This version of The Open Conspiracy: Blue Prints for a World Revolution was published in 1928. Apparently Wells knew this would be a temporary version and would stop printing after a year or so. It was rewritten a couple of times between then and 1933 under various other subtitles.

The book is, in Wells’ words, a “scheme to thrust forward and establish a human control over the destinies of life and liberate it from its present dangers, uncertainties and miseries. It proposes that largely as the result of scientific progress, a common vision of a world ‘politically, socially and economically unified’ is emerging among educated and influential people, and that this can be the basis of ‘a world revolution aiming at universal peace, welfare and happy activity’ that can result in the establishment of a ‘world commonwealth’.”

Chapter index:

Preface – 00:00

I. “Necessity of Religion to Human Life” – 8:26

II. “Subordination of Self the Essence of Religion” – 12:08

III. “Need for a Restatement of Religion” – 23:02

IV. “Objective Expression of Modern Religion” – 31:08

V. “The Frame of the Task Before Mankind, the World Commonweal” – 36:25

VI. “Broad Characteristics of the World Commonweal” – 1:04:53

VII. “No Stable Utopia Is Contemplated” – 1:06:43

VIII. “The Open Conspiracy Must Be Heterogeneous” – 1:20:10

IX. “Forces and Resistances in the Great Modern Communities Now Prevalent, Which Will Be Antagonistic to the Open Conspiracy” – 1:53:19

X. “The Open Conspiracy and the Resistances of the Less Industrialised Peoples” – 2:13:11

XI. “Resistances and Antagonistic Forces in Ourselves” – 2:30:14

XII. “The Open Conspiracy Must Begin as a Movement of Explanation and Propaganda” – 2:51:52

XIII. “Early Constructive Work of the Open Conspiracy” – 3:15:34

XIV. “Existing and Developing Movements with Which the Open Conspiracy May Hope to Coalesce” – 3:31:49

XV. “The Creative Home, Social Group and School: The Present Waste of Youthful Seriousness” – 3:39:34

XVI. “Progressive Development of the Activities of the Open Conspiracy into a World Control and Commonweal, the Hazards of the Conflict” – 3:50:35

XVII. “The World Community” – 35:4:12

XVIII. “Margin Notes of Blue Prints” 3:58:18

The history of the tablets translated in the following pages is strange and beyond modern scientists’ comprehension. Their age is astounding, dating back 36,000 years B.C. Thoth is an Atlantean Priest-King who established a colony in ancient Egypt after the mother country was sunk. He was the builder of the Great Pyramid of Giza, which has been incorrectly attributed to Cheops. He included his knowledge of ancient wisdom as well as securely hidden records and instruments from ancient Atlantis.

From approximately 50,000 B.C. to 36.000 B.C., he ruled the ancient race of Egypt for approximately 16,000 years. The ancient barbarous race among which he and his followers had settled had advanced to a high level of civilization at the time. Thoth was immortal, that is, he had defeated death, passing only when he wished and not through death. His vast knowledge elevated him to the throne of the various Atlantean colonies, including those in South and Central America.

When the time came for him to leave Egypt, he built the Great Pyramid over the entrance to the Great Halls of Amenti, placed his records inside, and appointed guards from among the highest of his people to guard his secrets. The descendants of these guards later became the pyramid priests, through whom Thoth was deified as the God of Wisdom, The Recorder, by those living in the age of darkness that followed his death. The halls of Amenti were transformed into the underworld, the Halls of the Gods, where the soul passed after death for judgment.

The ego of Thoth passed into the bodies of men in later ages, as described in the tablets. As a result, he incarnated three times, the last time as Hermes, the thrice-born. In this incarnation, he left the Emerald Tablets, a later and far less complete exposition of the ancient mysteries.

The ten tablets translated in this work were left in the custody of the pyramid priests in the Great Pyramid. To make things easier, the ten are divided into thirteen sections. The last two are so significant and far-reaching that their release to the general public is currently prohibited. However, there are secrets contained herein that will be invaluable to the serious student. They should be read a hundred times because only by doing so will the true meaning be revealed. A casual reading will provide glimpses of beauty, but more intensive study will open doors to the seeker’s wisdom. The wisdom contained herein is the foundation of the ancient mysteries, and the reader who reads with open eyes and mind will have his wisdom multiplied a hundredfold.

