The Rozabal Line (32 page)

37 Detailed astrological and astronomical issues around the birth of Jesus have been taken from

http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/gem-projects/hm/0203-1-18-bethlehem.pdf 38 See http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/history/e-h/herod01.html 39 The itinerary of the holy family when they left Bethlehem can be found at http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/724/tr6.htm

40 See an interesting article on the origins of ritual immersion in water by Prof.

M.M. Ninan located at http://www.acns.com/~mm9n/Baptism/601.htm 201

41 Asoka. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online. 17th June 2007 .

42 Ptolemy II is mentioned in the Edicts of Ashoka as a recipient of the Buddhist proselytism of Ashoka, although no Western historical record of this event remains. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptolemy_II_Philadelphus 43 See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baudhayana. 'The most notable of the rules in the Baudhayana Sulba Sutra says: A rope stretched along the length of the diagonal produces an area which the vertical and horizontal sides make together. If this refers to a rectangle, it is the earliest recorded statement of the Pythagorean theorem.'

44 See Pythagoras and the Story Behind the Croton Crown by Adi Kanga & Sam Kerr. It can be found online at

www.vohuman.org/Article/Pythagoras%20and%20the%20story%20behind%20the%20

Croton%20Crown.htm

45 From Chrishna to Christ by Raymond Bernard, Health Research, 1961.

46 British Library, Online Gallery of Sacred Texts,

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/sacredtexts/deadseascrolls.html 47 The Complete World of the Dead Sea Scrolls by Philip R. Davies, Thames & Hudson, 2002.

48 The Gnostic Discoveries: The Impact of the Nag Hammadi Library by Marvin Meyer, Harper San Francisco, 2006.

49 The Refutation of All Heresies, Book One by Antipope Hippolytus, Kessinger Publishing, 2004.

50 Saving the Savior: Did Christ Survive the Crucifixion? by Abubakr Ben Ishmael Salahuddin, Tree of Life Publications, 2001.

51 See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gondophares

52 See http://www.indianchristianity.com/html/chap4/chapter4c.htm which says:

'Different reports of this tradition have come down to us. The earliest is recorded by Marco Polo, and that of Bishop John de Marignolli comes next. We reproduce them from Yule's Marco Polo, 2nd ed., and his Cathay and the Way Thither. Marco Polo (ut supr., vol.ii.p.340): "Now I will tell you the manner in which the Christian brethren who keep the church relate the story of the Saint's death. They tell the Saint was in the wood outside his hermitage saying his prayers, and round about him were many peacocks, for these are more plentiful in that country than anywhere else. And one of the idolaters of that country being of the lineage of those called Govi that I told you of, having gone with his bow and arrows to shoot peafowl, not seeing the Saint, let fly an arrow at one of the peacocks; and this arrow struck the holy man on the right side, insomuch that he died of the wound, sweetly addressing himself to his creator. Before he came to that place where he thus died, he had been in Nubia, where he converted much people to the faith of Jesus Christ."'

53 See http://www.sol.com.au/kor/7_01.htm which says: 'Further clues are cited from The Apocryphal Acts of Thomas, and the Gospel of Thomas which are of Syrian origin and have been dated to the 4th Century A.D., or possibly earlier. They are Gnostic Scriptures and despite the evidence indicating their authenticity, they are not 202

given credence by mainstream theologians. In these texts Thomas tells of Christ's appearance in Andrapolis, Paphlagonia (today known as in the extreme north of Anatolia) as a guest of the King of Andrappa. There he met with Thomas who had arrived separately. It is at Andrapolis that Christ entreated Thomas to go to India to begin spreading his teachings.'

54 See a contemporary news item online regarding Balakote at http://jammu-kashmir.com/archives/archives2002/kashmir20020615a.html 55 I found an excellent source for Qur'an research at http://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/koran/ an electronic version of The Holy Qur'an, translated by M.H. Shakir, Tahrike Tarsile Qur'an, Inc., 1983. Most references in the book regarding the Qur'an are taken from here.

