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The Secret History of the World: As Laid Down by the Secret Societies by Mark Booth. London: Overlook, 2008, 512 pp., $29.95. ISBN: 1590200314
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THE YEAR'S MOST POPULAR treatise on magic-minded pseudohistory begins: "The Secret History of the World is a rude gesture in the face of the know-it-alls who make up our intellectual elite, the control freaks who would decide what is acceptable for us all to think and believe." Thus far, the intellectual elite seems to have taken all of this in stride, but I thought I'd take a closer read just in case they'd missed some particularly well-honed insult.
The Secret History of the World purports to serve as a sympathetic record of the esoteric beliefs that are allegedly common to Sufi mystics, Vatican insiders, Rosicrucian holdovers, and, of course, the Nine Unknown Men who secretly intervene in human affairs from their mountain hideout in Tibet or some such place, having been installed for the purpose by the Indian statesman Asoka.
Much of the information found therein, we are told...
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