Book description
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 A to Z 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 Templar, 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
Templar, 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. 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).
