David Icke - The Robots' Rebellion - The Story of the Spiritual Renaissance (1994)

70 the Essenes, small offshoots of the Jewish religion like the Gnostics and Ebionites. There was no overall belief system and they each held different views about the details and meaning of his life. Most of them did, however, believe in his return or Second Coming which is an ancient idea that goes back to Sun worship. Once again these early groups ofJesus followers were guided by channellers and you can see these referred to in the ancient texts as ‘vessels’ for the holy spirit who were filled with the ‘Spirit of the Lord.’ We read of people being filled with the Holy Spirit and then speaking the words of the Lord. Anyone who has experienced or witnessed channelling will know that an energy descends upon the channeller.

This is the communicating consciousness enveloping and synchronising with the physical vehicle or vessel through which it seeks to communicate. It is this energy which channellers and onlookers feel that became termed the ‘holy spirit’ in ancient times.

These Jesus-inspired groups were much like a spiritualist Church of today with people gathered to hear the communications of the medium, the ones blessed with ‘charismata’, the Greek word for psychic abilities.

It was only when the man we call St Paul came on the scene that Jesus, the wise and courageous philosopher, healer, and channel, was turned into the pagan saviour-god depicted by Christianity. Paul was an orthodox Jew who persecuted those sects which followed a belief in the philosophy ofJesus. This changed dramatically after he claimed to have seen a vision ofJesus on the road to Damascus. This could have been a psychic vision of an non physical entity, or a threedimensional holographic figure projected from a spacecraft, or he could have made it all up. But the latter is unlikely because from then on he clearly believed that Jesus was communicating with him and asking to be proclaimed Messiah and Saviour of the World. Paul was following the age old custom of people believing that every ghost they saw or psychic communication they experienced was from God, the Highest One, or in this case God’s ‘son’. What appalling consequences this was to have.

We should remember that Paul came from a place called Tarsus in Asia Minor and there they worshipped a Greek pagan Saviourgod called Dionysus - their version of Bel. Dionysus was said to have been born to a virgin impregnated by the god Zeus and suffered and died to save humanity. Paul clearly saw Jesus as another incarnation of Dionysus, the one he was taught to worship in Tarsus. All he did