The Phoenix Journals (PJ) have long captivated readers with their alternative explanations about historical events. One of the most compelling stories is that of Jesus Esu Immanuel, who, according to the PJ #02 survived the crucifixion and later traveled to India. This narrative challenges traditional beliefs and offers an eye opening perspective on this most significant historical event.

The original Shroud of Turin (left) and its negative (right)
clearly show the bloodstains on the forehead. Only a still-living body can bleed.
Source: Wikipedia
Christ's survival of the crucifixion is by no means unknown. A number of researchers have confirmed these statements in the PJ for decades. But because these findings would bring down a massive edifice of lies, the lie continues to be preached—and for good reason. For it exposes the historical untenability of the belief in the supernatural resurrection, upon which Paul based the entire Christian doctrine of salvation. The Christian churches have a fundamental interest in ensuring that this edifice of lies remains unshaken.
The Survival of Jesus Esu Immanuel
There are two books in German on this subject that provide a very comprehensive account of the circumstances surrounding Christ’s survival:
- John Reban`s Facts: "Christus wurde lebendig begraben"
- "Jesus lebete in Indien" by Holger Kersten (Knaur Publishing House)


Evidence from the Shroud of Turin
In the book *Christ Was Buried Alive*, the author explains that the Shroud of Turin provides evidence that Esu Jmmanuel was still alive at the time of his “burial.” This is because the dark spots on the original (on the left in the cover image) are bloodstains caused by blood flowing anew from the head due to the wounds from the crown of thorns when Esu Jmmanuel was placed in the shroud. The same can be seen in other areas of the body. The author, John Reban, rightly interprets this as clear proof that Christ was still alive. A dead body no longer bleeds. Active bleeding ceases with the heartbeat.
The endless debate over the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin is therefore merely a smokescreen intended to obscure the truth. Incidentally, Christ Michael (CM) has confirmed the authenticity of the Shroud, just as its authenticity was confirmed in PJ No. 02 (see text excerpt below).
Forensic pathologists in England, Germany and Spain independently concluded that the man in the shroud must still have been alive, for example:
“…in my opinion, all the evidence suggests that circulatory activity [in the tomb] had not yet ceased.”
(Expert opinion by Prof. Bonte—at that time head of the Institute of Forensic Medicine at the University of Düsseldorf and president of the World Federation of Forensic Pathologists) Source
The Trip of Jesus to India as “Yuz Asaf”
In addition, there is ample evidence documenting Esu Jmmanuel’s subsequent journey to India and his work there. In 1997, the magazine “Zeitenschrift” published a very comprehensive report on this topic under the title “Jesus Did Not Die on the Cross,” which you can download here as a PDF (in German). This highly informative article also refers to the two books mentioned above.
Here is an excerpt from the aforementioned “Zeitenschrift” article:
In Parthia, he [Jesus] was known by the name “Yuz Asaf.” The name means “Leader of the Healed Unclean”—according to historical sources, Jesus also healed lepers in Persia. According to tradition, the prophet Yuz Asaf came to the country from the west, and what he said or taught did not differ in content from what Jesus Christ had preached. The court poet of the Indian Mughal emperor Akbar calls Jesus ‘Ai Ki Nam-i-to: Yus o Kristo’ (You, whose name is: Yuz or Christ).
While the Greek title ‘Christos’ (meaning ‘the Anointed One’) spread in the West, the name ‘Yuz Asaf’ remained in use in the East for centuries. Kersten: “Place names that suggest Jesus’s stay and ministry can also be found in present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan, such as two plains bearing the name of the prophet Yuz Asaf, near the cities of Ghazni and Jalalabad in eastern Afghanistan, where, according to tradition, Jesus is said to have been.”
The Thomas Gospel, in turn, attests to Jesus’s stay in Taxila (in present-day Pakistan). Seventy kilometers east of Taxila lies the small town of ‘Mari’. “In the idyllically situated mountain resort (English: ‘Murree’) on the border with Kashmir, a tomb called ‘Mai Mari da Asthan,’ meaning ‘Resting Place of Mother Mary,’ has been venerated since time immemorial. When Mary reached this area, she must have been over seventy years old,” writes Holger Kersten, “and she was undoubtedly weakened by the long journey. Since no other grave of Mary can be verified anywhere else, it is entirely conceivable that she was buried here.” The resting place is still venerated today by the Muslim population as the tomb of the Mother of Jesus—after all, Jesus is regarded in Islam as one of the greatest prophets. Today it is located in a restricted military zone.
