HERMETIC CATHOLIC TANTRIC ATTUNEMENT TO, EDUCATION FOR AND INITIATION I+N SERVING
THE PRIMORDIAL WISDOM NOW AND THROUGHOUT THE NEW MILLENNIUM
RE-MEMBERING CATHOLICISM I+N TRUTH
Academy for The Cultivation of The Natural Arts
AMYDON-EXETER CENTRE 113
Extra-Terrestrials & The Garden of Eden
Buddhists, Hindu, Islamic, Tao...
Conspiracy Theories, Globalisation, Creativity & The New World Order
St. Malachy, Nostradamus & other Prophetic Spirits
Ready Reference The Question of Method Occult & Esoteric Approaches
Primary & Quasi-Primary Sources

EXTRA-TERRESTRIALS & THE GARDEN OF EDEN
- 1204. EDWARD ASHPOLE, Where is everybody? - The Search
for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (1st edition: London, Blandford Press, 1989; 2nd edition: Wilmslow: Sigma Press 1997).
- 1205. CHARLES BERLITZ, Without a Trace - more evidence from the Bermuda Triangle (London: Book Club Associates, 1977) - includes information about both Atlantis and the Philadelphia Experiment.
- 1206. CHARLES BERLITZ & WILLIAM MOORE, The Philadelphia Experiment - Project Invisibility (Panther Books, 1980).
- 1207-9. R. BERNARD, Agharta - The Subterranean World;
Flying Saucers from the Earth's interior; The Hollow Earth
(3 titles from Fieldcrest Publishing Co. Inc., 210 Fifth
Avenue, NEW YORK 10, N.Y., 1964: The Hollow Earth was more
recently issued from Secaucus, NJ, by Citadel Press 1976 - ISBN
0-8065-0546-X).
- 1210. HOWARD BLUM, Out There - The Government's Secret Quest for Extraterrestrials (Simon & Schuster 1990);
- 1211. J. F. BLUMRICH, The Spaceships of Ezechiel (Corgi
Books 1974).
- 1212-3. MAURICE CHATELAIN, Our Cosmic Ancestors. Address: 3976 Kenosha Avenue, San Diego, CA 92117, USA (most of this latter had been published by Pan Books in 1980, with an index and longer bibliography, as Our Ancestors came from Outer Space).
- 1214. TIM COATES, series editor, UFOs IN THE HOUSE OF LORDS, 1979 (Uncovered editions, London, The Stationery Office, 1979; abridged edition: 2000).
- 1215. MICHÆL A. CREMO, Forbidden Archeology - Evidence
for extreme human antiquity and the Ancient Astronaut hypothesis,
in Ancient Skies - Official Logbook of the Ancient
Astronaut Society (vol.22, no.4, September-October 1995, pp.1-4).
- 1216. MARC DEM, The Lost Tribes from Outer Space (Corgi Books, 1977).
- 1217. R. E. DICKHOFF, Agharta (re-issued in New York by
Fieldcrest Publishing 1964).
- 1218-21. Doctor W. RAYMOND DRAKE, 2 Peareth Grove, Roker, Sunderland, UK, "Extraterrestrials fought for Charlemagne", "Extraterrestrials rescue the legions of Rome", "Baalbek" and "Mayan Pointers to Surface Variations on Venus" in Ancient Skies vol. 2, no. 5, November-December 1975; vol. 3, no. 4, September-October 1976; vol. 13, no. 6, January-February 1987; vol. 17, no. 1, March-April 1990.
- 1222-4. STUART GREENWOOD, 5004 Laguna Road, College Park, Maryland 20740, USA, "Venus - Earth's precious twin?", "Landing-site and Vehicle for Venus-Earth expedition" and "Atmospheric changes on Venus" in Ancient Skies, vol. 11, nos. 3 & 4, July-August and September-October 1984; vol. 12, no. 4, September-October 1985. On 26 March 1984 Doctor Greenwood delivered a lecture to the House of Lords UFO Study Group.
- *. COLIN JAMES HAMER, The 12th Planet: Origin of Earth & Home of Man's Creator - Zecharia Sitchin's Hypothesis, A Preliminary Assessment (31 March 1995).
- 1225. WILL HART, The Genesis Race - Our Extraterrestrial DNA and the True Origins of the Species (Rochester, Vermont: Bear & Company, 2003, p.199):"The most recent ice age began 35,000 years ago and did not end until 11,500 years ago... Following the most recent ice age a massive deluge caused giant floods across North America, Europe, and Asia as the glacial sheets covering North America began to melt... In Washington state... for hundreds of miles, from Spokane westward to the Cascade range, [t]he Scablands were carved out from the post-glacial floodwaters that burst through a natural dam. When the waters receded, they left behind a geological record consisting of bars of gravel and sediment piled 900 feet high, deep gorges etched hundreds of feet into the solid bedrock, and house-sized boulders littering the landscape."
- 990-92. RICHARD E. LEAKEY, The Making of Mankind (Book Club Associates, 1981); Human Origins (Hamish Hamilton, 1982); with ROGER LEWIN, Human Origins Reconsidered (Doubleday, 1992) - lacks his father's authority, but still not to be ignored.
- 1226-7. BRINSLEY LE POER TRENCH: Earl of Clancarty's pen-name, Forgotten Heritage (Neville Spearman 1964); Secrets of the Ages - UFOs from inside the Earth (London: Granada Publishing 1976).
- 1228. ALEC McLELLAN, The Lost World of Agharti - The
Mystery of Vril Power (Corgi Books 1983).
- 1229. P. PAGET, The Welsh Triangle (Grafton Books
1979).
- 1230. MARK AMARU PINKHAM, The Return of the Serpents of Wisdom (Kempton, Illinois: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1997).
- 1231. G. COPE SCHELLORN, When men are gods (Madison,
Wisconsin: Horus Press 1991).
- 1232. WARREN SMITH, This Hollow Earth (Sphere Books, 1977).
- 1233. JOHN SPENCER, The UFO Encyclopedia (Headline 1991).
- 1234. BRAD STEIGER, Strangers from the Skies (Tandem Books, 1966)
- 1235. WILLIAM H. STIEBING, Ancient Astronauts, Cosmic
Collisons, and other popular theories about Man's Past
(Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books 1984).
- 1236. RONALD D. STORY, editor, The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Extraterrestrial Encounters (London: Robinson, 2002).
- 1237-8. ROBERT TEMPLE, The Sirius Mystery (New edition
1998: Arrow Books 1999); The Crystal Sun - Rediscovering a Lost Technology of the Ancient World (London: Century, 2000).
- 1239. ANDREW TOMAS, On The Shores Of Endless Worlds - The Search for Cosmic Life (Sphere Books 1975). Refers to J.C. Lilly's work with dolphins (p.38), St Thomas Aquinas (p.55), Bode's Law (p.92), The Book of Enoch (p.109) and quotes from a 4th-century Roman historian, Ammiani Marcellini Rerum Gestarum Libri (Leipzig, 1875): "Inscriptions which the ancients asserted were engraved on the walls of certain underground galleries constructed in the interior of certain of the pyramids, were intended to preserve ancient wisdom from being lost in the flood." Also mentioned are the antiquity of the Great Pyramid (p. 124) and the United Nations General Assembly's resolution of 20 December 1961 regarding "outer space and celestial bodies".
- 1240. UFO Magazine (November/December 1995).
- 1241-4. JACQUES VALLÉE, Anatomy of a Phenomenon - UFOs in Space (Tandem Books 1974); Confrontation; Dimensions - A Casebook of Alien Contact (Sphere Books 1988); Revelations - Alien Contact & Human Deception (London: Souvenir Press 1991).
- 1245-7. ERIC VON DÄNIKEN, In Search of Ancient Gods - My Pictorial Evidence... (Souvenir Press 1974); Return to the Stars (Corgi Books 1976); Disciple of the Gods (Star Books 1978).
- 1248. W. F. WARREN, Paradise Found (New York: Fieldcrest Publishing, 1964 facsimile of original 1885 edition).
- 1249. DON WILSON, Our Mysterious Spaceship Moon (Sphere Books 1976).

BUDDHIST, HINDU, ISLAMIC, TAO...
- 1250. SWAMI ABHISIKTANANDA otherwise known as Dom HENRI LE
SAUX (1929-1973), Saccidananda - A Christian approach to
Advaitic Experience, revised edition (New Delhi, 1984).
- 1251. L. APPIGNANESI & S. MAITLAND, editors, The Rushdie File (London: Fourth Estate 1989).
- 1252. R. H. BLYTH, Zen in English Literature and Oriental Classics (New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1960).
- 1253. K. BROWN & J. O'BRIEN, editors, The Essential Teachings of Buddhism (Rider 1989).
- 1254. KERRY BROWN & MARTIN PALMER, editors, The Essential Teachings of Islam (Rider 1987).
- 1255. R. S. BUCKNELL & MARTIN STUART-FOX, The Twilight
Language - Explorations in Buddhist Meditation and Symbolism
(Richmond: Curzon Press 1993).
- 1256. D. M. BURNS, Nirvana, Nihilism and Satori (Kandy: Buddhist Publications Society 1968).
- 1257. ROBERTO CALASSO, Ka, translated from the Italian by Tim Parks (Vintage, 1999) - "the very best book about Hindu mythology that anyone has ever written"?
- 1258-9. ALEXANDER CANNON, Sleeping through Space (Woodthorpe: Walcolt Publishing Co., 1938); The Invisible Influence (Aquarian Press 1969).
- 1260. C. J. COONAN, Islam comes to Britain (London: CTS, 1979).
- 1261. EDWIN J. DINGLE, Borderlands of Eternity embracing - Book One: Across China on Foot, Book Two: My Life in Tibet, complete in one volume (published privately and distributed by the Institute of Metaphysics, Los Angeles, CA, 4th printing: 1949).
- 1262. SHYAM SUNDAR GOSWAMI, Layayoga - An advanced method of concentration (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980).
- 1263. ÆLRED GRAHAM, Zen Catholicism - A
Suggestion (London: Catholic Book Club 1964).
- 1264. BEDE GRIFFITHS, The Marriage of East & West (Collins Fount Paperbacks 1983).
- 1265. GEORGE GRIMM, The Doctrine of the Buddha - the religion of reason and meditation, (2nd revised edition, Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1958 - the first English translation, published in 1926, had been from the 14th impression of the original German text).
- 1266. JEAN-OLIVIER HERON & J. VALLON,editors, World Religions Past & Present (London: Moonlight Publishing 1991).
- 1267. HARISH JOHARI, Leela - Game of Knowledge (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980; Inner Traditions International 1993).
- 1268. BRUCE B. LAWRENCE, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Religions Online (Alpha Books 2000).
- 1269. JIG-ME LING-PA, The Dzogchen Preliminary Practice of the Innermost Essence (Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives 1982).
- 1270. THRU L. LISSI, Buddhist Handbook (San Francisco: Pomegranate Art Books 1993).
- 1271. GITA MEHTA, Karma Cola - Marketing the Mystic East (Collins Fontana 1979).
- 1272-3. DONALD W. MITCHELL & JAMES WISEMAN, editors, The Gethsemani Encounter - A Dialogue on the Spiritual Life by Buddhist and Christian Monastics (New York: Continuum 1999). A letter written by Thomas Merton to John Wu in 1965 is, on p.257, quoted from THOMAS MERTON's own The Hidden Ground of Love (New York: Farrar, Straus and Girous, 1985, p.627):
"At every turn we get back to the big question, which is the question of the person as void and not as individual or empirical ego. I know of no one in the West who has treated the person in such a way as to make clear what what is most most ourselves is what is least ourself, or better the other way round. It is the void that is our personality, and not our individuality that seems to be concrete and defined and present, etc. It is what is seemingly not present, the void, that is really I. And the 'i' that seems to be I is really a void. But the West is so used to identifying the person with the individual and the deeper self with the empirical self that the basic truth is never seen. It is the Not-I that is most of all the I in each of us."
- 1274. CLAUDIA MÜLLER-EBELING, CHRISTIAN RÄTSCH, SURRENDIA BAHADUR SHAHI & others, Shamanism and Tantra in the Himalayas (Thames & Hudson, 2002).
- 1275-6. NIVEDITA (Sister MARGARET E. NOBLE), Myths of the Hindus & Buddhists; and co-authored: Ananda K. Commaraswamy (London: Harrap, reprinted 1920?).
- 1277. WENDY O'FLAHERTY, translated these: Hindu Myths (Penguin Classics).
- 1278. SOHATU OGATA, Zen for the West (Rider 1959).
- 1279. CHARLES PANATI, Sacred Origins of Profound Things - The Stories behind the Rites and Rituals of the World's Religions (Arkana Panguin 1997).
- 1280. H. S. J. PHILBY, Harun Al Raschid (London: Peter Davies 1933).
- 1281. WALPOLE RAHULA, Zen & the Taming of the Bull - Essays towards the Definition of Buddhist Thought (London: Gordon Fraser 1978). Maintains that, while Dhamma (Tradition) is constant, all institutional traditional rules (Vinaya) are liable to change.
- 1282. SALMAN RUSHDIE, Satanic Verses (Penguin 1989). When Mr. Rushdie first began to reside in London, his grasp of idiomatic spoken English was not great. Clearly, he has made progress in more directions than one.
- 1283-5. MALISE RUTHVEN, Islam in the World (Penguin 1984); The Divine Supermarket - Travels in search of the Soul of America (London: Chatto & Windus 1989); A Satanic Affair - Salman Rushdie & the Wrath of Islam (Chatto & Windust 1990; Hogarth Press 1991).
- 1286. TH. STCHERBATSKY, Buddhist Logic, 2 volumes: Bibliotheca Buddhica - XXVI (Leningrad: Academy of Sciences 1932).
- 1287. DAISETZ TEITARO SUZUKI, Mysticism Christian and Buddhist (Allen & Unwin 1957).
- 1288. ROBERT A. F. THURMAN, Inside Tibetan Buddhism (San Francisco: Collins 1995).
- 1289. A. L. TIBAWI, Islamic Education - Its Traditions and Modernization into the Arab National Systems (London: Luzac & Company Ltd., 1972).
- 1290-93. ALAN WATTS (1915-1973), Myth and Ritual in Christianity (Thames & Hudson 1954); Beat Zen, Square Zen (City Light Books 1959); The Way of Zen (Penguin Books 1962); Psychotherapy East & West (Jonathan Cape 1971).
- 1294. N. WILSON ROSS, Buddhism - A Way of Life & Thought (London: Collins 1981).
- 1295. P. YOGANANDA, Autobiography of a Yogi (Los
Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship 1979).
- 1296. DUDLEY YOUNG, Origins of the Sacred - The Ecstasies of Love and War (Abacus 1993).

CONSPIRACY THEORIES, GLOBALISATION, CREATIVITY & THE NEW WORLD ORDER
- 1297. W. M. ABBOT, editor, The Documents of Vatican II (London: Geoffrey Chapman 1966).
- 1298-302. JOSÉ ARGÜELLES, The Mayan Factor - Path beyond Technology, and Earth Ascending; also Time & the Technosphere - The Law of Time in Human Affairs (Santa Fe: Bear & Co., 1987, 1988, 2002); The Call of Pacal Votan - Time is the Fourth Dimension (Altea Publishing 1995). Argüelles claims that "history" was terminated by the atomic destruction of Hiroshima, August 6, 1945, and that the Holy Quran's mention of an "Inevitable Event" designated in advance the September 11, 2001, destruction of the World Trade Center Twin Towers in New York (U.S.A.). He refers to V.I. VERNADSKY, The Biosphere (Arizona: Oracle & London: Synergetic Press, 1986 - an abbreviated version of the French edition of 1929). His associated campaign for calendar reform is only loosely associated with the original Mayan calendar.
- 1303. MARY BENNETT & DAVID S. PERCY, Dark Moon - Apollo and the Whistle-Blowers (London: Aulis Publishers, 1999) - but!
- 1304. TIM BERNERS-LEE with MARK FISCHETTI, Weaving the Web - The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor, with a Foreword by Michæl Dertouuzos, Director of MIT Laboratory for Computer Science. The interview with Tim Berners-Lee telecast by BBC4 on the evening of, I think, 27 September 2005 was an opportunity to catch our breath and pause for a glimpse of where we are most likely headed. We have travelled far since this book was published in 2000. The foundational idea behind the Semantic Web is that we put data on the Web in whatever form can be naturally understood by the machines that power it: "Machines should be able to communicate using logical formulæ and mathematics." Cf. Sarah Kidner's review in PC Pro (October 2000, pp. 256-9.)
- 622. DAN BURSTEIN & ARNE DE KEIJZER, editors, Secrets of Angels & Demons - The Unauthorised Guide to the Bestselling Novel (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005, pp. 119-65).
- 1305. JOHN COLEMAN, The Conspirators' Hierarchy: The Committee of 300, 4th edition (Carson City, Nevada: WIR, 1997) - includes a complete listing of the alleged conspirators, among them both Queen Elizabeth II and Anthony Wedgwood Benn!
- 1306. KELVIN CROMBIE, For The Love of Zion - Christian witness and the restoration of Isræl (Hodder & Stoughton, 1991)
- 1307-8. GUY DAUNCEY, After The Crash - Emergence of the Rainbow Economy (London: Green Print, 1988) - referenced by DAVID ICKE in The Robot's Rebellion (Gateway, 1994, pp. 264-7):
"(1) Is the process of producing, distributing and selling the product damaging in any way to the planet and the natural life support systems?
(2) Is the business exploiting the world rather than making a contribution to healing the world, serving human need, and making it a better place for all people and life-forms?
(3) Is the business harming or exploiting animals mentally, emotionally or physically and causing them pain and stress of any kind?
(4) Is the business exploiting people to maximise profits? Is it paying them less than their work is worth because I can use my economic power to make them accept whatever they are offered? Am I exploiting my suppliers or weaker countries and peoples by abusing my economic power over them?
(5) For the business to win, does it require that other people or countries must lose?
(6) Do those working in the business feel a part of the decision-making process and empowered to release their full creativity, or do they feel their creativity has to conform to some rigid corporate structure in which the maximisation of profit is the only driving force?"
- 1309-10. PETER DAWKINS, A Commentary on the Great Instauration - The Universal and General Reformation of the Whole Wide World through the Renewal of all Arts & Sciences, limited edition (Castle Ashby: Francis Bacon Research Trust, 1983); The Shakespeare Enigma (Polair Publishing, 2004).
- 1311. Especially important since 11th September 2001: GILLES DELEUZE & FÉLIX GUATTARI, Nomadology - The War Machine (New York: Columbia University, Semiotexte, 1986; ISBN 1 973176 71 6 - The French original is Traité de nomadologie - La machine de guerre in Mille Plâteaux, Paris: Éditions de Minuit). This short book fits easily into a handbag or jacket-pocket and repays close attention. -
"It is a question of assigning assemblages, in other words of determining the differential traits according to which an element formally belongs to one assemblage rather than to another.
It could also be said that architecture and cooking have an apparent affinity with the State, whereas music and drugs have differential traits which place them on the side of the nomadic war machine. It is therefore a differential method which establishes the distinction between weapons and tools, from at least five points of view:
the direction - projection, introception,
the vector - speed, gravity,
the model - free action, work,
the expression - jewellery, signs,
the passional or desiring tonality - affect, feeling." (p.88.)
This rather unusual book throws considerable light on current difficulties in Afghanistan, Iraq and the Holy Land. Our quotations, which by no means exhaust its present relevance, are not necessarily the most apt:
"Doubtless the State apparatus tends to bring uniformity to the regimes, by disciplining its armies, by making work a fundamental unit, in other words by imposing its own traits. But it is not impossible for weapons and tools, if they are taken up by new assemblages of metamorphosis, to enter other relations of alliance. It happens that the man of war sometimes forms peasant or worker alliances, but it happens more often that a worker, industrial or agricultural, will reinvent a war machine. Peasants made an important contribution to the history of artillery during the Hussite wars, when Zisca armed mobile fortresses made from oxcarts with portable cannons. A worker-soldier, weapon-tool, sentiment-affect affinity marks the right time, however fleeting, for revolutions and popular wars. There is a schizophrenic taste for the tool that moves it away from work and towards free action, a schizophrenic taste for the weapon that turns it into a means for peace, for obtaining peace. A counterattack and a resistance at the same time." "The problem is not an 'obstacle,' it is the surpassing of the obstacle, a projection, in other words a war machine."
Axiom 1: The war machine is exterior to the State apparatus. Proposition 1: This exteriority is first attested to in mythology, epic, drama and games.
Georges Dumézil, in his definitive analyses of Indo-European mythology, has shown that political sovereignty, or domination, has two heads: the magician-king and the jurist-priest. Rex and flamen, raj and Brahman, Romulus and Numa, Varuna and Mitra, the despot and the legislator, the binder and the organizer. Undoubtedly, the two poles stand in opposition term by term, as the obscure and the clear, the violent and the calm, the quick and the weighty, the fearsome and the regulated, the 'bond' and the 'pact', etc. But their opposition is only relative, they function as a pair...
