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|  | | Jesus, Buddha, Krishna, Lao Tzu: The Parallel Sayings
The common teachings of four world religions. With introductions to each chapter / topic by the editor/author, Parallels presents hundred of pages of parallel columns of sayings attributed to these great spiritual teachers.
The extensive sayings attributed to Jesus, the Buddha, Krishna and Lao Tzu have been researched for many years, and brought together from, literally, hundreds of ancient Christian (including Gnostic-Christian), Buddhist, Hindu and Taoist texts for the first time in history. The side by side columns of sayings document the commonality of these four mystical traditions. The sayings for each topic, such as "God, Tao and Universal Mind", are preceded by introductions by the author to help the reader put the sayings into proper context.
of the four religions traditions in this book come fromRa | |  | | The Crucifixion of Mary Magdalene
The historical tradition of the first apostle of Christianity, and the ancient Church's campaign to suppress it.
From the earliest days of Christianity, Mary Magdalene has been the subject of controversy, rumor and innuendo. Yet the historical Mary was neither a prostitute nor the wife of Jesus. The canonical Gospels are clear that Mary was Jesus' most faithful disciple. She witnessed his crucifixion after all the male disciples had fled in fear. Shortly after Jesus died, Mary had a powerful experience of the living Jesus and, as a consequence, became the first apostle of Christianity. The Gnostic Gospels further claim that Mary was a leader, teacher, visionary, and especially favored by Jesus becau | |  | | The Gospel of the Unknown Jesus
The secret teachings of Jesus from the apocryphal and Gnostic Gospels.
During the fouth and fifty centuries of the Common Era--in an attempt to wipe out heresy--hundreds of early Christian texts were destroyed by order of the Toman emperor, Constantine, and the bishops of the Church of Rome.
Thought to have been lost for all time, many of these "heretical" gospels, epistles, apocalypses and apocryphons have been rediscovered during modern times. Other non-canonical texts survived history in whole, or in fragmentary form, and became part of the New Testament Apocrypha. Fragments of still other lost works survived in the form of quotations found in the |
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