According to JOHN & ANNE SPENCER (Mysteries and Magic, Orion paperback, 2000, p. 322): "Having evolved from the very beliefs that we have described in this book: astrology into astronomy, alchemy (at face value, anyway) into chemistry, and so on, science is now seeking to challenge those who would promote a Hermetic, holistic, approach to the future. It believes in compartmentalising, in specialisation, and in the isolation of its parts; the opposite of the holistic principles. Science should not be rejected: it has brought forth great advances and promises to develop many more. It is our future. But the imposition of morals and ethics, of recognising that it is a part of a whole rather than a discipline which can stand alone, must be a part of its evolution.
    It is likely that the next Jihad will be between adherents to divided viewpoints over the future direction of science.
    And the challenge of the next thousand years will be to avoid the Holy War, and to unify the science of the future with the wisdoms of the past."

The Neith Network Library on-line, for which "Shivananda", who now sincerely recommends to all a prayerful reading of Chapter One of St. Matthew's Gospel, is responsible, meanwhile, is growing and changing.

All our websites are currently being restructured and developed. If the contents of this page are not as you expected, this may be because they have not yet been fully uploaded. Already available pages include the Neith Network Library very specially arranged Treasury of Books     WWW.HAGARQIM.NDO.CO.UK + Joseph S. Ellul's Guide to ĦaÄ¡ar Qim & Mnajdra Malta's world famous prehistoric sites interest me greatly and on Easter Monday this year, the final day of my eighteenth visit to this jewel of the Mediterranean, I decided to renew my acquaintance with the ĦaÄ¡ar Qim and Mnajdra Temples, where I was surprised to discover that in order to visit both sites it was necessary to purchase not one, but two separate Senior Citizen's admittance tickets:     I bought both tickets from the uniformed attendant who was on duty that morning in the kiosk just inside the entrance of the upper of the two now fenced-off sections of what is officially still one Archæological Park - a term that, according to the Map, also includes the Misqa Tanks, which nobody save myself visited while I was in the Park. I told him that one reduced-price Senior Citizen's ticket had sufficed for everything in May 2004, that on several previous occasions entrance for Senior Citizens had been entirely free of charge, and that when I first visited these Temples in December 1994 it had been possible to look at everything, instead of so much of interest being either roped-off or covered over with wooden planking. He acknowledged that some things had changed. Each ticket, as you can see, carries the legend: "To be retained at all times while on the premises." Puzzlingly, however, each ticket also announces that it was "Issued at: Head Office". Can that be right? Does the ĦaÄ¡ar Qim kiosk attendant's area of responsibility also include the Tarxien Temple, the Hypogeum and the National Archæological Museum in Valletta? Re-examining my tickets, I am even more puzzled by the differences between them than by that anomalous similarity. The Mnajdra Temple ticket was issued "Date: 27/12/2004 Time: 1:33 PM"; that for ĦaÄ¡ar Qim states "Date: 23:03/2005 Time: 10:18 AM". Easter Monday 2005 was 28 March. Can anyone unlock the key to this mystery? And does anyone know why Mark Amaru Pinkham's map of "Ancient North Africa" describes the Mediterranean as a "river"? Is he, perhaps, relying on L. Taylor Hansen's The Ancient Atlantic (Amherst, Wisconsin: Amherst Press, 1969)?

Excluding duplications, at 20:40 27/6/2005 enjoyment of its 1,808 files (1,168 of which [including about 100 navigation-aids and 1 thumb-nail] were pictures and 12 sound-files) was facilitated and enhanced by our provision of 13,054 internal links between and 2,463 external links from them - although several hundred of these latter were purely site-administrative in character.
A small number of files still had names of the form "*.cjh". These were not viruses, trojan horses or alien dialers, but Windows WRITE-files processed under MS-Windows 3.11. To avoid confusing that otherwise defunct program with its current successor of the same name, I now refer to it as "wright.exe" and use it regularly to write almost all my htm-files, following the HTML4 protocol; files processed with its help also occasionally appear on these sites as cjh-files: opening them with more recent Microsoft word-processing programs is rarely a problem.

The most important of the other programs used to publish our pages are MS-FrontPage, Windows-PAINT, Irfan_view32 and WS_Ftp, simplicity being at all times preferred to complexity and, so far as feasible, those programs being used primarily not in the way that is least time-consuming but in whatever way permits a maximum of transparency and technical economy. Site-visitors interested in this aspect of our work are encouraged to examine the "source" for each page (normally easily available via the View-menu within Internet Explorer).

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