Jesus: The Explosive Story of the Hear me, you hearers, and learn of my words, you who know me. - Poem to the Great Mother From Perfect Thunder, Perfect Mind, Among the Masters of the White Brotherhood there are documented stories about how Jesus spent his early years. Eugene Whitworth records Jesus’ passage through many different schools of Initiation in his book The Nine Faces of Christ, among them the Essenes, the Druids, the Brahmins, the Magi and the Egyptians. Over the past several decades superb research has been made that corroborates many of these stories, which we shall look at shortly. Paul Perry, author of at least three best selling books, has done an excellent job of chronicling these early years in Jesus in Egypt. Using well-known texts like the Infancy Gospels, the Apocryphal Gospels of other Apostles, and local Egyptian stories passed down through the centuries, Perry relates the fragmented stories of a brilliant child with uncanny spiritual gifts. He also relates many miracles attributed to the Mother Mary, from the opening of springs to the healing of the sick and wounded. We pick up the threads of Jesus’ story only years later, when he is back in Israel visiting the Temple with his parents at age twelve. Luke speaks about this in his Gospel. After this there is no mention of Jesus or his studies or thoughts until he is 29 years of age and beginning his ministry. What happened in those seventeen intervening years and why is no one talking about this? Do we really believe that he was living a simple life of carpentry and helping out his mother and father? Let us consider that his human parents, who had been prepared for his arrival before he even came, knew the unique and special destiny for which he was born. And that like good parents everywhere, they wanted to do all they could to prepare him for his mission. The Education Begins It was the custom in those days for the sons of Greek, Roman and Jewish nobility to travel abroad to study, particularly in the British Isles. It would have been natural for Joseph to send the heir of the Dravidic’s bloodline to England in his early years. Both Greek and Roman records reveal that in those days some of the finest Universities on the planet existed in the Celtic lands, boasting over sixty Universities and 60,000 students. Furthermore the Druids were well known for their knowledge of science, law and religion, studies important to any educated Essene. The Druids were also skilled in healing, agriculture, and history. Their moral codes were high and their disciplines strict. Choosing such a school for Jesus would have been a natural for one so bright and exceptionally gifted who had already been raised among the mystical teachings of the Essenes. But is there evidence for this claim? Indeed there is. In fact, so strong was the mark Jesus made in those early years that even today, two thousand years later, there still exist songs and legends about his visit to the Isles. Legend tells that he arrived in Cornwall on a ship with his mother Mary, as well as his well-heeled uncle, Joseph of Arimathea. Joseph, as you may recall was a prosperous trader in the tin industry, and Cornwall was one of the leading sources for tin at the time. Furthermore Joseph, like Jesus and John the Baptist, had already been raised in the wisdom of the Essenes, and certainly had knowledge of the advanced and educated Druids. Most of us today have no idea who or what the Druids really were, however a real examination of their path reveals many similarities between the Druids and the ancient mysteries of other countries, as well as modern day Christianity. Understanding the Druids
Most Jewish and Christian people are unaware that the dimensions and layout of the Temple of Solomon was modeled on a far more ancient temple from Babylon. This was a Temple dedicated to Marduk or Ba’al who became known as Ra in Egypt. Ra was the older brother of Thoth who ruled Egypt for a thousand years. Like the Temple of Karnack in Luxor whose two obelisks flanked the entrance, this was a classic design with great symbolic meaning. Jehovah, as a competing Anunnaki deity, simply borrowed the plans from Ra. Marduk had chosen the name Ra, by the way, because it represented the Sun, the great Solar principle that brings Light and knowledge to humanity. The Sun has been connected with all solar cults, including modern day Christianity, as the visible symbol for the Lord of Light, and after all, Jesus was known as the Sun or the Son of God.
