29 November 2001
GODSDIENSTIGE ARGETIPES (VIR ONRUSSTOKER EN STEPHAN GAMCO) ...
Stephan, die held wat sterf om ander te verlos is duisende jare ouer as die Christendom en jy kry die mite onder al die ou volke, soos die Egiptenare (Osiris), die Sumeriërs (Dumuzi), die Akkadiërs (Nimrod, Tammuz). Die kruis is reeds meer as 20 000 jaar gelede as religieuse simbool gebruik, byvoorbeeld in die beroemde grottekeninge by Lascaux in Frankryk en Altamira in Spanje. Dis bloot ’n simbool vir die son.
Die Ou Testament is deur die Hebreërs saamgeflans uit antieke Egiptiese en Sumeriese geskrifte en oorlewering, dikwels gekanaliseer deur die Persiese Zoroastrianisme. Later het die Grieke weer die Nuwe Testament opgestel waar konsepte uit die Griekse filosofie ingevoer is, bv die “logos” of Heilige Gees-konsep. Daar is nie “honderde onjuisthede” in die Ou Testament nie — daar is DUISENDE teenstrydighede en onjuisthede in beide die Ou en Nuwe Testamente.
Byvoorbeeld: In die oorspronklike Hebreeus is die voornaamwoord van die gode in die skeppingverhaal in Genesis in die meervoud, terwyl dit in Afrikaans en Engels doelbewus as enkelvoud vertaal word, behalwe in die een geval waarmee die vertalers nie daarmee kon wegkom nie: “Laat ONS mense na ONS beeld maak, ens.” In die Hebreeus staan daar dus: “In die begin het die gode die hemel en die aarde geskep.” en so aan.
Onrusstoker, jy en Kleinboer het al vroeër hier gesels oor die lewe van Jesus en wat ons daarvan weet en nie weet nie, en Sakkie Spangenberg het ook ’n interessante bydrae gelewer oor die verwantskap tussen die vroeë Christendom en Judaïsme.
In die boek “Arcadian Cypher” bied Peter Blake en Paul S Blezard ’n boeiende perspektief op die saak:
“The Catholic Church today remains silent on the question of the Gnosticism of Jesus and indeed most of its adherents are completely unaware of the Gnostic influence on their faith. It was not until the discovery in Egypt in 1945 of the Nag Hammadi scrolls that the Gnostic Gospels revealed that for many, the road to Roman Catholicism had not been a matter of choice.
The Roman Church had severely narrowed its options for future change by heavily promoting the concept of bodily resurrection, including it into the ritual of the Mass. To maintain credibility, especially if the Church was to maintain its strong and growing influence through this universal sacrament, Catholicism had to make itself more attractive than Gnosticism.
The path it chose was to include that powerful human emption, guilt, into the heart of its teaching. This was the start of the most widely spread and successful example of moral blackmail of all time.
The fact that, to the Gnostics, man was not a lowly creature (as he was to the god of the Christians), but was instead a walking miracle, filled with the divine spark and able to live fearlessly and with a level of confidence that can only be the result of the freedom that self-determination offers, was not the only threat that the Church felt from the Gnostic movements. Tied in with the ethos of self-respect was the idea that women were spirit, equal to men, and therefore had a valid voice. To the Church Fathers the idea was a complete anathema.
In much of Jesus‘ teaching there are strong elements of Gnosticism, which promotes the path of respect for the individual and self-determination, in the belief that gnosis is achieved through self-fulfillment.”
Nee wat, Stephan, ALLES-WAT-IS is beslis nie op dwelms nie, en ook uit die aard van die saak nie streng gesproke ’n “vader” nie, omdat DIT nie beperk kan word deur geslagseienskappe nie. Ongelukkig word die meeste dogmatiese godsdienste, kerke, teoloë, en blinde navolgers van tradisie wel bedwelm deur hul eie tradisies, oorgelewerde dwaashede en foutiewe denke.
Hier is vir jou ’n grepie uit ’n meditasie wat ek lank gelede hier geplaas het:
There is but one consciousness in the universe.
Unfolding like crests and troughs in the waves of one sea.
Localised aspects each of us, all of us, all that is.
All is, the “as” is us.
Groete
Piet Pompies
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