The Factual Report 

Along with many other interesting books which I found in the National Library, I also came across a work which bore the title »Factual Report from the World of Eternity Addressed to All Peoples of the Earth« and which I will henceforth simply refer to as the »Factual Report«. This book was written by a medium called Griesmayer, while a man named John, who claimed to have been a constant companion of Christ, professed to be its author. On behalf of all Christ's disciples, he, John, tried to present and to restore the truth about Christ's life and teachings.

    The factual report soon impressed me for various reasons:

    After having been thrown out of the Association for the Unification of World Christianity I felt a somewhat edifying experience again. "What joy," I thought, "if the report was really true, if it was really possible to receive messages from former times!" I wanted, I had to find out!

    First I tried to verify whether the contents of the report could really be the spiritual work of one or several beings from the hereafter. Therefore I decided to visit the editor of the book, Franz Woller, and soon I realized that the elderly man, a former policeman, could in no way be the author of the work. It was not necessary to be a linguistic expert to realize the enormous stylistic and grammatical differences between the comprehensive preface Woller himself had written und the rest of the book. A report of this kind could possibly have been written by a historian who had also carefully studied and read widely about evolution, physics, geography and other subjects.

    Woller told me that back in the nineteen twenties a certain Mr. Raimund Kubasek had founded an association whose purpose was to explore parapsychological phenomena, and in particular to find out whether life after death existed. Based on this understanding he tried to gain information by making use of a medium, information that he finally obtained. Dr. Josef Griesmayer, the son of the medium, wrote to me in a letter dated 5 October 1993: 

    "Brother Raimund (all the members of the associations considered themselves as brothers and sisters) found a medium amidst his colleagues. His approaches, however, which were good at first, exploited erring beings and once again demanded faith. Brother Raimund did not pay attention to the others and reproached those who revealed themselves for their lies. So he broke up with the medium. Many of the group joined the medium, left the association and founded a new club. Only a few of his supporters stayed with Brother Raimund. So he searched for a new medium. My father had channeling abilities (he was able to feel field lines and energies emanating from the human body with his bare hands and without using any aids); so he offered himself as a medium to Brother Raimund. Developing mediumship for channeling both spoken and written messages was highly painstaking, and I, as a small child, experienced the entire process, as everything actually was going on in our small flat. The search for truth and the all these critical questions attracted spirits that were able to answer the questions asked to them in a scientifically precise way. And finally it was suggested that a witness of the events which took place about 2000 years ago, namely John the Younger, should write down a report about Christ, his life and his teachings." 

At the time when I started my research, Kubasek had already died so that I can judge his personality only from what I heard about him from people who knew him and from his writings. While I was writing this work I once again borrowed his books from the National Library and increasingly gained the impression that Raimund Kubasek must have been an earnest seeker of the truth and a frank and honest man. He founded the »Cosmological Club« of the third district of Vienna and made enormous efforts to bring »Light into the darkness of the secret sciences«. In numerous experiments he sought to find out the truth about communication with the hereafter and about life after death.

    Kubasek published his work »Light into the Darkness of Secret Sciences« in 1922. Some time afterwards, however, he broke up with the beings of the other world, because he did not want to adopt doctrines of faith, and he demanded knowledge of the truth. So he aided Griesmayer’s development as a medium and finally received channeled messages. Griesmayer, whom I visited together with Mr. Woller, confirmed Woller's story. At that time Griesmayer was already more than eighty years old and had not been able to serve as a medium for several years. Griesmayer was a very nice old man who told me about his experiences, for example how he, when still a tram driver, drove the tram through Vienna without being aware of it. During the nights he sat down, took a pencil and some paper and began to write. In the morning he nevertheless felt totally relaxed and was amazed about what he had written. Kubasek picked up the channeled messages and typed them. 

Several years passed. I reflected, studied, discussed and compared the report with other books. There were moments when I thought I had recognised that the factual report contained the truth; then, however, I found another sore point and my search continued. Days of despair followed and many years later, when I was already living in Amaliendorf, the day came when I finally threw the factual report into the fire and burned it. I had had enough, I wanted to liberate myself, I considered the report to be proven wrong and deemed it necessary to get things straight.

