The Lost Art of Resurrection: Initiation, Secret Chambers, and the Quest for the Otherworld

294 Pages·2017·14.14 MB·English

by  Freddy Silva

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More than two thousand years before the resurrection of Jesus, initiates from spiritual traditions
around the world were already practicing a secret mystical ritual in which they metaphorically
died and were reborn into a higher spiritual state. During this living resurrection, they experi-
enced a transformative spiritual awakening that revealed the nature of reality and the purpose
of the soul, described as “rising from the dead.”
Exploring the practice of living resurrection in ancient Egyptian, Phoenician, Greek,
Persian, Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Celtic, and Native American traditions, Freddy Silva
explains how resurrection was never meant for the dead, but for the living—a fact supported
by the suppressed Gnostic Gospel of Philip: “Those who say they will die first and then rise
are in error. If they do not first receive the resurrection while they live, when they die they will
receive nothing.” He reveals how these practices were not only common in the ancient world
but also shared similar facets in each tradition: initiates were led through a series of challenging
ordeals, retreated for a three-day period into a cave or restricted room, often called a “bridal
chamber,” and while out-of-body, became fully conscious of travels in the Otherworld. Upon
returning to the body, they were led by priests or priestesses to witness the rising of Venus,
Sirius, or the Equinox sunrise.
Silva describes some of the secret chambers around the world where the ritual was per-
formed, including the so-called tomb of Thutmosis III in Egypt, which featured an empty
sarcophagus and detailed instructions for the living on how to enter the Otherworld and return
alive. He reveals why esoteric and Gnostic sects claimed that the literal resurrection of Jesus
promoted by the Church was a fraud and how the Church branded all living resurrection
practices as a heresy, relentlessly persecuting the Gnostics to suppress knowledge of this
self-empowering experience. He shows how the Knights Templar revived these concepts and
how they survive to this day within Freemasonry.
Exploring the hidden art of living resurrection, Silva shows how this personal experience
of the Divine opened the path to self-empowerment and higher consciousness, leading initiates
such as Plato to describe it as the pinnacle of spiritual development.
FREDDY SILVA is a leading researcher of alternative history, ancient
knowledge, sacred sites, and the interaction between temples and consciousness.
He has appeared on Discovery Channel, BBC, and Coast to Coast AM radio.
He is the author of 5 books and lives in Portland, Maine.
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The Lost Art of
Resurrection
“Freddy Silva’s latest book is his most brilliant, scintillating, and
inviting of all, a superb book on global initiation over thousands
of years. In it he explores how ancient sacred cultures guided peo-
ple to experience psychic death while alive—a ritual near-death
experience. The Lost Art of Resurrection is a truly remarkable con-
tribution to the quest of reviving lost wisdom and a must-read for
anyone interested in spirituality and sacred sites.”
Barbara Hand Clow, author of
Awakening the Planetary Mind and
Revelations of the Ruby Crystal
“This is a breakthrough work that topples not only church dogma
but a century of pyramidiots stumped by Egypt’s elusively empty
sarcophagi. No mummy there! No, it’s all about the round-trip
journey to the spirit world and what our ancestors were really
doing in their secluded temples. Fabulously illustrated, this impor-
tant book is as much about the cosmogony of the ancient wisdom-
keepers as it is about the hidden chambers of the human mind.”
Susan Martinez, Ph.D., author of
The Mysterious Origins of Hybrid Man
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Also by this Author
First Templar Nation
How the Knights Templar
Created Europe’s First Nation-State
The Divine Blueprint
Temples, Power Places, and the Global Plan
to Shape the Human Soul
Secrets in the Fields
The Science and
Mysticism of Crop Circles
Chartres Cathedral
The Missing or Heretic Guide
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Lost Art
The of
Resurrection
Initiation, Secret Chambers,
and the Quest for the Otherworld
Freddy Silva
Inner Traditions
Rochester, Vermont • Toronto, Canada
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Inner Traditions
One Park Street
Rochester, Vermont 05767
www.InnerTraditions.com
Copyright © 2014, 2017 by Freddy Silva
Originally published in 2014 by Invisible Temple
Revised and expanded edition published in 2107 by Inner Traditions
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in
any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying,
recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission
in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Silva, Freddy, 1961– author.
Title: The lost art of resurrection : initiation, secret chambers, and the quest for
the otherworld / Freddy Silva.
Description: Rochester, Vermont : Inner Traditions, 2017. | Includes
bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016022426 (print) | LCCN 2016037526 (e-book) |
ISBN 9781620556368 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781620556375 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Resurrection—Miscellanea.
Classification: LCC BF1999 .S5195 2017 (print) | LCC BF1999 (e-book) |
DDC 202/.3—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016022426

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To the Divine Virgin
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Scratch a Christian and you will find a Pagan spoiled.
Israel Zangwill
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Contents
A Scottish Faery Tale ix
1 A Noble Tradition Recently Suppressed 1
2 The Myth of Resurrection 5
3 What Is Initiation? 13
4 Early Followers of The Way 26
5 The Otherworld of the Celts 61
6 Secrets of the Beehive 82
7 Fifty Shades of Gnosticism 99
8 The Secret Bridal Chamber 119
9 What Happens in the Middle East
Stays in Central America 129
10 Geezers of Nazareth 151
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11 Inside the Great Pyramid and into
the Otherworld 164
12 Egyptian Initiation 175
13 How to Travel to the Otherworld and Back. 186
Or, the Pyramid Texts
14 Pharaoh Has Left the Building 195
15 Green Men, White Knights 206
16 The Science of the Otherworld 225
17 The Metamorphosis of the Soul 237
Notes 245
Bibliography 256
Index 266
About the Author 275
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