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Ammon Hillman finishes the walk through the end of Mark by looking inside the tomb. When the sabbath was over, the women bought aromata (ἀρώματα), the herbs and oils for treating a body, and came before dawn to the monument. The stone had already been rolled away. Inside, he reports, they found not an angel but a neaniskos (νεανίσκος), a youth, sitting on the right hand and wearing a white stole, the robe of an initiate in the cult mystery position.
The boy speaks. Jesus, he says, is not here; he has been raised. Hillman presses the little Greek word hōde (ὧδε), which the Bibles render as an adverb, here, but which he reads as a demonstrative, this one. In his telling, the boy points at the dead body and says this is not him, marking a death-and-rebirth performance inside a sealed tomb. The women flee, and the Greek says they were tromos, shaking, and in ekstasis (ἔκστασις), a state of ecstasy. That, he argues, is the same word for the state the rite is built to produce.
The closing witness is Celsus, the second-century pagan critic, who wrote that Christians behaved like the keepers of Bacchic mysteries, using names of demons and magic songs, epōdai (ἐπῳδαί). Celsus also said the honor paid to Jesus was no different from the honor paid to Antinous, Hadrian’s favorite boy, a frame that casts Jesus beside Heracles and Hylas. Hillman ties the naked boy in the garden to the boy in the tomb as two ends of the same rite.
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Drinking whiskey when that whiskey’s burned to my veins.
Indian goes crazy and the Scotsman wants to bash out the brain of an Englishman.
Don’t know why, stuck in the hills of Carolina selling.
And you got your drinking whiskey, oh yeah, drinking whiskey, oh yeah.
Welcome back to Lady Babylon Wednesday Night Bible Study.
it’s so nice to have you here tonight we’ll be taking a tour to the end of mark yes we only
fulfilled half half our applicant excuse me half of our obligation i’m so excited we only fulfilled
half of it by seeing him die right we’re there with the soldiers everything’s like that’s a son
of god we’ve only fulfilled half tonight we go to the second half of our commission here
And we investigate the kid that was, I’m sorry, I almost said naked, but he’s just a kid.
The kid that was sitting next to dead Jesus when Mary Magdalene and Salome showed up.
Tonight, we’re going to summon Celsus.
And that’s the touch point that’s going to give us what we really need to blow up.
Again, welcome back. Tonight, I want to begin with some subliminal messaging and a little bit of bringing the future and the past all together in the present.
I’m going to throw some images at you, and I want us to be critical again as investigators, as those who appeal to reason, right?
people have been telling me. Sources, fantastic. We love it. This is ours. This is the museum.
It belongs to us. I’m going to put you in the mood tonight and set you on your way. Chewy, hit it.
This fight has come to us to say no will be allowed on this church as long as I’m the pastor
here. To let you know that verse one is the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. So
help you god when you understand faith the devil’s hoping you don’t know who you are in a few years
they’ll die out do you know why they can’t reproduce urge propel eagles don’t propel we’ve
said jesus would say to our politicians today who are telling us what light bulbs we can and can’t
use but they won’t say don’t murder your children someone who is so deeply into paganism is to do
this was restricted from the privileges and rights of citizenship within the nation because
they had defiled the image of god this is how you breathe in hell it was like those quotes
were by celsius and where we’ve gone tonight you know we usually get in the ship and we go
and we resurrect this dead and we talk to the dead tonight what we’re going to do is drag back with
us everything we are going now to the present in the second century anno domini also known as the
year of our lord yes yes we’re going back we’re going back some of them like to call him yahweh
right but our texts say he’s the kurios yeah okay let’s go i want to go um celsus can you give us a
little bit and please use that soft c on the front celsus right it’s not celsus you know who
pronounces it that way people who don’t have classical philology that’s who okay don’t it
it’s not scythian for goodness sake what kind of scythians do you know right it’s scythian i know
those are minor points but in this temple to the muse in this place can we please have it cleaned
of any charlatanism right you come in here you get on that mat and you perform that’s what’s
important let’s go to celsus i’m going to read to you just a few passages of celsus and bombard you
with some imagery and this is from a very good translation by r joseph hoffman now this is the
standard one they make you get this one when you’re you know in line for pretending that you
have the ability to dissertate and make you get this and like read this yeah love it the cult of
Christ. Tell us, Celsus, about the cult of Christ. You see, we’re in the same time. We’re in the same
time and space with Celsus. That’s why it’s easy to bring him here, right? I can drag the whole
universe backward. Yeah, right. We’re dealing with these people again. Again, we’re fighting
for civilization. Let’s see what happens. The cult of Christ is a secret society. What’s the
year? Does anybody smell the year? Oh yeah, it’s like, I don’t know, 175. Yeah, 180, somewhere in
that range. They even debate about that, right? Let’s just see what the man says. The cult of
Christ is a secret society whose members tattle together in corners for fear of being brought to
trial, and punishment. Okay, well, at least I know where I am. At least I know where I am.
