mountainman

It will be my thesis that by a process of the mastery
of the technology available to the fourth century (under
Constantine) well presented bound manuscripts of new
and old literature were bound together, and harmonised
at a supreme imperial level.

The technology of the day was the preparation of ms of
literature, and its preservation processes, which included
the act of scribal copyists. Perversion of the old patristic
literature by means of piecemeale interpolation was
engaged (eg: Josephus, Pliny, Tacitus, etc) as well as
wholesale fabrication out of the whole cloth (eg: all
authors who mention "christianity" in the pre-Nicaean
epoch).

For example, our position is that chapter 16 of Porphyry's
Introduction to the Enneads of Plotinus, is a wholesale
interpolation.

The fourth century regime of Constantine wanted to rid
the empire of the traditional Hellenic values, and succeeded
in the mission. The Hellenic literature, particularly that
which would have been then prevalent in the ROman
empire (c.325 CE) was perverted or burnt, suppressed,
along with the authors, followers, etc, etc, etc. This
literature is today now known as the Second Sophistic.

The perversion aimed at history. Key figures in the bona
fide "tribe of (neo-)pythagoreans were targetted such
that they might witness, through fraudulent interpolation,
the existence of "the tribe of christians".

Ammonius Saccas, recognised as the earliest of the "tribe
of neopythagoreans" is cloned in the Eusebian literature
such that he becomes associated with this "new and
strange" tribe of christians. Hello? Is anyone with me?

Plotinus is made also to write about issues related to this
(totally fictitious and literature based) "tribe of christians"
through interpolations and fictions placed into the extant
books and manuscripts of Porphyry -- 4th CE TECHNOLOGY

The pythagorean Iambicus is described by Emperor Julian
as "divine", and the ancient pythagorean philosophy and
its various tenets and practices were followed by many
of the authors, or known to all, in the period 100-300CE
(and obviously, far earlier ... it was the dominant tradition).

Constantine destroyed the Hellenic/Pythagorean/Platonic
traditions by surplanting them with a new and strange
Roman religion. He mastered 4th century technology, and
by using imperial power thrust a monstrous fiction upon
the empire, and sold the package of christianity, to the
empire at the Council of Nicaea.

Plotinus I believe, as with Josephus, never once mentioned
the tribe of christians, because they did not then walk the
earth. I believe they did not walk the earth before Constantine.

I also believe that, according to Eustochius, the final words of
Plotinus were these:

"Strive to give back
The Dinine in yourselves
to the Divine in the All"

To those who think that my position of Fictitious Jesus implies
an atheistic positionality, I am sorry to disappoint you, and
offer the above words of Plotinus as an expression of my own
philosophy of life and being.

SO, best wishes,



Pete Brown
www.mountainman.com.au/essenes