mínima sin que hayan aportado". Pero resulta que son estos los mismos que están en contra de la inversión forestal en la selva porque es sagrada, en contra de que el comunero venda, aunque quiera, las tierras comunales porque son sagradas, en contra de que se abran más minas porque el Perú solo debe ser agrario, que no haya maricultura en el mar. Y así sin inversión, sin trabajo creado, creen que el Estado es un pozo sin fondo del que pueden salir eternamente todos los recursos y terminar diciendo: "Reduce la jornada laboral estatal a 6 horas, paga más salarios, aunque el Perú no produzca más".
Como punto final podría añadir que tampoco se pone en valor el cerebro de nuestros alumnos e hijos. La educación se hace en la mayoría de casos para ser aprobada con 11, en lugar de impulsar la excelencia y el esfuerzo del 18. Un grupo de malos profesores y malos funcionarios exigen no ser evaluados para esconder su mediocridad y así el sistema sigue produciendo resultados sin valor. Y los de siempre dicen: "Que me den más sin que yo cambie y sin que haga ningún esfuerzo". Así pues, son aliados del minero informal, del maderero clandestino, de la miseria campesina, del empleo informal y de la falta de mérito y esfuerzo.
Frente a la filosofía engañosa del perro del hortelano, la realidad nos dice que debemos poner en valor los recursos que no utilizamos y trabajar con más esfuerzo. Y también nos lo enseña la experiencia de los pueblos exitosos, los alemanes, los japoneses, los coreanos y muchos otros. Y esa es la apuesta del futuro, y lo único que nos hará progresar.
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La respuesta al “articulista” García:
Alan García afirma que la titulación de la propiedad, sea vivienda o predio rural (o lo que sea que represente la posesión legal de un bien) es fundamental. Una de las grandes iniciativas de los 90 que nació de la propuesta del economista De Soto, es el PETT (Proyecto Especial de Titulación de Tierras) que este gobierno incomprensiblemente, pasó al COFOPRI en el Ministerio de Vivienda (¿qué tiene que ver tierras agrícolas con la vivienda?). No es cierto que muchos bienes no se puedan poner a valor en el Perú, pues si los mecanismos de titulación funcionasen eficiente y transparentemente, todo tendría título representativo con el valor que corresponde.
También afirma y es cierto, que hay millones de hectáreas de madera, de hectáreas en manos de comunidades y de depósitos minerales que no se pueden trabajar o se trabajan de manera muy limitada; pero ello no es porque los peruanos seamos incapaces; ello es porque el gobierno no da los mecanismos que se necesitan para crear la asociación entre los activos productivos de valor (debidamente titulados) y el capital dinerario extranjero o nacional, que será el puente con la tecnología. Hacerlo, significa impulsar el DESARROLLO CON INCLUSIÓN. Por otro lado, el agua de los ríos se pierde en las vertientes occidental y oriental, única y exclusivamente por la ineptitud de los sucesivos gobiernos que no son capaces de resolver este problema; de ello no tienen culpa ni las comunidades, ni los pequeños productores.
Con mecanismos como la “Ley Marco para el Desarrollo Económico del Sector Rural” Ley 28298 de junio 2004 (que el gobierno de Toledo no reglamentó y el presente gobierno tampoco reglamenta), se generará el DESARROLLO CON INCLUSIÓN y millones de trabajadores que hoy “no existen”, existirán, pues esa ley precisamente da el marco promocional para que ello ocurra gradualmente. Lamentablemente el “lobby” de la época, excluyó de esa ley el capítulo de la minería artesanal y comunal que produce más de $500 millones al año y que el MEM y el MEF de entonces no quisieron formalizar (claro está son más de $500 millones en oro, que alguien intermedia y no registra en su contabilidad); también excluyeron de la ley el capítulo del agua y el de los recursos genéticos. La sensatez indica que se deberían incorporar, pero después del editorial del “articulista” García, ello no parecería posible. Por tanto, tan sólo una decisión del “presidente” García revertiría en positivo lo que el “articulista” escribe en negativo.
Todos los recursos puestos a valor, incorporados capitalizadamente como indica la referida ley, podrán recibir inversión y todos los perros (la calificación viene del articulista de “El Comercio”) podrán comer, incluso los “perros de presa” (P. Francke, La República 30/10/2007); claro está que si estos últimos se quieren comer todo (como parecería es la intención) se atorarán y morirán por asfixia, pues nuestro país explotará en mil pedazos y lo perderán todo. A los que el artículo bajo comentario llama “perros del hortelano” (fuera de algunas ONG’s que obedecen a otros objetivos) no son ociosos, ni indolentes; son postergados señor García (articulista), por la clase política que no les da salida cuando la hay. Esa salida clara y eficiente, se puede dar con la Ley 28298, con participación de inversionistas que vendrían gustosamente al Perú cuidando el activo (riesgo) social y el activo (riesgo) ambiental, dentro de un esquema de libre mercado, que no tiene que ver ni con comunismos, ni socialismo, ni ONG’ismos, ni nada por el estilo. Tanto la tierra productiva, como los bosques productivos, los recursos mineros, los recursos energéticos y el agua, son CAPITAL, como lo es el dinero (¿existiría o tendría valor el dinero sin activos subyacentes productivos?); simplemente, hay que asociarlos en libertad. Eso promueve la mencionada ley, ofreciendo los mecanismos para que así sea.
El problema de la Amazonía, es la ausencia de control y de autoridad, la coima y la corrupción de y en las entidades responsables; por eso es que se da la depredación forestal y tenemos 8 millones de hectáreas destruidas que siguen aumentando. Asocie Usted señor presidente –una vez más reitero- al capital dinerario con el capital productivo y la tecnología. Concesione, controle con autoridad y frente al resultado retire la concesión si no hay evidencia de avance concreto en un espacio razonable de tiempo; y ante la consolidación del desarrollo, entregue la propiedad; pero de ninguna manera entregue la propiedad desde el inicio, pues estará cambiando mocos por babas, con un altísimo riesgo social. Lo que Usted describe es real; entonces la solución debe ser verdadera. El potencial económico de ese sector con un poco de imaginación, puede dar hasta para pagar la deuda externa con bastante menor presión sobre el presupuesto nacional.
Como verá Usted del párrafo anterior señor presidente, nuestra propuesta no se opone a dar la propiedad; el tema es cómo es que se da. Claro señor que crear grandes lotes de propiedad creará cientos de miles de empleos. Pida Usted al Congreso la sustentación de la Ley 28298; la original con su texto completo, la que no tenía los recortes que le hicieron. Si no la consigue, con mucho gusto se la hago llegar. Y esos lotes en propiedad igual se pueden dar en la Costa, que en la Sierra y en la Selva; pero el Estado debe ser promotor, no subastador.
Cambie Usted señor presidente, el modelo de inversión subastador de los 90 (aún vigente), por un modelo de “asociación de la inversión con el patrimonio productivo (p.e. las tierras, los yacimientos ...) en libertad”.
No es una vergüenza que Chile exporte $2,000 millones de madera barata sin tener una hectárea de Amazonía; Uruguay $1,000 millones y Brasil $8,000 millones; en buena hora, la verdadera vergüenza son los sucesivos gobiernos del Perú que han sido incapaces de ser promotores del desarrollo extendido con inclusión, hoy confundido en una macro-economía de desarrollo excluyente y exclusivo.
Sobre la tierra de los pequeños, hay historia de la que Usted ha sido principalísimo actor señor presidente. Su diagnóstico es correcto y esa problemática es la que acomete la Ley 28298; no vamos a seguir con lo mismo, simplemente reglamente la ley, legalice con este reglamento su Programa Sierra Exportadora del que ya se habla muy poco y por qué no, reláncelo; ofrezca a través de esa ley el verdadero rescate financiero agrario (RFA) y dé los mecanismos para el desarrollo en libertad mediante la incorporación capitalizada de la propiedad, pero no haga lo que parecería una intención evidente del “articulista”: dejar en corto plazo sin efecto los sucesivos -creo que son 7- RFAs que sólo han rescatado los balances de las entidades financieras (y no a los agricultores, salvo algunos poquísimos “afortunados”) y dar así paso a las ejecuciones de garantías por los Bancos, al amparo de un dispositivo legal (que es a todas luces ilegítimo), la ley de instituciones financieras ... (ley de bancos); y entonces propiciar un “mercado de tierras” que comenzará por remates dirigidos o digitados a “precio de regalo” para “gente afortunada”, como ya se han visto muchos casos.
Si hace lo primero, pasará como presidente a la historia por la puerta grande.
Sobre las comunidades, claro está, hay de las unas y de las otras. Las legítimas deben ser respetadas y su desarrollo está también contemplado -disculpe la cantaleta- en la misma ley, a través del modelo de las Empresa Productivas Capitalizadas Comunales que, aportando las tierras, podrán asociarse con el capital dinerario y la tecnología. Muchas comunidades e incluso inversionistas, están a la espera de la reglamentación de esa ley que no es “populista” como un economista quedado en el pasado la calificó, precisamente en el diario “El Comercio” cinco días después de su promulgación en julio 2004; sino todo lo contrario, es una ley capitalista, como los modelos empresariales considerados lo indican, basada en los sólidos principios del “libre mercado y la modernidad”. No se necesita de un Estado paternalista estamos de acuerdo señor, se necesita de un Estado promotor, que hasta hoy no lo vemos.
Todo este esquema producirá que se revitalicen la clase media y los profesionales –hoy muchos subempleados, fuera de los que salen cada año de las universidades- necesarios en la intermediación del recurso gerencial, administrativo y de la asistencia técnica, lo que hará posible la eficiente aplicación de la ley. Se generará trabajo multinivel y se mejorará la calidad de vida de toda la población, formalizando de manera promotora el empleo productivo y sostenible.
Reitero señor García (le hablo al articulista, no al presidente), no hay tal perro del hortelano; lo que sí se nota es la clase de perro que describe el economista Francke: el perro de presa; no lo permita señor, por el bien de esos mismos perros (no soy peyorativo, repito la figura de los articulistas), que pueden ser muy positivos dentro del sistema positivo y ganar mucho sin depredar ... después de todo ¿qué culpa tienen los perros?.
El tema de los nuevos recursos mineros por explotarse como es harto conocido, se mueve por intereses, unos más fuerte que los otros y esos intereses usan a la población y utilizan a los alcaldes. Lo importante es que su gobierno detecte y enfrente decididamente al más gravitante de esos intereses, entre los cuales están p.e. los intereses de los competidores que –como sería en el caso de Majaz- no querrían que ese yacimiento se explote por razones de competencia o tal vez haya algún otro interés oculto a la opinión pública. Parece que el gobierno escucha la música pero no conoce al músico. Revise el caso de Manhattan y encontrará que todo era armonía con la población hasta que llegó un brillante gerente al que se le ocurrió recortar la inversión en la partida social, entraron las ONG’s y el resto, es historia conocida.
Sobre el petróleo, tiene Usted razón; sólo que se debe acometer de manera ordenada y con el debido cuidado por el medioambiente.
En cuanto al mar, tema también incluido en la varias veces mencionada ley, sugiero al presidente que vaya directo a la acción y piense seriamente en devolver el Ministerio de Pesquería (o de una vez haga un gran Ministerio de la Producción con muy fuertes Vice-ministerios). Si me permite, el Perú es históricamente minero, luego fue agricultor y es sin duda pesquero. El mayor potencial de generación de empleo productivo hoy, está en la recuperación y reconversión de la agricultura, incluidas la actividad pecuaria y forestal; la agroindustria y especialmente los biocombustibles (a pesar de los agoreros en contra, el Perú será muy competitivo en este campo, sin menoscabo alguno de la producción alimentaria); pero, si bien la gran generación de empleo no está en la minería ni en la pesquería, estas son hoy actividades gravitantes que requieren de atención especial y dedicada.
Sobre la energía, el Perú –después de la exURSS y los EEUU- es el país con mayor potencial hidro-energético del Mundo; pero desde que apareció Camisea, se paralizó el desarrollo de hidro-eléctricas, la generación más limpia y de mejor costo-beneficio que existe; reactive los proyectos hidro-eléctricos, eso es estratégico, tiene Usted razón. Tenga la seguridad que los pobladores de las zonas de desarrollo lo aplaudirán y no permitirán ingerencia ninguna de ONG’s, pero deles a la vez su posibilidad de desarrollo agrícola y agroindustrial a través de las Empresas Productivas Capitalizadas que propicia la ley marco 28298 y ... bienvenida la inversión privada y la participación de los profesionales peruanos todos asociados en libertad; eso es verdadero “libre mercado”, ese es el marco que se debe promover, no la “ley del más fuerte”.
Sobre el tema de la educación nadie puede estar en desacuerdo con lo que hace su gobierno señor presidente; sólo la mediocridad. Lo que sí debe apoyar siempre más, es la salud.
Pero los pobladores del Perú rural quieren soluciones, no calificativos; si hay “perros del hortelano”, son unos pocos que viven de que exista pobreza y que quedarán sin actividad cuando el Perú progrese y vaya dejando la pobreza atrás; no son canes los pobres que hoy viven marginados por falta de soluciones y capacidad de los gobiernos de promover el desarrollo extensivo con inclusión. No los despoje de sus pequeñas propiedades, propicie su incorporación gradual; no permita la ejecución abusiva de tierras por los bancos y cajas rurales, bajo la estrategia de generar un “mercado de tierras”; ello puede ser muy peligroso.
Tiene Usted finalmente señor presidente desde hace algunos meses, una propuesta de proyecto de ley para crear los Fondos de Garantía Regionales – FONGAR Productivo, con rentas regionales y municipales del año 2006 no utilizadas ni comprometidas, que permitirán “apalancar” no menos de S/.5,000 millones de créditos para hacer un “sistema” con la Ley Marco 28298, el Programa Sierra Exportadora y con una nueva propuesta que estamos dispuestos a hacerle llegar sobre “Desarrollo Territorial Productivo”. Con todo respeto señor Presidente de la República, hay soluciones y están en sus manos.
Agrego el primer comentario recibido de entre los amigos con quienes compartí este artículo antes de enviarlo:
Una única pregunta ¿García y Compañía, representa a ese de grupo de "Perros de Presa", o es el adalid de la "jauría?; si este es el escenario, ¿Va a querer comer y dejar comer?. Por favor, estamos ante un grupo que está estructurando una gran corporación empresarial que maneja: Estado, Financiamiento, Mercado, etc ... y todo esto, frente a una oposición pírrica e incapaz.
Nos toca resistir cuatro años mas y preparar alternativas de liderazgo diferentes. No hay un líder en la escena capaz de levantar la propuesta y la protesta nacional, hay que trabajar con los menos malos.
Abrazos
viernes, noviembre 02, 2007
sábado, mayo 05, 2007
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El origen de Jesús:
Génesis 1.26 Dijo Dios: “Hagamos al hombre a nuestra imagen y semejanza ... “
¿A quién hablaba el Padre?; naturalmente a su Hijo, que en la generación 60 después de Adán, nace por “encarnación” del Espíritu Santo ... “ a una joven virgen que estaba comprometida en matrimonio con un hombre llamado José de la familia de David. La Virgen se llamaba María. Llegó el Ángel hasta ella y le dijo: Alégrate llena de gracia, el Señor está contigo ... El Espíritu Santo descenderá sobre ti y el poder del Altísimo te cubrirá con su sombra; por eso el niño santo que nacerá de ti será llamado Hijo de Dios ... “ de Lucas 1 – La Anunciación. María lo llamará Jesús, que quiere decir El Salvador.
María es realmente la llena de gracia y Jesús nace de ella como nace del Padre. Y nadie sabrá que María –la niña humilde- puso en movimiento los resortes del Plan de Dios, aquel día de la Visitación. ¡Dichoso tú por haber creído! María pasa a ser Templo de Dios y comunica el Espíritu de Dios, que es el Espíritu de Jesús.
El Corán –aunque rechaza la Trinidad Unificada de Padre, Espíritu Santo e Hijo, pues la religión Musulmana adora a un único Dios, identificado como el mismo Dios de la Biblia a quien llaman “El Sustentador”- acepta que Jesús nació del Espíritu Santo y el Sura 19 está en gran parte, dedicado a la Virgen María.
Sura 19. (16) Y recuerda, por medio de esta escritura divina, a María. He ahí que se retiró de su familia a un lugar en el este (17) y se recluyó apartada de ellos y entonces le enviamos a Nuestro ángel de la revelación, que se apareció a ella en la forma perfecta de un ser humano.
(18) Ella exclamó: “¡En verdad, me refugio de ti en el Más Misericordioso! ¡[No te acerques a mí] si eres consciente de Él!” (19) [El ángel] respondió: “Soy sólo un emisario de tu Sustentador, [quien dice,] ‘Te concederé el regalo de un hijo puro.” (20) Ella dijo: “¿Cómo voy a tener un hijo si ningún hombre me ha tocado? -pues, no he sido una mujer licenciosa.”
(21) [El ángel] dijo: “Así ha de ser; [pues] tu Sustentador dice, ‘Eso es fácil para Mí; y [tendrás un hijo,] para que hagamos de él un signo para la humanidad y una gracia venida de Nosotros”.
(27) Después regresó a su familia, llevando consigo al niño. Dijeron: ¡Oh María! ¡En verdad, has hecho algo inaudito! (28) ¡Oh hermana de Aarón! (*)
(*) A menudo, en las lenguas semíticas, el nombre de una persona va unido al de un antepasado famoso o al del fundador del linaje tribal. Así, por ejemplo, un hombre de la tribu Tamim es llamado “hijo de Tamim” o “hermano de Tamim”. Al pertenecer María a la casta sacerdotal y ser, por consiguiente, descendiente de Aarón, el hermano de Moisés, recibía el apelativo de “hermana de Aarón” (tal como, en Lucas 1.5, se describe a su prima Isabel, la mujer de Zacarías, como una “de las hijas de Aarón”).
De la Biblia:
Números 17, 16. Yavé dijo a Moisés: 17. Diles a los israelitas que te traigan una varilla por tribu, una varilla por cada uno de los jefes de tribu. Serán pues doce varillas; y tú escribirás en la varilla respectiva el nombre de cada tribu 18. En la varilla de Leví escribirás el nombre de Aarón, porque sólo habrá una varilla por tribu. 19. Las depositarás en la Tienda delante del Testimonio, allí donde los cito a ustedes, 20. y aquel cuya varilla florezca, ese será el elegido ...
22. 'Moisés depositó las varillas, delante de Yavé en la Tienda del Testimonio; 23. 'Al día siguiente; cuando Moisés entró en la Tienda del Testimonio, la varilla de la tribu de Leví presentada por Aarón había florecido, le habían aparecido yemas, había botones de flores y las almendras habían madurado' ...
Números 18, 1. Yavé dijo a Aarón: *Tú, tus hijos y tu tribu contigo, serán responsables del Santuario. Tú, tus hijos y tu tribu contigo, serán responsables del sacerdocio*
Jesús es la generación 60 desde Adán (20 generaciones a Abraham; 33 a David y 59 hasta José de Arimatea, de la Casa de David); hijo de María, “hermana de Aarón” (de la tribu de Aarón, responsable del Santuario y del Sacerdocio, cuya única varilla floreció de entre las doce tribus).
La “Encarnación” o “Divina Concepción” es el misterio indemostrable de nuestros días, pero aceptado por la fe, que cada vez se ilumina más; y a medida que avanza el tiempo y tal vez cuando avancemos más allá del dominio científico, se termine por entenderlo y aceptarlo. Tener en cuenta que estamos recién en el inicio de los tiempos modernos y pasarán algunos cientos de años para ello.
Vayamos por un momento al origen en el “Código de la Biblia”:
El programa utilizado por el prestigiado matemático israelí Eliahu Rips, permitió eliminar los espacios entre las palabras de la Torah en el “Código de la Biblia”, concluyendo que el texto bíblico original dice textualmente en el Génesis: CUANDO LOS DIOSES CREARON AL HOMBRE, y no como lo muestran todas las "traducciones" cristianas que señalan: "cuando Dios creó al hombre".
Hay quienes concluyen que ... es muy, pero muy diferente en su significado y trascendencia el decir, creer y aceptar por una mala traducción que “Dios creó al hombre” (en singular), en vez de saber la verdad (asumen una verdad que no necesariamente es la verdad) que señala que los dioses crearon al hombre a su imagen y semejanza.
Recurro para ilustrar esta aparente confusión, al evangelio que la Iglesia atribuye a Juan (1,1-5): “En el principio ya existía Aquél que es la Palabra, y Aquél que es la Palabra estaba con Dios y era Dios. Ya en el principio él estaba con Dios. Todas las cosas vinieron a la existencia por él y sin él nada empezó de cuanto existe. El era la vida, y la vida era la luz de los hombres. La luz brilla en las tinieblas y las tinieblas no la recibieron.” ... aquí está la “pluralidad” de Dios que es interpretada como “Dioses”; reiteramos entonces el Génesis 1.26 Dijo Dios: “Hagamos al hombre a nuestra imagen y semejanza ... “. “Hagamos”; hablaba a “otro” o a “otros”; decía “a nuestra imagen ...” pero desde que hablaba a “otro” ya Dios se interpreta en “plural”; y la pluralidad está en la Divina Trinidad.: Dios Padre, Dios Espíritu y Dios Hijo.
El “Espíritu Santo” en el principio celestial, anidado en los “Arcángeles” y los “Angeles” que no son, ni fueron “humanos”, sin embargo son los agentes de la “omnipresencia” a través de la anidación del “Espíritu” que acompaña a la “identidad” que da el “alma” a cada ser humano.
Nos asistimos ahora de la "Suma Teológica de Santo Tomas de Aquino" para ilustrar esta explicación: Los ángeles tienen el supremo grado de perfección entre todas las criaturas. Los ángeles son los más nobles efectos de la creación, pero no han sido creados como independientes de las demás cosas y sin relación alguna con las otras criaturas, sino que se ordenan a ser parte del universo y al gobierno y servicio de las cosas corpóreas, o sea, las que tienen cuerpo, tanto de las inferiores, como del hombre, que participa de su naturaleza espiritual y de la de los cuerpos humanos físicos.
No puede la razón teológica demostrar las verdades reveladas, pero sí exponerlas con argumentos de conveniencia. Por eso escribe santo Tomás: "Para la perfección del universo se requiere cierta graduación en las criaturas que se vaya acercando a la perfección infinita de Dios, su Creador. Hay criaturas que se parecen a Dios solamente en el existir, como las piedras; otras, como las plantas y los animales, en el vivir; otras, en el entender imperfectamente, como el hombre. Parece pues natural, que existan otras criaturas puramente espirituales y perfectamente intelectivas, que se parezcan a Dios de la manera más perfecta en que se le pueden parecer las criaturas.
¿Quiénes somos y de dónde venimos?
Hace eones de tiempo por un punto, mediante un salto de tipo cuántico, emergieron miríadas de chispas divinas. Cada una infinitamente pequeña y en su individualidad dotada de infinitos atributos potenciales a manifestar y desarrollar. Dieron el salto desde lo in-manifestado en Dios hacia lo manifestado, emergiendo inicialmente de la séptima dimensión, con el fin de crecer al desarrollar sus potencialidades en la tercera, cuarta, quinta y sexta dimensión(*), logrado lo cual serían infinitamente grandes y por el mismo punto retornarían a Dios.
(*) Ensayo de interpretación propia: la Tercera Dimensión es la vida, la existencia en que crecemos en gracia y ascendemos o nos desgraciamos y descendemos; la Cuarta Dimensión, es nuestro “intelecto” [un estadio de integración que es activado en la concurrencia del “alma” con el espíritu y de ambos con la inteligencia y el entendimiento (de los evangelios apócrifos de María Magdalena: ... «Yo —dijo— vi al Señor en una visión y le dije: “Señor, hoy te he visto en una visión”. Él respondió y me dijo: “Bienaventurada eres, pues no te has turbado al Verme, pues allí donde está el Intelecto, allí está el tesoro”. Yo le dije: “Señor, ahora, el que ve la visión ¿la ve en alma o en espíritu?”. El Salvador respondió y dijo: “No la ve ni en alma ni en espíritu, sino que es el Intelecto que se halla en medio de ellos el que ve la visión, y él es el que ..)”».)]; la “Quinta” dimensión es la “puerta” donde se encuentran los intermediarios de “Dios” (es posiblemente en esa dimensión en la que se entrega el Código de la Biblia y las Tablas a Moisés, que en el Monte Sinaí habría sido el único humano que se acerca a la “puerta”); la “Sexta” dimensión, es el tránsito a la “Séptima” dimensión, que es el “estadio final”.
Tú eres una de esas chispas divinas o espíritu (**) actuando en la forma física (que atraviesa los “quantos”) mediante un cuerpo en la tercera dimensión. Eres un espíritu libre e inmortal, sin principio ni fin (que vienes de la “sexta” dimensión y regresarás cruzando la “quinta”, a la “sexta” dimensión –donde puedes permanecer por largos eones de tiempo- hasta que se decida –luego del Juicio Final- que entres a la “séptima dimensión”. Queda la interrogante –afirmada por algunos- que de la “sexta” dimensión puedas ser encomendado para volver a la “tercera” para ayudar a otros a ser mejores). El espíritu dio la forma al alma (que constituye la “identidad” del ser humano); y cada alma –que es individual- se integra con el espíritu en la concepción, que da origen al feto iniciándose así el desarrollo en la humana encarnación.
(**) Es muy común usar –y confundir- el término “espíritu” con “alma”, cuando aunque concurren, son perfectamente distintos como explicamos líneas arriba. En el inicio de párrafo previo, la referencia es claramente al “alma”
San Pablo escribió a los Efesios (2, 19-22)
Hermanos: Ya no son ustedes extranjeros ni advenedizos; son conciudadanos de los santos y pertenecen a la familia de Dios, porque han sido edificados sobre el cimiento de los apóstoles y de los profetas, siendo Cristo Jesús la piedra angular.
Sobre Cristo, todo el edificio se va levantando bien estructurado, para formar el templo santo en el Señor, y unidos a él también ustedes se van incorporando al edificio, por medio del Espíritu Santo, para ser morada de Dios.
Los hombres –gracias a la creación de Dios- tenemos inteligencia, que produce los pensamientos; la capacidad intelectual del hombre, incluye además de la racionalidad, la creatividad y la inventiva; la inquietud por la investigación y la búsqueda. Algunos tienen además el entendimiento que conduce a la sabiduría, siempre basados en una capacidad instalada, pero asistidos de la espiritualidad. Así como hay distintos grados y niveles de inteligencia, también hay distintos grados o niveles de entendimiento; y es así que hay seres humanos más inteligentes o menos inteligentes (función de la productividad en su proceso de pensar y de la calidad de sus pensamientos) y hay seres humanos más o menos sabios; o simplemente hay quienes –como ocurre en la mayoría de los casos- se quedan en el nivel intelectual, sin que les asista sabiduría alguna.
La espiritualidad, no es sino la energía divina –el espíritu- que se anida en nuestro ser y que produce la omnipresencia de Dios en nuestras vidas, concurriendo en cada uno de nosotros, el alma –que es nuestra identidad; y el cuerpo –nuestra capacidad motora y directriz (desde el cerebro, colocándose la inteligencia y el entendimiento, entre el alma y el espíritu). En la integración de estas identidades y características, se ubica el intelecto. Es así que se da la concurrencia del “bien” si manifestamos el espíritu; y de la “ausencia del bien”, si no lo manifestamos sino lo acallamos (ese es nuestro “libre albedrío”). Esa decisión está en nuestra naturaleza primero y en nuestro intelecto -con capacidad dirimente- después; para gratificar o desgraciar nuestra identidad.
El que me ama cumplirá mi palabra y mi Padre lo amará, y haremos en él nuestra morada ... dice el Señor.
De los evangelios apócrifos de Tomás
... que quien busca no deje de buscar hasta que encuentre, y cuando encuentre se turbará, y cuando haya sido turbado se maravillará y reinará sobre la totalidad y hallará el reposo.
... el Reino de Dios está adentro de vosotros y está fuera de vosotros. Quienes llegan a conocerse a sí mismos lo hallarán y cuando lleguéis a conoceros a vosotros mismos, sabréis que sois los Hijos del Padre viviente.
Consideramos importante este –tal vez – largo preámbulo para poder entender el origen, qué somos, de dónde venimos; y a partir de ello, ensayar una explicación plausible de hechos como los misterios de la Resurrección y la Ascensión de Jesús a los cielos, que no son aceptados por la ciencia y ahora -más que nunca antes- con el hallazgo de los que se presume sería “La Tumba perdida de Jesús”, se han puesto en tela de juicio.
Pero antes y para pisar el terreno de lo inexplicable por la ciencia, presentamos el sorprendente relato referido al EL MANTO DE LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE
En 1962, el Dr. Charles Wahlig anuncia el descubrimiento de dos imágenes aparentemente reflejadas en los ojos de la Virgen al examinar una fotografía ampliada veinticinco veces. Sólo 13 años después, en 1975, se autoriza remover el cristal para permitir que la imagen sea examinada por otro oftalmólogo, el Dr. Enrique Grave; y en 1979, el Dr. Philip Callahan toma 40 fotos infra-rojas de la imagen. Luego concluye que la imagen original de la Virgen de Guadalupe que el indiecito Juan Diego bajó del cerro Tepeyac (México), es inexplicable como una creación humana.
Lo que la ciencia descubrió después de esta investigación de la tela (tilma) donde aparece la imagen de la Virgen en Guadalupe, se resume a continuación:
1. Estudios oftalmológicos realizados a los ojos de María han detectado que al acercarles luz, la retina se contrae y al retirar la luz, se vuelve a dilatar, exactamente como ocurre en un ojo vivo. Esta fue la primera observación que hizo una persona con lente de aumento y que originó que se pida el permiso para hacer el examen formal de la imagen.
2. La temperatura de la fibra de maguey con que está construida la tilma mantiene una temperatura constante de 36.6 grados, la misma que el cuerpo de una persona viva.
