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heretic "usual suspect" > wrote in message ...

> Yet you applaud Lesley for posting crap from "The Gospel of the Holy
> Twelve," which is of very dubious and contrived origin. The following
> three links address the historicity -- or rather lack of it -- of that
> particular piece of... well, pseudo-scripture.
>
> http://www.tektonics.org/lp/ouseley01.html


Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland.

"No penalty incurred by man ever is or can be remitted by God,
since the Divine Justice is just. "
- from;
THE PERFECT WAY, or The Finding of Christ
BY ANNA BONUS KINGSFORD AND EDWARD MAITLAND
http://www.theosophical.ca/PerfectWay2.htm

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The Gospel of the Holy Twelve
Lection XCIII
The Order of the Kingdom (Part III)
1. AND another spake, saying, Master, if one have committed
a sin, can a man remit or retain his sin? And Jesus said, God
forgiveth all sin to those who repent, but as ye sow, so also
must ye reap; Neither God nor man can remit the sins of those
who repent nor forsake their sins; nor yet retain the sins of
those who forsake them. But if one being in the spirit seeth
clearly that any repent and forsake their sins, such may truly
say unto the penitent, Thy sins are forgiven thee, for All sin is
remitted by repentance and amendment and they are loosed
from it, who forsake it and bound to it, who continue it.
2. Nevertheless the fruits of the sin must continue for a season,
for as we sow so must we reap, for God is not mocked, and
they who sow to the flesh shall reap corruption, they who sow
to the spirit shall reap life, everlasting. Wherefore if any forsake
their sins and confess them, let the presbyter say unto such in
this wise, May God forgive thee thy sins, and bring thee to
everlasting life. All sin against God is forgiven by God, and
sin against man by man.
http://reluctant-messenger.com/essen...htm#Lection930

> http://www.compassionatespirit.com/s...ew_gospels.htm (veg site)


Kieth Aker's argument rests entirely upon the following:

' In an early twentieth century edition published in
London, an "Explanatory Preface" precedes the text.
Ouseley's name has been removed, and the Preface
is signed "The Editors of the Gospel of the Holy Twelve"
(though evidently a similar explanation appeared in
earlier English-language versions of the book, with
Ouseley's name at the bottom). Here is part of what
this Preface says: '

How can we know who this prefaced twentieth edition
was published by? Are you so naive as to think that
such a publication couldn't be thrown into the mix to
lead everyone astray? Such a document would pose a
huge threat to the Church, as ever. Kieth Akers further
writes "though evidently a similar explanation appeared
in earlier ..." "evidently"? According to whom exactly?

> http://home.swipnet.se/corbie/Fuskwww/twelve.html


'An Irish clergyman, Rev. G. J. Ouseley claims to have
discovered the Original Gospel from which the present
Four Gospels were derived, which, he says, was
"preserved in one of the Buddhist monasteries in Tibet,
where it was hidden by some of the Essene Community
for safety from the hands of the corrupters, and is now
for the first time translated from the Aramaic."
This statement was made by Rev. Ouseley in a preface
to his publication of this Gospel, in a book entitled
"Gospel of the Holy Twelve."
http://reluctant-messenger.com/essene/gospel_intro.htm

'When the soldiers of the Roman Emperor "Constantine
the Great" were sent to confiscate all copies of the original
Essene-Christian New Testament (Constantine had taken
control of the meat-eating branches of the Christian Church
-- those originally started by his hero Paul -- altered the
New Testament in favor of Paul, and created a State-run
religion known as "The Catholic Church"), some brave
Essene-Christian monks went to India and deposited a
copy of the authentic Essene-Christian New Testament in
the Mystery School Library of a Buddhist monastery.
(Several centuries later that manuscript was moved from
the Indian Buddhist Monastery to a Buddhist monastery
in Tibet.) It was that manuscript -- THE GOSPEL OF
THE HOLY TWELVE -- which was translated by Rev.
Ouseley in the 1880's. (Even before Ouseley, several
excerpts from this manuscript were known, having been
quoted in various books written by early Church Fathers;
but no complete "Holy Twelve" manuscript was available
prior to the Ouseley translation.

With assistance from a sort of "underground" spiritual
fellowship, Ouseley gained access to the manuscript
preserved in the Tibetan monastery and translated it
from Aramaic into English. He claimed that Christ and
holy angels helped him -- in fact, led him -- through the
entire process. However, mainline Christianity was not
pleased: He was forced to leave the Church of England
-- in which he was an ordained Priest -- immediately
after releasing his translation of "Holy Twelve." Several
attempts were made to assassinate him. His house was
twice set on fire. At that point he formed an underground
church called the Essene Order of At-Onement. The
main purpose of that church was to acquire and preserve
ancient Essene books for future publication.'
....
http://www.essene.org/Essene_Scriptures.htm

> Council of Nicea


'Every church had its favored books, and since there
was nothing like a clearly-defined orthodoxy until the
4th century, there were in fact many simultaneous
literary traditions.The illusion that it was otherwise is
created by the fact that the church that came out on
top simply preserved texts in its favor and destroyed
or let vanish opposing documents. Hence what we
call "orthodoxy" is simply "the church that won."
......
http://www.infidels.org/library/mode...r/NTcanon.html