Alvin Kuhn has done a magnificent job in explaining the ancient wisdom and showing its relevance for us today.This book gives a good exposition of his views.Man has two natures, the animal and the divine.Plato and Aristotle and others wrote about the animal soul and the divine soul.The purpose of human life is to develop the divine soul so that it can uplift the animal soul.This is the essence of the ancient wisdom.Kuhn shows how political Christianity turned this teaching upside down.It took the divine soul away from man and placed it in one alleged person, Jesus Christ.This left man empty.Christ was never a person, but a symbol of the divine soul in every human being.Early Christians such as Paul had this teaching, but in the 3rd century the Church became a tool of repression and the true teachings were discarded.Kuhn brings the truth to light again in a much needed message for our times.He shows that the Bible is not to be taken literally, but should be understood symbolically.The ancient wisdom is right there in the Bible , in symbolic language.Some examples: the virgin is the constellation Virgo;the star in the east is Sirius and the "three wise men" are the three stars in the belt of Orion the Hunter;the Christ was put in a manger, a feed trough, to be spiritual "food" for our animal nature.The raising of Lazarus is a retelling of the raising of Osiris in ancient Egypt.The name Lazarus comes from Osiris.The Bible life of the Christ is not history, but a retelling of the life of the divine soul in man.Christians burnt all the books containing the ancient wisdom to try and hide the truth from mankind.When the divine soul comes into matter it dies and then is reborn in humans.This explains the crucifixion and the resurrection, which do not make any sense when taken literally.All Kuhn's books are worth reading for those interested in religion and philosophy.This book gives a concise introduction to his ideas.If taken up, these ideas can change the world.