Read. Whether you believe it or not, reading will awaken a response in your soul.

00:00 – PREFACE to the original: Emerald Tablets of Thoth the Atlantean

6:17 – INTRODUCTION to the original: Interpretation of the Emerald Tablets

9:17 – TABLET I: The History of Thoth, The Atlantean

19:04 – TABLET II: The Halls of Amenti

30 :01 – TABLET III: The Key of Wisdom

38:57 – TABLET IV: The Space Born

47:41 – TABLET V: The Dweller of Unal

57:55 – TABLET VI: The Key of Magic

1:07:38 – TABLET VII: The Seven Lords

1:17:21- TABLET VIII: The Key of Mysteries

1:26:20 – TABLET IX: The Key of Freedom of Space

1:27:21- TABLET X: The Key of Time

1:47:35- TABLET XI: The Key to Above and Below

1:57:38- TABLET XII: The Law of Cause and Effect & The Key of Prophecy

2:05:35- TABLET XIII: The Keys of Life and Death

2:12:18 – SUPPLEMENTARY TABLET XIV

2:23:04 – SUPPLEMENTARY TABLET XV: Secret of Secrets

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The Symbolism of the Tarot. P.D. Ouspensky

No study of occult philosophy is possible without an acquaintance with symbolism, for if the words occultism and symbolism are correctly used, they mean almost one and the same thing. Symbolism cannot be learned as one learns to build bridges or speak a foreign language, and for the interpretation of symbols a special cast of mind is necessary. One who understands the use of symbolism in the arts, knows, in a general way, what is meant by occult symbolism. But even then a special training of the mind is necessary, in order to comprehend the “language of the Initiates”and to express in this language the intuitions as they arise. There are many methods for developing the “sense of symbols” in those who are striving to understand the hidden forces of Nature and Man, and for teaching the fundamental principles as well as the elements of the esoteric language. The most synthetic, and one of the most interesting of these methods, is the Tarot.

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IN THEIR OWN WORDS – Testimony from the Students of Canada’s Indigenous Residential School Program. You can find a free ebook of this book and Darren’s other two books at the link below.

What is the cost of an education? Is education an additive process, or a reductive one? How does one weigh the benefits of tradition against the threat of being at odds with the future? How does one refuse the offer of a better life for their children? What if the offer is compulsory? What happens when the tree of knowledge bares rotten fruit?

While the history of Canada’s Residential School program is only just beginning to be unearthed, there are already enough first hand accounts to begin asking some of these questions. 

The words of the individuals included in this book offer just a glimpse of the results of the effort of one group of people to educate people, who were in many cases not seeking the knowledge being offered. These are tales of lessons learned, languages lost, traditions replaced, and charity corrupted.

A Canadian Shame: The Indian Act and Residential Schools A Canadian Shame is a disturbing collection of information that forces every reader to meditate on the atrocities of government and institutions. Grimes’s heritage and personal experience make him the perfect author for this book, but the superior documentation is what makes it as credible as it is fascinating. CONSOLIDATED ACTS AND AMENDMENTS, 1868-1975 Most of this legislation is no longer available on the Canadian Government websites…The Indian Act is a Canadian act of Parliament that concerns registered Indians, their bands, and the system of Indian reserves. First passed in 1876… https://acanadianshame.ca/

00:00 – Preface and Introduction 04:53 – Chapter 1 – Before the Schools 25:37 – Chapter 2 – Kidnapped by Institutions 37:44 – Chapter 3 – Places of Refuge? 44:42 – Chapter 4 – The Journey 1:02:25 – Chapter 5 – Arriving at School 2:10:36 – Chapter 6 – Day to Day Life in a Residential School 2:58:21 – Chapter 7 – Chores 3:11:03 – Chapter 8 – Religious Indoctrination 3:24:55 – Chapter 9 – Breaking Up Siblings 3:35:27 – Chapter 10 – Student Gender Relations 3:45:42 – Chapter 11 – Contact with Parents 4:08:36 – Chapter 12 – Trauma. Emotional Neglect, and Despair 4:23:58 – Chapter 13 – Truancy, Learning to Lie, or Worse… 4:37:44 – Chapter 14 – Harsh Discipline 5:08:08 – Chapter 15 – Outright Abuse 5:31:57 – Chapter 16 – Student VS Student 5:52:58 – Chapter 17 – Warm Memories 6:02:36 – Chapter 18 – Graduation Days 6:08:32 – To Conclude 6:11:20 – Appendix – A Timeline of Residential Schools

