The Lost Teachings Of Jesus

The Lost Teachings of Jesus #1

by Elizabeth Clare Prophet, Mark L. Prophet

Mark and Elizabeth Prophet show that many of Jesus' original teachings were lost. Some were removed from the Gospels. Others were suppressed or kept secret. In modern vernacular, the authors offer a unique blend of the mystical and the practical that goes beyond the orthodox view of Jesus to discover his original message. They answer questions that have puzzled readers of the Bible for centuries.

Genres: Christianity, Religion, Spirituality, Inspirational

524 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1986

About the author

Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1939-2009) was an author, teacher, messenger of the ascended masters and leader of The Summit Lighthouse—an internationally recognized spiritual center for the advancement of inner awakening and soul liberation. For decades Elizabeth's books have been front runners in the movement for individual union with God. Millions of copies have been sold worldwide and published in more than 30 languages.
Throughout her lifetime, Elizabeth Clare Prophet walked the path of spiritual adeptship, advancing through the universal initiations common to mystics of both East and West. She taught about this path and described her own experiences for the benefit of all who desire to make spiritual progress. She lectured across North and South America, United Kingdom, Europe, Australia, the Philippines, Ghana, Liberia and India. With Her husband, Mark L. Prophet, she led pilgrimages to the Holy Land, Egypt and India.
Thousands of people from across the globe attended her four yearly conferences and hundreds of students learned spiritual teachings from her Summit University retreats. Her great desire was to share a spiritual path that would take true seekers, in the tradition of the mystical paths of the world's religions, as far as they could go and needed to go to meet their true teachers, the ascended masters, the archangels and their own Higher Self, face-to-face.
Her unpublished writings, lectures and dictations from the ascended masters continue to be released by Summit University Press.

Reviews

[Rama Rao · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Hindu and Buddhist teachings in the gospel of Jesus Christ

This is an interesting book that evaluates the internal evidence from New Testament, and the historical documents found at Himis Buddhist monastery in Tibet. One of the striking features is that not much has been recoded about Jesus famous sermons in gospels or any other parts of New Testament. In addition, Jesus was unlettered and he wrote almost nothing. The gospels and other apocryphal documents state that he taught for several hours, but they do not describe what he taught. For example, at the feeding of the five thousand people; his followers must have been listening to Jesus long enough to get hungry, but no account of his sermon is given. Frequently he is said to have preached well into sundown (Mark 6:35). The Three gospels (synoptic gospels) report that Jesus "sat at meet" with many publicans and sinners for the purpose of calling them to repentance (Matthew 9:10, 13; Mark 2:15, 17; Luke 5:29, 32), but silent about his sermon. John 7.14 tells us that Jesus travelled to Jerusalem for the Feast of Tabernacle, a seven day event and "about the midst of the feast" he went up to the temple and taught, but there are very few words about what he said. The Sermon of the Mount has very little details about his teachings. The second mystery of New Testament is that there is a gap of about 18 years, from the age of 12 to 30; gospels are wordless about what Jesus was doing during these years. Luke moves quickly from his birth, circumcision, and presentation at the temple at the age of 12 in Jerusalem and then goes to his baptism by John the Baptist at the age of 30. Matthew narrates the holy family's flight into Egypt, following the visitation of the magi, and their return after the death of Herod.

The oldest Bible in the world is Codex Sinaiticus written in Greek dated around 340 A.D. It was found in the Greek Orthodox monastery of St. Catherine of Alexandria at the foot of Mount Sinai. This manuscript is far different from the modern day King James Version suggesting extensive editing of New Testament for doctrinal reasons. Many earlier writings about Jesus were destroyed by the order of the church. Tradition has handed down a list of 26 apocryphal gospels, 7 Acts and 10 epistles, which were used during the early days of Christianity. Some scholars have suggested that the theory of reincarnation is a later addition made by the Apostles. The concepts of reincarnation and son of God are extensively found in Vedic lore since the period of Rig-Veda of Hinduism.

The influence of Hinduism and Buddhism may also be found in the following: Sermon on the Mount is one of the classic examples for preaching the word of God and Jesus having full knowledge of how Buddha gave his first sermon in the Park of Gazelles in Benares, after fasting, and meditating for 42 days under a fig tree. Jesus like Buddha underwent mystical test and meditation in the wilderness for 40 days to seek the spiritual power. In Hinduism, especially during Vedic times, great rishis and sages went to the deep forest for meditation and self purification of the body, mind and soul. When they emerged from this long and arduous journey into the inner consciousness, they would attain spiritual and healing powers. Buddha sought enlightenment after fasting and meditating under a Fig tree for 42 days. In one episode, Jesus goes to a high mountain with Peter and his followers. After meditation, he transfigured before their very eyes and his face shine as the Sun (Mark 9:2, 30; Luke 9:30 and Matthew 17; 3-6.). Timothy believed Jesus was God (Timothy 3:16). This is similar to the description of Vishwa rupa in chapter 11 of Bhagavad-Gita where Lord Krishna appears to Arjuna in the Universal form shining like million suns.

