Truth Thread I
Links to the past-Marienplatz clock tower, Munich Germany-Photo by JEV
13: 1 A Truth Thread is a link to the origin of The Bastille, where the Dominion was first formed. 13: 2 Where we were incarnated for the first time, the Truth Thread offers a window into the original. A place where we can begin to understand why we were condemned. 13: 3 The threads may allow us to piece together the mistakes we initially made. However, understanding the truth will not help or save us. 13: 4 These threads are merely an echo, a constant that has endured, a large rock in the middle of the changing riverbed that is The Bastille.
Truth Thread I: The Gospel of Mark in the New Testament
13: 5 Biblical scholars widely believe Mark was the first gospel. Written in Greek around 70 CE, there is evidence that the writers of the other three gospels may have used Mark while writing portions of Mathew, Luke, and John. 13: 6 If true, Mark gives us a direct view through the window of history and into the story of Jesus in its purest form.
13: 7 Before the rise of Christianity, a telling of the story without an agenda. 13: 8 Essential details that separate Mark from the other gospels include; no birth story of Jesus, and no attempt to link Jesus to David. The lineage of Jesus at the beginning of Mathew is presumably used to make first-century Jews believe Jesus was the Messiah.
13: 9 Additionally, at the end of Mark, Jesus is not seen after the Resurrection. There is an empty tomb and an unknown man dressed in a white robe. He says they will see Jesus in Galilee as he had told them.
13: 10 I believe we can break the Gospel of Mark into three metaphors. First, Jesus and his followers are Humanity as our species emerged and developed specific dominative attributes. 13: 11 Second, the order of the natural world is signified by Judaism and the Pharisees. 12: 12 And finally, the structure and laws that govern nature and the universe, for example, physics, are the Roman Empire and their control over Judea in the First Century CE.
13: 13 In other words, I believe the Book of Mark to be a cryptic and metaphorical tale of our species and our fall. Concealed inside of a Palestinian Messianic story.
The Baptism
13: 14 The baptism of Jesus by John is like the emergence of human sentience.
13: 15 As described in Mark, the Spirit descended on Jesus like a dove. Mark does not mention anything about the childhood or early life of Jesus. Just like the emergence of Homo Sapiens, it is a mystery.
13: 16 After the baptism, when Jesus receives the Spirit, his mission becomes clear.
13: 17 After humans develop sentience, we are awakened to a new world of abstraction, art, and spirituality.
13: 18 The miracles of Jesus and the twelve parallel Humanity’s successes and dominion while non-sedintary hunter-gatherers. 13: 19 For example, worldwide migration, the use of fire, the development of written language, art, medicine, and cooperation, all while Humanity was a part of nature, not opposed to it.
The Transfiguration
13: 20 The Transfiguration is an expression of God’s approval of Jesus and his mission to that point. 13: 21 Or human existence up to the point Humanity still worshiped God’s creations, for example, the sun, animals, or constellations. 13: 22 Humanity was staying within nature’s parameters. This may have been God’s intention for creation in the first place before, 13: 23 Humans began worshiping themselves, their wealth, and power. 13: 24 When Jesus’s assault on the old laws and the Pharisees began, in parallel, Humanity’s assault on the natural world began. 13: 25 After the Transfiguration, Jesus stops his miracles and starts a more direct attack on the Priests and Pharisees.
13: 26 This assault ultimately leads to the crucifixion of Jesus, just as our assault on the natural world will lead to our extinction.
The cursing of the fig tree
13: 27 In Mark 11:12-25, Jesus is hungry, but the figs are out of season. Jesus curses the fig tree, goes to Jerusalem, and turns over the moneychangers’ tables. 13: 28 The next day the fig tree is withered. A parallel is drawn between cursing the fig tree out of season and going against the accepted way of the Temple. Jesus does both and is soon arrested and abandoned by God. 13: 29 We have turned against nature and have been abandoned by God. 13: 30 I believe the meaning of turning against nature includes the emergence of social classes after the beginning of large-scale sedentary civilization. The start of slavery and exploitation, the poisoning of the Earth, and the worship of greed.
The Last Supper
13: 31 In Mark 14:17, Jesus tells his disciples that one of them will betray him. If we stay within Jesus and his followers are humanity metaphors,
13: 32 Humanity will betray itself.
Who in the history of civilization has betrayed their fellow man? 13: 33 This most certainly would include “the power elite” they have enslaved, exploited, and murdered millions in the name of power and wealth.
13: 34 Fossil fuel companies have traded our children’s futures for their comfort and pleasure. Mark 10:25 definitively answers the question of how the rich fit into society and how we should feel about them, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone rich to enter the Kingdom of God.”
The fleeing naked man
13: 35 In Mark 14:54-55, it says, “A young man, wearing nothing but a linen garment, was following Jesus. When they seized him, he fled naked, leaving the garment behind.”
13: 36 In Mark 9:3, during the Transfiguration, it is pointed out that the clothes of Jesus became whiter than anyone could bleach them. The Transfiguration was a symbol that God approved of Jesus and his initial mission of teaching and healing. 13: 37 Again, in Mark 14:54-55, attention is drawn to a garment; however, this time it is cast off and laid on the ground. 13: 38 The naked boy could be God abandoning Jesus (mankind) after his arrest by the chief priest.
Abandoned
13: 39 Jesus prayed in Gethsemane and was not answered. He prayed on the cross and was not answered. 13: 40 In Mark 15:34, Jesus quotes Psalm 22:1 “My God, My God, why have you forsaken me?” 13: 41 Jesus could perform miracles for others but could not help himself. Humanity can accomplish many things, but we will not be able to save ourselves. 13: 42 In the first half of the gospel, there are many examples of Jesus healing the sick, curing mental and physical abnormalities, driving out spirits, and even raising the dead. 13: 43 After the Transfiguration, however, there is only one healing. 13: 44 Mark 13 tells of the end times and the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem. Jesus warns against false messiahs and those that will use faith to gain power. 13: 45 Idolatry and blind faith in charismatic leaders are a hallmark of our species. 13: 46 In Mark 13:28, Jesus again mentions the fig tree as a warning; the fig tree signals the coming of summer or the arrival of the end. 13: 47 Jesus (mankind) withered the fig tree (natural world), which will be our end and our judgment. 13: 48 More importantly, Jesus also says in Mark 13:30 that the coming, or what may be considered the “judgment,” has already happened.
13: 49 “Truly, I tell you, this generation will certainly not pass away until all these things have happened. Heaven and Earth will pass away, but my words will never pass away”. The only thing that will last is the Bastille and our condemnation.