Readings In The Authentic Tradition: Indian Survivals of the Wise Ones

Book One

Indian Survivals of the Wise Ones

[NOTE: Students of the History of the Rite of Memphis might find this quite interesting.]

PLAN OF THE ENTIRE SERIES

Book One: Indian Survivals of the Wise Ones

Book Two: Near Eastern Survivals (2000 to 60 bce)

Book Three: The Birth of the Johannite Tradition (100 bce to 350 ce)

Book Four: Transmission of the Gnosis from Constantine to the Crusades

Book Five: L'Ordre de la Rose Croix Veritas (1070 to 1700)

Book Six: From Pasqually to Crowley (1700 to 1947)

Book Seven: Light through the Darkness of the Atomic Age(and beyond)... 1947 - 2000+

TABLE OF CONTENTS (AND READING GUIDE)

0. PRELIMINARY CHARGE.

1. Warning to All Freemasons, ISIS UNVEILED, I: 29-30.

I. PROLOGUE -- THE GREAT MOTHER.

2. Sir John Woodroffe, Shakti and Shakta, pp. 136-8, quoted in M. P. Pandit, Lights on the Tantra, pp. 84-6.

3. Sir John Woodroffe, tr. Principles of Tantra, Part II, Introduction, by Shriyukta Barada Kanta Majumdar, 3, pp. 49-50.

PART ONE: SUMER TO INDIA.

II. SUMER TO INDIA.

4. ISIS UNVEILED, II: 45-6, 48.I: pp. xxxviii; II-106-7.

5. The Tantra of the Great Liberation, intro., by Arthur Avalon(Woodroffe), p. xli.

6. Mackey's Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, various articles:

a. Pitris (II-569).

b. Parikchai, Agrouchada, II-543.

7. NECRONOMICON, Introduction (Simon Edition), pp. xxxiii-xxxiv.

8. ISIS UNVEILED, II: 39, 308.

9. Occult Science in India, Louis Jacolliot, quoted in Occult Theocrasy, pp. 51-2.

10. Encyclopaedia Britannica (hereafter EB), 14^th Edition, 5:195b-c, s.v., Chaldea.

11. When Time Began, Zecharia Sitchin; pp. 368-71, 372-3.

12. Daily Life in Ancient India (from 200 BC to 700 AD), by Jeannine Auboyer, p. 144.

13. The 12^th Planet, Zecharia Sitchin, p. 61.

14. The Wars of Gods and Men, Zecharia Sitchin, p. 60.

15. Myths from Mesopotamia, Stephanie Dalley, tr., The Epic of Creation, Tablet IV, pp. 254-5.

16. The Wonder that was India, by A. L. Basham, 3^rd Edition, 1968, pp. 402-404.

17. Ancient Iraq, Georges Roux, Chapter XIV, "New Peoples," pp. 185-189.

III. THE INDUS VALLEY CIVILIZATION AND THE ROOTS OF TANTRIK CULTURE.

18. EB-12:215 (Indian Art and Archaeology, by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy).

19. Understanding Oriental Philosophy, by James K. Feibleman, pp. 3-5.

20. Man's Religions, 6^th Edition, by John B. Noss, p. 73.

21. The Vedic Age, ed. R. C. Majumdar (The History and Culture of the Indian People, Volume I, 1952). Several extracts.

I. P. 142.

II. Pp. 143-4.

III. On the Dravidians, pp. 154-63. (Several extracts).

22. EB-12: 217c-d. "Indian and Sinhalese Art and Architecture, by A. K. Coomaraswamy.

23. The Vedic Age, Chapter 9, The Indus Valley Civilization by A. D. Pusalker.

24. The Vedic Age, Chapter 10, The Aryan Problem, by B. K. Ghosh.

25. The Vedic Age, Chapter 9, p. 197.

26. Civilizations of the Indus Valley and Beyond, by Sir Mortimer Wheeler, p. 72.

27. The Wars of Gods and Men, Sitchin, p. 232.

28. Anacalypsis, Godfrey Higgins. Several extracts:

a. Bk I.IV.7

b. Bk I.IV.6.

29. New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, A. E. Waite, II-272, s.v., Patriarchal Grades: Patriarch of Isis.

