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MAJOR NEW DEVELOPMENT IN UNDERSTANDING OF “LAST SUPPER” BY LEONARDO DA VINCI! Leonardo knew the Gospel of Thomas!
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00:00Major New Development in Understanding of Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci
00:07It's been over two years since the painting of Last Supper by Leonardo da Vinci was decoded and
00:14elaborated down to important details. But the work that was done turned out to be incomplete.
00:20This presentation is about an important major addition to the understanding of The Last Supper
00:25by Leonardo da Vinci. To bring up to speed, the next two slides will provide a quick recap of the
00:31existing findings. This video and the research it is based on are not the product of artificial
00:37intelligence or any other automated research and writing tools. The material is new, and not all
00:44statements in this video have the same potential to withstand the test of additional research,
00:48time, and reason. Use at your own discretion. And you know what? All rights reserved.
00:57The narrative is heavily dependent on the supplied visual material.
01:01Please, do not hesitate to pause the video to get a better look.
01:05From past experience it is known that some viewers are irritated by the narrated voice.
01:11Please, keep in mind that you can mute the sound and simply read from the slides.
01:15The slides will continue to change after narration is finished in the background.
01:21I do not have a quality of voice and performing ability to do my own voiceovers.
01:26The budgetary considerations are also a factor in the choice of robotic voiceover versus a live one.
01:33Questions and comments are welcome.
01:35Famous painting, Last Supper, by Leonardo da Vinci is a final report of the secret 15th-century
01:45research project about Christianity and a secret message to humanity about the project.
01:51Eleven men and two women depicted to tell all what really happened 2,000 years ago.
01:56The message about the epic dirty battle of two religions that resulted in the death of a
02:01vulnerable adult who did not know any better.
02:06Following is a list of characters left to right, with their long-perceived names and the names in
02:11Leonardo's report.
02:15John the Baptist, sectarian leader and mastermind, former disciple Bartholomew.
02:21Initiated abuse of Jesus as a vulnerable adult.
02:25Wife of Pontius Pilate and Pontius Pilate himself, corrupt by the influence of the sect of John the Baptist.
02:31He has his just-washed hands outstretched to dry, former disciples James the Minor and Andrew.
02:38Peter and Judas, swordsmen of Jesus' protective detail with their commanding officer Mary Magdalene,
02:44formerly known as Disciple John.
02:47Judas was also an accountant of Jesus, as Jesus has dyscalculia, inability to do the math.
02:53Jesus, talented actor and neurological patient with his brother James the Just,
02:59formerly a disciple James the Major.
03:02Leonardo tried to capture the moment when James is trying to pry out of Jesus what is it he did at the temple and why.
03:09Jesus had a neurological tantrum due to multiple personality disorder and dyscalculia,
03:15and, as often the case, had no memory of the event, and cannot provide a meaningful explanation.
03:20The head of the, formerly disciple Thomas, in the back stands for a Gospel of John with its high Christology.
03:29Mark, Matthew and Luke are standing for synoptic Gospels,
03:32with the age of each man corresponding with time that has passed since the Crucifixion.
03:38Formerly known as Disciples Philip, Matthew, and Jude slash Thaddeus.
03:42Figure of traditional Judaism in the priestly robe, formerly known as the Disciple Simon Zealot,
03:49antagonist of the sect of John the Baptist in the Gospel's story.
03:55This was a short recap of what was discovered about two years ago.
03:58It was noted in the original decoding that figures with the rectangular shapes, or books, over their backs,
04:06synoptic Gospels Mark, Matthew, and Luke are arranged in the setting resembling three-headed dog Cerberus
04:12from the Greek myth about Hades.
04:14It reflects sarcastic feelings of Leonardo about the Gospels.
04:19The age of each man roughly corresponds to the time since the Crucifixion of Jesus
04:24until the writing of the Gospel that he represents.
04:26The head of the man visible behind the figure of James the Just, opportunistic brother of Jesus
04:32and high-ranking sectarian associate of John the Baptist was assumed to be standing for the Gospel of John
04:37that is very different from synoptic Gospels.
04:41The finger pointing to heaven was assumed to be a tribute to, high Christology, of Jesus in that Gospel.
04:47The, official, name of the figure was Disciple Thomas.
04:51That was considered a good fit for the decoding as Thomas plays a certain role in the Gospel of Jesus.