War is not contained within this apparatus. Either the State has at its disposal a violence that is not channelled through war - either it uses police-men and jailers in place of warriors, has no arms and no need of them, operates through immediate, magical capture, 'seizes' and 'binds,' preventing all combat - or, the State acquires an army, but in a way that presupposes a juridical integration of war and the organization of a military function. As for the war machine in itself, it seems to be irreducible to the State apparatus, to be outside its sovereignty and prior to its law: it comes from elsewhere.
Indra, the warrior god, is in opposition to Varuna no less than to Mitra. He can no more be reduced to one or the other than can he constitute a third of their kind. Rather, he is like a pure and immeasurable multiplicity, the pack, an irruption of the ephemeral and the power of metamorphosis. He unites the bond just as he betrays the pact. He brings a furor to bear against sovereignty, a celerity against gravity, secrecy against the public, a power (puissance) against sovereignty, a machine against the apparatus..." (pp.1-2.)
"From the standpoint of the State, the originality of the man of war, his eccentricity, necessarily appears in a negative form: stupidity, deformity, madness, illegitimacy, usurpation, sin..." (p.5.)
"What complicates everything is that this extrinsic power of the war machine tends, under certain circumstances, to become confused with one of the two heads of the State apparatus."(p.6.)
"Emmanuel Laroche, Histoire de la racine 'Nem' en grec ancien (Paris: Klincksieck, 1949). The root 'Nem' indicates distribution, and not allocation, even when the two are linked. In the pastoral sense, the distribution of animals is effected in a nonlimited space, and implies no parcelling out of land... To take to pasture (nemô) does not refer to a parcelling out, but to a scattering, to a repartition of animals. It was only after Solon that Nomos came to designate the principle at the basis of the laws and of right (Thesmoï and Dike), then to be identified with the laws themselves. Prior to that, there was instead an alternative between the city, or polis, ruled by laws, and the outskirts as the place of the nomos..." (pp.132-3, note 49.)
"The Self (Moi) is now nothing more than a character whose actions and emotions are desubjectified, perhaps even to the point of death." "Everything is ambiguous."
This book offers a great deal. For a partial critique cf. no.345 below.
- 1311a. NOAM FRIEDLANDER, What is Opus Dei? (Collins & Brown, 2005).
- 1312. CHRISTOPHER HARVIE, Scotland and Nationalism - Scottish Society and Politics, 1707-1977 (Allen & Unwin 1977).
- 1313-9. DAVID ICKE, The Truth Vibrations (Aquarian Press, 1991); The Robot's Rebellion (Gateway, 1994); ... and the truth shall set you free (Bridge of Love c/o Papworth Press, 1995); The Biggest Secret; Children of the Matrix and Alice in Wonderland and the World Trade Center Disaster - also: Tales from the Time Loop - The most comprehensive exposé of the global conspiracy ever written and all you need to know to be truly free (Wildwood: Bridge of Love, 1999, 2001, 2002 & 2003).
- 1320. JAMES MALARKEY, Highlights of Proceedings (First International Dialogue on the Transition to Global Society, Landegg Academy: September 1990). The Second and Third Dialogues at the same venue were in September 1991 and 1992. In his September 1990 presentation, Robert Artigiani, professor of the History of Science at the United States Naval Academy and a founding member of the Washington Evolutionary Systems Society noted:
The last one hundred years have witnessed organized violence, suffering, and injustice on a previously unequaled scale... but amidst the chaos and misery, an evolutionary analysis finds hope... Cultural change is associated with entropy bursts that may lead to re-stabilizations at higher levels of complexity. Higher levels of complexity in human systems, have consequences which appear to encourage increasing individuation, autonomy and community. Thus, an evolutionary analysis suggests that we are in a position to build a new kind of society that will display progress measured in terms of classical human values. Thus our choices and actions can enoble the sacrifices made by earlier generations...
"Hopeful realism" of this sort may offer a key to the peaceful resolution of several current, highly controversial, fiercely debated and, all too frequently, socially and even violently divisive issues regarding, for example, the ordination of women I+N the Catholic Priesthood, the contemporary possibility of "a just war", the personal morality and socio-legal ethics of contraception, birth-control and genetic engineering, etc., etc. G-d's gift to each and every one of us of all we can sense, touch, hear, see and taste around us, both near and far, is already beautiful, true and good as G-d sees it... G-d is not our enemy!
If Cherie Blair's parish-priest's understanding of Christian morality is as undeveloped as some recent media reports have suggested - and I very much hope that, as is customary, his pastoral conversations with individuals, significantly transcend the all too obvious shortcomings of his public comments on some quite complex issues, then I urge him urgently to make a spiritual retreat. May G-d enlighten him.
- 1321. MARSHALL McLUHAN & QUENTIN FIORE, War and Peace in the Global Village, a re-issue produced by JEROME AGEL (San Francisco: Hardwired, 1997).
- 1322. ARNOLD MINDELL, The Dreambody in Relationships (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1987): "In the global dreambody - (1) The whole is patterned. (2) Each part contains the whole. (3) Each part is related to all other parts causally and non-causally. (4) The whole creates and heals itself. (5) The whole can destroy or make itself ill. (6) The whole has mythical characteristics. (7) The whole has a flip-flop occupation rule. (8) The whole has a human character. (9) The whole is the goal of human development." Compare with A. I. Jordan's interpretation of Max Freedom Long's workand also with Stan Rosenthal's findings, below.
- 1323. DAVID P. MYERS, Two-Thirds, with an Appendix by DAVID S. PERCY (25 Belsize Park, London NW3 4DU: Aulis Publishers 1993). Many NASA photographs of Mars and sections from Ordnance Survey maps of the Glastonbury, Avebury & Stonehenge areas accompanying the text suggest that these U.K. locations are scaled-down replicas of similar places on Mars. Best read in conjunction with no. 1303 above.
- 1324. TOYNE NEWTON, The Dark Worship - The Occult's Quest for World Domination (Vega, 2002).
- 1324a. HAROLD PINTER, 2005 Nobel Prize for literature: "America has exercised a clinical manipulation of power while masquerading as a force for good. It's a brillian, even witty, act of hypnosis" - excerpts from his acceptance speech in Guardian Weekly Review (December 16-22, 2005, p. 17): "Political language, as used by politicians, does not venture into any of this territory since the majority of politicians, on the evidence available to us, are interested not in truth but in power and in the maintenance of that power. To maintain that power it is essential that people remain in ignorance, that they live in ignorance of the truth, even the truth of their own lives. What surrounds us therefore is a vast tapestry of lies, upon which we feed."
- 1325. STELLA RIMINGTON, Open Secret - The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 (Arrow Books, 2002).
- 1326. DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, Coercion - the persuasion professionals and why we listen to what THEY say (Little, Brown & Company, 2000).
- 1327. ALAN SOKAL & JEAN BRICMONT, Intellectual Impostures - Postmodern philosophers' abuse of science (London: Profile Books, 1998).
- 1328. BRAD STEIGER & SHERRY HANSEN STEIGER, The Rainbow Conspiracy (New York: Kensington Books, 1994).
- 1329. ALVIN TOFFLER, The Third Wave (Pan Books, 1981).
- 1330-31. ARNOLD TOYNBEE, A Study of History (Oxford University Press 1972); 'The Religious Background of the present Environmental Crisis' in International Journal of Environmental Studies (Vol.3, 1972).
- 1332-2a. E. G. WHITE, What's behind the New World Order? excerpts from Will America Survive? (Jemison, AL: Inspiration Books East 1991) - first published 100 years ago as The Great Controversy.
- 1333. GORE VIDAL, Washington, D.C. - A Novel (London: World Books, 1968).
- 1334. DANAH ZOHAR & IAN MARSHALL, The Quantum Society - Mind, Physics and a New Social Vision (Bloomsbury, 1993) - still a worthwhile book, even though the physics is questionable.

ST. MALACHY, NOSTRADAMUS & OTHER PROPHETIC SPIRITS
- 1335-8. DANTE ALIGHIERI, The Divine Comedy, A New Translation and Introduction by James Finn Cotter, with the Complete Illustrations of William Blake (New York: Amity House, 1987?, ISBN 0-916349-18-7); also translated - save for part of the Paradiso - by D. L. Sayers (Penguin, 3 volumes: 1980-...).
- 1339-40. PETER BANDER, The Prophecies of St. Malachy & St. Columbkille (Gerrards Cross: Colins Smythe 1989). Of related interest: JIM CANTWELL, The Election of the Pope (London: St Paul's Publishing, 2002). If Maurice Zammit's reading of Nostradamus is correct, the papacy may shortly transfer headquarters to Malta...
- 1341. PIER CARPI, Le Profezie di Papa Giovanni 1935-2033 (Edizioni Mediterranee, Roma, Via Flaminia 158: 1976).
- 1341a. JEAN-CHARLES DE FONTBRUNE, Nostradamus - Countdown to Apocalypse & Into the Twenty-First Century, 1-vulume edition complete and unabridged (London: Cresset, 1993).
- 1342. G. MAURICE ELLIOTT, The Bible as Psychic History (Rider & Co., 1959.)
- 1343. UPTON CLARY EWING, The Prophet of the Dead Sea Scrolls - The Essenes and the Early Christians: One and the Same People. Their Seven Devout Practices (Joshua Tree, CA: Tree of Life Publications 1993).
- 1344. JAMES MANNING, Prophecies for the New Millennium - Psychics, seers and oracles tell you what to expect for the next 1000 years (Thames & Hudson 1997).
- 1345. RUTH MONTGOMERY with JOANNE GARLAND, Ruth Montgomery - Herald of the New Age (Doubleday, 1986). A charmingly written and fascinating overview of Ruth Montgomery's journey of self-discovery. Unlike her team of discarnate Guides, I doubt that there was ever a Great Library in Alexandria. Neither do I believe the Magi visited Jesus when he was still in Bethlehem, where the Shepherds saw Angels - according to the Gospel account, it was over a "house", viz., one in Nazareth, that the Star rested...
- 1346. CHRIS MORTON & CERI LOUISE THOMAS, The Mystery of the Crystal Skulls - Unlocking the Secrets of the Past, Present and Future... (Thorsons, 1997).
- 1347. B. NESFIELD-COOKSON, William Blake - Prophet of Universal Brotherhood (Crucible 1987).
- 1348-52. DAVID OVASON, Nostradamus - The Medieval Code of the Master revealed in the age of Computer Science (London: Century Books 1997); The Book of the Eclipse (Arrow Books 1999). Note that ERIKA CHEETHAM's frequently reprinted 1974 The Prophecies of Nostradamus is, despite its claim to be based on a 'first edition' of 1558 (an edition in the National Library of Malta in Valletta is dated to 1556) frequently inaccurate.
- 1353-4. DAVID PITT FRANCIS, Nostradamus - Prophecies of Present Times? (Aquarian Press 1985, pp. 276-7):
"Nostradamus predicted that within 500 years an interpreter would arise who would provide 'a great revelation' about his works... Being a Jew, he may have been using lunar years in the prediction... Calculating from Nostradamus's birth in 1503, this gives a terminating date of about 1987."
Maurice Zammit (no. 1440 below) corresponded with David Pitt, and the latter also approved of this Maltese author's deeply personal method of researching and endeavouring to interpret Nostradamus's especially ænigmatic quatrains, which, as he explains them, significantly refer to Saddam Hussein, Pope John-Paul II and the Maltese Prime Minister Edward Fenech Adami.
Of related interest: LUCIANO SAMPIETRO, Nostradamus - The Final Prophecies: A revolutionary new interpretation for today's world (London: Souvenir Press, 2002).
- 1355. MOTHER SHIPTON, Prophecies - The earliest editions, with an Introduction (Maidstone: George Mann 1979).
- 1356. JOHN & ANNE SPENCER, Mysteries and Magic (Orion paperback, 2000), pp. 221-256: "Prediction and Prophecy".
- 1357. SATGURU SIVAYA SUBRAMUNIYASWAMI, Lemurian Scrolls - Angelic Prophecies Revealing Human Origins, 1st Edition (Himalayan Academy: India, 1973; USA, 1998).
- 1358. SUN BEAR with WABUN WIND, Black Dawn, Bright Day - Indian Prophecies for the Millennium that Reveal the Fate of the Earth (Simon & Schuster, 1992).
- 1359. JOHN WHITE, Pole Shift - Predictions and Prophecies of
the Ultimate Disaster (Virginia Beach: A.R.E. Press, 15th
printing 1998).
- 1360. JAN WOJCIK & RAYMOND-JEAN FRONTAIN, Poetic Prophecy in Western Literature (Associated University Presses, 1984).
- 1361. MAURICE ZAMMIT, The Secret of Nostradamus Revealed By Maurice Zammit (16a Nicholas Copernicus Street, Il-Qortin, Mellieħa, Malta: 1987). This publication is stated to have been foreseen by Nostradamus himself, who, it is also claimed, actively assisted in Maurice's work of interpretation, which is, moreover, uniquely dependent on the National Library of Malta's edition of 1566 (Erica Cheetham relies on that of 1568, but the earliest extant are those of 1555 and 1557). On the 2nd last line of p. 123 instead of "X83" read "X84".
READY REFERENCE
- 1361a. KAMALDEEP BHUI, SCOTT WEICH & KEITH LLOYD, Pocket Psychiatry (London: W. B. Saunders Company Ltd., 1998).
- 1361b. GEORGE EAST, Home and Dry in France (or A Year in Purgatory) - How (and How Not) to find, buy and restore a French property (Portsmouth, La Puce publications, 1994).
- 1362. JILL FOSTER & MALCOLM HAMER, Lex Family Welcome
Guide to Hotels, Pubs & Restaurants (© Hamer Books
Limited 1995: London, Headline Book Publishing 1995).
- 1363. LISA GRECH, editor, The Definitive(ly) Good Guide 2003 to Restaurants in Malta & Gozo (Rabat, November 2002).
- 1364-5. SCIENTIFIC & MEDICAL NETWORK, Directory of Members (Colinsburgh, revised April 1999) with Supplement (April 2000).
- 1366. ILYA PRIGOGINE & ISABELLE STENGERS, Order out of Chaos - Man's New Dialogue with Nature (Bantam Books 1984).
- 1367. DOUGLAS HOFSTADTER, Fluid Concepts & Creative Analogies (Penguin Press 1997).
- 1368. M. F. BRADSHAW, Decimal and Metric Reference Book (Leeds: E. J. Arnold 1975).
- 1369. J. GALL INGLIS, The 'Express' British into Metric Conversion Tables (Edinburgh, more recent than May 1908).
- 1370. BRITISH COMPUTER SOCIETY, A Glossary of Computing
Terms, 4th Student Edition (1984).
- 1371. S. HASTED, The Micro Manual (SHA Publications 1984).
- 1372. B. LIMBERT, Common-Sense Introduction to BASIC (Wilmslow: Designed Publications 1982).
- 1373. PETER NORTON, Complete Guide to DOS 6.22, 6th edition (SAMS Publishing 1994).
- 1374. WordStar commands, extracted from the WordStar Reference Manual
- 1375-7. DAVID A. KARP, Windows Annoyances; Windows 98 Annoyances; Windows Me Annoyances (Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates 1997, 1998, 2001).
- 1378-81. BRÖDERBUND, The Print Shop Deluxe Manual; The Print Shop Deluxe Graphics Reference Booklet; Print Shop Premier user's Guide; ClickArt 10,000 User's Guide and Visual Catalog.
- 1382-4. SERIF, INC., Serif PagePlus 7.0 - Owner's Handbook Companion; Serif Art Gallery Reference; 100,000 Deluxe Graphics Pack Reference Guide (Serif Europe, PO Box 15, Nottingham NG7 2DA, 2001).
- 1385. V. SEDGWICK, Astro-Analysis for Windows - User's Guide (53 John Street, Clayton-le-Moors, Accrington, BB5 5PT: 1995).
- 1386. DIGITAL CODING METHODS, AstroPresentation for Windows - User's Guide (114 Sparth Road, Clayton-le-Moors, Accrington, Lancashire BB5 5QD).
- 1387. HEX LTD., Digital Love - Manual, in English, French, German & Italian (Priority House, Charles Avenue, Maltings Park, Burgess Hill, West Sussex RH15 9PQ: 1993).
- 1388. TINY COMPUTERS LIMITED, Personal Computer System User's Guide..
- 1389. COREY SANDLER, Fix Your Own PC, 3rd edition (MIS Press 1995).
- 1390. INTEL, AL440LX Motherboard Product Guide (1997).
- 1391. H. E. I., 15" Color Monitor (13.7" viewable) Model HL 5854B user's Guide (1997).
- 1392. MODULAR TECHNOLOGY, PCTV Tuner Card with Teletext User Manual (Rev. 3.0).
- 1393. EPSON, Epson Stylus CX3600 Manual for combined Printer-Scanner-Photocopier (2005).
- 1394. N. SERGEEV & N. VASHKEVICH, An Introduction to Computers (Moscow: Mir Publishers 1976)... undoubtedly a collector's item!
- 1395. PRACTICAL COMPUTING (Volume 8, Issue 5: May 1985) - includes article by Colin James Hamer: "Large Characters in WordStar".
- 1396. SERGEI PROKOFIEFF, "The Being of the Internet" in The Anthroposophical Society in Great Britain Newsletter, September 2005, vol. 82, no. 4, pp. 2-5).
- 1397. VALERIE QUERCIA, Internet in a Nutshell (O'Reilly 1997).
- 1398. ROS STUART-BUTTLE, "E-learning in today's Church" in Priests & People - Pastoral Theology for the Modern World (November 2004, pp. 426-28).
- 1399. B. UNDERDAHL & E. WILLETT, Internet Bible (IDG Books 1998).
- 1400. HARLEY HAHN's deservedly popular Internet Golden Directory (Osborne, 2002 - pp.625-9 mention several websites of occult/paranormal interest).
- 1401. BRUCE B. LAWRENCE, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Religions Online (Alpha Books, 2000).
- 1402. ALAN POULTER, DEBRA HIOM & GWYNETH TSENG, The Library and Information Professional's Guide to the Internet, 3rd edition (London: Library Association Publishing, 2000).
- 1403. THE OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY, Second Edition on Compact Disc (Publicity Notes for this 1992 edition).
- 1404. ENCYCLOPÆDIA BRITANNICA, User's Guide; Encyclopædia Britannica DVD-2006 for Windows and Mac.

- 1405. RONALD D. DAVIS with ELDON M. BRAUN, The Gift of Dyslexia, 2nd edition, revised and enlarged (Souvenir Press, 1997). From the Foreword by Dr Joan Smith:
"Four different learning locks are opened by the keys of Ron's accomplishments:1. The key to understanding that the dyslexic learning style is actually a talent.
2. The key to comprehending the dimensional awareness of the dyslexic individual.
3. The key to conceptualising disorientation.
4. The key to techniques which control disorientation, thereby controlling the dyslexic symptoms."
Quoted in a recent U.K. published periodical: "Aoccdrnig to Msahlarl Melbumr rsceearch dnoe at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it rlleasy deosn't mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers of a wrod are wtrtien, so lnog as the frist and lsat ltteres are in the rghit pclae. Taht's the mian tnihg. The rset of the wrod fan be totatly jeblmud and cfsneuod, and you can sitll raed it wouthit too mcuh dcififtluy. Tihs is bcusease we do not raded ervey lteter by itslef but the wrod as a wlohe. Wcihh wrods raimen uhacengd by tihs sbrcmlaing porudcree?"
- 1406. MARGARET PICKSTON, The Language of Flowers: To Mother from Father, August 8th 1913 (facsimile published in London by Michæl Joseph, 1968).
- 1407. NICK ROWLING, Art Source Book - A Subject-by-subject Guide to Paintings & Drawings (Secaucus, New Jersey: Chartwell Books 1987).
- 1408. Sir LAWRENCE GOWING, General Editor, A Biographical Dictionary of Artists (London: Grange Books 1995).
- 615. R. HUGHES & G. FAGGIN, The Complete Paintings of the Van Eycks (London 1970).
- 1409. RICK STEVES & GENE OPENSHAW, Mona Winks - Self-guided Tours of Europe's Top Museums (2nd edition, Santa Fe: John Muir Publications 1993).
- 1410. COMPTON MILLER, Who's REALLY! Who, revised edition (London: Harden's Books 1997).
- 1411. CHAMBERS, English Dictionary (Edinburgh - New York - Toronto 1990).
- 1412. CHRIS COOK, editor, Pears Cyclopædia (101st edition, 1992-93).
