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Shingai Rukwata Ndoro Chisel The Debris
A book by Tim Wallace-Murphy and Marilyn Hopkins entitled “Custodians Of Truth: The Continuance Of Rex Deus” (2005) claims there is “an ancient familial bloodline descended from the ancient Hebrews” who were custodians of some teachings of ancient Egypt’s Temple Greater Mysteries taught selectively to a few.
According to “Custodians of Truth,” Yahoshua was an “adept of ancient knowledge” and this “informed his own teachings”.
The arcane knowledge has survived among those whose are gnostic, mystic Christians, Judaic mystics (Kabbalists) and those of Neoplatonic and Hermetic religious perspectives.
During and after the first century CE, the said family was the custodian of the hidden and deep knowledge about Yahoshua the Nazarene, what he knew as well as what he taught his disciples and close associates. All this away from the influence of the Greeks under the political authority of the Roman Empire.
The name of the hereditary bloodline was called the Rex Deus (Latin for “King, the Divine”). This is a term used for the hereditary priesthood of Hebrews who dispersed from Palestine and went underground after persecution by the Hebraic priestly class of Jerusalem and also in bigger numbers in 66 CE following a brutal war between Romans and a Hebraic rebel group.
“Many of them fled to a place called Pella east of the Jordan River” and the Syrian desert. They later migrated all over Europe, where they either created some of the European monarchies and aristocracies or embedded themselves within such establishments.
Within the Rex Deus, one finds the Desposyni. These led to the formation of a Western Christian military order and the ideal chivalrous organisation, the Knights Templars, (formed in 1118) by the doyen of the Rex Deus.
The doyen was Bernard of Fontaines (1090-1153, later St Bernard of Clairvaux), born in France, whose parents were of “the highest nobility of Burgundy”.
He was also a monk and as an influential member and primary reformer of the “very austere institute” Cistercian Order of Roman Catholic priests and founder of “the celebrated Abbey of Clairvaux”. He denied the doctrine of immaculate conception. (“Custodians of Truth: The Continuance of Rex Deus”.)
The formation of the Knights Templars by nine French knights was well expressed in the “De Laude Novae Militiae” (“In Praise of the New Knighthood”) in 1129.
The Templars, whose patron was St Bernard, were “in turn lions of war and lambs at the hearth; rough knights on the battlefield, pious monks in the chapel; formidable to the enemies of Christ, gentleness itself towards his friends.” (Jacques de Vitry).
“Desposyni” comes from Greek “desposunos” meaning “of or belonging to the Master” and is a name used for Yahoshua the Nazarene’s bloodline and immediate relatives within the Zadokite priestly class, descending from Zadok (Hebrew “Tzadok” meaning “righteous”) and was a patrilineal descendant of Eleazar the son of Aaron the high priest (2 Samuel 8:17; 1 Chronicles 24:3). The Zadokite hereditary priesthood (ma’madot) was the direct ancestor of the Essenes and took turns in serving in the Temple of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 44:15-16,23, Psalm 15).
The immediate relatives within the extended Desposyni were Yahoshua’s mother Myriam, foster father Yosef, unnamed and unnumbered half-sisters. Others included four half-brothers James the Just, Joses, Simon and Jude, companion Myriam of Magdala, and an unconfirmed child he had with Myriam.
The Early Christian Church, led by Yahoshua the Nazarene’s own family and his disciples, taught that Yahoshua was a mortal great teacher. In the third century, Irenaeus (c120-202 CE), Roman Bishop of Lyons and one of the early voices of the new strand of literalist Christianity issued an attack on all those doctrines which were contrary to the new Roman-oriented faith.
In his attack, he fulminates against the descendants of the Early Church of the Nazarenes whom he called “Ebionites”.
Irenaeus attacks these Early Christians because they “insist that (Yahoshua) was a man not (a Divine) and was not born of a virgin … They reject the Pauline letters and ‘they reject the apostle Paul, calling him an apostate from the Law”.
Nazarene Hebrews were led by Yahoshua’ own family, his disciples and the members of the Zadokite priestly class, taught that Yahoshua was a natural born sage who attained the status of a Master or a Guru in the Hindu sense.
These people were to be the custodians of some ancient knowledge and arcane truth taught by Yahoshua the Nazarene Rabbi as will be discovered later. The ancient knowledge about some “mysteries” was later to be discovered by the Knights Templars in Jerusalem and inherited by the medieval temple and cathedral builders of Europe.
In “The Ecclesiastical History” (written in 325), Eusebius (c265-339) records an account by Julianus Africanus concerning the family: “… For the relatives of our Lord according to the flesh whether with the desire of boasting or simply wishing to state the fact, in either case truly, have banded down the following account…But as there had been kept in the archives up to that time the genealogies of the Hebrews as well as of those who traced their lineage back to proselytes such as Achior the Ammonite and Ruth the Moabitess, and to those who were mingled with the Israelites and came out of Egypt with them, Herod, inasmuch as the lineage of the Israelites contributed nothing to his advantage, and since he was goaded with the consciousness of his own ignoble extraction, burned all the genealogical records, thinking that he might appear of noble origin if no one else were able from the public registers to trace back his lineage to the patriarchs or proselytes and to those mingled with them who were called Georae.”
to be continued next week……….
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