30. Philostratus, Life of Apollonius, Book 3, Section 19.

31. Civilizations of the Indus Valley and Beyond, pp. 74-78.

32. Life in North-eastern India in Pre-Mauryan Times, by Madan Mohan Singh, 1967, pp. 120-22.

33. The Wonder that Was India, pp. 24-33.

IV. EARLY DEVELOPMENTS IN INDIAN RELIGION.

34. The Vedic Age

a. Chap. 24, the Upanishads, p. 467.

b. Chap. 21, The Age of the Later Samhitas.

c. Chap. 22, Sec. 3, The Aranyakas.

35. Man's Religions, The Rise of the Caste System, p. 82.

36. Man's Religions, The Six Acceptable Systems of Indian Philosophy, p. 189.

37. Understanding Oriental Philosophy, The Religions of Hinduism I, pp. 48ff.

38. Man's Religions, pp. 189-91.

39. Principles of Tantra, Part II, Preface, pp. 11-16.

40. Life in North-Eastern India in Pre-Mauryan Times, pp. 108-110.

41. The Wonder That Was India, The Religion of the Vedas, pp. 244-9.

Also, ibid., Hinduism, pp 300-301, 309; Shiva, pp. 309-11. The Mother Goddess, pp. 313-14, Demigods and Spirits, pp. 320-1; Six Systems of Salvation, pp. 326-9.

V. IN THE LAND OF THE NAGAS.

42. Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity, Francis Legge, I-92.

43. ISIS UNVEILED, II: 434, 608.

44. Tibetan Yoga and Secret Doctrines, ed., W. Y. Evans-Wentz, Book VII, Intro, p. 344.

45. The Indo-Sumerian Seals Deciphered, by Laurence Austine Waddell, p. 84.

46. When Time Began, Zecharia Sitchin, p. 10.

47. The Indo-Sumerian Seals Deciphered, p. 103.

48. The Buddhism of Tibet, or Lamaism, Waddell, pp. 24, 26.

49. Serpent Worship, by William R. Singleton, in Mackey's National Freemason, Volume III, Numbers 3 and 4 (Dec 1873-Jan 1874).

50. Life in North-Eastern India in Pre-Mauryan Times, pp. 118-19.

51. The Wonder That Was India, p. 319.

VI. THE DEVELOPMENT OF TANTRIKISM.

52. Man's Religions, pp. 194-5.

53. Understanding Oriental Philosophy, pp. 61-4.

54. Principles of Tantra, Vol I., Intro., by Arthur Avalon, p. 57, pp. 67-8.

55. The Wonder That Was India, pp. 336-8. Also, page 331, pp. 338-40.

VII. THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE MAHAYANA.

56. Man's Religions, pp. 127-8; p. 136.

57. Lights on the Tantra, M. P. Pandit, Note 12, pp. 86-7 (Quoting Shakti and Shakta).

58. The Buddhism of Tibet, pp. 9ff.

59. Man's Religions, pp. 148ff.

60. The Buddhism of Tibet, pp 12-15; pp. 127-31.

61. Tibet's Great Yogi, Milarepa; ed. W. Y. Evans-Wentz; Intro., pp. 4-6.

62. You Are The Eyes Of The World, a translation of The Jewel Ship... pp. 13, and 27-29.

63. Tibetan Yoga..., Book 5, Intro., pp. 277-8.

64. The Buddhism of Tibet, pp. 72-3.

65. The Tibetan Book of the Dead (Evans-Wentz version, the only good version). Intro., p. 73.

66. The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, Book II, Intro., pp. 195-6.

67. Understanding Oriental Philosophy, p. 45; pp. 132-3.

68. The Kalachakra Tantra, Rite of Initiation; Intro., (Jeffrey Hopkins). Pages 59-60; 65 and in the Commentary by the XIV Dalai Lama, on pp. 166-7.

69. The Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation, p. xviii; pp. 59-61.

70. The Wonder That Was India, The Growth of Buddhism, pp. 263-8; The Evolution of the Great Vehicle, p. 276; The Great Vehicle, pp. 278-81;The Vehicle of the Thunderbolt.

PART TWO: THE WESTERN MIGRATION.

