The Second Coming of Reb Yhshwh: The Rabbi Called Jesus Christ [Paperback]

Carlos Suares (Author)

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Publication Date: October 1, 1994

Rabbi called Jesus Christ is happening right now, as our consciousness is raised to the awareness that we are each in Him, and always have been. Beginning with a discussion of the pitfalls that the Bible and other holy scriptures have suffered during centuries of mistranslation, Suares presents the code by whiche the Bible can be deciphered so that we can better understand its revelations. He untanlges much of the text that has led people to fear and blind submission rather than true faith. Much of this is accomplished through his discussion of the relationship between Reb YHSHWH(Yod-Hay-Sheen-Waw-Hay) and Peter. Suares also presents eight propositions that can bring us closer to Reb YHSHWH. He includes a discussion of Gnosticism and Docetism, examing in particular G.R.S. Mead's The Hymn of Jesus and The Vision of The Cross. Suares concludes with meditations on The Gospels According to Thomas, which he believes to be the text that most convincingly proves the extra-temporal origin of the Rabbi's consciousness.

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

Product Details

• Paperback: 240 pages
• Publisher: Red Wheel / Weiser; First Edition edition (October 1, 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0877288186
• ISBN-13: 978-0877288183
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.5 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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5.0 out of 5 stars An idiosyncratic presentation of mystical Christianity., August 31, 1997

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This review is from: The Second Coming of Reb Yhshwh: The Rabbi Called Jesus Christ (Paperback)

Carlo Suares was a biblical scholar and extraordinary student of the Kabbalah who developed a very personal, idiosyncratic, and compelling vision of mystical Christianity. He speaks in beautiful language, imagery, and poetical mystical concepts to the modern seeker of a genuine relationship with the divine.

His focus in this book is the so-called second coming of Jesus, or the Reb Yhshwh, as he insists on calling him (doing the Reb, he says, the courtesy of calling him by his real name, as well as attempting to shed, by this simple act, the overlay of Hellenistic mystery religion grafted on to Yhshwh's thoroughly semitic teaching by the Hellenistically educated and influenced evangelists, Paul in particular). To him, the second coming is an immanent event in the here and now, happening within consciousness. It is a dual movement towards monistic consciousness while still being rooted in the personal perspective of the individual. A non-dual awareness and vision of form and emptiness, the noumenal and the phenomenal, the sacred and profane, unity and diversity, results from this movement inconsciousness. He provides straightforward, as well as interpretive and Kabbalistic, references to both the Canonical and Gnostic gospels to make his point, consistently using the figure of Peter, "the Rock," in both his roles as founder of the hierarchical church and the disciple who's consciousness was most rooted in materialism, as a counterpoint to the consciousness Yhshwh enables and opens in humanity. That consciousness has much in common with that described in the literature of other non-dual mystical philosophies, such as Advaita Vedanta, Mahayana Buddhism, and Hindu Tantra, but Suares' spin on it remains very much his own and never sinks to the level of the generic spiritual insight.

This is a complex and wonderful book, challenging the reader, and going way beyond the superficial treatments of mystical Christianity that are currently popular in the New Age press. Suares seeks not to convince, but rather, to allow his readers to think, feel, and experience directly, for themselves, in a spiritual fashion. He seeks to give a taste of Gnosis, the Gnosis offered by Reb Yhshwh, whom he unabashedly claims as his spiritual inspiration and teacher, while thoroughly rejecting mainstream churches of every persuasion.

In the current renaissance of interest in both historical and contemporary Gnosticism, Carlo Suares is a name that is not well known, but needs to be.

- Tom Nash ([e-mail])