The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Hidden History: The Ultimate AZ of Ancient Mysteries, Lost Civilizations and Forgotten Wisdom
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies and Hidden History: The Ultimate AZ of Ancient Mysteries, Lost Civilizations and Forgotten Wisdom
By (Author) John Michael Greer
HarperCollins Publishers
HarperCollins
6th October 2006
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
001.903
Physical Properties
Hardback
704
Width 195mm, Height 252mm, Spine 48mm
1863g
Description
Next in the popular Element Encyclopedia series, comes the complete AZ of alternative history. Discover everything you ever wanted to know about secret societies like the Freemasons, the historical mystery of Atlantis, why King Arthur, Leonardo da Vinci and Hitler are key figures, plus conspiracy theories, forgotten sciences and ancient wisdom.
A complete and informative AZ for one of the most popular genres to have emerged in recent times the hidden history of the last 10,000 years. This encyclopedia answers all your questions on the more controversial subjects being debated:
Conspiracies and secret societies, e.g. Knights Templars, the Rosicrucians, the Freemasons, the Bavarian Illuminati, the Hellfire Club, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Priory of Sion. It also includes secret traditions, hidden bloodlines, extraterrestrial intervention, imminent apocalypse, and the Mayan calendar prophecies.
Ancient wisdom and forgotten sciences, e.g. alchemy, prophecy, sacred geometry, ley lines, and magic, as well as supporting evidence for advanced technologies in ancient times e.g. the mysteries of Stonehenge and the Great Pyramids.
Unsolved historical mysteries, e.g. the location of Atlantis, the early history of Christianity, the Holy Grail, the fate of the Knights Templars, the authorship of Shakespeare's plays, the causes of the French Revolution, and the occult roots of Nazism.
Key figures in hidden history Pythagoras, Jesus of Nazareth, Leonardo da Vinci, King Arthur, Roger Bacon, John Dee, Alessandro Cagliostro, the Comte de St.-Germain, Benjamin Franklin, and Adolf Hitler.
Author Bio
John Michael Greer has published 10 books about occult traditions and the unexplained. Recent books include Monsters: An Investigator's Guide to Magical Beings (Llewellyn, 2001), which was picked up by One Spirit Book Club and has appeared in Spanish and Hungarian editions, and The New Encyclopedia of the Occult (Llewellyn, 2003).
