The Lost Pillars of Enoch: When Science and Religion Were One

Abstract

Cover Image -- Title Page -- Epigraph -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE. Provenance -- A Note about the Timing of This Book -- PART ONE. THE LOST PILLARS IN ANTIQUITY -- Chapter 1. Saving Knowledge from Catastrophe: The World's First Archaeological Story -- THE NEPHILIM -- WHERE COULD JOSEPHUS'S SURVIVING PILLAR BE FOUND? -- Chapter 2. "Sethites" in Egypt? -- Chapter 3. Enoch and Hermes: Guardians of Truth -- TRACING THE MYTH -- THE EMERALD TABLET -- Chapter 4. A Sense of Loss Pervades -- THE FALLEN -- GNOSTICS: RETURN OF THE SETHITES -- Chapter 5. How Ancient Is the Ancient Theology? -- Chapter 6. A Concise History of Religion -- Chapter 7. From Apocalyptic to Gnosis-and Back to Religion -- PART TWO. HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY: Seeking Concordance, or Reuniting the Fragments -- Chapter 8. The Unitive Vision -- KABBALAH -- RAMON LLULL (1232-CA. 1316) -- THE ALEMBIC OF FLORENCE: HERMETIC PHILOSOPHY REBORN -- Chapter 9. Restoring Harmony: From the Sun to Infinity -- FRANCESCO GIORGI: COSMIC HARMONY -- COPERNICUS -- GIORDANO BRUNO (1548-1600) -- Chapter 10. The Lost Pillars of Freemasonry -- LATE MEDIEVAL EVIDENCE FOR ANTEDILUVIAN PILLARS -- ANTEDILUVIAN MASONRY -- Chapter 11. Esoteric Masonry and the Mystery of the "Acception" -- JOHN DEE AND PRIMAL MATHEMATICS -- Chapter 12. The Return of Enoch -- "OUT OF EGYPT I HAVE CALLED MY SON" -- Chapter 13. Enter Isaac Newton -- Chapter 14. "A History of the Corruption of the Soul of Man" -- THE TEMPLE OF WISDOM -- THE ANCIENTS KNEW ALREADY -- NEWTON AND THE "DAIMON" -- Chapter 15. Antiquarianism: Stukeley and Blake -- STUKELEY, FREEMASONRY, AND THE PRISCA SAPIENTIA -- Chapter 16. Blake and the Original Religion -- ALL RELIGIONS ARE ONE -- Chapter 17. From the Enlightenment to Theosophy: Persistence of Antediluvian Unity of Science and Religion -- THE TRADITION -- SAINT-YVES D'ALVEYDRE -- THE SECRET DOCTRINE.