SISTER AGNES, reflecting the Afghanistan & World Trade Center related events of 11 September 2001 on EWTN, remarked that (i) on that day four planes with a capacity for 4,000 were carrying only 266 persons; (ii) that of the 20,000 actually in the 50,000-capacity World Trade Center only 6,000 died; (iii) because the tower-walls fell inwards, external havoc was notably reduced.

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• 54. Letters to Pope John Paul II
• Why is the included included, and why is so much excluded?
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• Warning
• Mission Statement
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• Nuptial Theology
• Preface
• Introduction
• Letter to Shirley Williams
• Preliminary Letter

BIBLES AND OTHER SACRED BOOKS

• 55. Plan and purpose of St. Mark's Gospel

  "The truth is that Christ did not send me forth to baptize you but to proclaim the gospel. Moreover, it was not to be a wisdom relying on mere words that I was to employ in so doing, as I wanted to avert all danger that Christ's cross might be emptied of all meaning."   _{1 Cor 1:17}

  33. HEINZ W. CASSIRER, God's New Covenant - A New Testament Translation (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 1989).
• 44. HENRY WANSBROUGH, General Editor, The New Jerusalem Bible (London: Darton, Longman & Todd 1985) - What does the Bible actually say about Noah's Great Flood?
• 56. The New English Bible - New Testament (Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, 1961).
• 57. Babylonia Talmud (c.475).
• 58. BRITISH & FOREIGN BIBLE SOCIETY, The Gospel in many tongues - Specimens of 826 Languages in which The British & Foreign Bible Society has published or circulated some portion of The Word of G-d (1929-1954). By February 1993 the Society was publishing in 2009 languages.
• 58a. Servant of G-d Bishop RICHARD CHALLONER, revised by 1749-1752, The Holy Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate: "The Old Testament", Douay, 1609; "The New Testament", Rheims, 1582 (London: Baronius Press, 2003).
• 59. VIOLET CRISPE, The Gospel of the Holy Twelve - Known also as The Gospel of the Perfect Life, and as The Nazarene Gospel and Gospel to the Hebrews, translated from the original Aramaic and edited in Thibet by IOMA, a disciple of the Master (from Christian fragments there deposited in a Buddhist monastery by members of the Essene community in which Jesus and his cousin John had been brought up as children), and more recently communicated in numerous fragments and at various times by Emanuel Swedenborg, Anna Kingsford (who died in 1888), Edward Maitland and a Franciscan priest of a former century, subsequently a Carmelite, giving his name as Placidus, now compared with former editions, revised and provided with a Preface - “Blessed are they who read, and hear, and do” (originally to be had from The Secretary, O.A. & U.T.S., 3 Evelyn Terrace, Brighton; reprinted by Health Research, PO Box 70, Mokelumne Hill, CA 95245 in 1974; distributed in the U.K. by Metaphysical Research Group, Archers Court, Stonestile Lane, Hastings TN35 4PG: Tel 01424-751-577).
• 60-62. E. GALBIATI, editor, The History of Salvation in the Old Testament; The Gospel of Jesus and The Early Church in the Acts of the Apostles and in their Writings, 3 volumes (Vicenza: Edizioni Istituto S. Gætano 1970-73).
• 63. HENRI GAMACHE, Mystery of the Long Lost 8th, 9th and 10th Books of Moses, together with the legend that was of Moses, and 44 Secret Keys to Universal Power (New York: Original Publications, 1993).
• 64. JOY HARINGTON, Jesus of Nazareth (new edition, Hodder & Stoughton 1963).
• 65. JACK W. HAYFORD, General Editor, Spirit Filled Life Bible - New Kings James Version (Nashville: Thomas Nelson 1991).
• 66. RUDOLF KITTEL, editor, Biblia Hebraica (Stuttgart: Privilegierte Württembergische Bibelanstalt 1937).
• 66a. HERBERT KROSNEY, The Lost Gospel - The Quest for the Gospel of Judas (Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2006).
• 67-8. S. L. MacGREGOR MATHERS, The Kabalah Unveiled (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1926), including The Book of Concealed Mystery, one of the eighteen parts of the Zohar or Book of Splendour; that same English translation of The Book of Concealed Mystery was re-issued separately by Continuum, with some additional illustrations, in 2000.
• 69. BUNTON L. MACK, The Lost Gospel - The Book of Q and Christian Origins (Element Books 1993). LI>70. HUGH MARTIN, Luke's Portrait of Jesus (SCM, 1949).
• 71. L. PACOMIO, editor, La Bibbia - Testo Ufficiale della Conferenza Episcopale Italiana (Marietti 1980).
• 72. D. C. PARKER, The living text of the Gospels (Cambridge University Press, 1997).
• 50. HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI, Letter in Sagrada Biblia - version directa de las lenguas originales, Hebrea y Griega, al Castellano (36th edition, Madrid: Biblioteca de Auctores Cristianos 1979), pp.vii-viii.
• 73. PATRIZIA NOVELLI-BACHELET, The Hidden Manna, being The Revelation called Apocalypse of John The Divine, with complete Text and Commentaries (Panorama City, CA: Aeon Books 1976).
• 74. JAMES M. PRYSE, The Apocalypse Unsealed (North Hollywood: Symbols & Signs 1982).
• 75. C. H. RIEU, translated with Introduction and notes by, The Acts of the Apostles by Saint Luke (Penguin, 1957).
• 76-7. GEORGE SASSOON & RODNEY DALE, The Kabbalah Decoded - A New Translation of the Ancient of Days Texts of the Zohar (London: Duckworth 1978; The Manna Machine, a companion volume, was published by Sidgwick & Jackson).
• 78. P. P. SAYDON, Il-Bibbja - Magluba ghall-Malti mill-ilsna originali (Malta - Librerija Preca, 1995). Unfortunately the editor of this reprint has tampered with Mgr. Peter Saydon's uniquely valuable translation (which was closely studied by the French scholars responsible for the first edition of the Bible de Jérusalem), and has also molested the original edition's maps and notes. Honest researchers, please note!
• 79. F. H. A. SCRIVENER , editor, The New Testament in Greek according to the text followed in the Authorised Version together with the variations adopted in the Revised Version (Cambridge University Press 1908).
• 80. DONALD SENIOR, The Passion of Jesus Christ - Gospels and Commentary (Unionist City, N.J.: Passionist Publications, 1997).
• 81. MORTON SMITH, The Secret Gospel - The Discovery and Interpretation of the Secret Gospel according to Mark (Victor Gollancz, 1974).
• 82. W. C. STEVENS, The Book of Daniel - A Composite Revelation of the Last Days of Isræl's Subjugation to Gentile Power, revised edition (Edinburgh - London: Oliphants Ltd., 1918).
• 83. R. V. G. TASKER, editor, The Greek New Testament, being the text translated in the New English Bible, 1961 (Oxford - Cambridge: University Press 1964).
• 84. FRANK CHARLES THOMPSON, editor, The Thompson Chain-Reference Bible, fifth improved edition (London: Eyre & Spottiswood; Indianopolis: B. B. Kirkbride Bible Co., 1988); alternatively: The Holy Bible, Authorized King James version in the Jewel Text edition (Oxford University Press) - only has an 8-page subject-index and glossary, but convenient when travelling.
• 85. FRANK D. WAITE, The Book of Daniel for the busy Teacher and Christian Worker (London: Thynne & Co., 1937).
• 86. WALTON, editor, Polyglot Bible (1657).
• 87. MARION WHEELER, editor, His Face - Images of Christ in Art, selections from the King James version of the Bible (Wellingborough: Equation 1989).

• 88. ANON, Helps to the Study of the Bible (Oxford University Press 1900).
• 89. ANON, The Covenant People (4th printing, Merrimac, Massachusetts: Destiny Publishers 1981).
• 89a. MICHÆL BAIGENT & RICHARD LEIGH, The Dead Sea Scrolls Seception (Arrow Books, 2001).
• 89b. MARGARET BARKER, The Lost Prophet - The Book of Enoch and its Influence on Christianity (Sheffield: Phœnix Press, 2005).
• 90-96. R. BERNARD, The Great Secret of Saint-Germain, otherwise known as Sir Francis Bacon; From Chrishna to Christ; Apollonius the Nazarene - Mystery man of the Bible^†; The Secret Life of Jesus the Essene; The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Life of the Ancient Essenes; The Greatest Fraud in History ; also editor of: Historical Discoveries of Rev. Robert Taylor on the origins of Christianity^** (New York: Fieldcrest Publications 1964).
• † Claims that in the 1st century Apollonius of Tyana translated from Sanskrit into Aramaic and deposited in the - according to no.52 above - probably never existing Library of Alexandria Lord Krishna's Hindu Gospel or Diegesis of about 3000 B.C., but that in A.D. 325 the Council of Nicea re-elaborated this as the four Christian Gospels now officially received… From Chrishna to Christ equates the “true” Christianity of Apollonius of Tyana with the teachings of the Bhagavad Gita…
• ** Dependent on A. Lillie's Buddhism and Christianity; represents the Essenes, Nazarites, Therapeuts or “first Christians” as Western converts to Buddhism and Chrishnaism influenced also by Pythagorean teachings.
• 97-100. DAVID BIVIN & ROY BLIZZARD, Understanding the Dfficult Words of Jesus - New Insights from a Hebraic Perspective (revised edition, Dayton, Ohio: Centre for Judaic-Christian Studies 1995). Compare: Rabbi LAWRENCE KUSHNER, Honey from the Rock (Jewish Lights publishing, 1994); NEIL DOUGLAS-KLOTZ, The Hidden Gospel - Decoding the Spiritual Message of the Aramaic Jesus (Quest Books).
• 101. JOSEPH BLENKINSOPP, The Pentateuch - An Introduction to the First Five Books of the Bible (Anchor Bible Reference Library, New York: Doubleday 1992).
• 102-3. F. BLIGH BOND & T. S. LEA, Gematria - A Preliminary Investigation of the Cabala contained in the Coptic Gnostic Books and of a similar Gematria in the Greek Text of the New Testament (London: Research Into Lost Knowledge Organization 1977); T. S. LEA & F. BLIGH BOND, The Apostolic Gnosis - Part II (Orpington: Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation 1922, reprinted 1985).
• 104. ANDREW COLLINS & CHRIS OGILVIE-HERALD, Tutankhamun - The Exodus Conspiracy (Virgin Books, 2003).
• 105-6. ALEXANDER CRUDEN, Cruden's useful Concordance of the Holy Scriptures comprising most of the references which are really needed (London: Epworth Press, 1948); Cruden's Complete Concordance to the Old and New Testaments with Notes and Biblical Proper Names under one Alphabetical Arrangement, completely revised edition (London: Lutterworth Press, 1930, reprinted 1964).
• 107. YAIR DAVIDY, The Tribes - The Isrælite Origins of the Western Peoples (Hebron, Isræl: Russell-Davis 1993).
• 108. EDITH DEEN, All The Women Of The Bible (London: Independent Press Ltd., 1959).
• 109. CHRISTOPHER DE HAMEL, The Book - A History of The Bible (Phaidon, 2001).
• 110. C. C. DOBSON, Did Our Lord visit Britain as they say in Cornwall & Somerset? (7th edition, London: Covenant Publishing 1954, reprinted 1989).
• 111. NEIL DOUGLAS-KLOTZ, The Hidden Gospel - Decoding the Spiritual Message of the Aramaic Jesus (Quest Books, Theosophical Publishing House, no date).
• 112. ALAN S. DUTHIE, How To Choose Your Bible Wisely< (2nd revised edition, Swindon: Bible Society 1995).
• 113. R. H. EISENMAN & MICHÆL WISE, The Dead Sea Scrolls Uncovered - The First Complete Translation and Interpretation of 50 Key Documents witheld for over 35 years (Element Books 1992; Penguin 1993).
• 114. ROBERT EISENMANN, James - the Brother of Jesus (London: Watkins 2002). An ingeniously argued book by an author who knows how to read, but seems quite unable to write.

