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Page Count: 332
Printing Date: September 24, 2007
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The tomb of Rozabal in Kashmir has contained the body of a great saint called Yuz Asaf since 112 A.D. But who was Yuz Asaf and what secret does the ancient tomb contain? Father Vincent Morgan is unwittingly sucked into the Rozabal tornado when flashes of his own previous lifetimes reveal some uncomfortable truths about the life and death of Jesus Christ. Vincent is soon caught in the crossfire between the Osama-bin-Laden inspired warriors of Islam, led by Ghalib-bin-Isar, and the fundamentalists of the Crux Decussata Permuta. The secret held securely within Rozabal for two millennia threatens to upset the world's balance of power. Zipping around the world caught up in a whirlwind of events, people, religion and time, from Jesus to Muhammad; from the Crusades to 9/11; from the Vatican to the White House; from Skull & Bones to the Illuminati; from Buddhist meditation to past-life regression; from the Virgin birth to nuclear destruction; and from Mary Magdalene to Osama-bin-Laden; The Rozabal Line has it all.
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There are many evidences to show that Jesus went to India and even died there...all people who go out to find these evidences eventually become convinced of it. Only people who stay home and are too lazy to study anything themselves will never ever find the truth...The truth is out there for all to grab....If only you people knew what scholars are discovering about the historical Jesus, you would realise to what extent we can have false impressions by seeing what Christianity has become today...Visit my blog to find my own research:
http://jesusofeastandwest.blogspot.com/
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Unputdownable! I really thought that this book was gripping, both because of the tight plot and the facinating intrigue of fiction intertwined with history! Bold and provocative, Haigins takes the reader on a spellbinding journey through time - from the truths uttered by the very first prophets to modern day cynicism around religion, politics and life. I loved the short "choppy" chapters - they kept the reader constantly guessing, while neatly tying together at just the right times.
I look forward to more from Haigins.
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This is an impressive book. It weaves together multiple plots, culminating in nuclear explosion, a political assassination, and a fine finale. The book is rich in historical, geographical, technological, political, and religious detail. Be prepared to move from one plot to the subsequent on each successive page. The author takes us across the world, beginning in Kashmir, Mecca, London, the Vatican, and Wazirstan, and going on to Japan, Russia, Israel, the United States, and elsewhere, as one cast of characters mingles with the next.
This enjoyable book packs a wealth of information and a fine narrative into a few hours of easy reading. Four to five stars. For an interested reader.
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Review by Steve Oldner at http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/.
The Rozabal Line by Shawn Haigins is a historical conspiracy thriller in the same sub-genre as Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Haigins writes about his story, "From Jesus to Muhammad; from the Crusades to 9/11; from the Vatican to the White House; from Skull & Bones to the Illuminati; from Buddhist meditation to past-life regression; from the Virgin birth to nuclear destruction; and from Mary Magdalene to Osama-bin-Laden; The Rozabal Line has it all, and more." Add to that a surprising ending, one I had to read a second time because I didn't see it coming! I really enjoyed reading the book!
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Bradenton, FL , Nov 21, 2007 - More than 100 years after the Russian explorer Nicolas Notovitch released his book "The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ" in which he translated some ancient Tibetan Buddhist scrolls that seemed to indicate that Jesus may have spent his lost years in India, there is a palpable sense of excitement in India once again.
The very first reason is that William Sees Keenan has decided to produce a $20m movie entitled "The Aquarian Gospel" to be directed by Drew Heriot. According to the film's makers the Bible devotes just seven words to the most formative years of Jesus Christ's life simply saying "The boy grew in wisdom and stature". The Aquarian Gospel will endeavor to fill that gap by following Christ's journey to the east where he encounters other traditions, and discovers the principles that are the bedrock of all the world's great religions.
The second reason for excitement in Mumbai and Delhi is that a new "Da Vinci Code" genre novel entitled "The Rozabal Line" by Shawn Haigins has taken the Jesus in India story and has supposed not only that Jesus spent his lost years in India but also that he survived the crucifixion and returned to India which was also home to one of the lost tribes of Israel. The novel has a controversial theme because it assumes that a Jesus and Mary Magdalene bloodline may exist in troubled Kashmir, along the Indo-Pakistan border, and that this bloodline could possibly be a present-day Islamic holy warrior.
Keenan's film will only be ready for release in 2009; Haigins' novel is available in the U.S. but will only be available in Indian bookstores in early 2008; but both have already created a discernible buzz in India. It will be recalled that India was one of the few places where the screening of "The Da Vinci Code" had to be temporarily suspended because of public protests and demonstrations.