04:56John where he probes wounds of Jesus with his finger to make sure that he is seeing resurrected Jesus
05:01and not some other person, doubting Thomas' story.
05:04All of the above considerations are still valid and reiterated to provide a background to the discovery
05:10that is a subject of this presentation.
05:12It should be noted that Markan Priority, the correct order of Gospels is 300 years older than academic
05:18scholarship presumed it to be, it is much older in reality and Leonardo just reiterates it.
05:24It should also be noted that Leonardo stipulated early writing of the Gospels.
05:30His, Mark, is barely 20 years of age and that corresponds to the year 50 CE, not year 70 CE
05:36as modern academic scholarship continues to insist as the date of the writing of that Gospel.
05:41To help the understanding of this presentation I feel the need to reiterate yet another concept
05:47that is not embraced by academia at this point of time.
05:51Christianity is not based on Judaism, at least not directly.
05:56Christianity based on the religion that was created within the short-lived sect of John the Baptist.
06:01In his painting, Virgin with Child and Two Angels, Andrea del Verrocchio,
06:06who was Leonardo's teacher, provides illustration for his methodology.
06:11The one-of-a-kind mountain formation on this painting is a diagram of religious development up to his day.
06:18In the bottom is traditional Judaism that begins to get split into the Holy Land,
06:22Temple, variation and Diaspora variation.
06:26On the top of it is a, pancake, that is the sect of John the Baptist.
06:31Academic studies refer to the adherents of the sect as eschatological Jews.
06:35There is a world of difference, however, between the sect with the structure and simple variation in beliefs.
06:43Eschatological expectations did spill into the general population and were reflected in funeral rituals,
06:49but the sect was a separate entity.
06:51The base demographic of the sect were Jews in Roman service and employment,
06:56and included retired Roman military.
06:59Sect had connections with Roman administration on many levels over the years.
07:03Pontius Pilate was coerced into cooperation by the sect at some point,
07:08including the trial of Jesus, also he lost the bid to save him.
07:13The presence of Vulgate, we know it is a Vulgate because it is only based on the Catholic part of Christian formation,
07:18Orthodox Christianity, shown split from Catholic, use scripture in different languages,
07:23is a very encouraging sign for the researchers like me who are not proficient in ancient languages.
07:28What can be figured out in Latin can be done in English.
07:34So it happened, my latest curiosities focused on the Gospel of Thomas.
07:39Rediscovered among the throw of Nag Hammadi writings,
07:42the Gospel of Thomas is a subject of lively research that is not based on any 18th or 19th century traditions.
07:49At the same time this research is symptomatic of what is wrong with Biblical research by card-carrying academia.
07:57I do not know what it is, inflated respect, fear to offend or concern about the career,
08:02but in several presentations about this Gospel the key points are consistently missed.
08:07It is not easy to get over the fact that people from the eyewitness circle treated Jesus' material frivolously
08:13and intentionally modified it to suit their minute, political purposes.
08:18Jesus' words got twisted, the needed conclusions made for him when he never made those himself
08:22and he made to talk and care about things that he never did while he was alive.
08:27Members of the close circle like Peter, James the Just and Mary Magdalene knew all there is to know about Jesus,
08:34and also knew that there is a little of value among the things he said.
08:37The earliest Gospel, Mark, engaged in twisting things with abandon,
08:42and one of the people that had a major role in the writing was James the Just, half-brother of Jesus.
08:49Being in the middle of everything James knew the truth and willingly participated in creating a world-class distortion,
08:55a documentary with masked characters and special effects.
08:59Textual analysis allows us to conclude that the disciple James in the Gospel of Mark is the James the Just himself.
09:05It is painfully obvious that James the Just is also a person behind the writing of the Gospel of Thomas.
09:12The saying number 12 reveals his audacity and his giant ego.
09:17There are not many people who will write that about themselves.
09:20The disciples said to Jesus,
09:22We know that you will depart from us.
09:25Who is to be our leader?
09:27Jesus said to them,
09:28Wherever you are, you are to go to James the Righteous,
09:32for whose sake heaven and earth came into being.
09:34Not bad for a sectarian functionary who made his way on top over the dead body of less fortunate founder John the Baptist.
09:42For the record, Jesus was never a contender.
09:46The context of the Gospel of Thomas serves several lowliest purposes.
09:51One of them to drive a wedge between Peter and Paul slash Mary Magdalene.
