{"product_id":"man-temple-of-the-living-god-v-1-a-hidden-exegesis-of-christ-s-religion-based-on-the-gospel-of-thomas","title":"Man, Temple of the Living God Vol. 1 by Roberto Pla","description":"\u003cp\u003eMan, Temple of the Living God: A Hidden Exegesis of Christ’s Religion Based on the Gospel of Thomas Vol. I by Roberto Pla\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoberto Pla wrote to a friend \"...My purpose is, as you know, to provide many Christians with the ways and means of attaining direct transformation, as explained for the West by Jesus of Nazareth, ways that depend on the inner seed that is sown in every man. From the 3rd and 4th centuries onwards this truth was disregarded and it seems necessary now, after twenty centuries, to return to its pure meaning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOriental cultures have always known and many have practiced the search for one's essence, as the realization of Atman, as identification with the universal Buddha Mind, or as non-action and knowing the eternal Tao; but in this part of the world where we have been born, men are culturally deprived of the textual guide that is needed to point out the way that must be taken if we are in the end to manifest the indwelling Christ, as the decisively important task of our lives, and it seems necessary to explain that this textual guide does exist, in the form of the Gospels that we all know, if we learn to read them as they are\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoberto Pla took as his guide the Gospel of Thomas, a text whose commentary is the subject of this book, in which he clarifies in parallel the parables and sayings of Jesus to be found in the four biblical gospels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe book contains few citations from sources other than the Bible, but these form a rich basis that firmly supports the entire, exceedingly interesting construction of interpretation. It was without question in order to promo-te the profound assimilation necessary for the knowledge imparted to become transformative that Pla developed a literary style that is at times complex and\/or repetitive, a style that imparts far more than mere information. \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Bust-Down Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50303909134651,"sku":"8412957334","price":28.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/2077\/7531\/files\/9788412957334.jpg?v=1747510569","url":"https:\/\/bustdownbooks.com\/products\/man-temple-of-the-living-god-v-1-a-hidden-exegesis-of-christ-s-religion-based-on-the-gospel-of-thomas","provider":"Bust-Down Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}