Concepts interesting, disturbing and blasphemous passages.

This book contains the teachings of a "spirit" to a German Catholic priest in the 1920s, through a medium. This spirit this priest instructed by helping him "better" understand the Bible, and correcting passages "adulterated" of it, explaining why and how they were falsified. It pinpoints inconsistencies of the Old Testament and the New, and criticism of many beliefs and rites of the Catholic Church.

Personally, if I find the design of the visible and invisible world presented in this book very interesting (sometimes recalling the cosmogony of the Rosicrucians), I can not agree regarding the incarnation of Christ and the Eucharist. The "spirit" sometimes loses justifications and criticisms, without even noticing that it contradicts itself.

Example: the "spirit" teaches that spiritual entities can materialize to become as palpable as human beings in the material world, even up to eat and drink, and it took a lot focus of "terrestrial" fluid and the work of a large number of minds to give its first human body to Adam. That same "spirit" later explains that the creation of a human or animal body must obey the divine rule, which means it results from the meeting of an egg (female gamete) and a sperm (male gamete ); therefore, the body in which Christ became incarnate could only come from such a union (the body of Jesus would be born of the union of Mary with the body of Joseph, inhabited at that time by the trance mediumship spirit of Christ himself). Contradiction ... and blasphemy! (The scientists also revealed asexual reproduction systems, such as parthenogenesis, even in animals, bees example) The "mysterious Book of Beyond" tells that Mary would have had other children According to Jesus, those who are called his "brothers" in the Gospel, while in my feeling, there called his "brothers," the son of Alpheus, the brother of Joseph.

This book nevertheless marked me, giving me new insights into my reading and my understanding of the Bible. For example, I note that the word "death" means "separated from God" and not "passed from earthly life to death."
We find the notion of it "heavenly spheres" often encountered in the literature dealing with the afterlife, and a hierarchy of kingdoms (mineral, vegetable, animal, human ...) present both in the "Cosmo's Rosicrucians "by Max Heindel in the" Talking with Angels "Gitta Mallasz. As for the explanation of the origins of our world and of humanity, it approaches the idea as I was doing so far, reconciling the biblical Genesis (spiritual) and scientific discoveries (material) without fall into the pure Darwinism.

This book is the first edition of "The Book Garden" as I travel. I deplore the many grammatical and spelling errors that were left there.