09:55Another purpose is to create an illusion that some kind of valuable secret teachings of Jesus existed.
10:02In fact, they did not.
10:05Jesus' public teachings were banalities at best, and in private he was as bad as in public.
10:11He was a badly affected neurological patient.
10:14He was often in the tough spot and lost for words.
10:18He had no training or skill in rhetoric.
10:20In the meantime, while I was working on materials related to the Gospel of Thomas,
10:26the ancient mosaic from Ravenna caught my attention.
10:30Hear the official description of the mosaic in question.
10:34Late 5th century mosaics, Capella Arcevesqueville, Ravenna, Italy.
10:40These exceptional mosaics are a unique window into the Italy of late antiquity a few years before the Byzantine reconquest.
10:47Medallion image of Christ with Christ depicted as being beardless with a cruciform golden halo.
10:54His clothing is purple with a golden stripe, representing both his human and divine natures.
11:00Christ is looking directly at the viewer from the top of the arch.
11:04Medallion images of St. James and St. Thomas.
11:07St. James is shown as a young man with a dark beard wearing white vestments, a sign of purity.
11:13He is identified by a Latin inscription Iacobbs.
11:16St. Thomas is likewise identified as a young man with a slightly longer beard and is also wearing white vestments.
11:24He is identified with a Latin inscription as Thomas, decorative cruciform floral motifs and images of birds, which symbolize angelic beings.
11:32This chapel was built in the late 5th century by Archbishop Peter II of Ravenna, 494-519, circa 495 and was dedicated to St. Peter Chrysologus, Archbishop of Ravenna, 433-450.
11:49The chapel is part of the Museo Arcivesqueville di Ravenna, which was founded in 1734 and is the oldest diocesan museum in Italy.
11:59The Archbishop's Chapel is considered to be a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
12:04This mosaic is an astonishing archaeological artifact with far-reaching consequences.
12:10Let's start with the obvious.
12:12All three faces are very similar.
12:16As for bearded two faces, it could be said that it is a face of the same man, only younger and older.
12:22This is a very fascinating mosaic combo, and for an unusual reason at that.
12:28I stated in my book that in most places in the Gospel of Mark the person who is listed as the disciple James is really James the just, brother of Jesus.
12:36That is why the face of James and the face of Jesus look so similar, Jacobus is the same as James.
12:44The person who designed the mosaic apparently was aware of the fact.
12:48James, a close associate of John the Baptist, became the head of the Jerusalem section of the sect and influenced the writing of the Gospel of Mark.
12:57He hid his participation in Jesus' ministry.
13:01But that is only a half of the meaning of this mosaic.
13:03Few years later the Jerusalem section of the sect engaged in the squabble with the Gentile section headed by Mary Magdalene and her son Paul.
13:13As a measure of asserting authority, James the just, now a bit older, authorized writing another Gospel that now is not in canon and called the Gospel of Thomas.
13:23Real disciple Thomas left the movement right after the death of Jesus appalled by an outrageous suggestion that Jesus came back to life.
13:30Truthful part of this story is in the Gospel of John 20 verses 24 and 25.
13:37The fabricated fabulosity immediately follows in John 20 verses 26 to 29.
13:44Over 20 years later James, humorously naming Thomas, literally the twin, as useless twin brother of Judas Iscariot who left the sect by the way of suicide,
13:53wrote the sarcastic and menacing text aimed at Paul and Mary Magdalene.
13:57He even brought up the rumor of her being a prostitute before she met Paul's father, a young Roman centurion of equestrian origin.
14:06The saying 105,
14:08He who shall know father and mother shall be called the son of a harlot,
14:11is the thinly veiled threat to slander their reputation.
14:16Paul aligned with Peter and pushed back,
14:18having James stoned to death when Romans had the change of governor in Jerusalem.
14:22In the meantime, this mosaic is depicting James the Just as Thomas,
14:27a pseudonym he used in that Gospel with dire consequences.
14:32Pietro Perugino, Delivery of the Keys
14:35A fresco painted in 1481-1482 in Sistine Chapel, Vatican.
14:42The influence of Mary Magdalene and Paul eventually caused a change of guard in Jerusalem part of the sect.
14:48From Josephus Flavius and Acts we know that James was mobbed and killed and Simon,
14:54brother of Jesus, replaced him.
14:57Simon, brother of Jesus, happens to be the codename of Peter originated in Mark 6 verse 3 and Matthew 13 verse 55.
