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10. Robbins, p. 127.

11. Walker, p. 433.

12. William G Denver, `Asherah, Consort of Yahweh? New Evidence from Kuntillar "Arjund", Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research (BASOR), Vol. 255 (1984), pp. 21-27.

13. See Lynn Picknett, Mary Magdalene: Christianity's Hidden Goddess, London, 2003, pp. 152-3.

14. Salonon Reinach, Orpheus, New York, 1930, p. 42.

15. Ibid. Walker is quoting from Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, Gods of the Egyptians, New York, 2 vols, 1969.

16. William Powell Albright, Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan, New York, 1968, pp. 121 and 210.

17. Walker, p. 66.

18. Andre Lemaire, `Who or What was Yahweh's Asherah?', The Biblical Archaeology Review, Vol. 10, No. 6 (Nov/Dec 1984), p. 42. He quotes the discovery of an inscription that reads: `Blessed be Uriyahu by Yahweh and his Asherath'.

19. Walker is quoting from Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, London, 1968, p. 74.

20. Walker, p. 66.

21. Exodus 23:19 - `Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk'.

22. Raphael Patai, The Hebrew Goddess, Detroit, 1990, p. 38.

23. Walker, p. 66.

24. Kings 14:23.

25. Raphael Patai, The Hebrew Goddess, Detroit, 1990, p. 50.

26. 2 Kings 21:3.

27. 1 Kings 11:4-6.

28. Milton, 1:435-45.

29. Picknett, pp 134-40.

30. Walker, p. 552.

31. Ibid.

32. Ibid., p. 416.

33. Ibid.

34. Geraldine Thorsten, God Herself: The Feminine Roots of Astrology, New York, 1981, p. 336.

35. Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London, 1936, p. 44.

36. Patai, p. 68.

37. Ibid., p. 96.

38. Robert Briffault, The Mothers, New York, 1927, Vol. 2, p. 605.

39. Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend, London, 1940, p. 776.

40. Henrich Kramer and James Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum [Hammer of the Witches], London, 1971, p. 66. Originally published in 1485.

41. Ahmed, p. 118.

42. Proverbs, 8:1-11.

43. Ibid., 14:33.

44. Patai, p. 98.

45. Tinkerbell was Peter Pan's fairy companion in J.M. Barrie's classic play Peter Pan (1904). Whether consciously or unknowingly, Barrie included a great many occult ideas. Magic - such as the ability to fly - ceases when children grow up; intense belief makes anything happen, such as bringing Tinkerbell back to life; and Peter muses `Dying must be an awfully big adventure'.

46. Ibid., p. 111.

47. Walker, pp. 237-8.

48. Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, Gods of the Egyptians, 2 vols., New York, 1968, 2nd vol., pp. 126 and 141.

49. S. Angus, The Mystery Religions, London, 1968, p. 139.

50. Walker, p. 749.

51. Ezekiel 8:14.

52. Briffault, vol. 3, p. 94.

53. Arthur Edward Waite, The Book of Ceremonial Magic, New York, 1977, pp. 186-7.

54. John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1:421.

55. Milton, 1:421-78.

56. Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth, London, 1944, p. 105.

57. Ibid.

58. The definition is taken from the Universal Dictionary, Boston, 1986.

59. Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough, 1922, pp. 717 and 769.

60. Robbins, p. 512.

61. Walker, p. 765.

62. Picnic at Hanging Rock, (1975), starting Rachel Roberts and Anne-Louise Lambert, directed by Peter Weir.

63. Leo Vinci, Pan: Great God of Nature (London), 1993, p. 16.

64. Ibid., p. 272.

65. Isaiah 13:21.

66. Ibid., 34:14.

67. Leviticus 17:7, quoted in Vinci, p. 272.

68. Quoted in Vinci, pp. 14-16.

69. Geoffrey Ashe, The Virgin, (London), 1976, p. 145.

70. 1 Corinthians 10:19-21.

71. Ibid., 10:22.

72. Vinci, p. 43, quoting ancient sources.

73. Walker, p. 58.

74. Liz Greene, The Dreamer of the Vine, London, 1980, p. 31. This book will greatly appeal to fans of The Da Vinci Code.

