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Have you read any Maurice Nicoll? He's a fascinating character. In my opinion the best of that rascal Gurdjieff's students.
The title of the book “The Mark” comes from the ancient aramaic word that yeshuah (if there was a yeshuah, and yeshuah isn't a code name for a semen smeared amanita muscaria mushroom, which John Allegro suggested) used in his parables, that we translated thru the aramaic and greek as the word “Sin”
The word yeshuah used for “Sin” is a technical term from archery, which means “missing the mark”, as in, missing the target you were shooting at with your arrow.
So, “The Mark” is the thing that humans aim for, that they miss when they commit sin.
Nicoll's thesis in those two books is that the Gospels represent an esoteric instruction set in the form of those unique stories we call the parables.
Esoteric instructions that later were rewritten, added to, and packaged as a religious document in the following centuries.
A sweet idea. Who knows how optimistic it is.
Robert Funk was a cool thinker too. He died recently. What was the name of his last famous book? Oj yeah - “Honest To Jesus” - he seperates out from the gospels the parts that we can be sure _weren't_ said by yeshuah, and then looks at the stuff that is left that might actually have been said by a personal yeshuah.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Funk
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