An Order Outside Time: A Jungian View of the Higher Self from Egypt to Christ

"An Order Outside Time" concerns some of the deepest teachings of the sacred heritage of the Egypto-Judaeo-Christian West. Scripture says that Jesus was a priest "of the order of Melchisadek." What that means is that Jesus, like Melchisadek, was a priest by the direct operation of the Holy Spirit, not because he was ordained by any organized religion. Jesus was the inheritor of the age-old secret hidden wisdom of the Western spiritual tradition. Clarke gives us superb insights into that tradition, showing, for example, that much of the Hebrew Bible and the Christian Gospels are spiritual parables (and probably not historical). They are stories to aid the spiritual initiate to the highest mystical realizations. I recommend the book to serious Jewish and Christian seekers. Jim Marion, author of "Putting on the Mind of Christ, the Inner Work of Christian Spirituality."