Recommended: Pirate Utopias

8 10 2006

Pirate UtopiasThe history of European Islamic piracy in the 17th Century. From the 16th to the 19th century, Moslem Corsairs from the Barbary Coast ravaged European shipping operations and enslaved many thousands of unlucky captives. During this period, however, thousands of Europeans also converted to Islam and joined the pirate holy war. Were these men and women the scum of the seas, apostates, traitors — Renegadoes? Or did they abandon and betray Christendom as a praxis of social resistance? The author focuses on the Corsairs’ most impressive accomplishment, the establishment of independent Pirate Republic of Sale, in 17th Century Morocco. Corsairs, sufis, pederasts, irresistible Moorish women, slaves, adventurers, Irish rebels, heretical Jews, British spies, and radical working-class heroes all populate this illumination of insurrectionary communities.

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Recommended: African Origins Of Freemasonry: Treatise Of The Ancient Grand Lodge Of Khamet

8 10 2006

African Origins Of Freemasonry: Treatise Of The Ancient Grand Lodge Of KhametZachary Gremillion gives us a true history of the Free & Accepted Masons. He definitely did his homework, quoting & drawing from various reliable sources. The overall conclusion: Masonry is not a European invention, but has its roots in Africa.

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Recommened: Moorish Circle 7: The Rise of the Islamic Faith Among Blacks in America And It’s Masonic Origins

8 10 2006

Moorish Circle 7: The Rise of the Islamic Faith Among Blacks in America And It's Masonic OriginsThis book is great and informative many members of the Moorish Science temple should read this book. It is one of the most honest approaches to what Noble Drew Ali did and how the moorish movement came about. This author goes into the esoteric foundations of the MSTA. I sugest this book along with Timothy Myers EL Sacred Muur science and Zachary Gremillions book African Origins of Freemasonry.

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Recommended: The Huevolution Of Sacred Muur Science Past And Present: A Theoretical Compilation

8 10 2006

The Huevolution Of Sacred Muur Science Past And Present: A Theoretical CompilationThis book, as vaguard, should appeal to a vast orthodoxy of Moorish/Masonic thinkers; for it is a groundbreaking genre work, in that it dares (in the face of expected backlash) to delineate an obvious association between Noble Drew Ali and his teachings, and Freemasonry. And while that is one of the author’s prized themes in the book, readers will enjoy other themes and the many researched-based facts he presents.

While the author exhibits an iron-willed conviction to, “tell the truth as he sees it,” the book is wholesomely wrought with potent soundbytes of thoughtful historical connections, linking modern day Moors to very ancient civilizations. An overall interesting read and educational journey.

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Recommended: Ong’s Hat: The Beginning

8 10 2006

Ong's Hat: The BeginningThis book connects a Moorish Sufi leader, Noble Drew Ali, with a psycho-experimental tantric Moorish Orthodox church and a physics research institute which is centered in Ong’s Hat, New Jersey. This book further details information regarding parallel universes and a mechanism that enabled trans-dimensional travel into other worlds in other dimensions.

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Recommended: Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of Islam

8 10 2006

Sacred Drift: Essays on the Margins of IslamPeter Lamborn Wilson proposes a set of heresies, a culture of resistance, that dispels the false image of Islam as monolithic, puritan, and two-dimensional. Here is the story of the African-American noble Drew Ali, the founder of “Black Islam” in this country, and of the violent end of his struggle for “love, truth, peace, freedom, and justice.” Another essay deals with Satan and “Satanism” in Esoteric Islam; and another offers a scathing critique of “Authority” and sexual misery in modern Puritanist Islam. “The Anti-caliph” evokes a hot mix of Ibn Arabi’s tantric mysticism and the revolutionary teachings of the “Assassins.” The title essay, “Sacred Drift,” roves through the history and poetics of Sufi travel, from Ibn Khaldun to Rimbaud in Abyssinia to the Situationists. A “Romantic” view of Islam is taken to radical extremes; the exotic may not be “True,” but it’s certainly a relief from academic propaganda and the obscene banality of simulation.
Peter Lamborn Wilson lives in New York and works for Semiotext(e) magazine, Pacifica Radio, and the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics. A long decade in the Orient (1968-1981) inspires his writing, including The Drunken Universe: An Anthology of Persian Sufi Poetry and Scandal: Essays in Islamic Heresy.

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Highly Recommended: The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosiccucian Symbolical Philosophy- Reduced Size Hardbound in Color

8 10 2006

The Secret Teachings of All Ages: An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic,  Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosiccucian Symbolical Philosophy- Reduced Size Hardbound in ColorIn 1928, a 20-something Renaissance man named Manly Hall self-published a vast encyclopedia of the occult, believing that “modern” ideas of progress and materialism were displacing more important and ancient modes of knowledge. Hall’s text has become a classic reference, dizzying in its breadth: various chapters explore Rosicrucianism, Kabbalah, alchemy, cryptology, Tarot, pyramids, the Zodiac, Pythagorean philosophy, Masonry and gemology, among other topics. This affordably priced edition would be vastly improved by a new foreword, placing the work in some kind of historical and critical context and introducing readers to the basic contours of Hall’s sweeping corpus. Instead, we have a disciple’s adulatory 1975 foreword, which merely parrots the same themes of mystery and esoterica that are espoused in the book. Readers who are unfamiliar with Hall’s work will be at a loss in ferreting out which chapters have stood the test of time and which have been vigorously debunked (like the one on Islam, which actually uses novelist Washington Irving as a primary source on the prophet Muhammad). However, they will also marvel at the sheer scope of Hall’s research and imagination, and at J. Augustus Knapp’s famous illustrations, including a 16-page color insert.

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Recommened: Pyramids of Montauk: Explorations in Consciousness

8 10 2006

Pyramids of Montauk: Explorations in Consciousness (The Montauk Trilogy Book 3)Pyramids of Montauk unveils the mysteries of Montauk Point and its select location for pyramids and time travel experimentation. An astonishing sequel to The Montauk Project and Montauk Revisited, this chapter of the legend awakens the consciousness of humanity to its ancient history and origins through the discovery of pyramids at Montauk. Their placement on sacred Native American ground opens the door to an unprecedented investigation of the mystery schools of Earth and their connection to Egypt, Atlantis, Mars and the star Sirius.

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Recommended: Sex and Race Why White and Black Mix in Spite of Opposition

8 10 2006

Sex and Race Why White and Black Mix in Spite of Opposition

Of the trilogy, this one was especially difficult to put down because the content is quite riveting. It was amazing how this reporter, researcher, historian and anthropologist could go around the world and find out information in the most minute detail. However, you have modern scholars who cannot decipher many of the historical texts with any type of accuracy and without bias. J.A. Rogers set out to answer most of your questions on the social and sexual issues between Africans and Europeans. In addition, there is the “Shock” factor and history that you just may not get anywhere else, except with exceptional authors like this one’.. And just like the previous two volumes to make his case, he has great black and white photos and all of the references to validate his point.

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Recommended: Sex and Race: A History of White, Negro, and Indian Miscegenation in the Two Americas : The New World

8 10 2006

Sex and Race: A History of White, Negro, and Indian Miscegenation in the Two Americas : The New World

In this second volume, Roger’s focuses on the new world and shows that the inhabitants of the americas are far from being pure racially. As discussed in the previous volume, race mixing with Africans took place all throughout Europe. In the new world however, Europeans not only mixed with Africans, but also with the other indigenous people of the americas including the caribbean. Also, there is good reason to believe that some of the indigenous peoples of the americas were already somewhat mixed before the europeans arrived.

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