The Mysteries of John the Baptist: His Legacy in Gnosticism, Paganism, and Freemasonry

✍ Scribed by Churton, Tobias

• Publisher: Inner Traditions/Bear & Company; Inner Traditions International, Limited
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 226 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Rochester
• ISBN: 1594775052

✦ Synopsis

Cover Image; Title Page; Dedication; Epigraph; Acknowledgments; Table of Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: The Mystery of John the Baptist; JOHN AS DIVINE MERCURY; Chapter 2: St. John's Men and the Passion of the Corn; ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST AS LORD OF THE FEAST; THE KNIGHTS HOSPITALLER; HERALD OF THE HARVEST; Chapter 3: John the Baptist in History and Tradition; JOSEPHUS; THE NATURE OF NEW TESTAMENT EVIDENCE; Chapter 4: John as Herald in Christian Scripture; MATTHEW'S GOSPEL; LUKE; THE ESSENES AND JOHN; Chapter 5: John and John; Chapter 6: Why Must John Die?;This book investigates John the Baptist's links with Freemasons, the Essenes and the Gnostics and exposes how the apostle Paul twisted John's message to create the image of him as ""merely"" a herald. It shows that John and Jesus, as equal partners, launched an operation to overcome corruption in the Temple and re-initiate Israel.

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