  This work is methodologically flawed from the outset by its author's (1) failure to appreciate that in those days verbal links based on homophony were often held to be more meaningful than etymological relationships, and (2) his notable tendency to subordinate oral history and authentic folk-tradition to whatever fragments of knowledge may be gleaned from surviving literary and other documentary sources. It is, I feel, particularly in respect of these latter that Dom Anselm Atkins famously remarked, in reference to 'the deposit of Faith' - "A synonym for 'deposit' is 'sediment'." But see Psalm 16:5.

• 115. ENEL, A Message from the Sphinx (London: Occult Book Society, no date) - “During the captivity in Babylon the primitive glyph was lost altogether and a new writing was created by the genius of the two prophets, Ezra and Daniel” (p.114).
• 116. DONALD D. EVANS, The Logic of Self-Involvement - A Philosophical Study of Everyday Language with Special Reference to the Christian Use of Language about God as Creator (London: SCM Press 1963).
• 117. LORRAINE EVANS, Kingdom of the Ark - The startling story of how the ancient British race is descended from the Pharaohs (Simon & Schuster: Pocket Books 2001) - in this context "British" does not mean Anglo-Saxon or English, but pre-Celtic and Druidic…
• 118. CHARLES FILMORE, Mysteries of Genesis (Unity School of Christianity, Unity Village, MO 64063, revised and enlarged: 1972), distributed by Unity School of Christianity, Unity House, Bourne End, Bucks.
• 119. J. F. C. FULLER, The Secret Wisdom of the Qabalah - A Study in Jewish Mystical Thought (London: Occult Book Society).
• 120. C. FUNCK-HELLET, La Bible et la Grande Pyramide d'Égypte - Témoignages authentiques du mètre et de pi (Montréal: Hellet Vincent 1956).
• 121. G. FURLANI, translated and annotated: Il Poema della Creazion, Enuma Elis, in Testi e Documenti per la Storia delle Religioni, Vol.6 (Bologna, Zanichelli 1934).
• 122. LUC H. GROLLENBERG, Shorter Atlas of the Bible, translated from the Dutch by Mary F. Hedlund (Thomas Nelson & Sons, Ltd., 1919).
• 123. FIDA HASSNAIN, A Search for the Historical Jesus (Bath: Gateway Books 1994).
• 124-5. CORINNE HELINE, The Bible and the Stars (La Canada, CA: New Age Press 1971) The Bible and the Tarot (Marina del Rey: De Vorss & Co., 1989).
• 126. ISABEL HILL ELDER, Joseph of Arimathea (8th edition, Glastonbury: Real Isræl Press 1993).
• 127. DAVID HUGHES, The Star of Bethlehem Mystery (Corgi Books 1981).
• 128. ANNIE JAUBERT, The Date of the Last Supper (Staten Island: Alba House 1965).
• 129. GEORGE F. JOWETT, The Drama of the Lost Disciples (8th edition, London: Covenant Publishing 1975).
• 130. J. K. KADOWAKI, Zen and the Bible (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1980).
• 131-2. WILLIAM KINGSLAND, The Great Pyramid in fact and in theory (Rider 1932); The Gnosis - or Ancient Wisdom in the Christian Experience (1937, re-issued from Motcombe, Shaftesbury: Solos Press 1993).
• 133. STEPHEN KNAPP, The Secret Teaching of the Vedas - The Eastern Answers to the Mysteries of Life, final, revised and re-edited version of Volume One (Detroit: World Relief Network 1993).
• 134. HAROLD KNIGHT, The Hebrew Prophetic Consciousness (London & Redhill: Lutterworth Press 1947).
• 135. LAWRENCE KUSHNER, Honey from the Rock (Woodstock, Vermont: Jewish Lights Publishing, enhanced reprint 1994).
• 136. LEVI, The Aquarian Gospel of Jesus Christ (London: L. N. Fowler & Co. Ltd., 1968).
• 136a. TIMOTHY H. LIM, The Dead Sea Scrolls - A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2005).
• 137-8. MAX FREEDOM LONG, The Huna Code in Religions - A Report on the Rediscovered Mystery Teachings underlying Christianity, Yoga, and Buddhism, together with a “Dictionary of the Hawaiian Language” by Lorrin Andrews, and extracts from the Gospels in Hawaiian as originally printed by Henry M. Whitney in Honolulu in 1865 (Huna Research Publications 1965). - Long lived in Hawaii for several years after the first world war, devoting himself to a study of the religion of the (ka)huna(s) [= spirit/body/mind] or “keepers of the secret.” He learned that kahuna magicians sometimes used spirits in a form of voodoo to drain their victim's vital energies until death ensued, and that European doctors found themselves unable to cure patients suffering from the effects of this death prayer, as it was called - unless, that is, they had recourse to a parallel sort of reverse magic, in which case the magician died instead.
  Also: What Jesus Taught in Secret - A Huna Interpretation of the Four Gospels, with a Foreword by Dolly Ware, Owner and Curator, Max Freedom Long Library, Ware Crest Press, 425 S. Henderson, Ft. Worth, Texas 76104 (DeVorss Publications, Marina del Rey, CA, 1983, 6th printing 1999).
  According to Anuschka I. Jordan's reading of Long - (1) The world is what you think it is; you create your own personal experience of reality. (2) There are no boundaries/limits between you and your body, you and other people, you and the world, you and G-d. (3) Energy flows where attention goes; your thoughts and feelings form the blueprint for the equivalent manifestation. (4) Now is the moment of power; you are not bound by past or future - your empowerment for change is in the present. (5) To love is to be happy with; the only ethic needed in huna is love. (6) All power comes from within; you are the active channel for the divine power. (7) Effectiveness is a measure of truth; there is no absolute truth but only relative truth - a level of consciousness. (8) Huna is unconditional love as a way of life.
• 139. M.F.M., Scripture Manners and Customs, 6th edition (London: SPCK, 1849).
• 140. M. MARTYRIA MADAUSS, Jesus - A Portrait of Love: A Meditation on Matthias Grünewald's Isenheim Altar, revised edition (Darmstadt: Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary 1977). J. K. Huymans, however, perceived the deep shadow present in this masterwork.
• 141. Reverend C. L. MARSONS,
• Glastonbury - The Historic Guide to the "English Jerusalem" (London: George Gregory, 1909). Even if St. Paul & Simon Zelotes did visit Joseph of Arimathæa in what is now Glastonbury[but where is Glastonbury?], his was no more than "a rushlight mission" surrounded by darkness (p.7). The life-style of those disciples of The Lord in that area then, persons whom we in retrospect may identify as 'Christians' or 'Celtic Christians' or 'Pelagians', like that of Pelagius (Morgan) himself, would have been condemned by the urbanely cultivated but pastorally (in the root sense of that term) ignorant St. Augustine as "heretical" because "Pelagian" because, as Marson expresses it, they "denied heredity and the social nexus" - obviously, without ever having or needing any such concepts (p.9)! When St Patrick arrived in Glastonbury he found only twelve orthodox Catholics in residence there (p.10).
• 142. W. MARSHAM ADAMS, The Book of the Master of the Hidden Places (Aquarian Press 1980).
• 143. F. B. MEYER, Joseph - Beloved, Hated, Exalted (London: Morgan and Scott, before 1899).
• 144. DAVID NORTON, A History of the English Bible as Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2000).
• 145-6. AHMED OSMAN, Stranger in the Valley of the Kings - The Identification of Yuya as the Patriarch Joseph (Paladin 1989); The House of the Messiah (HarperCollins 1992).
• 147. H. PALMER, The Logic of Gospel Criticism (New York: St. Martin's Press 1968).
• 148. PAPUS (GÉRARD ENCAUSSE), The Qabalah - Lessons on the Secret Science of the Hebrews & the Esoteric Teaching of Christianity (Aquarian Press 1977).
• 149. HIS HOLINESS POPE PIUS XII, Divino Afflante Spiritu (30 September 1943, CTS).
• 150. EMMANUEL RENAULT, Reading the Bible with Saint Teresa (Darlington Carmel, 1980?).
• 151. DALE N. ROBERTSON, The Biblical Ciphers Unsealed - A Revival of the Hebrew Goddess (St. Paul, Minnesota: Paragon House, 2001).
• 152. JAMES M. ROBINSON, General Editor, THE NAG HAMMADI LIBRARY (third, completely revised edition, San Francisco: Harper 1990).
• 153. JOHN A. T. ROBINSON, The Priority of John, edited by J. F. Coakley (London: SCM Press 1985).
• 154-6. DAVID M. ROHL, A Test of Time - Volume 1: From Myth to History; Volume II:Legend - The Genesis of Civilisation; Volume III: The Lost Testament - From Eden to Exile: The Five-Thousand-Year History of the People of the Bible (London: Century 1995, 1998, 2002). Sadly, the author's views expressed in these otherwise excellent books about dates, persons and events prior to the time of Abraham are, I believe, fancifully subjective, premature and far from credible.
• 157. ROGER RUSTON, The Violent G-d of the Old Testament (Pax Christi 1989).
• 158. MESSOD & ROGER SABBAH, Secrets of the Exodus - Did the Pharaohs write the Bible? (Thorsons, 2002).
• 159. JOHN SASSOON, From Sumer to Jerusalem - The Forbidden Hypothesis (Oxford: Intellect Books 1993).
• 160. P. A. H. SEYMOUR, The Birth of Christ - Exploding the Myth (Virgin Publishing 1998).
• 161. B. SMALLEY, The Bible in the Middle Ages (3rd edition, Oxford: Blackwell 1983).
• 162. MARK S. SMITH, The Pilgrimage Pattern in EXODUS (Sheffield Academic Press, 1997).
• 163-3a. LIONEL SMITHETT LEWIS, St. Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury, or The Apostolic Church in Britain (2nd and much enlarged edition, London: A. R. Mowbray & Co. Ltd., 1923; 7th edition with a Foreword dated 11 June 1953 by the then Bishop of Bath & Wells, London: James Clarke & Co. Ltd., 1955, reprinted 1964). No matter what one decides to make of it, this book has undoubtedly established itself as the standard work on the Christian Glastonbury legend.
• 164. MARGARET STARBIRD, The Woman with the Alabaster Jar - Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail (Bear & Co., 1993).
• 165. BASIL STEWART, True Bible Chronology - Four Millenniums from Adam to Christ proved by the statements of Scripture and corroborated by the scientifically recorded Chronology of the Great Pyramid (George Routledge & Sons 1930).
• 166. WILLIAM STIRLING, The Canon - An exposition of the Pagan Mystery perpetuated in the Cabala as the Rule of all the Arts (London: Garnstone Press 1974).
• 167-8. E. J. SWEENEY, The Genesis of Isræl and Egypt (London: Janus Publishing 1997); The Pyramid Age (Corby: Domra Publications, 1999) - proposes a notably different chronology.
• 169. J. GLEN TAYLOR, Yahweh and the Sun - Biblical and Archæological Evidence for Sun Worship in Ancient Isræl (Sheffield Academic Press, 1993).
• 170-72. BARBARA THIERING, Jesus the Man (Doubleday 1992; Corgi 1993); Jesus of the Apocalypse - The Life of Jesus after the Crucifixion (Doubleday 1996); The Book That Jesus Wrote - John's Gospel (Corgi 1998).
• 172a. GEZA VERMES, translated, edited and introduced by, The Dead Sea Scrolls (Folio Society, 2000).
• 173. PATRICIA WALDYGO, The Kabbalistic Tree of Life - Wall Chart (Samuel Weiser 1983).
• 173a-b. WATCH TOWER BIBLE AND TRACT SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA, What does God require of us? (1996) and Pay Attention to Daniel's Prophecy (1999).
• 174-5. WILLIAM WYNN WESTCOTT, Sepher Yetzirah - The Book of Formation and the Thirty-Two Paths of Wisdom, translated from the Hebrew (London: Watkins; 2nd edition, New York: Occult Research Press); editor, The Chaldean Oracles of Zoroaster, with an Introduction by Kathleen Raine (Aquarian Press 1983).
• 176. B. WILLIAMS, How the Gospel came to Britain (Glastonbury).
• 177. IAN WILSON, Are these the words of Jesus? (Oxford: Lennard Publishing 1990).
• 178. D. H. E. WOODWARD, Gems from the City (Birmingham, U.K.: Emerald Charitable Foundation 1984).

