In Zionism, the late Nathan Rotenstreich traces the dialectical connections between Zionism’s past and present based on his contention that the Jewish nation comprises both the State of Israel and the Diaspora. He also addresses relations between both Israel and the Diaspora, on the one hand, and Israel and the Arab world, on the other. Written a short time before Rotenstreich’s death, Zionism can be regarded as his spiritual and ideological legacy.

The Lanugage of the Birds is one of several names given to thesecret hermetic language of esotericism. since at least the Dark Ages an idea has existed that there waonce a language, or a particular word, which perfectly expressed the nature of things. This language was called the Language of the Birds. It is also sometimes called the Green Language.

The books can be read at several levels: as a history book, as a book of interesting quotations concerning a mystical Order, and as a manual for the aspiring Rosicrucian.

The essence of the book is a dissection of ‘gnosticism’ and its trajectory from Zoroastrianism/Mazdaism through Greek philosophy in its intercourse with Avicenna in the Islamic world through its eventual and perhaps ultimate manifestation in Shi’ism. It’s something of an alternative view to an Incarnationist Christology, an attempt to recover something ‘lost’ by the worldview of this Christianity of the Councils.

Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury, boasted: “A power over a man’s subsistence amounts to a power over his will.” His object… was to place the States under such obligation as to insure their support in the establishment of the first Bank of the United States. The State’s war debts amounted to over eighteen million dollars, not all the States had debts to be taken over. Thus started the political precedent of perpetual debt and required contributions (taxes) to be passed on to those not responsible for the debt.

Congress agreed to give the bankers exclusive rights to all business done in the United States. All loans were guarantied [sic] by the American people with repayment to be made through the payment of taxes.

It is curious that in Israel the Khazar’s history is only briefly mentioned in schools in Israel. “Letters to the Khazar” by Jehuda Halev is studied, but more as a literary piece that in context with the Khazars. That is the reason that the book was so interesting: It presents a theory which is quite unacceptable to the religious population in Israel. (and outside as well). Are all the eastern european Jews in essence converts? It makes the whole question, so much dealt with in Israel, of “who is a Jew” rather ironical. Are the religious Jews the “real” Jews? And how can they be so much against conversions to judaism, if they themselves are converts? Interesting! Of course, the theory the book presents that ALL the east European Jews are descendants of the Khazars is only a theory, but Koestler surely presents some interesting arguments! Fascinating reading!

Is the Sphinx of prehistoric origin, more than 12,000 years old? Why was it built? In this provocative, rigorously argued report, revisionist Egyptologists Hancock (The Fingerprints of the Gods) and Bauval (The Orion Mystery) join forces to answer these questions and more as they examine the Message of the Sphinx and its relation to the other monuments of the Giza plateau.

[D]id Wicca exist as a coherent creed, a distinct form of spiritual expression, prior to the 1940s; that is, prior to the meeting of minds between the old magus and venerable prophet of the occult world Aleister Crowley, and the first popularizer, if not outright inventor of modern Wicca, Gerald Brosseau Gardner?

In the thirteenth century there appeared in central Europe a great spiritual teacher whose symbolical name was Christian Rosenkreuz or Christian Rose Cross who founded the mysterious Order of the Rosy Cross, concerning which so many speculations have been made and so little has become known to the world at large, for it is the Mystery school of the West and is only open to those who have attained the stage of spiritual unfoldment necessary to be initiated in its secrets concerning the Science of Life and Being.

Volume 2: Higgins’s magnum opus, Anacalypsis, An Attempt to Draw Aside the Veil of the Saitic Isis; or, an Inquiry into the Origin of Languages, Nations, and Religions is a monumental work, and has been described as the first large-scale attempt at a synthesis of religion and science. Anacalypsis is a review of the history of religions; however, due to his death Higgins was unable to complete the final chapter on Christianity.