Mysticism; Gnosticism the spiritual
path of experiencing God directly within one's own self.
The Mystic Christ reveals the life and teachings of Jesus
to be an ancient tale of mystic union, salvation, and enlightenment. It
is the careful uncovering of a lost treasure of immeasurable value,
long buried in the suffocating darkness of conventional orthodoxy on one
side, and blind fundamentalist extremism on the other. From
the viewpoint of the world’s mystical religious traditions, the
brilliant light of Jesus’ way is revealed as a penetrating radical
non-duality unifying all people and all of life. The
Master’s path to this all-embracing unity is the spiritual practice of
pure selfless love. Love God intensely, love our neighbor as our own
Self, bless those that curse us, and pray for those that mistreat us.
Love has been lost, becoming nothing more than a word in the dictionary
and, yet, it remains the foundation of Jesus’ message.
The Mystic Christ
is also a compelling story of the ego, the personification of
ignorance, and how it has distorted and subverted the sublime sayings of
Jesus, twisting reality into unreality and light into darkness. The ego
is the Antichrist in this ancient drama that has gripped every culture
for all time in its talons of self-centered perception. The ego is anti-love.
Adam
and Eve were not the first people, the nature of man is good, scripture
is not infallible, Jesus is one of the ways, all religions are paths to
God, reincarnation is in the Bible, the resurrection as a personal
spiritual awakening, and the error of eternal damnation are all
carefully and lovingly revealed in the life and sayings of Jesus.
The Mystic Christ is thoroughly punctuated with quotes from masters of the mystical traditions such as Buddha,
Krishna
, and Lao Tzu as well as the
Gnostic gospels. But, most importantly, over 230 scriptural references
from the Old and New Testament are used to illustrate the harmony that
exists between the life and teachings of Jesus and the world’s great
religions.
With the skill of a surgeon and the wisdom of Socrates,
Walker
removes 2000 years of ego-centered
bindings that have hidden the brilliant light of Jesus from the world.
Walker
artfully peels away centuries of abuse by the my-way-or-the-highway
pirates of religion. He gives Jesus back to the hearts and souls of a
humanity that yearns for the love of the Divine. He reveals a Jesus that
is positively enchanting for practitioners of any spiritual discipline.
The Mystic Christ is at once profoundly fascinating, deeply historic and electric with the vibration of the mystical experience. |