"Graciously hear us, Lord, holy Father, almighty eternal G-d, and deign to send your holy Angel from heaven, to guard, cherish, protect, visit and defend all residents in this tiny dwelling-place^*...."

* i.e., the manifest cosmos.

INTRODUCTION

"Silver skies of the twilight,
Echoes of the half-night
Calling into the darkness,
Fragments of day caress.
Cloud on cloud, sheet on sheet of grey
Breaking in upon the closing day;
Touch of sadness in the air:
A stillness is born of care.
Now is the time for babes to go to sleep
Waiting, pensive till the last light fades
And aimless spirits leave the grave.
Soft evening when toil should end
And day into night does softly blend -
Rest in the shadows. Be quiet, my soul,
For love that is ended the Day has stole."
                                            Yasha, 4 July 1994

Thirty-three Salesians of Don Bosco from sixteen different countries then studying theology in the Pontifical Salesian University were ordained as priests in the Basilica of Mary, Help of Christians, in Turin on 9 Feburay 1964, the third year of the Second Vatican Ecumenical Council and the fortieth anniversary of the foundation of the International Don Bosco Institute of Higher Studies.
    Two of them, now the Very Reverend Father Bernard Francis Grogan, SDB and our Webmaster & editor, H.B. Extra-ReverendDoctorColinJames Hamer, MRP, Preliminary LibrArian emeritus I+N the Neith Network & Master I+N The Sacred Page (otherwise known as Shivananda), a current Director of Creativity House whom His Holiness Pope Paul VI released from his religious vows and canonically laïized on 5 February 1971.
    Colin's title is not one that is widely used, but all available evidence indicates its appropriateness in present circumstances. May Jesus-I+N-Mary Benevolently grace him with an increase I+N whatever charism of Extra Reverence today's situation urgently invokes. The Mistery of G-d's Rainbow Programme is here and now freely available for all who will to enjoy…
    Yet no resonant communicator I+NThe Light I+N lives on bread alone. As Mistresses & Masters of all our variously associated Rainbow Programs around the planet have grown increasingly to acknowledge, were the The Neith Network not already well established, its inauguration would undoubtedly be among our most urgent priorities at this time of such great need.
    G-d help us! Naturally we are, I know, unable faithfully to respond to our Divine Vocation and thereby, each one of us, discharge our related Mission on Earth without the loving assistance and prayerful support of The Lady of All Nations (who once was Mary). Colin, as Webmaster, also especially looks to St. Paul, Apostle of the Nations, for inspiration and guidance - and to all of you who love and follow in his footsteps today. Thank you for your continuing benevolent attention and, please G-d, increasingly lively cooperation.

"Since the beginning the Christian faith has (according to the Catechism of the Catholic Church, London: Geoffrey Chapman 1994, p.66, § 285, translated from p.69 of the 1992 French Mame/Plon edition) been challenged by responses to the question of origins that differ from its own."
    "Depuis ses débuts, la foi chrétienne a été confrontée à des réponses différentes sur la question des origines."
    The Italian version, moreover, seemingly incorporates at least an implied reference to the Eucharist: "Fin dagli inizi, la fede cristiana è stata messa a confronto con risponse diverse dalla sua circa la questione delle origini" (Libreria Editrice Vaticana 1992, p.88).
    The words emphasized in thus quoting from the authorized English and Italian translations of the now widely available authentic Latin and officially 'original' text of this important document transport us to the very heart of a dialogue, most intimate in nature and yet essentially open in character, in which you are now cordially invited freely to participate.
A few fine-tuning amendments officially published in 1998 also need to be taken into account. That said, and whatever the language, the call for dialogue is clear, radical, urgent and important.

The Maltese Professor of dogmatic, ascetical and mystical theology in the Pontifical Salesian University, Father Nazareno Camilleri taught that I+N the Resurrection all human bodies will, as it were, come together to form one single Person, this being a natural exigency as well as the gift of Grace.
    Thomas Merton maintained that we Earthlings are, indeed, already all effectively related to each other as One - even if appearances often convey some very different impression of the actual Truth.
    In this and the following pages Colin has endeavoured to make plain why and to what degree he has convinced himself that both of his fellow priests have reason on their side.

While the German text of Hans Urs von Balthasar's theology fills 50,000 pages, 5 A4-pages in English are a complete statement of the 37 Definitions & Reflections that, when taken together, constitute the Nuptial Theology with which the Webmaster endeavours, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to help both the Church and the world - and so our entire human family to prepare for, and to enjoy life to the full more abundantly throughout the new millennium.
    Many people today find themselves confronted with interpersonal problems they might prefer not to face at all, and certainly often feel ill-equipped to solve. Free, orderly communication is, however, the very substance of society. Authentic communication is nothing less than communion in process of development, the genesis and growth within and among us of our common vocation to live in openness, warmth and joy.
    "The problem of social dealienation is that of finding some institution capable of governing, serving, defending, teaching, entertaining, curing and creating and sustaining symbols of integration great enough to overcome the disintegrative forces of fear and weakness." This calls not merely for fresh ideas, but for the well-adapted application of practical force.
    Both globally and locally not politics but art is the communion of society.
    May Good-Will grow! May Light shine forth! And may G-d bless you always…

    G-d's minister & your friend in Jesus-I+N-Mary,

• The Jackdaw of Reams,
  Dei gratia si quid est:
  + Colin
  His Benevolence, The Extra-Reverend Doctor Colin James Hamer
  (otherwise known as Shivananda) Preliminary LibrArian I+N The Neith Network.

Creativity House, Exeter: 25 March 1999 - 28 January 2005.

On 28 January 2003, after listening to Anthony Wedgwood Benn's forthright and highly relevant, broadcast comments about the present threat of war against Iraq, I posted to his home address a copy of my recent letter to Shirley Williams (reproduced below), together with a transcript of the following notes, which I had shortly before posted on one of my other Internet pages:

Other urgently significant considerations include:

• "Peace", understood as "Shalom" in the biblical sense of that word, is not incompatible with warfare, but characterises its just conduct.
• Nothing in the writings of Thomas Aquinas is meant to settle the question as to whether any particular possible course of action is ethically or morally good or bad; accepting the customary evaluations current in his own day, this Saint sought rather to explain how all such evaluations might best be consistently integrated into a Gospel-inspired understanding of human life.
• Agreement among moral theologians that such and such a course of action is either morally positively good or at least morally permissible, never in and of itself constitutes a justification for anyone's actually embarking upon that particular course of action; no course of action whatsoever is ever morally acceptable as human behaviour unless it be motivated by genuine love of one's fellow partakers in the banquet of Life.
• Abnegation of responsibility for one's own individual conduct is never a valid moral option.

"The élite American nation constitutes only 5% of the world's population, yet consumes 40% of its natural resources, and therefore has the wealth and power to maintain the military force (allotted a $318 billion budget for 2001-2002) to protect and even further as its right this disproportionate ration, which is actually a violation of the dynamic balance of biospheric processes". José Argüelles, Time & the Technosphere (Bear & Company, 2002).

COLIN JAMES HAMER

Creativity House - The Rainbow Programme

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5 January 2003
                  THE NEITH NETWORK LIBRARY is currently freely available on-line:
                  Each of our webpages is dedicated to the Shipwreck
                  of St. Paul and placed under the protection of The Lady of All Nations.

 

Dear Baroness,

I have never forgotten your diligent kindness in facilitating, twenty-five years ago now, the normalisation in professional status of myself and several other full-time members of the then teaching-staff at HMP Wormwood Scrubs.

Your welcome presence in the studio-audience while Archbishop Rowan Williams delivered his recent Dimbleby Lecture assures me that you will not have been distracted from the main thrust of his Gospel message by your related reading of any of the frequently misleading press-reports and commentaries.

Effectively to plead for peace to-day requires much more of us than reading René Daumal's Mount Analogue in a receptive frame of mind and arguing, in the public forum, that serious consideration be given to the claims advanced by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari in their 1986 study, Nomadology - The War Machine.

No authentic world-leader is, in fact, entirely unaware of the truths that Marco Todeschini and myself have adumbrated, and that Professor Vittorio Hess has rather more fully outlined in his Bureaucracy and Well-Being - Towards a non-Western model (Università degli Studi di Camerino, Facoltà di Giurisprudenza, Istituto di Studi Economici e Sociali, Camerino 1994), this latter English translation being that made by Brian Williams, Professor of European History, John Cabot University, Rome.

I enjoy no privileged insight into the mind of President George Bush, but I have been very greatly disturbed at the extent to which Frank E. Peretti's in the U.S.A. best-selling novels, This Present Darkness and Piercing The Darkness (Crossway Books, Wheaton, Illinois, a division of Good News Publishers) communicate a massively unhealthy polarisation of "light" as good and "darkness" as evil, thereby not only completely ignoring but also very seriously obfuscating Carl Jung's and Laurens van der Post's wise insistence on the positive value of the shadow-factor in human affairs. Please move Heaven and Earth to prevent the war now threatening us all.

Shalom!

Dei gratia si quid est:
Col+in
(His Benevolence, The Extra-Reverend Doctor Colin James Hamer
DCH, MRP, STL, PhD, AFPhys (ITEC), DSc - otherwise known as Shivananda
Webmaster (in retirement), Preliminary LibrArian emeritus I†N The Neith Network
The Rainbow Programme, Creativity House, 9 Oxford Street, St. Thomas, EXETER, Devon EX2 9AG