15:06The events related to the takeover were probably the reason for legal troubles for Peter for the rest of his life.
15:11To remove doubt Perugino depicted Paul's sister beside him, looking much like Mary Magdalene, their mom.
15:20Paul's sister mentioned in Acts 23 verse 16.
15:24Peter, a man with military background and seasoned veteran of security services was serving his old master,
15:30Mary Magdalene, yet again.
15:32Woman that once ordered Peter to kill Jesus or break him free from custody,
15:37single-handedly, was in charge of the sect.
15:39We now know that story as a triple denial, Mark 14 verses 66-72.
15:47Here is a group of painters on the right that were aware of this historical understanding in the late 15th century.
15:53Easy to recognize Bellini, his brother-in-law Andrea Montaigne, Verrocchio, Leonardo's teacher, and some others.
16:01That was not rocket science.
16:03They figured.
16:04Rubens, 135 years later Christ hands over keys to St. Peter, 1615, painted for the tomb of Bruegel the Elder.
16:15Obviously the same Mary, Peter, and Paul as in Perugino's, keys.
16:21James the just getting pushed, elbowed to the back, both in life, history, and the leadership in Jerusalem.
16:27Curiously, Jesus is shown with crucifixion wounds, post-resurrection.
16:33This is a tweak from the Gospel of Matthew 16 verse 18.
16:38This is a verse when Jesus, still pretty much alive, allegedly entrusted Peter with the leadership of the church.
16:44That is an allusion to the obvious much later interpolation by Peter in the Gospel of Matthew,
16:50same way as James did in the Gospel of Thomas sometime before, on the side note,
16:55Gospel of Matthew most likely was written still under the guidance of James before his death.
17:01Long dead Judas, a giant swordsman and a true friend of Jesus looks with disbelief as his former associates continue to abuse memory of Jesus years after his death by crucifixion.
17:11As a curious detail both Peter and Judas have peculiar hooked-shaped noses in the painting of Rubens.
17:18That shape of noses has nothing to do with Jewish origin of Peter and Judas.
17:23But those noses reminded me of paintings where I've seen them before.
17:29None other than Leonardo da Vinci depicted Peter, Judas, and Mary Magdalene,
17:34operatives of sectarian security services with hook-shaped noses as distinction of their affiliation.
17:39And right opposite to them are James the just flanked by Apostles Thomas and Philip that,
17:45as was stated before, stand for Gospels of John and Mark.
17:50Taking another look at the whole setup I slowly came to the conclusion that there is yet another layer to what is depicted by Leonardo da Vinci.
17:58The internal sectarian conflict started looking increasingly plausible as a context of that second layer.
18:03There is one obvious logistical problem, however.
18:08The Gospel of John has nothing to do with James the just and sectarian conflict as it was written decades later.
18:15It slowly dawned on me that two personages on the Last Supper by Leonardo work two full-time jobs at once.
18:22Just like the Gospel of John, Judas Iscariot has nothing to do with sectarian conflict.
18:27He died by suicide decades before the conflict took place,
18:33as he could not get over the meaningless torturous death of his friend Jesus,
18:36everybody else, by the way, did get over it.
18:40It is not difficult to figure out who the figure that has long been presumed as Judas represents in the framework of sectarian conflict.
18:48It is Mary's boy Apostle Paul.
18:49The difficulties of Leonardo in depicting Judas are well known.
18:55Judas was a giant swordsman of Jesus' protective detail assigned by John the Baptist himself, along with Peter.
19:02Paul, on another hand, while carrying his service sword everywhere was not noted for his fighting prowess,
19:08and was, probably, intimidated by his mom and women in general.
19:12The solution about replacing the Gospel of John that is out of context related to James the just and sectarian conflict is much less intuitive.
19:23In hindsight, the solution that disciple Thomas represents the Gospel of Thomas,
19:27duh, looks simple only on the surface.
19:31For starters, this solution assumes that Leonardo da Vinci was familiar with the Gospel of Thomas.
19:37In Latin.
19:37Leonardo was not known to read Greek and religious books were mostly available in those two languages in the days of Leonardo.
19:46That alone would be a hard sell of an idea as nobody ever heard or seen such a thing.
19:51Information about the Gospel of Thomas was available from the patristic writings but details were few and far between.
19:59To incorporate the Gospel of Thomas in his painting I would presume that Leonardo needed to know better than a few bits and pieces.
