Jesus was a
Nazarean Essene.
Essenes were one of the 3 major jewish traditions at that time. This isnt wacko shit... it's just stuff roman/protestant traditions arent comfortable with after 2000 years of roman/pagan lies.
His actual name was Y'shua or Yeshua. Jesus is the greek bastardization of his name.
The Essenes were a very orthodox jewish cult with ties to Mount Carmel area and the area of Qumram (where John the baptist, his cousin, was from and it's also where the Dead Sea Scrolls were found).
The Essenes organized themselves with a male leader and then 12 male temple followers. They also beleived Yahweh (god) has a female side and they also had serious female leaders as well.
Y'shua's father Joseph was one of the 12 temple male leaders at Mount Carmel. It seems Jesus in fact had a number of siblings, perhaps from Joseph's first marriage.
They were very much into messianic beliefs and saw themselves as the somewhat "true" priestly inheritors of the original Temple (they didnt beleive in the Second Temple of judaism). They also followed a seperate calendar than most jews, using a sun-driven rather than a moon-driven calendar. They apparently had ties to great mystic monotheistic traditions of egypt and also apparently had some contact with asian buddhism.
They believed in the ascension of the soul and reincarnation.
THEY ALL MARRIED... and Essene stories tell it that Jesus... Y'shua was actually married to Mirriam... aka Mary Magdalene.
This is also reflected in the various apocrypha gospels and gnostic traditions which break from the roman/pagan doctrines stemming from Paul's vision of christianity.
Essenes also apparently had sex rites, perhaps revolving around marriage and their somewhat radical views about messianic eugenics (i.e. they throught that through righteous reproduction and lives they could make each generation more pure and bring a truly heavenly Kingdom onto the planet).
Y'shua was a Nazarean Essene. He was likely married. He likely fucked his heart out.
We even have two "heretical" gospels which indicate intimate ties with mary... with one flat out saying they kissed and were married.
There are major traditions outside the roman/protestant traditions which take very radical views... and even base them on original texts directly tied to the language of his day.
The picture you get from these different documents also correspond to what we find in the Dead Sea Scrolls, which is some pretty radical stuff.
And btw... nothing im talking about is taken seriously by The Davinci Code or by its mainstream critics. IMO that author just taps into some of the wider buzz and mystery, playing with more speculation than actual historical record.
If you dig deep into the gnostic and apocrypha stuff, you'll start to find some startling things... and notice some patterns.