    I had been able to destroy the paper, but I could not erase my thoughts. Several years passed, then I asked my brother Richard to lend me the copy of the factual report that I had once given to him as a present. Having grown more mature in the meantime, I thought I was finally able to judge things more objectively. Once again I nearly accepted the factual report as true. A certain Dr. Paulus, who in the meantime had published the factual report as a book, called me. I once again met the son of the medium, Dr. Griesmayer, and also met another doctor who was a friend of Paulus. And sooner than I had presumed, I was liberated at last from the factual report that had haunted me for such a long time. Paulus and his devoted friend were not willing to discuss matters, and once more I saw certain practical effects emanating from the teachings contained in the factual report. In a group of people who had gathered to discuss the issue, I referred to the factual report again and appealed to those present not to take anything, not even the factual report itself, for granted, but to go on exploring and always to remain open to everything:

    "But what is the sense and value of accepting and spreading this book as a kind of new doctrine?" I urged. "Some statements in the report are uncertain, and nothing that was forecast for the future has actually happened!"

    "You need not take this report too literally, dear Sauerschnig," explained Paulus without a trace of uncertainty. "It will take a long time until people understand the spirit of the factual report!"

    "But in the report it is written that the spirit of the truth will rise again after 2000 years; that it will be recognized by some people and conveyed to mankind. Some peoples will accept the understanding they have gained, and later others will follow. Peace and truth will come to this world!"

    "Dear Sauerschnig, I very much appreciate that you take the factual report so seriously, but you definitely must not take it too seriously. I have the intellectual capacity to see these things correctly. Everything will come true, but not yet in our time, maybe only in few hundred years. Have you read my book on this topic?"

    I usually only needed to hear someone talking about intellectual capacity to react in an extremely negative way. Woller, too, considered himself a great man, and he said that his spiritual eye reached out to eternity. He viewed himself as a great spirit because he had had a spiritual experience with Christ. But as far as I had come to know him, he was hardly more than a man of average intelligence. The books and booklets he was eagerly writing were so repulsive that I could hardly bear to leaf through them.

    The factual report did not say that it might be adopted only in some hundred years' time. Even Woller had already expressed his disappointment that despite all his efforts and the many books he had sent out to all kinds of people, nothing really happened. According to Woller, even Kubasek had obviously died in conflict with the beings of the other world.

    At that time I already knew how easily Man can be mistaken and how time can alter human ideas. I supposed that there were numerous people who considered themselves Napoleon, and I also heard about dozens of people who passed themselves off as Jesus, Christ or Jesus Christ without realizing what banalities they normally uttered.

    I have to admit that I too often have problems exactly remembering events or discussions which took place about 25 years ago, so that I can only give the gist of what was said without being able to repeat quotations literally. Every year erases memories, and I would not like to know what I might write after another 25 years despite my most earnest efforts to tell the truth.

    "We must discuss whether the factual report was possibly written by beings who might not have been aware of their errors even though this may seem totally inconceivable to us," I tried to argue. "We have no knowledge about how events and incidents were recorded 2000 years ago. Did the beings from the other world take notes of Christ's speeches and file them? Why did Christ's disciples not keep their records more carefully and bury them somewhere in order to maintain them for posterity if they knew only too well from Christ's discourses how easily evil is able to develop its sinister nature in human spirit? Or was what Christ might have said only reconstructed 2000 years later?"

    Nobody was willing to pursue such outrageous thoughts. I realized that the situation was hopeless, said my farewells and went away. Once again I was alone; once again I was not mature enough for the others. Nobody had any intention of joining me in my research and discussing openly and frankly.

    I was left with the idea that every belief is based on ignorance and that truth can only be found in realizing facts. What I learned from the factual report and my subsequent studies is that the God of the Jews is a cruel, hard, unjust, malicious, mean and merciless creature. And, as this is simply my nature, I also came to understand that the world can only be reorganized through love, understanding, equality and justice. But such lofty thoughts are not just expressed in the factual report.

