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Index
Acknowledgements
Preface
PART ONE
T HE M ARTYR , THE M ETAPHOR , AND THE M ERCHANTS
1.M ARTYR TO THE M ETAPHOR : B ANKSTERS , B ISHOPS , AND THE B URNING OF B RUNO
A.Bruno’s Life and Wanderings
1.The Return to Venice, and a Mystery
2.Disturbing Testimony and a Deepening Mystery: Bruno’s Secret Society, the Giordanisti
3.The Roman Inquisition and Bruno’s Execution
B.Bruno’s Doctrine and the Ancient Metaphor
1. The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
a.The Contradictory Moral Nature of Yahweh
b.Yahweh Not the First Cause: Man as Medium and Philosophers’ Stone
2. Cause, Principle, and Unity and On Magic :
a.The Substrate and Magic
b.The Medium, The Metaphor, and the Magician
c.Bruno’s Art of Memory
2.T HE M IND , THE M EDIUM , AND THE M ONEY : T HE A NCIENT A LCHEMICAL -T OPOLOGICAL M ETAPHOR OF THE M EDIUM AND ITS P HYSICAL AND F INANCIAL I MPLICATIONS
A.The Origins of the Corpus Hermeticum
1.The “Author” of the Corpus Hermeticum
2.The Works in the Corpus Hermeticum
3.The Medicis, Ferrara-Florence, and Ficino
4.Isaac Casaubon and the End of Hermes Trismegistus
5.Epilogue: Modern Scholarship and the “End” of Isaac Casaubon
B.The Ancient Topological Metaphor of the Medium
1.Topological Preliminaries
2.In the Vedas
a.The Vedic Version of the Metaphor, and Sacrifice
3.The Metaphor in the Hermetic Tradition
4.Giordano Bruno and Other Renaissance Thinkers
C.The Religious, Political, and Financial Implications of the Hermetic Version of the Metaphor
1.Political and Religious Implications of the Coincidenta Oppositorum
a.The Atheistic and Theistic Interpretations
b.The Impersonal and Personal Interpretations
2.The Financial Implications
3. S ERENISSIMA R EPUBLICA , P ART O NE : A B RIEF H ISTORY OF S HADY D EALINGS FROM THE F OGGY S WAMP
A.The Euphrates Flowed Into the Tiber: The Pre-History of Venice
B.A Brief History of Venice
1.Foggy Beginnings in a Swamp
2.The Influence of the East Roman, or Byzantine, Empire
a.The “Golden Bull” of 1082
b.The Fourth Crusade and the Venetian Sacking of Constantinople
(1)The Sequence
(2)The Speculation
c.The Fall of Constantinople (1453) and the Beginning of the Decline
3.The Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and Venice
4.The War of the League of Cambrai (1508–1516): The True First European General War
5.The End of the Most Serene Republic: Napoleon Bonaparte and His Peculiar Demands
4. S ERENISSIMA R EPUBLICA , P ART T WO : T HE V ENETIAN O LIGARCHY : I TS M ETHODS , A GENDAS , T ACTICS , AND O BSESSIONS
A.The “Structure” and Methods of the Venetian Republic: The Major Families, Players, and Implications
1.The Methods of Empire
2.The Three Pillars of Venetian Power
3.The Venetian Oligarchical Families
4.The Suppression of Factional Infighting
B.The Council of Ten: Terrorism as a Matter of State Policy
C.Giammaria Ortes and the Origin of the Carrying Capacity Myth, and Other Oligarchical Memes
5.C ONCLUSIONS TO P ART O NE
PART TWO
M ONETIZING THE M ETAPHOR , AND THE P YRAMID OF P OWER
6.R ETROSPECTIVES ON THE T OPOLOGICAL M ETAPHOR AND M ONEY : B RAHMA , B UDDHA , B ABYLON , AND G REECE
