Download or read book Jesus Essene and Gnostic written by Doris Fabian and published by . This book was released on with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Buddha Messiahs written by Davied Asia Israel and published by Aardvark Global Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authentic account of the life and teachings of Yeshu of the Nazoreans - the Gnostic Jesus. Drawn primarily from Mandaean, Elchasaite, Manichaean and other Gnostic source documents with very little reference to flawed Biblical texts or fanciful Christian superstitions. First of a 3 volume series on Gnostic Messengers of Life.
Download or read book Jesus the Essenes and Christian Origins written by Simon J. Joseph and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By bringing this holistic analysis of the evidence to bear, Joseph adds a powerful and insightful voice to the decades-long debate surrounding the Essenes and Christianity.
Download or read book The Gnostic Gospel of Saint Bartholomew written by Moon Temple Press and published by . This book was released on 2006-05-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the life and death, the sayings and doings, of Jesus Christ according to the Apostle Bartholomew. Received from a millennium-old European Gnostic organization, this Gospel sheds surprising, even shocking, new light on the life of Jesus Christ. Discover the identity of the wife of Jesus, his association with the Essenes, as well as his association with the Dead Sea community of "Damascus" which produced the Dead Sea Scrolls. Discover intriguing sayings of Jesus and strange events in his life that you will not find in any other Gospel, such as, "I am like unto a bell. Tap me softly and you shall hear a pleasant tone. Strike me hard and you shall hear a piercing peal unto the ends of the earth." Or, "I am the underground spring from which you flow. Drink of this underground spring and the Life of the Aeon of the Aeons shall be yours, and you shall know we are One," as well as ""When tired, sleep. When hungry, eat. When aroused, enjoy sexual union." And, "Thaddeus approached Jesus and said, 'Master we found a man preaching in your name, saying that you teach all to worship Helios, for Helios is the source of Light and Life.' Jesus replied, 'Do not meddle with that man, for it is better to worship Helios than the gods of this kosmos.'" The Gospel of Bartholomew is a must read for everyone interested in occult lore about Jesus and his apostles, Gnostic wisdom, and the hidden sayings of Christ.
Download or read book Gnosis the Mysteries and Christianity written by Andrew J. Welburn and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modern Christianity has been subjected to many re-interpretations which seek to remove elements of mythology and to 'de-mystify' its traditions. But there is also a parallel development in which a strong curretn of renewal finds inspiration from the spirit and essential character of the early Churches.The texts of the Dead Sea Scrolls and Nag Hammadi, and more recent reserach on ancient documents, have thrown an unexpected light on the roots and emerging faith of the first Christians. Fresh insights into these texts reveal that the early Christians drew inspiration from a number of sources, such as the Judaic mystery tradition, the Essenes and other gnostic sects.Andrew Welburn presents a selection of the most important early texts, together with an authoritative and fascinating commentary. He shows how the new insights gained into the writings of the early Christian reaffirm the fundamental mysteries at the heart of Christianity.
Download or read book The Secret Initiation of Jesus at Qumran written by Robert Feather and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2005-07-28 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the early, mysterious Essene community at Qumran that links it with John the Baptist, Jesus, and the beginnings of Christianity • Offers an eyewitness account of the final burial place of John the Baptist • Makes the case that Christianity grew out of a form of monotheism first formulated by the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten • Includes physical and photographic evidence never before published In his earlier book The Mystery of the Copper Scroll of Qumran, Robert Feather analyzed the Dead Sea Scroll engraved on copper that is considered the work of the secretive, devout Jewish sect known as the Essenes, who lived at Qumran around the time of Jesus. To continue his research into the Essene community's way of life and how its beliefs may have influenced the beginnings of Christianity, he met with Father Jozef Milik, one of the scholars who worked on deciphering the Dead Sea Scrolls in the 1950s. Feather learned that during Milik's work somewhere near the Qumran ruins, he had excavated a headless corpse that he believed to be that of John the Baptist. Feather presents persuasive, powerful evidence illustrating the strong link between the Qumran Essenes and New Testament teachings and showing that both John the Baptist and Jesus were intimately involved with this community at Qumran. He further supports the claim that early Christians continued a belief system centered on a form of monotheism first formulated by the Egyptian pharaoh Akhenaten and uniquely espoused by the Essenes at Qumran.
Download or read book THE GNOSTIC JESUS written by Edward D. Andrews and published by Christian Publishing House. This book was released on 2021-06-09 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jesus is identified by some Gnostics as an embodiment of the supreme being who became incarnate to bring gnōsis to the earth. In contrast, others adamantly denied that the supreme being came in the flesh, claiming Jesus to be merely a human who attained enlightenment through gnosis and taught his disciples to do the same. Among the Mandaeans, Jesus was considered a mšiha kdaba or “false messiah” who perverted the teachings entrusted to him by John the Baptist. Still, other traditions identify Mani and Seth, the third son of Adam and Eve, as salvific figures. In the course of a century and a half, Gnosticism comes and goes before us like a splendid vision. And yet, its influence upon Christianity was profound and permanent. It gave occasion to a great expansion of Christian thought, to a clearer idea of the historical relation of Christianity to earlier and surrounding religions, and to a better definition of the basis of true faith. Therefore, it deserves a more careful study than it has only recently received.
