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ISSA THE HEALER AKA CHRIST--CARPENTER OR FREEMASONS' "MASTER CRAFTSMAN" WISDOM OF THE SERPENT. IS JESUS'S TOMB LOCATED IN SRINAGARKASHMIR?
WHY HAVE REQUESTS TO DO DNA TESTS BEEN GRANTED... THEN SUDDENLY DENIED?

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The most compelling case for such a shared-origin idea emerged from work done in 1998 by University College London’s Centre for Genetic Anthropology. Tests performed on the Bene Israel (literally “children of Israel”) from Alibag, Northern India, showed a clear link between them and the Jews of Yemen, as well as tribesmen from Southern Africa also believed to have been part of the Jewish diaspora.

The theories concerning Jesus’s Eastern odyssey are not new, but of all the figures connected with them over the years there is one who emerges as both the most consistent and the most controversial: Nicholas Notovitch. Born in 1858 into a wealthy Russian family in the Crimea, Notovitch had converted from Judaism to Orthodox Christianity when young. He became a journalist and political writer whose books on Russian politics secured him a positive reputation throughout Europe; but it is the discoveries Notovitch made when travelling that now claim more attention. In 1877, he undertook a journey through the East. In his book The Unknown Life of Christ (1894), he described “the first object” of his journey as “to study the customs and habits of the inhabitants of India amid their own surroundings, as well as the grand, mysterious archæology and the colossal, majestic nature of the country”. 1 “Wandering,” as he put it, “without any settled course,” he travelled through Afghanistan, modern Pakistan, Northern India, Kashmir and finally into Ladakh – the land sandwiched between Kashmir and Tibet. It was here, after what would turn out to be a fortuitous fall from his horse, that he was cared for by Buddhist monks from Hemis monastery. While recuperating, Notovitch struck up a relationship with the Lama, who eventually produced a number of ancient scrolls written in Tibetan by Buddhist historians. An interpreter translated the scrolls, and Notovitch managed to make copies of a significant part of them. The scrolls narrate the story of Jesus (identified as Issa – see footnote 4) from birth to death, but most significantly tell of Christ’s wanderings between, roughly, the ages of 13-30. According to the scrolls, Christ came specifically to study the teachings of the Buddhists. His travels took him through Sindh, the Punjab and eventually to Juggernaut, where he studied the Vedas. However, Jesus was driven out when he taught the Holy Scripture to those whom the Brahmins thought unworthy and spoke out against such caste distinction. He sought sanctuary in the Gothamide region, where he continued his studies before returning, at the age of 29, to Judæa. Then, with certain deviations in the details, the story of Christ follows the conventional one, with his eventual death on the cross.

When Notovitch returned to the West, he sought to publish his translations of the scrolls. Not surprisingly, the established Church, when consulted by Notovitch on several occasions, advised against publication. Eventually, he gained the support of the respected French academic and philosopher Joseph Ernest Renan, who was extremely interested in the scrolls and their contents. However, when Renan offered to make a report to his academy, Notovitch declined, fearing that Renan would take the credit and steal his own thunder.

Notovitch eventually published the material himself, in 1894, as The Unknown Life of Christ. There have been attempts to refute Notovitch’s findings – some have gone so far as denying that he ever visited Hemis monastery – or even that the monastery did not exist. Now, however, there would seem to be sufficient evidence, both circumstantial and otherwise, to corroborate Notovitch’s movements as he gave them. The scrolls themselves, though, have remained elusive. While certain researchers claim to have had their existence confirmed by the Buddhist monks, these mysterious artifacts have yet to make a physical appearance. Until they do, doubt will inevitably persist.

Nicholas Notovitch was a major force in bringing the notion of Jesus in India to the attention of the West, particularly the Christian West.


ABOVE: Nicholas Notovitch, who claimed that the young
Jesus had visited the Hemis lamasery in the Himalayas.


Alongside Notovitch ranks another highly controversial figure: Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, author of the Urdu treatise Masih Hindustan Mein (Jesus in India, 1899). In this readable – if undeniably polemical – work, Ghulam Ahmad set out his theory that Christ survived the crucifixion and journeyed to India, where eventually he died at the venerable age of 120 and was laid to rest in the Roza Bal tomb in Srinagar.

