The Dalamatian Civilization: The First Civilization on Earth, Developed Under a Super Human Supervisory Team!

Some time ago I wrote about the origin of human beings on earth nearly a million years ago [BC 991474 to be precise!] and the first parents of human race were a pair of twins, one male and another female, now named to be known as Andon and Fonta.[ Read about the origin of the first humans in this blog] However, our human scientists have been arguing with their theories based on their analysis of fossils they had collected from here and there. According to them humans beings got evolved on earth some 200,000 years ago, while not so developed humanoids evolved some 2.5 million years ago. 

But human scientists are arguing with their theories and that are after all theories while what I have written was based on facts revealed by some immortal personalities who have been witnessing and supervising the human evolutionary progress. This too is some thing non digestible to the human scientists. [Read this wikipedia article about the scientific views about human evolution].

We cannot blame them because they can do their experiments only on observable things and evidences. They have not yet progressed to such levels that they are capable of conducting experiments on super material existences! Perhaps our scientists would agree to theorize on such phenomena in some later years so that super material phenomena too would become part of human scientific studies!  

Now, the descendants of Andon were the primitive peoples of earth called the Andonites.[Read more about Andon and Fonta in this Blog ] Andonites were the primitive tribals of earth, many of whom were not much developed than their animal cousins. Of course they had better developed abilities to live in a hostile environment than many of us now living in the 21st century.

In another blog I wrote about the evolution of the colored races of earth from the Andonites. This happened by another evolutionary change that occurred in the genetic structure in one family of the later day Andonites some half a million years ago. They are known as the Sangik races. [Read about the evolution of colored races on earth in this blog] This genetic mutation in the children happened in a much progressed human family living in the Indian sub continent somewhere near the present day Afghanistan. 

As per the universal plan of creation and development of human like beings in any planet in the universe, the creative agencies of God use the technique of controlled evolution. This is one of the technique adopted to get mighty future personalities of the universe who become perfect and mighty through varied life experiences from an initial weak and imperfect origin. In this process, there are also chances that the originally created human personality losing his or her individual existence. This happens when the individual is not careful enough to use his or her God given wisdom to live a life which is justifiable according to the universal laws of God. It is God's mandate that all humans created are inherently will creatures (living beings capable of taking their own decisions) and God or His agencies would not interfere with human will at any time!

But God has also mandated that human beings be given all assistance for their cultural progress at appropriate times by some of  those orders of beings who are more advanced in knowledge in a progressive manner matching with the evolutionary progress of human intellectual capacities. 

According to this plan, any evolutionary world in the universe similar to earth would get a super mortal ruler when the evolutionary primitive human beings multiply in population to a few million and when some of them are fully developed physically and biologically to grasp higher ideas. Though this super mortal ruler would be normally invisible to the humans, this ruler might use a group of advanced humans from other planets who lived justifiably and died but provided the opportunity to live again and advance their lives in some advanced form of living in some other advanced worlds. 

Accordingly, our earth also got its super mortal ruler some half-a-million years ago near about the times when the Sangik races evolved from the Andonites. This super mortal ruler of earth is an order of an intelligent non material being known as as Caligastia (this name is for our purpose of identification. Know more about the plans of God about evolutionary worlds in this blog ) 

Caligastia having a non material form is not visible to human visual senses and therefore there was a need to have some volunteers who are both visible to Caligastia and the humans to act as intermediaries between the new celestial ruler of earth and its evolutionary human tribes. These intermediaries by appearance had to look more or less similar to human beings and they should also had to be experienced with human nature. 

Thus such intermediaries in every evolutionary planet would be a group of volunteers drawn from a lot of one time humans who lived and died in some planets and had been successful to advance to a higher form of living in some other advanced worlds. 

Caligastia got 100 such volunteers to function as his staff. They are identified as the corporeal staff (aids with bodies similar to humans) of the celestial planetary ruler of earth. In fact they were 50 male-female couples who were given synthesized human bodies developed from the genetic cell plasm of some of the humans of earth living at that time. The work of de-materialized transfer of these volunteers and giving them human bodies were effected by various orders of living beings having requisite capabilities for doing such tasks.

Caligastia had also subordinates who were celestials of various orders invisible to humans. He and his subordinates established their headquarters in a region in Asia identified as Dalamatia ( the region now known as Mesopotamia)

The Celestials with the assistance of their intermediaries (the corporeal staff) began to select the Andonite and Sangik races of earth now in millions in the Asian African lands and began to train them in various fields of knowledge. For the earthly evolutionary humans, the corporeal staff of 100 were like gods as the latter did not die before them while the former died. The corporeal staff were supervising the humans of those days for many generations. These corporeal staff are also known as the Caligastia-One-Hundred.

The corporeal staff were divided into ten groups consisting of 5 couples selected by Caligastia, each group responsible for a special function. These ten groups were to train and teach the humans about various aspects of living such as the following:

1. The Council on Food and Materials- Leader Name, Ang

2. The Board of Animal Domestication and Utilization- Leader name, Bon

3. The Advisary Group on Predatory animals- Leader name, Dan

4. The Faculty of Knowledge Preservation and Dissemination- Leader name, Fad

5. The Commission on Industry and Trade- Leader name, Nod

6. The Teachers of Knowledge about God and Worship- Leader name, Hap

7. The Group on Health and Life- Leader name, Lut

8. The Council or Art and Science- Leader name, Mek

9. The Governors of Tribal Relations- Leader name, Tut

10 The Supreme Court of Racial Coordination- Leader name, Van

The Caligastia corporeal staff were in reality not humans of earth. They looked like any other Andonite and spoke their tribal language. But they were superior beings. They were intermediaries between invisible celestials representing the universe government of God and the evolutionary primitive humans. Some of the humans were having the potential to live again after death and progress in their life to become later day mighty celestial personalities of God in some other parts of the universe.

