Just as I Am: The Life of Yesu, the Man We Call Jesus

By Eileen Blanchet

He lives now as the entity who absorbed the role of the man Jesus, and wore like a crown the consciousness of the Christ. It is his choice to come now as he promised, in spirit, to bring comfort to humanity. It was my choice to work with him.

He is beyond the church; beyond religion; beyond the man Jesus. He encompasses intelligence, intellect, rationality, understanding beyond that which would confine him. Once, it is said, he spoke these words, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world. And, To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into this world that I should bear witness to the truth.

I know him as Leaeatthe name given to me, meaning harmony. To others, in realms beyond ours, where he is respected, even revered, he is known as the Harmonizer.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Balboa Press
• Release date: Feb 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781504345521

Eileen Blanchet

Eileen was born in the twenties in a small Canadian prairie town. She started questioning the bible as a young girl and through that questioning discovered her own spiritual understanding and her own connection with God. The spiritual teachings found in her books were given to her over a 20 year period by the man who had been Jesus.

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Contents

Foreword

Introduction Let Us Understand

Chapter 1 - Jesus Was a Man

The Wedding of Jesus’ Parents, Joseph and Mary

Jesus’ Birth and the Flight to Egypt

Jesus Is Circumcised

Jesus’ Early Childhood

Jesus is Sent to Rabbinical School

Jesus Attends the Essenic School

Jesus Falls in Love with Simon Ben Eliezer’s Daughter

Chapter 2 - Jesus Follows His Calling Wealth Kidnapping and Magic

Jesus Becomes a Businessman

Jesus is Kidnapped

Jesus Learns Magic in India

Jesus is Protected by God As He Travels

Jesus Accepts His Destiny

What Really Happened at the Wedding at Cana

Chapter 3 - Jesus Has Doubts about His Mission

Things Get Out of Control

People Mistake Jesus for a Miracle Worker

Jesus Wrestles with Being In the World and Not of It

Jesus Feels Inadequate

Jesus Seeks Direction from Abel

Jesus Seeks Validation in Zechariah

Chapter 4 - Selling Love in a Barbaric Time Jesus Applies Business Tactics

Tactic #1 – Staying Alive

Tactic #2 – Parables and Miracles

The Lost Parable of the Well Digger

Tactic #3 – Political Connections

Tactic #4 – Word of Mouth Marketing

I Interrupt to Ask Leaeat a Question

Tactic #5 – Disciples and Collaborators

James and John

James the Zealot

Simon Peter, the Rock

Nathanial is Called

Judas

Philip

Andrew and Thomas

I Interrupt to Ask A Few More Questions

Matthew and James

Other Thoughts on Jesus’ Ministry with His Disciples

Allies in His Mission

John the Baptist

Lazarus

Chapter 5 - The Impossible Ministry Why Jesus Feels He Failed His Mission

Scripture was Perverted by Jewish Hierarchy

Jesus Was Impatient

Insects Can Understand God More Readily than Man

Jesus Battled with His Inner Voice

Man Had Lost the Knowledge that God and the Almighty Were Not the Same

These Three Miracles Were Nothing Supernatural

Jewish Hierarchy More Concerned with Social Control Than with Spirituality

What Jesus Really Came to Teach and Why it Was so Difficult to Accept

Jesus is Misunderstood Even by Well-Meaning Disciples

Faith is What Healed the Sick—Not Miracles

Few Could Understand What Jesus was Trying to Convey

Doubles, Political Unrest, and Jesus’ Longing to be Understood

Jesus Pleads for Common Sense When Seeking to Understand God

Another Miracle Misunderstood

The Sanhedrin Refuse to Accept Jesus and Rome Wants Him Arrested

Jesus Resumes His Ministry in Small Villages

Lost Parable: The King in Darkness

Jesus Treats a Sick Child and the Lost Parable of the Trusting Landowner

Jesus Explains He is Not God and Further Explains Miracles and Curses

Walking on Water

Deeper Truths Behind Jesus Losing His Temper at the Temple

Jesus Again Loses His Temper

People Want a Magic Show, Not the Message Jesus Came to Teach

Social Prejudice Prevents Jesus from Being Accepted

Chapter 6 - What the last Days Really Looked Like Crucial Details Jesus Wants Revealed

