The Naked Word: Jesus Unveiled

In this text, you will discover a Jesus who is fully human—an awakened being whose teaching resonates with the greatest wisdoms of the East, from the Tao to Buddhism. It is an invitation to an inner rebirth, a return to that "Kingdom" which is found nowhere else but within ourselves.

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The Naked Word of Jesus

Discovering the Original Teaching

Welcome to all. It is with great joy that I share with you today the culmination of a journey of reflection and spiritual exegesis: "The Naked Word of Jesus."   In a world where the spiritual message is often veiled by centuries of narrative constructions and theological wonder, this book proposes a different quest. Its ambition is to strip the texts—whether evangelical or apocryphal—of their ornaments to reveal the essential: an original, universal, and timeless word.

You will discover a Jesus who is fully human, an awakened being whose teaching resonates with the greatest wisdoms of the East, from Taoism to Buddhism. It is an invitation to an inner rebirth, a return to that "Kingdom" which is found nowhere else but within ourselves. To give you a glimpse of this approach, you will find below the official introduction to the work, which is a complete rewriting of the Gospels consolidated into a single one that could have been titled: "The Gospel of Jesus."

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The Historical Jesus — The Naked Word

Scientists, archaeologists, and historians ask the question: Did Jesus exist, or is he a myth? The Christ described in Churches and Christian Scriptures did not exist as a supernatural figure. Jesus, however, did exist. What does this mean?   Jesus’s name was not Jesus. He bore an Aramaic name: Yeshua, to which was added "son of Joseph." The word Christ was not a proper name but a title, coming from the Hebrew messiah, meaning "one consecrated by a divine anointing." For the simplicity of the text, we will continue to call him "Jesus."  

The Son of God, born of a virgin, performing miracles and resurrection, did not exist historically. Jesus, the awakened man, did exist. The evidence of his existence lies in the teaching he transmitted—over three years according to John, and over approximately one year according to the synoptics (Matthew, Mark, and Luke), whose narrative structures are relatively similar.  

This teaching appears in the Gospels amidst additions and stories embellished by later writers. The Naked Word of Jesus gathers his words, without miracles or narrative ornaments. Jesus was a man fully human and fully awakened: a buddha, an awakened being. Certain contested episodes, such as the meeting with John the Baptist or the cross, have been preserved, but the core focuses on his universal spiritual teaching.  

His words recall those of the great awakened ones: Gautama Siddhartha, Lao Tzu, Patanjali... Other figures, such as Krishna, delivered similar teachings, recorded in texts like the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita.  

Note of Clarification: The name Krishna, as it appears today, has become a divine proper name in Hinduism, integrated notably into the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad Gita. Historically, it was likely a descriptive nickname meaning "black" or "dark," applied to certain figures or indigenous populations. The original teaching of this master, whose exact name has been forgotten, was later reclaimed and adapted by the Hindu tradition.  

Similarly, buddha means "awakened" and was not a proper name. The word of the awakened is found in various texts: Tao Te Ching, Dhammapada, Yoga Sutra, Gospel, Bhaktimārga, Guru Granth Sahib... All describe the same fundamental truth across different eras, places, and languages. Attentive reading and practice allow one to grasp its universality.

The Vita

The Gospels were written in a literary style specific to the era, the Vita, which blended the narration of real facts with elements of wonder intended to convince the reader. The Vita was not a historical investigation; it aimed to reveal the moral greatness and symbolic dimension of the character.  

This style is found in Apollonius of Tyana, a contemporary of Jesus, to whom similar miracles were attributed. By removing the veneer of the marvelous, we do not destroy the man; we find the naked word of Jesus, freed from embellishments, revealing the essence of his teaching.

John the Baptist

The meeting between Jesus and John the Baptist remains hypothetical. Some historians believe it may never have taken place. John, imprisoned by Herod, might have sent his disciples to Jesus to verify his teachings. Gospel accounts (notably John) may have been written to place Jesus in the continuity of the Baptist.  

John was a "baptist" associated with a Gnostic Judaism, Mandaeism, which distinguished between the world of light and the world of darkness. Manichaeism, founded by Mani in the 3rd century, draws inspiration from these currents and the wisdom of India and Persia.  

The Gospel according to John was not written by the apostle, but by the Johannine community. Some disciples followed Jesus, but the majority considered his word unauthentic. Even today, some Mandaeans regard Jesus as a false prophet.  

The word Gospel (euangélion in Greek) originally means "Message of Grace," a concept close to satsang in Sanskrit: the company of truth, one of the pillars of the spiritual practice of The Path.

Genesis According to John

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God..." (John 1:1-4)   In Greek, the word logos can mean "word," "reason," "will," or "design." If we prioritize "will" or "design," the verse takes on a coherent meaning:   "In the beginning was the will of God, this will was with God, this will was God."   Philo of Alexandria associates the logos with the creative breath of the divine, a messenger of divine light and fire. Thus, John 1 does not describe a human word, but the creative and luminous activity of God.  

Similarly, Jesus spoke in Aramaic of the Kingdom using the word malkut, which does not designate a territory but the exercise of the king's power—that is, the divine will. Christian writers added "of heaven," transforming malkut into "Kingdom of Heaven," which distorts the original meaning.

Logos and Tao

The Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu, a contemporary of Confucius, spoke of the Tao, both the principle and power of the Whole, and its effects on Creation. One could reformulate John 1 as follows:   "In the beginning was the virtue of the Tao. This virtue was with the Tao. This virtue was the Tao."   T

he original meaning of logos is therefore not "the Christ" or the "Word incarnate," but the expression of the creative and luminous will of God. The Church Fathers, conversely, interpreted it as a distinct hypostasis, the second person of the Trinity, incarnated in Jesus. This interpretation is a later theological construction that does not correspond to the philosophical and exegetical meaning of the Greek text.

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