Before this Revelation is Possible

“Before this revelation is possible, the world must sleep away the intoxication of her poisoned chalice which wall filled with the false life, of the theological vine.”

The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown

Prophecies of the Rosicrucian

“Jehovah will redeem humanity by revealing those secrets which he previously reserved only for the elect.

The whole world shall become as one book and all the contributions of science and theology shall be reconciled.

Before the end of the world, God shall create a great flood of spiritual light to alleviate the suffering of humankind.”

The Lost Symbol, Dan Brown

The Philospher's Stone

"Freemosonry, like Noetic Science and the Ancient Mysteries, revered the untapped potential of the human mind, and many of Masonic symbols are related to human physiology."

"The mind sits like a golden capstone atop the physical body. The Philospher's Stone. Through the staircase of the spine, energy ascends and descends circulating, connecting the heavenly mind to the physical body."

Decypering the Cyphers

"On the newly exposed face of the pyramid, a series of sixteen characters was pricisely engraved into the smooth stone":

Illustrations from Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol

"'The engrsving is indeed the Masonic cipher. However, the cleartext is meaningless..' 'It must say something.'"

"'It's a grid-based matrix, so I can run the usual - Vigenere, grilles, trellisers and so forth'".'".

Illustrations from Dan Brown's The Lost Symbol

"Although there are a few unsolved cyphers: Phaisto Disk, Dorabella Cypher, the mysterious Voynich Manuscript, this cypher might be broken yet."

Text is from the Lost Symbol, Dan Brown.

Prieure De Sion - Les Nautonies/Grand Masters

Jean De Gisors: 1188 - 1220
Marie De Saintt Clair: 1220 - 1266
Greillaum De Gisors: 1266 - 1307
Edouard De Bar: 1307 - 1336
Teame De Bar: 1336 - 1366
Blance D' Evreux: 1366 - 1398
Nicolas Flamet: 1398 - 1418
Rene D' Amjou: 1418 - 1480
Iolande De Bar: 1480 - 1483
Sandro Bollicelli: 1483 - 1510
Lenardo Da Vinci: 1510 - 1519
Connetable De Bourlon: 1519 - 1525
Ferdinand De Gonzague: 1525 - -1575
Louis De Nevers: 1575 - -1595
Robert Fludd: 1595 - 1637
J. Valentin Andrea: 1637 - 1654
Robert Boyle: 1654 - 1691
Isaac Newton: 1691 - 1727
Charles Radclyffe: 1727 - 1746
Charles De Lorraine: 1746 - 1780
Maximilian De Lorraine: 1780 - 1801
Charles Nodier: 1801 - 1844
Victor Hugo: 1844 - 1885
Claude Debussy: 1885 - 1918
Jean Cocteau: 1918 - 1963

The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown

Books Mentioned in The Da Vinci Code

These some of the titles that were found on Teabing's bookshelf. Are they real books or works of fiction? Let us see.

• "The Templar Revelation: Secret Gaurdians of the True Indentity of Christ". Is a real book published in 1997.
• "Mary Magalene with the Alabaster Jar: Mary Magalene and the Holy Grail". Is a real book published in 1993.
• "The Goddess in the Gosphels: Reclaiming the Secred Feminine". Is a real book published in 1998.
• "Holy Blood, Holy Grail". Is a real book published in 2004

Many of these titles are controversial and some pander conspiracy theories. However, regardless of their attributes they should make for some good reading.

The Da Vinci Code - Quotes

"Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles deceiving the stupid mulitude."

"Blinding ignorance does mislead us, O' wretched mortals, open your eyes!."

Leonardo Da Vinci

Cellar Horrows

“At last I heard the sounds from beyond those barred plates of sheet iron: the mencing padding and muttering, as of gigantic night things within.

Out of the cellar’s evil blackness they stretched, with shadowy hints of scaly wrists beyond them, and with a waving malignant will guiding their horrible groping.

I had come as a seeker-but now I knew that something was seeking me…”

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions, H. P. Lovecraft and others, August Derleth, 1970.

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A 245 page paperback novel, featuring 10 short stories. Published by Ballantine Books.

