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Title: Amusing but please, a serious work??
Review: A work of unbelievable naivety, devoid of any credible academic standards. Derivative of a nineteenth century sub-culture based around mystical appropriations from masonic, Rosicrucianist and Theosophist sources, James has written a very bad book which has never been taken seriously by learned people.The errors in the book are just unbelievable. For instance, James claims (pp. 125-130) that Aristotle "stole" the great library of Alexandria. Hello! The library was founded *after* his death, as ANY first-year classicist knows. This is just but one example of a book filled with grave flaws and basic errors. I am surprised by the passion that it has evidently raised on these pages, as the book is looked upon as an amusing joke in academia - certainly nothing to get excited about and most definitely nothing to take seriously as a historical work!
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