When Jack Sloane, a psychologist, meets Penny Singh, a beautiful young Anglo-Indian student, he has no idea of the terrible dangers he is about to face. The Devil's Messiah is a tense psychological thriller which follows the story of these two blighted lovers, as they become enmeshed in a cult led by a man whose desire for power over other people knows no bounds. Masquerading as a haven of harmony and spiritual enlightenment, Anton's Spiritual Centre maintains a terrible and life-destroying hold over all its members. Penny is already a victim of Anton, and Jack, unhappy through the loss of his parents, but believing his profession will make him immune, is soon ready to follow her into the cult, and the terrible corruption that awaits him there. It is not long before he realises the terrible truth about the Centre, and his life is suddenly in danger. Even if he survives -- and the odds are stacked against him -- how will he ever rescue his beloved Penny from the clutches of the evil Anton and save her mind from the hideous distortions and twisted beliefs that Anton has implanted? If you have ever wondered how on earth people can become hooked by a cult and be prepared even to die, t

An ambulance screams through the Jerusalem’s quiet streets. Inside, a toddler fights for his life, his parents nowhere to be found. With profound shock, an emergency room doctor realizes that the child’s mother—a young American—is already at the hospital, sitting at the bedside of yet another child with traumatic injuries. Devoutly reciting Pslams, she stubbornly refuses to answer any questions, cautioning her children to say nothing. Brought in to investigate, Jerusalem detective Bina Tzedek-herself a young mother- carefully peels back layer after layer of secrets and lies, following a dark, winding path through Jerusalem’s Old City, kabbalists, mystical ancient texts, and terrifying cult rituals, until she comes face to face with the horrifying truth which has held a young American family captive. Based on true events, The Devil in Jerusalem from internationally bestselling author Naomi Ragen is an eye-opening look at the dangerous predators lurking around the watering holes of those who come seeking spiritual enlightenment.

Reproduction of the original: The History of the Devil by Daniel Defoe

“Kotsko goes beyond the biography of an icon to a provocative investigation of the devil’s many lives and effects in cultural and political ideologies.” —Laurel C. Schneider, author of Beyond Monotheism The most enduring challenge to traditional monotheism is the problem of evil, which attempts to reconcile three incompatible propositions: God is all-good, God is all-powerful, and evil happens. The Prince of This World traces the story of one of the most influential attempts to square this circle: the offloading of responsibility for evil onto one of God’s rebellious creatures. In this striking reexamination, the devil’s story is bitterly ironic, full of tragic reversals. He emerges as a theological symbol who helps oppressed communities cope with the trauma of unjust persecution, torture, and death at the hands of political authorities and eventually becomes a vehicle to justify oppression at the hands of Christian rulers. And he evolves alongside the biblical God, who at first presents himself as the liberator of the oppressed but ends up a cruel ruler who delights in the infliction of suffering on his friends and enemies alike. In other words, this is the story of how God becomes the devil—a devil who remains with us in our ostensibly secular age. “This diabolically gripping genealogy offers a stunning parable of western politics religious and secular. It tracks as has never been done before the dramatic shifts of the relation between God and the Devil—conflict, rivalry, game of mirrors, fusion. With the ironic wisdom of a postmodern Beatrice, Kotsko guides us through the sequence of hells that leads to our own.” —Catherine Keller, author of On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process