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(augmented and re-worked) Sejanus and Hillel the Elder by Andy P. Antippas Andy P. Antippas My name is Sejanus. They say I died in Your Years 31, but it was in Your Years 36 I died, one year before my master, Tiberius Caesar. My personal prowess as a soldier has allowed me to push through all the Spirits trying to prevent my descent and my message. Despite my military interests, I was always interested in philosophy and I was a good friend of Hillel the Elder, the Jewish Platonist who taught Greek philosophy in Jerusalem from 10 to 45 Your Years. However, my life was one of flattery and sensuality and I do not think my information will carry weight and I have therefore escorted Hillel through the fiendish Christian Spirits. I will tell you now, the only Jesus he knows of was one Jesus Malatheel, an Essene, who was crucified by the Jews for thievery and insurgency along with two of his fellows. I have done... allow Hillel to speak for himself. My thanks to you, my good friend. My name is Hillel called the Elder. Sejanus is correct concerning Malatheel: his brother Joseph stole the body back that night becausen the Sadducees desecrated the Essene dead. I am a Pharisee and taught from the beginning of Your Years to the year 45, principally in Jerusalem. I did study the works of Plato and his school and tried to infiltrate some of their ideas into my teachings, but dispite the river of ideas flowing from Alexandria and our Greek brethrens, my fellow Jews preferred their arid bigotry and intolerance and they would not entertain any news from elsewhere. The years in which I taught were filled with crisises for us Jews and there were many messiahs who stepped forth to rescue us: Zerubbabel ben Shealtied, for example, and Jeshua ben Jozadak. There was one Essene, Menahem, from Bethlehem, who cause great distress with his delusions of grandeur, very much like that imaginary Jesus. When Menahem tried to involve myself and others in his disastrous plots, I personally sent him away. He sought to take advantage of Herod’s death and in 4 before Your Years, he attempted to war against the Roman eagle. Quintilius Varus swooped down upon us from Syria and slew Menahem and 160 armed followers, and all the other Jews they could find. The Romans left Menahem’s body unburied in the streets for three days as a warning. His body festered and rotted until it was swept away, but his zealous followers insisted that he had been translated to the right hand of Jehovah. It is clear that those who wrote the imaginary biographies of the imaginary Jesus remembered this event. In point of fact, one of those named John has his Jesus say, at a seder with his own followers, that he would ask Jehovah to send them “another Paraclete” when he was gone. That is the Greek word for our Hebrew word for “comforter,” menahem. But if those who follow this Jesus are deluded about their messiah, it is only because their priests learned everything from our Rabbis. We have it written in our Mishna, after all, that there are four thoughts forbidden to all Jews, except for the Rabbis: “What is above, what is beneath, what was before time, and what will be hereafter”—that is a prohibition about any speculation whatsoever—unless you are in the company of a Rabbi. We have to envy the Greeks—who may have never gotten anywhere with their philosophizing—but at least they were free to think. Our priesthood tied up our people in useless rituals and The Law—we made them nervous about meat, superstitious about the Sabbath, about washing, about household implements, about new moons, fasting, feasting, sacrifice, and that quackery about circumcision. We kept them isolated from alien ideas, and made them look everywhere instead for signs. We deluded them about their past and their future. Our great prophets ridiculed all these ways and we slew them. We kept their texts, not to learn from them, but as lessons to anyone else who would dare to challenge the authority of the Rabbis. The truth is there for all to see —we are inflexible. Emperor Hadrian, that pervert, will finally make Jerusalem a gentile city and reduce the Temple Mount to ruins. We were not privileged or chosen, except for desolation. Return to Main Page © Copyright 2000-2003 Barrister's Gallery and Dr. Andy P. Antippas For information send email to aantippas@aol.com
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