20:05Composition-wise Gospel of Thomas fits perfectly.
20:10Thomas depicted showing the middle finger, Digitus Impudicus, to Paul, Peter and Mary Magdalene on behalf of James the just.
20:18From the available translation of Nag Hammadi Unearthed Coptic Specimen we know that this interpretation of Thomas was perfectly rational.
20:27Gospel of Mark and Gospel of Thomas are written with major input from James and placing those two by his side has a good merit.
20:33It is also worth noting that to annoy Mary Magdalene, a security officer with the largest body count in history, in such a manner was not a good idea.
20:44James the just was steamrolled out of the way and Pauline Christianity won the day.
20:49As for purposes of making sure that Leonardo really meant to depict the Gospel of Thomas there is no better way to do it but to go for support to Caravaggio.
20:59Caravaggio, artist who lived, painted and died for the resistance.
21:02Intellectual resistance continues a century after Leonardo.
21:132. Supper at Emmaus Reiterate the Last Supper
21:16Notably, Gospel personages are not included in both suppers at Emmaus.
21:22All personages, except Jesus, are aged, and we clearly see how Caravaggio visualized James.
21:30Caravaggio tried to emphasize the main theme of Leonardo's Last Supper.
21:35In both, Supper at Emmaus Jesus' associates are shown asking the very same question,
21:41Jesus, what is it you did at the temple and why?
21:43Why?
21:52As mentioned, both, Supper at Emmaus, are dedicated to the same main theme as Last Supper by Leonardo,
22:07namely Jesus being questioned by associates about what is it he did at the temple and why.
22:11Jesus, as he did on many occasions, hit back with grievances about the bread they ate and
22:17wine they drank being due to his tireless efforts, his flesh-slash-body and his blood.
22:23He really was not able to answer as that was a neurological tantrum caused by dyscalculia and
22:28multiple personality disorder. Patients in his conditions are unable to recall the tantrum.
22:34He probably was not able to exchange money to perform a sacrifice at the temple.
22:40Apparently, aged personage of James the Just from the
22:43Supper at Emmaus was reused in the painting, The Incredulity of St. Thomas,
22:48the shell on his chest is an allusion to the hidden role of James in Gospel of Mark,
22:52as disciple James is a shell, and that interpretation was introduced by Albrecht Durer in 1516.
22:59Just because the painting involves Thomas, also in a very traditional way,
23:03probing the wound of Jesus, as described in Gospel of John, the painting obviously deserves a closer
23:09look. It is most obvious that in The Incredulity of St. Thomas, Caravaggio reused much-aged personages
23:18of Leonardo that stand for Gospels. Thomas, now obviously standing for himself, also the narrative
23:25is in the Gospel of John, and Philip, standing for the Gospel of Mark, both much-aged. The figure of
23:32James is behind them, as if James is behind those Gospels, as co-author and instigator.
23:38It has the same meaning as in Leonardo's where James is flanked by Thomas and Mark who are both
23:43his brainchildren and his sinister creative output.
24:02For those who are not convinced by Caravaggio, there is yet another rendering of The Incredulity
24:07of St. Thomas, this time from 1823 and by Belgian painter François-Joseph Néves, 1787-1869.
24:16This is a large, significant work. It is now in the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
24:23museum purchase funded by the Agnes Cullen Arnold Endowment Fund.
24:27It is very easy to recognize the characters in this painting. Three men standing together
24:33are Matthew, Mark and Luke, arranged by age, also mischievously made to look like Peter,
24:39Judas and Mary Magdalene. They are the same way as in The Last Supper by Leonardo, and many
24:45other paintings, also Mark, the youngest one, is in the middle. Two men on the right side
24:52are standing for the two authors of the Gospel of John. Dual authorship of Gospel of John was well
24:58known in the framework of the intellectual resistance from the early 16th century onward,
25:02at least. The Gospel of John was often depicted as two men. The only other personage besides Jesus
25:10is Thomas, probing the wound. There is no doubt that in this painting Thomas is standing for the
25:16Gospel of Thomas, just like the rest. To affirm that Jesus is shown holding his hand up with all
25:22five fingers outstretched, affirming that there are five, not four Gospels as the basis of the
25:27conclusions by Leonardo and others, and by me in my book. As for using fingers for counting,
25:34Jesus most likely did it when he was alive, just ask Albrecht Dürer.
25:46Amen.
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