“Those who say they will die first and then rise are in error. If they do not first receive the resurrection while they live, when they die they will receive nothing,” states the banned Gospel of Philip.For centuries, every esoteric and Gnostic sect was aware that the literal interpretation of the resurrection of Christ promoted by the Church was a fraud. And with good reason: thousands of years before Jesus, people from Egypt and China to Celtic Britain and North America practiced a secret, mystical ritual, and its initiates — from Zoroaster to Plato — regarded the experience as the pinnacle of spiritual development: a life-altering awakening that disclosed insights into the nature of reality and the self. But more importantly, as described on the walls of a secret chamber under an Egyptian pyramid, the experience of resurrection was not meant for the dead, but for the living. Its practitioners were described as ‘risen from the dead’.Blending ancient traditions, science and first-hand accounts, this book offers a unique insight into living resurrection; the revelation of Jesus as a reenactment of the resurrection of Osiris; the purpose of initiation; the cultures and societies who practiced it; why initiates protected its secrets with their lives; and why the Church preferred you didn’t know about this.