56 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mount

57 See the Kashmir Information Directory at

http://www.samawar.com/content/view/7/20/

58 See http://www.plantnames.unimelb.edu.au/Sorting/Nardostachys.html 59 See the history of Buckingham Palace at Royal Residences located online at http://www.royal.gov.uk/OutPut/Page568.asp

60 Actually, the Royal College of Psychiatrists is located at No.17, not No.18, Belgrave Square. Also, the last tenant before the college was Lady Leontine Sassoon, not Lady Clementine Sossoon. Actual history about No. 17 Belgrave Square is located on the College's website at

http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/college/archives/history/historyofbelgravesquare.aspx 61 The Vipassana Research Institute, see http://www.vri.dhamma.org/

62 The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic was taken from

http://www.godswillministries.com/prayers.html

63 A description of what Jerusalem looked like during the time period of Jesus was obtained from an excellent article in Time magazine. It can be accessed online at http://www.time.com/time/2001/jerusalem/cover.html

64 For sake of efficiency, I extensively used Babel Fish's online translation service and found it to be excellent. I cannot be certain of the accuracy of the final translations and if there are any errors, I crave forgiveness. The Babel Fish translator can be used online at http://babelfish.altavista.com/tr 65 See the BBC story on this scientific discovery at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3929471.stm

66 See Sloan-Kettering's website to find out about the scientific properties of myrrh. Go to http://www.mskcc.org/mskcc/html/69309.cfm 67 See http://www.beercook.com/prochefs/markdorber.htm 68 See

http://www.tombofjesus.com/indonesian/core/majorplayers/crucifixion/crucifixion-p2.ht m

69 Black Potatoes: The Story of the Great Irish Famine, 1845-1850 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

70

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http://www.forgotten-ny.com/STREET%20SCENES/middlevillage/middlevillage.html 71 http://members.virtualtourist.com/m/b6eb4/a8f71/ for a history of Einsiedeln 72 http://www.hps.com/~tpg/ukdict/ukdict-8.html

73 For further reading regarding the guillotine and the French Revolution, visit Jorn Fabricius' excellent site at http://www.guillotine.dk 74 Based loosely on the historical Marie Anne Charlotte de Corday D'Armant who was beheaded in 1793 at the guillotine for having murdered Jean-Paul Marat.

75 Excellent background information on the Inca empire at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sapa_Inca

76 Background information on the historical figure of Wu Zhao can be accessed at http://www.womenofchina.cn/people/women_in_history/3594.jsp 77 A full chronology of Jesus's actions post-crucifixion were taken from http://www.westarinstitute.org/Periodicals/4R_Articles/Easter/Chronology/chronology.ht ml

78 See The Meaning of Shinto by J.W.T. Mason, Trafford Publishing, 2006.

79 See the website of the International Center for Reiki Training at http://www.reiki.org/

80 See Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet by Karen Armstrong, Harper San Francisco, 1993.

81 See a paper entitled 'Jesus in Islam' by the Islamic Centre of Rochester at http://theicr.org/Jesus%20in%20Islam.pdf

82 See Irenaeus Against Heresies by Irenaeus, Kessinger Publishing, 2004.

83 See details of this recorded encounter at

http://www.tombofjesus.com/core/majorplayers/the-tomb/the-tomb-p3.htm 84 See Jesus in India: Being An Account of Jesus' Escape from Death on the Cross and His Journey to India by Hazrat Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, Fredonia Books, 2004.

85 The actual BBC report can be read at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4400957.stm

86 See A Long and Uncertain Journey: The 27,000 Mile Voyage of Vasco Da Gama by Joan Elizabeth Goodman, Mikaya Press, 2001.

87 http://www.keralachurch.com/main_left_right.php?cmd=keralachristianity 88 See The Goa Inquisition: Being a Quarter Centenary Commemoration Study of the Inquisition of India by Anant Kakba Priolkar, South Asia Books.

89

http://www.christianaggression.org/item_display.php?type=ARTICLES&id=1111142225

90 http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04610a.htm

91 There is no book called the Tarikh-Issa-Masih. There is reference at http://www.tombofjesus.com/core/majorplayers/the-tomb/the-tomb-p7.htm#marriagea ndchildren to an old 'Persian work entitled the Negaris-Tan-i-Kashmir, in which an account of Jesus's marriage is contained. We will continue trying to get hold of it, and the reader can check from time to time at the website to see if that document has been obtained . . . We have contacted various people, attempting to get hold of this work, including the English translation of the relevant portions. This might be a difficult task, 204

but we are determined to put every effort into securing it. In the meantime, we reproduce below an excerpt from Andreas Faber Kaiser's Jesus Died in Kashmir, in which Kaiser relates a conversation he had with Mr Basharat Saleem, a man who claims to be a living descendant of Jesus Christ: 'He told me that to his knowledge the only written source on this subject [of Jesus's marriage] was the Negaris-Tan-i-Kashmir, an old Persian book that had been translated into Urdu, and that relates that King Shalewahin (the same king as met and conversed with Jesus in the mountains) told Jesus that he needed a woman to take care of him, and offered him his choice of fifty.