As you can see in the picture of the Freemasons apron on the right, around each column is entwined the double helix that represents the activation of the DNA, much as we see in the entwined snakes of Egyptian caduceus. To carriers of Gnostic Christianity, this X became one of the hermetic symbols for the Divine Feminine, the alternative stream of underground Christian thought. Masonic Initiates referred to these two pillars as J & B, which stood for Jachin and Boaz, literally translated as “may it establish” (the J) “the strength”(the B) to “stand upright” (the columns) which is taken from the root letters ayin, mem and daleth, meaning “the eye”, “the origin/water/mother” and “the door.” Another way of saying this is: “May you have strength to stand up right and enter the Eye of God who is the Mother and origin of all things, who emerged from the primordial waters.” These pillars also represent the first Divine Couple, for they are symbols of Atum in Its first great division, beholding Itself. This is a theme we will return to soon as we meet these two Divine Beings who sit at the center of the Council of Nine.
The Mysterious Druids
Very clever, don’t you think? So why was the oak tree chosen to represent this esoteric school? It Their Theology
The Druids had great knowledge of the stars and the seasons, the magnetic fields of
Each Initiate was instructed in the creation of the universe, the personalities of the divinities, the laws of Nature, the secrets of occult medicine, the mysteries of the celestial bodies, and the rudiments of magic. Like most Mystery Schools the students were bound by secrecy and only the best were chosen to go on to the next step. Aspiring neophytes were allowed to wear the striped robes of white, blue and green, the three colors most sacred to the Order. Like the Christians of today they celebrated the birth of the Lord of Light on December 25 th, the resurrection of the Solar God at Easter, and had a Virgin Mother with a child in her arms, probably from the earliest depictions of Isis. The Druids also used many symbols sacred to us today, including the cross, the Egg to symbolize the birth of the Universe, and the serpent of wisdom. Like the Egyptians, the highest Archdruids were allowed to carry the Staff of Mastery, which like the modern day medical staff, symbolized the master of life over death. They also believed in three worlds or dimensions, each roughly equating to the Celestial, the Terrestrial and the Underworld, slightly different from the dualistic versions of Heaven and Hell we have been taught today.
Documented Records of Jesus in England In The Drama of the Lost Disciples, author George Jowett writes: “The wise men of India record the visit of Jesus among them (and) make several references to Britain as a great center of religious learning; therefore… Jesus would know of the eminence of Druidic religious wisdom… Eastern and Western tradition claim that Jesus completed his studies in Britain. This could be possible. At that time the Druidic universities were the largest in the world, both in size and in attendance, with a listing of sixty large universities and an average attendance of over sixty thousand students. This is affirmed by Greek and Roman testimony which states that the noble and wealthy of Rome and other nations sent their children to study law, science and religion in Britain.” A tinsmith foreman in Cornwall at the turn of the last century wrote, “We workers in metal are a very old fraternity, and like other handicrafts we have our traditions among us. One of these is that Joseph… made voyages to Cornwall in his own ships, and that on one occasion he brought with him the child Christ and his mother and landed them at St. Michael’s Mount.” Gildas, a British priest-historian writing in 542 A.D. reports, “We certainly know that Christ, the True Sun, afforded His light, the knowledge of His precepts, to our Island in the last reign of Tiberius Caesar…” These reports have been supported with physical evidence as well. One of these is an old stone cross at in Cheshire, England that reveals the eastern Mediterranean motif of the ancient grape vine, long associated with Jesus’ family lineage, and on this cross is Jesus dressed in a short kilt. George F. Jowett tells us that “Tradition and written testimony assert that Jesus did abide in Britain, and whilst there created a Temple of loving testimony to His Mother… For over a thousand years it was commonly spoken of as ‘the church built not by human art.’” This oral tradition is supported by Henry Jenner, F.S.A., of the British Museum, in an article published in the Western Morning News in April of 1933. Jenner records that while he was staying in South Uist in the Outer Hebrides, he found a whole set of legends of the wanderings of Mary, the Holy Mother and her son Jesus in the Western Isles of Scotland. And off the northwest coast of the Isle of Skye at Dunvegan Sound, there is a place called the Eilean Isa, or the Island of Jesus. Founding The First Church