What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of its Disciples

This early work by Hall is devoted to the study of the ancient Mystery Schools and the work they have done in the world throughout the various ages. There is also a treatise on the path of discipleship. The listener of this audiobook is equipped to discriminate between the various so-called spiritual organizations and is protected against unfortunate involvement.

True comprehension and temperance of our lower natures all combine to lead us to a better understanding of our existence. In this curious and important essay, Hall describes the shared destinies of all of us; and that is our pursuit of truth and our conscious or unconscious hunger for a meaningful relationship with the divine. He warns and laments about our modern tendencies to material gain and instant gratification in all things worldly. Over time, he suggests, the methods used in attaining material gratification has translated into our spiritual endeavors. One cannot deny the plethora of “expert” advice out there, presenting in many guises, to attain wisdom in “10 easy steps”. Become an all-powerful, influential guru and mammoth success, getting rich in the process. For a substantial fee, ladies and gentleman, we can show you the secrets of the ancients and throw in a no-fail diet to boot. This, of course, is not the road to wisdom. The true road, Hall suggests, is a long and arduous one, fraught with suffering and difficult lessons, where one’s hope lies in one’s sincere labor, courage, true aspiration, and egoless silence.

This short essay is recommended to anyone interested in sound and universal advice in their pursuit of a greater understanding of themselves and existence.

00:00 – A Warning to Esoterists

22:36 – The Introduction of the Mystery Schools

57:16 – The Mystery Schools

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John Uri Lloyd’s Cult Classic from 1901! ETIDORHPA, or, the End of the Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and the Account of a Remarkable Journey. PART 1 to Chapter 30 only

For a great hard copy visit NightTimeEditions https://nighttimeeditions.wordpress.com/ and they have many amazing old cult classics on Inner Earth and Occult Fiction.

This Extended Edition is the most complete version you will find.
First published in 1895, this work has survived as a cult book. It starts with an occult student who is surprised by a ghostly, uninvited guest, who came to unveil his past as a member of a secret society which he betrayed; his punishment for this? A journey inside the hollow earth, to slowly abandon his humanity and to be a keeper of knowledge and something else… A journey to ETIDORHPA.

To say this is an early science fiction narrative wouldn’t be enough, to add that this is a fantastic story about an initiate’s journey to the earth’s interior, a compendium of scientific hypothesis that goes from geology to metaphysics, an illustration of the miseries and hopes of men; that would, at least, be a better example to describe this singular work, inasmuch as this great narration contains multiple layers of interpretation.

This Extended Edition includes:

Three extra chapters from a 1901 edition (not found on other modern reprints!)

1. ASCRIPTION 00:00

Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology and science have developed separately. But what came before the Greeks? What if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived, and what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetuation of complex astronomical data?

Drawing on scientific data, historical, and literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose power and accuracy were suppressed and then forgotten by an emergent Greco-Roman worldview. This fascinating book throws into doubt the self-congratulatory assumptions of Western science about the unfolding development and transmission of knowledge. This is a truly seminal and original thesis, a book that should be heard by anyone interested in science, myth, and the interactions between the two.