    I spent a great deal of time thinking about what I should write about a man as important as Jesus Christ. On the one hand he influenced the history of the world like hardly anybody else and primed the destiny of millions of people; on the other hand there is not a single line written by his hand. Did he not know how to read and write, or could he write but simply did not do so? Or did he write, but his scriptures were lost or destroyed?

    No matter how you look at it: it does not really look good that we cannot find any scriptures written by Christ himself, he who is said to have been able to work miracles. If he was able to resurrect dead people, it should not have been such a major problem for him to set down his ideas and intentions on paper and to keep them safe for the generations to come. If the Essenes did succeed in saving hundreds of scrolls until the twentieth century, Christ and his disciples should have been capable of doing so too. Or do such scriptures actually exist and are withheld from the public?

    Why is there not even a single line that was written by his numerous disciples? What did the apostles actually do? Did they only listen to their great master, or did they take notes in order not to forget? Confucius, Lao-tzu and Buddha soon had disciples who committed themselves to saving the thoughts of their masters for the future. And the towering figure of Christ, who could see into the past and the future, the alleged Son of God, is supposed to have been too stupid to save his teachings for future generations?

    The only plausible explanation is that Christ and/or his disciples and contemporaries actually wrote down much in their letters, notes or books, but that these writings must have been partly lost and those remaining must have been destroyed intentionally and without mercy.

    As there are no authentic writings, and as criticism of the written records and falsifications is still necessary, I consider it appropriate to contrast the written records of the Church with some statements in the factual report. Maybe a miracle will happen and it will one day be possible to reflect on and explore the life and work of Christ in a frank and objective way, free of any prejudices and without blood and thunder.

    Using the factual report as a reference I hope to be able to demonstrate how it is possible that even when following the spirit of knowledge and understanding one may be mistaken and do harm without harboring any bad intentions. From the factual report it can easily be seen, if one is willing to see, how even spirits of the truth can be mistaken if they believe they have to link the truth to a certain person and capture it in a book. 

 

The »Truth« about Christ 

The factual report claimed that Christ was not the son of Jewish parents. Mary, Joseph and Christ's disciples were actually Essenes. These assumptions were strangely confirmed when between 1947 and 1956 numerous scrolls were found in Qumran on the Dead Sea about thirty kilometres from Jerusalem. According to a legend, a shepherd boy of a Bedouin tribe discovered a cave in a rocky precipice while searching for a goat. In this cave several earthen vessels containing ancient scrolls were stored. Later other caves were discovered, in which a total of several hundred scrolls were found.

    I bought the first complete German translation by Dr. Johann Maier and read about the spirits of the light and about the rule of Belial (Satan), the origin of Man and all kinds of spirits and about the God of Knowledge etc. I could not really make sense of the translations. But nevertheless they seemed to confirm my assumptions that Kubasak or Griesmayer could not have invented the discourses in the factual report. Such ideas simply could not have existed in their heads!

    In 1995 or 1996 I found a critical report written by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh. Its title is »The Dead Sea Scroll Deception« and the subtitle is »The explosive contents of the Dead Sea Scrolls and how the Church conspired to suppress them«. This work describes how an »international group of experts« convened by the highest Church authorities applied all available means to defend its monopoly to study and assess these documents and to keep researchers silent who did not keep to a an ‘agreement’ which was made previously. The authors try to reveal why 75 percent of the approximately 800 documents written in ancient Hebrew or Aramaic are withheld from the public. Nevertheless, numerous copies of the scrolls, which were carefully kept under lock and key, were smuggled »outside« and carefully examined by university experts. On the cover of the book one can read the following, »The authors reveal what was at stake for these orthodox guardians: The Scrolls present startling insights into early Christianity - insights that challenge the Church's version of the "facts." More than just a dramatic exposé of the intrigues surrounding these priceless documents, The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception presents nothing less than a new, highly significant perspective on Christianity.« 

The factual report said that after many millions of years of human existence, in which Man knew about the eternal and true meaning and purpose of earthly existence, peoples would come to this world which were less devoted to knowledge but rather relied on faith and worshipped several Gods. These peoples, however, were able to distinguish good from evil. Their cult consisted in them serving the good Gods by practicing charity and fearing the bad Gods and protecting themselves from their wrath by offering them sacrifices. Their rather childish faith and relatively good character did not allow them to consider what was evil to be good and to pass lies off as truth.

