This work reveals the enormous knowledge Helena Blavatsky, founder of the modern Theosophical Movement, displays about Christianity and its eastern and "pagan" origins, as well as intrinsic, though often hidden, esoteric meaning. These scriptures that have so essentially influenced western culture and spiritual development, and that have been perhaps most misinterpreted and misunderstood, are in this work revealed to have depth of meaning that if accepted by "Christians" of today would change the whole fabric and form of Christianity. The compiler-annotator, H.J. Spierenburg, a Hebrew and Greek, as well as Theosophical scholar, has referred to the Biblical texts, including the original Greek and parallel passages of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, and has arranged Blavatsky's commentary for ease of study. The work is in ten segments: Gospels, Acts, Epistles, and Revelation, with the Gospels being the largest. There is a five-page bibliography, N.T. Index, O.T. Index, Rabbinical Index, Index of works by Blavatsky as they occur, and a General index of 115 pages which is a concordnce based on word and expression. These many insights and comments point revealingly to Blavatsky's key statement:"Every act of the Jesus of the New Testament, every work attributed to him, every event related to him during the three years of the mission he is said to have accomplished, rest on the program of the Cycle of Initiation, a cycle founded on the precession of the Equinoxes and the Signs of the Zodiac."

An indispensable book for everyone seeking within his western roots, a deeper spiritual understanding of the meaning in the story, myth and symbols of Christianity and the New Testament.

Our Father who art in the Skies, thy
Name be intoned, thy Realm return, thy
Will come into being.

As in the Sky, so on the Earth.
That Bread of the coming day give us
to-day; and free us from our obligations, as
WE also have freed those under obligation to
us; and bring us not to the test, but deliver
us from uselessness.

For thine is the Realm, the Force and
the Radiance, throughout the On-goings.

Amen!

- Sermon on the Mount, page 22

In this narrative Phillip Malpas overviews the life story and wanderings of the Pythagorean teacher, Apollonius of Tyana. 
Considered by his contemporaries to be the greatest spiritual influence of the time, Apollonius was even thought to be the Messiah figure himself whose life and wisdom paralleled in many ways that of Jesus the Christ. 

"After crossing the Hindu Kush., Apollonius had been directed by a king to the adobe of the sages, whose abode it may be to this day, by whom he was taught unsurpassed knowledge: At the end of his long life he opened an esoteric school at Ephesus, and died aged almost one hundred years." - H.P. Blavatsky 

This book provides history, story and background of guaranteed interest for all seekers after the truth regarding the times of Jesus the Christ.