The Gospel of Judas has been translated from its original Coptic to clear prose, and is accompanied by commentary that explains its fascinating history in the context of the early Church, offering a whole new way of understanding the message of Jesus Christ.ĭuring Pentecost 1908-seven years after he had given the world his book Christianity As Mystical Fact and the first intimation of the consequences of his Christ experience-Rudolf Steiner began his great work of renewing humanity's understanding of the Mystery of Golgotha and its meaning for human and earthly evolution. In 2001, it finally found its way into the hands of a team of experts who would painstakingly reassemble and restore it. Discovered by farmers in the 1970s in Middle Egypt, the codex containing the gospel was bought and sold by antiquities traders, secreted away, and carried across three continents, all the while suffering damage that reduced much of it to fragments. In contrast to the New Testament Gospels, Judas Iscariot is presented as a role model for all those who wish to be disciples of Jesus and is the one apostle who truly understands Jesus. In this radical reinterpretation, Jesus asks Judas to betray him. And far from being a villain, the Judas that emerges in its pages is a hero. Here was a gospel that had not been seen since the early days of Christianity, and which few experts had even thought existed–a gospel told from the perspective of Judas Iscariot, history’s ultimate traitor. When the bound papyrus pages of this lost gospel finally reached scholars who could unlock its meaning, they were astounded. Through a rich blend of important historical and realistic fictional characters, the book takes the reader through the last days of Gnostic Christianity, the formation of the Catholic Church under the influence of Roman Emperors, and the Christian assault on the Greco-Roman intellectual heritage.įor 1,600 years its message lay hidden. Helton’s first novel, took six years to research and write. Can she survive the zealous forces arrayed against her? Can she preserve the remnants of an endangered faith? Can she live a secular life amidst religious passions that are tearing the old world apart – and building a new one in its place? Daniel G. She becomes an unwilling symbol of Gnostic Christianity that the newly empowered Catholics are determined to destroy. Sophia is an accidental traveller and keen observer on the road to Nicaea and of the creation of the Catholic Church. The Secular Gospel of Sophia examines what was lost as a result. In the turbulent 4th Century, Emperor Constantine adopted Christianity as the faith of the Empire. This vision of the Great Goddess is unparalleled in the literature on the current revelation of the Divine Feminine Trinity. The reader will move from an aspirant seeking knowledge to an initiate who begins to experience Sophia-Christos in a process of self-initiation. Simple symbols and parables will bring the reader to experience Sophia in ways that have only been dreamt about before or described as inspirations that were not connected to a stream of wisdom that self-initiates the practitioner. The Gospel of Sophia is a Living Imagination of our time. Volume I is a source text that points directly to the reader's ability to experience the divine through the thinking, feeling, and willing aspects of the reader's consciousness. The Gospel of Sophia gives the reader an opportunity to see the divine pictured in ways that have never been offered in one book. The three biographies of the Mother, Daughter and The Holy Sophia conclusively answer all cosmological, philosophical and theological questions about the divine that have engaged the hearts and minds of thinkers since the beginning of time. The biographies of a Mother Goddess, who created the world and is found in every creation story, the Daughter Goddess, who descended like Christ from heaven to redeem fallen matter, and The Holy Sophia, who travels along with humanity as it evolves, is told in detail with accompanying documentation that is historic and deeply stirring. For the first time in print the secrets of the Mystery Schools and highest yoga tantra concerning the primacy of the Divine Feminine Trinity are revealed through self-evident scholarship and inspiring, panoramic views of the three Goddesses.
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