What is it that, like Ariadne's thread, guides the human journey through Time? What secret, underground currents connect our steps from Osiris to the goddess Athena, Mithras, the Knights Templar, Tolstoy, George Washington, Jung, Lenin, and Lewis Carroll?

Based on the texts of the Egyptians, Greeks, and Kabbalists, and the esoteric teachings of secret societies such as the Freemasons and the Rosicrucians, Jonathan Black presents the history of the world from a very different perspective. And it overturns everything we knew until now...

When you read this book, you see the world with different eyes. It becomes clear that a secret philosophy is encoded in everything around us, from public buildings and monuments, great works of art and literature, to the names of the days of the week and the very fairy tales we tell our children...

The book surpassed 100,000 copies in sales both in the UK and the USA, and it has been published or is set to be published in a total of 18 countries.