Product Description

Two millennia ago, a charismatic Jewish teacher emerged from the sands of Roman Palestine. His wise, sometimes enigmatic teachings, his ability to heal the sick, and the miraculous feats he performed before the eyes of his many followers brought him fame, admiration and adoration, as well as resentment and ultimately, death. Yet, in the score of centuries that passed, his life's story has been told and re-told more than that of any man who has ever lived. Who was this Jesus? Was he the King of the Jews? The Son of God? A prophet? A politician? A religious teacher? Was he an individual caught up in a drama much greater than himself, perhaps divinely inspired to fulfill an age-old prophecy? In his first novel, bestselling author Lon Milo DuQuette tells a remarkable tale of what might have been... Through the magic of his narrative, DuQuette brings to life the historical and cultural milieu from which Jesus, John the Baptist, and the woman known in the Gospels as Mary Magdalene arose. The streets and temples and homes of ancient Galilee appear vividly before us, as do the priests, soldiers, merchants, wandering prophets, and Gnostic initiates of the time. Thoughtful readers of all persuasions will discover that this wonderful story, while admittedly fiction, is also based on the fruits of modern scholarship -- making ACCIDENTAL CHRIST not only a pleasure to read, but also a provocative tale, a fascinating story that both inspires and challenges our thinking about Jesus.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #734130 in Books
• Published on: 2007-01-25
• Released on: 2007-01-25
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

About the Author
Perhaps best known for his 1999 award-winning autobiography, My Life With the Spirits and a dozen other books, critics have hailed Lon Milo DuQuette as "The most entertaining author in his field" and "The Mark Twain of the occult." His lectures worldwide have been described as ". . .a generous cascade of astonishing information, laughter and terror." Such accolades are seldom, if ever, bestowed upon one whose field of expertise is the dark subjects of magick and mysticism. However, there has never been anyone quite like DuQuette in the world of esoteric literature. DuQuette lives with his wife, Constance, in Southern California.

Customer Reviews

The Greatest Version Ever Told
First, let me explain that I am habitually stingy with stars, and award four stars where a normal person would award five. This is because I only award five stars to books that profoundly change the universe I live in. I would award five stars to the genuine "Abhorred Necronomicon of the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred" if it really turned up, and even then only if it really did allow me to open an interdimensional rift allowing eldritch abominations from beyond the stars into the world of humanity. I think I did award five stars to Crowley's "Book IV." The "doorstop" edition.

This book gets the highest possible score of any mundane tract. This book is a fictional account of the life and career of the Unknown Nazarene comparable to "The Last Temptation of Christ", and perhaps more deserving of controversy. Duquette manages to put forth some genuine insight into the myth-making process, and the realities of history and human nature, while writing a thrilling narrative--at turns hysterically funny, gruesomely realistic (if my past-life memories of the Unholy Land serve), and touchingly tragic. He closely follows the story and dialogue given in the traditional Gospels (including one very hot passage with dialogue taken verbatim from the Gospel According to John, surely destined to become a classic--and a bone of contention!) and with an account of the Crucifixion that blows Mel Gibson out of the water he fouls. Keep an eye out for a wonderful bit of poetry, a litany with the recurring theme of "that which remains." And what a stinger of an ending!

This book is also very timely, coming as it does concurrently with the revelations concerning the Talpiot Tomb, and fortuitously dovetailing with the "Ossuary of Jesus" interpretation. Not that Duquette rushed this one out to cash in on current events; I have personally waited years to read this, as it hovered on the fringes of accessibility, just out of reach.

This book will also be denounced as blasphemous and even obscene by conservative religionists, which can't hurt sales. It deserves no less.

An amazing interpretation!
Only several times in my life have I not been able to "put a book down" once starting it. Nero Wolfe mysteries by Rex Stout do that. So did "My Life with the Spirits, ironically also by Lon Milo DuQuette. Accidental Christ did that too.

The ingenious way that Mr. DuQuette interweaves biblical quotes and anecdotes with historical fact as well as fiction, not only keeps the reader interested until the end, it also presents a rather plausible case for how distorted the Jesus myth may have become. Mr. DuQuette nicely avoids the DaVinci Code theories by presenting another possible theory behind the biblical story of Jesus and another version of what may have happened to explain the "resurrection" of Christ as told (interpreted) in the bible. Best of all, rather than hit the reader over the head with it, Mr. DuQuette just ends the story leaving it to the reader to fill in the blanks left. I can see why one reviewer indicated that he was left wanting more!

Finally, the "greatest story of all time" has been made even greater!

A fun, enlightening tale
This is a few stories of Christ from a very interesting and unique point of view, specifically that Jesus was a mystery school adept. Lon Milo DuQuette's familiarity with the occult lends credence and believablility to the story, and combined with his humor, leaves the reader craving more. The only fault is that it is too short.

Based on the strength of this novella, I would encourange a large publisher to take a look at this and offer enough to get Lon to expand this into a full novel... It falls somewhere in between "Holy Blood, Holy Grail" and "Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal" with controversy about what really happened in Christ's life compared to tales found in the Bible, told in an oft-times humorous manner.