Tim Hogan

I mean, this was all ancient Egyptian stuff that then got grafted onto the New Testament by clearly the people who did it were Christians. trying to perpetuate that Egyptian tradition.

Mary's another, that's a common Egyptian name that you find.

Mary's another, that's a common Egyptian name that you find.

Mary's another, that's a common Egyptian name that you find.

Yeah. He was kind of a perv, man. Yeah, there were a lot of Gnostic and apocryphal texts that suggest all kinds of interesting things with Jesus and Mary and others. I mean, some people believe... Yeah, I happen to be under the opinion that – and Timothy Freak covers this quite well in his books, The Jesus Mysteries, and also Jesus and the Goddess. Timothy Freak? Yeah.

Yeah. He was kind of a perv, man. Yeah, there were a lot of Gnostic and apocryphal texts that suggest all kinds of interesting things with Jesus and Mary and others. I mean, some people believe... Yeah, I happen to be under the opinion that – and Timothy Freak covers this quite well in his books, The Jesus Mysteries, and also Jesus and the Goddess. Timothy Freak? Yeah.

Yeah. He was kind of a perv, man. Yeah, there were a lot of Gnostic and apocryphal texts that suggest all kinds of interesting things with Jesus and Mary and others. I mean, some people believe... Yeah, I happen to be under the opinion that – and Timothy Freak covers this quite well in his books, The Jesus Mysteries, and also Jesus and the Goddess. Timothy Freak? Yeah.

Timothy Freak and Peter Gandy, they did a number of good books. But one of the hypotheses is related to the Apostle Paul. that Paul, For the most part, he has these writings where he's speaking like a Gnostic, like he experiences Christ as a vision of light on the road to Damascus, right? Which is a very Gnostic thing. It said he was taken up to the third heaven.

Timothy Freak and Peter Gandy, they did a number of good books. But one of the hypotheses is related to the Apostle Paul. that Paul, For the most part, he has these writings where he's speaking like a Gnostic, like he experiences Christ as a vision of light on the road to Damascus, right? Which is a very Gnostic thing. It said he was taken up to the third heaven.

Timothy Freak and Peter Gandy, they did a number of good books. But one of the hypotheses is related to the Apostle Paul. that Paul, For the most part, he has these writings where he's speaking like a Gnostic, like he experiences Christ as a vision of light on the road to Damascus, right? Which is a very Gnostic thing. It said he was taken up to the third heaven.

Well, most people are like, know what heaven is, but what's the third heaven? Right? And we know that Damascus was actually a code word used by the Essenes for their base in Qumran. And so it may suggest that Paul was an Essene and that the third heaven was

Well, most people are like, know what heaven is, but what's the third heaven? Right? And we know that Damascus was actually a code word used by the Essenes for their base in Qumran. And so it may suggest that Paul was an Essene and that the third heaven was

Well, most people are like, know what heaven is, but what's the third heaven? Right? And we know that Damascus was actually a code word used by the Essenes for their base in Qumran. And so it may suggest that Paul was an Essene and that the third heaven was

there were three levels of initiation or baptism that was designed to cleanse the person of all the bad stuff that they had attached to them as they incarnated into this world. So there's a baptism by water, there's a baptism by air, and then a baptism by fire. And we find this going back way back into the ancient world.

there were three levels of initiation or baptism that was designed to cleanse the person of all the bad stuff that they had attached to them as they incarnated into this world. So there's a baptism by water, there's a baptism by air, and then a baptism by fire. And we find this going back way back into the ancient world.

there were three levels of initiation or baptism that was designed to cleanse the person of all the bad stuff that they had attached to them as they incarnated into this world. So there's a baptism by water, there's a baptism by air, and then a baptism by fire. And we find this going back way back into the ancient world.

I mean, going back to Noah's Ark, you know, in the story of Noah's Ark, grafted onto that story of the earth obsessed with its physical senses. Along comes a flood, water. Then Noah lets birds go into the air. And then he lands on Mount Ararat and makes a burnt sacrifice to God, fire. So those are the three stages of purification, if you will, which is done in the alchemical process.

I mean, going back to Noah's Ark, you know, in the story of Noah's Ark, grafted onto that story of the earth obsessed with its physical senses. Along comes a flood, water. Then Noah lets birds go into the air. And then he lands on Mount Ararat and makes a burnt sacrifice to God, fire. So those are the three stages of purification, if you will, which is done in the alchemical process.

I mean, going back to Noah's Ark, you know, in the story of Noah's Ark, grafted onto that story of the earth obsessed with its physical senses. Along comes a flood, water. Then Noah lets birds go into the air. And then he lands on Mount Ararat and makes a burnt sacrifice to God, fire. So those are the three stages of purification, if you will, which is done in the alchemical process.

But it was also used in the baptismal rites and the initiation rites in the ancient world. So the third heaven would be that he had gone through those three different purifications, right? Well, along comes a bishop known as Arrhenius, who wrote a book called Against the Heresies, much later, where he was trying to condemn Gnosticism.