Thanks Alicia ...

Actually, I love reading Carl Jung (In his own words (notes & lectures), not somebody's retake)- And I do have a small collection of his writings already. (I want "Aion" next) I was a psychology/social work major in college.

Yes, I know that many several of these writings tend to be a tad "dry" for most folks' tastes- But I enjoy them. There is a vast gulf between early Christian thought/ideals, and the more contemporary. Viewed through a socio-political/historical context, they become a tad more readable to the armchair historian.

Not sure about "The Early Years Of Jesus" book (Gnosticism post-dates Christ, even in the earliest pagan forms- Few scholars accept the idea put out that Simon Magus was the father of Gnosticism, but they would fall neabouts the same place on the timeline- At least those ideas that uniquely and obviously written by a self-prescribed Gnostic.) Gnostic temples/schools/institutions would not have been available to attend in the times of Christ. (Similar schools of thought perhaps- Gnosticism is more scholarly accepted as an occidental-form religion, embraced more by the Romans- though hardly wide-spread. The events wherein Rome was Christianized (200 years after Christ; late second and early-mid third centuries) would have been more likely the Gnostic "hey-days". The earliest known work would have been written in mid-second century A.D.) The relatively recent findings in Nag Hammadi might have inspired that work, or the person that wrote the book had read the "Pistis Sophia". (Written at a far later time period. Being generously gullible, the P. Sophia could have been written no earlier than the 13th century; and more likely later than that.)

Just as there are inestimable books that are attribute to vastly unlikely authorship (Most especially a notable trait among the Gnostics= from the Corpus Hermeticum (purportedly by Hermes Trisermetrius- "The Thrice Greatest Hermes"), through the Clavicles of Solomon and beyond (Most of the Apostles have been insinuated to have authored such works as well; and Jesus' half brother "James the Just" ); the time-periods in which these works were actually written (ex. The "Hermetica" was likely, primarily, a 2nd century A.D. composition of several Roman writers.)

I had read a book about "The Lost Years of Jesus", where it was purported (in a scantily known, though existent Buddhist book) that a man from mid-east came and incited something or a mini-revolution in the area by starting a crusade that the "library" should be made available and accessible to all. The story later goes on to say that he (not referred to by Jesus in the Tibetan manuscript) returned to his homeland and was put to death. The time-period would be near-enough, but it is a fairly broad-jump to presume that the person in the original Tibetan manuscript and Jesus were one and the same. I do not recall what name they gave to the person in the Tibetan scroll. I also a bit hesitant to trust the source, and thus, the translation of the original text. The ideas that the author is hoping to correlate were the life-long ambition, sort of thing, of a man that he knew, and has since died. I can read some Latin, Greek & Coptic; but all Mandarin dialects are lost on me.

Thansk again Alicia.

Peace,
Po