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Giordano Bruno – highly readable review of a new biography

Friday, October 24th, 2008

I always think a good review can be as useful to read and absorb as a book, in this modern age of information compression, sorting, and filtering. If you are interested in the history and character of Giordanao Bruno, this page is worth visiting.
I find the emphasis on Bruno’s involvement with the renaissance re-creation of [...]

Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians from the 16th and 17th Centuries

Thursday, May 31st, 2007

Secret Symbols of the Rosicrucians from the 16th and 17th Centuries – from Bibliodyssey

The Kalighat Pictures of Indian Gods – Kali

Sunday, April 22nd, 2007

Visit bibliodyssey to see larger versions of this image and others… Bibliodyssey page on the Kalighat Pictures of Indian Gods

Voynich Manuscript Further Examined

Tuesday, April 17th, 2007

This is what the Voynich Manuscript is – a mysterious book, now believed to be a forgery created by John Dee to swindle a king out of $50,000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voynich_manuscript
An older scientific american article By Gordon Rugg showing a method by which the VM might have been created by Edward Kelly (made famous by John Dee) [...]

“The Most Holy Three-fold Wisdom”

Friday, December 15th, 2006

http://bibliodyssey.blogspot.com/2006/12/la-trs-sainte-trinosophie.html
From the BIBLIODDYSSEY web site:
“Either the Count de Saint-Germain or Cagliostro is considered to be the author of ‘La Très Sainte Trinosophie’ (The Most Holy Three-fold Wisdom), from the latter half of the 18th century. It has been called “the rarest of occult manuscripts”1 and the only surviving copy is owned by the library in [...]

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