Long, long ago, while browsing through a library or something, I came across a book that was very much like The Urantia Book , but it was a different book. To my recollection, the book I found was even longer and stranger than Urantia.
But I do not remember the name of the book. I feel like it started with a ‘U’ but I am not sure.
Does anyone have any idea what book this might have been?
-FrL-
You would probably get a better response to this in Cafe Society. I have reported the thread for a mod to move.
Rico
May 16, 2007, 9:08pm
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Could it have been this one?
“Oahspe”
Oahspe: A New Bible is a book published in 1882, purporting to contain "new revelations" from "...the Embassadors of the angel hosts of heaven prepared and revealed unto man in the name of Jehovih..." It was produced by an American dentist, John Ballou Newbrough (1828–1891), who reported it to have been written by automatic writing, making it one of a number of 19th-century spiritualist works attributed to that practice. The text defines adherents of the disciplines expounded in Oahspe a Oahspe c...
Or Madame Blavatsky’s “Isis Unveiled” :
Isis Unveiled: A Master-Key to the Mysteries of Ancient and Modern Science and Theology, published in 1877, is a book of esoteric philosophy and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky's first major work and a key text in her Theosophical movement.
The work has often been criticized as a plagiarized occult work, with scholars noting how Blavatsky extensively copied from many sources popular among occultists at the time. Isis Unveiled is nevertheless also understood by modern scholars to be a milestone in the ...
Or Blavatsky’s “The Secret Doctrine” :
The Secret Doctrine, the Synthesis of Science, Religion and Philosophy, is a pseudo-scientific esoteric book originally published as two volumes in 1888 written by Helena Blavatsky. The first volume is named Cosmogenesis, the second Anthropogenesis. It was an influential example of the revival of interest in esoteric and occult ideas in the modern age, in particular because of its claim to reconcile ancient eastern wisdom with modern science. Proponents widely claim the literature contains clue...