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Book:
Jesus and the Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the
Original Christians
Timothy Freke, Peter Gandy
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0609607677
Acknowledgements
1. The Gospel of Gnosis
The Good News
A Journey of Initiation
2. The Original Christians
Gnostics and Literalists
The Therapeutae and the Essenes
Sources of the Jesus Myth
The Exodus Allegory
Jewish Messiah and Pagan Godman
The Saviour King
The Evolving Jesus Myth
The Christian Goddess
Schools of Christian Gnosticism
Simonians
Paulists
Ebionites
Free Spirits
Eclectics
Egalitarians
Libertines
Summary
3. Church of the Anti-Christ
The Literalist Heresy
Forged Lineage
International Christian Gnosticism
The Growth of Christian Literalism
The Suppression of Women
Attacks on Gnosticism
The Gnostic Heritage
The Literalist Legacy
Fundamentalism
Fantasists
Docetism
The Real Jesus Is a Red Herring
Summary
4. Know Your Self
Body -- Soul -- Spirit
Recognizing the Levels of Our Identity
The Body Is in the Soul
The One Consciousness of God
The One Appearing as the Many
The Absolute Mystery and Its Apparent Qualities
Incarnation
The Path of Self-Knowledge
Soul Initiation
Spirit Initiation
The Journey to God
The Realization of Gnosis
The Essence of Christianity
The Christ Within
Resurrection from the Dead
Summary
5. The Lost Goddess
The Myth of Sophia
An Initiation Allegory
The Hylic State
Psychic Initiation
Pneumatic Initiation
The Mystical Marriage
The Image of God
Origins of the Christian Goddess
Jewish Sources
The Myth of Helen
Plato's Phaedo
The Myth of Aphrodite
The Myth of Eros and Psyche
The Myth of Demeter and Persephone
The Goddess in the Gospels
Virgin and Prostitute
Images of the Awakening Psyche
Motifs of the Mystical Marriage
Summary
6. The Ascent from the Cave
The Imitation of Christ
Initiation Rituals
The Way Down
The Fallen Star
The Cave of the Cosmos
The Virgin of Light
The Psychic Initiation
Elemental Initiations
The 12 Disciples
Jesus and His Twin
Signposts to the Truth
Psychic Teachings
Jesus the Gnostic Rebel
The Pneumatic Initiation
The Death of the Eidolon
Becoming the Witness
Conquering the Cosmos
Waking the Dead
Summary
7. Consciousness Conceives the Cosmos
The Mystery Made Manifest
God and Goddess
The One and the Many
The Evolving Cosmos
The End Is the Beginning
The Beginning Is Now
Summary
8. The Father's Secret Plan
The Christian Myth Cycle
Act I: The Archtypal Drama
Act II: The Cosmic Drama
Act III: The Human Drama
The Basic Narrative
All God's Idea
Summary
9. The Image of Christ
The Cave
The False Father
The Cross of Light
The Seamless Garment
Re-Membering Christ
The Ankh
The Mystical Marriage
Summary
10. The God of the Blind
Free Will and Fate - page photo
Missing the Mark
In Inevitability of Evil
Summary
11. The Mystical Marriage
The Psychic Initiation
The Pneumatic Initiation
The Love Affair of Life
In the Cosmos But Not of It
Love
Faith
Summary
12. The New Improved Testament
Objective Science and Subjective Gnosis
Twenty-First Century Gnosticism
Appendix I. Blueprint for Reality
The Levels of Human Identity
Subject and Object
The Ladder to Heaven
Appendix II. Gnostic Islam
Notes
The Cast List
Bibliography
Websites
Index
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