Contents

1. The Crawling Chaos, H. P. Lovecraft and Elizabeth Berkeley
2. The Green Meadow, H. P. Lovecraft and Elizabeth Berkeley
3. Winged Death, Hazel Heald
4. The Horror in the Museum, Hazel Heald
5. The Diary of Alonzo Typer, William Lumley
6. The Horror in the Burying Ground, Hazel Heald
7. The Electric Executioner, Adolphe de Castro
8. The Curse of Yig, Zealia Bishop
9. The Mound, Zealia Bishop
10. Two Black Bottles, Wilfred Blanch Talman

Force 10 from Navarone

This map was part of the prelude to Alistair MacLean's Force 10 from Navarone, Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1968. I am not sure whether the map has any historic significance.

“’80 percent of our air drops fall in German hands, but that is not important. Those supplies are militarily expendable. What are not expendable are the 7000 men under the command of General Vukalovic here, 7000 men trapped in an area called the Zenica Cage, 7000 starving men with almost no ammunition left, 7000 men with no future.’”

I recently acquired this volumne, a sequel to MacLean's "Guns of Navarone". It has already got its hook in me and so far it has been a good read.

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Updated on 8.16.25 @ 16:48. Added quote and contextual link.

The Battle of the Crater

The Battle of the Crater is another detailed battle of the American Cival War, now in its last bloody year, mentioned in Bruce Catton's A Stillness at Appomattox.

“Five forty-five: and at last it happened. To the men who were waiting in the front line it seemed to occur in slow motion: first a long, deep rumble, like summer thunder rolling along a faraway location, then, a swaying and swelling of the ground up ahead, with the solid earth rising to form a rounded hill, everything seeming very gradual and leisurely. Then the rounded hill broke apart, and a prodigious spout of flame and black smoke went up toward the sky, and the air was full of enormousness clods of earth as big as houses, of brass cannons and detached artillery wheels, of wrecked caissons and fluttering tents and weirdly tumbling human bodies; and there was a crash “like the noise of great thunders”, followed by other lesser explosions, and all of the firing line had turned into dust and smoke and flying debris, chocking and blinding men and threatening to engulf Burnside’s whole army corps.”

White Iron on the Anvil, A Still at Appomattox, Bruce Catton

One More River to Cross

“Right now the Confederates were dug in behind the headwaters of Totopotomoy Creek, an insignificant watercourse whose turns and swampy banks offered good defensive ground. The chance of breaking with line looked no better than in the Wilderness or at Spotsylvania. It was better to go around the line then try to go through it, and to go around it would be harder here than it had been before.”

“Down below the Federal left, within a mile or so of the Chickahominy, there was another of those seedy taverns that dotted the Virginia landscape-a quiet place at sleepy crossroads, the name of it Cold Harbor, perched unobtrusively on a highway that wandered up from the Federal supply base, back at White House on the Pamunkey, and went on to cross the Chickahominyan and go to Richmond.”

One More River to Cross, A Stillness at Appomattox, Bruce Cotton

The Ballantine Horror Series

I found this list of additional titles of Ballentine’s horror line of books in The Survivor and Others, by H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth. This volume was published in 1957 and with its yellowing and water damaged pages is not in great condition.

#377K The Sound of Hos Horn, Sarban
#380K Tales to be Told in the Dark, Basil Davenport
#431K The Doll Maker, Sarbon
#458K Some of your Blood, Theodore Sturgeon
#466K Things with Claws, edited by Whit and Hallie Burnett
#508K Night'sBlack Agents, Fritz Lieber, Jr.
#522K Tales of Love and Horror, editor Don Congdon
#574 Zackerly's Vulture Stew

In addition, there are three books featured at the bottom the back cover.

Alone by Night
Shaddows with Eyes
Nine Orro

These titles may or may not still be available, but with not posting this list these titles would be lost to most of us.

Message to Station #18327 - 3

"NO. 406.302 TO STATION 18327. NATIVE OF VEGA XXI. ARRIVING AT 16532.82. DEPARTURE INDETERMINATE. NO LUGGAGE. CABINET ONLY, LOCAL CONDITIONS. CONFIRM.

Way Station, Clifford D. Simak

Message to Way Station #18327 - 2

NO. 406.302 TO STATION 18327. WILL ARRIVE EARLY EVENING YOUR TIME. HAVE THE COFFEE HOT. ULYEESE.

Way Station, Clifford D. Simak

Message to Way Station #18327 - 1

NO. 406301 TO STATION 18327. TRAVELER AT 16097.38 NATIVE THUBAN VI. NO BAGGAGE. NO. 3 LIQUID TANK. SOLUTION 27. DEPART FOR STATION 12892 AT 16439.16. CONFIRM.

