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each triangle and literally "opened" each one out before making them overlap. What would you get? The Hindu Swastika! Same concept, just slightly different geometry!'

Martha continued. 'In fact, the two triangles are present even in the most striking Illuminati symbol. The American dollar!'

'But why would Jews have symbology derived from India? Why would the lost tribes of Israel run to India? Why would Mary Magdalene come to India? Why would Jesus settle down in India? Why?' asked Vincent.

Alissa took up the challenge. 'Well, in Judaism, Abraham is the father of the Israelites, blessed and chosen by God. Historians have placed Abraham at around 1950

B.C. Jews and Christians alike believe they are descendants of Abraham's son, Isaac.

On the other hand, Muslims believe that they are descended from Ishmael, Abraham's other son. The key question is quite obvious. Who exactly was Abraham? According to the Book of Genesis, Abraham was the son of Terah, who was from Ur in Sumer.

Abraham's wife was Sara. In Hinduism, you have Brahma and his consort, Saraswati.

Isn't it possible that Abraham and Brahma were one and the same person? Also consider the fact that Abraham's father was Terah. Do you know that in India, terah means thirteen?' asked Alissa.

Vincent looked sceptical. Swakilki took over. 'One supreme entity and three manifestations. In any case, the Sumerian civilisation to which Abraham belonged was actually the Soma-rian civilisation. The Sumerians were essentially moon-worshippers.

In Hinduism, the god of nectar or ambrosia was Soma. The crescent moon was considered to be the cup from which the gods drank the divine nectar, and hence the Hindu moon god was known as Soma-natha. The first day of the week, Monday, is called Somavara , or "the day of the moon" by Hindus. Is it surprising that the word

'Monday' itself should mean "day of the moon"? Essentially, the Sumerian and Indian civilisations were one and the same. These were one and the same people, Vincent . . .

and Abraham was one of them! Is it surprising then that Mary Magdalene or Jesus would have had a spiritual connection to India?

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Martha interjected. 'Mesopotamia and India were indeed inhabited by the same people, Vincent. Zoroaster, the founder of the Zoroastrian faith, was born around 628

B.C., somewhere near an area called Ravy, in modern-day Iran, the region of Mesopotamia. He is supposed to have written the Gathas, the holy Zoroastrian scriptures, in the ancient language of Avestan. On the other hand, the ancient Hindu book of knowledge--the Rig Veda--had been written almost 700 years earlier in Sanskrit. Now, Vincent, here's a verse from Avestan: aYou'll be shocked when I recite the

corresponding verse from the Vedas in Sanskrit: ' Tam amavantam yajatam, suram dhamasu savistham'. Almost identical!'

Vincent was bewildered. It was too much to absorb. Martha spoke once again.

'Vincent, in Hinduism, there were two groups of deities, the devas and the asuras. Do you know that in Zoroastrianism too, there were two groups of deities--the daevas and the ahuras! The Mesopotamians and the Indians were one and the same people!'

'And what about Mary Magdalene? Was she descended from the divine Mother?

Could she be considered a manifestation or incarnation of the sacred feminine?' asked Vincent.

Swakilki replied, 'Vincent, recall the final words mentioned in the document that you retrieved from Rozabal. The power is within you, don't you see? How does it matter if it's also in me? I am not worthy of titles, honours, or grace; the one who is worthy is the mirrored face. Stand by the mirror and look at yourself; you are the anointed, within yourself. The real miracle is in knowing yourself, and understanding the Brahman, the endless, the self. Mary Magdalene was a manifestation of sacred power, but so are we all! It's just that we don't realise it. Each one of us is God. We are simply rivers and streams that merge into the ocean. The essential ingredient that constitutes the rivers as well as the ocean into which they must merge is the same--water. In Hindu philosophy, Shiva and Vishnu are opposites, but consider this. If one takes only the first segment of each name, we have Shiv and Vish, which are simply the same word flipped around! Essentially, we are all made of the same stuff!'

