{ "item_title" : "The Original Q", "item_author" : [" Jesus Of Nazareth", "Qatansar The Thirteenth", "Ivar Katharos "], "item_description" : "What if the earliest Gospel was also the most dangerous?For centuries, scholars have spoken of Q, the lost source believed to lie behind some of the oldest sayings attributed to Jesus. No manuscript has ever been found.Until Professor Ivar Katharos, of the Academia Amor Invictus in Pisa, opens a forgotten collection of fragments and finds words that should not exist.At first, the text resembles the Jesus we think we know: Love your enemies.Bless those who curse you.Do not fear those who can kill the body.The sun rises upon the righteous and the wicked alike.But as the fragments are restored, another teaching emerges.A thirteenth disciple appears: Qatansar.He asks Jesus the question that has haunted religion from the beginning. If God is good, why does the innocent suffer? Why are children broken while the cruel flourish? Why should creation contain horror at all?Jesus' answer overturns the question itself.The snake is the Lord, and the Lord is the snake.Light and darkness. Life and death. Friend and enemy. Blessing and catastrophe.What if these are not opposing kingdoms?What if they are names we give to different faces of the same reality?Suddenly the hardest sayings of Jesus begin to fit together. Turning the other cheek is no longer weakness. Loving the enemy is no longer sentimental morality. The temptation in the wilderness becomes initiation. The sword becomes separation from inherited values. The sun that shines equally upon good and evil becomes the image of a consciousness that has moved beyond resentment.And Qatansar may not be an unknown disciple after all.A damaged name.A woman called Joanna.An ancient phrase meaning the one who handed him over.A fragment reading: ...DAS ISKAR...Then Katharos discovers a second work hidden among the remains.The Acts of the Sons of God.It begins after the death of Jesus.Peter wants vengeance. James warns that rebellion will destroy them. Thomas believes Jesus chose death as his final act of sovereignty. John, still weeping, insists that his teacher is alive.Mary gives the reason his words must be preserved: He was a diamond thrown into the mud... a flame of liberation that made our torments easier.Then an armed stranger bursts into their gathering.JESUS IS ALIVE Outside, Joanna kneels beside the body of the man history would remember as the traitor.In her hands is his secret manuscript.And its final surviving folio contains a declaration so terrible that Professor Katharos begins to understand why the book may have disappeared. THE ORIGINAL Q is a philosophical mystery, a reconstructed lost gospel and a practical book about living without resentment, fear or dependence upon the judgement of others.Its Jesus is neither the harmless sage of modern spirituality nor the moral policeman of conventional religion. He is a teacher of radical freedom: demanding that human beings confront suffering, abandon borrowed values, endure the full violence and beauty of existence, and become strong enough to love reality without requiring reality to be fair.For readers of religious mysteries, lost scriptures, forbidden philosophy, existential psychology and books that are meant to be used rather than merely read.You have heard the teaching.Now see whether you are strong enough to live it.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/819/183/9798191832418_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "89.99", "online_price" : "89.99", "our_price" : "89.99", "club_price" : "89.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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