The Secret Teachings Unveiling the Luminous Sun Within Mr Gene Kieffer 9780941136129 Books
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This book was originally sold as a hardcover with dust jacket. The same book is now being offered for the first time as a paperback. Used copies of the hardcover sold for between $150 and $300 for years. Book consists of 27 chapters, 200 illustrations, an Index and Reference Notes. The author explains how the myths and the Religions of the West originated as the Gnosis. 640 pages and 200 b&w illustrations.
The Secret Teachings Unveiling the Luminous Sun Within Mr Gene Kieffer 9780941136129 Books
While I have some reservations about wholeheartedly endorsing this book, I give it 5 stars for the sheer volume of good antique mythological content. There is a great deal of documentation of how Egyptian myths and traditions were indeed the true source of a lot of the later teachings of Christianity. Christianity then proceeded to claim the material as original and exclusive. This book would convince any fair minded reader that if all the Egyptian precursors were removed from the 'Holy Bible' there wouldn't be very much left for the Christians to talk about. So far so good. Based on a great deal of my own research and reading, I agree with G. Kieffer's premise in this regard.There is such a large amount of great material in this book that, for me at least, it is not too hard to overlook some of the weaknesses. And what are those weaknesses? For one thing the book has a little too much of the 'gee whiz oh wow' flavor. Also the author is quick to accept modern day incidences of such things as angels appearing with messages, UFOs bringing inspiring influences, etc. [oh wow gee whiz] When I myself experience such things I will accept them as real, until then not. But for some readers I expect that miraculous flavor will be welcome.
Again, I emphasize, there is a lot of great material in the book to be savored. But-- for myself I would much prefer studying this whole field of ancient influences via the magnificent work of Joseph Campbell [see the 4 volume 'The Masks Of God' ] and through familiarity with Carl Jung's work, see especially what he has to say about unconscious archetypes and the collective unconscious.
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The Secret Teachings Unveiling the Luminous Sun Within Mr Gene Kieffer 9780941136129 Books Reviews
This book is heavy reading. If you hold certain religious beliefs as "THE ONLY TRUTH", then this text is NOT for you. The best way to approach and absorb this text is to "suspend disbelief". You will find yourself with a whole new understanding about the nature of reality, the history of humanity, and the roots of religion. This book is meant to be read more than once...
For the past 13 years on 21st Century Radio <[...] we've presented various theories about our planet's history, and the rise and fall of various civilizations and what caused their extinction. Recently I reviewed Gene Kieffer's The Secret Teachings Unveiling the Luminous Sun Within, Bethel Publishing, 2000 that presents some very different views on the history of our planet especially as it pertains to the origins and importance of mythology. Since it is authored by someone I highly regard and have known over a quarter of a century, I figured this book would help those who are struggling with these questions -- and I was proven right! Beginning with a prophecy in which two angels appear to a U.S. Senator and reveal that something of great importance is about to be discovered, Kieffer goes on to describe Gerald Massey's Book of Beginnings and Secret Teachings, the Eleusinian Mysteries, and the Religion of the Mother to a new view of evolution. Most important is the distinction between the knowledge committed to writing and the knowledge that is handed down by the oral tradition. The difference between the two and the reason for this division of knowledge is the key revealed in this book. As promised on the book jacket, you really do only need to read a few paragraphs of this book a day in order to benefit tremendously.
Kieffer's extraordinary accomplishment is a result of a life-long effort to consolidate the massive writings of 19th century British genius, poet and Egyptologist - Gerald Massey(d. 1907). Massey's in depth anthropological and mythological investigation of the origin and ascent of man culminated in 6 books consisting of over 1 million words. Few people have a chance to read all 6 books in the course
of one lifetime, so Kieffer has done humankind a great service by presenting Massey's ideas in one understandable, readable format. Not all ideas presented
will be easily digestible to the newcomer, but the book's chapters can be read in no particular order, and that is one of the beauties of it. The reader will be delightfully surprised to find mysteries such as the fall of man, original sin, the fallen angels, Atlantis, the Great Flood, explained in a thoughtful, rational way that will probably surprise the reader. For those who are desirous of tapping into and understanding the mythological roots of religion, human thought and evolution, this book is a must read. Massey in his time was a respected writer, speaker and poet who traveled to America giving lectures on his discoveries which were often met with both appreciation by open minds, and disbelief and anger by orthodoxy. To pose the proofs, obtained by years of thoughtful and traceable investigation, that Christianity is inverted myth, and that its hero, stories and parables were extant in ancient Egypt for thousands of years, was a brave act by a brave man. Needless to say, Massey was a man a century ahead of his time. Bit by bit, discoveries and studies made by Massey have been vindicated. It was Massey who proposed that man's beginnings were centered in equatorial Africa, long before the Leakeys found a few bones, and that migrations to various locations of the world could be the repository of myth that could be traced back to one source Africa and Egypt. One day Massey will become a household word, and when this happens, we can thank Gene Kieffer and his devotion to love of truth above all and his recognition of Massey as an unmitigated genius.
While I have some reservations about wholeheartedly endorsing this book, I give it 5 stars for the sheer volume of good antique mythological content. There is a great deal of documentation of how Egyptian myths and traditions were indeed the true source of a lot of the later teachings of Christianity. Christianity then proceeded to claim the material as original and exclusive. This book would convince any fair minded reader that if all the Egyptian precursors were removed from the 'Holy Bible' there wouldn't be very much left for the Christians to talk about. So far so good. Based on a great deal of my own research and reading, I agree with G. Kieffer's premise in this regard.
There is such a large amount of great material in this book that, for me at least, it is not too hard to overlook some of the weaknesses. And what are those weaknesses? For one thing the book has a little too much of the 'gee whiz oh wow' flavor. Also the author is quick to accept modern day incidences of such things as angels appearing with messages, UFOs bringing inspiring influences, etc. [oh wow gee whiz] When I myself experience such things I will accept them as real, until then not. But for some readers I expect that miraculous flavor will be welcome.
Again, I emphasize, there is a lot of great material in the book to be savored. But-- for myself I would much prefer studying this whole field of ancient influences via the magnificent work of Joseph Campbell [see the 4 volume 'The Masks Of God' ] and through familiarity with Carl Jung's work, see especially what he has to say about unconscious archetypes and the collective unconscious.
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