The earliest Jewish Christians, and the family of Jesus, believed that Jesus was a "Servant of God", not the "Son of God". They did not believe in the divinity of Christ, the annunciation, the resurrection, or the virgin birth. We read in the writings of James, the older brother of Jesus, not the miraculous stories of the Gospels, but of Jesus as a human being, the way he would have taught and of doing good works. In the Letter of Jude the younger brother of Jesus we read the warnings of following the false teachings that were overtaking the new movement. The Gospel of Thomas, also a brother of Jesus, perhaps his twin, is a collection of 114 sayings of Jesus. Again the Gospel of Thomas teaches as Jesus would have taught, and does not tell stories about Jesus, he is not the Christ or Messiah, not acclaimed as master or lord, he is a child or son of humanity not the son of God, and nothing is said of the cross or tomb.

The Didache, perhaps the oldest Christian book writes of the family of Jesus and the early Jewish Christians as the Servants of God, with no mention of divinity, and the Pre-Markan Passion Narrative ends with Mary Magdalen and Mary of Joses mourning at his grave. The Gospel of Mary mentions a dream Mary Magdalen has of Jesus after his death.

When the Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official religion of Rome, he chose the Pauline version, marginalizing the original beliefs of the family of Jesus. Most of the Gospels of the New Testament were written hundreds of years after Jesus, not by the Apostles, but by others who used their names for authority, as was the habit of the time. Some may have been rewritten Paganizing or adding to the original versions. Stories were changed to vindicate Church Hierarchy and political aspirations. In 1054 the Bishop of Rome schismed from the Orthodox Church for political reasons.

The persecution of Christians lasted from 100 to 312 AD. From the years 312 to 590 AD Paganism blended with Christian belief. An example being the Sibylline Oracles, composed from the 2nd to 5th centuries, which were based on the Sibylline Books the most sacred books of Rome held in theTemple of Jupiter. The Greek equivalent of the Roman Sibyl was the Pythia, the Priestess of the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi. The Pythia could only be a Priestess of Apollo, as ancient Greek religion was matriarchal, and the Priestess ruled the spirit world.

Apollo, the God of the Sun, was the brother of Artemis, the Moon Goddess of the Greeks. In Turkey Artemis was known as the Lady of Ephesus. The Temple of Artemis 550BC, also known as the Temple of Diana, is one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World.

Artemis became identified with the Roman fertility Goddess Diana "Goddess of the Hunt". The Roman Moon Goddess Luna "Luna that shines by night". She had Temples on the Aventine Hill and the Palatine Hill. Luna was replaced by Diana also known as "the bright Goddess", and became know as the Goddess Diana Lucifera.

Many believe Diana to have originated in prehistoric matriarchal societies as the Mother Goddess. According to mythology, Diana was born with her twin brother Apollo on the island of Delos, daughter of Jupiter and Latona. Diana was part of an ancient trinity, the female Pagan Trinity, with two other Roman deities: Egeria the water nymph, her servant and assistant midwife; and Virbius, the woodland god. In the early examples, the three goddesses stand before a sketchily indicated wood; the central goddess places her right hand on the shoulder of one other goddess and her left hand on the hip of the other. The three are demonstrated to be one by a horizontal bar behind their necks that connects them. Later die-cutters simplified the image. "The Latin Diana was conceived as a threefold unity of the divine huntress, the Moon goddess, and the goddess of the nether world, Hekate." This is the origin of the Holy Trinity used in the Christian church after Paul.

Hekate is of Anatolian origins. A fane existed to her within the precincts of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus. One aspect of Hekate is represented in the Roman Trivia "Trinity". In Ptolemaic Alexandria she ultimately achieved her connotations as a goddess of sorcery and her role as the "Queen of Ghosts", in which triplicate guise she was transmitted to post-Renaissance culture. Today she is a goddess of witches and Hellenic Polytheistic Reconstructionism.

"In Italy the old religion of Stregheria embraced goddess Diana as Queen of the Witches; witches being the wise women healers of the time. Goddess Diana created the world of her own being having in herself the seeds of all creation yet to come. It is said that out of herself she divided into the darkness and the light, keeping for herself the darkness of creation and creating her brother Apollo, the light. Goddess Diana loved and ruled with her brother Apollo, the god of the Sun.

As time went on, the Earth was created and Diana descended to Earth, as did her brother Apollo. Diana taught magic and witches were born. One night using witchcraft in the form of a cat, His most beloved animal, Diana tricked Apollo. She gained entrance to His chamber where She seduced Him. From this union a daughter was born, the goddess Aradia."

An ancient story describes how Lucifer sat at the right hand side of YHWH, on order that YHWH could bestow his blessings upon mere human mortals. YHWH being a G_d could not bless a mere human, only another G_d and Angel could, bless a mortal human, thus YHWH created the Angels to bestow his blessings upon the earth. When Lucifer was sent to earth, YHWH needed another to bestow his blessings, as he could no longer bless human beings on earth, thus he created Jesus who now sits next to YHWH, so YHWH can bless the earth.

