Long wrote about the kahuna interpretation of Christ’s crucifixion. “His weakness had been self-righteousness, the cardinal sin of the highest spiritual level. He had been held back by his desire to enjoy the fruits of his labors.” His pride had betrayed him and “laid him open to obsession by certain spirits who were evil because they forced on him the emotions of pride which were their own besetting sins in life. … As the curtain falls on the last scenes of the drama of crucifixion, all seems to be lost. And on the cross the man who had worked miracles called on the Father for help, and his prayer was cut off – it was not delivered and not heard (because of the blocking done by evil spirits obsessing him. Having gained unnoticed entry on account of the build-up of personal pride during his ministry). He suffered the most agonizing of deaths.” What can Creator tell us?

This is an overlay of a general scenario that is all too common in how people meet their end of life heavily encumbered by the negative karmic buildup of their own travails and, in addition, infested with dark spirit attachments, the spirit meddlers, who will do their utmost to reawaken the sore points and triggers of sources of pain and suffering from other lifetimes, and conduct a reign of terror convincing their host all is lost and they are a failure and powerless to change things, and may well cause physical discomfort and pain to reinforce the point. The agony of Christ, knowing he would soon meet his fate, was quite real and his only failing was a wavering of faith in himself, that he could stand strong as an example to all in the face of unbelievable hatred and cruelty inflicted on him, as an icon, to make him an example to others who do not submit to the power of the state and its representatives. This was a human weakness, but inevitable given that Christ was not superhuman but a human being capable of interacting with the divine and be imparted with divine wisdom that made him above others, and a threat to the establishment, because truth is powerful. But, being human, the reality is that he was vulnerable, as all humans are, so the fact he was crucified was not a personal failing in any sense. He was a victim of the era, and the only way it could have been avoided was if he had compromised on his mission to stand up and speak truth to power in ways he did that drew the ire of the powers that be who condemned and killed him. So it was an act of courage as well as faith because if he lacked courage or sufficient faith, in the end, he could have avoided that dark fate by allowing himself to be visibly subjugated and diminished in accepting condemnation falsely. Instead, he held his ground, in representing the cause of the divine, and that led directly to his death. It was a noble and courageous act. Whether he wavered along the way in having a long period of build-up to this inevitable confrontation and ultimate sacrifice, is unimportant. It was a testament more to the extreme degree of his sacrifice and personal suffering that was his fate. That humanness is a testament to the reality he was a mortal and felt all of the pain involved with his torture and execution, and that is what makes it a noble sacrifice, indeed.