| Acknowledgements | | ix | |
| Introduction | | 1 | (12) |
| PART I: The Setting | |
| CHAPTER ONE RELIGION, SPIRITUALITY & MYSTICISM |
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| Christianity in the Melting Pot |
| | 13 | (5) |
| | 18 | (3) |
| Mysticism and Mystic Experience |
| | 21 | (7) |
| | 28 | (5) |
| | 33 | (14) |
| CHAPTER TWO THE STORY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT |
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| The Validity of Sacred Writings |
| | 47 | (3) |
| | 50 | (9) |
| Early New Testament Manuscripts |
| | 59 | (8) |
| | 67 | (2) |
| | 69 | (8) |
| The Teachings of Jesus and the New Testament |
| | 77 | (2) |
| CHAPTER THREE WHO WROTE THE GOSPELS? |
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| | 79 | (1) |
| | 80 | (10) |
| Matthew - A Gospel for Jew and Gentile |
| | 90 | (7) |
| Luke-Acts - Christianity's First Defence |
| | 97 | (9) |
| The Mystic Gospel of St John |
| | 106 | (11) |
| CHAPTER FOUR EARLY GLIMPSES |
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| How Well Did Jesus Speak Greek? |
| | 117 | (6) |
| | 123 | (6) |
| Christmas, Christian Custom and the Aryan Deity Mithras |
| | 129 | (4) |
| | 133 | (3) |
| | 136 | (3) |
| | 139 | (9) |
| Early Christian Communities |
| | 148 | (3) |
| Other New Testament Epistles |
| | 151 | (2) |
| | 153 | (5) |
| CHAPTER FIVE THE OTHER CHRISTIANS |
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| Constantine and Christianity |
| | 158 | (4) |
| Apocryphal and Gnostic Literature |
| | 162 | (6) |
| Mani and Manichaean-Christian Writings |
| | 168 | (5) |
| | 173 | (2) |
| Pre-Christian Mystical Writings |
| | 175 | (10) |
| PART II: God, Man & the Creation | |
| CHAPTER SIX IN SEARCH OF THE KINGDOM |
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| | 185 | (7) |
| | 192 | (1) |
| The Kingdom of God is Within You |
| | 192 | (3) |
| Let Us Make Man in Our Image |
| | 195 | (3) |
| Treasure in Earthen Vessels |
| | 198 | (3) |
| The Temple of God and the Sons of God |
| | 201 | (4) |
| | 205 | (3) |
| | 208 | (3) |
| | 211 | (6) |
| Blind Leaders of the Blind |
| | 217 | (3) |
| CHAPTER SEVEN WHAT IS GOD? |
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| | 220 | (4) |
| | 224 | (1) |
| | 225 | (4) |
| | 229 | (5) |
| CHAPTER EIGHT THE WORD OF GOD |
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| In the Beginning Was the Word |
| | 234 | (2) |
| The Word as the Creative Power |
| | 236 | (2) |
| | 238 | (2) |
| | 240 | (3) |
| The Word as the Son of God |
| | 243 | (3) |
| The Word as the Bread of Life |
| | 246 | (4) |
| | 250 | (9) |
| The Word as Life, Light and the Breath of God |
| | 259 | (8) |
| | 267 | (1) |
| The Word as the Holy Name |
| | 268 | (5) |
| The Word as the True Vine and the Tree of Life |
| | 273 | (6) |
| | 279 | (5) |
| | 284 | (4) |
| CHAPTER NINE DIVINE MUSIC & THE VOICE OF GOD |
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| | 288 | (6) |
| The Sound of Divine Music |
| | 294 | (5) |
| | 299 | (2) |
| | 301 | (11) |
| | 312 | (7) |
| CHAPTER TEN MANY MANSIONS |
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| Earthly and Heavenly Things |
| | 319 | (4) |
| | 323 | (4) |
| | 327 | (4) |
| The City and the Mountain |
| | 331 | (3) |
| He Leadeth Them Up Into a High Mountain |
| | 334 | (5) |
| Principalities and Powers, Gods and Angels |
| | 339 | (3) |
| Aeons, Totalities, the Pleroma and the All |
| | 342 | (2) |
| | 344 | (3) |
| | 347 | (2) |
| Through the Seven Heavens |
| | 349 | (7) |
| | 356 | (3) |
| | 359 | (3) |
| CHAPTER ELEVEN SIN AND SATAN |
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| | 362 | (7) |
| Sin and the Law of Cause and Effect |
| | 369 | (3) |
| | 372 | (5) |
| | 377 | (2) |
| | 379 | (3) |
| | 382 | (3) |
| | 385 | (1) |
| The Region and the Shadow of Death |
| | 386 | (1) |