3. Uno de los médicos que analizó la tilma colocó su estetoscopio debajo de la cinta que María posee (señal de que está encinta) y escuchó latidos que rítmicamente se repiten a 115 pulsaciones por minuto, igual que un bebé en el vientre materno
4. No se ha descubierto ningún rastro de pintura en la tela. De hecho, a una distancia de 10 centímetros de la imagen, sólo se ve la tela de maguey en crudo: los colores desaparecen. Estudios científicos no logran descubrir el origen de la coloración que forma la imagen, ni la forma en que la misma fue pintada, si fue pintada. No se detectan rastros de pinceladas ni de otra técnica de pintura conocida. Los científicos de la NASA afirmaron que el material que origina los colores no es ninguno de los elementos conocidos en la tierra.
5. Se ha hecho pasar un rayo láser en forma lateral sobre la tela, detectándose que la coloración de la misma no está ni en el anverso ni en el reverso, sino que los colores flotan a una distancia de tres décimas de milímetro sobre el tejido, sin tocarlo. Los colores flotan en el aire, sobre la superficie de la tilma.
6. La fibra de maguey que constituye la tela de la imagen, no puede perdurar mas que 20 o 30 años. Hace varios siglos se pintó una réplica de la imagen en una tela de fibra de maguey similar y la misma se desintegró después de varias décadas. Mientras tanto, a casi 500 años del milagro, la imagen de María sigue tan firme como el primer día. La ciencia no se explica el origen de la incorruptibilidad de la tela.
7. En el año 1791 se vuelca accidentalmente ácido muriático en el lado superior derecho de la tela. En un lapso de 30 días, sin tratamiento alguno, se reconstituye milagrosamente el tejido dañado.
8. Las estrellas visibles en el Manto de María reflejan la exacta configuración y posición que el cielo de México presentaba en el día en que se produjo el milagro.
- En el lado izquierdo del manto de la Virgen (a nuestra derecha porque la vemos de frente) se encuentran “comprimidas” las constelaciones del sur:
- Cuatro estrellas que forman parte de la constelación de Ofiuco (Ophiucus).
- Abajo se observa Libra y a la derecha, la que parece una punta de flecha corresponde al inicio de Escorpión (Scorpius).
- Intermedias con la porción inferior, se pueden señalar dos de la constelación de Lobo (Lupus) y el extremo de Hidra (Hydra).
- Hacia abajo se evidencia la Cruz del Sur (Crux) sin ninguna duda, y a su izquierda aparece el cuadrado ligeramente inclinado de la constelación de Centauro (Centaurus)
- En el lado derecho del manto de la Virgen se muestran las constelaciones del norte:
- En el hombro, un fragmento de las estrellas de la constelación de Boyero (Bootes), hacia abajo a la Izquierda le sigue la constelación de la Osa Mayor (Ursa Maior) en forma de una sartén. La rodean: a la derecha arriba, la cabellera de Berenice (Coma Berenices), a la derecha abajo, Lebreles (Canes Venatici), a la izquierda Thuban, que es la estrella más brillante de la constelación de Dragón (Draco).
- Por debajo de dos estrellas (que todavía forman parte de la Osa Mayor), se percibe otro par de estrellas de la constelación del Cochero (Auriga) y al oeste, hacia abajo, tres estrellas de Tauro (Taurus).
- De esta manera, quedan identificadas en su totalidad y en su sitio, un poco comprimidas, las 46 estrellas más brillantes que rodean el horizonte del Valle de México.
9. A inicios del siglo XX, un hombre escondió una bomba de alto poder entre un arreglo floral, el cual colocó a los pies de la tilma. La explosión destruyó todo alrededor, menos la tilma, que permaneció en perfecto estado de conservación.
10. La ciencia descubrió que los ojos de María poseen los tres efectos de refracción de la imagen de un ojo humano.
11. En los ojos de María (de tan sólo 7 y 8 mm) se descubrieron diminutas imágenes humanas, que ningún artista podría pintar. Son dos escenas y las dos se repiten en ambos ojos. La imagen del obispo Zumárraga en los ojos de María fue agrandada mediante tecnología digital, revelando que en sus ojos está retratada la imagen del indio Juan Diego, abriendo su tilma frente al obispo. ¿El tamaño de ésta imagen?. Una cuarta parte de un millonésimo de milímetro.
12. Es evidente que todos estos hechos inexplicables se nos han dado por una razón: captar no sólo nuestra atención sino buscar nuestro entendimiento para llegar al “intelecto” de quienes pueden observar e interpretar.
“quien tienen oídos, que oiga ...”; “quien tiene ojos, que vea ...” eran siempre los llamados de Jesús al “intelecto” de sus seguidores ... quien ha desarrollado intelecto, que perciba ...
Y entonces nos preguntamos: ¿y qué tiene que ver esto con la Resurrección y la Ascensión?; pues es simple; todo la explicación comienza a partir de otra tela: la sábana santa -el síndone- que envolvió el cuerpo inerte de El Salvador. Una tela –la tilma del Tepeyac- con la imagen viva de la Madre y la otra, la Sábana Santa, con la imagen de su Divino hijo resucitado.
La “Resurrección”:
En el evangelio atribuido a Juan (11, 25): Le dijo Jesús: “Yo soy la resurrección y la vida ...”
Su resurrección es el factor más crucial en establecer la excepcionalidad de Jesucristo. La resurrección de Cristo fue el clímax legítimo a su vida única y a su muerte. El había profetizado de antemano su resurrección a sus discípulos directamente y a otros través de parábolas.
La “Resurrección” es el otro gran misterio de la fe, pero del que ya los mismos científicos con su incapacidad de explicárselo a través de los análisis de la “Sábana Santa”, comienzan a dar luz.
Veamos primero la muerte de Jesús (análisis de Santos Vílchez):
Sólo los peores criminales murieron como EL, y con Jesús todavía fue peor, porque no todoslos criminales condenados a aquel castigo recibieron clavos en sus miembros. Sí, fueron clavos... ¡y de los grandes!; cada uno tenía de 15 a 20 cm., con un cono de 6 cm. y el extremo puntiagudo.
Estos eran clavados en las muñecas y no en las manos como dicen.
En la muñeca, hay un tendón que llega al hombro, y cuando los clavos fueron martillados en las muñecas de Jesús, ese tendón se rompió, obligándolo a forzar todos los músculos de su espalda -por tener sus muñecas clavadas- para poder respirar porque perdía todo el aire de sus pulmones. De esta forma era obligado a apoyarse en el clavo metido en sus pies que todavía era más grande que el de sus manos, porque atravesaba los dos pies juntos.
Y como sus pies no aguantarían por mucho tiempo sin rasgarse también, Jesús era obligado a alternar ese ''ciclo'‘ (colgarse de las muñecas – apoyarse en los pies y así sucesivamente) simplemente para lograr respirar. Jesús aguantó este inhumano ejercicio por ¡más de 3 horas!; mucho tiempo, ¿verdad?
Algunos minutos antes de morir, Jesús ya no sangraba más. Sencillamente le salía agua de sus cortes y heridas. Cuando lo imaginamos herido, imaginamos meras heridas; pero no, las de EL eran verdaderos agujeros, agujeros hechos en su cuerpo ... EL no tenía más sangre, por lo tanto, le salía agua. Jesús derramó sus 3,5 litros de sangre (volumen normal de sangre en un adulto); tuvo tres clavos enormes metidos en sus miembros; una corona de espinas en su cabeza y antes de terminar, un soldado romano le clavó una lanza en el tórax.
Todo esto sin mencionar la flagelación continua de dos días y la humillación que pasó después de haber cargado su propia cruz por casi dos kilómetros subiendo al calvario, mientras la multitud le escupía el rostro y le tiraba piedras (tan sólo la parte superior de la cruz en la que clavaron sus brazos colgándolo de las muñecas, pesaba cerca de 30 kilos).
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Evangelios atribuidos a Juan (19.39-40) “También fue Nicodemo, el que había ido de noche a ver a Jesús, llevando una cien libras de mirra perfumada y áloe. Tomaron el cuerpo de Jesús y lo envolvieron en lienzos con los aromas, según la costumbre de enterrar de los judíos”
La Sábana Santa o síndone -que una sólida y sustentada tradición señala como la tela que envolvió el cuerpo del Señor Jesús- es una fina pieza de lino de 3 pies y 7 pulgadas de ancho y 14 pies y tres pulgadas de largo (exactamente 8 por 2 cubits, la antigua medida usada en Israel). El síndone lleva la imagen detallada del frente y la espalda de un hombre que fue crucificado de manera idéntica a Jesús de Nazaret según describen las Escrituras.
En el lienzo aparece sangre y manchas de suero humanos del grupo AB. Sangre del mismo tipo se encontró en el Sudario de Oviedo.
Con el fin de determinar el modo cómo la imagen se imprimió en la sábana, más de 1000 investigaciones científicas de las más diversas especialidades han sido realizadas y se le han tomado 32,000 fotografías. Estas investigaciones han hecho de la Sábana Santa la reliquia más estudiada de la historia.
Fotografiada por primera vez en 1898 por Secundo Pia, la imagen de la sábana es un negativo. La radiación que creó la imagen del cuerpo fue de arriba abajo, paralela a la gravedad, y no de costado (no pudo -por tanto- ser realizada como copia de una persona de pie, como alguien especuló). Se trata de una imagen que sólo aparece sobre una tela cuando la superficie del cuerpo se encuentra a 3.5 cm. o menos de la superficie (casi sin tocarla). La oscuridad en la tela es inversamente proporcional a esa distancia. En otras palabras, no es posible que la imagen se hubiera impreso mediante la técnica de "cámara oscura" como proponen algunos detractores. Estos contrastes permiten realizar una reproducción tridimensional de la imagen cuando es vista con el visor VP-8. La imagen es similar a la de rayos X y muestra los huesos en la mano, el rostro, etc.. En el momento de producirse la impresión, el cuerpo del hombre depositado en ese lienzo se encontraba ingrávido y las imágenes sólo pudieron formarse como consecuencia de una radiación desconocida. Los hilos están coloreados, pero entre hilo e hilo no hay grumo de pintura. La tela está grabada a fuego; está chamuscada. El hilo no está carbonizado y por la penetración de la quemadura se mide la duración de la radiación (fracción de segundo). También grabó a fuego las manchas de sangre.
Los pixels -puntos o unidades mínimas de imagen- de oscuridad uniforme hacen una imagen bastante precisa; proporcionando más pixels por área en las zonas más oscuras. Los píxeles intensamente concentrados que constituyen el cuerpo principal de la imagen, no pueden ser duplicados por ningún procedimiento conocido hasta hoy.
Las marcas en el lienzo son detalladas, tridimensionales, térmica y químicamente estables aún en agua. No son pigmentos, no tienen direccionalidad y no fueron causados por el simple contacto con el lienzo. Las marcas no sanguíneas, no fueron provocadas por contacto. Las luces y sombras en el lienzo se dan por las diferentes distancia entre el cuerpo y la tela.
Examen de contenidos, “Carbono 14” y pruebas nucleares:
Polen de flores que crecen en la época de Pascua en el Mar Muerto –producto de la mirra perfumada y el áloe con que se bañó el cuerpo- se encuentran en la tela, (también residuos de polen de Francia y Turquía). Polvo de tipo travertino-aregenito, como el que se encuentra en los alrededores de Jerusalén, fue encontrado en los pies, rodillas y nariz de la imagen (producto del tránsito y las caídas en el camino al calvario). Las 33 esporas resultaron ser procedentes de plantas exclusivas de Palestina o Turquía (estepas del sur o área de Estambul). Las dos terceras partes de las muestras procedían de zonas ajenas a Europa, continente del que no ha salido el lienzo desde el S. XIV. Lo más peculiar es que las especies de polen recogidas en la tela coincidían con gran precisión con el camino que la tradición señalaba para la síndone: de la Tierra Santa a Turquía, de allí a Francia vía los países bálticos y el norte de Italia y finalmente de Francia a Turín.
El incendio de 1532 depositó sobre la sábana una cantidad exagerada de “carbono 14” en el área de donde se tomó la muestra para el examen de 1988. Esta área estaba a sólo tres pulgadas de donde la plata fundida de la urna en que se encontraba el lienzo, evaporó fibras del lino. Hay en otras áreas, signos de crecimiento microbiológico en las fibras del lino, las mismas que también afectan los exámenes de “carbono 14”; por tanto estas pruebas no pueden ser tomadas en cuenta. Pruebas sobre telas similares de entre el siglo-1(a.C.) y el siglo-1(d.C.), sometidas a incendios simulados similares al que soportó el síndone en la Catedral Chamgbery-Francia en 1532, rejuvenecieron 13 siglos para la prueba de “carbono 14” (Científico Ruso Dimitri Kouznetsov, 1994); con esto, se descalifica la validez circunstancial de esta prueba.
Además, el biofísico francés Jean-Bautise Rinaudo, investigador de medicina nuclear del Laboratorio de Biofísica de la Facultad de Medicina de Montpellier, ha aportado su experiencia nuclear para formular una hipótesis que explicaría al mismo tiempo cómo se formó la imagen monocromática -que nadie ha logrado hasta hoy ni explicar ni reproducir. Atribuye el origen de la imagen sindónica a una irradiación instantánea de protones emitidos por el cuerpo muerto del crucificado, bajo el efecto de una energía desconocida. Rinaudo considera que los átomos implicados en este fenómeno -que ha podido reproducir experimentalmente- son los del deuterio, presentes en la materia orgánica y formados por un protón y un neutrón. Los protones podrían haber formado la imagen, produciendo entonces quemaduras superficiales y oscureciendo la tela por oxidación ácida de la celulosa. Los neutrones habrían irradiado el tejido, enriqueciéndolo en “carbono 14”, falseando así la datación, con lo que "rejuvenecería" el lienzo a la mirada de los analistas, puesto que esta prueba consiste en computar el tiempo, tomando como referencia el nivel de degradación de este elemento natural.
Se puede concluir que -hasta hoy- no se conoce ningún procedimiento que permita reproducir una imagen con todas las características mencionadas. Lo que es claro es que no se trata de una imagen producida por contacto, lo que ha llevado a pensar que se puede haber originado por algún tipo de radiación emanada del cuerpo -instantánea en el tiempo- y que habría producido una especie de "chamuscadura". Tendría que tratarse de una radiación con unas características que no son explicables desde el punto de vista físico. Queda pues sin ningún sustento la afirmación aberrante, que esta sábana habría sido producida por Leonardo da Vinci como un autorretrato.
Sobre este mismo aspecto, el Dr. Iván Seperiza Pasquali cuando escribe sobre el “Código de la Biblia”, reproduce lo siguiente:
Cuando la ciencia con la más moderna tecnología de la NASA (no lo hizo la NASA, tan sólo se empleó su tecnología) validó el milagro de la Sábana Santa de Turín, señalando en sus conclusiones que: Lo que allí había sucedido hace 2.000 años sólo se podía explicar como el fruto de una poderosa energía liberada del cuerpo amortajado, previo éste a levitar y desmaterializarse. Energía que iluminó como un relámpago el lugar del sepulcro, e impregnó la tela como un negativo fotográfico con todos los detalles del cuerpo del crucificado... el milagro hizo creer a muchos escépticos.; reforzó la fe de quienes no necesitaban el milagro para creer y activó una fe latente en otros como una revelación, tanto así que algunos de los científicos investigadores se transformaron en creyentes. Al señalarse unos años después que la prueba del Carbono 14 databa la tela como del año 1200 y que el hecho no era milagro sino que un fraude, esto causó mucha preocupación en ciertos cristianos y mucha alegría en los no cristianos. Pocos sin embargo supieron después, o se interesaron por saberlo, que el trozo analizado, no tomado por los científicos, había sido sacado de la tela desde un borde correspondiente a uno de los remiendo de la sábana hecho por monjas después del incendio que quemó parte de la Sábana, remiendo de una tela del año 1200, de mayor peso y diferente textura que la original ... Sin embargo la ciencia probó ahora la autenticidad del Sagrado Manto: El Dr. Dimitri Kouznestov, premio Lenin de Ciencias, en su Laboratorio E. A. Sedov de Moscú lo demostró. Usando una tela del siglo I, que había sido datada correctamente por el ya no tan fiable método del Carbono 14, en uno de los Laboratorios que había informado que el trozo de la Sábana Santa era del año 1200. La sometió a las emanaciones de un incendio similar al ocurrido el año 1532 con la Sábana Santa, y el mismo Laboratorio con similar metodología, esta vez la dató como del año 1200. Y ese prestigioso científico ruso señaló ahora al mundo que la Sábana Santa es auténtica...
... María Magdalena al tercer día fue la primera en ir al sepulcro y encontró la piedra removida, llamó a Pedro y otro discípulo (que Juan indica al final del cuarto evangelio , ser él mismo, el discípulo a quien Jesús amaba) que corrieron; este último llegó primero al sepulcro ... según evangelio atribuido a Juan (20.5-9) “Como se inclinara vio los lienzos tumbados, pero no entró. Pedro llegó detrás, entró en el sepulcro y vio también los lienzos tumbados. El sudario con que le habían cubierto la cabeza (ajustando desde la barbilla hasta la cabeza, como era la costumbre) no se había caído como los lienzos, sino que se mantenía enrollado en su lugar. Entonces entró también el otro discípulo, el que había llegado primero, vio y creyó. Pues no había entendido todavía la Escritura: ¡El debía resucitar de entre los muertos!.” ...
Podemos atrever una reflexión basada en el hecho que no hay signos de desplazamiento del cuerpo para salir de la sábana; simplemente ocurrió una “transportación” instantánea vertical (paralela a la gravedad hacia arriba y hacia abajo del cuerpo desmaterializándose) en el momento que Cristo se incorporó una vez resucitado. Un misterio hoy no explicable por la comunidad científica, pero tampoco refutable frente a la evidencia de la Resurrección. Quien haya entrado primero -confundido- al no encontrar el cadáver, podría haber abierto y tumbado la sábana.
De comentarios 20.1 de la Biblia Latinoamericana a los Evangelios atribuidos a Juan: ... “Las sábanas y las fajas están en el mismo lugar, pero extendidas, pues el cuerpo se ha desmaterializado, dejando en la sábana vacía la impresión extraordinaria que todavía hoy se observa en la reliquia venerada en Turín. El sudario, enrollado en la otra dirección, se ha mantenido como estaba. ... Estos detalles nos muestran mejor lo que fue la resurrección. No se trata de que Jesús se haya levantado con su mismo cuerpo terrenal vuelto a la vida. Pareciera que este se ha desmaterializado en el nacimiento del Hombre Nuevo ... Agregamos, volvió a su imagen de Dios o de Hijo de Dios, que se menciona en Génesis 1.26: Dijo Dios: “Hagamos al hombre a nuestra imagen y semejanza ... “
LA FE – JESÚS HA RESUCITADO ... De comentarios 16.1 de la Biblia Latinoamericana a los Evangelios de Marcos: Resucitado: nacido nuevamente del Padre para no morir más, según dice el Salmo: Tú eres mi Hijo, hoy mismo yo te he dado la vida ... Dudamos, no porque falten testimonios, sino porque nos queda demasiado grande. Ahí están los testimonios que resisten muy bien a la crítica moderna, pero ¿cómo creer que la vida humana termine en una resurrección? ¿y cómo creer que ya un hombre haya sido resucitado?. Todo es cuestión de FE, y creen aquellos cuya propia experiencia los dispone para entrar en esta verdad que es la Verdad última: Dios vivo ama y resucita a los hombres. ... No es más difícil creer en la resurrección de Jesús que creer en sus palabras: ambas cosas van juntas. ... El que cree ha vencido al Mundo ... El que cree ha vencido también el temor que todos sentimos cuando hay que dejar de lado las luces de la razón y ponernos en las manos de Dios.
Frank Morrison , un abogado inglés de los años 30 se dio a la tarea de recoger evidencias circunstanciales que demostraran la falsedad de la resurrección de Cristo. Este tipo de evidencia es, por supuesto, admisible en las cortes de ley de los países civilizados para probar o negar hechos en los que no existen testigos vivientes. Cuando él analizó la evidencia llegó a la sorprendente conclusión de que la resurrección en realidad había tenido lugar. Morrison presentó su caso en un libro titulado “¿Quién movió la piedra?”. De la traducción de José R. Martínez Villamil de “La Persona de Jesucristo” de L.T. Jeyachandran, Director para India de RZIM
La marca que Jesús ha dejado en la historia. El gran historiador Kenneth Scott Latourette escribió: “Según transcurren los siglos la evidencia se acumula de que, medido por su efecto en la historia, Jesús es la vida más influyente que jamás ha vivido en el planeta. Su influencia parece incluso continuar en aumento”. Aún el historiador William Lecky, un escéptico, escribe: “Puede ser cierto que el récord de esos tres breves años de vida (pública - años finales de Jesús) haya hecho más para regenerar y ablandar a la humanidad que todas las disquisiciones de los filósofos y todas las exhortaciones de los moralistas" De la traducción de José R. Martínez Villamil de “La Persona de Jesucristo” de L.T. Jeyachandran, Director para India de RZIM
... Jesús ha resucitado ... EN VERDAD RESUCITO!!!
De los evangelios apócrifos de María Magdalena (Últimos Preceptos):
... (Visión de María) Yo —dijo— vi al Señor en una visión y le dije: «Señor, hoy te he visto en una visión». Él respondió y me dijo: «Bienaventurada eres, pues no te has turbado al Verme, pues allí donde está el Intelecto, allí está el tesoro». Yo le dije: «Señor, ahora, el que ve la visión ¿la ve en alma o en espíritu?». El Salvador respondió y dijo: «No la ve ni en alma ni en espíritu, sino que es el Intelecto que se halla en medio de ellos el que ve la visión ... »
La materia y el mundo 7 [...] entonces, ¿será destruida o no la materia? El Salvador dijo: «Todas las naturalezas, todas las producciones y todas las criaturas se hallan implicadas entre sí, y se disolverán otra vez en su propia raíz, pues la naturaleza de la materia se disuelve en lo que pertenece únicamente a su naturaleza. Quién tenga oídos para escuchar, que escuche».
Otras glosas; habla el alma: «¿De dónde vienes? Y ¿A dónde vas?» y las respuestas: «Lo que me ata ha sido matado (el cuerpo) y lo que me atenaza ha sido aniquilado (la ira) y mi concupiscencia se ha disipado y mi ignorancia ha perecido. A un mundo he sido precipitada desde un mundo, y a una imagen desde una imagen celestial. La ligadura del olvido dura un instante (el cuerpo ya no existe más –existió un instante- el alma se reencuentra y mantiene su identidad). En adelante alcanzaré el reposo del tiempo, de la eternidad, en silencio».
Esta escena del alma, ocurre en su dimensión con la imagen-alma divina por cierto, de Dios Hijo que acaba de concluir su vida humana, como único ser humano donde alma y espíritu conformaban la misma unidad indivisible, a diferencia de los demás seres humanos, que únicamente poseemos alma, pues por el espíritu como dice Pablo (a los Efesios 2:22) ... y unidos a él también ustedes se van incorporando al edificio, por medio del Espíritu Santo, para ser morada de Dios.
Reiteramos, Jesús volvió a su naturaleza, a su imagen de Dios o de Hijo de Dios y de Espíritu Divino [“Hagamos al hombre a nuestra imagen y semejanza ... “ (Génesis 1.26)]; dejó de ser Hombre terrenal, nos legó la palabra y volvió a su origen celestial: Dios.
Nosotros esperamos –aspiramos- ver a Dios con nuestros ojos físicos y EL no hace apariciones en materia; el aparece a los ojos del intelecto y entonces del entendimiento; por ello El decía: «... Quién tenga ojos para ver, que vea»
LA ASCENSIÓN:
Jesús resucita a la IMAGEN DE DIOS HIJO, no como Jesús Hombre; por ello no permite a María Magdalena que lo toque cuando lo reconoce (Juan 19.17). A partir de entonces, Jesús aparece y desaparece; no entra o sale y se va. Se materializa y desmaterializa. Estando presente habla, comparte y refuerza la fe de sus discípulos mostrando y permitiendo que toquen sus heridas (Lucas 24. 36-43 y Juan 21.26-29); despareciendo, se desmaterializaba y ya no había cuerpo.
En síntesis, Jesús luego de su resurrección, ya no fue el Jesús-Hombre, sino la IMAGEN DE DIOS HIJO del Génesis, que se materializaba para consolidar la fe de sus discípulos y darles las últimas instrucciones antes de partir definitivamente de la tierra y elevarse al Padre.
Pero es a la conclusión de los evangelios que narran la vida de Jesús hasta la Ascensión, que al insuflar Dios primero a través del mismo Cristo resucitado (Juan 20.26) y luego directamente el día de Pentecostés, el “Espíritu Santo” a los discípulos, que les da el poder de transmitir el “espíritu” a toda la humanidad; y es a partir de entonces que resulta evidente que todos: católicos, cristianos, los no cristianos o de cualquier credo o inspiración (p.e. los Budistas), llevamos el espíritu de Dios desde nuestra concepción hasta nuestra muerte física.
Es así que Jesús, el Hijo del Hombre, vuelve al Padre, en IMAGEN DE DIOS HIJO, dejando entre nosotros a DIOS ESPIRITU SANTO, con la mayor fuerza inmediata en sus discípulos que con los ojos del espíritu y a la vez del intelecto, vieron ascender la IMAGEN DE DIOS HIJO, cuyo cuerpo simplemente se desmaterializa.
Es curioso que dos telas: una, la tilma incorruptible del poncho del indiecito del Tepeyac con la imagen de la Virgen Guadalupe; y la otra; el síndone o Sábana Santa con la imagen de Jesús, ambas resistiendo el paso del tiempo y accidentes que debieron destruirlas, nos muestren hoy a través de rigurosos análisis científicos y a la vez de la imposibilidad científica de explicar sus características, la vívida existencia de la Madre y del Hijo. ¿Tenemos que discutir esto científicamente?; ¿alcanzamos a verlo con el intelecto?; o simplemente debemos dejar paso a la FE ...
Llegamos a la otra controversia: La Asunción de María
La doctrina de La Asunción de la Virgen María al cielo en cuerpo y alma no aparece explícitamente en la Biblia. Pero si es parte de la Tradición Apostólica y ha sido proclamada formalmente como dogma por el magisterio de la Iglesia.
“Toda espléndida, la hija del rey"... anuncia el salmo responsorial (Sal 45, 14) ... “para ser elevada a la derecha de su Hijo: ‘De pie a tu derecha está la reina, enjoyada con oro de Ofir’ " (antífona del Salmo responsorial).
"Una gran señal apareció en el cielo: una mujer, vestida del sol, con la luna bajo sus pies y una corona de doce estrellas sobre su cabeza"(Ap 11, 19-12,1).
La Asunción de María es una participación singular en la resurrección de Cristo (Juan Pablo II). San Pablo pone de relieve esta verdad, anunciando la alegría por la victoria sobre la muerte, que Cristo consiguió con su resurrección, "porque debe él reinar hasta que ponga a todos sus enemigos bajo sus pies. El último enemigo en ser destruido será la muerte" (1 Cor 15, 25-26). La victoria sobre la muerte que se manifiesta claramente el día de la resurrección de Cristo, concierne de modo particular, a su madre. Si la muerte no tiene poder sobre él, es decir sobre su Hijo, tampoco tiene poder sobre su madre, o sea, sobre aquella que le dio la vida terrena.
En la primera carta a los Corintios, San Pablo hace como un comentario profundo del misterio de la Asunción. Escribe así: "Cristo resucitó de entre los muertos como primicias de los que durmieron. Porque, habiendo venido por un hombre la muerte, también por un hombre viene la resurrección de los muertos. Pues del mismo modo que en Adán mueren todos, así también todos revivirán en Cristo. Pero cada cual en su rango: Cristo como primicias; luego los de Cristo en su venida” (1 Cor 15, 20-23). María es la primera que recibe la gloria; la Asunción representa casi el coronamiento del misterio pascual.
Cristo resucitó venciendo la muerte, efecto del pecado original y abraza con su victoria a todos los que aceptan con fe su resurrección. Ante todo a su Madre, librada de la herencia del pecado original mediante la muerte redentora del Hijo en la cruz. Cristo abraza a María, Inmaculada desde su concepción, acogiéndola en el cielo en la imagen de su cuerpo glorificado, como acercando para ella el día de su vuelta gloriosa a la tierra, el día de la resurrección universal que espera la humanidad. La Asunción al cielo es como una gran anticipación del cumplimiento definitivo de todas las cosas en Dios, según cuanto escribe el Apóstol: "Luego, el fin, cuando entregue (Cristo) a Dios Padre el Reino, para que Dios sea todo en todo" (1 Cor 15, 24, 28). ¿Acaso Dios no es todo en aquella que es la madre inmaculada del Redentor?
La esencia del cuerpo de Cristo, viene del cuerpo de la Madre donde se materializó en la “Divina Concepción” por el Espíritu Santo; y ambos cuerpos devienen en elevación espiritual a imagen celestial y van al Padre. El Espíritu queda con nosotros, como la prolongación del Padre y del Hijo.
San Pablo -se reitera- escribió a los Efesios (2, 21-22)
Hermanos: ... Sobre Cristo, todo el edificio se va levantando bien estructurado, para formar el templo santo en el Señor, y unidos a él también ustedes se van incorporando al edificio, por medio del Espíritu Santo, para ser morada de Dios.
Se reitera también de los evangelios apócrifos de Tomás:
... el Reino de Dios está adentro de vosotros y está fuera de vosotros. Quienes llegan a conocerse a sí mismos lo hallarán y cuando lleguéis a conoceros a vosotros mismos, sabréis que sois los Hijos del Padre viviente.
Hay quienes niegan que Jesús fue el único hijo de María, no por que está en la Biblia (la Biblia en concreto, no dice eso), sino por que creen que en el valor que se le da a María la madre, se le quita algo a la grandeza de su hijo. ¿Cómo no entender que es sólo por grandeza del hijo que hemos llegado a honrar tanto a la Madre?. Es importante remarcar que los citados en la Biblia: Santiago, Judas, Simón y José, con el término “hermano”, como hermanos de Jesús Marcos 6:3); ni en la Biblia ni en ningún otro texto de la época, se les cita a ellos ni a ninguna otra persona, como hijo o hija de María.
