“The motive of Jesus was evidently like that of Gautama-Buddha, to benefit humanity at large by producing a religious reform which should give it a religion of pure ethics; the true knowledge of God and nature having remained until then solely in the hands of the esoteric sects, and their adepts. As Jesus used oil and the Essenes never used aught but pure water, he cannot be called a strict Essene. On the other hand, the Essenes were also “set apart”; they were healers, (assaya), and dwelt in the desert as all ascetics did.
But although he did not abstain from wine he could have remained a Nazarene all the same. For in chapter six of Numbers, we see that after the priest has waved a part of the hair of a Nazorite for a wave offering before the Lord, “after that a Nazarene may drink wine”, (verse 20). The bitter denunciation by the reformer of the people who would be satisfied with nothing is worded in the following exclamation: “John came neither eating nor drinking and they say, ‘he hath a devil’. The son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, “‘Behold a man gluttonous and a wine-bibber.'” And yet he was an Essene and Nazarene, for we not only find him sending a message to Herod, to say that he was one of those who cast out demons, and who performed cures, but actually calling himself a prophet and declaring himself equal to the other prophets.
The author of Sod shows Matthew trying to connect the appellation of Nazarene with a prophecy, and inquires “Why does Matthew state that the prophet said he should be called Nazaria?” Simply “because he belonged to that sect, and a prophecy would confirm his claims to the Messiahship. Now, it does not appear that the prophets anywhere state that the Messiah will be called a Nazarene.” The fact alone that Matthew tries in the last verse of chapter two, to strengthen his claim that Jesus dwelt in Nazareth merely to fulfill a prophecy, does more than weaken the argument, it upsets it entirely; for the first two chapters have sufficiently been proved later forgeries.”
H. P. Blavatsky
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