19. Resembling Jesus

This chapter looks at less literal examples of imitation of, and proximity to, Jesus. Some cultists moved closer to Jesus by imitating him, and others found deep-ken significance in parallels between Jesus and their notable contemporaries. Some, on a continuum from actors to kings, behaved--or were seen to behave--in ways that created a deep-ken consonance between themselves and Jesus. Some of the imitators imitated his poverty through nudity, and his passion through flagellation, which practices became intimate, and sexual, in the eyes of some authorities. Some cultists interacted with Jesus in very concrete ways, in plain-ken time and space, even to the point of marriage.