Confederation, Eastern Orthodox Christianity and Meditation

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Jesus was also naturally gifted. He became a rabbi at age 12. Jesus lived with those of his religion who practiced spiritual disciplines, namely the Essences. He wandered far and wide and learned from sages and adepts of all traditions. Buddhism might have been one of them, but those same teachings on meditation are found within Jesus’s culture.
(Some even say that Abraham brought meditation over to the East. Yes, this sounds a little ridiculous to me too, but there is some evidence in the Bible to support this claim.)

Again, in the early days of Christianity, it had a devout mystical sect. The Gnostics. The Gnostics were murdered and wiped out by the Catholic Church some time prior to the canonization of the Bible. They chose, with Emperor Constantine threatening any Bishop who did not obey his commands with excommunication, what would be included and what would not. We can assume the more mystical and esoteric teachings were thrown out.
They didn’t complete wipe out the Gnostics though. They were wise enough to foresee the probability of ignorance destroying the Ageless Wisdom, and they preserved some of their texts. These were discovered at the end of WW2, the Naghamadi Texts. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found around this time as well.

There has been a real hidden effort in this world to keep humanity spiritually ignorant. We saw the same in ancient Egypt and Atlantis. The priestcraft was replaced with black magicians who then perverted the Law of One.

Jesus came and dispelled ignorance with true spiritual teachings. Jesus was aware of the reality of reincarnation, but later on self-serving bishops of the Catholic Church decided they knew better than the Christ. That’s just one example. And imo, the knowledge of reincarnation changes your entire world view.

Although the cannonization of the Bible came later, the Gnostics did continue through the Simonians at least until the 4th century, and the bible was canonized in the 5th. However, it seems that most of that canonization had formed in the 3rd century, while Gnostics were still around. (The Simonians weren't the end of the Gnostics, of course, else we would never would have had the Cathars.) There were also the Sethians, Manichaens, Egyptian Hermetics, etc, etc.

I am just making the point that the Catholic Church was not nearly as successful as it is often suggested. While it's true that many of these teachings were driven in to secret, and certainly many people were killed for erring from the church, but I think it is that truth of the continuation of lineage through hidden channels that is the saga of esotericism.

What often isn't considered is that the Church created a monopoly on education, writing and learning during the Dark Ages. I think a big reason that a lot of knowledge only passed orally or through scant secret teachings is because of this control of writing. The Church knew this and why they controlled books for so long.