Secret history of the world,how much do we know......

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History shows that by using secret techniques, people such as Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton and George Washington have themselves into this altered state and been able to access supernatural levels of intelligence. Solving the Riddle of the Sphinx, Rama's conquest of India, Imhotep and the age of the Pyramids, Moses and the Cabala,

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Did you know that the English language borrowed 'shampoo' from Hindi? That 'kiosk' came from Turkish?
And that 'marmalade' was taken from the Portuguese? How often do we stop to think about where words
we use have come from? 'Invade' for example, has a surprisingly long history and it is difficult to imagine
the origins of a strange sound like 'pow-pow'.

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The discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamen, the 12th pharaoh of the 18th dynasty in 1922 in the Valley of the Kings is still regarded as the most spectacular archaeological find yet made. The tomb had remained hidden for over3,000 years, and its discovery elevated this previously unknown little-known pharaoh to the status of international celebrity. The tomb's contents, including the mummified remains of the king himself still in his gold funeral mask, were entirely intact and gave Egyptologist a source of material beyond their wildest dreams, especially because the Boy King lived at a time when the Egyptian Empire was at its peak of wealth and influence, and the power of pharaoh was
at its greatest

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In today's world Arabs live with conflicts between modernism and tradition, stability and fragility, nationalism and multiculturalism. The caliphate was founded in the 7th century to spread Islam, but quickly moved to Syria and Iraq under pressure from rival cultures. If one examines aspects of the Muslim world such as Shari'a, 'ulama, mysticism and Sufism, legal and political systems including slavery, the harem and position of non-Muslims and the achieve-ments of the Arab peoples in art, music and poetry. The rise of the Ottoman Empire in the 16th century gave way in the 19th to European dominance and in the 20th to clashes on individual rights and status, and the growth of nationalism. One learns of a great civilisation.

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For many decades before the First World War, Britain and
Germany shared everything. Germany was Britain's biggest
export market and vice versa. Germans adopted English
dress, customs and manners. German thinking on race,
national identity, eugenics and racial supremacy had its
roots in British thinkers like Darwin, Huxley and Galton.
In August 1914 that changed overnight. Berlin's cricket
league became unpopular. Dachshunds were suddenly
out of fashion. But Germans remained loyal to their
fantasies of Britishness. Even Hess, Himmler, and
Goering were passionate Anglophiles.

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The man of knowledge must be able not only
to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

Frederick Nietzsche

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My Mister here can quote Frederic Neitzsche and reads the German language with great ease

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It's powerful,

he said.

What?
That one drop of negro blood - because just
one drop of black blood makes a man coloured.
One drop - you are a Negro!

Langston Hughes

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I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes.
But I laugh,
And eat well.
And grow strong.

Tomorrow
I'll sit at the table
When company comes
Nobody dare
Say to me

Eat in the kitchen

Then
Besides, they'll see how
Beautiful I am, -
I, too, am America


Langston Hughes (1902-67)
'I, Too', in Survey Graphic March 1925

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Sigmund Freud and Adolph Hitler lived alongside lived each other in Vienna in 1919, Freud in robust
middle age, at the height of his powers, and Hitler living in a small apartment, an angry young man dreaming
of making his fortune as an architect and artist. When in 1938 Anschluss reached Vienna, Freud was an ill
man of 81 years, and, along with the city's other 175,000 Jews, was dreading the Nazi occupation. He was
right to do, as Hitler and the Nazi hated Freud with a particular vehemence , not least for what his
"soul-destroying glorification of the instinctual life"...

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Bribery, promiscuity, nepotism and torture are hardly words that most people would
associate with papacy, the oldest elected office in the world. The Holy Father of the Roman
Catholics is perceived as pure in heart, benevolently ministering tro his extensive flock. How-
ever, as revealed not every occupant of this of this ancient office was virtuous as might be
supposed. 1000 years ago, political instability was rife in Rome. In 882 Pope John VIII failed
to die quickly enough from poison given to him so his murderers smashed his skull with hammers
to move things along. Pope Stephens VII was almost certainly insane and developed a
fanatical hatred for his predecessor, Pope Formosus, and put him on trial, exhuming his
body, for the purpose. In more recent times, Pope XII was in office when /world War II
began, placing him in a unique - ans deeply uncomfortable position.

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"Do English women never cry? asked as a
Japanese officer who had tied up and humiliated
a nurse struggling in the worst condition of a
Hong Kong military hospital.

Not if they have work to do

was Mary Currie's legendary answer.

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The wind of change is blowing through this
continent, and whether we like it or not, this
growth of Africa national consciousness is a
political fact.

Harold Macmillan (1894-1986)

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The often violent conflicts of the 15th and 16th centuries, involving the likes of
Torquemada, Servetus, Zwingli and Castellio, which was sparked by the pursuit
of freedom of thought, uncontrolled by the Church and the Inquisition. This led
to the bitter fighting in 17th century Europe Including the Thirty Years' War and
the English Civil War,. Then, in part arising from the English Constitutional
settlement of 1688. came the 18th century revolutions in America and
France that swept away monarchies in favour of more representative
forms of government. These in turn made it possible the abolition of slavery
and later, rights for working men and women, universal education, the
enfranchisement of women, and the idea of universal human rights
and freedom. Each of these struggles was a memorable human drama
interweaving the stories of celebrated and little known histories like,
Martin Luther, John Locke, John Stuart Mill, and Rosa Parks, whose
bus protest became the catalyst of the Civil Rights Movement.