00:00 – Chapter 1

30:47 – Chapter 2

44:41 – Chapter 3

1:30:31 – Chapter 4

1:54:24 – Chapter 5

2:35:53 – Chapter 6

3:12:42 – Chapter 7

3:59:35 – Chapter 8

5:05:17 – Chapter 9

5:26:40 – Chapter 10

5:49:14 – Chapter 11

6:28:35 – Chapter 12

7:01:49 – Chapter 13

7:47:57 – Chapter 14

8:37:08 – Chapter 15

8:47:56 – Chapter 16

9:05:56 – Chapter 17

10:02:24 – Chapter 18

10:09:10 – Chapter 19

10:25:07 – Chapter 20

10:55:00 – Chapter 21

11:17:29 – Chapter 22

11:19:39 – Chapter 23

11:34:05 – Chapter 24

11:46:02 – Chapter 25

11:56:36 – Chapter 26

12:06:29 – Chapter 27

12:20:02 – Chapter 28

Included in this volume:

-Unnamed Essay – 00:00

-Hit Where It Hurts – 6:30

-When Non-Violence is Suicide – 26:44

-Industrial Society and Its Future (aka The Unabomber Manifesto) – 31:50

Theodore Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, is a United States murderer, mathematician, and neo-Luddite social critic who carried out a campaign of mail bombings. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, where, as an intellectual child prodigy, he excelled academically from an early age.

A considerable amount of credible circumstantial evidence suggests that Kaczynski was the unwitting victim of top secret CIA-sponsored ‘MK-ULTRA’ mind-control experiments conducted at Harvard University from the fall of 1959 through the spring of 1962. Some experts suggest that these experiments may have been the cause of his emotional problems.

Kaczynski eventually received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and earned a PhD in mathematics from the University of Michigan. He became an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley at age 25 but resigned two years later.

In 1971, he moved to a remote cabin without electricity or running water, in Lincoln, Montana, where he began to learn survival skills in an attempt to become self-sufficient.

He decided to start his bombing campaign after watching the wilderness around his home get destroyed by development.

From 1978 to 1995, Kaczynski sent 16 bombs to targets including universities and airlines, killing three people and injuring 23. Kaczynski sent a letter to The New York Times on April 24, 1995 and promised “to desist from terrorism” if the Times or The Washington Post published his manifesto. In his Industrial Society and Its Future (also called the “Unabomber Manifesto”), he argued that his bombings were extreme but necessary to attract attention to the erosion of human freedom necessitated by modern technologies requiring large-scale organization.

The most famous of all teachers of success spent “a fortune and the better part of a lifetime of effort” to produce the “Law of Success” philosophy that forms the basis of his books and that is so powerfully summarized in this one.

In the original Think and Grow Rich, published in 1937, Hill draws on stories of Andrew Carnegie, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, and other millionaires of his generation to illustrate his principles. In the updated version, Arthur R. Pell, Ph.D., a nationally known author, lecturer, and consultant in human resources management and an expert in applying Hill’s thought, deftly interweaves anecdotes of how contemporary millionaires and billionaires, such as Bill Gates, Mary Kay Ash, Dave Thomas, and Sir John Templeton, achieved their wealth. Outmoded or arcane terminology and examples are faithfully refreshed to preclude any stumbling blocks to a new generation of readers.

What Do You Want Most 00:00

Publisher’s Preface 4:43

Author’s Preface 7:57

Chapter 1.  Introduction 21:48

Chapter 2. Desire, The Starting Point of All Achievement 52:47

Chapter 3. Faith Visualization of, and Belief in Attainment of Desire 1:35:33

Chapter 4. Auto-Suggestion, the Medium for Influencing the Subconscious Mind 2:17:48

Chapter 5. Specialized Knowledge, Personal Experiences or Observations 2:32:13

Chapter 6. Imagination, the Workshop of the Mind 3:04:18

Chapter 7. Organized Planning, the Crystallization of Desire into Action 3:34:03

Chapter 8. Decision, the Mastery of Procrastination 5:02:10

Chapter 9. Persistence, the Sustained Effort Necessary to Induce Faith 5:28:11

Chapter 10. Power of the Master Mind, the Driving Force 6:04:34

Chapter 11. The Mystery of Sex Transmutation 6:19:45

Chapter 12. The Subconscious Mind, The Connecting Link 7:08:08

Chapter 13. The Brain, A Broadcasting and Receiving Station for Thought 7:23:39

Chapter 14. The Sixth Sense, The Door to the Temple of Wisdom 7:36:55

Chapter 15. How to Outwit the Six Ghosts of Fear 7:59:51