The Mystical Life of Jesus

The Original 1929 Text

From the introduction

It is a fact that very often truth is far more interesting than fiction. It is particularly so in regard to the life of Jesus. Perhaps it is due to the Cosmic Cycle through which man is passing, or perhaps it is due solely to man’s intellectual development, but man has become more interested in the life of the Great Redeemer than he has been in any other period since the dawn of Christianity. In my contact with seekers for spiritual truths, covering twenty-five years, I have found that inevitably the student of mysticism, metaphysics, psychology, and occultism is drawn to a more minute and analytical study of the life and teachings of the Christ, Jesus. His whole career, His doctrines, parables, miracles, and illuminating inferences, gradually fascinate and attune the spiritual side of each mystical student, and he becomes restless until he fathoms the mysteries of His life. Why there are any mysteries in the life of Jesus is revealed in chapters in this book. After many years of careful study and research, even to the extent of visiting the Holy and mystical places of Europe, Palestine, and Egypt, I am still unprepared to say whether the Holy Fathers who authorized the incomplete, partly erroneous, and greatly veiled life of Jesus as it appears in the Christian Bible, were justified in their actions or not. Certain it is, not all are prepared even today to comprehend, nor apprehend, the mystical significance of most of the mysteries associated with pristine Christianity. That there are thousands, perhaps several millions, now ready for the truth is undeniable; but even so, they are but a small fraction of those who have accepted and found Peace and Salvation through the offerings of the Christian church.