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Edition: Paperback
Format: Glossary, Notes, Index
Pages: 6 x 9, 350 pages
ISBN: 9781931498920
Old ISBN: 1-931498-92-X
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Release Date: 2006-10-05
Not in His Image
Gnostic Vision, Sacred Ecology, and the Future of Belief
John Lamb Lash; Afterword by Derrick JensenThis item is available in the following formats:
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"Sometimes a book changes the world. Not In His Image is such a book."
—Roger Payne
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"John Lash's heretical book is a precious act of spiritual disobedience that seeks to save the world from Salvationism."
—Jeremy Narby, anthropologist, author of The Cosmic Serpent
"John Lash's Not In His Image presents a fascinating view of meanings in a sacred history long—and wrongly—suppressed. It demands profound correction of what Western civilization has been taught to call religion. It is a book that should be read by everyone."
—Barbara G. Walker, author of The Woman’s Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, Feminist Fairy Tales, and others
"The gnostic mysteries have found a new and eloquent champion in John Lash."
—Graham Hancock, author of Fingerprints of the Gods
"Not In His Image is a stunning book. It should cause quite a furor. Lash's historical and anthropological erudition are breathtaking."
—Colin Wilson, author of Atlantis and the Kingdom of the Neanderthals
Basing much of Not in His Image on the Nag Hammadi and other Gnostic writings, John Lamb Lash explains how a little-known messianic sect propelled itself into a dominant world power, systematically wiping out the great Gnostic spiritual teachers, the Druid priests, and the shamanistic healers of Europe and North Africa. They burned libraries and destroyed temples in an attempt to silence the ancient truth-tellers and keep their own secrets. But as Lash reveals, when the truth is the planet Earth it cannot be hidden or destroyed.
Not in His Image delves deeply into the shadows of ancient Gnostic writings to reconstruct the story early Christians tried to scrub from the pages of history, exploring the richness of the ancient European Pagan spirituality—the Pagan Mysteries, the Great Goddess, Gnosis, the myths of Sophia and Gaia—and chronicles the annihilation of this Pagan European culture at the hands of Christianity.
Long before the birth of Christianity, monotheism was an anomaly; Europe and the Near East flourished under the divine guidance of Sophia, the ancient goddess of wisdom. The Earth was the embodiment of Sophia and thus sacred to the people who sought fulfillment in her presence. This ancient philosophy was threatening to the emerging salvation-based creed of Christianity that was based on patriarchal dominion over the Earth and lauded personal suffering as a path to the afterlife. As Derrick Jensen points out in the afterword, in Lash’s hands Jesus Christ emerges as the agent provocateur of the ruling classes.
About the Author
John Lamb Lash is an exponent of the practice of mythology. He is principal author of the Marion Institute's website, www.metahistory.org, an inquiry into the contemporary meaning of humanity's myths and beliefs, and is author of a number of books, including The Seeker's Handbook, Twins and the Double, The Hero—Manhood and Power, and Quest for the Zodiac
Derrick Jensen is the author of A Language Older Than Words,Walking on Water, and The Culture of Make Believe. He writes for The New York Times Magazine, Audubon, and The Sun among many others.