TABLE OF CONTENTS
Acknowledgements
Preface
PART ONE:
THE MARTYR, THE METAPHOR, AND THE MERCHANTS
1. Martyr to the Metaphor: Banksters, Bishops and the Burning of
Bruno
A. Bruno's Life and Wanderings
1. The Return to Venice, and a Mystery
2. Disturbing Testimony and a Deepening Mystery: Bruno's Secret
Society, the Giordanisti
3. The Roman Inquisition and Bruno's Execution
B. Bruno's Doctrine and the Ancient Metaphor
1. The Expulsion of the Triumphant Beast
a. The Contradictory Moral Nature of Yahweh
b. Yahweh Not the First Cause: Man as Medium and Philosophers'
Stone
2. Cause, Principle, and Unity and On Magic:
a. The Substrate and Magic
b. The Medium, The Metaphor
c. Bruno's Art of Memory
2. The Mind, The Medium, and Money: The Ancient
Alchemical-Topological Metaphor of the Medium
A. The Origins of the Corpus Hermeticum
1. The "Author" of the Corpus Hermeticum
2. The Works in the Corpus Hermeticum
3. The Medicis, Ferrara-Florence, and Ficino
4. Isaac Casaubon and the End of Hermes Trismegistus
5. Epilogue: Modern Scholarship and the "End" of Isaac Casaubon
B. The Ancient Topological Metaphor of the Medium
1. Topological Preliminaries
2. In the Vedas
a. The Vedic Version of the Metaphor, and Sacrifice
3. The Metaphor in the Hermetic Tradition
4. Giordano Bruno and Other Renaissance Thinkers
C. The Religious, Political, and Financial Implications of the
Hermetic Version of the Metaphor
1. Political and Religious Implications of the Coincidenta
Oppositorum
a. The Atheistic and Theistic Interpretations
b. The Impersonal and Personal Interpretations
2. The Financial Implications
3. Serenissima Republica, Part One: A Brief History of Shady
Dealings from the Foggy Swamp
A. The Euphrates Flowed into the Tiber: The Pre-History of
Venice
B. A Brief History of Venice
1. Foggy Beginnings in a Swamp
2. The Influence of the East Roman, or Byzantine, Empire
a. The "Golden Bull" of 1082
b. The Fourth Crusade and the Venetian Sacking of
Constantinople
(1) The Sequence
(2) The Speculation
c. The Fall of Constantinople (1453) and the Beginning of the
Decline
3. The Reformation, Counter-Reformation, and Venice
4. The War of the League of Cambrai(1508-1516): the True First
European General War
5. The End of the Most Serene Republic: Napoleon Bonaparte and His
Peculiar Demands
4. Serenissima Republica Part Two: The Venetian Oligarchy: Its
Methods, Agendas, Tactics, and Obsessions
A. The Structure and Methods of the Venetian Republic: The Major
Families, Players, and Implications
1. The Methods of Empire
2. The Three Pillars of Venetian Power
3. The Venetian Oligarchical Families
4. The Suppression of Factional Infighting
B. The Council of Ten: Terrorism as a Matter of State Policy
C. Giammaria Ortes and the Origin of the Carrying Capacity Myth,
and Other Oligarchical Memes
5. Conclusions to Part One
PART TWO:
MONETIZING THE METAPHOR, AND THE PYRAMID OF POWER
6. Retrospective: Brahma, Buddha, Babylon, and Greece
A. Debt, Sacrifice, and the Metaphor
1. Primordial Debt Theory: Brahmanism, Babylon, and Buddhism
2. Sumeria, The Breaking of the Tablets and the Jubilee:
Pressingthe "Reset/Reboot" Button
3. Bullion, Coins, Militaries, and the "Military-Coinage-Slavery
Complex"
B. Mind, Metaphysics and Money in Greece
1. Coins, and the Metaphor
a. The Stamp
b. The Idealized Substance and the Coincidence of Opposites
2. The Hidden Elite's Hand: Pythagoreanism
C. The Tally: Money as the Common Surface of the Metaphor
7. Law, Language, and Liability: The Persona Ficta of the Corporate
Person in Theology and Finance
A. The Theological Part of the Story
1. The Central Verse and Crux Interpretum
a. The Greek and the King James
b. The Latin Vulgate and All Other English Translations
2. The Corporation, or Partnership, in Mediaeval Italian Law
B. The Financial Part of the Story: The Collapse of the Bardi and
Peruzzi "Super-Companies" in the 1340s
1. General Considerations and Aspects of the "Super-Companies"
2. A Catalogue of Techniques: The Rise of the Peruzzi Company, and
Mercantilism
a. Control Both Sides of a (Dialectical) Conflict
b. Accounting and Exchange Techniques
8. Florentine Fers-de-Lance, Peruzzi Pythons, and the Venetian
Vipers: Reading Between the Lines of the Financial Collapse of the
1340's
A. Basics of Mediaeval Monetary System and the Venetian Bullion
Trade
1. The Structure of Florentine Super-companies' Trade, and the
Interface with Venetian Bankers
2. The Venetian "Grain Office" and the Council of Ten: Tools of the
Oligarchs
3. The Venetian International Bullion Trade, or, Manipulating the
Global East/West Gold/Silver Bullion Flow for Oligarchical Fun and
Profit
a. Coins, Bullion, Mints, and "Seiniorage"
b. Banksters, Coinage, and Tactics of Manipulation of the Money
Supply
c. Venice, the East/West Gold/Silver Flow, Moneys of Account, and
Indicators of Manipulation During the Bardi-Peruzzi Crisis
B. A Further Meditation on the Topological Metaphor of the Medium:
On the Financial Pyramid Version of the Metaphor
9. Maps, Money, and Monopolies: The Mission of Christopher
Columbus
A. The Strange Case of the Piri Reis Map
1. Antarctica
2. Mediaeval Portolans
3. Maps from High Antiquity
B. Christopher Columbus' Voyages and the Hidden Cartographic
Tradition
1. Piri Reis' Statements on Columbus
C. Some Further Speculations
1. Spain, Genoa, and Venice
10. Conclusions to Part Two
PART THREE:
EPILOGUE IS PROLUGUE:
THE ANNUITARY ASPS OF AMSTERDAM AND THE COLLATERALIZED COBRAS OF
THE CITY OF LONDON, AND THE MOVE NORTHWARD
11. The Transference Northward to Germany and Holland
Appendix: he Missing Documents of Bruno's Trial: Napoleon
Bonaparte, Pope Piux IX (Giovanni Cardinal Mastai-Ferreti), and the
Implications
A. Bonaparte and the Masons
B. Giovanni Cardinal Mastai-Ferreti (Pope Pius IX)
1. Brief Notes
2. The Permanent Instruction of the Alta Vendita Lodge
3. José Maria Cardinal Caro y Rodgriguez, Cardinal Archbishop of
Santiago
4. A Sidelight from the Bavarian Illuminati
5. Fr. Malachi Martin on "The Bargain"
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