The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ: The Philosophic and Practical Basis of the Religion of the Aquarian Age of the World and of the Church Universal

by Levi H. Dowling

ISBN: 0875161685

Genres: Religion, Spirituality, Christianity, Nonfiction, Mysticism, Philosophy, Metaphysics

274 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1908

Reviews

[Jason Hull · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of the best books ever written... seems to be a more complete and accurate new testament. Contains Jesus' history from birth to death including the "missing years"

Written for our day... the Aquarian age. Transcribed by Levi Dowling in the early 1900. It may contain a few errors, but certainly far fewer than the bible. Even if you don't think the book is factual or historical, it still is full of good principles and nuggets of truth that had been hidden since Jesus Christ's ministry. Principles trump facts and data anyhow... look for the principles.

[Nicole · Rating 3 out of 5]

Okay, I give up. I can't finish the whole thing. The writer asserts a passage in his channeling where he has Mary asking the temple guards to help her look for her son who is "a fair-haired boy, with deep blue eyes." Sorry, Levi, you haven't seen the Truth. Jesus wasn't white. Your spirit or spirits lies to you or what you heard was your own ego.

[for-much-deliberation ... · Rating 4 out of 5]

An interesting 'gospel' of Jesus Christ which also includes those 18 years not accounted for in the main stream bible... A good read for the open minded...

[Katrina · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's funny how 1 class in College can literally change your life and perspective on spirituality. This book does the same exact thing. It's certainly not for those feeding off of Milk and not ready to graduate to meat!.. The best way to describe this book is how everyones "GOD" and their beliefs are similiar in so many ways. From Christianty to Buddism, this book finds a way to bring them all together and to explain how it all works.

[W.C.]

I'm surprised there isn't more goodreads entries on this thing. One of the great examples of automatic writing, Levi transcribed this book about Jesus's life in the early 1900s, and it became very influential in the Jesus Freak movements of the 60s.

THe Urantia Book - OAHSPE - the Aquarian Gospel - and like half a dozen others, all have three major things in common: they all started religions, they were all created by automatic writing, and they were all written by doctors. Coincidence?

Medical school does something weird to people. I don't know what it is... yet.

[Asri Soleyn · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing book of wisdom.

I completed this book with a deep sense of satisfaction and fulfillment. So many gaps in my knowledge were filled. The clarity and wisdom this book has provided will stay with me forever.

[Ron Grunberg · Rating 5 out of 5]

For a while, I'd looked for a larger Gospel story than those contained in the regular bible.

Here it is.

Awesome.

[Dave Romain · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent book for anyone interested in the Akashic records and the life of one of the Greatest of All Avatars.

[Hamza · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a very interesting book. I don't give it an ounce of validity, but I like how it's both so similar to and so different from the gospels in the Bible. I found it a bit cheesy that the author tried to mesh Christianity with Eastern religious beliefs, but it's relatively well-executed for what it is. Recommended to anyone who, like me, just enjoys reading random and even obscure books related to religion.

[Stephen Austen · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is an astonishing read, and I have read it several times over the years. I don't know if we could ever prove the veracity of this book; how accurate it is, or verifiable in terms of ancient records. We may never know the absolute truth. however, The Aquarian gospel touches the soul in a way that is profoundly beautiful like no other account of the life of Christ. If this book is not a true account of the life of Jesus, then it should be. (less)

[James Kassing · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing journal that feels very true

I have read this multiple times as my soul hungers for a deeper understanding of Christ.
It takes much of the standard gospels and adds additional information not seen anywhere else.

[David]

The most holy book I've ever read. Hands down. The highest heights. :]

[Richard · Rating 4 out of 5]

Meh. It is what it is. It's a fanciful product of an overactive spiritualist's mind. Perhaps some thought-provoking bits here that may come into use in the future.

[Jason Beaudoin · Rating 5 out of 5]

Best book I’ve ever read, bar none.

[Jorges · Rating 5 out of 5]

It dealt well with the unknown life of Jesus the Christ outside what the Christian bible wants us to believe of the life of Christ. Most of the condemnations are from the Christian 'elites' who hold to the notion that anything not contained in the bible is untrue; whereas the bible contains so many contractions and lack real truth about Jesus Christ.

This book dealt with Christ unknown life, especially from after his birth to appearing before the scholars in the 'temple' (synagogue) at age 12. Come to think of it, if such great detail is taken to record the news of his conception and birth (of a great master and son of God), common sense will require that such detail is also taken to document his life growth and activities. But no where in the bible can one find anything about his life before his ministry. All of a sudden, boom! (abracadabra) he appears again. It is not surprising, because there are records of his activities during this period, which the church authorities have access to and have in their possessions, but suppressed them so as to promote their indoctrination. But this Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ gave some detail accounts of the missing years of Christ and the concealed true account.

