Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1939–2009)

Generally a good discussion of the reincarnation's place in Christianity, in fact, damn good, but the book suffers, like all of Prophet's work, from her stupid I AM, Summit University, new age, "I talk to the Ascended Masters" bullshit.

It was a controversial subject that tried to investigate what happened to Jesus from age 12 to 30. It was a good attempt to discover what Jesus did in that time span but no definite answers were given. There were no tangible evidence aside from Buddhist scrolls that signify that Jesus was there. All are still speculations and what was written has a lot of differences with the Bible that made it controversial. More questions were presented than answers itself.

The writing was a bit redundant show more and boring in a way. show less

Generally a good discussion of the reincarnation's place in Christianity, in fact, damn good, but the book suffers, like all of Prophet's work, from her stupid I AM, Summit University, new age, "I talk to the Ascended Masters" bullshit.

I bought this book just so that I would have a bound translation of the Book of Enoch, and wound up reading … well, most of it. The translation provided here is by Richard Laurence, LL. D. But there’s much more in Prophet’s book than this translation.

Genesis chapter six tells how the sons of God (the Watchers) procreated with the daughters of men to create a race of giants known as the Nephilim. The Book of Enoch, much of which was written as early as the 3rd century BC, expands upon show more the story of the Watchers, and was well-read in the century of Christ. It seems to have been revered as scripture, quoted directly in the Bible. Rabbis and Christian Church fathers in later centuries, however, denounced the book and banned it.

Prophet takes about eighty pages of her book to detail the “hidden references” in the Bible to the Watchers and the Book of Enoch, and this section alone is worth the price of the book. When researching for my book about Revelation, I became convinced that there was simply no way to understand what John was writing about without reading Enoch; it contained the source of many of the beliefs espoused by Revelation.

So, let’s talk about the origin of evil. Did rebel angels take on human bodies to fulfill their lust for the “daughters of men?” Did these fallen angels teach men to build weapons of war? Prophet takes Enoch quite seriously, and delves into other ancient literature as well as she details what we should know about embodied angels. In a chapter titled Spiritual Solutions, she teaches us to chart our “divine self.” You get the idea; I’m afraid this isn’t really my thing, so my rating of four stars is based upon the translation and research, not the evangelizing. show less