The Forgotten Beginnings of Creation and Christianity

TABLE OF CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
What is the connection between Christianity and Vegetarianism?

I. THE MYTHOLOGICAL BASIS OF ORIGINAL VEGETARIANISM

1. The Myth as an Expression of Religious Sentiment
2. The Myth of the Vegetarian Adam and of the Two Vegetarian Creations
3. The Myth of Cain and Abel
4. The Myth of the Flood and of Noah's Sin

II. THE HISTORICAL RESULT OR: THE MYTH BECOMES FLESH

1. The Protest of the Prophets Against Animal Sacrifice and the False World
2. The Prophecy of a Coming World Renewer
3. The Essenes as the Pioneers of the Vegetarian and Pacifist Christianity
4. Jesus' Relationship to the Essenes
5. The Nazorean and the Nazoreans or: the Original Vegetarian Christians
6. Jesus the Nezer, the Great Renewer of Humanity, its Thinking, and its Acting
7. The Vegetarian Pillars of the Original Community
8. The Testimony of Historians: The Evidence of History

III. THE FOLLOWERS OF CHRISTIAN VEGETARIANISM

1. A Ray of Light from True Witnesses to the Forgotten Beginnings
2. Farewell to the Reader with Immortal Epilogues

Index

Index of References