The corporeal staff members had the following special features or abilities:

1. They had dual body characteristics. They had human bodies with superior acquired mind qualities and capabilities. They could see and communicate with their celestial superiors as well as with the humans around them. The primitive humans also could see them and communicate with them.

2. Their bodies were not made by birth in the natural evolutionary manner, but were constructed by special techniques. They did not age or die as was the case with the humans. So the humans held them in high regard and revered them in awe.

3. They were one time humans in some other worlds similar to earth, but had died long before and survived their physical death to continue their lives in some other advanced form and were in the process of advancement towards attaining their mighty status before God. In fact they had survived seven stages of life after their material death and had acquired a status of citizenship in the headquarter world of about 619 planets including earth, called Jerusem.[ A real existence and not any myth!]

4. They were both male and females and were capable of reproducing other beings in their new existence as the corporeal staff of Caligastia on earth. But they were prevented from sexual reproduction. However, they were in a position to create a type of non material living beings by a different kind of mind or soul union. This way each couple of the corporeal staff became parents to 1000 non material beings now known as the primary midwayers of earth. These primary midwayers whose number is 50,000 are a permanent order of living beings of earth ever since they came into existence. They are not visible to humans under normal circumstances. [Know more about them in this blog which discussed about the reality of facts about ghosts]

5. They were one-time humans of some other material world such as earth and had acquired the immortal status  and had seven advanced life experiences before they became volunteer teachers to the ancient tribal humans of earth some 200,000 years ago. They had superior knowledge but they also knew the technique of slow and patient teaching techniques they should adopt for their earth pupils. They knew very well the dangers of forcible and fast teaching such as some impatient methods of curriculum loading being adopted by some modern public schools of the 20th and 21 centuries in some countries!

The following were some of the things that the ten groups taught the ancient people of earth through their leadership and training activities that went on for many centuries some 500,000 years ago which caused the first ever human civilization to take root, in and around the present day Mesopotamian region on earth, which is now designated as the Dalamatian civilization:

1. The people learnt to make neat and clean homes made of bricks. They learnt working with fire and to use fire for making various useful objects with clay and metals.

2. They were taught the importance of family and equality of men and women at work.

3. They were taught the importance of imparting education (transfer of knowledge and skills and thinking) to future generations.

4. They were taught about the concepts of God and the concepts of the non-human supreme nature of about the unseen God who is father of all.(the supreme father-Parampita and Supreme Spirit- Paramatma concepts)

5. They were taught about the seven fundamental moral laws that the Supreme Spirit Father God favors: These seven fundamental laws or moral commandments were:

- You shall not fear or serve any god but your Supreme Spirit Father (Parampita)
- You shall not disobey the representatives of the Supreme Spirit Father on earth
- You shall not tell a lie when called for by the judges of the people
- You shall not kill any men, women or children
- You shall not steal any thing of others
- You shall not desire or touch the wife of others
- You shall not show disrespect to your parents or elders.

The Dalamatian culture went on undisturbed for more than 300,000 years slowly and effectively. But some 200,000 years ago some unfortunate things happened that caused earth a disturbed, spoiled and confused world. And that was when Caligastia decided to deviate from the mandates of the universal divine administration of Paramatma  in support of his boss who was the celestial system administrator ruling from the heavenly headquarter world of Jerusem at that time. [I had discussed about this misfortune that struck earth some 200,000 years ago in this blog]

The Dalamation civilization of earth began to show effects of corruption and other evil practices there after and it began to disintegrate beyond recognition. Earth fell into a long era of cultural decadency.

Out of the ten groups of corporeal staff of Caligastia, a good majority decided to follow Caligastia either wholeheartedly or  with some initial reluctance. The following were the ones that shifted their alliance from the universal administration of God to the local independent rule as declared by Caligastia:

1. The Board of animal husbandry lead by Bon the group on predatory animals led by Dan
2. Council of industry and trade lead by Nod
3.  The group responsible for health led by Lut
4. The group for tribal welfare and relations lead by Tut
5.  Few members from the group of food and food materials

In all sixty of the 100 remained loyal to Caligastia while forty under the leadership of Van remained loyal to the Universal administration of God. 

The group led by Van remained on earth for many thousand years till the arrival of Adam and Eve some 38,000 years ago. This group worked hard to preserve the knowledge and worship of Paramatma and the original moral code from not getting lost entirely from earth. This group were facilitated to return back to the heavenly abode from where they first took up the assignment to become earth volunteers.

The rebel sixty corporeal staff who remained as supporters of the rebel celestial ruler of earth, Caligastia were under the leadership of Nod. Since they rebelled, their power to live indefinitely had lost and they were degraded to the status of mortal humans of earth. Caligastia had known the fate of these super humans. Yet he advised them to resort to sexual reproduction to increase their numbers. And the mortal descendants they had ever since were the people called the Nodites. The Nodites had the privilege of knowing many superior knowledge from their one time super human parents. All the rebel corporeal staff members including Nod and their mortal descendants faced permanent death eventually on earth.