En este tiempo y por los tiempos, Dios Padre y Dios Hijo están con la Madre en el séptimo nivel como imagen en familia Celestial. La prueba de Dios Padre y Dios Hijo, están en la creación, en la palabra; y también en la presencia del Espíritu en cada unos de nosotros, al que la percibimos como parte del intelecto o ignoramos por la fría inteligencia y racionalidad. La Madre, está en nuestro corazón unida a la nuestra terrenal, presentes ambas en la calidez de nuestros suspiros o ignoradas por lo gélido de nuestra alma; ella nos ha dado muchas pruebas como –entre otras- la de Fátima, la de Lourdes y la tilma de Juan Diego que nos dejó la Imagen viva de la Madre (encinta con Jesús materializado en su vientre para venir a la vida terrenal), que con el síndone de Cristo (que testimonia el momento en que Jesús se desmaterializa para volver a su vida de celestial divinidad), han quedado para que la ciencia demuestre lo contrario: su no existencia.
Algún día -tal vez- si la ciencia deje de justificarse bajo el cómodo tránsito de la provisionalidad, podremos terminar por explicar la creación y entender los misterios de la concepción, la resurrección de Cristo y entonces, la ascensión y la asunción; la misma vida humana de Cristo, la Divina Trinidad y la inmortalidad del alma. En el curso del tiempo, sólo podremos reflexionar –incluso de manera analítica y hasta crítica- creer y tener fe; o no creer y tener como destino o premio, el vacío del fin.
¿Debemos discutir, buscar, tratar de demostrar o quedar en la no-demostración del cuerpo físico?
Entonces ... “La Tumba perdida de Jesús” ... demuéstrenlo ... y aún si ello ocurriera, no cambiaría en nada la fe de los cristianos (católicos y no católicos)
Ver documento 51
Lo más grave de la investigación sobre la supuesta “Tumba perdida de Jesús”
por Simcha Jacobovici y su equipo, es que se ha dejado en tela de juicio
lo relativo a los misterios de la Resurrección y la Ascensión de Jesús
Preámbulo – El origen, la Madre y nosotros:
El origen de Jesús:
Génesis 1.26 Dijo Dios: “Hagamos al hombre a nuestra imagen y semejanza ... “
¿A quién hablaba el Padre?; naturalmente a su Hijo, que en la generación 60 después de Adán, nace por “encarnación” del Espíritu Santo ... “ a una joven virgen que estaba comprometida en matrimonio con un hombre llamado José de la familia de David. La Virgen se llamaba María. Llegó el Ángel hasta ella y le dijo: Alégrate llena de gracia, el Señor está contigo ... El Espíritu Santo descenderá sobre ti y el poder del Altísimo te cubrirá con su sombra; por eso el niño santo que nacerá de ti será llamado Hijo de Dios ... “ de Lucas 1 – La Anunciación. María lo llamará Jesús, que quiere decir El Salvador.
María es realmente la llena de gracia y Jesús nace de ella como nace del Padre. Y nadie sabrá que María –la niña humilde- puso en movimiento los resortes del Plan de Dios, aquel día de la Visitación. ¡Dichoso tú por haber creído! María pasa a ser Templo de Dios y comunica el Espíritu de Dios, que es el Espíritu de Jesús.
El Corán –aunque rechaza la Trinidad Unificada de Padre, Espíritu Santo e Hijo, pues la religión Musulmana adora a un único Dios, identificado como el mismo Dios de la Biblia a quien llaman “El Sustentador”- acepta que Jesús nació del Espíritu Santo y el Sura 19 está en gran parte, dedicado a la Virgen María.
Sura 19. (16) Y recuerda, por medio de esta escritura divina, a María. He ahí que se retiró de su familia a un lugar en el este (17) y se recluyó apartada de ellos y entonces le enviamos a Nuestro ángel de la revelación, que se apareció a ella en la forma perfecta de un ser humano.
(18) Ella exclamó: “¡En verdad, me refugio de ti en el Más Misericordioso! ¡[No te acerques a mí] si eres consciente de Él!” (19) [El ángel] respondió: “Soy sólo un emisario de tu Sustentador, [quien dice,] ‘Te concederé el regalo de un hijo puro.” (20) Ella dijo: “¿Cómo voy a tener un hijo si ningún hombre me ha tocado? -pues, no he sido una mujer licenciosa.”
(21) [El ángel] dijo: “Así ha de ser; [pues] tu Sustentador dice, ‘Eso es fácil para Mí; y [tendrás un hijo,] para que hagamos de él un signo para la humanidad y una gracia venida de Nosotros”.
(27) Después regresó a su familia, llevando consigo al niño. Dijeron: ¡Oh María! ¡En verdad, has hecho algo inaudito! (28) ¡Oh hermana de Aarón! (*)
(*) A menudo, en las lenguas semíticas, el nombre de una persona va unido al de un antepasado famoso o al del fundador del linaje tribal. Así, por ejemplo, un hombre de la tribu Tamim es llamado “hijo de Tamim” o “hermano de Tamim”. Al pertenecer María a la casta sacerdotal y ser, por consiguiente, descendiente de Aarón, el hermano de Moisés, recibía el apelativo de “hermana de Aarón” (tal como, en Lucas 1.5, se describe a su prima Isabel, la mujer de Zacarías, como una “de las hijas de Aarón”).
De la Biblia:
Números 17, 16. Yavé dijo a Moisés: 17. Diles a los israelitas que te traigan una varilla por tribu, una varilla por cada uno de los jefes de tribu. Serán pues doce varillas; y tú escribirás en la varilla respectiva el nombre de cada tribu 18. En la varilla de Leví escribirás el nombre de Aarón, porque sólo habrá una varilla por tribu. 19. Las depositarás en la Tienda delante del Testimonio, allí donde los cito a ustedes, 20. y aquel cuya varilla florezca, ese será el elegido ...
22. 'Moisés depositó las varillas, delante de Yavé en la Tienda del Testimonio; 23. 'Al día siguiente; cuando Moisés entró en la Tienda del Testimonio, la varilla de la tribu de Leví presentada por Aarón había florecido, le habían aparecido yemas, había botones de flores y las almendras habían madurado' ...
Números 18, 1. Yavé dijo a Aarón: *Tú, tus hijos y tu tribu contigo, serán responsables del Santuario. Tú, tus hijos y tu tribu contigo, serán responsables del sacerdocio*
Jesús es la generación 60 desde Adán (20 generaciones a Abraham; 33 a David y 59 hasta José de Arimatea, de la Casa de David); hijo de María, “hermana de Aarón” (de la tribu de Aarón, responsable del Santuario y del Sacerdocio, cuya única varilla floreció de entre las doce tribus).
La “Encarnación” o “Divina Concepción” es el misterio indemostrable de nuestros días, pero aceptado por la fe, que cada vez se ilumina más; y a medida que avanza el tiempo y tal vez cuando avancemos más allá del dominio científico, se termine por entenderlo y aceptarlo. Tener en cuenta que estamos recién en el inicio de los tiempos modernos y pasarán algunos cientos de años para ello.
Vayamos por un momento al origen en el “Código de la Biblia”:
El programa utilizado por el prestigiado matemático israelí Eliahu Rips, permitió eliminar los espacios entre las palabras de la Torah en el “Código de la Biblia”, concluyendo que el texto bíblico original dice textualmente en el Génesis: CUANDO LOS DIOSES CREARON AL HOMBRE, y no como lo muestran todas las "traducciones" cristianas que señalan: "cuando Dios creó al hombre".
Hay quienes concluyen que ... es muy, pero muy diferente en su significado y trascendencia el decir, creer y aceptar por una mala traducción que “Dios creó al hombre” (en singular), en vez de saber la verdad (asumen una verdad que no necesariamente es la verdad) que señala que los dioses crearon al hombre a su imagen y semejanza.
Recurro para ilustrar esta aparente confusión, al evangelio que la Iglesia atribuye a Juan (1,1-5): “En el principio ya existía Aquél que es la Palabra, y Aquél que es la Palabra estaba con Dios y era Dios. Ya en el principio él estaba con Dios. Todas las cosas vinieron a la existencia por él y sin él nada empezó de cuanto existe. El era la vida, y la vida era la luz de los hombres. La luz brilla en las tinieblas y las tinieblas no la recibieron.” ... aquí está la “pluralidad” de Dios que es interpretada como “Dioses”; reiteramos entonces el Génesis 1.26 Dijo Dios: “Hagamos al hombre a nuestra imagen y semejanza ... “. “Hagamos”; hablaba a “otro” o a “otros”; decía “a nuestra imagen ...” pero desde que hablaba a “otro” ya Dios se interpreta en “plural”; y la pluralidad está en la Divina Trinidad.: Dios Padre, Dios Espíritu y Dios Hijo.
El “Espíritu Santo” en el principio celestial, anidado en los “Arcángeles” y los “Angeles” que no son, ni fueron “humanos”, sin embargo son los agentes de la “omnipresencia” a través de la anidación del “Espíritu” que acompaña a la “identidad” que da el “alma” a cada ser humano.
Nos asistimos ahora de la "Suma Teológica de Santo Tomas de Aquino" para ilustrar esta explicación: Los ángeles tienen el supremo grado de perfección entre todas las criaturas. Los ángeles son los más nobles efectos de la creación, pero no han sido creados como independientes de las demás cosas y sin relación alguna con las otras criaturas, sino que se ordenan a ser parte del universo y al gobierno y servicio de las cosas corpóreas, o sea, las que tienen cuerpo, tanto de las inferiores, como del hombre, que participa de su naturaleza espiritual y de la de los cuerpos humanos físicos.
No puede la razón teológica demostrar las verdades reveladas, pero sí exponerlas con argumentos de conveniencia. Por eso escribe santo Tomás: "Para la perfección del universo se requiere cierta graduación en las criaturas que se vaya acercando a la perfección infinita de Dios, su Creador. Hay criaturas que se parecen a Dios solamente en el existir, como las piedras; otras, como las plantas y los animales, en el vivir; otras, en el entender imperfectamente, como el hombre. Parece pues natural, que existan otras criaturas puramente espirituales y perfectamente intelectivas, que se parezcan a Dios de la manera más perfecta en que se le pueden parecer las criaturas.
¿Quiénes somos y de dónde venimos?
Hace eones de tiempo por un punto, mediante un salto de tipo cuántico, emergieron miríadas de chispas divinas. Cada una infinitamente pequeña y en su individualidad dotada de infinitos atributos potenciales a manifestar y desarrollar. Dieron el salto desde lo in-manifestado en Dios hacia lo manifestado, emergiendo inicialmente de la séptima dimensión, con el fin de crecer al desarrollar sus potencialidades en la tercera, cuarta, quinta y sexta dimensión(*), logrado lo cual serían infinitamente grandes y por el mismo punto retornarían a Dios.
(*) Ensayo de interpretación propia: la Tercera Dimensión es la vida, la existencia en que crecemos en gracia y ascendemos o nos desgraciamos y descendemos; la Cuarta Dimensión, es nuestro “intelecto” [un estadio de integración que es activado en la concurrencia del “alma” con el espíritu y de ambos con la inteligencia y el entendimiento (de los evangelios apócrifos de María Magdalena: ... «Yo —dijo— vi al Señor en una visión y le dije: “Señor, hoy te he visto en una visión”. Él respondió y me dijo: “Bienaventurada eres, pues no te has turbado al Verme, pues allí donde está el Intelecto, allí está el tesoro”. Yo le dije: “Señor, ahora, el que ve la visión ¿la ve en alma o en espíritu?”. El Salvador respondió y dijo: “No la ve ni en alma ni en espíritu, sino que es el Intelecto que se halla en medio de ellos el que ve la visión, y él es el que ..)”».)]; la “Quinta” dimensión es la “puerta” donde se encuentran los intermediarios de “Dios” (es posiblemente en esa dimensión en la que se entrega el Código de la Biblia y las Tablas a Moisés, que en el Monte Sinaí habría sido el único humano que se acerca a la “puerta”); la “Sexta” dimensión, es el tránsito a la “Séptima” dimensión, que es el “estadio final”.
Tú eres una de esas chispas divinas o espíritu (**) actuando en la forma física (que atraviesa los “quantos”) mediante un cuerpo en la tercera dimensión. Eres un espíritu libre e inmortal, sin principio ni fin (que vienes de la “sexta” dimensión y regresarás cruzando la “quinta”, a la “sexta” dimensión –donde puedes permanecer por largos eones de tiempo- hasta que se decida –luego del Juicio Final- que entres a la “séptima dimensión”. Queda la interrogante –afirmada por algunos- que de la “sexta” dimensión puedas ser encomendado para volver a la “tercera” para ayudar a otros a ser mejores). El espíritu dio la forma al alma (que constituye la “identidad” del ser humano); y cada alma –que es individual- se integra con el espíritu en la concepción, que da origen al feto iniciándose así el desarrollo en la humana encarnación.
(**) Es muy común usar –y confundir- el término “espíritu” con “alma”, cuando aunque concurren, son perfectamente distintos como explicamos líneas arriba. En el inicio de párrafo previo, la referencia es claramente al “alma”
San Pablo escribió a los Efesios (2, 19-22)
Hermanos: Ya no son ustedes extranjeros ni advenedizos; son conciudadanos de los santos y pertenecen a la familia de Dios, porque han sido edificados sobre el cimiento de los apóstoles y de los profetas, siendo Cristo Jesús la piedra angular.
Sobre Cristo, todo el edificio se va levantando bien estructurado, para formar el templo santo en el Señor, y unidos a él también ustedes se van incorporando al edificio, por medio del Espíritu Santo, para ser morada de Dios.
Los hombres –gracias a la creación de Dios- tenemos inteligencia, que produce los pensamientos; la capacidad intelectual del hombre, incluye además de la racionalidad, la creatividad y la inventiva; la inquietud por la investigación y la búsqueda. Algunos tienen además el entendimiento que conduce a la sabiduría, siempre basados en una capacidad instalada, pero asistidos de la espiritualidad. Así como hay distintos grados y niveles de inteligencia, también hay distintos grados o niveles de entendimiento; y es así que hay seres humanos más inteligentes o menos inteligentes (función de la productividad en su proceso de pensar y de la calidad de sus pensamientos) y hay seres humanos más o menos sabios; o simplemente hay quienes –como ocurre en la mayoría de los casos- se quedan en el nivel intelectual, sin que les asista sabiduría alguna.
La espiritualidad, no es sino la energía divina –el espíritu- que se anida en nuestro ser y que produce la omnipresencia de Dios en nuestras vidas, concurriendo en cada uno de nosotros, el alma –que es nuestra identidad; y el cuerpo –nuestra capacidad motora y directriz (desde el cerebro, colocándose la inteligencia y el entendimiento, entre el alma y el espíritu). En la integración de estas identidades y características, se ubica el intelecto. Es así que se da la concurrencia del “bien” si manifestamos el espíritu; y de la “ausencia del bien”, si no lo manifestamos sino lo acallamos (ese es nuestro “libre albedrío”). Esa decisión está en nuestra naturaleza primero y en nuestro intelecto -con capacidad dirimente- después; para gratificar o desgraciar nuestra identidad.
El que me ama cumplirá mi palabra y mi Padre lo amará, y haremos en él nuestra morada ... dice el Señor.
De los evangelios apócrifos de Tomás
... que quien busca no deje de buscar hasta que encuentre, y cuando encuentre se turbará, y cuando haya sido turbado se maravillará y reinará sobre la totalidad y hallará el reposo.
... el Reino de Dios está adentro de vosotros y está fuera de vosotros. Quienes llegan a conocerse a sí mismos lo hallarán y cuando lleguéis a conoceros a vosotros mismos, sabréis que sois los Hijos del Padre viviente.
Consideramos importante este –tal vez – largo preámbulo para poder entender el origen, qué somos, de dónde venimos; y a partir de ello, ensayar una explicación plausible de hechos como los misterios de la Resurrección y la Ascensión de Jesús a los cielos, que no son aceptados por la ciencia y ahora -más que nunca antes- con el hallazgo de los que se presume sería “La Tumba perdida de Jesús”, se han puesto en tela de juicio.
Pero antes y para pisar el terreno de lo inexplicable por la ciencia, presentamos el sorprendente relato referido al EL MANTO DE LA VIRGEN DE GUADALUPE
En 1962, el Dr. Charles Wahlig anuncia el descubrimiento de dos imágenes aparentemente reflejadas en los ojos de la Virgen al examinar una fotografía ampliada veinticinco veces. Sólo 13 años después, en 1975, se autoriza remover el cristal para permitir que la imagen sea examinada por otro oftalmólogo, el Dr. Enrique Grave; y en 1979, el Dr. Philip Callahan toma 40 fotos infra-rojas de la imagen. Luego concluye que la imagen original de la Virgen de Guadalupe que el indiecito Juan Diego bajó del cerro Tepeyac (México), es inexplicable como una creación humana.
Lo que la ciencia descubrió después de esta investigación de la tela (tilma) donde aparece la imagen de la Virgen en Guadalupe, se resume a continuación:
1. Estudios oftalmológicos realizados a los ojos de María han detectado que al acercarles luz, la retina se contrae y al retirar la luz, se vuelve a dilatar, exactamente como ocurre en un ojo vivo. Esta fue la primera observación que hizo una persona con lente de aumento y que originó que se pida el permiso para hacer el examen formal de la imagen.
2. La temperatura de la fibra de maguey con que está construida la tilma mantiene una temperatura constante de 36.6 grados, la misma que el cuerpo de una persona viva.
3. Uno de los médicos que analizó la tilma colocó su estetoscopio debajo de la cinta que María posee (señal de que está encinta) y escuchó latidos que rítmicamente se repiten a 115 pulsaciones por minuto, igual que un bebé en el vientre materno
4. No se ha descubierto ningún rastro de pintura en la tela. De hecho, a una distancia de 10 centímetros de la imagen, sólo se ve la tela de maguey en crudo: los colores desaparecen. Estudios científicos no logran descubrir el origen de la coloración que forma la imagen, ni la forma en que la misma fue pintada, si fue pintada. No se detectan rastros de pinceladas ni de otra técnica de pintura conocida. Los científicos de la NASA afirmaron que el material que origina los colores no es ninguno de los elementos conocidos en la tierra.
5. Se ha hecho pasar un rayo láser en forma lateral sobre la tela, detectándose que la coloración de la misma no está ni en el anverso ni en el reverso, sino que los colores flotan a una distancia de tres décimas de milímetro sobre el tejido, sin tocarlo. Los colores flotan en el aire, sobre la superficie de la tilma.
6. La fibra de maguey que constituye la tela de la imagen, no puede perdurar mas que 20 o 30 años. Hace varios siglos se pintó una réplica de la imagen en una tela de fibra de maguey similar y la misma se desintegró después de varias décadas. Mientras tanto, a casi 500 años del milagro, la imagen de María sigue tan firme como el primer día. La ciencia no se explica el origen de la incorruptibilidad de la tela.
7. En el año 1791 se vuelca accidentalmente ácido muriático en el lado superior derecho de la tela. En un lapso de 30 días, sin tratamiento alguno, se reconstituye milagrosamente el tejido dañado.
8. Las estrellas visibles en el Manto de María reflejan la exacta configuración y posición que el cielo de México presentaba en el día en que se produjo el milagro.
- En el lado izquierdo del manto de la Virgen (a nuestra derecha porque la vemos de frente) se encuentran “comprimidas” las constelaciones del sur:
- Cuatro estrellas que forman parte de la constelación de Ofiuco (Ophiucus).
- Abajo se observa Libra y a la derecha, la que parece una punta de flecha corresponde al inicio de Escorpión (Scorpius).
- Intermedias con la porción inferior, se pueden señalar dos de la constelación de Lobo (Lupus) y el extremo de Hidra (Hydra).
- Hacia abajo se evidencia la Cruz del Sur (Crux) sin ninguna duda, y a su izquierda aparece el cuadrado ligeramente inclinado de la constelación de Centauro (Centaurus)
- En el lado derecho del manto de la Virgen se muestran las constelaciones del norte:
- En el hombro, un fragmento de las estrellas de la constelación de Boyero (Bootes), hacia abajo a la Izquierda le sigue la constelación de la Osa Mayor (Ursa Maior) en forma de una sartén. La rodean: a la derecha arriba, la cabellera de Berenice (Coma Berenices), a la derecha abajo, Lebreles (Canes Venatici), a la izquierda Thuban, que es la estrella más brillante de la constelación de Dragón (Draco).
- Por debajo de dos estrellas (que todavía forman parte de la Osa Mayor), se percibe otro par de estrellas de la constelación del Cochero (Auriga) y al oeste, hacia abajo, tres estrellas de Tauro (Taurus).
- De esta manera, quedan identificadas en su totalidad y en su sitio, un poco comprimidas, las 46 estrellas más brillantes que rodean el horizonte del Valle de México.
9. A inicios del siglo XX, un hombre escondió una bomba de alto poder entre un arreglo floral, el cual colocó a los pies de la tilma. La explosión destruyó todo alrededor, menos la tilma, que permaneció en perfecto estado de conservación.
10. La ciencia descubrió que los ojos de María poseen los tres efectos de refracción de la imagen de un ojo humano.
11. En los ojos de María (de tan sólo 7 y 8 mm) se descubrieron diminutas imágenes humanas, que ningún artista podría pintar. Son dos escenas y las dos se repiten en ambos ojos. La imagen del obispo Zumárraga en los ojos de María fue agrandada mediante tecnología digital, revelando que en sus ojos está retratada la imagen del indio Juan Diego, abriendo su tilma frente al obispo. ¿El tamaño de ésta imagen?. Una cuarta parte de un millonésimo de milímetro.
12. Es evidente que todos estos hechos inexplicables se nos han dado por una razón: captar no sólo nuestra atención sino buscar nuestro entendimiento para llegar al “intelecto” de quienes pueden observar e interpretar.
“quien tienen oídos, que oiga ...”; “quien tiene ojos, que vea ...” eran siempre los llamados de Jesús al “intelecto” de sus seguidores ... quien ha desarrollado intelecto, que perciba ...
Y entonces nos preguntamos: ¿y qué tiene que ver esto con la Resurrección y la Ascensión?; pues es simple; todo la explicación comienza a partir de otra tela: la sábana santa -el síndone- que envolvió el cuerpo inerte de El Salvador. Una tela –la tilma del Tepeyac- con la imagen viva de la Madre y la otra, la Sábana Santa, con la imagen de su Divino hijo resucitado.
La “Resurrección”:
En el evangelio atribuido a Juan (11, 25): Le dijo Jesús: “Yo soy la resurrección y la vida ...”
Su resurrección es el factor más crucial en establecer la excepcionalidad de Jesucristo. La resurrección de Cristo fue el clímax legítimo a su vida única y a su muerte. El había profetizado de antemano su resurrección a sus discípulos directamente y a otros través de parábolas.
La “Resurrección” es el otro gran misterio de la fe, pero del que ya los mismos científicos con su incapacidad de explicárselo a través de los análisis de la “Sábana Santa”, comienzan a dar luz.
Veamos primero la muerte de Jesús (análisis de Santos Vílchez):
Sólo los peores criminales murieron como EL, y con Jesús todavía fue peor, porque no todoslos criminales condenados a aquel castigo recibieron clavos en sus miembros. Sí, fueron clavos... ¡y de los grandes!; cada uno tenía de 15 a 20 cm., con un cono de 6 cm. y el extremo puntiagudo.
Estos eran clavados en las muñecas y no en las manos como dicen.
En la muñeca, hay un tendón que llega al hombro, y cuando los clavos fueron martillados en las muñecas de Jesús, ese tendón se rompió, obligándolo a forzar todos los músculos de su espalda -por tener sus muñecas clavadas- para poder respirar porque perdía todo el aire de sus pulmones. De esta forma era obligado a apoyarse en el clavo metido en sus pies que todavía era más grande que el de sus manos, porque atravesaba los dos pies juntos.
Y como sus pies no aguantarían por mucho tiempo sin rasgarse también, Jesús era obligado a alternar ese ''ciclo'‘ (colgarse de las muñecas – apoyarse en los pies y así sucesivamente) simplemente para lograr respirar. Jesús aguantó este inhumano ejercicio por ¡más de 3 horas!; mucho tiempo, ¿verdad?
Algunos minutos antes de morir, Jesús ya no sangraba más. Sencillamente le salía agua de sus cortes y heridas. Cuando lo imaginamos herido, imaginamos meras heridas; pero no, las de EL eran verdaderos agujeros, agujeros hechos en su cuerpo ... EL no tenía más sangre, por lo tanto, le salía agua. Jesús derramó sus 3,5 litros de sangre (volumen normal de sangre en un adulto); tuvo tres clavos enormes metidos en sus miembros; una corona de espinas en su cabeza y antes de terminar, un soldado romano le clavó una lanza en el tórax.
Todo esto sin mencionar la flagelación continua de dos días y la humillación que pasó después de haber cargado su propia cruz por casi dos kilómetros subiendo al calvario, mientras la multitud le escupía el rostro y le tiraba piedras (tan sólo la parte superior de la cruz en la que clavaron sus brazos colgándolo de las muñecas, pesaba cerca de 30 kilos).
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Evangelios atribuidos a Juan (19.39-40) “También fue Nicodemo, el que había ido de noche a ver a Jesús, llevando una cien libras de mirra perfumada y áloe. Tomaron el cuerpo de Jesús y lo envolvieron en lienzos con los aromas, según la costumbre de enterrar de los judíos”
La Sábana Santa o síndone -que una sólida y sustentada tradición señala como la tela que envolvió el cuerpo del Señor Jesús- es una fina pieza de lino de 3 pies y 7 pulgadas de ancho y 14 pies y tres pulgadas de largo (exactamente 8 por 2 cubits, la antigua medida usada en Israel). El síndone lleva la imagen detallada del frente y la espalda de un hombre que fue crucificado de manera idéntica a Jesús de Nazaret según describen las Escrituras.
En el lienzo aparece sangre y manchas de suero humanos del grupo AB. Sangre del mismo tipo se encontró en el Sudario de Oviedo.
Con el fin de determinar el modo cómo la imagen se imprimió en la sábana, más de 1000 investigaciones científicas de las más diversas especialidades han sido realizadas y se le han tomado 32,000 fotografías. Estas investigaciones han hecho de la Sábana Santa la reliquia más estudiada de la historia.
Fotografiada por primera vez en 1898 por Secundo Pia, la imagen de la sábana es un negativo. La radiación que creó la imagen del cuerpo fue de arriba abajo, paralela a la gravedad, y no de costado (no pudo -por tanto- ser realizada como copia de una persona de pie, como alguien especuló). Se trata de una imagen que sólo aparece sobre una tela cuando la superficie del cuerpo se encuentra a 3.5 cm. o menos de la superficie (casi sin tocarla). La oscuridad en la tela es inversamente proporcional a esa distancia. En otras palabras, no es posible que la imagen se hubiera impreso mediante la técnica de "cámara oscura" como proponen algunos detractores. Estos contrastes permiten realizar una reproducción tridimensional de la imagen cuando es vista con el visor VP-8. La imagen es similar a la de rayos X y muestra los huesos en la mano, el rostro, etc.. En el momento de producirse la impresión, el cuerpo del hombre depositado en ese lienzo se encontraba ingrávido y las imágenes sólo pudieron formarse como consecuencia de una radiación desconocida. Los hilos están coloreados, pero entre hilo e hilo no hay grumo de pintura. La tela está grabada a fuego; está chamuscada. El hilo no está carbonizado y por la penetración de la quemadura se mide la duración de la radiación (fracción de segundo). También grabó a fuego las manchas de sangre.
Los pixels -puntos o unidades mínimas de imagen- de oscuridad uniforme hacen una imagen bastante precisa; proporcionando más pixels por área en las zonas más oscuras. Los píxeles intensamente concentrados que constituyen el cuerpo principal de la imagen, no pueden ser duplicados por ningún procedimiento conocido hasta hoy.
Las marcas en el lienzo son detalladas, tridimensionales, térmica y químicamente estables aún en agua. No son pigmentos, no tienen direccionalidad y no fueron causados por el simple contacto con el lienzo. Las marcas no sanguíneas, no fueron provocadas por contacto. Las luces y sombras en el lienzo se dan por las diferentes distancia entre el cuerpo y la tela.
Examen de contenidos, “Carbono 14” y pruebas nucleares:
Polen de flores que crecen en la época de Pascua en el Mar Muerto –producto de la mirra perfumada y el áloe con que se bañó el cuerpo- se encuentran en la tela, (también residuos de polen de Francia y Turquía). Polvo de tipo travertino-aregenito, como el que se encuentra en los alrededores de Jerusalén, fue encontrado en los pies, rodillas y nariz de la imagen (producto del tránsito y las caídas en el camino al calvario). Las 33 esporas resultaron ser procedentes de plantas exclusivas de Palestina o Turquía (estepas del sur o área de Estambul). Las dos terceras partes de las muestras procedían de zonas ajenas a Europa, continente del que no ha salido el lienzo desde el S. XIV. Lo más peculiar es que las especies de polen recogidas en la tela coincidían con gran precisión con el camino que la tradición señalaba para la síndone: de la Tierra Santa a Turquía, de allí a Francia vía los países bálticos y el norte de Italia y finalmente de Francia a Turín.
El incendio de 1532 depositó sobre la sábana una cantidad exagerada de “carbono 14” en el área de donde se tomó la muestra para el examen de 1988. Esta área estaba a sólo tres pulgadas de donde la plata fundida de la urna en que se encontraba el lienzo, evaporó fibras del lino. Hay en otras áreas, signos de crecimiento microbiológico en las fibras del lino, las mismas que también afectan los exámenes de “carbono 14”; por tanto estas pruebas no pueden ser tomadas en cuenta. Pruebas sobre telas similares de entre el siglo-1(a.C.) y el siglo-1(d.C.), sometidas a incendios simulados similares al que soportó el síndone en la Catedral Chamgbery-Francia en 1532, rejuvenecieron 13 siglos para la prueba de “carbono 14” (Científico Ruso Dimitri Kouznetsov, 1994); con esto, se descalifica la validez circunstancial de esta prueba.
