British author Adrian Gilbert (co-author of The Mayan Prophecies from 1995) in The End of Time offers the most thorough and sober modern interpretation of the Mayan calendar and the so-called "2012 prophecy", completely rejecting New Age hysteria.
"The Evolution of Divinity" was published in 1912, and the subtitle "From the Sphinx to Christ" indicates that it is the first part of a larger whole. The second part (which remained unwritten) was supposed to show the esoteric tradition from Christ to Lu