A. ETHIOPIA AND EGYPT.

I. ETHIOPIA.

71. EB-1:75b-c.

72. The Wars of Gods and Men, pp. 126-7.

73. Anacalypsis, Volume I, pp. 52-6; 356-7; 399; 400; 403; 458; 584; 594; 595; 597-8.

II. BRAHMI LANGUAGE.

74. EB-1: 683c-d (Alphabet).

75. Ibid, 684, Chart.

76. The Vedic Age, pp. 53, 59, 190, 392.

III. YADAVAS.

77. Anacalypsis, Vol. I, p 392.

78. ISIS UNVEILED, I:444.

79. The Vedic Age, pp. 270 ff. Chapter 14, Traditional History, from the Earliest Time.

80. The Wars of Gods and Men, p. 63.

IV EGYPT.

81. The Ancient Kingdoms of the Nile (and the Doomed Monuments of Nubia), by Walter A. Fairservis, Jr. Pages 165; 136-9.

82. Tutankhamen: Amenism, Atenism, and Egyptian Monotheism, by E. A. Wallis Budge, 1923; pp. 108; 21; 59-65.

B. THE OPHITES AND THE DIONYSIAN ARTIFICERS.

V. EGYPT AND THE AEGEAN.

83. Herodotus, The Histories, II-49-55 (Penguin Edition, pp. 149-51).

VI. ASVINS-DIOSCURI-KABIRI.

84. EB-20: 937a (Sokotra).

85. Mythologies of the Ancient World (S N Kramer ed) The Mythology of India, by W. N. Brown, p. 283.

86. The Vedic Age, Chapter 18, pp. 369 - 70.

87. The Wars of Gods and Men, p. 62.

88. a. EB-2:593b-c (Asvins).

b. EB-4: 497a-b (Cabeiri).

c. EB-17: 460d-461a (Penates).

89. Herodotus, THE HISTORIES, Book III:37.

90. Phoenician Origins of Britons, Scots, and Anglo-Saxons, Waddell, p. 267.

91. The Vedic Age, pp. 394-5.

92. Father of Lies, Warren Weston, p. 39.

93. Phoenician Origins..., pp. 58-9.

94. The Indo-Sumerian Seals Deciphered, Waddell. Pages 9; 42-3; 90-1; 29.

95. ISIS UNVEILED; I: 565-6; 569; II: 170-1.

96. Gods and Spacemen in the Ancient East, by W. Raymond Drake. Pages 33-4.

97. Hastings' Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics (hereafter ERE); s.v., Sanchuniathon, Vol. XI, p. 179.

98. Puranic Concordance, pp. 69-71, (Asvini Kumaras).

99. EB-6: 492 c-d (Corybantes).

100. Morals and Dogma, Albert Pike. Pp. 407; 426-7; 466-7; 728.

101. The Secret Teachings of All Ages, Manly Palmer Hall, Page XXXVI(36).

VII. THE SONS OF THE DRAGON.

102. Isis Unveiled, I: 553.

103. Ophiolatreia, anonymous (said to be Hargrave Jennings). Pages 3-9.

104. The Life of Greece, by Will Durant. Pages 37-8; 39ff.

105. EB-10: 757. (Greece: History/Minoan & Mycenaean). EB-1: 215a-216a. (Aegean Civilization); EB-17: 448d-449b (Pelasgians); EB-12: 575c-576a (Ionians); EB-7: 398b-d (Dionysus).

VIII.THE DIONYSIAN ARTIFICERS.

106. Sketch for the History of the Dionysian Artificers: A Fragment, by Hippolyto Joseph da Costa, Esq. 1820. Pages 30-47.

107. Mackey's History of Freemasonry, Revised, R. I. Clegg, Volume I, Chapter 25, pp. 176-83 (excerpts).

IX. THE DEVIL'S THRONE.

108. The Two Babylons, or Papal Worship, etc.,... Rev. Alexander Hislop, 4^th Ed., pp. 240-1.

109. EB: Several articles:

a. EB-22:211c (Tigris).

b. EB-2: 857c. (Babylon)

c. EB-2: 252b-c.

110. The Arcana of Freemasonry, Dr. Albert Churchward, 1922, pp. 113ff.

X. GENESIS OF THE OPHITES.

111. ERE, IX:501 (Ophitism)

112. EB-12: 158d (Gnosticism).

113. ERE, VI, pp. 234b; 238d-239a.

114. Forerunners and Rivals of Christianity, II:28-37.

EPILOGUE -- THE GREAT MOTHER.

115. EB-10: 474b-748a. (Great Mother of the Gods);

116. EB-12: 155d-156b (Gnosticism) (11^th Edition, however).

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