
The Gospel Of Love
The Gospel of Love is a sleeper. It was written before it's time, but nonetheless will add to the legacy of Jesus in the decades to come. The Gospel of Love was described to me as a shocking, factually based work, refreshing in its honesty and daring blend of fact with fiction- the Da Vinci Code on steroids- the untold history of religions in one book. What intrigued me about reading The Gospel of Love was the idea that all major religions share a common source and ultimately merge and lead us to the same place in our spiritual evolution. Jesus learns this firsthand during his well-traveled early life ("Eighteen missing years" from age 12 to age 30 in Bible) as he learns about the origin of all the ancient religions, traveling to Egypt, Greece, Alexandria, Babylon, India, Kashmir, and back to the Jordan River at age 30 to share his mission with the world- the Gospel of Love. The Gospel consists of one teaching: to love the Lord thy God with all thy soul, and that only the act of love takes us closer to God. All else is nonsense. Throughout this epic account on the origin of religion is one of the greatest love stories I've ever read, the love story of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. I've always believed that Mary Magdalene was married to Jesus and this account of the life of Jesus more than accounts for this possibility. It is a passionate love story that parallels the Gnostic idea of the Goddess Sophia (Wisdom) descending into the Netherlands to bring Light to the underworld, yet the Goddess is captured by Darkness and it is only through the Son of God descending into hell, that brings the Goddess back into the Light.