A.Debt, Sacrifice, and the Metaphor
1.Primordial Debt Theory: Brahmanism, Babylon, and Buddhism
2.Sumeria, The Breaking of the Tablets and the Jubilee: Pressing the “Reset/Reboot” Button
3.Bullion, Coins, Militaries, and the “Military-Coinage-Slavery Complex”
B.Mind, Metaphysics, and Money in Ancient Greece
1.Coins, and the Metaphor
a.The Stamp
b.The Idealized Substance and the Coincidence of Opposites
2.The Hidden Elite’s Hand: Pythagoreanism
C.The Tally: Money as the Common Surface of the Metaphor
7.L AW , L ANGUAGE , AND L IABILITY : T HE P ERSONA F ICTA OF THE C ORPORATE P ERSON IN T HEOLOGY AND F INANCE
A.The Theological Part of the Story
1.The Central Verse and Crux Interpretum
a.The Greek and the King James
b.The Latin Vulgate and All Other English Translations
2.The Corporation, or Partnership, in Medieval Italian Law
B.The Financial Part of the Story: The Collapse of the Bardi and Peruzzi “Super-Companies” in the 1340s
1.General Considerations and Aspects of the “Super-Companies”
2.A Catalogue of Techniques: The Rise of the Peruzzi Company, and Mercantilism
a.Control Both Sides of a (Dialectical) Conflict
b.Accounting and Exchange Techniques
8.F LORENTINE F ERS -D E -L ANCE , P ERUZZI P YTHONS , V ENETIAN V IPERS , A ND T HE F INANCIAL C OLLAPSE O F T HE 1340s
A.Basics of Medieval Monetary System and the Venetian Bullion Trade
1.The Structure of Florentine Super-Companies’ Trade, and the Interface with Venetian Bankers
2.The Venetian “Grain Office” and the Council of Ten: Tools of the Oligarchs
3.The Venetian International Bullion Trade, or, Manipulating the Global East/West Gold/Silver Bullion Flow for Oligarchical Fun and Profit
a.Coins, Bullion, Mints, and “Seigniorage”
b.Banksters, Coinage, and Tactics of Manipulation of the Money Supply
c.Venice, the East/West Gold/Silver Flow, Moneys of Account, and Indicators of Manipulation During the Bardi-Peruzzi Crisis
B.A Further Meditation on the Topological Metaphor of the Medium: On the “Financial Pyramid” Version of the Metaphor
9.M APS , M ONEY , AND M ONOPOLIES : T HE M ISSION OF C HRISTOPHER C OLUMBUS
A.The Strange Case of the Piri Reis Map
1.Antarctica
2.Medieval Portolans
3.Maps from High Antiquity
B.Christopher Columbus’ Voyages and the Hidden Cartographic Tradition
1.Piri Reis’ Statements on Columbus
C.Some Further Speculations
1.Spain, Genoa, and Venice
10.C ONCLUSIONS TO P ART T WO
PART THREE
E PILOGUE IS P ROLOGUE : T HE A NNUITARY A SPS OF A MSTERDAM , THE C OLLATERALIZED C OBRAS OF THE C ITY OF L ONDON , AND THE M OVE N ORTHWARD
11.T HE T RANSFERENCE N ORTHWARD TO G ERMANY AND H OLLAND
A PPENDIX : T HE M ISSING D OCUMENTS OF B RUNO ’ S T RIAL : N APOLEON B ONAPARTE , P OPE P IUX IX (G IOVANNI C ARDINAL M ASTAI -F ERRETTI ), AND THE I MPLICATIONS
A.Bonaparte and the Masons
B.Giovanni Cardinal Mastai-Ferretti (Pope Pius IX)
1.Brief Notes
2.The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita Lodge
3.José Maria Cardinal Caro y Rodgriguez, Cardinal Archbishop of Santiago
4.A Sidelight from the Bavarian Illuminati
5.Fr. Malachi Martin on “The Bargain”
B IBLIOGRAPHY
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