It was Alissa who took over this time. 'Mary Magdalene must certainly have been one of the best students of the sacred feminine cult. Jesus and Mary met while he was studying in India. She was descended from the royal house of Benjamin and he was from the royal house of David. A union was not only natural, but also a powerful statement--a political alliance and a union with a clear intent to rule. Thus, when Jesus was called King of the Jews, it was not merely a spiritual title, it was also meant as a political one. This political element was seen as a threat by the Romans, and hence the need to crucify Jesus. The Romans had been quite happy to allow the Jews to manage their own religious affairs. There was no need to interfere. The intervention happened because of political reasons, not religious ones,' explained Alissa.

'But I saw three Marys with Jesus in my visions,' said Vincent. 'How was that possible? There was only one Mary Magdalene.'

'A hypnotic trance is similar to a meditative trance--in each of them one's mind becomes pure and it becomes possible to perceive the presence of the divine. You 198

simply saw the divine Mother, not Mary Magdalene. You saw the Mother in her three manifestations,' explained Martha, 'and given that all three of us have elements of those traits within us, you simply saw our faces as representative of each of those forms'.

'I still cannot understand why the world did not end. I saw it in my visions--the end of the world. I saw Hell!'

Swakilki took over. 'No. Vincent, there is no Heaven, and there is no Hell. Your soul drifts in and out of each lifetime and, depending upon your karma, a given lifetime can be Heaven or Hell. And as for the end of the world . . . the world is also subject to karma. When one world ends, another begins. The destruction you saw was merely the nuclear explosion in Waziristan--not the end of the world.'

'So what should I believe? Are all religions bad? Should I give up my religious work?' asked a bewildered and confused priest, one who seemed to have lost the very ground that he was standing on.

'On the contrary, all religions are fundamentally good. Judaism asks one to believe with perfect faith that the Creator, Blessed be His Name, rewards those who keep His commandments and punishes those that transgress them. How can a religion that establishes rules for good behaviour be bad?' asked Swakilki.

'Christianity teaches us that love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or cruel. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Tell me, Vincent, how can a religion that teaches us to love be bad?' asked Alissa.

'Islam enjoins its followers to give food, out of love for Allah, to the poor, the orphan and the slave, while saying, "We feed you only for Allah's pleasure--we desire from you neither reward nor thanks." How can a religion that asks people to be charitable be bad?' asked Martha.

'Hinduism teaches us that the doer who performs necessary actions unattached to their consequences and without love or hatred is of the nature of the quality of truth.

How can a religion that teaches one to do one's duty be bad?' asked Swakilki.

'Buddhism tell us that the kind of seed sown will produce that kind of fruit. Those who do good will reap good results. Those who do evil will reap evil results. If you carefully plant a good seed, you will joyfully gather good fruit. How can a religion that tells us to do good deeds be bad?' asked Alissa.

'There is something good to be found in all faiths, Vincent. The problem has never been belief but the deliberate misinterpretation and misuse of it,' said Swakilki thoughtfully. 'And yet, all humankind believes redemption awaits us when our souls arise and merge with that Greatest Soul of all. That is the true resurrection. If this universal oneness could be understood by all, there would be no conflict at all!'

Vincent suddenly saw a light at the end of the long, dark, tunnel of violence he'd been running through, scared, for an eternity, it seemed to him. He fell to his knees before the three women. When he looked up again, there was only One.

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Notes, Acknowledgements and References

1 The Rozabal Tomb does exist. See Jesus Lived in India: His Unknown Life Before and After the Crucifixion by Holger Kersten, Penguin, 2001.

2 The Lashkar-e-Toiba does exist. The Lashkar-e-Talatashar is fictional.

3 Inspired by speeches of Osama-bin-Laden, although not attributed to him. See Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama-bin-Laden edited by Bruce Lawrence, translated by James Howarth, Verso, 2005.

