By the light of brahman

[Karadeniz]

4. I know what you mean. The Jesus of the gospels is pretty much a literary creation. However, there are a few hints as to

the stories having been based around a real person, but even those are sketchy. It's orthodoxy that demands one believe in his actual earthly existence. "Jesus" himself said such a faith was immaterial; his teachings were what mattered. The problem is that the writers of the synoptics were just about the best writers this world has ever seen! They took his teachings and what he could do which includes astral projection and worked it all into a biography that's not a biography. There wasn't one level of members of their communities, there were at least two stated and I suspect at least one more. It took years to become a full fledged practitioner, reminiscent of the Essenes. Thus, there was plenty of time to pick apart the true significances of the synoptics. For any community to talk about its beliefs, there has to be a common lingo. The writers created a perfect device for communicating. There are the parables, events in Jesus' life, his times on the other side. All those stories provide an abundance of nuance for discussion. Where I draw the line, keeping me from churches, is the orthodox demand that I acknowledge Jesus as a god. When he taught reincarnation and karma, there is a god system to account for highly developed souls to live on earth. Having a 3-tiered level of "truths" ultimately proved the undoing of the writers' intentions. The movement became stuck at the beginner level.