Lynn Picknett - The Secret History of Lucifer - And the Meaning of the True Da Vinci Code

All the talented and congenial `NoNamers', in appreciation of many excellent discussions and lots of laughs, especially Andy and Suzie Collins, Ian Lawton and Caroline Wise.

Lou Tate - lovely to be back in touch after all this time!

Thanks too, to Jayne Burns; Christy Fearn; Carina Fearnley; `Giovanni'; John Glasscock; Hannah R. Johnson; Octavia Kenny; Jane Lyle; and John and Joy Millar.

The staffs of the British Library and St John's Wood Library.

AND FOR DECADES OF INSPIRATION - WHO ELSE BUT COLIN WILSON?

There are hundreds of books on Lucifer, the Devil/Satan, evil and allied subjects, but these are just a sample of the more invaluable texts.

(Where possible, the paperback editions are given. Other titles can be found in the Notes and References.)

Ahmed, Rollo, The Black Art, Arrow Books Ltd, London, 1966. First published in 1936.

Baigent, Michael, and Richard Leigh, The Inquisition, Penguin, London, 2000.

Baigent, Michael, Richard Leigh and Henry Lincoln, The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, Jonathan Cape, London, 1982; revised edition; Arrow, London, 1996.

Birks, Walter and R. A. Gilbert, The Treasure of Montsegur, The Aquarian Press, London,1990.

Blavatsky, H. P., Isis Unveiled, Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, CA., 1988, originally published 1876.

-The Secret Doctrine, Theosophical University Press, Pasadena, 1888.

Blum, Howard, The Lucifer Principle: A Scientific Expedition into the Forces of History, Atlantic Monthly Press, New York, 1995.

Bramly, Serge, Leonardo: The Artist and the Man, Michael Joseph, London, 1992; first published as Leonard de Vinci, Editions Jean-Claude Lattes, Paris, 1988.

Campbell, Joseph, The Mask of God: Creative Mythology, Penguin, New York, 1959.

Churton, Tobias, The Golden Builders: Alchemists, Rosicrucians and the First Free Masons, Signal Publishing, Lichfield, 2002.

-The Gnostic Philosophy, Signal Publishing, Lichfield, 2003.

Collins, Andrew, Twenty-first Century Grail: The Quest for a Legend, Virgin, London,2004.

Crowley, Aleister, The Book of Thoth, Samuel Weiser, Inc., York Beach, Maine, 1944.

De Troyes, Chretien, trans. Burton Raffel, Perceval: The Story of the Grail, Yale University Press, New Haven, USA, 1999. Originally published in the 12th century.

De Voragine, Jacobus, The Golden Legend: Readings on the Saints, trans. William Grayer Ryan, 2 Volumes, Princeton University Press, 1993.

Drower, E. S., The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran: Their Cults, Customs, Magic, Legends and Folklore, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1937.

Frazer, Sir James G., The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, Macmillan, London, 1922.

Freke, Timothy and Peter Gandy, Jesus and the Goddess, Thorsons, London, 2002.

Godwin, Malcom, The Holy Grail: Its Origins, Secrets and Meaning Revealed, Bloomsbury, London, 1994.

Harpur, Patrick, Daimonic Reality: Understanding Otherworld Encounters, Penguin Arkana, London, 1995.

Haskins, Susan, Mary Magdalen, HarperCollins, London, 1993.

Huysmans, J. K., trans. Terry Hale, The Damned, Penguin Classics, London, 2001. First published in Paris as Ld Bas (Down There), 1891.

Institoris, Henricus, The Malleus Maleficarum of Heinrich Kramer and Jakob Sprenger, Dover Publications, New York, 1971.

James I and Paul Tice, Demonology, Book Tree, New York, 2002. First published in London, 1597.

Jones, Gwyn and Thomas Jones (trans. and ed.), The Mabinogion, J. M. Dent & Sons, London, 1974.

Jong, Erica, illustration by Joseph A. Smith, Witches, Granada, London, 1988.

Josephus, Flavius, The Jewish War, trans. G. A. Williamson, Penguin, London,1970.

King, Francis (Ed.), Crowley on Christ, The C. W. Daniel Company Ltd., 1974.

