69. Ignatius, Epistle to the Trallians, 4.2.
70. Russell, p. 37.
71. Jean Danielou, The Origins of Latin Christianity, London, 1977, p. 69.
72. Quoted in Russell, p. 42.
73. Robert M. Grant, Gnosticism: A Source Book of Heretical Writings from the Early Christian Period, New York, 1962, p. 15.
74. Robert McL. Wilson, The Gnostic Problem, London, 1958, p. 191.
75. Milton, 1:145-8.
76. Ibid.
77. Russell, p. 122.
78. See the Catholic Encyclopedia's entry for `Baptism' .
79. Walker,p.818.
80. Ibid.
81. Ibid.
82. Edith Hamilton, Mythology, Boston, 1940, p. 70. Quoted in Walker, p.818.
83. Leviticus 4:31.
84. Walker, p. 818.
85. Jean Markale, Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars, p. 137.
86. Milton, 1:258-9.
87. Ibid., 1:263.
88. Tertullian, Adversus Marcionem, 2.10.
89. Jeffrey Burton Russell, Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages, New York, 1984, p. 54.
90. For example, see Tobias Churton, The Gnostic Philosophy, Lichfield, 2003, p.331.
91. R. O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead, Spell 149, p. 144.
92. Walker, p. 910.
93. Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London, 1936, p. 34.
94. Plutarch, Isis and Osiris, xxi-xxvi.
95. Genesis 3:8.
96. Luckert, p. 130.
97. Book of the Dead, 307: 544-5.
98. Luke 10:18.
99. There is no better introduction to these Gospels than Elaine Pagels' The Gnostic Gospels, London 1982. See also Picknett, Chapter Four.
100. Werner Foerster, Gnosis: A Selection of Gnostic Texts, Oxford, 2 volumes, 1972-4. The Gospel of Philip, 2:79.
101. Russell, p. 58.
102. Revelation 12:7-9.
103. Ibid.
Chapter Two The Devil and All Her Works
1. Jean Markale, Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars, p. 196.
2. Jeffrey Burton Russell, Satan: The Early Christian Tradition, New York, 1981, p. 96.
3. Jeffrey Burton Russell, Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages, New York, 1984, p. 76.
4. Barbara G. Walker, The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets, New York, 1983, p. 542.
5. Rossell Hope Robbins, Encyclopedia of Witchcraft and Demonology, New York, 1959, p. 127.
6. Walker, p. 960.
7. A. T. Mann and Jane Lyle, Sacred Sexuality, Shaftesbury, 1995, p. 137.
8. Robbins, p. 127.
9. Jeffrey Burton Russell, Witchcraft in the Middle Ages, New York, 1972, p. 75.
10. Robbins, p. 127.
11. Walker, p. 433.
12. William G Denver, `Asherah, Consort of Yahweh? New Evidence from Kuntillar "Arjund", Bulletin of the American School of Oriental Research (BASOR), Vol. 255 (1984), pp. 21-27.
13. See Lynn Picknett, Mary Magdalene: Christianity's Hidden Goddess, London, 2003, pp. 152-3.
14. Salonon Reinach, Orpheus, New York, 1930, p. 42.
15. Ibid. Walker is quoting from Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, Gods of the Egyptians, New York, 2 vols, 1969.
16. William Powell Albright, Yahweh and the Gods of Canaan, New York, 1968, pp. 121 and 210.
17. Walker, p. 66.
18. Andre Lemaire, `Who or What was Yahweh's Asherah?', The Biblical Archaeology Review, Vol. 10, No. 6 (Nov/Dec 1984), p. 42. He quotes the discovery of an inscription that reads: `Blessed be Uriyahu by Yahweh and his Asherath'.
19. Walker is quoting from Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, London, 1968, p. 74.
20. Walker, p. 66.
21. Exodus 23:19 - `Do not cook a young goat in its mother's milk'.
22. Raphael Patai, The Hebrew Goddess, Detroit, 1990, p. 38.
23. Walker, p. 66.
24. Kings 14:23.
25. Raphael Patai, The Hebrew Goddess, Detroit, 1990, p. 50.
26. 2 Kings 21:3.
27. 1 Kings 11:4-6.
28. Milton, 1:435-45.
29. Picknett, pp 134-40.
30. Walker, p. 552.
31. Ibid.
32. Ibid., p. 416.
33. Ibid.
34. Geraldine Thorsten, God Herself: The Feminine Roots of Astrology, New York, 1981, p. 336.
35. Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London, 1936, p. 44.
36. Patai, p. 68.
37. Ibid., p. 96.
38. Robert Briffault, The Mothers, New York, 1927, Vol. 2, p. 605.
39. Jacobus de Voragine, The Golden Legend, London, 1940, p. 776.
40. Henrich Kramer and James Sprenger, Malleus Maleficarum [Hammer of the Witches], London, 1971, p. 66. Originally published in 1485.
