Excerpt from The Good News of a Spiritual Realm This book is an interweaving of the Four Gospels into one connected account of the Life and the Teach ings of Jesus of Nazareth, in which the effort is made by free translation and paraphrase to bring out the unity and the reasonableness of his life and teachings from a modern point of view. It has been very unfortunate that Jesus' life and teachings have been so largely studied as a part of the whole history of the Christian Church and Christian dogma. This has in evitably resulted in straining and distorting them out of their original and characteristic simplicity. This screening and obscuring of his original thought began at the very begin ning. Jesus was again and again distressed because his own disciples, who were com paratively uneducated men, failed to under stand and to appreciate the significance of his teachings. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.