[MD] False Messiah

[Heather Perella]

Hello dmb,

     dmb quoted:  ""In synthesizing the perennial myth
of the dying and resurrecting godman with Jewish
expectations of a historical Messiah the creators of
the Jewish Mysteries took an unprecedented step, the
outcome of which they could never have guessed. And
yet, upon analysis, the end was already there in the
begininng. The Messiah was expected to be a
historical, not a mythical, saviour. It was
inevitable, therefore, that the Jesus story would have
to develop in a quasi-historical setting. And so it
did. What had started as a timeless myth encoding
perennial teachings now appeared to be a historical
account of a once-only event in time. From this point
it was unavoidable that sooner or later it would be
interpreted as historical fact. Once it was, a whole
new type of religion came into being - a religion
based on history not myth, on blind faith in supposed
events rather than on a 
mystical understanding of mythical allegories, a
religion of the Outer 
Mysteries without the Inner Mysteries, of form without
content, of belief without Knowledge." The Jesus
Mysteries, p.207

     Here it states "...a timeless myth encoding
perennial teachings now appeared to be a historical
account of a once-only event in time.  ...sooner or
later it would be interpreted as historical fact." 
Isn't it a historical fact?

     If you point here isn't within my question, maybe
it has to do with the 'once-only event in time'. 
Because I do have a problem with that understanding of
the event of Christ.  I don't think the event of
Christ is reserved for that historical person only.  I
believe that's why Zen or Chan took off in China.  The
focus upon what somebody did long ago, takes away from
the experience that any human being could have any
time, any place.

     This is what I was referring to.  Maybe you
explain further.

Thanks,
SA

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