41. Ahmed, p. 118.
42. Proverbs, 8:1-11.
43. Ibid., 14:33.
44. Patai, p. 98.
45. Tinkerbell was Peter Pan's fairy companion in J.M. Barrie's classic play Peter Pan (1904). Whether consciously or unknowingly, Barrie included a great many occult ideas. Magic - such as the ability to fly - ceases when children grow up; intense belief makes anything happen, such as bringing Tinkerbell back to life; and Peter muses `Dying must be an awfully big adventure'.
46. Ibid., p. 111.
47. Walker, pp. 237-8.
48. Sir E. A. Wallis Budge, Gods of the Egyptians, 2 vols., New York, 1968, 2nd vol., pp. 126 and 141.
49. S. Angus, The Mystery Religions, London, 1968, p. 139.
50. Walker, p. 749.
51. Ezekiel 8:14.
52. Briffault, vol. 3, p. 94.
53. Arthur Edward Waite, The Book of Ceremonial Magic, New York, 1977, pp. 186-7.
54. John Milton, Paradise Lost, 1:421.
55. Milton, 1:421-78.
56. Aleister Crowley, The Book of Thoth, London, 1944, p. 105.
57. Ibid.
58. The definition is taken from the Universal Dictionary, Boston, 1986.
59. Sir James Frazer, The Golden Bough, 1922, pp. 717 and 769.
60. Robbins, p. 512.
61. Walker, p. 765.
62. Picnic at Hanging Rock, (1975), starting Rachel Roberts and Anne-Louise Lambert, directed by Peter Weir.
63. Leo Vinci, Pan: Great God of Nature (London), 1993, p. 16.
64. Ibid., p. 272.
65. Isaiah 13:21.
66. Ibid., 34:14.
67. Leviticus 17:7, quoted in Vinci, p. 272.
68. Quoted in Vinci, pp. 14-16.
69. Geoffrey Ashe, The Virgin, (London), 1976, p. 145.
70. 1 Corinthians 10:19-21.
71. Ibid., 10:22.
72. Vinci, p. 43, quoting ancient sources.
73. Walker, p. 58.
74. Liz Greene, The Dreamer of the Vine, London, 1980, p. 31. This book will greatly appeal to fans of The Da Vinci Code.
75. Montague Summers, The History of Witchcraft, London, 1926, p. 91.
76. Kramer and Sprenger, p. 24., quoted in Walker, p. 432.
77. Euripedes, Medea, 1171-2, quoted in Summers, p. 201.
78. Summers, p. 202.
79. Quoted in Ibid., pp. 765-6.
80. `Timewarp House and the literary treasure buried under the dust' by Bill Mouland, The Daily Mail, February 24, 2005.
81. Patricia Merivale, Pan the Goat-God, Cambridge, Mass., 1969, p. 64.
82. Ibid., p. 488.
83. Walker, p. 70.
84. Ibid., p. 1043.
85. John Holland Smith, Constantine the Great, New York, 1971, p. 287. Quoted in Walker, p. 1045.
86. Also Massa, The Phoenicians, Geneva 1977, p. 101. Quoted in ibid.
87. Ibid., p. 1043.
88. Sir E.A. Wallis Budge, Gods of the Egyptians, London, 1969, vol. 1, p. 24.
89. Assyrian and Babylonian Literature, Selected Translations, New York, 1901, p. 4.
90. Michael H. Harris, History of Libraries of the Western World, London, revised edition, 1985, p. 30.
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92. Jane McIntosh Snyder, Lesbian Desire in the Lyrics of Sappho, New York, 1997, p. 8, quoted in Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Wife, New York, 2001, p. 25.
93 David Lance Goines, `Inferential Evidence for the Pre-Telescopic Sighting of the Crescent Venus', www.goines.net/Writing/venus.html.
Chapter Three A Woman Called Lucifer
1. Michael Jordan, Mary: The Unauthorized Biography, London, 2001, p. 171.
2. Tobias Churton, The Gnostic Philosophy, Lichfield, Staffordshire, 2003, p. 88.
3. Irenaeus, Adversus Haereses, I.XV.6. quoted in Churton, p. 79, note 45. He adds: `The poem may be by Irenaeus' teacher, Pothinos who, according to Irenaeus was taught by Polycarp, who knew John the Apostle.'
4. Ibid., p. 89.
5. Understandably, Irenaeus was not a Gnostic favourite. One of their texts - The Apocalypse of Peter - refers to orthodox bishops as `dry canals' who issue inflexible and militaristic orders but offer no pastoral care or mystical revelation.