Glastonbury was once the island of Avalon, known as the Isle of Apples. At that time the sea covered much of the inland marshes, allowing seven great hills to rise from the water like “a great dragon’s back,” along which the energy of the land flowed. Joseph, the story goes, brought with him a staff. When he came to the legendary Isle of Avalon, he thrust it into the ground and it took root. It is said that the great thorn tree that grows on Wearyall Hill, one of the largest of the rolling dragon greens, originally sprang from this staff. This tree was famous throughout all of England, and was known to blossom only at Christmas and Easter. It was always regarded as a powerful symbol of death and rebirth since its white flowers and red fruit appeared at the same time each year. The tree was tall and had double trunks that entwined like the caduceus staff of Egypt. This configuration is also very much like the DNA helix, as well as the Staff of the High Initiates in Egypt, and the arch Druids of Britain. This species is called Crataegus Oxyacanth Praecox, and is known to grow only in the Holy Lands of Syria. The Puritans tried to destroy the tree in the 1700’s, but fortunately it had already had many offspring. Several shoots of that original hawthorn are still growing in Glastonbury within the Abbey grounds, on Wearyall Hill and within the Chalice Well Gardens. Avalon and the Summerland
According to the 1922 publication St. Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury by Lionel S. Lewis, Joseph arrived at the Isle of Glass, ( Glastonbury) in 31 A.D. with ten companions. Legend says that they were told in a vision by the Archangel Gabriel to build a church in honor of Mary. Many have assumed this to be Jesus’ mother, but there are many who believe that it is actually the Magdalene who is honored here, better known as Black (or hidden) Madonna of his lineage. One legend states that after Mary Magdalene died, Joseph brought her body to Glastonbury to be buried in a crypt at the present Mary Chapel of the Abbey. Certainly we know from records that Mary’s original Chapel in Glastonbury Abbey was founded in its humble form of mud and thatch sometime between 41- 63 A.D. In fact, it would have been the world's first above ground church, since the earliest Christians were forced to meet underground in secret in both Jerusalem and Rome to avoid persecution. About Joseph’s presence there, more than one religious leader has written on this subject. Reverend C. Dobson gives a report from a fellow ecclesiastic in his book Did Our Lord Visit Britain as They Say in Cornwall and Somerset. His friend, Reverend Lewis, shares the history of the burial of Joseph of Arimathea’s remains in Glastonbury today: The Vicar of Glastonbury tells us that Joseph’s body remained buried here in St. Joseph’s Chapel, the old “ Mother church,” until 1354 A.D., when Edward III gave his license to John Bloom of London to dig for it, and the Abbot and monks consented. There is the statement of a Lincolnshire monk in 1367 that his body was found. They placed it in a silver casket, let into a stone sarcophagus, which was placed in the east end of St. Joseph’s chapel, and it became a place of pilgrimage. There is a written record of the sarcophagus being still in position in 1662 when the chapel had become partially ruined. Owing to fear of puritan fanaticism prevalent at the time, it was secretly removed into the Parish Church churchyard, and its identity was concealed by the pretence that the initials on it, J.A., stood for John Allen. In 1928 the present Vicar of Glastonbury found it half buried in the soil, and had it removed into the church, and its construction bears out the accounts of a silver casket which could be raised and lowered, and shows other marks of identity.” The Masters of the East The world explorer Nicholas Roerich wrote about Jesus’ journeys in the Far East in his books, Himalaya, Altai-Himalaya and Heart of Asia. Roerich, like others before him, claimed that Jesus was the spiritual teacher known throughout the East as Saint Issa. Roerich is perhaps best known in our century for his magnificent paintings of Central Asia, and a series of nineteen paintings of the world’s greatest religious teachers including Mohammed, Jesus, Moses, Confucius, Buddha, and many of the Indian and Christian sages. He depicted the great female deities in such paintings as She Who Leads, Madonna Laboris and The Mother of the World. This latter conception, equivalent to the Lakshmi and Kali of India, is one of Roerich's most inspiring images.
