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Masonic Books to Read. Here are some books about Freemasonry and other views of the fraternity. |
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Masonic Books to Read. Here are some books about Freemasonry and other views of the fraternity. |
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Over the past thousand years, the bloodiest game of king-of-the-hill
has been for supremacy of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, the site of the
ancient Temple of Solomon. This book recounts the stirring saga of the Knights
Templar, the Christian warrior-monks who occupied the sacred Mount in the
aftermath of the butchery of the First Crusade. Recruited to a life of poverty,
chastity and obedience intended to lead only to martyrdom on the battlefield,
they were totally dedicated to the pious paradox that the wholesale slaughter
of non-believers would earn the eternal gratitude of the Prince of Peace.
The Templars amassed great wealth, which they used to finance their two hundred years of war against Muslims on the desert, in the mountains, and up the broad sweep of the Nile valley. The Templars' reward for those two centuries of military martyrdom was to be arrested by pope and king, tortured by the Inquisition, and finally decreed out of existence. But their legend and legacy just would not die. In telling the incredible story of the Knights Templar, the author's clear explanation of the cultural and religious differences among the Templars' enemies and friends in the Middle East gives fresh understanding of the people who populate the this restless region. Here are the Sunnis and the Shiites, the Kurds and Armenians, the Arabs and the Turks, who figure so prominently in today's headlines. The similarity of their antagonisms today and those of eight hundred years ago are often so striking as to be eerie. |
| When Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas, both Masons, set out to
find the origins of Freemasonry they had no idea they would find themselves
unravelling the true story of Jesus Christ and the original Jerusalem Church.
As a radically new picture of Jesus and his ultra-Jewish sect started to
emerge, the authors came to the controversial conclusion that the key rituals
of modern Freemasonry were practiced by the sect as a means of initiation
into their community.
Rigorously analyzing and computing ancient Egyptian records, the Old and New Testaments, early Christian and Rabbinical texts, the Dead Sea Scrolls and the rituals of Freemasonry, the authors have been able to reconstruct the lost story of Jesus and his brother James and describe their struggle to establish the "kingdom of heaven" upon earth using Masonic-style rituals. The establishment of the Christian Church is shown to be a political invention that has little connection with the man we call "Christ". The early Christians buried their most precious scrolls beneath Herod's temple shortly before they and the city was destroyed by the Romans in 70 AD. Lost to the world for over a millennium they were clandestinely unearthed and interpreted by the infamous Order of the Knights Templar who adopted these ancient teachings and the rituals as their own. The book reaches its climax with the authors deciphering precise clues concealed within Masonic ritual that turned out to be the key to unlocking the secret of the final resting place of the scrolls of Jesus: A magnificent shrine that is a detailed reconstruction of the ruined temple of Herod-built by the descendants of the Templars and the first modern Freemasons over 500 years ago. |
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