THE PISO FAMILY MAKES JESUS OVER AND OVER AGAIN

THE FAMILY MAKES JESUS OVER AND OVER AGAIN
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After having made Jesus, whom is the person, really the ONLY personwhom we associate ‘miracles’ with in the New Testament, the authorsand other close family members of the authors could not resist makingJesus over and over again. If Jesus is really supposed to have been‘unique’ and the only son of god, the one and only ‘messenger’ asrepresentative of his father, god; then how is it that so many otherslikewise have the same ability to work "miracles"?

The reason is of course, that this is indeed a fictional story that theauthors were in fact just having ‘fun’ with.

(1) Peter works miracles. This can be seen in Luke 5:18-26, 8:41-42, 49-56. Now, that ‘Peter’ is also working miracles in the NewTestament was not actually surprising to us as researchers and wasin fact expected by us because of the fact that we had already deducedthat ‘Peter’ was also being played by the same person who wasplaying Jesus in the New Testament, and that secretly, Peter was also Jesus.

This is because in the verse where Peter is given the ‘keys toheaven’, this was found to be another way of the author saying thathe was KEEPING the ‘keys’ to discovering the secret of what hewas doing - by secretly giving the ‘keys’ to himself! That is, in otherwords, keeping them! So, Peter is an alter-ego of Jesus in the storybecause he is another character being played by the same personthat was playing Jesus (Arrius Piso).

(2) Paul is also given the ability to work miracles in the NewTestament. He is made into another Jesus and he performs a miracleor two, and is also acknowledged as a "god". This is in Acts 28:3-6; "And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks and laid them on thefire, there came a viper (snake)* out of the heat, and fastened (itself) on his hand. And when the barbarians (that were there) saw thevenomous** beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, "no doubt this man is a murderer, whom though he had escaped thesea (inference is "by a miracle"), yet vengeance suffereth (him) notto live." And he (Paul) shook off the beast into the fire, and felt noharm. But (when) they were expecting him (Paul) to become inflamed(poisoned) and to fall down suddenly dead (he did not), but (rather) for a long time (when) they still expected to see this (yet they) sawnothing amiss (or adverse) happen to him, they changed theiropinion (of him) and said that he was a god."

* See the other stories about sticks turning into snakes, such as theone in the apocryphal "Infancy Gospel". ** This apparently refers to the cobra, which would have been thepoisonous snake, but which is indigenous to India. Perhaps this wasmeant to remind us of the fact that the Pharaohs used atop theircrowns the image of the cobra, which is NOT indigenous to Egypt, but to India. And also make note that the island that this supposedlytakes place on is called "Malita" (Malitae).

By the way, it has been found that the ‘travels of Paul’ were in factan attempt by the authors to ‘advertise’ or promote some of the mostfamous brothels of the time! The reason being is that the authorswere getting a ‘cut’ of the profits from those brothels and theproceeds were helping with the Roman war fund against the Jews.

This is why we are told specifically WHERE Paul has traveled andthat those places were famous for "filthy sensuality". This may bereferenced in the Oxford Encyclopedia Biblica (col. 3,615). And inthe work titled "The Rise, Decline & Fall of the Roman Religion(Christianity)", James Ballantyne Hannay, pub. 1925, pg. 109-110.

(3) Vespasian, the emperor in charge of the destruction of the Temple, is made an honorary "Jesus" as well. The historian Tacitus, in hisHistories (IV, 81, pg. 651-652), says;
"One of the common people of Alexandria, well-known for hisblindness, threw himself at the emperor’s knees and implored himwith groans to heal his infirmity. This he did by the advice of the godSerapis whom this nation, devoted as it is to many superstitions, worships more than any other divinity. He begged Vespasian that hewould deign to moisten his cheeks and eye-balls with his spittle.

