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Chapter 6-Hubris of wisdom  
     
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 In hindsight, even though the average person claims a genuine desire to know the truth of the universe and to witness pure wisdom and knowledge of the divine, the opposite is true.
  
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 Nor are people who promote deliberate ignorance and simplistic icon worship evil geniuses.
  
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 It is just that like all intelligent life it is relationships, having enough food, a stable job and a roof over one’s head that concern most people’s lives.
  
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 This practical and sensible attitude towards what in truth the most important things has been the focus of most people since the advent of civilization itself.
  
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 That is why in one sense, the Sadducees and their protégé the Christians were and have been able to get away quite literally with murder, not because the average population is stupid, but because heavy discussions concerning the nature of the cosmos and the origins of Judaism are not a high priority.
  
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 Nor were the ancient Priest Kings entirely noble people in themselves. They may have been regarded as the "holy ones" and divine, they may have ruled over the most ancient of lands, but they kept their people largely ignorant of wisdom and truth.
 
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 For example, in Ireland, the spiritual home of the most ancient bloodlines of kings of history, the Holly Tree was considered so sacred to the cuilleain, the real "druids" of history that any non member of the cuilleain who cut from the tree or damaged a "holy tree" was guilty of a serious crime.
 
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 In contrast, Christianity openly sought and claimed to give "average" people access to what was painted up as "divine wisdom"- itself a revolution. No longer were people just considered ignorant slaves, they were able to participate in rituals and ceremonies claimed normally to be only permitted by the "elite" of their society.
 
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 Of course, none of the claims of Christianity were true. Yet to the early followers of Paul of Tarsus, Luke (Josephus ben Matthias, son of High Priest) and their supporters, this populism of spirituality is a large part of why christianity survived against elitist, arrogant practices of "secret knowledge".

 
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 Of course, this was the same pioneering action of the Nazarenes and why the Pharisees and Syrian Sadduccee High Priests were so worried. It is also why Nazarene belief grew so quickly.
 

 
 
 

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