Además, el biofísico francés Jean-Bautise Rinaudo, investigador de medicina nuclear del Laboratorio de Biofísica de la Facultad de Medicina de Montpellier, ha aportado su experiencia nuclear para formular una hipótesis que explicaría al mismo tiempo cómo se formó la imagen monocromática -que nadie ha logrado hasta hoy ni explicar ni reproducir. Atribuye el origen de la imagen sindónica a una irradiación instantánea de protones emitidos por el cuerpo muerto del crucificado, bajo el efecto de una energía desconocida. Rinaudo considera que los átomos implicados en este fenómeno -que ha podido reproducir experimentalmente- son los del deuterio, presentes en la materia orgánica y formados por un protón y un neutrón. Los protones podrían haber formado la imagen, produciendo entonces quemaduras superficiales y oscureciendo la tela por oxidación ácida de la celulosa. Los neutrones habrían irradiado el tejido, enriqueciéndolo en “carbono 14”, falseando así la datación, con lo que "rejuvenecería" el lienzo a la mirada de los analistas, puesto que esta prueba consiste en computar el tiempo, tomando como referencia el nivel de degradación de este elemento natural.
Se puede concluir que -hasta hoy- no se conoce ningún procedimiento que permita reproducir una imagen con todas las características mencionadas. Lo que es claro es que no se trata de una imagen producida por contacto, lo que ha llevado a pensar que se puede haber originado por algún tipo de radiación emanada del cuerpo -instantánea en el tiempo- y que habría producido una especie de "chamuscadura". Tendría que tratarse de una radiación con unas características que no son explicables desde el punto de vista físico. Queda pues sin ningún sustento la afirmación aberrante, que esta sábana habría sido producida por Leonardo da Vinci como un autorretrato.
Sobre este mismo aspecto, el Dr. Iván Seperiza Pasquali cuando escribe sobre el “Código de la Biblia”, reproduce lo siguiente:
Cuando la ciencia con la más moderna tecnología de la NASA (no lo hizo la NASA, tan sólo se empleó su tecnología) validó el milagro de la Sábana Santa de Turín, señalando en sus conclusiones que: Lo que allí había sucedido hace 2.000 años sólo se podía explicar como el fruto de una poderosa energía liberada del cuerpo amortajado, previo éste a levitar y desmaterializarse. Energía que iluminó como un relámpago el lugar del sepulcro, e impregnó la tela como un negativo fotográfico con todos los detalles del cuerpo del crucificado... el milagro hizo creer a muchos escépticos.; reforzó la fe de quienes no necesitaban el milagro para creer y activó una fe latente en otros como una revelación, tanto así que algunos de los científicos investigadores se transformaron en creyentes. Al señalarse unos años después que la prueba del Carbono 14 databa la tela como del año 1200 y que el hecho no era milagro sino que un fraude, esto causó mucha preocupación en ciertos cristianos y mucha alegría en los no cristianos. Pocos sin embargo supieron después, o se interesaron por saberlo, que el trozo analizado, no tomado por los científicos, había sido sacado de la tela desde un borde correspondiente a uno de los remiendo de la sábana hecho por monjas después del incendio que quemó parte de la Sábana, remiendo de una tela del año 1200, de mayor peso y diferente textura que la original ... Sin embargo la ciencia probó ahora la autenticidad del Sagrado Manto: El Dr. Dimitri Kouznestov, premio Lenin de Ciencias, en su Laboratorio E. A. Sedov de Moscú lo demostró. Usando una tela del siglo I, que había sido datada correctamente por el ya no tan fiable método del Carbono 14, en uno de los Laboratorios que había informado que el trozo de la Sábana Santa era del año 1200. La sometió a las emanaciones de un incendio similar al ocurrido el año 1532 con la Sábana Santa, y el mismo Laboratorio con similar metodología, esta vez la dató como del año 1200. Y ese prestigioso científico ruso señaló ahora al mundo que la Sábana Santa es auténtica...
... María Magdalena al tercer día fue la primera en ir al sepulcro y encontró la piedra removida, llamó a Pedro y otro discípulo (que Juan indica al final del cuarto evangelio , ser él mismo, el discípulo a quien Jesús amaba) que corrieron; este último llegó primero al sepulcro ... según evangelio atribuido a Juan (20.5-9) “Como se inclinara vio los lienzos tumbados, pero no entró. Pedro llegó detrás, entró en el sepulcro y vio también los lienzos tumbados. El sudario con que le habían cubierto la cabeza (ajustando desde la barbilla hasta la cabeza, como era la costumbre) no se había caído como los lienzos, sino que se mantenía enrollado en su lugar. Entonces entró también el otro discípulo, el que había llegado primero, vio y creyó. Pues no había entendido todavía la Escritura: ¡El debía resucitar de entre los muertos!.” ...
Podemos atrever una reflexión basada en el hecho que no hay signos de desplazamiento del cuerpo para salir de la sábana; simplemente ocurrió una “transportación” instantánea vertical (paralela a la gravedad hacia arriba y hacia abajo del cuerpo desmaterializándose) en el momento que Cristo se incorporó una vez resucitado. Un misterio hoy no explicable por la comunidad científica, pero tampoco refutable frente a la evidencia de la Resurrección. Quien haya entrado primero -confundido- al no encontrar el cadáver, podría haber abierto y tumbado la sábana.
De comentarios 20.1 de la Biblia Latinoamericana a los Evangelios atribuidos a Juan: ... “Las sábanas y las fajas están en el mismo lugar, pero extendidas, pues el cuerpo se ha desmaterializado, dejando en la sábana vacía la impresión extraordinaria que todavía hoy se observa en la reliquia venerada en Turín. El sudario, enrollado en la otra dirección, se ha mantenido como estaba. ... Estos detalles nos muestran mejor lo que fue la resurrección. No se trata de que Jesús se haya levantado con su mismo cuerpo terrenal vuelto a la vida. Pareciera que este se ha desmaterializado en el nacimiento del Hombre Nuevo ... Agregamos, volvió a su imagen de Dios o de Hijo de Dios, que se menciona en Génesis 1.26: Dijo Dios: “Hagamos al hombre a nuestra imagen y semejanza ... “
LA FE – JESÚS HA RESUCITADO ... De comentarios 16.1 de la Biblia Latinoamericana a los Evangelios de Marcos: Resucitado: nacido nuevamente del Padre para no morir más, según dice el Salmo: Tú eres mi Hijo, hoy mismo yo te he dado la vida ... Dudamos, no porque falten testimonios, sino porque nos queda demasiado grande. Ahí están los testimonios que resisten muy bien a la crítica moderna, pero ¿cómo creer que la vida humana termine en una resurrección? ¿y cómo creer que ya un hombre haya sido resucitado?. Todo es cuestión de FE, y creen aquellos cuya propia experiencia los dispone para entrar en esta verdad que es la Verdad última: Dios vivo ama y resucita a los hombres. ... No es más difícil creer en la resurrección de Jesús que creer en sus palabras: ambas cosas van juntas. ... El que cree ha vencido al Mundo ... El que cree ha vencido también el temor que todos sentimos cuando hay que dejar de lado las luces de la razón y ponernos en las manos de Dios.
Frank Morrison , un abogado inglés de los años 30 se dio a la tarea de recoger evidencias circunstanciales que demostraran la falsedad de la resurrección de Cristo. Este tipo de evidencia es, por supuesto, admisible en las cortes de ley de los países civilizados para probar o negar hechos en los que no existen testigos vivientes. Cuando él analizó la evidencia llegó a la sorprendente conclusión de que la resurrección en realidad había tenido lugar. Morrison presentó su caso en un libro titulado “¿Quién movió la piedra?”. De la traducción de José R. Martínez Villamil de “La Persona de Jesucristo” de L.T. Jeyachandran, Director para India de RZIM
La marca que Jesús ha dejado en la historia. El gran historiador Kenneth Scott Latourette escribió: “Según transcurren los siglos la evidencia se acumula de que, medido por su efecto en la historia, Jesús es la vida más influyente que jamás ha vivido en el planeta. Su influencia parece incluso continuar en aumento”. Aún el historiador William Lecky, un escéptico, escribe: “Puede ser cierto que el récord de esos tres breves años de vida (pública - años finales de Jesús) haya hecho más para regenerar y ablandar a la humanidad que todas las disquisiciones de los filósofos y todas las exhortaciones de los moralistas" De la traducción de José R. Martínez Villamil de “La Persona de Jesucristo” de L.T. Jeyachandran, Director para India de RZIM
... Jesús ha resucitado ... EN VERDAD RESUCITO!!!
De los evangelios apócrifos de María Magdalena (Últimos Preceptos):
... (Visión de María) Yo —dijo— vi al Señor en una visión y le dije: «Señor, hoy te he visto en una visión». Él respondió y me dijo: «Bienaventurada eres, pues no te has turbado al Verme, pues allí donde está el Intelecto, allí está el tesoro». Yo le dije: «Señor, ahora, el que ve la visión ¿la ve en alma o en espíritu?». El Salvador respondió y dijo: «No la ve ni en alma ni en espíritu, sino que es el Intelecto que se halla en medio de ellos el que ve la visión ... »
La materia y el mundo 7 [...] entonces, ¿será destruida o no la materia? El Salvador dijo: «Todas las naturalezas, todas las producciones y todas las criaturas se hallan implicadas entre sí, y se disolverán otra vez en su propia raíz, pues la naturaleza de la materia se disuelve en lo que pertenece únicamente a su naturaleza. Quién tenga oídos para escuchar, que escuche».
Otras glosas; habla el alma: «¿De dónde vienes? Y ¿A dónde vas?» y las respuestas: «Lo que me ata ha sido matado (el cuerpo) y lo que me atenaza ha sido aniquilado (la ira) y mi concupiscencia se ha disipado y mi ignorancia ha perecido. A un mundo he sido precipitada desde un mundo, y a una imagen desde una imagen celestial. La ligadura del olvido dura un instante (el cuerpo ya no existe más –existió un instante- el alma se reencuentra y mantiene su identidad). En adelante alcanzaré el reposo del tiempo, de la eternidad, en silencio».
Esta escena del alma, ocurre en su dimensión con la imagen-alma divina por cierto, de Dios Hijo que acaba de concluir su vida humana, como único ser humano donde alma y espíritu conformaban la misma unidad indivisible, a diferencia de los demás seres humanos, que únicamente poseemos alma, pues por el espíritu como dice Pablo (a los Efesios 2:22) ... y unidos a él también ustedes se van incorporando al edificio, por medio del Espíritu Santo, para ser morada de Dios.
Reiteramos, Jesús volvió a su naturaleza, a su imagen de Dios o de Hijo de Dios y de Espíritu Divino [“Hagamos al hombre a nuestra imagen y semejanza ... “ (Génesis 1.26)]; dejó de ser Hombre terrenal, nos legó la palabra y volvió a su origen celestial: Dios.
Nosotros esperamos –aspiramos- ver a Dios con nuestros ojos físicos y EL no hace apariciones en materia; el aparece a los ojos del intelecto y entonces del entendimiento; por ello El decía: «... Quién tenga ojos para ver, que vea»
LA ASCENSIÓN:
Jesús resucita a la IMAGEN DE DIOS HIJO, no como Jesús Hombre; por ello no permite a María Magdalena que lo toque cuando lo reconoce (Juan 19.17). A partir de entonces, Jesús aparece y desaparece; no entra o sale y se va. Se materializa y desmaterializa. Estando presente habla, comparte y refuerza la fe de sus discípulos mostrando y permitiendo que toquen sus heridas (Lucas 24. 36-43 y Juan 21.26-29); despareciendo, se desmaterializaba y ya no había cuerpo.
En síntesis, Jesús luego de su resurrección, ya no fue el Jesús-Hombre, sino la IMAGEN DE DIOS HIJO del Génesis, que se materializaba para consolidar la fe de sus discípulos y darles las últimas instrucciones antes de partir definitivamente de la tierra y elevarse al Padre.
Pero es a la conclusión de los evangelios que narran la vida de Jesús hasta la Ascensión, que al insuflar Dios primero a través del mismo Cristo resucitado (Juan 20.26) y luego directamente el día de Pentecostés, el “Espíritu Santo” a los discípulos, que les da el poder de transmitir el “espíritu” a toda la humanidad; y es a partir de entonces que resulta evidente que todos: católicos, cristianos, los no cristianos o de cualquier credo o inspiración (p.e. los Budistas), llevamos el espíritu de Dios desde nuestra concepción hasta nuestra muerte física.
Es así que Jesús, el Hijo del Hombre, vuelve al Padre, en IMAGEN DE DIOS HIJO, dejando entre nosotros a DIOS ESPIRITU SANTO, con la mayor fuerza inmediata en sus discípulos que con los ojos del espíritu y a la vez del intelecto, vieron ascender la IMAGEN DE DIOS HIJO, cuyo cuerpo simplemente se desmaterializa.
Es curioso que dos telas: una, la tilma incorruptible del poncho del indiecito del Tepeyac con la imagen de la Virgen Guadalupe; y la otra; el síndone o Sábana Santa con la imagen de Jesús, ambas resistiendo el paso del tiempo y accidentes que debieron destruirlas, nos muestren hoy a través de rigurosos análisis científicos y a la vez de la imposibilidad científica de explicar sus características, la vívida existencia de la Madre y del Hijo. ¿Tenemos que discutir esto científicamente?; ¿alcanzamos a verlo con el intelecto?; o simplemente debemos dejar paso a la FE ...
Llegamos a la otra controversia: La Asunción de María
La doctrina de La Asunción de la Virgen María al cielo en cuerpo y alma no aparece explícitamente en la Biblia. Pero si es parte de la Tradición Apostólica y ha sido proclamada formalmente como dogma por el magisterio de la Iglesia.
“Toda espléndida, la hija del rey"... anuncia el salmo responsorial (Sal 45, 14) ... “para ser elevada a la derecha de su Hijo: ‘De pie a tu derecha está la reina, enjoyada con oro de Ofir’ " (antífona del Salmo responsorial).
"Una gran señal apareció en el cielo: una mujer, vestida del sol, con la luna bajo sus pies y una corona de doce estrellas sobre su cabeza"(Ap 11, 19-12,1).
La Asunción de María es una participación singular en la resurrección de Cristo (Juan Pablo II). San Pablo pone de relieve esta verdad, anunciando la alegría por la victoria sobre la muerte, que Cristo consiguió con su resurrección, "porque debe él reinar hasta que ponga a todos sus enemigos bajo sus pies. El último enemigo en ser destruido será la muerte" (1 Cor 15, 25-26). La victoria sobre la muerte que se manifiesta claramente el día de la resurrección de Cristo, concierne de modo particular, a su madre. Si la muerte no tiene poder sobre él, es decir sobre su Hijo, tampoco tiene poder sobre su madre, o sea, sobre aquella que le dio la vida terrena.
En la primera carta a los Corintios, San Pablo hace como un comentario profundo del misterio de la Asunción. Escribe así: "Cristo resucitó de entre los muertos como primicias de los que durmieron. Porque, habiendo venido por un hombre la muerte, también por un hombre viene la resurrección de los muertos. Pues del mismo modo que en Adán mueren todos, así también todos revivirán en Cristo. Pero cada cual en su rango: Cristo como primicias; luego los de Cristo en su venida” (1 Cor 15, 20-23). María es la primera que recibe la gloria; la Asunción representa casi el coronamiento del misterio pascual.
Cristo resucitó venciendo la muerte, efecto del pecado original y abraza con su victoria a todos los que aceptan con fe su resurrección. Ante todo a su Madre, librada de la herencia del pecado original mediante la muerte redentora del Hijo en la cruz. Cristo abraza a María, Inmaculada desde su concepción, acogiéndola en el cielo en la imagen de su cuerpo glorificado, como acercando para ella el día de su vuelta gloriosa a la tierra, el día de la resurrección universal que espera la humanidad. La Asunción al cielo es como una gran anticipación del cumplimiento definitivo de todas las cosas en Dios, según cuanto escribe el Apóstol: "Luego, el fin, cuando entregue (Cristo) a Dios Padre el Reino, para que Dios sea todo en todo" (1 Cor 15, 24, 28). ¿Acaso Dios no es todo en aquella que es la madre inmaculada del Redentor?
La esencia del cuerpo de Cristo, viene del cuerpo de la Madre donde se materializó en la “Divina Concepción” por el Espíritu Santo; y ambos cuerpos devienen en elevación espiritual a imagen celestial y van al Padre. El Espíritu queda con nosotros, como la prolongación del Padre y del Hijo.
San Pablo -se reitera- escribió a los Efesios (2, 21-22)
Hermanos: ... Sobre Cristo, todo el edificio se va levantando bien estructurado, para formar el templo santo en el Señor, y unidos a él también ustedes se van incorporando al edificio, por medio del Espíritu Santo, para ser morada de Dios.
Se reitera también de los evangelios apócrifos de Tomás:
... el Reino de Dios está adentro de vosotros y está fuera de vosotros. Quienes llegan a conocerse a sí mismos lo hallarán y cuando lleguéis a conoceros a vosotros mismos, sabréis que sois los Hijos del Padre viviente.
Hay quienes niegan que Jesús fue el único hijo de María, no por que está en la Biblia (la Biblia en concreto, no dice eso), sino por que creen que en el valor que se le da a María la madre, se le quita algo a la grandeza de su hijo. ¿Cómo no entender que es sólo por grandeza del hijo que hemos llegado a honrar tanto a la Madre?. Es importante remarcar que los citados en la Biblia: Santiago, Judas, Simón y José, con el término “hermano”, como hermanos de Jesús Marcos 6:3); ni en la Biblia ni en ningún otro texto de la época, se les cita a ellos ni a ninguna otra persona, como hijo o hija de María.
En este tiempo y por los tiempos, Dios Padre y Dios Hijo están con la Madre en el séptimo nivel como imagen en familia Celestial. La prueba de Dios Padre y Dios Hijo, están en la creación, en la palabra; y también en la presencia del Espíritu en cada unos de nosotros, al que la percibimos como parte del intelecto o ignoramos por la fría inteligencia y racionalidad. La Madre, está en nuestro corazón unida a la nuestra terrenal, presentes ambas en la calidez de nuestros suspiros o ignoradas por lo gélido de nuestra alma; ella nos ha dado muchas pruebas como –entre otras- la de Fátima, la de Lourdes y la tilma de Juan Diego que nos dejó la Imagen viva de la Madre (encinta con Jesús materializado en su vientre para venir a la vida terrenal), que con el síndone de Cristo (que testimonia el momento en que Jesús se desmaterializa para volver a su vida de celestial divinidad), han quedado para que la ciencia demuestre lo contrario: su no existencia.
Algún día -tal vez- si la ciencia deje de justificarse bajo el cómodo tránsito de la provisionalidad, podremos terminar por explicar la creación y entender los misterios de la concepción, la resurrección de Cristo y entonces, la ascensión y la asunción; la misma vida humana de Cristo, la Divina Trinidad y la inmortalidad del alma. En el curso del tiempo, sólo podremos reflexionar –incluso de manera analítica y hasta crítica- creer y tener fe; o no creer y tener como destino o premio, el vacío del fin.
¿Debemos discutir, buscar, tratar de demostrar o quedar en la no-demostración del cuerpo físico?
Entonces ... “La Tumba perdida de Jesús” ... demuéstrenlo ... y aún si ello ocurriera, no cambiaría en nada la fe de los cristianos (católicos y no católicos)
Ver documento 51
domingo, marzo 25, 2007
52. The Lost Tomb of Jesus
Commentaries by Luis Bravo Villarán
This important investigation of Simcha Jacobovici, James D. Tabor, Chalie R. Pellegrino and the rest of the so called “the decoders team”, does not affect at all to Christianity nor the Catholic Faith; but it must worry to the Catholic Church and to the Christian churches in general …
We will comment out the DECODERS work in the same order the data appears in the web page http://www.jesusfamilytomb.com/. This document transcribes almost equal some parts of this web page in a way to easier the commentaries.
BRIEF:
Simcha Jacobovici, has carried out an investigation over a tomb found in 1980 in East Talpiot-Jerusalem containing ten ossuaries (six of them with inscriptions, three without and one disappeared and suspected to be the one found from the an antiques collector).
With the help of statisticians, archeologists, historians, DNA experts, robot-camera technicians, epigraphers and a CSI expert from New York's Long Island, Simcha Jacobovici conformed a team called “the decoders” and puts together a case in which he argues that the bones of Jesus, Mary and Mary Magdalene, along with some of their lesser-known relatives, were once entombed in this cave. "Faced with the controversial theological and historical implications of what he calls his "rediscovery," Jacobovici said: "People will have to believe what they want to believe".
They do not challenge the fact of the Resurrection nor the Ascension of Jesus on the fortieth day after the Resurrection although they sustain that if Jesus’ mortal remains have indeed been found, this would contradict only the idea of a physical ascension. However, it says nothing against the possibility of a spiritual one nor does it dispute the idea of the Ascension.
The six ossuaries boring inscriptions are market as: Jesus son of Joseph; Maria; Mariamene et Mara (Mariamene is the name by which Mary Magdalene was known), Joseph, Matthew, and Judah son of Jesus. One of the coffins disappeared and they have reasonably determine that this could be the so called “James (Jacob) Ossuary” that was acquired by the collector Oded Golan, who today confronts a trial in Israel for holding this archaeological piece, whose patina is identical to the one of the other nine coffins of the Talpiot tomb.
L.Y. Rahmani, who wrote the definitive book on the subject of Jewish ossuaries believes that the Mary is of the same generation as, and likely the wife of the Joseph found in the Talpiot tomb.
Professor Amos Kloner who investigated the tomb back in 1996, said about the decoders work: “It is a beautiful history, but without no prove nor nothing similar”. Besides professor Jünger Zangenberg declared that there are no proves that this type of practice -to place the bones of a dead person in an ossuary, after certain time of the death- was habitual by those times, the decoders hold that for only about a hundred years, from 30 BCE to 70 CE (when the Romans destroyed the city), people in the Jerusalem area practiced a form of “secondary burial”. What this means is that when someone died family members wrapped the body in a shroud. Then the family waited—for about a year—for the flesh to decompose. Then one or more members reentered the tomb, gathered the bones together, and placed them in an ossuary or bone box. The box was made for the deceased and had to be long enough to accommodate the longest bone in the body, the femur.
In the case of the lost tomb of Jesus, all this must have been developed in an absolute secret and with too many people –relatives and disciples- involved. Very low probability that this secret had not been known and registered in some writings of the time. Besides, they must have put in agreement too many people to do with the body of Jesus, which would have become: to put it in pieces?. An important aspect to be considered: ¿would have they placed the Jesus remains in a family tomb, in a definitively visible place (East Talpiot) and outstanding it with singular marks and no body beyond his relatives and disciples would have found it out?. ¿Who had dared to the profanation of Jesus’ body and to turn into pieces his skull?
The professor of statistic of the Toronto University Andrey Feueverger, member of the investigation team, declared during the presentation of the documentary video product of the decoders work in New York, that “only there is 1 out of 600 probability that the remains found in the tomb correspond to another family who is not the one of Jesus”.
But what have been found, hardly gives a database that is overly relevant, because out of the inscription poor families don't show up in historical documents and chiseled in stone nearly as often as the rich do. Jesus was not rich. His followers were not either. In any case, professor Feueverger has released his guess without sufficient evidence in the social strata to which Jesus belonged to be relevant. Given that the number of entire families that have been unearthed is but a very low percentage of the actual number of people who lived in that time.
About the inscriptions, out of the Greek’ of Mariamne, which need to be better explained; how do the decoders know that Jesus's mother was known after his death by a latinized form of her name "as more Romans became followers" in the context of pre-rebellion Jerusalem in the middle of the first century?. Do they ignore of what was going on in the cultural and historical context of the time? And isn’t there an obvious contradiction here? People became followers of the Galilean crucified risen Savior, not a middle-class resident of Jerusalem! If Jesus was walking around Jerusalem with a wife and kids, there would be no followers, Roman or otherwise, to be calling Maria to the Jesus’s mother. (James R. White)
DNA tests are performed on human residue taken out of the “Jesus son of Joseph” ossuary and the “Mariamne” ossuary. These tests were conducted by Dr. Carney Matheson at the Paleo-DNA lab at Lakehead University in Ontario, one of the leading facilities of its kind in the world. The degraded samples would not provide enough material for y-chromosome testing. But Dr. Matheson is able to extract enough mitochondrial DNA to test the mother line. The tests demonstrate nothing more that the “Jesus” and “Mary Magdalene” from this tomb are not maternally related.
Other critics are finding fault with the fact that ossuaries found in the tomb are empty, which they say limits the archaeological evidence needed to support the Jesus family tomb claim (Source: The Daily Telegram); the works on DNA given the age of the remains and the fact that there are no full bones present (only small shards) would be very difficult. Then further DNA tests are impossible and the odds of the investigations success will be much lower. If the test can not be carried out or the results are negative, nothing can be proved.
Now three possible scenarios have to be considered:
Thomas 39 (Apocryphal Gospel). Jesus has said: The clergymen and the theologians have received the keys of the knowledge, but they have hidden them. They did not enter there, nor they allowed to enter those that wished to enter. As far as you, be astute like serpents and pure like doves.
The first scenario: assuming the DNA tests can be carried out and their outcome are positive; nothing will happen with the Christianity nor the Catholic faith; both will review the truth and will go ahead strengthen. The catholic church and the churches in general will have to evolve to the “beginning”.
In Revelation (22:13), Jesus says: “I am the ‘Alpha’ and the ‘Omega’ ” i.e., I am the beginning (the principle) and the end (the aim), since “Alpha” and “Omega” are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet; indeed He was the end of the Old Testament where the “fear” predominated; and the beginning of the New Testament where the “love” should predominate. The message of Jesus was LOVE; but the message of the church –the strategy of churches- is the FEAR.
It can also be interpreted the “principle” as the base, the fundament, the sustenance of everything; and the “aim” as the objective or purpose; in both ends, the fundament and the purpose, is the LOVE.
The second scenario: no more tests will be allowed; it will be a pity, because once again, the impression of a concealment will be left. Doubts will be generated throughout the world.
The third scenario: that the tests outcome is negative; nothing will happen, but anyway, the catholic church and the churches in general must -at once and for good- evolve to the “beginning and principle”; toward LOVE. The church cannot continue being preponderantly an economic and political organization; it must be an institution of LOVE.
The change
Indeed … the Church should open the TRUTH and the KNOWLEDGE; the faith will not be weakened, on the contrary it will be reinforced.
Then the church should begin to consider apocryphal gospels, mainly those of Thomas, Philip and Mary Magdalene; the Code of the Bible and -why not- the gospel of Judas. All of them would contain deep truths that church does not accept.
If it is obvious to the human eyes that the Kingdom of Heaven is not physical and the ascension of Jesus Christ would had been only in spirit, that does not change the foundations of the Christianity nor the Catholic faith, whether it is determined or not that the tomb of Talpiot is the tomb of Jesus’ family; and if it is not, be the body of the Savior found or not.
Finally … Jesus Christ - the Son although was a special being- was sent by the Father to live as a “human being”, as a normal man; to pass joys and sadness (He underwent much when Joseph died); to feel and to give peace, as to show indignation and rage (when He threw the merchants out of the temple); to be tempted and to experience successes and failures (i.e. when all their apostles disappeared when He was taken prisoner); to feel fear and weakness; to suffer - in his case in an extreme and very singular way, with stoicism and strength, supporting -in addition to the injustice, the most intense pains. ¿Who can say that He was not human? ; who can say that He was not a man?.
But this, in no way -even considering the Jewish customs, many of which were passed superficially by Jesus- can take us to affirm that He and Mary Magdalene were husband and wife (which on the other hand, from the perspective of a simple reflection -if it is demonstrated otherwise- nothing of bad or observable would have, beyond leaving without its greatest sustenance to the traditional priests celibacy of the Catholic Church, which is a terrestrial issue); less still if He had descendants which -if demonstrated- would not change anything either for the Christianity and/or the Catholic faith. Naturally, to make a more accurate analysis of these issues we would require of theological knowledge that are in a more complex level of elaboration than the one of a simple analysis or questioning reflection; and on the other hand we should wait for the DNA analyses results of the complete set of ossuaries found in the supposed “Lost Tomb of Jesus” or “The Tomb of the Jesus Family”
THE FULL DOCUMENT
Part I
PROVISO – The Resurrection
The Decoders does not challenge the fact of the Resurrection; they however ask the viewers to consider the possibility that it occurred from another tomb –they say a second tomb- different to that in which Christ was originally buried right after crucifixion.
They also suggest that the rumor on that the disciples would remove the body of Christ from the tomb given by Joseph of Arimathea (Matthew 28:12-15) , would be in fact a truth. No comments.
Regarding the second tomb, this does not have much sense, since it is little probable, but impossible, that that second tomb had been in any case, the one of Talpiot, because it would have been too exposed. Therefore it would be necessary to weave that the second tomb had been in fact another different one and that the family had finally moved the body of Jesus to the tomb of Talpiot with the dangers that it would entail. Very weak argument.
There are several testimonies -according to the gospels- that Christ was seen during the forty days after his resurrection.
PROVISO – The Ascension
It is also a matter of Christian faith that Jesus, on the fortieth day after the Resurrection, ascended to Heaven. Christians accept the Ascension as a fact; however, they have long debated certain issues around the Ascension. (decoders web text)
The decoders ask: if Jesus ascended into Heaven, does that mean Heaven is “up?. Nonsense question. ¿Is for instance possible to give three dimensions to the mind, to the intelligence, to the spirit, to the soul?
There is physical impossibility to demonstrate that Jesus is seated to the right hand of God; therefore it is an act of faith. Again this is not a physical figure.
Also the ascent is attested in gospels, but it is at the end an act of faith.
The decoders sustain that if Jesus’ mortal remains have indeed been found, this would contradict only the idea of a physical ascension. However, it says nothing against the possibility of a spiritual one nor does it dispute the idea of the Ascension.
The body of Jesus, is the central issue of the decoders work and will be the central issue along these commentaries.
The Lost Tomb of Jesus
Great merit has the work of the decoders that 25 years after a bulldozer accidentally uncovered what may be the most explosive archaeological discovery of all time, took a fresh look at this astounding cluster of New Testament names.
Ten ossuaries or stone coffins were found inside a first-century tomb, six bore inscriptions: Jesus son of Joseph; Maria; Mariamene (the name by which Mary Magdalene was known), Joseph, Matthew, and Judah son of Jesus.
