American interest in Asian religions, especially Buddhism, was widespread among Freethinkers in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth. In this presentation John Buescher examines the career of Levi Dowling, the author of the “Aquarian Gospel of Jesus the Christ,” published in 1908, which described a journey by Jesus to Tibet and India, and which first established the syncretism of occultism, spiritualism, Theosophy, and New Thought, as the “Age of Aquarius.”