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Hope you got lots of
candy for Halloween. So which mask was placed on Judas? Dr.
Yitzhaq I. Hayut-Man puts an apple in your pillow sack.
Watch out for the razor blade.
Dr. Yitzhaq I.
Hayut-Man is author of The Truth About Judas:
Mysteries of the Judas Code Revealed
http://www.amazon.com/Truth-About-Judas-Mysteries-Revealed/dp/1933754028
Book description from Amazon.com:
Judas as the Greatest Disciple of
Jesus:
Judas means one thing throughout literature
and throughout the history of the Christian Church. -
"Traitor." Dr. Yitzhaq I. Hayut-Man, working with the
newly-discovered Judas Gospel published in 2006 by National
Geographic Society, demonstrates Judas to be anything but a
traitor. In those pages he is, instead, the disciple whom Jesus
chooses for his moment of ecstasy and martyrdom on the cross. --
"But you will exceed all of them. For you will sacrifice the
man that clothes me," Christ says to Judas in that Gospel.
Christian Gnosis as the Basis for Understanding Judas
How could this traitor possibly be a saint?
At the time of Christ and in the centuries afterward,
Christianity faced a competing system known as Gnosis (which
means "direct knowledge.") The Christian Church
emphasizes doctrine. Gnosis emphasizes direct experience of the
divine. In the light of Gnostic teachings, this disciple was
capable of supreme acts of obedience and devotion. He was a
direct knower of God and, as such, could be the one to do for
Christ what no others would do.
As Christ says to Judas in the Judas
Gospel, "You will become the thirteenth, and you will be
cursed by the other generations (i.e. those of the disciples and
of the orthodox Church) - and you will come to rule over them. In
the last days they will curse your ascent (or transfiguration) to
the holy [generation]."
The Qaballah As Source and Validity for
Christian:
Gnosis If Gnosis were simply something new
at the time of Christ, it might seem to be merely a movement that
arose and failed. However, Hayut-Man shows, Gnosis is a later
form of the widely known and respected Jewish Qaballah. The
Christian Church may have repudiated mystical doctrines like
those in the Judas Gospel, but the world has known them in many
forms. And one of the best-known of all of those forms is the
Jewish Qaballah.
Signaling Another Type of Apocalypse:
Now may be the time of fulfillment for
Christ's words, "you will come to rule over them." The
Judas Gospel might usher in nothing less than an anti-Apocalypse,
a new time of harmony and peace where Jews, Christians, and
Muslims enjoy the direct experience of God through teachings in
the Qaballah, in sacred Muslim writings, and - most clearly and
most recently - in the 2000-year-old Gospel of Judas.
About the Author
Dr. Yitzhaq Hayut-Man is an Israeli cyber-architect, biblical
scholar, professor/lecturer and the grandson of one of the five
founders of Tel Aviv, and of lineage of a Hassidic saint that
leads back to King David. He has worked with Buckminster Fuller
and wrote the play "The Gospel of Judith Iscariot". He
has published over 20 scientific papers and was featured in Wired
Magazine.
An interview
with Dr. Yitzhaq Hayut-Man
Christ a Master of Jewish Mysticism
Monday, 16 April 2007
http://www.truthaboutjudas.com/main/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=30
1. Jim Meade: The
book has a tremendous amount of material about Qaballah, and yet
it is about Jesus. Do you think
Jesus was a student of Qabbalah?
Yitzhaq Hayut-Man: No. Jesus could not have been "a student
of Qabbalah" - a term that appeared only by the 11th or
12th century - but he was very likely a master of the Jewish
mystical practices of his time. These practices have gone
underground with the split between Judaism and Christianity, but
they survived and resurfaced as "Qabbalah" a
thousand years later (when these two religions were already well
set in their structure) to be accepted as the true religion
of Israel.
For the people who followed Jesus, he was primarily a healer and
miracle-worker, and possibly the waited-for Jewish
Messiah (which was a very different figure than what became the
Christian Messiah figure). We know that at that period,
there were people called Hassidim - "The Pious Ones"
who would heal and work miracles (especially as rainmakers).
From the little written about them it seems that they were
withdrawn and would pray for many hours each day.
The Character of Jesus in "The Gospel of Judas" comes
and goes from and into a different "space" and is able
to conjure
clouds, so this fits the pattern. The one constant and
outstanding feature of all Jewish mysticism for literally
thousands of
years is the reverence to (even obsession with) the
Tetragrammaton, the Holy Name of four letters as appears in the
original Hebrew Scriptures and which the common people were
advised not to pronounce. For the Qabbalah masters
(Mequbalim), the whole Creation, in its most exalted form, was
envisioned as a weave of the letters of the Divine Name.
The healers among them were called Ba'ale Shem - "Masters of
the Divine Name".
Now in the Gospel of Judas, Judas is the only one of the
disciples (namely, the would-be Christian Establishment) who
knows where Jesus comes from - "You have come from the
Blessed Domain of Barbelo" - which I have interpreted as
"with/through these Four", namely the Tetragrammaton -
"and you were sent by the one whose Name I should not
pronounce" - clearly the Tetragrammaton, in Hebrew haShem.
In "The Gospel of Judas", Jesus is a Gnostic master.
