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The New Man

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The new man describes clearly the process of personal integration as Jesus taught in the gospels. It is an excellent guide on the difficult path to completion. It gives the student an understanding of some of the inner experience that take place as one evolves spriitually. It describes the tempation, the bewilderment, and confusion that is experienced as part of the process. Those hungering for light will find this book and invaluable guide in understanding they are not crazy, but just experiencing what is necessary as one evolve to wholeness, to peace of mind, to completion within self

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...that turned over a new leaf in my thinking. From my then very unclear sense of the meaning of religion, reading "The New Man" was a truly galvanizing experience. It speaks not of faith in the usual out-of-reach sense nor the hoped reward of Heaven beyond one's death. It speaks of knowing, during one's life.

Dr. Nicoll illuminates the beautifully subtle teaching of Christ as a way to complete one's inner evolution - to become literally a "new" man or woman, pretty much discarding the old false self. To as he says "overcome one's own inner violence" and change inwardly seems a deceptively major task, but a hopeful one.

This is a book that will open ideas for certain readers.

Christianity is born again as a wisdom tradition, thanks to Nicoll's perspective on the Gospel parables.

This small book is an excellent guide for those who are integrating the charism of Christianity as a source of personal evolution in an age when religion is employed to divide us against ourselves and others.

Highly recommended!

This is one of my favorite books of all time and one that I can reread over and over. Poignant interpretations of the Christian scriptures. Before I read this book, and The Mark, also by Nicoll, I had a very negative relation to these scriptures due to the constant rote scriptural readings during my Catholic upbringing. This book turn my mind around and gave me real insight into the profundity of these meaningful parables.

If you are hoping to deepen your understanding of Christianity, of the TRUE message of Jesus Christ - and if you have gotten lost in the church interpretations - this book has the potential to change your spiritual understanding, and, as a result, your life.

Having attended study groups discussing Emmet Foxs' "Sermon on the Mount", I was pointed towards Dr. Nicoll's work "The New Man". As a student of esoteric literature, I was further enlightened by possible explanations of the meanings behind bible parables. Dr. Nicoll also had a long association with Ouspensky and the Fourth Way school, and his manner of writing is considerably more digestible, and therefor helpful, than much of the literature written by Ouspensky himself regarding Fourth Way work. I would also recommend Nicoll's "The Mark", and "Living Time" for anyone who finds "The New Man" to be of personal assistance in understanding fundamental mystical concepts drawn from christian writing.

This book is fantastic for anyone who wants the real truth about the bible. If you want to see the bible in the psychological rather than the literal, then you need this book.