    It is also reported that there was one people that believed in only one God. This supposed God made use of mediumship to channel his messages to the leaders of this people. His message was that he was the one and only Creator of this world and of all life existing thereon. Therefore people should worship him alone, pray to him and serve him. The leaders of the people believed these messages - which were disseminated in a prophetic way - they worshipped this spiritual being as God and willingly accepted his offer to be the »Chosen People of God«. This being called himself God and - assisted by his mediators – he subsequently formed a cruel covenant with this people. He set up commandments which were accompanied by horrible threats and curses and which were meant to conceal in a most hypocritical way all the lies, the maliciousness and the thirst for blood. These commandments instructed his Chosen People to rob and murder and subjugate other peoples which they could choose themselves. He instructed his people to frequently sacrifice animals slaughtered in a most cruel manner and to destroy every person who dared not to recognize this being as God or to consider the influence exerted by this God and the deeds done on his behalf as wrong and evil.

    According to the factual report, at the time of Christ's birth many smaller and larger groups of people lived scattered all around the world whose common aspiration was to enjoy knowledge, understanding about eternal life and the Eternal One whom they recognized as the spiritually greatest and most complete of all spiritual beings. These people were Essenes, considered themselves brothers and sisters and also called each other »brother« and »sister«. They practiced mediumship with spiritual beings from the other world and were well aware of the fact that the time was near in which the Eternal One himself would come to Earth as a human and would speak the truth to Man in his spirit.

    In the lands of Judah and Galilee several Essene communities existed which, through mediumship, were in frequent contact with each other and thus formed a very close spiritual community. They were tolerated and accepted by all the other peoples. Only the Jews are said to have been hostile towards them and to have wanted to do them harm and threaten their lives.

    In Nazareth there lived a brother named Joseph Aramaea. He was a carpenter and head of the local Essene community. At the time when Jesus Christ was born, he fled to Egypt together with Mary in order to escape persecution by the Jews who had learned about the advent of Christ's birth. On their way to Egypt Christ was born. He stayed in Egypt until he was seven years old, but later taught other peoples as well.

    Probably Christ spent his later life in and around Jerusalem where his work was concentrated. He is said to have healed sick people, to have fiercely criticized the Jewish laws and to have described Yahweh as Satan (!). Whenever the space available in the town was too limited for the gatherings of the huge crowds he attracted, Pilate asked him to speak to the people in front of the town walls near Herod's gate. According to John he pulled the Jewish laws to pieces in front of thousands of people, among whom were many Jewish leaders and Rabbis. I would like to discuss some excerpts from Christ's speeches in order to be able to understand why Christ encountered so much hatred from the Jewish elders.

 

I quote: 

The book of this liar begins as follows:

In the beginning God created heaven and earth but the earth was formless and empty, darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. Then God created the light, and only then he saw that the light was good. And he called the light day, and the darkness he called night. On the second day he separated the water above it. God called the expanse heaven. On the third day God gathered together the waters under the heaven, and he called the dry land Earth, and the gathering together of the waters he called sea. And he saw that it was good. And he said: »Let the earth bring forth grass yielding seed, and fruit trees yielding fruit after their kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth.« And God saw again that it was good. Only on the fourth day did God create the lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; among these lights God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And once again he saw that it was good. On the fifth day God created from the waters moving creatures that had life, and the fowl flying above the earth and then the big sea monsters. He blessed them and saw again that it was good. On the sixth day God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the tame cattle and the worms creeping on the earth, the wild animals, and he made man in his own image to let him have dominion over everything on the earth. This God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and he put him into the Garden of Eden.

