The greatest apostle of them all could be said to be Paul. There is more material in the Bible about Paul than anyone. Paul said more things than even Jesus if all the things in his gospels are correct which they are not.
What sort of things did he really teach? We know that he was influenced by the sect at Qumran which some still believe was the Essenes. But what other things does his special interpretation of the scriptures state?
That Paul's teachings were heretical according to the Jewish doctrines goes without saying. He may very well have been the Liar mentioned in the Qumran documents. The other aspect of the teachings of Paul is that they introduce a breach with the Hebrew law. If it is correct, Jesus stated in Matt. 5:17-19, "Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill. For verily I say onto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled. Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach man so, he shall be called the least in the kingdom of heaven..."
This would put Paul in a different light. Paul would now be defined as one of those who were called least in the kingdom spoken of by Jesus if it is the same as the Hebrew kingdom. It was Paul and his doctrine which separated the Christians and their interpretation of the law from that of the Israelites.
2 Cor. 12:2 states: "I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I can not tell; or whether out of the body I can not tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven." 12:3, "And I knew such a man..." 12:4 "How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is unlawful for man to utter."
Now what are these things which it is unlawful for Man to utter? The Gnostics knew of Paul, in fact they claimed he was Gnostic. The Nag Hammadi document referred to as The Apocalypse of Paul is just the one which might tell us a little bit about what he saw when in the heaven. The Gnostics reserved some information just for themselves. They felt some of their teachings were so powerful, ordinary people could not perceive their meaning. This manuscript may also have been known by Irenaeus. He did talk of a manuscript the Gnostics had which was another rendition of Paul's just mentioned heavenly journey.
The above mentioned Vision of Paul is taken from this Gnostic manuscript, while the Bible does not mention the different heavens in the Apocalypse of Paul, the content of the material is dependent on Paul's Apocalypse. The Deity encountered in the vision of Paul is positive while in the Apocalypse of Paul it is negative. Since the Deity had to be positive because of the Christian doctrine, it can also easily be explained.
Paul meets a little child on the mountain of Jericho who claims to know Paul. The child says he knows Paul as the one who was blessed from his mothers womb. The child proceeds to tell Paul he has come to take him up to see his fellow disciples in order to awaken his mind. Paul lifts his eyes and perceives the twelve apostles greeting him. The holy spirit who spake to him then brought him up unto the third heaven and then the fourth. From the fourth, he is asked to look down upon the creation. There he saw the twelve apostles on the left of creation and the spirit going before them.
The left of creation would be to look into the past. In the past, he saw the twelve apostles on Earth, and Jesus is described as the spirit who walked before them.
In the fourth heaven, Paul also witnessed Angels who looked like Gods. They brought forth a Soul from the land of the dead and the Angels were beating it. The Soul demands to know what sins it had committed in the world of the dead. (The Earth was the world of the dead and still is for that matter.) The Gatekeeper then brings forth three witnesses, presumably false, who witness against this poor Soul. After the accusations are done, the Soul is cast into another body which has been prepared for it in the land of the dead.
Paul continues up to the fifth heaven where he sees great angels with iron rods and whips in their hands bringing poor Souls to judgment. Paul goes on to the sixth heaven guided by the spirit and followed by fellow Souls. A great light shone in the sixth heaven. The gatekeeper opened the gates for them and they proceeded to the seventh heaven.
In the seventh heaven, he sees an old man sitting on a throne in white garments, whose throne shone brighter by seven times that of the sun. The old man asks Paul where he is going and indicates also that Paul was blessed from the womb. Paul tells him he is going to aid in the freeing of the trapped spirits upon his creation. Then he will bring them along with him to the place where they all had come from.
The old man in the seventh heaven asks him how he will get past him and how he will bring the captives by him. Paul shows him a sign and the eight heaven opens up for him.
In the eight heaven, Paul meets his fellow apostles and together they go up to the ninth heaven. After greeting those of the ninth heaven they go up to the tenth heaven and greet their fellow Spirits.
This is not what we are used to reading in the Bible, but it is just as authentic as any other Biblical material. This material could not have been included in the current Bible where in 2 Cor. 12:2-4, there is left but a slight mention of when Paul ascended to the third heaven. The founding fathers, notably Irenaeus, would not have approved. But then, Irenaeus was an Archon.
But how does one interpret Paul. Let us take 1 Cor. 2:14, "But the natural man receiveth not the things of the spirit of God..." (King James version). "The unspiritual man does not receive the gifts of the spirit..." is now considered a traditional interpretation. "A merely animate person does not receive the realm of the Spirit..." (from Ptolemy, a disciple of Valentinus). Or, "For such is man that he does not on his own accept that which is of the spirit of God..." (my translation of a newer Norwegian Bible. The older Lutheran bible corresponds with the first).
The problem is the fact that we do not have the original writings of Paul. Who would have ensured that all the originals are missing? Irenaeus? No, on his own, even Irenaeus could not have ensured that the originals all disappeared. That it was not a conscientious effort which caused all the earliest material of Jesus and the apostles to disappear is indeed naive. The reason the original material disappeared is also obvious. The ensuing heretic cult calling themselves Christians wanted us all to believe in the fashion they believed. They had their minds made up and instead of altering their minds to the facts, they destroyed the facts to the best of their abilities.
