These are some of the books I read during last half a century or so, and some of the thoughts, questions, reactions and insights, emotions - and so forth -, evoked on reading them, either then or later sometime during the interim years and decades, or even thinking over now, that are summed up here while trying to record my impressions about what I read.
Saturday, August 28, 2010
The Elixir And The Stone: by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh.
This might partially or more answer the question of what knowledge was taken from Egypt in Judaic tradition. Hermeticism, Roger Bacon, occult, being keywords here, perhaps the knowledge had gone underground for a good reason and any inquiry into it was - is, too - met with diverting attention and query, disrupting dialogue, hostility, attempt to provoke a general furor against anyone who questions into this, direct insults, and more.