cultures within their own specific practices – a federation of conscience followers, rather than narrow sectarian idealism. To Jesus, knowledge and self enlightenment through this, was real liberation from blind tradition and manipulative priests. Jesus was, it seems, a teacher of the “Gnostic” concept of freedom through understanding – a Sophist or a a Cynic (not what it means today). As such therefore, if those who entered the group wanted to be circumcised , well and good, but if not, it had nothing to do with the real mission and therefore of no importance. This was another case of the “dead burying the dead” – the unimportant detail that could and must not detract from the whole. The fragmenting of ancient Al-Israel which included Judea at one time had after all, been for this precise reason. A great commonwealth of nations and beliefs had been blown apart by the narrow ambitions of those who wanted to do things their own way. The commonwealth of federal alliances with individual cultures and histories forged from similar origins, had been forged into a giant platform very much like the modern European concept, but an organised and centralised religion based on Sabine (Ethiopian) Temple worship, was something that would have never and did not, gel. It would have been the equivalent of one of the stronger member states imposing its culture and traditions on the rest them. With the loss of the powerful influence of the first King of Israel, Saul, the tribes entered into a period conflict which culminated in continuous internal strife and an ill fated attempt on the part of the House of Judah to keep the Crown and authority. With the war of vengeance caused by the Judean Levite complaint against the Benjamite rape of his