“The Nazarenes were known as Baptists, Sabians, And John’s Christians. Their belief was that the Messiah was not the son of God, but simply a prophet who would follow John. “Johanan, the Son of the Abo Sabo Zachariah, shall say to himself, ‘Whoever will believe in my justice and my BAPTISM shall be joined to my association; he shall share with me the seat which is the abode of life, of the supreme Mano, and of living fire'”, (Codex Nazaraeus, ii., page 115). Origen remarks “there are some who said of John, (the Baptist), that he was the anointed”, (Christus).
The Angel Rasiel of the kabalists is the Angel Gabriel of the Nazarenes, and it is the latter who is chosen of all the celestial hierarchy by the Christians to become the messenger of the ‘annunciation’. “The genius sent by the ‘Lord of Celsitude’ is AEbel Zivo, whose name is also called GABRIEL Legatus.” Paul must have had the sect of the Nazarenes in mind when he said: “And last of all he, (Jesus), was seen of me also, as of one born out of due time”, 1 Corinthians 15:8, thus reminding his listeners of the expression usual to the Nazarenes, who termed the Jews “the abortions, or born out of time.” Paul prides himself as belonging to a heresy.
When the metaphysical conceptions of the Gnostics, who saw in Jesus the Logos and the anointed, began to gain ground, the earliest Christians separated from the Nazarenes, who accused Jesus of perverting the doctrines of John, and changing the baptism of the Jordan. “Directly”, says Milman, “as it, (the Gospel), got beyond the borders of Palestine, and the name of ‘Christ’ had acquired sanctity and veneration in the Eastern cities, he became a kind of metaphysical impersonation, while the religion lost its purely moral cast and assumed the character of speculative theogony.”
The only half-original document that has reached us from the primitive apostolic days, is the Logia of Matthew. The real genuine doctrine has remained in the hands of the Nazarenes, in this Gospel of Matthew containing the “secret doctrine”, the “Sayings of Jesus”, mentioned by Papias. These sayings were no doubt, of the same nature as the small manuscripts placed in the hands of the neophytes, who were candidates for the Initiations into the Mysteries, and which contained the Aporrheta, the revelations of some important rites and symbols. For, why should Matthew take such precautions to make them “secret” were it otherwise?”
H. P. Blavatsky
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