travels could have taken him as far afield as most of Asia, Europe and the Norther African coast. It is not difficult to detect that he loved travelling and that his contact with nature was reflected in many of his sayings. In fact, he was probably happiest when wandering through the mountain villages and sharing the family life of the very primitive people who gave him their ears to sit in awe at the sound of his profound chesty voice. His religious beliefs were Asian in context which would fit in well not only with Sufi rigorous training, but with the magical powers of communication of the Magi which without doubt he would have been trained by. How do we know that ? Because when myths are woven by professionals, intent to create a body of opinion and later use it as a means of political leverage, every luxury of detail is woven into it to enable those with the right of entry to see the fact behind the fiction. The three wise kings may have never existed, despite the sarcophagus in Cologne, but the mere fact that they form part of the story in such interesting detail, gives us a wealth of hidden information that takes many pages to illustrate convincingly. Either he was merely the figment of the imagination of a few myth makers or else there is a firm base from which these scribes elaborated future religious/political approaches. In which case we have to take both situations as possible and try and work out just who or what was being created. Ignoring the symbols and implications of the texts is to waste time on nonsensical, puerile conclusions. In fact, taking everything that has been discussed through the centuries about him, we do not find hundreds of unsympathetic fragments refusing to match, but a very real and extraordinary hologram which