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The Gospel of the Holy Twelve

A New Testament Received by Reverend Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley

Jun 23, 2008

Rev. Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley, The Gospel of the Holy Twelve, 1954

Reverend Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley rewrote from the Aramaic a gospel long thought to be lost through spiritual communications from beyond.

Reverend Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley

A priest with unusual gifts, Reverend Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley began to receive ‘illuminations’ which resulted in a NEW ‘New Testament,’ a book which Reverend Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley claimed to be the lost Gospel of the Nazarenes referred to repeatedly by innumerable Early Church Fathers before it disappeared shortly after the Council of Nicaea in 325 A.D. to all future written records after the books of the New Testament were to be formalized and canonized.

The Gospel of the Holy Twelve or the Gospel of the Perfect Life

In legends held for almost 2,000 years, the Gospel of the Nazarenes contained a different gospel of Jesus Christ which was distorted and changed by the bishops during the Council of Nicaea to suit political ends. This gospel is believed to contain a much different Christianity than the one that has survived.

The Vegetarian Jesus

In the Gospel of the Holy Twelve, Reverend Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley rewrites the story of Christ in a Biblical format. But his Christ is vegetarian and supports a different theology of compassion than is currently taught in the church. As a result, in Reverend Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley’s time (1870’s), his work was condemned as blasphemy by the church.

But this view of Jesus Christ as a supporter of the vegetarian lifestyle is supported by other recently translated documents that had been held in the Vatican Secret Archives until the late 1940’s. The Essene Gospel of Peace in four volumes holds a similar view of Jesus Christ and shares the vegetarian image of a Jesus who encourages a love for all creatures.

Jesus Christ, Emanuel Swedenborg, Anna Kingsford, Edward Maitland, Placidus

Reverend Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley claims that the text which resulted in the Gospel of the Holy Twelve (or the Gospel of the Perfect Life) was given to him in nightly ‘illuminations,’ dreams and visions in the night wherein Jesus Christ translated the text from the original Aramaic along with the help of several well known historical mystics – among them Emanuel Swedenborg, Anna Kingsford and Edward Maitland - and a Franciscan priest named Placidus.

Euthanasia as Taught by Jesus Christ in the Gospel of the Holy Twelve

Reverend Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley’s Christ also supports Euthanasia, but only in the cases of extreme suffering, a view not held by the church today or in ages past.

The Original Image of Jesus Christ

While the origins of the Gospel of the Holy Twelve a.k.a. The Gospel of the Perfect Life remain mysterious, their contents are fascinatingly similar to the combined stories of the four gospels in the current New Testament with these and a few other simple differences in the picture of Christ.

As a gift to the publishers of this interesting work, Mr. Samuel Hopgood Hart sent a picture to them of what is considered to be the most accurate portrait of Jesus Christ. The image was copied from a carving made on an emerald owned by Tiberius Caesar. The turks later gave this emerald to Pope Innocent VIII a copy of which is shown below.

Other Transmissions of ‘Biblical’ Texts

There are other texts of similar origin which claim to be rewritten versions of biblical texts such as Oahspe.

Sources: The Gospel of the Holy Twelve, The Gospel of the Perfect Life, The Gospel of the Nazarenes, By Reverend Gideon Jasper Richard Ouseley

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