TABLE
OF CONTENTS
The
Wisdom Jesus and the Yoga Siddhas - Table of Contents
Prologue
by the author
Introduction
•
Questions
• Remarkable similarities
• Papal Encyclical “Faith and Reason”
• The Objectives of this book
Chapter 1: Modern Historical Research of Jesus and early Christianity
• From the Renaissance to Thomas Jefferson
• The Development of the Seven Pillars of Modern Historical
Biblical Research
• Methodology and Findings of Modern Critical Biblical Scholars
• Were the Gospels Inerrant and Inspired by God?
• Two Portraits of Jesus: the Map of Relationships between
the Gospels
• Rules of Written Evidence
• The Oral Tradition prior to the Gospels and the Rules
of Oral Evidence
• The Distinctive Voice of Jesus
• The Unassertive Sage
Chapter
2: The Paradoxical Teachings of the Godmen.
•
The Problem of Paradox
• What Did Jesus Really Do According to Modern Historical
Research?
• Is Yoga a Religion?
• Yoga as a Philosophy
• Who Are the Yoga Siddhas?
• What is the Literature of the Yoga Siddhas and Their Teachings?
• Similarities between Jesus and the Yoga Siddhas and their
Teachings
• The Yamas, the Restraints: Yoga Sutra II:30
• Was Jesus a Guru?Devotees versus Disciples
• Are There Any Differences between Jesus and the Yoga Siddhas?
Chapter
3: Gospel of Thomas: A Gnostic Text?
•
History and Distinctiveness of the Gospel of Thomas
• The Gospel of Thomas: A Gnostic Text?
• The Kingdom of Heaven is Already Here
• The Hidden, Gnostic Heart of the Gospel of Thomas: Jesus
as Initiator of His Most Worthy Disciples into Esoteric Knowledge:
Gnosis
• Discounting Prophecy and its Fulfillment for our Freedom
• Who Am I?
• On Entering the Kingdom of Heaven
• Was Jesus a Gnostic?
• How to Realize the Gnosis, the Saving Knowledge?
Chapter
4: Early Christianity: the formation of the Church and its Dogma
•
Paulism
• The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Essenes
• Early Doctrinal Issues
• Docetism
• Ebionitism
• Marcionites
• The Gnostics
• The Proto-Orthodox
• The Cultural and Political Factors which favored the proto-Orthodox
• The Rule of Faith and Creeds
• The Gospel of John versus the Gospels of Thomas, Matthew,
Mark and Luke
• The Formation of the Proto-Orthodox New Testament
• Constantine and the Ecumenical Council of Nicaea
Chapter
5: What did Jesus Really Say?
•
Reversing Natural Human Inclinations
• The Kingdom of Heaven
• On Entering the Kingdom of Heaven
• Why Should Jesus Say that Those Who are Poor, Hungry,
Suffering and Persecuted are Blessed?
• On Purity
• On Worry, and Being Present
• On Aspiration
• Showing the Path to Others
• The Lord’s Prayer
• God’s Unconditional Love
• Forgiveness of Sins and the Karmic Consequences of our
Actions
• Hidden Treasure
• The Good Samaritan
Chapter
6: What did Jesus not say?
•
The Gospel of John
• The “I am” Sayings
• The Farewell Prayer
• The End of the World
• Jesus’ Dying Words
• At the Tomb
• Doubting Thomas?
• The Familiar Tenets of Christianity Cannot Be Traced to
Jesus Himself
• Consequences of Christianity’s Replacing the Teachings
of Jesus
Conclusion
and Recommendations
Notes
Bibliographic
References
Glossary
Appendix
A: Index of Red and Pink letter sayings from the Jesus Seminar