Notes
A SCOTTISH FAERY TALE . . .
1. Mackenzie, “A Vision of the Dead,” in Wonder Tales from Scottish Myth and Legend.
CHAPTER 1.
A NOBLE TRADITION RECENTLY SUPPRESSED
1. Abt and Hornung, Knowledge for the Afterlife, 9.
2. Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library, 52.
3. Ibid., 53.
4. Ibid., 144.
CHAPTER 2.
THE MYTH OF RESURRECTION
1. Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library, 332.
2. Kathir, Al‘-Koran, Al‘-Muntakhab, 4:157–58; Yusuf, The Holy Qur‘an.
3. Bembo, Letters and Comments on Pope Leo X; and Paolo, De Vita Leonis Decimi. John Bale published the phrase as a satire in Acta Romanorum Pontificum, 1574. And yet, far from being a satirical quote, Leo X’s phrase was witnessed and recorded by Bembo. The records of Cardinal Caesar Baronius—former Vatican librarian and the church’s most outstanding historian—provide information of falsification in Christianity. Concerning Pope Leo’s declaration, he wrote, “The Pontiff has been accused of atheism, for he denied God and called Christ, in front of cardinals Pietro Bembo, Jovius and Iacopo Sadoleto and other intimates, ‘a fable,’ it must be corrected” (Annales Ecclesiastici, op. cit., tomes viii and xi). In the Catholic Encyclopedia (Pecci ed., iii, pp. 312–14, passim), the church nullified this destructive quote by arguing that what Leo had meant by “profitable” was “gainful,” and “fable” was “tradition.” Hence it was restated as, “How well Christians have gained from this wonderful tradition of Christ.” However, Cardinal Bembo, the pope’s secretary for seven years, added that Leo “was known to disbelieve Christianity itself. He advanced contrary to the faith and that in condemning the Gospel, therefore he must be a heretic” (in Letters).
4. Phillips, The Virgin Mary Conspiracy, 147–48; and LePage, Mysteries of the Bridechamber, 25.
5. 1 Corinthians 2:2.
6. LePage, Mysteries of the Bridechamber, 23.
7. Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library, 153.
8. Iranaeus, Against Heresies, 5.35.2.
9. Knight and Lomas, The Hiram Key, 145–49.
10. Gospel of Philip, 55:15–16.
11. Gospel of Thomas, 17, in Patterson, Robinson, and Bethge, The Fifth Gospel.
CHAPTER 3.
WHAT IS INITIATION?
1. Cited in Warburton, The Divine Legation of Moses.
2. Stobaeus, Eclogues, 119.
3. Cited in Faber, On the Origin of Pagan Idolatry, 153.
4. Ibid.
5. Smith, The Secret Gospel, 14–17; Welburn, The Beginnings of Christianity, 98.
6. Naydler, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts, 186.
7. Greaves, Lao Tzu and Taoism, 65.
8. Zand I Wahman Yasht, III, 6–22.
9. Most, Pegamun Harmala; Flattery and Schwartz, Haoma and Harmaline.
10. Hoshangji, Haug, and West, The Book of Arda Viraf, 166.
11. Emboden, Art and Artefact as Ethnobotanical Tools.
12. Emboden, “Sacred Narcotic Water Lily of the Nile,” 395–407.
13. Valencic, “Has the Mystery of the Eleusinian Mysteries Been Solved?” 325–36.
CHAPTER 4.
