The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name

by Brian C. Muraresku

In that environment the words that come out of Jesus’s mouth in John 6:53–56 don’t actually belong to Jesus. They don’t even belong to John. “They were said as homilies of ecstatic individuals channeling Christ in the liturgy,” Father Francis continues, pointing to the Greek of the weathered Bible lying open on the table. “John’s Last Supper scene is poetic theology that doesn’t correspond at all to the Last Supper of the Synoptics, because it’s all coming out of a much later tradition of ecstatic, prophetic speech. Where the followers of John’s community are channeling the voice of Christ in their time. Because Christ is just as much present in the Eucharist as he is in Galilee in the year 30. In the year 90, he’s still risen. He’s still there.”