therefore his remains. He would have been 76 at the time.
Was he the Master of Righteousness ?
Whether he was the Master of Righteousness of the Essenes and whether he was brought up by them throughout his life for the purpose of the final act of submission to execution, is really what we have to dig deep into. His spiritual evolution coupled with his extraordinary learning, left him in a void which only blind disciplined following could attach itself to. He was a teacher foremostly and a leader by result. He could perhaps not have fully understood the final definition of his own mission, but his immediate objectives were to make himself aware to the scattered members of the ancient tribes in places as far afield as Anatolia and Alexandria. Both were centres of the remnants of the diaspora and both had Jews and descendants of the tribes who, after all, did have some historical common ground. We shall see later that this common ground is reflected in the teachings and passion of Jesus. It is no coincidence that after Jesus left the scene and long after his death (which may or may not have been on the cross), the Jewish cultural descent continued parallel to the lines of descent that can only be called Christian, but which were essentially spiritually aligned with the love cultures of the Phoenicians and earlier Assyrians. These lines of cultural and religious descent are now becoming fairly obvious as the legacy of the Hittites and the evolution of the early Sumerian and Assyrian beliefs are brought into question. There have been two distinct social streams since then appearance of Jesus on the scene – the Jewish and the so called Christians. The latter, amazingly, in their own revolutionary way, loyal to their