• 179. RUFUS C. CAMPHAUSEN, The Divine Library - A Comprehensive Reference Guide to the Sacred Texts and Spiritual Literature of the World (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International 1992).
• 180. JONATHAN COTT, The Search for Omm Sety (ISBN 0-7126-1847-3; 1987):

  "O Holy Blessed Lady, constant comfort to humankind whose beneficence and kindness nourish us all, and whose care for those in trouble is as a loving mother who cares for all her children - you are there when we call, stretching out your hand to put aside that which is harmful to us, untangling the web of fate in which we may be caught, even stopping the stars if they form a harmful pattern. All other deities, whether bountiful or merciless, do reverence to thee. It is Isis who rules the world, stamping out the powers of evil, arranging the stars to give us answers, causing the seasons to come and go, commanding the winds to move ships, giving the clouds to water the growing seeds so that we may have food. If I had one thousand mouths and one thousand tongues within each, still I could not do justice to Your Majesty. Yet I will forever remember your help in my time of need and keep your blessed image deep within my heart." (p.19.)

  "Sing we Osiris dead,
  Lament the fallen head:
  The light has left the world, the world is gray.
  Athwart the starry skies
  The web of darkness flies,
  And Isis weeps Osiris Passed away.
  Your tears, ye stars, ye fires, ye rivers, shed,
  Weep, children of the Nile, weep for your lord is dead!

  Softly we tread, our measured footsteps falling
  Within the sanctuary sevenfold;
  Soft on the dead that liveth are we calling:
  'Return, Osiris, from thy Kingdom cold!
  Return to them that worship thee of old.'

  Within the court divine
  The sevenfold sacred shrine
  We pass, while echoes of the temple walls
  Repeat the long lament
  The sound of sorrow sent
  Far up within the imperishable halls,
  Where, each in other's arms, the sisters weep,
  Isis and Nepththys, o'er his unawaking sleep.

  Softly we tread, our measured footsteps falling
  Within the sanctuary sevenfold;
  Soft on the dead that liveth are we calling:
  'Return, Osiris, from thy Kingdom cold!
  Return to them that worship thee of old.'

  O dweller in the west,
  Lover and lordliest,
  Thy love, thy sister Isis, calls thee home!
  Come from thy chamber dun,
  Thou master of the Sun,
  Thy shadowy chamber far below the foam!
  With weary wings and spent
  Through all the firmament,
  Through all the horrow-haunted ways of hell,
  I seek thee near and far,
  From star to wandering star,
  Free with the dead that in Amenti dwell.
  I search the height, the deep, the lands, the skies,
  Rise from the dead and live, our lord Osiris, rise!" (pp. 29-30.)

  "Dr. James Hillman has written: 'To go to the root of human ontology, its truth, essence and nature, one must move in the fictional mode and use poetic tools... Poetic, dramatic fictions are what actually people our psychic life. Our life in soul is a life in imagination.'...
  'Dr. Hillman, you once commented that The first community are the dead, the ancestors, the community of souls. And this is something that I felt very strongly in Egypt, with its more than five-thousand-year-old necropolises.'
  'I think that the whole question of commemorating the dead may actually have something to do with our trying not to lose the love of the departed. On All Souls' Day, for example, one dutifully places a wreath on a grave. And perhaps one does it to keep the dead from turning mean and for fear of losing their love. Why is it, for instance, that the beginning of culture is the making of things to put the dead in - clay vessels, sarcophagi, canopic jars, coffins? Maybe we need to understand that the reason why culture is built on the dead - who may be the ground of love, an underworld ground - has something to do with feeling.'
  'In ancient Egypt, relatives of the deceased used to bring offerings of food and drink for the ka.'
  'Our dead are dead, but I don't think that the ancient Egyptian dead were dead - and that's why they still ate and had to have their cosmetic boxes and servant statues and so on. Their souls weren't dead. Moreover, you don't find that idea of I love alone, I die alone - that whole ego view, which is a lonely, isolated view. In ancient Egypt you get the sense of your joining the community of the dead who are already there, like presences, waiting for you.' " (pp. 221-2.)

  "Most people think of the temples of Egypt as being something like churches or cathedrals where people came to public worship and to make their personal prayers and petitions. But temples are not and never were like this. In ancient Egypt, that kind of worship belonged to the temple courts and porticos, to the small temples of local gods, and to the wayside shrines, for the Egyptian was always pious by nature.
  The interiors of the great temples were, in truth, the holy houses of the gods, where emanations of the divine spirits worked ceaselessly day and night to ward off from the universe the ever-threatening return of chaos and to maintain the divine order of the world and the welfare of Egypt, the Beloved Land. Prayers, hymns, and sacrifices were certainly made here. Ceremonies and ordinances were performed and offerings laid upon the altars. These were done not by ordinary people but by priests trained in voice and gesture to perform the magically-important ceremonies in exactly the correct manner that would render them acceptable and serviceable to the gods.
  The ordinary folk were never pemitted to enter the interior of the temple, and it is doubtful whether any of them ever dared to do so! Every element in the scenes on the walls had a magical significance. Nothing is there merely for the sake of a good presentation or for beauty alone. If they are beautiful as well as magically potent, it is because they were conceived by men of vision and taste, and brought into being by men who, even though working for wages, were above all proudly particpating in two momentous projects. They were helping to create a suitable dwelling-place for the gods in the midst of their own city. They were honoured to have a share, however insignificant, in the great work being carried out by their God-King, their Horus Upon Earth." (pp.80-81, quoting from OMM SETY & HANNY EL ZEINI, Abydos - Holy City of Ancient Egypt.)

• 181. G. S. GASKELL, Dictionary of Scripture & Myth (New York: Dorset Press 1988).
• 182. BEDE GRIFFITHS, Universal Wisdom - A Journey through the Sacred Wisdom of the World (London: Fount-HarperCollins 1994).
• 183. MARVIN W. MEYER, editor, The Ancient Mysteries - A Sourcebook: Sacred Texts of the Mystery Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean (HarperCollins 1987).
• 184. JAMES B. PRITCHARD, editor, Ancient Near Eastern Texts, third edition with Supplement (Princeton University Press 1969).

• 185. THEODOR ABT & ERIK HORNUNG, Knowledge for the Afterlife: The Egyptian Amduat - A Quest for Immortality (Zürich: Living Human Heritage, 2003).
• 186. NARAYANASWAMI AIYAR, The Thirty-Two Vidyas (Adyar 1962).
• 187. R. P. ANURUDDHA, An Introduction into Lamaism - The Mystical Buddhism of Tibet (Hoshiapur: Vishveshvaranand Vedic Research Institute, 1959), Volume XXXI in the Sarvadanand Universal Series in memory of Swami Sarvadanand Ji (1859-1942). Anuruddha's book (pp.93-102) includes the abridged form (originally Published in the JASB New Series, Vol. VIII 1912, pp.148-60) of Lama Davasamdup's English version of The Choje Tsang-pa or Religious Wishes, known in Tibetan as Ge-jordum-pa.
• 188. H. ASSAAD & D. KOLOS, The Name of the Dead (Mississauga: Benben Publications 1979).
• 189. ATISA, A Lamp for the Path and Commentary (London: George Allen & Unwin 1983).
• 190. R. B. BLAKNEY, translator and editor, The Way of Life - Lao Tzu: A New Translation of the Tao Te Ching (New York: Mentor Books 1955).
• 191. JOHN BLOFELD, translator, I Ching - The Book of Changes (New York: Dutton 1965).
• 192. ABINASH CHANDRA BOSE, Hymns from the Vedas - Original Text and English Translation with Introduction and Notes (London: Asia Publishing House 1966).
• 193-4. BUDDHA, Discourse on Universal Love and Law among the Birds (various editions).
• 195. CHILDREN'S LIBERATION FRONT, The Book of the Mother (Shivalila Production: 1977).
• 196. ALAIN DANIÉLOU, translator, The Complete Kama Sutra - The First Unabridged Modern Translation of the Classic Indian Text by Vatsyayana, including the Jayamangala commentary from the Sanskrit by Yashodhara, and extracts from the Hindi commentary by Devadatta Shastra (Rochester, Vermont: Park Street Press 1994).
• 197. JOHN DAVIDSON, with a Commentary by: The Robe of Glory - An Ancient Parable of the Soul (Element Books, 1992).
• 53. GESHE LHARAMPA NGAWANG DHARGYEY, A Commentary on the Kalacakra Tantra, as presented at Sakya Tegchen Choling, Seattle, Washington, 3 April - 12 June 1982, and translated by Allan Wallace (Gelong Jhampa Kelsang), a manual to be read only by those who have received the Kalacakra Initiation (Dharmasala, Himachal Pradesh: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives 1985), pp.5-6.
• 198. N. ELLIS, Awakening Osiris - The Egyptian Book of the Dead (Grand Rapids: Phanes Press 1988).
• 199. DOCTOR EVERARD, The Divine Pymander (San Diego: Wizard's Bookshelf 1978).
• 200. ANDREW GEORGE, The Epic of Gilgamesh: a new translation (Allen Lane/TSP 1998).
• 201. MASNAVI OF HAFIZ, Book of the Winebringer, versions by Paul Smith (Melbourne: New Humanity Books 1988).
• 202. A. JEFFERY, editor, Qur'an - The Kitab Al-Masahif of Ibn Abi Damud… (1937, reprinted 1975).
• 203. CHARLES JOHNSTON, translator, The Crest Jewel of Wisdom, attributed to Shankara Acharya (John M. Watkins 1964).
• 204. B. KHANTIPALO, The Wheel of Birth and Death (Kandy: Buddhist Publication Society 1970).
• 205. A. KINGSFORD & E. MAITLAND, The Virgin of the World of Hermes Trismegistus (San Diego, Wizard's Bookshelf 1977).
• 206. MAN-HO KWOK & MARTIN PALMER, Tao Te Ching - A New Translation (Element Books 1993).
• 207. R. F. LAIRD, The Boomer Bible - The Ultimate Book of Revelations (London: Warner Books 1992).
• 208. CHARLES. G. LELAND, Aradia - Gospel of the Witches (Blaine, WA: Phœnix Publishing, 1999) - an exact reproduction of the original version published in 1899. An expanded version of this book (ISBN 0 919345 34 4), including a new translation by Mario Pazzaglini, essays by Chas Clifton, Robert Mathiesen and others, a foreword by Stewart Farrar, a copy of a letter from Maddalena, and other information, is also available.
• 209. JUAN MASCARO, translator, Bhagavad Gita (Penguin 1962).
• 210. RALPH NELSON, introduces and translated, Popol Vuh - The Great Mythological Book of the Ancient Maya (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1976).
• 211-2. BIKA REED, Rebel in the Soul - A Sacred Text of Ancient Egypt, Berlin Papyrus 3024/11 (London: Wildwood House 1978); The Field of Transformations - A Quest for the Immortal Essence of Human Awareness, commentary on the Ancient Egyptian “Revelations of the Soul of Shu” (Vermont: Inner Traditions International 1987).
• 213. RUDOLF RITSEMA & STEPHEN KARCHER, I Ching, The Classic Chinese Oracle of Change - The First Complete Translation with Concordance (Element Books 1994)
• 214. GEORGE SALE, Preliminary Discourse by, The Koran commonly called The Alcoran of Mohammed: translated from the Original Arabic with Explanatory Notes taken from the Most Approved Commentators, new edition (London: Thomas Tegg & Son 1838).
• 215. RUTH SCHUMANN ANTELME & STEPHANE ROSSINI, Sacred Sexuality in Ancient Egypt - The Erotic Secrets of the Forbidden Papyrus: A look at the unique rôle of Hathor, the goddess of love (Inner Traditions International, 2001).
• 216. R. G. H. SIU, The Portable Dragon (Massachusetts: MIT Press 1971).
• 217. JOYCE TYLDESLEY, Daughters of Isis - Women of Ancient Egypt (Viking 1994).
• 218-9. ANDREW WELBURN, The Book with Fourteen Seals - The Prophet Zarathustra and the Christ-Revelation (Rudolf Steiner Press, 1991): a well nigh indispensable resource for those ready to read it - a sustained commentary on the Apocalype of Adam from the Nag Hammadi library.. .; The Beginnings of Christianity - Essene mystery, Gnostic revelation and the Christian vision (Floris Books, 1991)
• 220. W. WINWOOD READ, The Veil of Isis - or Mysteries of the Druids (North Hollywood: Newcastle Publishing 1992).
• 54. DIANE WOLKSTEIN & SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER, Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth - Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer (Harper & Row 1983).

