By John Anthony West
John Anthony West's innovative reinterpretation of the civilization of Egypt demanding situations all that has been accredited as dogma relating old Egypt. during this pioneering learn West records that: Hieroglyphs hold airtight messages that exhibit the subtler realities of the Sacred technology of the Pharaohs. Egyptian technological know-how, medication, arithmetic, and astronomy have been extra subtle than newest Egyptologists recognize. Egyptian wisdom of the universe was once a legacy from a hugely subtle civilization that flourished millions of years in the past. the good Sphinx represents geological facts that one of these civilization existed. This revised version incorporates a new advent linking Egyptian religious technological know-how with the perennial knowledge culture and an appendix updating West's paintings in redating the Sphinx. Illustrated with over one hundred forty photos and line drawings.
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To a jealous outside world ‘a Political’ might be a term of abuse. To us it was a term of glory. Sir Basil Gould, 1957¹ Britain’s informal empire and spheres of influence surrounding and protecting British India were divided into a vast array of imperial diplomatic districts, each headed by an officer from the Indian Political Service (IPS). The above memoir of an IPS officer reflects the official view that the IPS was composed only of Britons. But the IPS was much larger than Sir Basil Gould and his colleagues liked to believe, for it included a great number of Eurasian, Indian, Arab, and Persian officers among its ranks—men who have largely escaped the notice of historians.
But tracing the history of Britain’s native agencies in Asia remains a difficult enterprise because records of native agents and assistant agents are extremely scarce. ¹¹ The only records of the Bahrain Native Agency are some of the agents’ intelligence reports on local affairs received by the Gulf Resident, copies of some of the Gulf Residents’ instructions to these agents, and the few communications in which the Residents discussed the agents’ actions with their superiors in India. ¹² In Bahrain, the only surviving records of the Native Agency are the agents’ private papers left to their descendants.
Mohammed al-Ghatam, then President of the University of Bahrain (later Minister of Education), gave me a flat at the University’s Sakhir campus and use of all University facilities. Khalid Al Khalifah, then Vice-President of the University (now a member of Bahrain’s Majlis al-Shurah), took me under his wing during my first few weeks in Bahrain. His timely assistance enabled me to hit the ground running, for which I am grateful. The support, contacts, and research material provided by the Bahrain Historical and Archaeological Society were invaluable to me, and the Society’s building (appropriately located beside the old Gulf Residency headquarters in Jufair) became my second home in Bahrain.