Ahhhh, I had a fleeting feeling that this sounded Gnostic in description. Couldn't tell earlier.

Do you have any experience with The Kybalion? Which book would you say has a better Philosophical explanation, as opposed to stories or historical accounts?

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That is another name less prominent but on the list further down. I think my friend also mentioned it, I can't remember.

I don't know any detail of Kybalion, I thought it was "Kabalion" as in kabbalah, but Kyb- as the root makes more sense.

As far as it goes, there is good basis for the hypothesis that Enoch and Hermes being one and the same. I think also the same individual was known in other cultures as Thoth, there is probably a version in most ancient texts somewhere. The dude was the great grandfather of Noah, his first son was Methuselah, and two more generations led to Noah.

You'll learn more from Apocalypse than my hazy details, but I think also these books are important. I am going to search for a good epub version of Kybalion too, and I'll be hosting these files on my git. I prefer EPUB format, it's basically a html file inside a zip, and adapts to any format you have a device to render it on.

I'll be adding these to my git once I get the bastid thing up and running...

I'm familiar enough with the kind of text-mangling that transits a document from history, to legend, to myth. There's even an episode of Doctor Who in which a similar scenario is played out, with his assistant, tarzan-girl Leela, where he talks about how the story gets mangled into a seeming fiction, or at best, a pure abstraction as in "philosophical". That one had a particularly good word for it, if I remember correctly, an expression that I think would be useful for anyone wanting to dig at the reality behind these ancient texts.

I don't believe that any of these texts were originally as primitive and fairy-tale like in their original text, just that the scribes and translators had variously degraded concept maps to carry the narrative into their own language.

I mean, how would you explain the operation of a rocket or gun to someone who barely understands the use of blades?