Their persistence is the persistence of a group threatened by a common danger,
and danger is a more powerful incentive to fraternal feeling than is any oath. Hmm,
interesting. Tell me more. As to their doctrine, it was originally barbarian,
And while even barbarians are capable of discovering truth, it happens to be the case that Greeks are best equipped to judge the merit of what passes for truth these days.
He keeps bringing this up, their alignment with reason, their alignment with reason.
Who are these Christians?
Just tell me, Celsus, what are these Christians doing in their meetings?
Could you please tell me?
what are they doing in their meetings? The Christians claim to get some sort of power
from pronouncing the names of demons. What? They’re in meetings pronouncing the names of
demons. Okay. Okay. People back me up, right? We’re all going in to this crime scene. Back me up.
Here we are. Okay. What are they doing? They’re using the names for the demons or saying certain
incantations. Epodes. Epodes. Oh, I love it. I love it. Now I know where I am. Where’s the table
with the drink? Is it a drink or something? I don’t care. Where are you going to? You can put
it anywhere you want. Just let’s get in. Let’s get on board. Let’s get this throne set up. Yeah,
this is gorgeous. The Christians claim to get some sort of power. Yeah, they’re always incorporating
in these incantations, these epodes. Remember, epodes are the songs that are used in conjunction
with the drugs that you and I are seeing in the things like the Mithras liturgy. Fantastic. Do
you have them, Christians? Do you have them? Here we go. They even use the name Jesus in a short
story about him in the formula. It’s no different than the Mithraic liturgy, right? It’s the same
thing. You can see them all. Look, I brought you back to an early Christian orgy. Congratulations.
It’s somebody, somebody. And all I had to do was just ask this dead person. Just ask this dead
person. This is like none of this. Nobody can say poo-poo. Neoniscos is a dirty old man. Poo-poo.
Right? You can’t do that because I’m just talking Celsius. That’s all I’m doing. Jesus himself was
thought to work wonders by the use of magic and incantations and interestingly enough notice that
the two are separate and right away you and i children of the modern era we don’t know
why those should be separate we don’t know what the difference between magic and incantations is
we don’t know if this is part of healing religion we don’t know what this is we don’t know where the
drugs are we don’t know what the visions are we know they’re having visions the prophets they’re
producing profits oh my goodness i’m gonna give you one more only because i know you love it you
guys have a sick fascination a sick fascination it’s like getting down to that original peel you
ever pick it pick it somebody else’s scabs yeah yeah you don’t necessarily have to you get down
to that lower level that’s that fresh invigorated flesh it’s got that blood of death that’s what we
call we don’t call it the mixture of life we call it that which brings death sana simon haima okay
you’re getting a little bit into their into their world so says celsius one ought first to follow
reason as a guide before accepting any belief thank you i told them that i told them that
i told them that’s what the devil wanted and here you are celsus i agree with you celsus good man
good man typical nice pagan love to meet his parents this is wonderful one art one ought
first to follow reason as a guide before accepting any belief since anyone who believes without
testing a doctrine is certain to be deceived. Come on, guys, be scientists, right? It’s no
problem. No problem. We have plenty of examples in our own time, right? Look at who he starts to
compare them with. Sibylle, the soothsayers, the worshipers of Mithras, Sabazius. Wait a minute,
you mean all of these mystery cults that we’ve been talking about? You mean there’s an ancient
person who is comparing christianity no he’s not comparing christianity he’s saying christianity
is one mystery practice yeah so when you say that the early christians are using magic and paul is
running around with his you know he’s like you bend over let me make you stop using your books
like some kind of sick you know school principal you know what i’m talking about that kind
that kind um yeah celsus and these guys are noticing these things right they’re noticing
it and they’re saying look you know you gotta these people should be ashamed for a lot of stuff
they’re doing right a lot of this stuff yeah excellent i want to just in case look in case
there was anybody sitting here who still is in that one section in the nosebleed section
that we reserved for the true believers you know that we’ve that section has always got to be made
available right or we’re not going to have any sort of progress so we’ve got that section available
for anybody in that section who is still in the least sympathetic to the fact that jesus is
arrested in a public park with a naked boy okay i want to give you the words of a dead pagan
who said everybody knows what they do with the boys christians included don’t you see
the cult of jesus is the cult of antinous heracles here he is isn’t he hot here he is you know who
this is. This is Antinous. He’s a real person, right? Don’t think that you’re sitting around.
