The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ (full title: The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ: The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal) is a book by Levi H. Dowling. It was first published on 1 December 1908. Dowling said he had transcribed the text of the book from the akashic records, a purported compendium of mystical knowledge supposedly encoded in a non-physical plane of existence. In the later 20th century, it was adopted by New Age spiritual groups.
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ: The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal
The title is derived from the practice in astrology of naming time periods in terms of constellations and their dominant positions in the sky, according to the earth's axial precession. In that system, the Age of Aquarius is approaching.[1]
The Aquarian Gospel makes the following claims, among others:
The revelation of The Aquarian Gospel was prophesied 2,000 years ago by Elihu, who conducted a school of the prophets in Zoan, Egypt. He said thus:
"This age will comprehend but little of the works of Purity and Love; but not a word is lost, for in the Book of God's Remembrance a registry is made of every thought and word and deed.
And When The world is ready to receive, lo, God will send a messenger to open up the book and copy from its sacred pages all the messages of Purity and Love. - Aquarian Gospel 7:25-26
There are 18 unknown years of Jesus' life missing in the Bible (ages 12–30). Like Nicolas Notovitch did before in his The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ: By the Discoverer of the Manuscript (1887), the Aquarian Gospel documents these 18 years as a time when Jesus travels to the centers of wisdom in western India, Tibet, Persia, Assyria, Greece, and Egypt. In each of these capital cities, he is educated, tested, and teaches the religious leaders. Jesus inevitably proves that he is 'God's chosen one' (the Christ) in these locales and brings back this multi-cultural wisdom and confidence to Galilee and Judea.
Jesus puts on the role of The Christ, but is not automatically Christ by nature. By making himself, through desire, effort, ability, and prayer, a fit vessel, Jesus enabled The Christ to dwell within him. Christ is therefore used as a term for the seemingly perfect human being that Jesus exemplified, a human being that has been "Christened" (anointed) and therefore made holy.
Jesus came to Earth to show the way back to God via his lifestyle and teachings. He is the example we must model our own lives after, if we seek salvation.
Reincarnation exists and karma ("You reap what you sow") is the explanation for various injustices. Reincarnation allows people to settle debts they have incurred in past lives.
Humanity has forgotten God and is currently working its way back to fully remembering God.
Time is separated into ages. These ages last approximately 2,000 years. We are now nearing the start of the Aquarian Age.
All souls will eventually mature and evolve towards the perfect, like Jesus the Christ.
No soul is ever abandoned by God.
The trinity is strength, love and wisdom.
Difficultiesedit
In his 1931 book Strange New Gospels, the biblical scholar Edgar J. Goodspeed noted:
"Augustus Caesar reigned and Herod Antipas was ruler in Jerusalem." This opening sentence of the new gospel does not encourage any very high hopes as to its historical value. It is generally accepted that Antipas never rules in Jerusalem but in Galilee. Of course Dowling means Herod the Great."[2]
Also, that Dowling has borrowed a number of details from the apocryphal Gospel of James, a work that may not be older than the fifth century, such as details about the childhood of Mary and her marriage to Joseph, the birth of Jesus in a cave, and the account of the death of Zacharias which differs from the account given by Origen and other early Fathers.
Goodspeed notes that the many ancient religions and philosophies taught, in many different countries, to young Jesus in the book seem "colored by Christian Science."
Eric Pement has pointed out difficulties in Dowling's text:
The book depicts Jesus as visiting the cities of Lahore, India (pre-Partition in India, now in Pakistan), Shri Jagannath in the temple at Puri in Odisha, India, and Persepolis in Persia. Only the temple at Puri existed at that period; Lahore did not exist during the period in question, and Persepolis had already been destroyed by Alexander the Great.[3] The book asserts Jesus had remained in the Jagannātha Temple of Puri for four years, preaching among the downtrodden and low caste people.
