The Golden Guide to Hallucinogenic Plants available for free online

I have this book in my library, and was glad to have been able to buy it before it became near impossible to find. But now it’s available for free online. It’s not an especially good book, but it has great art, in the Golden Guide tradition, and is quickly read and enjoyable. If you [...]

Giordano Bruno – highly readable review of a new biography

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 [...]

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

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

The Kalighat Pictures of Indian Gods – Kali

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

Voynich Manuscript Further Examined

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 [...]

“The Most Holy Three-fold Wisdom”

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 [...]

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