We don’t spend any time in myth. We’re with real people, baby. We’re with queens, Amazonian queens
and Antinous. Can I get him back for me? Let me summon Antinous back. Look at this. I want you
guys to get, I want you to feel it. As you’re sitting on that throne, right? As you’re sitting
on that throne, look at, look at him, look at him. Just feel Antinous. Antinous, you know who he was?
He was the boy lover of Hadrian, whom he picked up and brought back for his education.
Look, everybody knew.
Nothing was hidden because nobody cared.
Yeah, nobody cared.
Nobody cared.
Yeah.
So we have a pagan who says, hey, this is your Jesus.
Your Jesus, they celebrate.
Those Christians are doing.
let me just read it let me just read it to you chewy give him some stuff to to get the brain
going yeah the honor they pay to jesus is no different from the sort paid to hadrian’s
favorite boy and tenuous yes did jesus have a male lover with whom he was in a pederastic
relationship that’s the question that we’re asking now sitting in this conference room we want to
know look we got a transdimensional stuff is going to come through the pipe and we got to let them
know where we are right and i’m saying part of this investigation has to do with the naked kid
in the public park okay part of it has to do with the guy who was caught touching children
aggressively and had the whole group of parents say stop and he stood up and said what are you
gonna scandalize me you wanna scandalize me i am not a lace days yeah okay and you say how long did
it take for that crowd to form when jesus was getting taken off to get crucified how long did
those guys show up how bad did they punch him in the face okay he got crucified between two two
other ones, huh? All right. Interesting. Interesting. Let me read that again. The honor they pay to
Jesus is no different from the sort paid to Hadrian’s favorite boy in Tinnitus. Now, you’re
saying, naked boy, naked boy with Jesus in a garden, right? Public park. Give me another one, right?
we have to build we’re building a picture so we need things like motive we need to construct
motive based upon evidence and only from evidence that we’ve got we have this 16th chapter of mark
where guess what another neonese ghost comes in and by the way let me just let me just put this
down here paul take down your pants nope i don’t know paul that’s not how it works right daddy says
paul daddy says take him down okay the reason we have to do that is because somebody has snuck in
and i said that naked kid that was with jesus cannot be a kid he’s he’s got to be a 30 year
old mature male undergoing a weekend seminar in a cemetery neoniscos the word for young man
in greek is neanias when you put the sigma kappa onto it you’ve created a a different word because
sigma kappa is a diminutive it’s what we call diminutive so in greek you have a pice a child
child and then you have a piediscos what is it what is a child what is a piediscos it’s a diminutive
for child a little kiddo a little kiddo right so you also have a nanny as a young man and you have
a nanny skos a boy yeah he’s with his boy we’re gonna find another one let’s go with mary quick
everybody in the machine we’re catching up with mary magdalene salome i don’t nobody ask her to
dance please we don’t know who’s who um all we know the name is a drug and it’s a sex drug too
so let’s not get in too deep right in this limo as we all jump in mary magdalene’s limo
let’s not get too deep because the stuff is going to get heated you know what i mean it’s going to
get heated i want to take you to chapter 16 of mark and i’m just going to translate to you i’m
going to translate to you and i’m here’s the text you know yeah yeah you like it wonderful wonderful
isn’t it gorgeous okay show them the next one it’s a it’s a pretty long chapter right and there’s
problems people don’t like this chapter it doesn’t doesn’t fit well there’s manuscript problems
there’s some funny things in here that don’t make us a little bit uncomfortable that’s what i want
to see right as an investigator that’s what you want to see you want to go in that limo with those
stars and you want to see what’s going on give me some can i have some of that let me see yeah and
so when sabbath was over i’m just reading to you from the greek when the sabbath was over mary
magdalene and mary the mother of jacob and salome what they do they they scored some aromata they
got some drugs they got some drugs they agorized some drugs they went to the market got some drugs
don’t you like that why in order that they might treat his body yeah yeah they’re gonna put some
