Table of Contents

Author’s Note • vii

1 The Dark Night • 1
2 Faraway Classes • 12
3 Seeds of Wheat • 39
4 Home Fires • 54
5 The Way to Shamballa • 68
6 The Hidden Teacher • 84
7 New Roads • 106
8 Travel Plans • 113
9 A Strange Encounter • 124
10 Mathura Crossroad • 136
11 Growth of an Empire • 159
12 Confrontation and Redemption • 168
13 The Greatest Loss—The Highest Gain • 186
14 Mountain Discovery • 195
15 Down from the Mountain • 202

Cast of Characters • 221

The Order of Melchizedek • 224

Acknowledgments • 225

Reader’s Section • 227

Historical Perspective on the Kushan Empire • 234

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Author Lois Drake shares her perspective on her book:

“Issa: The Greatest Story Never Told is inspired by The Lost Years of Jesus, by Elizabeth Clare Prophet.

Mrs. Prophet’s groundbreaking book documents ancient Buddhist manuscripts discovered more than a century ago in Ladakh that tell the story of Jesus’ journey to the East as a teenager and his travels through India, Nepal, and Tibet as both student and teacher.

The time period of Jesus’ “lost years” also saw the rise of a people known as the Kushans, whose civilization reached its zenith in the second and third centuries A.D.

My collaborator, Fred Peck, compiled much information on the Kushans, seeking to unravel the mystery of their origins in central Asia.

I have woven this work of fiction from these two themes. It is an exploration of the ancient wisdom that
might have guided Jesus on his journey.

But more importantly, it is an invitation to you to ponder the question:

What would it have been like to meet the teenager who would become the savior of the world?”

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Thousands of miles from Bethlehem, two powerful and enigmatic forces are about to converge.

The Kushans. A lost Central Asian civilization with a secret order bearing the Signet and possessing the power of the “Ancient Ones.”

Jesus. The teenager who leaves family and home for India. . .and would become the Savior of the world.

Could the convergence of the lost kingdom of the Kushans and the “lost years” of Jesus give us insights today?

Woven across multiple tableaus, threads of this dramatic tapestry include:
The boy Jesus, known in the East as Saint Issa,
Maitreya—the Coming Buddha,
The royal family of the Kushans,
One of the three wise men,
And many others…

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