A large group of the the primary midwayers (non material, immortal children of the corporeal staff present on earth) and a large group of secondary midwayers (who came into existence much later) became followers of the local celestial ruler of earth. So also a large group of celestial assistants originally present with Caligastia). This group of celestials and their celestial head, Caligastia, are still living on earth invisible to humans. However, since they have gone against the source of universal life and energy, they would face eventual end of their lives in the course of time in the future.

Earth became isolated from the universal administration of God ever since. However the universal administration of God is patiently watching over the developments and intervening in some limited manner in the affairs of earth from time to time. 

About 38000 years ago, Adam and Eve were sent to earth to save earth from total decadency. They could not succeed in their mission fully [Read about it in this blog about the mission of Adam and Eve] Even the super mortal material beings, Adam and Eve fell in to the clever trap of Caligastia and spoiled the plan of the universal administration to improve the spoiled situation of earth. Adam and Eve too had to face death on earth. They were supposed to live for many many centuries as the visible rulers and parental guides to all humans till the humans advanced to highest levels of maturity and knowledge. But that did not happen that way. Before he died Adam married 1682 Nodite women and the progeny he got through these women later became the Andite race of earth.

The universal administration curtailed many powers of Caligastia about 2000 years ago and appointed some celestial receivers to look after the affairs of earth in some limited manner ever since. However, earth is still not connected back to the universal administration of God. 

It is expected that it would happen in the near future within a few centuries.Before that major catastrophe  are likely as a result of the deeds of evil minded people whose numbers are rising. Because the universal law of God reminds that the final outcome of evil any where is destruction! All people who resort to evil practices knowingly without remorse would end up in permanent destruction without any possibility of their souls surviving death or they getting the chance of their personalities to survive for future adventures through the future ages. Their fate would be like the plants and animals which decorated the land surfaces for some short duration!

Remember, the Dalamatian civilization which continued for 300,000 years on earth got wiped out without any traces from the face of earth. So also all the other civilizations. Because all those civilizations adopted great errors and evils. They followed a culture of good and bad at the same time. And the divine mandate is that good and bad cannot go simultaneously for long.

On the other hand, when people learn to adopt good wholeheartedly, their earthly civilization would progress immensely and earth would achieve the highest civilization possible called the civilization of light and life much faster. All people who willfully decided to be good and follow good would proceed to their higher levels of existence  to become experienced and mighty personalities of the future. They would take up greater and challenging assignments of various types in the innumerable other worlds in the universal administration of God.

One day such individuals are going to become Mighty Messengers of God with such powers and capabilities that they can never imagine or comprehend now.

Is it not something great?

[Based on the teachings of the Urantia Book]

   

Death of Jesus on the Cross: A True Non-Biblical Narration !

[Please read the earlier parts of this narration by going to the previous blogs. You may click the ' Older Posts' link at the bottom end of this blog for reading the earlier parts of this narrative. In this blog you may read the true narration about the death of Jesus Christ, affectionately referred as the Master, on the cross which happened in the after noon on Friday, the 7th April, AD 30.]

Crucifixion was resorted to in order to provide a cruel and lingering punishment, the victim sometimes not dying for several days. There was considerable sentiment against crucifixion in Jerusalem, and there existed a society of Jewish women who always sent a representative to crucifixions for the purpose of offering drugged wine to the victim in order to lessen his suffering.

But when Jesus tasted this narcotized wine, as thirsty as he was, he refused to drink it.

The Master chose to retain his human consciousness until the very end. He desired to meet death, even in this cruel and inhuman form, and conquer it by voluntary submission to the full human experience.

Before Jesus was put on his cross, the two brigands had already been placed on their crosses, all the while cursing and spitting upon their executioners. Jesus’ only words, as they nailed him to the crossbeam, were,

“Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.”

He could not have so mercifully and lovingly interceded for his executioners if such thoughts of affectionate devotion had not been the mainspring of all his life of unselfish service. The ideas, motives, and longings of a lifetime are openly revealed in a crisis.

After the Master was hoisted on the cross, the captain nailed the title up above his head, and it read in three languages.

“Jesus of Nazareth—the King of the Jews.”

The Jews were infuriated by this believed insult. But Pilate was chafed by their disrespectful manner; he felt he had been intimidated and humiliated, and he took this method of obtaining petty revenge.

He could have written “Jesus, a rebel.” But he well knew how these Jerusalem Jews detested the very name of Nazareth, and he was determined thus to humiliate them. He knew that they would also be cut to the very quick by seeing this executed Galilean called “The King of the Jews.”

Many of the Jewish leaders, when they learned how Pilate had sought to deride them by placing this inscription on the cross of Jesus, hastened out to Golgotha, but they dared not attempt to remove it since the Roman soldiers were standing on guard. Not being able to remove the title, these leaders mingled with the crowd and did their utmost to incite derision and ridicule, lest any give serious regard to the inscription.

The Apostle John, with Mary the mother of Jesus, Ruth, and Jude, arrived on the scene just after Jesus had been hoisted to his position on the cross, and just as the captain was nailing the title above the Master’s head.