- 1413. MARK GILBERT, Wisdom of the Ages - Fourteen Hundred Concepts of Two Hundred Everyday Subjects by Four Hundred Great Thinkers of Thirty Nations extending over Five Thousand Years, together with a Preface and a Final Section “X-Y-Z” -which latter should solve most problems in business, private, or domestic life (London: Saint Catherine Press).
- 1414. JANICE DAVIS CIVEN, Illuminations - A Ro-mlen Alphabet (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1984).
- 1415. I. J. GELB, A Study of Writing (University of Chicago Press 1963).
- 1416. A. KALLIR, Sign and Design - The Psychogenetic Source of the Alphabet (Richmond: Vernum 1961).
- 1417. DAVID SACKS, The Alphabet (Hutchinson, 2003).
- 1418. W. J. LEONARD, Classified Spelling (Huddersfield: Schofield & Sims Ltd., 1972).
- 1419. F. J. SCHONELL, The Essential Spelling List - 3,200 Everyday Words (Macmillan 1974).
- 1420. M. D. MUNRO MACKENZIE, Modern English Pronunciation Practice (Longman 1978).
- 1421. MICHÆL TEMPLE, A Pocket Guide to Written English (John Murray 1978).
- 1422. A. J. THOMSON & A. V. MARTINET, A Practical English Grammar (London: OUP 1972).
- 1423. R. QUIRK & S. GREENBAUM, A University Grammar of English (Longman 1977).
- 1424. PENNY BUTLER, editor, The Economist Style Guide (The Economist Books Limited 1991).
- 1425. W. STANNARD ALLEN, Living English Structure (Longman 1970) - a key to the exercises is also available.
- 1426. ALEX HOWARD, Getting Through to You (Bath: Gateway Books 1991).
- 1427. G. HOWARD, Getting Through - How to make Words Work for You (David & Charles 1980).
- 1428. ERIC PARTRIDGE, Name into Word - A Discursive Dictionary (Secker & Warburg 1949).
- 1429. ALAIN DAG'NAUD & OLIVIER DAZAT, Dictionnaire
inattendu des citations (Paris: Hachette 1992).
- 1430. JONATHON GREEN, compiled, Famous Last Words (Omnibus Press 1979).
- 1431. W. A. SHIBLES, Metaphor - An annotated Bibliography & History (Wisconsin: Language Press 1971).
- 1432-3. R. BARTHES, The Pleasures of the Text (Jonathan Cape 1976); Image-Music-Text (Fontana 1977).
- 1434. ANON, A Book Lover's Journal (Addison-Wesley 1994).
- 1435. GERALD DONALDSON, Books (Oxford: Phaidon 1981).
- 1436. REGINALD HORROCKS, editor, An Illustrated Guide to Old and Rare Books (Bracknell 1951).
- 1437. ALASDAIR GRAY, edited and glossed by, The Book of Prefaces - A Short History of Literate Thought in Words by Great Writers of Four Nations from the 7th to the 20th Century (London and New York: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2002).
- 1438. DAVID BOLT, An Author's Handbook (Piatkus 1986).
- 1439. BARRY TURNER, editor, The Writer's Handbook 1998 (Macmillan 1997), and more recent editions.
- 1440. CHARTSEARCH LTD., How to Build a Successful Career in Freelance Proofreading (28 Charles Square, London N1 6HT: 1997). Clearly differentiates between BS 1219 and BS 5261 styles of marginal notation.
- 1441. MICHÆL LARSEN, Literary Agents - How to Get and Work with the Right One for You (Cincinnati: Writer's Digest Books 1986).
- 1442-3. COPYRIGHT LICENSING AGENCY, What it is, what it does, how it works (July 1987); A Pocket Directory of Organisations involved in the administration of Copyright.
- 1444. RICHARD FINDLATER, editor, Author! Author! - A Selection from The Author, the journal of the Society of Authors since 1890, (London: Faber & Faber, 1984).
- 1445. JAMES SUTHERLAND, editor, The Oxford Book of Literary Anecdotes (reprinted with corrections, 1976).
- 1446-7. DAVID CRYSTAL, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language (Cambridge University Press 1987); Dictionary of Linguistics & Phonetics, 5th edition (Blackwell, 2003) - "word" is considered on pages 500-02.
- 1448. HUGH PERCY JONES, Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Classical Quotations comprising 14,000 Idioms, Proverbs, Maxims, Mottoes, Technical Words and Press Allusions from the Works of the Great Writers in Latin, French, Italian, Greek, German, Spanish, Portuguese alphabetically arranged with English translations and equivalents, new and revised edition (Edinburgh: John Grant 1908).
- 1449. HERBERT V. PROCHNOW & HERBERT V. PROCHNOW Jr., The Public Speaker's Treasure Chest (Wellingborough: A. Thomas & Co., 2nd edition - 1965, 6th impression, 1978).
- 1450. EDITH R. BÆR, editor, Teaching Languages - Ideas & Guidance for Teachers working with Adults (London: BBC 1979).
- 1451. A. P. DYSON, editor, 'The Use of Broadcast Material in Language Teaching' - British Journal of Language Teaching, special issue (vol.18, nos. 2 and 3: Autumn 1980).
- 1452. J. T. HOOLEN, introduced by, Reading the Past - Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet (British Museum Publications 1990).
- 1453. C. B. F. WALKER, Cuneiform (British Museum Publications 1987).
- 1454-7. L. G. ALEXANDER, First Things First; Practice and Progress; Developing Skills; Fluency in English (Longman 1971).
- 1458-60. ASSOCIATED EXAMINING BOARD, Defined Syllabus in (1) French; (2) Italian; (3) Spanish (Aldershot: AEB 1978-1981).
- 1461. CHARLES DUFF, German for adults (English Universities Press 1966).
- 1462. Il Segretario Italiano ossia Modi di scrivere lettere sopra ogni sorte di argomenti (Firenze: Adriano Salani, Editore, 1922).
- 1463. ERNOUT-MEILLET, Dictionnaire Étymologique de la Langue Latine, 4ème éd. (Paris: C. Klinkseick 1959).
- 1464. E. HILTON JACKSON & others, Latin for Lawyers (London: Sweet & Maxwell 1960).
- 1465. JAMES A. HOLLAND & JULIAN S. WEBB, Learning Legal Rules, Third Edition (London: Blackstone Press Limited, 1991)
- 1466. JOSEPH VELLA, Learn Maltese - Why Not? (Tarxien, Malta: Gutenberg Press, 3rd edition, 1996).
- 1467. MICHÆL COULSON, Sanskrit - An Introduction to the classical language (Teach Yourself Books, Hodder & Stoughton 1976, reprinted 1989).
- 1468. EMERALDA LTD, Welsh First Names For Children - Their Meanings Explained (Cardiff, 1978).

- 1469. SUSAN SEDDON BOULET, Address Book (SanFrancisco: Pomegranate Art Books: 1994).
- 1470. JACK CASSIMATIS, The Super Stain Remover Book (Ware: Omega Books 1985).
- 1471. DAVID MASON, compiled, Which? way to repair and restore furniture (Consumers' Association and Hodder & Stoughton (1st edition revised, reprinted 1986).
- 1472. W. FISHER CASSIE & T. CONSTANTINE, Student's Guide to Success (Macmillan 1978).
- 1473. A. BULLOCK & R. B. WOODINGS, The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thinkers (CollinsFontana 1992).
- 1474. A. BULLOCK & O. STALLYBRASS, editors, The Fontana Dictionary of Modern Thought (Collins 1977, revised and enlarged 1988). Contains a helpful article about "games", especially in economics.
- 390. AAKHOR, Direc - Dictionnaire de Recherche sur le Fondamental (Seconde édition - 2A, Éditions AAKHOR, 189, rue Grande, 77300 Fontainebleau: novembre 1991).
- 1475-6. PROVINCIAL BOOKSELLERS FAIRS ASSOCIATION, Calendar of Book Fairs (2003); Directory of Antiquarian and Secondhand Booksellers (2002-2003).
- 1477. M. DEWEY, Classification and Relative Index (Forest Press, Lake Placid Club 1959).
- 1478. ANON, How to Find a Book (London: Libraco Ltd).
- 1479. ANON, Index Librorum Prohibitorum (Libreria Editrice Vaticana, several editions but now discontinued).
- 1480. CYRIL J. BARBER, The Minister's Library, expanded edition (2nd printing, Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House 1976) - Setting up, classifying and cataloguing your Library; subject guide to Dewey Decimal classification; Guide to books for your Library: Bible Commentaries & General Reference, Old Testament, New Testament, Doctrinal Theology, Devotional Literature, Pastoral Theology, Social & Ecclesiastical Theology, Missions & Evangelism, Christian Education, Church History, Comparative Religion; Indices of Subjects, Authors, Titles.
- 1481-2. G. BAUER, editor, In Search of a Theology of Development - A Sodepax Report, and Towards a Theology of Development - An annotated Bibliography (Geneva: Ecumenical Centre 1970).
- 1483. Best Books - Experts Choose Their Favourites, in support of the Oxfam Literacy Fund (Oxford: Halcon 1996).
- 1484. BRITISH MUSEUM, General Catalogue of Printed Books.
- 1485. HEATHER CREATON, editor, Bibliography of Printed Works on London History to 1939 (Library Association Publishing 1994) - lists 21,778 titles, some published as recently as 1990, and includes the addresses of 5 main and 32 local libraries.
- 1486. CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, Library Catalogue.
- 1487. R. BUCKMINSTER FULLER, introduced by, Spiritual Community Guide (San Rafæl: Spiritual Community Publications 1978).
- 1488. JOHN BUTTON & WILLIAM BLOOM, editors, The Seeker's Guide - A New Age Resource Book, Foreword by Sir George Trevelyan (Aquarian/Thorsons 1992).
- 1489. EILEEN CAMPBELL & J. H. BRENNAN, The Aquarian Guide to the New Age (Aquarian Press 1990).
- 1490. DEREK LANCE, 11-16 (Darton, Longman & Todd 1967).
- 1491. MICHÆL LEGAT, The Illustrated Dictionary of Western Literature (New York: Continuum 1987) - 2000 entries with more than 700 references to specific books, plays, dramas, and poems.
- 1492. MUDIE'S LIBRARY, English Catalogue, 85th edition (London 1931).
- 1493. IAN OUSBY, The Wordsworth Companion to Literature in English (1994).
- 1494. PAT ROGERS, editor, The Oxford Illustrated History of English Literature (Oxford University Press 1987).
- 1495. Salesianum, periodicum trimestre (Annus XXX, N. 1: Januarius-Martius 1968): Index Generalis Vol. I-XXV,1939-1963, (Rome: PAS 1968).
- 1496. E. B. SARGANT & BERNARD WHISHAW, A Guide to Books (London: Henry Frowde 1891).
- 1497-8. F. SEYMOUR SMITH, An English Library - An annotated list of Classics & Standard books (Cambridge University Press for the National Book League 1950); An English Library - A Bookman's Guide, revised and enlarged (André Deutsch in association with the National Book League 1963).
- 1499. Sir WILLIAM EMRYS WILLIAMS, The Reader's Guide (Penguin Books, 1960) - offers 1800 descriptive recommendations of essential books in anthropology, archæology, art, belles lettres, biography, classics, history, music, natural history, novels, philosophy, plays, poetry, politics, psychology, religion, science and sociology.
- 1500. HEATHER WRAIGHT, editor, UK Christian Handbook 2004/2005 (February 2004: ISBN 1 85321 152 4).

- 1501. Anglican Religious Communities Year Book 2002-2003.
- 1502. ARCHBISHOPS & BISHOPS OF ENGLAND & WALES, A Catechism of Christian Doctrine (London: Catholic Truth Society, revised edition 1971).
- 1503. ANTHONY BAILEY, editor in succession to BERNARD GROGAN, Salesian Bulletin (Summer 1995- ...).
- 1504. EILEEN BARKER, New Religious Movements, the official guide to cults & NRMs (HMSO 1994).
- 1505. GEOFFREY BARRACLOUGH, editor, The Times Atlas of World History, 3rd edition - edited by Norman Stone (London: BCA 1989, reprinted 1992).
- 1506. STEPHEN BATCHELOR, The Tibet Guide (London: Wisdom
Publications 1987).
- 1507. JOHN HENRY BLUNT, Dictionary of Doctrinal & Historical Theology (2nd edition, London-Oxford-Cambridge: Rivingtons 1872).
- 1508. KATHARINE BRIGGS, A Dictionary of Fairies, Hobgoblins, Brownies, Bogies and other Supernatural Creatures (Penguin Books 1977).
- 1509. BULLFINCH, Mythology, 2nd impression (London: Spring Books 1966).
- 1510. MAURIZIO CALVESI, Treasures of the Vatican (Albert Skira, 1962).
- 1511. RODNEY CASTLEDEN, The Concise Encyclopedia of World
History or World History - A Chronological Dictionary of Dates
(Bristol: Parragon 1994) - Every major event from 38,000 B.C. to
the present day...
- 1512. SARA CHAMPION, A Dictionary of terms and techniques in Archæology (Phaidon, 1980).
- 1513. JEAN CHEVALIER & A. GHEERBANT, A Dictionary of
Symbols, translated by John Buchanan-Brown (Blackwell 1994).
- 1514. GRAHAM COLEMAN, editor, A Handbook of Tibetan
Culture - A Guide to Tibetan Centres & Resources
throughout the World (London: Rider 1993).
- 1515. J. J. COOPER, editor, Brewer's Book of Myth & Legend (Cassell, 1992).
- 1516. F. COPLESTON, A History of Philosophy, 8 volumes (Collier-Macmillan 1967).
- 1517. LEONARD COTTRELL, editor, The Concise Encyclopedia of Archæology (London: Book Club Associates, 1972).
- 1518. STUART CRAINER, The Ultimate Business Library - 50
Books that made Management, with brief details of another 50
(Oxford Capstone Compact edition 1998).
- 1519. PAULA BYERLEY CROXON, The Piatkus Dictionary of Mind, Body & Spirit (London: Piatkus, 2003).
- 1520. MARTIN J. CULLEN, editor, Who's Who in Catholic Life (Manchester: Gabriel Communications Ltd, 2005).
- 1521. D.I.M., Monastic Inter-Faith Directory (Reading 1986).
- 1522. MIKE DIXON-KENNEDY, Arthurian Myth & Legend - An A-Z of People and Places (Brockhampton Press, 1998).
- 1523. MARY DOOHAN, The Little Way Association - Helping the Missions side by side with St. Thérèse, Issue no. 70 (119 Cedars Road, Clapham Common, London SW4 0PR).
- 1524. DAVID EWING DUNCAN, The Calendar - The 5000-year struggle to align the clock and the heavens - and what happened to the missing ten days (London: Fourth Estate 1998).
- 1525. M. I. EBBUTT, Hero Myths & Legends of Britian & Ireland, edited by J. Matthews (Brockhampton Press, 1998).
- 1526. P. EDWARDS, editor, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 8
volumes (Collier-Macmillan 1967).
- 1527. AMOS ELON, Jerusalem - City of Mirrors (Fontana
1991).
- 1528. Saint Josemarìa Escrivà - Founder of
Opus Dei (Newsletter no.14) - and some more recent numbers.
- 1529. RICHARD EVANS SCHULTES & ALBERT HOFMANN, Plants of
the Gods (reprinted, Swindon: TSP Paperbacks 1992 - more recent edition now also available).
- 1530. STEWART FOSTER, editor, Catholic Archives
(Catholic Archives Society 1997).
- 1531. FELICIAN A. FOY, editor, 1986 Catholic Almanac
(Huntington, Indiana: Our Sunday Visitor Publishing).
- 1532. J. C. FRANEY, Guide to the Latin Mass Centres in Great
Britain (Society of St. Pius X: 1997).
- 1533. Sir JAMES FRAZER, The Golden Bough - A History of Myth and Religion, abridged version (London: Chancellor Press, 1994).
- 1534. GABRIEL COMMUNICATIONS LTD., The Catholic Directory
of England and Wales for the Year of Our Lord 2000, 161st year
of issue.
- 1535. PETER GIBSON, The Concise Guide to Kings and Queens
- A Thousand Years of European Monarchy (Leicester: Magna
Books 1992).
- 1536-51. ALAN W. GOMES, Series Editor, Guide to Cults &
Religious Movements (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Zondervan
Publishing House - Carlisle, U.K.: OM Publishing, 1995). There are
sixteen volumes, each with its own bibliography: ALAN W. GOMES,
Unmasking the Cults; ROBERT M. BOWMAN, Jehovah's
Witnesses; GEORGE A. MATHER & LARRY A. NICHOLS, Masonic
Lodge; KURT VAN GORDEN, Mormonism; RON RHODES, New
Age Movement; BOB & GRETCHEN PASSANTINO, Satanism;
J. ISAMU YAMAMOTO, Unification Church; TODD EHRENBORG,
Mind Sciences; E. CALVIN BEISNER, “Jesus Only”
Churches; ANDRÉ KOLE & TERRY HOLLEY, Astrology
and Psychic Phenomena; CRAIG HAWKINS, Goddess Worship,
Witchcraft and Other Neo-Pagan Movements ; KURT VAN GODEN, TM,
Hare Krishna and other Hindu-based Movements; KURT VAN
GODEN, Dianetics & Scientology; ALAN W. GOMES,
Unitarian Universalism; KENNETH SAMPLES & KEVIN LEWIS,
UFO Cults and Urantia; J. ISAMU YAMAMOTO, Buddhism,
Taoism & other Far Eastern Movements.
.
- 1552. STUART GORDON, The Encyclopedia of Myths and Legends (London: Headline 1994).
- 1553. ROSEMARY ELLEN GUILEY, editor, Encyclopedia of
Mystical & Paranormal Experience (HarperSanFrancisco
1991).
- 1554. JACQUETTA HAWKES, Atlas of Ancient
Archæology (London: Michæl O'Mara Books 1994).
- 1555. JEANNE HERSCH, editor, Birthright of Man - A
Selection of Texts (Paris: Unesco 1969).
- 1556. Holistic Science and Human Values - formerly
Bulletin of the Theosophy Science Study Group, India (Quarterly:
May 1989).
- 1557. WALTER FARQUHAR HOOK, A Church Dictionary (6th
edn: John Murray 1852).
- 1557*. JEFFREY HOPKINS, The Tantric Distinction - An Introduction to Tibetan Buddhism (Boston: Wisdom Press, 1984).
- 1558. ANTHONY HOROWITZ, Myths & Legends Retold
(London: Kingfisher Books 1991).
- 1559. GERTRUDE JOBES, Dictionary of Mythology, Folklore and
Symbols - Part 3: Index (New York: Scarecrow Press 1962).
- 1560. OLIVER L. KAPSNER, A Benedictine Bibliography, Vol. 2: Subject Part (2nd edition, Collegeville: St. John's Press, 1962).
- 1560*. SIRYU KIRIYAMA, 21st Century, The Age of Sophia: The Wisdom of Greek Philosophy and the Wisdom of the Buddha (Japan, 2002).
- 1561. PHILIPPE LE STUM, Fées, Korrigans & autres créatures fantastiques de Bretagne (Rennes: Éditions Ouest France, 2001).
- 1562-8. LIBRERIA EDITRICE VATICAN, Codex Iuris Canonici
(1983); The Code of Canon Law with Index - In English
Translation (Collins 1984); Catéchisme de
l'Église Catholique (Paris: Mame/Plon 1992);
Catechismo della Chiesa Cattolica (Vatican City
1992); Catechism of the Catholic Church (Geoffrey Chapman
1994 - but this English-language edition needs to be understood in
the light of the authentic Latin text and the 1998-introduced
fine-tuning amendments); Annuario Pontificio per l'anno 2001 (Città del Vaticano 2001), and more recent editions. 2001 was year 1 of the third millennium by Vatican reckoning.
- 1569. PETER LORIE & JULIE FOAKES, The Buddhist Directory (London: Newleaf, 1996).
- 1570-74. LUCIS TRUST, Monthly 'Keynotes for the Disciple';
announcement of two new compilations: 'The Seven Rays' and 'The
Seventh Ray - Revealer of the New Age'; World Goodwill Newsletter
(Nos.1, 2 and 4, 1996; 1 and 2, 1997; 2, 1998); 'A Universal
Declaration of Human Responsibilities' (proposed by the
InterAction Council)... Also some more recent documents.
