Mahaguru Yesus: Perbedaan antara revisi

 

== Kontroversi seputar penjelmaan menjadi Apolonios dari Tyana ==

[[H.P. Blavatsky|Helena Blavatsky]], salah seorang pendiri [[Perhimpunan Teosofi]], mengemukakan di dalam tulisannya pada tahun 1877 bahwa "Apolonios, salah seorang rekan sezaman Yesus orang Nazaret, adalah tokoh yang penuh semangat mengasas aliran kerohanian baru, sama seperti Yesus orang Nazaret.<!-- Perhaps less metaphysical and more practical than Jesus, less tender and perfect in his nature, he nevertheless inculcated the same quintessence of spirituality, and the same high moral truths."<ref>Helena P. Blavatsky: ''Isis Unveiled'', vol. 2, New York 1877 (reprinted 1999), p. 341.</ref> Some Theosophists such as [[C.W. Leadbeater]] and the teachers of [[Neo-Theosophy]], Alice A. Bailey and Benjamin Creme, have written that the Master Jesus was also incarnated as Apollonius of Tyana after his incarnation as Jesus of Nazareth. It is believed that he attained the fifth level of [[Initiation (Theosophy)|initiation]] (the ''[[resurrection]]'') when he became an [[Ascended master|Ascended Master]] at the end of his life as Apollonius of Tyana. However, if Apollonius was a contemporary of Jesus as Blavatsky wrote, Jesus could not have reincarnated as him. Benjamin Creme gets around this by claiming that Jesus lived from 24 BC to AD 9 <ref>Creme, Benjamin ''Maitreya's Mission Vol. I'' London:1986--Share International Foundation Page 382</ref> (instead of the usual dates given of Jesus' lifetime as being c. 6 BC to c. AD 30 or AD 33). This means that Jesus ''could'' have incarnated as Apollonius of Tyana, since according to Creme, Apollonius lived from AD 16 to c. AD 97.<ref>Creme, Benjamin ''Maitreya's Mission Vol. I'' London:1986--Share International Foundation Page 373</ref> However, one of the possible chronologies of Apollonius of Tyana's life sometimes cited give his life span as being from AD 40 to AD 120,<ref>For the chronology of AD 40--AD 120 see [[Maria Dzielska]]: ''Apollonius of Tyana in Legend and History'', Rome 1986, p. 30-38.</ref> thus making it possible that, even if the usual dates of Jesus' lifetime are accepted (c. 6 BC to c. AD 30 or AD 33), he ''still'' could have incarnated as Apollonius of Tyana. However, other modern scholarship, more often cited, gives the dates of Appolonius' life span as c. AD 15 to c. AD 100, thus making it problematic, realistically speaking, that Jesus could have incarnated as him.<ref>For the chronology of AD 15--AD 100 see Maria Dzielska: ''Apollonius of Tyana in Legend and History'', Rome 1986, pp. 30–38.</ref>