John was the only one of the eleven apostles to witness the crucifixion, and even he was not present all of the time since he ran into Jerusalem to bring back his mother and her friends soon after he had brought Jesus’ mother to the scene.

As Jesus saw his mother, with John and his brother and sister, he smiled but said nothing.

Meanwhile the four soldiers assigned to the Master’s crucifixion, as was the custom, had divided his clothes among them, one taking the sandals, one the turban, one the girdle, and the fourth the cloak.

This left the tunic, or seamless vestment reaching down to near the knees, to be cut up into four pieces, but when the soldiers saw what an unusual garment it was, they decided to cast lots for it.

Jesus looked down on them while they divided his garments, and the thoughtless crowd jeered at him.

It was well that the Roman soldiers took possession of the Master’s clothing. Otherwise, if his followers had gained possession of these garments, they would have been tempted to resort to superstitious relic worship.

The Master desired that his followers should have nothing material to associate with his life on earth. He wanted to leave mankind only the memory of a human life dedicated to the high spiritual ideal of being consecrated to doing the Father’s will.

At about half past nine o’clock this Friday morning, Jesus was hung upon the cross.

Before eleven o'clock, upward of one thousand persons had assembled to witness this spectacle of the crucifixion of the Son of Man.

Throughout these dreadful hours the unseen hosts of a universe stood in silence while they gazed upon this extraordinary phenomenon of the Creator as he was dying the death of the creature, even the most ignoble death of a condemned criminal.

Standing near the cross at one time or another during the crucifixion were Mary, Ruth, Jude, John, Salome (John’s mother), and a group of earnest women believers including Mary the wife of Clopas and sister of Jesus’ mother, Mary Magdalene, and Rebecca, onetime of Sepphoris. These and other friends of Jesus held their peace while they witnessed his great patience and fortitude and gazed upon his intense sufferings.

Many who passed by wagged their heads and, railing at him, said:

“You who would destroy the temple and build it again in three days, save yourself. If you are the Son of God, why do you not come down from your cross?”

In like manner some of the rulers of the Jews mocked him, saying,

“He saved others, but himself he cannot save.”

Others said,

“If you are the king of the Jews, come down from the cross, and we will believe in you.”

And later on they mocked him the more, saying:

“He trusted in God to deliver him. He even claimed to be the Son of God—look at him now—crucified between two thieves.”

Even the two thieves also railed at him and cast reproach upon him.

Inasmuch as Jesus would make no reply to their taunts, and since it was nearing noontime of this special preparation day, by half past eleven o’clock most of the jesting and jeering crowd had gone its way; less than fifty persons remained on the scene.

The soldiers now prepared to eat lunch and drink their cheap, sour wine as they settled down for the long deathwatch. As they partook of their wine, they derisively offered a toast to Jesus, saying,

“Hail and good fortune! to the king of the Jews.”

And they were astonished at the Master’s tolerant regard of their ridicule and mocking.

When Jesus saw them eat and drink, he looked down upon them and said,

“I thirst.”

When the captain of the guard heard Jesus say, “I thirst,” he took some of the wine from his bottle and, putting the saturated sponge stopper upon the end of a javelin, raised it to Jesus so that he could moisten his parched lips.

Jesus had purposed to live without resort to his supernatural power, and he likewise elected to die as an ordinary mortal upon the cross. He had lived as a man, and he would die as a man—doing the Father’s will.

One of the brigands railed at Jesus, saying,

“If you are the Son of God, why do you not save yourself and us?”

But when he had reproached Jesus, the other thief, who had many times heard the Master teach, said:

 “Do you have no fear even of God? Do you not see that we are suffering justly for our deeds, but that this man suffers unjustly? Better that we should seek forgiveness for our sins and salvation for our souls.”

When Jesus heard the thief say this, he turned his face toward him and smiled approvingly. When the malefactor saw the face of Jesus turned toward him, he mustered up his courage, fanned the flickering flame of his faith, and said,

“Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom.”

And then Jesus said,

“Verily, verily, I say to you today, you shall sometime be with me in Paradise.”

The Master had time amidst the pangs of mortal death to listen to the faith confession of the believing brigand. When this thief reached out for salvation, he found deliverance.

Many times before this he had been constrained to believe in Jesus, but only in these last hours of consciousness did he turn with a whole heart toward the Master’s teaching.

When he saw the manner in which Jesus faced death upon the cross, this thief could no longer resist the conviction that this Son of Man was indeed the Son of God.

During this episode of the conversion and reception of the thief into the kingdom by Jesus, the Apostle John was absent, having gone into the city to bring his mother and her friends to the scene of the crucifixion. Luke subsequently heard this story from the converted Roman captain of the guard.

The Apostle John told about the crucifixion as he remembered the event two thirds of a century after its occurrence. The other records were based upon the recital of the Roman centurion on duty who, because of what he saw and heard, subsequently believed in Jesus and entered into the full fellowship of the kingdom of heaven on earth.

This young man, the penitent brigand, had been led into a life of violence and wrongdoing by those who extolled such a career of robbery as an effective patriotic protest against political oppression and social injustice. And this sort of teaching, plus the urge for adventure, led many otherwise well-meaning youths to enlist in these daring expeditions of robbery. This young man had looked upon Barabbas as a hero.

