Christian Gnosis

This book is a combination theosophist and gnostic retake on Christianity. If you are a believer in psychic methods of researching hidden history, if you believe that there is Christian truth that can be reached by "sensitives", and that truth corrects the Christian theology/traditions that have been passed on for most of two millennia, you might love this book. If you're a traditional Christian with even fairly orthodox views, the re-defining of Christian vocabulary and of Jesus may offend you or you might find yourself rolling your eyes at it. If you're a Christian Fundamentalist, Evangelical, strong Catholic, etc., than this book might, for you, be filled with intolerable heresy. CW Leadbeater is quite the storyteller. If no word he wrote had any truth to it, than it could be said that he is a most imaginative storyteller. Personally, I am not convinced by his writings. I believe that Christianity, as a revealed religion whose most major event took place in the public square is an exoteric religion, not an esoteric one. For example, I don't believe that person Jesus allowed himself to be a host body for a disembodied master, and that this was a secret to almost everybody for nearly the whole history of Christianity. Actually, to be quite honest, if you're an orthodox believer, this book comes across as just weird and random.

Good read and informative. Interesting research on the occult significance of catholic rituals. I highly recommend this book to all those on the esoteric path.

This is a decent work by C.W. It's leadbeaters collected works on christianity really. Now mind you leadbeater didn't have a nag hammadi library he died before the discovery . He simply uses the new testament ( the four gospels and the letters of Paul as well as the apostles creed ) he also offers soem commentary on the fragments of the gospel of Thomas ( he didn't know they were the gospel of Thomas he knew them as a fragments of a unknown gospel ) and i find his commentary rewarding.But the whole book reminded me of his other work " masters and the path" . i felt he was rehashing his thoughts on indian mysticism here .He gives a lot of space to the " logos" and what it means. Now Most translations of the word " logos" is wrong it has so many meanings to say it means just "word" is just one small part of its meaning. its a complex word and Leadbeaters attempts to explain in his own way.ALL IN ALL C.W. leadbeater was a brilliant man . why 4 stars? my issue was the lack of diversity in pictures. the same picture form the cover is used to segment off chapters of the book it gets tedious .

This book is a wonderful summary of the blending between Theosophy and Christianity that Leadbetter facilitated. While one may have slightly different views than he did, his explanations and discussions are well worth contemplating and provide excellent sources for meditation. Leadbetter also has a very nice writing style that is easy to read without having to decipher what it is he's trying to say. I highly recommend this work for all seekers who are of a Christian slant.

A good read and excellent service.