Like many books translated from the original texts, it though contains few misrepresentations. For instance Mary, claiming to describe Jesus to the guards at the synagogue when he was missing, "Have you seen Jesus, a fair-haired boy, with deep blue eyes,....". That could not have been an accurate translation. Jesus Christ was a Middle-Easterner of the Galilean of the Gentile race and of the Essene, not known for having blue eyes. Also, issue of whether Jesus Christ actually died on the cross is quite controversial and still debatable. There are discoveries that Jesus lived many years after the supposed crucifixion death, teaching his disciples out of the public eyes.

One thing which the book did not adequately deal with is his going into the wilderness. While the bible may want us to believe that Jesus was in the wilderness being tempted by 'Satan', the book should have done more in explaining that Jesus went into the wilderness to contemplate on how his dealing with the world would be. It was indeed a self examination between his lower self (his human deity) and his higher self (his cosmic and Godly deity) of what temptations awaiting in the world. It was NOT a 'contest between him and 'Satan'.

Not withstanding, the book is a good read of facts concerning the hidden life of Jesus Christ.

One thing I find this book rewarding is the distinction, that God is portrayed in Jesus Christ as compared to the biblical God. The God described in the bible (especially in the old testaments) is the God of Israel, not of the world, who is jealous and revengeful not merciful; at the slightest provocation and disobedience, severely punishes. But Jesus Christ that is portrayed in the Aquarian gospel is from a merciful Father God, who sees everyone as his creation, and has no favorites.

Readers may find The Mystical Life of Jesus by H. Spencer Lewis a good read too.

[Eva · Rating 4 out of 5]

Levi H. Dowling (1844-1911) född i Ohio, USA, var såväl predikant som läkare, och ägnade livet i övrigt åt meditation och att forskare i världens olika religioner. Originalet kom ut 1907-08.
Jag snubblade över den 3:e svenska upplagan, (tr. 1994; 1a svenska kom 1954). Svensk titel: Evangelium för en ny tid : Upptecknad ur Guds Minnesbok, även kallad Akasha-krönikan.

För mig som aldrig läst NT, är det lite märkligt, att hela texten känns helt bekant. Antagligen för att det är ett kulturarv som impregnerat oss på olika vägar. Märkligt, för att boken är över hundra år, men ändå känns så modern. Inte bara det att den har avsnitt om Jesu studieresor till bl a Indien, som inte finns i NT, utan mer att den kända texten har subtilt modifierad grundton, som passar utmärkt i dag.

Som det står på bokens baksida: "Oavsett hur föreliggande bok bedöms; som uppenbarelse, skönlitteratur eller som ett filosofiskt verk, så skänker det läsaren en upplevelse av stor skönhet"

[Jerry (Jai) T. Joseph · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jesus was His Name
Christ is His Consciousness
The Untold Story, Transcribed from the Akashic Records
Accounts for Jesus's Birth to Resurrection, with the Most Purposeful Story-Telling Details that is Missed from the Holy Bible (all versions)

Jesus Said it Best:
Only the TRUTH Shall set you FREE
Seek and you shall Find

#PurposefulSources #ProperPerspective #DivineBirthright #DivineFriendship | 777ADVENTURES

[Sean E · Rating 5 out of 5]

You have to be ready for this one. As a Christian it will fill some of the gaps left in the Bible as it pertains to Jesus' life and ministry. It explains his depth of his training, his mother's, John the Baptist and his mother's training. However, as a Christian, it will challenge many of your long-held beliefs about what the Christ mantle is and isn't.

[Ed R White · Rating 4 out of 5]

A pleasant read on the works of Jesus. It covered many intriguing aspects of his life, not seen in the Bible. The book, however, wasn't edited well—and I caught numerous typos that distracted me from the prose.

[Emily · Rating 5 out of 5]

I like this book. It reads like the New Testament and parallels it for much of the book, but there are new visions and different interpretations.

[Yosher “Dwight “ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Intriguing 🤔

[Papa Tylous · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's a very nice book which really teaches who Jesus was

[Jamie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Amazing!

This is a great writing of the accounts, and the divine truth of Jesus Christ radiating with the love of God.

[The Book Lady · Rating 4 out of 5]

Completely different perspective then what is taught in churches. Suddenly the parables seem to make more sense and I know what they mean by seek and ye shall find.

[Sheila Nelson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I LOVE THIS BOOK! This is told like a story and very easy to understand.

[Meli Leelan · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got bored half way through I wanted to read for personal research very interesting read

[Abdelrahman Nader · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's seems casual and easy to read ... though if you searched for the deeper meanings, you will find a lot.

