The Forbidden Universe: The Origins of Science and the Search for the Mind of God

by Lynn Picknett

  6 Quoted in Luckert, p. 301.

  7 Ibid., pp. 299–308.

  8 See The Masks of Christ, p. 243–51.

  9 G. Quispel, ‘The Asclepius – From the Hermetic Lodge in Alexandria to the Greek Eucharist and the Roman Mass’, in van den Broek and Hanagraff, p. 75.

  10 Picknett and Prince, The Masks of Christ, pp. 222–5.

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