LaVey, Anton Szandor, The Satanic Bible, New York, Avon Books (HarperCollins), 1969.

-The Satanic Rituals, Avon Books, New York, 1972.

-The Devil's Notebook, Feral House, Los Angeles, 1992.

Layton, Bentley, The Gnostic Scriptures, SCM Press, London, 1987.

Levi, Eliphas, The History of Magic, trans. A. E. Waite, William Rider & Sons, London, 1913; first published as Histoire de la magie, Germer Bailliere, Paris, 1860.

Lomas, Robert, The Invisible College: The Royal Society, Freemasonry and the Birth of Modern Science, Headline, London, 2002.

Luckert, Karl W., Egyptian Light and Hebrew Fire, State University of New York Press, New York, 1991.

Mann, AT., and Jane Lyle, Sacred Sexuality, Element Books, Shaftesbury, 1996.

Markale, Jean, trans. Jon Graham,Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars, Inner Traditions, Rochester, Vermont, 2003. Originally published as Montsegur et l'enigme cathare by Editions Pymalion/Gerard Watelet, Paris, 1986.

Mead, G. R. S., Pistis Sophia, Kessinger Publishing Company, Kila, MT, USA, 1921.

-Simon Magus: An Essay, Theosophical Publishing Society, London, 1892.

McGrath, Alister E., A Brief History of Heaven, Blackwell Publishers, Maiden, MA, USA, 2003.

Milton, John, ed. Christopher Ricks, series Ed., John Hollander, Introduction by Susanne Woods, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, Penguin Books, London, 2001. First published in 1667.

Nataf, Andre, The Occult, W & R Chambers, Edinburgh, 1991; first published as Les Maltres de I'occultisme, Bordas, Paris, 1988.

Pagels, Elaine, The Gnostic Gospels, Penguin Books, London, 1982.

-The Origin of Satan, Vintage Books, New York, 1996.

Patai, Raphael, The Hebrew Goddess, (3rd Ed.), Wayne State University Press, Detroit, 1990.

Picknett, Lynn, Mary Magdalene: Christianity's Hidden Goddess, Robinson, London,2003.

Picknett, Lynn and Clive Prince, The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ, Corgi, London, 1998.

-The Stargate Conspiracy, Warner Books, London, 1999.

-Turin Shroud: In Whose Image? How Leonardo da Vinci Fooled History, Corgi, London, 2000.

Pike, Albert, Morals and Dogma, Lightning Source UK Ltd., London, 2004.

Rahn, Otto, La Cour de Lucifer, Editions Pardes, Puiseaux, 1994. Originally published as Luzifers Hofgesind, Verlag fur ganzheitliche Forschung and Kultur, Berlin, 1937.

Redgrove, Peter, The Black Goddess and the Sixth Sense, Paladin, London, 1989.

Rhodes, Henry, T. F., The Satanic Mass, Arrow Books, London, 1954.

Robinson, John A. T., The Priority of John, SCM Press, London, 1985.

Rowe, Joseph (trans.) The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Inner Traditions, Rochester, USA, 2002.

Rudolph, Kurt, Mandaeism, E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1978.

Russell, Jeffrey Burton, Witchcraft in the Middle Ages, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, 1972.

-Satan: The Early Christian Tradition, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London,1981.

-Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London,1984.

Smith, Morton, Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1973.

-The Secret Gospel: The Discovery and Interpretation of the Secret Gospel According to Mark, Gollancz, London, 1973.

-Jesus the Magician, Victor Gollancz, London, 1978.

Stoyanov, Yuri, The Hidden Tradition in Europe, Arkana, London, 1994.

Summers, the Reverend Montague, The History of Witchcraft, The Mystic Press, London, 1925.

Walker, Benjamin, Gnosticism: Its History and Influence, The Aquarian Press, Wellingborough, Northants, 1983.

Walker, Barbara, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, HarperCollins, San Francisco, 1983.

Welburn, Andrew, (Introduction and Commentary), Gnosis: The Mysteries and Christianity: An Anthology of Essene, Gnostic and Christian Writings, Floris Books, Edinburgh, 1994.

White, Michael, Isaac Newton: The Last Sorcerer, 4th Estate, London, 1998.