Book & site list

[Mick Harper]

This sounds like a book I should be reading but it won't download. 'Secure site' or summat.

[Boreades]

In praise of Mary Anne Atwood.

A Suggestive Inquiry Into the Hermetic Mystery: With a Dissertation on the More Celebrated of the Alchemical Philosophers Being an Attempt Towards the Recovery of the Ancient Experiement of Nature. by Mary Anne Atwood

Mary Anne Atwood (née South), (1817–1910), was an English writer on hermeticism and spiritual alchemy. Born in Gosport, Hampshire, to Thomas South, a researcher into the history of spirituality, she assisted and collaborated with her father from her youth. Mary Anne married the Anglican Reverend Alban Thomas Atwood in 1859, and moved to his parish near Thirsk in North Yorkshire where she spent the rest of her life. She continued private correspondence with several influential Theosophists until her death in 1910. Her final words, "I cannot find my centre of gravity."
She is buried at Leake Church, in Yorkshire.

Mary Anne wrote A Suggestive Inquiry into the Hermetic Mystery (1850) at her father's request, and in parallel with his own composition of a lengthy poem on the same subject. Thomas South paid for the book to be published anonymously in 1850, but without having read it, trusting his daughter's judgement. Reading it after publication, he believed Mary Anne had revealed many hermetic secrets that were better left unpublished, and therefore bought up the remaining stock and, with his daughter, burnt them, along with the unfinished manuscript of his poem. Only a few copies of the book survived.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Anne_Atwood

This title has just surfaced on Forgotten Books.
https://www.forgottenbooks.com/en/books ... y_10002275

Coincidentally, some of my most Speculative brethren, who, despite the great burden of their aged male gender, reviewing the thoughts of a young female, are praising this greatly as offering great insight.

Edit: This might be a recycling of Merlin and Vivien.

[Mick Harper]

You must read it for all of us. Or doesn't it work like that? Who Vivien?

[TisILeclerc]

I can get these things to download but they've been cobbled because it's a pay site.

A few pages in and you get interested and then there's a big advert asking you to cough up.

Vivien according to wiki is the naughty nautical lady of the lake who Borry sails across to in his jaunty saucy sailor suit to get megalithic tips and how to tie knots and things.

[hvered]

There are other ways to read it online, as a book https://archive.org/details/suggestiveinquir00atwo or chapter by chapter http://rexresearch.com/atwood/atwood1.htm

[Boreades]

Who Vivien?

The Lady of the Lake
= Nimue, Viviane, Vivien, Elaine, Ninianne, Nivian, Nyneve, or Evienne, among other variations.
= the young woman that Merlin falls in love with. Or not, depending on which version of the legend one reads.



http://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text ... and-vivien

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_of_the_Lake

[TisILeclerc]

I don't know if anyone's come across Conor MacDari's book about the 'real' history of Christianity and its origins in Ireland.

Here's an audio version to download and listen to at leisure.

He covers a lot of ground that is also discussed here and other places. Language and the Hebrew connection, forgery, especially in the middle ages. The invention of St Patrick and latter day saints. Get the bottle uncorked and the cigars out and have a relaxing couple of hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MN_b55Zjn-A

[Mick Harper]

I had to stop after thirty minutes. I realised I had less than fifty years left to live.

[TisILeclerc]

I wish I had fifty years left.

OK. Basically the ancient Irish have a sun god. Various activities and ceremonies are performed in accordance with their religion.

The high caste priests are Hebrews. He goes into linguistic analysis throughout to show where words come from and what they mean. It's already been said that there are similarities between Hebrew and Irish. There's even a Rabbi on youtube somewhere who has studied Gaelic in order to compare it with Hebrew. He believes it shows that Irish comes from Hebrew not the other way about.

The Irish travelled to America and the locals picked up on their religion which they were still practising when the Jesuits got there. The priests destroyed as many shrines as possible and all their books.

The Romans invaded Britain and we have been told many times that one of their reasons was to destroy the druids. Which they did in Britain.

Then came the clever bit. They changed the religion and wrote stories to back this new religion up. They kept the new religion as secret as possible. By the way he argues that Hebrew is an artificial language. Each section of the genuine Irish priesthood had its own secret language.

The Irish founded Rome as well as other places. They were the Phoenicians as well.

As I've not got fifty years left here's a pdf which should take you about ten years to read.

http://www.hyksos.org/index.php?title=I ... D_PYRAMIDS

I assume this is the complete book. Considering it was written in 1923 it seems to be a bit of a trail blazer.

He objects to the idea that England was invaded by Anglo Saxons. He says that the Irish and English are the same people.

He says that the name England is the German pronunciation of 'In Gael Land'. Even today our football supporters shout 'Ingerland' at every opportunity.

He doesn't like academics who he says shut down innovative thinking. As did the church. and so on and on. It really is worth reading. What's fifty years after all?

[Mick Harper]

All right, I'll give it another whirl. On your say-so. I make no threats.