OPPRESSION OF CHRISTIANS AT THE EARLIEST HOUR! .........................................................GOSPELS DISCOVERED IN EGYPT IN 1945.... PRE-DATE THE "OFFICIAL" GOSPELS IN THE BIBLE!

                                                                     

            Here's an example of the sort of oppression our early brothers

 and sisters in Christ faced when dealing with the temporal

 authority of their day.
 

        At this particular time, about 430 A.D., the RELIGIOUS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE 

 had decided which books were part of the Christian Canon 

and which books were heretical (see COUNCIL OF NICEA 425A.D.).

            You see, those "weird" earlier Christians were actually 

holding property in common and giving all they had to their fellow

men. Basically they were taking the  sayings of Jesus
 

the Christ seriously...
 

        The Roman Empire was nothing if not practical. And Christianity
 

had become the church of Rome. So "Christianity" meaning now the established
 

church in Rome simply had to take a rigid property law seriously,

 because not to do this simply did not make practical sense.  Property Law

was a very serious matter to the Romans. Not to the Christians, however.
 

          At the same time you have these groups of monastic mystics, 

whose whole purpose is to see God!



       ( To commune with the Living One of God,  through Christ Consciousness,

the one who appears in dreams and visits you when you are badly 

injured or dying - the One who truly is God, and who truly is the Path

to the Eternal.
       
        This Christ is the Grail, and the pursuit of the Grail is the search for

God - these are the terms we have in the West. Once you taste the Mind

of Christ, you have a glimpse of why death is no longer a problem.

        "HE WHO UNDERSTANDS THE EXPLANATION OF THESE WORDS

WILL NOT TASTE DEATH." This is the heart of Christ`s teachings.

And this is why we do our sitting to clear our minds and attain

Realization.

       WE HAVE TO REVIVE THE QUEST IN THE WEST  OR WE ARE

WELL AND TRULY SCREWED, and all our culture will be in the

toilet.)

   
             The early mystics knew what they were doing because they had

the true words.  The quested to be liberated by the visionary Truth 

of what they saw....
 

        It must be remembered, these men and women who see God directly for themselves 

have no  need of priests to intercede on their behalf. They are mystics!   Mystics know

priests can`t help.  No one can see the Vision for you.  No one can climb that mountain

except you.  The most difficult mountain in the world to climb - is the one within you.

And it has slippery slopes.           *                           *(It`s the original  Glass Mountain).

       
       
            If they didn't need priests to see God, THEY DID NOT NEED TO PAY PRIESTS FOR 

FORGIVENESS.   And that`s where the shit hit the fan. 

      Panapolis was a town by the Nile River at this time. Across the river you could see the caves 

where the  earthen JAR  that contained the   fifty-two scrolls of the Nag Hammadi library was

buried in the sand.  That`s what the faithful ones had to do with the Words of their loving

Saviour - they had to bury them in the dirt!  Then they had to run away and hide.

         Not everyone wants to be crucified upside down.   And there`s really no need for it.


          
          The  Dead Sea  Scrolls were found a year later in the same area IN 1946.

          But make no mistake -  the discovery of actual earliest GOSPELS ( real ones, the oldest 

ones!  (This isn`t some New Age bullshit!)... the DISCOVERY AT NAG HAMMADI IN 1945

  IS OF FAR MORE IMPORTANCE THAN THE DISCOVERY OF THE DEAD SEA 

SCROLLS!

             Why the Christian world does not know this... it puzzles me.... More than

that, it amazes me!

             And if I think about it too much, it disturbs me.


            The earliest Christians had to bury the  BIBLE to keep it safe.

IT WASN`T FOUND AGAIN FOR 2,000 YEARS...

Doesn`t the timing seem remarkable to you?  THE TRUTH WAS BURIED FOR

2,000 YEARS AND NOW IT HAS COME AGAIN.

         
        The first gospels of Our Lord, the earliest gospels

were attacked as heresy....including the gospel called "The 

Source" -the Gospel of Thomas. The Gospel of Philip, the

Gospel of Mary - all suppressed as a result of the domination

of the Empire Church...

          Am I getting through to you? It`s a con.  It`s a

scam. You don`t want to gamble with these guys - they cheat! We have been betrayed. We`ve been lied to for 2,000 years!

          The entire Christian path has been bent and twisted

and the path to the Kingdom has been hidden
under the bushes.


          "FOR LIKE DOGS IN THE MANGER, THEY HELD THE KEYS TO THE KINGDOM AND THEY KEPT THEM TO THEMSELVES; AND THEY DID NOT ENTER, NOR DID THEY PERMIT ANYONE ELSE TO ENTER."   Gospel of Thomas

         
           This is real history!  I`m not making this stuff up!

I wish to God I were lying about this... I`ve prayed to

 God, saying,  "Tell me that this isn`t true!"

          But it`s true and it`s nasty and it`s real

and I`m incensed about it.

          I`m enraged! and now I`m going to take a deep

breath and continue.

          
          Enough about me... this is history, and I suppose

I should be more restrained when recounting it...

         

 
         Shenoute was abbot of the monastery at Panapolis. He represented

 the church of the Roman Empire and was not amused to find a group 

worshipping at a nearby temple. This group referred to themselves as KINGLESS,

 and would not accept Cyril, Archbishop of Alexandria, as their "illuminator". 

        These terms are well known in the texts found at Nag Hammadi. 

The earliest Christians had to speak in CODE, so they weren`t 

burned or decapitated or imprisoned for lengthy terms.

        Shenoute called our ancestors  "pagan heretics". He seized their 

"books full of abomination" and "of every kind of magic".

These were the words found at Nag Hammadi)  Please read the Gospel of Thomas

and see if you find abominations.
 

          The churches of condemned Christians communicated with each other using
 

this code the Roman Church could not decipher. In fact, the founder of all the monasteries in the 

area had once used the same code, but he kept quiet about it.
 

          Shenoute threatened these earlier Christians : " I SHALL MAKE YOU

ACKNOWLEDGE THE ARCHBISHOP CYRILl  OR ELSE THE SWORD WILL WIPE OUT MOST

OF  YOU, AND MOREOVER THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE SPARED WILL GO INTO EXILE."

 

          Just as the Dead Sea Scrolls were put in jars for safekeeping and hidden 

at the time of the  approach of the Roman Tenth Legion, the burial of the 

Nag Hammadi Lbrary in an earthen  jar was also precipitated by the approach of

 Roman authorities.

              
          The ROMAN AUTHORITIES WERE THE OFFICIAL CHRISTIANS NOW!

(Taken from the introduction of "The Nag Hammadi Library In English", introduction written by 

James M. Robinson. It should be noted that I paraphrased many of his words, and the particular 

expression of the argument is my own.)

 

       All capitalization is mine...

    Every time I go through these facts I get hopping mad. And I feel like whipping a priest! 
     The more I learn, the worse it gets!

                                              
                                               Respectfully submitted,

                                               William Milne