Paul Perry, Jesus in Egypt: Discovering the Secrets of the Christ’s Childhood Years, ( New York: Ballantine Books) 2003, pg. 8-10. Symbols of Freemasonry, (Barnes and Noble), 2003, pg. 44. Margaret Starbird, Mary Magdalene: Bride in Exile, Ibid, pg. 130. Daniel Beresniak, Symbols of Freemasonry, (Barnes and Noble Books), 2003, pg. 44. Barry Dunford, The Holy Land of Scotland: Jesus in Scotland and the Gospel of the Grail, (Glenlyon, Perthshire, Scotland: Sacred Connections), 2002, pg. 59. Chakras are energy “wheels” where our spirits connect with our physical body and they roughly correspond to the endocrine system and run up the spine from our Peridium through the solar plexus, heart, throat, to the top of the head. John and Caitlin Matthews, The Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom, ( Massachusetts: Element Press),1994, pg. 186. Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, ( New York: Penguin), 2003, pg. 39-48. Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, ( New York: Penguin), 2003, pg. 46. George F. Jowett, The Drama of the Lost Disciples, 1972, pg. 138. Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst, The Sun and the Serpent, (Cornwell: Pendragon Press), 1989, pg. 79. Barry Dunford, The Holy Land of Scotland: Jesus in Scotland and the Gospel of the Grail, (Glenlyon, Perthshire, Scotland: Sacred Connections), 2002, pg. 7. Iola Manuscripts: A Selection of Ancient Welsh Manuscripts, 1848, pg. 343-344. Hamish Miller and Paul Broadhurst, The Sun and the Serpent, (Cornwell: Pendragon Press), 1989, pg. 70-80. Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, ( New York: Penguin), 1928 and 2003, pg. http://www.roerich.org/wwp.html www.wmea-world.org/Teachings/HR.htm
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Certainly most of us know that Jesus spent his early years in Egypt, for this has been well-documented in the Bible, although few people in traditional Christian thought know any details. In the New Testament we read in Matthew that after Jesus was born “an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream saying, ‘Arise, take the young Child and His mother and flee to Egypt… stay there until I bring you word; for Herod will seek the young Child to destroy him.’” 
The Druids were a group of teachers, healers and sages whose name literally means “to enclose within a circle.” This was meant not only to honor the unity in all things, but also as “one who is admitted into the inner most circle of wisdom.” In other words, to become a Druid was to become an Initiate of the Innermost Mysteries, and thus the symbol of the circle was holy to them. It was often symbolized by an evergreen wreath, much as we use at Christmas today on our front doors, a symbol for unity and the renewal of life.
The two vertical lines intersecting the circle represent the male and female aspects of ourselves and the Creator, and like the two pillars at the Temple of Solomon, they were the doorway through which the Initiate must pass to achieve enlightenment. The two lines even look like the number 11 in numerology, a number that represents mastery. Not only was this used in the Jewish Temple of Solomon, but it had been derived from an even earlier history. 
These two pillars represent the passing of the Initiate into the Halls of Knowledge, but in order to achieve mastery, one had to claim both sides of their nature; the masculine and the feminine polarities, which is the only way to become a homo luminous. Freemasons tells us that these two columns “mark the... departure from a familiar world into an unknown one… They represent the mythological Pillars of Hercules which were thought to (once) stand at the Straits of Gibraltar.”
Many people believe that the Druid’s name derived from the oak, but Harold Bayley in his book Archaic England tells us that the word “Tree is the same word as true, and dru (is) the Sanskrit word for tree.” Thus the name Druid was a play on words with multiple meanings. Authors John and Caitlin Matthews write in The Encyclopedia of Celtic Wisdom that the Welsh word derwydd, or the Irish drui, is ultimately derived from the Sanskrit root Veda, which means to see or to know. Bayley writes: “It is far more probable that the oak tree was named after the Druids…” than that the Druids were named for the oaks. In fact the word Druid itself derives from “the Persian duru, meaning a good holy man; the Arabic deri, meaning a wise man;”
has everything to do with the Tree of Life, still honored in the Christian, Jewish and Mayan traditions today. It is the Tree that links humankind with the heavens, and the Druids believed, like the Cabalists of today, that it is only by knowing these pathways into the Inner realms that we are able to move upward in our spiritual evolution. You will notice that this Druidic emblem has a total of seven branches, indicating the seven major chakra centers of the human body.
