Jesus of Nazareth as known in esoteric traditions

The hidden story of Jesus , the Initiate

I have tried to illumine with its own light that part of Jesus' I life which the Gospels have left in obscurity or hidden beneath the veil of legend.

I have told by what initiation, by what development of soul and spirit the great Nazarene arrived at the Messianic consciousness.

 In other words, I have tried to reconstruct the inner genesis of the Christ.

 Once this genesis is recognized, the rest of my task will be easier.

                                                                                                                             Edward Schure

From Jesus'childhood to his fateful meeting with John the Baptist and the inner call to know , heal and save 

Jesus's childhood

Intense and sensitive souls need silence and peace in order to blossom. His valley birthplace resembled a bit of heaven fallen upon the side of the mountain.

The town of Nazareth has hardly changed in the course of centuries. Its houses, rising in rows beneath the rock, according to the reports of travelers, resemble white cubes scattered in a forest of pomegranate trees, fig trees and vineyards, over which fly great flocks of doves.

Around this refuge of coolness and green blows the sharp air of the mountains; from the heights is seen the open, clear horizon of Galilee. Jesus grew up in the calm of Galilee.

His first impressions were sweet, austere and calm.

Jesus' Jewish  home education 

 To this impressive landscape, add the serious home life of a devout, patriarchal family.

For the child, the paternal household was a sort of temple. The union of the father and mother in the love of their children warmed and illumined the bareness of this interior with a completely spiritual life. The power of Jewish education rested from earliest times in the unity of the Law and of the Faith, as well as in the strong family organization, dominated by national and religious ideals.

Instead of the frescoed laughing fauns and nymphs which decorated the atria of Greek houses, such as could be seen at Sephoris and Tiberias, in the Jewish houses one saw only passages from the Law and the prophets, whose severe texts were inscribed over the doors and on the walls in Chaldean letters.            

 In such a home Jesus received his early training. 

There, from the oral teaching of the father and mother he first learned to understand the Scriptures.

From his early years, the long, strange destiny of the people of God unfolded before his eyes.

In the periodic Festivals which were celebrated in the family by reading, singing and praying. They lighted the seven-branched candlestick, unrolled the scrolls of papyrus and read the sacred stories. For the child's soul. the Lord was present not only in the starry heavens but also in the candlestick which reflected His Glory, in the speech of the father, as well as in the silent love of the mother.At the Feast of Tabernacles, a hut of myrtle and olive branches was raised in the courtyard or on the roof of the house as a reminder of the time of the nomadic Patriarchs.

Thus, the great days of Israel cradled the childhood of Jesus -- days of joy and mourning, of triumph and exile, of afflictions without number and of eternal hope.