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REVIEWS @ KEVIEWS Joseph points to global cataclysms that affected our planet in c. 3100 BC, 2200 BC, 1600 BC and 1200 BC. The next cataclysm could coincide with a solar superstorm and a reversal of the Earth's magnetic field, bringing on a new ice age. He cautions that our civilisation could well be equally as fragile as those that rose and fell before it under the influence of massive cosmic and terrestrial forces. James, was perpetuated by sects such as the Nazarenes and Ebionites. But it didn't die out in the late fourth century, as records suggest. It was carried on by the obscure southern Mesopotamian Elkesaites and had links with Islam, the Cathars and the Knights Templar. It allegedly was protected with the continuation of Jesus’ bloodline through European royal houses and the patronage of such luminaries as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton and Victor Hugo. It was nurtured by Freemasons who saw the opportunity to create a New Jerusalem in America. Biitz has uncovered details that other authors have missed, and he looks forward to a rediscovery of the original spiritual vision to bring reconciliation among Christians, Jews and Muslims. ATLANTIS AND 2012 by Frank Joseph Bear & Company, VT, USA, 2010 ISBN 978-1-59143-I12-I (246pp tpb) Available: BearandCompanyBooks.com Th the Mayan calendar is a relic of Atlantis and Lemuria, preserved by survivors of a cataclysm, is one of many revelations that Frank Joseph presents in Atlantis and 2012. He says hat as well as seeding the pre-Mayan Olmec culture in Mesoamerica, the survivors settled in parts of Western Europe and Egypt, while people who led Lemuria in the Pacific Ocean anded in Japan, for instance. oseph is convinced that the great island of Atlantis existed in the North Atlantic, but met its final demise ater than other accounts tell us. nspired by a reinterpretation of Plato's writings as well as by visions of "the Sleeping Prophet" Edgar Cayce, he fits the final cataclysm to he Late Bronze Age, c. 1200 BC. The Atlanteans had a sacred numerical system, according to Plato's account, and had a calendar hat not only marked the destruction of the world several times over but also pointed to 2012 AD as a marker or another great catastrophe. This marker is central to the Mayan calendar with its notion of an "end ime" and the birth of the fifth world. THE SECRET LEGACY OF JESUS by Jeffrey J. Biitz Inner Traditions, Rochester, VT, 2010 ISBN 978-1-59477-307- (373pp tpb) Available: www.lnnerTraditions.com secret underground belief stream, dubbed "Jewish Christianity” and representing the original teachings of esus, has been preserved over the centuries and found its way to America's founding fathers, says Rev. effrey Biitz, a Lutheran minister and adjunct professor of world religions at Pennsylvania State University. Author of The Brother of Jesus and the Lost Teachings of Christianity (see 12/05), Biitz maintains that the orthodox Christian Church tried to eradicate his heretical secret stream. Forced into hiding by St Paul with his vision or a non-Jewish Christianity in his Nicaean Church, this clandestine movement, first led by Jesus’ brother Need balance within your ody and life? Feeling tired, sore, or have a dis-ease within yourself? Genopathic™ remedies can help in the prevention and relief of dis-eases. Check out our current — online foday. NEVDON. y Suppliers of Genopathic Meal JUNE - JULY 2010 NEXUS ¢ 73 Remedies www.nexusmagazine.com