by  Mihai Stoian

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What was the lesson that Judas was teaching humanity? What can we learn from Judas’ episode in the big drama of human history?
These are questions that many people pose to themselves while reading the dramatic events described in the bible’s NEW TESTAMENT.
Judas was the disciple of Jesus that gave the Saviour to the authorities for a sum of money. This is how the story appears to us at first sight. Of course the situation has to be seen also from Judas’ perspective but will the situation be different even from that perspective? Is there any perspective from which we can agree with what Judas did? Can we find a spiritual perspective that will excuse Judas and will explain what he did in such way that we can accept what he did?
Intuitively everybody will tend to say that the answer is NO. There is no possibility to find a correct angle from which the betrayal is not a betrayal and Judas was a saint that did the right thing in the right moment.

Still if we want to learn this lesson we should understand why Judas did what he was doing? Was he doing it on purpose, completely aware of the disastrous consequences of his act? In this case he must have been a sadistic and cynical traitor that was maybe infiltrated into Jesus’ group to act as such at the right time. But if he was not a cynical traitor then what was Judas’ guilt?
From a certain perspective we can say that Judas’ mistake was to think without common sense, it was the first famous documented case of mind without consciousness. After that the consciousness-less mind becomes more and more spread like a disease until today, when most of the people are suffering from this so this state of mind has become normal.  Judas didn’t betray Jesus because he was angry with Him or because they were fighting with each other. He didn’t do it for money or for gaining anything. Judas was thinking that he knows what is better than Jesus what is good and that he can take such an important decision without even asking. It was just the sin of pride. He was thinking that he is doing it for the good of all the others and also for the good of Jesus.  If Judas was having a good intention it is quite clear but we should not forget that “the road to hell is paved with the best intentions”.
Judas was not selling Jesus for the money he received. He was doing it because he thought that it is better like that and that he doesn’t have to ask Jesus’ opinion because he (Judas) knows better. Some are saying that Judas was a tool of the Divine plan. But as we know, we are always free to choose to become the miserable tool of destiny or to be the reason why the destiny changed. Of course we don’t gain anything by blaming Judas and instead we should aim to understand his mistakes.

The picture with a Judas as a traitor is as comfortable for the ego as the picture with Jesus as the Son of God, perfect and unreachable therefore leaving us with the comfortable thought that we are not responsible in as much as we are not perfect ourselves. Yet in reality Judas was not a traitor in the sense we try to put it. In today’s terms we can say that Judas was just a smart guy, one that was considering himself high enough that he can judge by himself and even to take his own decisions. And there are so many like him today.

In the recently discovered text of “Judas Gospel” we have a confirmation of a completely different angle of Judas’ story. From the text we can see a Judas that was considering himself special and far above the level of the rest of the disciples that he was considering quite “simple” and “uneducated”.
But when asked by Judas about his destiny, Jesus is replying: “You will become the thirteenth, and you will be cursed by the other generations—and you will come to rule over them. In the last days they will curse your ascent to the “holy” generation.”

In the biblical story there is a very interesting aspect that should give us some perspectives. In the night after Jesus is betrayed by Judas, the first among the apostles, Peter, is denying Jesus three times. Why was his denial not so much discussed in the Christian teachings as Judas’? The main reason is that Judas’ betrayal is done with a totally different perspective than Peter’s denial. Judas was acting by himself while Peter was reacting to some situations, maybe not at the level expected from him.
The example and the lesson that Peter is giving is that the aspirants might have their moments of hesitation on the path to perfection. But the example that Judas is giving to us is that when we start to think that we know better than our master, better than God, we expose ourselves and all the others to terrible consequences that we are not aware of. For this reason, Judas’ action is worse and his example more poisonous.

Judas was an important lesson not because he made a mistake; he is an important example because he represents that all those that making a mistake believe that they were doing the right thing. They cannot be stopped by anything until the end when they also have a chance to see the mistake with all its consequences, unfortunately too late. These people are thinking more than perceiving or asking and trapped into the illusory cage of their mind these people are worshiping only their own intelligence that is separated from the universal wisdom not because is meant to be like that but because they choose to think separately. They are following the satanic message of Judas: "I can do it with my mind better than God!"

Lucifer was falling not because he was denying God but because he was thinking that he can do at least the same as God was doing. From this perspective we can see the Judas message being the same as Lucifer’s. Judas didn’t deny Jesus; he just thought that he knows better in some aspects. He just gave God a secondary position, but he didn’t exclude Him. And giving God a second place in life is one of the most common situations today. It is also true that to give God the first place in life is an adventure that goes many times through fanaticism, obscurantism, mass manipulation and many other things that have nothing to do with this spiritual perspective. However, that is not the reason why we should just give God the second place in life. Old texts of wisdom were saying: “giving God the second place in your life means giving Him no place”.

