Take equal parts history, mysticism, Christianity, folklore, discredited racial attitudes & Theosophy, add dollops of disregard-for-critical-analysis & making-the-facts-fit-the-theory, & you have the elements of a book I should hate, but I actually found it all rather charming. To be fair, Fortune says at at one point, "All this is speculation, not history; modern myth-making, not research," & I think it's this mythopoeic strand I find attractive.