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Jesus correctly perceived that if the species was ever to be redeemed, and the nightmare of history ever to end, the setting of male against male must stop, and cooperation and gulp! -- the brotherhood of love � must take the place of male/male strife. This is a delicate proposition, because competiton between males, within non-coerced, conscious contexts, indeed is healthy. However, unconscious, manipulated, and coerced competiton between males atomizes and precludes male bonding, and guarantees a mass of alienated, excluded men, ravening primates cast into cultural oblivion, circling the protected center with bad intent. It is these men that Jesus embraced, and tried to convince others to embrace.

In the modern world we operate under the false assumption that men rule, and have always ruled. Absurd. Leadership by men is a very recent, and still superficial, phenomenon. For the vast majority of human development � as is still evident amongst our primate cousins � it�s the collective feminine that makes all the important decisions, and retains final and absolute authority over the group.

Jesus, aware of humanity�s roots in matriarchy, understood that sisterhood was always a given, and that brotherhood was the spring that would release the trap of male blood competition, and free men from the prison of servitude and strife. Jesus was a prototypical Son/Lover, operating firmly in the sacrificial Son tradition of the matriarchy, under inceptive patriarchal organization. The blood sacrifice of the male by the collective feminine is the nasty little secret at the heart of sanitized civilization. The blood-sacrifice of the masculine, particularly of boys, is well documented by scholars such as Frobenius, Bachofen and Sir James Frazer. Frazer's, massive, lyrical and often surreal Golden Bough is a compendium of these rites in the prehistoric, ancient, and modern world. Like Osiris and Horus in Egypt, Tammuz in Babylon, Dumuzi in the Near East, and countless others, Jesus was a Year-King, whose blood was demanded -- and drunk -- by thirsty Mother Earth under direction of priestesses, matrons, and queens -- attended and administered by their male servants.

Here we reach the core of Jesus� task, what ELO�s Jeff Lynne calls the �Mission of the Sacred Heart.� By predicting and fulfilling his own blood sacrifice, Jesus brilliantly and courageously attempted to make humanity collectively conscious of its addiction to the male scapegoat, and to the mechanism of scapegoating conserved from the matriarchies.

Jesus was the dividing line between blood sacrifice, or scapegoating, institutionalized under conditions of unconsciousness, coercion and matriarchy, and blood sacrifice made conscious, not under coercive or competitive circumstances, but by fully aware, individual male choice. This represents an enormous leap forward for the species, though a leap to this day hindered by most cultural elements, who do not wish to lose their death grip of power and privilege over the scapegoated masculine.

When men seeking freedom bump up against the realization that those they trusted, loved, and invested in psychologically in fact prefer them to remain slaves, an enormous psychic shock is sustained. For this reason, most males choose to remain unconscious of this truth.

What made Christ different from the litany of male sacrifices before him was his predictive awareness not only of his own sacrificial role, but of the status of his predecessors and successors. He operated simultaneously inside and outside of time, in the sense that he understood the pre-historical and historical significance of his own life -- thus his prediction of his own death by scapegoating. Only a Son of the Sun rises so high. A fully conscious being moots prophecy.

Even today, in the West the image of a male bound to a tree, tortured and murdered for the sin of acting out of his essential masculinity, is our central icon, ironically co-opted by those forces in society most antagonistic to authentic masculinity � one might say, most interested in keeping masculinity nailed to the Cross. For the Cross is the intersection of space and time, which is to say, the feminine material world. Robert Briffault notes in The Mothers: �The Kretan Great Mother was triune, and commonly represented under the attributes of the tree, the pillar and the cross." (Briffault, pp. 371-372) The Cross is the altar of femininity, derived from the sacrificial oak and hawthorn of Paleolithic ritual, upon which the masculine is bled and slaughtered.

As Camille Paglia, Jim Morrison, Jesus Christ, and many others have warned us, cultures which continue to scapegoat and demonize the masculine are doomed to reside with the Scapegoat in the deepest pit of hell. Predictably, that is right where America currently finds itself -- buried in denial, bathing in blood vengeance, fractured into a thousand points of darkness.

One day, perhaps, Papa Sol will tire of sending his magnificent Sons to scapegoating and murder in this vale of tears. Then our �spiritual leaders� will have the field to themselves, where they can Spin Jesus to heart�s content, with nary a voice of dissent.

Or perhaps the Paraclete of sanity will descend upon us all. It had best happen soon.



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