Notes
INTRODUCTION
1. P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous, 124.
2. It might be argued that seeing the numbers 7 and 8 as interchangeable makes the identification of patterns too easy, but I think that any “natural” configuration that conforms to this universal symmetry, that coincides at the key “points of entry,” as it were (for example, points 3, 4, 7, 8, 22, 64, and combinations thereof)—musical, geometric, genetic, conceptual—is, I think, valid. So the 838 symbolism of the I Ching, or the “chessboard” ground plan of the Giza Necropolis, is essentially expressing the same principle as the 93711 format of the triple-octave “squared,” because the product of each is 64. Similarly the number 64 in the genetic code is obtained, not through an 838 format, or 93711, but through 43434—again, with a product of 64. So these apparently disparate patterns do map one onto another, but only at certain crucial points. One would not expect exact superimpositions to be visible at every level, because the universe is continually evolving, constantly in flux. But as long as the various symmetries link in at these main “points of entry” the Hermetic Code is valid. If anything, the fact that the code can be directly linked to all of these various symmetries—and many others found throughout the natural world—is compelling evidence of its extraordinary dynamism and universality. This is precisely what one would expect of a “theory of everything.”
3. Michael Hayes, The Infinite Harmony, 17.
CHAPTER 1. THE SACRED CONSTANT:THE “JEWEL IN THE CROWN”
1. William R. Fix, Pyramid Odyssey, 108.
2. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Sacred Science, 86.
3. Colin Wilson, From Atlantis to the Sphinx, 78.
4. Edouard Naville, “Excavations at Abydos,” cf. Corliss, 325.
5. Andrew Collins, Gods of Eden, 11.
6. Rand Flem-Ath and Colin Wilson, The Atlantis Blueprint, chapter 3, “The Giza Prime Meridian.”
7. Peter Tompkins, Secrets of the Great Pyramid, 287–382.
8. Stan Gooch, Cities of Dreams, 99–100.
9. Ibid., chapter 10.
CHAPTER 2. A DIFFERENT WAY OF SEEING
1. Colin Wilson, From Atlantis to the Sphinx, 9.
2. Colin Wilson, The War Against Sleep, 89.
3. Colin Wilson, From Atlantis to the Sphinx, 10.
4. A. Erman, Pyramid Texts, the Literature of the Ancient Egyptians, 4f.
5. Colin Wilson, From Atlantis to the Sphinx, 242.
6. Ibid., 242.
7. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, Sacred Science, chapter entitled “Magic, Sorcery, Medicine.”
8. Colin Wilson, From Atlantis to the Sphinx, 246.
CHAPTER 3. MUSIC OVER MATTER
1. Carl G. Jung, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, 178–79.
2. John Bierhorst, The Mythology of Mexico and Central America, 8.
3. Harold Osbourne, Indians of the Andes: Aymaras and Quechuas, 64.
4. Mark Henderson, The Times, February 16, 2004.
5. Paramhansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, 316.
6. Andrew Collins, Gods of Eden, 66–70.
7. Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods, 262.
8. Andrew Collins, Gods of Eden, 82.
9. Ibid., 77–78.
10. Peter Tompkins, Secrets of the Great Pyramid, 101–3.
CHAPTER 4. THE ELECTRON AND THE HOLY GHOST
1. Pierre Speziali (ed.), Einstein–Besso Correspondence, 1903–1955, p. 538.
2. Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe, 51.
3. P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous, 176.
4. Paul Davies, Other Worlds, 68.
5. Timothy Ferris, The Whole Shebang, 224.
6. Colin Wilson, The Strange Life of P. D. Ouspensky, 54.
7. Ibid., 50.
8. Satprem Satprem, Sri Aurobindo, or the Adventure of Consciousness, 219.
9. Paramhansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, 316.
CHAPTER 5. FURTHER LIGHT
1. Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods, 178.
2. Ralph Ellis, Thoth, Architect of the Universe, 3.11.
CHAPTER 6. LIVE MUSIC
1. Michael Hayes, The Infinite Harmony, 221–30.
2. Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, xi.
