Christ the Solipsist
November 17, 2023I have found it interesting that no one has publically deciphered what seems most obvious to me in the stories of the life of Jesus Christ that are found in the Gospels of the New Testament in the Bible. That is the fact that the Christ described was in essence, a solipsist who viewed his own previous subjective experience of life and previous beliefs as trumping all that was told to him.
He viewed life in this subjective manner, thinking he came from what he
believed to be true as a child, and that as he was told things and learned knowledge, this caused him not to learn what was true about the world he came from, but to enter an entirely different world in which a new thing was true, and to exit an old world where it was false.
Therefore, the father that he had when he was a child, before he was told of death, was an entirely different person. Every young child or toddler thinks of their parents as being like gods, but to Christ, his father was a god until being told a new thing caused him to be replaced by a human.
He must not have seen death early in childhood, but remembered what he was told in the temple, and what he learned of these teachings--where he did not know death as real yet--must have served to solidify his knowledge and provide a memory of a different world, full of what he might call angels, which as he entered a world "corrupted" by knowledge were replaced by human beings who were mortal.
Therefore, it was like the Hermetic philosophy, that that which is above is like that which is below. He came from a world of immortal people (angels) with his family (his father and virgin mother), and came to grow into a world with ever more corruption and toil. When he learned that he was born of a woman, he went from being the "Son of God" (before he knew of his father's lack of godhood), to the "Son of Man" (where he learned that he was born of a mother).
Christ deified his own infantile subjective beliefs, where his father was invincible and could provide him with anything, and came to believe that he was the son of this father, who was God, and would fulfill all of the prophecies he heard. So, with this cavalier attitude toward knowledge, in which he viewed knowledge as a way of descending into a world of illusory limitations that could be overcome by his connection to his god-like father, he set about his ministry.
Basically, the private worldview of Christ was that knowledge served as a way of descending into illusion; that knowledge clouded the mind and brought one into an entirely different world where it ruled those who were deluded by it, and so he set about doing miraculous acts so that he might demonstrate the illusory nature of knowledge, since he did after all come from the heaven of the immortality of his childhood into the world where there is death.
He decided that it was his job to bring the world he found himself in that was under the thrall of "illusory knowledge" that causes death and misleads people up to the world where there existed his father and angels again. Oddly, he must have thought that the people who were angels were merely people who looked like those deluded by knowledge, different versions of the same people.
So privately, Christ believed in a sort of invincible ignorance which he would spread through the world by having others worship him, and the greatest enemy of all was knowledge. Through this kind of invincible ignorance where only Christ and his father were god, he would bring people up to deathlessness, in his mind.
Since he had heard prophecies in the world that he believed he came from (from his childhood before his knowledge that death applied to him), he went about fulfilling them--and ended up dying a horrible death in the process.
Was he correct in his solipsism, and does believing that his solipsistic life was divine bring one to a place where one may rise to a place that is untarnished by knowledge, but ruled by the father that Christ thought was invincible? Christians do not completely understand the psychology of this and the nature of Christ's solipsism (that caused him to believe he was divine), but does believing that knowledge is false cause one to escape from its grip, or are there certain things that exist whether one believes them or not?
If the knowledge that surrounds oneself is an illusory cloud that corrupts one's experience of a pure, heaven-like, immortal reality, the only way to find understanding would be through experiencing said reality oneself, and so the only way to understand if Christ's belief in his own divinity holds any water would be to do something similar with one's own reality.
Therefore, it must be asked: where do your memories start? Do children whose first memories involve pain come from a different world of torment? Do children who are abused come from the thrall of immortal demons? It would appear that if knowledge were a cloud in these cases, that it serves to protect one from the terrors of worlds that one would not want to visit. Therefore, I guess the answer to this question, for those of us who have had unpleasant childhoods before we knew of death is: we came from Hell to Earth. That is, that if our life is better now than it was in our childhoods, we have ascended through knowledge from Hell to Earth, and if it is worse, we have descended from Heaven to Earth.
That is, assuming that knowledge is purely illusory, which is something that one can only prove to oneself by some kind of process of becoming ignorant and testing if one's ignorance changes the world in any way, shape, or form.