Part
One of Two
Who Was Joseph of Arimathaea?
by Robert Bruce Baird
Have
you heard about the Glastonbury Thorn tree that is a Palestinian
Thorn found only in Palestine? It is said to have originated with
the arrival of Joseph of Arimathaea in what is now England, with the
family of Jesus after they spent time in the south of France. Joseph
stuck it in the ground to indicate they too would stick on that
ground where he had business dealings for all of his life in the tin
trade with the Cassiterrides or Cornwall. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
knew about this Phoenician conglomerate and its trade. There was an
oracle of the Sibyl/Dryads teaching who had a following and she was
named Almathaea or something of a similar spelling in one of the
many languages, throughout the Mediterranean. Here is a trail (the
money trail) that is wisely traveled and makes a lot of common sense
full of motive and opportunity.
Linguists are now certain
that Hebrew is a Phoenician language. The 'arch-tectons' or family
of Jesus might have been the designers of the Pyramids and of Keltic
origin. Is this a mystery, a fable or the over-indulgent rationale
of a person seeking a unique perspective on 'his'-story. You will be
the judge and hopefully you will check further along the trail and
see many other authors who are connecting this picture in quite
forensic manners and with common sense beyond the level of the
purely mythical and useful Bible Narrative. This re-working of Jesus
and his family, or the 'source' of his teaching is quite an
important part of what our lives and laws still are governed by, we
think. Is this Hebrew the sacerdotal code that pre-existed
hieroglyphics which Flinders-Petrie said was around for thousand(s)
of years. That is what Connor MacDari and my Ogham scholar would
say, on the path back to Ogham.
Clearly last year’s
Associated Press report that confirms pre-existing alphabets in the
Sahara where the savannah had agriculture a thousand years before
the 'hunters and gatherers' of Egypt is worth thinking about.
Michael Grant tells us of a pre-existing Canaanite (Phoenician)
language. Strabo talks of a history book in Tartessus going back to
around 8,000 BC. which ties in with Gimbutas's Old European. The
verbal tradition of the Kelts in the Psaltair na Tara goes back
25,000 years. Manetho wrote of Isis colonizing Egypt in 36,000 BC.
and the mines recently found there from 35,000 years ago are a good
piece of actual hard evidence. Velikovsky's Ramesside 'tiles' and
all manner of other clues and possibilities including engineering in
Carnac and social structure akin to the Mayan in Stonehenge from
Euan MacKie or Evan Hadringham. Marshack's 15-35,000 year old
Iberian (Kelt or Basque) lunar calendar is a good piece in the
puzzle, too. Are the Jewish people really a homogeneous group? We
know that Joseph of Arimathaea was a Benjaminite but most scholars
know not where Arimathaea is. That seems a rather convenient
oversight when we also know the Benjaminites were at war with the
rest of the tribes of Israel as we now turn to Mr. Bradley who has
done some excellent sleuthing and dedicated scholarship.
"One Sicambrian King was
named Merovee. About 470 A.D. something noteworthy happened during
Merovée's rule. The Sicambrian line was somehow enhanced in prestige
from this time. The dynasty was called Merovingian afterwards in
honour of this King Merovée who also reigned about the time of King
Arthur's birth (Recent 'digs' show Arthur of Wales was situated in a
site on Cadbury Hill near Glastonbury as the legends did say. There
are other Arthur's in earlier legends too, I believe.).
And that covers the
Merovingian origins, on the surface.
But these Sicambrian Franks,
or Merovingians (History is agreed these 'Franks were Teuton Knights
and Kelts from pre-Roman time. There is reason to connect the
Germanic people back through Hallstatt to the Danube.), were
peculiar in several respects. Not the least of their peculiarities
was that they claimed to be Jewish! They claimed to represent the
majority of the Tribe of Benjamin! (Remember there are many tongues
that confuse the 'l' and the 'r' and that Phoenicians may have a Mu
or Asian component from Egypt according to Churchward and others.)
Benjamin was one of the
Twelve Tribes of Israel and was in some way special. It was also
powerful. God was somehow in the Tribe of Benjamin. In Deuteronomy
33, Moses says of the Tribe of Benjamin: 'The beloved of the Lord
shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the
day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.'... (There is
another author who notes a proximity of Cyprus to Almathea. This may
be a Phoenician closeness as the Cypriots of the time were almost
always Phoenician and it probably relates to one of the cities of
the nearby Levant. Could it be Ashkelon or such a port city as we
showed in 'Science' from the National Geographic? At the time of
Joseph and Jesus Bradley makes a good point for them having
influence on Mt. Tabor and the cities now called Cana and Nazareth.)
But it came to pass that
most of the Benjaminites left Palestine, and this was because of a
civil war among the Israelites. The Tribe of Benjamin came into
conflict with the other eleven Tribes because the Benjaminites were
apparently allied with the 'Sons of Belial' (The Keltic god 'Bel'
which became Ba'al, and we know from many sources is Phoenician.)
and would not attempt to impose Israelite laws and customs upon
them. This war is covered in Judges 21 in the Bible. The result was
that most of the Benjaminites left Palestine, or were expelled by
the victorious eleven Tribes.
(Did Hitler know this and
make a differentiation? Did he think of himself as part Benjaminite
and wanting to seek revenge? His birth name is Schicklgruber and the
anti-Semitic sentiment was politically expedient to his purposes,
but he is acknowledged to be 1/16th Jewish. This is true even if he
father was not a Rothschild illegitimate which he was according to
The Mind of Adolf Hitler: The Secret Wartime Report and other
sources. The Rothschilds and Rockefellers are well aware of their
Benjaminite roots, I suggest. But the official biographies make no
mention of these controversies, even though they admit Nathan
Rothschild made and enormous fortune in league with the British
crown in Treasury trading on the occasion of the Battle of Waterloo,
when their secret agents gave them insider information.)
The 'Sons of Belial' with
whom the Benjaminites were allied, or against whom they refused to
go to war in order to enforce Israelite customs, were none other
than the Phoenicians of Tyre and Sidon, the 'red-headed' ones who
were 'proto-Celts'. It is possible that the Benjaminites were
related to these coastal people (We know Jesus was because Solomon's
father-in-law was Hiram of Tyre, who plays an import- ant role in
Masonic history or lore. We saw Jeze-BEL was too, from the authors
of 'Carthage'. We know the father of Biblical Archaeology says the
Bible is the Phoenician literary legacy we can thank them for. We
are sure there was a cover-up!). They certainly had some affinity
with them, and refused to go to war against them.
At the same time, the
Benjaminites had a very great holding in Palestine, a tract
including major Israelite cities and Jerusalem. Then, the mere fact
that they were able to consider a war against all the other Tribes
must mean that the Tribe called Benjaminites must have been the
single most powerful tribe in the Israelite confederacy as well as
being somehow 'different'.
The Old Testament has been
doctored to reflect the cohesion and greatness of the Hebrews, just
as the New Testament has been doctored to distort certain
embarrassing relationships. (We have quoted lots of Rabbis and
scholars who support this assertion.)
The Tribe of Benjamin, which
had some special divine dispensation and significant geographical
holdings, 'may not have been within the Semitic mainstream at all'.
(Or a different 'mainstream' than 'his'- story does recount.) They
may have had closer genetic relationship to the 'Sons of Belial'
whom they refused to fight…” (7)
Robert Bruce Baird is the
author of Diverse Druids, World-Mysteries.com guest 'expert' and
columnist for The ES Press Magazine. His
Collective Works on CD (20 books including an enclopedia) are
now available from Amazon.com.
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part of this two-part article here.
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