3. Ibid., 52.
4. Ibid., 33.
5. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 192.
6. Ibid., 199.
7. Ibid., 197.
8. Michael Hayes, The Infinite Harmony, 154–57.
9. Richard Dawkins, The Selfish Gene, 196.
10. Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods, 95.
11. James Shrieve, The Neanderthal Enigma, 69.
12. Stan Gooch, Cities of Dreams, 49–53.
13. Michael Hayes, The Infinite Harmony, 27–39.
14. Linda Jean Shepherd, Lifting the Veil, The Feminine Face of Science, 215.
15. Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden, 142.
CHAPTER 7.EXTRATERRESTRIAL DNA
1. Rodney Collin, The Theory of Celestial Influence, 342.
2. Michael Hayes, The Infinite Harmony, 222.
3. Rodney Collin, The Theory of Celestial Influence, 81.
CHAPTER 8.INTERSTELLAR GENES AND THE GALACTIC DOUBLE HELIX
1. Robert Temple, The Sirius Mystery, 3.
2. Ibid., 55.
3. Ibid., 24.
4. Ibid., 25.
5. Michael Hayes, The Infinite Harmony, 81–93.
6. Robert Temple, The Syrius Mystery, 28.
7. Ibid., 29.
CHAPTER 9. THE HERMETIC UNIVERSE OF ANCIENT TIMES
1. Genesis 1:1.
2. Ibid., 1:2.
3. Ibid., 1:3–4.
4. F. Max-Muller, The Laws of Manu, 1:8–9.
5. George Smoot, Wrinkles in Time, 272.
CHAPTER 11.THE FATE OF THE UNIVERSE
1. Paul Davies, The Last Three Minutes, 67–68.
CHAPTER 12. INNER OCTAVES
1. P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous, 86.
2. Ibid., 81.
CHAPTER 13. THE HOLOGRAPHIC PRINCIPLE
1. John Blofeld, Tantric Mysticism of Tibet, 61–62.
2. P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous, 88.
3. Genesis 9:6.
4. Compton’s Interactive Encyclopaedia, “Orpheus” entry.
CHAPTER 14. QUANTUM PSYCHOLOGY: THE “NONLOCAL” BRAIN
1. Michael Talbot, The Holographic Universe, 122.
2. P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous, 88.
3. Ibid., 262.
4. Ibid., 265.
5. Ibid., 265–66.
6. Stanislav Grof, Beyond the Brain, 91.
7. Colin Wilson, The Strange Life of P. D. Ouspensky, 48.
8. Ibid., 48.
9. Paramhansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, 318.
10. Ibid., 319.
CHAPTER 15. QP2: THE UNIVERSAL PARADIGM
1. Revelations 12:1.
2. P. D. Ouspensky, In Search of the Miraculous, 217.
3. Ibid.
4. Paramhansa Yogananda, Autobiography of a Yogi, 315.
5. Ibid.
6. W. Evans-Wentz, The Tibetan Book of the Dead, 158–59.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid., 95–96.
10. Rodney Collin, The Theory of Eternal Life, 37.
CHAPTER 16. THE SHAPESHIFTERS
1. Adrian Recinos, Popul Vuh, The Sacred Book of the Ancient Quiche Maya, 168–69.
2. Ibid., 169.
3. Ibid.
4. Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods, 337.
5. Ibid., 333.
6. Mark Lehner, Secrets of the Lost Empires, 93.
CHAPTER 17. “AL-CHEM”—THE EGYPTIAN WAY
1. Anon., Material for Thought, no. 7, 1.
2. John Romer, Romer’s Egypt, 28.
3. Ibid., 65.
4. R. O. Faulkner (trans.), Ancient Pyramid Texts, 227.
5. David Furlong, Keys to the Temple, 79.
6. CorpusHermeticum, Asclepius III 246 (see under Copenhaver in bibliography).
7. Ecclesiastes 1:9–10.