The Lost Teachings of Jesus: Finding the God Within [Mass Market Paperback]

Elizabeth Clare Prophet (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 1993

How to put the teachings of Jesus into action to meet the challenges of life today. Includes effective techniques to access the creative power of the higher self.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
• Publisher: Summit University Press; 3rd edition (January 1, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0916766934
• ISBN-13: 978-0916766931
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.1 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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14 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Lost History, January 12, 2001

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This review is from: The Lost Teachings of Jesus: Finding the God Within (Mass Market Paperback)

History or popular fiction, what should we call it. All the teachings of Christ that we see in the bible were reported by disciples who were not as intelligent and spiritual as Christ was, so they might have written what they understood and might have left out things which they couldnt comprehend. Again, the Christian religion that we have today is greatly different from what Christ might or might not have wanted it to be. The influence of the Roman Catholic church, on the religion made Catholics belive is something, this inturn made Protestants believe in something else though both the sects are based on the same preachings. So what we have now is popular belief and not FACT. So when you read this book, read with an unbiased viewpoint and you will learn more. It is said that Christ learned and close to mastered the greatest yoga which invokes the GOD in a person. Christ's teachings are similar to the teachings in the Bhagavat Gita (spiritual Hindu text which existed much before Christ) and the teachings of Gautama Buddha(existed much before Christ). And coming to reincarnation, the proof which exists in the current day world is sufficient to enhance the belief of a believer in reincarnation. But a person who does not believe in reincarnation will remain a non believer no matter how much proof is provided.

2.0 out of 5 stars They sure lost it, February 11, 2011

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Ashtar Command "Seeker" (Stockholm, Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Lost Teachings of Jesus: Finding the God Within (Mass Market Paperback)

THIS IS A REVIEW OF THE FOURTH VOLUME IN A SERIES. AMAZON MAY HAVE PLACED IT AT THE PRODUCT PAGES OF THE OTHER VOLUMES, AS WELL.

"The lost teachings of Jesus" is a series of four books attributed to Elizabeth Clare Prophet. However, it seems that most of the material consists of sermons or speeches by her husband, Mark L. Prophet. The Prophets were the leaders of Summit Lighthouse, a controversial new religious movement. Both are now deceased. Their group has also called itself Church Universal and Triumphant. The message of Summit Lighthouse is highly eclectic, and sounds like a free-wheeling combination of traditional Christianity and New Age teachings. Theosophy and Alice Bailey are other sources of inspiration. The most direct ancestor of Summit Lighthouse, however, is the I AM Activity of Guy and Edna Ballard. The group is also notorious for its anti-Communism and generally right-wing political stances. Some detractors refer to them as "the Montana doomsday cult".

Elizabeth Clare Prophet's most interesting book, "The lost years of Jesus" is reviewed by me elsewhere. The four volumes of "The lost teachings of Jesus" are marketed as sequels to that book. Unfortunately, they are nothing of the sort. The series is mostly a collection of incoherent and rambling sermons. Even the message of Summit Lighthouse gets lost somehow. This fourth volume is particularly bad. It does contain the bizarre conspiracy theories of this particular group, however.

Apparently, the Prophets believed that many humans are really counterfeit creations, a kind of humanoid robots controlled from within by the fallen angels mentioned in the apocryphal Book of Enoch. These fallen angels in human disguise have wormed themselves into positions of power, and are behind the economic crises, wars, population control and even price manipulations of wheat! (Is this where David Icke got his ideas from?) The book contains some mantras or "decrees" which can be used to protect you and yours from the influence of these "mechanized men" by invoking the "Electronic Presence of Jesus Christ".

Talk about loosing it. I'm afraid I have to give this book two stars...

6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Just an opinion, October 5, 2005

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O. Dobson "On the right path" (Boston, MA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Lost Teachings of Jesus: Finding the God Within (Mass Market Paperback)

I have read (and continue to read) many books on the whole 'New Age', including books about your higher self, the (Christ) power within,Karma, how thoughts create responses in the universal and so on. I have read the 'Lost Years of Jesus' as well. I think the 'Lost Years of Jesus' even if it cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Jesus traveled in other parts of the world, it at least opens the possibility of that; therefore it opens the very intriguing and interesting possibility that in fact all religions have the same basic fundamentals. (That in its self is a huge and very interesting subject worth of investigation).
Anyway, the series of the Lost Teachings of Jesus, I think, are just very long rumblings going on and on. So far (I am still trying to finsh reading these books just because I never quit) I have not found ONE teaching that would get me to say "aha". The books just ramble on and on about how Jesus (and Christ) spirit is within, that we all are a drop of the ocean, a fragment of the Father and the universal creator, that the world we perceive as our reality is a mask, that disease is a cause of spiritual imbalance and so on and on it goes.
Most of the teachings Prophet refers to, at are not lost at all - they are right in the Bible - and he just quotes the Bible and St. Peter's writings but other than that I found nothing of real value in these books. As a matter of fact I almost stopped reading infuriated when Prophet suggests that cancer is a result of avarice and selfishness. So is that why young children get cancer? They are selfish and avar?. Give me a break! That karma may play a role, maybe - but Prophet is definitely in a subject he does not quite get here! A lot of what's going on, a lot of death and pain is about 'learning lessons' we as souls selected to learn. I hope and pray I have not selected (when I was a soul and choose to incarnate) to learn about loss. Read some books on spirit after life (read Michael Newton)
Life is a class-room. Life is about working on your spirit and energy to be closer to the Jesus like image (a perfect balance made of love, gentleness, forgiveness, understanding, non-judgmental, accepting of ALL humans, life is about developing powers to become healers and teachers and a lot more).
But none of this is clearly written in these so called 'lost teachings' books. Prophet mentions the secret Mysteries, teachings that Jesus spelled out any for a very select few (as Peter). Well, a lot of people who are very evolved in their spirituality, talk about the secret Mysteries and pretend the 'have it'. If Jesus considered that we as humans are not ready to receive the Mysteries then we maybe are not ready and trust me Prophet's 'lost teachings' books are not going to shed any light on that. Just take a second and look around you at the level we sank as human race - think of the black cloud of hate and violence we are sinking into more and more. We are at war and we kill each other in the name of 'Justice' and 'Religion'. Are we ready for Jesus' Mysteries? I don't think so!. Maybe a very few.
Find your own path, meditate, pray that peace, love and forgiveness covers this planet and maybe read other books - the 'Lost Teaching of Jesus' are not gonna do it! May the spirit of God be with you in your quest.