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To: Poet who wrote (6615)	4/3/2002 4:44:19 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 21057

I think Martyrdom seems to be a necessary prerequisite for some truth to be known , back in history. (And for--->toooo many Moslems today.<g> I think without the body of science at their disposal , many wise men were disposed to discourse on an eternal theme the best way they knew how in the arena of moral and conscious living . They were hopeless to know much other than this in that time . That Jesus saw injustice and duplicity , falseness of the way people were living , and selfishness, greed and fear the predominate and posturing for holiness abounding around him , he was passionately stirred. Enough so to eventually Martyr himself for that vision of hope that men would open their eyes and see a better order. (Cosmic order if you will ;-) The priests of his day were mostly all bought off by the Romans , and that was disquieting to him. In that framework of Mosaic law and that purer vision of the prophets preceding him , along withthat body of sensitivity to a way of living more righteously and growing more attuned to a higher law . The "Law of God" of the prophets of his tribe. (others in other lands also saw this too...) Well poet , that thought and feeling of some "divine order" Dharma , and man's destiny to become more aware of the divine experience we call life was his message . To try and fulfill that Dharma and live more simply, with charity , and righteously. I have one sensation always when I think of Jesus , and that was his experience with the great Temple in Jerusalem and the inordinate wealth of the priests who maintained the animal sacrifices there and took payments while the people starved and suffered . I know that he knew long before the day would come that he would go back into that city and sacrifice himself . Everyday that he wandered teaching around the sea of Galilea gathering converts he must have been thinking of this very final act , whenever he heard the word "Temple " mentioned . And he did fulfill his destiny . The vision lives on...his truth became the Temple. Much like Buddha. PS: Do you know that they sacrificed almost 10,000 goats and sheep to Jehova there in one day ?