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Summary: Garbled nonsense!
Review: An awful hodpodge of new age mumbo jumbo and confusing, ultimately meaningless, imaginings. There are too many unscrupulous authors out there like these guys that prey on the credibility of others to make a fast buck. If you buy this book I have a tower in Paris that you might also be interested in.
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Summary: A fun read.
Review: I had just finished The mystery of the cathedrals when I picked up this book and wanted to read the intro. I had a hard time putting it down as it reads like a mystery unfolding before your eyes. I had hoped there would be a little bit about the esoteric side and practices of alchemy as there is in every hidden tradition but alas no. This detracts from the book in a minor way and I'd still encourage a look. A lot more fun to read than The Zelator although written in a different style. If you enjoy esoteric concepts and puzzles this book is a light, fun read.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I loved this book. There was an surprising depth of information in this book and much food for thought. It will spark curiosity in many avenues of interest and postulates an interesting theory for the end times. For those intersted in Alchemy, Rosicrucianism, the Templar Knights and the Occult, this is a very intersting read. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Alchemical Milepost for Chiliast Pilgrims
Review: In the South of France, in Hendaye to be exact, a mysterious cross has sparked many alchemical detectives into speculating upon its anomalous if not heterodox significance. Not bearing symbols spiritually congruous with the times it was said to be constructed in (1600's), it has been interpreted as everything from an alchemical milepost for chiliast pilgrims to something bearing the arcane and cosmically orienting secrets of various cabals known to have existed deep under the surface of history. The authors provide a most readable exegesis through the cross's possibilities, doubling over various interpretations to bolster their argument that the Hendaye enigma basically consists of a series of clues carved in stone indicating some imminent disaster in our near future. Having read many other disaster's a comin' books like May 5, 2002 and The Orion Prophecies, not to mention the wayward predictions of Gordon Michael Scallion, I was careful not to take it all literally. During my second reading of the book, I came to realize that Fulcanelli, the featured esoterist in this book (an au courant alchemist in France in the 20's and 30's and author of Mysteries of the Cathedral) really meant an inner disaster or apocalypse that would take place. Really an alchemical apocalypse that will occur/is occurring in our own personal inner worlds. The disaster of losing the connection with quintessence, our truly living and pliable consciousness itself, i.e. the Philsopher's Stone the few and the brave have struggled to realize. If we pay attention to the ravaging fires within, perhaps we can maintain a needed clarity when it comes to interpreting/experiencing such things as Gothic cathedrals, the Knights Templars, Rennes Le Chateau, Green Language that so many authors have assumed a dangerously cavalier command of. If we meditate on the Cross of Hendaye, perhaps the true meaning/significance of its symbolism will come forth, born of our own personal efforts. I got the impression that the authors, while presenting us with some intriguing possibilities, weren't taking Fulcanelli's 'prophecies' or interpretations so literally either, but rather were inculcating something more subtle in between the lines of their impressive and scholarly detective work. I found this book much more readable than anything put out by Graham Hancock or others because the authors weren't so agenda obsessed nor do they leap to unlikely conclusions in a Eric von Daniken-esque way. They present some historical facts without boring the reader, make their attempt at a grand (cross) synthesis-but overall leave us to come to our own conclusions. Was the cross of Hendaye really an apocalyptic sign post as Fulcanelli suggested or the rubric of some unknown astrological pranksters riding the undercurrents of esotericism unperturbed by orthodox oppressors at large? Find out for yourselves and read this book.
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