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18. Frazer, Adonis, Attis, Osiris.
19. Franz Cumont, Oriental Religions in Roman Paganism (New York: Dover Books, 1956), p. 47.
20. Ibid.
21. Quoted in Weigall, The Paganism in Our Christianity, p. 181.
22. Streep, Mary, Queen of Heaven.
23. Ibid.
24. Ean Begg, The Cult of the Black Virgin (London; New York: Arkana, 1996).
25. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 57.
26. Begg, The Cult of the Black Virgin.
27. Durant, The Age of Faith.
28. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 71.
29. Leo Schaya, The Universal Meaning of the Kabbalah (London: Allen & Unwin, 1971).
30. Panofsky, Abbot Suger on the Abbey Church of St. Denis and Its Art Treasures.
31. Temko, Notre-Dame of Paris.
32. Ibid.
33. Ibid.
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid.
36. Richard and Clara Winston, Notre-Dame de Paris (New York: Newsweek, 1971), p. 93.
37. Ibid., pp. 28–29.
38. Ibid.
39. André Trintignac and Marie-Jeanne Coloni, Decouvrir Notre-Dame-de-Paris: Guide complet de la cathédrale (Paris: Cerf, 1984).
CHAPTER 8
1. Le Mystère des cathédrales, all quotes in this section, pp. 35–39.
2. Ibid.
3. Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival.
4. Hugo, The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
5. Fox, Pagans and Christians.
6. Catholic Encyclopaedia, Internet edition (2002), s.v. “Feast of Fools,” “Feast of the Donkey,” and “Feast of the Epiphany.”
7. Patai, The Jewish Alchemists.
8. Moshe Idel, Golem: Jewish Magical and Mystical Traditions on the Artificial Anthropoid (Albany: State Univ. of New York Press, 1990), pp. 86–91.
9. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 110.
10. Ibid., p. 109. (The next four notes from pages 109–118 of Le Mystère.)
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Ibid.
14. Kaplan, Sefer Yetzirah, pp. 38, 44.
15. Rigveda 1.164.10, trans. James Powell and reprinted in The Tao of Symbols.
16. Jonathon Shear, “Maharishi, Plato, and the TM-Sidhi Program on Innate Structures of Consciousness,” in Metaphilosophy 12, no. 1 (1981): p. 73. See also Shear’s “Plato, Piaget and Maharishi on Cognitive Development,” in Scientific Research on the Transcendental Meditation Program: Collected Papers, vol. 2 (Rapid City, Iowa: TM Press, 1983).
17. Ibid.
18. Ibid.
19. Raimundo Panikkar, The Vedic Experience: Mantramanjari (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1977).
20. William Stirling, The Canon: An Exposition of the Pagan Mystery Perpetuated in the Cabala as the Rule of All the Arts (1897; reprint, York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 1999), intro. Keith Critchlow.
21. Ibid.
22. Ibid.
23. Ibid.
24. Le Mystère des cathédrales, all quotes in this section from p. 17.
25. Ibid., pp. 153–54.
CHAPTER 9
1. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 36.
2. Ibid., p. 41.
3. Ibid., p. 45.
4. Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time (Boston: Gambit, 1969).
5. Sig Lonegren, Labyrinths: Ancient Myths and Modern Uses (New York: Sterling, 2001).
6. Le Mystère des cathédrales, all Fulcanelli quotes in this section from pages 45–66 of Le Mystère.
7. Ibid.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 158.
13. Ibid., p. 159.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid., p. 161.
16. Ibid., pp. 160–61.
17. Ibid., pp. 159–61.
18. Ibid., p.162.
CHAPTER 10
1. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 165.
2. Mark Kurlansky, The Basque History of the World (New York: Penguin, 1999).
3. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 166.
4. Ibid.
5. Colin Renfrew, Archeology and Language (London: Cape, 1987).
6. James F. Hewitt, History and Chronology of the Myth-making Age (London: James Parker and Company, 1901), p. xiv.
7. Ibid., p. xvi.
8. Ibid., pp. xxiv–xxv.
9. Ibid., p. 269.
10. Swami Sri Yukteswar, The Holy Science (1949; reprint, Los Angeles: Self-Realization Fellowship, 1990), p. 7.
11. David Frawley, The Astrology of the Seers (Salt Lake City: Passage Press, 1990), p. 48.
12. John Major Jenkins, Galactic Alignment, p. 130.
13. Ibid., p. 133.
14. Ibid., p. 134.
15. Hewitt, History and Chronology of the Myth-making Age, p. 272.
16. See J. Godwin et al., The Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor (York Beach, Maine: Samuel Weiser, 1995), p. 438.
