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.S!. The Hiram Key on many occasions, the Roman Catholic Douai Bible clearly indicates its preferred option in explanatory notes: ' .. . Heividius and other heretics most impiously inferred that the blessed Virgin Mary had other children besides Christ:' This contradicts Matthew 13:55-56, which states: 'Is not this the carpenter's son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Jude? And his sisters, are they not all with us?' The response of the editors of the Dauai Bible is creative, if somewhat less than convincing to the critical reader, when it claims: 'These were the children oj Mary ... the sister to our Blessed Lady and thereJore, according to the usual style oj the scripture, they were called brethren, that is, near relations to our Saviour.' If there were a shred of lruth in this strange explanation, one would have (0 observe (hat it was. not very_iJ!laginative ee l su ' maternal ",-grandparents to h !Y i! ~ ", ~ au leIS and_ a lltheITlbot ~ However, it is now just about universally accepted that Jesus had brothers and sisters. His younger brother Ya'acov (in English, Jacob, and in the Greek versions of the Bible, James) outlived Jesus by approximately thirty years and,.M.)Y wjll _ 0 ate was res nsible for p[esep'jng his true - unbelievable odds. The Birth of a New Religion !£!
The Hiram Key Jesus Christ: Man, God, Myth or Freemason? he came up with to solve his problems was a stroke of true genius. He was realistic enough to accept that Rome was no longer the power that it had been, and whilst he could not hold his position secure through force or financial reward, he could hold sway over his people ifhe could insert himself into the spiritual beliefs which seemed to be dividing his subjects' loyalties. The whole Empire had become a pot-pauni of cults with some of them, such as Christianity, present in many very different forms. Over several generations just about every eastern religion had found its way to Rome and had been absorbed and metamorphosed to fit local tastes. So thorough had the Romanisation process become that few of the original cult founders would have recognised their own faiths as they merged one into the other to become highly interchangeable; a theological mix-and-match. In this period of change, those who called themselves Christians squabbled amongst themselves with quite fundamental differences in belief. Despite hi s role as the legitimiser of Christianity...constantine..wa§.!. 19l1owet.of£tteJ ol Invi£lll,U1!!!;:god cult right ntil ime h was on his death be9"" when fiefinally accepted baptism on the off-chance that the Christians might have got it right all along. A sensible and inexpensive piece of after-life insurance. When the Emperor first became involved with the Christians, their population was quite significant; one in ten citizens claimed to be a follower of this Jewish splinter group. He settled disputes for different Christian factions who accused each other of falsehoods, and must have felt that this religion was emerging as the domi nant force. Constantine earned the title that history was to confer upon him - 'Constantine the Great'. He hatched his plan and executed it immaculately. At the time there were two emperors, with Constantine ruling the west and Licinius the east and when Constantine put it to his counterpart that all monotheists should no longer be persecuted, Licinius readily agreed. As these persecutions had al l but stopped anyway, Licinius must have been puzzled as to why Constantine should suddenly be so interested in the well-being of accepted cults such as Christianity. He found out shortly afterwards when Constantine accused him of reneging on the agreement and had him murdeTf",d on the basis of protecting the religious freedoms of his citizens. Constantine immediately became the one and only Emperor with the full backing of the increasingly vocal and influential cult of Christ. This was clearly an excellent route to maintaining order and engendering cohesion and Constantine must have felt that it deserved further development. There were two obstacles to 62 Ihis strategy: firstly, there were still too many religions active generally and, in particular. within the army; secondly, Christians themselves were in such disagreement that they seemed in danger of splitting up into different faiths. Constantine's solution was dazzlingly brilliant. Although he was still a devotee of the Sol Invictus religion. Constantine convened the first international council of Christians to establish, once and for all, a single, official view concerning the Christian cult and their Jewish prophet Jesus the Christ. He brought church leaders from every part of the ancient world including Spain, Fmnce, Egypt, Persia, Syria, Annenia and the Holy Land itself. Because the Christians were by far the most vocal sect of the Empire, this council held at Nicaea (now Iznik) in Turkey, amounted to a de facto parliament of the new, united Empire. The event was superbly staged-managed: Constantine sat at the centre with the bishops sitting around him so that his authority was stamped on all discussions. The Emperor thus positioned himself as the 'current' Christ with his disciples in attendance and, as later legend held, the power of the Holy Ghost was also present, acting through the man who was to be the founder of the Church. Constantine was principally interested in two things: the God of the Christians, whom he saw as a manifestation of his existing sun god; and the figure of Jesus the Christ, whom he saw as a Jewish messiah,just as he was, he felt, the messiah of the Empire. He considered Jesus to be a warlike and sacred figure like himself who fought to establish God's rule; but whereas the Jewish king had failed, he had not. Ever since the time of Constantine. Christians have viewed him as a great leader of the faith who defeated the heretics..,A stOry was soonJ2ld of his co e i..onJo Christianily.....w.hen at the Battle of Milvian Bridge: the Emperor foUQwed an instru5,!ion receiv ~ .! n a ro hetic d -Mi1 painted the ~ mbol of the true God on the shields of hi ~ y. Following Constantine's later involvement with the Christians it was assumed that this image must have been the sacred Greek letters 'chi ' and 'rho', the first two letters of the word 'Christos'.1!oweve(, as Constantine never became Christian the image on those shields was almost certainly the blazing u fJUs 'rrue:&
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