In Judaism, a Mamzer is defined as an outcast of the race, a child born of a forbidden relationship, such as adultery or incest, in which marriage of the parents could not lawfully occur.” The Latin Vulgate renders the word Mamzer. Zech. ix. 6. a stranger, or alien; and Deut. xxiii. 2 – the son of a prostitute. They were not permitted to enter into the congregation of his people (Deuteronomy 23:2), and could not marry into most Israelite families (Mishnah, Qiddushin 4:1-2).
King Solomon was most likely a Mamzer given the fact that his mother Bathsheba was of a different bloodline which she indicated when Bathsheba says to David in 1 Kings, i. 21; “I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders or sinners; she means, my son shall be treated as a Mamzer, and myself as a prostitute.”
The Pharisees were the Christian Gnostics of their day who put knowledge and wisdom of the mysteries above inheritance when it came to the priesthood. The Pharisaic position on the high priesthood is exemplified by the assertion that “A learned mamzer takes precedence over an ignorant High Priest.”
The Scripture tells us that the Pharisees were the teachers of the divine law and as their Master Jesus alluded, “they were the teachers.” The Jewish-Roman historian, Josephus said the Pharisees were considered the most expert and accurate expositors of Jewish law and first mentions them in connection with Jonathan, the successor of Judas Maccabeus (“Ant.” xiii. 5, § 9).
Meaning, a High Priest (Pope or Patriarch) would be chosen by his Gnosis (knowledge) through merit (self-made) as opposed to family succession which often produces lazy and self-righteous children (mini-Yadobaoths). As a Modern Gnostic, it makes me think of how we can witness in real-time the after effects of Trust Fund babies and children of the rich and famous who inherit mass fortunes and then go on to do absolutely nothing meaningful with their lives.
Dying in the gas of their aborted suns of their fathers and ancestors…
This result is most likely because they have not earned their positions in life and wisdom through merit because they have been spoon fed all the false knowledge, money and wealth they foolishly thought they wanted which is the very curse that has wiped out many royal families and priesthoods for millennia.
However, many of the world’s most rich and famous never seem to learn these facts or read this history because it doesn’t fit their current fictional story created to make everyone feel special – the way of the Sadducees.
When St. Paul was writing from Rome to the Philippians to give his argument against the Judaizers who at the time were all about blood and familial succession over true Gnosis and merit. Paul explains that he was a circumcised Israelite from the Tribe of Benjamin — “circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the Law, a Pharisee.”
Meaning that Paul is part of the Race for his blood and DNA are from the Phoenician Hebrews and he is part of the Israelite (Egyptian/Phoenician/Greek/Roman) religion from the tribe of Benjamin and the law of Gnosis in which he earned by merit.
Josephus indicates that the Pharisees received the backing and good-will of the common people, as opposed to the more elite Sadducees who were associated with the ruling classes. In general, whereas the Sadducees were aristocratic monarchists, the Pharisees were eclectic, popular, and more democratic. (Roth 1970: 84)
St. Jerome, in Isai. viii. places the origins of the Pharisees at a late date stating that “the Scribes and Pharisees proceeded from the division of the two famous schools of Hillel and Shammai.”
Also, the Lord Jesus has been called a mamzer for he was said to be born of a virgin.
I will go more into this Gnostic history when this mamzer finds the time…
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Christian was a word traditionally coined in Antioch as applying to the Nazarenes who were the furthest things from the Gnostics in that they did not believe that a demiurge created earth and that Jesus’ Father wasn’t the demiurge but a higher “god.”
So Christian Gnostics would be people who believed in Christ but that the Old Testament God wasn’t his father, in general this is what historically defines the Gnostics and sets them apart from all other Christians who be that YHWH is the Father and God of Jesus.
If the Pharisees were a pre Christian Gnostic type of sect, then it must be they believed in a demiurge, too, which we know isn’t at all true.
So they aren’t Gnostic, according to the most shared feature of groups who were given the name Gnostics, which is to say that they were monotheistic Jews who believed in the omnipotence of the ONE God, and not a God who delegated the task of creation but who created Himself.
Metatron is not a demiurge even. He is the Prince of the Presence, but he is not the creator, obviously, because he is created and Judaism has ONE creator.
While some Zoharic literature may resemble “gnostic” ideas, the fact is that the Pharisees never heard of the Zohar or Kabbalah because the Zohar wasn’t written yet and Kabbalah is based on the Zohar and the Sefer Yezira, Bahir, none of which were around in the first centuries AD.
Pharisees actually were friendly with the earliest Christians, Nazarenes really, as Gamaliel, Nicodemus and others were on very good terms with the Apostles and are even reported to have held the beliefs of the Apostles in private according to the H. of Clement.
I think the author believes that Gnostic means something it wasn’t intended to mean, whatever definition he uses, it can’t be denied that the first Gnostics and probably most if not all so called Gnostics shared the belief that YHWH was the Demiurge and wasn’t the father of Jesus.
