An anonymous writer equates the life of Jesus to the ‘escapee’ in Plato’s Analogy of the Cave: I don’t agree with all that he says, but his thoughts are worth sharing. He writes:
“Around 2000 years ago, someone escaped from the world of shadows and came back to tell those who stayed behind of the real life and to show them the way out.
At that time, they claimed he had risen from dead, became man or had awoken. Nowadays, people would claim he had reached enlightenment. He had experienced that righteousness is the condition to reach simplicity and blessedness and that it is difficult to live as a righteous in an unrighteous world, as a living among the death.
The righteousness and compassion with the chained ones demands you to go back. He preached a completely different way of life and not a different way of thinking.
The story is that the establishment killed him, his words are misunderstood and that they turned his life into a religion.
Humankind took possession of the messenger and did not understand the message. If somebody has seen a beautiful theatrical performance he can tell about it enthusiastically, but he would better show people the way to the theater. His metaphors of the unspeakable made his message unclear. The experience is not expressible in words. For that reason, he gave people the opportunity to take his words figuratively and his life literally. “