Now he saw that he had been mistaken. Here on the cross beside him he saw a really great man, a true hero. Here was a hero who fired his zeal and inspired his highest ideas of moral self-respect and quickened all his ideals of courage, manhood, and bravery. In beholding Jesus, there sprang up in his heart an overwhelming sense of love, loyalty, and genuine greatness.

And if any other person among the jeering crowd had experienced the birth of faith within his soul and had appealed to the mercy of Jesus, he would have been received with the same loving consideration that was displayed toward the believing brigand.

Just after the repentant thief heard the Master’s promise that they should sometime meet in Paradise, John returned from the city, bringing with him his mother and a company of almost a dozen women believers.

John took up his position near Mary the mother of Jesus, supporting her. Her son Jude stood on the other side. As Jesus looked down upon this scene, it was noontide, and he said to his mother,

“Woman, behold your son!”

And speaking to John, he said,

“My son, behold your mother!”

And then he addressed them both, saying,

“I desire that you depart from this place.”

And so John and Jude led Mary away from Golgotha.

[John took the mother of Jesus to the place where he tarried in Jerusalem and then hastened back to the scene of the crucifixion. After the Passover Mary returned to Bethsaida, where she lived at John’s home for the rest of her natural life. Mary did not live quite one year after the death of Jesus.]

After Mary left, the other women withdrew for a short distance and remained in attendance upon Jesus until he expired on the cross, and they were yet standing by when the body of the Master was taken down for burial.

Although it was early in the season for such a phenomenon, shortly after twelve o’clock the sky darkened by reason of the fine sand in the air. The people of Jerusalem knew that this meant the coming of one of those hot-wind sandstorms from the Arabian desert.

Before one o’clock the sky was so dark the sun was hid, and the remainder of the crowd hastened back to the city.

When the Master gave up his life shortly after this hour, less than thirty people were present, only the thirteen Roman soldiers and a group of about fifteen believers.

These believers were all women except two, Jude, Jesus’ brother, and John Zebedee, who returned to the scene just before the Master expired.

Shortly after one o’clock, amidst the increasing darkness of the fierce sandstorm, Jesus began to fail in human consciousness. His last words of mercy, forgiveness, and admonition had been spoken. His last wish—concerning the care of his mother—had been expressed. During this hour of approaching death the human mind of Jesus resorted to the repetition of many passages in the Hebrew scriptures, particularly the Psalms.

The last conscious thought of the human Jesus was concerned with the repetition in his mind of a portion of the Book of Psalms now known as the twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-second Psalm. While his lips would often move, he was too weak to utter the words as these passages, which he so well knew by heart, would pass through his mind.

Only a few times did those standing by catch some utterance, such as,

“I know the Lord will save his anointed,”

“Your hand shall find out all my enemies,” and

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

Jesus did not for one moment entertain the slightest doubt that he had lived in accordance with the Father’s will; and he never doubted that he was now laying down his life in the flesh in accordance with his Father’s will. He did not feel that the Father had forsaken him; he was merely reciting in his vanishing consciousness many Scriptures, among them this twenty-second Psalm, which begins with “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?”

And this happened to be one of the three passages which were spoken with sufficient clearness to be heard by those standing by.

The last request which the mortal Jesus made of his fellows was about half past one o’clock when, a second time, he said,

“I thirst,” and the same captain of the guard again moistened his lips with the same sponge wet in the sour wine, in those days commonly called vinegar.

The sandstorm grew in intensity and the heavens increasingly darkened. Still the soldiers and the small group of believers stood by.

The soldiers crouched near the cross, huddled together to protect themselves from the cutting sand. The mother of John and others watched from a distance where they were somewhat sheltered by an overhanging rock.

When the Master finally breathed his last, there were present at the foot of his cross John Zebedee, his brother Jude, his sister Ruth, Mary Magdalene, and Rebecca, onetime of Sepphoris.

It was just before three o’clock when Jesus, with a loud voice, cried out,

“It is finished! Father, into your hands I commend my spirit.”

And when he had thus spoken, he bowed his head and gave up the life struggle. When the Roman centurion saw how Jesus died, he smote his breast and said:

“This was indeed a righteous man; truly he must have been a Son of God.”

And from that hour he began to believe in Jesus.

Jesus died royally—as he had lived. He freely admitted his kingship and remained master of the situation throughout the tragic day. He went willingly to his ignominious death, after he had provided for the safety of his chosen apostles.

He wisely restrained Peter’s trouble-making violence and provided that John might be near him right up to the end of his mortal existence. He revealed his true nature to the murderous Sanhedrin and reminded Pilate of the source of his sovereign authority as a Son of God.

He started out to Golgotha bearing his own crossbeam and finished up his loving bestowal by handing over his spirit of mortal acquirement to the Paradise Father.

After such a life—and at such a death—the Master could truly say, “It is finished.”

Because this was the preparation day for both the Passover and the Sabbath, the Jews did not want these bodies to be exposed on Golgotha.

Therefore they went before Pilate asking that the legs of these three men be broken, that they be dispatched, so that they could be taken down from their crosses and cast into the criminal burial pits before sundown.

When Pilate heard this request, he forthwith sent three soldiers to break the legs and dispatch Jesus and the two brigands.

When these soldiers arrived at Golgotha, they did accordingly to the two thieves, but they found Jesus already dead, much to their surprise.

