By Stephen H. Provost,Stifyn Emrys

Who used to be Jesus? it's a query that has been requested and replied repeatedly and in lots of methods all through historical past. yet that allows you to even commence addressing this question, the individual of Jesus has to be positioned in historic and legendary context. as soon as this is often performed, a few really stunning solutions emerge. here's a guy who was once motive upon developing the dominion of God on the earth in his personal lifetime, a innovative chief with education within the mystical traditions of Egypt who may accept not anything under following within the footsteps of King Solomon, the pharaohs and the gods themselves.

The most up-to-date paintings from Stifyn Emrys examines not just Jesus yet figures starting from King Arthur to Moses, from Robin Hood to the Queen of Sheba. It presents a finished examine a ritual culture that spanned oceans and continents, centuries and millennia. Classical myths, old money owed and faerie stories are mined to bare the common topic at the back of them: the main of regeneration.

This is the essence of the Phoenix precept. it's not anything lower than the culture that supported historical kings of their kingdoms, preserved bloodlines throughout the a while and gave beginning to fashionable western faith. It associated monarchs to their land and guided the epic fight among the king and his selected successor - among wizard and knight, among sunlight and shadow.

Journey again to the backyard of Eden, then ahead with Gilgamesh and to the magical isle of Dilmun, with Jason and his staff at the Argo, with Mary Magdalene to the backyard tomb and with Arthur's knights looking for the Holy Grail. a lot of what you discover alongside the best way may be superb; a few issues will even be worrying. those that loved Sir James Frazer's "Golden Bough" will locate a lot of curiosity within the tapestry of fable, political intrigue and pagan ritual woven jointly in "The Phoenix Principle."

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