Reading The Master Game by Graham Hancock and Robert Bauval. Started off great, tracking the course of the Gnostic traditions from pre-Christan to the Cathars and Bogomils, which is extremely interesting to me, as well as documenting the links between Gnosticism, Hermeticism, Manicheism, the Egyptian traditions and other dualist modalities, and how their resurfacing led to the Renaissance. The authors later tend to get bogged down is rigorous detailed accounts of trends, both political and spiritual, throughout European history which doesn't make for an exciting read but I'm sure will prove necessary for later revelations. Also does an amazing job of documenting just how evil the action of the Catholic church have been since its inception.
I've been reading The Call of Cthulu, by H.P.Lovecraft and World War Z.
I've got a soft spot for Lovecraft. Well, maybe not a soft spot. More of a witch mark through which, at midnight on Walpurgis Eve, tentacles burst forth, grasping and devouring any flesh within reach - and their reach is great! Oh, dour fate to any upon which they lay grip, for the Great Old Ones rend not just flesh but souls! Eldritch horrors await on the Other Side, between the angles of Euclidean geometry and in the space between the stars fractally composing the very atomic structure of matter! On December 21, 2012, when the starts are right, down from the heavens, which hold the gate of heck, shall pour down the pulpy, corpulent masses our furry and fanged ancestors called gods! And up from the black Abyss of the seas, the sunken city of R'lyeh shall rise, and through its eon-encrusted causeways cocked at their unnatural angles, The Great Cthulhu shall stride in his madness to rule again!
Ia, Shub-Niggurath! Black Goat of the woods with a thousand young! Ia, Yog-Sothoth!