The "Jesus in India" theory is not new. The German scholar, Holger Kersten, published "Jesus Lived in India" in 1994. He claimed that the tomb of a local Kashmiri saint, Yuz Asaf, located in Rozabal (Srinagar, Kashmir) was actually the tomb of Jesus. The researcher Suzanne Olsson also attempted to establish DNA evidence to link the two tomb sites at Rozabal and Murree where Jesus and Mary are supposed to have been buried. Dr. Fida Hassnain, former director of archaeology at the University of Srinagar has also written several books indicating the Yuz Asaf, Yeshua, Issa and Jesus were one and the same. The BBC has reported that the Bnei Menashe from North-Eastern India may actually be one of the lost tribes that reached India via Persia and Afghanistan.
Rozabal Line is stuffed full of historical events with a multitude of endnotes. Haigins' blog, http://shawnhaigins.blogspot.com, has actual pictures of the tomb and clips from the BBC's documentary. It's definitely worth a visit!
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"The Rozabal Line" is an exciting richly detailed and tightly woven novel. It is loaded with surprises and includes hairpin turns and slow careful climbs to reach the highest peak of excitement, leaving the reader breathless, with no time to recover because the subsequent moment of reading pleasure involves an unexpected drop into unanticipated depths. All I can say is move over Dan Brown, you have a rival author who has created a fantastic novel which interweaves four religious traditions: the hidden secrets of Christianity, the teachings of Buddhism, Islamic terrorism and the dark mysteries of Hinduism along with a secret society, called Crux Decussata Permuta, plus a beautiful but deadly Japanese female assassin. The characters are fully fleshed out with complex detail and variation of personality, making them come alive with purpose and meaning. As the plot develops and thickens within the very first five pages of the novel, it hooks the reader into a game of assassination, terrorist plots, and a religious mystery.
Victor Morgan, a Catholic priest from New York has had waking dreams (or possible hallucinations or visions?) which started as a young child. As he grew into his role of parish priest his dreams or visions became more frequent and very much more clear, especially after his parents died unexpectedly. He was hospitalized due to the emotional stress associated with his loss. Victor shared the contents of his dreams with Martha, his only living relative and aunt. She suggested a clue, an explanation which was completely contrary to his religious beliefs but which after some research made sense, perhaps he was recalling past lives. He saw the past where he was Simon of Cyrene who carried the cross for Jesus when he fell on his way to be crucified. His search to understand the meaning of his visions took him to India and to Kashmir, the place where a tomb exists which is marked "Rauza-Bal" or Rozabal, "tomb of the prophet" named Yuz Asaf. Although located in a Moslem cemetery, the tomb beneath the headstone contains a sarcophagus which includes carvings of feet with distinctive puncture marks, marks which could be from only one thing, a crucifixion. Local records indicate the time in which Yuz Asaf lived coincided with when Jesus would have been alive ... if had he not been crucified to death or did he survive and possibly escape to Kashmir?
On the northern border of the Pakistani and Afghanistan border an olive skinned male Islamic leader meets with twelve followers who are willing to sacrifice their lives in the name of their great cause. The leader is plotting twelve huge terroristic events around the globe from which he believed Westerners would not ever emotionally recover.
Swakilki travels around the world ... and leaves dead bodies within her path. She was raised in a Catholic orphanage after her mother's unexpected death and was later adopted by a Japanese couple. Due to a traumatic childhood, she was cold and calculating and ripe for exploitation. She was trained in the tantric arts, along with skills to kill. The person who controls her activities and directs her actions to commit these atrocities ... remains secret. Yet he had a very important role in her past ... One of her victims was Professor Terry Acton who was searching in the archives at the Department for the Study of Religions which was part of the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. He inadvertently stumbled on some information which could throw Christianity into a panic. Oddly enough, during his early years he went to India to study under a yogi and befriended Martha Morgan, who also trekked to India to discover truths about her inner self. Many years later they again met under most unusual circumstances.
Shawn Haigins combines these tantalizing elements and fascinating characters to build a superbly enticing and intriguing story. This book will entertain and enlighten those who love a great murder mystery. It may provoke some readers who are secure in their religious beliefs to become shaken and less comfortable with themselves. A few will refuse to even consider reading the book, given its controversial contents. One must keep in mind despite the author's tremendous amount of research, and ample citing of references and acknowledgements, it is a work of fiction, created in the author's imagination. This author is very knowledgeable in various religious traditions. He has the ability to create depth and complexity from a wealth of resources to build an outstanding murder mystery. Erika Borsos [pepper flower]
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