This three-part analysis of modernity assesses the impact that Western
thought and philosophy has had on today's world. Making use of neglected
research from the fringes of academia, "Anatomyzing Divinity" traces the
circuitous path of occult wisdom from China, India, Egypt and the
Hellenistic world to Byzantium and beyond. At the heart of the book is
an investigation of the life and thought of G. W. Leibniz, the man who
invented calculus and laid the groundwork for binary code, which in turn
made computers possible. Leibniz's roots, Kelley shows, lay in the
Frankish metaphysical tradition, and thus have little in common with
some of his contemporaries' materialism. Along the way, sidelights are
turned on 1) the occult basis of Western political systems, as well as
2) the alchemical basis of much Western philosophy and theology.