The flow of Buddhist thought occurred at three main levels, the Buddhist missionaries carrying the message of Buddha into Egypt, Syria and Palestine are well documented in the history, especially during and after Emperor Asoka. Strong trade relationship help bring the Vedic and Upanishadic culture into the Middle East, and finally Jesus' life in India brought him closer to the wisdom of Buddha and the teachings of Upanishads. The story of Jesus in Sermon on the Mount episode directly calls to mind an inner relationship with Buddha's teachings. Both Buddha and Jesus warn their followers about false prophets. The parallels between Buddhist thought and certain New Testament stories; Jesus' parables and his sayings are not new. For example, Buddha said "whosoever sees dharma, see me." Christ in the Gospel according to John says; "He that seeth me, seeth Him that sent me" (John 12:45). The dharma is the greatest cosmic law underlying the world, corresponding to the concept of the Word, the Logos, in the Gospel which begins by declaring, "The Word was God."

[Jose Luis Belmonte · Rating 5 out of 5]

Este libro contiene varias conferencias de Mark Prophet acerca de las enseñanzas de los maestros ascendidos. Tipo clases y de nivel básico, son una excelente introduccion a la metafísica, especialmente de la línea iniciada por la sociedad teosófica y actualizada más tarde por Mark y Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Quizá el título del libro no sea del todo apropiado, pero las clases presentadas por Mark Prophet bien podrían haber sido lo que Jesús enseñó a sus discipulos más cercanos.

[Steven H · Rating 3 out of 5]

THE FIRST OF FOUR BOOKS PURPORTING TO CONTAIN JESUS’ ‘LOST TEACHINGS’

The introductory chapter of this 1986 book states, “there is little question that there ARE lost teachings of Jesus, many of them given in secret, that are vitally important to each of us. Clues as to their existence abound, many in plain sight (for those who have eyes to see), starting right under our noses in the New Testament!... in proportion to the number of occasions on which Jesus is said to have taught, a surprisingly small number of verses record just what those teachings were… Luke also relates the story of Jesus’ walk with the disciples on the road to Emmaus where, ‘starting with Moses and going through all the prophets, he explained to them the passages throughout the scriptures that were about himself.’ … At least twelve more passages throughout the Gospels show Jesus teaching but so not record his words. Still other passages—at least ten---recount some of Jesus’ words but imply that not all of what he said is recorded… Surely he said more… By inference, other teaching seems to be missing as well. Jesus had a number of disciples in his inner circle other than the twelve apostles---Mary, Martha and Lazarus of Bethany, Joseph of Arimathea, and Nicodemus, a Pharisee of considerable stature, are mentioned by name. All of these are close friends and followers of the Master, yet we have no record of how they became his intimates.” (Pg. xx-xxii)

It continues, “A well-known gap in the Gospels and Church history is the childhood chronology and the seventeen missing years of Jesus… My research on Jesus’ journey to the East during the seventeen unaccounted-for years is presented in ‘The Lost Years of Jesus,’ published in 1984… Jesus’ post-resurrection teaching also deserves closer scrutiny. Much of what he said to his apostles after Easter morn is missing… But another facet of his teaching was still to come. After he was apparently finished his mission… he was ‘taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight,’ within a year he reappears to raise up and tutor the apostle Paul, and sixty years later he gives to John his Book of Revelation… It is to these two instances of progressive revelation that we should pay close attention. That the Lord desired to add a new dimension to the already established teaching and that, in the case of Paul, he needed a messenger schooled well enough and empowered by himself to address the Gentiles is evident.” (Pg. xxiii-xxiv)

It adds, “we must consider the possibility that Jesus was in constant communion with [Paul] for a period of years, and personally taught him his entire message… I believe examination of the scriptures shows that the full story of Paul’s journey to apostleship, and consequently what Christ taught him along the way, is recorded neither in Acts nor in his epistles… Some have suggested that the three years after his conversion when he ‘went off to Arabia at once and later went straight back from there to Damascus’ were spent in meditation---to prepare his message. I believe this was a period of daily intercourse with Jesus who gave it to him intimations of the Spirit, a message to preach for the two-thousand-year dispensation, and mysteries of God that, as he said, were ‘not lawful for a man to utter.’ … Paul’s letters do not illumine his gospel as much as they might since they focus on specific doctrinal points rather than undertake systematically set forth his Good News. Furthermore, we do not even possess all of his letters.” (Pg. xxiv-xxvi)

