The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ: The Original Text of Nicolas Notovitch's 1887 Discovery

"The title of this volume is calculated to arrest attention. Mr. Notovitch tells us that after many travels in the East he left for India, his object being 'to become acquainted with the peoples of India, to study their manners and customs, and at the same time to investigate the grand and mysterious archeology and majestical colossal nature of this marvelous country.' According to this 'Unknown Life,' when Issa (Jesus) had attainted the age of thirteen years, the epoch when an Israelite should take a wife...Issa left the parental house in secret, departed from Jerusalem, and with the merchants set out towards Sindh, with the object of perfecting himself inn the Divine Word and of studying the laws of the great Buddhas.' How Issa thus gained instruction, and presently wandered back to his native land, a marvelous missionary, making converts wherever he came, and welcome on his return by his own nation, only to fall a victim to the Roman power, may be read in Mr. Notovitch's pages." -The Literary World, Volume 51, 1895