(I posted this in another related thread, though if you folks don't mind, being that is a quite lengthy post, I will post it to a new thread also for the sake of exposure)

Hello folks

I have been researching the Kolbrin for quite a few years and I will share with you what I have uncovered.

First of all I contacted the Culdians when I got into this book to know what was the deal with the American publishers named YOWUSA. They replied this to me:

"The situation with the Kolbrin and the 'Kolbrin Bible' (we have never called it a bible) is unfortunate and we agree with you, to diminish the content of the Kolbrin to the forewarner of a catastrophe that may or may not happen has demeaned the book in the eyes of a lot of people who have come in contact with the plagarised version. When the situation was first bought to our attention we went down the breach of copyright road and found it impracticable and not that easy to pursue from another country.

There is a second volume to the Kolbrin - the Gospel of the Kailedy and deals specifically with the life and times of Jesus Christ, which Masters and Mannings, for some reason, have left alone. How did they get hold of the book - they bought it from us and copied it word for word. The interesting thing now is we have since reprinted the Kolbrin and fixed several glaring mistakes in it - misplaced paragraphs and the like - and the Masters and Manning version still has them in it."

The situation with the Kolbrin has been quite sad throughout the years. Glen Kimball, Marshall Masters and Janice Manning(YOWUSA) have unilaterally and irresponsibly taken the right to become online representatives for the Kolbrin book spreading nefarious lies about it and distorting it's content to fit their own agendas. Everyone that googles regarding the Kolbrin comes up with tons of "Kolbrin Bible" results. These people from YOWUSA have invested lots of money to market the book and get it to sell in many different versions. formats and through different sites. Their sites through which they promote the "Kolbrin Bible" version are always filled with UFO and planet x content, among other new age material of dubious quality, and when people find the Kolbrin included in these kind of sites they perceive that these people(YOWUSA) are responsible for it(false!) and dismiss it as a hoax without giving it a chance whatsoever.
Also Marshall Masters has lied about the book upside down, even to the point of saying that it prophesizes about Muslim terrorists triggering World war 3 and such utter falsehoods. Other falsehoods attributed by YOWUSA are for example that the book is a Judeo-Christian book (Jews are barely mentioned throughout the book and certainly not as the compilers of it), and that a Sword was found in America with the words Kolbrin or Colbrin inscribed in it (half truth as a Sword was actually found in America with words inscribed in it, but in a Welsh alphabet called "Coelbren", which is interesting in itself but another story altogether). Also some cheap and misleading Discovery Channel documentaries that can be found thanks to Masters, including constant panning of some sort of ancient looking book which is obviously not the Kolbrin, but they try to make it seem so. These among other stuff I might be forgetting.

Funnily enough this is what someone from YOWUSA had to say about the Kolbrin before they decided to plagiarize it:

"The Kolbrin however, has no specific author due to the very nature of its origins. It is not available through places like Amazon.com or Barnes and Noble as the Culdian Trust do not spend money on massive marketing campaigns to profit from it. We believe this fact weighs heavily towards its authenticity"

Ironically a while after they would make sure the Kolbrin would be in Amazon and some other book selling websites after illegally copying it.

So the bottom line to clarify things is that the Kolbrin was originally just called "The Kolbrin" and the American publishers decided to add the "Bible" part, presumably to attract Christian clients for their new "business"(which actually backfired). As they well stated, the Culdians were never really into marketing the book, and indeed this weights HEAVILY towards it's authenticity in my opinion, which is the next topic I am gonna try to cover.

Authenticity:

As we all know the original manuscripts are not available. The current version of the Kolbrin is said to be a hand written transcription from the 19th century which had to have certain parts added by their transcribers because of the bad condition of the manuscripts found. There are rumors that the Vatican has a copy, and that some copies were in India, but these are most likely falsehoods, specially the last one as it comes from YOWUSA (whom we know personally from the Culdians started publishing the book without permission). Also it is said that Tesla read the Kolbrin, but I haven't seen any proof for that, and this information comes from James Mccanney, I can't really judge on that one. It would be interesting to ask him where he got that information from however, internet rumors can be annoyingly hard to trace sometimes.

So basically for any kind of scholarly and academic acceptance, the Kolbrin has all to lose because, first, it's name is probably derived from the Welsh alphabet called Coelbren, and thus it is not the authentic name of a particular book which could be traced to ancient times. In fact the Kolbrin is not A book, but a collection of texts from different sources; and second, obviously the original manuscripts are not to be found.

[link to yowusa.com]