χρίω (Chriō) as "Christing"

Should chriō and its cognates be applied exclusively to drug use?

Overview

1. A reason to propose a definiton of "to Christ" and this exclusive drug connection, is that it appears to fulfil the mandate "To bring the Antichrist" = "Find the Antidote" required for performing the "resurrection" from the death-inducing drug of his alleged Christian Mystery.

2.  Taking the purely metaphorical usage of chriō in Rev 3:18, Hillman contrives a false confirmation that undergoing the alleged Christian Mystery will grant enlightened vision of the unseen world.

3. Hillman knows the power of audible repetition to create the perception of truth. 

4. Conveniently, his LXX First theory bypasses the original Hebrew verb where a person who undergoes an anointing ceremony as a consecration (a commissioning to the office) to be a king or priest, is described as a messiah in the Hebrew Bible. 

5. This reinvention of the definition of the verb as "to Christ (with drugs)," adds another false confirmation that Jesus Christ was an excessive drug user.

Why redefining chriō is important to Hillman

Whether or not the events he claims did occur as he describes during his time assisting at the Tel Megiddo dig, he has built the impression of having a prophetic commissioning to initiate the events described in the Bible's Apocalypse, especially through his own interpretation of very selected excerpts of Revelation, in particular the seven seals and Rev 17:3-5.

3And the angel carried me away in the Spirit into a wilderness, where I saw a woman sitting on a scarlet beast that was covered with blasphemous names and had seven heads and ten horns. 4The woman was dressed in purple and scarlet, and adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls. She held in her hand a golden cup full of abominations and the impurities of her sexual immorality. 5And on her forehead a mysterious name was written:

BABYLON THE GREAT,

THE MOTHER OF PROSTITUTES

AND OF THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH.

Although "seal" (sphragis) is not specific to his base text in Rev 17, he refers to the "breaking of the seals" actually found in Rev 6. Although he will never show this context of them clearly being the seven wax discs sealing the scroll describing seven judgements (Rev 5:1), he will instead, refer to them in drug terms. He derives this idea from a few references to the sphragis lemnia - a disc of mineralised clay from the island of Lemnos, renowned for its medicinal properties. He further claims that to "break the seal" means that the disc was administered anally.

Notice how Hillman primes his audience beforehansd with the definition he wants them to believe, then rapidly removes the whole definition and isolates the one connotation he wishes to make the "correct" definition for this context, when it is clearly an eiseteitic manoeuver. Hillman omits the fact that in order for the sphragis to be understood as a drug term, it has to be qualified by the word, lemnia. Notwithstanding that the entire lexical entry refers to it being a legal stamp for identity or authority, he imports his interpretation into Rev 17. Here he claims that the seven seals comprise seven ingredients in the polypharmakon of Lady Babylon's "cup of porneia." He has explained from a text about Queen Medea, that she would produce an antivenom in her milk after absorbing the venom through her vaginal skin - in her "dark harbour," as described in more unseen texts for which he expects his listeners to trust his interpretation.  

An antidote has the designation, theriac, derived from the Greek word, thēríon, meaning "beast" - the  Scarlet Beast which carries Lady Babylon. 

Hence, in Hillman's theory, the alleged death and resurrection "Christian Mystery" is performed through the administration of a dote to induce a near-death state, followed by the administration of the antidote which burns off the mortality to give the initiate "aionic life": an entrance into the realm outside of time where the unseen spiritual entities reside and speak prophetically. The antidote is derived from the milk of virgin priestesses at the cusp of puberty in much the same manner as Medea's antidote to the snake venom. This is her "Cup of Porneia." At the end of this age she comes into prominence carried by the Beast/Antidote (thēríon/theriac) just as her story describes her production of the Antidote for the death-inducing snakebites, brought her to regal prominence and extensive influence in the Bronze Age.

Hillman justifies the connection to his own alleged commissioning through this elaborate eisegesis by saying that "to bring in the Antichrist" is to transport Lady Babylon on the Beast - the theriac, the antidote, after administering the death-inducing dote, the Christ. He has set himself the task of scouring obscure Greek texts and translating Galen's enormous corpus to find the seven ingredients for the alleged dote, the christ which when processed through a pre-pubescent's body, becomes the antidote - the Antichrist. (This could also be part of the reason behind him offering his tutoring in Classical Greek to train an elite group of assistant translators.) Hence, he is obliged to "translate" the words Christ and Antichrist as drug terms. The following clip leads into the next point to be made.

The command to "christ your eyes"?

Another text in the Apocalypse favoured by Hillman is Rev 3:18 where in the letter to the self-satisfied Laodicean church, the visionary Jesus counsels them to buy from him "eye-salve to anoint your eyes that you may see." The fact that this is an allegorical teaching as a remedy for their ignorance is irrelevant to Hillman who repeats this phrase frequently as if it were a literal command to Christians, to "Christ your eyes." Not only that, but he is adamant that the "christing" drug has to be the Tyrean purple from the murex mollusc, and that it will (somehow) give the recipient "spiritual insight" into the unseen realm - the world of the gods and daimones. (Thus many of the AI generated images in his shows have faces and eyes oozing a purple liquid.)

