"Robert Anton Wilson - Masks of the Illuminati" - читать интересную книгу автора (Wilson Robert Anton)

Copyright ┬й 1981 by Robert Anton Wilson
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ISBN: 0-440-50306-X

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Published simultaneously in Canada

June 1990
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GRAHAM, JYOTI AND KARUNA



Note

The characters and events in this novel, like those in ordinary life, are partly real
and partly the product of somebody's disordered imagination.
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and the Ordo Templi Orientis were (and
are) quite real, and the magickal exercizes described are capable of producing results
similar to those in our story. The Great God Pan, The King in Yellow, and Clouds
Without Water are all real books and the quotations from them are accurate. All details of
assassinations and other political events are taken from standard reference works such as
the Britannica and are as reliable as such sources generally are.
The author solemnly warrants and guarantees that there are no flat lies and only
one hidden joke in the above two paragraphs.



PART ONE
The chessboard is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the rules of the
game are what we call the laws of nature. The player on the other side is hidden from us.
-- Thomas Henry Huxley, Collected Essays

One great difference between Chemical and Alchemical processes is that Alchemy only employs
a gradual heat continually but carefully increased, and does not commence with violent heat.
-- Israel Regardie, The Golden Dawn