Here are two photos of the mausoleum building with the shrine inside it:


In the heart of Srinagar, the capital of Kashmir, lies the tomb of Yuz Asaf, as Jesus was commonly known in India. In all likelihood, the remains of Jesus rest in this wooden shrine (3rd photo) inside the tomb.

Excerpts from PJ No. 02,
“And They Called his name Immanuel”
In the following are some excerpts from the Phoenix Journal No. 02, “And They Called Him Immanuel,” in which Archangel Gabriel discusses the harrowing events of the crucifixion and the subsequent burial of Esu Immanuel’s still-living body.
************** Excerpt from PJ No. 02 ***************
Gabriel describes the brutal crucifixion
After Esu’s condemnation he was most brutally treated. They, his adjudgers, bludgeoned and scourged his body until his life blood flowed upon the floors and ground. They placed upon his shoulders a heavy cross of wood, so that he would carry this great burden himself to the place of his death. The cross was heavy and Jmmanuel writhed and moaned under his burden. His blood mixed with his sweat and was an evil mass. Ye ones flinch? Ye cannot be in the imagining of the scene nor of the gift he gave unto you that day; for he did not have to bear this burden and thank him for his willingness for the Lords of Heaven, including mineself, desired to smite the human races into the void.
My child, Jmmanuel, collapsed under the heavy burden, for his strength left him. A stranger came along the path, named Simon of Cyrenea, and he was forced to help carry the cross. He bore it humbly and gladly for it was all he could do.
It took long to reach the place called Golgatha for the path there was difficult because he was mocked and beaten and stones were cast forth upon him. Those along the path forced wine mixed with gall taken from animals, into his mouth and spat upon him. When he refused to drink of the potions, they beat him more and forced it into his mouth.
Ah, it was a hateful lot that day, children of Earth. It was the custom to bind a person onto the cross with strapping but not so for this Lamb of God. They forced him down on the cross, stretching his limbs and beating him, and they nailed his hands and his feet onto the wood. They placed the nails also through his wrist tendons whereby the nails would not pull away through the flesh.
After they impaled him upon the cross and put the cross upright into the posthole prepared, letting it fall the depth of the hole that he might be jostled and jolted, they stripped him naked and shared his clothing among themselves and cast a lot for his robes of mockery. They laughed at his nakedness and spake vulgar jokes about his maleness. There was no degradation or debasement left unutilized that day.
They sat and watched him lest someone would come and take down the cross. For you see, there is no way to get a man from a cross except to take it down and lay it out. It takes many men to lift a body and cross up from a hole and lay it down so it is usually left to fall. Else wise scaffolding would be built upon which to stand.
Two murderers were crucified with him, one to his right and one to his left.
Those who were around him, blasphemed him and mocked him and laughed at him. Great sense of humor, ye ones of earth! They screamed and said, “Since you are the king of wisdom, help yourself. Since you are the son of a celestial son and have great strength, why do you not get off the cross?”
Likewise did the scribes from the temple and the Pharisees, the high priests and elders of the people mock him, and they said, “You helped others, but you can not help yourself.
Since you are a king of wisdom, get down from the cross and help yourself. And if you do that, we will believe in your teachings.” DOES THIS SOUND A BIT FAMILIAR TO YE ONES. “IF YE WILL BUT PROVE UNTO US, THEN WE WILL BELIEVE!”???
Further, they chided, “He trusted in his wisdom in being the son of the angel, Gabriel, Thus, may his wisdom or the angel, Gabriel, save him if he wants to.” BUT I WAS CONSTRAINED TO HOLD MINE WRATH FOR IT WAS TO BE SANANDA’S PATH; NOT MINE. BUT MINE WRATH DID NOT GO UNNOTED.
The sky became darkened and the sun was covered over but not by clouds, and a great storm arose across the land, which did not happen often in that time of cycle.
Mine son cried out; “I thirst, give me something to drink.” And thereupon, one of them went, took a sponge from a pail, filled it with vinegar, put it on a pole, and gave it to him to drink. And then what did the kind ones in the crowd offer?