17. Ibid., p. 19.
18. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 166.
19. Personal communication with M. Arnoud, curator of the museum at the Château d’Abbadie.
CHAPTER 11
1. See Matila Ghyka’s The Geometry of Art and Life (1946; reprint, New York: Dover, 1977), p. 123, where the cross formed by this zigzag pattern is one of several examples of Gothic Masons’ marks.
2. Consolation 37 (April 30, 1936).
3. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 167.
4. Matthew 28.
5. Ibid., verse 20.
6. All quotes from Mevryl in this section from pages 277–299 of The Fulcanelli Phenomenon.
7. Frances Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn (St. Paul, Minn.: Llewellyn Publications, 1978).
8. Scholem, Jewish Gnosis, Merkabah Mysticism and Talmudic Tradition.
9. Moira Timms, “Raising the Djed,” in 1995, 1998; http://vincentbridges.com/Egypt/djed.html.
10. Ibid.
11. See John Major Jenkins, Tzolkin: Visionary Perspectives and Calendar Studies (Garberville, Calif.: Borderland Sciences, 1994), for the precessional aspects of the planet Venus.
12. Johnson, The Fulcanelli Phenomenon, p. 291.
13. Regardie, The Golden Dawn.
14. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 167.
15. Most notably Aleister Crowley’s Thoth Tarot (New York: U.S. Games, 1997).
16. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 168.
17. Peter Lemesurier, The Great Pyramid Decoded (1977; reprint, New York: Barnes and Noble Books, 1995).
18. Hermann Kees, Ancient Egypt: A Cultural Topography (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 1961).
19. Edwin Bernbaum, The Way to Shambalah (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1980).
20. Scholem, Jewish Gnosis, Merkabah Mysticism and Talmudic Tradition.
CHAPTER 12
1. Wilhelm Reich, Ether, God, and Devil and Cosmic Superimposition, trans. Therese Pol (1951; reprint, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1973), p. 257.
2. John Major Jenkins, Maya Cosmogenesis 2012 (Santa Fe: Bear & Co., 1998).
3. Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods (New York: Crown, 1995).
4. Ibid., p. 495.
5. Paul LaViolette, Earth Under Fire (New York: Starlane Publications, 1997), p. 25.
6. Ibid.
7. Ibid., p. 54.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Ibid.
12. Ibid.
13. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 164.
14. Ibid.
15. See John L. Casti, Paradigms Lost (New York: Wm. Morrow & Co., 1989), for a discussion of “helicoidal,” and “heliocoidal.”
16. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 165.
17. Ibid.
18. Although in a very antique and archaic medieval dialect of Sardinia, a combination of Italian, Greek, and Catalan, this version the inscription can be read. It says: �
��The Evil One’s Cross (or perhaps X mark) salutes the crushing victory.” One of Fulcanelli’s antiquarian jests, no doubt, that at least suggests we are following the correct path.
19. Barry Fell, Saga America (New York: Times Books, 1983).
20. Robert Silverberg, The Mound Builders (New York: Ballantine Books, 1970).
21. Barry Fell, America B.C. (New York: Pocket Books, 1976).
22. Paul White, “The Oz-Egyptian Enigma,” in Exposure 2, no. 6 (1996).
23. Robert Ferro and Michael Gumley, Atlantis (New York: Bell Publishing, 1970).
24. Timaeus and Critias, trans. Desmond Lee (London: Penguin Classics, 1977).
25. D. Felipe Huaman Poma de Ayala, Some Account of the Illustrated Chronicle by the Peruvian Indian, trans. Richard Pietschmann (London: Harrison and Sons, 1912).
26. Garcilaso de la Vega, Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, 2 vols. (1609; Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1966).
27. Arthur Posnansky, Tihuanacu: The Cradle of American Man (New York: J. J. Augustin, 1945–58).
28. Reich, Cosmic Superimposition, p. 257.
29. LaViolette, Earth Under Fire, p. 25.
30. Hans Schindler Bellamy, The Calendar of Tiahuanaco: A Disquisition on the Time Measuring System of the Oldest Civilization in the World (London: Faber & Faber, 1956).