Way Station, Clifford D. Simak

Enoch Wallace, the Keeper of Inter-galactic Way Station #18327

“The keeper of inter-galactic Way Station #18327 had one purpose, to prepare Earth to join the other races of the universe.

The alien planets had many things that Earth lacked, eternal peace and prosperity, advanced knowledge of the sciences and the arts. And they were willing to share their benefits – provided Earth showed signs of being civilized.

As the only Earthman in touch with the universe, the keeper of Way Station 18327 was beginning to hope that his fellow men might prove worthy.”

Way Station, Clifford D. Simak

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An interesting find : Science Fiction Studies. Once I have investigated a bit further I might review a bit of what can be found here.

Way Station by Clifford D. Simak

"Enoch Wallace

looked like any other man on Earth – except that:

--Time (about 100 years) had passed and he showed no sign of aging
--his house was invulnerable against destruction from any weapon known to man
--in his family cemetery a tombstone inscribed in an unknown language guarded the grave of an alien horror

For years no one had invaded the solitude of his lonely farm. But now the watchers in Earth were closing in on him, determined to solve the mystery of who or what it was that went under the name of Enoch Wallace—a man, magician, or nonhuman creature from an alien planet.

Way Station, Clifford D. Simak, Macfadden-Bartell Book (c) 1963

The Dr. Fu-Manchu

"The man seated there wore alose yellow robe. His elbows rested on the desk, and his fingers-long yellow fingers - were pressed together; hw might have reminded an observer of a praying mantis. He had the hight brow of a philosopher and features suggesting great intellectual powers."

Emperor Fu Manchu Sax Rohmer, 1959. Titan Books 2015

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Other Fu-Manchu Books Published by Titan Books

The Mystery of Fu-Manchu
The Return of Fu-Manchu
The Hand of Fu-Manchu
Daughter of Fu-Manchu
The Mask of Fu-Manchu
The Bride of Fu-Manchu
The President of Fu-Manchu
The Drums of Fu-Manchu
The Shaddow of Fu-Manchu
Renter Fu-Manchu
The Wrath of Fu-Manchu and Other Stories

Fu-Manchu Revisited

"The high forehead, the chiseled, aggressive nose, the thin lips, were those of an aristocrat, a thinker, and a devil."

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Most of what I have read of Sax Rohmer's Dr. Fu-Manchu series have been eubs. Project Guntenberg feature a few of Rohmer's Dr. Fu-Manchu novels. In addition, to the Dr. Fu-Manchu series they offer a few additional titles. All that I have read have been great and suspenseful reads.

Here is a list from Wikipedia of Rohmers Fu-Manchu novels

Fu-Manchu Novels by Sax Rohmer

• The Mystery of Dr. Fu-Manchu (1913). A number of 1912 stories were combined into this novel.
• The Return of Dr. Fu-Manchu (1916).
• The Hand of Fu Manchu (1917).
• Daughter of Fu Manchu (1931).
• The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932).
• The Bride of Fu Manchu (1933).
• The Trail of Fu Manchu (1934).
• President Fu Manchu (1936).
• The Drums of Fu Manchu (1939).
• The Island of Fu Manchu (1940).
• The Shadow of Fu Manchu (1948).
• The Shadow of Fu Manchu (1948).
• The Shadow of Fu Manchu (1948).
• Re-Enter:Fu Manchu (1957).
• Emperor Fu Manchu (1959).

The Wrath of Fu Manchu (1973). Actually a combination of the previously published stories:

• The Wrath of Fu Manchu (1952)
• The Eyes of Fu Manchu (1957)
• The Word of Fu Manchu (1958)
• The Mind of Fu Manchu (1959)

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More References to Fu-Manchu

Chronology of Dr. Fu Manchu and Sir Denis Nayland Smith

More of his excellency Dr. Fu-Manchu,

Public Domain Comics Wiki(Fu-Manchu )

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"He spoke every civilized language with near perfection, and knows countless dialects as well. He has the brains of any three men of genius."

Quotes are from Emperor Fu Manchu (1959).

Fu Manchu, Criminal Mastermind

"A brow like Shakespeare and a face like Satan. Eyes of true cat-green. I was looking at one of the most facinating faces I had ever seen."

Cover illustration from the British first edition hardcover of Emperor Fu-Manchu, published in 1959 by Herbert Jenkins.

Fu-Manchu, Sax Rohmer, Titan Books

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Fu Manchu a criminal master mind