The Biblical Little Ones Were High Initiates

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky · Buddhas and Initiates Series · 9 pages

The reading offered is that the Herod of the New Testament stands for Alexander Jannaeus, king of Judea from 103 to 76 BC, and that the Massacre of the Innocents entered the Bible story from his persecution and killing of great numbers of initiates — the same king whose reign supplies the Talmudic dating of Jesus ben Pandira used elsewhere in this section. The Little Ones of the title are accordingly not children but high initiates, and the epigraph is from 1 Corinthians: that those who are spiritual discern all things and are themselves subject to no one else's scrutiny.

Rabbi Simeon ben-Yohai is cited for the position that the meaning of the Dragon is not given to the Companions — students, or chelas — but only to the little ones, so that only they understand the mystery of the Serpent of the Great Sea. The consequence drawn is a contrast between Jesus and Paul: Jesus, not being a high initiate, conformed to the law of circumcision and commanded it, while Paul, freed from the obligations of human law, turned from the old covenant and forbade it — the position argued at length in the companion files on Paul and Peter. The closing pages put the question the argument has been building toward: who was the Lord who commanded the Israelites to spoil the Egyptians of their jewels of silver and gold, and to kill every male among the little ones.

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