The Secret History of the World Paperback – Illustrated, February 23, 2010

I say it whispering....I am a member of a "secret" society.Now, let me point out to you two things:Our doors have always been open to EVERYONE, after all there was nothing "secret" at all.There was never any brainwashing, but a real "training" to find out the truth for ourselves.You should start form this assumption:Science, as we know it today, says that EVERYTHING must be true for EVERYBODY.But how do you determine what is true? And how do you PERCEIVE what is true?Materialism offers you only two channels: your intellect (which is by nature arrogant) and your five senses (which are, in a way, illusory).BUT WE ARE A LOT MORE than that.Don't confuse the knowledge that is passed down from Master to pupil in an esoteric environment, as an intellectual exchange of ideas that HAVE TO BE PROVED in a laboratory and understood by current logic.NOThis would assume a "believalibity" of the concepts. And there is absolutely NOTHING to be "believed". Esoteric knowledge doesn't have to be believed. It MUST BE PERCEIVED THROUGH YOUR SOUL. ON YOUR OWN.So, after many years of training.....I started to think in a way that is superbly described in this book: I started to think as the Ancients did.And THAT opened up a world of ideas and real communication with the spirit.A communication that today is scorned at and that SCIENCE and CHURCH discourage by all means.They want to make us a mass of bigots, they want us to BELIEVE like robots to THEIR "truth", but that is truth only in sofar that it is MATERIALISTIC truth.There's more at stake.Tha Church has lost ANY contact with the Spirit, and the Author explains WHY and HOW. If you enter a Catholic church today, you will find that they have supplanted real wax candles with electric candles. WHERE HAS THE SPIRIT GONE? Where is SPIRIT in an electric light? Where is spirit in a REAL FLAME? You answer that. And by answering you IMMEDIATELY understand the difference between materialism and idealism, between the "flatness" of a totally material world, and the "life" of a world that is inhabited by Spirit.Not as fluffy idealism, a mood, some empty elevated MENTAL concept.But inhabited by REAL, THICK Spirit.I have not enough words to THANK the Author for his guts, his courage, and above all for HIS HUMILITY.This person doesn't throw those concepts at you expecting an applause.He knows very well that he will be scorned. He knows that his book will not receive raving revews on Amazon.HE WRITES BECAUSE HE WANTS TO COUNTERACT THE MISSION OF ARIMAN, the demon of materialism. Only for this reason.Mr. Booth: THANK YOU. From the deapest of my heart.

A book with a secret of its very own.As soon as I received this book in the mail I started reading, and I couldn't put it down. I finished it within 3 days! with many bookmarks for me to go back to.As Rumi put it:“You will learn by reading,But you will understand with LOVE.”― RumiThis book is not just a book you read and then move on to the next, its not even a book that will give you all the answers or secrets that maybe you imagined you would get, no...it gives SO much more.Don't be put off by the negative reviews, this book is well worth your time, even if you don't understand everything that is written about, the next time you read it, you may.I have read many subjects, from books by Idries Shah about the great Sufi's, to me, this book, the Secret History Of The World is written in a very similar fashion. Your own mind has to work hard to get to the essence within what you are reading.Its a wonderful journey where you meet many of the players that you have either read about, read their own works, or have heard of from researching either art, the esoteric world, alchemy, astrology, poetry.This book is a treasure! Many are missing the whole point of the subject of this book.Thank you Mark for this amazing read.

I have always been interested in European mysticism and Secret Societies. However, the literature in such areas seems to either range from being so dense and Academic that it is unreadable to being little more than some New Age guru's quickly written and poorly researched little promotional piece. If such societies are really that secretive or didn't really exist at all, this book is nothing more than a complete lie from beginning to end, but what a wonderfully creative and mind opening tale it is. Real or imagined (and what do we all truly know for sure anyway), this text is just outright fun and thought provoking. I bought the paperback version and have read it previously. It is now on my kindle, and I often return to it again and again. If you, in fact, believe that the Soul and the Imagination are one and the same, I would say that this text lives up to that in so many ways. Call me strange, but I find my houseplants reaching out toward the bed where I sleep now. Perhaps, we all were once plant material as the myths presented here suggest. On the other hand, isn't the power of all religion in the metaphor and not something that can be seen in concrete form?