The Triumphal Entry Was a Business Decision

Jerusalem in Chaos

Judas Was Protecting Jesus, Not Betraying Him

Jesus Sought the Sanhedrin to Save his Life

Jesus is Sent to Pilate

Jesus is Sent to Herod

Jesus is Returned to Pilate

Sanhedrin Plead with Pilate to Execute Jesus

Caiaphas, not Herod, the True Ruler of the Jews

Relationship Between Pilate and Caiaphas

Jesus’ Execution Was Inevitable

Jesus Explains What He Meant By Bringing a Sword

More of Pilate’s Reasoning

Jesus Discloses His Last Earthly Thoughts

Jesus Describes the Crucifixion As it Really Happened

Joseph of Arimethea Drugs Jesus

Jesus is Buried and Does Not Resurrect

Jesus Describes His Death Experience

Chapter 7 - Christianity is Misguided What Jesus Really Wants You to Know

How Jesus Wants to be Remembered

Jesus’ Message is for All People

Religion Ultimately Misses the Mark

Other Christ Figures Were Called to Political Leadership

Why Jesus’ Message Was Difficult to Accept

Reclaiming Lost Knowledge of God and the Almighty

How to Experience the Almighty

God Does Not Have Total Control

Jesus Did Not Come to Forgive Sin

A New Environment for Understanding the Future

Chapter 8 - Comments given from other entities on the Life of Jesus

Foreword

I n addition to raising 13 children and dealing with the day-to-day business of running a busy household, the late Eileen Blanchet learned how to receive automatic writing—material which she referred to as being given. She would sit each morning after the children were off to school to hear the powerful Voice of one who called himself Leaeat (LEE aht), the Harmonizer—or as you know him—Jesus of Nazareth. She would go on to write seven volumes via automatic writing, most of it what Leaeat wants humankind to know, but also what other non-physical beings had to add. The work is an intriguing and at times a disturbing call to open up, to question, and to know the Truth for yourself.

In Just As I Am, Leaeat endeavors to set the record straight about his life as Jesus, his ministry, and the true message he brought from God. Far from the image of the meek, haloed man in a robe, Jesus would have us know he was a man like any other man. His parents married, made love, and conceived him the way all humans do. He squabbled with his siblings. He broke his mother’s heart. He rebelled in his youth and was sent away to school. He fell in love but couldn’t figure out how to mix marriage and his mission, and so chose celibacy. He had to be told time and again of his calling, as he often doubted what exactly he was called to do and how to carry it out. He gathered around him men of skill and operated a business as a professional speaker. He performed magic tricks to distract simple people from the drudgery of survival long enough to listen to him. He shared his knowledge of hygiene and nutrition and faith for healing. He railed at the corrupted politics and religion, the poverty and ignorance, and the deeply ingrained violence of his time. He rued humankind’s stubborn tendency to want to be told about God—by the church, by priests, by scripture, by anyone looking for political control—instead of seeking God for oneself.

Today he expresses regret that 2,000 years later, humankind still doesn’t understand his very simple message: Discount anything other than your direct and personal experience of God. And if humankind could achieve this simple thing, this direct experience of God, the result would be not only a peace of heart, but also a society of loving neighbors—in other words, a political and social revolution.

This book is unusual. It unfolds non-linearly, like stories told around a campfire; Leaeat often revisits topics such as miracles, why people couldn’t understand him, and how he felt he failed in his ministry, adding more depth each time. He sometimes narrates the story in the past tense, and at times he switches to present tense. Leaeat refers to himself in the first person and other times in the third. Leaeat also refers to Man rather than using a more politically correct term for humankind. Since this is the way in which he told the story, and these are the terms which he chose, we have preserved his story as narrated and apologize if it offends any reader’s sensibilities. The words hear, know, and ask are also often used by Leaeat as nouns.

