The author's inspiration.
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Well, sure. It seems like we are doing it here. You can always email me from my website email, at bottom of the columns.Chrystal Oaks wrote: ↑18 May 2019, 01:34I wish you could have added an "About the Author" page in this book. I found the above info. on your Amazon page, but for some reason it didn't make sense to me. What you wrote above made better sense to me and relatable.Sahansdal wrote: ↑06 May 2019, 23:23I am a Satsangi with the Radha Soami Satsang Beas, and have been since 1975. That's a long time. My understanding of mysticism has only grown since then. I was a Christian before that, and a 24/7 one, living with brothers in a brothers house. I don't do anything halfway! The teachings of RSSB are IDENTICAL to Gnostic teachings, right down to the words they use, if you will believe it. Anami Desh of the Sant Mat Masters, the Region with no name, is "the region never called by any name" in the Gospel of Judas. How is that for a match! Yes the cosmology is the same. Even Paul "knew a man" (likely James, not himself, as so many may think) who went to the third heaven. Sant Mat and Gnostic teaching hold that there are seven heavens. The ticket to ride is the Word (Bible), or Unspoken Melody (Sant Mat), the Apophasis Logos of the gnostic Gospels of Thomas and Judas. Btw, this is the Name of the Lord in the Tanak (Old Testament). It is all the same teaching!!!srividyag1 wrote: ↑04 May 2019, 21:30 I think the author is interested in presenting his findings, like a research. The effort and time he has put into this work is evident. And the book reads like a scientific paper with references. Considering this, I think the author's inspiration would probably have been the deep rooted hatred of a single man and the curiosity whether he actually was hateful - whether Judas actually deserves the way he is treated. That being said, the author also connects Christianity to gnostic thoughts, so perhaps he was also inspired by their spiritual teaching.
Is it possible to start a new thread/topic (ask the author)? I have some questions I want to ask; some of the things you wrote left me confused.
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Maybe he just wanted to change the way the world looks at things.
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Not only do I like and agree with your response, but I respect it: "but maybe he want to express something that he found profound and worthwhile in a professional way." Well put!WaryReader wrote: ↑03 May 2019, 10:42 I think he just wants to get his unorthodox opinion out there. If he knows anything about the Christian faith, he should know that his book conveys a pretty controversial message, but maybe he wants to express something that he found profound and worthwhile in a professional way.
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Not only do I like and agree with your response, but I respect it: "but maybe he want to express something that he found profound and worthwhile in a professional way." Well put!WaryReader wrote: ↑03 May 2019, 10:42 I think he just wants to get his unorthodox opinion out there. If he knows anything about the Christian faith, he should know that his book conveys a pretty controversial message, but maybe he wants to express something that he found profound and worthwhile in a professional way.
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I think it is fair to make a distinction here. Dan Brown used religion as an inspiration to tell fiction, and never claimed it was real. This author on the other hand is reinterpreting these documents in order to tell a different version of the truth. While Dan Brown's writing maybe helped set the stage for the layperson to be more interested in a book such as this, I think they cannot be categorized together.
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Washboard,Washboard wrote: ↑23 May 2019, 23:14I think it is fair to make a distinction here. Dan Brown used religion as an inspiration to tell fiction, and never claimed it was real. This author on the other hand is reinterpreting these documents in order to tell a different version of the truth. While Dan Brown's writing maybe helped set the stage for the layperson to be more interested in a book such as this, I think they cannot be categorized together.
Nor is there "a different version" of the truth. I endeavored to show that my interpretation of The Betrayal, and the Gospel of Judas, is provably correct from textual comparison to the Apocalypses of Nag Hammadi.
Do you think I succeeded?
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