COLIN'S OTHER KNOWN WRITINGS - A CHRONOLOGICAL LISTING

• 221. COLIN JAMES HAMER, "Letter" about the Ergot problem in France, in John Bull (towards the end of 1950). Flour milled from infected wheat from near the Atlantic coast was used by a village-baker at Mondragon in the Rhône valley, where several persons consequently experienced psychedelic states of consciousness; one individual was killed upon falling to the ground after launching himself from an upper window, in the belief that he could fly.
• 222-3a. Assistant editor and co-translator from the Italian, with Father TERENCE O'BRIEN, SDB, editor of two quite distinct editions of The Companion of Youth by St. John Bosco, 1815 - 1888 (Bollington: St. Dominic Savio House, 1954 and 1961) - although the second edition was published before the Second Vatican Council, it incorporated a by then already somewhat modified Rite of Holy Mass and the advice section drew upon the editor's growing appreciation of contemporary teen-agers and their pastoral needs.
  Also by TERENCE O'BRIEN, Living in Personal Relationship with G-d Father, Son and Holy Spirit - The Understanding of It and a Way of Achieving It (Second edition, London: Guild Publications, 1993).
  224-45. English translations from the Italian of twenty or more internal Salesian spiritual-administrative and catechetical-educational publications (1955-1970); partial translation from the French of a then newly published "Life" of Saint John Bosco; revision of the English text of an official "Guide" to the Roman Catacombs of San Callisto.
• 246-58. Review of E. A. BURTT, In Search of Philosophic Understanding in New Blackfriars (vol. 48, no. 566, July 1967, p.557); review of A. E. LOEN, Secularization and of D. WATSON, Christian Myth and Spiritual Reality in New Blackfriars (vol. 48, no. 587, August 1967, pp.612-15); “Marxism and Christianity” in New Blackfriars (vol. 49, no. 571, December 1967, pp.133-39); Complete typescript of a Doctoral Thesis publicly defended in the Pontifical Salesian University (Beckford - Rome 1968, pp. 394); “The Philosophy of Gilbert Ryle” (notes for students); “God and Professor Flew” in Downside Review (vol. 86, no. 283, April 1968, pp.121-31; according to STUART WAVELL & WILL IREDALE, The Sunday Times, 12 December 2004, this 81-years-old son of a Methodist minister "has changed his mind and decided that there is a G-d after all."); “Serving a Church in Dialogue with Non-Believers” in Clergy Review (vol. 53, no. 5, May 1968, pp.345-53) and cf SECRETARIAT FOR NON-BELIEVERS, Dialogue with Non-Believers (Catholic Truth Society 1968); “The Real Meaning of Words” in Clergy Review (vol. 53, no. 7, July 1968, pp.521-35); review of W. J. ONG, The Presence of the Word, in Clergy Review (vol. 53, July 1968, pp.563-65); review of N. MIDDLETON, The Language of Christian Revolution in Clergy Review (vol. 53, no. 9, September 1968, pp.731-33).
• 
  259.Christian Education in School (limited edition, Beckford Hall - Salesian Institute of Further Education 1968; Wormwood Scrubs 1975) - notes for the benefit of trainee- and practising teachers of R.E.
• 260. As mentioned in my June 1973 published autobiography, I had first moved to London towards the end of August 1968 where, among other things, I soon had the opportunity of benefitting from a regular and officially Freudian but, in practice somewhat eclectic form of fully professional psychoanalysis with Doctor Ronald Thomas St.Blaize-Malony in Harley Street, which dovetailed nicely with my day-release pastoral training in group dynamics with the Richmond Fellowship in Holland Park, enhanced, as both were, by my then new found and still, I feel, very close friendship with, to use their present titles, Professor John Wren-Lewis, Doctor Ann Faraday and, of course, the courageously innovative, highly gifted and always so wonderfully dynamic Swiss gynecologist, homoeopath, surgeon and Tai-Chi exponent, Doctor Evkathrin Shmidt, not to mention several other leading-edge personalities who will, I trust, forgive me for not naming them here.
• 261-2. “Why Ryle is not a Behaviourist" in Philosophical Studies (Maynooth: vol. 17, 1968, pp.7-25); “Dialogue and Unity in the Teaching of the Second Vatican Council”, 2 parts, in Clergy Review (vol. 54, nos. 1 & 6, January & June 1969, pp.13-26. 433-443).
• 263-6. “Method in Theology”, “Logical Foundations”, “Understanding and Lonergan's Insight”, notes ad usum alumnorum (Beckford Hall, 1968); “The Possibilities of the Survival of the Salesian Congregation - a Contribution to a Dialogue in Love on some aspects of our Present Task before G-d", letter circulated to various Salesians in both Italy and the U.K.
• 267-78. Review of K. RAHNER, Spirit in the World in Clergy Review (vol. 54, no. 11, November 1969, pp.920-21); letter “Challenges to Christian Marriage” in The Tablet (22 November 1969, vol. 223, pp. 1152-53); note “Implications of Girardi Case” in The Tablet (22 November 1969, vol. 223, p.1156); “Gilbert Ryle's Wisdom” in Philosophical Studies (Maynooth: vol. 18, 1969, pp.133-39); “Philosophy and Third-Order Communication” (PPG Lecture no. 18, in private circulation); letter “Voice of Rome” in Catholic Herald (28 August 1970, no. 4402, p.5); letter “Renewal Group's Pamphlet” in Catholic Herald (30 October 1970, no. 4411, p.5); review of J. GIRARDI, Dialogue et Révolution and R. GARAUDY, Marxism in the Twentieth Century in New Blackfriars (vol. 51, no. 606, November 1970, p.540); “Meaning Things in Words” in Philosophical Studies (Maynooth: vol. 19, 1970, pp.5-10); “Colin Lyas on the Coherence of Christian Atheism” in Philosophy (vol. 46, no. 175, January 1971, p.62); “What do we mean by Education?” in Ethical Record (vol. 76, no. 6, June 1971, p.10).
• 279-81. “One Man's Quest - Bernard Lonergan's Achievement” in Catholic Education Today (vol. 5, no. 4, JulyAugust 1971, pp.6-7); “The Nature of Self” in Ethical Record (vol. 77, no. 1, January 1972, pp.4-7); letter “The Need for Intelligent Thought on the Ministry of Women” in Catholic Herald (25 February 1972, no. 4480, p.5).
• 282-2a. "A Letter to the Reader” in FRANÇOISE STRACHAN, Casting Out The Devils (London: Aquarian Press 1972, pp.11-13):

  "Archbishop O'Hara, the Apostolic Delegate to Great Britain's officiation at the blessing and enthronement in the name of the Holy See of a new statue of Our Lady of Glastonbury on 20 July 1955, in the presence of Bishop Rudderham of Clifton and of no less than 18,000 Roman Catholics, indicates the Church's acknowledgement of her need to assume her rightful place in all aspects of religious living in these islands.
     Indeed, the stained-glass window represents G-d the Father above the altar in the Church in Glastonbury on which Holy Mass is celebrated daily as having Merlin-like qualities and, of course, he has.
     G-d is all-encompassing.
     From the standpoint both of metaphysics and of Christian theology G-d is infinitely good, and Catholic insistence that one manifestation of G-d's loving goodness is his having created hell for the devil and his angels is only one reminder that G-d's ways are not our ways, and that in saying that G-d is good, the theologian is not saying he is merely 'good' in human terms. Here there is no conflict between the attitude of Zen and the stance of authentic theology…
     When a Catholic theologian says that grace is the gift of G-d, he does not mean merely that G-d is the giver, he means more especially that G-d, not just in his immanence, but as he is in and for himself in his always mysterious and abiding transcendence, is really and actually the gifit…
     The devils of whom Françoise Strachan writes with such sensitivity and discrimination are as natural as they are real, and persons troubled by their assaults can be helped, depending upon the various circumstances of each particular case, either by exorcists, or psychotherapists, or psychiatrists, or all conjointly. The author's chief merit is her unambiguous recognition of the central truth that, while this is so, the principle source of help for any person in difficulties is, under G-d, and always will be, the free will and the gradually developing self-understanding and self-acceptance of that person himself."