Especially if you have a background in Christianity, much of what you read on these pages will shock you, as it did me. You might even be tempted to come away feeling confused and disillusioned. But, take heart; the answer is simple, almost too simple to be believed, and the joy in it is unspeakable: You can—and must—know God for yourself.

–Leah Kenyon, Editor

Introduction

Let Us Understand

I was born in the twenties and raised through the thirties in a small town on the Canadian prairies. My father, a pharmacist, provided a heritage that was more valuable than money in his wonderful appreciation of nature. My mother was a gracious woman. Her example taught me to value the courtesies of daily living that represent respect for those around us, those who sit with us at a table, those little things so often seen today as being unnecessary.

My family belonged to a Protestant church. My father had been raised to be a deeply religious man and liked a good discussion. I was never excluded from participating. When I moved more into the spiritual realms somewhat different than the church teachings, he expressed his concern regarding obsession and cultism. In the end he was to acknowledge my understanding of many things that went beyond his beliefs and shared with me his own mystical experiences. I hope your spirits let you come to visit often, he was to say.

The Bible was to become many more things than I had learned as a child. At an early age I was aware of the many biblical admonitions, it was with both concern and confusion that I asked my father about something that had said you shouldn’t climb the stairs to the church showing your legs—having in my mind the numerous steps up to the church which we attended. There wasn’t anything in the Bible like that, he told me, and so it was only much later I would again discover, in Exodus 20:26, that admonition that had been so puzzling to me in which God tells his people, Do not go up to my alter on steps, lest your nakedness be exposed on it. It represents to me how selective we are with what we take from the Bible. William Blake once wrote, Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read’st black where I read white.

I was to discover, as well, that rituals of the Christian church did not necessarily originate with it, and were often duplicated in or borrowed from other religions and beliefs. Buddhist ceremonies also have used holy water transmitted into divine ambrosia and in their Eucharist each priest receiving three sanctified pellets made of flour, sugar and butter, along with a drop of wine from the consecrated cup. At the time of Jesus, the Mithraic cult was playing a vital role particularly in Rome. They held a communion meal of bread and wine.

When the time came for me to receive the writing you will find herein—known sometimes as automatic writing and which I refer to as being given—I would sit in the morning after the last of my young teens were off to school. I cultivated a certain discipline—never eating before making that shift in my consciousness that permitted me to receive what was given.

It seems to me that we often remember things as if we were outside ourselves looking at the happening—and this is how I remember receiving the given material.

During this time of dedication I did not read anything that could be concluded to have colored my thinking or contributed to my understanding. I wanted it to come clearly from those who brought the information to me. It was difficult enough to maintain one’s equilibrium in the face of the experiences without also questioning one’s own mind.

It was later, when I managed to sustain my double life, that I began to read the books to which I was largely directed. There were meetings of all descriptions that I was sent to so I would be aware of the thinking out there. The Hopi call it wikima, to be guided ahead.

It would take me more than fifteen years. My ability to receive information was sporadic, segmented, separated and interwoven with my understanding.

The spiritual teachings given to us from those in other realms have been called ear-whispered. Although we may be assisted on a path each one of us must tread that path for oneself. Our heavens and nirvanas are not to be realized by proxy. It is said that the biblical Jesus called it the Kingdom of God—to be found within. At least that’s how it is translated.

When we are challenged by the immensity of the universe, the world we live on suddenly becomes a small speck in the heavens. We diminish in relative size and may be overcome with fear that our insignificance may go unnoticed in the magnitude of the universe. We must cope with the idea of infinity from within the bounds of our own finite being.

To tread a path one has set for oneself consciously or unconsciously becomes at times a difficult task, and if one does not understand that the choice has been made even before coming, one will have a hard time indeed. Jesus did not say I am the way—the only way. He was telling people, I am the Way. Learn the Way through me, for it would represent truth.

