The Secret History Of The World

IntroductionIn the Beginning: God Peers at His Reflection; The Looking Glass UniverseA Short Walk in the Ancient Woods: Imagining Ourselves into the Minds of the AncientsThe Garden of Eden: The Genesis Code; Enter the Dark Lord; The Flower PeopleLucifer, the Light in the World: The Apple of Desire; A War in Heaven; The Secrets of the Days of the WeekThe Gods who Loved Women: The Nephilim; The Genetic Engineering of Humankind; The Fish Gods; The Original History of the Origin of the SpeciesThe Assassination of the Green King: Isis and Osiris; The Cave of the Skull; The PalladiumThe age of Demi-Gods and Heroes: The Ancient Ones; The Amazons; Enoch; Hercules, Theseus and JasonThe Sphinx and the Timelock: Orpheus; Daedalus, the First Scientist; Job; Solving the Riddle of the SphinxThe Neolithic Alexander the Great: Noah and the Myth of Atlantis; Tibet; Rama's Conquest of India; The Yoga Sutras of PantanjaliThe Way of the Wizard: Zarathustra's Battle Against the Powers of Darkness; The Life and Death of Krishna the Shepherd; The Dawn of the Dark AgeGetting to Grips with Matter: Imhotep and the Age of the Pyramids; Gilgamesh and Enkidu; Abraham and MelchizedekThe Descent into Darkness: Moses and the Cabala; Akhenaten and Satan; Solomon, Sheba and Hiram; King Arthur and the Crown ChakraReason - And How to Rise Above it: Elijah and Elisha; Isaiah; Esoteric Buddhism; Pythagoras; Lao TzuThe Mysteries of Greece and Rome: The Eleusian Mysteries; Socrates and his Daemon; Plato as a Magus; The Divine Identity of Alexander the Great; The Caesars and Cicero; The Rise of the MagiThe Sun God Returns: The Two Jesus Children; The Cosmic Mission; The Crucifixion in South America; The Mystic Marriage of Mary MagdaleneThe Tyranny of the Fathers: The Gnostics and the Neoplatonists; The Murder of Hypatia; Attila and Shamanism; A Touch of ZenThe Age of Islam: Mohammed and Gabriel; The Old Man of the Mountains; Haroun al Raschid and the Arabian Nights; Charlemagne and the Historic Parsifal;

Jonathan Black is the nom de plume of Mark Booth. He was educated at Ipswich School and Oriel College, Oxford, where he studied Philosophy and Theology. He has worked in publishing for over twenty years, and is currently in charge of Century, an imprint of Random House UK. The Secret History of the World is the outcome of a lifetime spent reading literature in this area, publishing many of the leading authors in the field and hanging around antiquarian bookshops.