75. Montague Summers, The History of Witchcraft, London, 1926, p. 91.

76. Kramer and Sprenger, p. 24., quoted in Walker, p. 432.

77. Euripedes, Medea, 1171-2, quoted in Summers, p. 201.

78. Summers, p. 202.

79. Quoted in Ibid., pp. 765-6.

80. `Timewarp House and the literary treasure buried under the dust' by Bill Mouland, The Daily Mail, February 24, 2005.

81. Patricia Merivale, Pan the Goat-God, Cambridge, Mass., 1969, p. 64.

82. Ibid., p. 488.

83. Walker, p. 70.

84. Ibid., p. 1043.

85. John Holland Smith, Constantine the Great, New York, 1971, p. 287. Quoted in Walker, p. 1045.

86. Also Massa, The Phoenicians, Geneva 1977, p. 101. Quoted in ibid.

87. Ibid., p. 1043.

88. Sir E.A. Wallis Budge, Gods of the Egyptians, London, 1969, vol. 1, p. 24.

89. Assyrian and Babylonian Literature, Selected Translations, New York, 1901, p. 4.

90. Michael H. Harris, History of Libraries of the Western World, London, revised edition, 1985, p. 30.

91. Elizabeth Pepper and John Wilcock, Magical and Mystical Sites, New York, 1977, p. 159. Quoted in Walker, p. 401.

92. Jane McIntosh Snyder, Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho, New York, 1997, p. 8, quoted in Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Wife, New York, 2001, p. 25.

93 David Lance Goines, `Inferential Evidence for the Pre-Telescopic Sighting of the Crescent Venus', www.goines.net/Writing/venus.html.

1. Michael Jordan, Mary: The Unauthorized Biography, London, 2001, p. 171.

2. Tobias Churton, The Gnostic Philosophy, Lichfield, Staffordshire, 2003, p. 88.

3. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, I.XV.6. quoted in Churton, p. 79, note 45. He adds: `The poem may be by Irenaeus' teacher, Pothinos who, according to Irenaeus was taught by Polycarp, who knew John the Apostle.'

4. Ibid., p. 89.

5. Understandably, Irenaeus was not a Gnostic favourite. One of their texts - The Apocalypse of Peter - refers to orthodox bishops as `dry canals' who issue inflexible and militaristic orders but offer no pastoral care or mystical revelation.

6. Churton notes (p. 90): `Irenaeus never envisioned Christianity as a sect or as a religion among other religions' - a common enough state of mind among Christians today, to whom being described as a member of a sect is particularly offensive. Even the description of the early religion as a cult is viewed with distaste, even though technically accurate.

7. Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. 1.13.3.

8. Jean Markale, Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars, p. 173.

9. Benjamin Walker, Gnosticism: Its History and Influence, Wellingborough, 1983,p.119.

10. Ibid., p. 139-40.

11. Ibid., p. 140-4 1.

12. Ibid., p. 141.

13. Montague Summers, The History of Witchcraft, London, 1926, p. 22.

14. Churton, p. 88.

15. Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ, London, 1997, p. 318.

16. Ibid.

17. Walker, p. 91.

18. The identification of the Magdalene with Mary of Bethany is controversial, but to me the evidence is persuasive. See Picknett and Prince, pp. 63, 78, 139, 305-6, 331-7, 341-2, and Lynn Picknett, Mary Magdalene: Christianity's Hidden Goddess, London, 2003, pp. 47-8, 50, 53-8, 60-2,210.

19. John 11:32.

20. Ibid., 11:25.

21. Walker, p. 91.

22. Ibid.

23. Mark 14:51.

24. Ibid., 14:52.

25. Walker, p. 91, quoting Morton Smith, The Secret Gospel: the Discovery and Interpretation of the Secret Gospel According to Mark, New York, 1974, p. 140.

26. Ibid.

27. Smith, p. 140.

28. Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Wife, New York, 2001, p. 13.

29. Andrew Alexander, the last section in his column entitled `America's Real Gift to the World - Moronocracy', the London Daily Mail, Friday, 5 November 2004.

30. Ibid.

31. Dedicated to `All those who have suffered at the hands of the Church'.

32. See Picknett, Part Two, Chapter Six: `Black, but Comely ...