    On the seventh day this troubled God rested from his great work. He blessed the day and most probably washed his hands, which during his final work, namely to create man, he had dirtied with mud and soil.

    If only you consider how silly this liar's tale about Creation by Moses and his God really is. This poor God first creates the earth and the light of the day and the plants living on the earth, afterwards he creates the lights in the sky, among them sun and the moon. Even a small child cannot help laughing about these stupid lies and will certainly wonder what stuff God used to create the animals and how the earthen mud had to be if a mere breath into their nostrils was enough to make living human bodies from it.

    According to this fantastic tale the plants, the worms and all the animals were created in two sexes. Only when creating man, this mendacious God had forgotten to create their sexes. So the poor man had to look for a female helper amongst the animals; but he found none. So this forgetful creator did not have any choice other than to create for the human man a female helper in his image as a substitute for the animal. And he caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. Then God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man. This time this mendacious God did not want to dirty his hands with mud and soil again, nor did he want to take too much effort in breathing life into the woman's nostrils. Therefore the slaves of this mendacious creator consider woman to be subservient to man and his equal…

    Consider the document further and look at the pleasure garden that this supposed God planted. Apart from gold and precious gems the garden also had many trees which were nice to look at and whose fruits were delicious to eat. And amongst these trees there was the tree of life in the midst of the garden and the tree of knowledge of good and evil.

    So God, who had created the world from nothing, took the man, and put him into the Garden of Eden to tend it and to watch over it. And he commanded the man, saying, "Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat. But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die." Then the creator wondered how the man would call his helper and the beasts that God had created from nothing. They were both naked and were not ashamed, but the serpent was more subtle than all the beasts of the world which God had created from nothing, and it said unto the woman, "Why did God say that you must not eat from any tree in the garden?” And the woman said to the serpent, "We shall not eat of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, neither shall we touch it, lest we die." And the serpent said to the woman, "Eat of the fruits, you shall not die. Your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil.” And so the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was pleasant to the eyes. She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband, and he did eat also. And the eyes of them both were opened, and when they knew that they were naked, they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.

    Look at these fantastic tales! What does he that calls himself God but who is Satan intend with these lies? He describes the naked human body with its sexual organs as something we have to be ashamed of and which it is crime to look at!

    I have explained to you where sex comes from, why and what it is for. You scribes, elders and rabbis know this, but nevertheless you hypocritically hide in the lies of your book. Yet each of you has five to ten concubines who are deprived of all their rights and whom you buy and sell like beasts.

    Thereupon the scribes and elders and rabbis started to grumble and swear, and one of them shouted out to Christ, "We have our God and act according to his laws. But you slander God because you are poor."

    Christ replied:

    Yes, this liar wants to be your God and you want to be his servants. But you act according to his laws because you benefit from them here on Earth - at the expense of the poor and the beguiled.

    So let us study this God and his laws more closely. In the first of his many laws he forbids Man to know good and evil. In order to be sure that they may not realize his lies and maliciousness, he threatens death upon them.

    How mendacious this God is, is proven by the impudent lie that a serpent – an animal which by its very nature is not able to speak at all – had to come to tell the man that there is an eternal life and that Man as a being capable of understanding is able to recognize good and evil. Even his invented serpent reveals his lies and proves that there is no death, but that there is truth.

    According to the document, this God walked in the garden in the cool of the day and called them to account for their transgression of his commandment. He first spoke to the man, then to the woman and finally to the serpent, swore and imposed punishment on them. To the serpent, which by its very nature does not have legs and always had to crawl along the ground, he commanded that from now on it should crawl on its belly. And it should eat soil every day, which it still does not do even to this day. And he put enmity between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman. The seed of the woman should bruise the serpent's head, and the serpent should bruise her heel. And he greatly multiplied the woman's sorrow and her conception; in sorrow should she bring forth children; and her desire should be to her husband, and he should rule over her. And for the man's sake, whom henceforth he called Adam, because he had let himself be beguiled by the wife, he cursed the Earth and said to him: "Through painful toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. It will produce thorns and thistles for you, and you will eat the plants of the field until you return to the ground; since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return."