Even without Jesus in the equation there is no possibility of providing proof that the Pharisees entertained such an idea. The Talmud is against the idea of two powers in heaven. It is the sin of Aher that is attributed to Metatron standing in heaven and Paul seeing it. Aher.
Jesus comes from a bloodline of mamzers. Like many nobles, his ancestors were quite incestuous.
Yes, Paul is from the tribe of Benjamin and he is the wolf of Benjamin described in Genesis 49:27, “Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.”
Jesus warned not to listen to any man who says that he met Jesus somewhere out in the desert or wilderness (Matthew 24:26). Paul claimed to have met Jesus in Damascus, which is specifically described as a wilderness (1 Kings 19:15).
Paul contradicts nearly everything Jesus said, he never met Jesus, and he doesn’t meet the minimum requirements to be an Apostle (Acts 1:21 – 22). Paul never heard the term “Son of Man” although Jesus found it important enough to use it over 80 times. Paul is also an asexual (1 Corinthians 7:7) and Daniel warned of a man who would have no interest in women and magnify himself above all others (Daniel 11:37). Paul elevates himself above the Apostles, even though they knew Christ from the beginning of his ministry and he never met him (Galatians 2:4-13).
The book of James is, for the record, a point by point refutation of teachings of Paul.
Paul was rejected by the church of the Ephesians (2 Timothy 1:15) and the book of Revelation of Saint John the Divine, the message Christ gives to the Ephesians is, “I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars.” (Revelation 2:2)
There is no “Saint” Paul or “Apostle” Paul because he was not a follower of Christ (i.e., a “Saint”) and not an Apostle.
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Christian was a word traditionally coined in Antioch as applying to the Nazarenes who were the furthest things from the Gnostics in that they did not believe that a demiurge created earth and that Jesus’ Father wasn’t the demiurge but a higher “god.”
So Christian Gnostics would be people who believed in Christ but that the Old Testament God wasn’t his father, in general this is what historically defines the Gnostics and sets them apart from all other Christians who be that YHWH is the Father and God of Jesus.
If the Pharisees were a pre Christian Gnostic type of sect, then it must be they believed in a demiurge, too, which we know isn’t at all true.
So they aren’t Gnostic, according to the most shared feature of groups who were given the name Gnostics, which is to say that they were monotheistic Jews who believed in the omnipotence of the ONE God, and not a God who delegated the task of creation but who created Himself.
Metatron is not a demiurge even. He is the Prince of the Presence, but he is not the creator, obviously, because he is created and Judaism has ONE creator.
While some Zoharic literature may resemble “gnostic” ideas, the fact is that the Pharisees never heard of the Zohar or Kabbalah because the Zohar wasn’t written yet and Kabbalah is based on the Zohar and the Sefer Yezira, Bahir, none of which were around in the first centuries AD.
Pharisees actually were friendly with the earliest Christians, Nazarenes really, as Gamaliel, Nicodemus and others were on very good terms with the Apostles and are even reported to have held the beliefs of the Apostles in private according to the H. of Clement.
I think the author believes that Gnostic means something it wasn’t intended to mean, whatever definition he uses, it can’t be denied that the first Gnostics and probably most if not all so called Gnostics shared the belief that YHWH was the Demiurge and wasn’t the father of Jesus.
Even without Jesus in the equation there is no possibility of providing proof that the Pharisees entertained such an idea. The Talmud is against the idea of two powers in heaven. It is the sin of Aher that is attributed to Metatron standing in heaven and Paul seeing it. Aher.
Jesus comes from a bloodline of mamzers. Like many nobles, his ancestors were quite incestuous.
Yes, Paul is from the tribe of Benjamin and he is the wolf of Benjamin described in Genesis 49:27, “Benjamin shall ravin as a wolf: in the morning he shall devour the prey, and at night he shall divide the spoil.”
Jesus warned not to listen to any man who says that he met Jesus somewhere out in the desert or wilderness (Matthew 24:26). Paul claimed to have met Jesus in Damascus, which is specifically described as a wilderness (1 Kings 19:15).
Paul contradicts nearly everything Jesus said, he never met Jesus, and he doesn’t meet the minimum requirements to be an Apostle (Acts 1:21 – 22). Paul never heard the term “Son of Man” although Jesus found it important enough to use it over 80 times. Paul is also an asexual (1 Corinthians 7:7) and Daniel warned of a man who would have no interest in women and magnify himself above all others (Daniel 11:37). Paul elevates himself above the Apostles, even though they knew Christ from the beginning of his ministry and he never met him (Galatians 2:4-13).
The book of James is, for the record, a point by point refutation of teachings of Paul.
Paul was rejected by the church of the Ephesians (2 Timothy 1:15) and the book of Revelation of Saint John the Divine, the message Christ gives to the Ephesians is, “I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars.” (Revelation 2:2)
There is no “Saint” Paul or “Apostle” Paul because he was not a follower of Christ (i.e., a “Saint”) and not an Apostle.