Did Rasputin, the mad monk of Tsarist Russia, possess supernatural powers? Who was the mysterious prisoner in the Bastille who has gone down in history as "The Man in the Iron Mask"? Did he possess a priceless secret which Louis XIV desperately wanted to learn? Victorian Britain was terrorized by a weird super-athlete known to the popular press of those days as "Spring-heeled Jack." Was he just an eccentric gymnast, or could he have been an alien? Who or what was the mysterious man known as the Count of St. Germain whose abnormal powers seemed to defy both time and space – and is he still with us today? What strange powers of prophecy did Coinneach Odhar, the famous Brahan Seer, really possess? Was Bérenger Sauniëre, the enigmatic Priest of Rennes-Le-Château, one of the last guardians of a secret older than the Sphinx? Could the sinister Aleister Crowley have been merely a pathetic victim of self-deception and his own inflated ego, or did he really possess magical powers? What amazing secrets did electrical engineer Nikola Tesla control? Gurdjieff – one of the most amazing men of his time – has never been fully understood: what was the true meaning behind his strangely ambivalent messages? Was Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky a genius with strange paranormal powers, or merely a charlatan and a sensation-seeker? Francis Dashwood of Medmenham Abbey, leader of a sect of the wildest debauchees who roared their way across the eighteenth century, was an expert in the Black Arts. All of these strange, mysterious, and intriguing characters – and many others – are described, examined, and analyzed in The World’s Most Mysterious People.
This is a collection of remarkable and mysterious people, from all ages and places – including our own. Some the authors have met, others were researched carefully from reliable archives. Some are Canadian, others are from the US, the UK, and all over the world. All are mysterious; all are intriguing; all are worth studying. Can anyone learn to use mysterious powers like theirs? To update what a great thinker once said: "The proper study of people is other human beings." And the more mysterious those human beings are, the more we shall learn from studying them.
Authors
Patricia Fanthorpe, Lionel and Patricia Fanthorpe, Lionel & Patricia Fanthorpe
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-240)
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 920.02
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- 21
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- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781459726581 9780888822024
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- CT9990
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- F36 1998eb
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- 1 electronic text (240 pages)
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- Ottawa, Ontario
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- (CaBNVSL)thg00930219 (OCoLC)911205379 (CaOOCEL)433065
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Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Contents 6
- Foreword 8
- Introduction 12
- Was Aleister Crowley a Genuine Black Magician? 14
- Who were King Arthur and the Wizard Merlin? 22
- Who was the Count of Saint-Germain? 34
- What Really Happened to Colonel Fawcett? 42
- Nikola Tesla: Electrical Engineering Genius 50
- Maria Marten and the Red Barn of Polstead, Suffolk, and John Chapman, the Pedlar of Swaffham, Norfolk 58
- Paracelcus — Alchemist, Physician, and Magician: Alias Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim 70
- Rasputin 76
- The Man in the Iron Mask 84
- The Strange Case of Joan Norkot 94
- Spring-heeled Jack: The Terror of Victorian London 100
- Coinneach Odhar: The Brahan Seer 108
- Saunière, Boudet, and Gélis 116
- George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff 124
- Helena Petrovna Blavatsky 130
- Sir Francis Dashwood 138
- Grey Owl 150
- Who is Melchizedek? 156
- Hermes Trismegistus 162
- Wilhelm Reich: Tantaism, Taoism, and Orgone Energy 172
- Francis Bacon 180
- Joe LaBelle and the Deserted Village Mystery 192
- Sir John Sherbrooke, Captain Wynyard, and Others 196
- Philip of Warwick: A Toronto Mystery 204
- Louis Cyr, Edouard Beaupré, Thomas Hickathrift, and Robert Hales: Giants and Strongmen 210
- Jonathan Downes and the Owlman 220
- Modern Men and Women of Mystery 226
- Bibliography 240
