It is the purpose of this Revelation-Text to Illustrate a right understanding of the esoteric seeking-traditions and seeking-cultures of Spirituality (including “original” Christianity)—and, that having been done, to then Illuminate the Unique and Always Priorly Searchless “Radical” (or Always “At-the-Root”) Reality-Way of Adidam, Which is the Reality-Way of Perfectly Non-Dualistic Transcendental Spiritual, Intrinsically egoless, and Self-Evidently Divine Self-Realization.
            —His Divine Presence, Avatar Adi Da Samraj

“There is much talk today of ancient gnostic gospels, secret teachings, and the renewal of a mystical form of Christianity that can answer people’s spiritual hunger beyond all the unbelievable beliefs and social-control mechanisms of public ‘religion.’ Here, with The Pneumaton, we have what amounts to a modern gnostic gospel, a re-telling and re-interpretation of the life of Jesus the Spirit-Baptizer—presented as a principal aspect of Adi Da’s examination of the world’s mystical traditions (both Western and Eastern) and his summary of his own Spiritual Way. The result is a vision that is as radically critical of exoteric religion as it is profoundly appreciative of what Adi Da calls the ‘mystical Ascent’ of Christian esotericism.”
            —Jeffrey J. Kripal, J. Newton Rayzor Professor of Religious Studies and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University, Houston, Texas.
Author of Authors of the Impossible: The Paranormal and the Sacred and other books