Jesus And The Lost Goddess
Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy
(Associate Reviewer - Gail Evans)
2001 Harmony Books
ISBN: 0609607677

The Secret Teachings Of The Original Christians. Why were the secret teachings of the original Christians brutally suppressed by the Roman Church?

Drawing on the cutting edge of modern scholarship, this groundbreaking book from the authors of the international bestseller The Jesus Mysteries decodes the secret teachings of the original Christians for the first time in almost two millennia.

Associate Reviewer Gail Evans writes:

Jesus And The Lost Goddess is more than an historical investigation into early Christianity, though the historical aspect does form a major part of this work.

Delving into The Nag Hammadi Texts (all editions out of print at Amazon) discovered in the desert of Egypt during the last century, The Gospel Of Thomas (the original is kept in the Coptic Museum in Cairo) & numerous other ancient texts rejected by the Council Of Nicea in the mid third century A.D., & brutally suppressed by the Roman Catholic Church even today, Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy expose a Christianity that “undermines all external authority by directly revealing the Christ within.”

The beauty of Jesus And The Lost Goddess is that this work not only uncovers the historical facts but spends a large part exploring & explaining the intricacies of Gnostic belief in a clear, entertaining & concise manner. The reader is given clear guidelines as to how & why “the Christ within” was and is revealed in each one of us.

Whether you embrace Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism or no formalized religion at all, Freke's & Gandy's research will be of benefit & value to the reader who has embarked on a spiritual search of any kind.

On a personal note: I found myself joyfully nodding “Yes! Yes!” on numerous occasions. After spending fourteen years researching my own tome, The Firstborn Of God: Resolving the Contradictions in the Bible, it was an absolute delight for me to find many of my own conclusions reflected in Jesus And The Lost Goddess by such luminaries as Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy. Freke has an honors degree in philosophy & has authored twenty books. Gandy has an MA in classical civilization specializing in the ancient mystery religions. These authors have done their homework! A resounding 4 tea cups to them both!

More From Timothy Freke & Peter Gandy: The Jesus Mysteries: Was the ‘Original Jesus' a Pagan God?; The Complete Guide to World Mysticism; Hermetica: The Lost World of the Pharaohs.
(01/05/03)

Gail Evans
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A RebeccasReads.Com Associate Reviewer

Reviewer's Bio:
I currently live in Johannesburg, South Africa & am the author of: The Firstborn of God: Resolving the Contradictions In The Bible, Time Trials & Meditations In My Favourite Places In Southern Africa.