Through paleo-ADN tests, high-tech robot-cams, crime lab analyses, linguistics, and theological study, the Tomb team arrived at a shocking conclusion … The Lost Tomb of Jesus.
Unlike the “Da Vinci Code”, the Lost Tomb of Jesus, deals with real people. Archaeology is real. The ossuaries are real. The conclusions are left to each one.
The Jesus Family Tomb might well be the most controversial archaeological discovery of all time. The film that documents that discovery is a real-life detective story in which history and cutting edge science combine forces -along with a truly remarkable team of experts (the decoders)- to shed light on one of the world’s most powerfully guarded secrets.
One of the coffins disappeared and they have reasonably determine that this could be the so called “James (Jacob) Ossuary” that was acquired by the collector Oded Golan, who today confronts a trial in Israel for holding this archaeological piece, whose patina is identical to the one of the other nine coffins of the Talpiot tomb. About the inscription it reads: “James (Jacob), son of Joseph …” the controversial words are “… brother of Jesus”. The dimensions of the James (Jacob) coffin fit to the set.
The force of the decoders analysis, is that it is a family tomb: “The Jesus Family Tomb”.
The professor of statistic of the Toronto University Andrey Feueverger, member of the investigation team, declared during the presentation of the documentary video product of the decoders work in New York, that “only there is 1 out of 600 probability that the remains found in the tomb correspond to another family who is not the one of Jesus”.
But what have been found, hardly gives a database that is overly relevant, because out of the inscription poor families don't show up in historical documents and chiseled in stone nearly as often as the rich do. Jesus was not rich. His followers were not either. In any case, the statistician has released his guess without sufficient evidence in the social strata to which Jesus belonged to be relevant. Given that the number of entire families that have been unearthed is but a very low percentage of the actual number of people who lived in that time.
Our commentaries will go through each person presumably identified in the familiar tomb and through the decoders analysis and conclusions; also through the developed activities along the investigation and of the respective conclusions. We will extend in some reflections and some theses of previous papers, to support the commentaries.
In order to refute this work, it is not enough with expressions as the one of professor Amos Kloner who spread the conclusions of their investigation in 1996; he said: “It is a beautiful history, but without no prove nor nothing similar”; neither those of professor Jünger Zangenberg, expert in the New Testament of the University of Leiden (Holland) that said that the theory of the documentary video is not too realistic, because there are no proves that the bones of Jesus were placed in a small stone coffin; indicating that there are no proves that this type of practice -to place the bones of a dead person in an ossuary, after certain time of the death- was habitual by those times; he indicated also that the names in the coffins, do not constitute any prove.
I think that both experts and some others would have to expose deeper analyses to refute the work of the decoders team.
The Second Burial
Despite the indications of professor Jünger Zangenberg, about that there are no proves that this type of practice -to place the bones of a dead person in an ossuary, after certain time of the death- was habitual by those times, the decoders hold that for only about a hundred years, from 30 BCE to 70 CE (when the Romans destroyed the city), people in the Jerusalem area practiced a form of “secondary burial”. What this means is that when someone died family members wrapped the body in a shroud and placed it in a niche within a tomb carved out of the soft rock. Perhaps they left a few artifacts, a perfume bottle, a small lamp to accompany the deceased.
Then the family waited—for about a year—for the flesh to decompose. Then one or more members reentered the tomb, gathered the bones together, and placed them in an ossuary or bone box. The box was made for the deceased and had to be long enough to accommodate the longest bone in the body, the femur. This is why a child’s ossuary is smaller than an adult’s.
I believe that this explains -if happened in the case of Jesus- that would have been not two but three or up to four tombs and -following the track of the decoders- would have revived of the second tomb, and after forty days to have died again buried in the second or third tomb, and then after a year or so, their relatives or disciples, separate its bones finally to pass it to the ossuary found in the family tomb of Talpiot.
Some claim that the second burial practices reflected a new Jewish belief in the Resurrection of the dead. Others state it started as a cultural borrowing from Romans who had subsumed the ancient Greek practice. Others are more practical: secondary burial was in answer to the increasingly high premium placed on Jerusalem real estate. Put simply, ossuaries saved on space.
If the Jewish believed in the resurrection of dead, so ¿why to put in pieces the corpse? ; it is possible to think rather about the cultural borrowing from of Romans or Greeks, although less probable by the Jewish root to its customs and traditions. The one of the increasingly high premium placed on Jerusalem real estate, is simply non sense.
Whatever the reason, the practice of secondary burial in Jerusalem—which took place exactly before, during, and after the life of Jesus—means we should be looking very carefully at the inscriptions and other archaeological evidence from these tombs to determine any links with the early Christians, considering besides that Jesus eliminated many of the Jewish customs through his messages.
All this must have been developed in an absolute secret and with too many people –relatives and disciples- involved. Very low probability that this secret had not been known and registered in some writings of the time.
Besides, they must have put in agreement too many people to do with the body of Jesus, which would have become: to put it in pieces?
An important aspect to be considered: ¿would have they placed the Jesus remains in a family tomb, in a definitively visible place (East Talpiot) and outstanding it with singular marks and no body beyond his relatives and disciples would have found it out?
¿Who had dared to the profanation of Jesus’ body and to turn into pieces his skull?
We leave the answers to the reader.
Not a typical tomb – The symbols
When archaeologists arrived at the site, the first thing they noted was a strange symbol over the door to the tomb, on the south face of the antechamber. They were at a complete loss. They had never seen another like it: a decorative V- or Y-shaped gable or chevron over a prominent circle. It measured more than a meter wide, wider, in fact, than the passage to the tomb beneath it.
At first, it was thought the symbol might have been an unfinished wreath or rosette, a typical image found carved in and around tombs of the Second Temple period, a symbol of royalty. It also may have been left unfinished, it was thought, as many tombs were, with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. All building activity was left frozen in mid-stride when the Temple fell and the Jews were driven from the city.
But upon further inspection, archeologists concluded that the symbol appeared as it was intended to appear. It was a quite beautifully rendered stone relief sculpture. Someone had worked very carefully, almost lovingly, to achieve the smooth, three-dimensional effect. The archaeologists knew that the elaborateness of the façade, especially in a tomb with no other decorative features, was extremely rare.
Puzzlingly, bones had been placed in the antechamber directly underneath the chevron symbol, possibly deliberately. This too was decidedly not typical. In ancient Jerusalem, the dead were placed inside tombs; in tombs, the dead were placed inside ossuaries.
The decoders soon analyze the symbols first in relation to the Mason’s symbols and then in relation to with the Knights Templar.
They discard to the Mason and further they sustain that the Knights Templar have always been linked with ritual practices. Is it possible that the skulls laid out in the tomb and its antechamber were there as part of some twelfth century ceremony?. We do know that the bones are not from the time of Jesus but a much later period.
The conclusion to which the observer is taken, is that the Knights Templar visited the tomb of Jesus and left their bones as a tribute. The bizarre of this story is that with the Knights Templar passion about the Saint Grail, they had left the bones of Jesus in the tomb. ¿Would not be more logical to think than they had taken the Jesus ossuary with them and kept it as a Templar secret?
To relate the symbol in the door of the tomb to the “Supper at Emmaus” of Jacopo de Pontormo (disciple of Leonardo da Vinci), is just to put a touch of competition to this story with the “Da Vinci Code”. By the way the Dan Brown story is weakened before this investigation; but a “Pontormo Code” would be simply another novel.
The All-seeing Eye of the “Supper at Emmaus” of Pontormo, would represent the omni-presence of God. By the way this supper occurred after the resurrection.
If the Tomb of the Ten Ossuaries is that of Jesus and his family, the only people who would have had that information in the first century would have been the Judeo-Christian community of Jerusalem. Interestingly, history tells us that the Judeo-Christians were considered heretics because they held that Jesus was a man and not a divinity. Generation after generation, the existence and location of Jesus’ tomb would have been passed down. Conceivably, it could very well have fallen into the hands of the Crusaders, the Knights Templar, who arrived in Jerusalem as “pilgrims” in the twelfth century.
Commentary: if Judeo-Christian community did not believe in the divinity of Jesus, and they had the demonstration in hand, so ¿why they did not use it?
Accurate Period Depiction
The Lost Tomb of Jesus is a visually stunning documentary, that try to set bold new standards for reenactment.
The team gathered leading anthropologists, social historians, theologians, scientists, linguists and Biblical scholars, to name a few in order to provide such an accurate depiction. The hairstyles, costumes, jewelry, the casting, set design, and even the lighting were all designed with the input of these experts.
Evidently, this depiction will give much to talk about; it could be one of the most impressive representations of Jesus and all his surroundings, but it is nothing but a depiction.
The ten ossuaries
Thousands of ossuaries have been found throughout Jerusalem, from hundreds of tombs. About 20% of these ossuaries bear inscriptions: the name of the deceased, perhaps his function in society, perhaps his father’s name--or his brother’s. These inscriptions were usually done by family members, not professional engravers and are at times barely legible.
The ossuaries of several known Gospel figures have been discovered in the Jerusalem hills, including Simon of Cyrene, who helped Jesus carry his cross on the day to the Crucifixion, the High Priest Caiaphas, and James, the brother of Jesus already mentioned.
In the ossuaries of the presumed Jesus family tomb, every inscription bears a relationship to the Gospels. While the names themselves range from the most common to the fairly rare, it is the cluster of names that is unique.
The first inscription (ossuary 80/503), written in Aramaic (an ancient dialect of Hebrew), states: “Yeshua bar Yosef”. Translated, it reads “Jesus son of Joseph.” This is very rare. Out of all the inscriptions catalogued, only one other “Jesus son of Joseph” inscription (1926) has ever been uncovered since 1926.
The second inscription (ossuary 80/505), written in Hebrew reads: “Maria” 25 % of all Jewish women of the first century in Judea (ancient Israel) were called “Miriam,” in English, “Mary.” As a result, to distinguish one from the other, variants and nicknames were adopted. Through literary sources the name of the mother of Jesus has always come down to us in one way: “Maria”, i.e. the Latin version of “Miriam”. Finding a Latin version of a Hebrew name inscribed phonetically in Hebrew letters is rare. Only eight other such inscriptions have ever been identified.
The third inscription (ossuary 80/502), written in Hebrew, reads: “Matia”. This is the Hebrew original of the English “Matthew”. It is not known whether the writer of the Gospel was one of Jesus’ Disciples, or a member of his family. What is known, however, from the genealogy provided in Luke (3:23) is that unlike Joseph, Mary mother of Jesus, had many “Matthews” in her family. Unlike, say, a “Daniel” or a “Jonah”, the appearance of a “Matthew” in this family’s tomb is consistent with the information provided in the Gospels.
Commentary: Lucas 3:23 gives all the genealogical precedent of Joseph, where in effect, no presence of Matthews may be noticed; but nothing is said about the antecedents of Mary showing the appearance of many “Matthews”. If the Matthew of the ossuary is the writer of the Gospel; ¿what is the explanation of Matthew ossuary presence in the Jesus family tomb?
The fourth inscription (ossuary 80/504), written in Hebrew, reads: “Yose”. This is a very rare rendering, a nickname for the Hebrew “Yosef”, like “Joey” to “Joseph” in modern English. The Gospels tell us that Jesus had four brothers: James, Judah, Simon and Joseph. The “Yose” inscription from this tomb is the only such example of this name on an ossuary. In the Gospel of Mark, Joseph, brother of Jesus, is not called “Joseph”, but “Yose.”
We will analyze about the Jesus brothers further in this document, but we can raise now a reflection: “Yose” definitively is because of “Joseph”; and if it is because of “Joseph” could be the brother, but also be the father of Jesus husband of Maria, who would have died when Jesus was 17 years old.
L.Y. Rahmani, who wrote the definitive book on the subject of Jewish ossuaries believes that the Mary is of the same generation as, and likely the wife of the Joseph found in the Talpiot tomb.
The fifth inscription (ossuary 80/500), written in Greek, reads: “Mariamene e Mara”, an endearing form of the name “Mariamne.” This is the only inscription found in the tomb written in Greek, and is a second Mary. From the Acts of Philip, a fourth century work ostensibly written about Mary Magdalene’s brother, Phillip, and recently recovered from a monastery at Mt. Athos in Greece, Professor François Bovon (Harvard University) has determined that Magdalene’s real name was “Mariamne”.
The sixth inscription (ossuary 50/501), is also written in Aramaic, it reads: “Yehuda bar Yeshua”. Translated, it means “Judah son of Jesus”. There is no written tradition that Jesus had a son. This small child’s ossuary may have held the mortal remains of the son of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
It’s true that the New Testament says nothing about Jesus having a wife or fathering a child, but it doesn’t say he didn’t. Absolutely nothing in the New Testament indicates that Jesus was celibate. He could very well have been married and had children.
Could Judah, son of Jesus have been the “Beloved Disciple” mentioned in the Gospels? If the “Judah” of ossuary 80/501 was still alive after the crucifixion, he would have been protected by Jesus’ followers.
The supposition that the “Beloved Disciple” of the gospel of Juan was this Judah, is a possibility with no sense; far more possible is that this disciple had been Mary Magdalene (as sustained in the “Da Vinci Code”) instead a boy or a young man (in which case the ossuary found would had no been the one of a boy). The explanation of the decoders in this passage is too weak.
Let us speculate a little about the other three ossuaries without inscription, since the tenth ossuary (the 80/509) would be the one of “James (Jacob) son of Joseph…” and presumably -cannot be affirmed- “ … brother of Jesus“. In the familiar slope -exception made of the ossuary of no body knows what Matthew - and accepting that James (Jacob) is Santiago (Mark 6:3) brother of Jesus, as Judas, Simon and Joseph, could be supposed that the three tombs without inscription could correspond to Judas, Simon and Joseph (either Jesus father or brother, depending who is the Joseph of the ossuary with the “Yose” inscription).
About the inscriptions, out of the Greek’ of Mariamne, which need to be better explained; how do the decoders know that Jesus's mother was known after his death by a latinized form of her name "as more Romans became followers" in the context of pre-rebellion Jerusalem in the middle of the first century?. Do they ignore of what was going on in the cultural and historical context of the time? And isn’t there an obvious contradiction here? People became followers of the Galilean crucified risen Savior, not a middle-class resident of Jerusalem! If Jesus was walking around Jerusalem with a wife and kids, there would be no followers, Roman or otherwise, to be calling Maria to the Jesus’s mother. (James R. White)
But, nothing of this can be affirmed, because to be able to do it, would be necessary to follow the complete track via DNA analysis, what seems to be impossible since some of the ossuaries would not contain remains (The Daily Telegram) and it implies doubts on if the bones found in the ossuaries assumed to be of Jesus and of Maria Magdalena respectively, they belong in effect to them, because it is most probable that if sometime they were found before – that is possible has happened in the first centuries- these remains can have been removed and even changed; being so the analysis would only have a relative and very weak support, limited to the names enrolled in the bones boxes.
Now it will be interesting to analyze the issue related to the “brothers” of Jesus and to how many children would have had Maria; for it we present the edited version of a Mexican brother writing, found in Internet:
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Many catholic that get confused if you speak to them of the Bible or the sacraments tradition, they stop you if you touch the Virgin. And you must be neither shepherd, nor prophet, to understand that.
We the Catholics say that Maria was the Virgin Mother of Jesus Christ. The protestants of diverse orientations normally agree. But when you say a protestant that Maria was Virgin, means that she was virgin before Jesus was born, but she later had more children with Jose.
The catholic when we say that Maria was virgin, also say that Maria is virgin; that she never lost his virginity. Neither when he conceived Jesus because it was Holy Spirit act, nor because she lived in abstention until her death.
The problem, according to the evangelical people, is in the Bible. There we found phrases like this: “is he not the carpenter, the son of Maria and brother of Santiago, Joseph, Judas and Simon? and ¿do their sisters live between us?” They mention in addition other passages where it is spoken of: “the brothers of the Lord”.
They insist that Maria had had other children because San Mateo says: “and Jose did not have relations with her until the day Maria gave birth her first-born to whom she put as name Jesus”. The idea is that the expression ”until the day” means that after that day Joseph held relations with her ..... although the gospels never say it. They also affirm that “first-born” means ‘first of several’.
But it is necessary to recognize that in this case as in many others, the problem the evangelists have with Maria as `always virgin' is originated by a partial reading of the Bible and its own prejudices.
Let’s go by parts. The word `brother' in the Bible has a very ample sense. Sometimes it means `in flesh brother', sometimes `cousin in first degree', sometimes `brother' (because a fellow-fraternal type of relationship) and sometimes just because 'fellow citizen'. So ¿why so much of variety?. Because in the old languages of Hebrew and Aramaic that used the Biblical authors there is no a specific word for ’cousin’. They used the word brother with an ample sense. When the Bible was translated into the Greek stayed this ample use of the word `brother', or, in Greek: adelfos.
Thus for example the Genesis 14:14 says that Lot was the brother of Abraham ... and we know that, in fact, Lot was its nephew (Gen.11: 26-28). The first book of the Chronicles says that the Eleazar daughters married with their brothers ... but we know that in fact their husbands were children of their uncle Quis, if fact they were cousins (1Crón.23:22). And as these there is an amount of examples (Deut.23:7; 2Sam.1:26; Gen.29:15; Jer.34:9; etc.).
When the angel said to Maria that she was going to conceive a son, she asked: “how will it be, because I do not know man?” (Lc.1:34). Maria already was engaged with Joseph. One assumes that something she knew of how the children are born. The logical way would be that she and Joseph had children ... with or without the announcement of the angel, why that question?. That can only be explained if we –the catholic- believed since always, that Maria had devoted herself to the Lord by an abstention promise, before committing her with Jose. If Maria already had contemplated the possibility of having children, she would have not asked the angel as how she were going to conceive that announced son.
This does not like to the protestants that do not appreciate the value of the total consecration in abstention of Maria to the Lord. But the Gospel shows us that Maria was faithful to her promise and that except for Jesus, she never had other children.
When Jesus get lost in the temple when he was twelve years old, we see that he is the only son of Maria and Joseph. (Lc.2:41-51). In Nazareth people called Jesus as the son of Maria, not as a son of Maria. Those that sometimes are called brothers of Jesus, are never called as `children of Maria'. And in the crucifixion Jesus gives his mother to his friend Juan ... quite difficult to understand if Maria had more children (Jn.19:26-17).
And ¿what about that of Joseph did not have relations with Maria until gave birth?. The gospel never indicates that after being born Jesus, Joseph had had relations with Maria. The expression ‘until’ here means that before being born Christ, they did not have relations ... and that’s it. As also the Bible says to us that: “Mical, the daughter of Saul, did not have children until the day of her death” (2Reyes:23). ¿Did she have children after her death? Or: “until today nobody knows where Moses was buried” (Deut 34: 6), ¿perhaps today it is known?; it is necessary to understand the meaning of ‘until’ within its context.
¿And about the one “first-born”? this word had a legal sense in Israel, according to which ‘the first fruit of the maternal sine’ was presented to be offered to God. This does not deny any reference to later children neither confirm it (Ex.34:20). If ‘first-born’ meant solely ‘first of several’, the first could not be presented to God until another one was born ..., because how ‘would it be known if it is first-born or not?’.
But at the end, the evangelists deny that Jesus was the only son of Maria, not because it is said in the Bible (the Bible says rather the opposite), but because they believe that the value we -the catholic- give to Maria takes off some of the greatness of her son. ¿How do they not understand that it is because of the greatness of the son that we have gotten to honor so much to the Mother?
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I think that it should not be argued anymore with respect to the supposed “brothers” or “sisters” of Jesus. It is not credible that Jesus had had brothers or sisters of his parents and that at least one of them had not had a significant roll in the history; and that they had been hidden by the family and by Jesus himself.
One may argue this, not of Jesus but of the church?; then we can look to the Gnostic gospels rejected by the church, and we do not find anything neither on the matter.
The DNA tests
We finally arrive to the DNA tests. In the documentary "The Lost Tomb of Jesus", DNA tests are performed on human residues taken out of the “Jesus son of Joseph” ossuary and the “Mariamne” ossuary.
These DNA tests are conducted by Dr. Carney Matheson at the Paleo-DNA lab at Lakehead University in Ontario, one of the leading facilities of its kind in the world.
The degraded samples would not provide enough material for y-chromosome testing. But Dr. Matheson was able to extract enough mitochondrial DNA to test the mother line. The tests demonstrate that the “Jesus” and “Mary Magdalene” from this tomb are not maternally related.
The Y-Chromosome test is very useful for determining distant relationships between suspected male relatives to determine whether they are related, in cases where a paternity test cannot be performed. The Y-Chromosome is present only in males and is passed down from father to son to grandson. As a result, the Y-Chromosome test can be used to determine whether two males are related through their paternal line. For example, the Y-Chromosome test can be used to test male cousins, nephews and uncles; grandfather and grandson, etc. to see if they are related along the male line. Males who have a common male ancestor will have the same Y-Chromosome.
Unlike nuclear DNA in which the genes are rearranged by near 50% each generation (due to the process called recombination), there is usually no change in mtDNA from parent to offspring by this mechanism. Because of this and the fact that its mutation rate is higher than nuclear DNA and easily measured, mtDNA is a powerful tool for tracking matri-lineage, and has been used in this role for tracking many species back hundreds of generations.
However, if the ossuaries of Maria the mother of Jesus, Joseph, Jesus, Judah the supposed son of Jesus (and Mary Magdalene), of Jaime (Jacob) the supposed brother of Jesus (supposedly son of Maria and Joseph), several determining tests of mtADN and chromosome can be performed. More test could even be carried out with the ossuaries without inscription. With all those results the world would eliminate doubts, because in case of positive results, the probabilities that this is the family of Jesus and Jesus himself, would obviously raise and little can be made to refute the investigation.
Other critics are finding fault with the fact that ossuaries found in the tomb are empty, which they say limits the archaeological evidence needed to support the Jesus family tomb claim (Source: The Daily Telegram); the works on DNA given the age of the remains and the fact that there are no full bones present (only small shards is assumed) would be very difficult. Then further DNA tests are impossible and the odds of the investigations success will be much lower.
If the test can not be carried out or the results are negative, nothing can be proved and professor Amos Kloner will be right: "This would has been one more beautiful history".
Three possible scenarios
Thomas 39 (Apocryphal Gospel). Jesus has said: The clergymen and the theologians have received the keys of the knowledge, but they have hidden them. They did not enter there, nor they allowed to enter those that wished to enter. As far as you, be astute like serpents and pure like doves.
The first scenario: assuming the DNA tests can be carried out and their outcome are positive; nothing will happen with the Christianity nor the Catholic faith; both will review the truth and will go ahead strengthen. The catholic church and the churches in general will have to evolve to the “beginning”.
In Revelation (22:13), Jesus says: “I am the ‘Alpha’ and the ‘Omega’ ” i.e., I am the beginning (the principle) and the end (the aim), since “Alpha” and “Omega” are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet; indeed He was the end of the Old Testament where the “fear” predominated; and the beginning of the New Testament where the “love” should predominate. The message of Jesus was LOVE; but the message of the church –the strategy of churches- is the FEAR.
It can also be interpreted the “principle” as the base, the fundament, the sustenance of everything; and the “aim” as the objective or purpose; in both ends, the fundament and the purpose, is the LOVE.
The second scenario: no more tests will be allowed; it will be a pity, because once again, the impression of a concealment will be left. Doubts will be generated throughout the world.
The third scenario: that the tests outcome is negative; nothing will happen, but anyway, the catholic church and the churches in general must -at once and for good- evolve to the “beginning and principle”; toward LOVE. The church cannot continue being preponderantly an economic and political organization; it must be an institution of LOVE.
Part II
The change
Indeed … the Church should open the TRUTH and the KNOWLEDGE; the faith will not be weakened, on the contrary it will be reinforced.
Then the church should begin to consider apocryphal gospels, mainly those of Thomas and Mary Magdalene, and the Acts of Philip ; the Code of the Bible and -why not- the gospel of Judas. All of them would contain deep truths that church does not accept.
If it is obvious to the human eyes that the Kingdom of Heaven is not physical and the ascension of Jesus Christ would had been only in spirit, that does not change the foundations of the Christianity nor the Catholic faith, whether it is determined or not that the tomb of Talpiot is the tomb of Jesus’ family; and if it is not, be the body of the Savior found or not.
Some thoughts
The men -thanks to the creation of God- have intelligence, that produces our thoughts; the man’s intellectual capacity, includes in addition to the rationality, the creativity and the inventiveness; the restlessness by the investigation and the search. Some have in addition the understanding that leads to the wisdom, based on an installed capacity, but always attended of the spirituality. As well as there are different degrees and intelligence levels, also there are different degrees or levels of understanding; and so there are more intelligent or less intelligent human beings (related of the productivity in its thinking process and of the quality of thoughts) and also there are more or less wise human beings; or simply there are those -as it happens in most of the cases- that stay at the intellectual level, without any wisdom assistance.
The spirituality, is the divine energy nested in our being that produces the omni-presence of God in our lives, concurring in each one of us, the soul -that is our identity; the spirit -that is our energy; and the body -our motor capacity and the directive force (from the brain, locating the intelligence and the understanding, between the soul and the spirit). It is there where the good and the “absence of good” concur, whose decision is first in our nature and then in our intellect with decision capacity; in order to give grace or to disgrace our identity.
The one that loves me will fulfill my word and my Father will love him, and we will make him our dwelling … the Lord says.
From the Thomas apocryphal Gospels
… who is searching should not stop until he finds, and when he finds he will be disturbed, and when he has been disturbed he will astonish and will reign over the totality and he will find the rest.
… the Kingdom of God is inside you and is outside you. Who get to know themselves they will find it and when you arrive to know to you yourself, you will know that you are the Children of the living Father.
From the Mary Magdalene apocryphal Gospels (last precepts):
After saying all this, the Blessed said good by to all of them saying: “Peace is with you, my peace arises between you. Keep watching so that nobody misleads you saying: “he is here, here he is”, because the son of the man is inside you; follow him. Those that search for him will find him. Go and proclaim the gospel of the kingdom. Do not impose more precepts than those than I have settled down for you, and do not pass any law, as the legislator, so that you are not tied down by it”. Saying this he left.
(Vision of Maria) She said - I saw the Lord in a vision and I said to him: “Lord, today I have seen you in a vision”. He answered me saying: “Blessed you are, because you have not been disturbed when seeing me, because where the Intellect is, there is the treasure”. I said to him: “Lord, tell me, the one that sees the vision ¿sees it in soul or spirit?”. The Lord answered me saying: “He sees it neither in soul nor in spirit, but that is the Intellect that is between them the one who sees the vision…”
Of the apostle Paul’s letter to the Romans (8:14-17):
Brothers: Those that let themselves guide by the Spirit of God, those are children of God. You have not received a spirit of slaves, who makes you fear again, but a spirit of children, by virtue of whom we can call Father to God. The Holy Spirit himself, being one with our own spirit, gives testimony that we are children of God. And if we are children, we are also inheriting of God and coheirs with Christ, since we suffered with him to be glorified along with him.
Beyond our rational and understanding installed capacity, there is a third inexplicable dimension that often makes wonders and for which much intelligence is not required nor much understanding. I speak of the faith that is fed and reinforced, with the praying. This is accessible by all, more or less intelligent, more or less wise; or simply human beings that have that positive energy load, often too difficult to explain to the intelligence and the reason.
Ecclesiastic ( 42:15-26)
“I am going to bring to the memory works of the Lord and tell what I have seen: All whatever exists has been done by the word of God, and the entire world is put under his will. As the sun light illuminates all the things on Earth, the glory of the Lord fills the creation.
He did not grant to his angels to tell all those wonders, that the all-powerful Lord settled down firmly as a manifest prove of his glory. The Lord penetrates until the bottom of the abysses and of the hearts, and knows all their secrets, because he has all science and knows the movement the stars; he discovers the past, he announces the future and he reveals the most recondite mysteries. No thought is hidden to him, no thing escapes to him. He that exists before the time and for all the time, gave to splendor and greatness to works of his wisdom.
Nothing can be added to him, nothing can be cleared to him and advisor does not need.
What precious are the works of the Lord, and it is just a spark what we see! In the universe everything lives and lasts for always and obeys at any moment to the Lord. All the things differ to each other and, nevertheless, they are complemented. Nothing of which the Lord has done is useless; each one of them affirms the excellence of the other. ¿Who will get tired to contemplate the glory of the Lord? …”
The most difficult -and perhaps the most commendable at the end- is what those people with a great intelligence and/or a great understanding reach, having the humility to recognize their human limits; and then from their thoughts and their wisdom, they pass with humility to the praying and they are given to the faith, because they can no longer process, neither understand no more.
However, let’s look for explanation of how they interact in this concurrence of identities in the human being: the soul, the Spirit, the intelligence and the understanding; whose manifestation occurs from the brain, through the body
Of the apocryphal Gospels of Mary Magdalene (to whom with certain logic searchers establish her as the true author of the gospels that the Church attributes to John)
The Matter and the World 7 […] then, ¿will matter then be destroyed or not?. The Savior said, «All nature, all formations and all creatures exist in and with one another, and they will be resolved again into their own roots, because the nature of matter is resolved into the roots of its own nature alone. He who has ears to hear, let him hear».
In these apocryphal gospels could be the explanation of the evolution of the soul and its interrelation with the other entities.
Let us begin with the nature and the body. In Page 7, besides affirming the interaction between the nature, the productions, the people - human beings- and the people among them; it reaffirms another divine expression, that says “of the dust you come and dust you will become”, which confirms the temporality of the body and of the creation.
Peter said to Mariamne: «Sister we know that the Savior loved you more than the rest of woman. Tell us the words of the Savior which you remember which you know, but we do not, nor have we heard them». Mariamne answered and said, «What is hidden from you I will proclaim to you». And she began to speak to them these words:
(we reiterate ...)
Vision of Mariamne: She said, «I saw the Lord in a vision and I said to Him, Lord I saw you today in a vision». He answered and said to me: «Blessed are you that you did not waver at the sight of Me. For where the intellect is, there is the treasure». I said to Him, «Lord, how does he who sees the vision see it, through the soul or through the spirit?» The Savior answered and said, «He does not see through the soul nor through the spirit, but the intellect that is between the two that is what sees the vision and it is [...]»