• 283-90. Review of ANN FARADAY, Dream-Power (Hodder & Stoughton 1972) in General Practitioner (7 April 1972, p.12) by the same author: The Dream Game (London: Temple Smith 1975); “Encounter Groups” in The Counsellor - Journal of the National Association of Educational Counsellors (no. 11, June 1972, pp.1-9); letter “Churchmen and Women” in Catholic Herald (20 October 1972, no. 4514, p.5); review of K. BLISS, The Future of Religion and H. V. GÜNTHER, Buddhist Philosophy in Theory and Practice in New Paperback Review (Introductory number, December 1972, pp.23 & 29); “Love - Experience or Experiment?” (PPG Lecture, in private circulation).
• 43-43*, 291-5. “Council of Youth at Taizé” in The Tablet (5 May 1973, vol. 227, p.424); Ecstasy and Vendetta - The Making and Unmaking of a Catholic Priest (London: Peter Davies, June 1973); letter “His Real Presence” in The Tablet (16 November 1974, vol. 228, p.1113); “Ethical Feeling” in Ethical Record (vol. 80, no. 2, February 1975, pp.7-9); translation from the Italian of C. MOLINARI, Teatro (Milano: Mondadori 1972) as Theatre Through the Ages (London, Cassell 1975).
• 296-303. “Opposition or Complementarity - Therapy and Education: A Personal View" (privately circulated Paper, 1975); editing and © translation from the Italian draft typescript of S. S. ACQUAVIVA & M. SANTUCCIO, Social Structure in Italy (London: Martin Robertson, 1976); Encounter Groups (London: Creativity House, 1977); letter “The Priests who leave” in Catholic Herald (18 November 1977).
  Voice In The Darkness - An essay in contemporary Catholic existentialism (Zennor, Cornwall: United Writers, 1978, ISBN 901976 45 8); a first draft, personally typed and subsequently blue-cloth-covered-hardback-bound-by-hand by a student-inmate in Wormwood Scrubs Prison, of the author's as yet unpublished Italian translation of Voice In The Darkness: Il Vero Cattolico - La Sapienza Primordiale Nel Millennio Nuovo (originally entitled Voce nel deserto - saggio di esistenzialismo cattolico contemporaneo) is still in the Preliminary LibrArian's private possession; "Letter to Joan Morris: 'The Status of Women in the Roman Catholic Church' " (10 July 1978, and it is interesting to note that while Colin was writing this at least one Czech lady, Ludmilla Javorovna of Brno, was already exercising her ministry as an 'ordained' Catholic priest behind the then Iron Curtain - cf The Tablet, vol. 249, no. 8101, 11 November 1995, pp.1453-54).
• (4-6 +) 304-11. Series of 3 articles: “On Being a Writer”, “Writing to the Point” and “Writing between the Lines” in Writers' Review (August-September 1978 and April-May & June-July 1979, pp.19-23, 13-15, 45-48); letter “Testing the Waters” in Psychology Today (March 1979); letter “Fr. Hastings and the Right to Pry” in Catholic Herald (8 June 1979, no. 4857, p.4); letter “Meaning altered by translation” in Catholic Herald (21 September 1979, vol. 12, no. 39, p.4); personal letters “To Pope John-Paul II” (15 October 1979, February 1988 & 2 February 1991) and “To Basil Cardinal Hume” (15 March 1980); letter “Tenets of Charismatic Renewal” in Catholic Herald (15 August 1980); letter “Conversion and Infallibility” in Catholic Herald (19 September 1980); letter “Towards Rebirth and Charismatic Renewal” in Catholic Herald (1980).
• 312-4. In collaboration with M. Todeschini: Success - Rules for the Guidance of Genius, a monograph in private circulation (London, 1980) inspired by MARCO TODESCHINI, Tipologia Cibernetica Umana - Risultato di successive elaborazioni collettive (edizione extra-commerciale: Torino-Londra, 1980, and re-expressed in English as Human Cybernetic Psychology.
• 315-7. Compare VITTORIO HESS, Burocrazia e Benessere - Verso un modello non occidentecentrico (Jovene editore), English translation by BRIAN WILLIAMS: Bureaucracy & Wellbeing - Towards a non-Western model (Università di Camerino: Pubblicazioni della Facoltà di Giurisprudenza 1992).

  "My ideas of psychological typology are now at a more advanced stage. It was better not to publish before, because at the social level everything is very hard, and we have to consider many problems. To publish thinking that we are giving some kind of revelation would be naïve. All of this is really very well known by everybody, but it is simply rejected because people don't like to see what they are. Moreover, they are not so far wrong, because all these ideas have been misused in the past, and we need to be very careful not to allow ourselves to be associated in any way with any repetition of such past mistakes."

  Professor Hess, writing to me from London about his own above mentioned book, developed out of Marco Todeschini's and our other friends' and colleagues' mutually complementary explorations and research, towards the end of June, 1991
• 318-9. Incomplete French translation of Success - Rules for the Guidance of Genius: Succès - règles pour la conduite d'un génie (London, 1980); The Alpha-A Directory (restricted circulation only: 1980).
• 320. J. H. MASON, “Design of a Summer School” in Systematics (Vol.11, no.4, March 1974):

Method + Approach + Background:

Educational Assessment & Evaluation + A Simple Model

 
Goals:

1. Course content: to consolidate grasp of relevant facts and ideas by working with concrete data; sensory expansion.
2. Problem-solving experience.
3. Practise writing on the given subject.
4. Stress-free environment; social life, contact with the subject in its many facets… individual personal growth I+N Communion.

Resources:		Tasks:
Teacher(s), Angels and Saints.		Workshops.
Printed materials.		Inspirational talks.
TV/radio/tape-recordings.		Review sessions.
OHP, computers, etc.		Collective problem solving.
Students' present knowledge.		Environmental interaction.
Several weeks' time.		Purification and enlightenment.
Visible and invisible world.		Medi(t)ation and prayer.

1. Students lack confidence, find course difficult but interesting.
2. Strongly (?) motivated to get ideas and feelings straightened out.
3. Vocation to be discerned; mixture of Good and evil.

Some Questions That May Arise:
Is the goal visible from the initial state?
Is it realistic/challenging/worthwhile?
Is the course necessary to achieve this goal?

Are the resources necessary/adequate for the tasks to be carried out?
Are the resources dictating the tasks?
Is the teacher prepared? using media only because they exist?
being confined by restrictive media?

Are the resources-tasks immediately relevant to the initial state?
Is the initial state and adequate preparation for this course?
Are the tasks and resources pitched at the right level?
Are the tasks and resources understood at the initial state?
Does the teacher realise the students' level of (non-)comprehension?

Can the resources be seen from the initial state to be relevant
to reaching the goal?
Is the tutor a good teacher as well as good at the subject?
Does the course programme allow sufficient time to reach the goal?

Do the tasks really start from the initial state and are they likely
to achieve the goal?
Can the tasks be seen from the initial state to be relevant
to achieving the goal?
Is all the printed material relevant?
Does the teacher talk/write too much?

Do the tasks make efficient use of the resources to reach the goal?
Are classes helping the students or draining their energies?
Is the range of abilities among the students too wide for each individual
to receive enough help?

• 321, 321a-e. For personal purposes and when facilitating workshops based on J. H. Mason's eminently practical approach, I find the above listing of salient issues enormously helpful. I am indebted to WHITAKER & LIEBERMAN for their account of the dynamic and progressive development of all successfully surviving human groups by reference to thirty-eight typical features of Group Process, to Woolams, Brown & Huige, to Ouseley, Silverstone & Prashar, to Peter Rudge, and especially to Professor Vittorio Hess, Doctor Marco Todeschini and their international team of research-associates for their exciting innovations in Human Cybernetic Typology, their shared insights, academic courtesies and truly professional cooperation, as well as for their much valued gift of personal friendship.
     I found S. WOOLAMS, M. BROWN & K. HUIGE, Transactional Analysis in brief (Huron Valley Institute 1974) extremely helpful, and I regard H. OUSELEY, D. SILVERSTONE & U. PRASHAR, The System (Runnymede Trust and South London Equal Rights Consultancy 1983) as almost indispensable for a succinct yet accurate account of how one and the same individual, in relating to another, modulates the form or socially perceptible Gestalt of her or his self-presentation so that, if it isn't to be misunderstood, it needs to be interpeted as that of a character rôle-playing now as a "Parent", now as a "Child" - and only intermittently as a truly rational "Adult".
     Most helpful, too: PETER F. RUDGE, Ministry and Management (Tavistock Publications 1968). This author's analysis of the organizational forms, leadership patterns, quality-control mechanisms and goals of five different models of management, namely: the traditional, the charismatic, the machine-like, the personal relations centred, and the systems oriented, now clearly needs to be complemented by the model (though "model" is hardly a suitable term) principally focussed within the Neith Network, viz., Nature's chaos which is, of course, simply a "scientific" name for Divine Providence - which the present Pope John-Paul II sometimes promotes rather indirectly by reminding us of the evils of "structural sin".
     It was shortly after Vittorio Hess had first introduced me to Doctor Charles Sprague in the late Summer or early Autumn of 1980 that Charles, then in his eighties, and whose work as English translator of volume 1 of H. A. Schwaller de Lubicz's ground-breaking evocation of the esoteric life in pharaonic Ancient Egypt, Her Bak I already knew and admired, invited me to take tea with himself and his charming wife, Jennifer, in their lovely home in Hemel Hempstead, where he presented me with a complimentary copy of the above listed March 1974 number of a periodical, Systematics, that he had formerly edited, and he also very kindly, specifically drew to my attention Mason's remarkably concise and extremely lucid article within its pages: “Design of a Summer School”, which has stood me in very good stead ever since.
• 322-8d. Letters “Marxism Out - Alpha In” and “Küng's Faith, Hope and Assurance” in Catholic Herald (10 October 1980 and 16 January 1981); letter “Hunger Strikers - The Choice is Yours” in Catholic Herald (14 August 1981); letter “The Papacy Undiminished” in Catholic Herald (11 September 1981); letter “Adult Study Is Crucial” in Streatham News (27 November 1981); “Find Out About Philosophy” - study-notes for adult students frequenting New Acropolis (UK) Seminars in Islington (1981) - cf C. HOLLAND, “Dreaming of Higher Things” in Islington Gazette (24 April 1981); “Delta Therapy Naturally”, privately commissioned Commercial Feasibility Report (Stockwell: Creativity House, 1981); compare JOHN C. LILLY, The Deep Self - Profound Relaxation and the Tank Isolation Technique (New York: Warner Books 1978); MICHÆL HUTCHISON, The Book of Floating (New York: William Morrow & Co., 1984); Megabrain (New York: Ballantine Books 1987).
• 329-33. Series of 3 articles: “The Alphabet tells a fascinating story”, “Some curious facts about the Calendar” and “Symbolism in Egypt” in New Acropolis, the New Acropolis (UK) official Bulletin (Islington: 1982); Sunrise Aquarius, draft novel (Stockwell: Creativity House, 1982) now for the most part abandoned, but of which one or two copies probably survive. This historically based yarn ranged the centuries from pre-Ancient-Egypt through the late mediæval Cathars and troubadours to Hitler's S.S. and his fascination for the occult; also included was a meditation on the spiritual implications of more recent changes in Roman Catholic liturgy. JASON CRISP enjoyed full access to this material and later incorporated some of it into his own privately circulated ébauche: Rose Thorne Lives!.
• 334-42. The Tarot Cards Unpacked and, with OLIVIA BRUN, Le Tarot Décortiqué - notes for the private use of sincere students of the esoteric (1982); Four Seasons Massage (London, Creativity House, 1983); Robin Hood - The Man Behind The Myth, first draft of a privately commissioned research Report (Stockwell: Creativity House, 1983) - cf Nottingham Evening Post, 6 February 1984; Present and Future Needs In and For Adult Education (London: AHEAD, 1983); reviews of Out of Crisis - A Project for European Recovery and The Birth of Solidarity - The Gdansk Negotiations: 1980 (commissioned by Livinus Dorrian in 1983, when he had already moved from the Old Kent Road to Thamesmead); letter “In Truth, we don't Begin at the Begetting" with an accompanying cartoon in The Guardian (29 May 1984).
• 343-7a. Letter “The Evil of Wage Slavery” in Catholic Herald (12 October 1984); “Divine Actuality, Theological Realities, Catholic Truth and the Ontology of Language”, lecture delivered during the CPG annual conference (London: January 1985); letter “The Living Christ” in Catholic Herald (26 April 1985); “Large Characters in WordStar” in Practical Computing (vol. 8, no. 5, May 1985, pp.144-45); The Philosophy of J. D. Solomon, a first account privately circulated in 1986 - cf J. D. SOLOMON, The Mind's Ear (Hounslow: Bibliagora 1979); letter “Faith Hand in Hand with Good Works” in Catholic Herald (4 April 1986).
• 348. Streatham & Tooting Institute of Adult Education Prospectus 1987-1988 (Inner London Education Authority, 1987). The entire text of a much used administrative office-copy of this complex document was word-processed on an Apricot computer in his own 'free time' by the then Head of the Department of Languages & Liberal Studies as one contribution to an eventually successful but then still only slowly although increasingly rapidly increasing computerization of the Institute's internal administration and management procedures.
• 349-61. The Creativity Machine - A Preliminary Report, a professional assessment of the potential of Doctor JON WHALE, M.Inst.P.I., Ph.D.'s invention (Exeter: Creativity House, 24 May 1988); letter “Mixing People's Action” in Catholic Herald (11 November 1988); editorial oversight of JON WHALE, Nature's Power is Love & Light - Electronic Medicine, Crystal Healing and Esoteric Knowledge: The Computer Alchemist's Workbook (Hampton: WHALE, 1988, pp.133) for restricted distribution only; Robin Hood - The Man Behind The Myth, final version of this privately commissioned research Report (Exeter: Creativity House, 1988, 1989); letter “Sun Dump Not New” in Exeter Herald (20 April 1989); letter “Maxibus Rubbish” in Exeter Herald (11 May 1989); in collaboration with JON WHALE: Health is a Rainbow - Cosmic Rejuvenation using the Electronic Caduceus, monograph presented to the Senior Editor of BRES (Amsterdam) and to both Dutch and UK users of this then newly patented therapeutic device (Exeter: Creativity House 1989); letters “Spaced-Out Theories” and “A Green Planet” in Exeter Herald (25 May & 27 July 1989); letters “Female Fulfilment”, “Towards Rebirth & Charismatic Renewal”, “Hunger Strikers - The Choice is Yours” and “The Evil of Wage Slavery” in Catholic Herald (28 July 1989; … ……1980, 14 August 1981 & 12 October 1984).
• 362-9. The Rainbow Cymbal (2nd draft of private, non-commercial 1st edition limited to 14 copies, with extensive indices and more than 2,000 bibliographical references; Colin's original top-copy comprises 1,629 individuallly dot-matrix printed pages in three green-leather-bound volumes (Exeter: Creativity House, 25 December 1989 - 21 December 1990); letter to His Holiness Pope John-Paul II: “The Rainbow, The Chalice & The Cross I+N New Jerusalem” (2 February 1991); letter “To Queen Elizabeth II” (9 February 1991); open letter to all friends of Peace on Earth: “Working, Playing & Praying Together to implement the Rainbow Programme” (1 March 1991); letter to Dr. George Carey on the occasion of his installation as Archbishop of Canterbury, 19 April 1991; The Creativity Chronicle - Incorporating the Neith Network Orbital Report, vol.1, no.1 - vol.2, no.2, June 1991 - January 1992, (Exeter: Creativity House, in private circulation).
• 370. Transcription and editing of LEVI HAMER, “God” - A Book issued posthumously and with authority by Levi Hamer, faithfully transcribed, introduced, and supplemented with notes by his only son, Colin Hamer (Exeter: Creativity House, September 1991).
• 371-1f. Edited transcription of an unpublished English draft-translation from the original Spanish: SAMAEL AUN WEOR, The Perfect Matrimony & The Cosmic Christ (Barcelona: Alcione Editorial 1991). By this time I had been enrolled in the Theosophical Society. As well as attending evening meetings in Exeter Central Library, I was reading H. P. B. BLAVATSKY (1831-1891), Isis Unveiled, 2 volumes; The Secret Doctrine, 2 volumes; An Abridgement of The Secret Doctrine, edited by ELIZABETH PRESTON & CHRISTMAS HUMPHREYS (London: Theosophical Publishing House, 1966); An Invitation to The Secret Doctrine (Pasadena: Theosophical University Press 1988); On How to Study Theosophy (London: The Theosophical Society in England 1991); The Secret Doctrine, volume 3, edited by Annie Besant (1st edition 1897, reprinted 1910, 1913, 1918, 1921 and 1928; re-issued in 1938 as volume 5 of the 4th Adyar edition - which was reprinted in London in 1950) - p.417:

