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The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics,
crime, and culture are investigated in this examination of the
connections between religion, political conspiracy, and occultism.
Readers are presented with detailed insight into how Charlie Manson
became a national bogeyman as well as startling connections between
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Wolfgang Pauli, Carl Jung, and
synchronicity; serial killers, multiple personality disorder, and
demonic possession; and magic, surrealism, and mind control. Not a
work of speculative history, this third volume of a three-part set
is founded on primary source material and historical documents.
Fascinating secrets are divulged involving Hollywood icons such as
Marilyn Monroe, David Lynch, and Jane Fonda as well as links
between the Cotton Club murders, the Bluegrass conspiracy, and the
Son of Sam cult.
The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics,
crime, and culture are examined in this first volume of a
three-part set, exposing new connections between religion,
political conspiracy, and occultism. Based on the premise that
there is a satanic undercurrent to American affairs, this study
examines the sinister forces at work throughout history, from
ancient American civilizations and the mysterious mound-builder
culture to the Salem witch trials, the birth of Mormonism during a
ritual of ceremonial magic by Joseph Smith Jr., and Operations
Paperclip and Bluebird. Not a work of speculative history, this
expose is founded on primary source material and historical
documents. Fascinating details are revealed, including the bizarre
world of "wandering bishops" who appear throughout the Kennedy
assassinations; a CIA mind-control program run amok in the United
States and Canada; a famous American spiritual leader who had ties
to Lee Harvey Oswald in the weeks and months leading up to the
assassination of President Kennedy; and the "Manson secret."
The roots of coincidence and conspiracy in American politics,
crime, and culture are investigated in this second volume of a
three-part set that exposes new connections between religion,
political conspiracy, terrorism, and occultism. Not a work of
speculative history, this exposé is founded on primary source
material and historical documents and provides strange parallels
between supernatural forces such as shaminism, ritual magic, and
cult practices and contemporary interrogation techniques such as
those used by the CIA under the general rubric of MK-ULTRA.
Fascinating details on Nixon and the "Dark Tower," the Assassin
cult and more recent Islamic terrorism, and the bizarre themes that
run through American history from its discovery by Columbus to the
political assassinations of the 1960s are revealed.
This title follows the themes in the writings of Kenneth Grant,
H.P. Lovecraft and the Necronomicon, uncovering further meanings of
the concepts of the famous writers of the Left Hand Path. It is for
Thelemites, as well as lovers of the Lovecraft Mythos in all its
forms and for those who find the rituals of classical ceremonial
magic inadequate for the New Aeon.
"Stairway to Heaven "is an incredibly broad ranging new study that
stretches from ancient Egypt and Babylon to Jewish and Christian
Kabbalists, Chinese Daoists, Hindu Tantra and Haitian Vodun and
finally to 19th and 20th century European occult societies,
uncovering a hitherto unrecognized common myth that has been
employed the world over in roughly the same form since the earliest
recorded texts. Beginning with the oldest form of Jewish mysticism
and extending this search through the dead sea scrolls, Levenda
reveals a consistent emphasis on the number seven and its
association with heavenly themes, including those of a chariot, a
Throne, a Temple and a divine Being. The author then examines the
myths and rituals of egypt, sumer and Babylon to locate the origin
of this myth and comes up with some surprising results in the
ascent rituals of the middle east. Shifting to the far east,
Levenda demonstrates how the mystical practices of China and India
display important similarities to these rituals, most notably in
the practices of the Chinese alchemists who used a map of seven
stars as their ladder to heaven.
Reinforced by visits to the Buddhist shrine of Borobudur in
indonesia, Levenda concludes that there was a myth common to
peoples across the ancient world that an ascent to the heavens was
possible using a ladder of seven stars, a process running parallel
to the alchemical idea of the perfection of metals and the
perfectibility of the soul.
This concept was enshrined in the rituals of the Western secret
societies of the 19th and 20th centuries such as the golden dawn
and the Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor, and influenced the
development of new age occultism. exhaustive in scope and revealing
in its scholarship, "Stairway to Heaven "casts a fascinating new
multidisciplinary perspective on the mystical practices of heavenly
ascent.
The ax-man murders of 1912 in Louisiana and Texas leave a bloody
trail of evidence that points to the largest, unsolved serial
killing in history of the United States. It's a tale of ritual
murder, voodoo mayhem, and wholesale killings that leads the reader
on a shocking train ride across two states and into the chapters of
a real American horror story. The fiendish slayings of 10 sleeping
families nestled in their beds is only the beginning of the
terrifying account of a true crime that remains unsolved. "Axes of
Evil" sheds light on an unwritten part of American history and
uncovers the American "Jack the Ripper."
In the past 20 years, there has been an avalanche of books and
articles on doing business in Asia, using what are commonly
referred to as "Asian values." Most of these books rely upon the
works of the Chinese classics, such Sun Tzu's "The Art of War", or
by classical Japanese authors such as Musashi's "Book of Five
Rings".Peter Levenda, a seasoned trader with more than 20 years of
experience dealing extensively (and successfully) with the Chinese
market, contends that such books don't prepare anyone for the
mundane practicalities of handling a Chinese business negotiation.
They do a disservice by implying that a knowledge of Chinese
classical literature will adequately prepare one for the intense
experience of selling to or buying from the Chinese and they tend
to ignore one essential fact about the central Chinese experience
of the last 60 years: the Communist Revolution and the enigma of
Chairman Mao Ze Dong.In "The Mao of Business", Levenda reveals the
secrets of the day-to-day negotiations, project identification,
financing, distribution, the ubiquitous sales agent, and the
inescapable business banquet in China. Since 1984 Levenda has
travelled continuously to China and has visited almost every
province in the search for profitable business relationships.
During that time he realized the extent to which the sayings of
Chairman Mao exerted an influence over the minds and activities of
his customers, and he was never without his own copy of the Little
Red Book.
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