Max Gorman was born in Karachi, India (now Pakistan). He was educated at a convent in the Himalayas, then Lawrence School, Mount Abu, and privately by a hermit in a ruin in the jungle near Delhi. Next he was sent to Rugby School. He went to Oxford, mystic rather than academic, to read Poetry under the guise of History. He became wandering tutor to sons of owners of Scottish Castles and English mansions. He returned to Oxford to teach literature, before taking up the post of Tutor in Environmental Ethics at the Extramural Department of the University. He moved to the fair city of Brighton to work at the Friends Adult Education Centre as tutor in Mystical Studies and Early Christianity. He has held Seminars in developmental philosophy at the University of Brighton, and the University of Sussex.

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE - The way of the Sufi

CHAPTER TWO - The kingdom of heaven

CHAPTER THREE - The initiatory way

CHAPTER FOUR - Gnosis

CHAPTER FIVE - Son of God

CHAPTER SIX - The parables

CHAPTER SEVEN - The sayings

CHAPTER EIGHT - Jesus and the animals

CHAPTER NINE - The miracles

CHAPTER TEN - Jesus the individual

APPENDIX - The Hymn of the Pearl

The King's Son

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