INTRODUCTION
1. Walter Scott, Hermetica, Vol. 1: The Ancient Greek and Latin Writings Which Contain Religious or Philosophic Teachings Ascribed to Hermes Trismegistus (Boston, Mass.: Shambhala, 2001), 151–53.
2. Graham Hancock, Heaven’s Mirror (New York: Three Rivers Press, 1998), 312.
3. R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz, The Temple in Man: Sacred Architecture and the Perfect Man (Rochester, Vt.: Inner Traditions, 1988), 106.
4. Ibid., 20.
5. Scott, Hermetica, 343.
6. Ibid., 135.
7. Ibid., 461.
CHAPTER 1. THE PHILOSOPHY OF ENLIGHTENMENT
1. New English Bible, John 1:1–5.
2. Scott, Hermetica, 115–17.
3. Gaudapada, Mandukya Karika IV.45.
4. Scott, Hermetica, 223.
5. Y. Lee, T. M. Haard, W. P. Halperin, and J. A. Sauls, “Discovery of the Acoustic Faraday effect in Superfluid 3He-B,” Nature 400, no. 6743 (July 29, 1999), 431.
CHAPTER 2. THE MECHANICS OF ENLIGHTENMENT
1. Scott, Hermetica, 131.
2. Isha Upanishad XI.
3. Scott, Hermetica, 241.
4. Ibid., 247.
5. Svetashvatara Upanishad II.16–19.
6. Patanjali, Yoga Sutras, I.41.
CHAPTER 3. THE SPECTRUM OF CONSCIOUSNESS
1. Scott, Hermetica, 221.
2. Shvetashvatara Upanishad V.9.
3. Chandogya Upanishad VII.23.
4. Rig Veda 1.164:18.
5. Ibid., 1.164:19.
6. Genesis 28.
7. Pyramid Texts 1108.
8. Ibid., 773–74.
9. Ibid., 1431.
10. Ibid., 390.
11. Scott, Hermetica, 205.
12. Ibid., 515.
13. Jaiminiya Upanishad Brahmana I.23.
14. Bhagavata Mahapurana III.11:41.
15. Svetashvatara Upanishad III.
CHAPTER 4. THE SCIENCE OF THE GODS
1. Scott, Hermetica, 457.
2. Ibid., 233.
3. Bhagavad Gita XV.16–17.
4. Bhagavata Mahapurana XII.4:35–37.
5. Ibid., XI.22.
1. Rig Veda X.1:1.
2. Ibid., X.3:1.
3. Ibid., X.2:7.
CHAPTER 6. THE STANDARD COSMOLOGICAL MODEL
1. Scott, Hermetica, 205.
CHAPTER 8. THE GALACTIC WISDOM
1. See the Vishnu Puruana and the Bhagavata Mahapurana.
2. Scott, Hermetica, 341.
CHAPTER 9. THE UNIVERSAL WISDOM
1. Rig Veda I.24.
2. Ibid.
CHAPTER 10. THE SUPERUNIVERSAL WISDOM
1. Subhash Kak, “The Speed of Light in Puranic Cosmology,” Computing Science in Ancient India, edited by T. R. N. Rao and S. Kak (Lafayette, La.: USL Press, 1998), 431.
CHAPTER 11. THE COSMIC WISDOM
1. Bhagavata Mahapurana III.26:51–52.
2. Manu Smriti I.19–20.
3. Chandradar Sharma, A Critical Survey of Indian Philosophy (London: Rider, 1960), 154.
4. Manu Smriti I.5–11.
5. Scott, Hermetica, 119.
6. Ibid., 123–25.
7. See the Ahirbudhnya Samhita of the Pancharatra tradition.
CHAPTER 12. THE IMMORTAL WISDOM
1. See the Lakshmi Tantra and Ahirbudhnya Samhita.
2. These six extraordinary consonants correspond to ksha, the retroflex form of la, and the rangas, yamas, jihvamuliya, and upadmaniya—all of which are included in the more expanded and older Vedic alphabet espoused by Panini, the great Sanskrit grammarian.
3. Gaudapada, Mandukya Karika III.3.
4. Book of Enoch 14:10–18.
5. Mandukya Upanishad 5–6.
6. Ibid., 7.
7. Talmud, Mas. Kiddushin 71a.
8. Soncino Zohar, Bereshith Section 1, 30a.
9. Ibid., Bereshith Section 2, 234a.
10. Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (New York: Pocket Books, 1979), 181.
CHAPTER 13. THE SUPREME WISDOM
1. See the Lakshmi Tantra.