Download or read book The Essene Gospel of Peace written by Edmond Bordeaux Székely and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jesus the Wicked Priest written by Marvin Vining and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-03-27 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decodes the Dead Sea Scrolls to reveal Christianity’s hidden Essene origins • Reveals the Essenes as key figures behind Jesus’s trial, torture, and crucifixion • Shows how Jesus, a former Essene himself, was deemed “the Wicked Priest” for his liberationist politics and humanist bent • Examines the lost Christian doctrine of reincarnation and the secret role of Gabriel in the Virgin Birth The Dead Sea Scrolls, discovered in 1947 at Qumran, are generally believed to have been written by a Jewish sect known as the Essenes between 350 BCE and 70 CE--but until now no convincing methodology has linked the Scrolls to the actual life and teachings of Jesus. Marvin Vining builds from the controversial work of Barbara Thiering to demonstrate that the Scrolls do speak directly to the origins of Christianity and even reflect a mirror image of the Gospels from the perspective of Jesus’s enemies. Christianity arose out of a schism between the exclusivist, rigid, and militant views of the Essenes and the inclusivist, tolerant, and nonviolent views of Jesus. Jesus was raised an Essene, but he refused to follow their orthodoxy. Vining shows that the Dead Sea Scrolls are written in a secret coded language called pesher in which Jesus emerges as the Wicked Priest, the antagonist to the Teacher of Righteousness who was the leader of the Essenes. Jesus the Wicked Priest revitalizes the Gospel message by revealing Jesus’s true role as a tireless social reformer and revolutionary teacher. Vining’s study reopens Christian doctrinal questions supposedly long settled, such as reincarnation and the Virgin birth--even demonstrating that these two issues are related. He discloses that the angel Gabriel was incarnate in a living human being and transmitted the seed of a holy bloodline to the Virgin Mary.
Download or read book The Healing God Spell of Saint John written by Dr Johnny Lovewisdom and published by Peach Blossom Books. This book was released on 2009-12-07 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE HEALING GOD SPELL OF SAINT JOHN Essene Therapeutics by the Gnostic Founder of Christianity - THE NEW COMPLETE VERSION By The Founder of The Vitalogical Sciences JOHNNY LOVEWISDOM POPULARIZED BY A 1/8th PORTION OF PROF. EDMOND BORDEAUX SZEKELY'S VERSION OF A SIMILAR VATICAN CODEX PUBLISHED IN 1939. Essene or Therapeutic means the HEALING or Healer s, as well as being the translation of Jesus or Savior, which are all titles or names given to Saint John. GOD SPELL is the original English translation of God Entrancement or God-Rapture now spelled Gospel, hiding the Esoteric Significance, in Christ Consciousness. Perfect Christians are the Gnostics or Saints, while Johanan means the God-Endowed, or Grace of God, referring to the Christ, or Anointed with the Holy Spirit, Gnosis. Our Complete uncensored new English translation of the full John Scroll from a Samaritan original, reveals the true original Spirit of The GNOSTIC FIRST CHRISTIANS OF ST. JOHN, - rejecting the tyranny of both Rome s politics and Jewish Slaughterhouse-Temple worshipers and scriptural doctrines. After the fall of Jerusalem, the great heroes among Essenes became the monastic ideal of Carmelite tradition, but in a Roman Church supporting Roman dogmatism and Imperialism. The Essene Spirit, - rooted in their Buddhist missionary origins from India, - with beliefs in a rigid Vegetarianism, Reincarnation, etc., - were banned by Roman Church Councils, along with Gnostic tenets, holding to the Buddhist, Yoga and Universal Spiritual Oneness, in moral essentials, but with Freedom in theological and metaphysical theories. St. John, the Baptist, - or the Spiritually Anointed Savior Exalted (the Aramaic meaning of Jesus Christ Crucified) with his Disciples, - gave rise to the allegories and wonders in HEALING told of in the Biblic legends, as amply explained in our text. The Gnostic Apostles of John were responsible for writing the N.T. Bible, as we reveal, and thus, a wholly new concept of Primitive Christianity, as it really was, unveils, also vindicated by Gnostic Scrolls. Our illustrations represent an ancient pictographic Paradisian origin of the Cross ( ] ) as a Symbol for Immortal Divine Spirit, and the Tree of Life;- the Symbol of Aramaic: Crucified at Sunrise, O in X used by the Essene Order of Mt. Carmel as their symbol, and at Antioch, the Greek letter X (or Christ), was adopted in naming the Christened, Anointed, with Crucifixion-allegory of John s preaching, baptizing, life, and resurrection. Wise as Serpents, harmless as doves, in the Spirit of Essenes, Gnostics evolved a Mystical Body of Christ in the N.T. Bible. Only Mother Nature and her Angels heal. Secrets told in this new Complete Scripture. Edited and Translated by DR. JOHNNY LOVEWISDOM. Altho this Healing God-Spell (Gospel) has appeared in various apocryphal editions, in mutilated, partial and incomplete forms, issued from the hands of various translators who were cautiously only given parts of the originals and never the complete text for their translations, the present version is published as truthfully as it was transmitted. THIS IS THE FULL, COMPLETE AND AUTHENTIC ENGLISH VERSION PUBLISHED FOR THE FIRST TIME. This is because the very Spirit of Christ watches over these precious originals, due to the doctrine they contain, having such an exalted destiny to accomplish in future cultural advancements, for which it was specially designed. Already at that time it was known that in the 20th Century was precisely the time for publishing this teaching (see Apoc. 20:4-6), when mankind would be prepared to understand, assimilate and, above all, realize its practice in everyday living. Up to that time, the study of the Holy Bible was enough preparation and has made it known that Christ is comparable to a grain of wheat which if not planted remains inert, but as soon as it is planted, it issues forth an abundant harvest of grain identical to the one originally plant