However, in order to make sure of his death, one of the soldiers pierced his left side with his spear.

Though it was common for the victims of crucifixion to linger alive upon the cross for even two or three days, the overwhelming emotional agony and the acute spiritual anguish of Jesus brought an end to his mortal life in the flesh in a little less than five and one-half hours.

In the midst of the darkness of the sandstorm, about half past three o’clock, David Zebedee sent out the last of the messengers carrying the news of the Master’s death.

The last of his runners he dispatched to the home of Martha and Mary in Bethany, where he supposed the mother of Jesus stopped with the rest of her family.

After the death of the Master, John sent the women, in the charge of Jude, to the home of Elijah Mark, where they tarried over the Sabbath day.

John himself, being well known by this time to the Roman centurion, remained at Golgotha until Joseph and Nicodemus arrived on the scene with an order from Pilate authorizing them to take possession of the body of Jesus.

Thus ended a day of tragedy and sorrow for a vast universe whose myriads of intelligences had shuddered at the shocking spectacle of the crucifixion of the human incarnation of their beloved Sovereign; they were stunned by this exhibition of mortal callousness and human perversity.

[True narration as told by the invisible authors of the Urantia Book and quoted from it. To know more about it visit urantia-India website. Reproduced for those interested in knowing the details and meaning of the passion of Jesus Christ while the Christians observe the lent season of fasting and prayers in this year, 2013]

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The Trail of Jesus after the Trial and the Lessons: A True Non-Biblical Narration !

[Please read the earlier parts of this narration by going to the previous blogs. You may click the ' Older Posts' link at the bottom end of this blog for reading the earlier parts of this narrative. In this blog you may read the true narration of the main incidences that happened after the final trial of Jesus in the Court of the then Roman Governor of Judea, Pontius Pilate, which happened on the morning hours of Friday, the 7th April, AD 30.]

After Pilate had washed his hands before the multitude, thus seeking to escape the guilt of delivering up an innocent man to be crucified just because he feared to resist the clamor of the rulers of the Jews, he ordered the Master turned over to the Roman soldiers and gave the word to their captain that he was to be crucified immediately.

Upon taking charge of Jesus, the soldiers led him back into the courtyard of the praetorium, and after removing the robe which Herod had put on him, they dressed him in his own garments. These soldiers mocked and derided him, but they did not inflict further physical punishment. Jesus was now alone with these Roman soldiers. His friends were in hiding; his enemies had gone their way; even John Zebedee was no longer by his side.

[Earlier in the day when Pilate had sent the Master (Jesus) to Herod, the Master had requested John Zebedee who was accompanying him to go to his mother Mary. He had requested:

“John, you can do no more for me. Go to my mother and bring her to see me ere I die.”

When John heard his Master’s request, although reluctant to leave him alone among his enemies, he hastened off to Bethany, where the entire family of Jesus was assembled in waiting at the home of Martha and Mary, the sisters of Lazarus whom Jesus raised from the dead.

Several times during the morning, messengers had brought news to Martha and Mary concerning the progress of Jesus’ trial.

But the family of Jesus did not reach Bethany until just a few minutes before John arrived bearing the request of Jesus to see his mother before he was put to death.

After John Zebedee had told them all that had happened since the midnight arrest of Jesus, Mary his mother went at once in the company of John to see her eldest son. (By the time Mary and John reached the city, Jesus, accompanied by the Roman soldiers who were to crucify him, had already arrived at Golgotha.)

When Mary the mother of Jesus started out with John to go to her son, his sister Ruth refused to remain behind with the rest of the family. Since she was determined to accompany her mother, her brother Jude went with her. The rest of the Master’s family remained in Bethany under the direction of James, and almost every hour the messengers of David Zebedee brought them reports concerning the progress of that terrible business of putting to death their eldest brother, Jesus of Nazareth.]

It was a little after eight o’clock when Pilate turned Jesus over to the soldiers and a little before nine o'clock when they started for the scene of the crucifixion.

During this period of more than half an hour Jesus never spoke a word.

The executive business of a great universe was practically at a standstill.

Gabriel (the celestial chief executive) and the chiefs (subordinate rulers) of Nebadon were either assembled here (invisible to the humans)  on Urantia (earth), or else they were closely attending upon the space reports of the archangels in an effort to keep advised as to what was happening to the Son of Man on Urantia (earth).

By the time the soldiers were ready to depart with Jesus for Golgotha, they had begun to be impressed by his unusual composure and extraordinary dignity, by his uncomplaining silence.

Much of the delay in starting off with Jesus for the site of the crucifixion was due to the last-minute decision of the captain to take along two thieves who had been condemned to die; since Jesus was to be crucified that morning, the Roman captain thought these two might just as well die with him as wait for the end of the Passover festivities.

As soon as the thieves could be made ready, they were led into the courtyard, where they gazed upon Jesus, one of them for the first time, but the other had often heard him speak, both in the temple and many months before at the Pella camp.

It was just before nine o’clock this morning when the soldiers led Jesus from the praetorium on the way to Golgotha. They were followed by many who secretly sympathized with Jesus, but most of this group of two hundred or more were either his enemies or curious idlers who merely desired to enjoy the shock of witnessing the crucifixions. Only a few of the Jewish leaders went out to see Jesus die on the cross. Knowing that he had been turned over to the Roman soldiers by Pilate, and that he was condemned to die, they busied themselves with their meeting in the temple, whereat they discussed what should be done with his followers.

