1. Bruno Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, trans. Catherine Porter (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993), 7.

2. Ibid., 75.

3. Samuel С Florman, The Existential Pleasures of Engineering (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1976), 109.

4. Edith Hamilton, Mythology (New York: Mentor, 1969), 69.

5. Charles Boer, trans., The Homeric Hymns (Woodstock, Conn.: Spring Publications, 1970), 36.

6. Karl Kerenyi, Hermes: Guide of Souls, trans. Murray Stein (Dallas: Spring Publications, 1976), 84.

7. Norman O. Brown, Hermes the Thief (GreatHarrington, Mass.: Lindisfarne, 1990), 39, 61.

8. L. Sprague de Camp, The Ancient Engineers (New York: Bal-lantine, 1974), 258.

9. Robert S. Brumbaugh, Ancient Greek Gadgets and Machines (New York: Thomas Y. Crowell, 1966), 94.

10. E. R. Dodds, Pagan & Christian in an Age of Anxiety (New York: W. W. Norton, 1970), 133.

11. Antoine Faivre, The Eternal Hermes, trans. Joscelyn Godwin (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Phanes Press, 1995), 88.

12. David Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous (New York: Pantheon, 1996), 131.

13. Walter J. Ong, Orality and Literacy (New York: Methuen, 1982), 78.

14. Abram, The Spell of the Sensuous, 112.

15. „Interview with Marshall McLuhan", Playboy, March 1969, 59.

16. David Porush, „Hacking the Brainstem", in Virtual Realities and Their Discontents, ed. Robert Markley (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 124.

17. В. Т. Sotah, 20a.

18. Cited in Gershom Scholem, Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism (New York: Schocken Books, 1946), 76.

19. Harry Y. Gamble, Books and Readers in the Early Church: A History of Early Christian Texts (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1995), 141.

20. Cited in Antoine Faivre, Access to Western Esotericism (Albany, N. Y.: SUNY Press, 1994), 41.

21. Garth Fowden, The Egyptian Hermes (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1986), 81.

22. Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Oration on the Dignity of Man, trans. A. Robert Caponigri (Chicago: Gateway Editions, 1956), 7.

23. Frances A. Yates, The Art of Memory (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966), 224.

24. Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1964), 156.

25. loan Couliano, Eros and Magic in the Renaissance, trans. Margaret Cook (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), 104.

26. Lama Anagarika Govinda, The Way of the White Clouds (Boston: Shambhala, 1970), 107.

27. Ibid.

28. Cited in Latour, We Have Never Been Modern, 93.

29. Dennis Stillings, introduction, Ernst Benz: The Theology of Electricity, trans. Wolfgang Taraba (Allison Park, Perm.: Pickwick Publications, 1989) XII.

30. Ernst Benz, The Theology of Electricity, trans. Wolfgang Taraba (Allison Park, Perm.: Pickwick Publications, 1989), 18.

31. Christopher Smart, „Jubilate Agno", in The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 3rd edition (New York: W. W. Norton, 1983), 471.

32. Benz, The Theology of Electricity, 57.

33. Cited in Jonathan Cott, Stockhauscn (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1973), 15.

34. James Wyckoff, Franz Anton Mesmer: Between God and Devil (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975), 37.

35. Robert Fuller, Mesmerism and the American Cure of Souls (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1982), 11.

36. Ibid., 60.

37. Cited in Arthur Zajonc, Catching the Light (New York: Bantam, 1993), 145.

38. http://hoohana.aloha.net/~htoday/June95txt.html

39. William Irwin Thompson, Passages About Earth: An Explanation of the New Planetary Culture (New York: Harper & Row, 1973), 51.

40. William Irwin Thompson, Coming into Being (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996), 223–224.

41. Steven Lubar, Infoculture (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1993), 76.

42. Ibid., 81.

43. Ibid., 86.

44. Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media (reprint, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT, 1994), 247.