stuff on him they’re gonna alepho him they’re not gonna christ him they’re gonna alepho him
his body right he’s dead now right okay fantastic no nothing new to see here and really early in the
morning on the first day of sabbath they came to his monument yeah to his that’s his you know tomb
monument tomb yeah they came to his tomb the tomb the most talked about tomb in history
what was found in the most talked about tomb in history a wee boy a wee boy yeah watch what he’s
wearing too he’s a party freak watch this okay so earlier they get on it they’re getting there
right when the sun is rising right and they started discussing among themselves and said
who’s gonna remove that giant rock that’s in front of the door of the tomb right they didn’t bring
anybody with them because it’s big rock right big rock gotta roll it away and uh so as they’re
discussing they look up and what happens what do they see they see that somebody’s rolled that
thing away right and it’s big it’s exceptionally big they say oh yeah good good good they got some
manly business right love it love it somebody’s in the background somebody’s in the background
and going in here we go are you ready to go into jesus’s tomb are you ready most famous
tomb in history i’m i’m delighted to be able to give you a tour of the tomb of of jesus a la mark
and a little bit of celsius in the background here we go going into the tomb they saw what a
naya knee scone are you kidding me they saw nanny’s going what is he doing he’s kathaman
he’s sitting in deck sea ice pit wait wait what he’s sitting on the right side he’s sitting on
the right hand he’s sitting on the right hand of whom no it just stops he’s sitting on the right
hand of of somebody or something or some corpse sitting on the right hand of it which is the cult
mystery position love it love it what’s this kid doing there let’s see what happens let’s see what
would have what is it sitting on the right hand what oh he’s wearing a stole leo kid he’s wearing
the white robes of an initiate oh you love that can you smell the drugs that are in the air already
if you don’t it’s too late and you’re about to go nuts i’m not kidding i’m not kidding have you
ever been to one of these cemetery rituals here we go yeah and he says to them yeah don’t the kid
speaks up. He says, don’t be afraid. Don’t be amazed because they’re shocked. Why are they
shocked? They walk into a tomb. There’s a kid sitting there. Am I being too loud? He says,
shut up, old man. You’re being loud. But is there to is what’s the kid? I’m sorry. I get so excited
when these kids get involved with Jesus. Can we see that kid with Jesus again? Look at Jesus’ face
here, people. Come on. Look at him. That’s a man who knows he’s about to get scandalized. You know
of me that’s a man who knows he’s been touching like he shouldn’t jesus christ jesus christ
yeah yeah both of those are titles thank you very much okay and he says to him don’t be afraid he
says you’re looking for jesus the nazarene yeah what is he doing the one that was crucified that’s
what he says this is the one you know the one that was crucified well he opened his eyes he what yeah
he opened his eyes and then the greek says estin jode and everybody translates that jode
do we have that one everybody translate translates this as a that one yeah there we go everybody
translates this i just want you to see um it’s a demonstrative adverb look at the top demonstrative
adverb of hode hode is just such a one right so it’s the demonstrative adverb form of that so
in this way or thus you know thusly look at number two of a state or condition as it is i like you
for who you are that for who you are is this holiday the thing sitting there as it is what
is what does the kid say kid said jesus has gotten up he’s not this thing sitting here
oh my god did he just point to the corpse did he just point to the corpse and say that no no he’s
been woken up he’s new this is not him this is not him oh my goodness that thing is translated
traditionally as an adverb he’s not here he’s not here but why is the boy sitting on the right hand
of somebody who’s not there fantastic and what is that kid doing and why is he dressed up why is he
dressed up like an initiate. This is getting ridiculous. If we were cops, if we were cops,
we would say, okay, there’s a pattern. You think so? Hand me those donuts over there,
right? Hand me those donuts. You know what? As I’m eating my donut, I’m thinking we’re seeing
a pattern. We’re seeing a guy who gets arrested in the company. He gets, he gets, he gets impeded.