[Jim Swike · Rating 3 out of 5]

It filled in some gaps not mentioned in the bible. Thought I would learn more. Maybe you will feel differently. Enjoy!

[Kat Starwolf · Rating 4 out of 5]

Questionable?

From the beginning, I so wanted to believe that this book might have been channeled directly from Yeshua. Of course, logically, how would one know that for sure? Ultimately, however, I wasn’t convinced that this book – channeled, though it is claimed to have been – is the true account of Yeshua’s or Jesus’s activities two thousand some odd years ago.

Or at least – not all of it. Some of it may be true, in the sense that as with many who have been regressed by psychotherapists/psychologists such as Michael Newton, Roger Woolger and hypnotherapists such as Dolores Cannon and others, those regressed remembered past lives with Jesus or remembered having been connected to him in some other way. Even the Sleeping Prophet, Edgar Cayce, did readings for many who claimed to have walked and worked with Jesus so long ago and therefore seemed to know things that they otherwise couldn’t have known.

So, yes, in that sense, it might be possible that someone who had either experienced a past life with and actually was privy to Jesus’s thoughts (because Jesus relayed those thoughts to this individual), this person could have reincarnated in the early 20th Century and then… remembered? Channeled? what they had experienced when incarnated in that lifetime with Jesus 2,000 years ago.

But the problem is that several things struck me as being off, the language used not withstanding. While, in my opinion, there were many points of contention, there was at least one if not more reference/s that strongly suggests that Jesus’s whole ministry was put forth by the Roman Government within about 40 years after his death, and then in the several hundred years leading up to the entrance of the Roman Church beginning in the 4th Century after Jesus’s death.

After all the research conducted by numerous Bible scholars over the years who have determined – based on voluminous amounts of research into whether Jesus was historical or not – it was ultimately determined by many scholars that the Roman Government concocted the Jesus story that can now be found in the Christian Bible or so-called ‘New Testament.’ Whether this is true remains to be seen. But the evidence seems to be overwhelmingly damning.

In fact, much of what is purported to have occurred to him as relayed by the Roman (Catholic) Church in their written communications amongst themselves and to others outside the Church and Roman government and even in the so-called ‘Gospels’ and other ‘canonized’ books of the New Testament, was shown by many Biblical and other scholars to be concocted.

(If you’re not convinced of this, do a search utilizing terms such as ‘Jesus was created by the Roman government’ or ‘the Roman Church’ or even ‘Did the Romans Invent Jesus?’ Even writers such Joseph Atwill.)

No, I’m not suggesting that Yehoshua/Yeshua wasn’t a legitimate historical figure. From all the research I’ve done – both in as well as outside the Bible – he was definitely real. Yet, whether he was what the Catholic Church claims he was, is questionable. And because it appears that the Church ‘fathers’ are really the ones who wrote the so-called ‘New’ Testament, as well as re-worded much of the Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament), how can anything claiming to be channeled (such as this book) truly be believable?

Aside from that, what most have not considered concerning some of Jesus’s reported words spoken in scriptures such as John 14:12-14 based on some of his alleged own words, even negate what we are told he actually believed. And these are contradictions WITHIN THE NEW TESTAMENT BIBLE ITSELF, almost as if the scribe recording the words in question hadn’t checked to ensure that what he had written didn’t conflict with other parts of both the New Testament as well as the Hebrew Scriptures or Old Testament.

The bottom line is that Jesus argued with the Pharisees and Sadducees, with the allegedly knowledgeable teachers of the Torah, ultimately telling them that their perception of how they were interpreting God’s purpose for man was all wrong. If one really pays attention to what is actually written in the Bible, one can see that, essentially, Jesus is saying that the so-called Law that was being promulgated by the Hebrew/Jewish elders and promoters of the Law was not only due to be replaced by a new ‘covenant,’ but was never accurate in the first place. And maybe that was WHY the so-called ‘Old Covenant’ was being replaced by something that made more sense.

However, while this book has been a valuable addition to my knowledge of biblical and so-called canonical lore, I don’t feel that the extraneous information not found in the traditional Gospels and other writings regarding Jesus, is truly accurate. My opinion of course, but my opinion nonetheless.

[Andy Febrico Bintoro · Rating 3 out of 5]

Gnostic

This is a gnostic gospel according to Christian religion, for the gospel was not canonical. The Aquarian gospel claimed as one of the primary source, but many things here not according to Jewish customs. The historical behind these stories also made a lot of questions.
Well, this is a long read, more than reading the book of psalms. The story consist of the childhood of Jesus, which on canonical gospels this is a blind spot. The Jesus seems adventuring asia, Europe, and Egypt and learn from many religions and traditions, including healing and magic. Then Jesus came back to Israel and begun the ministries.
Well, quite interesting but this source is not linear with many authorized sources.