But the facts say otherwise - and with considerable irony in that the city of Laodicae owed its wealth in a large part to the production of kolluria, eye-salve and it is not an ointment of Tyrean purple. The verb translated usually as "to anoint" (enchrisai) is a derivative of chriō 

Despite the wide variety of uses and the non-existence of the connotation of "to Christ," Hillman has only made mention of the final entry in this Lexicon: that of "the sting of the gadfly." The lexicon specifies that here it takes on an allegoriacal, lyrical meaning. Yet from this one allusion, he teaches that chriō, allegedly, "to Christ," becomes associated with the mania to which cattle are driven when stung by the gadfly - a state in which connection to the prophetic voices of the daimonai is made. This is the state in which one may truly "see," Hillman claims. However, any credible philologist would judge this to be an unjustifable stretch beyond credibility. 

Reinforcement through Repetition

As a proficient teacher, Hillman knows that facts can be established, like the times tables or declensions of Greek verbs, through repeated auditory training. A mind-muscle becomes established and strengthened until the association with a given definition becomes instinctive whenever the word is heard. He has used this technique very, very frequently with all of his unique "translations" and interpretations of events. He has produced an entire show to go through many ancient texts searching for derivatives of chriō. Every text he finds to prove his theory, he misreads using his invented verbal forms, "christed, christing," etc rather than the contextual meanings in normal English such as smear, paint, anoint, etc. Likewise a noun that is a cognate of chriō meaning an ointment, balm, cream etc, he will always interpret as a "drug." One of the favourite descriptions he uses is about the administration of drugs. The text states that some are eaten, some are drunk and some are "christed." No Hillman, they are "smeared" because they are ointments.

Christ and Messiah

As a matter of course, Hillman seeks to negate any semitic influence in the texts through his unsupportable claim that the entire Hebrew Bible is a "back translation" form the Septuagint: a position that is easily refuted. Nevertheless, Hillman has a methodology that requires the "reading" through the Orphic Vox of coded cult and drug terms in the Greek texts of the Septuagint using the same flawed methodology he employs for the New Testament. He teaches that because these were Greek speaking Hellenised Jews creating a history and religion to legitimize themselves in the eyes of the Ptolemies of Alexandria, they wrote from viewpoint of the Greek cultic millieu in which they lived.  (It is also strange that these Egyptian Jews likewise ignored all the Egyptian cultic associations they could have made when allegedly creating their stories in these Greek texts.) 

Hillman also ignores the clear definition in the LSJ for the Septuagint references, above. Namely, "anoint in token of consecration." For this is, indeed the meaning assigned to the original Hebrew word mashiach, which has been transliterated into Greek as Messias and also directly translated as "Christ."

λέγει αὐτῷ ἡ γυνή Οἶδα ὅτι Μεσσίας ἔρχεται, ὁ λεγόμενος Χριστός· ὅταν ἔλθῃ ἐκεῖνος, ἀναγγελεῖ ἡμῖν ἅπαντα. (Jn 4:25)

The woman said, “I know that Messiah” (the one called Christ) “is coming. When He comes, He will explain everything to us.” 

Below is a typical example of how he teaches by singling out the "christ" word from its context and imports the meaning of drug to "prove" his theory.

I have attached screenshots taken from the same online Septuagint, but have included enough of the proper context in English for the reader to see that Hillman is not acting with proper integrity to the originally intended meaning of the author. 

Hillman, himself used to acknowledge that Christ meant anointed one in his early interviews with Gnostic Informant, in agreement with the position of Dr Carl Ruck and every other reputable scholar. In the following clip, Hillman even disowms as "most underhandedly" his own way of interpreting the ancient Orphic hymns as models of the Christian experience that he is, himself, had taught the enquirer who posed the question and references in an earlier clip on this page! Was he aware then, that Dr Ruck would not approve and support him in this way of interpreting the Christian Scriptures?

Jesus Christ, the "Drugged One"

Having produced this questionable foundation, Hillman can persude his audience that Jesus Christ was continually using drugs - not any drugs, but the purple in his eyes and the sexually stimulated products in the ejaculate from his sexual abuse of his own "child" disciples. Without knowing how, Hillman claims that Jesus sexually abused his "boy" disciples, also at the cusp of puberty, to generate the required drug in a similar fashion to how the virgin priestesses were allegedly used in the past. Thus, Hillman "proves" that this is what Jesus was doing when he was arrested at Gethsemane. He has his own version of the scene which he repeats in virtually every show he has produced. It is his mantra:

Jesus Christ was arrested with a naked boy in a public park at 4 am in the morning, screaming, "I am not a child-trafficker!"

An analysis of the relevant texts with cross references will show how they do not support this interpretation.