Download or read book Jesus in an Age of Controversy written by Doug Groothuis and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2002-01-22 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who is this man Jesus? An ordinary man about whom the early Christians made up extraordinary stories? A spiritual guru or master who tapped into a cosmic consciousness that we can all aspire to? Or is he the unique Son of God? Best-selling books challenge us to rethink our ideas about Jesus. The Jesus Seminar makes headlines with its systematic attempts to undermine the accuracy of the Gospel accounts. New Age teachings about Jesus have found their way into many pulpits. In response to this confusion, Jesus in an Age of Controversy provides a straightforward, easy to understand study of the questionable foundations and faulty conclusions of these new views. This important book provides the historical and logical evidence that confirms biblical teachings about Jesus. It will enable you to defend your faith against attack, help those struggling with questions and doubts, and encourage you with the overwhelming weight of evidence that confirms that Jesus is the only Savior and Lord.
Download or read book The Essenes written by Stuart Wilso and published by Ozark Mountain Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eyewitness accounts of the secrets of the mystery school of the Essenes at Qumran; and Jesus' and Joseph of Arimathea's connection with the Essenes. The information was gained through regressive hypnosis.
Download or read book Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls written by John Bergsma and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-09-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new work on the Dead Sea Scrolls, the oldest sacred documents of Judaism, which reveals their surprising connections to early Christianity. “A luminous treatment of a fascinating subject! Highly recommended!”—Scott Hahn, author of The Fourth Cup From award-winning scholar John Bergsma comes an intriguing book that reveals new insights on the Essenes, a radical Jewish community predating Christianity, whose existence, beliefs, and practices are often overlooked in the annuls of history. Bergsma reveals how this Jewish sect directly influenced the beliefs, sacraments, and practices of early Christianity and offers new information on how Christians lived their lives, worshipped, and eventually went on to influence the Roman Empire and Western civilization. Looking to Hebrew scripture and Jewish tradition, Bergsma helps to further explain how a simple Jewish peasant could go on to inspire a religion and a philosophy that still resonates 2,000 years later. In this enriching and exciting exploration, Bergsma demonstrates how the Dead Sea Scrolls—the world's greatest modern archaeological discovery—can shed light on the Church as a sacred society that offered hope, redemption, and salvation to its member. Ultimately, these mysterious writings are a time machine that can transport us back to the ancient world, deepen our appreciation of Scripture, and strengthen our understanding of the Christian faith. “An accessible introduction . . . This is a handy entry point for readers unfamiliar with Essenes or those interested in the Dead Sea Scrolls.”—Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth written by John Marco Allegro and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Beginnings of Christianity written by Andrew J. Welburn and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jesus and the Essenes written by Dolores Cannon and published by Ozark Mountain Publishing. This book was released on 1999-12 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: Huntsville, Ark.: D. Cannon, c1985.
Download or read book James the Brother of Jesus written by Robert H. Eisenman and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-03-01 with total page 1304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A passionate quest for the historical James refigures Christian origins, … can be enjoyed as a thrilling essay in historical detection." —The Guardian James was a vegetarian, wore only linen clothing, bathed daily at dawn in cold water, and was a life-long Nazirite. In this profound and provocative work of scholarly detection, eminent biblical scholar Robert Eisenman introduces a startling theory about the identity of James—the brother of Jesus, who was almost entirely marginalized in the New Testament.Drawing on long-overlooked early Church texts and the Dead Sea Scrolls, Eisenman reveals in this groundbreaking exploration that James, not Peter, was the real successor to the movement we now call "Christianity." In an argument with enormous implications, Eisenman identifies Paul as deeply compromised by Roman contacts. James is presented as not simply the leader of Christianity of his day, but the popular Jewish leader of his time, whose death triggered the Uprising against Rome—a fact that creative rewriting of early Church documents has obscured. Eisenman reveals that characters such as "Judas Iscariot" and "the Apostle James" did not exist as such. In delineating the deliberate falsifications in New Testament dcouments, Eisenman shows how—as James was written out—anti-Semitism was written in. By rescuing James from the oblivion into which he was cast, the final conclusion of James the Brother of Jesus is, in the words of The Jerusalem Post, "apocalyptic" —who and whatever James was, so was Jesus.