animals, but this is hardly an accurate rendering. The Druids’ beliefs were as sophisticated as any spiritual teaching in the world, and have been likened to the Eleusinian Mysteries of Greece, the Egyptian Mysteries of Isis and Osiris, and the Hindu Brahmin of India.
most ancient symbols, the oak leaf, which contains within it the shape of the Vesica Pisces. And they also knew of the spiral and the golden mean ratio upon which all life evolves. 
the Earth, and the seen and unseen relationship between the dimensions. They brought us the labyrinth, a code for the seven multi-dimensional planes still inscribed on the floors at Chartes Cathedral in France and Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. They were physicians, astronomers, poets and prophets, and their educational system was considered superior to that of their colleagues on the Continent.
The Druids had three orders of Initiates, and two orders of teachers. Like most schools they taught a simple moral code to the outer order of Initiates, and a deeper esoteric wisdom to the higher Initiates. The three orders of Initiation were the Ovates who dressed in green, the Druidic color of learning; the Bards who were robed in sky blue, representing harmony and truth; and the Druids who were dressed in white, the color of the sun, corresponding to purity. Few candidates made it through all three grades. To reach the highest position of Arch-Druid, or a head of one of the Orders, it was necessary to pass through six additional successive degrees, each designated by different colored sashes worn over the white robes. Each candidate was chosen for his virtues of honesty, integrity, spirituality and heart. 
In James Freeman Clarke’s book Ten Great Religions, he tell us that The Welsh Triads reveal three objects of remembrance that each Soul had to find in order to become enlightened: one must collect into the soul the properties of all being, one must acquire a knowledge of all things, and one must get the power to conquer evil. The Druids defined three kinds of knowledge; the knowledge to name each thing, the knowledge to learn its cause, and the knowledge to understand its influence. They believed that there were three things in the world that must always grow less: darkness, falsehood and death. Conversely there were three things that should always increase; light, life and truth.
It is well documented that after Jesus’ crucifixion, Joseph of Arimathea returned around 37 A. D. to set up the first official church located at Glastonbury Well and the Tor, both sacred to the Divine Mother. The well cover even today depicts the sacred symbol of the Vesica Pisces, otherwise known as the fish. This glyph symbolized his message, a divine partnership between male and female that led to the innermost Mysteries. As we will see shortly, this message was severely subverted and suppressed by the Orthodox Church.
In ancient Welsh manuscripts it is written that Joseph of Arimathea came to Ynys Afallon, the Isle of Apples in the Summer Country. Today this area is called Somerset, and this is the Isle that is associated with the legends of King Arthur and the Lady of the Lake. Over the years I have traveled there many times, and it is a powerful magical place. History tells us that it was once been the home of the Druids and the Priestesses of Avalon. In Joseph’s time there was no separation between Christianity and what the Druids taught. To the true Initiate, all great Mysteries were One. 
After Britain, evidence tells us that Jesus traveled Eastward, making his way through the countries of Chaldea and India. Written records reveal that he was trained by the Brahmin in the mysteries of the Upanishads and Vedas. Manly P. Hall in his monumental work, The Secret Teachings of All Ages writes, “There are persistent rumors that Jesus visited and studied in both Greece and India, and that a coin struck in His honor in India during the first century has been discovered. Early Christian records are known to exist in Tibet, and the monks of a Buddhist monastery in Ceylon still preserve a record which indicates that Jesus sojourned with them and became conversant with their philosophy.”
But Nicolas Roerich was far more than a painter. He was also an esteemed professor at the Imperial Archaeological Institute in Russia, as well as a respected philosopher, diplomat and mystic. Roerich, Helena his wife and their son George, traveled across Central Asia between 1923 and 1928 with the task of collecting archaeological and anthropological information about the people, history and culture of those lands. Helena has been called “one of the most remarkable women of the 20 th Century,”