The drums sounded and shouts sprang from the multitude. But the Tetrarch dominated all of the racket with his voice.
“Hear thee! Capernaum shall be yours! And the fertile plain of Tiberias! Half of my kingdom!”
Then she threw herself to the floor and suddenly with her heels rocking in the air she moved a few meters forward on her hands like a great beetle.
Next she jumped to her feet, now staring at Herod. Her lips were painted carmine, her eyebrows black and her eyes sparkled with a dangerous brilliance, from her forehead sprang titillating droplets.
Herod and Salome looked each other up and down until from the gallery Herodias clicked her fingers.
Salome then smiled displaying her white, strong teeth and whispered like a modest, shy maiden.
“I want… the head served on a tray -” she had forgotten the name; but smiling once again said clearly, “the head of John!”
Perhaps she was very angry with her loved one and so had him decapitated, but when she contemplated the beloved head upon the tray, she wept, went mad and perished in an erotic frenzy.
A horrifying inner struggle in the psyche of Salome. A spiteful Ego dragging other Egos down in his abominable decadence. A loathsome triumph for the Murderous Devil… terrible… horrible…
Herod feared the multitude because they considered John to be a prophet. Chapter 11 of the Gospel of Matthew, has John the Baptist as a true JINA, a celestial man, a demigod, superior to the prophets. Jesus himself says about him:
“A prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and more than a prophet. For this is he, of whom it is written: ‘Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.’
“Verily I say unto you, among them that are born of women there hath not risen a greater than John the Baptist: notwithstanding he that is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.”
“And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come. He that has ears, let him hear.”
These words of the Great Kabir Jesus link the two great Hebrew personages in one.
John the Baptist, decapitated by the lustful Salome, was in truth the living reincarnation of Elias, the Prophet of the Almighty.
At that time the Nazarenes were known as the Baptists, Sabians and Christians of Saint John; their mistake consisted of the absurd belief that the Kabir Jesus was not the Son of God, but simply a prophet who wanted to follow John.
Origins (vol. II page 150) observes that, “There are some people who say that John the Baptist was the Anointed, (Christ).”
When the concepts of the Gnostics, who saw in Jesus the Logos and the Anointed, began gaining ground, the early Christians left the Nazarenes, who unjustly accused the Hierophant Jesus of perverting the Teachings of John and of changing for another the Baptism in the Jordan. (Codex Nazarenus II page 109)
Salome naked, intoxicated with wine and passion, with the innocent head of John the Baptist in her erotic arms, dancing in front of King Herod, shook the lands of Tiberias, Jerusalem, Galilee and Capernaum…
However, we should not be so outraged: Salome lies deeply within many women… You know this… and no male should presume himself perfect because in each one a Herod is concealed.
To kill, is obviously the most destructive and most corrupt act known on the planet Earth. It is written in the book of all mysteries that you can not only kill with daggers, firearms, the gallows or poison. There are many that kill with a contemptuous look, with an ironic smile or laugh; with ingratitude; or libel or slander.
Truly I tell you that the world is full of uxoricides, matricides, patricides, fratricides, etc, etc, etc.
A lot of love and wise copulation with the one we love is necessary, if we truly want to reduce the Murderous Devil to cosmic dust by means of the omnipotent spear of Eros.
Samael Aun Weor