Another with a diseased hand, at the counsel of the same god, prayedthat the limb might feel the print of Caesar’s foot. At first, Vespasianridiculed and repulsed them. They persisted; and he, though on the onehand he feared that scandal of the fruitless attempt, yet on the other, wasinduced by the entreaties of men and by the language of his flatterers tohope for success. At last, he ordered that the opinion of the physiciansshould be taken, as to whether such blindness and infirmity were withinreach of human skill. They discussed the matter from different pointsof view. "In the one case," they said, "the faculty of sight was notwholly destroyed and might return if the obstacles were removed; in theother case, the limb, which had fallen into a diseased condition, mightbe restored if a healing influence were applied; such, perhaps, mightbe the pleasure of the gods and the emperor might be chosen to be theminister of the divine will. At any rate, all the glory of a successfulremedy would be Caesar’s, while the ridicule of failure would fall onthe sufferers."

And so Vespasian, supposing that all things were possible to his goodfortune and that nothing was any longer past belief, with a joyfulcountenance amid the intense expectation of the multitude of bystanders, accomplished what was required. The hand was instantly restored to itsuse, and the light of day again shone upon the blind. Persons actuallypresent attest both facts, even now when nothing is to be gained byfalsehood."

And that, is the story of Vespasian performing miracles as if he wereJesus, according to Tacitus. However, Suetonius the historian, likewise, who was writing also about the same time or a little afterwards, alsomakes Vespasian an honorary Jesus by further confirming Tacitus’account of the "miracles of Vespasian"….

(4) Vespasian is further honored as another Jesus by Suetonius; "As he(Vespasian) sat on the tribunal, two laborers, one blind, the other lame, approached together, begging to be healed. Apparently, the god Serapishad promised them in a dream that if Vespasian would consent to spitin the blind man’s eyes, and touch the lame man’s leg with his heel, both would be made well.

Vespasian had so little faith in his curative powers that he showedgreat reluctance in doing as he was asked; but his friends persuadedhim to try them, in the presence of a large audience, too - and the charmworked."

Reference: Suetonius, "The Twelve
Caesars," Vespasian, Verse 7 (pg. 278-79); Penguin Classics,. The more exact reference is in Suetonius, "The Twelve Caesars", Loeb Classical Library edition volumes.

(5) Apollonius of Tyana, is another "Jesus" made by the family. This"Jesus" may have had a purpose in his origination. It may well havebeen that the inventor of this Jesus was not only doing honor to hisancestor (Arrius Piso) who was the original Jesus, but also that thiswas done to point out that Arrius Piso also wrote under the name ofApollonius. There are works that were supposedly written in the 3rdcentury BCE (i.e., in the 200’s BCE) that are attributed to a personnamed "Apollonius Rhodius". These works, interestingly enough, arein Greek - which was the language that Arrius Piso wrote in. Butnothing much is really known about this particular author. This isworth examining further.

In any case, it was Marcus Aurelius, writing as Lucian (Lucian, not‘Lucan’), who was the first to mention Apollonius of Tyana, fromwhich, later stories emerged from later family members. This storywas later refined by the author known as Flavius Philostratus (whata pen-name this is when one considers that we have found out thatFlavius (Josephus) also wrote as "Philo" and the later author is adescendant of his! Abelard Reuchlin says that he has found this author, Flavius Philostratus to have been the same person who also wrote asthe Church father Origen. We will detail these family relations inmore detail in our upcoming works.

(6) Constantine is made into a new Jesus also! And this was done byhis own half-brother Julius Constantius - who was writing as thefamous Eusebius. You can easily find the story of Constantine beingtold by god that he would conquer his enemies with the sign of thecross, etc. You really need to read this story in the light of a newunderstanding of these persons and events.

(7) And the family continued to remake Jesus down through history invarious forms, including Muhammad and other figures that were madeto appear extra-ordinary and/or to have worked ‘miracles’. This wholetopic too, needs to be examined in further detail so that a much longerlist may be made and these other "Jesus’" made by the family will beseen as such by us all, once and for all.