Explains the mysterious background of the bestseller ¿The Da Vinci Code¿. Delves into the worlds of the Freemasons, the Cathars, the Knights Templar, and the occult to discover the truth behind an underground religion with roots in the first century that survives even today. Presents a new view of the real motives and character of the Christian Church, including: the actual historical -- and revelatory -- role of Mary Magdalene who was not a prostitute, but the wife of Jesus; the shocking idea that John the Baptist was a rival of Jesus who founded a substantial movement that continues to exist today; and the existence of a secret society called the Priory of Sion that continues to preserve these ancient secrets of the early Christian Church. Illustrations.
Painstakingly researched and thoroughly documented, The Templar Revelation presents a secret history, preserved through the centuries but encoded in works of art and even in the great Gothic cathedrals of Europe, whose final chapter could ...
In the course of their investigations into Leonardo da Vinci and the Turin Shroud, Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince found clues in the work of the great Renaissance artist that...
This book is essential reading for all those with an open mind who care about the confusions and cover-ups that have plagued the history of Christianity, causing physical and spiritual anguish to millions.
Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science, Series 66, no. 1. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1949. Hecht,Ilse.“The Infants Christ and St.John Embracing:Notes on a Composition by Joos van Cleve.
Acting as a historical detective, the author of this text strips away the layers of deception and propaganda that surround the Christian story in a quest to find the real Mary Magdalene, asking such questions as was she a reformed ...
Both Wilson and Rolfe, however,must have been pleased with his work,which justified the gamble of Rolfe's funding of Frei's trip, and one could easily conclude that the latter may have regarded it as a loan repaid.
7 Quoted in Davies, The Mind of God, p. 199. 8 Stockwood (ed.), p. 64. 9 Davies, The Mind of God, Chapter 8. 10 Feynman, p. 12. 11 Davies, The Mind of God, p. 197. 12 In the BBC Radio 4 programme 'The Multiverse' (see note 1 above).
those Christian values using the Templar revelation as a means. The aspect of following in the Templars' footsteps is a metaphorical concept; however, in the final scene, it is physically carried out by Robert Langdon.
The first thrilling novel in Raymond Khoury’s New York Times bestselling Templar series.
(Hall reports rumors of copies of the Ark being made in early times.) Later it was moved to Williamsburg: In 1676, the Ark and its treasure were secretly moved from the Jamestown Church and laid to rest in a ten-foot-square chamber, ...