EARLY FOLLOWERS OF THE WAY
1. Georgius, Alphabetum Tibetanum, 202.
2. Hewett and Dutton, The Pueblo Indian World, 37–38.
3. Eastman, The Soul of the Indian.
4. Clavigero, The History of Lower California, 84–86.
5. Kroeber, Handbook of the Indians of California, 754.
6. Fraser, The Golden Bough, 2–11.
7. Phillips, “Magnetic Portals Connect Earth to the Sun.”
8. Pallis, The Babylonian Akitu Festival.
9. Vermaseren, Mithras: The Secret God, 75.
10. Faber, On the Origin of Pagan Idolatry, 3:180.
11. Strabo, Geographica, book 5, 730.
12. Speidel, Mithras-Orion: Greek Hero and Roman Army God, 1.
13. Cooper, Mithras: Mysteries and Initiation Rediscovered, x.
14. For example, Marinatos, The Goddess and the Warrior, 62.
15. Speidel, Mithras-Orion: Greek Hero and Roman Army God, 43.
16. Cooper, Mithras: Mysteries and Initiation Rediscovered, 54.
17. For example, Keating, The History of Ireland, vol. IV, 466.
18. Hood, “The Tartaria Tablets.”
19. Cited in Gardner, Realm of the Ring Lords, 30–33, 68–70.
20. Curry, “Gold Artifacts Tell Tale of Drug-Fueled Rituals and ‘Bastard Wars.’”
21. John 3:3.
22. Gardner, Realm of the Ring Lords, 103–4.
23. Scholem, On the Kabbalah and its Symbolism, 192.
24. Grant, The Magical Revival, 28.
25. Earhart, A Religious Study of the Mount Haguro Sect of Shugendo.
26. Evans-Wentz, Cuchama and Sacred Mountains, 48.
27. Morrow, The Sacred Science of Ancient Japan, 39–40.
28. Ibid.
29. Dresser, Japan: Its Architecture, Art, and Art Manufactures, 112.
30. Mullin, The Shifting Narratives and Circling Bodhisattvas of Baoguo Si.
31. Chen, Taisho Shinshu Daizokyo.
32. Phelps, The Omei Illustrated Guide Book.
33. Hargett, Stairway to Heaven, 40.
34. Sales, Psalmanazar, and Bower, Universal History: From the Earliest Accounts to the Present Time, 7:9; Oliver, The History of Initiation, 13.
35. Forbes, Oriental Memoirs, 3:447.
36. Maurice and Barlo, Indian Antiquities, 3:145.
37. Matthew 9:18–25.
38. Gardner, The Magdalene Legacy, 8–9.
39. Voraigne, Legenda Aurea, 1483.
40. Hippolytus, The Refutation of All Heresies, chapter 1.
41. Rudolph, Gnosis, 343.
CHAPTER 5.
THE OTHERWORLD OF THE CELTS
1. Eogan, Knowth and Other Passage Tombs of Ireland, 211.
2. For example, Knight and Lomas, The Hiram Key.
3. MacDonald, The New Statistical Account for Scotland, vol. X.
4. Elder, Celt, Druid and Culdee, 1990, 92.
5. Ibid.
6. Ibid.
7. Mackey, An Introduction to Celtic Christianity, 143.
8. Curtis and Ponting, New Light on the Stones of Callanish.
9. Broadhurst, Tintagel and the Arthurian Mythos, 158–80; Broadhurst and Miller, Dance of the Dragon.
10. Broadhurst and Heath, The Sacred Land, 103.
11. Broadhurst, Tintagel and the Arthurian Mythos, 158–80.
12. Ibid.
CHAPTER 6.
SECRETS OF THE BEEHIVE
1. Bush, Gringo Doctor, 115.
2. 1 Samuel 14:27.
3. Eneix, “The Ancient Architects of Sound.”
4. Jahn, “Acoustical Resonances of Assorted Ancient Structures”; Devereux, “Acoustical Properties of Ancient Ceremonial Sites.”
5. Larson, Greek Nymphs, 86.
6. Bryant, A New System, 299–333.
7. Plato, Phaedrus, 245–46.
CHAPTER 7.
FIFTY SHADES OF GNOSTICISM
1. Clement of Alexandria, Stromata 6.11, Ante-Nicene Fathers, II, 313; Caesarius of Heisterbach, Dialogue on Miracles, 12:55.
2. Ibid.
3. Gregory of Tours, History of the Franks, 92.
4. Turner, Ritual in Gnosticism, 136–40.
5. Gospel of the Egyptians (2), in Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library, 218.
6. Broad, The Oracle, 201.
7. Heliodorus, An Aethiopian History, 241.
8. Plato, Phaedrus, 245–46.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid., 68b.
12. Plotinus, in Peterson, Iamblichus: Theurgia or On the Mysteries of Egypt.
13. Themistius, Aristotle on the Soul.
14. Ibid.
15. Iamblichus of Apamea, On the Mysteries of the Egyptians, 1:12, 37.
16. Willoughby, Pagan Regeneration.
17. Ibid.
18. Bleeker, Initiation in Ancient Egypt, 35.
19. Willoughby, Pagan Regeneration.
20. In Freke, The Jesus Mysteries.
21. Strabo, Geographica, book 5, 4–5.
22. See Paget, In the Footsteps of Orpheus.
23. Baigent, The Jesus Papers, 180–88.
CHAPTER 8.
THE SECRET BRIDAL CHAMBER
1. Strabo, Geographica, book 5, 730.
2. Apuleius, The Golden Ass, 285–86.
3. Turner, Ritual in Gnosticism, 136–38.
4. Iranaeus, Against Heresies, 1.21.3.
5. Gospel of Thomas, in Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels, 75.
6. Smith, The Gospel of Philip, section 60.
7. Ibid., section 38.
8. Ibid., section 107.
9. Ibid., section 96.
10. Drowner, The Mandeans of Iran and Iraq, 100.
11. LePage, Mysteries of the Bridechamber, 94.
12. Smith, The Gospel of Philip, section 59.
13. Ibid., section 107:14–16.
14. Rudolph, Gnosis, 293.
15. Weidner and Bridges, The Mysteries of the Great Cross of Hendaye, 88–89.
16. Dunne, Carl Jung, 171.
CHAPTER 9.
