For me this one has a mixed feeling there's shedloads of maths in it but not as much as in others of that ilk. There's leaps of faith, but again not as many, it still left me sometimes with a feeling that it's a too symplistic view of the world but also left me wondering if some of it could be true.
Acknowledgements--The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of JesusPostscriptAppendix 1: The Development of Modern Freemasonry and its Impact on the WorldAppendix 2: Pre-1710 Masonic Lodges in Scotland with Date of the First Recorded MentionAppendix 3: Early Grand ...
Acknowledgements--The Hiram Key: Pharaohs, Freemasons and the Discovery of the Secret Scrolls of JesusPostscriptAppendix 1: The Development of Modern Freemasonry and its Impact on the WorldAppendix 2: Pre-1710 Masonic Lodges in Scotland with Date of the First Recorded MentionAppendix 3: Early Grand ...
AcknowledgementsPhoto Credits--The Second Messiah: Templars, the Turin Shroud and the Great Secret of FreemasonryAppendix 1: The Time LineAppendix 2: The Charter of Transmission of J. M. LarmeniusAppendix 3: The Chemical Process That Created the Image on the Shroud of TurinBibliographyIndex
AcknowledgementsPhoto Credits--The Second Messiah: Templars, the Turin Shroud and the Great Secret of FreemasonryAppendix 1: The Time LineAppendix 2: The Charter of Transmission of J. M. LarmeniusAppendix 3: The Chemical Process That Created the Image on the Shroud of TurinBibliographyIndex
Read sometime in the late 90s. At the time, I found it a fascinating deconstruction of the history of freemasonry, linking the society to ancient Egypt, Jesus Christ and the Knights Templar, including a bonus explanation for the Shroud of Turin. It really appealed to my inner conspiracy freak. But u...
I was there jigging from foot to foot waiting for the book shop to open up for this one.Searching for that which James Bruce was searching for.
I loved this book. I have no idea whether anything that the authors claim is true or even accurately researched, but it reads well and the ideas are largely plausible. I'm certain that Dan Brown derived a lot of his material from this book. But most essentially it is a gripping yarn.I also have a so...