He gets somebody comes in and he’s there with a kid, whether it’s in a in a dark place late at night or whether he travels up to somebody’s rich tomb and spends a couple of days with their kid.
Is anybody seeing a pattern? He called himself. He said, Jesus Christ said, I am not a child trafficker. I am not a child trafficker.
I am Jesus Christ. I am not a child trafficker. Do not scandalize me. I am Jesus Christ. I am not
a child trafficker. Do not scandalize me for touching children. You know, the last person
that corpse talked to was that kid. I’d like to know. I’d like to know. But before you think this
is over, now I’m bringing in the drugs. Are you ready for this? Are you ready for this? Remember,
in the tomb that sacred place where that body is where those necromancers perform their right
yeah um they also burn incense yeah they also burn incense okay wait a minute what and it’s
called fumigation brah it’s called fumigation every death is full of it right you gotta purify
the area you got to get rid of those demons you got to get rid of those demons right so what
happens let’s watch what happens in the next in the next uh yeah yeah um so they got up early in
sabbath and they went and mary saw right um he went to her first anyway um i want to get when
they’re running out yeah and so he says to them you know behold jesus the nazarene you know what
I mean, the one that’s crucified, he’s up.
And this isn’t him.
This form isn’t him.
Look at the place where he’s buried.
But they said to the students of him, go out and say to the students and Peter to bring yourselves, right, to Galilee.
He’s going to go before you.
He’s going to go into Galilee.
Wait, what?
Jesus is going into Galilee.
Okay.
Okay.
And then what’s the very next sentence?
And they went out and fled in terror.
They’re tromos. They’re shaking. They’re shaking. It says they ran away. They ran away and refused
to even tell anyone about what happened, right? This is Mary Magdalene, right? Salome, a couple
others. And they’re standing there and they see this kid and all of a sudden a terror hits them.
A terror hits them. I wonder what they were fumigating that place with. Was it something ecstatic? Was it something that they were using? And you think, oh, no, no, no. Watch. I want to catch you right now. I’m going to chain you up and I’m going to spank you. Right. You say, no, no, they didn’t. It wasn’t. They weren’t using those drugs. No, they couldn’t have. We couldn’t have gone there.
Yes. Take a look at what the Greek says, right? Says they were tromos. They had a shake. And they were in ecstasis. They were in ecstasy. They were in ecstasy. No, this is Christian. These cannot be those rites of the pagans. No.
Well, guess what? Mary got high in Jesus’s tomb. She became ecstatic. Yeah, this is when you start
seeing visions and stuff. What do you think that kid was doing sitting there, right? You got to see
those visions. You see the system that was around Jesus and the performance of his mystery? Do you
see the system that was functioning, that was operating, right? That kid was there for a reason
and Celsus is screaming at the world, look, they’re no different. They do the same things.
They reverence Jesus as they reverence Antinous. Antinous. What is Hadrian doing with Antinous?
What is Heracles doing with Hylus? Yeah. And what is Jesus doing with the naked boy?
we’re building a picture of the actuality and now just to finish off i just want to play this i want
to roll this film clip one more time this little clip and i want you to think about what period of
time you’re inhabiting and i want you to think about whether or not time is a river or a cycle
let’s let’s hit it please to let you know that verse one is the truth the whole truth and nothing
but the truth so help you god when you understand faith the devil’s hoping you don’t know who you
are in a few years they’ll die out do you know why they can’t reproduce he’s propelled birds
propel eagles don’t propel we said jesus would say to our politicians today who are telling us
what light bulbs we can and can’t use but they won’t say don’t murder your children someone who
is so deeply into paganism is to do this was restricted from the privileges and rights of
citizenship within the nation because they had defiled the image of god this is how you breathe
in hell it was like they toppled the civilization and issued in dark ages now they have the power
to destroy everything look at where you are in history yeah thank you for coming tonight i will
be a few minutes at the at the um discord tonight um to chat with people and throw around for people
to throw around ideas it’s a great place to come to throw around your ideas yeah and maybe tonight
will drop some celsius maybe maybe not but please please as we go through this material take it
seriously because this is the reality that we have now at present this is our reality yeah we have to
do what’s right guys we have to defend that space we have to keep these texts have a good week hail
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