The Secret Legacy of Jesus

Shows how the true teachings of Jesus were passed down through the centuries and shaped the vision of the Founding Fathers - Reveals for the first time the hidden link that connects James the Brother, Islam, the Cathars, the Knights Templar, and Freemasonry - Shows how the Founding Fathers used these teachings enshrined in Masonic principles to build a new nation With the success of Paul's desire to impose his vision for the Church, the true teachings of Jesus--as preserved by his family and disciples--were forced into hiding. This clandestine movement was evidenced by such early groups as the Nazarenes, Ebionites, and Elkesaites but is generally thought to have died out when the Church of Paul branded these groups as heretics. However, despite the ongoing persecution by the Roman Catholic orthodoxy, this underground Jewish strain of Christianity was able to survive and resist incorporation into its more powerful rival. Jeffrey Butz, author of The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity, reveals for the first time the hidden theological link that connects James the Brother of Jesus and the Ebionites with the religion of Islam, the Cathars, the Knights Templar, and Freemasonry. In The Secret Legacy of Jesus, Butz demonstrates how this centuries-old underground stream of Christ's original teachings remained alive and how it surfaced again in Colonial America, where the Founding Fathers used Masonic principles rooted in Jewish Christian teachings to establish what they believed would be a "New Jerusalem." With the rise of a fundamentalist Christianity, this potent spiritual vision was lost, but Butz contends it can be recovered and used to bring about the reconciliation of Christians, Jews, and Muslims throughout the world.

ISBN 1594773076   Pages 352 ISBN13 9781594773075 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Inner Traditions Bear and Company   Weight (grammes) 635 Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and Company   Published in Rochester, VT Format Paperback   Height (mm) 229 Publication date 01 Mar 2010   Width (mm) 153 DEWEY 232.906   Spine width (mm) 25 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

Introduction		The quest for the Grail		1
1		An unheralded family : the bloodline of Jesus		10
2		"Who do you say that I am?" : the quest for the historical Jesus		32
3		In the beginning : the Nazarenes and the Jewish origins of Christianity		48
4		The caliphate begins : James and the Jerusalem church		70
5		James versus Paul : a parting of the ways		96
6		Storm signals : the Nazarenes and the war with Rome		110
7		Aftermath : from Nazarenes to Ebionites		137
8		The Ebionite evangel : the mission of Jewish Christianity		168
9		Ebionite theology : a third religion between church and synagogue		186
10		From Ebionites to Elkesaites : the evolution of Jewish Christianity		212
11		Jewish Christianity in Arabia : Muhammad and the rise of Islam		232
12		From Elkesaites to Cathars : the heresy moves west		250
13		Heresy in high places : the rise and fall of the Knights Templar		278
14		From Jesus to Freemasonry : the Founding Fathers and the building of a new Jerusalem		300
		Notes		331
		Bibliography		349
		Index		358

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