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is a fascinating read, but it's definitely not for everyone, If you're scientifically minded and need "proof" for his suppositions, you won't make it out of chapter one, However, if you approach it with an open mind and look at this book as a collection of ideas of the author's, but also from many mystics and spiritualists through the ages then it's extremely thoughtprovoking.


Some of it's a bit strange the vegetable part of man is hard to wrap your head around, but all in all I didn't read anything that outraged me.
Instead, it answered some questions that have bugged me for years, such as how the Greeks were able to construct and believe in such a complicated pantheon of gods and demigods.
I especially liked how he suggests we have been experiencing a deevolution in terms of our spiritual knowledge and understanding since the time of the ancient Egyptians, and how a lot of that can be attributed to the Catholic church's insistence on eradicating heresy and witchcraft.
As someone who has spent a great deal of time reading about the early church, I fully believe and accept that the church fathers and hierarchy knew a lot more about esoteric practices than they wanted people to know.


And really, although Booth/Black's it's the same person theories are a bit unusual at first glance, they aren't really.
Think about it. Catholics believe in the intercessory power of saints in transubstantiation in an afterlife in demons and the devil, If you take those beliefs out of Christian doctrine and examine them objectively, and ask where they came from, and why other cultures share many of the same traditions and stories, then you basically are on the same path this author followed all the way back to the beginning of time and then back to the present.


All in all, this is a fantastic book that may answer some questions but will definitely leave you asking even more.
The only two things I can fault is, for one, the ending, the ending! It doesn't even end! It just stops! Secondly, if one reads the back cover, it's a bit misleading.
If you knew nothing about it, you'd think it was a conspiracy book, What the book is actually about is the evolution of the spirit world and the history of secret societies, noting very strongly the influence they have had on the world.


Now onto the book itself: I found it to be extremely interesting, I wouldn't readily agree with everything Jonathan Black says, as he seems to be a little biased, but the information he brings to the table is quite incredible.
It has definitely increased both my knowledge and my insight, I'm reluctant to accept all the ancient lore of the spirit world, but when one looks at the collective evidence he presents for his theories, and the historical figures who represented them, an openminded person has to at least consider his claims.


I definitely recommend the book, If it doesn't change the way you think it will certainly highlight the foundations which many cultures and empires were built upon.
. . and supposedly still hold them up to this day, Seriously, what was that! I wanted to read something different, so while browsing the library the icon on the cover caught my eye.
I got the book knowing very well what kind of information it would hold,

When I got home and as I was flipping around, I saw that the author has a section about my religion "Islam", so I read some of the paragraphs and let me tell you this, not only is his information not accurate, without study or resources, but he is a bad author! I know that most of his kind don't respect our belief, I didn't expect any to be truthful, but if someone is interested in the understructure of religions, politics, and such, he would hold more respect and knowledge.


I started reading the book, to be honest in my review, and after reaching pageI had it with this man.
He

is unorganized, his thoughts are all over the place, he doesn't stick to the point, so much information is incorrect, and I know this for a fact, our house is filled with books and arguments about such topics.
He raised good points but didn't fill anything, he kept promising to tell us about one thing or another on every page but rarely returns to his point.


If this is supposed to be nonfiction, realistic work the author should be ashamed of himself, I will speak for my section at the very least: do your research, and read our books and our holy Quran not your own foreigners' views of our belief or Wikipedia! You are a writer for God's sake!

I might finish the book but right now I'm not very positive.
Este foi um livro que me levou quasemeses para o terminar daí a minha ausência por aqui, sorry!.

Devo dizer que é um ótimo livro para quem tem interesse em descobrir os segredos por de trás de toda a nossa história/ sociedade.
A grande vantagem é a escrita, é simples sem grandes floreados de maneira a que seja fácil de interpretar aquilo que é explicado.
O que este livro defende é a chamada teoria esotérica, ou seja, a mente antes da matéria, Como será possível que exista a consciência ao aceitarmos a toda aquela teoria cientifica que tudo, o universo/planeta foi criado através de matéria

O autor levanos a uma viagem sobre a existência desta teoria esotérica que começa desde dos primórdios do tempo egípcio, passando pelos tempos romanos, inicio do cristianismo, renascimento até ao séc XX, com documentos e ilustrações que ajudam o leitor a ir mais além.
À medida que lemos vamos encaixando as peças e é verdade que este livro nos abre portas para outros entendimentos, Apesar disto tudo é um livro longo com muita informação e principalmente muita História com H grande! Acredito que ler uma vez não chega para se conseguir interiorizar tudo a menos que se vá tirando apontamentos, por isto é um livro que quererei com toda a certeza reler.

É um livro que deveria ser lido por todos, mas não a concelho a quem deteste História pois vai achar com certeza um livro chato de ler x
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Ps: Só não deiporque como já disse é muito difícil reter toda a informação de uma só vez, mas só simplesmente por essa razão, o livro é muito bom mesmo!

I can see how a lot of reviewers managed to misread this one.
It contains a lot of things that are not to be read or understood literally, Besides, some of the ideas are a bit repelling and some terms are different from what a veteran reader of occult lit could be used to.
And of course, not everything has to be absolutely true,

The ideas about development of the human concousness, . . mindblowing! If they are at lest partially true, then the human history has been an even wilder ride than we could have guessed!

