THE FAMILY MAKES JESUS OVER AND OVER AGAIN
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(03/24/2000)

After having made Jesus, whom is the person, really the ONLY person
whom we associate ‘miracles’ with in the New Testament, the authors
and other close family members of the authors could not resist making
Jesus over and over again. If Jesus is really supposed to have been
‘unique’ and the only son of god, the one and only ‘messenger’ as
representative of his father, god; then how is it that so many others
likewise have the same ability to work "miracles"?

The reason is of course, that this is indeed a fictional story that the
authors were in fact just having ‘fun’ with.

(1) Peter works miracles. This can be seen in Luke 5:18-26, 8:41-42,
49-56. Now, that ‘Peter’ is also working miracles in the New
Testament was not actually surprising to us as researchers and was
in fact expected by us because of the fact that we had already deduced
that ‘Peter’ was also being played by the same person who was
playing Jesus in the New Testament, and that secretly, Peter was also
Jesus.

This is because in the verse where Peter is given the ‘keys to
heaven’, this was found to be another way of the author saying that
he was KEEPING the ‘keys’ to discovering the secret of what he
was doing - by secretly giving the ‘keys’ to himself! That is, in other
words, keeping them! So, Peter is an alter-ego of Jesus in the story
because he is another character being played by the same person
that was playing Jesus (Arrius Piso).

(2) Paul is also given the ability to work miracles in the New
Testament. He is made into another Jesus and he performs a miracle
or two, and is also acknowledged as a "god". This is in Acts 28:3-6;
"And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on the
fire, there came a viper (snake)* out of the heat, and fastened (itself)
on his hand. And when the barbarians (that were there) saw the
venomous** beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves,
"no doubt this man is a murderer, whom though he had escaped the
sea (inference is "by a miracle"), yet vengeance suffereth (him) not
to live." And he (Paul) shook off the beast into the fire, and felt no
harm. But (when) they were expecting him (Paul) to become inflamed
(poisoned) and to fall down suddenly dead (he did not), but (rather)
for a long time (when) they still expected to see this (yet they) saw
nothing amiss (or adverse) happen to him, they changed their
opinion (of him) and said that he was a god."

* See the other stories about sticks turning into snakes, such as the
one in the apocryphal "Infancy Gospel".
** This apparently refers to the cobra, which would have been the
poisonous snake, but which is indigenous to India. Perhaps this was
meant to remind us of the fact that the Pharaohs used atop their
crowns the image of the cobra, which is NOT indigenous to Egypt,
but to India. And also make note that the island that this supposedly
takes place on is called "Malita" (Malitae).

By the way, it has been found that the ‘travels of Paul’ were in fact
an attempt by the authors to ‘advertise’ or promote some of the most
famous brothels of the time! The reason being is that the authors
were getting a ‘cut’ of the profits from those brothels and the
proceeds were helping with the Roman war fund against the Jews.

This is why we are told specifically WHERE Paul has traveled and
that those places were famous for "filthy sensuality". This may be
referenced in the Oxford Encyclopedia Biblica (col. 3,615). And in
the work titled "The Rise, Decline & Fall of the Roman Religion
(Christianity)", James Ballantyne Hannay, pub. 1925, pg. 109-110.

(3) Vespasian, the emperor in charge of the destruction of the Temple,
is made an honorary "Jesus" as well. The historian Tacitus, in his
Histories (IV, 81, pg. 651-652), says;

"One of the common people of Alexandria, well-known for his
blindness, threw himself at the emperor’s knees and implored him
with groans to heal his infirmity. This he did by the advice of the god
Serapis whom this nation, devoted as it is to many superstitions,
worships more than any other divinity. He begged Vespasian that he
would deign to moisten his cheeks and eye-balls with his spittle.

