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in order to "cleanse one's heart from sin." Like the gospel Jesus, the pre-Christian or Wisdom Jesus exhorts "faith and meekness" to win the approval of the Lord, excoriates hypocrites and admonishes his followers not to exalt themselves. The pre-Christian Jesus also exhorts his wouldbe servants of the Lord to "prepare yourself to be tried. Set your heart right and be firm . . . hold fast to him, and do not forsake him, so that you may be honored when your life ends," exactly as the followers of the gospel Jesus were told to be as "martyrs for the faith." Like the gospel Jesus, who entreats his followers to give away their belongings, the Wisdom Jesus says, "So charity will atone for sin" and urges his followers to do good works for those less fortunate, so that they may become like "sons of the Most High" (El Elyon). The Wisdom Jesus is also very similar to Paul in his sexist attitudes, saying, "A silent wife is a gift from the Lord," among other noxious and repressive comments. In this large collection may basically be discovered a significant portion of the wisdom sayings attributed to the gospel Jesus and his cohorts. Of the Wisdom of Jesus, Massey says:

. . . the Book of Ecclesiasticus contains the logia of a preChristian Jesus. Here are two of his sayings: "Forgive thy neighbor the hurt that he hath done unto thee, so shall thy sins also be forgiven when thou prayest." "Lay up thy treasures according to the commandments of the Most High, and it shall bring thee more profit than gold." These are assigned to the Jesus of Matthew's gospel.28

Furthermore, the pre-Christian Jesus, like the gospel Jesus, calls God "Father" and says:

He created me from the beginning before the world, and I shall never fail. . . . They that eat me shall yet be hungry, and they that drink me shall yet be thirsty. He that obeyeth me shall never be confounded, and they that work by me shall not do amiss.29

Obviously, either this text is interpolated, which would yet again demonstrate Christian fraud, or it serves as proof of the pre-Christian Jesus, eucharist and all.

Many of the exhortations in this book are for initiates into the brotherhood and are Buddhistic/Gymnosophic in nature. In fact, the Wisdom Jesus reveals his solar cult affiliation with his long homage to the sun, in which he states that the sun "has not permitted the saints of the Lord to recount all his wonders," i.e., to record in writing the mysteries of the solar mythos:

The light-giving sun looks down on everything, and his work is full of the glory of the Lord. He has not permitted the saints of the Lord to recount all his wonders, which the Lord, the Almighty, has firmly established, so that the universe might stand fast through his glory.... The glory of the height is the firmament in its purity; The sight of the heavens with the spectacle of their splendor. The sun, when he appears, making proclamation as he goes forth, is a wonderful instrument, the work of the Most High; at noonday he dries up the country, and who can withstand his burning heat? ... He breathes out fiery vapors, and shoots forth his beams, blinding men's eyes. (42:16-43:5)

In fact, the Wisdom Jesus's paean to the sun is about as close to Pagan sun-worshipping as it gets. Moreover, these sayings constitute one of several places where the pre-Christian Jesus exalts the sun, moon and stars and displays astrological/ astrotheological knowledge.

The Teachings of the Twelve Apostles, or The Didache

The early Christian apocryphon "The Teachings of the Twelve Apostles," also called the "Didache," was utilized in the manufacture of the canonical gospels. ben Yehoshua states it was based on writings concerning the "12 tribes," and Larson say it combines the Logia Iesou, or Sayings, with the Manual of Discipline found at the Dead Sea. The Didache does not contain a narrative but provides explanation and instructions concerning baptism, the eucharist, tribulation and parousia, or arrival of "the Lord in the clouds."

The Gospel of the Hebrews and Syrians

Dating to around 115-125 CE, the Gospel of the