  "There is a strange law in Occultism which has been ascertained and proven by thousands of years of experience; nor has it failed to demonstrate itself, almost in every case, during the years that the Theosophical Society has been in existence. As soon as anyone pledges himself as a 'Probationer,' certain Occult effects ensue. Of these, the first is the throwing outward of everything latent in the nature of the man; his faults, habits, qualities or subdued desires, whether good, bad or indifferent."

• 372-9. “An Index to the published writings of JOAN D'ARCY COOPER, 1927-1982, Ascended Mistress of the Rainbow Programme" and "An Index to Meditations on the Tarot - a Journey into Christian Hermeticism” (Exeter: Creativity House, privately circulated 1992, revised 1996); Mirror of Justice - Abstracts from a Library: A Sequence of Essays in honour of the Nuptial Theology of the Sovereign Lady Mary Most Holy Help of Christians by Divine Conception Mother of G-d & Virgin Queen of All That IS, 1st edition (in private circulation, 18 April 1992); set of 3 Sample Essays for tutorial use, each of slightly less than 500 words: “Books”, “Cats”, “The Chinese Way of Life” (London 1992); The Rainbow Cymbal - Supplementary Volume, a 4th leather-bound volume available for individual consultation by arrangement and adding 630 pages of text and more than 560 references to the accompanying critical apparatus (Exeter, Creativity House, 18 April 1992).
• 380-83. “Document 6 - Church in its most authentic and uniquely primordial sense: the Tiahuanaco Connection” (Exeter: Creativity House, 13 September 1992); set of individually prepared 3½" diskettes: The Neith Network Library on Disk (September 1992 onwards) - the immediate forerunner to this electronically published and Internet distributed Neith Network Library on-line; complementary collection of unpublished consultation documents and bibliographical information bound in 3 volumes (736 pages), as well as "The Red File Index" (215 pages) differently arranged (Exeter: Creativity House, July 1994).
• 384-9. RILKO Lecture, The ‘12th’ Planet: Origin of Earth & Home of Man's Creator - Zecharia Sitchin's Hypothesis, A Preliminary Assessment (South Kensington: 31 March 1995); “Aquinas today - tradition and innovation”, Paper presented to the Library of the Open International University For Complementary Medicines, Colombo, Sri Lanka, on the occasion of Colin's acceptance of the academic degree of Doctor of Science honoris causa in the Medicina Alternativa Institute of that University (September 1995); "A General Introduction to some selected Programs" (alphabetically ordered notes to 70 different programs formatted as 128-page A4 print-out); series of three 2-page illustrated feature articles: "The Mnajdra Temple alignments - Harbingers of peace on Earth" in The Malta Independent (7, 8 & 9 January 2002, pp. 16-17); "The Mnajdra Temple" in Pagan Dawn (no. 143, Beltane-Summer 2002, pp. 31-34); Letter in The Malta Independent (3 May 2003, p.7):

  FOCUS AND CLARITY
  "Each adult citizen of Maltese nationality appreciates that the new watershed date of 11 September 2001 fades into insignificance, if it is compared with either Malta's sacrifice during World War II or the events of the Great Siege of 1565.
     This is not to say that George Bush junior's and Tony Blair's subsequent dismantling of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi administration is devoid of consequences.
     The so called United Nations appears mortally wounded. The American Constitution is overturned. Magna Carta is rendered, in principle, obsolete.
     Malta's entry to the European community and the elevation of Maltese, the only Semitic language written in the Roman alphabet, into an official community language, increase the potential influence on present and future world events of Maltese and Gozitan men and women and their government.
     The 1320 Declaration of Arbroath by which Scotland's nobles and bishops, in the name of the whole people, affirmed their allegiance to Robert the Bruce as their King, has long been recognised by historians as a clear articulation of each nation's right of self-determination.
     Now is the moment emphatically to affirm this right here and abroad.
     Focus and clarity are called for.
     Prayer without good works is no true prayer.
     Goodness is impossible without authentic solidarity on a world-wide scale, but beginning in your own home and on your own doorstep.
     St Paul taught this well, and so did Dun Gorg Preca and San Gwann Bosco. May their examples inspire and guide us in today's challenging situations."
  Colin James Hamer - ZURRIEQ    

• 389a. "The Fisherman and The Potter extracted from The Great Chi-Rho Pyramid and the Singing Stones of Jerusalem" in R.I.L.K.O. Journal 67 (December 2005, pp. 33-34).
• Our powers of what Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's friend Jean Houston has very helpfully termed "kairotic psychosynæsthesia" undoubtedly require much further development, but Faith already teaches those who have ears to hear that no prayer goes unanswered.
  Living Tradition has always, traditionally, been transmitted from mouth to ear, and in dedicating my entire life to the joyful task of continuing that same process quasi-simultaneously in, as my individual, personal logo displayed above has IT: writing, riting, writhing, righting and wrighting, I am deeply conscious of my responsibility as a Director I+N Creativity House for the present and future improvement of interpersonal relationships between some other groups of somewhat less known, but nevertheless significantly important individuals who, unfortunately, currently appear to me to be either mutually estranged or else very much at loggerheads - and that to the benefit of nobody at all, least of all, themselves.

One of the 20th century's foremost Roman Catholic theologians, Karl Rahner, author and editor of many important books, including Sacramentum Mundi, a 6-volume encyclopœdia of theology, arrived at the sad realisation that fewer and fewer readers nowadays are sufficiently equipped to know which articles to turn to, or which items to search for in even the most excellent index. Like my friend J.D. Solomon's father's friend, the late 19th-century author I. Zangwill's eloquent creations, Zillab and Jossel, many have lived in happy ignorance of most things, and especially of their own ignorance.

My preferences have long been and are today inclined towards the maximum of brevity consistent with integrity. A somewhat fuller, albeit utterly inadequate expression of acknowledgment follows shortly, but first let me to reiterate that nothing at all of any value could ever have resulted without the constant assistance of G-d the Father, of The Lord Jesus Christ of Bethlehem, of Mary Most Holy His Virgin-Mother & of the Holy Spirit, together with that of an innumerable multitude of Angels and Saints, of whom here and now it is appropriate to recall my Guardian Angel, Michael the ArchAngel, the canonized Saints Benedict, Boniface, Francis of Assisi, Thomas Aquinas, Francis de Sales, John Bosco & Thérèse of Lisieux, my Spiritual Director, Father Terence O'Brien SDB, Professor of Dogmatic, Ascetical & Mystical Theology, Don Nazareno Camilleri, the dedicated and enlightened teacher and writer Alice Bailey, his immediate predecessor, the anonymous author of Meditations on the Tarot - A Journey into Christian Hermeticism, Joan D'Arcy Cooper of Culbone (1927-1982), Ascended Mistress of the Rainbow Programme, the only recently deceased Anglican writer and Jungian analyst, Helen Mary Luke, author of Kaleidoscope - ‘The Way of Woman’ and other essays (New York: Parabola 1992), Levi & Edna Hamer, my parents and, of course, an ever increasing number of friends, relatives, teachers and fellow authors, living and dead - to each and all of these, irrespective of whether or not I currently subscribe to, dissent from or remain I+N Truth as yet profoundly ignorant of any individual opinions they may yet have, One Word I+N humble & eternal Thanks.