“Do not give him more to drink. Let us see for how long he can bear this.” I WOULD BEAR NO MORE. AND THE THUNDER OF MINE VOICE ROLLED UPON THAT PLACE AND JMMANUEL CRIED OUT AGAIN, BUT NOBODY UNDERSTOOD HIM, FOR HIS SPEECH SEEMED CONFUSED AS HE CONVERSED WITH ME. THE WHOLE OF THE LAND TREMBLED AND THE EARTH QUAKED. WHEN MINE SON SETS HIS FOOT AGAIN ON THAT PLACE THE EARTH WILL SPLIT IN A CHASM OF SUCH DEPTH IT WILL HAVE NO BOTTOM AND THE MULTITUDES WILL BE CAST WITHIN FOR IT IS THE LAND OF EVIL. FOR MINE WRATH IS UNBOUNDED!
Mine beloved’s head fell forward for I took his pain and consciousness unto mineself and that which man did that day shall be visited upon him in return in a day of nearness. For that which a man sends forth, returns unto him in increased measure. Be most careful of that which ye sow.
Jmmanuel fell into a deep coma
Jmmanuel fell into a deep coma from which there appeared no breath for I breathed for him, nor was there motion of any sign from his physicalness. The cruel mockers thought him dead. A soldier took his lance and pierced his loins to see whether or not Jmmanuel was dead. From the wound came blood mixed with water as is the case in a person who is dead or half dead from blood stagnation in a hanging stance.
Since the soldier was sure Jmmanuel was dead he informed the others thereof. They were all astonished, for it was most unusual that one crucified would die so quickly. However, it had been a most dreadful day and the earth still shook and tremored and the sun was still covered and hail came from the sky where there were no clouds and the sky was red with mine fury, for red is mine ray of vibration. God Aton, angry? Oh ones, ye shall soon be in the finding out just how angry!
YE ONES OF OURS ARE NO DIFFERENT; THE HEAVENS WEEP AND BOIL WHEN YE ARE TROUBLED AND INJURED. ALL IS MARKED INTO THE RECORDS UPON WHICH MAN WILL STAND IN JUDGE OF SELF. ALL! MAN WILL PRAY FOR DEATH AND IT WILL NOT BE GRANTED UNTO HIM FOR HE WILL FACE HIS CRIMES AGAINST THE LAWS OF CREATION.
Within the crowd were also women and others who watched from the distance, for they were followers of Jmmanuel and had served him, and they had come unto Galilee to stand with him. Among them was Mary, the mother of Jmmanuel, and Mary Magdalene, and others who cared greatly for this peaceful man of perfection.
When the mass of people went away, they came to him, knelt before the cross and cried bitterly, for they too thought Jmmanuel dead.
The tomb of Joseph of Arimathea
However, among them was one man, JOSEPH OF ARIMATHEA, who was also a follower of Jmmanuel. He watched Jmmanuel closely and knew Jmmanuel was only deeply comatose for I spoke unto him. He told no one. He went quickly into the city and to Pilote and asked for the body of Jmmanuel so that he could bury him. Pilote ordered that Jmmanuel’s body was to be turned over to Joseph for he wanted the entire circumstance quieted.
Many then came with Joseph and they gently took Jmmanuel off the cross, and Joseph wrapped the body into a pure flaxen shroud which he had prepared prior and which would ultimately reflect the image of Jmmanuel. Then Joseph, and those with him, carried the body of Jmmanuel the long way to Jerusalem and placed him outside of the city into his own tomb, which he had cut into a rock for his own burial place.
He then had rolled a large rounded rock in front of the door of the tomb and went away, in order to obtain some medicine in order to nurse Jmmanuel. But the entrance was put under guard by soldiers and Jmmanuel’s mother, Mary, lest anyone goes in and steals the body.
They nursed Jesus Jmmanuel for three days and three nights through a secret entrance
Joseph of Arimathea searched, and found, Jmmanuel’s friend: from India and went back with them to the tomb; they went to Jmmanuel through a second entrance, which was a secret passage, and nursed him for three days and three nights, so that he was soon somewhat recovered that he would have strength restored.
The tomb remained in guarded state for the priests and the Pharisees had gone to Pilote saying, “Lord, we considered that this crazy man said when he was still alive, ‘I shall return after three days and three nights and rise, for I shall only be in a languor.’ Therefore, please continue the guard for the full time lest the last deception may not be worse than the first ones.”