- 1575. Dom GEOFFREY LYNCH, editor, Benedictine Yearbook 2003 (English Benedictine Congregation Trust). Names one then still living and appropriately acknowledged Benedictine titular Abbot of Glastonbury. According to Canon 370 of the currentCode of Canon Law: "A territorial prelature or abbacy is a certain portion of the people of G-d, territorially defined, the care of which is for special reasons entrusted to a Prelate or an Abbot, who governs it, in the manner of a diocesan Bishop, as its proper pastor." JAMES-CHARLES NOONAN, Jr. adds (The Church Visible, Viking Penguin: 1996, p. 394): "Just as there are titular bishops, there are also titular abbots; their titular title is one of an abbey that no longer exists." His Excellency, Archbishop Peter Stephan Zurbriggen was, in other words, named by John-Paul II on 13 November 1993 as Archbishop of Glastonbury precisely because that diocese does not exist today, anymore than it did for most of those hundreds of Iberian, Celtic and British Christian years which anteceded Saint Augustine's arrival in Kent. Since "it is well known that Augustine, who showed less than Roman courtesy, clashed with leaders of the Celtic Christians over questions of discipline" (CATHERINE RACHEL JOHN, The Saints of Cornwall, p.14.), what he believed about Glastonbury's true geographical location and religious status gives rise to as many questions as it is alleged to answer...
- 1576. F. N. MAGILL, Masterpieces of World Philosophy in
summary form (New York: Harper & Row 1961).
- 1577. HERBERT McCABE, The Teaching of the Catholic Church -
A New Catechism of Christian Doctrine, with a Foreword by the
Archbishop of Birmingham (Catholic Truth Society 1985).
- 1578. A. S. MURRAY, Manual of Mythology, 2nd edition
(London: Asher & Co., 1874).
- 1579. NYANTILOKA, Buddhist Dictionary (Colombo: Frewin
& Co., 1950).
- 1580. JOANNE O'BRIEN & MARTIN PALMER, The State of
Religion Atlas (London: Simon & Schuster 1993).
- 49. GEOFFREY PARRINDER, A Dictionary of Non-Christian
Religions (Amersham: Hulton Educational 1971).
- 1581. L. C. PASCOE, A. J. LEE & E. S. JENKINS,
Encyclopædia of Dates and Events (English Universities
Press 1968).
- 1582. W. M. FLINDERS PETRIE, Historical Scarabs
(Chicago: Ares 1976).
- 1583. PHILLIP'S, World Atlas, reference edition (1996).
- 1584. MALCOLM PLANT, Dictionary of Space (Longman 1986).
- 1585. KARL RAHNER, editor, Sacramentum Mundi - An
Encyclopedia of Theology (6 volumes, London: Burns & Oates
1968-1970).
- 1586. E. E. REHMUS, The Magician's Dictionary - An
Apocalyptic Cyclopædia of Advanced Magic(k)al Arts &
Alternate Meanings (Los Angeles: Feral House 1990).
- 1587. The Rider Encyclopedia of Eastern Philosophy and
Religion, Buddhism, Taoism, Zen, Hinduism (Rider 1989).
- 1588. H.S. ROBINSON & K. WILSON The Encyclopaedia of Myths & Legends of all Nations, edited by Barbara Leonie Picard (London: Kaye & Ward 1962).
- 1589. M. F. SCIACCA, editor, Les Grands Courants de la Pensée Mondiale Contemporaine (6 volumes, Milan: Marzorati 1958).
- 1590-603. SCIENTIFIC & MEDICAL NETWORK, Network Newsletter (August 1988 - Summer 2000); Confidential Directory. Since June 1975 our Webmaster, the Preliminary LibrArian emeritus has been an Arnold-Taylor Therapy College licensed masseur and a registered Associate of the Faculty of Physiatrics. In the Summer of 1988 he also became a member of the Scientific & Medical Network, and in September 1995 he accepted the degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa in the Medicina Alternativa Institute affiliated to the United Nations recognized Open International University for Complementary Medicines.
- 1604. M. S. SHAPIRO, A Dictionary of Mythologies (1981).
- 1605. C. J. SMITH, editor, Plymouth Diocesan Year Book (2005).
- 1606. HUSTON SMITH, The Religions of Man - The Basic
Teachings of the Major Faiths by which Men Live: Hinduism,
Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity
(Mentor Books 1958).
- 1607. MARVIN SPEVACK, The Harvard Concordance to Shakespeare (2nd printing, 1974).
- 1608. EGERTON SYKES, Everyman's Dictionary of Non-Classical Mythology (London: J. M. Dent, 1st edition 1952, 3rd edition 1961).
- 1609. Tatler (June 1987) - contains interesting article about Catholics in the U.K..
- 1610. H. SADDHATISSA THERA (TRIPITAKACARYA), Handbook for
Buddhists (Sarnath,Banaras: Maha Bodhi Society of India 1956).
- 1611. EPHRAIM E. URBACK, The Sages - Their Concepts &
Beliefs, 2 volumes (Hebrew University, Jerusalem: Magnes Press
1979).
- 1612-3. BENJAMIN VINCENT, A Dictionary of Biography
(London: Ward, Lock & Co., 1884); revised Haydn's Dictionary of Dates
and Universal Information relating to All Ages and Nations,
24th edition containing the History of the World to the Summer of
1906 (Ward, Lock & Co., Ltd, 1906).
- 1614. RONALD WARWICK, The Living Flame - The first
twenty-five years of the Society of St. Pius X in Britain (London:
Society of St. Pius X, 1997).
- 1615. T. G. WEST, editor, Symbolism - An Anthology
(Methuen 1980).
- 1616. JENNIFER WESTWOOD, editor, The Atlas of Mysterious
Places - The World's Unexplained Sites, Symbolic Landscapes,
Ancient Cities and Lost Lands (London: Guild Publishing 1987).
- 1617. STAFFORD WHITTAKER, The Good Retreat Guide
(revised edition, London: Rider 1994).
- 1618. ROY WILLIS, General Consultant, PETER BENTLEY, General
Editor, The Hutchinson Dictionary of World Myth (Oxford:
Helicon 1995).
- 1619. JOHN WITTICH, Catholic London (Fowler Wright Books, 1988).
- 1620-21. World Library & Encyclopedia of Philosophy,
2nd edition, and Enochian Chess with Multimedia Encyclopedia of
Magik (EuroSoft CDs from Multisell Ltd, PO Box 2, Leeds LS9
OXJ, 1999).
- 1622. ELIZABETH WYSE, Managing Editor, The Guinness Book of
Records 1998 (London: Guinness Publishing).
THE QUESTION OF METHOD
- 1623-6. St. THOMAS AQUINAS, How to Study (London: Aquin Press 1960); Summa Theologica (Turin: Marietti 1950); Selected Philosophical Writings (Oxford University Press 1993). Also, inspired by his basic approach, "The Five Ways" (1968) - a contemporary attempt to articulate the main thrust of Thomas's five celebrated demonstrations.
- 1627. IRAJ AYMAN, 'The Imperative Need for a Moral Renaissance
and a New Framework for Moral Education - A Contribution to the
International Symposium on Oriental Tradition of Ethics and
Morality and Education of the Contemporary Youth, Chinese
Education Association for International Exchange, Beijing, China,
19-24 May 1993' (Institute of International Education and
Development, Landegg Academy, Wienacht, Switzerland).
- 1628. P. BABIN, Méthodologie (Lyon:
Éditions du Châlet 1966).
- 1629. W. W. BARTLEY, III, Werner Erhard - The Transformation of a Man: The Founding of Est (New York: Clarkson N. Potter 1978, pp. 195 and 214 and passim: and somewhat modified) - "A transformed individual is one who can tell the truth; and a transformed environment is one where the truth can be told." Programming and reprogamming the Mind may enable one to become a success in terms of life-story, position and personality, but authentic Self-satisfaction is essentially nonpersonal, nonpositional and nonnarrative. It is the Mind state as such, not individual programs, conditions and circumstances within it, which lies at the root of dissatisfaction. Self-righteousness, resentment and emotional guilt, whether or not to any degree justified, inhibit appropriate cybernetic adaptation and optimum present functioning. Meditation (Japanese: zen, Chinese: ch'an, Sanskrit: dhyãna), relaxation and trance by de-hypnotizing the Mind allow consciousness freely to expand beyond these limitations. The Zen adept does not behave evaluatively toward persons or objects - in fact, doesn't behave at all. It is as if the things one were perceiving were perceiving themselves and making use of one's senses; one is able to take the viewpoint of the person or thing with whom one is in contact and to grant it beingness, i.e., its own proper suchness. Such a one does not impose her or his will on the other, and also does not permit her- or himself to be influenced by the will of the other - one lets be what is. While the average individual is a full human being with dampened and inhibited powers and capabilities (neurosis being some sort of deficiency disease), the self-actualizing person is both growth-oriented and complete - not only are his or her basic needs for food, air, clothing, shelter, social contact, sex, safety, love and belonging, and esteem satisfied but, as Abraham Maslow found, "such individuals have a more accurate perception of reality; a heightened acceptance of themselves, of others, and of nature; they are spontaneous, detached, desire privacy; they are autonomous, resistant to inculturation, but not rebels against authority; they are capable of fresh experience and of rich emotional reactions; they do not need groups and institutions and political parties for personal identification, but tend to identify with the human species as a whole; their interpersonal relations are of an unusually developed quality; they tend not to discriminate on the basis of social status, age, sex, race: they are more democratic; they are creative - and they have a high incidence of peak or mystical experiences in the course of their lives."
Only by transcending the Mind, in all its manifestations, and by acknowledging the Self as the source of who one is, can dissatisfaction be vanquished and wholeness be attained. Anything falling short of transformation fails to produce satisfaction. Neither study nor discipline guarantees access to Self. How, then, is transformation to be attained? Although one cannot produce, by recipe, conditions sufficient to guarantee the emergence of a transformed individual, it is possible to identify and create the ecologically necessary conditions for such a mutation freely to occur.
"What conditions foster and inspire transformation? What kind of econiche does one need, i.e., what are the personal, relational, and institutional conditions for transcending personality and ego in all their forms? How are our lives and institutions to be arranged so as to expose beliefs, policies, positions, traditions to maximum examination? What are the social, economic, environmental, cultural, psychological, and philosophical conditions that best inspire the growth and development of consciousness and the creation of transformation, which deter us from becoming stuck in our belief systems, attachments and commitments, and from thus stunting our powers of exploration and discovery?"
- 1630-31a, 1632-36*. STAFFORD BEER, Decision and Control - The meaning of Operational Research and Management Cybernetics (John Wiley & Sons, 1966); Cybernetics and Management, 2nd edition (English Universities Press, 1967) - parts of this presuppose some familiarity with non-elementary mathematics; Designing Freedom - The Massey Lectures, Thirteenth Series: 1973 (Canadian Broadcasting Company, 1974) - the most accessible first introduction to his thought; Brain of the Firm - The managerial cybernetics of organization, 2nd edition with four additional chapters (John Wiley & Sons: paperback 1994, reprinted 1995) together with the companion volume: The Heart of Enterprise - The managerial cybernetics of organization (John Wiley & Sons, 1994, reprinted 2000); Platform for Change (John Wiley & Sons, 1975) - imaginatively original but, I still feel, eminently practical. Cf. his One Person Metagame suite of six poems and DAVID WHITTAKER, Stafford Beer: A Personal Memoir - includes an interview with Brian Eno (2003).
"No regulator is competent to regulate anything beyond the real-world projection of the model it contains... The controls we institute are devised to regulate what we think the world is like. Since that representation must be expected to have lower variety than the world actually proliferates, the controls are often circumvented..."
"The strange thing is that people will try to do themselves those jobs that can be much better dealt with by computers, and insist on leaving to computers those responsibilities that they can discharge only by themselves."
"There exists an enormous and expensive bureaucratic triple-filtering sytem administered by international bodies (UNO, UNESCO, FAO, WHO ...). This system is manifestly incapable of detecting incipient instability: its ponderous structures filter out the alerting signals. Instead, instability is signalled in direct human terms - usually by sudden violence. The process of instant diplomacy begins. This leads to instant alliances, instant wars, instant revolutions, instant threats - in all - to the survival of humankind (so far). But all of this activity is generated wholly outside the regulatory system for world brotherhood to which everyone subscribes. It has to be, since that regulatory system refutes every cybernetic canon in the book: it does not constitute a viable system. In particular, so far as the present discussion is concerned, its triple-filtration is guaranteed to suppress all signals that alert to incipient instability. This is an analysis of information available to us all; it is confirmed in my own case by (small) work in three international agencies where (in each case) it was completely impossible to discover anything of the remotest interest about the issues alleged to be addressed. It was enough, apparently, that a group of experts should sit in a cellar in the dark and tackle the problem of what it is like to be an expert."
STAFFORD BEER, The Heart of Enterprise, pp. 72, 386 and 385.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin taught that "all that ascends eventually converges," and that "the greater the unity, the greater the differentiation." Stafford Beer similarly denies any incompatibility between centralized authority and local initiative. Neither author was acquainted with Vittorio Hess's significiantly relevant complementary research into superhomoeostasis and cybernetic typology and, as noted elsewhere, I find myself at present unable to share Stafford Beer's belief in NASA's accounts of several alleged lunar landings - but that is, I think, quite a different issue. Today, I sincerely believe, no political leader may safely ignore Stafford Beer's contributions to higher management studies; they are applicable in every domain. (Beer might describe such books as the WORLDWATCH INSTITUTE's Vital Signs 2003-2004 - the trends that are shaping our future, London: Earthscan Publications Ltd., 2002, as fascinatingly irrelevant - with, one suspects, good reason, since Absolutum obsoletum - even though insight is, unlike concepts and systems, essentially free from the constraints suggested by Gödel's theorem. For a summary account of Team Syntegrity, Stafford Beer's preferred mode of community consultation, see Participation Works (New Economics Foundation, ISBN 1 899407 17 0).
- Stafford Beer died in August 2002. Although he appears never to have been familiar with any of our Seven Rules for the Guidance of Genius", unbeknown to him, he actually formulated my own Rule 8: Think before you think..., a rule nowhere mentioned in any editon of Todeschini's and my above mentioned systematic study of the advantages of cybernetic superhomoeostasis which is, I suspect, what Stafford Beer actually meant by 'Team Syntegrity'.
The eight principal segments within his suggested bibliographical circle are: Physical, Philosophical, Biological, Psychological, Socio-Economic, Aesthetic, Mathematical & System-Theoretic. Ever resistant to facile categorisations, he specified that all names on his map or model reading-list refer only to the particular books I have indicated below. Those few items prefixed with an * have already and quite independently been mentioned, if not in this Treasury of Books then on some other page within The Neith Network Library on-line. John Wren-Lewis, who first introduced me to Stafford Beer, similarly had a large library in which very few books were ones also known to me. Clearly, knowledge is in hearts and minds, not on shelves:[1637] CHRISTOPHER ALEXANDER, Notes on the Synthesis of Form (Harvard U.P., 1966).
[1638] R.L. ACKOFF & F. E. EMERY, On Purposeful Systems (Aldin-Atherton, N.Y., 1972).
[1639] * W. ROSS ASHBY, An Introduction to Cybernetics (Chapman and Hall, 1956).
[1640] GREGORY BATESON, Steps to an Ecology of Mind (Ballantine Books, N.Y., 1972).
[1632] * STAFFORD BEER, Brain of the Firm (Allen Lane, 1972).
[1641] * LUDWIG VON BERTALANNFY, General Systems Theory (George Braziller, N.Y., 1968).
[1642] N. BOURBAKI, Éléments de Mathématique, Théorie des Ensembles Fascicule de Résultats (Herman, Paris, 1958).
[1643] WALTER BUCKLEY, Modern Systems Research for the Behavioural Scientist (Aldine, Chicago, 1968).
[1644] TSU CHUANG, Inner Chapters (Wildwood House, London, 1974).
[1645] C. WEST CHURCHMAN, The Systems Approach (Delacote Press, N.Y., 1968).
[1646] K. J. W. CRAIK, The Nature of Explanation (C.U.P., 1952).
[1647] NICHOLAS GEORGESCU-RŒGEN, The Entropy Law and the Economic Process (Harvard U.P., 1971).
[1648] P. GLANSDORFF & I. PRIGOGINE, Thermodynamics, Theory of Structure, Stability and Fluctuations (Wiley International, 1978).
[1649] VIKTOR M. GLUSHKOV, Introduction to Cybernetics (Academic Press, 1966).
[1650] R.L. GOODSTEIN, Recursive Number Theory (North-Holland, Amsterdam, 1957).
[1651] * WERNER HEISENBERG, Physics and Philosophy (George Allen & Unwin, 1959).
[1652] J. CHRISTOPHER JONES, Design Methods (Wiley, 1970.
[1653] GEORGE J. KLIR, An Approach to General Systems Theory (Von Nostrand, 1969).
[1654] W.S. McCULLOCH, Embodiments of Mind (M.I.T. Press, 1965).
[1655] * MACHIAVELLI, The Prince (Penguin edition, 1970).
[1656] RAMON MARGALEF, Perspectives in Ecological Theory (University of Chicago, 1968).
[1657] HUMBERTO MATURANA & FRANCISCO VARELA, Autopoietic Systems (Harvard monograph pending publication).
[1658] J.G. MILLER, Living Systems (McGraw-Hill, 1978).
[1659] V.L. PARSEGIAN, The Cybernetic World (Doubleday, 1972).
[1660] GORDON PASK, The Cybernetics of Human Learning and Performance (Hutchinson Education, 1975).
[1661] WILLIAM T. POWERS, Behaviour - The Control of Perception (Aldine, Chicago, 1973).
[1662] ROY A. RAPPAPORT, Pigs for the Ancestors (Yale U.P., 1967).
[1663] NICOLAS RASHEVSKY, Mathematical Principles in Biology (Charles C. Thomas, Illinois, 1961).
[1664] DONALD A. SCHON, Beyond the Stable State (Random House, N.Y., 1971).
[1665] CLAUDE E. SHANNON & WARREN WEAVER, The Mathematical Theory of Communication (University of Illinois Press, 1962).
[1666] G. SOMMERHOFF, Analytical Biology (O.U.P., 1950).
[1667] * G. SPENCER-BROWN, Laws of Form (Allen & Unwin, 1969).
[1668] RUSSELL L. ACKOFF, editor, Systems and Management Annual 1974 (Petrocelli Books, N.Y., 1974).
[1669] C. WEST CHURCHMAN, editor, Systems and Management Annual 1975.
[1670] RENÉ THOM, Stabilité Structurelle et Morphogénèse (W.A. Benjamin, 1972).
[1671] D'ARCY THOMPSON, On Growth and Form (C.U.P., 1942).
[1672] FRANCISE. J. VARELA, A Calculus for Self-Reference, Int. J. General Systems, 1975, Vol.2, pp.5-24 (Gordon and Breach).
[1673] GEOFFREY VICKERS, Freedom in a Rocking Boat (Allen Lane, The Penguin Press, 1970).
[1674] C.H. WADDINGTON, Tools for Thought (Paladin, 1977) - Ref. 1 on map.
[1675] C. H. WADDINGTON, The Strategy of the Genes (Allen & Unwin, 1957) - Ref. 2 on map.
[1676] HERMANN WEYL, Symmetry (Princeton U.P., 1952).
[1677] LANCELOT LAW WHYTE, Internal Factors in Evolution (Tavistock Publications, 1965).
[1678] NORBERT WIENERCybernetics, 2nd edition (M.I.T. and John Wiley, 1961).
Other titles specified by Stafford Beer in the 2nd edition of Brain of the Firm:[1679] JORGE BARRIENTOS & RAUL ESPEJO, "A Cybernetic Model for the Management of the Industrial Sector" in National Research Institute of Chile, Review Number 4, in Spanish (June 1973).
[1630, 1680-83] STAFFORD BEER, "A Technique for Standardizing Massed Batteries of Control Charts" and "The Productivity Index in Active Service" in Applied Statistics, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1953 and Vol. 4, No. 1, 1955; Cybernetics and Management (E.U.P., 1959); Decision and Control (John Wiley, 1966); "Cybernetics of National Development", inaugural lecture for the Zaheer Science Foundation (New Delhi: December 1974).
[1684] LAURENCE BIRNS, The End of Chilean Democracy (New York: Seabury Press, 1973).
[1685] G. U. BONSIEPE, Teoría y Practica del Diseño Industrial (Barcelona: Editorial Gustavo Gili, 1975) - Italian translation: Teoria e Practica del Disegno Industriale (Fentrinelli, 1975).
[1686] RAUL ESPEJO, "Cybernetic Praxis in Government - The Management of Industry in Chile 1970-1973" in Journal of Cybernetics, Vol. 10, No. 3.
[1687] P. J. HARRISON & C. R. STEVENS, "A Bayesian Approach to Short-term Forecasting" in Operational Research Quarterly, Vol. 22, No. 4, December 1971.
[1688] HUMBERTO R. MATURANA & FRANCISCO J. VARELA, Autopoiesis and Cognition (Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel, 1980).
[1689] HERMANN SCHWEMBER, "Project Cybersyn: An Experience with New Tools for Management in Chile" in Computer Assisted Policy Analysis (Basel: Birkhauser Verlag, 1977; Ed. Bossel).
[1690] US GOVERNMENT, United States and Chile during the Allende Years, 1970-1973 (Hearings before the Subcommittee on Inter-American Affairs of the Committee on Foreign Affairs, Washington: House of Representatives, 1975).