Of course, one cannot believe every little thing outright.
Still, rejecting all ideas outright is also not the best way to approach to such readings,

Whatever the truth on all the topics is, this is a very enlightening read that can at least make people wonder if this world might be a tad more convoluted place than is readily imaginable.
This is a serious book by an Oxonian andyear publisher, It was written from scraps of odd books picked up by the author British, Publisher's Weekly says of the author's work that: "Mark Booth's history incorporates so many disparate philosophies, . . His universe is full of bizarre theories, entertaing primarily for their weirdness, "

I am reading Chapterabout "The Age of Islam, " It doesn't suggest much wierdness unless we classify the fact that Mohammed asked the Archangel Gabriel, while in a conversation, what Mohammed would like to drink.
Mohammed replied: "milk. " Drinking booze is forbidden in Mohammedanism, The author suggests that occultists call milk "moon juice, " Actualy, I don't exactly know why that was considered important by the author, Is that weird I don't think so,

I would call Booth's information which is all over the map "odd, "

P. S. For some reason this site insists somebody else wrote the book, I am assure you I am looking at the The Secret History of the World's cover right now and "Mark Booth" is the author's name.
I thought computers were supposed to make life easier, Much of what I read sounded crazy, But that being said, the book really made me think about my spirituality, I loved the idea that by imagining a better world, some of that gets manifested in reality, So in a sense, our thoughts do matter, His view of unconditional love of your fellow man, was inspirational, His secret societies/mystery schools try to make better people and a better world, which is much different from my idea of the Freemasons being a secret society where they helped each other get rich I still think some of them do that.
I also learned a lot about historical people, such as Hypatia go google her, she was an amazing, intelligent woman, torn apart by Monks.
One of my favorite quotes from the book, ", . . if we goodheartedly decide to believe in the essential goodness of the world, despite the brickbats of fortune, despite the slapstick tendency in things that seems to contradict such spiritual beliefs and make them look foolish and absurd, then the decision to believe will help transform the world.
" Equally fascinating and irritating, but I did keep reading it in spite of my scientific materialist rationalist beliefs, I accidently came across the book in an airport shortly after reading Dan Brown's latest and thought it would provide more info on the Masons and others.
I didn't expect it would actively promote these various beliefs, The author skips along merrily from one belief set to another, making connections throughout the time and space continuum, mentioning all sorts of people, places and events, often in the same sentence or paragraph with little to no detail that might convince the wary reader.
Even Dan Brown comes in for a mention or two, as does Umberto Eco, as though The DaVinci Code and Foucault's Pendulum are somehow equivalent works that don't take diametrically opposed approaches to their topics.


It is an incredibly ambitious effort to the point of absurdity, It would take several lifetimes devoted to intense study to read and absorb everything mentioned, So, Booth doesn't really try to persuade in any rational sense, Instead he bombards the reader with endless stimuli coming at one from every conceivable direction, in apparent effort to break through our hardened skullsa point made more manifest in reading the workand reach our atrophied pinal glands or third eyes.
You can't follow the bouncing ball of his logic, You must accept that there is no ball and just experience this magical mystery tour, First, let me go out on a limb and say this book has helped me become more awakened, Thus,stars.

But this is a very narrowI think the audience who would really appreciate this book is quite small.


First, if you are a science religionist, meaning, you are not interested in entertaining any world views contrary to your scientific beliefs, you will not like this book.
It is about an alternate way of looking at the world, an alternate mode of consciouness than the reductionist materialist perspective.


Second, if you are a high or perhaps even medium ranking member of a secret society or as well read as the author in esoterica you will no doubt have sources of information superior/deeper than this.


Who is this book for, then

It's for people who are capable of digesting a large amount of historical information.
Look at the title of the book history of the world, There is going to be a fair degree of information there,

The author tells you right up front this history is different than the one you are used to.
It is portrayed in an unusual for our times interpretive framework based on hidden/esoteric/spiritual teachings,

It's for people who are really curious about all this stuff, have some grounding in the field, but have not gone down one particular path enough to feel like they have the right answer, or have found the one true way.


If you compare this book to something like Drunvalo Melchizednek's Flower of Life you will see big differences.
Drunvalo tells the story of the cosmology of Earth and it's straight from the hip "hey, I got it from Thoth personally.
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As much as the church of science types complain about this book, it is a synthesis firmly grounded in a megaton of research of the world's esoteric writings and artwork.
It's a thing that used to be valued as much as "science, " The word for it is scholarship, It is worthy of respect in a way that an account grounded purely in personal experience is not, Where to even begin with this book The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies, by author Mark Booth, is every bit as ludicrous as the title sounds.
That being said, there are moments of genuinely brilliant writing and profoundly interesting ideas, Booth sabotages himself with far too many obscure references and endless namedropping, And when I say endless namedropping, I cannot overexaggerate the sheer quantity Booth rambles on with,

Criticisms aside, I enjoyed much of this book, Booth takes elements from most every major religion's theosophy and combines it with many known cultural mythologies into a type of unsubstantiated world history.
He asserts that the universe's grand design is based on "mindbeforematter" laws of a spiritual dimension and that humanity has devolved into a materialistic, dumbeddown race.
He then, loosely, outlines secret societies' such as the Freemasons, Rosicrucians, Hermeticists etc, roles in preserving the true "mindbeforematter" nature of the universe so humanity may once again evolve to its former glory.


If you love religious studies, history, mythology, and a little absurdity, I'd highly recommend this book, But if you're just looking for conspiracy theories, this isn't for you, Начинается как пособие по самопомощи, но потом оказывается, что это автор применяет на читателях приемы и практики тайных обществ. Далее все продолжается в том же духе, с длительными отступлениями о том, что читателю предстоит узнать в этой книге. Когда же читатель начнет все это узнавать, так и остается неясным, потому что автор всю дорогу несет бессвязную хуйню. Похоже, Хилари Мэнтел в своей реце была права: sitelink theguardian. com/books/ . И уж точно прав вот этот читатель, так что подписываюсь под каждым словом: sitelink goodreads. com/review/show .