The Story of B 9780553379013

Father Osborne is bound by a covert centuriesold mandate held by his religious order to know before all others that the Antichrist is among us and to try to suppress and destroy him Every fifty years or so a new candidate emerges and is investigated despite the fact that theyve always proved to be harmless until now The target of Osbornes investigation is an American known to his followers only as B He isnt teaching meditation or goddess worship faith healing or New Age spiritualism He isnt out to make money or build a fanatical following Instead he is quietly uncovering the hidden history of our planet redefining the fall of man and retracing a path of human spirituality that extends millions of years into the past Osborne follows Bs elusive trail from a dead end in Salzburg to an existentialist cabaret in Munich to a candlelit retreat in the subcellar of dilapidated theater where he first encounters the mysterious B and his intriguing female colleague Shirin From the beginning Osborne is stunned outraged and awed by the originality and power of Bs teaching Is B merely a heretic or is he the Antichrist sent to seduce humanity not with wickedness but with ideas more alluring than those of traditional religion Pressed by his superiors for a judgment Osborne is driven to penetrate Bs inner circle There as Bs chosen disciple he soon finds himself an anguished collaborator in the dismantling of his own religious foundationsshow more