About the book: 2009 / In the ancient world, sacred knowledge was guarded as strictly as nuclear secrets are today. Possession of the most valuable information about the scientific and magical practices of antiquity allowed the initiate to have the status of a demigod. Ordinary people were left with legends and myths, in which only weak and distorted echoes of real events of the past were encrypted... The famous researcher of esoteric traditions Jonathan Black, who for more than twenty years collected and studied ancient evidence set forth in the secret doctrines of secret societies, came to the conclusion that they contain valuable information that allows us to reconstruct many of the blind spots of human prehistory. Thousands of years of oral traditions have preserved for us the secret history of the world, unknown to official scientists. What you will learn about was previously known only to a few adepts and did not extend beyond a narrow circle of the elite. The author decided to talk about this only because he did not take a vow of silence.