THE LADY OF ALL NATIONS

• 431. NICHOLAS AYO, The Hail Mary - A Verbal Icon of Mary (University of Notre Dame Press, 1994).
• 432. MUSA BARAN, Ephesus and its surroundings (Izmir: Molay Matbaacilik, no date) - includes 140 coloured photos of archæoligical interest.
• 433. COURTENAY BARTHOLOMEW, A Scientist Researches Mary Mother of All Nations (Queenship Publishing Company, 1999). Mary isn't the Christians' and Moslems' private preserve!
• 434. E. BEGG, The Cult of the Black Virgin (Arkana 1985, revised and enlarged 1996). Fails to distinguish between Isis and Nephthys.
• 435. ANTONIO A. BORELLI, Fatima - Past or future?, 3rd edition (Glasgow: Tradition, Family, Property Bureau for the United Kingdom, 2005)
• 436. G. D'ALVIELLA, The Mysteries of Eleusis (Wellingborough: Aquarian Press 1981).
• 437. ALBRECHT DUERER, Das Leben der Jungfrau Maria (Hamburg, 1898).
• 438. VICTOR DUNSTAN, Did the Virgin Mary live and die in England? (Cardiff: Megiddo Press 1985).
• 439. CHINA GALLAND, Longing for Darkness - Tara & the Black Madonna: A ten-year Journey in Search of the Female Face of God (London: Century 1990). Several researchers fail to differentiate between Isis and her sister, Nephthys.
• 440-42. NICHOLAS GRUNER, "Do not despise prophecy" in The Fatima Crusader (452 Kraft Road, Fort Erie, ON L2A 4M7, Canada: No. 54, Winter 1997); Issue No. 70 (Spring 2002) marshalls and distorts a lot of data purporting to show that, unlike Pope John-Paul II, Cardinal Ratzinger (now Pope Benedict XVI) and Archbishop (now Cardinal) Tarcisio Bertone, S.D.B., have lied about the true nature of the '3rd secret of Fatima'; a 'masonic plot', or should one say 'conspiracy', is also mentioned… For a reliable if less than comprehensive account, including a photostat copy of Sister Lucia's 3 January 1944 4-page disclosure of the third "secret" together with the full text of some related writings of Pope John-Paul II, Cardinal Sodano, Cardinal Ratzinger and Archbishop Bertone, see LOUIS KONDOR, editor, Fatima in Lucia's own words - Sister Lucia's memoirs, 11th edition (Fatima: 2000), ISBN 972-8524-20-X.
  "At the Fatima visions of the Blessed Virgin in 1917," as David Elkington has noted (In the Name of the Gods, Sherborne: Green Man Press, 2001, pp. 167-8 & 175), "there were many instances of UFO sightings, all of which were attributed to the divine. At Akita, Japan, in 1973, a nun was warned of the terrible punishment that awaits humanity, a punishment more terrible than the flood. In June 1981, in the Balkan territory of Bosnia-Herzegovina, the Virgin Mary began appearing to six young Croatians, the first of whom was Ivanka Ivankovic, 15 years old at the time. A team led by Professor Henri Joyeux of Montpellier University, France, undertook scientific and medical studies of the children. They found that whilst there were no clinical signs of hallucination, hysteria, neuroses or psychosis, EEG recordings clearly indicated the presence of Alpha rhythms during the visions. The visions would last from 10 and 20 minutes after which the children would be blessed with the words: 'Go in peace with G-d.' From here one, as with instances at Fatima, Portugal, in 1917, at Lourdes, France, in 1858, and at Zeitoun, Egypt, from 1968 to 1971, the visions took on a whole new aspect, seeing to cause considerable environmental change. For example, the Sun began to dance and spin, and the word Mir, meaning 'peace' in Croatian, appeared in the sky above a large cross, which was situated on a nearby mountain."
  The New Zealand civil aviation polot, Captain Bruce Leonard Cathie, who was born in 1930 and lives in Auckland, married with two sons, is another researcher who has investigated various events of this sort. In The Bridge to Infinity - Harmonic 371244 (1983 - reprinted: Adventures Unlimited Press, 1997, pp. 186-200) he focussed attention specifically on Fatima, Zeitoun, Campbells Creek (near Melbourne, Australia) and San Sebastian de Garabandal, Spain. Referring to the great miracle of the Sun which occurred on 13 October 1917, he writes:"As the day approached thousands of people made their way towards Fatima causing chaos and overcrowding the roads. The 13th turned out to be a cold, miserable and rainy day… By 11.30 over 70,000 people were gathered at the Cova and at two o'clock, noon Sun-time, there as a flash of light, and Lucia shouted out, 'Silence, silence, our Lady is coming.' The vision again approached from the east and remained suspended in the sky above the oak tree.
  Lucia asked, 'Who are you madam, and what do you want of me?'
  'I am the Lady of the Rosary, and I desire a Chapel built in my honour in this place…'
  … At the end of the visitation… Lucia continued to see a series of visions of the Lord and the Holy Family. These were not seen by the mass of pilgrims, but something spectacular occurred. Lucia cried, 'Look at the Sun'. The clouds had parted suddenly and the Sun appeared as a phosphorescent disc. Everyone was able to look at it without harm to the eyes. There are varied accounts as to what happned next but the general story is as follows:
  The Sun appeared to spin, throwing off rays of light like a gigantic pinwheel. The light rays changed successively to yellow, red, green, blue and violet, then the disc suddenly left its place in the sky and plunged towards the Earth. The mass of people were terrified and dropped to their knees in fervent prayer. When it seemed that all would be destroyed the Sun stopped its downward plunge and returned to its normal position in the heavens. The longest estimate of the duration of the display was around twelve minutes. Because of the thousands of witnesses the miraculous event could not be denied… The event had been announced three months in advance by ten year old Lucia, and the people had witnessed the sign from the heavens…" And Captain Cathie's interesting account continues.
  Although Vatican authorities appear to have done little to deny Father Gruner's and his supporters' claim that Pope John-Paul II failed to respond to Our Lady of Fatima's request that Russia be consecrated to Her Immaculate Heart, when His Holiness visited Fatima to thank the Mother of G-d for preserving his life when he was shot in St. Peter's Square he actually rebuked one bishop who had congratulated him for deciding to consecrate the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, saying emphatically: "No, not the world, Russia!"
  In fact, even before His Holiness had arrived back in Rome and kept his promise, two Russian generals had unexpectedly lost their lives in an explosion at an arms-store, the Kremlin had aborted a planned naval attack on several strategically important centres in Europe, and various proposed Communist take-overs there had been called off…
• 443. CAROLL HÆNNI & VIVIAN VAN VICK, Anna Woman of Miracles - The Story of the Grandmother (Association for Research and Enlightenment, Virginia Beach, 2002).
• 395. COLIN JAMES HAMER, Nuptial Theology.
• 444. LOUIS KONDOR, editor, Fatima in Lucia's own words - Sister Lucia's memoirs, 11th edition (Fatima: 2000 - ISBN 972-8524-20-X). Significant seems to be the difference between what Sister Lucy used to say and write about the 3rd Secret of Fatima, and what she agreed with in her final years - and there is a difference in emphasis between John-Paul II (who felt he was the Pope shot in the vision), Cardinal Ratzinger's A.D. 2000 theological commentary on the 3rd Secret (which interpets the vision of an attacked Pope as symbolic of all Popes from St Pius X onwards and of all attacks on them and the Church), and Cardinal Ratzinger's elsewhere quoted remarks of February 1960 in an interview for Jesus magazine: "The things contained in this 'Third Secret' correspond to what has been announced in Scripture, and has been said again and again in many other Marian apparitions."
• 445-6. JOSEF KUNZLI, The Messages of The Lady of All Nations and Eucharistic Experiences (Queenship Publishing Company, 1996).
• 447. JEAN MARKALE, Cathedral of the Black Madonna - The Druids and the Myteries of Chartres (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International, 2004).
• 448. MALACHI MARTIN, The Keys of This Blood - The Struggle for World Dominion between Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev, and the Capitalist West (Touchstone - Simon & Schuster, 1990). For the authoritative account of the third part of the "secret" of Fatima see 442 above.
• 449. ROBERT J. PAYESKO, A Marian Dogma Whose Time Has Come - Short answers to the ten most commonly asked questions about the Definition of the Final Marian Dogma (Queenship Publishing Company, 1998).
• 450. DANIEL ROPS, The Book of Mary (Kingswood: The World's Work (1913) Ltd., 1960).
