Beyond The Passion: The Secret
Life of Jesus Christ
Mel Gibson’s new movie, The Passion of the Christ, is focused on
the last 12 hours of Jesus Christ’s life.
It is the story of his amazing walk towards the crucifixion and his
teachings that lead up to those final
dramatic moments. But what about the rest of
his extraordinary life? In his
shoes, what would you
have done to prepare for such an intense and complete
physical, spiritual, emotional mission?
The Bible is curiously silent about the details of Jesus’
life from the time he was 13 until his reappearance
at 30. If you’ve always wondered what Jesus did as a
teenager through his 20s, you’ll want to put
The
Lost Years of Jesus by Elizabeth Clare Prophet on your must-read spring
book list!
Was he simply a carpenter for all those years, like Joseph,
his father? Or was he preparing for the
greatest challenge of his life? With
such an important mission would his training really be left to
random strangers
or to chance? And,
what about Jesus’ relationship with his mother and her
qualifications to raise
him as the avatar of the age? Did you know he had a wealthy uncle who
traveled the known world with Jesus at his side? And what about the years after his resurrection?
The secrets revealed in the footnotes of The
Lost Years of Jesus are wonderfully thought provoking
and extremely
well researched.
“This book reads like a detective thriller! It picks you up and never lets you go,” said
Jess Stearn,
best-selling author of Edgar Cayce – The Sleeping Prophet. “Elizabeth Clare Prophet puts together
the
missing pieces of the life of the Master that have baffled biblical scholars
for centuries.”
In The Lost Years of Jesus, Elizabeth Clare Prophet brings
original translations of ancient documents
together with the testimony of four
eye-witnesses who examined the secret scrolls to reveal that
Jesus spent 17
years in the Orient and was known and loved throughout the East as Saint
Issa.
With the thoroughness of a sharp
detective, she tells the intriguing story of the international
controversy that
arose when the ancient manuscripts were first discovered in 1887 in
Nicolas Notovitch – how experts “proved” they did not exist, only to have
them rediscovered in this
century by Swami Abhedananda, Professor Nicholas
Roerich, and Mme. Elisabeth Caspari.
The chronicles, oral traditions and legends of what Jesus
did and said in
and
in the heart-warming personal accounts of those who
made the trek to the
back the most revolutionary message of our time. Their personal notes and journal entries
provide
first-hand accounts of these historic events.
So, if you liked the Da
Vinci Code and Dan Brown’s spellbinding writing style, The Lost Years of Jesus
by Elizabeth Clare Prophet will capture
your imagination and take you on a breathtaking journey.
The original reports and historic reviews in The Lost Years of Jesus attest to the
rigors and discipline
of training that Jesus put himself through in preparation
for his journey. He trekked over hazardous
mountains to help lepers, fasted and
prayed through periods of isolation in the parched deserts,
and eventually
demonstrated levitation when he walked on water and other phenomena while
surrounded by crowds of onlookers. His
life and his mission required great courage, ongoing training,
spiritual
mentorship, solitude with reflection and meditation, enormous faith, and complete
personal surrender.
“The research in The Lost
Years of Jesus shows that Jesus put himself though the same rigors that
we
must all go through if we want to complete our personal mission and follow in
the footsteps
of the Master,”
said Summit University Press spokesperson, Lois
Drake. “We could do as great a
work as
he did if we only knew how exactly he prepared, for as he said, ‘greater works
will ye do
because I go unto my Father.’”
The Lost Years of
Jesus opens the door for a much greater understanding of Jesus’ walk and
how
he did what he did. He becomes an approachable master teacher, once it is
understood what he
went through while preparing for his life’s work. Prophet
suggests that we should expect nothing less
in our own lives and recommends
this book as a guide for our own mission.