31. Posnansky, Tihuanacu: The Cradle of American Man.
32. LaViolette, Earth Under Fire.
33. J. M. Allen, Atlantis: The Andes Solution (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998).
34. Ibid.
35. Ibid., p. 25.
36. Ibid.
37. W. Wiesenthal, Peru and the Inca Civilization (New York: Crescent Books, 1979).
38. Geoffrey Cornelius and Paul Devereux, The Secret Language of the Stars and Planets (San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1996).
39. Ronald Wright, Stolen Continents (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1992).
40. Ibid., p. 136.
41. Ibid.
42. William Montgomery McGovern, Jungle Paths and Inca Ruins (New York and London: The Century Co., 1927).
43. Personal communication from Juan, the authors’ guide in Cuzco.
44. Personal communication from Dr. Villoldo.
45. Robert Pollack, Signs of Life: The Language and Meanings of DNA (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1994).
CHAPTER 13
1. John Michell, City of Revelation (New York: Ballantine Books, 1972).
2. W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Fairy Faith in Celtic Countries (1911; reprint, New York: Citadel Press, 1990).
3. See the crop circle connector Web site at http://www.cropcircleconnector.com/index2.html for a complete archive of all known crop circles from 1978 to 2003.
4. George Hart, Egyptian Myths (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1990).
5. Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, Hamlet’s Mill: An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time (Boston: Gambit, 1969).
6. Ibid.
7. Joan Evans, ed., The Flowering of the Middle Ages (London: Thames and Hudson, 1985).
8. Cornelius and Devereux, The Secret Language of the Stars and Planets.
9. From the video Healing the Luminous Body: The Way of the Shaman with Dr. Alberto Villoldo, copyright 2002, Santa Barbara, Calif.: Sacred Mysteries Productions.
10. Paul Mevryl, “Epilogue in Stone,” in The Fulcanelli Phenomenon, pp. 277–95.
11. Ibid., pp. 295–96.
12. Dominic Sansoni and Jim Goodman, Kathmandu (New Jersey: Hunter Publishing, 1988).
13. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 167.
14. Kerry Moran and Helka Ahokas, Nepal: The Mountain Kingdom (Lincolnwood, Ill.: Passport Books, 1995).
15. Sansoni and Goodman, Kathmandu.
16. Rajendralala Mitra, The Sanskrit Buddhist Literature of Nepal (1882; reprint, Calcutta: Sanskrit Pustak Bhandar, 1971), see in particular the preface discussion on Buddhism in Nepal, pp. xix–xlx.
17. Yeshe Tsogyal, “The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava,” trans. Tarthang Tulku, in Crystal Mirror 4 (1975): 14.
18. Sybille Noel, The Magic Bird of Chomolungma (New York: Doubleday, Doran & Company, 1931), pp. 1–3.
19. A terma is a hidden treasure, either physical, such as a statue, ritual implement, or text, or nonphysical, such as a teaching, an empowerment, or a prophecy. See Tulku Thondop Rinpoche, Hidden Teachings of Tibet (London: Wisdom Publications, 1986), for a complete examination of termas. See also Edwin Bernbaum, The Way to Shambalah (New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 1980) for an overview of Shambhala and the terma guides.
20. Bernbaum, The Way to Shambalah, p. 60.
21. Keith Dowman, The Power Places of Central Tibet (London and New York: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1988).
22. Ibid.
23. Tsogyal, “The Life and Liberation of Padmasambhava.”
24. Ibid.; see also Bernbaum, The Way to Shambalah.
25. Peter Fleming, Bayonets to Lhasa (New York: Oxford University Press, 1986).
26. Bernbaum, The Way to Shambalah.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. The 2,500 years is counting 100 years for each of the twenty-five kings of Shambhala. See Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey, Kalachakra Tantra (Dharamsala: Library of Tibetan Works and Archives, 1985), for the Dalai Lama’s position on the Kalachakra.
EPILOGUE
1. Dubois, Fulcanelli dévoilé.
2. Le Mystère des cathédrales, pp. 57–61.
3. VandenBroeck, Al-Kemi: A Memoir—Hermetic, Occult, Political and Private Aspects of R. A. Schwaller de Lubicz.
4. Le Mystère des cathédrales, p. 10.
5. Ibid., p. 60
6. Dubois, Fulcanelli dévoilé.
7. Antoine d’Abbadie International Congress on the Centenary of His Death, 3 vols. (Hendaye, Sare: Édition de Patri Urkizu, 1997); see vol. 2 for collection of articles and letters.
8. Papiers d’Antoine Th. d’Abbadie, MS XII (2081), Bibliothèque de l’Institut de Paris.
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