Dear friends,

I came across the name of Neil Douglas-Klotz through reading the book by Elisabeth West 'Happiness here and now'
http://www.spiritheart.org/chapel/lordpryr.htm
http://www.bookfinder.com/author/neil-douglas-klotz/
http://www.amazon.com/Happines...isited/dp/0826412459
http://www.spiritualityandprac...ks/books.php?id=2203

I was quite surprised by his translations of the Aramaic words of Jesus.
Again another Jesus? Again going away from orthodox faith?

I found this reaction on http://www.selfknowledge.org/r...yersofthecosmos.htm:

Roger Clough, a reader of this Web site, wrote the following response to this review:

The Neil Douglas-Klotz translation of the Lord's Prayer is beautiful, but his claim that it goes back to the "original sources" appears to be bogus. The text to the New Testament was originally written in Greek, not Aramaic. The Aramiac text which Klotz used as his "original" source (The Peshitta) is in fact a derived work, being translated into Aramaic from the original Greek text of the Bible, according to the Lion Encyclopedia of the Bible. A Catholic source (The New American Bible) also says that the New Testament was originally written entirely in Greek.

Some reply to all this?

Greetings,
Fred

Here's another one:

The Lord's Prayer -
In the Language of the Indian Sages

Our Father in Heaven........................................The Source of our Being

Holy be your name.........................Lead us from un-holiness to holiness

Your Kingdom come........................... From fragmentation to wholeness

Your will be done on earth as in heaven..........From conflict to harmony

Give us today our daily bread.................................From time to eternity

Forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sin against us....... From sin to grace.

Do not bring us to the test.........................................From duality to unity

But deliver us from evil........................................ From darkness to Light.