Jesus of Nazareth as known in esoteric traditions

The age when Jesus was born : from Schure, Einsedel and the Urantia Book

From Edward Schure ....

out of his spiritual intuitions and the esoteric traditions of his time ,Edward Schure, poetically envisions, the spiritual atmosphere and material conditions that prevailed when Jesus was born.

His historical account is both deep and mysterious.

From the ancient mysteries, through Greece and Rome, along with the presence and mission of the Israelites as the chosen people of God......

                                             Edward Schure describes the age when Jesus was born

God - consciousness

As symbols of cosmic and animate forces, the gods continued to live in the consciousness of mankind. But human nature progressively had difficulty maintaining itself, at a high spiritual level.

For the great spirits of antiquity, the gods were merely a poetic expression of the hierarchical forces of nature, a speaking image of its internal organism.

In the thinking of the initiates, this diversity of gods or of forces ,was superseded and penetrated by the Supreme God or pure Spirit.

The chief goal of the sanctuaries of Memphis, Delphi and Eleusis had been to teach this unity of God, along with the moral discipline attached to it.

This does not exclude the sublime cosmogony of Orpheus, so splendidly extolled but already weakened in the time of Homer.

                                             "The divine " in Greece deteriorates

But, in the face of the egotism of the politicians, the meanness of the Sophists and the passions of the crowd , the disciples of Orpheus, Pythagoras and Plato failed,

The social and political disintegration of Greece was the result of her religious, moral and intellectual deterioration.

Apollo, the solar Word, the manifestation of the supreme God and of the supraterrestrial world through beauty, justice and divination, grows silent.

There are no more oracles, no more inspired men, no more real poets: Minerva, Wisdom and Providence veils herself before her people who are changing into satyrs, profaning the Mysteries, insulting the sages and gods in the theatre of Bacchus, by means of Aristophanic farces.

The Mysteries themselves are corrupted, for sycophants and courtesans are admitted to the festivals of Eleusis.

When the soul becomes clouded, religion becomes idolatrous;

when thought becomes materialistic, philosophy falls into skepticism. Thus we see Lucian, a poor microbe, born from the corpse of paganism, ridiculing the myths after Carneades misunderstood their scientific origin.

Superstitious in religion, agnostic in philosophy, selfish and divided in politics, drunk with anarchy and fatally sworn to tyranny;

this is what had become of this divine Greece which transmitted the science of Egypt and the Mysteries of Asia to us in forms of immortal beauty.

Despite the efforts of the initiates in Asia, Africa and Europe, polytheism had ended with the collapse of civilization.

Alexander , the Great- the last lightning-flash of the Greece of Orpheus.

If anyone understood what was lacking in the ancient world, if anyone tried to raise it again by an effort of heroism and genius, it was Alexander the Great.