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Esoteric Christianity

Esoteric Christianity, or The Lesser Mysteries

Annie Besant hacia 1897
byAnnie Besant

A Theosophical reading of Christianity: it holds that the early Church possessed initiatory 'Mysteries of Jesus', later lost, and distinguishes in Christ three figures: the historical Jesus, the mythic Christ (the solar drama) and the mystic Christ (the divine principle born in every soul). It reinterprets atonement, resurrection, the Trinity, prayer and the sacraments as symbols of inner processes. It is the text that most influenced twentieth-century esoteric Christianity and the Liberal Catholic Church.

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Her own work, published by the Theosophical Publishing Society in 1901 (2nd revised ed. 1905).

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  • Le Christianisme ésotérique

    Éditions Adyar, París

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Other works by Annie Besant

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  • Open Library, autora Annie Wood Besant (OL16933A): registros de obras y ediciones con ISBN consultados el 2026-10-22; primeras ediciones digitalizadas en Internet Archive.

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