- 1691. PETER BERGER & THOMAS LUCKMANN, The Social Construction of Reality (Peregrine Penguin Books 1979).
- 1692. INGMAR BERGMAN, The Seventh Seal (Faber & Faber, 1993):
"People ask what are my intentions with my films - my aims. It is
a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. This answer seems to satisfy everyone, but it is not quite correct. I prefer to describe what I would like my aim to be.
There is an old story of how the cathedral of Chartres was struck by lightning and burned to the ground. Then thousands of people came from all points of the compass, like a giant procession of ants, and together they began to rebuild the cathedral on its old site. They worked until the building was completed - master builders, artists, labourers, clowns, noblemen, priests, burghers. But they all remained anonymous, and no one knows to this day who built the cathedral of Chartres.
Regardless of my own beliefs and my own doubts, which are
unimportant in this connection, it is my opinion that art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God. He lived and died without being more or less important than other artisans; 'eternal values,' 'immortality' and 'masterpiece' were terms not
applicable in his case. The ability to create was a gift. In such a world flourished invulnerable assurance and natural humility.
Today the individual has become the highest form and the greatest bane of artistic creation. The smallest wound or pain of the ego is examined under a microscope as if it were of eternal importance. The artist considers his isolation, his subjectivy, his individualism almost holy. Thus we finally gather in one large pen, where we stand and bleat about our loneliness without listening to each other and without realising that we are smothering each other to death. The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny the existence of each other. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.
Thus if I am asked what I would like the general purpose of my films to be, I would reply that I want to be one of the artists in the cathedral on the great plain. I want to make a dragon's head, an angel, a devil - or perhaps a saint - out of stone. It does not matter which; it is the sense of satisfaction that counts. Regardless of whether I believe or not, whether I am a Christian or not, I would play my part in the collective building of the cathedral."
- 1693-5. ERIC BERNE, A Layman's Guide to Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis (London: André Deutsch 1969); Games People Play (Penguin 1968); What do you say after you say Hello? (Bantam Books 1973). Additional details.
- 1696. JOSEPH BEZZINA, The Bishop's Archives - Gozo: A Descriptive Hand-List (Victoria-Gozo: Lumen Christi - Bugelli, 1992).
- 1697. W. R. BION, Experience in Groups (London: Tavistock Publications 1968).
- 1698. G. G. BLUNDELL & C. MAXWELL CADE, Self-Awareness
and E.S.R. (Audio Ltd).
- 1699-700. HENRI BORTOFT, 'Gœthe's Organic Vision', and The Wholeness of Nature - Gœthe's Way of Science (Edinburgh: Floris Press, 1996), reviewed by BRIAN GOODWIN in Network - The Scientific and Medical Network Review, no.65, December 1997, pp.3-7. Although Goodwin claims that only now and only thanks to Thomas Kuhn & David Bohm are we in a position to appreciate that Gœthe truly was 'a scientist', such a view is, I suggest, astonishingly blinkered and parochial. Father Patrick McGrath, SDB, to name just one secondary-school science-teacher I knew in the late '60s would have been greatly surprised to be told that!...
- 1701. HIS HOLINESS POPE BONIFACE VIII, Unam Sanctam
(1302) - His approach is not currently in favour...
- 1702. PIETRO BRAIDO, Il Sistema Preventivo di Don Bosco
(Torino: SEI 1956).
- 1703. FRANZ BRENTANO, The True & The Evident
(Routledge & Kegan Paul 1966).
- 1704. ANNE BREWER, The Power of Twelve - Achieving 12-Strand DNA Consciousness (Hygiene, CO: SunShine Press 1998).
- 1705. RICHARD BRIGGS, It's been a Quiet Week in the Global Village (Triangle, 1999).
- 1706. PETER BRISTOW, Opus Dei - Christians in the midst of the world (CTS, 2001).
- 1707. MARTIN BROUSSALIS, Castaneda for Beginners (New York: Writers & Readers, 1999).
- 1708. E. I. CARDINAL CASSIDY, Newman on Truth &
Unity (1997).
- 1709-17. CARLOS CASTANEDA, The Teachings of Don Juan - A
Yaqui Way of Knowledge and A Separate Reality - Further
Conversations with Don Juan (Penguin Books 1976 & 1981);
Journey to Ixtlan - The Lessons of Don Juan (Bodley Head
1973); Tales of Power and The Second Ring of Power
(Hodder & Stoughton 1974 & 1978); The Eagle's Gift
(Penguin Books 1981); The Fire Within and The Power
of Silence - Further Lessons of Don Juan (Black Swan 1985
& 1989); The Art of Dreaming (Aquarian/Thorsons 1993); The Wheel of Time (Penguin Books 2000).
- 1718. JOHN L. CASTI, Paradigms Lost - Images of Man in the Mirror of Science (Abacus, reprinted 2000).
- 1719-24. BRUCE CATHIE, Harmonic 33 (Wellington-Sydney-London: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1968); Harmonic 695 (with P. N. Temm: A. H. & A. W. Reed 1971); The Pulse of the Universe - Harmonic 288 (Sphere Books 1981); The Bridge to Infinity - Harmonic 371244 (1983 - reprinted: Kempton, Illinois: Adventures Unlimited 1997); The Harmonic Conquest of Space (Nexus Magazine 1994/5). Also: Gridworks v.1.09 - The
World Energy-Grid Program with Manual (Quark Enterprises,
158 Shaw Road, Oratia, Auckland, New Zealand: 1993). I have exchanged correspondence with Captain Cathie, own copies of and have read each of the above named books, and have worked with his "Gridworks" program. Ernest Hazell's "The Decoding of Burford Down Stone Row SX6360, Hook Lake Double Stone Row SX6465 and Stall Moor Stone Circle 5X6364" (R.I.L.K.O. Journal, no. 60, pp. 6-14) excellently illustrates how such data may be applied - "Our history needs to be re-examined, rewritten, castles dismantled and books recycled on a mammoth scale."
San Sebastian de Garabandal in northern Spain's Cantabrian mountains features on pages 191-4 at the end of Cathie's fourth book, which also refers to Fatima, Bethlehem, atican City, Zeitoun near Cairo and Campbells Creek in Australia, where Our Lady is also reported to have appeared. Fatima is mainly discussed on pages 186-9, where he concentrates on the October 1917 miracle of the sun. I'm here focussing on Garabandal, partly because, while Malachy, the Irish mediaeval monk-prophet, named only Peter, the last Pope, after his "Gloria Olivae" mention of, apparently, our present Pope Benedict XVI, he didn't in so many words explicitly say that Benedict is second-last - though, I think, some now feel he almost certainly is.
Cathie quotes Conchita Gonzalez, who was in the kitchen with her mother when the bells of the local church tolled for the death of Pope John XXIII, as commenting: "Now only three remain." The Virgin, she told her mother, had told her that only three Popes remained after John XXIII, and then it was "the end of times". Asked by her mother whether or not that was the same as "the end of the world", Conchita said: "I don't know."
Paul VI, John-Paul I and John-Paul II having now died, Pope Benedict, by this reckoning, is part of "the end of times."
Cathie says there were about 2000 visions at Garabandal between 1 July 1961 and 13 November 1965 and that in one of the last ones, Jesus, speaking through the Archangel Michael, said: "As my message of 18 October has not been complied with and has not been made known to the world, I am advising you that this is the last one. Before the cup was filling up; now it is flowing over. Many cardinals, many bishops and many priests are on the road to perdition and are taking many souls with them. Less and less importance is being given to the Eucharist. You should turn the wrath of G-d way from yourselves by your efforts. If you ask His forgiveness with sincere hearts, He will pardon you." Although in Cathie's book that and what follows is all one quotation, it seems to be his summary of several, as it continues: "I, your mother, through the intercession of St. Michael the archangel, ask you to amend your lives. You are receiving the last warning. I love you very much and do not want your condemnation. Pray to Us with sincerity and We will grant your requests. You should make more sacrifices. Think about the passion of Jesus."
Cathie then adds that Conchita also foretold a great future miracle at Garabandal, to be preceded by a stern warning less than 12 months before it. That warning, scientifically not explained, will be seen and felt at 8.30 on a Thursday evening coinciding with the feast of a saint-and-martyr of the Holy Eucharist and with an event in the Church. Not until 8 days before is Conchita permitted to give the date, which she already knows.
The distance between Garabandal and the Vatican, along a Great Circle, is exactly 60% of that along a Great Circle between the Vatican and Bethlehem. Just one of Cathie's many calculations - he mainly studies the relationships between major volcanoes, earthquake epicentres, atomic bomb test-sites, major UFO observation places, sites of apparitions and miracles (such as Mount Sinai and the Red Sea), etc. Places like Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid are also considered, as is evidence from Tibet in recent times of heavy stones being levitated by monastic chanting, beating drums and blowing special trumpets.
- 1726. NOAM CHOMSKY with EDWARD D. SAID, Acts of Aggression - Policing "Rogue" States (New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999).
- 1727. WILLIAM A. COVINO, Magic, Rhetoric, and Literacy - An Eccentric History of the Composing Imagination (State University of New York Press, 1994).
- 1728. VIVIENNE CROWLEY, Principles of Jungian Spirituality (Thorsons 1998).
- 1729. R. DE MILLE, Castaneda's Journey (Abacus 1978).
- 1730. C. S. DESSAIN, The Mind of Cardinal Newman
(Catholic Truth Society 1974).
- 1731. ERIC DOYLE, St. Francis and the Song of Brotherhood (Allen & Unwin 1980, Catholic Book Club 1981).
- 1732. H. P. DUERR, Dreamtime - Concerning the Boundary
between Wilderness & Civilization (Basil Blackwell 1987).
- 1733. H. D. DUNCAN, Communication and Social Order (Oxford University Press 1962). It was reading this book that inspired my own derivative statement as far back as 1978, in Voice in The Darkness: "The problem of social dealienation is that of finding some institution capable of governing, serving, defending, teaching, entertaining, curing and creating and sustaining symbols of integration great enough to overcome the disintegrative forces of fear and weakness. This calls not merely for fresh ideas, but for the well-adapted application of practical force. Both globally and locally not politics but art is the communion of society."
- 1734. A. EHRENSWEIG, The Hidden Order of Art (London:
Paladin 1970).
- 1735. ROBERT ELBAZ, The Changing Nature of the Self - A critical study of the Autobiographic Discourse (London & Sydney: Croom Helm, 1988).
- 1736. HARVIE FERGUSON, The Science of Pleasure - Cosmos and
Psyche in the Bourgeois World View (Routledge: 1990). "This is
an 'interpretative' rather than an 'explanatory' work." (p.4.)
"The bourgeois world view, approached in terms of its content
rather than its form, is first of all a qualitative division
between 'cosmos', as the order of the material world, and
'psyche', as the structure of experience. Neither can be fully
understood when considered in isolation. And the relation between
them can only be grasped as a specific social relation. Although
distantly related to Greek philosophical, Christian
eschatological, and Gnostic spiritual terms, the distinction
between 'cosmos' and 'psyche' will refer here to the relatively
recent and peculiarly western division between, on the one hand,
an external and 'objective' order of the material universe
(however interpreted), and, on the other, an internal and
'subjective' world of personal experience.The synthetic and
necessarily vague term, 'bourgeois world view', will be used in a
general and non-technical sense to describe the cultural
traditions and social relations for which this distinction was
fundamental.
Although the bourgeois world view prides itself on
its scientific description of the cosmos, when taken in relation
to the psyche the persistence within it of other, non-rational
elements become evident... Fun, the most radically 'acosmic'
of these heterodox realities thus opposes, by virtue of its
absolute inner freedom, all fixed and ordered relations... Attempts
to neutralize, by describing, this radically antinomian spirit are
analysed in terms of the successive forms (childhood, lunacy, and
the savage), which, as prototypes of chaos, serve to express and
contain its subversive genius.
In addition... the bourgeois world
view has to overcome a longing for Happiness. It attempts
to do this by ascribing to the society it has overcome (feudalism)
an anachronistic fascination with transcendence. Feudalism it thus
regards as a symbolic reality, and this particular reconstruction
of feudalism forms the subject matter of Part Two.
Scientific rationality faces challenges as it were from the future as well as
the past. Modern science and modern psychology are filled with an
assortment of non-classical aberrations. This new challenge to
orthodox is all the harder to deal with in being episodic and
unpredictable. Part Four, Excitement, attempts to pin down
some of these elusive objections...
Part Three, which deals with the
central ideas of the scientific revolution, is titled
Pleasure.
These terms are chosen as suggestive not only of
different 'subjective' dispositions but as indicative of separate
formal and existential 'worlds' expressed in, and expressive of,
their own social relation. They contain and reproduce a series of
other distinctions. Each must be approached on its own terms. Each
part therefore tries to enter as sympathetically and completely as
possible into its particular world. An order of
signs is replaced by a hierarchy of symbols, before
being reduced to a system of causes, which is hardly formed
before dissolving into a network of images. The bourgeois
world view is only the 'messy' interaction of these
incommensurable parts." (pp.2-4.)
- 1737. GUSTAVE FLAUBERT, Sentimental Education (Everyman's
Library 1941).
- 1738. F. FORDHAM, An Introduction to Jung's Psychology (Penguin Books 1959).
- 1739-40. MATTHEW FOX, Sheer Joy - Conversations with Thomas
Aquinas on Creation Spirituality, Foreword by Rupert
Sheldrake, Afterword by Bede Griffiths (HarperSanFrancisco 1992);
Introduction & Commentaries to Breakthrough - Meister
Eckhart's Creation Spirituality in New Translation (Doubleday:
Image Books 1980).
- 1741. BLANCHE MARIE GALLGHER, Meditations with Teilhard de
Chardin with a Foreword by Jean Houston (Santa Fe: Bear &
Co., 1988).
- 1742-3. R. GARAUDY, De l'Anathème au Dialogue
(Paris: Plon 1966); Socialism's Great Turning-Point.
- 1744. W. H. GEORGE, The Scientist in Action (London:
Williams & Norgate 1936) - an excellent account, even if now somewhat dated.
- 1745. G. GILLEMAN, The Primacy of Charity in Moral Theology (Burns & Oates 1959).
- 1746. JAMES GLEICK, Chaos - Making a New Science
(London: Heinemann 1988) and cf. Nature's Chaos.
- 1747-50. BEDE GRIFFITHS, The New Creation in Christ - Christian Meditation and Community (Darton, Longman & Todd, 1992); Universal Wisdom - A Journey through the Sacred Wisdom of the World (London: Fount-HarperCollins 1994), cf. The Bede Griffiths Sangha Newsletter published from Beech Tree Cottage, Gushmere, Kent ME13 95H (Vol.4, Issue 4, pp.5-8, reproduces Thich Nhat Hanh's most useful Embracing Anger, a talk given in New York on 25 September 2001) - notice that not all of Father Bede's here published personal letters express the best side of him: discernment, please...
- 1751. MARTIN HEIDEGGER, On the Way to Language (Harper
& Row 1971).
- 1752. FRANCIS HITCHING, Pendulum - The PSI Connection (Fontana
Collins 1977).
- 1753. LAURI HONKO, editor, Science of Religion -
Studies in Methodology: Proceedings of the Study Conference of the
International Association for the History of Religions, held in
Turku, Finland, August 27-31, 1973 (The Hague - Paris - New York:
Mouton Publisher 1979).
- 1754-8. PIERRE THOMAS PAUL J. HOUÉDARD (16 February
1924 - 15 January 1992), Towards a book of Chakras (1967);
Programme for Inter-religious monastic Dialogue (1986); Buddhist Haloes and Catholic Haloes - Are they the same colour? (1986); editor of George Melhuish's unfinished Death and
the Double Nature of Nothingness. Dom Sylvester's obituary was published in The
Independent's Weekend Gazette (18 January 1992, page 32). His papers are now kept in Manchester's John Ryland's Library.
- 1749. Dr. KAY REDFIELD JAMISON, Unquiet Mind - A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Picador, 1996).
- 1750. KARL JASPERS, Way to Wisdom (Yale University Press
1967).
- 1751-2. POPE JOHN XXIII, Veterum Sapientia and Pacem in Terris (London: Catholic Truth Society,1962, 1963).
- 1753-8b. POPE JOHN-PAUL II, Catechesi sul Matrimonio e la Morale Familiare (Rome: Edizioni Paoline 1980); Dominum et Vivificantem (Catholic Truth Society 1986); A Master in Education (1988); Peter on the Island of Paul - volume 2: The speeches delivered during the visit, May 1990, together with a translation into Maltese (Blajta l-Bajda, Malta: Media Centre, 1990John Paul II in Malta (Malta: Progress Press 1990); Splendor Veritatis (Catholic Truth Society 1993; a detailed critique is freely available on this website); Fides et Ratio (Catholic Truth Society 1998 - develops Leo XIII's Aeterni Patris of 1870); Message for World Communications Day 27 May 2001 (issued on 24 January 2001, the memorial of Saint Francis of Sales); Peter in the Island of Paul (Secretariat for the Liturgy of the Archdiocese of Malta, 2001); Rise, let us be on our way (London: Jonathan Cape, 2004).
- 1759. R. NEVILLE JOHNSTON, The Language Codes (Samuel Weiser, 2000) - "What you hate you recreate until you love it."
- 1760. WILLIAM JOHNSTON, The Mysticism of the Cloud of
Unknowing (Wheathampstead: Anthony Clarke 1978).
- 1761-2. FRANKLIN JONES (=DA FREE JOHN), The Knee of Listening (San
Rafæle: Dawn Horse Press, 1973); The Method of the Siddhas (Los Angeles: Dawn Horse Press, 1973).
- 1763-4. CARL G. JUNG, Man and his symbols
(London: Aldous Books 1964); Septem Sermones ad Mortuos
(London: Robinson & Watkins 1967); Synchronicity - An
Acausal Connecting Principle (London: Ark Paperbacks 1985); also -
most importantly his Letter of 9 September, 1944:
'If a breach goes through a house, then the whole house is affected, not just one
half of it. The house is no longer trustworthy. The conscientious
architect does not seek to convince the inhabitants that the rooms
on one side or the other of the breach are still in excellent
condition, but will concern himself about the breach and will seek
ways and means of putting the damage right... As a doctor I am
interested solely in the question: How can the wound be healed? It
is quite certain that the breach will never be closed by both
sides apologeticly extolling their advantages instead of bewailing
their lamentable inability to make peace. While mother and
daughter squabble, their mutual enemy - Antichrist - is coming to
the fore and showing these Christians, who are quarrelling over
‘their’ truth, what he can do, for he is more egotistical than all.'
- 1765. SERGE KAHILI KING, Urban Shaman - A Handbook for
Personal and Planetary Transformation based on the Hawaiian Way of
the Adventurer (Simon & Schuster: Fireside 1990).
- 1766. FRANK LAKE, Clinical Theology (London: Darton, Longman & Todd 1966).
- 1767. SUSAN LANGER, Feeling and Form (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1953).
- 1768. ERVIN LASZLO, 3rd Millennium - The Challenge and the Vision (London: Gaia Books, 1997, p. 125) - "The evidence that surfaces, surprising as it may be, indicates that our brain is not limited to the neural processes that go on in within our cranium - it is a wide-band receiver and high-powered processor of information. The information it receives originates not only in our body, but comes from all over the world. The brain's ten billion neurons, with 10,000 connections each, constitute the most complex system of electronic organization in the known universe. This system, which operates at the edge of chaos, receives and transforms information from our own body, as well as the electromagnetic, acoustic, and other wave fields in our environment. It also receives and decodes information from more subtle fields, including the vacuum's zero-point holofield. Potentially, our brain connects us with the wide reaches of the cosmos.
As mystics, prophets, and people of insight and sensitivity intuited through the ages, our brain is an integral part of the universe, and our mind is a potentially open window on it. It is up to us to throw open that window, to the full extent of our remarkable, but hitherto largely unexploited, physical and mental capacities."
Manifesto on the Spirit of Planetary Consciousness (Annex, pp. 137-43, §4): "The militarization problem, the developmental problem, the ecological problem, the population problem, and the many problems of energy and raw materials will not be overcome merely by reducing the number of already useless nuclear warheads, nor by signing politically softened treaties on world trade, global warming, biological diversity, and sustainable development. More is required today than piecemeal action and short-term problem-solving. We need to perceive the problems in their complex totality, and grasp them not only with our reason and intellect, but with all the faculties of our insight and empathy..."
- 1769. DAVID MICHAEL LEVIN, The Listening Self - Personal Growth, Social Change and the Closure of Metaphysics (London:
Routledge 1989). Jacket illustration: The Intertwining - "Symbol
of our Rootedness, the Weave of Feminine Wisdom, the
Interrelatedness of all Beings, the Interdependency of Self and
Other, the Interactional Co-Emergence of Subject and Object, the
Co-Ordination of Self and Society, the Oneness that is Manifold,
the Consonance that is shaped to permit Dissonance, and the
Difference that in-forms Consensus, Symbol, also, of the
Labyrinth, the Immeasurable, the Ground whose Dimensions cannot be
Sounded, and the Structure of the Inner Ear."
