Intro
In 2026, an Albanian Ahmadi (on TikTok as @feko836 aka Pasha) asked me if I had read this specific book and wrote anything about it. See my review…
In the 1970’s, Andreas Faber Kaiser (he was editor of the UFO and occult magazine) wrote
“Jesus died in Kashmir: Jesus, Moses and the ten lost tribes of Israel”. Andreas Faber Kaiser was basically a conspiracy theorist looking for sales. He was a proponent of the gnostic view that Jesus survived his crucifixion, was hidden by Essenes and travelled to India. Fabier-Kaiser cited discredited apocrypha forgeries such as William Dennes Mahan‘s A Correct Transcript of Pilate’s Court.
In this book, Andreas Faber Kaiser argued that “there is evidence that Jesus visited Kashmir during his youth, of which the Bible says virtually nothing more than that he visited Jerusalem when he was twelve”. Clearly, the Ahmadiyya theory is at odds with this conclusion.
Per Beskow in The Blackwell Companion to Jesus Delbert Burkett – 2011 “Its main propagandist in the West was Andreas Faber-Kaiser with his book Jesus Died in Kashmir (1978), where he … This claim, however,was severely refuted by the famous orientalist Max Müller (1894), who had himself visited Himis and had …”
Additional quotes:
“After seven years of investigations concerning the shroud that covered (Christ’s) body, many
scientists have come to the conclusion that Jesus was buried alive. The experts affirm that the
Holy Shroud preserved in Turin lay on a crucified body that suffered exactly the same passion
as Jesus, but state that this person did not die on the cross, but was buried while still alive. The
twenty-eight bloodstains on the shroud prove this. The investigators assure us that a corpse
wrapped in a shroud certainly could not bleed in that manner. Jesus was buried alive, unless a
second Jesus existed and he was mad to suffer the same agony” (Faber-Kaiser, p. 28).
“He discovered on the shroud tiny grains of fossilized pollen that, after detailed tests, turned out to be from plants existing only in Palestine twenty centuries ago. After this he had no doubt at all about the authenticity of the shroud, which was also found to carry traces of pollen from
plants in the area of Constantinople and the Mediterraneans. Pollens from fifteen different
plants were discovered: six Palestinian, one from Constantinople, and eight Mediterranean”
(Faber-Kaiser, 28).
“Death eventually came through hunger and thirst, the inclemency of the weather, or attacks by birds of prey or other beasts. On some occasions it was speeded up by breaking the criminal’s legs, and at other times the ordeal of hanging on the cross was considered sufficient punishment and the victim was taken down after a day or so and allowed to live. If the crucifixion wounds were carefully treated, it was possible to recover” (Faber-Kaiser, p. 26).
“Later my secretary told me that he had never read in the works of philosophers anything that
could be compared with the teachings of Jesus, and that he was neither leading people astray
nor an agitator. That is why we decided to protect him. He was free to act, to talk, and to call a
gathering of the people. This unlimited liberty provoked the Jews, who were indignant; it did not
upset the poor but it irritated the rich and powerful. Later I wrote a letter to Jesus asking for an
interview at the Forum. He came. When the Nazarene appeared I was taking my morning
stroll, and, looking at him, I was transfixed. My feet seemed fettered with iron chains to the
marble floor; I was trembling all over as a guilty person would, although he was calm. Without
moving, I appraised this exceptional man for some time. There was nothing unpleasant about
his appearance or character. In his presence I felt a profound respect for him. I told him that he
had an aura around him and his personality had an infectious simplicity that set him above the
present-day philosophers and masters. He made a deep impression on all of us, owing to his
pleasant manner, simplicity, humility, and love. These, worthy sovereign, are the deeds that
concern Jesus of Nazareth, and I have taken time to inform you in detail about this affair. My
opinion is that a man who is capable of turning water into wine, who heals the sick, who
resuscitates the dead and calms rough seas is not guilty of a criminal act” (Faber-Kaiser, p.
24).
“Jesus’s head and hands were placed higher than the rest of his body. Had Jesus been
dead when wrapped in the shroud, this would have meant that no fresh blood could have
flowed from these parts and left traces on the cloth. However,…the cloth shows traces
of blood running from the wounds caused by the crown of thorns that the Romans
wound round Jesus’s head, mocking him as “King of the Jews, and that once the body
was lowered from the cross and the “crown” removed, the wounds caused by the throrns
started to bleed” (Faber-Kaiser, p. 34).
