The God Series

The God Series is a collection of 32 books presenting the "big picture" of existence and the meaning of life. The series was written by three senior members of the Pythagorean Illuminati, collectively known as "Mike Hockney", between 2011 and 2015. 

The series outlines the cosmology, philosophy, politics and religion of the ancient and controversial secret society known as the Illuminati, of which the Greek polymath Pythagoras was the first official Grand Master.

The Illuminati's religion is the most highly developed expression of Gnosticism and is called Illumination (alternatively, Illuminism). Grounded entirely in mathematics, Illumination is the world's only rational religion and rejects all "holy" scriptures, prophets, revelations and faith.

The God Series should be viewed as introductory material through which to become familiar with the big ideas of ontological mathematics. Throughout the series, Mike Hockney addresses every rival system of thought, in particular the empirical materialist worldview of science.

To quote Mike Hockney:

We ought to offer some advice on how to read this book and the others in the series. They are actually constructed in such a way as to provide a homage to Hermann Hesse’s The Glass Bead Game, which was itself a homage to the Illuminati.

The Glass Bead Game is an extraordinary game whereby underlying patterns in existence are discerned in apparently disparate things. It’s a kind of hyper sophisticated musical chess using, as the chess pieces, strands of information from all sorts of different topics and subjects. The game is to link the pieces in the most elegant, unexpected, beautiful and harmonious ways, revealing their deep connections and having them accompanied by the most exquisite music.

So, these books are written in a “hyperlink” style where they leap from one thing to another and eschew linear, formal discursive techniques. The books are supposed to reflect the Glass Bead Game itself, played at the ultimate existential level of revealing absolute truth.

The books are also designed for maximum reading effectiveness. By keeping the reader’s mind always slightly off balance by jumping back and forth between all manner of subjects, including high-level mathematics, ultra-advanced philosophy, cutting-edge physics, The Simpsons, South Park, horror movies, and so on, we hope to detonate an immense creative explosion in the mind of the reader.

Putting it another way, you have no chance of understanding these books on a book-by-book basis, so don’t get bogged down in the detail. The books are intended to be grasped across the whole series, approaching one million words in extent. Things that might make no sense in one book will become crystal clear in another where the same topic is addressed from a radically different angle.

We recommend that you read the whole series without paying too much attention to detail initially, and let the whole thing wash over you like the ocean. If we have done our job right, you should start to reach an excellent intuitive understanding of the material. Afterwards, you can start the series again from whatever point most interests you and study the material in depth.

Our aim is to present the most complex material of all time in as palatable a way as we can contrive. If we presented this material as pure philosophy, pure mathematics and pure science it would make sense only to academics, and even most of them would scratch their heads. So, we’ve come out with a new style of presenting challenging material. Whether we have succeeded with our experiment will be for you to decide – but please suspend your judgment until all of the material is presented, especially since it was originally conceived as a single book and single project.

Good luck to every player of the God Game, the ultimate Glass Bead Game.