Joseph of Arimathaea - Part Two:
D. J. Conway writes about the followers of Finn and the Fianna
in 'Celtic Magic' which ties the 'F' and 'Ph' of Phoenicians to
the Keltic king Finn. The 'Red-heads' are many places including
Tarim near the' present Great Wall of China. In a recent
National Geographic you can see their mummified remains and red
hair. They were in Genghis Khan's Altaic region in 3,000 BC
according to archaeology which likes to call them 'proto-Celts'.
Genetic tracking tells us that one third of the Cohens are
related to the Levite priests of ancient Judaea yet they were
wiped out before the Maccabeans took the Temple before Herod
dealt with them. The celebration of Chanukah (Hanukah) relates
to the take over of Judas Maccabee in the 5th Century BC. The
current worship of Tikkun energy by the likes of Rabbi Michael
Lerner is an area I am researching or keeping my eyes open
towards.
Perhaps this is explainable by women carrying the blood after
the men were killed but it was the Maccabean princess that Herod
married, the day before he had her and her brother killed.
Personally I'd like it if everyone admitted we all are Earthians
and dropped all this race and ethnic origin stuff. The noble
lineage that passed throw the blood of women has made women of
Dragon blood a political chattel of the worst sort. But because
history is a power game and propaganda has to be pierced we are
forced into these circuitous battles over who thought who was
best and/or 'chosen ones' versus 'devoted ones'. That phrase is
truly amazing. Devoted ones (according to Cahill in 'Gifts of
the Jews') means those to be sacrificed in the Temple; I had
suffered under the illusion it meant those who had shown great
reverence for the great god Jehovah. Linguistics also shows how
'Aryan' is derived from 'Eire-yann' or the people of Eire and
Ireland. Thus Hitler would be killing his 'high Aryan
priesthood' unless he freed Benjaminites and the 'arch-tectons'
of the House of Judah or the Merovingian family of Jesus. It is
a grotesque irony to be certain! Yes, politics in the Bible is
well evidenced; and the dogma is inspired by some very bad
people NOT by God; or even by someone as good as the heretical
Cathars and Gnostics who actually lived according to what they
said they believed.
"If Joseph of Arimathaea arrived in Glastonbury with Mary
Magdalene/Bethany and was her companion and guardian, then he
would be a guardian of the Holy Grail. The Grail Romances of the
troubadors mysteriously connect Joseph of Arimathaea with the
Grail lineage...
Medieval tradition portrays Joseph of Arimathaea as a custodian
of the Holy Grail; and Perceval is said to be one of his
lineage. According to other later traditions, he is in some way
related by blood to Jesus and Jesus's family. (8)
Who was Joseph of Arimathaea?
Do we not, now, have enough information to make a plausible
guess? In the Gospels he is described as a rich man who was a
secret disciple of Jesus. He supplied the shroud in which the
body of Jesus was wrapped. 'It was Joseph of Arimathaea who
obtained the body of Jesus from Pontius Pilate. And he owned the
land with the tomb in which Jesus was buried.'
The ownership of a private tomb indicates great wealth, the
fact that he could obtain the body of Jesus from Pilate
indicates not only great influence, but something else. Joseph
of Arimathaea must have been a relative of Jesus in order to
have claimed the body from the Roman authorities.
Then, there is the matter of the tomb. Was Jesus put into the
same tomb, and resurrected from the same tomb, as the one in
which Lazarus was buried and raised? It 'seems' so from the
Gospels because this is the only tomb mentioned during the final
days before the Crucifixion and after it. This tomb was a cave
whose entrance could be closed by a stone rolled in front of it.
Lazarus was laid in it (John 11:38). Jesus was laid in it. At
least, the description of this cave-tomb are the same for both
Jesus and Lazarus.
If this deduction is correct, then the cave-tomb was the
property of Joseph of Arimathaea, and this cave-tomb was on the
property at Bethany, at the house of Martha, Lazarus and Mary.
The same house where Jesus and his entourage had been offered
extended hospitality. Joseph of Arimathaea must have been the
owner of this house in Bethany with its cave-tomb. He must have
been the father of Martha, Lazarus and Mary. He must also have
been the father-in-law of Jesus. Historical records tell us he
became the Roman Empire's Minister of Mines.
{The marriage at his house in Cana when the water is turned to
wine has no mention of the name of the groom but it does have a
conversation with Jesus and Joseph of Arimathaea. We haven't
included all of his reasoning and others who make the same point
because it makes sense and needs little more corroboration. This
is why there is no hubbub about Mary traveling with Jesus. He
followed the code of his faith as a rabbi [teacher] and was
therefore married as the Mishnah calls for; there is a lot to
prove Jesus was a devout man.}
He was wealthy enough to have had at least two residences: a
country place in the cool mountains around Magdala