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The Dying God: The Hidden History of Western Civilization

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This book attempts a truly prodigious feat; a historically detailed revision of the philosophical and religious history of western civilization. The determined reader will find that it largely succeeds, and will be rewarded with an extremely provocative new vision of history, Christianity, the foundations of science, the true meaning of the "Enlightenment", and the amorality of our rulers.

However, the reader will have to help by connecting pieces and maintaining the narrative. You'll also have to separate the wheat from the chaff. Every page is jammed with information but precious little summation. The early chapters brim with Mr. Livingstone's impressively broad and detailed scholarship of the ancient western world. With a wealth of examples he explains the development and spread of "the dying god" cults in every nook and cranny of the ancient western world.

He also offers an intriguing alternative history of the early Hebrews based on contemporary accounts from many sources and some deductive reasoning. I found it compelling, but you can reject it and still get the import of the book.

His heretical history of Greek culture appears to be well founded and consistent with contemporary accounts and the influence of the Kabbalists elsewhere in the ancient world. Livingstone introduces us to Plato as his contemporaries knew him and explains the significance of his baneful influence.

The emergence of Gnosticism and the Pauline neo-Platonic corruption of Christianity appear along the way, making a good deal more historical and theological sense than any other interpretation I have read.

The book doggedly follows its subject through the centuries, packing facts and stories into long sentences like sardines in a can. If it were written a conventional style it would probably be twice as long. I recommend reading it very slowly. Give yourself time to watch for, and think about and savor, the profound implications and connections of Livingstone's mountain of evidence. It can be pretty startling.

About halfway through it, my constant irritation with Livingstone's odd prose turned into a kind of admiration. He seemed to be refusing to paint the broad and generalized picture for the reader, letting the density of the evidentiary trail produce the overall picture by itself. Only from his commentary on specific points do we glean the full outline of his overarching vision.

I highly recommend reading David Livingstone's Amazon blog before reading the book. The articles there elegantly state Livingstone's overall point in a way the book does not. They also address the connection to the present day more thoroughly. I hope they portend a new book on the horizon. David Livingstone is onto something deep here.

If you want to understand the roots and self-image of our ruling elites, the 'initiated' who are released from the bonds of morality and Mosaic Law, this book is indispensable. If you're willing to work with a book, this one would make a great summer reading project!

I really had great hopes when ordering this book. It is proclaimed to be the hidden history of Western Civilization. As I am degreed in history and treat the study of history now as a serious undertaking, I was intrigued. In addition, the positive reviews led me to think this would be an imporant contribution to my overall research. I was sadly disappointed.

From the beginning of the narrative, I knew I was in trouble. In a broad sweep, the author attributes the "liberalism" of the French Revoluiton to the triumph of the Enlightenment. To this, I would say that the author really needs to read some history. The French Revolution was one of the most terrible epochs in history. If there is a similar movement, it would be the Bolshevik Revolution, which some have insightfully postured, was engendered by the same forces.

What Livingstone has rendered here is not history in any sense. Rather it is a loose conglomeration of myth and legend, with little analysis and virtually no synthesis. The book is terribly disappointing, as any sort of guide to understanding the history of Western Civilization. I am very suspicious of its favorable reviews. The writing is poor, the documentation scant, and the conclusions faulty. My recommendation as a serious student of history is to avoid wasting time and money on this disappointing effort.

Livingston shows that the post modern - liberal- proggressive-secular culture is really a product of an occult tradition that can be traced back to ancient Babylon through the miriad of secret societies, that do their bidding by proxy; Cabalists, Templars, Freemasons, Rosicrucians,Plato, France's Jacobins, German Austrian Thule Society,Covert Satanism Dienetics, Yale Univeresity'S Skull and Bones of old Germanic secret society, and all other propagandist of the essoteric occult practitioners of old and modern times.
In essence, this tradition adopted Lucifer as a symbol of mankinds rebellion against God. It enshrined human reason,appetite and will as the ultimate standard of goodness and empowerment.
The occult's real aim is to empower the elite.
The basic principle of most religions is to behave unto others as we wish to be treated...[In contrast] the occultist...is lured by vanity to seek a type of knowledge that sets him apart from others, maintaining that it is the preserve of the elite

Livingston shows how occult dogma was secretly adopted by key elites throughout history and was behind the English [1649],American [1776], French [1789], and Russian Revolutions[1917], three of which involved genocide.
The occultist inspired the so-called Enlightment, which defined modern culture. Francis Bacon was a Rosicrucian. Diderot, Rousseau, Voltaire, Newton,Christofer Columbus were all Freemasons or belonged to diverse secret societies. Stalin, Roosevelt,and Churchill were Masons,Carl Marx and Stalin were closet Satanist, as was Henry Ford; accreditted author of The International Jew; The plan of Washington D.C. was designed by Masons in the Shape of a pentagram as was the design of the pentagon; the design of the Capitol buildings and ground depicts an owl, the Molec idol of the Cannanites of ancient history, (of which the modern elite Bohemians worship today at the Bohemian Grove at the Russian River near Santa Rosa California.)

The significance of Livingston's lucid, well documented book is enormous. It implies that a dominant segment of our leaders secretly serve Lucifer; as the god of the modern world; their sinister and corrupt influence is evident everywhere.

Secularism is as much a religion as Christianity. The "seperation of church and state" is a stratagem to enshrine Lucifer as their god of the modern world. Masonic secularism's goal is to destroy genuine religion like Christianity. It's no wonder why high visibility conservatives are under attack, they are the last bastion of resistance of their evolutionary progress towards godhood, this explains their eliteism.

This Satanic conspiracy only suceeds because people cannot believe something so colossal and monstrous actaully exists.