From Paul's doctrine, Rom. 3:20 states: "Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for by the law is the knowledge of sin." Sin comes from the Hebrew law. Sin can not be avoided by anyone following the Hebrew law. Thus no flesh is justified.
Rom. 4:15 states: "Because the law worked wrath; for where no law is, there is no transgression." Paul indicates the reason for sin is the Hebrew law. Paul would thus by no means have approved of the Hebrew law as a part of the religious tenets he was promoting. Rom. 5:20, "Moreover the law entered, that the offense might abound." Spoken like a true Gnostic. The reason for the Hebrew law was so that the Deity would be justified in punishing Man. The later material in Romans which contradict this view is deemed to be added.
Rom. 8:10, "And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness." 8:13, "For if ye live after the flesh ye shall die; but if ye through the spirit mortify the deeds of the body ye shall live." 9:8, "They which are the children of the flesh, these are not the children of God." Of course not, they are the children of the Archons. Paul sees nothing in the flesh. The flesh is an abomination to Paul. Thus Paul, like the Gnostics, would not have advocated the resurrection of the body. The resurrected body would have been an abomination.
An even better Gnostic statement of Paul is found in Rom. 11:8, "According as is written, God (the Archon) hath given them the spirit of slumber (cloak of darkness) eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear." 13:11, "...that now it is high time to awake out of sleep..." 13:12, "... let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light." And the minions of the Archons later added the 16th chapter to the letter to the Romans, big deal.
1 Cor. 15:50, "Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither doeth corruption inherit incorruption." 15:51, "Behold I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed." Flesh and blood indeed does not inherit the eternal realm, and as long as you strive to be reincarnated or resurrected in the body, you will not either know the true kingdom from where we came.
2 Cor. 4:18, "While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal." Gal. 2:20, "I am crucified with Christ; nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the son of Man, who loved me and gave himself to me." Gal. 3:3, "Are ye so foolish? Having begun in the spirit, are ye now made perfect by flesh?"
One Gnostic saying really to the point is also Gal. 4:3, "Even so we, when we were children, were in bondage under the elements of the world."
No, I would not take anyone through all the Gnostic material in Paul. In order to truly see what Paul said, we would have to have the real material written by Paul, and we do not. It is not available anywhere.
A good clue to where the material went is given in Paul's letter to the Ephesians. This was written in the second century, at least a hundred years after the death of Paul, and an educated guess at the author is the famous Irenaeus. The material is material of deception. It will not hurt anyone to read it. It was written in opposition to the Gnostics and is referred to as a forgery. It is written in defense of the flesh which we just saw Paul write in opposition to.
Eph. 5:29, "For no man ever hated his own flesh; but nourished and cherished it, even as the Lord the church." There was no Church at the time of Paul. The flesh is here being defended by the Archons after the onslaught we just saw Paul put it through. What better way to defend the teachings of the Archons than through the name of the teachers which oppose it.
Another forgery is Paul's later letter to the Philippians. Here it is written to justify the higherarchy in the name of Paul. There were absolutely no bishops and deacons in the Christian community until long after Paul died. Next comes Colossians which is also a forgery. The garbled first epistle of Paul to the Thessalonians is at best of questionable authorship and the second epistle to the Thessalonians should be renamed, the second forgery of Irenaeus, the Antichrist, to the Thessalonians.
1 Timothy is a forgery by Samael and so are 2 Timothy and Titus. Paul's epistle to Philemon is probably a forgery by Ignateus, but the greatest forgery of them all is the forgery known as the epistle of Paul to the Hebrews. 1 and 2 John are phony. The First, Second and Third Epistles of John come from the second century or later. The epistle to Jude is of the second century and last, but not least, is Revelations.
Why the dead man Christians wanted this Canaanite revelation included in their Bible only the Archons know for sure.
In conclusion, we see the fact that besides the phony letters and devious forgeries in the New Testament, we are left with an impressive collection of Gnostic material. The coherent whole in Christianity is a coherent hole. When we see the material the followers of the Church and the preachers have had to work with, it is but a miracle the shambles of the Earth is not worse than it is. All our hats should come off for the ministers of the Church. My full sympathy goes toward them. May the cloak of darkness not persist and may they all learn to see, for the truth indeed shall set them free.
Perhaps we best recall what the Gnostic teacher had to say in The concept of our great power. "The western Archon will arise. He will want to nullify all works of true wisdom, and from the east he will do an evil work. For the power of the Archons are greater than you can conceive. They will falsify all our work and their time to rule is fourteen hundred and sixty years. Then the evil fire will have burned out of its own accord and true wisdom and harmony can reign."
Justinian the great came from Yugoslavia and ascended to become the Caesar of the Roman empire where he waged relentless wars against Persia. In 542-43 C.E., Justinian took measures to prohibit the religious teachings of such great(?) Christian teachers as Origen. Prior to this in 529, Justinian closed the Neoplatonic schools in Athens. 1,460 years later, the "Nag Hammadi Manuscripts" were published. 1,460 years after he was able to close the last educational institutes disagreeing with or mildly opposed to his own views will be the year 2002-2003.
By then, the Christian farce should be burned out by its own lack of coherence. The lies will have come full circle and true wisdom and true religious harmony will be coming forth. Why wait? Some of us need to get this place ready for when the cloak of darkness is lifted. The second golden age of Man is about to begin. We can take a sigh of relief.