- 1770-81. BERNARD JOSEPH F. LONERGAN, Insight - A Study of Human Understanding (London: Longmans 1957; posthumous critical edition: University of Toronto Press 1992 - "This procedure yields a metaphysics that brings to contemporary thought the wisdom of the Greeks and of the medieval Schoolmen, as reached by Aristotle and Aquinas, but purged of every trace of antiquated science, formulated to integrate not only the science of the present but also of the future, and elaborated in accord with a method that makes it possible to reduce every dispute in the field of metaphysical speculation to a question of concrete psychological fact."); Divinarum Personarum Conceptionem Analogicam evolvit; De Ente Supernaturali - authorized postgraduate students' collated notes; De Constitutione Christi Ontologica et Psychologica; De Verbo Incarnato - 4 volumes; De Deo Trino - Pars Dogmatica (Rome: PUG 1959,1960,1961,1964); The Way to Nicea (Darton, Longman & Todd, 1976, 1982 - this English translation of less than half of the Latin text of De Deo Trino - Pars Dogmatica most helpfully complements Chapter One of Insight as a detailed illustration of why that awesome work retains its fundamental importance and significance. For some preliminary exploration of the New Testament gnosis Lonergan chose not to include in his own discussion of Gnosticism, see our own relevant references, including JOHN MICHELL's City of Revelation (Abacus, 1973) and DAVID ELKINGTON's wide-ranging and thought-provoking In the Name of the Gods (Sherborne: Green Man Press, 2001); Collection; Verbum - Word & Idea in Aquinas; Grace and Freedom - Operative Grace in the Thought of St. Thomas Aquinas; and Method in Theology (The indispensable complement to Insight because, pp.99 & 351:
"Never has adequately differentiated consciousness been more difficult to achieve. Never has the need to speak effectively to undifferentiated consciousness been greater."
"Systematic theology is élitist: it is difficult, as also are mathematics, science, scholarship, philosophy. But the difficulty is worth meeting. If one does not attain, on the level of one's age, an understanding of the religious realities in which one believes, one will be simply at the mercy of the psychologists, the sociologists, the philosophers, that will not hesitate to tell believers what is really is in which they believe... Systematic theology is irrelevant, if it does not provide the basis for... communications. But to communicate one must understand what one has to communicate. No repetition of formulas can take the place of understanding. For it is understanding alone that can say what it grasps in any of the manners demanded by the almost endless series of different audiences.");
Philosophy of G-d & Theology; A Second Collection (Darton, Longman & Todd 1967,1968, 1971, 1972, 1973 & 1974); A Third Collection (New York - Mahwah: Paulist Press 1985); Understanding and Being (Collected Works: vol.5, University of Toronto Press 1990); Of Supernatural Being.- 1782. P. CORCORAN, Looking at Lonergan's Method (Dublin: Talbot Press 1975).
- 1783-4. EMMERICH CORETH, Metaphysik (Innsbrück: Tyrolia Verlag 1963); very much abridged author-approved English text - Metaphysics (New York: Herder & Herder 1963). Father Coreth was Karl Rahner's mentor in philosophy.
- 1785-7. FREDERICK E. CROWE, 'St. Thomas & the Isomorphism of Human Knowing and its Proper Object' in Sciences Écclésiastiques (vol.13, 1961); Lonergan (Geoffrey Chapman 1992); editor of: Spirit as Inquiry - Studies in honour of Bernard Lonergan, being Continuum (vol. 2, no.3, Autumn 1964).
- 1788. JOSEPH FITZPATRICK, 'Town-Criers of Inwardness or Reflections on Rorty' in Method - Journal of Lonergan Studies (Vol. 13, 1995, pp.1-33).
- *. COLIN JAMES HAMER, 'Method in Theology', 'Logical Foundations', 'Understanding and Lonergan's Insight', notes ad usum alumnorum (Beckford Hall, 1968); 'One Man's Quest - Bernard Lonergan's Achievement' in Catholic Education Today (vol. 5, no. 4, JulyAugust 1971, pp.6-7).
- 1789-91. PHILIP McSHANE, 'The Hypothesis of Intelligible Emanations in G-d' in Theological Studies (vol.23, March 1962); editor of Papers from the International Lonergan Congress 1970: 1. Foundations of Theology; 2. Language, Truth & Meaning (Dublin: Gill & Macmillan 1971, 1972).
- 1792. HUGO A. MEYNELL, An Introduction to the Philosophy of Bernard Lonergan (1st edition: 1976; 2nd edition with Afterword and expanded bibliogaphy: Basingstoke & London, Macmillan 1991).
- 1794-4. DAVID TRACY, The Achievement of Bernard Lonergan (New York: Herder & Herder 1970); and, with NICHOLAS LASH, edited Cosmology and Theology (Edinburgh 1983).
- 1795-7. JOHN WREN-LEWIS, Review of Lonergan's Insight, in Modern Churchman (vol.1, 1957); What shall we tell
the children? (London: Constable 1971); 'Joy without a cause' in Chesterton Review.
- For further Lonergan-related references cf my "Aquinas Today" and nos. above
- 1798. RAMON G. MENDOZA, The Acentric Labyrinth - Giordano Bruno's Prelude to Contemporary Cosmology (Element Books, 1995, p. 32):
- "Bruno was fully aware of the unlimited revolutionary potential of his philosophy. A sweeping revolutionary project matured in his mind. The new cosmovision made indispensable not only an entirely new philosophy, but a totally new world as well. This, of course, implied a new ethical system, a new socio-political order, even a new religion, capable of being universally accepted and one which would no longer be the cause of religious wars and religious intolerance, and persecution..."
- 1799. JEREMY NAYDLER, Gœthe on Science, an anthology of Gœthe's scientific writings (Edinburgh: Floris Press, 1996)
- 1800. JOHN NELSON, editor, Solstice Shift - Magical Blend's Synergistic Guide to the Coming Age (Charlottesville, VA: Hampton Roads Publishing Company, Inc., 1997 - Reading straight through this collection of twenty-three essays by leading-edge New Age authors communicates a fair sense of that movement's likely development in the near future. Compare 80* above).
- 1801-6. JOHN HENRY NEWMAN (1801-1890), Grammar of Assent
(Longmans 1892); The Scope & Nature of University
Education (J. M. Dent & Co., 1903); Apologia Pro Vita
Sua; Essay on Development of Christian Doctrine (New
York: Doubleday 1956, 1960); and, of course: The Dream of
Gerontius and 'Lead Kindly Light'.
- 1807. B. O'BRIEN, Operators and Things (London: Elek Books 1960).
- 1808. WALTER J. ONG, The Presence of the Word (Yale
University Press 1967).
- 1809. J. W. PAINTER, Deep Bodywork and Personal Development - Harmonizing our bodies, emotions, and thoughts (Mill Valley
CA: Bodymind Book 1986).
- 1810. MARTIN PALMER, Coming of Age - An Exploration of
Christianity and the New Age (Aquarian/Thorsons 1993).
- 1811-2. HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI, The Church & Art
(East Acton: St. Aidan's Catholic Church 1964); The Credo of
the People of G-d (Catholic Truth Society 1968).
- 1813-5. PETER PLICHTA, God's Secret Formula - Deciphering the Riddle of the Universe and the Prime Number Code (Element Books 1997; paperback 1998) - a translation of: Gottes geheime Formel (Albert Langen George Müller Verlag in der F. A. Herbig Verlagsbuchhandlung GmbH., München, 1995). If during the whole of your remaining sojourn on Earth you and your friends are determined to read no more than one book, please let it be this one:
- For "infinite" on p. 81, line 3, read "finite". On p. 117, line 3, replace "25" by "29". Replace the second "81" on line 2 in p. 124 by "1". Insert "~" immediately after the "E²" at the beginning of the formula just before the last two lines of p.129. Read "or nothing" instead of "of nothing" in line 14 on p.166. Replace "fully-tanked" by "full-tanked" in the fourth line of the fifth paragraph on p. 204.
- Despite those blemishes in the English-language edition, Plichta's readers, especially if students with the Royal Institute, will, I hope, take careful note of his scientifically, mathematically, empirically and biblically supported statement on p. 165: "This augurs a revolution for our primary schools. Nothing less than the atomic model and the chemical elements themselves will in future be their godfathers when children develop a relationship to numbers. Our children have the opportunity of being the first generation to be able to fully appreciate the meaning in at least one Bible quotation - 'But Thou hast arranged all things by measure and number and weight.' (Wisdom 11:20)"
- "Electrons and protons... did not emerge from some other particles at some time in the past but instead exist because of the nature of infinity." (p. 130).
- "Nobody tells our children and students that the females of the three anthropoid apes - the gorillas, orang-utans and chimpanzees - do not have a clitoris." (p. 86.)
- In autumn 1994 Doctors Peter Pichta & Klaus Kunkel registered patents for "a radically novel type of rocket engine" and for "a rocket long-distance aircraft" capable of flying more than 30 miles high at speeds of 3,000-5,000 m.p.h. (p. 208). This is a book to read again and again.
- 1851. MICHÆL POLANYI, Personal Knowledge (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1958).
- 1816. IRA PROGOFF, At a Journal Workshop - Writing to Access the Power of the Unconscious and Evoke Creative Ability (New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons 1992.
- 1817. F. P. RAMSEY, Foundations of Mathematics.
- 1817a. JOSEPH CARDINAL RATZINGER (HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI), The Nature and Mission of Theology - Approaches to Understanding its Röle in the Light of Present Controversey (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1995).
- 1818. STAN ROSENTHAL, A New Concept of Self (226 Cathedral Rd, Cardiff 1977, 1981 - ISBN 0 906145 04 X - p.19, §7.7.7): "In the 'fully functioning person' the quintessential metaconscious archetypes of the Selbstgestalt perform their rightful function of transcending modal discrimination. They thus integrate subjective, objective and quintessential meanings so that the Selbstgestalt has no need of any proof of its own existence, other than the experience of its functioning as an interactively interdependent aspect of a total situation. This continuing situation is the internalization of the Umwelt into the continuously developing structural pattern and content of the Selbstgestalt".
- 1819. ERIC ROUTLEY, The Puritan Pleasures of the Detective
Story (Gollancz 1972). For detective stories to flourish: (1)
there must be a tradition of integrity in the police-force; (2)
the reader must be ready to accept as hero a detective who never
fails; (3) the reader must take pleasure in the special activity
of observation. The English puritan tradition brings together: (1)
commerce and the values of the city, (2) rationalism and a
suspicion of the supernatural, (3) the assumption that work is a
virtue and idleness a vice, (4) the cult of masculinity, (5) the
relegation of sex to a subordinate place in the scheme of human
values, exemplified not least in the commendation of late marriage
for men, (6) a special love of good conversation, (7) xenophobia
and Englishness, (8) a suspicion of artists and a profound fear of
the young. The detective story is the product and the weapon of a
middle-class puritan society whose morality makes claims that have
no foundation. It encourages us to be too sure who is wicked, and
too little hesitant about who is disposable; too much justice,
too little compassion. This is, however, not true of the better
stories. Detective stories also smugly perpetuate and celebrate a
possibly undesirable set of social assumptions. Like religion, the
detective story rejects the possibility of ultimate tragedy, and
is thus the antithesis of some of the highest art. Ideally to
enjoy detective stories one must be close enough to social
morality to appreciate the problems, but not overloaded with real
responsibilities for social decision or reform. The clergy love
them! They love order, not violence. The thriller novel is quite
different.
- 1820. VICTOR SANCHEZ, The Teachings of Don Carlos -
Practical applications of the Works of Carlos Castaneda (Bear
& Co., 1995).
- 1820a. DOROTHY L. SAYERS, Creed or Chaos? Why Christians must choose either Dogma or Disaster (Manchester, New Hampshire: Sophia Institute Press, 1974).
- 1821. P. A. SCHILPP, editor, Albert Einstein - Philosopher,
Scientist (New York: Tudor Publishing Co., 1951).
- 1822. SCHRŒDER, Vorlesungen über der Algebra der Logic
(1890).
- 1823. M. F. SCIACCA, editor, Les Grands Courants de la
Pensée Mondiale Contemporaine (6 volumes, Milan:
Marzorati 1958).
- 1824-5. ROGER SCRUTON, Sexual Desire - A Philosophical Investigation (London: Phœnix 1986); An Intelligent Person's Guide to Modern Culture (London: Duckworth 1998) - "It is my view that the high culture of our civilization contains knowledge which is far more significant than anything that can be absorbed from the channels of popular communication. This is a hard belief to justify, and a harder one to live with; indeed, it has nothing to recommend it apart from its truth." (p.2)
- 1826. SECRETARIAT FOR NON-BELIEVERS, Dialogue with
Non-Believers (Catholic Truth Society 1968).
- 1827. GEORGE STEINER, After Babel - Aspects of Language
& Translation (2nd edition, Oxford University Press 1992).
- 1828. LÉON-JOSEPH Cardinal SUENENS, Renewal & the Powers of Darkness, Foreword by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (London: Darton, Longman & Todd, 1983, pp.115 & 16-17):
"It is difficult to row against the tide and not to succumb to the spirit of the times. And all the more so as, in this delicate matter, we have to steer a safe course between Scylla and Charybdis, between underestimation and exaggeration: we have to assert with firmness that the Evil One does exist, yet profess a triumphant Paschal Faith; we have to make room for a ministry of deliverance without [mistakenly imagining] that direct grappling with the demon [is] an integral part of the Christian life...
Jesus did not say that 'deliverance' should be envisaged as a daily act of piety. Nor did he recommend that Christians be encouraged to 'pick up snakes in their hands' and to 'drink deadly poison'.
It is equally useful to note that no demon of lust was expelled from the adulterous woman (John 8), or from the woman of ill-repute mentioned by Luke (ch. 7), or from the incestuous people of Corinth (I Cor. 5). No demon of avarice was expelled from Zacchæus, no demon of incredulity from Peter after his triple betrayal...
The Lord did not say that the Devil is at the root of all human sin, and that all the sins of men are committed at his instigation. He told his disciples a parable which points to a very different teaching. The Parable of the Sower does mention situations where the Devil comes and removes the good seeds, but also others where the seeds die because they have fallen into shallow soil - a symbol of the superficiality and fickleness of men [and women]; or again, because they have been choked by thorns - a symbol of the cares of this world which turn men [and women] away from G-d (Matt. 13:19ff.; Mark 4:15; Luke 8:12ff.).
The Devil is fought positively and preventively by everything that nourishes and strengthens the Christian life, and therefore, above all, by recourse to the Sacraments...
At the risk of offending those who obstinately place their trust in the natural goodness of man and the myth of 'Progress', [I urge you, as I urge myself] to discover the mystery of the Church in ever greater depth. We are constantly tempted to reduce the Church, that is to say, to equate her with a more or less well-organised and up-to-date human sociological institution. And we do not immerse ourselves in her profound mystery which shows her to be the continuation" of JesusI+NMary's earthly mission. ..... Ambiguity is a distinctive feature of the demonic phenomenon: consequently, the mainspring of the Christian's fight against the Devil is his ability to live day after day in the light of faith."
This is a much needed corrective to the wrong-headed if sincere thinking exemplified by Peretti's best-selling tales.
- 1829-33. PIERRE TEILHARD DE CHARDIN, On Love (1972);
The Phenomenon of Man and The Divine Milieu (Harper
& Row 1959,1960); The Future of Man and Hymn of the
Universe (Collins Fontana 1969, 1970).
- 1834. JUDITH M. TYBERG, The Language of the Gods -
Sanskrit Keys to India's Wisdom (2nd edition, Los Angeles:
East-West Cultural Centre 1976).
- 1835. JACQUES VALLÉE, The Network Revolution - Confessions of a Computer Scientist (Berkeley: And/Or Press Inc.
1982).
- 1836-7. LAURENS VAN DER POST, Jung and the Story of Our Time (Penguin Books, 1978, p.150 - "Ghosts... do not portray the uneasy dead, but prefigure life as yet to come."); Yet Being Someone Other (Hogarth Press, 1982) - "Meetings between different cultures, particularly of so-called civilised and so-called primitive men, are events of the most traumatic and fateful consequences, as immense as they must be unforeseen and irreversible." (p.25.)
"... I began my study of Japanese with the purser. The first character he taught me was that of a tree, perhaps feeling prompted to establish that what was about to happen between us was to be not an act of will and mind so much as a growth from roots deep in the dark and mysterious earth. The very first word I learn from him was 'sensei': master or teacher. And it is as both master and teacher, in the indivisible connotations they had for the ancient Chinese and architects of the Japanese Renaissance, that he remains in my grateful memory. That classical concept had innumerable implications of great significance. It presupposed that a person could be a master to others only through continue seeking of the truth and humility of his own teaching. Someone could only teach others through what he had taught and mastered in himself. So ultimately, of course, he taught even more by living example than by words... Japanese, as I now began to learn it, appeared firmly connected with its aboriginal beginnings and tended, to my delight, to express reality more in terms of feeling than in ideas and intellectual abstractions, at which the Chinese excel. For instance, in writing 'tree'..." (pp.128-9.)
"Once the Japanese knew their 'position. they seemed in no need of orders... My teacher told me about one of the most profound and pivotal concepts produced by civilization: the concept of 'Li'. Originally (and 'originally' in terms of the Chinese who first evolved it meant going almost as far back as the conscious spirit can go without losing altogether its consciousness), Li meant sacrifice and the ritual and ceremonial that proceeded from the exercise of sacrifice. But for my 'sensei' and those humble deckhands who began their day bowing to the rising sun, it meant outwardly the observation of courtesy and good manners in human relationships; and also ritual and grace for acknowledging the presence of the Gods which, as the relevant ideogram graphically implied, represented that which was above. Courtesy to man, and the ritual that was courtesy to the Gods, were one at source, so that not surprisingly within, it was a transcendental ethos which inspired the morality that alone could impose order on the competing elements of the human spirit. The importance of all that flowed from this in the course of centuries until it became a reflex of the Japanese spirit, cannot be over-estimated. To explain its width, depth and ramifications would take all the libraries of heavy volumes already devoted to it and, even then, a lifetime of living it, in order to be understood in the way that the most humble of men who are born to it understand. But at that time it emerged as a moving and, for me, sympathetic attempt at bringing human relationships continuously into harmony. Then the resolution achieved could be joined in the overall harmony of the universe. When my 'sensei' warned me that not to know Li meant not being able to take one's position in life, I understood at once what he was saying..." (pp. 152-3.)
"Did I remember, [my teacher] asked me, how at the beginning of our voyage he had been compelled to correct me when I took 'Maru' to be the Japanese for ship? He had tried to explain that it was a kind of suffix of the most ancient origin, and was intended to remind man that certain material things of his own fashioning were more than matter and carried a charge of spirit and symbolic meaning all on their own. In this way some of Japan's greatest knights and warriors had given names to their swords with this suffix of 'Maru' added, to remind them that their swords too were instruments of spirit which should be accordingly used. This pracice was most profound and appropriate applied to ships because..." (p.175.)
"All European preconceptions about the role of the Geisha in the social life of Japan, and the popular tendency to look on them as courtesans and prostitutes of a most select kind, had been erased by what [Japan's senior marine officer, Master of the Canada Maru, Captain Katsue] Mori and my teacher had already told me. I cannot pretend that even then I knew and unerstood their profound and complex role. I do not understand it even today, in the way it should be understood, because understanding was not a matter for knowledge so much as experience... I would try to explain it perhaps on the lines that... she was an externalization of the unrecognized caring and feeling potential in even the most masculine of men which the Greeks always personified as a 'woman' and called the Psyche in man..." (pp. 204, 206.)
"Perhaps one of the saddest things in life is the recurrent illusion of human beings that they can improve on the truth... It seemed to me no accident that the first and only transgressor of the laws of the reverence due to the shrine of Amaterasu Omikami [the Goddess of the Sun] should have been a modern Minister of Education; another of those promoters of 'The Great Artifice' which made reason and intellect not the partners of feeling and intuition that natrue intended them to be, but rather imposters and tyrants..." (pp. 236-7.)
"My relationship with my teacher also deepened and my study of Japanese broadened so that it moved into that most exciting of all dimensions where the facts, grammar and bones of the process daily acquired flesh, atmosphere and nuance. We talked more and more about the great Japanese intangibles. One of these was the all-pervasive 'momo-aware' of their spirit which is beyond explanation or definition and has to be experienced before it produces a fallout in the heart and mind that passes for understanding of sorts. We discussed it most as a sense of sympathy built deeply in all things seen and unseen for one another, even as they are made manifest in the same all-inclusive moment of the unfolding dimensions of time... 'a knight without reproach'... always spoke the truth;... never lacked courage;... [wept] easily." (pp. 258-9.)