This conspirital view of history puts us in a world at war between good and evil, what is contested is the human soul.
The people who are pushing products, drugs, violence, and sex are not operating on a random "whatever sells" basis. The top players are following a script designed to enslave humanity, body and soul. They are building a gigantic prison based on their own mental hell. THIS IS THE NEW WORLD ORDER; we are the inmates.

I learned a lot about ancient civilazations and the struggles for power among the Muslims through the years but as typical as any other PHd on history, Livingston completely ignores the history of the Hebrew nation. Every PHd has done it in the past 100+ years starting around the time of H.G. Wells history of the world. All these PHd's aren't anything but b.s. without it and that's not bachelor of science, it's the other B.S.! The Hebrew history goes from Abraham, Isaac and Jacob to the captivity in Egypt to the exodus with Moses and the taking of the promised land by Joshua, then the golden age of the Hebrew nation under David & Solomon. After Solomon's death the Hebrew nation splits in two in I Kings ch. 12. The northern 10 tribes become the House of Israel (Rueben, Dan, Asher, Zebulon, Naphtali, Asher, Ephraim, Manessah, Simeon, Isaacar) and the southern tribes become the House of Judah (Judah, Benjamin, Levi). In II Kings ch. 17, the northern tribes are taken captive by the Assyrians about 722 B.C., these tribes are moved by the Assyrians to an area south of the Caucus mountains. About 150 years later the House of Judah is taken captive to Babylon. The northern tribes are now free to do their own will so, the climb over the Caucus mountains and move towards Europe and start being labeled "Caucasians". Then 70 years later the House of Judah is allowed by the Persians to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild the temple. They are a mixed breed of beliefs now, the Torah, the books of Moses and the history and the prophets have been mixed with the Talmud and Kabbalism which are all pagan rituals and beliefs. Keep that in mind when you read this book and it will fill in some blanks, I'm open to questions, comments and rebuttals but I'm a quadraplegic writing this with a stick in my mouth so, email me your phone # and I'll discuss orally!

What Mr. Livingstone has done here is nothing less than attempt to provide a comprehensive, rational, and frighteningly honest account of the convoluted history of western civilization, all in just under 400 pages. A daunting task, to say the least, and one in which Livingstone has, for the most part, succeeded in. In the end, it depends on how willing the potential reader is on accepting solid facts that may conflict with those that are generally held as dogma by the world at large.

The famous adage "History is written by the winners" has always struck me as frighteningly accurate, in terms of how easily we accept easily digestible morsels of propaganda relating to the so-called "glories" of the western way of life that still has us in its iron grip. Mr. Livingstone suggests that our way of life has been influenced to an incredible degree by so-called "paganism", from the ancient cults of Babylon to the bizarre rituals of modern Freemasonry, and "The Dying God" provides indisputable evidence of this throughout its pages.

"The Dying God" is an excellent compilation of concepts introduced previously in separate historical works. It breaks down the factors behind the "rise" of western philosophy, politics and religion in terms that anyone can understand, and the results will be shocking to those who have accepted the commonly accepted mythos served up in history classes all over the "developed" world.

Even if you already consider yourself to be a well-read historian, "The Dying God" can be an invaluable tool in helping to rationalize the irrational situations the global community finds itself in today. One can only hope thar Mr. Livingstone continues along this integral thread of humanity in future works.

A daring and comprehensive look at the darker origins of Western civilization. The author exposes many of the more obscured areas of history and suggests how and, moreover, why they have remained so hidden. Seemingly mundane and disparate details of history are infused with the rich and strangely-connected world of the occult, mystical and symbolic that bind them. Especially focused on the links between the ancient and later eras. The arguments presented in this book lingered in my mind long after I'd read it and seem now to contaminate much of the perspective I'd long taken for granted. Provocative and unsettling.

What Mr. Livingstone has done here is nothing less than attempt to provide a comprehensive, rational, and frighteningly honest account of the convoluted history of western civilization, all in just under 400 pages. A daunting task, to say the least, and one in which Livingstone has, for the most part, succeeded in. In the end, it depends on how willing the potential reader is on accepting solid facts that may conflict with those that are generally held as dogma by the world at large.

The famous adage "History is written by the winners" has always struck me as frighteningly accurate, in terms of how easily we accept easily digestible morsels of propaganda relating to the so-called "glories" of the western way of life that still has us in its iron grip. Mr. Livingstone suggests that our way of life has been influenced to an incredible degree by so-called "paganism", from the ancient cults of Babylon to the bizarre rituals of modern Freemasonry, and "The Dying God" provides indisputable evidence of this throughout its pages.

"The Dying God" is an excellent compilation of concepts introduced previously in separate historical works. It breaks down the factors behind the "rise" of western philosophy, politics and religion in terms that anyone can understand, and the results will be shocking to those who have accepted the commonly accepted mythos served up in history classes all over the "developed" world.

Even if you already consider yourself to be a well-read historian, "The Dying God" can be an invaluable tool in helping to rationalize the irrational situations the global community finds itself in today. One can only hope that Mr. Livingstone will continue to follow along this integral thread of humanity in further works.

This book faces reality and does away with the adultared presentation of history we get from the oil-soaked-occult-serving-monopoly-Illuminati press.

Mr. Livingstone deprogramms the reader from the mythical history taught in the Rockefeller/Rotschild operated society.

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This is an astonishing book. Livingstone's industry and committment are breathtaking, and his command of the web of diabolic plots that underlie Western history amd culture formidable. But even more astonishing is the fact that there are people in the world - people who can read and write and drive cars for goodness sake - who actually believe this crap.

SIMPLY MAGNIFICENT. (SPEECHLESS)
you have got to get this book and read it for yourself. anyone who trashes this book or this author is obviously involved with some intelligence agency or is rather purely unintelligent