-Caveat Lector- from: prioryofsionDigest444 http://www.onelist.com The mailing list resource page can be found at the following address http://www.albino.com/circle/pos/ ----- Message: 11 Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 09:36:28 -0800 (PST) From: xxxxxxxxxxx Subject: How Many Bloodlines? There was quite a thread just recently on the subject of 'alternative' lives of Jesus, particularly referring to the Notovich MS. (published by Elizabeth Clare Prophet as 'The Lost Years of Jesus') and Jesus's alleged flight to Kashmir after the crucifixion. Intriguing things that came out of that discussion included information on the many different (and incompatible!) versions of the 'Lost Years' story that exist, both in 'channelled' material, and in the form of alleged secret or hidden MSS., like Notovich's version; and also information on what might be called an 'alternative Bloodline' - the existence of people in Srinagar, north India, who claim to be descended from Saint Yuz Assaf, whom they identify with Jesus. There's another one. I don't think anybody mentioned it at the time, but there is _yet another_ 'alternative Bloodline' in existence. This one is in, of all places, Japan. In the village of Shingo (formerly Herai) in the Aomori Prefecture of Northern Honshu, there are two mysterious graves, and a tradition that links Jesus with the village. Apparently, a Shinto priest named Koma Takeuchi, who was not originally from Shingo, had in his possession an ancient scroll written in archaic Japanese that he couldn't read. Eventually he had it translated, and discovered that it was the Last Will and Testament of Jesus Christ, written in Shingo two thousand years before. In 1935, Takeuchi went to Shingo to investigate, and discovered there the two graves, and a family named Sawaguchi who had cared for them for centuries. Prior to Takeuchi's arrival, the Sawaguchi family hadn't known whose graves they were guarding; they simply preserved them. With the translation of the manuscript, it was revealed that one of the graves was that of Jesus himself, while the other contains the ears (!) of Jesus's brother and a lock of his mother's hair. The story in the Takeuchi MS. states that Jesus didn't spend his 'lost years' in Egypt, or the Himalayas, or even in Palestine. Instead, he travelled across Asia, visiting Siberia and Alaska, before settling in northern Japan, where he undertook spiritual training. He then returned to Palestine, where he carried out his ministry. According to this story, he wasn't crucified, but, in Koranic style, another suffered in his stead (apparently voluntarily): this was his brother, named Isukiri in the MS. After this event, Jesus returned to Japan, taking his brother's ears with him, and went back to the place he had trained in: Shingo, then called Herai. Once there, he apparently ceased to preach, perform miracles or to be in any way remarkable. He married a local woman called Yumiko (or Mariko), changed his name to Daitenku Taro Jurai, had three daughters and died at the age of 106, having spent 70 years as a garlic farmer. To this day, Shingo's chief products are garlic, apples - and the Jesus industry. Since the MS. has come to light, Shingo has become a place of pilgrimage for Christian Japanese (there aren't many of these) and for New Agers. A New Age guru called Michel Desmarquet has invested the discovery of the graves and the MS. with prophetic significance, and has written a book on the subject ('Thiaoouba Prophecy'), while his associates have posted a summary of the story on the internet at http://www.thiaoouba.com/tomb.htm . Shingo has Jesus Festivals and a Jesus Museum, and some enterprising soul has even begun to make and market Jesus Sake ('Kirisuto no Sato' brand; this means 'Christ's Home Town'). There are crosses everywhere, and the graves are now fenced off, marked with crosses, and decorated with flowers. Many Japanese barely know who Jesus was, and regard all this with intense bemusement, but I guess the locals of Shingo know when they're on to a good thing. Unfortunately, the original of 'Jesus's Will' was destroyed in WWII, though the MS. had by then been copied. So it's not available for carbon-dating or other such tests. The text is in the archaic Japanese of two thousand years ago, and it does say what the translators say it does, but there's no way, now, of knowing exactly when or by whom it was written. The story was summarised in Fortean Times no. 110, May 1998. As well as the Thiaoouba site, which despite its ulterior motive is by a long way the most interesting and complete, there are other websites devoted to the topic: Jesus in Japan! http://www.japan.co.jp/~jesus The tone of this one is quite unpleasant, being apparently an attempt by outsiders to poke fun at the strange inbred people of Shingo and their weird legends, but it does summarise the story and give many photographs of the surrounding area, including road signs in Japanese and English giving directions to the Tomb of Christ. Jesus Christ Died in Japan http://server1.seafolk.co.jp/~enigma/e.christ.htm This is a Japanese site in 'Japanese-English', brief, but does include a link to information about Takeuchi, and photographs of the tombs. Finally: it all makes me wonder...if there are these tales around, whatever the truth of them (and the Japanese version sounds very much to me like a 'doublet' of the Kashmiri legend - the escape by substitution from the crucifixion, which is a Koranic theme, and the death at the age of 106, recur in both, and could both stem from Muslim rather than Christian sources - how much Muslim influence has there been in Japan, does anybody know?), what's so special about the 'Western' bloodline? It appears to be only one of at least three; and if the rumours about Mormon beliefs regarding Jesus as a polygamist are correct, there may be even more than this. We could _all_ be Bloodliners. What is the PoS for, in a world where these stories abound? What is it afraid of, and what is it protecting? I suppose that assuming it exists, and has the concerns it's alleged to have, the answer would be that it's protecting the _true_ Bloodline, and that other stories of descendants of Jesus are just that: stories, and, moreover, stories about 'far away countries of which we know nothing'. And of course, neither Islam nor Shinto has any tradition of religious celibacy and the devaluation of marriage, quite unlike the situation in Western Christianity. Westerners can perhaps accept that Muslims and others might believe that Jesus had children, but then, that's only what's to be expected of these non-believers. The Western church - and particularly the Roman church, which, however much it has liked to downplay the emphasis since Vatican II, still has in its tradition the grim asceticism of Tertullian and St. Jerome - might genuinely crack at the seams and fall apart if a genuine Bloodline were to be revealed, and many of its adherents would be shocked to the core. One only has to recall the reaction to the film of 'The Last Temptation'. That hysteria demonstrated that yes, there might be a reason for continued secrecy, even in a world which contains legends such as those of Kashmir and Shingo. ----- Aloha, He'Ping, Om, Shalom, Salaam. Em Hotep, Peace Be, Omnia Bona Bonis, All My Relations. Adieu, Adios, Aloha. Amen. Roads End Kris DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion and informational exchange list. Proselyzting propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soapboxing! 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