• 451. SIR E. A. WALLIS BUDGE, The Perpetual Virgin and her Mother Hanna and One Hundred and Ten Miracles of Our Lady Mary (Plymouth: Medici Society 1923; London: Humphrey Milford 1933) - reference PO.3.61 (Plymouth 1923) in the Regia Bibliotheca Melitensis is listed at 31027 230.21 4(?)92.8, with a note that it is "unfit for young readers, especially young ladies." Translated from manuscripts mainly in the British Museum, notably but not exclusively from BM Ethiopic MS no. 306 & Oriental 650, the miracles reported are mainly in the province of 14th-17th-century East African religion, magic, demonology and witchcraft.
• *. DIANE WOLKSTEIN & SAMUEL NOAH KRAMER, Inanna: Queen of Heaven and Earth - Her Stories and Hymns from Sumer (Harper & Row 1983).
• 452. DUDLEY WRIGHT, The Eleusinian Mysteries & Rites (London: Theosophical Publishing House, Denver: Square & Compass, no date).

WOMEN'S STUDIES, FEMINIST THEOLOGY, MARY MAGDALEN
(including Leonarda da Vinci, Rennes-le-Château, Rosslyn & The Grail Quest)

• 453. TAISHA ABELAR, The Sorcerer's Crossing - A Woman's Journey (Penguin-Arkana 1992).
• 454. JEANNE ACHTERBERG, Woman as Healer (Rider 1990).
• 455. GRACE AGUILAR, The Women of Isræl (London: Groombridge & Sons 1872).
• 456. PAULA GUNN ALLEN, The Woman who owned the Shadows (San Francisco: Aunt Luke Books 1994).
• 457-9. ARCHDIOCESAN CHANCERY & OTHER NODES WITHIN THE MATRIARCHAL CATHOLIC APOSTOLIC CHURCH OF ANTIOCH MALABAR RITE, "Certificate of Consecration" with "Letters Credential and Apostolic Commission" issued to Satchakrananda by Archbishop-Matriarch Meri Louise Spruit (San José, CA: 14 November & 20 December 1994); Paraclete (Vol.5, Issue 3, 1994 - including both "The Yin & Yang of Faith" and the poem "I will go up to the Altar of G-d" by Church of Antioch member Naira Alma, formerly the Roman Catholic nun Nancy Henderson).
• 460. BERMAN, The Glands regulating Personality (New York 1928).
• 461-4. R. BERNARD, The Physiological Enigma of Woman (Fieldcrest Publishing Co. Inc., 210 Fifth Avenue, NEW YORK 10, N.Y., 1964: contains abridgements of G. R. Clement's "Female Degeneration", H. S. Shelton's "Menstruation, its Cause and Cure" and G. S. White's "Emancipation of Woman"); Mysteries of Human Reproduction: includes a report of nineteen BMA-acknowledged cases of human parthenogenesis.
• 465. ATHALYA BRENNER, editor, A Feminist Companion to Genesis (Sheffield Academic Press 1993).
• 466. FRANCES BROWN, Joanna Southcott - The Woman Clothed with the Sun (Lutterworth Press, 2002; ISBN 0 7188 3018 0).
• 467. V. BUISSERET, The Woman and the Future of the Church (Rome: Address to the Fathers of the Synod 1971).
• 468. GAIL CHESTER & JULIENNE DICKEY, editors, Feminism and Censorship (Bridport: Prism Press, 1988).
• 469. MANTAK CHIA, Cultivating Female Sexual Energy (Huntington: Healing Tao Press 1986).
• 470. MARGARET CHISMAN, Opening The Mind's Eye - Exercises in Truth, Beauty & Goodness (London: Institute for Social Inventions, 1988).
• 471. R. CHURCH, Foreword by, The Dialectics of Diotima (Fontwell: Centaur Press 1969).
• 472. MARY COATE, Beyond all reason (London: Constable 1964).
• 473. SUKIE COLEGROVE, The Spirit of the Valley - Androgyny and Chinese Thought (London: Virago 1979) - "Words and definitions are only suitable for describing the differentiated world, since their function is to distinguish between things. They are unsuitable for communicating the unity which lies behind the differences." (p.10). The Introduction quotes Heisenberg: "What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning."
• 474. SHEELAGH CONWAY, before emigrating to Canada was born and lived in Connemara, from where she moved to London, then to Southamption, then back to London, when undertaking higher studied. Author of A Woman and Catholicism (Toronto: Paperjacks 1987) while living in Windsor, Ontario. Nominated as Canada's "woman of the year", she was outraged and menaced with legal proceedings those women who had presumed to evaluate... It is likely that this and similar actions were not entirely without financial motivation and, although not a value, money is a constraint.
• 475. A. COMBES, The Spirituality of St. Thérèse (Dublin: Gill 1952).
• 476-82. JOAN D'ARCY COOPER (1927-1982) , Culbone - A Spiritual History (Georjan Studio 1977); The Door Within - Some Meditations on Illness, Pain, Ageing and Death (London: Regency Press 1979 hardback; paperback edition: Wincanton Litho 1979); The Ancient Teaching of Yoga and the Spiritual Evolution of Man (ISBN 0 7050 0063 X hardback; 0 7050 0064 8 paperback - London: Research Publishing Company 1979); Corner-Stones of the Spiritual World (printed by Hammetts of Taunton 1981); Guided Meditation and the Teaching of Jesus (ISBN 0 906540 29 1 - Element Books 1982, 2nd impression 1985); also, previously unpublished: "Imbalance in Society" and "A Service of Meditation".
  Like the Pythagoreans before them, the British & Celtic Druids never committed any of their wisdom to writing, but Joan has recovered and recorded a great deal of it for us. Copyright in all her published writings is held by the Culbone Community Trust, Porlock Weir, Somerset, which is continuing her work, and from whom copies of her publications and further information may be obtained. A cumulative Index to her Collected Works has also now been made freely available worldwide.
• 483. S. COX, Female Psychology - The Emerging Self (Henley-on-Thames 1976).
• 484. NATHANIEL CUTAJAR, " 'Fat ladies' or immortal gods" in Malta - This Month, October 2002 (The in-flight magazine of Air Malta), front cover + pp. 14-16. Although the 19th-century drawing reproduced as figure 4 on page 15 may explain why it has been recently suggested that the lady or goddess modelled in the corresponding prehistoric statuette was "masturbating", no such inference is justified, the right hand in the actual statuette modestly reposes on the centre of her right thigh, her pudenda being, with equal modesty, openly displayed.
• 485. JEANNINE DAVIS-KIMBALL, Warrior Women - An Archæologist's Search for History's Hidden Heroines (Warner Books, 2003).
• 486. I. C. DE CASTILLEJO, "The Rainmaker" in her Knowing Woman - A Feminine Psychology (Hodder & Stoughton 1973), pp.131-48.
• 487. EDITH DEEN, All The Women Of The Bible (London: Independent Press Ltd., 1959).
• 488. KEITH DOWMAN, Sky Dancer - The Secret Life & Songs of the Lady Yeshe Tsogyel (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1984; Arkana 1989).
• 489. L. DRESEN-CŒNDERS, Saints and She Devils - Images of Women in the 15th and 16th Centuries (Rubicon Press 1987).
• 490. NORA DUFF, Matilda of Tuscany - La Gran' Donna d'Italia (Methuen 1909).
• 491-4. L. DURDIN-ROBERTSON, The Goddesses of Chaldæa, Syria & Egypt; The Goddesses of India, Tibet, China & Japan; Juno Cobella Perpetual Calendar of the Fellowship of Isis; The Religion of the Goddess (Huntington Castle: Cesara Publications 1975, 1976, 1982, 1982).
• 495. M. J. EGAN, Edith Stein - Jewess, Philosopher, Convert & Carmelite (Dublin: Veritas 1963).
• 496. RIANE EISLER, The Chalice and the Blade -Our History, Our Future (Unwin Paperbacks,1990).
• ***. MATTHEW FOX, Original Blessing (Bear & Co., 1983).
• 497. SARA FRASER, The Sisterhood (Warner Books, 1995).
• 498-9. TIMOTHY FREKE & PETER GANDY, The Jesus Mysteries - Secret Teachings of the original Christians and Jesus and the Goddess (Thorsons, 1999; 2001) - In addition to a bibliography, the authors provide a useful list of relevant Internet sites.
• 500. CHRISTINE FROST, A Guide to the Normandy of St. Thérèse from the Cradle to the Grave (The Theresian Trust and St Thérèse Missionary League in association with Anthony Clarke 1994).
• 501. ELINOR W. GADON, The Once & Future Goddess - A Symbol for our time (Aquarian Press 1995).
• 502. MARIJA GIMBUTAS, The Living Goddesses, edited and supplemented by MIRIAM ROBBINS DEXTER (University of California Press, 1999) - a section on pp.184-6 discusses "The Survival of Old European Deities in Ireland and Britain".
• 503. HARRIET GOLDHOR LERNER, The Dance of Intimacy - A Woman's Guide to Courageous Acts of Change in Key Relationships (Thorsons 1990).
• 504-5. LUCY GOODISON, Moving Heaven And Earth - Sexuality, Spirituality & Social Change (The Women's Press, 1990). Compare THOMAS CLEARY & SARTAZ AZIZ, Twilight Goddess - Spiritual Feminism and Feminine Spirituality (Boston & London: Shambhala, 2000).
• 506. ROBERT GRAVES, The White Goddess (Faber & Faber 1961, amended and enlarged edition 1984).
• 507. SALLY GRIFFYN, Sacred Journeys - Stone Circles & Pagan Paths (London: Kyle Cathie Ltd, 2000).
• 508. N. HALL, The Moon and the Virgin (London: The Women's Press 1980).
• *. COLIN JAMES HAMER, letter "The Need for Intelligent Thought on the Ministry of Women" in Catholic Herald (25 February 1972, no. 4480, p.5); letter "Churchmen and Women" in Catholic Herald (20 October 1972, no. 4514, p.5); "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); letter "Female Fulfilment" in Catholic Herald (28 July 1989); "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).