Dowling and Edgar Cayce both claimed to have produced an account of the life of Jesus through the transcription of the akashic records, but there are significant differences between their accounts.[3]
Dowling claimed that Jesus knew Meng-tse of Lhasa, Tibet but Meng-tse lived 300 years before Jesus' time.[3]
Supporters of Dowling argue that within theosophical thought, figures such as Meng-Tse, Matheno, Miriam, Moses, Elijah, and Vidyapati exist in an ascended state. As such, they communicated with Jesus after they had passed on from earthly existence.[4]
The Aquarian Christine Church Universal, Inc. (ACCU) is a denomination based on the Aquarian Gospel. Members are commonly called Aquarians, but the proper term would be Aquarian Christines. The name Christine is used in the Aquarian Gospel instead of Christian, emphasizing that the church is the Bride of Christ. The church was incorporated in 2006, but had existed for numerous[quantify] years previous to incorporation. There are no paid professional clergy.
The teachings of the Aquarian Church are based primarily on the Aquarian Gospel, but also on other writings by Levi Dowling, and share many teachings with the I Am Activity (I Am Movement) and Ascended Master Teachings. Some of the teachings include a Triune God composed of God the Father, Christ the Son and the Mother Holy Spirit, release from the cycle of rebirth through the Ascension Process, the equality of the races and sexes and the transformation (transmuting) of the individual and the world through the study and practice of the teachings.[4][third-party source needed]
The Moorish Science Temple of America, a religion predominantly adhered to by African-Americans, founded five years after the publication of the Aquarian Gospel, takes much of its "Holy Koran" from the Aquarian Gospel.[5]
^Joseph Gaer (1952). The Lore of the New Testament (1st ed.). Boston: Little Brown. p. 130.
^Goodspeed, Edgar J., Strange New Gospels (1931, Chicago, Univ. of Chicago Press) page 26 (in chapter 3); a revised edition was issued in 1956 as Modern Apocrypha (Boston, Beacon Press) and the chapter on the Aquarian Gospel appears as chapter 2, otherwise unchanged.
^ abcEric Pement (November 1988). "Don't touch that dial: The New Age practice of channeling". Cornerstone Magazine. Retrieved March 24, 2008.
^ abJ.L. Watson, III (2009). Initiations of the Aquarian Masters: The Theosophy of the Aquarian Gospel. Outskirtspress. ISBN9781432745981.
^Edward E. Curtis IV, Danielle Brune Sigler (2009). The New Black Gods: Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions (Google eBook ed.). Indiana University Press. p. 88.
Eric Pement, ed. (1992). Contend For the Faith: Collected Papers of the Rockford Conference on Discernment and Evangelism. Chicago: Evangelical Ministries to New Religions.
Committee on Ethics, Evangelical Ministries to New Religions (EMNR); Craig Branch; Eric Pement (1997). The Manual of Ethical and Doctrinal Standards for Evangelical Ministries to New Religions. Birmingham, AL: EMNR.
Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ and Christian Mysticism: Pristine Christine Church & Missions (1st ed.). 2009. ISBN9789719437505.
The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ: The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal (New ed.). DeVorss & Company. 1972. ISBN0875161685.
Edgar J. Goodspeed, Strange New Gospels (1931), revised as Modern Apocrypha (1956), with a chapter on the Aquarian Gospel
External linksedit
"The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ". gutenberg.org. Retrieved February 15, 2015. Online text of the 1911 edition.
Introducing the Aquarian Gospel
Levi H. Dowling. "The Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus, the Christ of the Piscean Age". Reluctant Messenger Website.