Ghulam Ahmad was born in 1835 in the small Indian town of Qadian. His fervent devotion to Islam became all too apparent when, at the age of 49, he wrote his massively popular (in the Muslim world) Baraheen Ahmadiyya. This aggressive and thorough declaration ‘proves’ the superiority of Islam over the other religions of the world and was enough to earn Ghulam Ahmad the distinction of Mujjadid or reformer – a title granted to only 13 other Muslims throughout history. However, it wasn’t long after receiving this honour that Ghulam Ahmad cultivated a far more controversial role within the Islamic world with his stunning declaration that he was, in fact, the long awaited Mahdi, or Messiah, who would herald the final rule of Islam. In the eyes of most Muslims, Ghulam Ahmad had turned himself from a saint into a sinner almost overnight. His astounding claims turned his most devout supporters into his most vocal critics; an attitude that was only compounded with the publication of Jesus in India, which ensured that he would become a popular hate figure for Christians and Buddhists as well as Muslims.


So? What do you think? Some authors have reported that Jesus traveled to the East in search of the lost tribes of Israel, whose existence has been verified by DNA testing, locating such DNA markers in the peoples of Kashmir and India. Many, however, have watered down the theory by claiming that Jesus returned to Israel to suffer the crucifixion as believed by the Christian community. There's been much talk of Mary Magadalene's departure and the holy bloodline's history in France and Europe. But what if this is bogus. What if the true path and story begins in the tiny remote setting of Srinagar, Kashmir, in a humble building that most have never heard of?
BBC film of Jesus's tomb in Kashmir

Being a novelist, I have explored this myth or fact through fiction. What if a Black Lodge of Masonry had uncovered an ancient codex, found in Solomon's Temple ... that linked to Solomon's Temple in Kashmir(Yes, there is a temple of that name just north of Srinagar) with the truth of Christ's bloodline and death. Would the Vatican's Romanti, together with secret societies do everything in their power to stop the truth from being told to the world?


Richard D. Weber

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The Tomb of Jesus

I have visited this tomb twice, and can personally attest to the holiness and yes, rose-scented fragrance of the atmosphere within this building which houses the mausoleum of Jesus Christ, to which Srinagar residents come often to pray and leave their offerings. I have no axe to grind in offering this information, nor does the webmaker of the Tomb - only devotion to truth, and to the significance of the life of our Lord.

Pictures taken by Mary inside (and outside) the Rozabal in 1992......

I also visited the so-called Garden Tomb in Jerusalem, maintained by Anglicans, located in what they call Joseph of Arimathea's garden. This may not actually be the tomb in which Jesus was laid after He was taken down from the cross, but it fits the description given in the Gospels, and for me, at least, is holy, because of the profound experience I underwent when I visited it for the first time early in 1987 on a Sufi tour.

The Garden Tomb

.I had gone down into the tomb and looked at the space inside where the body lay. The palpable holiness of its aura was overwhelming, and for just an eyeblink I knew exactly where He had lain, because I actually SAW His body lying there, ghost-like and still, pillowed against the putty-colored stone of the tomb - and then the image was gone! ..

I described my experience in the following poem that burst out of me in a trance-like state in which I was transported back to the time it happened, exactly as though I had been there - although clearly I had never nursed him as a baby, so the image must have been mixed with my mothering of my own children.

The profundity of the sorrow was real, however, and the ecstatic joy of the discovery of the empty tomb! .The Russian words mean "Christ is risen!"

GARDEN TOMB

They have taken away my Lord!

The muezzin sounds on the sunlit air -

Birds twitter on the soughing branches -

Joseph's kindly presence lingers still

in the garden,

But the tomb is empty, once again.

He is not there!

The heart lurches, contracts,

The pain - the loss - once again

Clutches at the inmost depth of my being.

The great stone has been rolled aside

And the stony cradle lies empty

Where they had laid him

Swaddled in linen as so long ago

When I held him at my breast -

Now so still,

His long, bloodied limbs like clay,

Straightened, tenderly wrapped,

The smooth white brow

Now clotted with dark gouts,

The tender flesh so cruelly pierced -

The joy spreads only gradually -

It comes on the in-breath

As the meaning begins only slowly

To work its perennial alchemy

In the sodden mass of the grieving,

Leavening, raising, lightening the heaviness

and the dark.

Sun warms the golden stone.

The darkness of the doorway beckons,

Draws me in with caught breath

And tiptoeing exultation.

I now can dare to come closer -

Yes! O yes. He is truly gone!

Christos voschriyes! Alleluiah!

Only the shadow of his presence remains

Like a sweet odor

Lingering inside.

The bells in churches beyond the wall

Begin their tumult.

Shafts of golden sunlight

Slant downward through the trees.

It is finished!

It is over!

Deo gratias -

Thanks be to God.

.............................December, 1987.