6. Churton notes (p. 90): `Irenaeus never envisioned Christianity as a sect or as a religion among other religions' - a common enough state of mind among Christians today, to whom being described as a member of a sect is particularly offensive. Even the description of the early religion as a cult is viewed with distaste, even though technically accurate.
7. Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. 1.13.3.
8. Jean Markale, Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars, p. 173.
9. Benjamin Walker, Gnosticism: Its History and Influence, Wellingborough, 1983,p.119.
10. Ibid., p. 139-40.
11. Ibid., p. 140-4 1.
12. Ibid., p. 141.
13. Montague Summers, The History of Witchcraft, London, 1926, p. 22.
14. Churton, p. 88.
15. Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, The Templar Revelation: Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ, London, 1997, p. 318.
16. Ibid.
17. Walker, p. 91.
18. The identification of the Magdalene with Mary of Bethany is controversial, but to me the evidence is persuasive. See Picknett and Prince, pp. 63, 78, 139, 305-6, 331-7, 341-2, and Lynn Picknett, Mary Magdalene: Christianity's Hidden Goddess, London, 2003, pp. 47-8, 50, 53-8, 60-2,210.
19. John 11:32.
20. Ibid., 11:25.
21. Walker, p. 91.
22. Ibid.
23. Mark 14:51.
24. Ibid., 14:52.
25. Walker, p. 91, quoting Morton Smith, The Secret Gospel: the Discovery and Interpretation of the Secret Gospel According to Mark, New York, 1974, p. 140.
26. Ibid.
27. Smith, p. 140.
28. Marilyn Yalom, A History of the Wife, New York, 2001, p. 13.
29. Andrew Alexander, the last section in his column entitled `America's Real Gift to the World - Moronocracy', the London Daily Mail, Friday, 5 November 2004.
30. Ibid.
31. Dedicated to `All those who have suffered at the hands of the Church'.
32. See Picknett, Part Two, Chapter Six: `Black, but Comely ...
33. Mark 14:3-5.
34. Luke 7:36-50.
35. Mark, 14:6-8.
36. Ibid., 14:9.
37. John 12:1-8.
38. Luke 7:36-50.
39. Peter Redgrove, The Black Goddess and the Sixth Sense, London, 1989, pp. 125-6.
40. Ibid.
41. Acts 2:17.
42. See Picknett, pp. 61-2, 64-6, 82, 147, 231.
43. Luke 8:1-2.
44. Ibid., 8:3.
45. See David Ayerst and A.S.T. Fisher, Records of Christianity, Volume 1: In the Roman Empire, Oxford, 1971, pp. 144-6.
46. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures, 4.36.
47. David Tresemer and Laura Lea Cannon, Introduction to Jean-Yves Leloup's translation of The Gospel of Mary Magdalene, Rochester, Vermont, 2003, p. xi. Their own reference is given as `James Carroll, Constantine's Sword, New York, Houghton Mifflin, 2001.'
48. The Pistis Sophia, translated by G.R.S. Mead, Kila, MT, USA, 1921, Second Book, 72:3.
49. G. R. S. Mead, Pistis Sophia, Kila, MT, USA, 1921, Second Book, 160.
50. For example, see Luke 4:38-9, in which Simon's mother-in-law is healed by Jesus. `Peter' was Simon's nickname, meaning `rock'. It has been suggested by Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh that it may have been the equivalent of Sylvester Stallone's `Rocky' - expressing Simon's rough side.
51. Mead, Book Five.
52. Mark 16:9.
53. Luke 8:3.
54. Ibid., 12:27.
55. Susan Haskins, Mary Magdalen, London, 1993, Chapter III.
56. Leloup, 10:5.
57. Ibid., p. 37 (p. 17 of the original text).
58. Ibid., p. 39 (p. 18 of original text).
59. Pistis Sophia, First Book, 36.
60. Ibid., Second Book, 72: 3.
61. Ibid.
62. Ibid., 28.
63. Picknett, pp. 67-8.
64. 1 am indebted to Clive Prince for a fruitful discussion on this subject, and for the `office' analogy.
65. Morton Smith, Jesus the Magician, London, 1978, p. 25.
66. Picknett and Prince, 112-13; Picknett 39-4 1.
67. Che non ha potesta in un medesimo tempo di dire diverse cose.
68. Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, Turin Shroud: How Leonardo da Vinci Fooled History, London, 2000, p. 194.
69. Timothy Freke and Peter Gandy, Jesus and the Goddess: The Secret Teachings of the Original Christians, London, 2001, p. 45. See also www.BelovedDisciple.org.