• 509. LYN HAMILTON, The Maltese Goddess - An Archæological Mystery (New York: Berkley Prime Crime, 1998).
• 510. V. E. HANNON, The Question of Women and the Priesthood (Geoffrey Chapman 1967).
• 510a. JOYCE HARGREAVES, An Anthology of Drawings from the Research Into Lost Knowledge Organisation Journals (RILKO, 2005).
• 511. A. HARRIS, The Sacred Virgin and the Holy Whore (Sphere Books 1988).
• 512. GRAHAM HARVEY & CHARLOTTE HARDMAN, Pagan Pathways - A Guide to the Ancient Earth Traditions (Thorsons, 2000).
• 512a. SUSAN HASKINS, Mary Magdalen - Myth and Metaphor (Pimlico Books, 2005).
• 513-18. HILDEGARD OF BINGEN, Visionary Works: Sci Vias; Liber Vitæ Meritorum; Liber Divinorum Operum; Letters (300 and more); A Melodrama: Ordo Virtutum; Hymns (77); Minor Works: "Explanation of The Rule of St. Benedict"; "Life of St. Desibod"; "Life of St. Rupert"; "Letter to the Congregation of her Sisters"; "Exploration of various Theological Themes"; Non-Visionary Works: Expositio Evangeliorum; Solutiones Triginta Octo Quæstionum; Liber Subtilitatum Diversarum Naturarum Creaturarum comprising the Physica and the De Causis et Curis; a Lingua Ignota including 700 words as well as 25 ignotæ litteræ (it has been suggested these so called "unknowns" are actually items in a medieval herbal). Many of these works may be read in Migne's Patrologia Latina, Vol. 197… Hildegard called herself "homo simplex"…
• 519. STEWART HOME, 69 Things to Do with a Dead Princess (Edinburgh: Canongate, 2003) - According to the New Statesman: "Stewart Home is one of our most important and interesting novelists. His work has been termed 'avant-garde', but it is much more ambitious than that, as honest as it is unique. This novel will confuse and amuse and leave you wondering what it was all about, and then it will draw you back to the beginning to try to find out. The more twisted and unreal his writing, the more confusing and contradictory his opinions, the more in touch with reality Home seems to become." A juvenile Post-Modern anti-book, or a joke on Post-Modern, as The Times called it, for others, "this is where the novel has a nervous breakdown."
  Hence, not so much a source of anomie as a reflection of its presence… "Anna Noon is a twenty-year-old student with a taste for perverse sex involving an enigmatic older man and a ventriloquist's dummy. Anna lives in Aberdeen and her sex life revolves around the ancient stone circles in the region. The sublime grandeur of the stones provides a backdrop against which Anna is able to act out her provocative psychodramas," the publisher's blurb informs us. A few quotations:

  "I regard truth as a divine ventriloquist. I care not from whose mouth the sounds are supposed to proceed, if only the words are audible and intelligible." Coleridge, Biographia Literaria.
  "I am a machine condemned to devour books." Marx in a letter to his daughter Laura dated 11 April 1868.
  "Nancy said her orgasm had been extremely intense so she figured the stones must be sited on a very powerful ley line." (p.149).
  "I dont remember exactly what Dudley said but the gist of it may be gained from some automatic writing I recently made after shoving a vibrator into my cunt as a means of opening my body up to psychic influences and subtle messages.
  'The worship of rude stones, as representing or containing a deity is supposed to have come from the fall of meteoric showers, which the ancients naturally regarded with deep wonder, and imagined to be representatives sent down from heaven to man… The Gælic clachan (church) means "stones". Kirk was so called because it was the one stone building in the neighbourhood. But local enquiries show that in many parts the question "are you going to kirk?" is put in the term "are you going to the stones?" '
  Of course, modern research suggests that the chief alignments of recumbent stone circles are lunar rather than solar…" (pp. 82-3).
  Alan "then announced that Georges Perec was the only OULIPO writer he rated." (p.41.)

• "Over coffee the conversation moved to Napoleon's How to Make War… My companion possessed a recent English translation of Napoleon's military maxims and he considered it to be the greatest manual on the art of seduction never written… What Alan had discovered - or to put it more accurately, rediscovered - was that theory was not the practice of seduction. Indeed, those whose experience in the art of seduction was limited to the realm of theory did not even make good theoreticians. It is not enough to theorise the art of seduction, this art must be practised. However, for the practise to be effective it must be historically informed… Ultimately, the seducer must be seduced by their art, so that the senses may become theoreticians. Strangely enough, Alan always insisted that it was the smells he gave off before bathing that proved he was not only a master strategist but also a cunning tactician." (pp.96-7)
  "Alan exploded, screaming that there was no such thing as a cappuccino without the milk. The waitress said that in that case she didn't know how to make an expresso." (p.128.)
  "As I drove I told Alan about a book I'd been reading, A Long Time Burning: A History of Literary Censorship in England by Donald Thomas. What had impressed me was a section in which the Gothic novel was described as giving socially acceptable expression to the type of sadism and morbid sexuality found in banned pornographic literature." (p.133.)