December 15, 2023
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The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ full title The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal is a book by Levi H Dowling It was first published on 1 December 1908 Dowling said he had transcribed the text of the book from the akashic records a purported compendium of mystical knowledge supposedly encoded in a non physical plane of existence In the later 20th century it was adopted by New Age spiritual groups The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church UniversalAuthorLevi H DowlingLanguageEnglishPublished1 December 1908The title is derived from the practice in astrology of naming time periods in terms of constellations and their dominant positions in the sky according to the earth s axial precession In that system the Age of Aquarius is approaching 1 Contents 1 Composition 2 Major points 3 Difficulties 4 Aquarian church 5 See also 6 References 6 1 Text sources 7 Further reading 8 External linksComposition editSECTION I Aleph Birth and Early Life of Mary Mother of Jesus SECTION II Beth Birth and Infancy of John the Harbinger and of Jesus SECTION III Gimel Education of Mary and Elizabeth in Zoan SECTION IV Daleth Childhood and Early Education of John the Harbinger SECTION V He Childhood and Early Education of Jesus SECTION VI Vau Life and Works of Jesus in India SECTION VII Zain Life and Works of Jesus in Tibet and Western India SECTION VIII Cheth Life and Works of Jesus in Persia SECTION IX Teth Life and Works of Jesus in Assyria SECTION X Jod Life and Works of Jesus in Greece SECTION XI Caph Life and Works of Jesus in Egypt SECTION XII Lamed The Council of the Seven Sages of the World SECTION XIII Mem The Ministry of John the Harbinger SECTION XIV Nun The Christine Ministry of Jesus Introductory Epoch SECTION XV Samech The First Annual Epoch of the Christine Ministry of Jesus SECTION XVI Ain The Second Annual Epoch of the Christine Ministry of Jesus SECTION XVII Pe The Third Annual Epoch of the Christine Ministry of Jesus SECTION XVIII Tzaddi The Arrest and Betrayal of Jesus SECTION XIX Koph The Trial and Execution of Jesus SECTION XX Resh The Resurrection of Jesus SECTION XXI Schin Materialization of the Spiritual Body of Jesus SECTION XXII Tau Establishment of the Christine ChurchMajor points editThis section does not cite any sources Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed November 2013 Learn how and when to remove this template message The Aquarian Gospel makes the following claims among others The revelation of The Aquarian Gospel was prophesied 2 000 years ago by Elihu who conducted a school of the prophets in Zoan Egypt He said thus This age will comprehend but little of the works of Purity and Love but not a word is lost for in the Book of God s Remembrance a registry is made of every thought and word and deed And When The world is ready to receive lo God will send a messenger to open up the book and copy from its sacred pages all the messages of Purity and Love Aquarian Gospel 7 25 26 dd There are 18 unknown years of Jesus life missing in the Bible ages 12 30 Like Nicolas Notovitch did before in his The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ By the Discoverer of the Manuscript 1887 the Aquarian Gospel documents these 18 years as a time when Jesus travels to the centers of wisdom in western India Tibet Persia Assyria Greece and Egypt In each of these capital cities he is educated tested and teaches the religious leaders Jesus inevitably proves that he is God s chosen one the Christ in these locales and brings back this multi cultural wisdom and confidence to Galilee and Judea Jesus puts on the role of The Christ but is not automatically Christ by nature By making himself through desire effort ability and prayer a fit vessel Jesus enabled The Christ to dwell within him Christ is therefore used as a term for the seemingly perfect human being that Jesus exemplified a human being that has been Christened anointed and therefore made holy Jesus came to Earth to show the way back to God via his lifestyle and teachings He is the example we must model our own lives after if we seek salvation Reincarnation exists and karma You reap what you sow is the explanation for various injustices Reincarnation allows people to settle debts they have incurred in past lives Humanity has forgotten God and is currently working its way back to fully remembering God Time is separated into ages These ages last approximately 2 000 years We are now nearing the start of the Aquarian Age All souls will eventually mature and evolve towards the perfect like Jesus the Christ No soul is ever abandoned by God The trinity is strength love and wisdom Difficulties editIn his 1931 book Strange New Gospels the biblical scholar Edgar J Goodspeed noted Augustus Caesar reigned and Herod Antipas was ruler in Jerusalem This opening sentence of the new gospel does not encourage any very high hopes as to its historical value It is generally accepted that Antipas never rules in Jerusalem but in Galilee Of course Dowling means Herod the Great 2 dd Also that Dowling has borrowed a number of details from the apocryphal Gospel of James a work that may not be older than the fifth century such as details about the childhood