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by Robert Anton Wilson (Author) "Armand Daumal didn't like the idea of wet, but he even more strongly didn't like what he was hearing about the king..." (more)
Key Phrases: ithean cac, conceptual head, fourth soul, Sir John, Old Kyte, Sigismundo Celine (more...)
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Devilish... I loved it! -- Greil Marcus, Rolling Stone

More important than Ulysses or Finnegans Wake. -- Timothy Leary

The real history of Western Civilization, where our heroes (and anti-heroes), the Illuminati, roam the night. -- Jonathan Sellers, Antiquities of the Illuminati

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Throughout history, secret societies have played a crucial role in shaping events that have created our world. Only an inner circle of power elite know the full extent of the influence of the conspiracy...

It is Paris, 1772, and Sigismundo Celine knows he is destined to play an important part in this history-behind-history. The masons, the English nobil ity, the Jabobites, the Rosicrucians, the ruling clique of pre-Revolution France: these are but a few of the factions involved in the machinations and intrigue in which Sigismundo has become enmeshed. Thrown into the Bastille, shot at, assaulted by assassins, tortured, and brutally interrogated, he knows only what he is and what he must do to become the one spoken of in the old texts.

But what he doesn't know could kill him: the secret powers of Maria, the Italian beauty who has become an English Lady; the Irish fisherman, Moon, who stumbles across the inner workings of an unsuspected cult; and the question they keep asking: the identity of The Widow's Son.

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  • Paperback: 343 pages
  • Publisher: New Falcon Publications; 1st Falcon Ed edition (August 2004)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1561841633
  • ISBN-13: 978-1561841639
  • Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.9 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #421,026 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This Book Is Sex For The Brain!, October 17, 1998
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Robert Anton Wilson almost defines a new genre with this series. His intelligence and witt will leave you in stitches, and the conspiracies make the X-files look boring. The Chronicles series are part conspiracy, part satire, part historical fiction, part philosophical, and completely mind altering. The characters graft themselves to your skin, and you'll never look at history the same. Consider this book sex for the brain.If it were any better they'd have to make it illegal.
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8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Cool book., November 13, 2000
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The only RAW I had read before picking up this book wasIlluminatus!. Still, I thoroughly enjoyed it (even missing the firstof the trilogy/series). The book is about Sigismundo, an Italian goingto school in Paris, who happens to have...[upset] some very importantpeople. After being attacked, arrested, and going through variousother punishments, he goes through attempted brainwashing by a groupwhich believes he'll be their savior, the prophecized Widow'sSon. Worth buying for the excerpt from the Gospel According to MaryMagdeline alone, it's definitely a great book.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best from one of the all-time best, February 11, 1998
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"The Historical Illuminatus" books are not only historically accuate but extremely playful, in an intellectual sense! Buy this book for the "Gospel according to Thomas" alone! (That's the afterword)
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5.0 out of 5 stars The best book ever written by Robert Anton Wilson
In 1989, I had the privelige to appear in a production of Wilson's play, "Wilhelm Reich in Hell". The play was extreme didacticism, but clever and fun in it's own right. Read more
Published 20 months ago by David Perry

5.0 out of 5 stars A Real Eye Opener (Third Eye That Is)
One of the smartest men I've ever had the pleasure to read. I threw away my tin foil hat after reading.
Published on April 1, 2007 by Gregory Forest

5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining and thought provoking
After Volume One, I expected more of the same and got it. Genuinely human characters and compelling stories. Read more
Published on January 19, 2007 by Seawarner

5.0 out of 5 stars Book II of RAW's best artwork to date...
Chances are, if you are reading this review you've already read the first in this series, "The Earth Will Shake", and if you enjoyed that fun ride it only gets better with this... Read more
Published on January 12, 2006 by Joey Bridges

5.0 out of 5 stars Smokin' Dope
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To the illuminated reader with the comment on dope smoking. There's a little more to it than that, as you may well understand, had you the wealth of knowledge... Read more
Published on January 2, 2006 by P. Simpson

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent
This is the second in the Historical Illuminatus Trilogy, and it's as good as the first one. You will learn some history here, as well as some occult and conspiracy concepts as... Read more
Published on September 6, 2005 by John T. O'Connor

4.0 out of 5 stars Great series if you can stand the odd footnotes
I loved the first book in this series, The Earth Will Shake. In this book, The Widow's Son, Wilson's eccentricities creep in and the reader is bombarded with crazy footnotes that... Read more
Published on July 19, 2005 by Leon Napo

5.0 out of 5 stars buy this series
This is Wilson's more adventure-oriented of the three, and is a joy to read. It has the feel of a book more like the Three Musketeers or Treasure Island or something, but it also... Read more
Published on June 21, 2000 by cagliostro

1.0 out of 5 stars to stretch for something is to surrender to it's whim
can i give it a "0"? this sheaf of papyrus that this book is printed on is not worth the pancakes sent from sirius. Read more
Published on April 21, 1998 by wagner@students.uiuc.edu

5.0 out of 5 stars the undeniably worst of the norm
this book(as well as all of RAW's) is important to all of us... "to read Robert Anton Wilson is to sip from the chalice of Bacchus" -me Bob holds a conciousness... Read more
Published on January 11, 1998 by wagner@students.uiuc.edu

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