Saint John Retconned the Bible, and All I Got Was This Cup of Poison Kool-Aid

Confessions of a wannabe cult leader

Timothy James Lambert
Chryptianity Revealed
9 min readDec 16, 2020

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St John by Peter Paul Rubens (c. 1611) — Image Credit

Saint John is credited with the two most influential books in the New Testament. I have written about the Revelation of Saint John in my last three articles. In this article, we will take a look at his other big hit, the Gospel of John.

In the beginning, was the Logos …

Let’s see how a couple of 20th-century mystics describe the Gospel of John.

This first section is from a 1906 lecture on Esoteric Christianity given by Rudolf Steiner:

An esoteric Christianity does exist. This is not admitted in certain circles, with the result that a peculiar place has been assigned to the Saint John Gospel. The Saint John Gospel is looked upon by theologians as a book which emanated out of poetic genius. They have however no understanding for what the Saint John Gospel means.

Whereas the three other evangelists relate the exoteric. Saint John relates what he experiences as an initiated seer, who could look into the Spiritual worlds. The writer of the Saint John Gospel wrote from the point of view of an initiate. Whoever looks upon it as a book that one should read and understand in the same way as one reads and

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Timothy James Lambert
Timothy James Lambert

Written by Timothy James Lambert

Author of The Gnostic Notebook series, stand-up comedian, and Gnostic. Known as the Judas Iscariot of Gnosticism for revealing that which is not to be revealed.

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