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There is no history of mankind, there are only
many histories of all kinds of aspects of human
life. And one of these is the history of political
power. This is elevated into the history of the
world.


The Open Society and its Enemies (1945)

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All the great spiritual leaders in history
were people of hope. Abraham, Moses,
Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and
Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their
hearts that guide them towards the future
without the need to know exactly what it
would look like.

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Brilliant to dip into time and again. recalling events when they
happened, times of day and much more. It took 43 seconds
for the atomic bomb to fall on Hiroshima, and in less than a
minute, history was altered forever. In contrast, it was 355
years, 10 months and 16 days before the end of African
slavery in the Americas. Neil Armstrong's walk on the Moon
in 1969 lasted two hours and 32 minutes and the construction
of the Great Wall of China took 2,267 years.

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Slavery and the traded that fuelled it
underpinned Britain's economic position
throughout the 17th and 18th centuries.
Previously unpublished documentary
evidence confirms the horrifying duplicity
of the British government, which protected
the slave trade after its formal abolition in
1807, and exposes the levels of hypocrisy
that made a mockery of the Emancipation
Act of 1834. Until now William Wilberforce
has been cast as the hero of the anti-slavery
campaign but private correspondence., govern-
ment records and Abolition Society minutes all
contradict the assumption that Wilberforce led
the abolition movement. Instead he acted only
as the agent for the London Committee for the
Abolition of the Slave Trade, frequently hampered
the progress of trhe Slave Trade Abolition Bill
and was barely involved with the emancipation
efforts of the the subsequent London Committee
on Slavery.
M.J.

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Against the backdrop of the Counter Reformation and the
Thirty Years' War, the history of science traces the path
that led to Galileo's denunciation as a heretic, and finds the
story tainted by evidence of conspiracy and cover-up.
In fact. it was not his adherence to Copernicanism that
had him dragged to face the might of the Church of
Rome, but ideas of a much more dangerous nature, so
dangerous that they threatened to shake the foundations
of Catholicism at a time when the Church was most
vunerable. An ailing, blind old man, victim of the dreaded
Inquisition, Galileo was tro while away his last days
under house arrest, his works banned and his ideas
suppressed throughout the Catholic world.

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Goethe, Germany's most distinguished poet and scientist
is best known for his Faust (Part 1, 1808; Part II,
1832). It based on the medieval legend of a man who
sells his soul to the Devil. This became linked with the
name and adventures of a 16th-century conjuror,
Johann Faust. According to Goethe, Faust sold his
soul to the Devil in exchange for superhuman powers
of intellect and wisdom, and the Devil finally failed to
claim his part of the bargain - Faust's soul. This story
greatly affected *Freud in his early years, and it has
passed into psychoanalytical folklore.

William, J.R. (2001). The life of Goethe: A Critical Biography.

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It was customary to release one prisoner at Passover and in the
Gospels, according to Saints Mathew, Mark and John, the Roman
prefect of Judaea - Pontius Pilate - offered to release
Christ to the mob outside the hall of judgment because he was
unable tio find that Christ had done anything wrong. Instead,
they called for the release of Barabbas. The accounts in the
four Gospels vary slightly in detail - for instance, Barabbas
does not appear in St.Luke's Gospel. But Christ is also questioned
by Herod Antipas, the son of Herod the Great, who ordered the
massacre of the innocents, and uncle of Herod Agrippa, who
appears in Acts of the Apostles.

Not this man, but Barabbas!

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There is very little contemporary
evidence about Pilate - apart from in
the Bible - except for the inscription
on a stone in a ruined amphitheatre
in the city of Caesarea Maritima

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Professor Stephen Hawkins addressing
a new conference:

In this talk I would like to speculate a little
on the development of life in the universe,n and in particular
the development of intelligent life. I shall take this to include
the human race, even though much of its behaviour through-
out history has been pretty stupid and not calculated to aid
the survival of the species. Two questions I shall discuss
are: what is the probability of life existing elsewhere in the
universe, and how may life develop in the future.

Professor Hawkin's condition is a type
of motor-neurone disease called
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

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In Leviathan, The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth
Ecclesiastical and Civil the social philosopher Hobbes crystallises
ideas that he had been discussing for years with friends and
fellow royalist exiles from Britain, on the state of man, the need
for a social contract and the correct structure for society. The
general theme of the book concerns the lot of man before the
development of the state, and of society - when the natural
condition was war of every man against every man
Hobbes also expounded the idea - controversial at the time -
that no object was intrinsically good or evil. Instead, things that
man want or desire are seen as good and things that he hates or
abominates are evil.


Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
had briefly been tutor to
King Charles in 1647 and 1648.

No arts; no letters, no society; and which is worst of all, continual
fear and hunger of violent death; and the life of man; solitary, poor,
nasty, brutish and short.

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In the transmission of human culture, people
always attempt to replicate, to pass on to the next
generation the skills and values of the parents,
but the attempt always fails because cultural
transmission is geared to learning, not DNA.


Gregory Bateson (1904-80)
Mind and Nature (1978)

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The ancient Greek philosopher Protagoras was a famous agnostic who believed that
is not possible to settle whether God exists. He wrote:

About the gods, I cannot be sure whether they exist or not, or what they are
like to see; for many things stand in the way of the knowledge of them, both the opacity
of the subject and the shortness of human life.