"he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live" - Cayce's View on the Life of Christ Jesus

 

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Cayce's View on the Life of Christ Jesus

According to Edgar Cayce (1877 - 1945), an American clairvoyant who claimed to channel from his higher self (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edgar_Cayce), Christ Jesus had traveled to India, Persia, and Egypt in his youth before His appearance on the Jordan River in the Gospels.  

Specifically Christ Jesus had spent four years in His travel and training in Persia and India, and then at death of Joseph, His father in this world, He returned to Palestine and further traveled to Egypt where He made some ritual in the Pyramid at Giza with John the Baptist. 

Although this Cayce's reading on life of Christ Jesus has not been proved academically, it is interesting especially as it presented a different view to the life of Christ Jesus than the conventional one.  Especially, it seems reasonable that Joseph and Mary had lived in the environment surrounded by the Essenes before their marriage and Joseph had been an oracle of the Essenes.  The life of Christ Jesus in young ages was not that of a son of a carpenter in a village, but His family closely associated with the Essenes.

According to Cayce, Christ Jesus had a kind of red hairs, although He looked strong and tough.  He delivered jokes at the last supper.  His image in His last days should be changed somehow if we trust in Cayce.  Anyway, Cayce was a pious Christian different some other psychics or clairvoyants.        

Although, the spirit of Christ Jesus had been sent by the God to this world to form the body of a baby in Mary, He had to learn religious matters, etc. as a human being in this world.  For this purpose, He might have really travelled to Persia, India, and Egypt.  He did not learn knowledge and wisdom He would later teach people in Palestine while just living as a carpenter in village.  He should have accomplished His spiritual search through efforts as a mere man by the time He came to the Jordan River as depicted in the Gospels, so that when the God saw the grown-up Jesus with consolidated faith in the God, He praised Jesus.      

(Matthew 3)
13 Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan unto John, to be baptized of him.
14 But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?
15 And Jesus answering said unto him, Suffer it to be so now: for thus it becometh us to fulfil all righteousness. Then he suffered him.
16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:
17 And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

Anyway, when the Gospels were written, the Essenes seemed to be still active in Palestine until the Jewish Roman War.  Titus Flavius Josephus (37 - 100), a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and military leader, mentioned the Essenes in his writings.  Therefore, it is a mystery that the Gospels do not mention the Essenes.  Early followers of Christ Jesus and the authors of the Gospels might have tried to hide some privacy of Christ Jesus by omitting descriptions about Essenes having close relationships with the family of Christ Jesus.

According to Cayce, Christ Jesus had a sister called Lutz who married a Roman soldier and later lived in Athens.  These spiritual revelations have not been academically corroborated.  And, there is no need for us to know details of privacy of the family of Christ Jesus, since Christ Jesus said that those who heard the teaching of the God and behaved and acted following the teaching were His brothers, sisters, and mother.     

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John 11, King James Version

20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.
21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.
23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.
24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:
26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?