  "What a strange and marvellous novel this is" - commented The Times. It was, supposedly, written by its central character, Dudley, a wooden, ventriloquist's dummy, whose human companion, Alan, may, one suspects, have been modelling this production on Georges Perec's far better Life - A User's Manual.
• 520. LISA ISHERWOOD & DOROTHEA McEWAN, editors, An A to Z of Feminist Theology (Sheffield Academic Press, 1996) - Reading this volume straight through from A to Z enables a convenient overview of both the strengths and weaknesses in its authors' then attitudes, positions and presuppositions.
• 521. ELIZABETH B. JENKINS, Initiation - A woman's spiritual adventures in the heart of the Andes (Piatkus, 1996).
• 522. BUFFIE JOHNSON, Lady of the Beasts - Ancient Images of the Goddess and her Sacred Animals (HarperCollins 1990).
• 523. F. B. KILMER & J. I. DOOLEY, Article on Hildegard of Bingen: "A Saint among the Drugs" in American Journal of Pharmacy (December 1927), pp.727-48.
• 524. GLENNIE KINDRED, The Earth's Cycle of Celebration (Oxford: Earthkind 1991).
• 525. B. B. KOLTUV, The Book of Lilith (York Beach: Nicolas-Hays 1986).
• 526. PATRICIA A. LABALME, editor, Beyond their Sex - Learned Women of the European Past (New York University Press 1980).
• 527-30. STEPHEN LANGDON, Sumerian and Babylonian Psalms (Paris 1909); 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 - "A reaction against the trend of Assyriological interpretation of Sumero-Babylonian Religions, which has hitherto emphasized the magical side of this religion in a way wholly out of proportion to its purer ceremonies and deeper theology… The worship of Tammuz in Babylon and in those adjacent lands to which it spread was a cult of sorrow, death, and resurrection… The name itself is Sumerian and means the 'faithful son'… The cult evidently originated much earlier, for when our epigraphical sources for Mesopotamian history begin, we have already before us a highly developed religion. It would not be venturesome to assert that this mystic cult of death and resurrection is one of the earliest forms of worship known to us, and so far as our sources permit us to speak, precedes the lower form of incantation and magic… Certain it is that the son of a virgin mother, whom the shadows of the nether world each year claimed as a divine sacrifice for man and beast and vegetation, forms an important part of the earliest known religious worship… A virgin mother and a divine son who suffers death and return to life. It is he whom the Sumerians called the damu-zi, the 'faithful son'… The strongest evidence is at hand for supposing that the first deity worshipped [in the cult of Eridu, centre of the worship of Ea, by the ancient Sumerians] was Mother Earth under the specific name, 'Goddess of the vine'. The vine is not an indigenous plant in Mesopotamia… The title 'faithful lady', or 'faithful queen', is parallel to that of Tammuz the 'faithful son'. Both titles probably reflect the ancient idea that these deities died for the life of the world, and of the two titles, nin-zi-da and dumu-zi-da, the former may well be the older… not only a divine mother who assists the birth of all life and perishes that it may revive, but she is the matron of rulers and the incarnation of justice… In due course of time the licentious nature of her worship was unfortunately retained. This was the feature of her cult which made the greatest impression upon Herodotus. In book I, chapter 99 of his History he describes that shameful law of the Babylonians which sent every Babylonian woman once in her life to the temple, the goddes of love, to sacrifice her honour for gold. The historians tells us that the Assyrians called this goddess Mylitta, and this, no doubt, means Innini and not Nintud." op.cit.: passim.); Sumerian Liturgy and Psalms (Philadelphia 1919); Babylonian Menologies and the Semitical Calendars - The Schweich Lectures of the British Academy 1933 (Oxford University Press: Humphrey Milford 1935 - "The influence of Sumerian religion and culture upon the whole history of western Asia down to our era, and continued in the Jewish calendar to our day, in the Syriac Christian calendar, and in the religious year of the Sabeans of the Middle Ages, can be traced and proved." op.cit.:page vi.)
• 531-2. W. LAUTER, Hildegard-Bibliographie - Wegweiser zur Hildegard-Literatur (Alzey 1970); also an article on Hildegard of Bingen in Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique.
• 533. SANDRA LEWIS, Handbook for Women's Quest Circles (SanFrancisco, CA: Copyright © draft-version 1985).
• 534. VAL LEWIS, Satan's Mistress - The extraordinary story of the 18th Century fanatic Joanna Southcott and her lifelong battle with the Devil (Shepperton: Nauticalia Ltd., 1997; ISBN 0953045803).
  Val Lewis and Frances Brown (no. 462 above) offer to their readers markedly contrasting impressions of their subject. A possible parallel to the contemporary attitudes of many "Christian" and other fundamentalists who are as radically opposed to all New Age innovations as are Frank Peretti's good angels, heroines and heros in his already mentioned best-selling novels.
  Our "contending against principalities, powers and the world-rulers of this present darkness, against the spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places" (Ephesians 6:12), does not imply that Satan is the only root of human evil, nor that we human beings are incapable of making mistakes or doing wrong without the Devil's help!
  In other words, lots of so called good angels very often behave little better than alternative villains!
  Evil is fought positively not by recourse to violence, but positively and preventively by everything that nourishes and strengthens the Good Life. Our world seems always to have been in a bit of a mess - higgledy-piggledy, ramshackle, topsy-turvy. Thankfully, however, our perceptions of each other, our understandings of each other and our ways of relating to each other are subject to change, development - and that in more than one direction.
  We each of us have our ups, as well as our downs, and both within the privacy of the home and under the public scrutiny of satellite-television coverage there we find, as well as all too frequent decline, sometimes real progress…!
• 535. ASPHODEL P. LONG, In A Chariot Drawn By Lions - The Search for the Female in Deity (London: Women's Press, 1992).
• 536. HELEN MARY LUKE, Kaleidoscope - "The Way of Woman" and other essays (New York: Parabola 1992).
• 537. FIONA MADDOCKS, Hildegard of Bingen - The Woman of Her Age (Headline Book Publishing, 2001).
• 538. MANITONQAT, "Daughters of Creation" in Many Smokes (Fall 1981).
• 539. MANUELA DONN MASCETTI, The Song of Eve - Mythology and Symbols of the Goddess (Aurum Press 1994).
• 540. ADAM McLEAN, The Triple Goddess - An Exploration of the Archetypal Feminine, Hermetic Research Series Number 1 (Phanes Press 1989).
• 541. FRANCIS MERSHMAN, article on Hildegard of Bingen in Catholic Encyclopedia (London: Caxton Publishing Co., 1910, Vol. VII, pp.351-3).
• 542. MARGOT MILLER, "Sillina the Moon Goddess" in Pagan Dawn, Number 141, Samhain - Winter 2001 (pp. 31-33).
• 543. JOAN MORRIS, Against Nature and G-d - The History of Women with Clerical Ordination & the Jurisdiction of Bishops (London 1973).
• 544. ANSELM MOYNIHAN, The Radiance of Edel Quinn (Dublin: Legion of Mary, Coronata Curia).
• 545. J. B. NELSON & S. P. LONGFELLOW, editors, Sexuality and the Sacred - Sources for Theological Reflection (Mowbray 1994).
• 546. ERICH NEUMANN, The Great Mother - An analysis of the archetype (Pantheon Books: Bollingen Series XLVII, 1955).
• 547. SUSAN NIDITCH, Oral World and Written Word - Orality and Literacy in Ancient Egypt (SPCK 1997).
• 548-9. DANIEL ODIER, Desire - The Tantric Path to Awakening (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International, 2001) - translated from Désirs, passions & spiritualité (Éditions JC Lattès, 1999) by Clare Marie Frock. Highly recommended for further personal reading and meditation.
• 550. SYLVIA BRINTON PERERA, Descent to the Goddess - A Way of Initiation for Women (Toronto: Inner City Books 1981).
• 551. J. PETERKIEWICZ, The Third Adam (London: Oxford University Press 1975).
• 552. GRAHAM PHILLIPS, The Marian Conspiracy (Sidgwick & Jackson, 2000).
• 553. EDITH PIAF, The Wheel of Fortune - The Autobiography of Edith Piaf, with an Introduction by Jean Cocteau, translated from the French by Peter Trewartha & Andrée Masoin de Virton (London: Peter Owen 1965).
• 554. ALIX PIRANI, editor, The Absent Mother - Restoring the Goddess to Judaism and Christianity (HarperCollins: Mandala, 1991).
• 554a. RACHEL POLLACK, The Body of the Goddess - Sacred Wisdom in Myth, Landscape and Culture (London: Vega 2003).
• 555. GILLIAN RÆ, Message of Guadalupe (London: CTS, 2000).
• 556. PETER REDGROVE, The Black Goddess and the Sixth Sense (Paladin Books, 1989).
• 557. HELEN RHODES WALLACE, How to enter the silence - Making clear that experience which clarifies perception, intensifies effort and establishes prosperity (15th impression, Romford: L. N. Fowler & Co. Ltd., 1983).
• 558. STELLA RIMINGTON, Open Secret - The Autobiography of the Former Director-General of MI5 (Arrow Books, 2002).
• 559-62. LADY OLIVIA ROBERTSON, Rite of Rebirth; Urania - Ceremonial Magic of the Goddess; Ordination of Priestesses & Priests; The Isis Wedding Rite (Huntington Castle, Clonegal: Cesara Publications 1980, 1980, 1983, 1983).
• 563. MAGGIE ROSS, Pillars of Flame - Power, Priesthood & Spiritual Maturity (SCM Press 1987).
• 564. V. SACKVILLE-WEST, Saint Joan of Arc (Cardinal Books 1980).
• 565-7. DAVID SANDERS, editor, Priests & People (Vol. 7, No. 5, May 2003) - includes: CECILIA BOULDING, "Mary, Mother of all Christians"; SARAH JANE BOSS, Director of the Marian Studies Centre, "What are they saying about Mary?"; CATHERINE OAKES, "The Virgin and her dancing partner"; etc.
  According to Oakes (p.203): "A startling textual example of Marian authority resides in the common Middle English invocation 'Empress of Hill'. It has a rare Latin form, Imperatrix Inferni…"
• *. 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!
• 568. DOROTHY L. SAYERS, The Mind of the Maker (Methuen 1946).
• 569. MARIANNA SCHRADER, Article on Hildegard of Bingen ("Une vibration constamment en harmonie avec la nature intensifia sa liaison avec le cosmos") in Dictionnaire de Spiritualité (Paris: Beauchesne 1969, Tome VII, col. 505-21).
• 570-71. ELISABETH SCHUESSLER FIORENZA, Discipleship of Equals - A Critical Feminist Ekklesia-logy of Liberation (SCM Press 1993) - note especially the section "The Pilgrim Church", pp.101-3. Whatever its strategic and politico-ecumenical advantages, the "rainbow coalition" she appears positively to appreciate is, from a speculative point of view, a step backwards from the early scholastic gains in theological understand to the rhetorically persuasive but technically confused mindset typical of St. Augustine who, curiously, tends not to be most rainbow-coalitionists' favourite source of inspiration!
  Sharing Her Word - Feminist Biblical Interpretation in Context (Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1998).
• 572. 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).
• 573. MANDA SCOTT, Boudica - Dreaming The Eagle (Bantam Books, 2004): "staggeringly imaginative invocation of Britain's secret history" - especially as "Britain" was then what is now termed Wales and the West Country?
• 574. TURID KARLSEN SEIM, The Double Message - Patterns of Gender in Luke-Acts (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark 1994).
• 575. ASIA SHEPSUT, Journey of the Priestess - The Priestess Tradition of the Ancient World - A Journey of Spritual Awakening & Empowerment (Aquarian/Thorsons 1993, p.62): "Sexual union as a religious rite is quite opposite to the rô of the priestess who is worshipped as the incarnation of the Goddess Power or Shakti within the inner sanctum. She remains forever identified with the Absolute Shakti and is therefore virginal. This type of shakti priestess, then, was a naked girl of perfect form and health to whom offerings were made."
• 576. D. SHERWIN BAILEY, The Man-Woman Relationship in Christian Thought (London: Longmans 1959).
• 577-8. MONICA SJOO & BARBARA MOR, The Ancient Religion of the Great Cosmic Mother of All (Trondheim: Rainbow Press 1981); considerably revised and enlarged as: The Great Cosmic Mother - Rediscovering the Religion of the Earth (San Francisco: Harper & Row 1987).
• 579-80. JODY BRANT SMITH, The Guadalupe Madonna - Myth or Miracle? (London: Souvenir Press 1983); The Image of Guadalupe, 2nd & revised edition (Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, in association with Leominster: Gracewing/ Fowler Wright Books 1994).
• 581. J. M. SCOTT, Boadicea (Heron Books, 1969).
• 582-3. MIGUEL SERRANO, The Serpent of Paradise; Nos - Book of the Resurrection (Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974, 1984).
• 584. LEONARD SHLAIN, The Alphabet versus the Goddess - Male Words and Female Images (Allen Lane: The Penguin Press 1999).
• 585. MARCIA STARCK & GLYNNE STERN, The Dark Goddess - Dancing with the Shadow (Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press 1993).
• 586-7. FRANCESCA MARIA STEELE, The Life & Visions of St. Hildegarde, Preface by V. McNabb (Heath, Cranton & Ousely 1914), and article on Hildegard in Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique.
• 588. DIANE STEIN, Stroking the Python - Women's Psychic Lives (St. Paul, Minnesota: Llewellyn Publications 1989).
• 589. R. J. STEWART, editor, Merlin and Woman (London: Blandford Press 1988).
• 590. D. STREATFIELD, A Study of two Worlds - Persephone (Routledge & Kegan Paul 1959).
• 591. W. STREHLOW & G. HERTZKA, Hildegard of Bingen's Medicine (Santa Fe: Bear & Co., 1988).
• 592. ALGAR THOROLD, The Dialogue of the Seraphic Virgin Catherine of Siena (Kegan Paul, Trench Triebener & Co., 1896).
• 593. KAREN JO TORJESEN, When Women were Priests - Women's Leadership in the Early Church & the Scandal of their subordination in the rise of Christianity (HarperSanFrancisco 1993).
• 594. ALICE LUCY TRENT, The Feminine Universe - An Exposition of the Ancient Wisdom from the Primordial Feminine Perspective (London: The Golden Order Press) - suggests a helpful way of counterbalancing some aspects of Wilson's proposals in Consilience but, unfortunately, lacks depth.
• 595. IRINA TWEEDIE, The Chasm of Fire - A Woman's Experience of Liberation through the Teachings of a Sufi Master (Element Books 1993).
• 596. JOYCE TYLDESLEY, Daughters of Isis - Women of Ancient Egypt (Viking 1994).
• 597. F. VERNET, article on Hildegard in Dictionnaire de Théologie Catholique (Paris: Letouzey et Ane 1920, Vol. 6, cols. 2468-80).
• 598. BARBARA G. WALKER, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets (Harper & Row 1983).
• 599-600. MARINA WARNER, From the Beast to the Blonde and No Go the Bogeyman - Scaring, Lulling and Making Mock (Chatto & Windus, 1998; Vintage, 2000: ISBN 0-09-973981). Her dedication is followed by this from Giambattista Vico's Principles of New Science: "As rational metaphysics teaches than man becomes all things by understanding them (homo intelligentia fit omnia), this imaginative metaphysics shows that man becomes all things by not understanding them (homo non intelligendo fit omnia). Perhaps the latter proposition is truer than the former, for when man understands he extends his mind and comprehends all things, but when he does not understand he makes things out of himself and becomes them by transforming himself into them."
• 601. SARAH WATERS, Affinity, (Virago 1999).
• 602. J. WIJNGAARDS, Did Christ rules out Women Priests? (Great Wakering: Mayhew-McCrimmon 1977). This frequently cited book clearly meets some readers' needs, but stands very much in need of expansion - especially in the direction of theological depth. DALE N. ROBERTSON's already mentioned The Biblical Ciphers Unsealed - A Revival of the Hebrew Goddess (St. Paul, Minnesota: Paragon House, 2001). requires serious attention. My friend Francesca Rossetti, as she is now called, earlier mentioned as the author Françoise Strachan, is today a London-resident woman-'bishop', but Joan Morris, also previously mentioned, to whom on 10 July 1978 I I wrote a letter about "The Status of Women in the Roman Catholic Church" that is still, I think worth reading, was then well into her 80's, and is now elsewhere. Incidentally, while writing that letter, I was quite unaware that at least one Czech lady, Ludmilla Javorovna of Brno, was already exercising her ministry as an 'ordained' Catholic priest somewhere behind the Iron Curtain…
• 603. J. WILLIAMS, Joan of Arc (Cassell 1972).
• 604. JENI WILLIAMS, Interpreting Nightingales - Gender, Class and Histories (Sheffield Academic Press, 1997).
• 605. DONNA WILSHIRE, Virgin Mother Crone - Myths & Mysteries of the Mother Goddess (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions 1994).
• 606. W. WINWOOD READ, The Veil of Isis - or Mysteries of the Druids (North Hollywood: Newcastle Publishing 1992).
• 607. E. WYNNE-TYSON, The Philosophy of Compassion (London: Centaur 1970).
• 608. SERINITY YOUNG, editor, An Anthology of Sacred Texts by and about Women (Pandora 1993).