70. Ibid.
71. John 14:23.
72. See www.BelovedDisciple.org.
73. Ibid.
74. John 19:25.
75. Jusino's website.
76. Leloup, p. 37 (p. 17).
77. Layton, Gospel of Thomas, 114:18-20.
78. Ibid., Gospel of Philip, 48.
79. John 13:23-26.
80. Ibid., 18:15-16.
81. Ibid., 20:2-10.
82. Ibid., 21:7.
83. Ibid., 21:20-23.
84. See Desmond Stewart's The Foreigner, London, 1981, p. 108.
85. Mark 10:46.
86. Luke 7:44-47.
87. See Picknett and Prince, Chapter One: `The Secret Code of Leonardo da Vinci', and Picknett, Chapter One, `The Outsiders'.
88. In the Sainsbury Wing of the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, in central London.
89. Luke 7:19.
90. John 1:28. Of John's alleged declaration that he was not the Christ, this passage reads: `This all happened at Bethany at the other side of the Jordan', (My emphasis). Perhaps this comes into the category of `protesting too much'.
91. G.R.S. Mead, `Simon Magus: An Essay', London, 1892, p. 10.
92. Picknett and Prince, p. 417.
93. Andre Nataf, The Wordsworth Dictionary of the Occult, trans., John Davidson, London, 1994, p. 182. Originally published in Paris, 1988, as Les maitres de l'occultisme.
94. Ibid.
95. Rollo Ahmed, The Black Art, London, 1936, p. 53.
96. Walker, p. 938.
97. Mead, p. 10.
98. Ibid., pp. 28ff.
99. Karl W. Luckert, Egyptian Light and Hebrew Fire, New York, 1991, p. 299.
100. Ibid., 305.
101. Quoted in Mead, p. 19.
102. Francis X. King, ed. Crowley on Christ, London, 1974, p. 15.
103. Luke 7: 28 and Matthew 11:11.
104. This passage appears in the otherwise lost Gnostic Gospel of the Egyptians. However, we are indebted to Clement of Alexandria who once again innocently included a quotation from this text in his Stromateis.
105. Layton, Gospel of Thomas, 61:23-33.
106. Walker, p. 885.
107. Matthew 11:3.
108. Ibid., 11:2.
109. Ibid., 11:9.
110. Ibid., 11:11.
111. Mark 14: 14.
113. Irenaeus, Adv. Haer. Book I. XIII.
114. A Muslim taxi driver told me that Islamic mystics traditionally fast and pray in the desert for 40 days, after which they have the power to summon and use djinns as their occult slaves. Although the average Muslim is wary of such practices, apparently this is not seen as evil.
115. Morton Smith, Jesus the Magician, London, 1978, p. 42.
116. Barbara Thiering, Jesus the Man, pp. 84-5 and 390-1.
117. Jeffrey Burton Russell, Lucifer: The Devil in the Middle Ages, (New York), 1984, p. 307.
Chapter Four Synagogues of Satan
1. Jean Markale, Montsegur and the Mystery of the Cathars, trans. Jon Graham, 2003. Originally Montsegur et l'enigme cathare, Paris, 1986, p. 66.
2. For a detailed background to the Cathars, see Markale; Yuri Stoyanov, The Hidden Tradition in Europe, London, 1994; Lynn Picknett, Mary Magdalene: Christianity's Hidden Goddess, London, 2003, and Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince, The Templar Revelation, London, 1997.
3. The Cathars only ate fish because they believed that fish procreated asexually.
4. Markale, p. 173.
5. Ibid., p. 176.
6. See Picknett, p. 184.
7. The reasoning behind this was that as God had given humanity dominion over all the animals, it was blasphemy not to reinforce that superiority by eating them. It is significant that to this day, among all the countries of Europe, it is the Catholic lands that have the worst reputation for animal welfare.
8. At Beziers, 20,000 townspeople willingly died at the hands of the Crusaders rather than renounce their belief that Jesus and the Magdalene were lovers. It is all the more remarkable because this is not a belief that would naturally appeal to Cathars and therefore is unlikely for them to have invented. Presumably they learnt it from a secret gospel similar to those found at Nag Hammadi in 1945.
9. Markale, p. 160.
10. See Picknett, pp. 91, 93-7, 196, 215-16, 221, 232-3 and de Voragine, pp. 153-5.
11. Montague Summers, The History of Witchcraft, London, 1926, p. 23.
12. Yuri Stoyanov, The Hidden Tradition in Europe, London, 1994, p. 189.
13. Ibid.
14. According to Jean Markale, Rahn was discovered faking some inscriptions and was duly punched on the nose by an outraged local historian!
15. It must be remembered that Rahn was a Nazi, although his earlier research in the Languedoc was relatively untouched by his later unpleasant ideology. His theses are included here in the spirit of Lucifer - i.e., fearlessly citing any interesting research no matter what its source rather than throw the politically correct baby out with the bathwater. After all, on certain points, he may have been correct!
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