45. Ibid., 252.

46. Ruth Brandon, The Spiritualists (New York: Knopf, 1983), 13.

47. Joscelyn Godwin, The Theosophical Enlightenment (Albany, N. Y.:SUNY, 1994), 188.

48. Emma Hardinge, Modern American Spiritualism (1869; reprint, Hyde Park, N. Y.: University Books, 1970), 29.

49. R. Laurence Moore, In Search of White Crows (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977), 100.

50. Brandon, The Spiritualists, 43.

51. Roy Stemman, Spirits and Spirit Worlds (Garden City, N. Y.: Doubleday, 1976), 40.

52. Carolyn Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New (New York: Oxford University Press, 1988), 57.

53. Avital Ronell, The Telephone Book (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1989), 367.

54. Ibid., 240.

55. Ibid., 250.

56. Ibid., 245.

57. Sadie Plant, Zeros + Ones. (New York: Doubleday, 1997), 114.

58. Margaret Cheney, Nikola Tesla: Man Out of Time (New York: Dell, 1981), 22.

59. Marvin, When Old Technologies Were New, 100.

60. Ibid., 137.

61. F. David Peat, //; Search of Nikola Tesla (Bath, Great Britain: Ashgrove, 1983), 43.

62. http://www.neuronet.pitt.edu/~bogdan/tesla

63. Ronell, The Telephone Book, 259.

64. Peat, In Search of Nikola Tesla, 83.

65. Cited in „Electroacoustic Music in the 21st Century", http:// www.zynet.co.uk/steelwolf/ezine005/articles/electro.html

66. June Singer, „The Evolution of the Soul", in The Allure of Gnosticism, ed. Robert Segal (Chicago: Open Court, 1995), 55.

67. „Gospel of the Egyptians", James M. Robinson, The Nag Ham-madi Library, trans. Members of the Coptic Gnostic Library Project of the Institute for Antiquity and Christianity (New York: Harper & Row, 1978), 205.

68. Albert Speer, Inside the Third Reich, trans. Richard and Clara Winston (New York: Avon, 1974), 653.

69. Theodore Roszak, The Cult of Information (New York: Pantheon, 1986), 14.

70. Norbert Wiener, The Human Use of Human Beings (New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1954), 17.

71. Dorothy Nelkin and M. Susan Lindee, The DNA Mystique: The Gene as Cultural Icon (New York: W. H. Freeman, 1995), 53.

72. Plotinus, The Enneads, trans. Stephen MacKenna (New York: Larson Publications, Burdett, 1992), 313–314 [IV.3.17].

73. Wiener, Human Use of Human Beings, 101–102.

74. Ibid., 36.

75. Ibid., 34.

76. Ibid., 36.

77. Hans Jonas, The Gnostic Religion (Boston: Beacon, 1963), 45.

78. Hennctica, trans. Brian P. Copenhaver (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992), 41.

79. Harold Bloom, The American Religion (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992), 30.

80. „The Hymn of the Pearl", in Willis Barnstone, ed., The Other Bible (New York: Harper & Row, 1984), 311–312.

81. Jonas, Gnostic Religion, 77.

82. Ibid., 195.

83. loan Couliano, The Tree ofGnosis (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), 125.

84. Bloom, The American Religion, 31.

85. Stephan Hoeller, Freedom: Alchemy for a Voluntary Society (Wheaton, 111.: Quest, 1992), XV.

86. Ibid., 173.

87. David Noble, The Religion of Technology (New York: Knopf, 1997), 82.

88. Catherine Albanese, Nature Religion in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990), 65.

89. Ibid., 8.

90. http://www.eff.org/~barlow/library.html

91. Ibid.

92. Hoeller, Freedom, 13.

93. Ibid., 226.

94. Ibid., 140.

95. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 15th ed., s.v. „Anarchism", vol. 1, p. 812.

96. Hoeller, Freedom, 230.

97. Cited in Benjamin Woolley, Virtual Worlds (London: Penguin, 1992), 212.

98. Hakim Bey, „The Information War", in Mcdiamatic 8, no. 4 (1996): 61.

99. Ibid., 59.

100. Mark Dery, Escape Velocity (New York: Grove Press, 1996), 248.

101. http://www.extropy.com/~exi