"I believe that my own life established some small but undeniable and imperial facts: namely that every life is extraordinary; that the 'average man' is a statistical abstraction and does not exist; and that every single one of us - not excluding the disabled, maimed, blind, deaf, dumb and the bearers of unbearable suffering - matters to a Creation that has barely begun..." (pp. 323-4.)
"... I had sailed from Africa so shattered by events... so full of foreboding and a sense of my own helplessness, that I could not sleep... After several days and nights of increasing unrest and sleeplessness.... Alone in the dark in my cabin and the wash of the sea... I suddenly realized that a calm... was spreading through my being, until at last, on the frontier of sleep, I had a sort of dream-vision... C. G. Jung, who had become a close friend... waved, he called out in... English...: 'I'll be seeing you?'. Then he vanished behind the sunlit summit. Immediately, the calm within me assumed absolute command and I fell asleep. I woke early the next morning... The steward came in with... the ship's newsletter. The first item on the sheet read: 'C.G. Jung, the famous Swiss psychologist, died at his home at Küsnacht in Zürich last evening.' Comparing the time differences caused by latitude, it was clear that my dream-vision came at almost the precise moment of Jung's death." (p. 330.)
The author also cites T. S. ELIOT's Little Gidding:"So I assumed a double part, and cried
And heard another's voice cry: 'What! are you here?'
Although we were not. I was still the same,
Knowing myself yet being someone other -
And he a face still forming; yet the words sufficed
To compel the recognition they preceded.
And so, compliant to the common wind,
Too strange to each other for misunderstanding..."
- 1838. P. VANIER, 'Towards an effective Philosophy of Education' in Continuum (Vol. 2, no.3, Autumn 1964).
- 1839. RENÉ VOILLAUME, Brothers of Men (London: Darton, Longman & Todd 1966).
- 1840-43a. HANS URS VON BALTHASAR, Herrlichkeit - eine theologische Aesthetik, 1. Shau der Gestalt (Einsiedeln: Johannes Verlag 1961, 2nd edition 1967) - English translation: The Glory of the Lord - A Theological Aesthetics, Volume 1. Seeing the Form (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark 1982); John Riches; Mysterium Paschale; Credo - Meditations on the Apostles' Creed (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark 1982, 1991, 1991); Tragedy Under Grace - Reinhold Schneider on the Experience of the West (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1997) - in the original German the full text of this author's works occupies 50,000 pages...
- 1844. FRIEDRICH WAISMANN, The Principles of Linguistic Philosophy (Macmillan 1965).
- 1845. KRISTINA WEGRZYNOWSKA, Reflexions on the Theology of Father Bede Griffiths - Will the Holy Spirit destroy the walls of the tradition? (Shanthivanam 1994).
- 1846. STEVEN WEINBERG, Dreams of a Final Theory (Swindon: TSP Softbacks 1992).
- 1847. H. G. WELLS, The Outline of History (Revised
& Corrected: Cassell and Company, 1920).
- 1848-9. A. N. WHITEHEAD, Science and the Modern World (Cambridge University Press 1927); Adventures of Ideas (1933).
- 1850. STUART WILDE, Whispering Winds of Change - Perceptions of a New World (Carlsbad, CA.: Hay House, Inc., 1993).
- 1851. N. M. WILDIERS, An Introduction to Teilhard de
Chardin (Collins Fontana 1968).
- 1852. EDWARD O. WILSON, Consilience - The Unity of Knowledge (Abacus Books, 1998).
- 1853. ARTHUR ZAJONC, Catching the Light - The Entwined History of Light and Mind (Bantam Press-Transworld Publishers 1993) - highlights something Albert Einstein, a dyslexic, wrote in 1951: All the fifty years of conscious brooding have brought me closer to the question, "What are light quanta?" Of course today every rascal thinks he knows the answer, but he is deluding himself.
- 1854. DANAH ZOHAR & IAN MARSHALL, The Quantum Society - Mind, Physics and a New Social Vision (Bloomsbury, 1993) - still a worthwhile book, even though the physics is questionable.

OCCULT & ESOTERIC APPROACHES
- 1855-8. ANON, Meditations on the Tarot - A journey into
Christian Hermeticism - 'This edition is dedicated to Our Lady
of Chartres'; Robert Powell's English translation (New York: Amity
House 1985, Element Books 1991, Internet excerpts and synopses 2003); Die Grossen Arcana Des
Tarot (Basel: Herder 1983 - Hans Urs Von Balthasar wrote the
Foreword to this second, completely revised German translation of
the original French manuscript, the first German translation
having been published posthumously and anonymously in Meisenheim
by Anton Hain in 1972); Méditations sur les 22 arcanes
majeurs du Tarot (Paris: Aubier Montaigne 1984 - second,
revised and complete edition of the author's original text, an
edited version of which had already been published by Aubier
Montaigne in 1980). A most useful Index has already been made freely available to all who wish to download it for their own personal use. See also:
- 1859. B. BUTLER, The Definitive Tarot (Rider &
Company 1975).
- 1860. JONATHAN DEE, Tarot - An easy-to-follows illustrated guide to the mysteries of the Tarot, cards illustrated by Shirley Barker (Bath: Parragon 1999).
- 1861-4. MICHÆL DUMMETT, The Game of Tarot; Twelve
Tarot Games (London: Duckworth, 1980). Professor Dummett seeks
to demonstrate that Tarocchi is far preferable to Whist. RONALD DECKER, THIERRY DEPAULIS & MICHÆL DUMMETT,A Wicked Pack of Cards - The Origins of Tarot Occultism (London, 1996); RONALD DECKER & MICHÆL DUMMETT, A History of the Occult Tarot 1870-1970 (London, 2002).
- 1865-6. FRÉDÉRIC LIONEL, The Magic Tarot
- Vehicle of Eternal Wisdom (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1982);
The Seduction of the Occult Path (Wellingborough: Turnstone
Press 1983).
- 1867. SALLIE NICHOLS, Jung and Tarot - An Archetypal
Journey (Samuel Weiser 1980).
- 1868. CHRISTINA OLSEN, The Art of Tarot (Abbeville Press - Tiny Folio, 1995).
- 1869. MOUNI SADHU, The Tarot - A Contemporary Course of the Quintessence of Hermetic Occultism (Unwin Paperbacks, 1990) contains much that the anonymous author of no. above was also directly acquainted with.
- 1870. GERALD & BETTY SCHUELER, The Truth About The Enochian Tarot (Llewellyn Publications, 1994).
- 1871. LISA TENZIN-DOLMA, The Glastonbury Tarot (Gothic Image, 1999).
- 1872-5. VALENTIN TOMBERG, "The Meaning and Significance of a Free Anthroposophical Working Group" (2 pages, January 1938); Lazarus, komm heraus
(Freiburg: Verlag Herder Basel 1985); Covenant of the Heart - Meditations of a Christian Hermeticist on the Mysteries of Tradition (Element Books 1992); Inner Development (Hudson, New York: Anthroposophic Press 1992).
- 1876. PRINCE MICHAEL OF ALBANY, The Forgotten Monarchy of
Scotland - The True Story of the Royal House of Stewart and
the Hidden Lineage of the Kings and Queens of Scots (Element Books
1998).
- 1877. J. & A. ARGÜELLES, Mandala (Berkeley -
London: Shambala 1972).
- 1878-83. ALICE BAILEY, A Treatise on White Magic - or
the Way of the Disciple (1934, 8th printing 1967: enunciates
15 Rules for Magic, cf especially p.66); A Treatise on Cosmic Fire;
Initiation Human and Solar; 'What is an Esoteric School?',
a separately published extract from her Autobiography (Lucis Trust 1987); Reflections
on Harmlessness and Time and Money - Selections of Quotations from
the Writings of Alice Bailey (all currently available from The
Lucis Trust ).
- 1884. PATRICK BENHAM, The Avalonians (Glastonbury: Gothic Image Publications, 1993).
- 1885. BRYAN BEVAN, The real Francis Bacon (London:
Centaur Press 1960).
- 1886. P. BROOKESMITH, editor, The Occult Connection
(London: Black Cat 1988).
- 51. CÉSAR CALVO, The Three Halves of Ino Moxo -
Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon (Rochester,
Vermont: Inner Traditions International 1995).
- 1887. LOUIS CHARPENTIER, The Mysteries of Chartres
Cathedral, translated by Sir Ronald Frazer (1st English
edition 1972, reprinted for RILKO by B. & J. Hargreaves, 10
Kedleston Drive, Orpington, 1988).
- 1888. D. CONWAY, An Occult Primer (Mayflower Books
1974).
- 1889. INA CRAWFORD, A Guide to the Mysteries - An
Ageless Wisdom Digest for the New Age (Lucis Trust 1990).
- 1890. CONSTANCE CUMBEY, The Hidden Dangers of the Rainbow
- The New Age Movement and our coming Age of Barbarism,
revised edition (Lafayette: Huntington House Inc., 1983).
- 1891. H. A. & F. H. CURTISS, The Mystic Life
(Tasburgh, Norwich: Pilgrims Book Services 1982).
- 1892-3. GIULIANO DI BERNARDO, Freemasonry and its image of
Man - A Philosophical Investigation (Tunbridge Wells:
Freestone 1989); La Ricostruzione del Tempio - Il Progetto
Massonico per una Nuova Utopia (Venezia: Marsilio 1996). Other useful books about Freemasonry are listed separately.
- 1894. NICK DOUGLAS & PENNY SLINGER, Sexual Secrets - The Alchemy of Ecstasy (London: Hutchinson 1979).
- 1895-6. NEVEL DRURY, The Occult Experience, Foreword by
Stewart Farrar (London: Robert Hale 1987); Exploring the Labyrinth - Making sense of the New Spirituality (Gill & Macmillan: Newleaf, 1999). A convenient overview of the post-1964 years.
- 1897. ANTHONY D. DUNCAN, The Fourth Dimension - A
Christian approach to the Occult (Mowbrays 1975).
- 1898. MICHÆL J. EASTCOTT, The Seven Rays of
Energy (Tunbridge Wells: Sundial House 1980).
- 1899. DAVID FARREN, Sex and Magic (Simon and Schuster 1975).
- 1900-06. DION FORTUNE (pen-name of VIOLET FIRTH), The Mystic Qabalah (London & Tonbridge: Ernest Benn 1979); also author of: Avalon of
the Heart; The Demon Lover; The Goat-Foot God; The Esoteric Orders
& their Work; Psychic Science; and Through the Gates of
Death.
- 1907. EDWARD L. GARDNER, Fairies - The Cottingley
Photographs and their sequel (2nd edition, London: Theosophical
Publishing House 1951).
- 1908. ADRIAN GILBERT, The New Jerusalem (Bantam Press, 2002).
- 1909. DAVID GODDARD, The Tower of Alchemy - An Advanced Guide to the Great Work (Samuel Weiser, 1999).
- 1910. ADAM GOTTLIEB, The Art & Science of Cooking with Cannabis (5th printing, London: Greenham & Gotto 1981).
According to David Ovason (notes to The Zelator, p.424):
"Coffee is said to drive the Spiritual bodies more deeply into the physical... in this sense it can be an aid to clear thinking. Tobacco smoking... attracts low-grade spirits and obscures the Spiritual world, both for the smoker and for those in the environment. Alcohol attacks the organism which serves the development of the Ego, and enables spirits to take over the personality, by means of the blood. The whole issue of drug-abuse and hallucinogenics is of profound interest to esotericists."
On the same page Ovason notes that Indian-style attire looks well on the astrally aware; Western-style clothing assumes a developed Ego-consciousness.
- 1911. CLARK HEINRICH, Magic Mushrooms in Religion and Alchemy (Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press, 2002).
- 1912. KARL L. R. KANSEN, Ketamine - Dreams and Realities (Sarasota, FL: Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies, 2001).
- 1913. ABRAHAM H. MASLOW, Religions, Values & Peak
Experiences (Columbus: Ohio State University Press 1964).
- 1914. R. E. L. MASTERS & JEAN HOUSTON, The Varieties of
Psychedelic Experience (London: Turnstone Books 1973).
- 1915. TERENCE McKENNA, Food of the Gods - The Search for the original Tree of Knowledge (Rider 1992).
- 1916. O. T. OSS & O. N. OERIC, Psilocybin - Magic Mushroom Grower's Guide (Berkeley: And/Or Press 1976).
- 1917-8. DALE PENDELL, Plant Powers, Poisons, and Herbcraft - Pharmako/Poeia (San Francisco: Mercury House, 1995), also includes the full table of contents to a related second volume. These two books are offered as a contemporary summation of alchemy along the vegetal path.
- 1919-20. D. M. TURNER, The Essential Psychedelic Guide, and Salvinorin - The Psychedelic Essence of Salvia Divinorum (1032 Irving, #514, San Francisco, CA 94122: Panther Press 1994, 1996).
- 1921-2. WILLIAM G. GRAY, Magical Ritual Methods
(Toddington: Helios 1969); The Talking Tree (Samuel Weiser
1977 - re-issued as Growing the Tree within (Llewellyn
1991).
- 1923. PHILIP W. GROVES, Swedenborg's Mighty Contribution to the Welfare of the Soul (Sydney: Swedenborg Lending Library and Enquiry Centre 1997).
- 1924. H. HARINGTON, Symbolon Trisagion or the
Geometrical Analogy of the Catholic Doctrine of Triunity consonant
to human reason and comprehension typically demonstrated and
exemplified by the Natural Indivisible Triunity of certain
simultaneous Sounds - with Letters from Dr Herschel and the late
Rev. William Jones, of Nayland, and published at his request and
desire (printed in Grove, Bath, by W. Meyler, and sold in
Paternoster Row, London, by Geo. Robinson: 1806).
- 1925. RUDOLF HAUSCHKA, The Nature of Substance (2nd edn:
Rudolf Steiner Press 1983).
- 1926. CHARLES WILLIAM HECKETHORN, The Secret Societies of
all ages and countries, 2 volumes (London: Richard Bentley
& Son, Publishers in Ordinary to Her Majesty, 1875).
- 1927. MARK HEDSEL, The Zelator - A Modern Initiate
explores the Ancient Mysteries, with an Introduction and Notes by
DAVID OVASON (London: Century Books 1998). "The importance of the square is reflected in both speculative and operative Masonry... The two streams... seem to merge in the inscribed square, dated 1507, which was left as a foundation deposit in the building of the old Baal's Bridge in Limerick." The inscription reads: "I will strive to live with love & care upon the level. By the square." In this same note (on p.444) David Ovason remarks that giblim, a Masonic term for 'Mason', may derive from the name of an ancient town, Gebal, whose inhabitants, the Giblemites, are said to have been responsible for the stone-work when Solomon's Temple was first built. Since the Hebrew root gib pertains to height, the Biblical Gibeon being nowadays identified as the village of El-Jib which, like Malta's prehistoric temples of Ħaġar Qim near Qrendi, does indeed stand on a height, Ovason surmises that a true 'Mason' is one standing on the Spiritual Heights - a symbolic reference to Capricorn's place in the heavens being clearly intended. In modern Maltese gebel is a collective noun meaning 'stone', but the related Arabic word commonly means 'mountain'. Interesting, too, the Maltese equivalent for "By Jove" is ballec literally: "By God" (in Maltese here: b' allek). A prediluvial half-human and goat-like image can still be discerned in the south wall at Hagar Qim - the only wall not to have been thrown down by the onrushing wave from the West that Joseph S. Ellul has associated with Noah's Flood.
- 1928. IANTHE HOSKINS, Review of Joe Cooper's The Case of
the Cottingley Fairies (London: Robert Hale 1990) in
Theosophical Journal (vol.34, no.1, Jan./Feb. 1993, page
19).
- 1929. NIGEL ALDCROFT JACKSON & MICHAEL HOWARD, The Pillars of Tubal-Cain (Chieveley: Capall Bann, 2000). Overview of the Luciferian gnosis, seemingly published prior to proof-reading...
- 1930. J. JAMES, Chartres - The Masons who built a Legend
(Routledge & Kegan Paul 1982).
- 1931. A. KINGSFORD & E. MAITLAND, The Perfect Way
(London: John N. Watkins 1923).
- 1932. I. KOZMINSKY, Numbers - Their Meaning & Magic
(Rider 1974).
- 1933. LOIS LANG-SIMS, The Christian Mystery - An
Exposition of Esoteric Christianity (George Allen & Unwin 1980).
- 1934. ZACHARY F. LANSDOWNE, Rules for Spiritual Initation (York Beach: Samuel Weiser 1990):
"1. Let the disciple search within the heart's deep cave. If there the fire burns bright, warming his brother yet heating not himself, the hour has come for making application to stand before the door.
2. When application has been made in triple form, then let the disciple withdraw that application, and forget it has been made.
3. Triple the call must be, and long it takes to sound it forth. Let the disciple sound the cry across the desert, over the sea, and through the fires which separate him from the veiled and hidden door.
4. Let the disciple tend the evolution of the fire; nourish the lesser lives, and thus keep the wheel revolving.
5. Let the applicant see to it that the solar angel dims the light of the lunar angels, remaining the sole luminary in the microcosmic sky.
6. The purificatory fires burn dim and low when the third is sacrificed to the fourth. Therefore let the disciple refrain from taking life, and let him nourish that which is lowest with the produce of the second.
7. Let the disciple turn his attention to the enunciating of those sounds which echo in the halls where walks the Master. Let him not sound the lesser notes which awaken vibration within the halls of Maya.
8. When the disciple nears the portal, the Greater Seven must awaken and bring forth response from the lesser seven upon the double circle.
9. Let the disciple merge himself within the circle of his other selves. Let but one colour blend them and their unity appear. Only when the group is known and sensed can energy be wisely emanated.
10. The Army of the Voice, the devas in their serried ranks, work ceaselessly. Let the disciple apply himself to the consideration of their methods; let him learn the rules whereby that Army works within the veils of Maya.
11. Let the disciple transfer the fire from the lower triangle to the higher, and preserve that which is created through the fire of the midway point.
12. Let the disciple learn the use of the hand in service; let him seek the mark of the messenger in his feet, and let him learn to see with the eye that looks out from between the two.
13. Four things the disciple must learn and comprehend before he can be shewn that inmost mystery: first, the laws of that which radiates; the five meanings of magnetization make the second; the third is transmutation, or the secret lost of alchemy; and lastly the first letter of the Word which has been imparted, or the hidden name egoic.
14. Listen, touch, see, apply, know."
(And cf: Dt 18:9-12.)
- 1935. G. LUCK, Arcana Mundi - Magic & The Occult in
the Greek & Roman Worlds (Crucible 1987).
- 1936. COMPTON MACKENZIE, Hunting the Fairies (Chatto
& Windus 1949).
- 1937. ROBERT E. L. MASTERS, The Goddess Sekhmet - The
Way of the Five Bodies (New York: Amity House 1988).
- 1938. MELODY, Love is in the Earth - A Kaleidoscope of
Crystals, the Reference Book describing the Metaphysical
Properties of the Mineral Kingdom (Wheatridge, CO: Earth-Love
Publishing House 1991) - a more recent, expanded edition is nowadays available.
- 1939. HARFORD MILEWSKI, The Crystal Sourcebook (Santa
Fe: Mystical Crystal Publications 1987).
- 1940. MOLLIE MONCRIEFF, Memoirs of an Esotericist
(Atlanta, Georgia: Saunders & Rakauskas 1996).
- 1941-4. MITSOU E. NASLEDNIKOV (= MARGO ANAND), Le Chemin
de l'Extase (Paris: Albin Michel 1987); The Art of Sexual
Ecstasy - The Path of Sacred Sexuality for Western Lovers
(London: Aquarian Press 1990); The Art of Sexual Magic -
How to use Sexual Energy to Transform Your Life, and The Art of
Everyday Ecstasy - The seven Tantric keys for bringing
passion, spirit and joy into every part of your life (Piatkus
Books 1996, 1998).
- 1945. JOSEPH FORT NEWTON, The Builders - A Story & Study of Masonry, (Copyright 1914, first U.K. edition 1918: 5th reprint, George Allen & Unwin, October 1934, indexed). "Outside of the home and the house of G-d there is nothing in this world more beautiful than the Spirit of Masonry." (p.205)
- 1946. Oxford Ritual of Craft Freemasonry (1980 edition).
- 1947. ALEXANDER PIATIGORSKY, Who's afraid of Freemasonry? (London: Harvill Press 1997).
- 1948-50 ROBERT POWELL, Hermetic Astrology - Volume 1:
Astrology and Reincarnation; Volume 2: Astrological Biography
(Kinsau, West Germany: Hermetika 1987, 1989); Volume 3: Christian
Hermetic Astrology - The Star of the Magi and the Life of Christ
(Massachusetts: Golden Stone Press 1991).
