Mark Booth: The Secret History of the World

The archeologist David Rohl would perhaps slightly distance himself from some of those I have just mentioned, as he is an academic as well as the bestselling writer of A Test of Time, Legend: the Genesis of Civilization and The Lost Testament. His arguments on dating, particularly as they relate to the area where Egyptian archeology matches biblical texts, will, I believe, come to be accepted by his elders in the academic establishment over the next ten years.

Something that has struck me during the writing of this book is just how many academics working in their separate fields are coming up with results which are anomalous as regards the ruling paradigm, both in terms of the materialistic hegemony and the conventional view of history. One of the things I’ve tried to do in this book is to bring together many different groups of anomalies to create a complete, anomalous world-view. Some of the senior academics mentioned in this book I know personally, but most I do not, and I have no way of knowing if they have, or had any private interest in the esoteric. The important point is this: no esoteric allegiances are evident in their texts, but their books bolster the esoteric world-view: The Origin of Consciousness in the breakdown of the Bi-Cameral Mind by Julian Jaynes, The Wandering Scholars by Helen Waddell, Les Troubadors et le Sentiment Romanesque by Robert Briffault , The Art of Memory, The Occult Philosophy in the Elizabethan Age, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates, Shakespeare and the Invention of the Human and Where Shall Wisdom be Found? by Harold Bloom, Why Mrs Blake Cried by Marsha Keith Suchard, Isaac Newton, the Man by John Maynard Keynes, Name in the Window by Margaret Demorest (on John Donne), The School of Night by M.C. Cranbrook, Hamlet’s Mill by Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, The Roots of Romanticism by Isaiah Berlin, Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith Thomas, Church And Gnosis by F.C. Burkitt, Emperor of the Earth by Czeslaw Milosz, The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism by Octavio Paz, John Amos Comenius by S.S. Laurie, Meditations on Hunting by Jose Ortega y Gasset.

Other key sources include:

The Book of the Master by W. Marsham Adams

The Golde Asse of Lucius Apuleius translated by William Adlington

Love and Sexuality by Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

Francis of Assissi: Canticle of the Creatures by Paul M Allen and Joan de Ris Allen

Through the Eyes of the Masters by David Anrias

The Apocryphal New Testament edited by Wake and Lardner

SSOTBME an Essay on Magic by Anon

Myth, Nature and Individual by Frank Baker

Les Diaboliques by Jules Barbey D’Aurevilly

History in English Words by Owen Barfield

Dark Knights of the Solar Cross by Geoffrey Basil Smith

The Esoteric Path by Luc Benoist

A Rumour of Angels by Peter L Berger *

A Pictorial History of Magic and the Supernatural by Maurice Bessy

The Undergrowth of History by Robert Birley

Radiant Matter Decay and Consecration by Georg Blattmann

The Inner Group Teachings by H.P. Blavatsky

Studies in Occultism by H.P. Blavatsky

A Universal History of Infamy by Jorge Luis Borges

Giordano Bruno and the Embassy Affair by John Bossy

Letters from an Occultist by Marcus Bottomley

The Occult History of the World Vol 1 by J. H. Brennan

Nadja by André Breton

Egypt Under the Pharaohs by Heinrich Brugsch-Bey

Hermit in the Himalayas by Paul Brunton

A Search for Secret India by Paul Brunton

Egyptian Magic and Oriris and the Egyptian Resurrection by E.A. Wallis Budge

Legends of Charlemagne by Thomas Bulfinch

Studies in Comparative Religion by Titus Burckhardt

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller by Italo Calvino*

Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

Rediscovering Gandhi by Yogesh Chadha

Life Before Birth, Life on Earth, Life After Death by Paul E. Chu

The True Story of the Rosicrucians by Tobias Churton

The Dream of Scipio by Cicero, translated by Percy Bullock

On the Nature of the Gods by Cicero, translated by C.M. Ross

The New Gods by E.M. Cioran

Europe’s Inner Demons by Norman Cohn

The Theory of the Celestial Influence by Rodney Collin

Ka by Roberto Calasso

The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony by Roberto Colasso*

A Road to the Spirit by Paul Coroze

The Mysteries of Mithras by Franz Cumont

The Afterlife in Roman Paganism by Franz Cumont

Valis by Philip K. Dick

The Revelation of Evolutionary Events by Evelynn B. Debusschere

Mystical Theology and Celestial Hierarchy by Dionysius the Aropagite, translated by the editors of the Shrine of Wisdom

Atlantis: the Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly

The Erotic world of Faery by Maureen Duffy

Les Magiciens de Dieu by François Ribadeau Dumas

Chronicles volume One by Bob Dylan*

Foucault’s Pendulum by Umberto Eco

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Book of Enoch edited by R.H. Charles

The Sacred Magician by Georges Chevalier

Life’s Hidden Secrets by Edward G. Collinge

Conversations with Goethe by Eckermann*

A New Chronology of the Gospels by Ormond Edwards

Zodiacs Old and New by Cyril Fagan

On Life after Death by Gustav Theodor Fechner

Ecstasies by Carlo Ginzburg

Once upon a fairy tale by Norbert Glas

Snow-White put right by Norbert Glas

Magic and Divination by Rupert Gleadow

Maxims and Reflections by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Hara: the vital centre of man by Karlfried Graf Dürckheim

The Greek Myths by Robert Graves

M.R. James’ Book of the Supernatural by Peter Haining

Cabalistic keys to the Lord’s Prayer by Manly P. Hall

Sages and Seers by Manly P. Hall

The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly P. Hall

The Roots of Witchcraft by Michael Harrison

The Communion Service and the Ancient Mysteries by Alfred Heidenreich The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception by Max Heindel

The Hermetica in the edition edited and translated by Walter Scott

The Kingdom of Faerie by Geoffrey Hodson

The Kingdom of the Gods by Geoffrey Hodson

Myth and Ritual by Samuel H. Hooke

Vicious circles and infinity by Patrick Hughes and George Brecht

The Way of the Sacred by Frances Huxley

La Bas by J.K. Huymans

Vernal Blooms by W.Q. Judge

Eshtetes et Magiciens by Philippe Jullian

The Teachings of Zoroaster by S.A. Kapadia

The Rebirth of Magic by Francis King and Isabel Sutherland

Egyptian Mysteries New Light on Ancient Knowledge by Lucy Lamy

Transcendental Magic by Eliphas Levi

The Invisible College by Robert Lomas

The Book of the Lover and the Beloved by Ramon Lull

Lynch on Lynch , edited by Chris Rodley

An Astrological Key to Biblical Symbolism by Ellen Conroy McCaffrey