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believe it was Robert Graves who observed that all translation is a lie. Take the Greek word. Agape. In English, it means “love’—sort of. Actually, if you truly understand the word, you understand the Great Mysteries. In the Theosophical literature, the tendency is to use the term “Master” and Ma- hatma interchangably. In our discussion of the super being concept, I have guardedly used the untranslated German term ubermensch. Nietzsche also used a term usually translated “higher men” and his Nazi “admirers” and corrupters long after his death introduced a term usually translated “subhuman.” Magicians have tended, in the English-speaking world, to refer to the “masters” simply as the Secret Chiefs of the Order. Ubermensch and Mahatma actually mean the same thing. The Sanskrit root words Maha (“great”) and Atman (“being” or “soul”) and the German uber (“over” or “su- per”) and mensch (“man” or “human”) both carry the sense of “more highly evolved human being.” Seen in this light, it can be better understood how Mahatma Ghandi and the Theosophical “Master K.H.” may fall in the same category. The reader may wish to compare possible masters of the positive and negative type by trying their hands at Timothy Leary’s computer game Mind Mirror. Try Hitler and Christ for starters. In all cases, I advise one to check sources. Some of the interconnections are star- tling; Ghandi and the Theosophical Society, the Rite of Memphis and Mizraim, the radical Carbonari, the Socialist Labor Party—all interconnect without the least link- age to conspiracy theo- ries, and explain a lot of subsequent history. Some suggested sourcebooks: In Search of the Masters—Behind the Occult Myth by Paul Johnson UFOs: Operation Trojan Horse by John A. Keel Passport to Magonia by Jacques Vallee The llluminoids by Neal Wilgus The Nine Unknown by Talbot Mundy The Morning of the Magicians by Pauwels and Bergier The Occult Reich by J.H. Brannan ‘The Spear of Destiny by Trevor Ravenscroft ‘The Eye in the Triangle by Israel Regardie ‘The Confessions of Aleister Crowley by Aleister Crowley The Autobiography of Malcolm X as told to Alex Haley Magick Without Tears by Aleister Crowley, edited by Regardie Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzche The Last Testament by Greg Rickman Valis by Philip K. Dick 83 BIBLIOGRAPHY