Pages 11 - 14 of the manuscript are missing here …
«... For where the intellect is, there is the treasure»; the Lord refers the intellect, as the integration of intelligence and the understanding, this is because He always reiterated closing the his messages saying … «who has ears to hear, let him hear».
The Lord answers to Mariamne: «He does not see through the soul nor through the spirit, but the intellect that is between the two that is what sees the vision and it is [...]»
The understanding to see; intelligence to process; for that reason He affirms, that the vision is not seeing by the soul (that it is the identity), nor by the spirit (that is the divine energy). It is seeing by the “intellect”, that is not the “mind”, but the concurrence of the soul, the Spirit, the intelligence and the understanding.
We expect -we hope- to see God with our physical eyes and He does not make appearances in matter; it appears to the eyes of the intellect, and then of the understanding; for that reason He used to say: “«…Who has eyes to see, let him see»”
How much light we miss to see by those lost pages 11 to 14…
Jesus Christ - the Son although was a special being- was sent by the Father to live as a “human being”, as a normal man; to pass joys and sadness (He underwent much when Joseph died); to feel and to give peace, as to show indignation and rage (when He threw the merchants out of the temple); to be tempted, to experience successes and failures (i.e. when all their apostles disappeared when He was taken prisoner); to feel fear and weakness; to suffer - in his case in an extreme and very singular way, with stoicism and strength, supporting -in addition to the injustice, the most intense pains. ¿Who can say that He was not human? ; who can say that He was not a man?.
He is the only one that can express what is expressed in pages 15 and 16 of the Apocryphal Gospels of Mary Magdalene:
The ascension of soul 15 […] to him, and the desire said, «I did not see you descending, but now I see you ascending. Why do you lie since you belong to me?». The soul answered and said, «I saw you. You did not see me nor recognize me. I served you as a garment and you did not know me». When it said this, it (the soul) went away rejoicing greatly. Again it came to the third power, which is called ignorance. The power questioned the soul, saying, «Where are you going? In wickedness are you bound. But you are bound; do not judge!». And the soul said, «Why do you judge me, although I have not judged?. I was bound, though I have not bound. I was not recognized. But I have recognized that the All is being dissolved, both the earthly things 16 and the heavenly». When the soul had overcome the third power, it went upwards and saw the fourth power, which took seven forms. The first form is darkness, the second desire, the third ignorance, the fourth is the excitement of death, the fifth is the kingdom of the flesh, the sixth is the foolish wisdom of flesh, the seventh is the wrathful wisdom. These are the seven powers of wrath. They asked the soul, «Where do you come slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?». The soul answered and said, «What binds me has been slain, and what turns me about has been overcome, and my desire has been ended, and ignorance has died. In a world I was released 17 from a world, and in an image from a heavenly image, and from the fetter of oblivion which is transient. From this time on will I attain to the rest of the time, of the season, of the eternity, in silence».
We essay next, some reflections on this message: … the desire said, «I did not see you descending, but now I see you ascending. Why do you lie since you belong to me?»
The desire (that implies appetites and worldly pleasures that are distorted moving us away of the good) says to the SOUL, that it has not seen coming down (to the depths of the inferior levels) and it sees it raise (towards superior levels of accomplishment); leaving the temptation and the evil and raising towards the good; it says then to the soul that it does not lie to him and that the soul belongs to him… the soul is not recognized when dominated by the appetites and pleasures, and is confused with the desire …
Soon it continues the dialogue that occurs in the level of the third power -the ignorance- where the maleficent tries to tie down it and to dominate it and the soul moves away recognizing to be dominated without being able to dominate, but realizing that the universe is being dissolved so much in the terrestrial as in the celestial dimension (in as much as the evil tries to kill all aspiration of the soul to grow towards the celestial dimension).
The soul tries then to release itself and to enter the life -fourth power, the one of the seven forms, the impulse of the wrath, the rage:
The first form, the darkness’s, from where the soul emerges to concur with the spirit in the body that initiates the race to reach; with the body the second shows up, the desire in his expression of primary necessity; the third is the one of the “non-knowledge”, the ignorance that is characteristic of the initial stage of the route; then the fourth - the envy of death- is the space of the doubt, the disagreement, the fear; then the fifth comes in, the dominion of the flesh, that is not other than the desire in its expression of avidity and hedonism; then the crazy intelligence of flesh, the sixth form in which the dilemma between the correctness and the dominion is on the spot, v.v. the degradation, which implies the possible migration of intelligence toward the intellect, that is the way to the seventh form: that of the irascible wisdom, that search, search and keep searching, and generates the irritation of not finding.
The capacity of the human being and therefore its possibility, is to escape of the wrath and to find the calmness coming near to the peace. Then, the soul emerges from the level in which it is (it can come from the darkness’s in search of growing and raising); the desire in its expression of primary necessity will always appear; the ignorance cannot be avoided, but a route in search of the knowledge becomes, which leaves less space to the doubt and the envy; this improves the human being and allows him a better dominion of the flesh, therefore, of the desire control in his expression of avidity and hedonism, which facilitates the integration of intelligence with the understanding, so migrating to the intellect, causing itself the way to forms or levels of wisdom without the excitation that generates the searching without finding.
The seven powers of the wrath, also are of the calmness and the peace; the results are the results of walking through the same spaces, only that in different way. The wrath can take to the degradation of the soul, the peace to its elevation, for which it requires greater dedication, discipline, persistence and much strength.
We reiterate what has been already mentioned: … It is so the concurrence of the “good” and the “absence of good”, whose decision is in our nature first and then our intellect with capacity to decide, in order to gratify or to disgrace our identity…
Then fit within any of the two scenarios, the two questions: «Where are you coming form? And Where do you go?» and the answers can be the same ones: «What binds me has been slain (the body), and what turns me about has been overcome (the wrath), and my desire has been ended, and ignorance has died. In a world I was released from a world, and in an image from a heavenly image. The fetter of oblivion is transient (the body no longer exists -but existed for an instant- the soul find itself again and holds its identity). From then on I will attain to the rest of the time, of the season, of the eternity, in silence».
The result -in the wrath scenario- can be the degradation of the soul and its return to the darkness’s whereas in the scene of peace, the soul elevates.
From the Thomas apocryphal Gospels:
Thomas 112. Jesus said, "Damn the flesh that depends on the soul. Damn the soul that depends on the flesh".
Thomas 87. Jesus said, "How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on these two."
From the Judas apocryphal Gospels:
Judas asks Jesus about that generation and the human generations
Judas said to him, “Rabbi, what type of fruit produces this generation?"
Jesus said, “The souls of each human generation will die. When this people, nevertheless, have completed the time of the kingdom and the spirit leaves them, their bodies will die but their souls will be alive, and they will be elevated.”
In the next paragraphs I try to support this paper in a long work published in Internet, by the Dr Ivan Seperiza Pasquali, that I summarize and complement, in own edition:
With the Torah -Jewish sacred book that constitutes the Old Testament of the Christian Bible- God legated to us an encrypted external text called the “Code of the Bible”, given to Moses, that contains more than 20 trillions of variables of information which they show the detail of the humanity lifetime, from Moses to the Final Days, being a projection of the future lived in the present, by means of a hologram of several dimensions that surpasses all human understanding and all capacity of our imagination or understanding as far as the form in which it was made with love, so that we were noticed on what is coming. The atheist who tried to weaken the method that has allowed knowing the Code of the Bible, have ended up accepting that the Sacred Book is divine and is a nonhuman work.
This Code was tried unfruitful to be deciphered by Isaac Newton (1642-1727). In century XVIII a wise person called the Genius of Vilna, indicated that everything that was, is and will be until the end of times, is indicated in detailed way in the Torah. Torah is a Hebrew word that means instruction or law. It is used with regard to the Bible in two ways: 1) in the general sense of all Scriptures and divine orders; 2) in the particular sense of first five books of the Bible, called: Pentateuch calls (given Greek name to books received by Moses), Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomious. The discoverer of the Biblical Code when talking about the Torah, talks about the Pentateuch of Moses also called “Book de Moses”; “Book of the Law of Moses” and “Book of the Law of Yahweh given by Moses”.
The interpretation of the “Code of the Bible” has begun to in the last twenty years with the availability of computers means (century XX), by the Israeli mathematician Eliahu Rips, who investigated the Torah and the five Sacred Books received by Moses and managed to create a computer program to decipher the encrypted of the Code. His work was published in 1994 in the prestigious magazine Statistical Science after passing rigorous tests of co-validation; and science had to recognize that the Bible contains a secret code that surpasses the human and scientific capacity of understanding.
The program allowed Rips to eliminate the spaces between the words of the Torah, being concluded that the original Biblical text says very textually to us in the Genesis: WHEN the GODS CREATED the MAN, and not as they show all the Christian “translations” that indicate: “when God created the man”. There are some who conclude that… it is very, but very different in its meaning and importance say, believe and accept by a mistranslation that God created the man, instead of knowing the truth that indicates that the Gods created the man to their image and similarity.
I resort to illustrate this apparent confusion, to the gospel that the Church attributes to John (1,1-5): “In the principle already existed The one that is the Word, and The one that is the Word was with God and was God. In the principle He already was with God. Every thing came to the existence because of him and without him nothing began of whatever exists. He was the life, and the life was the light of men. "The light shines in the darkness’s and the darkness’s did not receive it.” … It is the “plurality” of God here that is interpreted like “Gods”; we reiterated then the Genesis 1,26; God said: “Lets make the man to our image and similarity… “. “Lets do it”; He spoke to “another one” or “others”; but since He spoke to “other” already God was “plural”; in addition it was the “Holy Spirit” in the principle nested in the “Archangels” and the “Angels” that are not, nor were “human”; nevertheless are the agents of the “omni-presence” through the nestling of the “Spirit” that joints the “identity” of the “soul” in each human being.
I also resort to illustrate this explanation, to the “Theological Sum of Saint Thomas of Aquinas”: The Angels have the supreme degree of perfection between all the creatures. The Angels are the noblest effects of the creation, but they have not been created as independent of the other things and with no relation to the other creatures, but they organize to be part of the universe and of the government and service of the human things, that is, those that have body, as much of the inferior ones, as the man, who participates in his spiritual nature and the one of the physical human bodies.
The theological reason cannot demonstrate the revealed truths, but expose them with convenient arguments. For that reason Saint Thomas writes: “For the perfection of the universe certain graduation in the creatures is required to keep approaching the infinite perfection of God, its Creator. There are creatures who only look themselves as God in existence, as stones; others in living, as the plants and the animals; others, in a imperfectly understanding as the man. It seems then natural, that other purely spiritual and perfectly intellective creatures exist, who look themselves like God of the most perfect way than is possible for the creatures to be alike".
Eons of time ago in a point, by means of a quantum type of jump, emerged myriads of divine sparks. Each one infinitely small and in its individuality equipped with infinite potential attributes to manifest and develop. They gave the jump from the in-manifest in God towards the manifest, emerging initially from the seventh dimension with the purpose of growing when developing its potentialities thought the third, fourth, fifth and sixth dimension (*), and once succeed would infinitely be great and by them self from that point they would return to God.
Thomas 77. Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
Thomas 18. The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us, how will our end come?"
Jesus said, "Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where the beginning is. Bless be the one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste death."
(*) I essay my own interpretation: “the Fourth” dimension, is our “intellect” (a connection stage that is activated in the concurrence of the “soul” with the spirit; and developed, by the human being); “the Fifth” dimension is the “door” where are the intermediaries of “God” (is in this dimension where the Code of the Bible and the Tables would had been given to Moses in Mount Sinai); “the Sixth” dimension, is the transit to “the Seventh” dimension, that is the “final stage”.
You are one of those divine sparks or spirit (soul) acting in the physical form (that crosses the “quanta”) by means of a body in “the third” dimension. You are a free and immortal spirit, without principle nor end (that comes from “the sixth” dimension and will return crossing the “fifth”, to “the sixth” dimension -where you can remain by long eons of time until it is decided -after the Last Judgment- whether you enter or not the “seventh dimension”. The question -that some people answer affirmatively- is that of “the sixth” dimension you can be entrusted to return to the “third”). The divine spark or spirit gave the form to the soul (that constitutes your “identity”), each soul concurs with the spirit, gives the spark of life to the adapted fetus to fulfill its development in the human incarnation.
Saint Paul wrote to Ephesus (2: 19-22)
Brothers:
No longer you are foreign nor newcomer; you are fellow citizens of the saints and you belong to the family of God, because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, being Jesus Christ the angular stone.
On Christ, all the building is raised well structured, to form the saint temple in the Lord, and together with him you can also be incorporated to the building, by means of the Holy Spirit, to be home of God.
¿Are these dimensions a way to envision the soul levels of improvement?
Now, if already it is irrefutable that God exists; if as today the testimonies of the power of prayer are irrefutable -demonstrated among other many tests, in recent simultaneous observations in four hospitals of the USA according to publication of Selections Review- if the Bible and the Gospels (in which it would include the apocryphal ones) that -although are doctrine and could have been fitted in the time by those who had the power to do it for good or for bad- they turn out to be, with observations and critics, the only public evidences v.v. narrations that finish being just novels, although they origin may be located in the restlessness of the human intelligence that search to find a truth or the TRUTH, or perhaps to try to destroy it generating doubts by lack of humility to accept the human limitations; if we arrive to the point to confront a thesis with another one, almost with the only sense to weaken the faith and to impose an empty and dehumanized intellectuality. So ¿why do we have to continue searching for what has been already found?.
The mathematical physical exactitude of the universe occurs with the possibility of being a finite space-time, but without border nor edges, which would demonstrate -according to Stephen Hawking- that to having a begin could not be a moment for its creation; nevertheless he himself Hawking says: “Science has discovered laws that govern the Universe, that allows to predict how it will evolve in any time. Those laws could have been determined by God, but everything indicates that, later, God has left the Universe governs itself by such laws without his intervention. How chose God the initial state of the Universe? If God determined an incomprehensible initial state for the men, so that it decided to let it evolve with laws that are indeed understandable?. (I would respond: for the same reason that gave intelligence, conscience and freedom to the men). All the history of science has consisted of a gradual understanding of which the facts do not happen in arbitrary form, but that reflect an underlying order, that can be divinely inspired or not”.
On the other hand, Hawking sustains: “All scientific theory is a mathematical model that we made to describe our observations. It only exists in our spirit. In that sense, it does not have object to ask itself if ‘the real’ time is more real than ‘the imaginary’ time”.
The Coram says on the matter: “Teach them to conceive to the universe in its original state like an expansion of Light without edges nor limits, to which the Source of the Power transforms into worlds life possessors… When contemplating this process of creation with eyes of true understanding (intellect); ¿how can one not see the manifest Being like a vast demonstration of Love?” (21:0-33) The Coram revelation never speaks of a mechanical model, not even of an organic model of creation. God never must fight against the resistance, or look for the cooperation of some field of inert matter, or some dynamic field of energy (says Sheij Nur al-Anwar al-Jerrahi). God creates of the anything, He simply creates with knowing and wishing, with no effort. The creation which comes from it, appears before us in form of natural processes, it express the wealth and the value, the immense meaning of the Original Divine Reality. “Everything what is the will of the Source of the Being turns Being spontaneously, and contains a deep meaning.” (24:41-45) Genesis 1,26 God said: “Lets make the man to our image and similarity… “
The Creator would not have left any mystery to us, nor we require of an “Interpreter of God” as some pretend to denominate to Stephen Hawking; simply today we do not have still the capacity to understand everything. Since two hundred years ago the possibility of communicating at a distance was unimaginable, or directly watch events through the TV that happen thousands of kilometers away, and only two decades ago we did not have idea of the Internet and its wonders; perhaps when we dominate the Quantum Physics and the speed of light in some hundreds of years, we will find the explanation of the mysteries of the divine conception and the resurrection. And … ¿why not?, of the Ascension.
Sheij Nur to al-Anwar al-Jerrahi says: The creation is one balanced ecology of organic life and spiritual meaning. The human beings have been chosen by Divine decision, to take care of the planetary kingdom of God, which is not outside God, but that constitutes an intimate dimension of his existence. Nevertheless, the humanity can never declare itself owner or exert control on no aspect of the Divine Creation, to which we perceive in limited forms by means of our limited minds and senses. The Coram says: “The Source of Life generates innumerable forms of organic life, each one in precise balance with the others… the human beings are not the proprietors and they do not control these natural treasures either… all manifest Being only belongs to the Source and Destiny of the Being.” (15:16-25)
I reiterate, these are only reflections perhaps in an articulated manner, but in no way they constitute an interpretation for which, we are not prepared.
… Albert Einstein discards the ordered universe of Newton with his novel theory of relativity. “Science limps without the religion. The religion is blind without science”, said later. …
… Einstein also said: There are two ways to live a life: First one is to think that nothing is a miracle. Second one is to think that everything is a miracle. Something I am certain is that God exists.
In view of the mathematical and physical exactitude of the universe and of the wonder of its creation and of the creation of life in all its forms: ¿what is the meaning or importance if Jesus were born in a grotto or a stable; if He was blond or brown, if He had roller or smooth hair, if He had blue eyes or brown eyes; if Joseph -his father according to the Jewish law- had more children; if after be 12 year old He stayed in Galilee, returned to Egypt or went to India? ; ¿what unqualified pretension sustains that Jesus did not die in the Golgotha when tens testified that his blood went exhausted? ; ¿what sense does it make to clear of the schemes of the faith the mystery of the resurrection and what it came later according to the writings, feeding doubts without sense, when it is known and accepted that the one that can do the more, also can also do the less? ; ¿what sense has to deny the evidence of the undeniable when we see every day the wonders of the divine energy of the Holy Spirit?
Before finishing, some additional quotes of the apocryphal gospel or acts that the church should pay more attention and consideration:
Philips 19 (20 in the English version). (20a) ‘Yeshua’ is a secret name, ‘Christ’ is a revealed name. Thus ‘Yeshua’ indeed does not occur in any (other) languages, but rather his name is ‘Yeshua’ as he is generally called. Yet his name ‘Christ’ in Aramaic is ‘Messiah’, and in Greek, but in Ionian is: O CRISTOS; altogether, all of the remainder have (‘the Anointed’) according to the essential language of each one. (20b). The revealed Nazarene is the secret!
Philips 20 (21 in the English version). The Christ has everything within himself -whether human or angel or mystery, and (also) the Father.
Philips 21 (22 in the English version). Those who say that the Lord first died and then arose, are confused. For first he arose and (then) he died. If someone first acquires the resurrection, he will not die; (as) God lives, that one was [not] going to [die].
Philips 120 (128 in the English version). There is the Son of the Man and there is the Grandson of the Man. The Lord is the Son of the Man, and the Grandson of the Man is he who is created thru the Son of the Man. The Son of the Man received from God the ability to create; he (also) has the ability to beget.
The Kingdom (the Heaven):
Thomas 3. Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is within you and it is outside you.
When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."
The Soul:
Thomas 17. Jesus said, "I will give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched, what has not arisen in the human heart."
Thomas 19. Jesus said, "Congratulations to the one who came into being before coming into being …"
Love your fellow as yourself:
Thomas 25. Jesus said, "Love your friends like your own soul, protect them like the pupil of your eye."
Thomas 44. Jesus said, "Whoever blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the Son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either on earth or in heaven."
The Matter, the Devine and ...
Thomas 100. They showed Jesus a gold coin and said to him, "The Roman emperor's people demand taxes from us."
He said to them, "Give the emperor what belongs to the emperor, give God what belongs to God, and give me what is mine."
(… LOVE)
The Women:
Philips 32 (36 in the English version).There were three Mariams who walked with the Lord at all times: his mother and sister and Magdalene -this one who is called his Companion- ‘Mariam’ thus is his (true) Mother and Sister and Mate.
The Woman left a margin …
... of the Savoir? ». Levi answered and said to Peter, «Peter you have always been hot tempered. Now I see you contending against the woman like the adversaries.
But if the Savior made her worthy, who are you indeed to reject her? Surely the Savior knows her very well. That is why He loved her more than us. Rather let us be ashamed and put on the perfect Man, and separate as He commanded us and preach the gospel, not laying down any other rule or other law beyond what the Savior said. And when they heard this they began to go forth to proclaim and to preach the Gospel of Mary.»
Mary Magdalene 10. Peter said to «Mariamne, Sister we know that the Savior loved you more than the rest of woman. Tell us the words of the Savior which you remember which you know, but we do not, nor have we heard them». Mariamne answered and said, «What is hidden from you I will proclaim to you».
Thomas 114. Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life." Jesus said, "Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males ...”
John 21:20-24 (20) Pedro watched back and saw behind the disciple that Jesus loved (presumably Mary Magdalene, who should be the true author of the gospels of John), the one who in the supper would have inclined on his chest and had asked to him: “Lord: who is the one that goes to give to you” 21 When seeing it, Pedro asked Jesus: “¿and what is going to do this?” 22 Jesus answered to him: “If I want him state until my return, that does not matters you. You follow me”.
23 For that reason the rumor that ran between the brothers was that that disciple did not go to die. But Jesus did not say that he was not going to die, but simply “If I want him to state until my return, that does not matters you”.
24 This is himself, the disciple who gives testimony of these things and that has written them here, and we know that he says the truth.
Note. - As strange as unnecessary it seems the writing of versicle 24; ¿why this explanation of who writes those testimonies? And how is that he ends up saying… we know that he says the truth… Just when finishing these gospels John clarifies that he is the “well loved disciple” of whom speaks throughout its testimonies in “third person”; ¿why he did not speak in first person if he was the one who wrote?. ¿who are those “we” who said to know that John says the truth. This and other analysis of passages of the gospels of John, make think that he would not be the author of such, for that reason is that some analysts attribute them to Mary Magdalene who in effect, would be the “well loved disciple” of Jesus (Thomas 114).
This leaves with no grounds the decoders speculation about the possibility that the “well loved disciple” could had been Yuda the supposed son of Jesus whose bones were found in the tomb of Talpiot.
The Search and the Knowledge:
Thomas 2 Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]"
Thomas 94. Jesus [said], "One who seeks will find, and for [one who knocks] it will be opened."
Thomas 102. Jesus said, "Damn the Pharisees! They are like a dog sleeping in the cattle manger: the dog neither eats nor [lets] the cattle eat."
Thomas 110. Jesus said, "Let one who has found the world, and has become wealthy, renounce the world."
Thomas 39. Jesus said, "The Pharisees and the scholars have taken the keys of knowledge and have hidden them. They have not entered nor have they allowed those who want to enter to do so. As for you, be as sly as snakes and as simple as doves."
Philips 110 (116 in the English version). Whoever recognizes the truth is liberated. Yet he who is liberated does not sin, for ‘the sinner is the slave of the sin’. The Mother is the truth while the knowledge is the father. The world calls liberated those to whom it is given not to sin. The knowledge of the truth exalts the hearts of these to whom it is given not to sin. This is what liberates them and exalts them over the whole place. Yet love is inspirational. He however who has been liberated thru knowledge is enslaved by love for these who have not yet been able to sustain being liberated by the knowledge. Yet the knowledge makes them competent, which liberates them.
We finally reiterate:
Jesus Christ - the Son although was a special being- was sent by the Father to live as a “human being”, as a normal man; to pass joys and sadness (He underwent much when Joseph died); to feel and to give peace, as to show indignation and rage (when He threw the merchants out of the temple); to be tempted and to experience successes and failures (i.e. when all their apostles disappeared when He was taken prisoner); to feel fear and weakness; to suffer - in his case in an extreme and very singular way, with stoicism and strength, supporting -in addition to the injustice, the most intense pains. ¿Who can say that He was not human? ; who can say that He was not a man?.
But this, in no way -even considering the Jewish customs, many of which were passed superficially by Jesus- can take us to affirm that He and Mary Magdalene were husband and wife (which on the other hand, from the perspective of a simple reflection -if it is demonstrated otherwise- nothing of bad or observable would have, beyond leaving without its greatest sustenance to the traditional priests celibacy of the Catholic Church, which is a terrestrial issue); less still if He had descendants which -if demonstrated- would not change anything either for the Christianity and/or the Catholic faith. Naturally, to make a more accurate analysis of these issues we would require of theological knowledge that are in a more complex level of elaboration than the one of a simple analysis or questioning reflection; and on the other hand we should wait for the DNA analyses results of the complete set of ossuaries found in the supposed “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” or “The Tomb of the Jesus Family”
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This important investigation of Simcha Jacobovici, James D. Tabor, Chalie R. Pellegrino and the rest of the so called “the decoders team”, does not affect at all to Christianity nor the Catholic Faith; but it must worry to the Catholic Church and to the Christian churches in general …
We will comment out the DECODERS work in the same order the data appears in the web page http://www.jesusfamilytomb.com/. This document transcribes almost equal some parts of this web page in a way to easier the commentaries.
BRIEF:
Simcha Jacobovici, has carried out an investigation over a tomb found in 1980 in East Talpiot-Jerusalem containing ten ossuaries (six of them with inscriptions, three without and one disappeared and suspected to be the one found from the an antiques collector).
With the help of statisticians, archeologists, historians, DNA experts, robot-camera technicians, epigraphers and a CSI expert from New York's Long Island, Simcha Jacobovici conformed a team called “the decoders” and puts together a case in which he argues that the bones of Jesus, Mary and Mary Magdalene, along with some of their lesser-known relatives, were once entombed in this cave. "Faced with the controversial theological and historical implications of what he calls his "rediscovery," Jacobovici said: "People will have to believe what they want to believe".
They do not challenge the fact of the Resurrection nor the Ascension of Jesus on the fortieth day after the Resurrection although they sustain that if Jesus’ mortal remains have indeed been found, this would contradict only the idea of a physical ascension. However, it says nothing against the possibility of a spiritual one nor does it dispute the idea of the Ascension.
The six ossuaries boring inscriptions are market as: Jesus son of Joseph; Maria; Mariamene et Mara (Mariamene is the name by which Mary Magdalene was known), Joseph, Matthew, and Judah son of Jesus. One of the coffins disappeared and they have reasonably determine that this could be the so called “James (Jacob) Ossuary” that was acquired by the collector Oded Golan, who today confronts a trial in Israel for holding this archaeological piece, whose patina is identical to the one of the other nine coffins of the Talpiot tomb.
L.Y. Rahmani, who wrote the definitive book on the subject of Jewish ossuaries believes that the Mary is of the same generation as, and likely the wife of the Joseph found in the Talpiot tomb.
Professor Amos Kloner who investigated the tomb back in 1996, said about the decoders work: “It is a beautiful history, but without no prove nor nothing similar”. Besides professor Jünger Zangenberg declared that there are no proves that this type of practice -to place the bones of a dead person in an ossuary, after certain time of the death- was habitual by those times, the decoders hold that for only about a hundred years, from 30 BCE to 70 CE (when the Romans destroyed the city), people in the Jerusalem area practiced a form of “secondary burial”. What this means is that when someone died family members wrapped the body in a shroud. Then the family waited—for about a year—for the flesh to decompose. Then one or more members reentered the tomb, gathered the bones together, and placed them in an ossuary or bone box. The box was made for the deceased and had to be long enough to accommodate the longest bone in the body, the femur.
In the case of the lost tomb of Jesus, all this must have been developed in an absolute secret and with too many people –relatives and disciples- involved. Very low probability that this secret had not been known and registered in some writings of the time. Besides, they must have put in agreement too many people to do with the body of Jesus, which would have become: to put it in pieces?. An important aspect to be considered: ¿would have they placed the Jesus remains in a family tomb, in a definitively visible place (East Talpiot) and outstanding it with singular marks and no body beyond his relatives and disciples would have found it out?. ¿Who had dared to the profanation of Jesus’ body and to turn into pieces his skull?
The professor of statistic of the Toronto University Andrey Feueverger, member of the investigation team, declared during the presentation of the documentary video product of the decoders work in New York, that “only there is 1 out of 600 probability that the remains found in the tomb correspond to another family who is not the one of Jesus”.
But what have been found, hardly gives a database that is overly relevant, because out of the inscription poor families don't show up in historical documents and chiseled in stone nearly as often as the rich do. Jesus was not rich. His followers were not either. In any case, professor Feueverger has released his guess without sufficient evidence in the social strata to which Jesus belonged to be relevant. Given that the number of entire families that have been unearthed is but a very low percentage of the actual number of people who lived in that time.
About the inscriptions, out of the Greek’ of Mariamne, which need to be better explained; how do the decoders know that Jesus's mother was known after his death by a latinized form of her name "as more Romans became followers" in the context of pre-rebellion Jerusalem in the middle of the first century?. Do they ignore of what was going on in the cultural and historical context of the time? And isn’t there an obvious contradiction here? People became followers of the Galilean crucified risen Savior, not a middle-class resident of Jerusalem! If Jesus was walking around Jerusalem with a wife and kids, there would be no followers, Roman or otherwise, to be calling Maria to the Jesus’s mother. (James R. White)
DNA tests are performed on human residue taken out of the “Jesus son of Joseph” ossuary and the “Mariamne” ossuary. These tests were conducted by Dr. Carney Matheson at the Paleo-DNA lab at Lakehead University in Ontario, one of the leading facilities of its kind in the world. The degraded samples would not provide enough material for y-chromosome testing. But Dr. Matheson is able to extract enough mitochondrial DNA to test the mother line. The tests demonstrate nothing more that the “Jesus” and “Mary Magdalene” from this tomb are not maternally related.
Other critics are finding fault with the fact that ossuaries found in the tomb are empty, which they say limits the archaeological evidence needed to support the Jesus family tomb claim (Source: The Daily Telegram); the works on DNA given the age of the remains and the fact that there are no full bones present (only small shards) would be very difficult. Then further DNA tests are impossible and the odds of the investigations success will be much lower. If the test can not be carried out or the results are negative, nothing can be proved.
Now three possible scenarios have to be considered:
Thomas 39 (Apocryphal Gospel). Jesus has said: The clergymen and the theologians have received the keys of the knowledge, but they have hidden them. They did not enter there, nor they allowed to enter those that wished to enter. As far as you, be astute like serpents and pure like doves.
The first scenario: assuming the DNA tests can be carried out and their outcome are positive; nothing will happen with the Christianity nor the Catholic faith; both will review the truth and will go ahead strengthen. The catholic church and the churches in general will have to evolve to the “beginning”.