| Outer Darkness, Hellfire, Sheol |
| | 387 | (5) |
| The Serpent More Subtle Than Any Beast |
| | 392 | (3) |
| In Danger of the Judgment: Cast Into Prison |
| | 395 | (4) |
| | 399 | (2) |
| | 401 | (2) |
| Those Who Sow in Winter, Reap in Summer |
| | 403 | (1) |
| | 403 | (3) |
| CHAPTER TWELVE DID JESUS REALLY TEACH REINCARNATION? |
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| What Makes Us All So Different? |
| | 406 | (1) |
| | 407 | (3) |
| | 410 | (1) |
| | 411 | (4) |
| Immortality, Pre-existence & Reincarnation |
| | 415 | (9) |
| Reincarnation Amongst the Early Christians |
| | 424 | (13) |
| Drunken, Mad and Forgetful |
| | 437 | (2) |
| | 439 | (3) |
| Transmigration of the Soul |
| | 442 | (7) |
| | 449 | (12) |
| CHAPTER THIRTEEN REPENTANCE AND FORGIVENESS |
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| | 461 | (7) |
| | 468 | (6) |
| | 474 | (6) |
| | 480 | (2) |
| | 482 | (7) |
| Ransom, Tax and Head Money |
| | 489 | (7) |
| | 496 | (4) |
| | 500 | (4) |
| Tying Some Strands Together |
| | 504 | (5) |
| PART III: The Son of God | |
| CHAPTER FOURTEEN THE SON OF GOD: THE LIVING ONE |
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| | 509 | (4) |
| | 513 | (2) |
| | 515 | (2) |
| | 517 | (2) |
| The Son Quickeneth whom He Will |
| | 519 | (2) |
| For This Cause Came I into the World |
| | 521 | (2) |
| As Long as I am in the World |
| | 523 | (1) |
| | 524 | (6) |
| | 530 | (4) |
| | 534 | (4) |
| The Christ, the Messiah and the Living One |
| | 538 | (4) |
| Saints, Prophets and the Law |
| | 542 | (9) |
| The Physical Presence of the Master |
| | 551 | (2) |
| He Taught Them as One Having Authority |
| | 553 | (6) |
| CHAPTER FIFTEEN THE SON OF GOD: A BURNING AND A SHINING LIGHT |
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| Jesus and John the Baptist |
| | 559 | (9) |
| | 568 | (3) |
| If I Bear Witness of Myself |
| | 571 | (7) |
| No Man Receiveth His Testimony |
| | 578 | (2) |
| CHAPTER SIXTEEN A MAN OF MIRACLES? |
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| | 580 | (2) |
| Jesus' Miracles According to Mark, Matthew and Luke |
| | 582 | (3) |
| Jesus' Miracles According to John |
| | 585 | (4) |
| | 589 | (3) |
| | 592 | (4) |
| | 596 | (2) |
| | 598 | (4) |
| | 602 | (4) |
| | 606 | (1) |
| The Tree Which is All-Healings |
| | 607 | (1) |
| | 608 | (8) |
| | 616 | (10) |
| | 626 | (3) |
| | 629 | (4) |
| CHAPTER SEVENTEEN HOLY FOOD, HOLY MOTHER |
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| | 633 | (3) |
| | 636 | (2) |
| | 638 | (3) |
| Living Bread, Living Water, Living Wine |
| | 641 | (5) |
| | 646 | (3) |
| | 649 | (2) |
| | 651 | (3) |
| Jesus' Brothers and Sisters |
| | 654 | (3) |
| The House of His Servant David |
| | 657 | (2) |
| Who Believed in the Virgin Birth? |
| | 659 | (4) |
| The Mystic Mother and the Virginal Spirit |
| | 663 | (8) |
| PART IV: The Return of the Soul | |
| CHAPTER EIGHTEEN BAPTISM: CHOSEN AND BORN AGAIN |
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| | 671 | (6) |
| Except a Man Be Born Again |
| | 677 | (1) |
| Except it be Given Him from Heaven |
| | 678 | (4) |
| I Pray for Them - I Pray Not for the World |
| | 682 | (7) |
| | 689 | (2) |
| | 691 | (3) |
| Written in Heaven - the Book of Life |
| | 694 | (4) |
| Children of Light and Children of Darkness |
| | 698 | (5) |
| CHAPTER NINETEEN BAPTISM: THE GIFT, THE SEAL, THE SIGN AND THE SEED |
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| | 703 | (2) |
| | 705 | (1) |
| Baptism for the Forgiveness of Sins |
| | 706 | (3) |
| | 709 | (4) |
| | 713 | (4) |
| | 717 | (3) |
| | 720 | (4) |
| Like to a Grain of Mustard Seed |
| | 724 | (2) |
| Sow in Me Your Word of Life |
| | 726 | (3) |
| | 729 | (7) |
| CHAPTER TWENTY KNOCKING AT HIS DOOR: THE STRAIT GATE AND THE SINGLE EYE |
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| Few There Be that Find It |