• 609. RENÉE AUREMBOU, Le Trésor de Montsegur (Paris: Société Nouvelle des Éditions G.P., 1965).
• 610. MICHÆL BAIGENT, RICHARD LEIGH & HENRY LINCOLN, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, revised and updated paperback edition (Arrow Books, 1996).
• 611. CHRIS BARBER & DAVID PYKITT, Journey to Avalon - The Final Discovery of King Arthur (York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser 1997) - Although King Arthur wasn't buried in Glastonbury, King Arvirargus, a contemporary of the legendary Joseph of Arimathea, may very well have been, four centuries before. Geoffrey of Monmouth's insula Avallonis was Bardsey Island, not Glastonbury. King Arthur is St. Arthmæl. Cf. pp.279-83:

  "In Monasticon Anglicanum, volume III, page 190, from the ancient register of the Cathedral Church of Llandaff, is the only instance which occurs, in that register, of the name ARTHUR, so spelled, as the king of Gwent, son of Mouric, king of Morgannwg, the father of Morcant. Elsewhere, he is uniformly called Athruis, who was a contemporary of Comergwynus, a bishop of the See of Llandaff. It would seem that Sir William Dugdale (1605-1686) knew the true identity of King Arthur and it is a remarkable coincidence that St. Arthmael is portrayed in a stained glass window in the Church of St. Mary at Merevale, the seat of the Dugdales…
  A certain duke of Arabia known as Stedman, who was a Knight of the Sepulchre, came to this country with Richard Coeur de Lion in 1191. He brought with him from the Holy Land the famous Nanteos Cup, believed by some to be the Holy Grail, and gave it into the safe-keeping of the monks of Strata Florida Abbey…
  There is a distinct possibility that the stained glass window portraying St. Arthmael came originally from Strata Flordia Abbey… It dates from ca. 1500-1525…
  In 1523 Sir Walter Devereux was made steward of the household of Mary Tudor at Ludlow and Chief Justice of South Wales… In 1532, Sir Walter Devereux purchased Merevale Manor from the Crown…"

• 612. RICHARD BARBER, "On the trail of the Grail" in BBC History Magazine, Volume 5, Number 2, February 2004, pp. 33-6; The Holy Grail - Imagination and Belief (Allen Lane, 2004).
• 613-5. M. BECKETT, The Pyramid and the Grail (Romsey: Lailoken Press 1984) - includes an important quotation from a document about Glastonbury written by Father William Good and preserved in the Venerable English College in Rome. See also: A. L. DIERICK, Van Eyck - The Mystic Lamb (Gent: 1970) and R. HUGHES & G. FAGGIN, The Complete Paintings of the van Eycks (London: 1970).
• 616. W. BIRKS & R. A. GILBERT, The Treasure of Montsegur - A study of the Cathar heresy and the nature of the Cathar secret (Crucible 1987).
• 617. PETER BLAKE & PAUL S. BLEZARD, The Arcadian Cipher - The Quest to crack the Code of Christianity's Greatest Secret (Sidgwick & Jackson 2000).
• 618-21. DAN BROWN, Deception Point (ISBN 0 552 15176 9); Digital Fortress (ISBN 0 552 16169 6); Angels and Demons (ISBN 0 552 15073 8); The Da Vinci Code (ISBN 0 552 14951 9: Corgi Books, 2004 - U.K. paperback edition of world's then best-selling novel, U.S. edition of more than 10,000,000 in print, and already translated into 28 languages).
• 622. DAN BURSTEIN, editor, Secrets of the Code - The Unauthorised Guide to the Mysteries Behind The Da Vinci Code (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004) - includes interviews with acknowledged scholars and extracts from a variety of other related books.
• 623. DAN BURSTEIN & ARNE DE KEIJZER, editors, Secrets of Angels & Demons - The Unauthorised Guide to the Bestselling Novel (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005).
• 624. CATHOLIC WOMEN'S ORDINATION, Directory 2003 - and subsequent supplementary updates.
• 625. PHILIP COPPENS, The Stone Puzzle of Rosslyn Chapel (Adventures Unlimited Press, 2004).
• 626. JASON CRISP, edited by COLIN JAMES HAMER, Rose Thorne Lives! (The Neith Network Library, 1998).
• 627. N. CURRER-BRIGGS, The Holy Grail and the Shroud of Christ (Maulden: Ara Publications 1984).
• 628. J. P. DELOUX & J. BRÉTIGNY, Rennes-le-Château - Capitale secrète de l'Histoire de France (Paris: Éditions Atlas 1982).
• 629. DEPARTMENT FOR STUDIES, DIVISION FOR CHURCH IN SOCIETY, The Church and Human Sexuality - A Lutheran Perspective (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America 1993).
• 630-33. GÉRARD DE SÈDE, Les Templiers sont parmi nous - l'énigme de Gisors; La Race Fabuleuse; Extra-terrestres et Mythologie Mérovingienne; Le Secret des Cathares (Éditions J'ai Lu 1962, 1973, 1973, 1974).
• 634. ANDRÉ DOUZET, Saunière's Model and the Secret of Rennes-le-Château (Adventures Unlimited Press - Frontier Publishing - Société Perillos, 2001).
• 635. BARRY DUNFORD, The Holy Land of Scotland (Glenlyon, Perthshire: Sacred Connections, 2002).
• 636. UMBERTO ECO, Baudalino (Vintage paperback, 2003) - fictional graal quest and pilgrimage to the lands of Prester John.
• 637. BART D. EHRMAN, Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code - A Historian reveals what we 'really' know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine (Oxford University Press, 2004).
• 638. H. ÉLIE, À La Gloire de Jésus Christ - Le Saint Graal: Révélations des Mystères du Haut Razès (Arques: Antoine Vogels 1983).
• 639-40. JULIUS EVOLA, Introduction to Magic - Rituals and Practical Techniques for the Magus (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International 1997, 2001); The Mystery of the Grail - Initiation and Magic in the Quest for the Spirit (Rochester, Vermont: Inner Traditions International 1997, pp. 166-7): "Enlightenment originally … referred to a suprarational, spiritual illumination; slowly but inexorably, it became synonymous with rationalism, with the theory of 'natural light,' and with antitradition … a counterfeited and subversive use of the right belonging to the initiate alone … The light of mere human reason replaces the illumination, giving rise to the havoc brought about by 'free inquiry' and secular criticism. The supernatural is banned or confused with nature. Freedom and equality are illegitimately claimed by the individual who is 'conscious of his dignity' (though he is not conscious of being enslaved to his empirical self) and who now arises against any form of established authority, vainly setting himself up as his own ultimate reason for being … 'vainly' because … the collective and irrational element in the age of the masses and of technology has rapidly overcome the emancipated 'individual' who is without roots and without traditions."
• 641. P. & L. FANTHORPE, The Holy Grail Revisited (North Hollywood: Newcastle Publishing 1982).
• 642. ANATOLE FRANCE, Thaïs (London: Greeny & Co., 1902).
• 643. SYLVIA FRANCKE & THOMAS CAWTHORNE, The Tree of Life and the Holy Grail (London, Temple Lodge, 1996); page 100 includes this quotation from Rudolf Steiner's The Temple Legend: "In the original occult brotherhoods the thought lived that man has a task to fulfil; the task of restructuring the inanimate world, of not being satisfied with what is already there. Wisdom thus becomes deed through its penetration of the inanimate world, so that the world should become a reflection of the original and eternal spirituality. Wisdom, Beauty, Strength are the three fundamental words of all Freemasonry. So to change the outer world that it becomes a garment for the spiritual - that is its task."
• 644-9. Sir LAURENCE GARDNER, Bloodline of the Holy Grail - The Hidden Lineage of Jesus Revealed (Element Books, 1996); Genesis of the Grail Kings - The Pendragon Legacy of Adam and Eve (Bantam-Transworld, 1999); Lost Secrets of the Sacred Ark (Element Books, 2003); The Magdalene Legacy - The Jesus and Mary Bloodline Conspiracy (Element Books, 2005); also his related articles in Nexus Magazine.
• 650-51. ARTHUR GUIRDHAM,The Lake & The Castle and The Great Heresy (Jersey: Neville Spearman 1976; 1977).
• 652. MICHÆL HAAG & VERONICA HAAG, The Rough Guide to The Da Vinci Code (London: Rough Guides, 2004) - Confuses the Immaculate Conception with the Virgin Birth, mistakenly claims that the differing latitudes of Glastonbury and Rosslyn preclude their sharing a common longitude (admittedly, they don't), neglects Steve Blake & Scott Lloyd's important realisation that the historically original "Glastonbury" of Graal and Arthurian legend was not in Somerset but Wales, makes no comment at all about Dan Brown's mention of i without any reference at all to Euler's formula, and overlooks his character, Sophie Neveu's grandmother, Marie Chauvel's clear and explicit statement that: "In fact the Priory [of Sion] has always maintained that the Grail should never be unveiled" (Chapter 105). Nevertheless, helpfully bridges the gap between danbrown.com and this entire Treasury of Books.
• 653. ERLING HAAGENSEN & HENRY LINCOLN, The Templars Secret Island - The Knights, the Priest and the Treasure (Moreton-in-Marsh: Windrush Press, 2000).
• 654. SIMON HARDEMAN, "Da Vinci decoded" in London for Visitors, 2005/6 (Time Out, pp.8-9).
• 655. J. H. HELLER, Report on the Shroud of Turin (Boston: Houghton Mifflin 1983).
• 656. RODNEY HOARE, The Turin Shroud Is genuine - The irrefutable evidence updated (paperback edition with Afterword by Clare Stevens: Souvenir Press 1998).
• 657-7a. MARILYN HOPKINS, GRAHAM SIMMANS & TIM WALLACE-MURPHY, Rex Deus (Element Books, 2000); TIM WALLACE-MURPHY & MARILYN HOPKINS, Custodians of Truth - The Continuance of Rex Deus (RedWheel/Weiser, 2005). Despite several recent films having conveyed quite a different impression, according to these authors (op. cit., p.242), it is not neo-pagan witchcraft simply but "the truth about the dynasty of Jesus" and "the fact that Mary Magdalene, the wife of Jesus the Nazarene, bore children and took them to Europe" that make the Robin Hood saga so vitally important. "Robin Hood, the subversive fighter against usurped authority" represents, in real life, Rex Deus carrying the beacon of truth despite persecution by false prophets, enemies of the Light. Like "the Emperor" in the Tarot Cards "the King", as "the human bearer of true authority does not replace divine authority but, on the contrary, cedes his place to it.... He has renounced compulsion and violence. He has no weapons... He has renounced ease... He has renounced walking... He may neither advance in order to take the offensive, nor move back in order to retreat... He is on sentry-duty... He is a guardian bound to his post... Every crown is essentially a crown of thorns... It calls for a painful restraint with regard to the thought and free or arbitrary imagination of the personality... The crown signifies renunciation." Whoever wears it "is deprived of the three so-called 'natural' liberties of the human being - those of opinion, word and movement. Authority demands this." (Meditations on the Tarot, pp.78-9.)
  Custodians of Truth subtantially adds to and also half repeats the text of Rex Deus. In denying the celibacy of Jesus as man, the authors have overlooked Genesis 49: 10. Their brisk rejection of Roman Catholic teaching includes a failure to appreciate that the divine Father is the One Parent of the Word as God, Mary being the One Parent of the Word as the new Man, Jesus - conceived by the Holy Spirit, not by 'the impregnation' they postulate by extrapolation from their own assumptions. Their references to Margaret Starbird's The Woman with the Alabaster Jar (674 below) suggest that she shares their belief that Mary Magdalen of Bethany was the husband of Jesus and the father of his daughter Sarah, when, while arguing that such was the belief of Cathars in the middle-ages and of several important Renaissance artists, she clearly states that it cannot be proved at all from either the New Testament or any other contemporary records. Twice now they have "rushed into print"...
• 658. J. JAMES, The Traveller's Key to Medieval France (Harrap Columbus 1985).
• 659. S. JAMES, The Treasure-Maps of Rennes-le-Château (Bow: Seven Lights 1984).
• 660. HOLGER KERSTEN & ELMAR R. GRUBER, The Jesus Conspiracy - The Turin Shroud & the Truth about the Resurrection (Element Books 1994).
• 661-2. KEITH LAIDLER, The Head of God - The Lost Treasure of the Templars (London: Orion Books, 1998); The Divine Deception - The Church, the Shroud and the Creation of a Holy Fraud (Headline, 2000). Despite its title, this book, possibly the best currently available discussion of the historical status of the famous Turin Shroud, arrives at fascinating conclusions which, to my mind, rule out rather than warrant claims that this part-1st-century-A.D., part-mediæval relic is the result of either deception or fraud. Laidler's most obvious mistake (and none of us is perfect) is his having confused the common French adjective "feu", meaning "late" as in "the late" or "deceased", with the even more common French noun "feu", meaning "fire" - and then having quite needlessly tried to make much of the word's having been used at all.
• 663. GINO MORETTO, Piccola Guida alla Sindone (Torino: Editrice Elle Di Ci, 1997).
• 664. HENRY LINCOLN, The Holy Place - Key to the Sacred Pattern (Moreton-in-Marsh: Windrush Press 1997). The author is President of the Saunière Society (Secretary, Saunière Society, Arpinge Court, Folkestone, CT18 8AQ).
• 665. MARION PEARCE, editor, Pagan Dawn, no.141, Samhain - Winter 2001, and onwards.
• 666. GRAHAM PHILLIPS, The Search for the Grail (London: Century 1995).
• 667. LYNN PICKNETT & CLIVE PRINCE, The Templar Revelation - Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ (Bantam Press 1997).
• 668-9. SERGEI O PROKOFIEFF, The Spiritual Origins of Eastern Europe and the Future Mysteries of the Holy Grail (London: Temple Lodge 1993) - includes in an appendix Goethe's fairy-story of "The Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily" which, in a 1925 work, Rudolf Steiner discussed as, like Faust illustrating Goethe's 'standard' of 'the Soul'.
• 670. TREVOR RAVENSCROFT, The Cup of Destiny (Rider 1981).
• 671. P. M. RINALDI, The Man in the Shroud (London: Futura Publications 1974).
• 672. ANDREW SINCLAIR, The Discovery of The Grail (Arrow Books 1998).
• 673. PETER STANFORD, The She-Pope (London: Heinemann 1998).
• 674-4a. MARGARET STARBIRD, The Woman with the Alabaster Jar - Mary Magdalen and the Holy Grail and Mary Magdalene - Bride in Exile (Bear & Co., 1993; 2005).
• 675-9. ARTHUR EDWARD WAITE, The Hidden Church of the Holy Graal - Its Legend and Symbolism considered in their Affinity with Certain Mysteries of Initiation and other Traces of a Secret Tradition in Christian Times (London: Rebman Limited 1909); editor, The Works of Thomas Vaughan: Eugenius Philalethes (London: Theosophical Publishing House 1919); author of: The Book of Ceremonial Magic - A Complete Grimoire (New York: Citadel Press 1973); A New Masonic Encylopædia, 2 volumes in One with an Introduction by Emmit McLoughlin (Avenel, New Jersey: Wings Books 1994); The Secret Doctrine in Isræl, etc.
• 680. TIM WALLACE-MURPHY & MARILYN HOPKINS, Rosslyn - Guardian of the secrets of the Holy Grail (Element Books 1999).
• 681 ERNEST. A. WALLIS BUDGE,
• One hundred and ten miracles of Our Lady Mary, Medici Society 1923, reference PO.3.61 (Plymouth, 1923; London: Humphrey Milford, 1933), is listed in the Regia Bibliotheca Melitensis at 31027 230.21 4(?)92.8, with a note that it is "unfit for young readers, especially young ladies." Translated from manuscripts mainly in the British Museum, notably but not exclusively from BM Ethiopic MS no. 306 & Oriental 650, the miracles reported are mainly in the province of 14th-17th-century East African religion, magic, demonology and witchcraft.
• 682. RON WEIGHELL, Angles of coincidence - Rennes-le-Château and the Magdalen Mystery (Haunted Library publication from Rosemary Pardœ, Flat One, 36 Hamilton Street, Hoole, Chester CH2 3JQ: 1987).
• 683. ALFRED WEYSEN, L'Île des Veilleurs - À la découverte du Saint-Graal et du trésor des Templiers (Paris, Robert Laffont: 1986).
• 683a. ANI WILLIAMS, "Mary Magdalene - Mistress of the Grail" in The Temple, issue no. 4, pp. 14-29 (February 2004).
• 684. IAN WILSON The Blood and the Shroud - New Light on the Turin Shroud Mystery (London: Orion Books 1998).
• 685-6. DAVID WOOD, Genisis - The First Book of Revelations (Southborough: The Baton Press 1985); with IAN CAMPBELL, Geneset - Target Earth (Sunbury-on-Thames: Bellevue Books 1994).
• 687. DAVID WOOD & IAN CAMPBELL, Poussin's Secret (Tunbridge Wells: Genisis Trading Co. Ltd., 1995).
• 688. DUDLEY YOUNG, Origins of the Sacred - The Ecstasies of Love and War (Abacus 1993).