I grew up with a regard for this man who had been Jesus, and it was unnerving to discover the part this being was to play in my life. My link with that other world, he would tell his own story.

In Shakespeare’s words, All the world’s a stage and all the men and women merely players. Like a player in a stage play this man Jesus wore the costume of the part. When the run on Broadway was done, when the travelling caravan was all finished, he cast off the role. He lives now as the entity that absorbed the role of the man and wore, like a crown, the consciousness of the Christ. It is his choice to come now as he promised, in spirit, to bring comfort to Man. It is my choice to work with him—a choice I came to late in a life that had borne the seeds from the beginning—after raising a family, after sins of omission and commission, after sorrows and joys of a life much lived. From the time I was a child I knew him as a man, not a god—and certainly not God. Fashioned within was the direction I would at last hopefully bring to fruition.

He is beyond the church, beyond religion, beyond the man Jesus. He encompasses intelligence, intellect, rationality and understanding beyond that which would confine him. Once, it is said, he spoke these words, I will utter things hidden since the creation of the world.¹ To this end was I born, and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto the truth.²

I know him as Leaeat—the name given to me, meaning harmony. To others, in realms beyond ours, where he is respected, even revered, he is known as the Harmonizer.

A portion of the writing would be mine in order to assist in bridging the understanding given to me. Nothing was to be left to memory; nothing was to be received without understanding. Sometimes it seemed to be impossibly difficult to live in both worlds. We—any of us who work thus—would learn firsthand from the ancient story of Ahikar: He who listeneth not with his ear, they will make him listen with the scruff of his neck.

I thought one day to do what many do when they find their direction obscure—I opened the Bible randomly to see what message would pop up. I had chosen the text with the Apocrypha. It had opened at 2 Esdras, chapter 15 and the first three verses said, The Lord says, ‘Behold, speak in the ears of my people the words of the prophecy which I will put in your mouth, and cause them to be written on paper; for they are trustworthy and true. Do not fear the plots against you, and do not be troubled by the unbelief of those who oppose you.’

And backtracking a bit I read, I will light in your heart the lamp of understanding, which shall not be put out until what you are about to write is finished, some things you shall make public, and some you shall deliver in secret to the wise.

The Most High spoke to me, saying, ‘Make public the twenty-four books that you wrote first and let the worthy and the unworthy read them; but keep the seventy that were written last, in order to give them to the wise among your people. For in them is the spring of understanding, the fountain of wisdom, and the river of knowledge.’ And I did so.

Knowing who he has been and what has occurred, I voice my concern to Leaeat.

They have taken you as Jesus and molded and manipulated you.

And he asks why this distresses me.

"Is it that you fear I cannot be myself, and in being myself so defend myself? Are we but puppets to have our strings pulled by some master purporting to be the whole when he but aspires to be puppeteer? Well, well. It is yet to be done according to Plan—God’s plan—not the plan of small minds and grandiose egos. Leave them to their own machinations—we need none of it. Their own lack will demonstrate to the world that which is not of God, but only desire.

We who know who we are—need no Man to tell us. Let us seek, rather, that peace in the midst of all, to bring to fruition that which we have come to do. Let it be upon us—none other—to seek out that which we are, have been, will be, for no Man’s thinking, desire, protestations may change that which is."

Q.: And who or what is God, I need to know.

God is a state of mind to be encountered through the one who has claimed the right to disconnect his beingness as it were, from the totality. It will not do for you to presume that God is but a Creator of Man. He is as well the whole of Man and only through this understanding will the world come to terms with its own reality. That which sustains us is not so much his presence as his totality.

Q.: And is he then, I ask, the Old One whose presence I feel?

It is a fact. All that, which claims for itself an awareness, chooses shape and form. By himself he is at times for us The Old One but when you seek him you must be prepared to as well seek that which is all Man—will this be understood?