“If Jesus had been dead for some time, all the blood would have congealed in the lower
part of his body. It is nature’s law that provided the heart continues to pump, the blood
will continue to circulate, even in a vacuum…Thus, as fresh blood could not have flowed from Jesus’s head wounds if his heart had stopped beating, there is medical evidence
that Jesus was not dead when he was wrapped in the shroud. He may have stopped
breathing, and so appeared to be dead; but, provided the heart is still beating, it is
possible, in such circumstances, to revive the person by intensive medical treatment”
(Faber-Kaiser, p. 34).
“The shroud also provides evidence of where the lance that the Roman soldier used to
test that Jesus was dead entered and left the body. Bloodstains show that the lance
pierced the right side of the chest, between the fifth and sixth ribs, and emerged on the
upper left-hand side, making an angle of 29 degrees. Since this means that the lance
passed close to the heart, but did not damage it, the “blood and water” that John (19:34)
tells us flowed from the wound could not have been drawn from the heart. The shows
that the heart was still beating, however faintly, and that Jesus was still alive” (Faber
Kaiser, p. 35).
“The exaltation or glorification in heaven is an inherent part of this article of faith. The entry of
Christ’s body into the glory of the eschatological realm effectively represents the first fruits, the
promise, and even the cause of our own glorification, and hence, our final salvation…It is not
enough that the body of Christ should emerge victorious from the sepulcher: it must also enter
into the divine world, into which it introduces us all…But this entry into glory is absolutely
supernatural, and thus cannot be experienced by the senses — for which reason the New
Testament writers, including Luke, decline to describe it…As soon as the body of Jesus leaves
the sepulcher, through the power of the Holy Spirit, it belongs to the eschatological world of
glory and enters it with full rights. This is how it is expressed in most of the relevant New
Testament texts, in which Christ’s resurrection and his taking place at the right hand of God are
presented as two, inseparable aspects of one and the same glorious triumph…The visible
manifestation on the Mount of Olives is thus in no way a contradiction of this first and decisive
triumph, which had to take place on Easter day” (Faber-Kaiser, 44-46). But how can a human
being affirm it as certain when it is not perceptible to human senses. The only proof of Jesus’
resurrection, a core teaching in Christianity, is found only in Christian sources. As the Bibel
Lexicon says, “the four gospels refer not to the actual resurrection, which we are told took place
without earthly eye-witnesses, but to the discovery of the empty tomb…These stories present
problems, showing little uniformity and containing numerous apparent discrepancies of detail”
(Faber-Kaiser, p. 48).
His first stop was Damascus and it is evident that it was on the road to Damascus, Jesus
confronted Saul of Tarsus, a prominent persecutor of Christians, who later became the apostle
Paul. In addition, there’s a place, two miles from the city, called ‘Maqam-I-Isa’ meaning, “the
place where Jesus stayed” (Faber-Kaiser, p. 76).
Jesus then traveled to Iran. Agha Mustafai in Ahwali Ahalian-I- Paras, tells us that Yus Asaf
came from a country in the west, preached and converted many. From there he traveled to
Afghanistan and then to Taxila in Pakistan. Actae Thomae (Acts of Thomas) places Thomas
and Mary with Jesus in Taxila, and not with the disciples in Jerusalem. According to this
tradition, Thomas accompanied Jesus to Kashmir, via Damascus and Nisbis; Thomas was in
Kashmir with Jesus at the latter’s death; and then, after retracing his steps to Taxila, travelled to
Kerala, in southern India, and died and was cremated at Milapore, Madras” (Faber-Kaiser, p.
81).
So after leaving Taxila, Jesus, Mary, and Thomas travelled to Kashmir, but Mary died en route,
in the small town of ‘Murree,’ named in her honor. She is buried at ‘Pindi Point’ and the
sepulcher is called ‘Mai Maree da Asthan,’ meaning the ‘resting place of Mother Mary.’ And
according to Jewish custom, the tomb is oriented east-west (Faber-Kaiser, p. 82).
There are two tombstones in the inner chamber. The larger one belongs to Jesus and the
smaller one, lying near the entrance, is of a Muslim saint of the 15th century, Syed Nasir-ud-Din,
known for his devotion to Jesus. The two tombstones are oriented north-south according to
Muslim tradition, but the real tomb of Jesus lies in a crypt underneath, and is oriented east-west, according to the Jewish tradition. In the north-east corner are the carved footprints, which bear crucifixion wounds. The people of Kashmir who visit the tomb know it as the tomb of Hazrat Yuz Asaf or of Nabi Sahib (‘the prophet’), or Hazrat Isa Sahib, or Jesus (Faber-Kaiser, p. 100-103).
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Links and Related Essay’s
Andreas Faber-Kaiser – Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andreas_Faber-Kaiser
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