It continues, “The age that initiated the Christian dispensation was one of a high degree of literacy… It is therefore difficult to believe that only two of the twelve [apostles], Matthew and John, would have written at length about their Master… the only other writings in the New Testament attributed to the apostles are brief letters by Peter, James, and John, and the Book of Revelation.” (Pg. xxx) It adds, “two thousand years after [the book of] Hebrews was written, a giant question mark still hangs over it. Who wrote it? Perhaps Jesus---at least in part. For who else but the Son of God would have known that Melchizedek was ‘made like unto the Son of God’ or that Jesus himself was ‘made an high priest forever after the Order of Melchizedek’? Unless, of course, the Master Jesus Christ dictated the epistle either to his messenger Paul of to another.” (Pg. xxxix)

The Foreword explains, “In these four volumes we bring you the most precious instruction we have received for lifetimes from our Good Friend and the Shepherd of our souls. While the words and images may not be those Christ used two thousand years ago, you will find the heart of the message he imparted on the road to Emmaus; at Bethany with Mary, Martha and Lazarus… in the Temple at Jerusalem; and on the Mount of Transfiguration with Peter, James, and John---as well as the message he whispered in the ear of Paul.” (Pg. lxiv-lxv)

‘Mark Prophet’ then explains, “I tan when the Master Jesus speaks though me. I’ve been known to get a tan so deep that I looked as if I’d been down in Mexico!... I actually get a tan from the Light released in a dictation or in my meditations with the Holy Spirit…” (Pg. 12-13)

He asserts, “Origen of Alexandria… was the first great theologian of the Church, whose doctrines were later anathematized… Fragments of his extraordinary writings reveal many of the Lost Teachings of Jesus that our Lord pgave to him through his meditation on the scriptures.” (Pg. 32) He adds, “There isn’t anything that Jesus did that can’t be duplicated today.” (Pg. 62) He states, “Hebrews 7:3 is a crack in the stone wall of an adamant doctrine. And through that crack all the Ascended Masters of the Great White Brotherhood step through the veil to deliver humanity from the stonewalling of a false theology!” (Pg. 69)

He says, “Therefore you ask, ‘What is the Christ consciousness?’ Well, after careful thought I would say that it is a state of Love which, once having attained to it, and not before, you will know it is Christ’s own.” (Pg. 129) Later, he explains, “Some people say to me, ‘How much time did you spend preparing your sermon?’ Why, I don’t spend any time at all preparing my sermon! I never think of a single idea, because I work strictly with my Holy Christ Self. And my Holy Christ Self knows already what you have need of, what I have need of, what we all have need of---and our need is a togetherness, not a separation.” (Pg. 155-156)

He says of transubstantiation, “I don’t think you should feel that you’re eating the living flesh of the physical body of Jesus… or that you’re drinking his physical blood. I think you should accept transubstantiation as the changing of the sacrament into the SPIRITUAL Body and the SPIRITUAL Blood of Christ… And this is the mystical significance of the ritual.” (Pg. 157-158)

He states, “The Great White Brotherhood is sacred for many reasons. First of all, because it has never been polluted and cannot be polluted. It is impossible for anyone to join it. Only those who are initiated into it can become identified with it… we are speaking of a bond between the Ascended Masters and their unascended chelas (disciples), of the communion of saints in heaven with the saints on earth, and of the cooperative adventure of angels, elementals, the Sons of God and mankind… The term ‘Great White Brotherhood’ is not racial; it refers to the spiritual body of world servers, their auras purified, their garments white, who serve humanity from the level of the Ascended Masters (the same level from which the Ascended Master Jesus Christ functions) and the level of the angelic beings. It is certainly not intended to supplant Christ. It IS Christ in action. In fact, it is Christ’s Mystical Body.” (Pg. 168)

He asserts, “Jesus did all kinds of miracles. Mother Mary can do miracles. I know this from a personal standpoint. I’ve seen her do it. In fact, you might be surprised---Paolo Veronese, now the Ascended Master Paul the Venetian, he can do miracles, too. And what’s more, YOU can do miracles!---but you don’t even know it. They had a momentum, you see.” (Pg. 201)

