The Secret History of the World

Mark Booth

• Publisher: ABRAMS Press
• Year: 2010
• ISBN:
  9781590203804
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This New York Times bestselling work reimagines world history though the belief systems of Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Kabbalists, and others. They say that history is written by the victors. But what if history as we know it written by the wrong people? What if everything we've been told is only part of the story? In this groundbreaking and controversial work, Mark Booth embarks on an enthralling tour of our world's secret histories. Booth starts from a dangerous premise: That the stories put forward by the world's various cults and mystical traditions are true. From there he relates a deeply provocative alternate history of the past 3, 000 years. From Greek and Egyptian mythology to Jewish folklore, from Christian cults to Freemasons, from Charlemagne to Don Quixote, from George Washington to Hitler—Booth shows that history needs a revolutionary rethink, and he has 3, 000 years of hidden wisdom to back it up.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Introduction
• 1 - In The Beginning God Peers at His Reflection • The Looking-Glass Universe
• 2 - A Short Walk in the Ancient Woods Imagining Ourselves into the Minds of the Ancients
• 3 - The Garden of Eden The Genesis Code • Enter the Dark Lord • The Flower People
• 4 - Lucifer, The Light of the World The Apple of Desire • A War in Heaven • The ...
• 5 - The Gods who Loved Women The Nephilim • The Genetic Engineering of ...
• 6 - The Assassination of the Green King Isis and Osiris • The Cave of the Skull ...
• 7 - The Age of Demi-Gods and Heroes The Ancient Ones • The Amazons • Enoch • ...
• 8 - The Sphinx and the Timelock Orpheus • Daedalus, the First Scientist • Job • ...
• 9 - The Neolithic Alexander the Great Noah and the Myth of Atlantis • Tibet • ...
• 10 - The Way of the Wizard Zarathustra’s Battle Against the Powers of Darkness ...
• 11 - Getting to Grips with Matter Imhotep and the Age of the Pyramids • ...
• 12 - The Descent into Darkness Moses and the Cabala • Akhenaten and Satan • ...
• 13 - Reason - and How to Rise Above it Elijah and Elisha • Isaiah • Esoteric ...
• 14 - The Mysteries of Greece and Rome The Eleusian Mysteries • Socrates and his ...
• 15 - The Sun God Returns The Two Jesus Children • The Cosmic Mission • ...
• 16 - The Tyranny of the Fathers The Gnostics and the Neoplatonists • The Murder ...
• 17 - The Age of Islam Mohammed and Gabriel • The Old Man of the Mountains • ...
• 18 - The Wise Demon of the Templars The Prophecies of Joachim • The Loves of ...
• 19 - Fools for Love Dante, the Troubadors and Falling in Love for the First ...
• 20 - The Green One behind the Worlds Columbus • Don Quixote • William ...
• 21 - The Rosicrucian Age The German Brotherhoods • Christian Rosenkreuz • ...
• 22 - Occult Catholicism Jacob Boehme • The Conquistadors and the ...
• 23 - The Occult Roots of Science Isaac Newton • The Secret Mission of ...
• 24 - The Age of Freemasonry Christopher Wren • John Evelyn and the Alphabet of ...
• 25 - The Mystical-Sexual Revolution Cardinal Richelieu • Cagliostro • The ...
• 26 - The Illuminati and the Rise of Unreason The Illuminati and the Battle for ...
• 27 - The Mystic Death of Humanity Swedenborg and Dostoyevsky • Wagner • Freud, ...
• 28 - Wednesday, Thursday, Friday The Anti-Christ • Re-entering the Ancient Wood ...
• Acknowledgements
• A Note on Sources and Selective Bibliography
• Index