In Revelation (22:13), Jesus says: “I am the ‘Alpha’ and the ‘Omega’ ” i.e., I am the beginning (the principle) and the end (the aim), since “Alpha” and “Omega” are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet; indeed He was the end of the Old Testament where the “fear” predominated; and the beginning of the New Testament where the “love” should predominate. The message of Jesus was LOVE; but the message of the church –the strategy of churches- is the FEAR.
It can also be interpreted the “principle” as the base, the fundament, the sustenance of everything; and the “aim” as the objective or purpose; in both ends, the fundament and the purpose, is the LOVE.
The second scenario: no more tests will be allowed; it will be a pity, because once again, the impression of a concealment will be left. Doubts will be generated throughout the world.
The third scenario: that the tests outcome is negative; nothing will happen, but anyway, the catholic church and the churches in general must -at once and for good- evolve to the “beginning and principle”; toward LOVE. The church cannot continue being preponderantly an economic and political organization; it must be an institution of LOVE.
The change
Indeed … the Church should open the TRUTH and the KNOWLEDGE; the faith will not be weakened, on the contrary it will be reinforced.
Then the church should begin to consider apocryphal gospels, mainly those of Thomas, Philip and Mary Magdalene; the Code of the Bible and -why not- the gospel of Judas. All of them would contain deep truths that church does not accept.
If it is obvious to the human eyes that the Kingdom of Heaven is not physical and the ascension of Jesus Christ would had been only in spirit, that does not change the foundations of the Christianity nor the Catholic faith, whether it is determined or not that the tomb of Talpiot is the tomb of Jesus’ family; and if it is not, be the body of the Savior found or not.
Finally … Jesus Christ - the Son although was a special being- was sent by the Father to live as a “human being”, as a normal man; to pass joys and sadness (He underwent much when Joseph died); to feel and to give peace, as to show indignation and rage (when He threw the merchants out of the temple); to be tempted and to experience successes and failures (i.e. when all their apostles disappeared when He was taken prisoner); to feel fear and weakness; to suffer - in his case in an extreme and very singular way, with stoicism and strength, supporting -in addition to the injustice, the most intense pains. ¿Who can say that He was not human? ; who can say that He was not a man?.
But this, in no way -even considering the Jewish customs, many of which were passed superficially by Jesus- can take us to affirm that He and Mary Magdalene were husband and wife (which on the other hand, from the perspective of a simple reflection -if it is demonstrated otherwise- nothing of bad or observable would have, beyond leaving without its greatest sustenance to the traditional priests celibacy of the Catholic Church, which is a terrestrial issue); less still if He had descendants which -if demonstrated- would not change anything either for the Christianity and/or the Catholic faith. Naturally, to make a more accurate analysis of these issues we would require of theological knowledge that are in a more complex level of elaboration than the one of a simple analysis or questioning reflection; and on the other hand we should wait for the DNA analyses results of the complete set of ossuaries found in the supposed “Lost Tomb of Jesus” or “The Tomb of the Jesus Family”
THE FULL DOCUMENT
Part I
PROVISO – The Resurrection
The Decoders does not challenge the fact of the Resurrection; they however ask the viewers to consider the possibility that it occurred from another tomb –they say a second tomb- different to that in which Christ was originally buried right after crucifixion.
They also suggest that the rumor on that the disciples would remove the body of Christ from the tomb given by Joseph of Arimathea (Matthew 28:12-15) , would be in fact a truth. No comments.
Regarding the second tomb, this does not have much sense, since it is little probable, but impossible, that that second tomb had been in any case, the one of Talpiot, because it would have been too exposed. Therefore it would be necessary to weave that the second tomb had been in fact another different one and that the family had finally moved the body of Jesus to the tomb of Talpiot with the dangers that it would entail. Very weak argument.
There are several testimonies -according to the gospels- that Christ was seen during the forty days after his resurrection.
PROVISO – The Ascension
It is also a matter of Christian faith that Jesus, on the fortieth day after the Resurrection, ascended to Heaven. Christians accept the Ascension as a fact; however, they have long debated certain issues around the Ascension. (decoders web text)
The decoders ask: if Jesus ascended into Heaven, does that mean Heaven is “up?. Nonsense question. ¿Is for instance possible to give three dimensions to the mind, to the intelligence, to the spirit, to the soul?
There is physical impossibility to demonstrate that Jesus is seated to the right hand of God; therefore it is an act of faith. Again this is not a physical figure.
Also the ascent is attested in gospels, but it is at the end an act of faith.
The decoders sustain that if Jesus’ mortal remains have indeed been found, this would contradict only the idea of a physical ascension. However, it says nothing against the possibility of a spiritual one nor does it dispute the idea of the Ascension.
The body of Jesus, is the central issue of the decoders work and will be the central issue along these commentaries.
The Lost Tomb of Jesus
Great merit has the work of the decoders that 25 years after a bulldozer accidentally uncovered what may be the most explosive archaeological discovery of all time, took a fresh look at this astounding cluster of New Testament names.
Ten ossuaries or stone coffins were found inside a first-century tomb, six bore inscriptions: Jesus son of Joseph; Maria; Mariamene (the name by which Mary Magdalene was known), Joseph, Matthew, and Judah son of Jesus.
Through paleo-ADN tests, high-tech robot-cams, crime lab analyses, linguistics, and theological study, the Tomb team arrived at a shocking conclusion … The Lost Tomb of Jesus.
Unlike the “Da Vinci Code”, the Lost Tomb of Jesus, deals with real people. Archaeology is real. The ossuaries are real. The conclusions are left to each one.
The Jesus Family Tomb might well be the most controversial archaeological discovery of all time. The film that documents that discovery is a real-life detective story in which history and cutting edge science combine forces -along with a truly remarkable team of experts (the decoders)- to shed light on one of the world’s most powerfully guarded secrets.
One of the coffins disappeared and they have reasonably determine that this could be the so called “James (Jacob) Ossuary” that was acquired by the collector Oded Golan, who today confronts a trial in Israel for holding this archaeological piece, whose patina is identical to the one of the other nine coffins of the Talpiot tomb. About the inscription it reads: “James (Jacob), son of Joseph …” the controversial words are “… brother of Jesus”. The dimensions of the James (Jacob) coffin fit to the set.
The force of the decoders analysis, is that it is a family tomb: “The Jesus Family Tomb”.
The professor of statistic of the Toronto University Andrey Feueverger, member of the investigation team, declared during the presentation of the documentary video product of the decoders work in New York, that “only there is 1 out of 600 probability that the remains found in the tomb correspond to another family who is not the one of Jesus”.
But what have been found, hardly gives a database that is overly relevant, because out of the inscription poor families don't show up in historical documents and chiseled in stone nearly as often as the rich do. Jesus was not rich. His followers were not either. In any case, the statistician has released his guess without sufficient evidence in the social strata to which Jesus belonged to be relevant. Given that the number of entire families that have been unearthed is but a very low percentage of the actual number of people who lived in that time.
Our commentaries will go through each person presumably identified in the familiar tomb and through the decoders analysis and conclusions; also through the developed activities along the investigation and of the respective conclusions. We will extend in some reflections and some theses of previous papers, to support the commentaries.
In order to refute this work, it is not enough with expressions as the one of professor Amos Kloner who spread the conclusions of their investigation in 1996; he said: “It is a beautiful history, but without no prove nor nothing similar”; neither those of professor Jünger Zangenberg, expert in the New Testament of the University of Leiden (Holland) that said that the theory of the documentary video is not too realistic, because there are no proves that the bones of Jesus were placed in a small stone coffin; indicating that there are no proves that this type of practice -to place the bones of a dead person in an ossuary, after certain time of the death- was habitual by those times; he indicated also that the names in the coffins, do not constitute any prove.
I think that both experts and some others would have to expose deeper analyses to refute the work of the decoders team.
The Second Burial
Despite the indications of professor Jünger Zangenberg, about that there are no proves that this type of practice -to place the bones of a dead person in an ossuary, after certain time of the death- was habitual by those times, the decoders hold that for only about a hundred years, from 30 BCE to 70 CE (when the Romans destroyed the city), people in the Jerusalem area practiced a form of “secondary burial”. What this means is that when someone died family members wrapped the body in a shroud and placed it in a niche within a tomb carved out of the soft rock. Perhaps they left a few artifacts, a perfume bottle, a small lamp to accompany the deceased.
Then the family waited—for about a year—for the flesh to decompose. Then one or more members reentered the tomb, gathered the bones together, and placed them in an ossuary or bone box. The box was made for the deceased and had to be long enough to accommodate the longest bone in the body, the femur. This is why a child’s ossuary is smaller than an adult’s.
I believe that this explains -if happened in the case of Jesus- that would have been not two but three or up to four tombs and -following the track of the decoders- would have revived of the second tomb, and after forty days to have died again buried in the second or third tomb, and then after a year or so, their relatives or disciples, separate its bones finally to pass it to the ossuary found in the family tomb of Talpiot.
Some claim that the second burial practices reflected a new Jewish belief in the Resurrection of the dead. Others state it started as a cultural borrowing from Romans who had subsumed the ancient Greek practice. Others are more practical: secondary burial was in answer to the increasingly high premium placed on Jerusalem real estate. Put simply, ossuaries saved on space.
If the Jewish believed in the resurrection of dead, so ¿why to put in pieces the corpse? ; it is possible to think rather about the cultural borrowing from of Romans or Greeks, although less probable by the Jewish root to its customs and traditions. The one of the increasingly high premium placed on Jerusalem real estate, is simply non sense.
Whatever the reason, the practice of secondary burial in Jerusalem—which took place exactly before, during, and after the life of Jesus—means we should be looking very carefully at the inscriptions and other archaeological evidence from these tombs to determine any links with the early Christians, considering besides that Jesus eliminated many of the Jewish customs through his messages.
All this must have been developed in an absolute secret and with too many people –relatives and disciples- involved. Very low probability that this secret had not been known and registered in some writings of the time.
Besides, they must have put in agreement too many people to do with the body of Jesus, which would have become: to put it in pieces?
An important aspect to be considered: ¿would have they placed the Jesus remains in a family tomb, in a definitively visible place (East Talpiot) and outstanding it with singular marks and no body beyond his relatives and disciples would have found it out?
¿Who had dared to the profanation of Jesus’ body and to turn into pieces his skull?
We leave the answers to the reader.
Not a typical tomb – The symbols
When archaeologists arrived at the site, the first thing they noted was a strange symbol over the door to the tomb, on the south face of the antechamber. They were at a complete loss. They had never seen another like it: a decorative V- or Y-shaped gable or chevron over a prominent circle. It measured more than a meter wide, wider, in fact, than the passage to the tomb beneath it.
At first, it was thought the symbol might have been an unfinished wreath or rosette, a typical image found carved in and around tombs of the Second Temple period, a symbol of royalty. It also may have been left unfinished, it was thought, as many tombs were, with the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. All building activity was left frozen in mid-stride when the Temple fell and the Jews were driven from the city.
But upon further inspection, archeologists concluded that the symbol appeared as it was intended to appear. It was a quite beautifully rendered stone relief sculpture. Someone had worked very carefully, almost lovingly, to achieve the smooth, three-dimensional effect. The archaeologists knew that the elaborateness of the façade, especially in a tomb with no other decorative features, was extremely rare.
Puzzlingly, bones had been placed in the antechamber directly underneath the chevron symbol, possibly deliberately. This too was decidedly not typical. In ancient Jerusalem, the dead were placed inside tombs; in tombs, the dead were placed inside ossuaries.
The decoders soon analyze the symbols first in relation to the Mason’s symbols and then in relation to with the Knights Templar.
They discard to the Mason and further they sustain that the Knights Templar have always been linked with ritual practices. Is it possible that the skulls laid out in the tomb and its antechamber were there as part of some twelfth century ceremony?. We do know that the bones are not from the time of Jesus but a much later period.
The conclusion to which the observer is taken, is that the Knights Templar visited the tomb of Jesus and left their bones as a tribute. The bizarre of this story is that with the Knights Templar passion about the Saint Grail, they had left the bones of Jesus in the tomb. ¿Would not be more logical to think than they had taken the Jesus ossuary with them and kept it as a Templar secret?
To relate the symbol in the door of the tomb to the “Supper at Emmaus” of Jacopo de Pontormo (disciple of Leonardo da Vinci), is just to put a touch of competition to this story with the “Da Vinci Code”. By the way the Dan Brown story is weakened before this investigation; but a “Pontormo Code” would be simply another novel.
The All-seeing Eye of the “Supper at Emmaus” of Pontormo, would represent the omni-presence of God. By the way this supper occurred after the resurrection.
If the Tomb of the Ten Ossuaries is that of Jesus and his family, the only people who would have had that information in the first century would have been the Judeo-Christian community of Jerusalem. Interestingly, history tells us that the Judeo-Christians were considered heretics because they held that Jesus was a man and not a divinity. Generation after generation, the existence and location of Jesus’ tomb would have been passed down. Conceivably, it could very well have fallen into the hands of the Crusaders, the Knights Templar, who arrived in Jerusalem as “pilgrims” in the twelfth century.
Commentary: if Judeo-Christian community did not believe in the divinity of Jesus, and they had the demonstration in hand, so ¿why they did not use it?
Accurate Period Depiction
The Lost Tomb of Jesus is a visually stunning documentary, that try to set bold new standards for reenactment.
The team gathered leading anthropologists, social historians, theologians, scientists, linguists and Biblical scholars, to name a few in order to provide such an accurate depiction. The hairstyles, costumes, jewelry, the casting, set design, and even the lighting were all designed with the input of these experts.
Evidently, this depiction will give much to talk about; it could be one of the most impressive representations of Jesus and all his surroundings, but it is nothing but a depiction.
The ten ossuaries
Thousands of ossuaries have been found throughout Jerusalem, from hundreds of tombs. About 20% of these ossuaries bear inscriptions: the name of the deceased, perhaps his function in society, perhaps his father’s name--or his brother’s. These inscriptions were usually done by family members, not professional engravers and are at times barely legible.
The ossuaries of several known Gospel figures have been discovered in the Jerusalem hills, including Simon of Cyrene, who helped Jesus carry his cross on the day to the Crucifixion, the High Priest Caiaphas, and James, the brother of Jesus already mentioned.
In the ossuaries of the presumed Jesus family tomb, every inscription bears a relationship to the Gospels. While the names themselves range from the most common to the fairly rare, it is the cluster of names that is unique.
The first inscription (ossuary 80/503), written in Aramaic (an ancient dialect of Hebrew), states: “Yeshua bar Yosef”. Translated, it reads “Jesus son of Joseph.” This is very rare. Out of all the inscriptions catalogued, only one other “Jesus son of Joseph” inscription (1926) has ever been uncovered since 1926.
The second inscription (ossuary 80/505), written in Hebrew reads: “Maria” 25 % of all Jewish women of the first century in Judea (ancient Israel) were called “Miriam,” in English, “Mary.” As a result, to distinguish one from the other, variants and nicknames were adopted. Through literary sources the name of the mother of Jesus has always come down to us in one way: “Maria”, i.e. the Latin version of “Miriam”. Finding a Latin version of a Hebrew name inscribed phonetically in Hebrew letters is rare. Only eight other such inscriptions have ever been identified.
The third inscription (ossuary 80/502), written in Hebrew, reads: “Matia”. This is the Hebrew original of the English “Matthew”. It is not known whether the writer of the Gospel was one of Jesus’ Disciples, or a member of his family. What is known, however, from the genealogy provided in Luke (3:23) is that unlike Joseph, Mary mother of Jesus, had many “Matthews” in her family. Unlike, say, a “Daniel” or a “Jonah”, the appearance of a “Matthew” in this family’s tomb is consistent with the information provided in the Gospels.
Commentary: Lucas 3:23 gives all the genealogical precedent of Joseph, where in effect, no presence of Matthews may be noticed; but nothing is said about the antecedents of Mary showing the appearance of many “Matthews”. If the Matthew of the ossuary is the writer of the Gospel; ¿what is the explanation of Matthew ossuary presence in the Jesus family tomb?
The fourth inscription (ossuary 80/504), written in Hebrew, reads: “Yose”. This is a very rare rendering, a nickname for the Hebrew “Yosef”, like “Joey” to “Joseph” in modern English. The Gospels tell us that Jesus had four brothers: James, Judah, Simon and Joseph. The “Yose” inscription from this tomb is the only such example of this name on an ossuary. In the Gospel of Mark, Joseph, brother of Jesus, is not called “Joseph”, but “Yose.”
We will analyze about the Jesus brothers further in this document, but we can raise now a reflection: “Yose” definitively is because of “Joseph”; and if it is because of “Joseph” could be the brother, but also be the father of Jesus husband of Maria, who would have died when Jesus was 17 years old.
L.Y. Rahmani, who wrote the definitive book on the subject of Jewish ossuaries believes that the Mary is of the same generation as, and likely the wife of the Joseph found in the Talpiot tomb.
The fifth inscription (ossuary 80/500), written in Greek, reads: “Mariamene e Mara”, an endearing form of the name “Mariamne.” This is the only inscription found in the tomb written in Greek, and is a second Mary. From the Acts of Philip, a fourth century work ostensibly written about Mary Magdalene’s brother, Phillip, and recently recovered from a monastery at Mt. Athos in Greece, Professor François Bovon (Harvard University) has determined that Magdalene’s real name was “Mariamne”.
The sixth inscription (ossuary 50/501), is also written in Aramaic, it reads: “Yehuda bar Yeshua”. Translated, it means “Judah son of Jesus”. There is no written tradition that Jesus had a son. This small child’s ossuary may have held the mortal remains of the son of Jesus and Mary Magdalene.
It’s true that the New Testament says nothing about Jesus having a wife or fathering a child, but it doesn’t say he didn’t. Absolutely nothing in the New Testament indicates that Jesus was celibate. He could very well have been married and had children.
Could Judah, son of Jesus have been the “Beloved Disciple” mentioned in the Gospels? If the “Judah” of ossuary 80/501 was still alive after the crucifixion, he would have been protected by Jesus’ followers.
The supposition that the “Beloved Disciple” of the gospel of Juan was this Judah, is a possibility with no sense; far more possible is that this disciple had been Mary Magdalene (as sustained in the “Da Vinci Code”) instead a boy or a young man (in which case the ossuary found would had no been the one of a boy). The explanation of the decoders in this passage is too weak.
Let us speculate a little about the other three ossuaries without inscription, since the tenth ossuary (the 80/509) would be the one of “James (Jacob) son of Joseph…” and presumably -cannot be affirmed- “ … brother of Jesus“. In the familiar slope -exception made of the ossuary of no body knows what Matthew - and accepting that James (Jacob) is Santiago (Mark 6:3) brother of Jesus, as Judas, Simon and Joseph, could be supposed that the three tombs without inscription could correspond to Judas, Simon and Joseph (either Jesus father or brother, depending who is the Joseph of the ossuary with the “Yose” inscription).
About the inscriptions, out of the Greek’ of Mariamne, which need to be better explained; how do the decoders know that Jesus's mother was known after his death by a latinized form of her name "as more Romans became followers" in the context of pre-rebellion Jerusalem in the middle of the first century?. Do they ignore of what was going on in the cultural and historical context of the time? And isn’t there an obvious contradiction here? People became followers of the Galilean crucified risen Savior, not a middle-class resident of Jerusalem! If Jesus was walking around Jerusalem with a wife and kids, there would be no followers, Roman or otherwise, to be calling Maria to the Jesus’s mother. (James R. White)
But, nothing of this can be affirmed, because to be able to do it, would be necessary to follow the complete track via DNA analysis, what seems to be impossible since some of the ossuaries would not contain remains (The Daily Telegram) and it implies doubts on if the bones found in the ossuaries assumed to be of Jesus and of Maria Magdalena respectively, they belong in effect to them, because it is most probable that if sometime they were found before – that is possible has happened in the first centuries- these remains can have been removed and even changed; being so the analysis would only have a relative and very weak support, limited to the names enrolled in the bones boxes.
Now it will be interesting to analyze the issue related to the “brothers” of Jesus and to how many children would have had Maria; for it we present the edited version of a Mexican brother writing, found in Internet:
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Many catholic that get confused if you speak to them of the Bible or the sacraments tradition, they stop you if you touch the Virgin. And you must be neither shepherd, nor prophet, to understand that.
We the Catholics say that Maria was the Virgin Mother of Jesus Christ. The protestants of diverse orientations normally agree. But when you say a protestant that Maria was Virgin, means that she was virgin before Jesus was born, but she later had more children with Jose.
The catholic when we say that Maria was virgin, also say that Maria is virgin; that she never lost his virginity. Neither when he conceived Jesus because it was Holy Spirit act, nor because she lived in abstention until her death.
The problem, according to the evangelical people, is in the Bible. There we found phrases like this: “is he not the carpenter, the son of Maria and brother of Santiago, Joseph, Judas and Simon? and ¿do their sisters live between us?” They mention in addition other passages where it is spoken of: “the brothers of the Lord”.
They insist that Maria had had other children because San Mateo says: “and Jose did not have relations with her until the day Maria gave birth her first-born to whom she put as name Jesus”. The idea is that the expression ”until the day” means that after that day Joseph held relations with her ..... although the gospels never say it. They also affirm that “first-born” means ‘first of several’.
But it is necessary to recognize that in this case as in many others, the problem the evangelists have with Maria as `always virgin' is originated by a partial reading of the Bible and its own prejudices.
Let’s go by parts. The word `brother' in the Bible has a very ample sense. Sometimes it means `in flesh brother', sometimes `cousin in first degree', sometimes `brother' (because a fellow-fraternal type of relationship) and sometimes just because 'fellow citizen'. So ¿why so much of variety?. Because in the old languages of Hebrew and Aramaic that used the Biblical authors there is no a specific word for ’cousin’. They used the word brother with an ample sense. When the Bible was translated into the Greek stayed this ample use of the word `brother', or, in Greek: adelfos.
Thus for example the Genesis 14:14 says that Lot was the brother of Abraham ... and we know that, in fact, Lot was its nephew (Gen.11: 26-28). The first book of the Chronicles says that the Eleazar daughters married with their brothers ... but we know that in fact their husbands were children of their uncle Quis, if fact they were cousins (1Crón.23:22). And as these there is an amount of examples (Deut.23:7; 2Sam.1:26; Gen.29:15; Jer.34:9; etc.).
When the angel said to Maria that she was going to conceive a son, she asked: “how will it be, because I do not know man?” (Lc.1:34). Maria already was engaged with Joseph. One assumes that something she knew of how the children are born. The logical way would be that she and Joseph had children ... with or without the announcement of the angel, why that question?. That can only be explained if we –the catholic- believed since always, that Maria had devoted herself to the Lord by an abstention promise, before committing her with Jose. If Maria already had contemplated the possibility of having children, she would have not asked the angel as how she were going to conceive that announced son.
This does not like to the protestants that do not appreciate the value of the total consecration in abstention of Maria to the Lord. But the Gospel shows us that Maria was faithful to her promise and that except for Jesus, she never had other children.
When Jesus get lost in the temple when he was twelve years old, we see that he is the only son of Maria and Joseph. (Lc.2:41-51). In Nazareth people called Jesus as the son of Maria, not as a son of Maria. Those that sometimes are called brothers of Jesus, are never called as `children of Maria'. And in the crucifixion Jesus gives his mother to his friend Juan ... quite difficult to understand if Maria had more children (Jn.19:26-17).
And ¿what about that of Joseph did not have relations with Maria until gave birth?. The gospel never indicates that after being born Jesus, Joseph had had relations with Maria. The expression ‘until’ here means that before being born Christ, they did not have relations ... and that’s it. As also the Bible says to us that: “Mical, the daughter of Saul, did not have children until the day of her death” (2Reyes:23). ¿Did she have children after her death? Or: “until today nobody knows where Moses was buried” (Deut 34: 6), ¿perhaps today it is known?; it is necessary to understand the meaning of ‘until’ within its context.
¿And about the one “first-born”? this word had a legal sense in Israel, according to which ‘the first fruit of the maternal sine’ was presented to be offered to God. This does not deny any reference to later children neither confirm it (Ex.34:20). If ‘first-born’ meant solely ‘first of several’, the first could not be presented to God until another one was born ..., because how ‘would it be known if it is first-born or not?’.
But at the end, the evangelists deny that Jesus was the only son of Maria, not because it is said in the Bible (the Bible says rather the opposite), but because they believe that the value we -the catholic- give to Maria takes off some of the greatness of her son. ¿How do they not understand that it is because of the greatness of the son that we have gotten to honor so much to the Mother?
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I think that it should not be argued anymore with respect to the supposed “brothers” or “sisters” of Jesus. It is not credible that Jesus had had brothers or sisters of his parents and that at least one of them had not had a significant roll in the history; and that they had been hidden by the family and by Jesus himself.
One may argue this, not of Jesus but of the church?; then we can look to the Gnostic gospels rejected by the church, and we do not find anything neither on the matter.
The DNA tests
We finally arrive to the DNA tests. In the documentary "The Lost Tomb of Jesus", DNA tests are performed on human residues taken out of the “Jesus son of Joseph” ossuary and the “Mariamne” ossuary.
These DNA tests are conducted by Dr. Carney Matheson at the Paleo-DNA lab at Lakehead University in Ontario, one of the leading facilities of its kind in the world.
The degraded samples would not provide enough material for y-chromosome testing. But Dr. Matheson was able to extract enough mitochondrial DNA to test the mother line. The tests demonstrate that the “Jesus” and “Mary Magdalene” from this tomb are not maternally related.
The Y-Chromosome test is very useful for determining distant relationships between suspected male relatives to determine whether they are related, in cases where a paternity test cannot be performed. The Y-Chromosome is present only in males and is passed down from father to son to grandson. As a result, the Y-Chromosome test can be used to determine whether two males are related through their paternal line. For example, the Y-Chromosome test can be used to test male cousins, nephews and uncles; grandfather and grandson, etc. to see if they are related along the male line. Males who have a common male ancestor will have the same Y-Chromosome.
Unlike nuclear DNA in which the genes are rearranged by near 50% each generation (due to the process called recombination), there is usually no change in mtDNA from parent to offspring by this mechanism. Because of this and the fact that its mutation rate is higher than nuclear DNA and easily measured, mtDNA is a powerful tool for tracking matri-lineage, and has been used in this role for tracking many species back hundreds of generations.
However, if the ossuaries of Maria the mother of Jesus, Joseph, Jesus, Judah the supposed son of Jesus (and Mary Magdalene), of Jaime (Jacob) the supposed brother of Jesus (supposedly son of Maria and Joseph), several determining tests of mtADN and chromosome can be performed. More test could even be carried out with the ossuaries without inscription. With all those results the world would eliminate doubts, because in case of positive results, the probabilities that this is the family of Jesus and Jesus himself, would obviously raise and little can be made to refute the investigation.
Other critics are finding fault with the fact that ossuaries found in the tomb are empty, which they say limits the archaeological evidence needed to support the Jesus family tomb claim (Source: The Daily Telegram); the works on DNA given the age of the remains and the fact that there are no full bones present (only small shards is assumed) would be very difficult. Then further DNA tests are impossible and the odds of the investigations success will be much lower.
If the test can not be carried out or the results are negative, nothing can be proved and professor Amos Kloner will be right: "This would has been one more beautiful history".
Three possible scenarios
Thomas 39 (Apocryphal Gospel). Jesus has said: The clergymen and the theologians have received the keys of the knowledge, but they have hidden them. They did not enter there, nor they allowed to enter those that wished to enter. As far as you, be astute like serpents and pure like doves.
The first scenario: assuming the DNA tests can be carried out and their outcome are positive; nothing will happen with the Christianity nor the Catholic faith; both will review the truth and will go ahead strengthen. The catholic church and the churches in general will have to evolve to the “beginning”.
In Revelation (22:13), Jesus says: “I am the ‘Alpha’ and the ‘Omega’ ” i.e., I am the beginning (the principle) and the end (the aim), since “Alpha” and “Omega” are the first and last letters of the Greek alphabet; indeed He was the end of the Old Testament where the “fear” predominated; and the beginning of the New Testament where the “love” should predominate. The message of Jesus was LOVE; but the message of the church –the strategy of churches- is the FEAR.
It can also be interpreted the “principle” as the base, the fundament, the sustenance of everything; and the “aim” as the objective or purpose; in both ends, the fundament and the purpose, is the LOVE.
The second scenario: no more tests will be allowed; it will be a pity, because once again, the impression of a concealment will be left. Doubts will be generated throughout the world.
The third scenario: that the tests outcome is negative; nothing will happen, but anyway, the catholic church and the churches in general must -at once and for good- evolve to the “beginning and principle”; toward LOVE. The church cannot continue being preponderantly an economic and political organization; it must be an institution of LOVE.
Part II
The change
Indeed … the Church should open the TRUTH and the KNOWLEDGE; the faith will not be weakened, on the contrary it will be reinforced.
Then the church should begin to consider apocryphal gospels, mainly those of Thomas and Mary Magdalene, and the Acts of Philip ; the Code of the Bible and -why not- the gospel of Judas. All of them would contain deep truths that church does not accept.
If it is obvious to the human eyes that the Kingdom of Heaven is not physical and the ascension of Jesus Christ would had been only in spirit, that does not change the foundations of the Christianity nor the Catholic faith, whether it is determined or not that the tomb of Talpiot is the tomb of Jesus’ family; and if it is not, be the body of the Savior found or not.
Some thoughts
The men -thanks to the creation of God- have intelligence, that produces our thoughts; the man’s intellectual capacity, includes in addition to the rationality, the creativity and the inventiveness; the restlessness by the investigation and the search. Some have in addition the understanding that leads to the wisdom, based on an installed capacity, but always attended of the spirituality. As well as there are different degrees and intelligence levels, also there are different degrees or levels of understanding; and so there are more intelligent or less intelligent human beings (related of the productivity in its thinking process and of the quality of thoughts) and also there are more or less wise human beings; or simply there are those -as it happens in most of the cases- that stay at the intellectual level, without any wisdom assistance.
