The Secret Temple Masons, Mysteries, and the Founding of America

by Levenda, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780826430007
• ISBN10: 0826430007
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This is the perfect guide for anyone who wants to delve a little deeper into the mysteries of, and answers behind, Freemasonry.

Author Biography

Peter Levenda is the author of Stairway to Heaven: Chinese Alchemists, Jewish Kabbalists, and the Art of Spiritual Transformation, published by Continuum in 2008. He is also the author of Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult (Continuum, 2002), which has appeared in 6 foreign-language editions.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
Veiled in Allegory	p. 1
Who Are the Masons?	p. 3
The Prehistory of Masonry	p. 24
The Knights Templar	p. 39
Sacred Geometry	p. 62
America Beyond	p. 75
The First Rosicrucians in America?	p. 77
New Rites, Ancient Memories	p. 98
A Conspiracy of Intriguing Men	p. 124
Magic and Mormonism	p. 143
Princes and Pretenders	p. 163
Conclusions	p. 178
Appendix: Edgar Allen Poe's "A Cask of Amontillado"	p. 183
Notes	p. 189
Bibliography	p. 199
Index	p. 207
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