So state the authors, Alan Butler and Stephen Dafoe, in their much-acclaimed work "The Warriors and the Bankers". But where did they come from, these mysterious white-mantled Knights of Christ, and were they simply a reflection of early twelfth-century Christian thinking? This is a question that Butler and Dafoe set out to answer - the discoveries they made will result in a dramatic reassessment of the whole period relating to the First Crusade and far beyond. The true genesis of the Knights Templar belong far back in time, long before Christianity even developed. The Templars were an offshoot of a little understood monastic brotherhood - the Cistercians, who themselves danced to the tune of an extremely powerful group of individuals inhabiting Burgundy and Flanders from the time of the Romans onwards. Butler and Dafoe offer a detailed account of the rise of a specific group identified as 'the Troyes Fraternity' that did not simply respond to the caprices of history; they made it. Behind the Knights Templar lay a pattern of belief almost as old as humanity and a heritage that was already ancient before recorded history began. The story is both fascinating and compulsive. It will leave the reader in no doubt as to the true intentions of the Knights Templar, or of the shadowy but immensely influential organization that brought them into being. This story, never told before, is both surprising and shocking, and its implications for our orthodox view of history are staggering.

Knights Templar Revealed

Alan Butler

Hodder Headline Australia

A detective novel that may be fiction or fact - (check the debate)

The Goddess, The Grail and The Lodge

Barnes&Noble

Hardcover with Dustjacket. 306 pages. Freemasonry: A Plan for a New World Order with Color and Black and White Photographs.

The Hiram Key Revisited

Religion & Spirituality

Christopher Knight

Other Religions, Practices & Sacred Texts

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The Knights Templar

Shelter Harbor Press

A complete history of the Templars in a compact paperback book. The book is a class production - heavy glossy paper - with beautiful color art reproductions and a few photos.

The Knights Templar Their History and Myths Revealed

Who Built the Moon?

Watkins Publishing

Who Built the Moon

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

This book is responds to the overwhelming interest in the Da Vinci Code by offering the most authentic account of the building of the chapel yet published. The reader is introduced to Sir Gilbert Haye, a 14th century precursor of the Renaissance, Keeper of the Royal Library in France, and family tutor to the Sinclairs, who built the chapel.

Rosslyn Revealed: A Library in Stone

History

John Ritchie

Europe

John Hunt Publishing

The authors of Civilization One return, bringing new evidence about the Moon that will shake up our world. Christopher Knight and Alan Butler realized that the ancient system of geometry they presented in their earlier, breakthrough study works as perfectly for the Moon as it does the Earth. They found a consistent sequence of integer numbers that they can apply to every major aspect of the Moon; no such pattern emerges for any other planet or moon in the solar system. In addition, Knight and Butler discovered that the Moon possesses few or no heavy metals and has no core-something that should not be possible. Their persuasive conclusion: if higher life only developed on Earth because the Moon is exactly what it is and where it is, it becomes unreasonable to cling to the idea that the Moon is a natural object-an idea with profound implications.

Occult & Paranormal

Watkins

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