- 1951. SERGEI O PROKOFIEFF,The Case of Valentin Tomberg - Anthroposophy or Jesuitism (1997).
- 1952. OWEN S. RACHLEFF, The Occult in Art (London:
Cromwell Editions 1990).
- 1953-4. JAMES REDFIELD, The Celestine Prophecy - An
Adventure (Hoover, AL: Satori Publishing 1993); The 10th
Insight - Holding the Vision (Bantam Press 1996). This
2-volume tale favours: (1) a Critical Mass of persons attentive to
synchronicities; (2) life in the Longer Now, interpreting our
quest for security as means, not end; (3) Energizing and enhancing
perception by suspending or bracketing off scepticism; (4) greater
Empowerment by focussing on the whole instead of indulging in
rivalry; (5) like Mystics shaking off infantile dramas such as
intimidation, interrogation, aloofness, and poor me!; (6)
getting Clear of the Past by awarely transcending habits; (7)
Flowing in the presence of the silver lining in every cloud; (8)
Ethically free from addiction to or prejudice against others,
especially children; (9) Rural relaxation within easy reach of
high-tech. facilities; (10) Holding the Vision...
- 1955-6. ALAN RICHARDSON, editor, Dancers to The Gods -
The Magical Records of Charles Seymour & Christine Hartley
1937-1939 (Aquarian Press 1985); new, expanded and revised
edition: 20th Century Magic and the Old Religion - Dion
Fortune, Christine Hartley, Charles Seymour (Llewellyn 1985).
- 1957. PIERRE A. RIFFARD, L'Ésotérisme -
Qu'est-ce que l'ésotérisme? Anthologie de
l'ésotérisme occidental (Paris: Robert Laffont
1990).
- 1958. DANE RUDHYAR, The Magic of Tone and the Art of Music (Boulder & London: Shambhala 1982).
- 1959. DOUGLAS RUSHKOFF, Coercion - the persuasion professionals and why we listen to what THEY say (Little, Brown & Company,2000).
- 1960. JASON L. SAUNDERS, 'Francesco Patrizi (1529-1597)' in P. EDWARDS, editor, Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Vol. 6, p.59) - Patrizi, who knew Pope Clement VIII, was a friend of Pope Gregory XIV.
- 1961. S. SCHUTZ, Call Adonoi - Manual of Practical Cabalah & Gestalt Mysticism (Goleta: Quantal 1980).
- 1962. JULIA SETON (1862-1950) with an Introduction by her daughter, JUNO BELLE JORDAN-WALTON, Symbols of Numerology (Santa Monica, CA: 1984).
- 1963. RALPH SHIRLEY, Occultist & Mystics of all ages (Secaucuas, New Jersey: Citadel Press, 1974) - biographies of Apollonius of Tyana, Plotinus, Michæl Scott, Paracelsus, Emmanuel Swedenborg, Count Cagliostro (about whom it corrects several misconceptions), Anna Kingsford:
"In those days within the Papal States Freemasonry was a crime punishable by death..." Thomas Carlyle caricatured Cagliostro unfairly; he also assessed Cardinal Newman as "not passessing the intellect of a moderate-sized rabbit", which, in strict logic, is very likely true! (pp. 139 & 142.)
- 1964. SIR JOHN R. SINCLAIR, The Alice Bailey Inheritance
- The Inner Plane Teachings of Alice Ann Bailey (1880-1949) and
their Legacy (Wellingborough: Turnstone Press 1984).
- 1965. JOHN & ANNE SPENCER, Mysteries and Magic (Orion paperback, 2000), pp. 13-77: "Seekers of Hidden Knowledge".
- 1966-73. RUDOLF STEINER, Atlantis and Lemuria,
translated by Agnes Blake (First edition of this authorized
translation, London: Anthoposophical Publishing Company 1923; an
earlier edition was issued in London by the Theosophical
Publishing House in 1911); Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
(revised edition, London & New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
1923); Occult Science - an outline (1939); Universe,
Earth and Man in their relationship to Egyptian Myths and
modern Civilization (London-New York: Rudolf Steiner Publishing
Company - Anthroposophic Press 1941 - new edition containing 11
lectures originally delivered in 1908); The Mission of the Archangel
Michæl (New York: Anthroposophic Press 1961); The
Driving Force of Spiritual Powers in World History (2nd
printing, North Vancouver: Steiner Book Centre 1972); The Inner Nature of
Music and the Experience of Tone (London: Rudolf Steiner Press
1987); Individualism in Philosophy (Mercury Press, Fellowship Community, 241 Hungry Hollow Road, Spring Valley, NY 10977, USA; ISBN 0 936132 96 5; 1989) is William Lindeman's © translation of an 1899 essay "Egoismus in der Philosophie", later re-titled to "Der Individualismus in der Philosophie" by Steiner himself. The opening pages of the last chapter of his 1914 Riddles in Philosophy and his own reflections on his original essay in chapter XXXI of his autobiography, The Course of My Life are included as appendices. Lindeman has also contributed an introduction.
- 1974-5. GORDON STRACHAN, Christ and the Cosmos (Dunbar:
Labarum Publications 1985); Chartres - Sacred Geometry, Sacred Space (Edinburgh: Floris Books, 2003).
- 1976-7. EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, Angelic Wisdom Concerning The
Divine Love & Concerning The Divine Wisdom (London:
Swedenborg Society 1931).
- 1978. MARY SWORDER, translated from the French: Fulcanelli,
Master Alchemist - Le Mystère des
Cathédrales, Esoteric Interpretation of the Hermetic
Symbols of the Great Work, with two Prefaces by Eugène
Canseliet FCH, a Preface to the American edition by Roy E.
Thompson, and an Introduction by Walter Lang (Albuquerque, New
Mexico: Brotherhood of Life 1984; the Preface to the 1st French
edition is dated October 1925).
- 1979. J. SYMONDS, Mme Blavatsky (London: Odhams Press
1959).
- 1980. CHARLES TART, editor, Altered States of Consciousness (New York: John Wiley 1969, revised edition with
updated bibliography 1993).
- 1981-3. C. J. TOYNE, The Science of Wisdom - Vol. 1:
The Solution of the Riddle; Vol. 2: The Philosophy of the Spirit;
Vol. 3: The Fire of Knowing (Sidgwick & Jackson 1960).
- 1984-5. PETER UNDERWOOD, Dictionary of the Occult and Supernatural (Fontana Books 1979); The Ghost Hunter's Guide (Javelin Books, 1986).
- 1986. WILSON VAN DUSEN, The Presence of Other Worlds - The Findings of Emanuel Swedenborg (Wildwood House 1975).
- 1987. ELLAS VELLA, The Devil & Exorcism (Religjon u Hajja - Faith 14, 1994).
- 1988-9. ALBERTO VILLOLDO & E. JENERSEN, The Four
Winds - A Shaman's Odyssey into the Amazon; Island of the
Sun - Mastering the Inca Medicine Wheel (San Francisco: Harper
& Row 1990, 1992 - this last was re-issued in 1995 by Destiny
Books).
- 1990. B. WALKER, Body Magic - An Encyclopædia of
Esoteric Man (Paladin 1979).
- 1991. CHARLES WALKER, The Atlas of Occult Britain
(Twickenham: Hamlyn 1987).
- 1992. PETER WASHINGTON, Madame Blavatsky's Baboon
(London: Secker & Warburg 1993).
- 1993. JAMES WASSERMAN, Art and Symbols of the Occult, Images of Power and Wisdom (Rochester, Vermont: Destiny Books, 1992).
- 1994. ROBIN WATERFIELD, René Guénon & the
Future of the West - The Life & Writings of a 20th-century
Metaphysician (Crucible-Aquarian 1987). This is an important book.
- 1995. JAMES WEBB, The Occult Establishment (Open Court, La Salle, Illinois: 1st paperback edition, 3rd printing 1991).
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PRIMARY & QUASI-PRIMARY SOURCES
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Sacrosanctæ Romanæ Ecclesiæ de Tempore & de
Sanctis primum Sancti Pii X iussu restitutum & editum,
Pauli VI Pontificis Maximi cura nunc recognitum, ad exemplar
'Ordinis Cantus Missæ' dispositum, & rhythmicis
signis a Solesmensibus Monachis diligenter ornatum (1979).
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- 1876. PRINCE MICHAEL OF ALBANY, The Forgotten Monarchy of
Scotland - The True Story of the Royal House of Stewart and
the Hidden Lineage of the Kings and Queens of Scots (Element Books
1998).
- 1999. ALOSIUS AMBRUZZI, Commentary by, The Spiritual
Exercises of Saint Ignatius (Bangalore: St. Joseph's College
1955).
- 2000-04. ARCHDIOCESAN CHANCERY & OTHER NODES WITHIN THE
MATRIARCHAL CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF ANTIOCH MALABAR RITE,
The Holy Mass (not dated);
Sophia Divinity School Course Catalogue (1993-94); 'Sophia
Divinity School Degrees & Programs', 'What is the Church of
Antioch?' and 'The Independent Catholic Priesthood' (undated
fold-out leaflets); “The Story of the Cross of Antioch” (extracted
from the writings of the late Patriarch Herman Adrian Spruit).
- 2005. M. K. ASHBY, Joseph Ashby of Tysoe, 1859-1919 - A
Study of English Village Life (London: Merlin Press 1974).
- 1878-83. ALICE BAILEY, A Treatise on White Magic - or
the Way of the Disciple (1934, 8th printing 1967: enunciates
15 Rules for Magic, cf especially p.66); A Treatise on Cosmic Fire;
Initiation Human and Solar; 'What is an Esoteric School?',
a separately published extract from her Autobiography (Lucis Trust 1987); Reflections
on Harmlessness and Time and Money - Selections of Quotations from
the Writings of Alice Bailey (all currently available from The
Lucis Trust ).
- 2006. MARY BAKER EDDY, Science and Health with Key to
the Scriptures (Boston: Trustees of Mary Baker Eddy, 1934).
- 2007. A. T. BARKER, transcribed and compiled by, The Mahatma
Letters to A. P. Sinnett, 3rd and revised edition (Adyar:
Theosophical Publishing House 1979).
- 2008. PIER FRANCO BEATRICE, Introduction to the Fathers of
the Church (Vicenza: Edizioni Istituto S. Gætano 1987).
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- 2010. HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XIV, Rituale Romanum
Pauli V. Pontificis Maximi jussu editum et a Benedicto XIV
auctum et castigatum, cui novissima accedit Benedictionum et
Instructionum appendix, editio septima post typicam
(Ratisbonæ, Romæ et Neo Eboraci: Sumptibus et Typis
Friderici Pustet MCMI, and Romæ - Tornaci: Desclée
& Socii 1913).
- 2011. E. J. BICKNELL, A Theological Introduction to the
Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of England (Longmans, Green
& Co., 1st edition: 1919, March 1947 reprint of the then most
recent edition with updated references). Interestingly, if only indirectly related.
- 2012. JOHN HENRY BLUNT, editor, The Annotated Book of Common
Prayer, being an Historical, Ritual, and Theological
Commentary on the Devotional System of the Church of England
(Sixth edition, London-Oxford-Cambridge: Rivingtons 1872).
- 2013. IDOWU E. BOLAJI, Olodu Mare - God in Yoruba Belief
(London: Longman 1975).
- 1701. HIS HOLINESS POPE BONIFACE VIII, Unam Sanctam
(1302).
- 2014. ELIZABETH M. BUTLER, Ritual Magic (Sutton Publishing, 1998).
- 2015. MAURIZIO CALVESI, Treasures of the Vatican (Albert Skira, 1962).
- 2016. PETER J. CARROLL, Liber Null & Psychonaut - an introduction to chaos magic (Boston: Weiser Books, 1987) - synthesises and re-expresses the core of Aleister Crowley's transmission.
- 2017. D. R. CARTLIDGE & D. L. DUNCAN, Documents for the
Study of the Gospels (Cleveland: Collins 1980).
- 2018-9. COLLINS' WEEKDAY MISSAL - A NEW EDITION: Weekday
Masses for the Proper of Seasons, Ordinary Time, the Proper of
Saints, Occasional Masses, Masses for the Dead, complete with
Readings in one volume; THE SUNDAY MISSAL - A NEW EDITION: Sunday
Masses for the entire Three-Year Cycle complete in one volume
together with Extracts from the Sacramental Rites and from the
Divine Office (Collins 1982, 1984).
- 2020. F. C. COOK, The Origins of Religion and Language
considered in Five Essays (London: John Murray 1884): 1. On the
Rig Veda, especially its religious system; 2. On the Persian
Cuneiform Inscriptions and the Zend Avesta; 3. On the
Gathas of Zoraster; 4. On Languages Ancient & Modern -
originally a Lecture for the citizens of Exeter delivered in the
Athenæm of that city in 1873; 5. On Egyptian, compared with
Semitic, Aryan, and Turanian words. Three Egyptian words (for
man, individual, men) are compared and contrasted on pages
365-6.
- 2021. RENÉ COSSEY, editor, The Martinist
Tradition, Vol. 1 (Worthing W31, Barbados: International
College of Martinist Studies).
- 2022. Archbishop THOMAS CRANMER, Cranmer on the Lord's Supper - A Defence of the True and Catholick Doctrine of the Sacrament (Lewes: Focus Christian Ministries Trust, and Ramsgate: Harrison Trust, 1987) - a book not to be lost sight of.
- 2023. DAVID J. DE BURGH, Beckford Priory and Hall - An account of its History and Associations (Beckford: Salesian House, c. 1956), spans the years A.D. 715-1936.
- 2024. MIRCEA ELIADE, From Primitive to Zen (London:
Collins 1967).
- 2025-6. BY AUTHORITY OF PARLIAMENT IN THE REIGN OF HER MOST
GRACIOUS MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH I, The Book of Common Prayer
& Administration of the Sacraments and other Rites and
Ceremonies of the Church, according to the Use of the Church
of England, together with the Psalter or Psalms of David pointed
as they are to be sung or said in Churches, and the Form and
Manner of Making, Ordaining and Consecrating of Bishops, Priests,
and Deacons, 1571 edition leather-bound in one small volume with a
complete edition of Hymns Ancient and Modern for Use in the
Services of the Church (Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford,
London: William Clowes & Sons, Ltd).
- 2027. CLAIRE FANGER, editor, Conjuring Spirits - Texts and Traditions of Medieval Ritual Magic (Sutton Publishing, 1998).
- 2028. FRANCIS, ARCHBISHOP OF BIRMINGHAM, approved by, The
Small Ritual, being extracts from the Rituale Romanum
in Latin & in English (London: Burns & Oates 1964).
- 2029. RICHARD KIECKHEFER, Forbidden Rites - A Necromancer's Manual of the Fifteenth Century (Sutton Publishing, 1997). Contains several forms of exorcism but here, by way of illustration, we simply quote a short ritual formula "for learning about any uncertain thing by gazing into a crystal":
"Si vis scire de omni re de qua dubitaueris, accipe perum virginem et cristallum, quem laua cum vino. Deinde scribe in illo cum oleo oliue hec nomina: Hon, Hely, Sabaoth, Adonay, Hel, Hely, Heloym, Sother, Emanuel, Alpha et O, et dic,O vos sanctissima nomina, rogo vt mittatis michi duos angelos uel tres in hunc cristallum, qui dicant michi veritatem de hiis que ego inquiram. Et rogo vos angelos vt dicatis michi veritatem quam ego inquiram a vobis.
Primo hec dicat puer: Coniuro vos in nomine Dedeon, et dij Egarias et Semisonay, et ex parte magistri mei, quod veniatis in hunc cristallum, ita quod aperte possim videre.
Et repete nomina superius habita donec venerint.
Et cum venerin, puer dicat nomina supradicta et coniuret eos in nomine Dedeon et dij, etc.; quod fiat ter. Et super sedes aureas sedeant, et cum sedeant puer dicat,
Coniuro vos in nomine Bessabes, et Hint, et Serem, et Salaboni, et Letem, vt non recedatis ab hoc cristallo sine licencia mei magistri, qui hic presents est."
Here, clearly, both the reference to crystals and that to the visiting angels' being seated upon golden thrones suggests that they are descendants of the first Elohim who settled on Earth prior to their creation of our own human race, as documented in the ancient texts researched by Zecharia Sitchin (q.v.).
- 2030. SAMUEL NOEL KRAMER, The Sumerians - Their History,
Culture and Character (University of Chicago Press 1963).
- 2031. AUGUST KUBIZEK, Young Hitler - The Story of our Friendship (London: Allan Wingate, 1954).
- 2032. FREDERICK GEORGE LEE, The Directorium Anglicanum,
being a Manual of Directions for the Right Celebration of the Holy
Communion, for the Saying of Matins and Evensong, and for the
Performance of other Rites and Ceremonies of the Church, according
to the Ancient Rite of the Church of England, with Plan of Chancel
and Illustrations of “Such Ornaments of the Church, and of the
Ministers thereof, at all times of their ministration, (as) shall
be retained, and be in use as were in this Church of England, by
the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of
King Edward the Sixth, 2nd edn., revised (Thomas Bosworth 1865).
- 2033. EMMANUEL LE ROY LADURIE, Montaillou (Penguin Books, 1980) - compare nos. 1895, 1980 and 2166 above.
- 2034. W. H. LONGRIDGE, translated from the Spanish and provided
a commentary: The Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of
Loyola and the Directorium in Exercitia (London: Robert
Scott 1919).
- 2035-40. LORD MIKAAL, The Winds of Truth (second and
enlarged edition); My Son (revelations by the Mother of
Jesus); The Twelve Solar Planes of the Twelfth Solar
Planets (some planets have androgynous inhabitants); The
Twelve Universes of God; The Testament of Love;
Hyipta and Egypt (Egypt before the Pharaohs): a series of
pamphlets prepared, printed and published by The Group of Solar
Mysticism (Glastonbury: Lodge of the Silver Leaf 1971).
- 2041. WALTER MINCHINTON, Windmills in Devon (University of Exeter: Department of Economic History - Exeter Industrial Archæology Group, 1977).
- 2042. J. O'CONNELL, editor and translator, The Rite of
Ordination of a Priest (Catholic Truth Society, reprinted
1957). A different rite is currently in use.
- 2043. RYUHO OKAWAY, The Laws of the Sun - The Spiritual
Laws & History Governing Past, Present & Future (Element
Books 1995).
- 2044. CAROL PAGE, Blood Lust - Conversations with Real Vampires (HarperCollins, 1991).
- 2045. HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI, Humanæ Vitæ
(Catholic Truth Society 1968) - note well!
- 2046. M. J. ROUËT DE JOURNEL, Enchiridion
Patristicum (Barcelona: Herder 1959).
- 2047-8. SACRED CONGREGATION FOR THE DOCTRINE OF THE FAITH,
Declaration on certain questions concerning Sexual Ethics;
Observations on The Final Report of the Anglican-Roman Catholic
International Commission (Catholic Truth Society 1978; 1982).
- 2049. A. SCHÖNMETZER, Enchiridion Symbolorum
(Barcelona: Herder 1967).
- 2050-51. EMANUEL SWEDENBORG, Angelic Wisdom Concerning The
Divine Love & Concerning The Divine Wisdom (London:
Swedenborg Society 1931). Also, PHILIP W. GROVES, Swedenborg's Mighty
Contribution to the Welfare of the Soul (Sydney: Swedenborg
Lending Library and Enquiry Centre 1997).
- 2052. PETER THOMAS, Exeter Burning: dedicated to the citizens of Exeter in commemoration of the bombing of their city in 1942. (Tiverton: Halsgrove Direct, 2002).
- 2053-7. J. R. R. TOLKIEN, The Lord of the Rings (London:
George Allen & Unwin 1969; Book Club Associates 1971). Compare with both now available boxed sets of four DVDs, of which two in each box contain an extended version of the recent films, "The Fellowship of The Ring" in one box, "The Two Towers" in the other, and the other two a fascinating and instructive assortment of background information about that particular film and its mode of production. Of related interest:
- 2058. DAVID COLBERT, The Magical World of the Lord of The Rings - A Treasury of Myths, Legends and Fascinating Facts (Puffin Books, 2002).
- 2059. JARED LOBDELL, editor, A Tolkien Compass (La
Salle, Illinois: Open Court 1975).
- 2060. MAHMOUD SHELTON, Alchemy in Middle Earth (Temple of Justice, 110 pages).
- 2061. J. E. A. TYLER, editor, The Tolkien Companion (2nd printing, Pan Books 1978).
- 2062. Night & Day, a collector's issue of a supplement to The Mail on Sunday (7 December 2003) celebrated the world premier showing in Wellington, New Zealand, of the film version of "The Return of the King".
- 2063. VALENTIN TOMBERG, Lazarus, komm heraus
(Freiburg: Verlag Herder Basel 1985).
- 2064. M. UNTERSTEINER, The Sophists (Blackwell 1954).

















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