The Old One is that presence of the Creator God manifest in this reality. It is a part of the God Essence which is created to lead Man into the greater understanding. The God Essence could not be made known to Man otherwise. As any require a form of reality, so that form is drawn from the whole essence to be manifested. The El of a People; the Jehovah of the Jew; the Ancient of Days; the Buddhist Creation of Essence; the Great Spirit of the Indian; those multitudes of names that create for each of Man an image to bring it into reality.

Q: God or Goddess?

The relationship of language to understanding is sometimes difficult. The use of God as He is a gesture to tradition only; since God is neither male nor female it serves no purpose to replace one with the other. If Man did not fear the anonymity of it we could use that but this is not yet custom.

There is some truth to be found in the words, If there were no God Man would create one. His reality has shaped this God but it cannot either diminish or change that true God Essence—nor make of it what it is not.

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And again he would write:

And so indeed, it is that I come to bring Man once again closer to the understanding of these things. I come again as that being once I was—the Jesus of history and the Christ as labeled by Man. That I come in spirit as decreed by my God does not mean I am less worthy than when I came in the physical.

I come as well as the beingness which embodies the essence of who I am, what I have earned, and that which I must yet come to be, for no Man concludes his life until either he chooses annihilation or fulfillment.

I am but one of many, and when Man teaches that to come to me is to bring one nearer to God, then Man must once more discover God’s meaning in words from the mouths of Man.

I can neither be greater nor less than I am, and that does not make me God—it cannot make me what I am not, but neither can that diminish that which I am nor that which I have come to do.

I died a physical death because Man made it so, not by God’s will nor by God’s choice, and having killed the physical body it cannot be said that such a sacrifice could bring one Man closer to God nor drive him further away. How strange to believe that I died for Man’s redemption rather than his sins.

They call me the Harmonizer here, where I work in spirit, because understanding will bring harmony. The one who writes for me knows me by that name with other sounds, and I am called by the name Leaeat. Names are strange things that may bring deceit or truth but cannot lay claim to the Soul of any. Be at peace with the knowing that comes through these words that God sends through the instruments of his will.

If I were to again come to a world as Man, then Man would see me only as a man, and his suspicions would not let him accept this. If you believe the Christ to have already been rejected, you would see nothing to compare to the rejection of a second coming. If I were to come as Man wishes, in some splendid glory, it would be fulfilling only Man’s expectations, not God’s. Must we play childish games to fulfill Man’s desire for dramatics? Is it not a time when Man must realize that God does not sit on a golden throne in some ethereal heaven? Is it not time for Man to have outgrown foolish expectations of clouds of glory and thundering voices? Has he not searched a sky with his powerful telescopes and discovered there is no sky filled with angels and cherubim?

Man has stepped on another planet. He has pictured other worlds, and no place has he found anything but those things which fulfill his understanding of his physical world. Has the time not arrived when Man must take himself in hand and realize a world has brought him to an age of maturity? Man may not forever remain as children hiding heads in a mother’s skirts, fearful of the reality he must at last meet and accept.

Jesus was a Man with both Man’s limitations and his ability for greatness. When he allowed his limitations to reflect on his learning, he went alone to commune with his God. He had no need to read a book or to seek the counsel of other men. He knew where the knowledge of his need lay, and he directed his attention to the source until he might regain his harmony.

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The words of Psalm 53 contain for me a kind of nostalgic longing, The fool says in his heart, ‘There is no God’ God looks down from heaven on the sons of men to see if there are any who understand…

The purpose of this introduction is to provide some historical background and an understanding of the difficult political climate of Jesus’ day, so you can grasp not only the context in which Jesus was speaking, but the near impossibility of his mission.

So, let us begin.

What Jesus Learned and What We Should Understand Today

What was this land like that the man Jesus was born into? A maritime plain backed by snowcapped mountains and limestone hills whose eastern sides sloped down into desert with hot dry summers. The hills were wooded areas of cedar—the famous cedars of Lebanon—fir, oak and pine.