Readers of these Internet pages may already be familar with the 1,110 words I have chosen to cite from Mortimer J. Adler's magisterial How to Read a Book - a Guide to Self-Education (London: Jarrolds, 1939, pp.15-17). May I also, following my father's wise example, make particular and individual mention of our shared indebtedness to the entire contents of his copy of ”the special Daily Dispatch edition of the British Empire Universities Modern English Dictionary containing illustrations in colour and in monochrome, maps in colour, and the latest census, with a reference library & treasury of facts, revised after the best and latest authorities on language, under the chief editorship of the Reverend Edward D. Price, editor of Hazell's Annual Cyclopædia (1886-01), The Student's Imperial Dictionary (1904), The Pearl Cyclopædia of Universal Information (1892), Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (1904 edition), and W. G. Hartog, MA, LittD, South Place Institute now revised and in some cases rewritten by the authors, together with some others specially written for this volume (ninth edition, London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, Limited, July 1908)."
    As well as permitting myself quite frequently to use a variety of words nowhere to be found within its pages, I have thought it best for the most part, while researching the traditions I+N Tradition and Tradition in all traditions, sedulously to refrain from emulating Price's and Hartog's way of spelling what today, almost one hundred years later, is still the most widely known English language identifier of The Supreme Deity, viz., "God" and to replace it, as and when the context so warrants, by the manifestly much less inappropriate alternatively available, albeit still pefectly unsatisfory, Roman-alphabetic formulation "G-d".
    Whenever the name of any other person than One I+N The Divine Three is anywhere mentioned, or the title of any of her or his books or articles identified, or any portion of their contents quoted verbatim, translated into contemporary English, paraphrased, criticized or, indeed, merely specifically referred to in passing, by our giving Chapter and verse or by providing a precise page reference, our primary purpose is never just one of legal propriety, academic courtesy or pragmatic convenience. I+N each and every instance what is being extended to our readers is an invitation to enter into living communion with each and all of the individual writers themselves.

I+N compiling and editing our own preferred Treasury of Books, we in no wise intend to deny either the fascination of the ephemeral nor the ongoing relevance of those many other titles our predecessors have previously identified as already forming an integral part of the Great Library - Scripta manent!…
    Nevertheless, as Ascended Mistress of the Rainbow Program, Joan D'Arcy Cooper never tired of insisting, individual needs differ from individual to individual and within the same individual from situation to situation - whence it follows that, even in respect of everyday basic skills and general reference requirements, readers making use of our various listings are unlikely ever to find that any other person's priority focus coincides exactly with their own.
    Many, indeed a majority of the publications below specified include some sort of list of suggestions for further reading.
    Moreover, because many authors named are still writing, when the contents of a particular book consulted fail to satisfy one's immediate need, a phone-call or faxed message to that person, or even just a simple visit to a good bookshop or conveniently available library may provide the information required - whether or not one is inclined to spend any time surfing the Net.
    390. AAKHOR, Direc - Dictionnaire de Recherche sur le Fondamental (Seconde édition - 2A, Éditions AAKHOR, 189, rue Grande, 77300 Fontainebleau: novembre 1991) is a systematic and prudently graded attempt to enable those involved to keep track, prior to any formal publications of results, of research in progress - and that to the precise extent commensurate with their own ongoing requirements.
    391-4. The costs involved in such participation are fairly and sensitively scaled, and the Preliminary LibrArian emeritus is so far from charging many Euros, Dollars or Pounds Sterling to users of either that Directory or of this Treasury requiring his assistance in identifying the name of, for instance, the publisher of Méditations sur les 22 arcanes majeurs du Tarot, that almost all of the contents of our family of websites may be freely consulted and/or downloaded worldwide without any formality or payment of any sort. Considerable expense of one sort or another is, however, likely to be involved in arranging a face-to-face interview with the author of the book above mentioned, since our revered and anonymous predecessor is no longer normally resident on this particular Earth plane.

Our aim has not been in any sense to substitute for what is elsewhere available, yet somehow helpfully to complement those other sources to which, of course, as all our web-pages abundantly bear witness, we remain individually very often greatly and personally indebted.
    395. While it is true that compiling and editing this so far only privately and non-commercially distributed draft-text provisionally entitled “A Treasury of Books - Preliminary reading-aids as you uncover, recover, discover your own personal secret in writing, perhaps, to one you trust, riting with your companions I+N The Way, writhing for joy, righting your mistakes and wrighting all you can to create a new world Now - Assistance I+N Previsioning Our Future: includes Mirror of Justice, the Preliminary LibrArian I+N The Neith Network's Nuptial Theology - Thirty-Seven Initial Definitions & Reflections” represents a considerable investment of Doctor Colin James Hamer's time and energy, he particularly wishes most gratefully to acknowledge his profound indebtedness to the many relatives, friends and neighbours still resident on planet Earth without whose timely financial assistance, relevant comments, personal encouragement and loving support no physically tangible or electronically transmittable edition of even this no more than Preliminary Edition of Volumes I+N The Neith Network Library's Initial Series would ever have emerged into The Light. Please G-d each of these will, even though not here individually named, also feel for ever personally assured of his sincere gratitude.
    Like its Preliminary Volume, A Treasury of Books, this entire Neith Network Library on-line has been conceived as a contribution to ecumenical and inter-faith dialogue at every possible level, has grown out of many life-times of dedicated multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary commitment to essential research, and already inhabits that region I+N The Republic of Letters we may rightly characterize as ecologically aware, holistically and sensitively attuned, kairotically and transpersonally polyphrenic.
    We opened with 33 specific quotations from a selection of especially important, individually named sources. Readings nos. 0-22 amount in all (and that without counting J. D. Solomon's never before published 1929 poem Euphobia in the Rift Valley) to 372 words in Italian, 413 in Latin, 444 in French, 602 in Spanish and 19,143 in English. Like our opening page, the complete Treasury also includes a valuable series of further quotations from other works, many of them, unsurprisingly, coming from relatively recent publications.
    The editor and compiler accordingly here wishes to express his gratitude to the many institutions and individuals, but for whose excellence and courtesies over the course of the last 6,000 years much of the materially legible data on which all growth in human knowledge normally depends would not now have been so easily and readily available for your use. More specifically he wishes to thank the authors, publishers, printers, binders and distributors of each and every individual work named, whether living or dead, and in a very special and particular fashion all those in any way directly responsible for the following works for having enabled him in this way to quote: a 345-words English version of the Dies Iræ from Missale Anglicanum - The English Missal, third edition (London: W. Knott & Sons Ltd., 1934), p.620; 201 words from the anonymous author's Foreword to Meditations on the Tarot - A Journey into Christian Hermeticism (Element Classic Editions); all 188 words of the Millennium Prayer (Matthew James Publishing Ltd., 1997); 1,110 words from pages 15-17 of MORTIMER J. ADLER, How to Read a Book - a Guide to Self-Education (London: Jarrolds 1939); 968 words by J. MURRAY ALLISON, “On Advertising - some facts about selling through advertisements which will enable the lay reader to understand its principles and acquire a better understanding of its value” in the special Daily Dispatch edition of the British Empire Universities Modern English Dictionary containing illustrations in colour and in monochrome, maps in colour, and the latest census, with a reference library & treasury of facts, revised after the best and latest authorities on language, under the chief editorship of the Reverend Edward D. Price, editor of Hazell's Annual Cyclopædia (1886-01), The Student's Imperial Dictionary (1904), The Pearl Cyclopædia of Universal Information (1892), Haydn's Dictionary of Dates (1904 edition), and W. G. Hartog, MA, LittD, FRSL (London: The Sydicate Publishing Company 1924), page *a; the 450-words “Merlyn - A Song of the Crystal Earth, received 25 March and transcribed 28 March 1988 by the faithful servant of the Zuvuya, Uncle Joe” included in JOSÉ ARGÜELLES, Surfers of the Zuvuya (Santa Fe: Bear & Company 1989); 578 words beginning “Out of the voiceless mystery of the past” from Canto 3 of SRI AUROBINDO, Savitri - A Symbol & a Legend (4th revised edition, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram 1988); a total of 632 words from pages 86-90, 137, 144 and 177 of Kenneth A. Symington's English translation of CÉSAR S. CALVO, The Three Halves of Ino Moxo - Teachings of the Wizard of the Upper Amazon (Inner Traditions International, One Park Street, Rochester, Vermont 05767, USA: 1995), first published by Proceso Editores, Iquitos, Peru: 1981 as Las tres mitadas de Ino Moxo; the 1,288 words comprising Ac 26:1-32 in HEINZ W. CASSIRER, God's New Covenant - A New Testament Translation (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company 1989), pp.267-9; 2,456 words from pp.652-6 of THOMAS CHILD, “The New Church, commonly called Swedenborgian” in Religious Systems of the World - A Contribution to the Study of Comparative Religion, a collection of Addresses delivered at South Place Institute now revised and in some cases rewritten by the authors, together with some others specially written for this volume (ninth edition, London: Swan Sonnenschein & Co, Limited, July 1908); 673 words from pp.5-6 of GESHE LHARAMPA NGAWANG DHARGYEY, A Commentary on the Kalacakra Tantra, as presented at Sakya Tegchen Choling, Seattle, Washington, 3 April - 12 June 1982, and translated by Allan Wallace (Gelong Jhampa Kelsang), a manual to be read only by those who have received the Kalacakra Initiation (Dharmasala, Himachal Pradesh: Library of Tibetan Works & Archives 1985); 247 words from ARNOLD TOYNBEE's Foreword to MARCEL DUNAN, General Editor, with JOHN BOWLE, English Advisory Editor, Larousse Encyclopedia of Ancient and Medieval History (London: Paul Hamlyn 1963), p.10; 735 words from ALAN S. DUTHIE, “Opening up the question” in How To Choose Your Bible Wisely (2nd revised edition, Swindon: Bible Society 1995), pp.11-13; 808 words from BONNIE GAUNT, “The Language of the Universe” in Stonehenge and the Great Pyramid - Window on the Universe (510 Golf Avenue, Jackson, Michigan, 1993), pp.1-3; 209 words from Photographer Eliot Porter's Foreword to JAMES GLEICK, Nature's Chaos (Cardinal Books 1991), pp. 6-7; PHILLIP A. HISLOP's 984-word poem, “Of Man” in his Danger at the Edge of Time (1995), pages 2-4; GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS' 261-words: “That Nature is a Heraclitean Fire and of the Comfort of the Resurrection" in SACRED CONGREGATION FOR DIVINE WORSHIP, The Divine Office - The Liturgy of the Hours according to the Roman Rite (3 volumes, London & Glasgow: Collins, Sydney: E.J.Dwyer, Dublin: Talbot, 1974), Vol.1: Advent, Christmastide & Weeks 1-9 of the Year, pp.609*-10*; Vol.2: Lent and Eastertide, pp.637*-38*; Vol.3: Weeks of the Year 6-34, pp.802*-03*; J. H. LEIGH HUNT's 171-word poem: Abou Ben Adhem; CARL G. JUNG's 169-word Letter of 9 September, 1944; RUDYARD KIPLING's 204-words “The Disciple” in The Complete Verse (revised edition, London: Kyle Cathie Limited 1996), pages 642-3; a total of 434 words quoted from STEPHEN LANGDON, Tammuz and Ishtar - A Monograph upon Babylonian Religion and Theology containing extensive Extracts from the Tammuz Liturgies and all of the Arbela Oracles (Oxford: Clarendon Press 1914) and a further 72 words from the same author's Babylonian Menologies and the Semitical Calendars - The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy 1933 (Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford 1935), p. vi; 413 words from BERNARDUS LONERGAN S.I., Divinarum Personarum conceptionem analogicam evolvit (editio altera ad usum auditorum, Romæ: apud Aedes Universitatis Gregorianæ 1959), pp.7-9; 176 words from a Letter from Father MICHAEL MANNING in The Tablet (12 August 1995) referring to ROMAN CHOLIJ, Clerical Celibacy East and West, with a Foreword by Cardinal A.-M. STICKLER (1988); a 372-words extract from CESARE MOLINARI, Teatro - Lo spettacolo drammatico nei momenti della sua storia dalle origini ad oggi (Milano: Arnoldo Mondadori Editore 1972), p.14, together with the corresponding 388-words extract from Colin Hamer's English translation: Theatre through the ages, (London: Cassell 1975), pp.13-14; 444 words from MICHÆL SOKOLOFF's Préface à MITSOU NASLEDNIKOV (MA ANAND MARGO), Le Chemin de l'Extase - Tantra: vers une nouvelle sexualité (Paris: Albin Michel 1981), p.4; JOHN NORRIS's 259-words To Darkness; HIS HOLINESS POPE PAUL VI's 602-words Letter in Sagrada Biblia - version directa de las lenguas originales, Hebrea y Griega, al Castellano (36th edition, Madrid: Biblioteca de Auctores Cristianos 1979), pp.vii-viii; HIS HOLINESS POPE PIUS XII's 908-words “Broadcast Appeal for Peace, August 24, 1939”, English translation in Documents (Miscellaneous No.9, 1939) concerning German-Polish Relations and the Outbreak of Hostilities between Great Britain and Germany on September 3, 1939 (Cmd. 6106, London: HMSO 1939), pages190-2; a total of 661 words from LEO SHERLEY-PRICE, S. Francis of Assisi - His Life and Writings as recorded by his contemporaries: a new version of The Mirror of Perfection together with a complete collection of all the known writings of the Saint, translated into English (London: A. R. Mowbray & Co. Limited 1959), pp.125-7; a 208-word extract from ZECHARIA SITCHIN, The ‘12th’ Planet (New York: Avon Books 1978; Santa Fe: Bear & Co., 1991), p.140; 129 words from FRANCIS THOMPSON, “Sanctity and Song”, in Works (3 volumes, London: Burns & Oates 1913), Vol.3, p.89; ELLEN THORNEYCROFT FOWLER's 117-words A Weaving Song; a 1,044-words extract from DIANE WOLKSTEIN & SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER, Inanna Queen of Heaven and Earth - Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer (Harper & Row 1983), pp.4-9; also, until 1 November 1999, the complete 2,070-words text of REINHOLD STECHER, “Challenge to the Church”, translation of a letter from the Bishop of Innsbrück published in The Tablet (20/27 December 1997, pp.1668-9).
    Please remember that all of these most carefully selected and arranged quotations are both collectively and I+N each and every instance primarily presented as an invitation to the reader to enter into living communion with each and all of the individual writers named, whether “living” or “dead” - directly, of course, if at all possible, but at least through the medium of their now to us increasingly so easily accessible written words. Admittedly even the most highly developed human languages are only very imperfect and no more than transitory channels of interpersonal communication, but they are still among the best most of us have currently available.