WHAT HAPPENS IN THE MIDDLE EAST
STAYS IN CENTRAL AMERICA
1. Sejourne, Burning Water, 190.
2. Miller and Taube, The Gods and Symbols of Ancient Mexico, 190.
3. Bierhorst, The Mythology of Mexico and Central America, 161.
4. Miguel Angel Vergara, Mayan teacher, in personal communication with author.
5. Silva, The Divine Blueprint, 33–41.
6. Sejourne, Burning Water, 56.
7. Ibid., 58.
8. Ibid.
9. Popol Vuh.
10. Stead, The Review of Reviews, 12: 275; Le Plongeon, Sacred Mysteries among the Mayas and the Quiches, 87.
11. Vare, “El Classico Medio en el Noroccidente de Yucatan.”
12. Schiele and Matthews, The Code of Kings, 200.
13. Wiggermann, Mesopotamian Protective Spirits, 66.
CHAPTER 10.
GEEZERS OF NAZARETH
1. LePage, Mysteries of the Bridechamber, 93; Keller, The Bible as History.
2. Crossan, The Historical Jesus.
3. Revelation 22:16.
4. Epiphanius of Salamis, Against Heresies, in Layton, The Gnostic Scriptures.
5. Drowner, The Mandeans of Iran and Iraq, 100.
6. Shuré, The Great Initiates, 520n.
7. Pagels, The Gnostic Gospels; Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail.
8. In Kathir, Al‘-Koran, Al‘-Muntakhab; Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library, 345.
9. Baring and Cashford, The Myth of the Goddess, 592.
10. Mark 14:3–11.
11. Stewart, The Foreigner, 21–22.
12. Matthew 3:2.
13. Broadhurst and Miller, Dance of the Dragon; Graves, Needles of Stone; Silva, The Divine Blueprint.
14. Silva, First Templar Nation.
15. Ibid.
16. Ibid.
17. Partridge, A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English.
18. Descriptions of the life of Krishna resembling, even paralleling the later story of Jesus can be found in a myriad of other sources, including the Bhagavad Gita, Srimad Bhagavatam (or Bhagavatam Purana), Khuddakapatha, Sutta Nipata (in the Khuddaka Nikaya), and Diha Nikaya (in the Sutta Pitaka). Also pertinent is the work of nineteenth-century journalist Nicolas Notovitch, who was given access to holy books in Himis and Lhasa, claimed by the hosting monasteries to have been written some time prior to 500 BC. These source books were verified by Swami Abhedananda and the scientist Nicholas Roerich. There are also analogous folklore tales from central Asia, noted by chroniclers such as Strabo and already ancient by his time. See also George Cox, The Mythology of the Aryan Nations; Kersey Graves, The World’s Sixteen Crucified Saviors, 225.
CHAPTER 11.
INSIDE THE GREAT PYRAMID
AND INTO THE OTHERWORLD
1. Brunton, A Search in Secret Egypt, 39.
2. Ibid., 41.
3. Schwaller de Lubicz, Sacred Science, 111.
4. Silva, The Divine Blueprint, 73–83; Knight and Lomas, Uriel’s Machine.
5. Chouinard, Lost Race of Giants; Dewhurst, The Ancient Giants Who Ruled America.
6. Strand Magazine, December 1895, 646–47; reproduced in Wood-Martin, Traces of the Elder Faiths of Ireland, 1:57.
CHAPTER 12.
EGYPTIAN INITIATION
1. The Roman History of Ammianus Marcelinius, 315.
2. Apuleius, The Works of Apuleius, 240.
3. Szpakowska, Behind Closed Eyes,150–51.
4. Schwaller de Lubicz, Sacred Science, 111.
5. Porphyry, De Abstinentia, 4.6.
6. DuQuesne, Anubis, 26ff.; Naydler, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts, 22.
7. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, text 9.9.
8. Reymond, The Mythological Origin of the Egyptian Temple; Abt and Hornung, Knowledge for the Afterlife.
9. Abt and Hornung, Knowledge for the Afterlife, 144.
10. Ibid, 2.
11. Knight and Lomas, The Hiram Key, 146.
12. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, text 9.10–11.
13. Mead, Corpus Hermeticum, 10.25; Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, utterances 256–301, 302–458.
14. Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes, 28.
