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Why were the Knight's Templar forcibly disbanded? What happened to their legacy? Were the Templars wiped out or did they survive by starting new orders to preserve their secrets? How did a medieval Christian brotherhood, whose fanatical warriors were prepared to enthusiastically embrace a martyr's death on the battlefield, inspire the many conspiracy theories of noble, mystical warrior monks which pervade modern literature? How did a religious Order which was forcibly disbanded seven hundred years ago maintain such a grip on the modern Western imagination? Robert Lomas, best-selling author of Turning the Hiram Key, investigates the facts, challenges the conspiracy theorists and takes the reader on an inspiring and complex quest to uncover the truth and motives behind the enduring myth of the Templars.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #168787 in Books
• Published on: 2007-10-25
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 388 pages

About the Author
Robert Lomas is a British writer, Business studies academic and amateur historian. He is a best-selling author on the subject of the history of Freemasonry. His books relating to Freemasonry include The Hiram Key and its sequels: The Second Messiah and The Book of Hiram (co-authored with Christopher Knight), and Turning The Hiram Key: Making Darkness Visible (authored alone), Turning the Solomon Key.

Customer Reviews

How to nail jello to a wall!
I do consider myself a Lomite, having followed Robert's path from The Hiram Key onwards through 2nd Messiah, Uriels Machine, Book of Hiram et cetera.

Each of the previous works brought me, as a Freemason, closer to my own personal Craft. Always leaving many more questions than they answered.

This work has poked gaping holes in the historical nature of the Craft.

The Rosslyn aspect and tales of Bannockburn Templars and the whole romantic myth of the wisdom of Solomon on tour with the shroud of Jesus, is lifted into a higher relic.



Thankfully, as usual, Robert guides us beyond the normal meme, and places our understanding into something new. It is a re- examination of Rosslyn---Celestial and Terrestrial. Our understanding is poked and pushed into a new respect of our universe and our place within it through new questions.

Like any good Freemason, or Scientist, Robert raises questions that only truth can answer. Whether the personal truths of a Scientist or the spiritual truths of a Freemason.

Many stories, myths and fables are expressed to us and this book will help to cut out the vanities and put our enlightenment only into the here and the now.

I can not give less than 5 stars for this work, because, it breaks new ground. Anyone else who can break new ground...please publish.

Turning the Templar Key
Looked forward to sitting down to a riveting good read and was not disappointed - at first. Just to get us in the mood we begin with a detailed overview of the Templars and their history, which is all good stuff but nothing any Templar fan doesn't already know. Nontheless the links or otherwise to Freemasonry are viewed objectively and give pause for thought. We continue through the escape to Scotland, the Templar fleet, Rosslyn and we have a detailed synopsis on the St Clairs. The research and interpretation of that research is superb and for me it's a page turner.

Alas we then begin to lose the plot as we travel through spirals, lozenges and the history of farming. Any Lomas fan can read the same in his various other publications but let's get back to the Templars. Sadly we don't as we labour through tribes of women, mitochrondial dna and the harvest godess. We are uplifted in the last chapter as some sort of sense is made of it all and one is left to draw ones own conclusions - which is exactly as it should be.

All in all a decent read but I felt the book went off on an unnecessary tangent and was slow to get back on course - if it ever did.

not revealing as i expected to be
By and large, as interpretation in summary the history of the knight templars, their demise , and detailed straightforward explanation of the templar degree of freemasonry and its alleged linkage to the legacy of poor knights of Solomon(18th degree), this book was only going to be the icing on the cake. Paradoxically, in the 7th chapter, despite detailing the history of the freemasonry in Scotland the author mentioned in the conclusion that as far as the origins of the speculative craft of freemasonry in Scotland he could find no direct link to the knight templars. One question to bear in mind: is there an indirect link? And if yes why Mr. Lomas did not elaborate on this direction? Although he quoted from Michael Baignet that they were the alleged warriors who supported Scotland in its war of independence against the English at the battle of Bannokburn and then renamed this event as a myth. In the later chapters, he expanded on the subjects of human evolution, the Rosslyn chapel and science which were unrelated subjects even though he tried to link these subjects as rather freemasonry principals .to sum it up, I was a little disappointed if you want to know more about the knight templars and their linkage to freemasonry I strongly recommend" born in blood: the lost secrets of freemasonry" by John J. Robinson.