A message from Ken Small - USA 

Ken Small knocking on doors for help

Friends of Lomaland

I am reaching out today for support in further developing and sustaining our Lomaland Theosophy Library, Archive and Art collection.

Henry Geiger (August 10, 1908 – 15 February 1989) was the editor, publisher, and chief writer of MANAS Journal which was published from 1948–1988.

He*+ “had been variously a chorus boy on Broadway, a journalist, a conscientious objector in World War II, a commercial printer, and a lecturer at The United Lodge of Theosophists in Los Angeles.” 

Antti Savinainen - Finland

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Introduction

Bart D. Ehrman (b. 1955) is a respected New Testament scholar who describes himself as an agnostic or atheist. He is a professor at the University of North Carolina. Ehrman is the author of a fascinating book on how contemporary Christianity’s concept of heaven and hell came to be (Heaven and hell. A History of the Afterlife, Simon & Schuster, 2020). It might be better to speak of the plural concept of heaven and hell, since there are differences, sometimes quite large, in the teachings of Christian denominations. The most common understanding, however, is that there are only two possible destinations for a human being: eternal heaven or damnation, which in the interpretation of some denominations may mean eternal suffering in hell. What are these beliefs based on? Did Jesus himself, or perhaps the Apostle Paul, teach this? These are the questions Ehrman seeks the best reasoned historical answers to in his book. I will present Ehrman’s perspectives and examine the subject from a theosophical perspective.

Bart Ehrman

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