    Just think about how silly this lie is and how full of maliciousness and revenge. But this is not yet enough; God's punishments continue … This Lord God sends Adam forth from the Garden of Eden, and he places at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword, to watch the way to the tree of life.

    See what ignorance these lies create among the people and how you, you elders and rabbis, exploit their ignorance! You hypocrites and blind guides, who wander in the »darkness of lies« and block the way of those who search for the »light of truth« with guile, hypocrisy, violence, punishment and revenge, you are his greatest spiritual sputum; you knowingly act dishonestly and create evil for yourself for now and eternity!

    Let's continue our studies of these lies and tales!

    The woman, who Adam called Eve, is said to have borne two sons, Cain and Abel. No sooner did these four people live on Earth than murder and sacrifice started. God began to curse Cain because he had slain his brother. Cain hereafter went to another land and knew his wife; and she conceived and bore a son. How he could find a wife in this foreign land if there were only three humans on the Earth is not mentioned in the Bible.

    The lies of your God become worse and worse. Now the whole genealogical register from Adam to Noah follows and it is described how one conceived the next one – even at the age of eight hundred years and more – and it describes how Methuselah even reached the age of nine hundred and sixty-nine years.

    And suddenly this God regretted he had created Man on Earth and his heart was distressed. So he decided to destroy all life on Earth, Man as well as the worm creeping on the ground. Only Noah met God's mercy. He was commanded to build for him and his family an ark in his fashion, the length of which should be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits. And he was commanded to take to him of every clean beast by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female, and to take with him food for himself and for all of them. When Noah had finished his ark and had entered it, this God closed him into this ark. And then he opened the doors of heaven and caused it to rain, and he caused all wells to flow and he drowned everything on Earth that had breath in it, except for Noah and his house full of animals.

    What do you scribes, Jewish elders and rabbis say to this horror story?

    Tell me how Noah should have been able to house on his relatively small ark one or seven pairs of each sort of animal on Earth and the necessary food for one hundred and fifty days?

    Think about the impossibility of housing all sorts of animals on Earth in such a way and admit how stupid the tale about Noah is.

    After this fantastic tale about Noah there is another genealogical register to make Man believe that all humans descend from Noah and that Adam and his wife Eve were the first humans. And names and peoples are mentioned, such as the Hittites, Jebusites and Amorites who had already lived peacefully in this region twenty-thousand years ago, when no Hebrew yet existed on Earth.

    I tell you: These peoples were Essenes and in reality they were very close to the truth about me and eternal life. Only your fathers attacked them, commanded by their God, and they murdered and robbed them. The nation of the Jebusites lived here in this land. The foundation walls of your biggest temple in this town, in which your liar and beguiler has his sanctuary, are the remains of the house of truth of the former people of the Jebusites.

    At this the high priests and rabbis began to shout angrily, and some of them cried out to the people, "This Man calls our sanctuary, which our fathers built for our God, impure. This blasphemer should be stoned immediately!"

    Christ continued to speak and he replied to them,

    Yes, my words of truth hurt you. But I must make people understand the lies contained in your scripture so that they realize what evil spirit you follow. The words of your book prove that he who starts lying proceeds from one lie to the next. He then attempts to cover up one lie with the next one.

    Listen which importance God attaches to your foreskin when he says

    “Every male among you shall be circumcised. You are to undergo circumcision, and it will be the sign of the covenant between me and you. For the generations to come every male among you who is eight days old must be circumcised, including those born in your household or bought with money from a foreigner—those who are not your offspring. Whether born in your household or bought with your money, they must be circumcised. My covenant in your flesh is to be an everlasting covenant. Any uncircumcised male, who has not been circumcised in the flesh, will be cut off from his people; he has broken my covenant."

    See what kind of spiritual being it is that devises and demands such acts! Tell me whether there could be any greater spiritual sputum than this God! But you execute his bloody commandments in reverential awe and thus sate his base lusts. As you call this spiritual sputum God, you admit that you want to be like this liar.

