Was Jesus Basil-Christ Auto-da-fed? (18)

Behind the Distant Tree Line, the Chainsaws buzz from early morning until dusk.

 

© Eso A. B., 2012

The muting of speech and mind by petrifying the individual with fright is an ancient and primitive tactic, likely discovered by males of the human species. It is possible that the tradition of muting prisoners of war, women and youths, preceded community formation, thus facilitating a negative basis for creating communities through violence world wide. Thus, the positive creation a community is the opposite of victimization—heteronomy (self-sacrifice), which tends to be part of feminine nature.

If one takes into account the experience of soldiers, who survive the killing fields, and subsequent to their participation in war suffer from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), the extreme consequences of the experience are shown by the suicide rate among combat veterans (37% per 100,000 = 37,000). This figure provides evidence of the incredible degree of mental suffering, and leads to the conclusion that the suicide rate only scratches the surface of it. The survivors of PTSD may have decided to forego suicide, but may pay the dues to their pain in many other ways. One of the ways may be to become a failing parent  (father) or a war-mongering community leader. do not necessarily the emotional turmoil and pain facing and dealing in death offers to the survivors of the ordeal in retrospect.

No wonder that at the beginning of modern history, a man called John,  Apostle John, or John of Patmos had a “Revelation” that presented itself as an Apocalypse. Even so, the muted and silent mind of the public in our day is as unaware that assumptions lead to conclusions, and that what awaits it is the same as when unsuspecting unwanted puppies or kittens are put by a farmer into a sack filled with stones.

Yet—given the unstable chronology of Western history—John of Patmos [exiled to the island of Patmos by the Romans (likely those of Byzantium)] may have been a witness to the death (by incineration) of Jesus, at the time he was still known by the name of Basil.

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Briefly, the following is the story of Jesus-Basil-Christ as told by Anna Comnena, the daughter of the Byzantine (Roman) emperor Alexius I (? 1081-1118). The unusual dating, while likely to cause some readers great doubt as to its accuracy, is justified if we remember that the chronology of history as taught in the West was nonexistent until nearly five hundred years later, until after the Council of Trident (1545-1563), which took place during the Reformation.

Writes Anna Comnena (date uncertain):

“Later, in the… year of Alexius reign there arsose an extraordinary ‘cloud of heretics’, a new hostile group, hitherto unknown to the Church. For two doctrines, each known to antiquity and representative of what was most evil, most worthless, now coalesced…, and… were united in the Bogomils, for the dogma of the latter was an amalgam of Manichaean and Massalian teaching.

“Apparently, it was in existence before my father’s time, but was unperceived (for the Bogomil sect is most adebt at feigning virtue)….

“The fame of the Bogomils had by now spread to all parts, for the impious sect was controlled with great cunning by a certain monk called Basil. He had twelve followers, whom he called ‘apostles’ and also dragged along with him certain women disciples, women of bad character, utterly depraved….and when the evil, like some consuming fire devoured many souls, the emperor could no longer bear it.

“Basil, Archisatrap of Satanael, was brought to light dressed in monkish garb, austere of face, with a thin beard, very tall. At once the emperor, wishing to discover from him the man’s innermost thoughts, tried compulsion, but with a show of persuasion: he invited him to the palace on some righteous pretext. He even rose from his seat when Basil came in, made him sit with him and share his own table…. 

“At first Basil was coy; he wrapped close around him the lion skin—he who was in reality an ass—and at the emperor’s words shied away…. He looked askance at our doctrine [most likely the written or rewritten secularized version—Auth.]  of the Divine Nature of Christ and wholly misinterpreted His human nature. He even went so far as to call the holy churches the temples of demons and treated as of little importance what among us is believed to be the consecrated Body and Blood of our First High Priest and Sacrifice.”

When Alexius does not prevail on Basil to change his mind to the emperor’s way of thinking:

“….A huge fire was kindled in the Hippodrome (in Constantinople today). An enormous trench had been dug and a mass of logs, everyone a tall tree,  had piled up to a mountainous hight. Then the pyre was lit….

“There he stood (Basil), despicable, helpless before every threat, every terror, gaping now at the pyre, now at the spectators. Everyone thought he was quite mad, for he neither rushed rushed to the flames, nor did he altogether turn back, but stayed rooted to the spot where he had first entered the arena, motionless.

“So they decided to put him to the test. While he was talking marvels and boasting that he would be seen unharmed in the midst of the flames, they took his woolen cloak and said, ‘Let us see if the fire will catch your clothes! And straighway they hurled it into the center of the pyre.

“So confident was Basil in the Demon that was deluding him that he cried ‘Look! My cloak flies up to the sky! They saw that this was the decisive moment, liften him up and thrust him, clothes, shoes and all, into the fire. The flames, as if in rage against him, so thoroughly devoured the wretch, that there was no odour and nothing unusual in the smoke except one thin smoky line in the centre of the flame.”

As neo-Christians well know, Basil-Christ did not rise as the Aztec God Nanauatzin did, but he rose as Nanauatzin never dreamt of rising—as utter fiction.