| | 736 | (1) |
| | 737 | (2) |
| | 739 | (4) |
| | 743 | (1) |
| Through the Eye of a Needle |
| | 744 | (2) |
| Knock and It Shall Be Opened |
| | 746 | (1) |
| A Door Was Opened in Heaven |
| | 747 | (2) |
| I am the Door of the Sheep |
| | 749 | (1) |
| Knock on Yourself as Upon a Door |
| | 749 | (5) |
| | 754 | (2) |
| | 756 | (2) |
| | 758 | (4) |
| | 762 | (3) |
| Eyes and Ears of the Mind and Soul |
| | 765 | (6) |
| | 771 | (12) |
| CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE KNOCKING AT HIS DOOR: LABOURERS INTO HIS HARVEST |
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| Say Not Ye, There are Yet Four Months |
| | 783 | (4) |
| | 787 | (2) |
| At Night My Soul Longs for You |
| | 789 | (8) |
| Morning Prayer 794 Prayer in Secret |
| | 797 | (4) |
| CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO DEATH, RESURRECTION AND ASCENSION |
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| | 801 | (4) |
| A Setting Free from the Body |
| | 805 | (1) |
| | 806 | (6) |
| Expecting a Resurrection that is Empty |
| | 812 | (7) |
| CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE THE SECOND COMING AND THE COMFORTER |
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| Till They See the Son of Man Coming |
| | 819 | (1) |
| | 820 | (1) |
| Jesus' Farewell Discourses |
| | 821 | (9) |
| The Son of Man Is Within You |
| | 830 | (3) |
| Reveal to Me Your Beautiful Image |
| | 833 | (10) |
| Behold, the Bridegroom Cometh! |
| | 843 | (8) |
| CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT: PERFECTION AND IMPERFECTION |
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| Perfection - Human and Divine |
| | 851 | (4) |
| Blessed Are the Pure in Heart |
| | 855 | (2) |
| Many Obstacles Fall into the Way |
| | 857 | (3) |
| The Colours with Which I Bid You Paint |
| | 860 | (3) |
| Faculty, Weakness and Virtue |
| | 863 | (5) |
| CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE BE YE THEREFORE PERFECT: FIGHT THE GREAT FIGHT |
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| Take Heed and Beware of Covetousness |
| | 868 | (5) |
| | 873 | (3) |
| Godliness with Contentment is Great Gain |
| | 876 | (1) |
| I Came Not to Send Peace, But a Sword |
| | 877 | (3) |
| Honour Thy Father and Thy Mother |
| | 880 | (5) |
| Turn to Him the Other Also |
| | 885 | (4) |
| Jealousy and Strife Have Overthrown Great Cities |
| | 889 | (1) |
| Whosoever Looketh on a Woman to Lust after Her |
| | 890 | (4) |
| It is Better to Marry Than to Burn |
| | 894 | (7) |
| Whosoever Shall Exalt Himself |
| | 901 | (5) |
| | 906 | (1) |
| | 907 | (3) |
| | 910 | (3) |
| CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX THOU SHALT NOT KILL |
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| Spiritual Reasons for Being Vegetarian |
| | 913 | (3) |
| | 916 | (2) |
| | 918 | (3) |
| | 921 | (1) |
| Early Christians in Palestine |
| | 922 | (2) |
| | 924 | (2) |
| James the Brother of Jesus - a Vegetarian |
| | 926 | (1) |
| Matthew and Thomas - Vegetarians |
| | 926 | (1) |
| Bread, Herbs and Lentils which John Bought for Himself |
| | 927 | (5) |
| | 932 | (10) |
| | 942 | (3) |
| | 945 | (5) |
| | 950 | (4) |
| CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN WHITHERSOEVER THOU GOEST |
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| | 954 | (6) |
| Persecuted for Righteousness' Sake |
| | 960 | (3) |
| Sheep in the Midst of Wolves |
| | 963 | (7) |
| Freely Ye Have Received, Freely Give |
| | 970 | (4) |
| Let Your Light So Shine Before Men |
| | 974 | (1) |
| There Am I in the Midst of Them |
| | 975 | (6) |
| By This Shall All Men Know |
| | 981 | (1) |
| | 982 | (3) |
| Labourers into His Vineyard |
| | 985 | (2) |
| In Such an Hour as Ye Think Not |
| | 987 | |
| EPILOGUE MANY MYSTICS | |
| Is This What Jesus Really Taught? |
| | 993 | (2) |
| | 995 | |
