He was in India and elsewhere during these travels and this was useful preparation for setting the stage to have a platform with some life experience and the maturity that comes from becoming independent and learning from other cultures. All of these attributes were important and helpful to him with his mission to be a prophet and teacher, and to speak with authority on spiritual matters despite seeming to have come from nowhere. This was mostly due to having a direct access to Creator during his life so there was a seamless connection he could use to call on God and be assisted in many ways, both through having knowledge and wisdom imparted, but also to receive divine support, healing, and protection when needed to keep things in balance and functioning well and to have divine energy available at all times for any task at hand, as in the performance of miracles.
It is a truism that "wisdom comes with age." It is a function of life experience. To come into a child with divine wisdom beyond certain basic elements is not only inappropriate but not possible, because knowledge and wisdom can only be imparted to someone in the physical who is ready for those insights and has a basic understanding and a need to know, a desire to act in a divine way. That impulse will come from an inner desire that springs from life experience in some way or another. It is only when one has encountered adversity that one seeks wisdom about righting wrongs, about healing, about raising up the self and others, and has a motivation to seek such knowledge and the energies needed to accomplish the task. That level of maturity, to bring sufficient wisdom to function as a teacher, also mandates a life of preparation that will involve considerable learning and growth to step into the role of prophet and to become a messiah representing the light.
So there is no great mystery here. It was not so much the specific facts and information he was exposed to in his travels. They were simply stepping stones to gaining maturity and wisdom to be a match to his mission life role as a messiah bringing forth divine truth to the masses and to have a special complement of energy to make that apparent to anyone he was with, that the divine was truly speaking through him. So this was a special configuration of energies that was planned for, worked towards, and was brought about when he was ready to take on this role directly, and it was in place prior to his baptism and gave him the wisdom to seek this out.
So he was stepping into the role of teacher and prophet by associating with John the Baptist as a kind of personal endorsement of those services and divine benefits being offered to others and by way of example, showing that the baptism can be an act of divine devotion and a symbol of transformation from becoming a passive witness to the possibility of God, to embracing the truth of the divine and asking to be a direct partner with the divine and all that that means. This can be done through intention and does not require a ritual, but rituals have their place because they call forth a strong inner intention and make a strong impression, and that impression, by definition requires a strong inner intention to identify with, accept, and to embrace the ritual as having its intended meaning for the individual, and that intention accomplishes the inner shift in thinking and alignment to be something more, something greater than before—a greater knowing, a greater acceptance of divine truth, a greater personal identification with the possibility of being divine, and acting in divine alignment through one’s thoughts, feelings, words, and deeds, all of which promotes spiritual growth and enlightenment through healing and repair of former discord and inadequacies.
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