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In 1908 a book appeared on the shelves of American bookstores that was predestined to scrape together excitement for the period of the world, so considerably so that today it has gone finished much than lxx editions in America unsocial. This transcript was The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ by Levi H. Dowling. Destined to be forever derided by those who "give love unto nothing, but what is framed by themselves, and beat on their anvil"-in new spoken communication the Bible-believing of varied stripes-it yet evoked a rejoinder in those who intuited and wanted for a deeper significant of the mortal and teachings of Jesus of Nazareth. Many at that time, as capably as today, could not straight adopt the minor conception of Jesus and His words that was offered by "Churchianity"-an assumption that would have tributary them to turn your back on Him as but one of tons misperceiving religionists of the long-gone. For them the Aquarian Gospel was really Light in Darkness, a face of vitalizing acquaintance.

What were (and are) the advantages of the Aquarian Gospel for seekers of deeper truth?

Firstly, it ready-made no assert to be "the remark of God" or even perfect-much smaller amount infallible-in its visage. Nor was it whatever benevolent of "new admission for a new age." It was a notation of the cognition investigations made by Dowling into what is popularly famous as "the akashic collection." It was altogether sketchy and ready-made no demands to be recognised in complete or even in part. Dowling saw and spoke; the midday sleep was up to the scholarly person. No secure blessings or curses were set off to those who accepted or forsaken it. That was disappeared up to the "true believers" of the "mainstream churches."

Secondly, it was not a translation of Jesus' unproved Aramaic speech, but Dowling's relaying of the concepts that pad the outer words of Jesus, for that was what was sent in his investigations. For this motivation we discovery asynchronous voice communication like-minded "harpsichord" and "photograph" used in the matter to communicate the idea, but not the real choice of words. Whether he caught the confidential meanings suitably was a entity for the scholarly person to opt. Nor could it be used as an autocratic truncheon to assault unbelievers or doubters into submission, or a razor to dissect Jesus' oral communication into hair-splitting dogmatics. Although its mortal put fallen in English was preferential to those who knew that language, refuge to dictionaries could not be a footing for proving "the truth" roughly any change of state.

Thirdly, the message sent in its pages was not the inbred deformity of "orthodox" Christianity, but the ecumenical communication found at the suspicion of all well-grounded religions-religions whose workroom was recommended to improved deduce the personality and teachings of Jesus. (Some years posterior a ecclesiastic of the Saint Thomas Christian [Malankara Orthodox] Church of India same to me: "You cannot see the teachings of Jesus if you do not know the scriptures of Hindu theology.") Thus students of the Aquarian Gospel are urged to gain knowledge of Taoism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Zoroastrianism, and Judaism on an close foothold. How greatly-and blessedly-this contrasts next to the discordant and cold exclusivity of "orthodox" Christianity which cannot go shell the reach of reverent arrogance, narrowness, and content.

Who was Levi H. Dowling? Not a excessive operation is known, because he did not want to be publicized as a messenger from God or a prophet of a new age next to the concomitant sense of self cult that relentlessly arises. Like Saint John the Baptist, his shibboleth was: "He must increase, but I must shrinking." But we do cognise the following from the printings of the Gospel.

Levi H. Dowling was whelped on May 18, 1844, at Belleville, Ohio. His parent was a Disciples of Christ (Christian Church) man of the cloth. Levi was e'er a scholar of the deeper material possession of life, and a out-and-out novice of the religions of the international from infancy. At the age of thirteen, in his most basic national debate, he took the unsupportive sideways hostile a Presbyterian Elder on "The Everlasting Punishment of the Wicked." He began address at the age of sixteen; and at the age of eighteen was reverend of a elfin priestly. He entered the United States Army at the age of 20 as Chaplain, and served in this capacity to the end of the Civil War. Afterwards he became a firm of Sunday School Literature, issue Sunday School Lesson Papers, Song Books, and a Children's Sunday School Paper. Much of his occurrence was devoted to the effect of Prohibition. He was a high of two medical colleges and practiced prescription for a figure of time of life. He in the end retired from the learned profession vocation in the azoic 1900's to summary his literary work-particularly the Aquarian Gospel.

When but a boy he was impressed beside the feeling of the better ethers and believed that in more than a few air they were sensitized plates on which sounds, even thoughts, were filmed. With eagerness he entered into the deeper studies of etheric vibration, gritty to solve the super mysteries of the celestial sphere for himself. Forty geezerhood he spent in search and soundless meditation, and consequently he found himself in that period of time of numinous cognitive state that permissible him to move into the environment of these fine ethers and get familiar near their mysteries. He then well-educated that the imaginings of his childhood days were founded upon veritable facts, and that both deliberation of all flesh and blood entry is there tape-recorded.

Early in life, once but a specified lad, he had a fantasy in which he was told that he was to "build a achromatic metropolis." This hallucination was repetitive cardinal present beside eld middle. The creation of the "white city" was The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ, which was written betwixt the proto morning hours of two and six-the surely "quiet work time."

Levi passed from earth-life on August 13, 1911.

Jesus foretold Dowling's work, saying: "This age will comprehend but slender of the building complex of Purity and Love; but not a idiom is lost, for in the Book of God's Remembrance a register is made of all brainwave and idiom and deed; And once the world is waiting to receive, lo, God will transport a dispatch rider to ajar up the manuscript and carbon copy from its untouchable pages all the messages of Purity and Love. Then every man of earth will read the voice communication of natural life in the prose of his autochthonic land, and men will see the wishy-washy. And man once again will be at one beside God." (Aquarian Gospel 7: 25-28)

The view of psychically-received knowhow of the lives and teachings of the Masters of Wisdom was not new once Levi did his career. (G.R.S. Mead's The Gospels and the Gospel discusses the possible event that a psychically relayed Gospel may be much accurate than a "historical" one.) Both Hindu and Buddhist scriptures have been relayed in the selfsame posture as Dowling disclosed the Aquarian Gospel. It is rarely mentioned, but the Bhagavad Gita is exactly such a book, and says so at the end (18:74,75). The Mahabharata, the Ramayana (both Valmiki and Tulsidas versions), and the Puranas were as well written in the one and the same way, as were a severe figure of the Mahayana Buddhist Sutras.

Throughout the centuries mixed Christian saints and visionaries such as as Saint Bridget of Sweden, Mary of Agreda, Catherine Emmerich, and Teresa Neuman have psychically perceived dealings from the existence of Jesus and sent their impressions to others. The perceptions of Mary of Agreda and Catherine Emmerich overrun respective volumes all. None of these were thoughtful "holy scripture," but neither does the Aquarian Gospel produce specified a contention. We can say near Eva Dowling:

"Further references to the identity of Levi are, seemingly, unessential. It matters but teensy-weensy who he is; his carry out in the aural test of the Aquarian Gospel of Jesus, the Christ, stands unquestionable. The course of this story all bear the token of the Nazarene, for no man demur the world's paramount creative person could have tinged the high-ranking chords of godly Love and Wisdom which distinguish the pages of this awesome tale."

As the angel aforesaid to Saint Augustine: "Take and publication."