In the Christian era much of the beauty of the ancient Goddess, the ancient matriarchy, and the importance of women in early Christianity, was repressed with the faulty sermon of Pope Gregory I in 591 in which he defamed the image of our Lady Mary Magdalena as a prostitute. Mary Magdalena was in fact the leader of early Christianity. The sermon of Pope Gregory which was never accepted by the Orthodox faith, led to a repression of the beauty of the ancient matriarchy, the place of women as the leaders of Christianity, and the rise of a male dominant hierarchy in the Catholic Church

The love of Our Lady Miryai, The Maiden of Light, is common to all world religions Pagan, Jew, Christian, Manichean, Muslim, Hindu, and Buddhist. Our Temple believes in the concept of the Divine Feminine including the spiritual beauty of the female prophets. The Talmud lists the 7 females as:

1. Sarah
2. Miriam
3. Devorah
4. Hannah (mother of Shmuel)
5. Avigail (who became a wife of David Hamelech)
6. Huldah (from the time of Yirmiyahu)
7. Esther

We also acknowledge modern female prophets. Aisha, the second, favorite, and most beautiful wife of Muhhamad is revered as a female prophet of our Temple and an example to women of all ages. To learn more of our beloved Aisha:

Aisha

We acknowledge that Mariamne/Magdalena as a primary leader of early Christian belief, and John the Baptist as a special Prophet. Our official stance is that Jesus was a prophet, and leader of the first Jewish Christians.

The first heresy of the spiritual teachings of Mary was Peter's rejection of her as leader because she was a woman. The first Jewish Christians believed in strict gender equality. After the split in the apostles, resulting from the first heresy of Peter, Mary sent the apostles to teach the faith on their own accord, in cells or groups, with each apostle forming their own belief system within the main teachings.

The first heresy of Peter in the Gospel of Thomas: Simon Peter said to them, "Mary should leave us, for females are not worthy of life."
Jesus said, "Look, I shall guide her to make her male, so that she too may become a living spirit resembling you males. For every female who makes herself male will enter heaven's kingdom."-Gospel of Thomas:114

The first heresy in the Gospel of Mary: "Levi answered speaking to Peter, "Peter you have always been a wrathful person. Now I see you contending against the woman like the Adversaries. For if the Savior made her worthy, who are you then for your part to reject her? Assuredly the Savior's knowledge of her is completely reliable. That is why he loved her more than us."-Gospel of Mary 10:7

The second heresy was the rewriting of the gospels by Paul, the distortion of the early spiritual Christian teachings into Roman Paganism, the false deification of Jesus. Jesus had followed John the Baptist, the special Prophet, as the leader of the Essene Movement. Jesus appointed Miryai to follow him as leader. Her youth prevented the immediacy of her becoming leader, thus James, the brother of Jesus followed as interim leader until Miryai matured. The first Jewish Christian movements believed in strict gender equality. Jesus had appointed his apostles in equal numbers, from each of the three Jewish sects, to represent each branch of Judaism, the ancient Essene belief, with the two more conservative sects the Saducees and Pharisees, from which Peter came. Miryai herself was from a Conservative Jewish family, a family of wealth, she was priviledged and educated. A woman she was able to pass Jewish lineage, according to Jewish Law Judaism is inherited through the mother's family lineage. She was the chosen successor to John the Baptist and Jesus as leader of the Jewish Christians.

The meaning of the term "Christ" in the feminine "Christa" is the Greek term for the leader. Thus to the Jewish Essenes Miryai, Jesus, and John the Baptist could all be considered to be leaders or Christs, but this does not imply divinity. We believe that the persecuted will be rewarded in the afterlife, thus our members are forbidden to criticize another belief or human being, beyond natural intellectual discussion.

We believe that many of the ancient texts including the text of the Bible and Torah were written in astrological symbolism. The Procession of the Equinox describes the 12 successive signs of the celestial year, one constellation sign every 2150 years. Moses as prophet brought on the Age of Airies (the Jewish symbol of the Ram), which replaced the Age of Taurus, the Golden Bull, the symbol of the Paganism that Moses forbade the Jewish people to worship. The Age of Pisces (the Christian fish) followed with the ministry of the prophet Jesus.

Jesus announced the coming of the Age of Aquarius in (Luke 22:10; Mark 14:13.) "a man will meet you carrying an earthen pitcher of water; follow him into the house where he goes in"

The Age of Aquarius will bring with it the rediscovery of the first Jewish Christians. This will include the Divine Feminine and the special knowledge of the spiritual blessings of our Lady Mary as the primary leader of the Jewish Christians, to some it will bring the duality of Jesus and Miryai. Miryai she who is accepted by all religions, she who will bring respect for the beauty of all world religion.

The Age of Aquarius will be followed by the Age of Capicorn (the maiden-goat), in which Diana Lucifera will be revealed as Goddess, the fulfillment of both ancient pophecy and the Procession of the Equinox.

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