He asks, “How can you prove this is the Lost Teaching? How can any twentieth-century man, or woman, however inspired, claim to have discovered it? … Well, you admit it, it’s true. You could never prove it… It’s a fact that this file DOES explain many of the enigmatic and cryptic sayings of Jesus and Paul… And it begins to dawn upon you how much of the Bible is really in there.” (Pg. 223-224)

He says, “Jesus’ Lost Teachings must have been along these lines. They must have included an understanding of his life and revolutionary message later taken out of context by only God knows who---causing endless confusion. And many of the keys in this file weren’t even hinted at in the Bible. But they very well could have been part of Christ’s hidden wisdom… Karma and reincarnation---now that was a major part of the Lost Teachings… Something you’d always suspected even before you discovered Jesus had gone to India and the Far East. You don’t know whether you actually BELIEVE you lived before. But it’s as logical as any other explanation of the afterlife, and the ‘before life’… In fact, it’s THE missing link---answering many questions that for scholars and the faithful alike have ended at the proverbial brick wall.” (Pg. 224-225)

He continues, “The burden of proof is on modern Christianity as a whole… It’s missing more pieces than the butler’s alibi… How are the Christians… or anyone… ever going to prove that THEY have all the essentials of Jesus’ teaching? Or that our file … DOESN’T contain the Lost Teachings of Jesus? Even if you could never prove conclusively that you HAD uncovered the Lost Teachings, no one could prove you hadn’t… the odds that are good that some people will BELIEVE that what’s in your file IS the Lost Teachings.” (Pg. 226-227)

This book may interest those interested in ‘alternative,’ non-orthodox portrayals of the teachings of Jesus.

[MizzSandie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Didn't find anything new in this book or anything old that was put in a different light. No lost teachings of Jesus that I could find or that was clearly stated. It seemed more like Prophets speaking and teaching, not Jesus' voice. Not that they necessarily differ too much. I believe in the Christmind that we can develop and gain acces to, and I too believe that Jesus has been misunderstood and things have been omitted or changed, and that he probably believed in and taught about reincarnation and karma and a whole lot of other things that we'll probably never know, but that each of us will have to decide for ourselves.
The problem with this book is that in my opinion it pretends to be something it's not. It pretends to uncover a large chunk of the mystery around Jesus and it didn't.
Not to me anyhow. I agreed with Prophet on several issues (but not all), but to me it was just the basics, so a bit redundant. I didn't come away from it with new ideas or new way of putting old ideas or more reflected or in touch with my truth.
Maybe it's because I'm not a Bible fanatic and I've long ago come to the conclusion that it's a book written by humans for humans and that it is not the only Source to knowledge of God. And of course it can be read and interpreted different ways; even to support reincarnation and karma.
And I think that just like with everything else we cannot trust anything just by the authority it claims to have - we have to constantly ask and feel within ourselves, wether it holds truth for us. Not as a whole, but in the parts.
What do you believe?
This statement; what does it mean to you? Is that what you think? How you'd explain it?
The answers lie within ourselves, often prodded and hinted at from external sources (that we attract it that is put in our path), and whatever truth is holds depends on how much and what we are ready to see.

And I guess I've just already seen this; God is a loving God; we are Beings of power that are responsible for what we manifest; the karma law works for all and to balance things out and ensure our growth and learning; Jesus' words and teachings aren't defined by scholars and enclosed in the Bible - Jesus speaks. Still. To anyone who will listen.
Which is why I find it pointless to put so much value on the specific words in the Bible, as Prophet also does. Reinterpreting and rehashing them.
Yes there is so much MORE, not just to be understood by this one source, but to find, to hear, to learn - by other sources too! Don't stare blindly at the Bible, it doesn't hold the keys, it is not THE door, just open your mind and heart to Love, to God, to yourself.
And you will find your answers. And they will come through many doors and many voices. Listen. Feel. Know.

[Sharon E.]

OK, so far I am a little mystified that Mark and Elizabeth Prophet refer to themselves as the "two witnesses"in their introduction! I am reading with a lot of skepticism because so far I don't see any lost teachings, just their philosophy with very questionable references to support. I'll change this review when I finish. A little hard for me to take seriously.

[Andromeda · Rating 3 out of 5]

I read this book almost 25 years ago. I have just re-read. It is still as refreshing as it was then. The "The Past is Prologue" and the "Forword" at the beginning of the book form the important part of the text, laying the foundation for the authors' views on spirituality, Christ and Christianity.

[Erin · Rating 1 out of 5]

Just plain weird

[Micky Livingston · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well written and easy to comprehend. Elizabeth does a good job bringing the reader into the book and allowing one to think about what is or what could be

[Alewyn · Rating 1 out of 5]

Asco...