Magi

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One ol'llic bcst-lovecl stories in the Bible is the journey of the Magi, the witnesses of the Nativity of Jesus. Yet who were the three kings or wise men? Where did they come from and what could have been their motive in making their journey to Bethlehem?
Answers to these and other questions are provided by Adrian Gilbert, co-author of The Orion Mystery, in this new and fascinating exploration of the Magi legend. Threaded into an epic story are the results of some twenty-five years of historical, archaeological and astronomical research. This extraordinary book takes the reader on an adventure into the past, revealing how secret knowledge was both preserved in the East in the form of monumental architecture and, at the time of the Crusades, passed westward to the fledgling states of Europe. The truth, shattering for believers and agnostics alike, is that not only was the birth of Jesus widely expected throughout the Middle East, but that Christianity itself has its deepest... Tovább

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One ol'llic bcst-lovecl stories in the Bible is the journey of the Magi, the witnesses of the Nativity of Jesus. Yet who were the three kings or wise men? Where did they come from and what could have been their motive in making their journey to Bethlehem?
Answers to these and other questions are provided by Adrian Gilbert, co-author of The Orion Mystery, in this new and fascinating exploration of the Magi legend. Threaded into an epic story are the results of some twenty-five years of historical, archaeological and astronomical research. This extraordinary book takes the reader on an adventure into the past, revealing how secret knowledge was both preserved in the East in the form of monumental architecture and, at the time of the Crusades, passed westward to the fledgling states of Europe. The truth, shattering for believers and agnostics alike, is that not only was the birth of Jesus widely expected throughout the Middle East, but that Christianity itself has its deepest roots in Egypt, Persia and Mesopotamia.
It is Gilbert's contention that the Magi were members of a brotherhood that has been guiding civilization for at least five thousand years, since the time the pyramids were built. At times persecuted, at others enjoying the patronage of kings and noblemen, these masters were, and perhaps still are, the custodians of a secret initiatory tradition. Gilbert has also found evidence that this tradition and its modern day representatives were the source of much of the arcane knowledge brought to the West in the twentieth century by the enigmatic teachers, G.I. Gurdjieff and PD. Ouspensky.
Unknown and unrecognized, the knowledge of the ancient world lives on into our own time. It seems that now is the time for these secrets of the ages to be revealed. Arc we prepared and arc we ready for the revelations lo come?
Adrian Gilbert is an independent publisher and author who has spent over twenty-five years investigating the esoteric traditions of Egypt and Mesopotamia. He is well-lcnown for The Orion Mystery, which he co-authored with Robert Bauval, for their joint collaboration with the BBC on the programme The Great Pyramid: Gateway to the Stars, and more recently for The Mayan Prophecies, which he co-authored with Maurice Cotterell. His lifetimes interest in the esoteric led him in, 1991, to set up his own publishing imprint, Solos Press, specializing in Hermetic philosophy. He is married and lives in Dorset.
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