395. Many persons may remain unconvinced of the truth of the claim made 22 years ago now by CHILDREN'S LIBERATION FRONT in their The Book of the Mother (Shivalila Production: 1977) that - “Whoever thinks an idea can be copyrighted has already forgotten its source. It is not necessary to obtain permission to quote any material in this book, provided that the four covenants of Shivalila are included directly or in footnote… 1. Ahimsa. Shivalila is an open, non-violent community… 2. Sattva Ava. People of Shivalila will make no contract in respect to truth without stipulating that truth is relative and that body, mind, and environment are indissoluble… 3. Bhramcari. People of Shivalila do not own anything on any plane… 4. Tantra. A person of Shivalila will have sensual/sexual relations with another only after that person has manifested some identification with nature and babies.”
    396-415. Nevertheless, it cannot be denied that faculty members of the University of Lyons assessing a PhD thesis in the mid-60s whose author had therein criticised the 19th-century authors of, I think it was volume 3 of the original 19-volume Italian official biography of Saint John Bosco (1818-1888) for assembling it almost 100% out of already existing unackowledged sources quoted verbatim either simply to avoid distorting their original meaning or also (very likely) to avoid any risk of incurring ecclesiastical censure, dissented from that PhD candidate's judgment, emphatically asserting instead that he ought to have commended them for their incredible achievement in welding such a wealth of authentic data into a highly readable as well as most instructive whole. Without going so far as to claim as much as H. P. Blavatsky so unjustifiably, in my view, claimed for the now largely if not entirely superseded Secret Doctrine, therefore, I feel I am already in honourable company.
    When I was a PhD candidate in Rome in 1968 one of the panel of assessors (not Giulio Girardi, who was my principal mentor at that time) objected to my use of several rather long verbatim quotations, just as as long ago as 1953 my then spiritual director, Father Terence O'Brien, had counselled me to make less use of set formulæ during private prayer, suggesting I would do better to talk with G-d in my own words. However, as my predescessor in office has indicated in his Meditations on the Tarot, for individuals whose vocation is such as his and mine, even if such a practice leads to fewer copyright problems in the market-place, it is contrary to the manifest (to him then and to me now) will of G-d.
    416. Fools continue to rush in where angels fear to tread, and libraries and bookshops are full not only of faithful reproductions of the world's greatest books (such as, for instance, the above-mentioned original Italian text of the 19-volume official biography of Saint John Bosco, 1815-1888) but, even more so, of dubious translations (the English Catechism of the Catholic Church appears to me to be, unfortunately, in this category), distorted paraphrases, misleading summaries and even deliberate perversions of the inspired writings of the Masters & Mistresses of Wisdom.
    417. Clearly, therefore, if a majority of our human family is ever to succeed in escaping from the prevailing muddle and confusion, meticulously accurate copying right needs, as Medicine Hat has pointed out, to be more widely acknowledged as far more important than economically motivated legal attempts to inhibit freedom of communication via the Internet or profit-inspired efforts to achieve world-wide agreement about “copyright” in the third millennium…
    418-9. You are warmly invited to add to your own website links to any pages on this one relating to your own current priorities and concerns. Our aim is to complement, never to criticize or replace other's work. If the presence of links to any of your sites or pages offends, please say so - preferably by sending us a specific and sufficiently detailed e-mail.
    420. Note, however, that although our webmaster responds regularly to all correspondence, including all e-mailed inquiries, he genuinely does so according to circumstances - in other words, only sometimes individually and quite often simply by posting an announcement somewhere on one of his Internet web-pages, such as, for example, newstuff.htm. He has not judged it appropriate to set up yet another mindless electronic-response system, nor to spend time repeating by e-mail what is already clearly stated somewhere on one or other of our existing pages, all of which are designed to be read, re-read, re-read again, and so mastered, enjoyed to the full, and thorough digested.
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Researching the traditions I+N Tradition and Tradition in all traditions

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Contents included I+N The Neith Network Library Primordial Wisdom Collection

• INITIAL INDEX AND GENERAL GUIDE TO THE SERIES.
• SIGNIFICANT CONTRASTS - TRUTH IS A MULTI-FACETTED DIAMOND.
• PRELIMINARY VOLUME ON-LINE INCLUDES A TREASURY OF BOOKS - THE WEBMASTER'S PERSONAL SELECTION OF GRADUATED READING-LISTS.
• VOLUME ZERO: ROSE THORNE LIVES! - SURVIVING FRAGMENTS OF A SACRED EROTIC NOVEL WRITTEN TO STIMULATE THEOLOGICALLY FRUITFUL MEDITATION AND DISCUSSION, BY JASON CRISP.
• VOLUME ONE: ECSTASY AND VENDETTA- THE MAKING AND UNMAKING OF A CATHOLIC PRIEST, BY COLIN JAMES HAMER (a new and extended edition of a work first published in 1973).
• VOLUME TWO: VOICE I+N THE DARKNESS - AN ESSAY IN CONTEMPORARY CATHOLIC EXISTENTIALISM BY COLIN JAMES HAMER (a new edition, with an appendix by Dom Sylvester Houédard, of a book first published in 1978): also available in Italian translation.
• VOLUME THREE: THE MYSTERY OF EVERYDAY EXPERIENCE - ENCOUNTER GROUPS, FOUR SEASONS MASSAGE, EPSOM-SALTS-FLOATATION-ISOLATION-RELAXATION-SAMADHI TANKS & KETALAR-RELATED EXPLORATIONS BY COLIN JAMES HAMER, together with THE WAY OF WOMAN I+N TODAY'S WORLD.
• VOLUME FOUR: THE COLLECTED WORKS OF THE CULBONE ANGLICAN NATURE-MYSTIC, YOGI, & ASCENDED MISTRESS OF THE RAINBOW PROGRAMME, JOAN D'ARCY COOPER (1927-1982) WITH A NEW INDEX BY THE PRELIMINARY LIBRARIAN: (Although Element Books have, in agreement with the Culbone Trust, already published one of Joan's five main works, the others are currently otherwise only available as hard-to-find privately printed booklets.
• VOLUME FIVE: PRELIMINARY LIBRARIAN'S INDEX TO HIS PREDECESSOR'S POSTHUMOUSLY AND ANONYMOUSLY PUBLISHED “MEDITATIONS ON THE TAROT - A JOURNEY INTO CHRISTIAN HERMETICISM”, WITH AN APPENDIX OF RELEVANT QUOTATIONS - ON DISCERNING THE HIDDEN MEANING AND VALUE I+N PRIMORDIAL FAITH.
• VOLUME SIX: PEACE AND RECONCILIATION - AN ANNOTATED SELECTION OF METAPHYSICAL, THEOLOGICAL, METHODOLOGICAL AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL PAPERS WRITTEN BY COLIN JAMES HAMER DURING THE PERIOD 1968-1997.
• VOLUME SEVEN: AUTHORIZED ANNOTATED EDITION OF DR. J. D. SOLOMON'S “THE MIND'S EAR” TOGETHER WITH A SELECTION OF HIS OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS TO LOGIC, PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE & THE PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE, & A GENERAL INTRODUCTION TO HIS WISELY PANENTHEISTIC ONE-DIMENSIONAL COSMOLOGY: Vol. VII.
• VOLUME EIGHT: COLIN JAMES HAMER IN COLLABORATION WITH MARCO TODESCHINI EXPLAINS AND EXEMPLIFIES “SEVEN RULES FOR THE GUIDANCE OF GENIUS - THE EMPIRICAL FOUNDATIONS OF HUMAN CYBERNETIC TYPOLOGY”.
• VOLUME NINE: THE “12TH" PLANET - ORIGIN OF EARTH & HOME OF MAN'S CREATOR? ZECHARIA SITCHIN'S HYPOTHESIS - "A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT” BY COLIN JAMES HAMER, THE REVISED & AUGMENTED TEXT OF HIS RILKO LECTURE FIRST DELIVERED IN SOUTH KENSINGTON ON 31 MARCH 1995.

• VOLUME TEN: A NEW EDITION OF COLIN JAMES HAMER'S “CHRISTIAN EDUCATION IN SCHOOL” (originally written and used at Salesian House, Beckford, in 1968).
• VOLUME ELEVEN: SELECTION FROM THE PRELIMINARY LIBRARIAN'S RECENT PAPERS AND CORRESPONDENCE ABOUT QUESTIONS WE ALL NOW NEED TO FACE: Vol. XI.
• VOLUME TWELVE... AND EVEN OUR SHORT LIST CONTINUES TO GROW….

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