The Second Messiah Templars, the Turin Shrowd, and the Great Secret of Freemasonry

by Knight, Christopher; Lomas, Robert

• ISBN13: 9781931412766
• ISBN10: 1931412766
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Fair Winds Press

Summary

For almost seven and a half centuries, a piece of cloth was venerated because it bore the image of the crucified Christ. However, but results of carbon dating have shown that the fabric could not have predated 1260. Now new evidence conclusively proves that it is not a face...yet neither is it the image of Jesus Christ.In the follow-up to their groundbreaking first book,The Hiram Key, Christopher Knight and Robert Lomas continue their research into the mysteries of Freemasonry and the true historical Jesus, and uncover the precise time and place of the shroud?s creation.The answer to the great mystery of the Shroud of Turin will surprise and astonish as the authors unlock the secrets of abandoned Freemason rituals and the man who would be called the Second Messiah.

Author Biography

Christopher Knight has a degree in advertising and graphic design and is the managing director of a marketing and advertising agency. In 1976 he became a Freemason.Robert Lomas is the co-author of The Hiram Key, The Second Messiah, and Uriel's Machine. A Freemason, he lectures at Bradford University in England.

Table of Contents

Introduction	ix
The Death of a Nation	1	(19)
A New Light on Old Beliefs	1	(7)
The Missing Years	8	(12)
The Secrets of Rosslyn	20	(24)
The Nine Knights	20	(3)
A Templar Shrine	23	(8)
The Line of Knowledge	31	(3)
The Knights of the Red Cross of the Babylonish Pass	34	(5)
The Secret of the Stones	39	(5)
The Missing History of Freemasonry	44	(25)
The Secrets of Freemasonry	44	(2)
The Power and the Glory	46	(5)
The Early Years	51	(6)
The First Grand Master Mason of Scotland	57	(3)
The Hidden Degrees	60	(9)
The Return of the Kings of God	69	(32)
A Thousand Years of Darkness	69	(4)
The Motive Uncovered	73	(7)
The Rex Deus Hypothesis	80	(8)
The Tarot and the Templars	88	(13)
The Holy Grail of the Templars	101	(15)
The Origins of King Arthur	101	(5)
The Hidden Meaning	106	(2)
The Rise of the Holy Grail	108	(8)
The Birth of `The Second Messiah'	116	(23)
The Last Crusades	116	(4)
The Troubles of Philip IV	120	(3)
The Battle of the Church's Finances	123	(3)
A French Pope	126	(4)
The Last Grand Master of the Templars	130	(9)
The Linen Enigma	139	(23)
Faith is Blind	139	(1)
The History of the Shroud	140	(2)
What is the Shroud?	142	(5)
Some Origin Theories	147	(2)
The Strangeness of the Image	149	(3)
Reproducing the Face	152	(3)
The Evidence in Blood	155	(7)
The Blood and the Flames	162	(17)
The Holy Inquisition	162	(3)
The Interrogation in the Temple	165	(4)
The Confession of Jacques de Molay	169	(3)
The Final Denial	172	(7)
The Cult of the Second Messiah	179	(18)
A Time for Prophecy	179	(4)
Christendom in Need	183	(3)
The Battle of the Holy Image	186	(7)
The Templars Live On	193	(4)
The Great Secret of Freemasonry	197	(28)
A Rex Deus Religion	197	(3)
The Missing Rituals	200	(16)
The Great Secret Reconstructed	216	(3)
Our Questions Answered	219	(2)
The End of the Shroud Enigma	221	(2)
The Topology of the Past	223	(2)
Appendix 1 The Time Line	225	(6)
Appendix 2 The Charter of Transmission of J. M. Larmenius	231	(4)
Appendix 3 The Process That Created the Image on the Shroud of Turin	235	(7)
Bibliography	242	(3)
Index	245