Jesus of Nazareth as known in esoteric traditions

The Birth of Jesus of Nazareth

The birth of Jesus till his presentation at the Temple

 From the Urantia Book

The Birth of Jesus 

Dated papyri in tell of a 14 year cycle of census inaugurated by the Caesar Augustus (27 B.C.–A.D. 14), and record one taken in 20 A.D.

The Roman census of 6 A.D. is referred to in the 5:37.

Counting back 14 years previous to that (and remembering that instead of starting at year zero the calendar begins at Jan. 1, A.D. 1),

the first census, the one originally decreed by Caesar Augustus that would have been attended by Joseph and Mary should have occurred in 8 B.C.

However, because of opposition to "being numbered" (and paying taxes to Rome) Herod is thought to have delayed instituting this first census of the

We may assume that Herod held the census the next year, dating Jesus' birth at 7 B.C.

This 7 B.C. date is also consistent with two other recorded events associated with Jesus' birth.

Herod, alive at the time of Jesus' birth, died in 4 B.C.

The modern calendar is based on calculations made by Dionysus Exegines, a Roman abbot who lived more than 500 years after the time of Jesus.

Because of insufficient historical data the monk erred in fixing the time of Jesus' birth and this seven year error persists in the calendar to this day

.(Preston Thomas's The Life and Teachings of

Jesus, )

From the Urantia Book

The first stage was that of his childhood, the years when he was only dimly conscious of his origin, nature, and destiny as a human being.

Urantia Paper 122 .Birth and Infancy of Jesus

Joseph and Mary

Joseph, the human father of Jesus (Joshua ben Joseph), was a Hebrew of the Hebrews,although he carried many non-Jewish racial strains added to his ancestral tree from time to time by the female lines of his progenitors.

The ancestry of the father of Jesus went back to the days of Abraham and through this venerable patriarch

to the earlier lines of inheritance leading to the Sumerians and Nodites and, through the southern tribes of the ancient blue man, to Andon and Fonta.

David and Solomon were not in the direct line of Joseph's ancestry, neither did Joseph's lineage go directly back to Adam.

His family belonged to a long and illustrious line of the nobility of the common people, accentuated ever and anon by the appearance of unusual individuals who had distinguished themselves in connection with the evolution of religion on Urantia.

Joseph's immediate ancestors were mechanics — builders, carpenters, masons, and smiths. Joseph himself was a carpenter and later a contractor.

Mary, the earth mother of Jesus, was a descendant of a long line of unique ancestors embracing many of the most remarkable women in the racial history of Urantia.

No Jewish woman of that day had a more illustrious lineage of common progenitors or one extending back to more auspicious beginnings.