In 2003 The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown struck a chord with millions of people because so many of us feel that the real story of Christianity has not been told. Much of the novel was borrowed from an earlier book entitled The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, published in 1982. The appeal of Brown’s book, though, is that a reader without specialist knowledge cannot separate the wheat of historical fact from the considerable chaff of fiction.

I am well qualified to explore the difficult and controversial topic of esoteric Christianity with you. What I bring to the task includes oral tradition from my teacher Mario Schoenmaker, immersion in Steiner’s findings on occult history, and wide reading related to the Bible and Western histories. Over the last thirty years I have composed several unpublished manuscripts that trace how hidden streams of Christianity have transformed Western society at crucial turning points.

The research begins with the mystical fact of Golgotha and demonstrates how the crucifixion and resurrection fulfilled the purposes of the leading Jewish cults and Greco-Roman mystery religions. What had been conducted in the secrecy of mystery schools was enacted as an event on the stage of world history. Through destiny the apostles were called as representatives of a range of mystery traditions, and I disclose how their initiations into the Christ mystery transformed these older cults. As a consequence the earliest ‘church’ emerged as a diverse new mystery school.

Future posts will track Gnosticism (in particular the teachings of Mani), the founding of the Grail and Masonic/Arthurian mysteries in Europe during the ninth century, and the emergence of Rosicrucianism in parallel to the scientific revolution of the seventeenth century. These currents will then be traced into the founding of the Republic of the United States, followed by a discussion of recent developments.

While books related to these themes will be published in due course, briefer expositions will be posted as essays on the website from time to time. History is written by the winners, but these posts will finally set aspects of the record straight by telling an untold story.