  Keep up those connections to Turkey. I was looking for some gems of insight on who and what Simon Magus represents, and dug up a character i forgot, Apollonius of Tyana, probably one of the historical characters that provided some of the source material now applied that guy Jesus of Nazareth. (It was from urlLink a Blavatsky piece . ) urlLink This is quite a cool link , in that it deconstructs what evidence of the man that has trickled down through the centuries, providing a rational critical analysis. I wish that there were more detectives like this online. 