    The covenants and the bargaining of this God continue. Thus he speaks to Abraham, "As for Sarai, your wife, you are no longer to call her Sarai; her name will be Sarah. I will bless her and will surely give you a son by her." Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, "Will a son be born to a man a hundred years old? Will Sarah bear a child at the age of ninety? And God said, "Yes, but your wife Sarah will bear you a son, and you will call him Isaac. I will establish my covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him." And for all the promises made, Abraham consequently carried out horrible mutilations on all male beings, and the abhorring lust of this God was sated by blood and pain.

    It is also written that Abraham received a visit from three men who were God's angels and whom he gave water to wash their feet. He offered them bread and veal prepared with butter and milk. Then the three men asked him where his wife Sarah was. Sarah, who was in the tent at that time, heard that they talked about the birth of a son, and Sarah laughed within herself, saying, "After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?"

    Listen how witty the discourse of the angels of this God with Abraham and Sarah was. These supposed angels just talked about pleasure and bearing children while washing their feet and eating cakes and roast veal with milk and butter.

    Yes, as the rogue thinks, so he is and so he acts! (end of quotation)

 

According to the factual report Moses did actually live, and together with his God Yahweh, with whom he communicated via mediums (prophets), he wrote the books about Creation, Adam and Eve, Abraham etc. Unfortunately I found out rather late that the history of Judaism cannot have taken place in the way the Old Testament and so many religious people try to make us believe. In his work »The Old Testament and the Christian Church« Gerd Lüdemann, professor of the history and literature of early Christianity at the University of Gottingen, said:

    “None of the Books of Moses is really by Moses, none of the Psalms of David by David, none of Solomon’s sayings by Solomon, and none of Daniel’s visions by Daniel, and hardly any of the prophets’ words were actually pronounced by the prophets under whose names the books are known. There was no Exodus from Egypt, no Sinai Revelation and no handover of the Ten Commandments. Abraham, Isaac, Moses and Joshua are just names, and Jericho was never conquered. This cannot be stressed enough, as for more than 2000 years all this was part of a sacred past which helped Church officials and politicians to secure their power.”

    When comparing this to other sources from the internet it can easily be seen that other historians are also well aware of the fact that the historical descriptions contained in the Old Testament are fabulous and implausible. The internet encyclopaedia Wikipedia, for example, contains the following information on the so-called Exodus from Egypt:

    “A large-scale attempt to escape from Egypt as described in the Bible seems hardly possible, especially if the Pharaoh knew about it and had certainly tried to prevent it by military means. At least parts of the land of Canaan were occupied by Egypt, and several Egyptian fortifications with complete garrisons were located on the route leading there. As a result an escape from Egypt would have automatically ended in Egypt.

    The route which the Israelites allegedly took to get to Canaan cannot be reconstructed accurately despite the descriptions contained in the Bible, and the exact locations of the Yam-Suf (Sea of Reeds) and of Mount Sinai are not clear either. This, too, is often considered by some scholars as proof that an »Exodus from Egypt« probably never took place.
    According to biblical reports it was Moses who guided the Israelites out of Egypt. He, whose existence is also doubted by historians, is still considered the most important prophet in Judaism.”

    I have long been aware of the fact that it is possible to invent stories and then turn them into historical sources. Therefore it did not shock me to find out that even a person like Moses was only an invention. But I also had to understand that consequently the information on the Israelites’ life in Egypt, their exodus, and the origin of the Ten Commandments etc., which in the factual report were put into Christ’s mouth, could only be an invention or mere imagination too. And this still shocks me – that beings, both in this world and in the hereafter, are able to be misled and deceived in such a way that they end up inventing »truths« which are passed on with full conviction though they never took place in this way.

    Of course we could say, “Why should we bother about the factual report?“, but nevertheless all this cannot be simply shrugged off. Similar deceits and confusions exist in many areas, and people do not even notice it! I do not want to give any concrete examples because I do not want to offend anyone and because the spiritual confusions and deceits do not just concern religion, esotericism etc., but also the general ideas according to which people still live and govern today. 

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