ST. PAUL'S SHIPWRECK & PREHISTORIC MALTA

• 689. KLAUS ALBRECHT, Maltas Tempel Zwischen Religion und Astronomie (ISBN 3 934858 01 5; 2001; English translation: Malta's Temples - Winter Solstice Alignments; associated DVD with commentary both in German and English: Light & Stones - Malta temples at the winter solstice). Valuably complements JOSEPH S. ELLUL's studies but is insufficiently detailed to stand alone; best read in conjunction with the related studies by ALAN RICHARDSON and JOHN MICHELL. Today nothing at all survives of the temple of Xrobb il-Ghagin which Albrecht found in a state of collapse on a high cliff to the East of Marsaxlokk, and which was subsequently mentioned on German radio.
• 690. ARCHÆOLOGICAL SOCIETY, MALTA, Malta Archæological Review (Issues 2-4: 1997-2000).
• 691. KAREN ARMSTRONG, The First Christian - St. Paul's Impact on Christianity (Pan Books 1983).
• 692. WILLIAM S. BABCOCK, editor, Paul and the Legacies of Paul (Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press, 1990).
• 693. JOSEPH BEZZINA (1), The Ä gantija Temples, Xagħra, Gozo, Malta (Malta: BCD Graphics 1995, a reprint).
• 694. JEAN-YVES BLOT, Underwater Archaeology - Exploring the World Beneath the Sea (Thames & Hudson 1996). Blot mentions several specific facts about what he believes to be the sinking of the sea-bed in the Mediterranean and elsewhere: Although over the last 2,000 years the underwater structures of Herod's port at Sebastos in Cæsarea have sunk 16-20 feet and were probably abandoned because of subsidence by the end of the 2nd century, 18 miles further north, at Athlit, no movement has been detected, and an old fish-pond at Phalásarna in Crete, which was formerly situated exactly at sea-level, is now 16 feet above water. Changes in sea-level have also been recorded at the old port of Apollonia in Libya, and researchers now agree that Africa's continental shelf is sinking in the north beneath that of Greece and the Balkans, resulting in a rise in sea-level of about 13 feet in the last two millennia - Leptis Magna being another coastal site from that period that is now submerged.
  In Upper & Late Palæolithic times when, according to the geologists, 'glaciation' was at its peak, the sea-level is believed to have been 394-410 feet lower than today. No single cause provides an adequate explanation, but what is going up and down is the land - not the sea's surface as such! At Baia near Naples, for example, the old shore-line is now 1,300 feet out to sea as a result of a volcanic activity followed by an earthquake towards the end of the 3rd century. Nor should the case of "Byron's island", which used to rise due west of Malta, be ignored.
• 695-7a. ANTHONY BONANNO, Roman Malta - Malta Romana: The Archæological Heritage of the Maltese Islands - Il Patrimonio Archeologico delle Isole Maltesi (World Confederation of Past Pupils of Don Bosco, 1992); Malta - An Archaeological Paradise, new edition (Valletta, 1997); Malta - Phoenician, Punic, and Roman (MidseaBooksLtd, 2005).
• 698. HERBIE BRENNAN, The Atlantis Enigma (CN 7480: BCA, 1999), pp. 28-9: "The massive megaliths on Malta, in Britain, in France and many other countries stand today as tokens of an engineering tradition that stretches back into the depths of prehistory. It was a tradition inherited by our earliest civilisations, nowhere seen more clearly than in Egypt."
• 699. VICTOR J. CAMILLERI, Saint Agatha - An Archæological Study… (Rabat, Malta: MSSP, 1993).
• 700-07. VERE GORDON CHILDE, Dawn of European Civilization (1st edn. 1925; 6th edition, London, Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd, 1957); Prehistoric Communities of the British Isles, 1940; Prehistoric Migrations in Europe, 1950; Social Evolution, 1951; New Light on the Ancient East, 1952; Piecing together the Past, 1956; Short Introduction to Archaeology, 1956; Man makes himself, 1965.
• 708. JOHN CIARLO', The Hidden Gem - St. Paul's Shipwreck Collegiate Church, Valletta, Malta, 4th edition (Malta: Progress Press, 1999).
• 709. DANIEL CILIA, editor, Malta Before History (Miranda Publications International, 2004).
• 710-11. JULIAN COPE, The Modern Antiquarian - A Pre-Millennial Odyssey through Megalithic Britain (Thorsons, 1998); The Megalithic European - The 21st-Century Traveller in Prehistoric Europe (Element Books, 2004). Cope's second lavishly illustrated volume includes a drawing of Malta's especially significant Tal Qadi stone but misleadingly claims (p. 329) that nothing else remains of the Tal Qadi temple (Naxxar) itself - and that despite his own location (p. 331) of this "one-and-a-half miles to the south-south-east" of Bugibba's Dolmen hôtel! Perhaps this is one temple he has yet to visit? No attempt has been made to related Menorcan prehistoric monuments to those on Gozo and Malta. Indeed, only six books and one article specifically about prehistoric Malta feature in his bibliography, and the contents of his 1972 edition of Trump's still popular Archæological Guide are significantly different from those of the 2000 revised version of the enlarged 1990 2nd edition…
• 712. GEOFFREY CORNELIUS & PAUL DEVEREUX, The Secret Language of the Stars & Planets - A Visual Key to Celestial Mysteries (London: Pavilion Books 1996). This well conceived and tastefully produced book is horribly marred by its blatantly false assertion (p.135) that "The Great Pyramid serves as the tomb of Khufu," and that "In the burial chamber lies his mummified corpse." What many have recklessly called a "burial chamber" is more prudently acknowledged to be simply an empty coffer! Incidentally, many otherwise excellent books here listed contain what appear to me as numerous errors of fact - but generally I leave it to the discerning reader to arrive at his (or her) own interpretation and evaluation: as Cardinal Ratzinger recently remarked, today we need to learn to read the Bible afresh!
• 713. ROBERT COWLEY, "Time, time and time again" in R.I.L.K.O. Journal (1986, pp. 13-18).
• 714. R. & J. COX, Stereo Star Maps (Collins 1989).
• 715-6. GEORGE DE TRAFFORD, Ta Majsiet, Tal Bala, B'kara, Malta: Creativity House Archive copy of his letter of 13 May 1988 to Miss E. Leader, Hon. Secretary of RILKO, together with his Summary of Psychic Revelations concerning Megalithic Structures and the Great Pyramid of Gizeh, with special reference to Stonehenge, Carnac (Brittany), Easter Island, Nazca (Peru), Zimbabwe, and various sites on Gozo & Malta.
• 717-20. JOSEPH S. ELLUL, Malta's Prediluvian Culture at the Stone-Age Temples with special reference to ĦaÄ¡ar Qim, Għar Dalam, Cart-ruts, Il-Misqa, Il-Maqluba and Creation; updated German translation: Die Steinzeittempel Maltas und ihre Vorsintflutliche Kultur mit besonderem Bezug zu... & Schoepfung (Malta: Printwell 1988, 1994); The Temple under the Sea (Zurrieq: Personal Communication 1999); "The ĦaÄ¡ar Qim Complex": Letter in The Malta Independent (Monday, 7 October 2002, p.8). I am also greatly indebted to Joseph Ellul for so generously permitting me to quote from a number of his other earlier and more recent oral and written personal communications.
• 720a. LINDA C. ENEIX, Tell Me About The Maltese Temples - A simple introduction to the Mediterranean's earliest civilization (Sarasota, FL: OTS Foundation, 2000).
• 721. J. D. EVANS, The Prehistoric Antiquities of the Maltese Islands - A Survey (University of London: Athlone Press, 1971).
• 721a. STANLEY FARRUGIA RANDON, editor, St Paul - His life, the shipwreck tradition and culture in Malta and elsewhere (Malta, 2000).
• 722. FELIPE FERNÁNDEZ-ARMESTO, Civilizations (Macmillan, 2000, pp. 343-5, 348): "As far as is known, the earliest case in the world of a society which built in stone on a massive scale was in the Maltese islands of Gozo and Malta, where at least thirty building complexes, ranging from the large to the vast, were erected in the fourth and third millennia B.C. The Sumerians were building in brick at the time and the first stone monuments in Egypt are not known to be older. The Maltese buildings are made of neatly dressed limestone. Typically, they have trefoil inner courts, surrounded by massive walls, up to twenty-five feet high…
  If one looks at the islands of Malta today - at their poor soils and dry climate - it seems incredible that they can ever have sustained a population big enough, or generated enough energy, to create these monuments." [Today's population, however, is not "small"!] "The environment was probably not quite as sparse in the great days of Tarxien as it is today."
• 723. ANTHONY J. FRENDO, "Archaeology, Epistemology, and the Earliest Phase of Maltese Prehistory" in A. MIFSUD & C. S. VENTURA, Facets of Maltese Prehistory (1999).
• 724. PAUL GALEA, The Routes and the Cities of St. Paul's Travels (Aquilina & Co., Malta, 1960).
• 725. MICHAEL GALEA & JOHN CIARLO', editors, St. Paul in Malta - a compendium of Pauline studies (Malta, 1992).
• 726. Miss LORE HASSELMANN, 9 rue Harebierg, L-6868 Wecker, Luxembourg, "Malta - Mystery in the Mediterranean" in Ancient Skies, vol. 8, no. 3, July-August 1981. Asserts that "an underground tunnel connects the Tarxien temple complex with the Hypogeum" at Ħal Saflieni. This rumour has never been verified.
• 727. JACQUETTA HAWKES, Dawn of the Gods (Chatto & Windus, 1968).
• 727a. GERHARD HERM, The Phœnicians (Victor Gollancz, 1975).
• 728. PETER HOCHSIEDER & DORIS KNÖSEL, Les Taules de Menorca - un estudi arqueoastronòmic (Treballs del Museu de Menorca, 14, 1995) - includes important detailed comparisons of finds in Menorca with aspects of the Mnajdra site on Malta.
• 729. PETER SERRACINO INGLOTT, Three Homilies on St Paul Shipwrecked at Malta (Malta: Gutenberg Press, 2002).
• 730. The "registered" Janet-Johann Site has been said to be at 35.55.954 N, 14.29.738 E.
• 731. ROGER JOUSSAUME, Dolmens for the Dead - Megalith Buildings throughout the World (London: Guild Publishing, 1988).
• 732. D. KEMPE, Living Underground - A History of Cave and Cliff Dwelling (London: Herbert Press 1971).
• 733. LARRY J. KREITZER, Pauline Images in Fiction and Film - On Reversing the Hermeneutical Flow (Sheffield Academic Press, 1999).
• 733a. GLEN E. MARKOE, The Phœnicians (Folio Society, 2005).
• 734. KARL MAYRHOFER, The Mystery of ĦaÄ¡ar Qim(Malta 1996).
• 735-6. PAUL L. MICALLEF, Mnajdra Prehistoric Temple - A Calendar in stone (Malta: Union Print, 3rd edition, 1992); Maltese Sundials (Malta, 1994).
• 737. ANTON MIFSUD & SIMON MIFSUD, with a Foreword by ANTHONY J. FRENDO, Dossier Malta - Evidence for the Magdalenian (Proprint Company, Malta 1997).
• 738. ANTON MIFSUD & CHARLES SAVONA VENTURA, Facets of Maltese Prehistory (Prehistoric Society of Malta, 1999).
• 739. ANTON MIFSUD, SIMON MIFSUD, CHRIS AGIUS SULTANA & CHARLES SAVONA VENTURA, Malta - Echoes of Plato's Island (Prehistoric Society of Malta 1999, 1st edition: ISBN 99932-15-01-5, 2000; 2nd "revised" edition, 2001).
• 740. YVES NAUD, U.F.O.s and Extra-Terrestrials in History, vol. 1 (Geneva: Éditions Ferni, 1978), pp. 48-9:

  "The archæological proof that the Ancients already used an alphabet in the Neolithic (second era of the Stone Age) was thought to have been found in France at the beginning of the 20th century.
  On March 1, 1924, Claude Fradin and his grandson, Émile, were taking a walk in the countryside around the tiny hamlet of Glozel, near Ferrière-sur-Sichon, in the Allier. Suddenly, strange objects attracted their attention: they were astounded by the discovery of bricks, engraved tablets, two cutting tools, two small hatchets, and two flat pebbles bearing inscriptions.
  And this was only the beginning. Dr Morlet, who lived in the region, was informed of the mysterious discovery. He had always been passionately interested in the strange, the unknown, the extraordinary, and he now followed up on the excavating work. This is how it came about that he unearthed more than one hundred tablets, tools of split stone, pottery of a type which has never been found elsewhere, and finally, engraved flat pebbles. Famous experts like Camille Jullian and Salomon Reinach dated these unique finds as having been made ten to fifteen thousand years ago. Some experts recognized, on certain objects, a linear disposition of characters resembling an alphabet, such as V W L H T I K O C J X.
  But the discovery of Glozel was soon to be sharply challenged by other experts, those of the International Institute of Anthropology and those of the French Identité judiciaire. They claimed fraud and concluded that the excavated objects were 'non-antique' [meaning, perhaps, no more than 'not originally discovered by one of their own number'?!]
  Apart from this questionable mastery of writing, which was challenged [at the time, but is now, in the light of Kurt Schildmann's recent findings, difficult reasonably to deny], it appears that certain ancient peoples possessed a vocabulary and a literature far more extensive than our own. The American Indians have a different name for the same plant or the same tree according to the season, whereas we simply indicate the change of a tree in the springtime to the same tree in the autumn by using an adjective…"

• 740a. ANTHONY PACE, editor, The Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, 4000 BC - 2000 AD (Malta: National Museum of Archaeology, 2000).
• 741. ROLAND PARKER & MICHAEL RUBINSTEIN, Malta's Ancient Temples and Ruts (Institute for Cultural Research, P.O. Box 13, Tunbridge Wells, Kent TN3 0JD, 1988; first published in 1984 by The Gozo Press, Mgarr Road, Ghajnsielem - Foreword by David Trump). Figure 17 on page 19 of the 1988 edition currently on sale in Valletta with a Preface by David Trump less than accurately portrays a "stone engraved with moon and stars found at Tal Qadi" and also erroneously assigns to this temple a NE-SW orientation; its actual orientation is N-S and E-W! The 1984 edition still also on sale in at least one shop in Valletta, it seems appropriate to add, contains neither this illustration nor any of the written text directly referring to it...
• 741a, ANDREA PESSINA & NICHOLAS C. VELLA, Un Archeologo Italiano a Malta: Luigi Maria Ugholini, an Italian Archaeologist in Malta (MidseaBooksLtd, 2005). This important book is a much needed correction to Evans' work (no. 721 above); Ugolini was the oral source of the main relevant ideas of J. S. Ellul (nos. 717-720 above).
• 742. ROBERT RAIKES, Water, Weather and Prehistory, with a Foreword by Sir Mortimer Wheeler (R.L. Raikes, Wales - Humanities Press, New Jersey, 2nd edn., revised and enlarged, 1984). Emphasises, as a qualified and experienced hydrologist, that during the last 9000 years - "It is obviously not the sea that has changed level in relation to the land, but vice versa."

  In Upper & Late Palæolithic times when, according to the geologists, 'glaciation' was at its peak, the sea-level is believed to have been 394-410 feet lower than today. No single cause provides an adequate explanation, but what is going up and down is the land - not the sea's surface as such! At Baia near Naples, for example, the old shore-line is now 1,300 feet out to sea as a result of a volcanic activity followed by an earthquake towards the end of the 3rd century. Nor should the case of "Byron's island", which used to rise due west of Malta, be ignored.

