The Christian Conspiracy: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Gnostic Christianity - Part One

Описание: The Christian Conspiracy: The Orthodox Suppression of Original Gnostic Christianity, by Ralph Macchio, Part One.
(chapters 1 - 5)
This book chronicles the replacement of an original Christianity which was diverse and Gnostic in character by an orthodox pseudo-theology defined by a narrow set of doctrines quite different in scope and spirit. If it shatters any image, it is the myth that there was an "original" Christianity, somewhat in the image of modern fundamentalism, where all held to the four Gospels, the concept of Jesus as God, His death for our sins, the resurrection of the body at the last day, etc. Rather it lifts the curtain on a profoundly different "original" Christianity--a rich set of doctrines in the Gnostic tradition defined across many sects existing at Christianity's very earliest beginnings including even the communities and teachings of St. Paul and the Nazorean community at Jerusalem, and including doctrines of reincarnation, the origins of evil in a class of beings called "archons," the preexistence of souls, the divine spark in each, therefore the divinity of each--all befitting the universalist character Jesus in fact had. And it chronicles the grim, often political and ultimately violent destruction of this diversity and these doctrines by the end of the fourth century, their replacement by a stark orthodoxy of distorted and narrowed dogmas, the destruction or suppression of the many gospels by an arbitrary and edited canon of four, and the concomitant establishment of a power structure set in a hierarchy which moved increasingly to the denial of freedom of belief and its final alliance with the power of the state.

Contents:

Introduction: Why a "Conspiracy"?

I. The Lost and Hidden Years in the Life of Jesus

The Hidden Years of Jesus
The Secret Facts about the Crucifixion.
Did Jesus Spend His Heaven Doing Good on Earth?
The Final Mahasamadhi.

II. The Oldest Christian Sects

Part I: The Gnostic Theology of Paul

Christ as Archtypal Man
Christ as Indwelling Presence
Paul's Teaching on the Resurrection and Preexistence of Souls
The Hidden Wisdom of Paul - "Christ in You, the Hope of Glory"
Paul's Teaching on the Vicarious Atonement

III. The Oldest Christian Sects, Communities and Their Teachings

Part II: Nazorean or Jewish Christianity

The Nazoreans
The Virgin Birth and the Sonship of Jesus
Preexistence and Reincarnation in Early Christian Teachings
The Qumran Essenes and the Nazorean-Christians
The Fall of the Rebel Angels and Watchers The Doctrine of Embodied Evil
The Nephilim

IV. Brief Scenario of Early Christian History Introduction

V. The Lost Christianity of the Original Sects
30 A.D. - 120 A.D.

Christian Sects in Samaria
The Seth Connection
The School of Simon Menander and Satornilos
Christian-Gnostic Sects on Evil
The Ophite Christian Sect
Lost Christianity's Most Suppressed Teaching - A Usurper Deity as the Cause of Evil
The God Called "Man"
Strategies of Light and Darkness
The Origin of the Doctrine of Original Sin
The Naassenes - Christ as Unveiler of the Mysteries
Did Jesus Die on the Cross - the Docetists
The Teaching of Cerinthus - A "Secret Doctrine" of Matthew?
Carpocrates and the Secret Gospel of Mark