Before leaving the courtyard of the praetorium, the soldiers placed the crossbeam on Jesus’ shoulders. It was the custom to compel the condemned man to carry the crossbeam to the site of the crucifixion. Such a condemned man did not carry the whole cross, only this shorter timber. The longer and upright pieces of timber for the three crosses had already been transported to Golgotha and, by the time of the arrival of the soldiers and their prisoners, had been firmly implanted in the ground.

According to custom the captain led the procession, carrying small white boards on which had been written with charcoal the names of the criminals and the nature of the crimes for which they had been condemned. For the two thieves the centurion had notices which gave their names, underneath which was written the one word, “Brigand.” It was the custom, after the victim had been nailed to the crossbeam and hoisted to his place on the upright timber, to nail this notice to the top of the cross, just above the head of the criminal, that all witnesses might know for what crime the condemned man was being crucified.

The legend which the centurion carried to put on the cross of Jesus had been written by Pilate himself in Latin, Greek, and Aramaic, and it read: “Jesus of Nazareth—the king of the Jews.”

Some of the Jewish authorities who were yet present when Pilate wrote this legend made vigorous protest against calling Jesus the "king of the Jews.” But Pilate reminded them that such an accusation was part of the charge which led to his condemnation. When the Jews saw they could not prevail upon Pilate to change his mind, they pleaded that at least it be modified to read, “He said, `I am the king of the Jews.'” But Pilate was adamant; he would not alter the writing. To all further supplication he only replied, “What I have written, I have written.”

Ordinarily, it was the custom to journey to Golgotha by the longest road in order that a large number of persons might view the condemned criminal, but on this day they went by the most direct route to the Damascus gate, which led out of the city to the north, and following this road, they soon arrived at Golgotha, the official crucifixion site of Jerusalem. Beyond Golgotha were the villas of the wealthy, and on the other side of the road were the tombs of many well-to-do Jews.

Crucifixion was not a Jewish mode of punishment. Both the Greeks and the Romans learned this method of execution from the Phoenicians. Even Herod, with all his cruelty, did not resort to crucifixion. The Romans never crucified a Roman citizen; only slaves and subject peoples were subjected to this dishonorable mode of death. During the seige of Jerusalem, just forty years after the crucifixion of Jesus, all of Golgotha was covered by thousands upon thousands of crosses upon which, from day to day, there perished the flower of the Jewish race. A terrible harvest, indeed, of the seed-sowing of this day.

As the death procession passed along the narrow streets of Jerusalem, many of the tenderhearted Jewish women who had heard Jesus’ words of good cheer and compassion, and who knew of his life of loving ministry, could not refrain from weeping when they saw him being led forth to such an ignoble death. As he passed by, many of these women bewailed and lamented. And when some of them even dared to follow along by his side, the Master turned his head toward them and said:

“Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but rather weep for yourselves and for your children. My work is about done—soon I go to my Father—but the times of terrible trouble for Jerusalem are just beginning. Behold, the days are coming in which you shall say: Blessed are the barren and those whose breasts have never suckled their young. In those days will you pray the rocks of the hills to fall on you in order that you may be delivered from the terrors of your troubles.”

These women of Jerusalem were indeed courageous to manifest sympathy for Jesus, for it was strictly against the law to show friendly feelings for one who was being led forth to crucifixion. It was permitted the rabble to jeer, mock, and ridicule the condemned, but it was not allowed that any sympathy should be expressed. Though Jesus appreciated the manifestation of sympathy in this dark hour when his friends were in hiding, he did not want these kindhearted women to incur the displeasure of the authorities by daring to show compassion in his behalf. Even at such a time as this Jesus thought little about himself, only of the terrible days of tragedy ahead for Jerusalem and the whole Jewish nation.

As the Master trudged along on the way to the crucifixion, he was very weary; he was nearly exhausted. He had had neither food nor water since the Last Supper at the home of Elijah Mark; neither had he been permitted to enjoy one moment of sleep. In addition, there had been one hearing right after another up to the hour of his condemnation, not to mention the abusive scourgings with their accompanying physical suffering and loss of blood. Superimposed upon all this was his extreme mental anguish, his acute spiritual tension, and a terrible feeling of human loneliness.

Shortly after passing through the gate on the way out of the city, as Jesus staggered on bearing the crossbeam, his physical strength momentarily gave way, and he fell beneath the weight of his heavy burden.

The soldiers shouted at him and kicked him, but he could not arise.

When the captain saw this, knowing what Jesus had already endured, he commanded the soldiers to desist.

Then he ordered a passerby, one Simon from Cyrene, to take the crossbeam from Jesus’ shoulders and compelled him to carry it the rest of the way to Golgotha.

This man Simon had come all the way from Cyrene, in northern Africa, to attend the Passover. He was stopping with other Cyrenians just outside the city walls and was on his way to the temple services in the city when the Roman captain commanded him to carry Jesus’ crossbeam.

Simon lingered all through the hours of the Master’s death on the cross, talking with many of his friends and with his enemies. After the resurrection and before leaving Jerusalem, he became a valiant believer in the gospel of the kingdom, and when he returned home, he led his family into the heavenly kingdom. His two sons, Alexander and Rufus, became very effective teachers of the new gospel in Africa.But Simon never knew that Jesus, whose burden he bore, and the Jewish tutor who once befriended his injured son, were the same person.

