Dread Book

But more than this, in their insatiable scouring of the Middle East for manuscripts relating to their Jerusalem discoveries, the Knights Templar may well have turned up two powerful Arabic manuscripts that explain the extreme sexual accusations against the Order in the context of previous ages of the world. These manuscripts are the Picatrix and the Dread Book of the Mad Arab A1 Azif. In this context mad does not imply lunacy, but that A1 Azif is a Magi from Media, in modem day Azerbaijan. 

The Dread Book seems to have some similarity with the horrific tortures carried out by Landulf II of Capua in southwest Sicily.This was the theme of black magic followed by Dietrich Eckart and Aleister Crowley. 

Before turning our attention to the unsavory aspects of necromancy, it is helpful to understand a little more of the poem called the Descent of the Inanna. This poem appears in both the Creation Epic of the Mesopotamians and the Dread Book. Surprisingly, it allows us to outline the acceptable limit of magic in mysteries by reference to the rituals of the Roman Catholic Church. 

The first organosulfur compounds in this book were the dreadful smell of the skunk and the wonderful smell of the truffle, which pigs can detect through a metre of soil and which is so delightful that truffles cost more than their weight in gold. 

Some of the dreaded nutritional diseases of the past — such as scurvy, pellagra, and pernicious anemia — are discussed in this book. Such contemporary problems as infectious diarrhea, xerophthalmia, protein/energy malnutrition, and folate deficiency are discussed, as are diabetes and cardiovascular disease, two of the most sigf cant nutrition-related diseases. The last two conditions can be controlled in part by dietary intervention. 

Perhaps the best illustration of all of these points is the history of LG. Farben s synthetic rubber or buna development from 1925 to 1945, a history whose most dreadful aspect led to a fifth unconventional argument of my book, which I have refined and supplemented in several recent essays. Contrary to prevalent assumptions, the presence of the concentration camp in Auschwitz probably had little to do with the concern s decision in early... 

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