• 743. BERNARD P. ROBINSON, Saint Paul's Visit to Cyprus (Parœcia Latina Paphos 1996).
• 744. MARY SANT & PAUL WAKELY, Caves and Cart-Ruts… off the beaten track in Malta (Lija, Malta: 2001).
• 745. KURT SCHILDMANN, Als das Raumschiff 'Athena' die Erde kippte - Indus-, Borrows-Cave- und Glozel-Texte entziffert (ISBN 3-933817-15-3, CTT-Verlag, 1999). A popular book of related interest is no. 694 above.
  The author, who was 90 years old in March 1999, is President of the Society of German Linguists and in 1994 became the first to decipher the Indus Valley texts, which are, as he now interpets them, mainly written in phonetic archaic or proto-Sanskrit, a feature he has since 1997 been consistently claiming they have in common with the perhaps even more fascinating Burrow Caves texts. This volume presents much of the 'evidence'.
  The relevance of Schildmann's findings to any future decipherment of the Ta Qadi incised stone kept in Malta's National Museum of Archaeology in Valletta remains problematic. It is also noteworthy that while J. S. Ellul has denied the occurrence of any real 'precession' of the equinox because of his belief that planet Earth never 'wobbles', Schildmann holds that although the core of our planet never wobbles, its outer skin or mantle sometimes does - and this belief of his, which has, of course, no connection at all with the phenomenon of 'precession', derives from his reading of the above mentioned proto-Sanskrit texts.
• 746. SALVINO ANTHONY SCICLUNA, Letter in The Sunday Times of Malta, 20 February 1994.
• 747. BRIGITTE SEDLACZEK, Archaeology of the Maltese Islands - English Version (Rome: MP Graphic Formula 2000), p.3: "Looking closely at some of the statues from over the whole Temple Period, whether they be seated, standing or above all lying, it can be seen that there are not only fat female figures but fat male figures too, similar to modern-day Japanese Sumo wrestlers. More study is necessary, though, before their meaning can be fully understood." On p.56 she mentions: "Limestone figures from ĦaÄ¡ar Qim with typical obese features and indeterminate sex." Like most coffee-table books written with tourists in mind, this well illustrated edition understandably accepts the clearly mistaken official chronology; it also (p.4) repeats the blatant lie that there are no cart-ruts near the Neolithic temples, and passes over in silence the interesting fact that the Maltese names of the four main islands in this archipelago are also those of four valuable seeds - the seeds of rye (Malta), oats (Għawdex), cummin (Comino) and red-pepper (Filfla).
• 747a. SHARON SULTANA, The National Museum of Archaeology, Valletta - The Neolithic Period (Heritage Books in association with Heritage Malta, 2006).
• 748-9. D. H. TRUMP, Malta - An Archæological Guide (2nd edition, Progress Press Co. Ltd., 341 St. Paul Street, Valetta: 1990; revised edition: 2000); Malta's Prehistory and Temples (Midsea Books, 2002) - note that the photo lower left on p. 76 has been printed in reverse; a rare old photo on pp. 146-7 includes in front of the doorway of the high chapel at the junction of both pages blocks still forming a V-groove that permitted observation of winter solstice sun-rise in the south-east through a window in the front wall (as recent photos show, this groove has now been filled with concrete!).
• 750. SEBASTIANO TUSA, La Sicilia nella preistoria (Palermo: Sellerio editore, 1999).
• 751. CESARE VASSALLO, Dei Monumenti Antichi del gruppo di Malta - Cenni storici: periodo fenicio ed egizio (Malta: stamperia del governo, 1876).
• 752. JUSTIN VASSALLO, "First Impressions of the Hypogeum" in The Malta Independent on Sunday, 17 September 2000, p.5.
• 752a. NICHOLA C. VELLA, The Prehistoric Temples at Kordin III (Heritage Books, 2004).
• 753. ANDY WORTHINGTON, "A Mediterranean Madness - Threats to Malta's Neolithic Heritage", in 3rd Stone - archæology, folklore and myth (Issue 44, Autumn 2002, pp. 52-6).
• 754-6. Professor Sir THEMISTOCLES ZAMMIT, Malta - The Maltese Islands and their history (3rd edition reprinted, A. C. Aquilina & Co., Malta, 1971); The Copper-Age Temples of Hal-Tarxien, Malta - A short description of the monuments with plans and illustrations (Malta: Union Press 1980); The Copper-Age Temples of ĦaÄ¡ar Qim and Mnajdra (St. Venera: Altaprint). Despite the latter two titles, which are not those originally authorized by Sir Temi, there never was a "copper-age" in Malta.
• 757. HUBERT ZEITLMAIR, Die Säulen von Atlantis - Malta: Handscrift einer verschwundenen Hochkultur (Ancient Mail Verlag, 2001).

RELIGION & LIFE IN THE TIMES OF JESUS CHRIST

• 758. CHARLOTTE ALLEN, The Human Christ - The Search for the Historical Jesus (Oxford: Lion Publishing 1998).
• 759. GAIL-NINA ANDERSON, "Unquiet Graves" in Fortean Times (October 2005, pp. 46-51).
• 760. A. C. BOUQUET, Everyday Life in New Testament Times (London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 5th impression, 1963).
• 761. PETER BROWN, Authority and the Sacred -- Aspects of the Christianisation of the Roman World (Cambridge University Press 1995).
• 762. ARTHUR BULLEID, The Lake-Villages of Somerset, 6th edition revised by the author (Glastonbury Antiquarian Society, 1968).
• 763. ETHELBERT W. BULLINGER, The Witness of the Stars, 3rd edition (London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 1911; re-issued from Grand Rapids, Michigan by Kregel Publications 1967).
• 764. SEAN BYRNE, The Tragic History of Esoteric Christianity - The Church's War against the Spirit of Sophia (Age-Old Books, 37 Cultra Avenue, Holywood, Co. Down, BT18 0AY: 2001).
• 765. LUCIANO CANFORA, The Vanished Library (Vintage Paperback, 1991) - Explains that there never was a great "Library" of Alexandria - rather a warehouse on the quay and a few book-shelves full of valuable works elsewhere; from these beginnings, as he relates, the current legend, or complex myth, grew…
• 766-7. ROMAN CHOLIJ, Clerical Celibacy East and West, with a Foreword by Cardinal A.-M. STICKLER (1988). In his related letter to The Tablet (12 August 1995) Father Michæl Manning wrote: "During the first millennium there were instances of married men being ordained deacons, priests and even bishops but it is clear that they were required to live celibate lives from the time of their ordination. As regards St. Paul's words that 'the elder… be married not more than once' (cf. 1 Tm 3:2; Tt 1:6), the early Church understood this as signifying that thenceforth he would be bound by absolute celibacy. As Pope Siricius said in 386, the reference to one wife was propter futuram continentiam (cf. Cholij p.20). Their wives shared in this commitment. The Council of Elvira was not introducing some new legislation but expressing what had always been accepted. The position of the Orthodox Church goes back to the Council in Trullo (691) - this council for the first time did away with the requirement of celibacy for priests. To justify this, they falsified earlier sources. Cardinal Newman considered priestly celibacy to be of apostolic origin…"
• 768. PETER CLAYTON & MARTIN PRICE, Editors, The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World (New York: Barnes & Noble 1993).
• 769-70. STORM CONSTANTINE, Egyptian Birth Signs (Thorsons, 2002) &, with ELOISE COQUIO, Bast and Sekhmet - Eyes of Ra (London: Robert Hale, 1999).
• 771. D. JASON COOPER, Mithras - Mysteries and Initiation Rediscovered (York Beach: Samuel Weiser 1996).
• 772-6. RALPH ELLIS, Jesus - Last of the Pharaohs, 2nd edition; Thoth - Architect of The Universe, 3rd edition; K2 - Quest of the Gods; Solomon - Falcon of Sheba; Eden in Egypt (Edfu Books, 1999; 2000; 2001; 2002, 2004). Ellis favours 11,670 B.C as a likely primary date re. Stonehenge, Avebury and the Gizeh complex.
• 777. DAVID FIDELER, Jesus Christ, Sun of God - Ancient Cosmology & Early Christian Symbolism (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Phanes Books 1993).
• 778. W. E. FILMER, A Synopsis of the Migrations of Isræl (London: Covenant Books 1994).
• 779. GIOVANNI FILORAMO, A History of Gnosticism (Blackwell 1990).
• 780. KENNETH C. FLEMING, G-d's Voice in the Stars - Zodiac Signs and Bible Truth (Neptune, New Jersey: Loizeaux Brothers 1988).
• 781. A. FLICHE & V. MARTIN, Histoire de l'Église.
• 782. ROBERTA GILCHRIST, "Requiem for a Lost Age" in British Archæology (September-October 2005, pp. 28-33).
• 783. RICHARD J. GILLINGS, Mathematics in the time of the Pharaohs (New York: Dover Publications 1982).
• 784. GEORGES IFRAH, The Universal History of Numbers from prehistory to the invention of the computer (London: Harvill Press 1998).
• 785. E. R. GRUBER & HOLGER KERSTEN, The Original Jesus - The Buddhist Sources of Christianity (Element Books1995).
• 786. MARGHERITA GUARDUCCI, The Tomb of St. Peter (London: Harrap 1960).
• 787. ELLISON HAWKS, The Starry Heavens (3rd edition, Thomas Nelson & Sons Ltd., 1950).
• 788. HELENE HESS, The Zodiac Explorer's Handbook (Aquarian Press 1986).
• 789. ANTONIO MARIA JAVIERRE ORTAS, El Tema Literario de la Sucesiòn (Zürich: PAS-Verlag 1963).
• 790. HANS-JOSEF KLAUCK, Magic and Paganism in Early Christianity - The World of the Acts of the Apostles (Edinburgh: T & T Clark, 2000).
• 791. OWEN S. LIEBERG, Wonders of Measurement (Folkestone: Bailey Brothers & Swinfen, 1976). "When the chord of a circle equals the radius there will always be six chords in that circle and the angle will be one-sixth of 360 degrees."
• 792. GIOVANNI MAGNANI, Jesus, Builder & Master (Assisi: Cittadella, 1997). Don Magnani lectures in Christology at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome; he notes that, because trees are scarce in Galilee, neither Jesus nor his legal father can plausibly be believed to have been "carpenter" - we need to understand that the Greek word tekton in New Testament times designated a person working in direct dependence on an architecton and, therefore, "a civil engineer". Jesus, in others words, may very well have been a cultured, middle-class businessman, fluent in three or more languages. As mentioned elsewhere, his reputed uncle, Joseph of Arimathæa, who may have been Imperial Rome's official overseer of its British tin- and copper-mines in the South West, once visited what is now the Culbone Valley in Somerset accompanied, Anglican lay-reader and parish-church harmonium-player Doctor Joan D'Arcy Cooper (1927-1982) has informed us, by Jesus Himself, then aged 20.
• 793. GERALD MESSADIÉ, The History of the Devil (London: Newleaf 1996).
• 794. ALFRED O'RAHILLY, The Family at Bethany (Cork University Press 1949).
• 795. PURGO PATRIDGE, A History of Orgies (London: Anthony Blond 1958).
• 796. D. J. PRING, Early Christianity in Somerset - andhow it has survived (Taunton: Phœnix Press, no date, cf. especially pp.10-14):
  "It will be a fitting conclusion to our subject to investigate some of the many instances in which the memory of St. Bridgit is preserved in the West Country. It is a matter possessing many points of interst. She was known also as San Ffread. this apparently was not a personal name, but the hereditary title of a high-priestess of Druidism... If, in her pagan life, she was held to possess any special gifts or miraculous powers, these would quite probably in popular estimation be still attributed to her afterwards, though transferred by those around her to the category of Christian attributes and virtues connected with her new faith. And in the minds of many, the old title 'San Ffread' would very naturally be retained, even if in a new aspect...
  There can be no question that the name of Bridgwater came to be applied to the site where the modern town now stands at the same period that other places in the neighbourhood connected with St. Bridgit came to get their names: Highbridge and Axbridge, for example. This was in very primitive times, long before there was any township, but only some small community, probably settled round a shrine, or cell, or religious foundation of sorts, where the scanty inhabitants gathered for their worship...
  The idea that this early Christianity was swept away by the Saxon Conquest is shown to be a complete mistake. On the contrary, when after several hundred years of peaceful existence, and as we amay believe of useful activity, according to the lights of those days, the Celtic Church passed under the rule of the Saxon Conquerors (after A.D. 710), they had by that time themselves become Christian; and though, doubtless, there was still some antipathy between the races, the religious opposition was not between Paganism and Christianity, but only between the different aspects of Christianity represented respectively by the teaching of St. Patrick or St. Augustine. We are fully aware that the forms and methods of Latin Christianity eventually absorbed or superseded those in vogue amongst the earlier British community. But is is only right to recognise that the earlier practice was none the les truly Catholic in its essentials, though in various details not approved in the form of its presentation by those who entered upon its inheritance..."
  cf. CDV, The Mystery of the Druids - Limited Edition Booklet, associated with the same company's set of three CDs to run under Windows.
• 797. PHILIP RAHTZ, Glastonbury (ISBN 0 7134 6865 3) 1993, carries the English Heritage logo. This is a general and far ranging book. The author notes that since, in Roman times, what is now Glastonbury was an entirely rural area, it had no bishop. Moreover, any surviving evidence of an early conversion to Christianity of what is now Somerset is both slight and debatable. The CHI-RHO cross found below, not above, the pelvis of the skeleton of a human male dates from the 4th or 5th century, not earlier. The first provision of a Cathedral of any sort was in Saxon times, and its location was, as now, at Wells.
• 798. Captain E. RAYMOND, The Gem Stones in the Breastplate (Thousand Oaks, CA: Artisan Sales 1987).
• 799. CATHERINE TENNANT, The Box of Stars - A Practical Guide to the Night Sky and to its Myths & Legends (London: Chatto & Windus 1993).

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