The spirituality, is the divine energy nested in our being that produces the omni-presence of God in our lives, concurring in each one of us, the soul -that is our identity; the spirit -that is our energy; and the body -our motor capacity and the directive force (from the brain, locating the intelligence and the understanding, between the soul and the spirit). It is there where the good and the “absence of good” concur, whose decision is first in our nature and then in our intellect with decision capacity; in order to give grace or to disgrace our identity.
The one that loves me will fulfill my word and my Father will love him, and we will make him our dwelling … the Lord says.
From the Thomas apocryphal Gospels
… who is searching should not stop until he finds, and when he finds he will be disturbed, and when he has been disturbed he will astonish and will reign over the totality and he will find the rest.
… the Kingdom of God is inside you and is outside you. Who get to know themselves they will find it and when you arrive to know to you yourself, you will know that you are the Children of the living Father.
From the Mary Magdalene apocryphal Gospels (last precepts):
After saying all this, the Blessed said good by to all of them saying: “Peace is with you, my peace arises between you. Keep watching so that nobody misleads you saying: “he is here, here he is”, because the son of the man is inside you; follow him. Those that search for him will find him. Go and proclaim the gospel of the kingdom. Do not impose more precepts than those than I have settled down for you, and do not pass any law, as the legislator, so that you are not tied down by it”. Saying this he left.
(Vision of Maria) She said - I saw the Lord in a vision and I said to him: “Lord, today I have seen you in a vision”. He answered me saying: “Blessed you are, because you have not been disturbed when seeing me, because where the Intellect is, there is the treasure”. I said to him: “Lord, tell me, the one that sees the vision ¿sees it in soul or spirit?”. The Lord answered me saying: “He sees it neither in soul nor in spirit, but that is the Intellect that is between them the one who sees the vision…”
Of the apostle Paul’s letter to the Romans (8:14-17):
Brothers: Those that let themselves guide by the Spirit of God, those are children of God. You have not received a spirit of slaves, who makes you fear again, but a spirit of children, by virtue of whom we can call Father to God. The Holy Spirit himself, being one with our own spirit, gives testimony that we are children of God. And if we are children, we are also inheriting of God and coheirs with Christ, since we suffered with him to be glorified along with him.
Beyond our rational and understanding installed capacity, there is a third inexplicable dimension that often makes wonders and for which much intelligence is not required nor much understanding. I speak of the faith that is fed and reinforced, with the praying. This is accessible by all, more or less intelligent, more or less wise; or simply human beings that have that positive energy load, often too difficult to explain to the intelligence and the reason.
Ecclesiastic ( 42:15-26)
“I am going to bring to the memory works of the Lord and tell what I have seen: All whatever exists has been done by the word of God, and the entire world is put under his will. As the sun light illuminates all the things on Earth, the glory of the Lord fills the creation.
He did not grant to his angels to tell all those wonders, that the all-powerful Lord settled down firmly as a manifest prove of his glory. The Lord penetrates until the bottom of the abysses and of the hearts, and knows all their secrets, because he has all science and knows the movement the stars; he discovers the past, he announces the future and he reveals the most recondite mysteries. No thought is hidden to him, no thing escapes to him. He that exists before the time and for all the time, gave to splendor and greatness to works of his wisdom.
Nothing can be added to him, nothing can be cleared to him and advisor does not need.
What precious are the works of the Lord, and it is just a spark what we see! In the universe everything lives and lasts for always and obeys at any moment to the Lord. All the things differ to each other and, nevertheless, they are complemented. Nothing of which the Lord has done is useless; each one of them affirms the excellence of the other. ¿Who will get tired to contemplate the glory of the Lord? …”
The most difficult -and perhaps the most commendable at the end- is what those people with a great intelligence and/or a great understanding reach, having the humility to recognize their human limits; and then from their thoughts and their wisdom, they pass with humility to the praying and they are given to the faith, because they can no longer process, neither understand no more.
However, let’s look for explanation of how they interact in this concurrence of identities in the human being: the soul, the Spirit, the intelligence and the understanding; whose manifestation occurs from the brain, through the body
Of the apocryphal Gospels of Mary Magdalene (to whom with certain logic searchers establish her as the true author of the gospels that the Church attributes to John)
The Matter and the World 7 […] then, ¿will matter then be destroyed or not?. The Savior said, «All nature, all formations and all creatures exist in and with one another, and they will be resolved again into their own roots, because the nature of matter is resolved into the roots of its own nature alone. He who has ears to hear, let him hear».
In these apocryphal gospels could be the explanation of the evolution of the soul and its interrelation with the other entities.
Let us begin with the nature and the body. In Page 7, besides affirming the interaction between the nature, the productions, the people - human beings- and the people among them; it reaffirms another divine expression, that says “of the dust you come and dust you will become”, which confirms the temporality of the body and of the creation.
Peter said to Mariamne: «Sister we know that the Savior loved you more than the rest of woman. Tell us the words of the Savior which you remember which you know, but we do not, nor have we heard them». Mariamne answered and said, «What is hidden from you I will proclaim to you». And she began to speak to them these words:
(we reiterate ...)
Vision of Mariamne: She said, «I saw the Lord in a vision and I said to Him, Lord I saw you today in a vision». He answered and said to me: «Blessed are you that you did not waver at the sight of Me. For where the intellect is, there is the treasure». I said to Him, «Lord, how does he who sees the vision see it, through the soul or through the spirit?» The Savior answered and said, «He does not see through the soul nor through the spirit, but the intellect that is between the two that is what sees the vision and it is [...]»
Pages 11 - 14 of the manuscript are missing here …
«... For where the intellect is, there is the treasure»; the Lord refers the intellect, as the integration of intelligence and the understanding, this is because He always reiterated closing the his messages saying … «who has ears to hear, let him hear».
The Lord answers to Mariamne: «He does not see through the soul nor through the spirit, but the intellect that is between the two that is what sees the vision and it is [...]»
The understanding to see; intelligence to process; for that reason He affirms, that the vision is not seeing by the soul (that it is the identity), nor by the spirit (that is the divine energy). It is seeing by the “intellect”, that is not the “mind”, but the concurrence of the soul, the Spirit, the intelligence and the understanding.
We expect -we hope- to see God with our physical eyes and He does not make appearances in matter; it appears to the eyes of the intellect, and then of the understanding; for that reason He used to say: “«…Who has eyes to see, let him see»”
How much light we miss to see by those lost pages 11 to 14…
Jesus Christ - the Son although was a special being- was sent by the Father to live as a “human being”, as a normal man; to pass joys and sadness (He underwent much when Joseph died); to feel and to give peace, as to show indignation and rage (when He threw the merchants out of the temple); to be tempted, to experience successes and failures (i.e. when all their apostles disappeared when He was taken prisoner); to feel fear and weakness; to suffer - in his case in an extreme and very singular way, with stoicism and strength, supporting -in addition to the injustice, the most intense pains. ¿Who can say that He was not human? ; who can say that He was not a man?.
He is the only one that can express what is expressed in pages 15 and 16 of the Apocryphal Gospels of Mary Magdalene:
The ascension of soul 15 […] to him, and the desire said, «I did not see you descending, but now I see you ascending. Why do you lie since you belong to me?». The soul answered and said, «I saw you. You did not see me nor recognize me. I served you as a garment and you did not know me». When it said this, it (the soul) went away rejoicing greatly. Again it came to the third power, which is called ignorance. The power questioned the soul, saying, «Where are you going? In wickedness are you bound. But you are bound; do not judge!». And the soul said, «Why do you judge me, although I have not judged?. I was bound, though I have not bound. I was not recognized. But I have recognized that the All is being dissolved, both the earthly things 16 and the heavenly». When the soul had overcome the third power, it went upwards and saw the fourth power, which took seven forms. The first form is darkness, the second desire, the third ignorance, the fourth is the excitement of death, the fifth is the kingdom of the flesh, the sixth is the foolish wisdom of flesh, the seventh is the wrathful wisdom. These are the seven powers of wrath. They asked the soul, «Where do you come slayer of men, or where are you going, conqueror of space?». The soul answered and said, «What binds me has been slain, and what turns me about has been overcome, and my desire has been ended, and ignorance has died. In a world I was released 17 from a world, and in an image from a heavenly image, and from the fetter of oblivion which is transient. From this time on will I attain to the rest of the time, of the season, of the eternity, in silence».
We essay next, some reflections on this message: … the desire said, «I did not see you descending, but now I see you ascending. Why do you lie since you belong to me?»
The desire (that implies appetites and worldly pleasures that are distorted moving us away of the good) says to the SOUL, that it has not seen coming down (to the depths of the inferior levels) and it sees it raise (towards superior levels of accomplishment); leaving the temptation and the evil and raising towards the good; it says then to the soul that it does not lie to him and that the soul belongs to him… the soul is not recognized when dominated by the appetites and pleasures, and is confused with the desire …
Soon it continues the dialogue that occurs in the level of the third power -the ignorance- where the maleficent tries to tie down it and to dominate it and the soul moves away recognizing to be dominated without being able to dominate, but realizing that the universe is being dissolved so much in the terrestrial as in the celestial dimension (in as much as the evil tries to kill all aspiration of the soul to grow towards the celestial dimension).
The soul tries then to release itself and to enter the life -fourth power, the one of the seven forms, the impulse of the wrath, the rage:
The first form, the darkness’s, from where the soul emerges to concur with the spirit in the body that initiates the race to reach; with the body the second shows up, the desire in his expression of primary necessity; the third is the one of the “non-knowledge”, the ignorance that is characteristic of the initial stage of the route; then the fourth - the envy of death- is the space of the doubt, the disagreement, the fear; then the fifth comes in, the dominion of the flesh, that is not other than the desire in its expression of avidity and hedonism; then the crazy intelligence of flesh, the sixth form in which the dilemma between the correctness and the dominion is on the spot, v.v. the degradation, which implies the possible migration of intelligence toward the intellect, that is the way to the seventh form: that of the irascible wisdom, that search, search and keep searching, and generates the irritation of not finding.
The capacity of the human being and therefore its possibility, is to escape of the wrath and to find the calmness coming near to the peace. Then, the soul emerges from the level in which it is (it can come from the darkness’s in search of growing and raising); the desire in its expression of primary necessity will always appear; the ignorance cannot be avoided, but a route in search of the knowledge becomes, which leaves less space to the doubt and the envy; this improves the human being and allows him a better dominion of the flesh, therefore, of the desire control in his expression of avidity and hedonism, which facilitates the integration of intelligence with the understanding, so migrating to the intellect, causing itself the way to forms or levels of wisdom without the excitation that generates the searching without finding.
The seven powers of the wrath, also are of the calmness and the peace; the results are the results of walking through the same spaces, only that in different way. The wrath can take to the degradation of the soul, the peace to its elevation, for which it requires greater dedication, discipline, persistence and much strength.
We reiterate what has been already mentioned: … It is so the concurrence of the “good” and the “absence of good”, whose decision is in our nature first and then our intellect with capacity to decide, in order to gratify or to disgrace our identity…
Then fit within any of the two scenarios, the two questions: «Where are you coming form? And Where do you go?» and the answers can be the same ones: «What binds me has been slain (the body), and what turns me about has been overcome (the wrath), and my desire has been ended, and ignorance has died. In a world I was released from a world, and in an image from a heavenly image. The fetter of oblivion is transient (the body no longer exists -but existed for an instant- the soul find itself again and holds its identity). From then on I will attain to the rest of the time, of the season, of the eternity, in silence».
The result -in the wrath scenario- can be the degradation of the soul and its return to the darkness’s whereas in the scene of peace, the soul elevates.
From the Thomas apocryphal Gospels:
Thomas 112. Jesus said, "Damn the flesh that depends on the soul. Damn the soul that depends on the flesh".
Thomas 87. Jesus said, "How miserable is the body that depends on a body, and how miserable is the soul that depends on these two."
From the Judas apocryphal Gospels:
Judas asks Jesus about that generation and the human generations
Judas said to him, “Rabbi, what type of fruit produces this generation?"
Jesus said, “The souls of each human generation will die. When this people, nevertheless, have completed the time of the kingdom and the spirit leaves them, their bodies will die but their souls will be alive, and they will be elevated.”
In the next paragraphs I try to support this paper in a long work published in Internet, by the Dr Ivan Seperiza Pasquali, that I summarize and complement, in own edition:
With the Torah -Jewish sacred book that constitutes the Old Testament of the Christian Bible- God legated to us an encrypted external text called the “Code of the Bible”, given to Moses, that contains more than 20 trillions of variables of information which they show the detail of the humanity lifetime, from Moses to the Final Days, being a projection of the future lived in the present, by means of a hologram of several dimensions that surpasses all human understanding and all capacity of our imagination or understanding as far as the form in which it was made with love, so that we were noticed on what is coming. The atheist who tried to weaken the method that has allowed knowing the Code of the Bible, have ended up accepting that the Sacred Book is divine and is a nonhuman work.
This Code was tried unfruitful to be deciphered by Isaac Newton (1642-1727). In century XVIII a wise person called the Genius of Vilna, indicated that everything that was, is and will be until the end of times, is indicated in detailed way in the Torah. Torah is a Hebrew word that means instruction or law. It is used with regard to the Bible in two ways: 1) in the general sense of all Scriptures and divine orders; 2) in the particular sense of first five books of the Bible, called: Pentateuch calls (given Greek name to books received by Moses), Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomious. The discoverer of the Biblical Code when talking about the Torah, talks about the Pentateuch of Moses also called “Book de Moses”; “Book of the Law of Moses” and “Book of the Law of Yahweh given by Moses”.
The interpretation of the “Code of the Bible” has begun to in the last twenty years with the availability of computers means (century XX), by the Israeli mathematician Eliahu Rips, who investigated the Torah and the five Sacred Books received by Moses and managed to create a computer program to decipher the encrypted of the Code. His work was published in 1994 in the prestigious magazine Statistical Science after passing rigorous tests of co-validation; and science had to recognize that the Bible contains a secret code that surpasses the human and scientific capacity of understanding.
The program allowed Rips to eliminate the spaces between the words of the Torah, being concluded that the original Biblical text says very textually to us in the Genesis: WHEN the GODS CREATED the MAN, and not as they show all the Christian “translations” that indicate: “when God created the man”. There are some who conclude that… it is very, but very different in its meaning and importance say, believe and accept by a mistranslation that God created the man, instead of knowing the truth that indicates that the Gods created the man to their image and similarity.
I resort to illustrate this apparent confusion, to the gospel that the Church attributes to John (1,1-5): “In the principle already existed The one that is the Word, and The one that is the Word was with God and was God. In the principle He already was with God. Every thing came to the existence because of him and without him nothing began of whatever exists. He was the life, and the life was the light of men. "The light shines in the darkness’s and the darkness’s did not receive it.” … It is the “plurality” of God here that is interpreted like “Gods”; we reiterated then the Genesis 1,26; God said: “Lets make the man to our image and similarity… “. “Lets do it”; He spoke to “another one” or “others”; but since He spoke to “other” already God was “plural”; in addition it was the “Holy Spirit” in the principle nested in the “Archangels” and the “Angels” that are not, nor were “human”; nevertheless are the agents of the “omni-presence” through the nestling of the “Spirit” that joints the “identity” of the “soul” in each human being.
I also resort to illustrate this explanation, to the “Theological Sum of Saint Thomas of Aquinas”: The Angels have the supreme degree of perfection between all the creatures. The Angels are the noblest effects of the creation, but they have not been created as independent of the other things and with no relation to the other creatures, but they organize to be part of the universe and of the government and service of the human things, that is, those that have body, as much of the inferior ones, as the man, who participates in his spiritual nature and the one of the physical human bodies.
The theological reason cannot demonstrate the revealed truths, but expose them with convenient arguments. For that reason Saint Thomas writes: “For the perfection of the universe certain graduation in the creatures is required to keep approaching the infinite perfection of God, its Creator. There are creatures who only look themselves as God in existence, as stones; others in living, as the plants and the animals; others, in a imperfectly understanding as the man. It seems then natural, that other purely spiritual and perfectly intellective creatures exist, who look themselves like God of the most perfect way than is possible for the creatures to be alike".
Eons of time ago in a point, by means of a quantum type of jump, emerged myriads of divine sparks. Each one infinitely small and in its individuality equipped with infinite potential attributes to manifest and develop. They gave the jump from the in-manifest in God towards the manifest, emerging initially from the seventh dimension with the purpose of growing when developing its potentialities thought the third, fourth, fifth and sixth dimension (*), and once succeed would infinitely be great and by them self from that point they would return to God.
Thomas 77. Jesus said, "I am the light that is over all things. I am all: from me all came forth, and to me all attained. Split a piece of wood; I am there. Lift up the stone, and you will find me there."
Thomas 18. The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us, how will our end come?"
Jesus said, "Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where the beginning is. Bless be the one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste death."
(*) I essay my own interpretation: “the Fourth” dimension, is our “intellect” (a connection stage that is activated in the concurrence of the “soul” with the spirit; and developed, by the human being); “the Fifth” dimension is the “door” where are the intermediaries of “God” (is in this dimension where the Code of the Bible and the Tables would had been given to Moses in Mount Sinai); “the Sixth” dimension, is the transit to “the Seventh” dimension, that is the “final stage”.
You are one of those divine sparks or spirit (soul) acting in the physical form (that crosses the “quanta”) by means of a body in “the third” dimension. You are a free and immortal spirit, without principle nor end (that comes from “the sixth” dimension and will return crossing the “fifth”, to “the sixth” dimension -where you can remain by long eons of time until it is decided -after the Last Judgment- whether you enter or not the “seventh dimension”. The question -that some people answer affirmatively- is that of “the sixth” dimension you can be entrusted to return to the “third”). The divine spark or spirit gave the form to the soul (that constitutes your “identity”), each soul concurs with the spirit, gives the spark of life to the adapted fetus to fulfill its development in the human incarnation.
Saint Paul wrote to Ephesus (2: 19-22)
Brothers:
No longer you are foreign nor newcomer; you are fellow citizens of the saints and you belong to the family of God, because you have been built on the foundation of the apostles and the prophets, being Jesus Christ the angular stone.
On Christ, all the building is raised well structured, to form the saint temple in the Lord, and together with him you can also be incorporated to the building, by means of the Holy Spirit, to be home of God.
¿Are these dimensions a way to envision the soul levels of improvement?
Now, if already it is irrefutable that God exists; if as today the testimonies of the power of prayer are irrefutable -demonstrated among other many tests, in recent simultaneous observations in four hospitals of the USA according to publication of Selections Review- if the Bible and the Gospels (in which it would include the apocryphal ones) that -although are doctrine and could have been fitted in the time by those who had the power to do it for good or for bad- they turn out to be, with observations and critics, the only public evidences v.v. narrations that finish being just novels, although they origin may be located in the restlessness of the human intelligence that search to find a truth or the TRUTH, or perhaps to try to destroy it generating doubts by lack of humility to accept the human limitations; if we arrive to the point to confront a thesis with another one, almost with the only sense to weaken the faith and to impose an empty and dehumanized intellectuality. So ¿why do we have to continue searching for what has been already found?.
The mathematical physical exactitude of the universe occurs with the possibility of being a finite space-time, but without border nor edges, which would demonstrate -according to Stephen Hawking- that to having a begin could not be a moment for its creation; nevertheless he himself Hawking says: “Science has discovered laws that govern the Universe, that allows to predict how it will evolve in any time. Those laws could have been determined by God, but everything indicates that, later, God has left the Universe governs itself by such laws without his intervention. How chose God the initial state of the Universe? If God determined an incomprehensible initial state for the men, so that it decided to let it evolve with laws that are indeed understandable?. (I would respond: for the same reason that gave intelligence, conscience and freedom to the men). All the history of science has consisted of a gradual understanding of which the facts do not happen in arbitrary form, but that reflect an underlying order, that can be divinely inspired or not”.
On the other hand, Hawking sustains: “All scientific theory is a mathematical model that we made to describe our observations. It only exists in our spirit. In that sense, it does not have object to ask itself if ‘the real’ time is more real than ‘the imaginary’ time”.
The Coram says on the matter: “Teach them to conceive to the universe in its original state like an expansion of Light without edges nor limits, to which the Source of the Power transforms into worlds life possessors… When contemplating this process of creation with eyes of true understanding (intellect); ¿how can one not see the manifest Being like a vast demonstration of Love?” (21:0-33) The Coram revelation never speaks of a mechanical model, not even of an organic model of creation. God never must fight against the resistance, or look for the cooperation of some field of inert matter, or some dynamic field of energy (says Sheij Nur al-Anwar al-Jerrahi). God creates of the anything, He simply creates with knowing and wishing, with no effort. The creation which comes from it, appears before us in form of natural processes, it express the wealth and the value, the immense meaning of the Original Divine Reality. “Everything what is the will of the Source of the Being turns Being spontaneously, and contains a deep meaning.” (24:41-45) Genesis 1,26 God said: “Lets make the man to our image and similarity… “
The Creator would not have left any mystery to us, nor we require of an “Interpreter of God” as some pretend to denominate to Stephen Hawking; simply today we do not have still the capacity to understand everything. Since two hundred years ago the possibility of communicating at a distance was unimaginable, or directly watch events through the TV that happen thousands of kilometers away, and only two decades ago we did not have idea of the Internet and its wonders; perhaps when we dominate the Quantum Physics and the speed of light in some hundreds of years, we will find the explanation of the mysteries of the divine conception and the resurrection. And … ¿why not?, of the Ascension.
Sheij Nur to al-Anwar al-Jerrahi says: The creation is one balanced ecology of organic life and spiritual meaning. The human beings have been chosen by Divine decision, to take care of the planetary kingdom of God, which is not outside God, but that constitutes an intimate dimension of his existence. Nevertheless, the humanity can never declare itself owner or exert control on no aspect of the Divine Creation, to which we perceive in limited forms by means of our limited minds and senses. The Coram says: “The Source of Life generates innumerable forms of organic life, each one in precise balance with the others… the human beings are not the proprietors and they do not control these natural treasures either… all manifest Being only belongs to the Source and Destiny of the Being.” (15:16-25)
I reiterate, these are only reflections perhaps in an articulated manner, but in no way they constitute an interpretation for which, we are not prepared.
… Albert Einstein discards the ordered universe of Newton with his novel theory of relativity. “Science limps without the religion. The religion is blind without science”, said later. …
… Einstein also said: There are two ways to live a life: First one is to think that nothing is a miracle. Second one is to think that everything is a miracle. Something I am certain is that God exists.
In view of the mathematical and physical exactitude of the universe and of the wonder of its creation and of the creation of life in all its forms: ¿what is the meaning or importance if Jesus were born in a grotto or a stable; if He was blond or brown, if He had roller or smooth hair, if He had blue eyes or brown eyes; if Joseph -his father according to the Jewish law- had more children; if after be 12 year old He stayed in Galilee, returned to Egypt or went to India? ; ¿what unqualified pretension sustains that Jesus did not die in the Golgotha when tens testified that his blood went exhausted? ; ¿what sense does it make to clear of the schemes of the faith the mystery of the resurrection and what it came later according to the writings, feeding doubts without sense, when it is known and accepted that the one that can do the more, also can also do the less? ; ¿what sense has to deny the evidence of the undeniable when we see every day the wonders of the divine energy of the Holy Spirit?
Before finishing, some additional quotes of the apocryphal gospel or acts that the church should pay more attention and consideration:
Philips 19 (20 in the English version). (20a) ‘Yeshua’ is a secret name, ‘Christ’ is a revealed name. Thus ‘Yeshua’ indeed does not occur in any (other) languages, but rather his name is ‘Yeshua’ as he is generally called. Yet his name ‘Christ’ in Aramaic is ‘Messiah’, and in Greek, but in Ionian is: O CRISTOS; altogether, all of the remainder have (‘the Anointed’) according to the essential language of each one. (20b). The revealed Nazarene is the secret!
Philips 20 (21 in the English version). The Christ has everything within himself -whether human or angel or mystery, and (also) the Father.
Philips 21 (22 in the English version). Those who say that the Lord first died and then arose, are confused. For first he arose and (then) he died. If someone first acquires the resurrection, he will not die; (as) God lives, that one was [not] going to [die].
Philips 120 (128 in the English version). There is the Son of the Man and there is the Grandson of the Man. The Lord is the Son of the Man, and the Grandson of the Man is he who is created thru the Son of the Man. The Son of the Man received from God the ability to create; he (also) has the ability to beget.
The Kingdom (the Heaven):
Thomas 3. Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is within you and it is outside you.
When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty."
The Soul:
Thomas 17. Jesus said, "I will give you what no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, what no hand has touched, what has not arisen in the human heart."
Thomas 19. Jesus said, "Congratulations to the one who came into being before coming into being …"
Love your fellow as yourself:
Thomas 25. Jesus said, "Love your friends like your own soul, protect them like the pupil of your eye."
Thomas 44. Jesus said, "Whoever blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and whoever blasphemes against the Son will be forgiven, but whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either on earth or in heaven."
The Matter, the Devine and ...
Thomas 100. They showed Jesus a gold coin and said to him, "The Roman emperor's people demand taxes from us."
He said to them, "Give the emperor what belongs to the emperor, give God what belongs to God, and give me what is mine."
(… LOVE)
The Women:
Philips 32 (36 in the English version).There were three Mariams who walked with the Lord at all times: his mother and sister and Magdalene -this one who is called his Companion- ‘Mariam’ thus is his (true) Mother and Sister and Mate.
The Woman left a margin …
... of the Savoir? ». Levi answered and said to Peter, «Peter you have always been hot tempered. Now I see you contending against the woman like the adversaries.
But if the Savior made her worthy, who are you indeed to reject her? Surely the Savior knows her very well. That is why He loved her more than us. Rather let us be ashamed and put on the perfect Man, and separate as He commanded us and preach the gospel, not laying down any other rule or other law beyond what the Savior said. And when they heard this they began to go forth to proclaim and to preach the Gospel of Mary.»
Mary Magdalene 10. Peter said to «Mariamne, Sister we know that the Savior loved you more than the rest of woman. Tell us the words of the Savior which you remember which you know, but we do not, nor have we heard them». Mariamne answered and said, «What is hidden from you I will proclaim to you».
Thomas 114. Simon Peter said to them, "Make Mary leave us, for females don't deserve life." Jesus said, "Look, I will guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males ...”
John 21:20-24 (20) Pedro watched back and saw behind the disciple that Jesus loved (presumably Mary Magdalene, who should be the true author of the gospels of John), the one who in the supper would have inclined on his chest and had asked to him: “Lord: who is the one that goes to give to you” 21 When seeing it, Pedro asked Jesus: “¿and what is going to do this?” 22 Jesus answered to him: “If I want him state until my return, that does not matters you. You follow me”.
23 For that reason the rumor that ran between the brothers was that that disciple did not go to die. But Jesus did not say that he was not going to die, but simply “If I want him to state until my return, that does not matters you”.
24 This is himself, the disciple who gives testimony of these things and that has written them here, and we know that he says the truth.
Note. - As strange as unnecessary it seems the writing of versicle 24; ¿why this explanation of who writes those testimonies? And how is that he ends up saying… we know that he says the truth… Just when finishing these gospels John clarifies that he is the “well loved disciple” of whom speaks throughout its testimonies in “third person”; ¿why he did not speak in first person if he was the one who wrote?. ¿who are those “we” who said to know that John says the truth. This and other analysis of passages of the gospels of John, make think that he would not be the author of such, for that reason is that some analysts attribute them to Mary Magdalene who in effect, would be the “well loved disciple” of Jesus (Thomas 114).
This leaves with no grounds the decoders speculation about the possibility that the “well loved disciple” could had been Yuda the supposed son of Jesus whose bones were found in the tomb of Talpiot.
The Search and the Knowledge:
Thomas 2 Jesus said, "Those who seek should not stop seeking until they find. When they find, they will be disturbed. When they are disturbed, they will marvel, and will reign over all. [And after they have reigned they will rest.]"
Thomas 94. Jesus [said], "One who seeks will find, and for [one who knocks] it will be opened."
Thomas 102. Jesus said, "Damn the Pharisees! They are like a dog sleeping in the cattle manger: the dog neither eats nor [lets] the cattle eat."
Thomas 110. Jesus said, "Let one who has found the world, and has become wealthy, renounce the world."
Thomas 39. Jesus said, "The Pharisees and the scholars have taken the keys of knowledge and have hidden them. They have not entered nor have they allowed those who want to enter to do so. As for you, be as sly as snakes and as simple as doves."
Philips 110 (116 in the English version). Whoever recognizes the truth is liberated. Yet he who is liberated does not sin, for ‘the sinner is the slave of the sin’. The Mother is the truth while the knowledge is the father. The world calls liberated those to whom it is given not to sin. The knowledge of the truth exalts the hearts of these to whom it is given not to sin. This is what liberates them and exalts them over the whole place. Yet love is inspirational. He however who has been liberated thru knowledge is enslaved by love for these who have not yet been able to sustain being liberated by the knowledge. Yet the knowledge makes them competent, which liberates them.
We finally reiterate:
Jesus Christ - the Son although was a special being- was sent by the Father to live as a “human being”, as a normal man; to pass joys and sadness (He underwent much when Joseph died); to feel and to give peace, as to show indignation and rage (when He threw the merchants out of the temple); to be tempted and to experience successes and failures (i.e. when all their apostles disappeared when He was taken prisoner); to feel fear and weakness; to suffer - in his case in an extreme and very singular way, with stoicism and strength, supporting -in addition to the injustice, the most intense pains. ¿Who can say that He was not human? ; who can say that He was not a man?.
But this, in no way -even considering the Jewish customs, many of which were passed superficially by Jesus- can take us to affirm that He and Mary Magdalene were husband and wife (which on the other hand, from the perspective of a simple reflection -if it is demonstrated otherwise- nothing of bad or observable would have, beyond leaving without its greatest sustenance to the traditional priests celibacy of the Catholic Church, which is a terrestrial issue); less still if He had descendants which -if demonstrated- would not change anything either for the Christianity and/or the Catholic faith. Naturally, to make a more accurate analysis of these issues we would require of theological knowledge that are in a more complex level of elaboration than the one of a simple analysis or questioning reflection; and on the other hand we should wait for the DNA analyses results of the complete set of ossuaries found in the supposed “The Lost Tomb of Jesus” or “The Tomb of the Jesus Family”
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