Another with a diseased hand, at the counsel of the same god, prayed
that the limb might feel the print of Caesar’s foot. At first, Vespasian
ridiculed and repulsed them. They persisted; and he, though on the one
hand he feared that scandal of the fruitless attempt, yet on the other, was
induced by the entreaties of men and by the language of his flatterers to
hope for success. At last, he ordered that the opinion of the physicians
should be taken, as to whether such blindness and infirmity were within
reach of human skill. They discussed the matter from different points
of view. "In the one case," they said, "the faculty of sight was not
wholly destroyed and might return if the obstacles were removed; in the
other case, the limb, which had fallen into a diseased condition, might
be restored if a healing influence were applied; such, perhaps, might
be the pleasure of the gods and the emperor might be chosen to be the
minister of the divine will. At any rate, all the glory of a successful
remedy would be Caesar’s, while the ridicule of failure would fall on
the sufferers."

And so Vespasian, supposing that all things were possible to his good
fortune and that nothing was any longer past belief, with a joyful
countenance amid the intense expectation of the multitude of bystanders,
accomplished what was required. The hand was instantly restored to its
use, and the light of day again shone upon the blind. Persons actually
present attest both facts, even now when nothing is to be gained by
falsehood."

And that, is the story of Vespasian performing miracles as if he were
Jesus, according to Tacitus. However, Suetonius the historian, likewise,
who was writing also about the same time or a little afterwards, also
makes Vespasian an honorary Jesus by further confirming Tacitus’
account of the "miracles of Vespasian"….

(4) Vespasian is further honored as another Jesus by Suetonius; "As he
(Vespasian) sat on the tribunal, two laborers, one blind, the other lame,
approached together, begging to be healed. Apparently, the god Serapis
had promised them in a dream that if Vespasian would consent to spit
in the blind man’s eyes, and touch the lame man’s leg with his heel,
both would be made well.

Vespasian had so little faith in his curative powers that he showed
great reluctance in doing as he was asked; but his friends persuaded
him to try them, in the presence of a large audience, too - and the charm
worked."

Reference: Suetonius, "The Twelve Caesars," Vespasian, Verse 7 (pg.
278-79); Penguin Classics,. The more exact reference is in Suetonius,
"The Twelve Caesars", Loeb Classical Library edition volumes.

(5) Apollonius of Tyana, is another "Jesus" made by the family. This
"Jesus" may have had a purpose in his origination. It may well have
been that the inventor of this Jesus was not only doing honor to his
ancestor (Arrius Piso) who was the original Jesus, but also that this
was done to point out that Arrius Piso also wrote under the name of
Apollonius. There are works that were supposedly written in the 3rd
century BCE (i.e., in the 200’s BCE) that are attributed to a person
named "Apollonius Rhodius". These works, interestingly enough, are
in Greek - which was the language that Arrius Piso wrote in. But
nothing much is really known about this particular author. This is
worth examining further.

In any case, it was Marcus Aurelius, writing as Lucian (Lucian, not
‘Lucan’), who was the first to mention Apollonius of Tyana, from
which, later stories emerged from later family members. This story
was later refined by the author known as Flavius Philostratus (what
a pen-name this is when one considers that we have found out that
Flavius (Josephus) also wrote as "Philo" and the later author is a
descendant of his! Abelard Reuchlin says that he has found this author,
Flavius Philostratus to have been the same person who also wrote as
the Church father Origen. We will detail these family relations in
more detail in our upcoming works.

(6) Constantine is made into a new Jesus also! And this was done by
his own half-brother Julius Constantius - who was writing as the
famous Eusebius. You can easily find the story of Constantine being
told by god that he would conquer his enemies with the sign of the
cross, etc. You really need to read this story in the light of a new
understanding of these persons and events.

(7) And the family continued to remake Jesus down through history in
various forms, including Muhammad and other figures that were made
to appear extra-ordinary and/or to have worked ‘miracles’. This whole
topic too, needs to be examined in further detail so that a much longer
list may be made and these other "Jesus’" made by the family will be
seen as such by us all, once and for all.

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