For Part One
of this two-part article click hereWho Was Joseph of Arimathaea?
Part
Two of Two
by Robert Bruce Baird
D.
J. Conway writes about the followers of Finn and the Fianna in
'Celtic Magic' which ties the 'F' and 'Ph' of Phoenicians to the
Keltic king Finn. The 'Red-heads' are many places including Tarim
near the' present Great Wall of China. In a recent National
Geographic you can see their mummified remains and red hair. They
were in Genghis Khan's Altaic region in 3,000 BC according to
archaeology which likes to call them 'proto-Celts'. Genetic tracking
tells us that one third of the Cohens are related to the Levite
priests of ancient Judaea yet they were wiped out before the
Maccabeans took the Temple before Herod dealt with them. The
celebration of Chanukah (Hanukah) relates to the take over of Judas
Maccabee in the 5th Century BC. The current worship of Tikkun energy
by the likes of Rabbi Michael Lerner is an area I am researching or
keeping my eyes open towards.
Perhaps this is explainable
by women carrying the blood after the men were killed but it was the
Maccabean princess that Herod married, the day before he had her and
her brother killed. Personally I'd like it if everyone admitted we
all are Earthians and dropped all this race and ethnic origin stuff.
The noble lineage that passed throw the blood of women has made
women of Dragon blood a political chattel of the worst sort. But
because history is a power game and propaganda has to be pierced we
are forced into these circuitous battles over who thought who was
best and/or 'chosen ones' versus 'devoted ones'. That phrase is
truly amazing. Devoted ones (according to Cahill in 'Gifts of the
Jews') means those to be sacrificed in the Temple; I had suffered
under the illusion it meant those who had shown great reverence for
the great god Jehovah. Linguistics also shows how 'Aryan' is derived
from 'Eire-yann' or the people of Eire and Ireland. Thus Hitler
would be killing his 'high Aryan priesthood' unless he freed
Benjaminites and the 'arch-tectons' of the House of Judah or the
Merovingian family of Jesus. It is a grotesque irony to be certain!
Yes, politics in the Bible is well evidenced; and the dogma is
inspired by some very bad people NOT by God; or even by someone as
good as the heretical Cathars and Gnostics who actually lived
according to what they said they believed.
"If Joseph of Arimathaea
arrived in Glastonbury with Mary Magdalene/Bethany and was her
companion and guardian, then he would be a guardian of the Holy
Grail. The Grail Romances of the troubadors mysteriously connect
Joseph of Arimathaea with the Grail lineage...
Medieval tradition portrays
Joseph of Arimathaea as a custodian of the Holy Grail; and Perceval
is said to be one of his lineage. According to other later
traditions, he is in some way related by blood to Jesus and Jesus's
family. (8)
Who was Joseph of Arimathaea?
Do we not, now, have enough
information to make a plausible guess? In the Gospels he is
described as a rich man who was a secret disciple of Jesus. He
supplied the shroud in which the body of Jesus was wrapped. 'It was
Joseph of Arimathaea who obtained the body of Jesus from Pontius
Pilate. And he owned the land with the tomb in which Jesus was
buried.'
The ownership of a private
tomb indicates great wealth, the fact that he could obtain the body
of Jesus from Pilate indicates not only great influence, but
something else. Joseph of Arimathaea must have been a relative of
Jesus in order to have claimed the body from the Roman authorities.
Then, there is the matter of
the tomb. Was Jesus put into the same tomb, and resurrected from the
same tomb, as the one in which Lazarus was buried and raised? It
'seems' so from the Gospels because this is the only tomb mentioned
during the final days before the Crucifixion and after it. This tomb
was a cave whose entrance could be closed by a stone rolled in front
of it. Lazarus was laid in it (John 11:38). Jesus was laid in it. At
least, the description of this cave-tomb is the same for both Jesus
and Lazarus.
If this deduction is
correct, then the cave-tomb was the property of Joseph of Arimathaea,
and this cave-tomb was on the property at Bethany, at the house of
Martha, Lazarus and Mary -- the same house where Jesus and his
entourage had been offered extended hospitality. Joseph of
Arimathaea must have been the owner of this house in Bethany with
its cave-tomb. He must have been the father of Martha, Lazarus and
Mary. He must also have been the father-in-law of Jesus. Historical
records tell us he became the Roman Empire's Minister of Mines.
