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Summary: Mr. Marrs continues his tangled webs & challenges to reason
Review: I have read Mr. Marrs' books, heard him speak, and talked with him personally. This book is simply another in his series. He pulls together unrelated pieces of information, connects dots in convoluted fashion (without substantiation)and--voila!--conspiracy! Having also been on both sides of the fundamentalist/new age debate, I have to say that, if there is a conspiracy anywhere, it is with the fundamentalist/religious right, which I personally observed while in that movement. Nowhere does that exist in the extremely loosely knit new age community--they are simply too diverse, too independent, and too unorganized to fit Mr. Marrs' conspiracies. Further, a check of his references show they are limited, and citations in text are completely lacking. If we are to follow his lead, we can pull Sacajewea from the top of the US Capitol, and pull the Statue of Liberty from New York Harbor. [pp211-212] Mr. Marrs believes they are both statues of the "Goddess of Reason" designed to poison our minds and country! His books are amusing, but please don't take them as factual or reliable. They wouldn't pass in a freshman research course.
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Summary: Mr. Marrs continues his tangled webs & challenges to reason
Review: I have read Mr. Marrs' books, heard him speak, and talked with him personally. This book is simply another in his series. He pulls together unrelated pieces of information, connects dots in convoluted fashion (without substantiation)and--voila!--conspiracy! Having also been on both sides of the fundamentalist/new age debate, I have to say that, if there is a conspiracy anywhere, it is with the fundamentalist/religious right, which I personally observed while in that movement. Nowhere does that exist in the extremely loosely knit new age community--they are simply too diverse, too independent, and too unorganized to fit Mr. Marrs' conspiracies. Further, a check of his references show they are limited, and citations in text are completely lacking. If we are to follow his lead, we can pull Sacajewea from the top of the US Capitol, and pull the Statue of Liberty from New York Harbor. [pp211-212] Mr. Marrs believes they are both statues of the "Goddess of Reason" designed to poison our minds and country! His books are amusing, but please don't take them as factual or reliable. They wouldn't pass in a freshman research course.
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Summary: misconception, ignorance, and lies.
Review: This book is exemplary of the know nothing fundamentalist zealotry that makes many of the non-religious stay non-religious these days. I am afraid to admit that the author writes with great pseudo-intellectualism and religious paranoia. He writes as if he were an informed authority on religion, occult, and secret societies. Yet hislack of specificity, lack of knowlege, the outrageously ludicrous comparisons and points he makes, all point to the fact that hes not. Mr Mars is very much a common fundamentalist christian writing with little more than common fundamentalist insight. I think that if Mr. Mars has learned only a little more about the history of religion and the occult since publishing, he will undoubtedly regret and perhaps be ashamed of this work. Let me give you some examples of the flaws of logic and shody research one can find in this book. When refering to the "thousand points of light" foundation, the author gives reasons why the number one thousand has a special "occult significance." He states that it "mocks" the one thousand year reign of christ but dosent tell us why the name is seen as a mockery. He states that it refers to the "serpent" or "lucifer" which is suposedly equivalent to the 1000 headed Shesha in hindu tradition. Any serious religious or occult scholar has learned that there are many fundamental differances between these three entities, so many in fact that one could write a book on them and I must not delve into that here. (email me for more info) Devout christians rarely do unbiased and in depth research on satan and concept of evil in religion and Mr Marrs is no exception seeing as how he paints every "pagan" or "occult" subject in a sinister light. He does this because he is grossly ignorant about traditions outside christianity and thus paranoid and suspicious of them. He implies that the points of light organization is evil because the greek monster madusa was supposed to have 1000 snakes wreathing from her head. (i think of sex 1000 times a day, but i dont think its related to the points of light foundation or a conspiracy to rule the world) He betrayes a lack of knowlege of classical/biblical language, which is forgivable but the mark of a true biblical scholar. In speaking of the masonic patriarch "hiram abif" he makes the halariously incorrect and insubstantiated statement that the name "Hiram" means High Ram, and thus the "baphomet" revered by some satanic sects. This is flat stupidity. Hiram is not english at all but ancient hebrew. A very apropriate name for a hebrew man in ancient times. The consonants were "mem, yod, resh, he." This name was a hebrew adjective meaning "exaulted." Look it up in a hebrew dictionary. The whole of the book follows the same logic and highly questionable research that these examples illustrate. Let me say that i dont want to sound pompous or self riteous in bringing such critisism to this work. I honestly hope that Mr. Mars has been enlightened since writing this mistake of a book. I think the book does deserve one star because I learned alot about religion and freemasonry not by reading the book in itself, but from trying to do further research to substantiate the claims and points he made. In finding out how the book is 80% rubbish I did learn something. Dont be fooled by it.
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Summary: Massive Research
Review: This is an amazing book containing a vast amount of hard to find information. The research was very impressive and the content insightful even for someone well versed in these topics. I am looking forward to seeing this authors other works.
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Summary: Skull & Bones Expose
Review: What an extremely interesting book. I have read Anthony Sutton's book "America's Secret Establishment" as well as this one. Mr. Marrs takes you to the secret ceremony that George Bush went through, like so many before and since, on the night he was inducted into the Skull & Bones Society. This book will inform you about illumination of the masses by this society. If you find this book hard to believe, do your own research. But use this book as a tool to get you heading in the right direction.
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