The Imprisonment of John the Baptist

In a cosmological sense, John the Baptist being held in prison and later beheaded by Herod can be viewed as an astral allegory referring to the Orion (Aaron) constellation dipping below the celestial horizon and into the realm of the Hydra constellation during the Sun's transit through Virgo and Libra, at which time only Orion's head can be seen on the horizon. But it's not that easy to explain away in terms of first century Judea.

The Hellenic Greeks whom ruled over the land called Egypt from the late 2nd millennium BC came to understand some aspects of earlier Egyptian traditions, which gave rise to Egyptian influence upon Greek theology. During this period two interesting words, as well as a striking spiritual concept, arose: the concept of Soma and Sema - the body as the prison of the soul.

In Greek, Soma means body and womb, and Sema means tomb and prison. This theology assimilated mortal manifestation to slavery. So yes - John was trapped in a prison: the prison of mortal bondage allegorically typified as the fortress of Macheras by the Gospel writer/s. It is worthy of note, that Macheras - where the Baptist was supposedly being held - was many hours away from where the feast of Herod took place (at which ''Salome'' ''danced''... perhaps as a morning-time solar eclipse). Solar eclipses portended ill fate in the eyes of the ancients, and since Salome (Shalome) is synonymous with Dusk and Zechariah (Sachar) is synonymous with Dawn, one could see a morning solar eclipse as portending the Dawn being briefly cut off by the Dusk.   

It is easily understood that Salome had John's head ''cut off'' by Herod. This is in itself a double allegory. Salome is the name of the ancient deity of the Dusk called Shalome, and as such, her ''adversary'' would thus typify the dawn. In the same tradition that affords the dusk be termed Shalome, the Dawn is termed Sachar. It is a fact that Herod Antipas was removing Aaronic priests from the priesthood in favor of non-Aaronic allies of his own. By removing Zechariah (Sachar - Iah) from his station as the High Priest, Herod had thus ''cut of'' John from his rightful future station as the High Priest.

The above is likewise revealed in the events that immediately followed John's ''beheading'' - the ''raising'' of ''Lazarus''. In its Egyptian origin, when it was time for the pharaoh to step down in favor of his successor, his title would thus become Osiris (El Azarus) - typifying the Holy Ghost - and typically his firstborn son would take his place as the ''Horus'' or IUSA KRST (IU Socharis in Greek). Iu denotes ''ever manifesting'', later lending itself to the term ''Jew'' due to their travels: Sa is the Egyptian term for ''Son'' and ''Charis'' is Greek for ''Anointed'' - just as Moshe is Hebrew for ''anointed'' and is borrowed from the Egyptian term ''Messeh'' - ''Anointing oil'' - the latter two terms being the basis for the Hebrew terms ''Moses'' and ''Messiah''. 

In post- first temple Judaism, and especially from the time of the Maccabean Revolt and the Hasmonean Dynasty, the Jewish office of High Priest was comparable to the Egyptian pharaoh. However, in the time of the Arabic Herodian Dynasty, the Herodian rulers had already been afforded the title of ''King of the Jews'' by the Romans, which deeply enraged the true Jews whom felt that the Jewish priesthood were their true kings, and in keeping with Mosiac Law, would be from the lineage of Aaron. Since John's father was cut off from his station by Herod, John was likewise simultaneously ''cut off'' as the future head of the Jewish people. In other words, John's ''beheading'' and Lazarus' death took place at the same time with one fail swoop and to the same family. John lived on after his ''beheading'', just as Lazarus was ''raised from the dead'' as both deaths were in fact allegorical deaths denoting their fraudulent removal from their rightful stations. It would have been after John had found out that his father had ''suffered death'' that John's own title-name would have thus changed - and it did: the term Jesus Christ is derived from the title-name ''Jew (IU) Zechar (Sa Krst) Iah (Lord)'', leading back to the Greek term ''Socharis'' which translates to Seker in Egyptian and back into Hebrew as Zechariah (Zechar-Iah) meaning ''Baptism Lord''.

John was the only one who could have raised Lazarus from the dead - for that is precisely how it was written in the Egyptian Book of the Coming Forth by Day: Amen (later called Ptah, then Zeus and then Jupiter) conceives Seker (Socharis: Zagreus in Greek), who conceives Anubis (John) with Nephthys before Seker is deposed and cut up (as was Zagreus in the Greek tradition) before being ''locked away'' by his evil ''brother'' (Seth/Herod - both being pretenders - in Greek it was the Titans whom murdered the Son of Zeus). Seker (from this point forward referred to as Osiris - alternately Dionysus or Bacchus)'s wife Meri (Isis: Mary) and her sister (Nephthys: Martha) go looking for Osiris' ''missing part''. They find his missing part and ''resurrect'' him long enough to conceive Horus - for Anubis to become Horus - (IUSA KRST in Greek: Iu Socharis: Je Sus Christ in Christianity) in order for Osiris to live on as Horus in order to save the realm: ''Thy son Horus hath burst forth from his mother's womb and his father's decay to avenge his father's death and bring mercy unto the Earth during the season of the storm.'' 

Anubis (John) comes forward to seal his father's blessing in the title-role of Horus (IUSA KRST) in order to assume his father's station as the new Seker(Iah): (Zagreus/ Zechariah/ Jesus Christ)... all of these being the same title-name, albeit in four distinct traditions. It was precisely this event - Jesus' raising of Lazarus - that led to the plot to kill him.