15. Pawson, Gematria, 78; Michell, The Dimensions of Paradise, 182.
CHAPTER 13.
HOW TO TRAVEL TO THE OTHERWORLD
AND BACK. OR, THE PYRAMID TEXTS
1. Hart, The Routledge Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses.
2. Schwaller de Lubicz, Sacred Science, 99.
3. Wilkinson, Symbol and Magic in Egyptian Art, 109.
4. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, utterances 220–22, 254–57, 260.
5. This is a point made in Naydler, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts.
6. Ibid., 166.
7. Hooke, Myth, Ritual and Kingship, 74–80.
CHAPTER 14.
PHARAOH HAS LEFT THE BUILDING
1. Naydler, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts, 72, 90–95.
2. Breasted, Ancient Records of Egypt, 1:213–14.
3. Welburn, The Beginnings of Christianity, 254.
4. Naydler, Shamanic Wisdom in the Pyramid Texts, 99–102.
5. Ibid., 101.
6. Ibid., 103–4.
7. Faber, On the Origin of Pagan Idolatry, 3:187; Maurice, The History of Hindostan, 5:1061.
8. Greaves, Pyramidographia, 2:34.
9. Oliver, The History of Initiation, 21–23.
10. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, vol. 52, part I, 165.
11. Maurice and Barlo, Indian Antiquities, 386.
12. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts, utterance 159.
CHAPTER 15.
GREEN MEN, WHITE KNIGHTS
1. Serbanesco, Histoire de l’Ordre des Templiers et les Croisades, 300–7.
2. Silva, First Templar Nation, 168–69.
3. Eusebius, Historia Ecclesiastica; Silva, First Templar Nation, 129.
4. Baigent, Leigh, and Lincoln, Holy Blood, Holy Grail, 374.
5. For example, Thiering, Jesus: The Man, 151.
6. Silva, First Templar Nation, 179–91.
7. Ibid., 194.
8. Recounted by Scaliburis, “blog.thomar.org, March 7, 2009.”
9. Ibid.
10. Silva, First Templar Nation, 179–91.
11. Ricardo Branco, “blog.thomar.org/2007/02.”
12. Serbanesco, Histoire de l’Ordre des Templiers et les Croisades, 302.
13. Cooper, Mithras: Mysteries and Initiation Rediscovered, 32.
14. Silva, First Templar Nation, 102.
15. Oliver, The History of Initiation.
16. Berage, Les plus secrets mystères des Hants Grades de la Maçonnerie dévoilés, vi.
17. Corbin, The Imago Templi in Confrontation; Waite, A New Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.
18. Mackey, Lexicon of Freemasonry.
19. Oliver, The Historical Landmarks and Other Evidences of Freemasonry, vol. 2, 34.
20. Silva, The Divine Blueprint, 33–42.
21. Knight and Lomas, The Second Messiah, 148.
22. Knight and Lomas, The Hiram Key.
23. Coppens, The Stone Puzzle of Rosslyn Chapel.
24. Ibid.
25. Knight and Lomas, The Hiram Key.
26. Ibid.
27. Wicherink, Souls of Distortion Awakening.
CHAPTER 16.
THE SCIENCE OF THE OTHERWORLD
1. Roney-Dougal, The Faery Faith, 11.
2. Burr, Blueprint for Immortality; Braud and Schlitz, “Consciousness Interactions with Remote Biological Systems,” 1–46.
3. Broadhurst and Miller, Sun and the Serpent; Silva, The Divine Blueprint; Graves, Needles of Stone.
4. Reymond, The Mythological Origin of the Egyptian Temple, 122, 136.
5. Silva, The Divine Blueprint, 82.
6. Phillips, “Magnetic Portals Connect Earth to the Sun.”
7. Poynder, Pie in the Sky, 81.
8. Burke and Halberg, Seed of Knowledge, Stone of Plenty, 129.
9. Brooker, “Magnetism and Standing Stones.”
10. Mereaux, Carnac, 138–42.
11. Devereux, Earth Lights Revelation.
12. Wever, The Circadian System of Man, 157.
13. Nelson et al, FieldREG II: Consciousness Field Effects: Replications and Explorations; Nelson, FieldREG Measurements in Egypt: Resonant Consciousness at Sacred Sites, 425–54.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
CHAPTER 17.
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF THE SOUL
1. Plato, Phaedrus, 114.
2. Robinson, The Nag Hammadi Library, 119.
3. Ibid., 387.
4. Ibid., 159.
5. Sartori, The Wisdom of Near-Death Experiences.
6. Pagels, “Gospel of Thomas,” 111.