ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

Firstly, we are grateful to the people who have corresponded with us, who have sent us useful links. items of information, and have provided us with feedback.

Also, we are mindful of our contemporaries. To those who have provided us with inspiration, or caused us to probe deeper, and ask more pertinent questions, we are grateful.

We may not know one another, that is fine. We may not agree with one another. That also is fine. This work, for the most part, is open to the interpretation and/or pet theory/ies of its creator(s).

Thirdly, we pay our respects to our predecessors in this work, alive or otherwise. More recent predecessors include those whose works provided the main inspiration for us to start writing, Zecharia Sitchin, James Burke, and Henry Lincoln (and Co.). Beyond the Gate, we could add sizeable list of Masonic Historians, Esoteric Historians, even Academic Historians, from the past centuries, going back to, and including the "Father of History" himself -- Herodotus.

We also pay our respects to the Unknown Superiors of all ages, and of those particular schools which we have been covering the stories of. Whether they be Secret Chiefs, Adepts of the Inner Circle, or of the Interior Circle, or Unknown Philosophers, or Illuminati, or Masters, or the Wise Ones, if they be truly Wise and Truly Inspired, and conform to the paradigm of the story we are tracing, and are Authentic, then respect is due them.

Finally, we pay our respects to the Gods (and / or aspects or emanations of the Eternal) themselves, without the knowledge of and conversation with (in some cases), this project would be a dry, brittle shell, unworthy of any further consideration.