It was shortly after nine o’clock when this procession of death arrived at Golgotha, and the Roman soldiers set themselves about the task of nailing the two brigands and the Son of Man to their respective crosses.

The soldiers first bound the Master’s arms with cords to the crossbeam, and then they nailed his hands to the wood. When they had hoisted this crossbeam up on the post, and after they had nailed it securely to the upright timber of the cross, they bound and nailed his feet to the wood, using one long nail to penetrate both feet. The upright timber had a large peg, inserted at the proper height, which served as a sort of saddle for supporting the body weight.

The cross was not high, the Master’s feet being only about three feet from the ground. He was therefore able to hear all that was said of him in derision and could plainly see the expression on the faces of all those who so thoughtlessly mocked him. And also could those present easily hear all that Jesus said during these hours of lingering torture and slow death.

It was the custom to remove all clothes from those who were to be crucified, but since the Jews greatly objected to the public exposure of the naked human form, the ~ Romans always provided a suitable loin cloth for all persons crucified at Jerusalem. Accordingly, after Jesus’ clothes had been removed, he was thus garbed.

There is no direct relation between the death of Jesus and the Jewish Passover. True, the Master did lay down his life in the flesh on this day, the day of the preparation for the Jewish Passover, and at about the time of the sacrificing of the Passover lambs in the temple.

But this coincidental occurrence does not in any manner indicate that the death of the Son of Man on earth has any connection with the Jewish sacrificial system.

Jesus was a Jew, but as the Son of Man he was a mortal of the realms. The events already narrated and leading up to this hour of the Master’s impending crucifixion are sufficient to indicate that his death at about this time was a purely natural and man-managed affair.

It was man and not God who planned and executed the death of Jesus on the cross.

True, the Father (the Universal Father God) refused to interfere with the march of human events on Urantia, but the Father (the Universal Father God) in Paradise  did not decree, demand, or require the death of his Son as it was carried out on earth.

It is a fact that in some manner, sooner or later, Jesus would have had to divest himself of his mortal body, his incarnation in the flesh, but he could have executed such a task in countless ways without dying on a cross between two thieves.

All of this was man’s doing, not God's.

At the time of the Master’s baptism he had already completed the technique of the required experience on earth and in the flesh which was necessary for the completion of his seventh and last universe bestowal.

At this very time Jesus’ duty on earth was done.

All the life he lived thereafter, and even the manner of his death, was a purely personal ministry on his part for the welfare and uplifting of his mortal creatures on this world and on other worlds.

The gospel of the good news that mortal man may, by faith, become spirit-conscious that he is a son of God, is not dependent on the death of Jesus.

True, indeed, all this gospel of the kingdom has been tremendously illuminated by the Master’s death, but even more so by his life.

All that the Son of Man said or did on earth greatly embellished the doctrines of sonship with God and of the brotherhood of men, but these essential relationships of God and men are inherent in the universe facts of God’s love for his creatures and the innate mercy of the divine Sons.

These touching and divinely beautiful relations between man and his Maker on this world and on all others throughout the universe of universes have existed from eternity; and they are not in any sense dependent on these periodic bestowal enactments of the Creator Sons of God, who thus assume the nature and likeness of their created intelligences as a part of the price which they must pay for the final acquirement of unlimited sovereignty over their respective local universes.

The Father in heaven loved mortal man on earth just as much before the life and death of Jesus on Urantia (earth) as he did after this transcendent exhibition of the copartnership of man and God. This mighty transaction of the incarnation of the God of Nebadon as a man on Urantia (earth) could not augment the attributes of the eternal, infinite, and universal Father but it did enrich and enlighten all other administrators and creatures of the universe of Nebadon.

While the Father in heaven loves us no more because of this bestowal of Michael (celestial order name of Jesus), all other celestial intelligences do. And this is because Jesus not only made a revelation of God to man, but he also likewise made a new revelation of man to the Gods and to the celestial intelligences of the universe of universes.

Jesus is not about to die as a sacrifice for sin. He is not going to atone for the inborn moral guilt of the human race.

Mankind has no such racial guilt before God.

Guilt is purely a matter of personal sin and knowing, deliberate rebellion against the will of the Father and the administration of his Sons.

Sin and rebellion have nothing to do with the fundamental bestowal plan of the Paradise Sons of God, albeit it does appear to us that the salvage plan is a provisional feature of the bestowal plan.

The salvation of God for the mortals of Urantia would have been just as effective and unerringly certain if Jesus had not been put to death by the cruel hands of ignorant mortals.

If the Master had been favorably received by the mortals of earth and had departed from Urantia by the voluntary relinquishment of his life in the flesh, the fact of the love of God and the mercy of the Son—the fact of sonship with God—would have in no wise been affected.

You mortals are the sons of God, and only one thing is required to make such a truth factual in your personal experience, and that is your spirit-born faith.

[True narration as told by the invisible authors of the Urantia Book and quoted from it. To know more about it visit urantia-India website. Reproduced for those interested in knowing the details and meaning of the passion of Jesus Christ while the Christians observe the lent season of fasting and prayers in this year, 2013]

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