The Sacred History

Preface. Introduction: The Mystic Vision. Softly Falls the Dew... Mother Earth and Father Time. The Angel Michael and the Serpent. The Spider Woman Weaves her Spell. Isis and the Mystery of the Perfect Fit. Godly Lovers and Angelic Wives. Odin and the Angelic Theory of Evolution. The Story of the Previous Ring. The Mighty Men, the Men of Renown. The Gods Turn to Humans for Help. Orpheus, the Sphinx and the Timelock. Noah and the Waters of Forgetfulness. Rama and Sita - the Lovers in the Forest. Krishna, Snow White and the Seven Maids. Gilgamesh and the Elixir of Immortality. Abraham, the Father of Thinking in the Head. Moses and the Gods of War. Solomon, Sex and Beauty. Elijah in between the Worlds. The Buddha's Story. Socrates and his Daemon. Jesus Turns the World Inside Out. The Sun at Midnight. The Age of Miracles. The Mountain Comes to Mohammed. Charlemagne and the Paladins of Pain. Perceval Makes a Fool of Himself. Tales of the Arabian Nights. St Francis Takes the Gospels Seriously. The New Arabian Way of Loving. Dante, the Templars and the Road Less Travelled. Christian Rosencreutz and the Birth of Yoga. Joan and the Key to the Small Door. The Fairies Want our Juice. Paracelsus and the Mysteries of Spiritual Healing. The Cobbler Has Another Way of Knowing... Shakespeare and the Rosicrucians. Supernatural Stories in the Age of Science. Napoleon - the Great Magnet of the Age. Abraham and Bernadette. The Nabob of Odd. The Great Secret of This World. The Story of Life after Death. Jung and his Daemon. Fatima and the Secrets of the Guardian Angel. Hitler and the Hungarian Angels. The That Without Which. Lorna Byrne and the Mysticism of Everyday Life. Conclusion. Notes. Selected Bibliography. Acknowledgements. Index.

Jonathan Black is the nom de plume of Mark Booth, who has worked in publishing for over twenty years.