Yet if we take a closer look at the things that are happening today we will be shocked to discover something: Judas example was copied many times and nowadays we are using this example on a very large scale, doing acts that are similar with the one Judas did. Most of the people today are giving God a secondary place in their life if any. The impression that we are alone and that we are doing everything by ourselves, isn’t that what many people are experiencing nowadays? The search for “independent” and “objective” thoughts and results - the more sober from any idea of God the better - is in fact the Judas followers legacy after two millennia.
The development of the scientific spirit nowadays shows many times the same attitude, we can call it the “arrogance of intelligence”. The arrogant scientist is daring to deny what was previously stated, challenging everything just in order to, later on, come to the same conclusion but after a lot of troubles and a very high price. Was not the science that was trying to explain that everything regarding the mind is happening only in the brain and that nothing else exists, later on beginning to accept that there are many other aspects than the physical brain that is forming what we generally call the mind. But how many people were dying waiting for the scientists to rediscover what was stated a long time ago, before modern science appeared.

Modern medicine (about which our magazine was writing in one of its previous issues) is a typical example of what we can call Judas’ descent or heritage. In many situations the scientists were denying the evidence, refusing to seriously study aspects of reality that were moving out of their theory or didn’t fit with the “official” dogma. And they were doing this being aware of what they were doing, but…they were thinking that it is better like that.
Modern science is moving slowly and many times is only guessing the way and the main reason for that situation is that the scientist is not anymore an initiated one, one that is himself on the path of perfection, having God as the Supreme Teacher. The modern scientist is in most of the cases an erudite that is thinking by himself and is not including God in his search, most of the time being as rigid in his scientific theory as the religious fanatic in his dogma. Of course the erudite scientist that is reading the article here will have already denied these statements because “there is no clear method” that can explain how one can include God in his scientific work. That is in fact a terrible lack of education because the ancient spiritual systems, genuine initiate sciences were giving practical solutions in order for the initiate scientist to follow the path to perfection both inside and outside.
But the modern scientists betrayed God! They were not denying Him, they were just giving Him a secondary place in their theories, research and also in their life. And they are not the only ones. The politicians also betrayed God. Recently in the European Parliament it was discussed if God should be mentioned in the European Constitution. Judas must have been very proud of such great disciples! The ones that denied the very essence of Christianity by inventing the concept of “preemptive strikes” are the direct descents of Judas.
Yet from a certain perspective the betrayal of the scientists is the biggest hit because they were the ones that were supposed to keep the flame of searching for the truth alive. But the ones that were inheriting the treasure of the alchemists became Judas’ nephews, acting by their own thinking and selling God for a bunch of privileges. But the real characteristic of Judas heritage is the impression of being able to replace any higher authority in the universe because we can think by our “own”. The terrible impression that we are independent and that we can make our own destiny is what is keeping us in ignorance, say the old texts of wisdom. With the attitude that we have many times nowadays we turn to be more Judas followers than Jesus followers. Judas thought that he knows better than Jesus and acted as Jesus was not there, we think that we know better than God and act as if God is not here. In its frenzy to permanently reaffirm its “freedom” and “objectivity” science is going deeper into the Judas way.
The typical exponent of the Judas legacy member of nowadays is the “expert” or the specialist. An expert is “one who knows more and more things about less and less things”. From the “experts” hoards we have the brilliant servants of Judas’ legacy, the ones that have the impression that they can know something very well, ignoring anything else, and basically by ignoring the Unity they think that they reach the knowledge of something particular. Unfortunately, everything today depends on them: the international financial system, the life of people, the starting of the wars, and so on. Judas was an easy prey for the angry rabbi that wanted to stop Jesus because he was blinded by his arrogant intelligence. In the same way the “experts” are used today in many situations just because they are the easy prey for those few that use them for acknowledging different “expertly proven” lies.

The initiate scientist from the past was serving God and was aiming all the time to discover what is meant by God for humanity to know. The Judas scientist is excluding God from the Whole, trying to do everything by himself, to understand from a so called “objective perspective” and becoming immediately annoyed by any reference to God or any Supreme Power in the Universe. Permanently tormented by doubts and lost in an immensity that the more it is researched, the more it is showing its infinity, caught between the anxiety of not understanding much and the daring attitude with shades of anarchism to question everything, the modern scientist is walking the path very slow, with an immense burden on the shoulders: Judas’ heritage.

For this reason we can say that the destiny of science as we know it today, is similar to the destiny of Judas. But the spiritual science, the science of Unity and Wholeness is just about to be born as the sacred child in the “outskirts” of the big scientific citadels.
 
 

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