The Masks of Christ

Mind Body & Soul Ezine Book Review: The Masks of Christ - Behind the Lies and Cover-Ups About the Man Believed to be God by Lynn Pickett and Clive Prince.

Many religious influences are detailed, from the pagan, Samaritan, Hellenism, and other religious movements that were popular at the time Jesus lived. The controversies are discussed, such as Morton Smith’s discovery of the Secret Gospel of Mark and Jesse, and his research on magic. Topics include historical references, analysis of the Jerusalem temple, the life and acts of the Gospel writers, Gnosticism, the crucifixion of Jesus, the Baptist, St James, Joseph of Arimathea, Paul of Tarsus, Simon Peter, Josephus, Mary the Mother, and the Magdalene, Egypt, Galilee and Jerusalem, and other influences and recordings of the life of Christ. 

The Masks of Christ offers a full critique on all aspects of Christianity - and Christians, and the debunking of Jesus and the New Testament writings. Was Jesus a Jew? Did he have sexual intercourse with the Samaritan woman at the well?  Was he responsible for the murder of John the Baptist? So many new insights, especially at the arrest and death of Jesus. Each separate account of Jesus’s life and death is taken as a criticism. 

Previously, the authors wrote ‘The Sion Revelation’, and ‘Turin Shroud - How Leonardo da Vinci Fooled History’ so their emphasis is on radically taking apart the Gospels, even one could say demolishing the entire story of Christ. 

Oracle Reading - April

The first card is from Shining Woman Tarot by Rachel Pollack and is Five of Rivers - traditionally the 5 of Cups. The design shows a Native American earthenware image dated to around a thousand years ago. This card teaches us about change, so we flow with the ups and downs of life, adapting, growing, developing and changing. Here we have acceptance of what is, because no situation remains the same for ever. 'This too shall pass!'

Mystical Tarot Review

Mind Body & Soul Ezine Card Deck Review: Mystical Tarot by Giuliano Costa, published by Lo Scarabeo, 78 cards plus information leaflet in pack. £17.99 

This Mysticaly Tarot provides images that open a magical door that brings the mystical world into our ordinary lives. There is no wrong way to interpret the cards. With foundation meanings provided on the Major and Minor Arcanas, there is a succinct message for all but the Court Cards. We are encouraged to use our own innate abilities to interpret these cards which offer new and advanced symbolism. There are no reversed meanings provided, but the reader has the opportunity to include these as the card backs are suitable for a reading that includes reversals. 

Santa Muerte Tarot

Mind Body & Soul Ezine Card Deck Review: Santa Muerte Tarot - Book of the Dead by Fabio Listrani, pack of 78 cards published by Lo Scarabeo.

A celebration of Santa Muerte, Calabera Catrina, and Dias de loss Muertos, combining Mexican and Pre-Columbrian cults, using skeletons, skulls, graves, knives and other symbols. This is a philosophy where death is a part of life, from the moment of conception, death is a possibility and an inevitability. The acceptance and knowledge of death provides equality, honesty, and democracy. It can be the land of the transitory, the ephemeral, the rebellious, the outcasts, the inferior and the free. It can be both sensitivity and insensitivity. It honours those gone before, their sacrifice, their wisdom and their survival energy. In their memory we celebrate our ability to transform and rebirth anew all that life offers us in connection, love, passion, desire, immediacy, and freedom.