of Mary and her marriage to Joseph the birth of Jesus in a cave and the account of the death of Zacharias which differs from the account given by Origen and other early Fathers Goodspeed notes that the many ancient religions and philosophies taught in many different countries to young Jesus in the book seem colored by Christian Science Eric Pement has pointed out difficulties in Dowling s text The book depicts Jesus as visiting the cities of Lahore India pre Partition in India now in Pakistan Shri Jagannath in the temple at Puri in Odisha India and Persepolis in Persia Only the temple at Puri existed at that period Lahore did not exist during the period in question and Persepolis had already been destroyed by Alexander the Great 3 The book asserts Jesus had remained in the Jagannatha Temple of Puri for four years preaching among the downtrodden and low caste people Dowling and Edgar Cayce both claimed to have produced an account of the life of Jesus through the transcription of the akashic records but there are significant differences between their accounts 3 Dowling claimed that Jesus knew Meng tse of Lhasa Tibet but Meng tse lived 300 years before Jesus time 3 Supporters of Dowling argue that within theosophical thought figures such as Meng Tse Matheno Miriam Moses Elijah and Vidyapati exist in an ascended state As such they communicated with Jesus after they had passed on from earthly existence 4 Aquarian church editThis section needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources in this section Unsourced material may be challenged and removed January 2014 Learn how and when to remove this template message The Aquarian Christine Church Universal Inc ACCU is a denomination based on the Aquarian Gospel Members are commonly called Aquarians but the proper term would be Aquarian Christines The name Christine is used in the Aquarian Gospel instead of Christian emphasizing that the church is the Bride of Christ The church was incorporated in 2006 but had existed for numerous quantify years previous to incorporation There are no paid professional clergy The teachings of the Aquarian Church are based primarily on the Aquarian Gospel but also on other writings by Levi Dowling and share many teachings with the I Am Activity I Am Movement and Ascended Master Teachings Some of the teachings include a Triune God composed of God the Father Christ the Son and the Mother Holy Spirit release from the cycle of rebirth through the Ascension Process the equality of the races and sexes and the transformation transmuting of the individual and the world through the study and practice of the teachings 4 third party source needed The Moorish Science Temple of America a religion predominantly adhered to by African Americans founded five years after the publication of the Aquarian Gospel takes much of its Holy Koran from the Aquarian Gospel 5 See also editJesuism List of Gospels TheosophyReferences edit Joseph Gaer 1952 The Lore of the New Testament 1st ed Boston Little Brown p 130 Goodspeed Edgar J Strange New Gospels 1931 Chicago Univ of Chicago Press page 26 in chapter 3 a revised edition was issued in 1956 as Modern Apocrypha Boston Beacon Press and the chapter on the Aquarian Gospel appears as chapter 2 otherwise unchanged a b c Eric Pement November 1988 Don t touch that dial The New Age practice of channeling Cornerstone Magazine Retrieved March 24 2008 a b J L Watson III 2009 Initiations of the Aquarian Masters The Theosophy of the Aquarian Gospel Outskirtspress ISBN 9781432745981 Edward E Curtis IV Danielle Brune Sigler 2009 The New Black Gods Arthur Huff Fauset and the Study of African American Religions Google eBook ed Indiana University Press p 88 Text sources edit nbsp Wikisource has the complete text of The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ A digital transcription of a portion of the original 1911 edition with links to the page scan images refer to the transcription notes The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ 1911 at the Internet Archive The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ e text at the Internet Sacred Text Archive Further reading editEric Pement ed 1992 Contend For the Faith Collected Papers of the Rockford Conference on Discernment and Evangelism Chicago Evangelical Ministries to New Religions Committee on Ethics Evangelical Ministries to New Religions EMNR Craig Branch Eric Pement 1997 The Manual of Ethical and Doctrinal Standards for Evangelical Ministries to New Religions Birmingham AL EMNR Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ and Christian Mysticism Pristine Christine Church amp Missions 1st ed 2009 ISBN 9789719437505 The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal New ed DeVorss amp Company 1972 ISBN 0875161685 Edgar J Goodspeed Strange New Gospels 1931 revised as Modern Apocrypha 1956 with a chapter on the Aquarian GospelExternal links edit The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ gutenberg org Retrieved February 15 2015 Online text of the 1911 edition Introducing the Aquarian Gospel Levi H Dowling The Aquarian Age Gospel of Jesus the Christ of the Piscean Age Reluctant Messenger Website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ amp oldid 1150912253, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
