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Title Page Dedication Epigraph Acknowledgments Table of Contents Introduction Chapter 1: The True Religion of the World

REBIRTH THE CITY OF MEMORY THE MAKING OF A GOD MAGIC IS NOT “RELIGION” A PLACE TO FLOURISH WHAT HAVE THE ROMANS DONE FOR US? AN APOSTLE IN ALEXANDRIA EXCURSION ONE, TO ROME, 45 CE “BY THIS SIGN YOU SHALL CONQUER” ROMAN CATHOLIC CHRISTIANITY THOTH BECOMES HERMES TRISMEGISTUS, AND HIS SACRED BOOKS BECOMETHE HERMETICA THE LAMENT

Chapter 2: The Hermetic Movement, Part I

NATURAL AND TALISMANIC MAGIC THE OBELISKS OF ROME SYNCHRONISTIC ENCOUNTER RENAISSANCE A BRILLIANT ACADEMIC OF THECHARMING-UGLY VARIETY

Chapter 3: The Hermetic Movement, Part II

COSMIC AMBIENCE EPIPHANY TALISMANIC MAGIC A TALISMANIC IMAGE OF THE UNIVERSE MESSIANIC HERMETIC MISSIONS HERMES TRISMEGISTUS IS SLIPPED INTO THE VATICAN THE DIGNITY OF MAN THE CEILING OF THE BORGIA APARTMENTS THE HERMETIC MISSION OF GIORDANO BRUNO EXCURSION TWO, TO ROME, 1542 THE HERMETIC MISSION EXCURSION THREE, TO ROME, FIRST CENTURY BCE VIRGO CELESTE EXCURSION FOUR, TO LONDON, 1581 EXCURSION FIVE, TO ROME, 1582 CE THE TROUBLE WITH MARY THE “PEDANTS” OF OXFORD EXCURSION SIX, TO ROME AGAIN, 1586 INTO THE HANDS OF THE PAPAL INQUISITION

Chapter 4: The City of the Sun

PASSING THE TORCH THE FIRST CELEBRITY OF EUROPE THE CALABRIAN REVOLT THE SOLARIANS AND THE CITY OF THE SUN STRANGE VISITORS ECLIPSING THE POPE

Chapter 5: Urbi et Orbi: To the City and to the World

TEAMING UP IL CAVALIERE BERNINI THE ART OF DISSIMULATION THE COMING TOGETHER THE LAST PROTAGONISTS, 1633 ROME: FAST-FORWARD TO 1656 FAILING INFALLIBILITY KIRCHER’S OBELISKS ISIS REBORN TEXT (SOUTH FACE) TEXT (WEST FACE) THE CONFESSOR OF THE CONCLAVE EXCURSION SEVEN, PIAZZA ST. PETER’S, 1608 TWO DEGREES TO THE NORTH BECOMING FLESH THE MADERNO FOUNTAIN FLASH FORWARD TO MAY 1655 THE NEW MICHELANGELO AND THE MODEL OF THE UNIVERSE THE PLAN THE OPEN ARMS OF MOTHER CHURCH THE WOMB OF THE CELESTIAL VIRGIN OF THE WORLD FINAL EXCURSION, TO ROME, 1675 ROLE-PLAYING THE HERMETICA?

Postscript: The Jesuit Pope

BREAKING NEWS: FIVE TO EIGHT

Appendix 1: Campanella, the Rosicrucians, and the Miraculous Birth of the Sun King

THE INFANTA AND THE KING OF FRANCE A HERMETIC MAGUS IN THE COURT OF THE FUTURE SUN KING

Appendix 2: The Ellipse of St. Peter’s Square by Sandro Zicari, Ph.D.

WHEN IS AN OVAL AN ELLIPSE? HOW TO DRAW AN ELLIPSE: THE TRAMMEL OF ARCHIMEDES THE ELLIPSE AND ASTRONOMY ST. PETER’S SQUARE

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