Synopsis
""Jesus: The Last Great Initiate"" is a book written by Edouard Schure that explores the life and teachings of Jesus Christ from a spiritual and mystical perspective. The author presents Jesus as a divine figure who came to Earth to teach humanity about the true nature of God and the spiritual path to enlightenment. Schure draws on various religious and philosophical traditions, including Hinduism, Buddhism, and ancient Egyptian mysticism, to shed light on Jesus' teachings and their relevance to modern-day spirituality. The book covers Jesus' birth, childhood, ministry, crucifixion, and resurrection, as well as his teachings on love, forgiveness, and the kingdom of God. Schure also delves into the symbolism and allegory present in the Bible, providing a deeper understanding of the spiritual significance of Jesus' life and teachings. Overall, ""Jesus: The Last Great Initiate"" offers a unique and insightful perspective on the life of one of the most influential figures in human history.Contents: Condition of the World at the Birth of Jesus; Mary�������First Development of Jesus; The Essenes�������John the Baptist�������The Temptation; The Public Life of Jesus�������Popular and Esoteric Instruction�������Miracles�������Apostles�������Women; Struggle with the Pharisees�������Flight to Caesarea�������The Transfiguration; Final Journey to Jerusalem�������The Promise�������The Supper�������Trial of Jesus�������Death and Resurrection; The Promise and its Fulfillment�������The Temple.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.
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Présentation de l'éditeur
How did Jesus become the Messiah? That is the primordial question, the solution of which is essential to the right understanding of the Christ. M. Théodore Kein saw that this question must be boldly faced (Das Leben Jesu, Zürich, 1875, 3rd edition). His life of Jesus is the most remarkable that has appeared since M. Renan's. It throws on the question all the light given by texts and history esoterically interpreted. But the problem is not one capable of being solved without the aid of intuition and esoteric tradition. It is by means of this esoteric light, the inner flame of all religions, the central truth of all fruitful philosophy, that I have attempted to reconstruct along its main lines, the life of Jesus, taking into account whatever previous historical criticism has hitherto cleared and prepared the ground. No need to define what I mean by the esoteric point of view, the synthesis of Religion and Science. Concerning the historical and relative value of the Gospels, I have taken the three synoptical Gospels (those of Matthew, Mark, and Luke) as a basis, and that of John as the arcanum of the esoteric teaching of the Christ, at the same time acknowledging the subsequent language and form, and the symbolical tendency of this Gospel.
Biographie de l'auteur
Eduard Schure (1841 – 1929) was a French philosopher, poet, playwright, novelist, music critic, and publicist of esoteric literature. His major influence being the famous French occultist-scholar Fabre d'Olivet. In 1884, he met the founder of the Theosophical Society Helena Petrovna Blavatsky. Although unwelcome in the Theosophical Society, he nevertheless entered. In 1889, he published, after some smaller works on similar topics, his major work Les Grands Inities (The Great Initiates). At the German Section of the Theosophical Society, he met the Austrian philosopher and later founder of Anthroposophy, Rudolf Steiner. Schure was deeply impressed and thought of Steiner as an authentic 'initiate' in line with his The Great Initiates. Schure wrote a considerable number of books and plays. His plays enjoyed relative fame in his days in Europe, and some of them were put on stage by Steiner.
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