Pilote was most willing to grant such a request for the incident was most distressing to him and he wanted it all behind him. The soldiers then went to the tomb and sealed the rock which had been placed in the opening. They knew not, however, of the second opening so assistants could go and come from the secret entrance without being seen. On the third day Jmmanuel was strong enough to stand and walk.
Easter was past and the first day of the week had come and three days and nights had also passed after which Jmmanuel had said that he would live again after his apparent death.
Archangel Michael came with thunder and lightning
And behold, a great thunder arose in the air and a radiant light came down from the sky and landed, not far from the tomb, on the earth. I HAD COME TO CLAIM MINE SON.
I WENT TO THE TOMB, AND THE SOLDIERS MOVED ASIDE FOR THEY WERE TERRIFIED BUT I RAISED MY HAND AGAINST THEM AND STRUCK THEM WITH LIGHTNING CURRENTS, ONE FOLLOWING ANOTHER. THEY WERE STUNNED AND FELL TO THE GROUND AND WERE UNCONSCIOUS FOR A LONG TIME. THEN I WENT TO THE TOMB, ROLLED THE STONE AWAY FROM THE DOOR AND SAID TO BLESSED MARY, MOTHER OF JMMANUEL AND MARY MAGDALENE, TO NOT BE AFRAID. I KNOW THAT YOU ARE SEEKING AND TENDING OF JMMANUEL WHO WAS CRUCIFIED. BUT I TOLD THEM HE WAS NOT THERE FOR HE LIVED AND I SHOWED UNTO THEM THE PLACE WHERE HE HAD LAIN.
I WAITED UPON MINE SON AND COUNSELED WITH HIM FOR MINE PAIN AND ANGER WERE STILL MOST GREAT. I TOLD THESE BELOVED ONES WHO STOOD WATCH THAT JMMANUEL WOULD WALK BEFORE THEM TO GALILEE, AND THERE THEY WOULD SEE HIM. THEY WERE FILLED WITH CONFUSION FOR THEY THOUGHT HIM DEAD AND WERE DISTRESSED AT THE EMPTY TOMB.
I TOLD THEM TO LOOK NOT FOR THE LIVING AMONG THE DEAD AND TO GO FORTH TO TELL THE DISCIPLES. I WARNED THEM TO TELL NONE OTHER.
They told no other but the soldiers roused and were surprised at what had happened and left hurriedly to go into the city and spread the news of what happened. They came to the high priests and the elders of the council to have a secret meeting, so that they would know what to lie unto the people.
The soldiers were given a large sum of money to keep them silent and were told to tell the people that Jmmanuel’s disciples had come at night and had taken his body. The soldiers took the money and did as requested.
Mary and Mary Magdalene went away and did as I had told them and again they were visited by an etheric being they considered to be me. Mary went to the “guardian angel” (being) who wore a brilliant white garment and was radiant in aspect and reached forth to grasp his hand. But he stepped back and explained that he was different in kind than them and his garment was a protection against the world atmosphere and contamination. He further told them that if they persisted and touched him, they would be consumed by fire for he was energy form. They were gently told to go their way and do as instructed.
The shroud bore the imprint of Jesus Jmmanuel’s features and body
As they went their way they met Peter and another disciple and told them what had transpired. Peter and the other disciple rushed to the tomb and found another of the disciples already there. They looked within and saw the shrouds, neatly lying on the ground, and the first disciple was filled with fear and did not wish to go within the tomb. Peter came forth and went into the tomb and found everything like the disciple had seen, the shrouds were carefully folded and placed on the ground, also there was the shroud which now bore the imprint of Jmmanuel’s features and body.
Also there were the salves and herbs along with some figures of clay which were quite strange in appearance, the men never having seen such before. Peter and the other two disciples left the tomb after tending the remnants in security and returned to the city to gather with the remaining disciples.
********* End of excerpt from PJ ***********
In the following text of the PJ No 02 it is described, how Jmmanuel appeared to several people and his disciples, gave last lessons to them and how he went to India.
Don't miss to read the full true story of Jesus Esu Jmmanuel in the Phoenix Journal #02:
"And they called his name Immanuel"
