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Augustus. As Luke tells us, it was the first and only ever record- is, yes, we can actually trust the gospels to a point, but what ed census for the region. we can't trust is the way that they've been convoluted and So Jesus was born before 4 BC and in AD 6. Is this a mistake? — distorted, and taught to us by people who don't understand what No, not necessarily, because in the way it was originally portrayed they actually said in the first place. we're actually looking at two quite specific births. The present English-language gospels date back effectively to Both gospels are correct. We're looking at Jesus’ physical birth, the Authorized Bible, compiled for the Stewart King James I of and we're looking at Jesus' community birth. These were defined England in the early 17th century. This was published and set census, put into operation by Cyrenius and ordered by Emperor S o can we trust the gospels? Well, as we can see, the answer at the time as the first and second births, and they applied specifi- into print no more than 165 years before America's Declaration of cally to people of particular groups and certainly to dynastic heirs. Independence; only a few years before the first Pilgrim Fathers set Second births for boys were performed by way of a ritual of sail from England. rebirth. It was very physical: they were wrapped in swaddling The gospels of the early Church were originally written in sec- clothes and born again from their mother's womb. It was a physi- ond and third century Greek. Along with the Bible as a whole, cal ceremony. Second births for boys took place at the age of they were translated into Latin in the fourth century, but it was twelve. then to be more than a thousand years before any English transla- So we know that Jesus was twelve in AD 6. Unfortunately, the tion was made. latter-day transcribers of Luke completely missed the significance Bible translation was risky then, though. Fourteenth century of this, and it was their endeavour to somehow tie in this event reformer John Wycliffe was denounced as a heretic for translating about swaddling clothes and being born then, that led to this men- the Bible into English. His books were burned. In the early 16th tion of the nonsense about the sta- century, William Tyndale was strangled ble. as a form of execution, in Belgium, So if Jesus was twelve in AD 6, and then burned, just in case he wasn't this means that he was born in 7 BC, " dead, for translating the Bible into which ties in perfectly well with the In the early 16th century, English. A little later, Miles Matthew account that he was born William Tyndale was strangled as during the later reign of King | @ form of execution, in Belgium, But we now discover what | and then burned, just in case he appears to be another anomaly, ' A because Luke says later in the wasn't dead, for translating the gospel that when Jesus was twelve Bible into English." years old, his parents, Mary and Joseph, took him to Jerusalem for the day. They then left the city to walk home for a full day's journey with Coverdale, a disciple of his, made another translation; and by that time the Church itself had split up quite nicely, so Coverdale's version was accepted by the Protestant Church— but he was still a heretic in the eyes of Rome. The problem was that as long as the printed text remained obscure (and it wasn't just ordinary Latin; this was an horrendous form of Church Latin), as their friends before they realised that Jesus was not in their party. long as only the bishops could understand it, they could teach They then returned to Jerusalem to find him at the temple, dis- whatever on Earth they wanted. If it were translated into the lan- cussing his father's business with the doctors. Well, what sort of | guages that other people could understand and maybe read for parents can wander for a whole day in the desert, without know- themselves, this would pose a problem because the Church could ing their twelve-year-old son's not there? be called to question. The fact is that the whole point of the passage has been missed. . . . There was a wealth of difference between a twelve-year-old son To be continued in the next issue of NEXUS... and a son in his twelfth year. When a son, on completing his ini- / About the Speaker: tial twelve years—that is to say, when he was actually on his thir- Sir Laurence Gardner, Kt St Gm, KCD, is an internationally known teenth birthday—was initiated into the community at the ceremo- _ sovereign and chivalric genealogist. He holds the position of ny of his second birth, he was regarded as commencing his first. Grand Prior of the Celtic Church's Sacred Kindred of Saint Columba, and is distinguished as the Chevalier Labhran de Saint Germain. Sir Laurence is also Presidential Attaché to the European in his ninth year, when he was twenty-one—the root of the age- Council of Princes, a constitutional advisory body established in ’ 2 : 1946. He is formally attached to the Noble Household Guard of twenty-one privilege. Various degrees followed, and the next the Royal House of Stewart, founded at St Germain-en-Laye in major test was in his twelfth year—at the end of his twelfth year, 1692, and is the Jacobite Historiographer Royal. at the age of twenty-four, on his twenty-fourth birthday. When . ' 8 y y y Editors' Notes: Jesus remained at the temple in his twelfth year, he was actually . f Not surprising that they expected him not perhaps to Correspendence should be addressed to Sir Laurence Gardner, twenty-four. Surprising ney exp pernaps Kt St Gm, KCD, c/- Element Books, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 8DP, be wandering around the desert with them! United Kingdom. So his discussion with the doctors related to his next degree. + Laurence Gardner's book, Bloodline of the Holy Grail: The He would have discussed this at the time with the spiritual father, Hidden Lineage of Jesus Revealed, was published by Element the father of the community; and indeed, he did. It was the Books in 1996 (SBM 4 32250-670-2 hic, 1-86204-152-0 p/b); it father s business he disc ; d; his father's business. The father of Copies of Laurence Gardner's videotaped presentation can be this era is recorded. The spiritual father of the community at that gbtained from NEXUS offices in Australia, New Zealand, UK and time was Simeon the Essene, and if we look back a few verses in Europe. In the USA, contact Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, Luke we see that it was exactly this man, the just and devout PO Box 1210, Yelm, WA 98597, phone (360) 458 5201, website: Simeon, who legitimated Jesus under the law. www.ramtha.com. year. It was the original root of the modern bar mitzvah. His next initiation, the initiation of manhood in the community, took place About the Speaker: Sir Laurence Gardner, Kt St Gm, KCD, is an internationally known sovereign and chivalric genealogist. He holds the position of Grand Prior of the Celtic Church's Sacred Kindred of Saint Columba, and is distinguished as the Chevalier Labhran de Saint Germain. Sir Laurence is also Presidential Attaché to the European Council of Princes, a constitutional advisory body established in 1946. He is formally attached to the Noble Household Guard of the Royal House of Stewart, founded at St Germain-en-Laye in 1692, and is the Jacobite Historiographer Royal. Editors’ Notes: + Correspendence should be addressed to Sir Laurence Gardner, Kt St Gm, KCD, c/- Element Books, Shaftesbury, Dorset, SP7 8DP, United Kingdom. + Laurence Gardner's book, Bloodline of the Holy Grail: The Hidden Lineage of Jesus Revealed, was published by Element Books in 1996 (ISBN 1-85230-870-2 h/c, 1-86204-152-0 p/b); it was reviewed in NEXUS 4/01. + Copies of Laurence Gardner's videotaped presentation can be obtained from NEXUS offices in Australia, New Zealand, UK and Europe. In the USA, contact Ramtha's School of Enlightenment, PO Box 1210, Yelm, WA 98597, phone (360) 458 5201, website: www.ramtha.com. NEXUS 25 To be continued in the next issue of NEXUS... FEBRUARY - MARCH 1998