The history of the people inhabiting these plains was nomadic, their origin obscure. It appears they migrated from north and central Asia, moving with their flocks and ranging over a wide territory.

There were times of drought and in these periods the Asiatic, being nomadic, continued their travels into the delta area of Egypt in search of water and forage for their animals.

Abram and His Sons

In about the eighteenth or nineteenth century BCE, the biblical Abram travelled from the valley of the Ur situated between the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, via the valleys north to Haran and eventually south to Egypt. Since we have little knowledge of the history of this land in which he resided, we have little idea of why Abram decided to pack up his family and animals and move on. It might have been flooding, it might have been drought, or it might have been overpopulation in that particular area. Some say the land became salt laden. Others say smoke lay over the land like a shroud. Volcanoes? Forest fires?

The Egyptians knew these people as Sand Crossers and though these invasions were peaceful, the Egyptians built a kind of wall on the Delta to try and keep them out.

Abram was not a Jew. The Jews didn’t exist as such until much later when the land of Judea was established. Biblical history takes us back to Noah who had three sons: Shem, Japheth and Ham from whom it has been said the people of this land evolved. The land known as Canaan was traditionally settled by Ham’s son Kna’an (Canaan). Canaan’s son was Heth from whom the Hittites stemmed. The Semites, it is said, originated with Shem.

Where God’s Name Comes From

The god that came with Canaan to this land was known as the El of Genesis, a god signifying power and strength. The plural noun Elohim we find used in the same book of Genesis was Babylonian in origin—the land Abram would leave. Old Testament translators sometimes translated this word as God and sometimes as angels (Psalms 8:6; 97:7). The Greeks preferred to make this plural noun a singular one to avoid any inference of a plurality of god, using Theos rather than Theoi.

YHWH, the never spoken Eternal—ever living, self-existent—became known as Baal in that land. The Hebrew would eventually consider this Semitic god as being false. The conflict lies not so much in whether the chief god was the same for all these people, but that the developing religious practices accompanying their common belief separated them. Moses will of course, eventually need to ask God what he should tell the people he is called, and God replies according to Genesis, to tell them merely that he exists.³ Some say he said, I am—in English yet—and called him that. Some say it should be I am that I am while others say, I will be what I will be. Maybe it would be more accurate to say, I am what I will be or I will be what I am which goes beyond merely existing to inferring a timeless consistency.

Geographical History of the Hebrews

As the nomadic tribes, sometimes known as the Levant, discovered the benefits of settled land for pasture and the growing of crops, the land was carved up into many separate countries. It was a curious land, forming a corridor from Phoenicia to Egypt, and throughout historical times a constant flux of peoples came by sea or land. Among these were those known as the Habiru or intruding foreigners. Languages become a mixture, as here we have the blending of Assyro-Babylonian, Aramaean and Canaanite. The Habiru would become known as Ibrim or Hebrew.

Abram (Exalted Father), later to become Abraham (Father of Many) having sojourned into Canaan and on to Egypt, left to return to the Negev, that area southeast of the Dead Sea. He would have a son Isaac who would in turn have a son Israel. Eventually as history unfolds Israel becomes the owner of this land which would then become known as Israel and the people as Israelites.

Judah was a favored son of Israel and the northern portion of the land would became known as the Kingdom of Judah and subsequently Judea whose people would be known as Jews. The country, it is to be noted, was shared with Canaanites, Ammonites, Moabites, Amorites, Edomites, Hittites, Jebusites, Horites, Phoenicians and Philistines—a formidable warrior people from whose name Palestine comes.

It is not to be thought that these years had been tranquil ones of ongoing development. On the contrary, they were filled with inter-tribal disputes, inter-family disputes, inter-cultural disputes, all leading to the eventual shaping of people who would grow out of this and call themselves Jews: the seeds already sown for those who would call themselves Arabs.

A branch of Semitic people called the Hyksos wrestled power from the Egyptian Pharaoh in the early seventeen hundreds BCE