The Sirius Mystery

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I just wondered if anyone here has read this best-selling work by Robert Temple, first published in 1976, and if so what their view is of the elaborate theories he puts forward about an African tribe having contact with extra-terrestrial beings several thousand years ago. There are numerous references to it on the web, so I won't quote any here. Needless to say it has something of a cult following, and has attracted a variety of positive and negative reviews over the years , which is generally a sign that an author has something worthwhile to say.

Robert Temple is a personal friend of mine, and I have been to talks he has given about 'The Sirius Mystery', where there were many Aspiens in the audience. This leads me to think that the book may be well-known among the AS community. My own opinion of the book is ambivalent, so I'd be interested in hearing other people's views.

Pure money-making fantasy, nothing more.

It's a troubling making of the new(same-old) religion, this is related in some extended way;
http://theobservor.blogspot.fr/2006/04/who-is-j-j-hurtakreally.html (and some quotes from that)
- From Hurtak’s bio: He produced The Voice of Africa, a Study on African Shamanism (1987) and Merkabah: Voyage of a Star Seed (1998), a winner of four international awards with its computer-animated symbols of spiritual unity.
- Entitled: “The Master Race and the Family of Light: Conflict, Spiritual Purification and Bio-Political Agendas in JJ Hurtak’s “Book of Knowledge”
- In elaborating on Hurtak’s prophetic project I will first briefly describe Hurtak’s process of prophetic regenesis, in which revelation and prophetic commentary are said to co-reveal the contours of a cosmic conflict between two ancient extraterrestrial genetic bloodlines that is said to manifest itself in geo-political events on earth. Then, I will discuss how Hurtak’s process of revelation subsumes and elides the actual sequence of events as recorded by news agencies. Lastly, I will briefly describe how this narrative of Muslim/Christian conflict, recast in extraterrestrial and genetic terms, has impacted the writings and ideations of New Age and Ascensionist thinkers and practitioners.
-For all of its sophisticated patter, and it's potential as a vision that seeks to intimately link the twin infinities of the cosmos and the human soul through the mediating mechanism of DNA, Hurtak's revelation seems to follow this trajectory with remarkable fidelity, only now the millennial conflict is cast in mathematical, extraterrestrial, genetic and even racial terms.
Well, I guess the shoe fits. A close look at the Book of Knowledge reveals what one might call the circular edge of closure, when right and left wing interests are joined in the fervor of premillennial promises of perfected genetic evolution, the end of history and the conquering of ones stated enemies. It’s the same story being told now in more dangerous times.

At least Von Daniken's "Chariots of the Gods" was more entertaining, even though it too was pure bunkum.

You never know....

But I find most of this genre as one which presents improbable theories.