4 The words used in both English and Latin for confession have been taken from an online article on the subject located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confession 5 Bank Leu is indeed the oldest Swiss bank. The character of Egloff, however, is fictional.

6 The character Dmitriy Novikov is fictional. However, his achievements are based upon the real-life figure of Nicolas Notovitch, the nineteenth-century explorer/researcher, who wrote The Unknown Life of Jesus Christ, Leaves of Healing Publications, 1990.

7 As recounted in Jesus Lived in India: His Unknown Life Before and After the Crucifixion by Holger Kersten, Penguin, 2001.

8 Much of the Islamic rituals and customs are taken from The Absolute Essentials of Islam by Faraz Rabbani, White Thread Press.

9 Taken from an online article by Shachi Rairikar at http://www.organiser.org/dynamic/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=6

9&page=17

10 See Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10th, 2001 by Steve Coll, Penguin, 2004.

11 Asahara Shoko is fact. A very well-written online biography is available at http://religiousmovements.lib.virginia.edu/nrms/aums.html. Takuya is fictional.

12 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yigal_Amir

13 A great deal of information was derived on this subject from The Jesus Papers by Michael Baigent, Harper, 2006.

14 While Opus Dei and the Priestly Society of the Holy Cross are real in every sense, the Crux Decussata Permuta is purely fictional.

15 Throughout this book, I have utilised travel information such as flight numbers, arrival and departure information, etc. The process of getting this information was effortless because of www.travelocity.com

16 A wealth of information about the Archdiocese of New York, the seminaries and the cardinals is available online at their official website http://www.archny.org/

17 I have extensively used the online Bible resources provided at http://www.biblegateway.com/

18 The entire joke was taken from

http://www.positiveatheism.org/writ/drlaura.htm

19 A great deal of information on the White House, historical and biographical information on American Presidents, etc., was obtained at 200

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/al16.html 20

http://www.forgotten-ny.com/CEMETERIES/Hidden%20cemeteries/hidcem.html 21 See The Light on Pranayama: The Yogic Art of Breathing by B.K.S. Iyengar, Crossroad General Interest, 1985.

22 See The Art of Living: Vipassana Meditation: As Taught by S.N. Goenka by William Hart, Harper San Francisco, 1987.

23 I found excellent discussions on the issue of reincarnation theory in Christianity online at http://www.comparativereligion.com/reincarnation3.html 24 http://www.britannica.com/ebc/article-9372767

25 A wonderful history of the East End of London and Lesney's Matchbox Factory is to be had at http://www.eastlondonhistory.com/lesney.htm 26 See Cecil Rhodes by Sarah Gertrude Millin, Simon Publications, 2001.

27 See America's Secret Establishment: An Introduction to the Order of Skull & Bones by Antony C. Sutton, Trine Day.

28 See http://www.conspiracyarchive.com/NWO/Illuminati.htm 29 The Spiritualist Association of Great Britain does exist. The Association has an online presence at http://www.sagb.org.uk/

30 SeeMany Lives, Many Masters: The True Story of a Prominent Psychiatrist, His Young Patient, and the Past Life Therapy that Changed Both Their Lives by Dr Brian Weiss, Warner Books.

31 I used several sources to build a 'hypnosis script' but an excellent one was available online at http://hypnoticworld.com/scripts/problem_rsolution.asp 32 See

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/Chaplains/Communities/Descriptions/hinduism.ht ml

33 See Karma and Reincarnation: The Wisdom of Yogananda, Volume 2 by Paramhansa Yogananda, Crystal Clarity Publishers.

34 A good commentary on the guilt felt by modern Christians in regard to past-life therapy and issues of reincarnation has been written by Dr Michael G. Millett and is available online at http://www.elevated.fsnet.co.uk/index-page14.html 35 Tibetan phrases taken from

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Academy/9594/tibet.html 36 For a detailed account of the historical search for the Dalai Lama, you may visit http://www.tibet.com/DL/discovery.html