(The marriage at his house
in Cana when the water is turned to wine has no mention of the name
of the groom but it does have a conversation with Jesus and Joseph
of Arimathaea. We haven't included all of his reasoning and others
who make the same point because it makes sense and needs little more
corroboration. This is why there is no hubbub about Mary traveling
with Jesus. He followed the code of his faith as a rabbi [teacher]
and was therefore married as the Mishnah calls for; there is a lot
to prove Jesus was a devout man.)
He was wealthy enough to
have had at least two residences: a country place in the cool
mountains around Magdala… and a 'town house' in the capital, in the
wealthy Jerusalem suburb of Bethany… Is there any evidence to
support such a speculation? Yes, there is. Joseph was 'of Arimathaea'.
Where was that? According to the Biblical authorities who composed
the 'Helps to the Study of the Bible' found as an appendix to the
standard Oxford Press edition of the King James version, the
derivation of 'Arimathaea' is not known, but it was the same place
as 'Ramah'. 'Ramah' means a 'high place' and it is listed as one of
the fourteen cities with their villages' that was allotted to the
Tribe of Benjamin. Part of this passage has already been quoted
(Joshua 18:21-28). Joseph of Arimathaea was, therefore, a
Benjaminite... might 'Arimathaea' once have been 'Almathea' or 'Alimathaea'?
There was a sub-tribe of
that name in ancient Palestine, or at least there was a group who
called themselves the 'sons' of a goddess variously named Alimathae,
Almathae, Amalthea or Amathea. This generally means that a group
counted their descent from some matriarch of the name. It is known
that some tribes of ancient Palestine did have a matrilinear
succession.
(This is a good reason to
say they weren't inclined toward the patristic Abrahamic style of
the Chaldeans and more influenced by the Keltic/Phoenician and
earlier great and real force of the Mediterranean that founded Egypt
under the guidance of a woman - Isis. I also think this was part of
the corporate trading monopolies and a way to ensure fewer blue
bloods, because men can sow their wild oats among far more less than
select or chosen people.)
At any rate, Robert Graves
informs us that these people of Alimathea or Amalthea lived in the
neighborhood of Mount Tabor in Galilee. (9) The town of Ramah is on
the shoulders of Mount Tabor which, indeed, is a 'high place'. The
towns of Magdala, Cana and Nazareth, and Mary Magdalene, from
Magdala, came from the same area on the shoulders of Mount Tabor.
The towns of Nazareth, Cana and Magdala are within ten miles of each
other.
Interestingly enough, these
Amaltheans seem to have been of Phoenician and 'proto-Celtic' stock.
At least some of them joined the long westward migration of the
Celtiberians and 'Celts' and ended up in Wales, Cornwall and
Somerset.
Which is to say they ended
up around Glastonbury. But they did this long before Joseph 'of
Arimathaea' arrived. One could say, in fact, that some powerful
Celtic families of Ancient Britain were Joseph of Arimathaea's
long-lost relations." (10)
'Long-lost' would be
incorrect. It was a common practice amongst the Kelts to send their
children to relatives in far away places. It solidified trading
relationships, enhanced ecumenicism and brotherhood, reduced
nepotism and early life blackmail against parents; is imitated in
the North American Indian traditions; and may include Jesus learning
from and living in the Cornwall area in early life. There are even
stories of him having been in the Mayan lands where the Essenes have
one of their few locations in the world.
The issue of historicity and
women's role in the church is covered by Mary Rose D'Angelo in
Vatican II. The position Jesus had towards women was favourable but
his group were not politically un-initiated. If the Catholic 'churchians'
who usurped Jesus and his teachings were to admit he married and had
a woman for an equal - MUCH OF THEIR DOGMA would have very 'weak and
shifting sand' beneath it. But the Merovingians and De Medici’s
women were not made second class at all. They rule just like the
Iroquois matriarchs and Rose Kennedy.
Of course it took some time
to re-create this new belief and infiltrate it with their own brand
of manipulation. In addition this belief system was around a very
long time before Jesus. Thus it was necessary to make Jesus become
something he never claimed he was - 'the 'Chriost' or a true Divine
Messiah. The Jews knew better and had to be blamed for 'Killing our
Saviour'! This part of history should need no further discussion to
prove its import and impact on our future. Jesus said 'We are ALL
the children of God'.
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.
Read the first of this two-part article
by clicking here.
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