The Gospel of Love and Peace, Paperback

These teachings are unique, because they do not refer to a specific culture, they refer to man and his relationship to his co-beings and his relation to God. They do not demand a specific moral life according to exact rules how to live. They just express a spiritual ethics. The Gospel of Peace, unlike other documents or interpretations of biblical texts, explains the expression "Heavenly Father" in a very deep meaning, also because of the fact that it describes "the Earthly Mother" as well. It does not mean that it proclaims a female God next to a male God. We are still dealing with a monotheistic religion. But in its divine dualism it does not exclude female character in God, nor the female and maternal principle of nature. Therefore it re-connects Christianity with obvious and deeply experienced world views that can be found as universal in all cultures and religions except the three Thora-based Jewish, Christian and Muslim religions. Let us just assume for a moment a Christianity that is not denying but also worshipping the maternal aspects, not only in some sick romanticisation of virginity and unearthly "purity," but in its obvious richness, abundance and fertility. A Christianity that regards Earth just as important and divine as it regards Heaven. A Christianity describing the body as a temple for the soul. A Christianity that communicates with Heaven and Earth ... - Well, here it is For the first time all translations of the Essene scripts in one volume, revised, newly arranged and edited by Dr. J rg Berchem. With many illustrations by Caspar David Friedrich, Rembrandt, Leonardo da Vinci and Gustav Dor . (including: Book 1 The Essene Gospel of Peace, Book One, Book 2 The Unknown Books of the Essenes, Book 3 Lost Scrolls of the Essene Bro