The current opinion of many researchers is that Gnosticism rose
from Jewish mysticism as from Hellenic reaction to Judaism, and
not all Gnostics were Christians. The Gnostic Jesus of
the Gospel of Judas (which is likely a 2nd century document)
fiercely opposes that which was getting established by then
as orthodox Christianity, and trusts only Judas - who was already
vilified by the Church as the proverbial Jew. So "the
True Jesus" is thereby identified with esoteric Judaism
obsessed with the Divine Name, which developed to the
Qabbalah. The reason I brought so much Qabbalah into this book is
to allow the reader to get into what this True Jesus
would believe. Whereas Gnosticism was soon terminated and died,
the esoteric Judaism became a continuous living
tradition which is
2. Jim Meade: You suggest in the book that the Christian church
has failed. You are an Israeli and a Jew. Has the Jewish
formal religion failed as well?
Yitzhaq Hayut-Man: The Gnostic stance would be that practically
all religious establishments would become a failure. I
once heard a tale attributed to Krishnamurti that captures this
stance. In it, the devil and a companion were walking one
day on a country road and beheld a man stooping down. But then he
found something in the dust, picked it and started
dancing with joy. "What did that man find there?" the
companion asked and the devil said that he found The Truth.
"Are
you not worried? Now that he found it, what will happen to
us?" But the devil answered complacently "Don't worry,
I am
just going to catch up with him and help him to organize
it". In the book I suggested that Christianity did became
entangled with the concept (and thus the influence) of the devil
from its start (and there is no question that so was Islam).
I have met a few high ranking priests and nuns (and a couple of
Moslems) who thought that their religion was indeed led
by the Opposition, and I find that Judaism is amazing in its
tendency to do the opposite of what was intended.
Yet in this light, Judaism has a paradoxical advantage over
Christianity and Judaism - that it has not yet got its fair
chance, so it has not yet proved a failure. Faced now, at long
last, with the challenge of the resurrected Israel, Judaism
might fail. However, the very name "Israel" conjures
something more inclusive than "Judaism" and possibly
beyond it,
which I'll need another book to present. At any rate, I
personally have inquired the mystical side of Christianity and
Islam
and still found Judaism to be the most intellectually interesting
and spiritually challenging religion I've come across. I
have not advocated conversion to Judaism, in this book or
elsewhere. But I recommend paying attention to the wisdom
that can be gleaned from Judaism. In this, Jacob's blessing
"Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall thank"
(Gen.
49:8) would be fulfilled.
3. Jim Meade: You suggest that the Judas Gospel may have been
written for our time. Are you suggesting that God hid it
until now and is bringing it out?
Yitzhaq Hayut-Man: A former speaker of the Knesset (the Israeli
Parliament), Avrum Burg, wrote a book titled "God has
come back". This fits the common Jewish belief that for the
last 2000 years, God's Presence has been absent (and if so,
it could even be claimed that much of the development in religion
everywhere has been away from God). According to
the Qabbalah towards the time of the Redemption (latest by the
end of the Sixth Hebrew millennium - which is now), all
the hidden things will be revealed. There is a long intellectual
history of Europeans turning to Egypt for the revelation of
ancient mysteries and it is strong now. So perhaps even the
location of this find is no accident. My dear colleague, British
author John Michell concluded his book "The Temple at
Jerusalem: a Revelation" in this vein: "The revelation
( was to
come about when it was needed, in response to the generation's
desire for 'healing of nations', and in God's good time. It
seems likely that the time has come".
4. Jim Meade: Can you answer this ? yes?or-no? - Was Judas Jesus'
twin?
Yitzhaq Hayut-Man: Yes, his "Spiritual Twin". This is
what counted for the Gnostics, to be a spiritual brother of
Jesus. But
to be even the twin brother of Jesus would be by becoming
"Judah-Ish Krayot", denizen of "the City of
God".
5. Jim Meade: So many millions of people for 2,000 years have
believed that Judas was a traitor and that he was evil,
including priests and popes and saints. Could all these people
have been wrong?
Yitzhaq Hayut-Man: I never believed that whatever the great
majority of people believe is therefore true, quite the
contrary in fact. Regarding Judas as the evil traitor, however,
was synonymous with anti-Semitism (in Hebrew anti-
Shemiyut - literally "opposing the Name"). As I see it,
a Christian anti-Semite (or anti-Zionist), be this a crowd,
laymen,
priests or a pope, is wrong, and in a real sense even a traitor
to Christ. Thus the exoneration of Judas might spell a new
and better age (eon) for Christianity.
6. Jim Meade: Was Christ a virgin birth?
Yitzhaq Hayut-Man: I don't know much about virgin births and
doubt whether there can be a human pregnancy without
insemination. I recall a pagan Greek mythical story of a lady
named Leda being inseminated by Jupiter who took the form
of a swan. Seems that belief in virgin birth inseminated by God
is a hallmark of the paganism that permeated the nascent
Christianity. Certainly this belief contradicts the very first
words of the Gospels (Matthew 1:1-16) that Jesus was a scion
of King David. Curiously, virgin birth is actually discussed in
the Talmud, as if it was a practical question ? "whether a
virgin who became pregnant is permitted for the high
priest", and it is deemed there possible for a virgin to
become
pregnant at the bathhouse (i.e., from seed left by masturbators).
So perhaps this would also permit Joseph to marry a
pregnant virgin Mary?