Jesus replied that he did not need any and that no one was obliged to work for him, but the king persisted until Jesus agreed to employ a woman to cook for him, look after his house and do his washing. Professor Hassnain told me that the woman's name was Maryan, and that the same book says that she bore Jesus children.'

92 'God give me strength to save this book' in Portuguese.

93 See Was Jesus a Buddhist? at

http://www.thezensite.com/non_Zen/Was_Jesus_Buddhist.html 94 See The Security Organs of the Russian Federation at http://www.psan.org/document551.html

95 Loosely based on real-life FBI agent Robert Hanssen who spied for the Russians at the behest of Opus Dei. See

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,27409,00.html

96 Dr Dawood Omar's character is based loosely on A.Q. Khan, the founder of Pakistan's nuclear programme. He actually did attend the University of Leuven. See profile at http://www.ias-worldwide.org/profiles/prof85.htm 97 See WMD Insights on Pakistan's nuclear programme and the arrest of A.Q.

Khan at http://www.wmdinsights.com/I3/G1_SR_AQK_Network.htm 98 Read the actual Washington Quarterly article at

http://www.twq.com/05spring/docs/05spring_albright.pdf 99 Detailed description of Salah taken from

http://www.islamawareness.net/Salah/

100 See Saladin: a Benevolent Man, Respected by both Muslims & Christians by the Institute of Arabic & Islamic Studies at

http://www.islamic-study.org/Saladin%20(Salahu%20ad-Deen).htm 101 Taken from an actual CNN story. See

http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/04/19/pope.tuesday/index.html 102 Read the actual article at http://www.benadorassociates.com/article/13899

103 See http://www.pipavav.com/a_in.html

104 See A Failure of Imagination (Intelligence, WMDs, and 'Virtual Jihad') by Scott Atran, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Paris, France and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor located at

http://www.sitemaker.umich.edu/satran/files/atran-sct-0406.pdf 105 See Nostradamus: The Complete Prophecies by John Hogue, Element Books, 1997.

106 Read Time magazine's article on the French Intifada at 205

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1127429,00.html 107 See

http://warfare2050.blogspot.com/2007/04/warfare-2050-dictionary-la-triple.html 108 Centre for Defense Information: http://www.cdi.org/terrorism/etim.cfm 109 Uighur phrase for 'Perfect!'

110 See http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/para/ji.htm 111 http://www.globalsecurity.org/security/profiles/jaish-e-mohammed.htm 112 All planetary positions calculated on

http://www.ephemeris.com/ephemeris.php

113 Character loosely based on Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. See http://www.globalresearch.ca/articles/CHO405B.html

114 Arabic for 'son of a bitch'.

115 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/004849.php

116 Character loosely based on Abu Bakar Bashir, the actual founder of Jemaah Islamiyah. Profile of J.I. from Council on Foreign Relations at http://www.cfr.org/publication/8948/

117 http://www.dfat.gov.au/facts/muslims_in_australia.html 118 Character loosely based on Shamil Basayev, Chechen warlord. See information at

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/b/shamil_basayev/index.ht ml

119 http://www.socialpages.com.pk/137/art.asp

120 Durand Line. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved on 23 June 2007 from Encyclopaedia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9031550

121 See The How & Why of the Mayan End Date in 2012 A.D. by John Major Jenkins at http://www.levity.com/eschaton/Why2012.html 122 http://www.specialoperations.com/Domestic/CIA/SAS/Default.html 123 The tour itinerary and material are taken from Benny Kurien's actual tour of Kerala. Read the information at http://www.earthfoot.org/p2/in013.htm 124 See Jesus Died in Kashmir: Jesus, Moses and the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel by Andreas Faber Kaiser, Gordon & Cremonesi, 1977.

125 Bahrdt, Carl Friedrich. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Retrieved in 2007 from Encyclopaedia Britannica Online: http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9011796

126 See Swoon Hypothesis at http://www.answers.com/topic/swoon-hypothesis 127 The relevant passages of the Nathanamavali can be accessed at Atma Jyoti Ashram's website http://www.atmajyoti.org/sw_unknown_life.asp 128 Guardian of the Dawn by Richard Zimler, Delta, 2005.

129 Richard Zimler's interview by Rediff.com is located at http://in.rediff.com/news/2005/sep/14inter1.htm

130 http://www.answering-islam.de/Main/Intro/islamic_jesus.html 131 See the article regarding Thiaoouba Prophecy at